How Tom Cable Screwed Up The KC Game

by mikesd1981 on Nov 30, 2008 11:14 PM PST Comment 7 comments

Lowell Cohn has come to the conclusion that Tom Cable cost us this game (and why he'll never be a HC in Oakland again):

Here are some exercpts, but no really, read the article.

It ended for Cable on Sunday, as in the Cable got disconnected. It ended because he tried to be creative but ended up faking himself out and ruining the game.

But Cable was feeling creative, or maybe he’d flipped his noodle because all of a sudden holder Shane Lechler did some kind of Harlem Globetrotter maneuver, slipping the ball between his legs while in a semisquatting position. He was instructed to hand the ball to Sebastian Janikowski who runs like a whale (sorry, I wanted to that to stand out, had to bold it) but somehow was supposed to cover something like 18 yards for a first down — not in this world, not in this life, not a load like Seabass. Cable said the play had worked in practice. Sure, Tom.

Afterward, I asked Cable if Lechler really put the ball between his legs and if the play is supposed to work like that?

“He did and it does,” Cable said.

Tom, you’ve got to go. No one in his right mind calls a play at a crucial moment — or at any moment — in which a guy kind of dribbles between his legs like Baron Davis. No, Tom. Never, Tom. Tom you’re out of here.

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Cohen is 1,000 percent correct:

But when they start scheming us the way these guys did, and we weren't particularly ready for it, anything can happen."

by saint on Dec 1, 2008 12:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Idiot play that lost the game for us

so intead of going up 6-0 with the D dominating, we are down 7-3.

Let’s start accepting Head Coach job applications already…

Just take the points!!!

Tuck Rule my ass!

by Raidah on Dec 1, 2008 1:05 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

At that moment in the game

I knew we were going to lose. Rob Ryan……don’t you realize that Tony Gonzales is the best tight end of all time and needs to be double covered? It was a sad game to watch. A sad day in Oakland.

Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til' I die.

by thepunisher00187 on Dec 1, 2008 1:29 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

The overall play-calling on that first drive was inspiring, including the nifty hook & lateral by Curry/McFadden (would love to see that play again) and a nice reverse from Johnnie Lee Higgins. After that the drive stalls.

Cable got so flustered by not scoring a TD that first drive that he got antsy in the first half.
For the fake FG, 4th & 1 I maybe could have understood, but it was 4th & 10 on the KC 25 yard line. You’re talking about a 42 yard field goal (which of course we’re all presuming Jano makes in our analysis). Still, taking the FG makes it 6-3 OAK, whereas this silly play makes it 10-3 KC.

Same thing happens in the 2nd quarter. Its 4th & 3 from the KC 22 and Cable calls for a shot to the end zone? Is that really the high percentage play that keeps the game close?

Sure, there were some other plays that could have had an impact in the game, Wilson’s dropped INT especially, but even if the game plays out exactly as it did lest the botched fake FG, we win the game 19-13.

Should have been:
OAK FG: 3-0
KC FG: 3-3
OAK FG: 6-3
OAK FG: 9-3
OAK TD: 16-3
KC TD: 16-10
KC FG: 16-13
OAK FG: 19-13

JaMarcus didn’t have a particularly good day. He’s not Peyton Manning (yet). We can’t keep digging holes for ourselves like this. Chalk up another game lost due to poor decision-making by the coaching staff, rather than the players.

"I love being here. I love these players. I'm loyal to these players and this team, all right? I'm on the side of the players and the Raiders. And anybody who isn't on the side of the Raiders, then I'm not with them." - Randy Hanson, DB coach.

by LiveAdam on Dec 1, 2008 1:36 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

If Gibril"stone hands" Wilson catches that damn interception, he could

still be running. That was the play of the game, despite the foolishness of the fake.

by theblackpearl on Dec 1, 2008 4:14 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I definitely`

would have been 7 more points. So in total, that’s 13 total points we botched.

Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!

by mikesd1981 on Dec 2, 2008 4:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Equally frustrating fellas

That even with the “shoulda, coulda” plays in the first half, it was a brand new game at 10-10 with still 26 some minute left!

And after the defense held KC to 3-and-out, we got the ball on our 38. You could feel the momentum shifting right there. Then we, in turn, go 3-and-out, and suddenly the “D” is right back on the field. 91 yards and 9 minutes later…ballgame.

Third down was (shocker!) another downfall: we were 3-13, KC was 8-for-16. And of course, they held the ball for eleven minutes longer.

So while I do not excuse the play-calling, the game was still there for the taking just a few minutes into the second half, and we failed to capitalize. On a sorry opponent, no less.

Well, I am glad I have finally gotten over this game.

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Dec 2, 2008 7:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs