NFL Requiring Cable To See A Shrink

Per PFT.com:

As widely expected, the NFL will be requiring Raiders coach Tom Cable to undergo an evaluation by a doctor and psychologist in order to determine whether further action is necessary due to possible conditions like substance abuse or anger management, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

The move apparently flows only from the allegations made by defensive assistant Randy Hanson, and not from the allegations recently made by a former wife and a former girlfriend of domestic violence.

Even if Cable has no mental disability that would be protected by law, a mandatory evaluation aimed at determining whether he has a problem could, if the league isn't careful, result in evidence that the league is regarding Cable as having a problem, which would give him protection under California and/or federal disability laws, even if he doesn't actually have a mental disability.

But if all grievances go to the Commissioner, it doesn't really bode well for him if he has to file suit claiming he was screwed over.

Now, and I mean the word the not feminist organization, I do agree with this step, but as some comments from the story I linked state, this should be a consistent league wide, players and coaches, they be asked to be sent to a shrink. Jobs actually provide a way for mental help in a regular world professions, and the NFL should be no different. Especially if there is a mental problem of some sort. And excessive anger could be. And, just like a drug problem, it would be illegal to let someone go over this unless they refuse the offered help. Which leads us back to another post here on S&BP about Cable being fired at the end off the season. And if the shrink that NFL is sending him to determines he has some kind of condition, even if it's mild and not being a total psychotic, that would take some bite out of Davis firing him for cause.