What a week, huh?
The Raiders have been in free fall following Sunday’s disappointing home opener loss to the Panthers, which Antonio Pierce openly discussed in his postgame news conference. While discussing the Raiders’ (significant lack of) effort in Week 3, Pierce made headlines by telling reporters that he believed some players made ‘business decisions’ in the second half, and that the team will make some of their own this week.
Since then, Raiders Twitter has been on the case. Everyone opened the All-22 in the hopes of being the one to figure out who Pierce was referring to. Surely the tape would show who made those business decisions, they reasoned, and it would be simple to watch it again and figure out. Perhaps they were correct? Guesses/screengrabs began to appear quickly, and Raiders supporters appear to agree that they’ve identified their guy. Teamwork is essential for making the ideal a reality.
Pierce’s postgame comments may have been addressed at Raiders cornerback Jack Jones.
I’m not going to sit here and agree with them because I believe Pierce was referring to more than one player or simply commenting broadly about the team’s effort in a blowout loss. All that said, the tape isn’t very fair to Jones in this situation. No one who has ever seen tape on Twitter knows who has what assignment (and if they say otherwise, they’re probably lying), but it’s difficult to ignore Jones letting a running back pass right by.
Jones did defend himself on Twitter (great!) but then soon erased the posts (ouch). Whether or whether you want to read into what removing tweets signifies is entirely up to you, and I have no say in it. I’m only the messenger.
So, it may be Jones. It may be someone else. It may possibly be Jones and someone else; the Raiders were so terrible on Sunday. Pierce promised to make his own business decisions, so I expect to have a better sense of who’s in difficulty in the coming days. But if we don’t, we can always use Twitter to investigate.
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