Reggie McKenzie has ushered in a new era of Oakland Raiders football, firing head coach Hue Jackson.He was asked many questions about his plans to improve the Raiders at the press conference in which he was introduced.But to me, the first place McKenzie needs to start with is the defensive side of the ball. As an inside linebacker for the Raiders in the '80s, defense is something McKenzie knows quite a bit about.But as I always do, I have to put my two cents in on what the Raiders need to do to improve the defense. I believe that McKenzie will ...
Hue Jackson was a lot of things: Fiery. Brash. A gifted offensive coach. A gambler, just like the man he revered, Al Davis. But was he a bad head coach? Reggie McKenzie seems to think so. The newly-appointed Raiders general manager—the first man not named Al Davis to ever have that title—decided to fire his inherited rookie head coach today. It’s not unusual for a general manager to replace a coach he didn’t hire; after all, McKenzie’s success will largely be measured by the performance of his coach. But this move was ill-timed and foolish. For a team desperately lacking ...
It didn't take long for Reggie McKenzie, new general manager of the Oakland Raiders, to send a message. Mere days after getting the job, McKenzie fired head coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday.When asked why he decided to lower the axe on Jackson, McKenzie kept it simple.“This decision centered around my wanting to bring my own guy in,” he said, via Pro Football Talk.So who is McKenzie's guy?NFL.com's Jason La Canfora has an idea.Steve Corkran of the Contra Costa Times agrees.So does Jay Glazer of FoxSports.com.And so on, and so on, and so on.So who exactly is this Winston Moss guy?For starters, ...
To most people, it would be presumed that baseball owners do not have such a difficult job. After all, their business is a baseball team. The ownership can be viewed as work but is more visualized as just a really awesome fantasy. And that’s essentially how the fans perceive the wealthy men who whimsically dump their exorbitant amount of disposable income on a sports franchise. These principal owners simply have the means to put into a sports team. But does that make them truly good business owners? Obviously not. True, some of them are heavily involved with the performance of ...
The possibility exists that the Oakland Raiders could move back to Los Angeles in the near future.Raiders owner Mark Davis made that abundantly clear at a Tuesday press conference. Via Paul Gutierrez of CSNCalifornia.com, here's the key quote:Davis, son of late Raiders legend Al Davis, also stressed that there is a sense of urgency for the team to get a new stadium, wherever it may be located."The timetable is yesterday. So that’s where it is. We’ve got to get a stadium. We’ve got to get that done," said Davis, according to Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News.Though he declined ...
Here I go again. I did a little research. Here is what I discovered, and it may be relevant.Hypothetically, if Reggie McKenzie had been hired as GM with the Green Bay Packers in 2006, would he have fired Mike McCarthy? McKenzie did work for the Packers from 1994 to 2012, but he probably did not have the power to fire McCarthy in 2006.The reason I asked this question is because McCarthy had an 8-8 record at the end of his first year as head coach for the Packers. Note that 2006 was the first year McCarthy was head coach. Somehow, ...
Jeff Fisher continues to make headlines as the most likely candidate for every available coaching position in the NFL. There has been analysis as to why he is so great, and there has been analysis as to why he isn't so great. Ultimately, he will find a new home as the new head coach of an NFL franchise, and until then we will speculate about where that will be. Today, the Oakland Raiders made a somewhat surprising move and fired coach Hue Jackson. Jackson had one season as Raiders head coach, and most analysts would say he did a reasonable job. The Raiders finished 8-8 on ...
OAKLAND, CA—Hue Jackson's job was one to watch heading into this offseason. He hadn't had the best of seasons, but there was a sort of promise in this Raiders squad. That was, until new Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie fired Jackson today after the coach failed to take his team to the playoffs.Upon hearing the news, Jackson went berserk, exclaiming that no one's job is safe and that McKenzie is going to "gut this place.""He wants to bring in his own guys. No job is safe right now," Jackson told CSNBay Area. "You know I did everything possible to keep my job. ...
Oakland's new general manager, Reggie McKenzie, the former director of player operations in Green Bay, wasted no time putting his stamp on the team, firing head coach Hue Jackson today.But don't waste your time speculating that the Raiders might try to bring in the usual suspects like Jeff Fisher or Jon Gruden (like that would ever happen). According to those who tend to know these things, McKenzie is likely to stick with someone he knows: Packers assistant head coach Winston Moss.And, he might bring secondary coach Darren Perry along as his defensive coordinator.It might not be sexy, Raiders fans, but ...
In a surprising turn of events, Oakland Raiders head coach Hue Jackson was fired today after only serving one season as the head coach of the team. He finished the 2011 season with an 8-8 record. Its not like he did a bad job or his record was terrible this year. Jackson took this Raiders team to within one game of the NFL playoffs and seemed to have this team on the right track. However, after the season was over, Jackson made some comments that may have led to his dismissal today. From ProFootballTalk.com: Per a source with knowledge of ...