Las Vegas Raiders coach Antonio Pierce had some strong words for his team after their humiliating 36-22 loss to the Carolina Panthers, one of the league’s weakest teams.

“We took a beating,” Pierce said in the postgame press conference. “We’ve got to put on pads, we’ve got to get on the sled. Same group that, for the most part, all came back and same techniques and same coaches. There’s no different scheme, so you’re obviously going to have to coach it better and be tough on the guys, some guys that need some rough coaching. Because that’s just, we didn’t see that coming on either side of the ball, we thought we had a chance to run the ball, but we didn’t, we didn’t do that at all. We tried and tried and tried.

“I would have booed us too. Offensively, defensively, we didn’t do well enough up front. It’s not good enough.”

The Raiders were in top form after their supposedly memorable win over the Baltimore Ravens. The Panthers appeared to be at their breaking point, benching 2023 first-round quarterback Bryce Young for veteran quarterback Andy Dalton. It looked like the Raiders were going to pull off a solid home win.