‘SNF’ takeaways: Raiders’ Pierce is making a case to shed interim tag

The Las Vegas Raiders (5-5) got here from behind to beat the New York Jets (4-5) on “Sunday Night time Soccer,” bettering to 2-0 within the Antonio Pierce period. Listed below are three takeaways from the Raiders primetime win: 

Antonio Pierce is making a case to shed the interim tag: Whereas it wasn’t practically as fairly because the 30-6 win over the New York Giants in his debut as coach in Week 9, Sunday night time was a real assertion sport for Pierce. Dropping all through the sport, Pierce pushed all the precise buttons down the stretch. 

The swagger lengthy related to the Raiders had light, however it’s slowly making a comeback in solely two video games beneath Pierce. It is nonetheless early, and the NFL has seen loads of flavors of the week fall again to obscurity simply as shortly. Nonetheless, Pierce has two wins as Raiders head coach, a feat that took Josh McDaniels 9 video games to perform. 

After passing his first actual take a look at as head coach, the street forward doesn’t get a lot simpler. Subsequent up for the Raiders? A street sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins earlier than internet hosting the defending Tremendous Bowl Champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. 

Supporting solid let Jets QB Zach Wilson down: Wilson will get the brunt of the criticism for throwing the game-deciding interception because the Jets had been on the doorstep of a go-ahead rating within the waning moments of the fourth quarter. 

The choice by Wilson wasn’t a great one, and WR Allen Lazard is not with out blame for failing to come back again to the soccer, permitting Raiders linebacker Robert Spillane to chop the route. Nonetheless, the problems with the Jets offense go deeper than their late-game blunder.