THE OFFICIAL OAKLAND RAIDERS 2009 OFFSEASON THREAD
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Maybe... but what other option do we have
if we end the season 4-12 with cable I'm not gonna say... damn if we had jim fassell or kevin gilbride we would be in the playoffs right now!!!
cable isn't the best option if we're lookin at all the coaches out there... but if we're lookin at all the coaches who we could get in oakland he is the best option
if we end the season 4-12 with cable I'm not gonna say... damn if we had jim fassell or kevin gilbride we would be in the playoffs right now!!!
cable isn't the best option if we're lookin at all the coaches out there... but if we're lookin at all the coaches who we could get in oakland he is the best option
Cable to be named Raiders head coach
By Steve Corkran
STAFF WRITER
Posted: 02/03/2009 02:20:05 PM PST
Updated: 02/03/2009 03:03:20 PM PST
Meet the new Raiders coach, same as the old Raiders coach, even if it took more than a month for managing general partner Al Davis to settle on Tom Cable.
Davis promoted Cable from his job as the offensive line coach the day he fired Lane Kiffin, Sept. 30, on an interim basis. Cable will be introduced as the team's coach on a full-time basis Wednesday at noon at the team's year-round facility, the team confirmed.
A 37-day search did nothing to persuade Davis that Winston Moss or Kevin Gilbride are better options, cementing his belief that Cable is the person best suited to turn around the Raiders fortunes.
Cable's ability to keep his players' focus through the end of a sixth straight losing season last
More year likely played a huge role in his keeping the job.
He inherited a 1-3 team that dropped to 3-11 and showed signs of another dismal finish. However, victories against the Houston Texans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the final two games gave the Raiders five victories — as many as they had in any season from 2003-07.
Cable said at season's end that he felt as if the Raiders are on the right track and not far off from being a playoff contender.
For that to happen, Cable likely will have to do something only Jon Gruden and Bill Callahan accomplished since 1994: get the Raiders to win more than eight games.
Mike White, Joe Bugel, Norv Turner, Art Shell and Lane Kiffin all failed to reach the nine-victory mark in a season, and each was dismissed. Callahan was fired on the heels of a Super Bowl appearance in his first season after presiding over a 4-12 team.
Cable has spent the past two seasons with the Raiders. Kiffin hired Cable to be his offensive line coach. That relationship lasted through the 2007 season and four games into last season.
By Steve Corkran
STAFF WRITER
Posted: 02/03/2009 02:20:05 PM PST
Updated: 02/03/2009 03:03:20 PM PST
Meet the new Raiders coach, same as the old Raiders coach, even if it took more than a month for managing general partner Al Davis to settle on Tom Cable.
Davis promoted Cable from his job as the offensive line coach the day he fired Lane Kiffin, Sept. 30, on an interim basis. Cable will be introduced as the team's coach on a full-time basis Wednesday at noon at the team's year-round facility, the team confirmed.
A 37-day search did nothing to persuade Davis that Winston Moss or Kevin Gilbride are better options, cementing his belief that Cable is the person best suited to turn around the Raiders fortunes.
Cable's ability to keep his players' focus through the end of a sixth straight losing season last
More year likely played a huge role in his keeping the job.
He inherited a 1-3 team that dropped to 3-11 and showed signs of another dismal finish. However, victories against the Houston Texans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the final two games gave the Raiders five victories — as many as they had in any season from 2003-07.
Cable said at season's end that he felt as if the Raiders are on the right track and not far off from being a playoff contender.
For that to happen, Cable likely will have to do something only Jon Gruden and Bill Callahan accomplished since 1994: get the Raiders to win more than eight games.
Mike White, Joe Bugel, Norv Turner, Art Shell and Lane Kiffin all failed to reach the nine-victory mark in a season, and each was dismissed. Callahan was fired on the heels of a Super Bowl appearance in his first season after presiding over a 4-12 team.
Cable has spent the past two seasons with the Raiders. Kiffin hired Cable to be his offensive line coach. That relationship lasted through the 2007 season and four games into last season.
I'm tryin to watch it
I'll be at work... I can watch NFL Network on my phone so I'll probably just do that... hopefully I won't be busy around that time
that or I'll hit the DVR
but as far as the coach being the problem... or not being the problem...
the coach is gonna help to a certain degree no matter... but our personnel does lack in certain areas (D-line, WR, O-Line)
I know a coach can only do so much with the players he has on the field
I think at the end of the season Cable proved he could get the most out of the players we have on the field... hopefully we can increase our personnel too (although first of all we need to worry about not losing certain players... Nnamdi and Lechler)
I'll be at work... I can watch NFL Network on my phone so I'll probably just do that... hopefully I won't be busy around that time
that or I'll hit the DVR
but as far as the coach being the problem... or not being the problem...
the coach is gonna help to a certain degree no matter... but our personnel does lack in certain areas (D-line, WR, O-Line)
I know a coach can only do so much with the players he has on the field
I think at the end of the season Cable proved he could get the most out of the players we have on the field... hopefully we can increase our personnel too (although first of all we need to worry about not losing certain players... Nnamdi and Lechler)
^^^Which makes him even better. Kiffin coached more than a full season and had 5 wins... Cable didn't even coach a full season and came up with 4 wins and 2 wins were back to back.
JaMarcus is still growing and going through struggles but at least Cable showed the confidence in him that Kiffin didn't. Let the big boy grow up and take his lumps and bruises as the season goes on. Now JaMarcus is going to be better this year because of it.
JaMarcus is still growing and going through struggles but at least Cable showed the confidence in him that Kiffin didn't. Let the big boy grow up and take his lumps and bruises as the season goes on. Now JaMarcus is going to be better this year because of it.
