Antonio Pierce says his Raiders will be channeling the "Bad Boy" Detroit Pistons when they play the Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs as long as he is Las Vegas' head coach.
In a recent episode of Maxx Crosby's "The Rush" podcast, Pierce discussed how he got his team ready to play the Chiefs before they pulled off their 20-14 Christmas Day upset in Kansas City, which was the Chiefs' last loss of the season before they went on to win Super Bowl LVIII.
In the week before the game, Pierce, then the team's interim coach, expressed to his team that they need to "hate the color red" and showed them videos of famous boxing and MMA fights and how the NBA's Detroit Pistons approached playing Hall of Famer Michael Jordan in the late 1980s, with a tough defensive game plan devised by coach Chuck Daly.