When I read this morning that defensive assistant Randy Hanson had gotten into an altercation with another Raiders coach earlier this month, I’ll admit I wasn’t that surprised. In his time with the Raiders Hanson has been extremely fiery and shown his willingness to stand up to authority. Last season he spoke out against then head coach Lane Kiffin’s interference with the defensive scheme during the Opening Night nightmare against Denver, stating that if Mike Shanahan had the Raiders’ offense it would have been 1000-0 (rather than 41-14).

I was shocked, however, to learn that it was Cable who delivered the blow to Hanson. Could Hanson have once again been bad-mouthing the he head coach?

The last time Hanson had a disagreement with a head coach, Al Davis supported Hanson, and used it as more ammunition to fire Lane Kiffin. What on earth does he do now if Tom Cable attacked Hanson?

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The chant is spelled “bumaye.” It means “kill ’em.” Ali fans chanted it in Zaire, Raiders doing it in Napa.
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Make that Foreman, not Frazier. Now I’m the one getting punch drunk.
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Speaking of practice, welcome back to Napa, Jeff Garcia, his 1st of camp.
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You can’t make this stuff up.
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Raider players doing the Ali-Frasier chant for Tom Cable while stretching. Dead serious. “Cable boombaye”
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before I form my opinion but you cannot have the Head Coach breaking assistant coaches jaws in a professional enviroment. If Cable did this he is showing himself to not be up to the job of being a Head Coach in the NFL.

…but I love this. I want the old Raiders fire back, I want the old physical meanness, I want the old fear and dread teams had of coming into Oakland, knowing they weren’t in for just a football game: it was a nasty old school brawl. Cable is putting his team, his owner, and the League on notice that he is not taking any shit from anyone. No whiners, no prima donnas, , just good, merciless, hard-nosed football. We’ve all been dressing up like Raiders for too long: now its time to start stomping like Raiders!

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Great to see the Coach not only preaching being tough and punching people in the mouth on the field but actually demonstrating how to do it hope the Defense was paying attention because if Cable has to demonstrate this new Defensive play multiple times we may run out of assistants.

In all seriousness though from what I have seen of Cable he seems like the last person to punch someone in the mouth for no reason and the fact the assistant wouldnt even tell them who punched him that would support that there is more to it but it seems like they have handled it in house which is how it should be. I think the players would LOVE this from their coach. Hey if Mario goes down maybe Cable will suit up and play some Left Tackle hehehe

There is a published report of Tom Cable denying that he punched Randy Hanson on August 5, 2009.

According to AOL Fanhouse, Cable hit Hanson on Aug. 5 for unknown reasons. A report filed with the Napa Police Department describes an unnamed 41-year-old assistant coach being treated at the Queen of the Valley Hospital for a jaw injury, which the victim alleges was caused by an unidentified member of the Raiders coaching staff.

But Cable told ESPN’s Mark Schlereth later Monday that no punches were thrown.

Do you think this is the first time coaches have fought before? If glass jaw Hanson wouldnt of went to the hospital this wouldve stayed in house completely. Sirbed all you know is Hanson got chin checked but thats where the facts end. So all your crying bout not being professional and not the way Head Coaches act is crap. You did say it was your opinion though and based on your picture we could i say it was a “jack ass” opinion. From what we hear from camp about the players saying Cable bumaye! Im happy to see us on the right track and it starts with the Head Coach. and Bacon you really need to shut your mouth because the Raiders are the least of your problems. Your Donkees are done for the next decade at least….nice off season moves…

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Wow! Wow wow wow wow! Just when you thought Raider Nation would make it through a training camp sans any major controversy, Nancy “Professional Lair” Gay comes out and decides today is the day to stir the preverbal pot. Now, from the outset, when I learned it was Nancy “Prolific Raider Hater” Gay that broke the story, I was skeptical. After all, she has “broken stories/lies” about the Raiders many, many, many times in the past. In fact, her stories have fallen through so many times that she is no longer a paid journo, but just another one of us lowly bloggers; and there is some real justice to that fact, but thats another story for another day.

Nevertheless, at the start of the day, the story broke that a raider coach punched assistant coach Hanson and broken his jaw, thus sending him to the hospital. A Napa police report stated that the coach had been assaulted, but by whom Hanson was not telling. Throughout the day, this story gained momentum with all sorts of speculation, and then there was Nancy “I Hate Al” Gay. Some time in the afternoon she decided to post that it was Cable whom had struck Hanson after the two had had an argument. Furthermore, it was said that Hanson “never saw it coming”, meaning Cable cold cocked/sucker punched the guy. This is totally out of character for the normally mild mannered Cable, but hey, when it comes to the Raiders, the media will run with anything negative, and they sure did with this juicy Nancy “Lacks All Integrity” Gay report.

By the time practice was over and Cable was ready to address the media, the local Bay Area journos were in a frenzy, ready to pounce on what “had to be true”! After all, its the Raiders! Cable, of course, towed the company line, declined to comment on an “internal matter”, and this was all that was needed for the media to put the nail in the coffin on the Raiders offseason, as well as this story.

At least until the truth started to come out, and from some very, very, very unlikely sources. Mark Schlereth, BSPN NFL analyst, former Donkey, and well known Raider Hater, talked with Cable on the phone and discovered that no punches were thrown. There was an altercation/argument of some kind, but Cable certainly did not punch Hanson. (It should be noted, Cable has known Schlereth since he was in college, and the two are great friends. Such good friends in fact that Schlereth actually complimented the Raider run game on TV today, the first Raider compliment I have ever heard from Schlereth.) Then, almost in tandem, Adam Schefter, also known to be on the Hater side of the Raider Nation equation, reported much of the same. All of a sudden it was looking as if Nancy “Commitment to Nonsense” Gay had infected the mainstream with another false story, months after losing her job for doing the exact same thing over and over again.

And then, in the evening, reality hit home. @Movethesticks reported on Twitter from a very reliable source what seems to have really happened. It seems Hanson was in a heated argument D-Coordinator Marshall, and that Hanson crossed the line in some way. Cable, whiteness to this, got really pissed and threw a chair. Either the chair got a little too close to Hanson, or he was using it to support his weight, but the next thing you know, Hanson hits his face on a cabinet, breaking a facial bone. Honestly, I think Cable lost his temper, threw a chair, and that accidentally led to Hanson’s injury, but by no means did Cable intend the guy harm. That would be totally out of character for such a mild mannered guy with such respect for everyone around him.

Yes, BSPN, NFL Net, and everyone else, it appears, were taken for a ride. Caught hook, line, and sinker in another Nancy “Gotcha” Gay story/lie. It turns out, she couldn’t even get the injury correct, and thats what I call “classic” Nancy Gay reporting, err lack thereof. I never thought I would be saying this, but thanks Schlereth and Schefter, you boys outdid yourselves today.

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I think Laoren has it nailed. Only thing I could add is that this is football, and people get hit, sometimes in the mouth. May turn out to be the best thing that’s happened for our team in the past 6 years. Maybe somebody should have jacked up ol’ bed&breakfast back during the Shell 2 administration.

Cable obviously has no patience with people who are not with the plan. That’s great.

Assume for a moment that, whatever Cable did that caused Hanson to break his jaw, the Commissioner’s Office suspends Cable for 2 games. Who would you want to see as the head coach for those games? Paul Hackett and Ted Tollner have both been head coaches at the collegiate level, as well as offensive coordinators in the NFL. John Marshall has been an NFL coach forever. So who would you want wearing the headphones and holding the red flag?

because I love ex-Raiders. This move probably has no logic but i’m just spitballing here. No matter who it is they’re just a filler until Cable is back.

Let the investigation begin surrounding Tom Cable and his possible altercation with Randy Hanson.

The NFL is investigating reports that Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable got into an altercation that sent one of his assistants to the hospital.

Spokesman Greg Aiello says the league is looking into the situation to try to determine the facts of what happened.

A report filed with the Napa Police Department describes an unnamed 41-year-old Raiders assistant coach being treated at the Queen of the Valley Hospital for a jaw injury, which the victim alleges was caused by an unidentified member of the Raiders coaching staff on Aug. 5.

does not get suspended. We need him for our games.

Well, my point with all this is, so what!! This is the Raiders, there have been all kinds of fights, players vs coaches, coaches vs coaches, waterboy vs parking lot attendant, you guys know what time it is. Coach won’t get suspended if they can’t confirm and at the end of the day no one will confirm the story. However, there is an issue, if the Commish calls Coach and asks him did he knock his assistant upside the head I am sure he would tell the truth. But Coach being a kid from East Oakland, if he calls deny everything…lol (just joking) But hopefully it won’t come to that.

I appreciate what the Commish is trying to do around the league making guys accountable, however, it is football and the Commish should not get involved with teams internal issues. I say this because NFL teams can discipline their staff and players as well and any incident not having a negative effect on the NFL as a whole should be handled internally. I do have a feeling the media will put more into this than the Raiders will, and I know Coach won’t do that again. I hope he gets a pass this time, and well, quite frankly everyone will be ready for him next time. I don’t think it will be that easy….lol Now the Raiders can get on the field and start breaking jaws….

I wish Al Davis would just hire a damn GM already. Shit like this wouldn’t be happening so often and we wouldn’t be the damn laughing stock of the NFL

Looks like this story is about to get 10x uglier… it’s being reported that since the Raiders have now fired Hanson, he has hired a lawyer and is fully cooperating with police.

I have a hunch Cable is going to be looking at felony assault charges really soon if this is true.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/08/20/tom-cable-case-is-getting-weirder-by-the-day/

@midesd1981…

Well if you read the article you would see that apparently he either punched him (knocking him down) or threw him out of a chair to the ground, got on top of him and was strangling him saying “I’m going to kill you” and after other people pulled him off of Hanson, he got free and jumped on top of him and began choking him a second time.

If that is an accurate description of what happened, that is most certainly felony assault. At least. Could end up being even more than that.

What will happen if Tom gets suspended I never seen a coach get suspended so if he is not head coach who will.