Las Vegas Raiders coach Antonio Pierce had moving words for his team after their humiliating 36-22 loss to the Carolina Panthers, who are considered one of the weakest teams in the league.

“We took a beating,” Pierce said in the postgame press conference. “We've got to put the pads on and get on the sled. Same group that's mostly come back, same techniques, same coaches. There's no other scheme, so obviously you've got to coach better and be tough on the guys, some guys will take a tough workout. Because that's just the way it is, we didn't see that coming on both sides of the ball, we thought we had an opportunity to run the ball, but we didn't, we didn't do that at all. We kept trying.

“I would have booed us too. Offensively, defensively, and up front we didn't play well enough. That's not good enough.”

The Raiders were elated after their supposedly momentous win over the Baltimore Ravens. The Panthers appeared to be at their breaking point, benching quarterback Bryce Young, a 2023 first-round draft pick, for veteran signal-caller Andy Dalton. It looked like the Raiders would pull out a solid win at home.