Antonio Pierce is aware of that for his tenure as Las Vegas Raiders instruct to be a success, he will have to discover a way to slow down Patrick Mahomes and the division rival Kansas City Chiefs. To that end, he is taking some inspiration from the NBA.
Pierce appeared on Maxx Crosby’s “The Rush” podcast and discussed how the Raiders need to “knock off the head of the snake” in order to prevail against the Chiefs. That is Mahomes, and it is why Pierce is searching to the infamous “Jordan rules” used with the aid of the Nineteen Eighties Detroit Pistons to sluggish down a younger Michael Jordan.
“We’ve received the Jordan guidelines and we’ve bought what I’m calling now, from now on as lengthy as I’m here, the Patrick Mahomes rules,” Pierce said, by using Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk. “You take into account when Jordan was going thru it with the Pistons, all these guys in the ’80s earlier than he became Michael Jordan, Air Jordan, the Pistons used to whip his a–. Any time he got here to the hole, elbows, feeling him, love taps. We’re in his head, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, I’m touching you. So I confirmed my guys Jordan getting his a– whooped.”
It will be a bit tougher for the Raiders to impose their will on Mahomes the way the Pistons did towards Jordan. They’d have to get strain on Mahomes, first of all, and an overly bodily strategy may want to easily lead to a slew of roughing the passer fouls that would no longer advantage the Raiders at all. More likely, Pierce needs to see his team play tough and physical and maintain Mahomes underneath pressure as a whole lot as feasible to attempt to rattle him.
Mahomes is no longer easily rattled, although Pierce already has some proof of concept that his graph can succeed. If the Raiders can make that appear commonly in opposition to the Chiefs, they will be in business, however that is easier stated than done.
