Telesco and Pierce Are Different But Have the Same Goal

While searching for a general manager, the Las Vegas Raiders searched for someone with ample experience to help new Coach Antonio Pierce continue to improve the Raiders next season.

In hiring former Los Angeles Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco, the Raiders selected a general manager with experience for teams in roster situations similar to those in which the Raiders are facing.

Pierce says he was impressed by Telesco's plan for the Raiders.

"Yeah, me and Tom had never met prior," Pierce said. "I've watched his body of work with the San Diego Chargers and then lastly with the Los Angeles Chargers. But obviously, when we met, when he came in the other day, I could see that he was genuine. He was poised. He was calm. He had a plan. He presented it. It was well thought out."

Pierce says their personalities emerged in their meeting before Telesco was offered the job.

"He knows I was poking at him, trying to get him going, trying to get that AP juice out of him, but he stayed very poker-faced, which I was like, OK, cool, this is good," Telesco said. "But I think as this relationship grows, like anything else, it's going to have its ups and downs.

"We've got to be adults and grown men about it. We've got to hash it out. We've got to understand our roles, check our egos at the door like everybody else in the building, but understand that we've got a plan, and that plan is to do it together, be hand in hand with it."

Pierce has stated from the start that he understands coaching in the NFL is a production-based business, just like it was when he was a player.

So, he plans on working in unison with Telesco to put a competitive team on the field.

"Obviously, if he goes down, I go down," Pierce said. "That's just how it is. That's the nature of the beast. We get it. But that's not our plan. Our plan is to win, put a team in place that is competitive each and every week, and give ourselves an opportunity to win."

While the Raiders might seem to have a general manager and head coach whose personalities are opposites, they both have the same goal. Telesco might be the perfect person to revamp the Raiders' roster.

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