Trying to slow down Patrick Mahomes is easier said than done for the Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs opponents, but that’s something Antonio Pierce and his team will have to attempt to do at least twice a season.
The Las Vegas Raiders Plan To Go Full Detroit Pistons Bad Boys Against Patrick Mahomes
On his way to his first full year as head coach of the Raiders, Pierce doubled down on his stance to let his team treat Mahomes the way the ‘Bad Boys’ Detroit Pistons of the 1980s used to against Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan (h/t Raiders Wire).
“We’ve got the Jordan Rules and we’ve got what I’m calling now as long as I’m here, the Patrick Mahomes Rules,” Pierce said on Maxx Crosby’s The Rush Podcast. “You remember when Jordan was going through it with the Pistons, all those guys in the ’80s before he became Air Jordan, the Pistons used to whip his [behind]. Any time he came to the hole: elbows, feeling him, love taps. We’re in his head, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.
It is perhaps impossible to completely negate Patrick Mahomes in a game, but if the Las Vegas Raiders could wear him down by playing him extra-physical, the Chiefs QB could be less effective as the contest progresses. However, that kind of approach may not work as well as it used to during previous eras in the NFL, with new rules giving quarterbacks a thicker insulation from such tactics today.
But the Las Vegas Raiders will have to try anything they can in order to solve the Chiefs. They actually did that once in 2023 when they took down Kansas City in a Christmas Day upset win on the road, 20-14.
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