Local Media Is Reporting That Al Davis Is Preparing To Fire Tom  Cable

and it was just a matter of time. I don’t even think a victory against Baltimore would’ve changed that.

do I agree with it, if in fact there is any truth to it ?(I believe there is some). I’m not sure; I do know it hasn’t been working, and the organization always needs a scapegoat.

I believe the players that said they liked Tom. I think KAZ13R said Tom possesses exactly some of the qualities Tom has, but in today’s league, the patience Tom has demonstrated with mediocrity has no place. There must be an immediacy to the moves a team makes, and be it Tom’s fault or not, his record will ultimately speak for itself when Jamarcus Russell and the worst passing attack in history is all but forgotten.

Right now is the right time; Please, please, please, let it be the right guy.

Once again, I believe Tom would’ve been at least over .500 with even decent play at qb, in terms of the occasional td pass and better protection of the ball, and should never have been calling plays, but that point is now moot.

If Al Davis does end up firing Tom Cable we can expect a list eerily similar to the ones we discussed when Kiffin was on his way out and even last season when there was speculation that Cable would be replaced.

Expect names like Fassel, Billick, Trestman, and Gilbride to come up. Don’t expect names like Shanahan, Cowher, or Gruden to be included.

In the end, so long as Al Davis is still running the show, the list of people who are actually willing to jump into the hornets nest that is the Raiders front office/coaching staff will be short and unassuming.

if we get rid of Cable, then we’re going to be starting all over. Happy 7 more years all

I’m not fullly up to date with OC candidates but I wouldn’t mind seeing Jim Zorn come on as OC and he has a great rep for working with QB’s and i dont think changing systems is a good idea.

Cable should only go if we have someone like Chucky already committed to coming in.

There is no reason to expect even the usual candidate list will come to the team. Unless Al has a slam dunk ready to go (Gruden or Harbaugh), then we’ll continue to see how far down the coaching flagpole the Raiders HC job has gone. There’s probably HS coaches who might tell the Raiders, ‘thanks, but no thanks’. The franchise centerpieces will remain JaGantus Russell & Dead Hands Bey. In the second half of the season, w/o Russell, the team at least had become watchable again. Taking another step back is counterproductive, as it has been after firing Callahan, Turner, Shell, Kiffin whatever. No change at the top, means no change to the bottom line.

Qualifiers: I’m not a fan of any specific team, just of fun and anarchy.

There’s a man out there. More a god, really. He’s currently unemployed, and has helmed some of the best and most innovative offenses in the nation. He is also irrationally obsessed with pirates. He’s crazy enough to want to work for Al Davis.

That’s right, I’m talking about Mike Leach.

We can do this, people! Just imagine: JaMarcus throwing for 6,000 yards! Louis Murphy grabbing 170 catches! Final scores of 84-72!

All of this can be yours

Bring in Leach as the OC…
                  and
Bring in Madden as the GM!!

The Raiders will start from zero if Cable is fired. It will be every other year over again, then the next coach won’t be good enough for Al, and it will continue. He’ll have Russell as the qb, and be in denial thinking that he is the answer. No coach will be able to make JaDumbo a good qb because he doesn’t have it in him. Our good players will see that their boss(Al) will never learn from his mistakes, and the first chance they get, they will bolt in free agency to a franchise with stability. Nobody will want to come to our team, and we will continue to stink and be the most lost team in the league.

This team really is not that far away from being a playoff team. If he filled some of the teams holes in this years draft and off season, then this team would be on its way to contention. Here are some very obvious moves to make that would be easy to make if Al used his brain. Keep the coach, re-sign Seymour, re-sign and start Gradkowski, re-sign Howard and Morrison, re-sign Frye, cut Russell, draft an offensive tackle in the first round, get a good defensive tackle in the 2nd round, get a good mlb(Daryl Washington TCU) in the 3rd round so that they can move Morrison to olb, draft a good og/c/cb in the third, and hire good staff members(oc) to help Cable. I don’t think those moves would be very hard to make at all. Instead Al will do the opposite of all that was said.

al davis wont get rid of a his QB. history says that al davis will stick with jamarcus and either force cable to work with him or fire cable. al davis argument is that vince young, drew brees, and eli manning all were able to turn things around.

in my on opinion, we need better line play! without gallery, henderson was getting burnt badly, and cornell green could not handle orakpo and he false starts on the run plays that force us to play pass then cant hold a block… so wtf???… and if cable is a “Oline guy” then whos responsible. its not hacket or tolner… i know that..

History also says that Davis brings in journey men or has been QBs and they become at most stars.

Rich Gannon
Jim Plunkett
George Blanda(The NFL had the nerve to call him an NFL reject. Shows what they know)

what history, the 08’ firing over kiffin, thats history. Yea Al tried russell another year in his defense to russell over kiffin, but look at the last 1st round QB Al took and its history. its kinda ironic actually. Marinovich sat behind Shroeder for his rookie year and played briefly in one game that year and looked good, kinda like russell. then after a 0-3 start in came TM and put up the same numbers as russell did only in 7 games, 49% comp. 5 tds 9 picks, actually a little better than russell and went 3-4 as a starter but still sucked, like russell. we had a former Olineman as our coach in shell, like cable, and Davis canned TM and stayed with shell after that, so who knows whats gonna happen but " OL AL" might suprise us after all, if this history repeats itself!

Very good point, rodeo.

Where have u guys been the last 50 years…. Why are there so many people relying on “history to repeat itself”? We have truly ran out of excuses if all we can do is hope the ghosts of raiders past bring us to victory. The only way we win is if Al gets a “consultant/gm”, we build through the draft and sign quality role players.

Other teams (bills,skins) get billeck, cowher or shanahan to come out of retirement… We get the likes of kiffen, cable and fassel. Who most would never be HC anywhere else other then fassel. Cable is lined up to take a HC job in the UFL or NCAA.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders/2010/01/05/russell-in-vegas/

That Al is prepared to fire Cable…Their meeting next monday to talk about Tom’s future

ESPN is full of shit…

Remember how they broke the story about tom cable hitting his wife and his girlfriend….then the story disappeared and was never talked about again HUH???

Stupid biased network that is looking for anything to make the Raiders look bad

Make the story Deeper like the Cable Incident, and hurt the fanbase by deceiving them with lies or misguided attempts to make the story bigger which pisses people off. Maybe they Dont do it often but still when they do it just BS. I Doubt they know if Al Is prepared thats BS… its just speculation. They Are NOT out to get the Raiders ,we know that. I Like ESPN but I don’t find them all that Credible.

celebrate that bad ass year with some hooch and some stink eh jruss! gotta celebrate your best game last sunday huh! yea dude, 9-14(your best comp%) and only 1 pick and 1 strip sack! shit is changin russell, nice! seriously, AL probably re-signed him and said “have at it kid, your my man!”

I agree. We need a better OC and a GM. The players respond positively with Cable. They want to play their hearts out for him and for that he shouldn’t be let go. Turner and Shell didn’t have that. I’m glad to not be a Denver fan and that joke of a HC they got now. Why did they fire Shanahan again?

with a bender in Vegas. I stopped watching the Raiders earlier this season because I couldn’t stand watching JaGantus Russell at qb. As a Raider fan I still followed them and hoped they won, and once fat boy was benched I was able to watch the team from beginning to end. I can’t take Russell anymore and I can’t take another stupid coaching change. I can’t take Al Davis’ decision making, and I stopped going to the games this year.

I hope Russell had a great time at the Palms with all the money he’s stolen from all us fans. JR is the new Commitment to Excellence, the face of the franchise, and everthing wrong with the Oakland Raiders. At least if I decide to become a Niners fan, I can get the Michael Crabtree jersey I was robbed of as a Raiders fan. It’s almost like the team refuses to hit bottom, but stays frustratingly circling above it for the past 7+ years.

agree, what happens in vegas stays in vegas! maybe jrust can take the las vegas locos to a 2 and 7 season and let us head to better days. back in the day, it was no thing for old raiders to go party, do a shot of crown and a snort of white shit, but that was after WINNING seasons and playoffs. this guy is a terd and if this is true, he just saved cables job and our hopeless future!

Q: Do you thin you and Al on the same page regarding the QB situation?

Cable: I do, because his words to me were, ‘You’re the coach. Make the decision.’