{"id":268828,"date":"2025-08-07T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268828\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:06:15","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-dc-steve-spagnuolo-welcomes-former-las-vegas-raiders-hc-to-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268828\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo welcomes former Las Vegas Raiders HC to camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Wednesday&#8217;s training camp press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo shared his reasons for inviting former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Las Vegas Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> head coach Antonio Pierce to Missouri Western State University for practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I think you guys probably know this. Antonio (Pierce) and I have been close for a long time. I went in &#8217;07 when I went to New York with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Giants<\/a>. He was the Mike linebacker. The present-day version of Antonio Pierce is Nick Bolton now,&#8221; said Spagnuolo, &#8220;It&#8217;s guys like that. And obviously, looking at Antonio and what he&#8217;s like now, he became a coach. He went all the way to being a head coach. He obviously had that when he was a player. That&#8217;s a nice thing to have when you&#8217;re a defensive coordinator. Guy, that&#8217;s cerebral. And I got a lot of respect for Antonio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pierce memorably coached the Raiders to a shocking Christmas Day victory over the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in 2023, earning him the head coach role permanently through the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad he came through. The guys are loving having them,&#8221; said Spagnuolo, &#8220;He&#8217;s given him feedback from a player&#8217;s standpoint, coaches&#8217; standpoint, head coaches&#8217; standpoint, and maybe we&#8217;ll ask him about some Las Vegas Raiders stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders fired Pierce after a 4-13 season in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/08\/07\/kansas-city-chiefs-dc-steve-spagnuolo-welcomes-former-las-vegas-raiders-hc-antonio-pierce-to-camp\/85545905007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo welcomes former Raiders HC to camp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo welcomes former Raiders HC to camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Wednesday&#8217;s training camp press conference, Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo shared his reasons for inviting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[12632,2792,7,519,6496,110,1744,393,2455,2454,32778,6,2887,525,2890],"class_list":{"0":"post-268828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-antonio-pierce","9":"tag-defensive-coordinator","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-head-coach","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","16":"tag-lasvegas","17":"tag-lasvegasraiders","18":"tag-missouri-western-state-university","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nick-bolton","21":"tag-raiders","22":"tag-steve-spagnuolo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114987164282608520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}