Former Raiders head coach to interview for Giants job

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Head coach firings and head coaching interviews have been the main story of the first week after the NFL regular season completed. Currently there are eight head coach openings which is 25% of the league. Among the familiar names to pop up today among head coaching searches was Antonio Pierce. The former Raiders head coach is interviewing for the head coach position with the Giants.

Pierce spent the final five years of his eight-year NFL playing career in New York with the Giants. His final season was in 2009.

Five years later, he resurfaced as the head coach at Long Beach Poly High School. From there he took the linebackers coach job at Arizona State University before being promoted to Defensive Coordinator.

In 2022, he was hired as the Raiders linebackers coach under Josh McDaniels. And when McDaniels was fired eight games into his second season in Las Vegas, it was Pierce who was named interim head coach.

The Raiders were rejuvenated with McDaniels gone and inspired for Pierce's fiery presence and finished the season 5-4 over the final nine games. The groundswell of support earned Pierce a shot at keeping the job the following season.

But just three games into his first full season, the wheels had already begun to fall off. He finished with a 4-13 record that season and was not brought back.

Now, after a season out of football, Pierce's name come up again as a head coach. He would seem a long shot for the job, but just being in that room and in the discussion again can only be good for his chances of returning to coaching, even if, perhaps, as a position coach again.

This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Former Raiders head coach to interview for Giants job

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