Right now, we can’t go wrong with Hue Jackson. How many more people in their right mind would want to take this job? I don’t think there are too many people out there. Jackson has my vote. I think he is up to the task and has earned it.

I think if we can get some decent play calling, replace a few problems on the offensive and defensive lines, we should be a 8 win team at least. I’m open to an 8 win season, i just want to see this thing going in the right direction!

I think cable is the best option at this stage and with a more experienced play caller it should work well. Getting the d-line coach fromnew York is a great move and we are really building on the good offseason we had last year. Obviously free agency and the draft will be interesting but again last year I think we did pretty we in FA resigning nam and lechler and getting some proven vets like Ellis, I’ve heard some interviews with Seymour and he seems excited about what’s going on in Oakland. Bring on next season already!!!

I am quite sure that we will have a repeat of last season. And this time it will on Al because he should have fired Cable and hired a new coach and OC and then should sit back and let the coaches do their job.

Cable will ruin this team.

NO, but can we really get the best available coaches? Not a chance. The team seems to like Cable, so keeping him as the HC while bringing in an OC to handle the play calling is a great move in my opinion. No OC will jump ship to come to Oakland to take on the same position, the only way is to promote someone to make it worth coming here. I would love Gilbride, but he won’t leave NY for anything less than a HC job.

Al’s logic is Hue jackson coached both Carson Palmer (USC) and helped develop Flacco in Baltimore so if he comes in as OC he will also help with JR (if its at all possible) 2 birds with one stone kind thing.

with Cinci and Baltimore and all had everything to do with his being there, but it is not judgment of the entire “units” he coached with all those teams. Go back and look at those overall performances. At times mediocre, and others spectacular.

Also, why the changing of positions he coached? Was it for inability to produce at the positions before, or because they recognized his talents to coach other players in their positions?

I want a risk taker, and someone who could give a shit what Al thinks will work, and can’t wait to prove the way he’s arguing will, and ultimately does. If he’s that guy (don’t think he is) then I’ll take him. I’m with the rest of the guys. While we had no guy to call plays and coordinate the offenses and implement a system, we did have Paul Hackett, arguably the best qb coach, and Tollner, well respected with results to prove as a passing game coordinator, so I’m inclined to ask the same questions we’ve been, over and over again: how’s he gonna be any different?

maybe it was that unlikely combination, of a head coach not capable of wearing all the hats, having a qb coach and a passing game coordinator trying to make the offense work with Jamarcus, and an inexperienced running backs coach, and lousy blocking personnel (Gallery, Henderson, and Satele had their moments) is the reason it’s been impossible to get going. Maybe also the reason for calling primarily passing calls, coupled with the stacking of the box we blamed on Jamarcus inability to qb?

that 4th quarter Gradkowski had against Pitt. could attest to the energy poured into the passing game, and the lack of assertion of a running backs coach and evident by the playcalling; could that indicate an Emmitt Smith(I’d have said Marcus Allen, but well, that won’t happen unfortunately in Al’s lifetime) type guy to come in and coach the running backs could propel this team from the scrapheap?

isnt all about jamarcus for once?? this guy has developed people like chad ochocinco and T.J. “whosyourmama” lol so maybe al is lookin at darrius and all the young guys on our recieving core too. im sure he knows that paul hackett is one of the best or else why bring him in at all? let him continue to work and let this hue guy put his 2 cents in also and it might not be a bad combination.

Poised, young QB with a strong arm and mobility
Enters 2009 having seen action in 10 games (including 2 starts) and has completed 43 of 80 passes for 534 yards (long of 79t), 3 TDs and no INTs for an 87.2 QB rating
Smith also has rushed 21 times for 78 yards and 1 TD, and has 1 pass reception for 36 yards. Saw action in 6 games (was inactive the first 5 games of the season due to an illness) in 2008, completing 3 of 4 pass attempts for 82 yards, 1 TD and no INTs for a 156.3 QB rating
Smith also rushed 9 times for 24 yards and caught 1 pass (from Joe Flacco) for 36 yards