Three-time All-Pro Gerald McCoy and two-time Super Bowl champ Kyle Van Noy discuss the Raiders head coach’s comments following Las Vegas’ loss to the Panthers and the implication that players’ jobs were in jeopardy. Hear the full conversation on “McCoy & Van Noy” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
Antonio Pierce.
He talked about the game they just had versus the Carolina Panthers felt like guys kinda shut it down and he used the term some guys made business decisions.
So we will too.
When we talk about business decisions, we make jokes at times from uh players.
When a person passes up a hit, it was like, oh, that was like if it’s ad V and Derrick Henry is running at him and he like, uh uh turned sideways to kinda duck a little bit or go low and kinda, oh I missed, we say, oh, that was a business decision.
What I think Antonio Pierce mean is they’re getting beat, things are not going the way they’re going and guys kinda just shut it down.
And what he’s saying is we’ll, we’ll adjust accordingly, meaning if you’re not gonna give us everything you got throughout the entirety of the game.
If you’re not gonna do your job, if you’re not playing with effort, if you uh have bad body language, et cetera, et cetera, OK. We’ll act accordingly.
You making a business decision, you feel like the game’s over or this ain’t going our way.
So I’m gonna shut it down a little bit or I’m gonna do what I want.
Ok, then here we go, we gonna set you out.
We’re gonna bring somebody else in or we gonna move you down, move him up.
That’s what I think it means.
I don’t know how you feel, but that’s just how I feel.
Yeah, I, I piggyback off that.
I think it just came down to effort from what he said.
I think he just wants his team to go out.
Even if you’re losing to go out fighting, go scratching, crawling, doing whatever it takes to get back into the game and try to win the game.
I, I mean, that’s how I saw it too.