Las Vegas Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce's Friday pressers before the season finale vs. the Denver Broncos
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00:00 In terms of veteran players and guys that you may or may not play, is it full belt for
00:08 everybody in this game?
00:09 Because you look at teams around the league and certain teams are not-
00:13 We're Raiders.
00:14 We're playing.
00:15 We're playing.
00:16 We're going to play at a high level.
00:17 Everybody.
00:18 They can play.
00:19 Everyone's playing?
00:20 Even Josh?
00:21 Game time decision.
00:22 We'll go out there and do it again.
00:23 We've done it three weeks in a row.
00:24 Hopefully third time's the charm.
00:25 He won't be playing.
00:26 He's not going to play.
00:27 He's not going to play.
00:28 He's not going to play.
00:29 He's not going to play.
00:30 He's not going to play.
00:31 He's not going to play.
00:32 Hopefully third time's the charm.
00:33 He wants to play though.
00:34 We'll see.
00:35 We've got to be smart.
00:36 How about Michael?
00:37 No.
00:38 No.
00:39 He's out.
00:40 I would imagine you have conversations with players about that.
00:41 Has it encouraged you, surprised you, whatever?
00:42 The guys are like, "No, I'm playing."
00:43 No, we had an open and very conversation, started a conversation in our first team meeting
00:44 on Monday.
00:45 No Wednesday.
00:46 If you didn't want to play this game, you had a chance to leave the building.
00:47 Nobody left.
00:48 Coach, talk about Denver, how they've changed.
01:02 Obviously, you guys played them the first time, but I'm not asking for secrets, but
01:07 just in general, how they have changed over the season.
01:11 I think confidence is there.
01:12 I think they've understood what they're ahead of.
01:13 Coach has probably asked them along with the offensive and defensive coordinators and special
01:19 teams.
01:20 You can see that.
01:21 You can see the growth and improvement each and every week.
01:22 You can obviously see there was a month's stretch where they were playing really, really
01:26 good football as a team.
01:28 I think defensively, they really stepped up a notch.
01:31 They're playing at a really high level, giving their offense great opportunities to score
01:36 points and win games.
01:37 What I see is a team that's just like us, they're going to play.
01:41 This is not an exhibition game, this is preseason four.
01:44 This is week seven, week 18.
01:46 For us, last game, divisional game at home, I think it's going to be a really, really
01:50 good game.
01:51 Coach, what kind of educational purposes?
01:52 You said you had a meeting with the team?
01:53 Our normal team meeting.
01:54 No, just our normal team meeting.
01:55 I asked them, just like the question is, "Does anybody not want to play?"
01:56 They had an opportunity to stand up and leave, and then I ended the meeting, they didn't
01:57 want to play, they didn't get up and leave again.
01:58 Nobody left.
01:59 The sentiment, the excitement, the excitement.
02:00 Everybody's ready to go.
02:21 The team is ready to go.
02:43 They know how I feel about them, I know how they feel about me.
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