What A Terrible Sad News: Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce Has Been Suspend For Insulting “Mark M Davis” The Ownership Of Las Vegas Raiders

Las Vegas Raiders’ owner Mark Davis held an introductory press conference today for new General Manager Tom Telesco, and Coach Antonio Pierce, and we have it all for you.

HENDERSON, Nev.–The Las Vegas Raiders’ Mark Davis introduced a new General Manager, Tom Telesco, and Head Coach, Antonio Pierce, in today’s formal press conference.

We were there and, of course, have it all for you. You can watch the entire press conference above.

MARK DAVIS: It’s a great day to be a Raider. Today I have the privilege of introducing two young men who are going to be leading this organization into the future, and I’m going to start off by introducing a new friend with a brand new name. His name is Mr. Tom Telesco, the general manager of the Las Vegas Raiders.

Now I’d like to introduce an old friend with a brand new name, Antonio Pierce, head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

I’m going to let these two gentlemen introduce themselves to you and allow you to ask some questions. I suggest that you ask all the questions that you want and make them the right ones, because I don’t think they’re going to be talking to you too much after this. They’ve got some work to do. Tom?

TOM TELESCO: Hey, thanks everybody for coming, media and employees. First, I just want to say thank you to Mark Davis. This is such an iconic franchise with a storied history, and obviously all starts with the legacy of Al Davis. I couldn’t be more excited to be here, but also realize there’s a tremendous responsibility with this job.

The fact that Mark and the whole leadership team is trusting me with this, I couldn’t be more happy to be a part of this.

The last couple weeks I’ve had a chance to meet a lot of the leadership team as we went through the interview process. Obviously, Mark was the leader of that process, but Sandra Morgan and Larry Delsen, Richard Seymour who’s right here, Kenny Herock, who’s a legend in our business, and Tom Delaney. It was a great process. It was fun to go through.

I could kind of tell from the first interview, there was a connection and a fit, and I think that’s really important in this league to feel that, and I felt that the first time through.

When I came back the second time, when Antonio was in there, I kind of felt that same thing. It’s so important to me and my family to be a part of the right fit in this league, and there’s no doubt this is it.

Again, just really thankful that they saw the same thing in me, that they saw that same fit, that same culture fit.

I haven’t been here long, but when you talk about the Raider way or the Raider tenets of Commitment to Excellence, Just Win Baby, Once a Raider, Always a Raider, I’ve heard of it, I know of it, I’ve seen it, but when you walk in this building, you can feel it.

I haven’t been here long, but there is no doubt — first of all, you see it tangibly. This football facility is jaw dropping for me. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s amazing. The resources are amazing here. That’s a credit to Mark Davis and what he’s put into this team. You see that right off the bat.

The second part is, and the Raiders are known for this as far as how they treat their alumni, how they treat the former players, how they treat the families, and it is something that other NFL teams and other professional sports teams, they try to duplicate what they do here, but nobody does it like the Raiders. You can feel it in this building, you can feel it from the employees. Last night at 6 o’clock at night, my wife gets a call from Ansley Moore who works in football operations and she gave my wife a rundown of what’s going to go on today, what’s going to go on in the future, and she was so nice, so detailed, so organized. My wife gets off the phone, and she’s like, wow, they’ve got it there. They know how it works. That’s important.

To win a championship is more than just the head coach and general manager. It takes everybody. To see someone like that right off the bat, hey, this is how you treat people and how organized and detailed we’re going to be, it’s just a great example for the whole organization. Lastly, I’m really excited to partner with AP right here. You can tell in the interview — it was really my interview, but you could tell he has that leadership trait that a head coach has to have, and to me it feels more like not so much follow me but join me, which I like in football, because he’s right in it with the rest of us, and I think your football team takes on the identity of your head coach, and that’s what we’re going to have here. That’s what we’re going to build around.

I’m excited to start this partnership, and I couldn’t be more excited to be a Raider. I’ll leave it at that and pass it over to our new head coach.

ANTONIO PIERCE: I’ll start off like I always do. We’ve got a great house here.

We end always all our victories a certain way in the locker room. We’ve got a packed house here. We’re going to see how everybody’s vocal cords work, so stay with me. “Raaaaid-ers!” That’s what we’re talking about. Thank you, Tom, and I appreciate it. Thank you, Mark Davis, Sandra, Richard, Tom, Larry, Ken, the Raiders organization, our coaches, our players.