Raiders' Antonio Pierce Fires Back at Tanking Questions

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00:00We're lucky enough to have a little bite here from head coach Antonio Pierce on the latest

00:09win for the Raiders.

00:11Not going up the draft ladder, they're going down the wrong direction in search of that

00:15starting quarterback.

00:16Let's take a listen.

00:17Yeah, man, look, we work 80 hours a day, 80 hours a week, staff, players come here, you

00:22know, they're 40 plus hours to work.

00:26We don't do this to lose.

00:28We don't do this for anybody's fantasy football team.

00:30We don't do this for anybody's drafts, projections, none of that matters to us.

00:34All that matters is winning and that's all we want to do.

00:38Hey, you need more of them.

00:39You need more of them.

00:40Third win of the season there for the Raiders over the Jags over the weekend.

00:45What's the big takeaway from this one, Joe?

00:47Because they were sitting there with top spot.

00:49It's real simple.

00:50Just don't win and you're in pole position to get the best quarterback coming out of

00:54this year's class.

00:55And then suddenly with that latest victory, they now drop to six on the draft ladder.

01:01Are we winning?

01:02Are we tanking?

01:03What do you take away from those words?

01:05I mean, that's a huge swing that win there with a couple of weeks left to go because

01:11they had pretty much would have locked up and they had, I believe, before the game,

01:16a 35% chance at the number one pick.

01:18But now that they won the game, they have a 1% chance to get that number one pick.

01:24And that is a big difference, especially for the game-changing quarterbacks that are

01:30available here in this draft, especially Shator Sanders.

01:35But the Giants are sitting in the driver's seat and it goes to show you, and we do this

01:39every year, right?

01:41Players don't quit.

01:43They don't tank.

01:45Organizations may want to tank, but players won't.

01:48They don't go out there putting it all on the line to lose games.

01:51He's right, but my goodness, right place, right time, because that Jacksonville team

01:56is just awful on so many levels.