Bringing Telesco to the desert
The Raiders did their due diligence with Telesco, as the former Chargers GM went through two rounds of interviews for the job. The staff involved in the process clearly felt Telesco would be a good fit within the Raiders organization.
“I could kind of tell from the first interview, there was a connection and a fit, and I think that’s really important in this league to feel that, and I felt that the first time through,” said Telesco. “It’s so important to me and my family to be a part of the right fit in this league, and there’s no doubt this is it.”
“When he came in the other day, I could see that he was genuine,” Pierce said of his first meeting with Telesco. “He was poised. He was calm. He had a plan. He presented it. It was well thought out. 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.'”
