Las Vegas Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce after the Silver and Black Christmas Day upset win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
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00:00 >> AP, you are just the third double digit underdog this year in the NFL to win
00:05 a game straight up, you've called for physicality, you've got it.
00:10 How proud are you of that team?
00:12 >> Yeah, we talked about all week, ill intent, violence, physicality, pain.
00:17 Enough is enough.
00:18 I think that was displayed just right there.
00:22 >> There's, sometimes you gotta win a game by any means necessary.
00:26 It seems like that was that type of game where it was on the defense,
00:28 the offense did just enough, you're able to run the ball toward the end of the game.
00:32 Was that one of those types of games?
00:33 >> That was actually one of our launches, by any means necessary.
00:37 We knew it was gonna be a gritty game, it was gonna be a high scoring game,
00:40 we didn't want it to be a high scoring game.
00:42 Hats off to our defense, Patrick Graham and our defensive staff.
00:45 Hats off to our players of executing, staying with it, being relentless.
00:48 We talked about squeezing, finishing, finishing the second quarter,
00:52 finishing the fourth quarter, and they did that.
00:54 >> You've seen it where confidence turns into belief and
00:57 execution with this defense week after week after week.
01:00 It's doing this, what they're doing, what they did out there today.
01:03 Where is that confidence level and that efficiency level?
01:06 >> Still growing, we got a couple more games left, so
01:08 hopefully by the end of this bad boy, you'll say,
01:10 that's a pretty confident group and they're playing well.
01:13 >> When you're able to hand it to Zemir White at the end of the game,
01:15 get the jump on it.
01:16 >> That's part of football right there, when you can pound the rock and
01:17 take three knees in the game.
01:19 That's formation football, victory formation.
01:22 >> When they know that it's coming and you know that what you're doing.
01:25 I know you know that I know and they know and we know and everybody knows.
01:28 >> And you're still able to do it.
01:29 >> Instead of doing it, that's good football.
01:32 >> When you talk about the pride you feel in Zemir, I mean, he stepped up and
01:35 he performed on a big stage in a big game.
01:37 >> Well, this is talking really about really what's been going on the last
01:40 couple of weeks.
01:41 You got Montford at left half.
01:43 You got Dillon, Meredith, left guard.
01:47 Back and forth with Dillon and Dre at center.
01:50 Rookie quarterback, second year running back.
01:54 Tied in off practice squad.
01:55 Guys are stepping up, next man up, man, tied.
01:58 Team, team football, team football, right?
02:01 And really that's also Zemir, because at the end we say, man, no fair dodging.
02:06 No fair dodging.
02:07 There's your way, run through him.
02:08 He did just that.
02:09 >> Jack Jones, second straight week with a pick six.
02:12 Yeah, could you just talk about your young quarterback?
02:17 >> Man, that group, that secondary, the way they're playing, very confident again.
02:22 We're going back to film study, watching film.
02:24 And then we talked about this earlier this week back in Vegas.
02:27 See it, believe it, go get it.
02:29 And he did just that.
02:30 I think the one thing everybody's seeing with this Redder team is a group that's
02:34 playing together, having fun with one another, loving one another.
02:37 Playing with a bigger purpose, a will to win, a fight to win, and
02:41 not ever giving up.
02:42 >> Malcolm Coons, same way.
02:44 His development, I mean, he just feasted today.
02:45 Will you talk about his play, sir?
02:47 >> Yes, sir.
02:48 We talk about it each and every week.
02:49 You got 98 on the left.
02:51 When somebody shows up on the right or up the middle, it's gonna be a problem.
02:54 And it's starting to become a problem.
02:55 Malcolm is really making a name for himself.
02:57 That's now, what, three weeks in a row where he's really just,
03:00 kind of really just like, wow.
03:01 And it's good to see, just the effort, fighting through a lot of stuff.
03:04 But these guys, man, what I ask them to do, man, by any means necessary,
03:08 at all counts, just find a way to get it done, and we did that.
03:11 >> These guys call themselves the misfits, but
03:13 would you talk about that defensive line?
03:15 I mean, they just continue to get the push.
03:17 >> There's a lot of misfits in that room.
03:18 >> Yeah? >> Bunch of Raiders, misfits.
03:19 I see we're gonna live by and refine with that.
03:21 >> Kevin, you talked earlier this week about the Raider way of football that you
03:26 remember as a kid growing up.
03:28 Today, the swagger, the no apologies, is this as close as we've seen to that?
03:33 >> I think so, and it was on full display on Christmas Day.
03:35 Not a better day to do it.
03:36 >> You guys all set?
03:39 All right, thanks, AD.