Maxx Crosby will demand a trade if Pierce is not retained as Raiders HC
From reading the article it seems like the entire locker room is posturing for AP, the front office wants Harbaugh.
It will definitely be interesting
When exactly did Jim Harbaugh become some scrub, throwaway, retread HC? If anything, he's a major upgrade over what they've had since Gruden got fired for his past, racist e-mails during the 2020 season?
He's proven to be one of the few HC's who can succeed at both the pro and collegiate level, a bar that even the best, NCAAF HC of this generation (as an Auburn fan, I loathe to admit it, but history and bare statistical reality demand and reveal otherwise) in Nick Saban at Alabama. Even if, IMHO, Bear Bryant was a far better, likable, most respectable human being in hindsight to Saban, Saban is the standard by which all NCAAF HC's will be judged for the near-distant future.
The thing is, Raiders aren't a bad, struggling team and roster, what they lack is another Top 5-10 caliber QB. Honestly, if Kirk Cousins' recovery goes according to plan or ahead of schedule, I could see him being a very good addition to Las Vegas for the last couple years of his career. Love him or hate him, Cousins is probably this NFL's generation of the biggest over-achiever and that's a damn good thing, too. He wasnt endowed with outstanding duel-purpose athletic abilities, like Russell Wilson, he was drafted right behind RGIII by Redskins and most NFL scouts, players, coaching staffs assumed he'd be selling life insurance policies by now, but he persevered, worked his arse off 5-10x harder then most of his teammates, got his biggest break when RGIII became injury-riddled by 2014, and showed NFL teams what he was capable of.
Like Alex Smith before him, he won't be going to Canton once his career's over, but he'll end up achieving far more then 75-80% other NFL players with better talent, higher assumed success-ratio expectations, but fell flat on their arses and became busts, like Jamarcus Russell, Johnny Manziel, and even his predecessor, Robert Griffin III.