Report: Tom Cable Is Returning Next Season

that he remains as head coach???

I thought the players played hard for Cable and didnt quit.
He is overmatched as a playcaller/off line coach/hc. He needs less responsibilty.
No more drama. hire a hc and stand behind the guy.

Al D really disrespected cable by letting him dangle in the wind the past few weeks. Notice how dallas and sd instantly said they were bringing back their hc’s. Al should have done the same thing. Lets be honest, no one worth a shit would have taken the job anyways.

Anyways you slice until Al gets a clue the Raiders will suck….Another 10 loss season is upon us. None of this “news” amounts to jack shit.

Seriously, we have a terrible media for a supposedly big market.

That is all for now.

This is good gentelmen. If we can bring Hue Jackson, we have a running shot. But im not gonna get ahead of myself, Im gonna let the draft determine my opinion. Were heading in the right direction. Now all we need is the right pieces

as a raider. dungy already advised him (last offseason) not to entertain the notion however. he does need money, and no one knows how to over pay free agents better than oaktown (well dan snyder might). so it may happen.

i love grads but dont think he has enough talent to be a sucessful full-time starter. would love him to prove me wrong however

Cam Inman writes his initial piece on Tom Cable being retained as head coach.

One thing the Raiders have done consistently — other than losing — is to stand by Cable as their coach, through all his off-field scandals and on-field defeats. More on those later.

This does little to affirm the Raiders’ future. That franchise’s fate revolves around two figures: Davis’ tight grip on personnel matters and JaMarcus Russell’s tenuous roster spot.

Did Cable win a me-or-Russell debate with Davis? Did Cable offer up a solution (an intervention) to reboot Russell’s development? Did Davis realize no one wants to coach the Raiders as badly as Cable?

we cant go through another year where cable is the head coach, offense coordinator, and o line coach. now hue from the ravenswould be a good choice as the o coordinator. he also developed carson palmer, joe flacco just to name a few. he could help j russell. we do know cable could not but liked gradorski and frye. hue also is another positive coach that coached with cable. maybe al wasnt going to fire cable and get more people in here to help surport him like waffle and hue. so al wanted to see where hue was an o coordinator. as the world turns with the raiders.

come by bolstering the O-line in the draft and maybe Free Agency and in the very first few games lets say 2-3, if russell still sux they pull him and start Grads the rest of the way. I think thats why Al still stuck with Cable cuz of his plan, which obviously should be that. I still believe Russell sux but hopefully with a revamped O-line lets see what the clown can do…and the major pieces are RT, RG, and then C.

I do not believe that there is anything bad that comes out of the deciscion to keep Cable. I hope that what this really means is that Al was all for the deciscion to bench JR, and maybe he does not believe JR is untouchable as many on here have suggested before.

What really puzzles me about the whole situation is how the entire situation was and still is being handled by the Raiders. Herrera is still saying as of just a few minutes ago that this report is false and that no deciscion has been made. If this is in fact a done deal, then why not just come out and say, yes, we have made a deciscion. I undestand that they really do not have to say anything since Cable is still under contract and the only reason there should be news would be if we let him go. IMO this situation has not been handled well at all, the Raiders organization should not have let this blow up to be the huge media story that it has become with everyone waiting with baited breath to see what the word out of Alameda is going to be.

that Al Davis let Coach Cable dangle in the wind? Al Davis is a very secretive man, almost everything he does is behind closed doors. For all people know, Al could have notified Coach Cable he was being retained immediately and went about the business of hiring other staff members. A process that Mr. Cable could have been very involved in, his top two candidates have ties with the coach afterall. I think that Coach Cable has known for a while of Mr. Davis’ decision and has gone along with the ploy. Maybe Coach Cable has found a way to do what several former coaches couldn’t, work with Al Davis. I think he has a chance to be a good coach, but he definitely needs a few less responsibilities.
Now put this dead issue to bed and focus on improving the coaching staff and roster!

From PFT.com who quotes the AP as its source:

The Raiders have spent the last few days denying reports that they’re looking at head-coaching candidates.

The Raiders are now denying a report that they’ve decided to keep the head coach they have.

Raiders senior executive John Herrera told the Associated Press that the process of evaluating Tom Cable has not concluded. Herrera also pointed out that the team has not said Cable will be back next season.

But, as many Raiders have pointed out recently, why should the Raiders have to announce that Cable will still be their head coach?

It’s therefore the first concrete piece of evidence that Cable might not be back next season.

And it remains possible that the Raiders and owner Al Davis are simply trying to mess with the media.

Until Cable, the new head coach or Al Davis holds a press conference to announce who the head coach is, nothing is to be believed.

If we hired an OC and a decent HC and Al didn’t meddle so much we’d be fine.

But Cable doesn’t belong in a HC position any where. Continuity is fine, only if it’s a winning spirit. Not being able to win the next game is just horrible. The fact is Cable is being retained by default because no one with any merit wants to come to Oakland to coach because they know they can’t install their system and do their job. This is why we need a GM or that illusive “football guy” Al lied to us about.

if you ask me, not bringing back Cable would mean we’d be starting everything over yet again. We can’t keep stating over year in and year out. You have to start then keep it going until it has no run left in it.

And to me Cable has plenty of run left in him. For what he had to work with most of the year, he managed to beat multiple upper-tier NFL teams though consistency was an issue.

And while there is no guarantee that issue won’t stay the same this year, there’s no guarantee it won’t change either. But bringing back a guy who knows the team and what they can and can’t do is better than bringing in a guy who would have to learn the team all over again.

Cable said he’d be wiling to give up playcalling, and it even seemed that he’d prefer to. I also think Davis likes that as well. I can practically guarantee a new OC who will be taking over playcalling.

I have have no doubt that JaMarcus Russell was a hot topic during the Cable-Davis talks. Me thinks that Cable and Davis both agree that Grad was better last year and chances are we’ll see an actual open competition. Cable is definitely an Al puppet, but doesn’t that mean Davis told him to pull the plug on Russell? Very interesting…….

Davis has his skill positions set with young developing talent, now even he has to think it’s time for the trenches and the front-seven to see some work done. Don’t expect many big FA moves (I predict only one major FA move), but I think we’ll see one crazy draft. Al has been too conventional with his draft as of late, expect some kind of big curveball on draft day.

much like the Chiefs are becoming all former Patriots. Will this be a formula for success for them? Who knows!

I love Crennel as a DC, I think Todd Haley gets much better, still think Matt Cassell was a mistake, but overall see the Chiefs on an uphill climb, but think they’re making themselves, and their division better with every move.

The players we have may just be young enough to not lose too much with the bringing in of a new coach. It can hardly affect the chemistry, as this group of guys hasn’t played together for long, nor have they actually established any kind of identity or typical MO on either side of the ball, save for some defensive starts who’ve come to excel at their respective positions.

I hate saying it but I really hope the raiders go 1-15 or 0-16 sooo the front office will finally see the light….. It’s a sad sight to see a team that you rooted for all your life not wanna better themselves and attempt to get a superbowl win :/ Count me out on going to these games this season…… ,and if you guys think Jamarcus russell ,and his crew will pull off a winning record plz do us a favor and /wrist lol