The Oakland Raiders are coming off their best season since their last Super Bowl run at the turn of the millennium. Tom Cable led the Raiders to eight wins this season, three more wins than what they have been averaging over the previous seven years. The Raiders seemed headed in the right direction under Cable's guidance, yet Al Davis decided to not pick-up a two-year option he had in his contract. You can look at a variety of things this past season that cost Tom Cable his dream job as head coach of, his favorite team, the Oakland Raiders. His overall ...
Its pretty obvious that the Oakland Raiders will never find another coaching great like former HOF, John Madden. Al Davis has dismissed Tom Cable and promoted Hue Jackson to head Coach making Hue the seventh coach to be hired in a decade. This strategy has so far been costly to the Silver and Black.Many predicted that this would be the outcome for Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable and it appears that they were correct. Cable will not be the head coach for the Oakland Raiders as Al Davis will not pick up his contract. It would appear that Hue ...
"The Raiders express gratitude to Tom Cable for his contributions in his four seasons as an assistant and as head coach of the silver and black."
With these words, Tom Cable was gone as head coach of the Oakland Raiders. No tearful farewell from the owner for Coach Cable's unstinting endeavours to turn around the failing Raiders. No immediate replacement for the players or fans to get excited about. Just a drab statement posted on the Raiders.com website.
As a Raider fan, I understand the disappointment in missing out on the playoffs. I even understand that this team may have underperformed in ...
The Oakland Raiders have finished with a .500 record for the first time since 2002. They are a much more exciting team to watch as the culture has truly changed in Raider Nation.
So why is Cable not being brought back for next year?
Should he be?
It depends on how you look at it.
There's always a case either way when a team doesn't make the playoffs.
I believe that Jackson was a part of a two man race for the head coaching job in Oakland. He may have been the head coach in waiting since Davis hired him this past off season.
Was the alleged rift between the ...
I wrote an article yesterday: An open letter to Al Davis that I knew wasn't going to reach him, but I put it out there. In that article, I asked Al Davis to retain Tom Cable for another year, as he earned it by turning the corner and having Oakland finish .500 instead of with a losing record. As I watched Arkansas and Ohio State and finished off a little debate with fellow Raider Nation member Michael Bowman, I found out Davis was NOT going to pick up the final year of Cable's contract and it felt like I was ...
Breaking News!
A source close to Hue Jackson has reported to the San Francisco Chronicle that Jackson will become the next head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
With the Raiders, Jackson turned a completely dismal offense into the 10th best offense in the league this season. Jackson is also the main reason why Darren McFadden shed his bust label and ran over opponents this year.
The Raiders, formally known as a vertical passing team, finally began running the ball and running through their opponents.
The Raiders finished second in the league in rushing with 155.9 yards per game as a testament to Jackson’s change ...
The Raiders have made it official, Tom Cable will not return as the coach of the Raiders next season. With this choice coming so early in the offseason, the Raiders have plenty of options to fill their coaching vacancy. The most probable choice coming from the Raiders' own ranks.
In only his first season in Oakland, Hue Jackson has turned one of the worst offenses in the league into an offense which other teams fear. They were the 10th-best offense in the NFL and improved by 13.3 points a game over last year. Jackson has already been contacted by the 49ers, ...
ESPN's Adam Schefter has reported that the Oakland Raiders have informed coach Tom Cable that he will not return as head coach in 2011.
Tom Cable had a $2.5 option on his contract for 2011 that the Raiders will not pick up.
Raiders owner Al Davis had another two weeks to make a decision on Cable, but it is possible that the scheduled interview that the 49ers had with Raiders offensive coordinator Hue Jackson could have influenced Davis' decision.
Davis is very high on Jackson who greatly improved the Raiders offense during his first season as offensive coordinator.
The Raiders have over 1,000 more ...
Two days into the offseason and rumors about the coaching staff are flying. We've heard stories suggesting the Raiders will not retain Tom Cable, that Hue Jackson will be promoted to head coach and even that Josh McDaniels could be the Raiders next coach.
Not just rumors but news as well, terrible news.
Only two days into the offseason and the San Francisco 49ers are already requesting to interview the Raiders' offensive coordinator Hue Jackson for the opening at head coach across the bay.
Upon coming to the Raiders, Hue said, "I want to be a head coach at some point and won't ...
At the first of the year, most people examine themselves and evaluate the progress they made over a year or other period of time. The Oakland Raiders are probably doing the same thing.
Earlier, a comparison of performance was made for 2009 and 2010. It makes sense to see how much has changed, using a win-loss chart, to determine other areas of progress, constancy or regression.
Here is a partial list of data:
same
same
same
same
better
worst
better
better
better
same
worst
better
same
better
worst
same
2010
L
W
L
L
W
L
W
W
W
L
L
W
L
W
L
W
2008
L
W
L
L
L
W
L
L
L
L
W
L
L
L
W
W
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A measure of constancy is given by the fact that during seven of the 16 weeks of the regular season the performance of the Oakland Raiders, measured ...