A New Name Emerges in Raiders' Coaching Search

I already like Reggie’s commitment here. Whoever we hire as head coach, I’ll be confident that he’s the best man for the job simply based on the extent he’s going to to find him (as opposed to some of our fears that he’d just parachute Moss or someone else from GB into the job).

I don’t know much about Carmichael, especially since Sean Payton runs that team’s offense. That said, there aren’t many better guys to learn from so one would hope his apprenticeship would serve him well. I’d have to assume he’d be a better OC candidate though.

but isnt that every teams goal? want, need and have are completely different things

Campbell was a qb who had several OC’s during his career and it took him over a year to adjust to a new offense. Yes once he adjusted to Hue he was very good. However, you look at the success palmer had with as little time as he had to learn a new offense after sitting on the couch. haveing an entire offseason to learn the playbook, plus OTA, real training camp and real pre-season, I think he can handle it, and will definately help these young receivers to learn it as he showed to be a step up leader once he arrived, and the young players looked to him for that leadership right away.

and Mckenzie wanted to pick someone too even its its Hue’s twin brother

Hue made it clear before Mackenzie was brought in, that he wanted to retain a lot of power and decision making and NO GM is going to stand for that, especially with all the many things he will have to address with this dysfunctional organization coming in. No shock Hue was fired after saying all that, not to mention all the smack talk he put out there at the beginning of the season, only to do absolutely nothing to back any of it up!! Hue was a joke imo, just like Cable before him was.

We have our opinions but I have confidense in what Mark is doing. He already made a good choice in listening to madden and Wolfe.

1 Gruden is the SECOND best coach in raiders history. No one can top what madden did considering he NEVER had a losing season with the silver and black and that was even after taking over a team that had a horribly losing season prior to his arrival. But other than fans wanting gruden back his name is not even being considered because he has stated he is not interested in coming back to coaching right now, he just signed an extension with ESPN for monday night football and that was AFTER all these head coaches were being fired.

but i quickly disregarded it as crap. there really havent been any other reports other than that article written by a hack of a writer who loved Hue Jackson that said there was a rift between Mark and Al. Generally speaking, anything put up in the media i tend to look past because its usually garbage and they are just looking for ways to gouge at the Silver and Black.
That being said, what evidence is there that Mark would snub a great coach just because it was a former hire of his late great father.

and they didnt find anyone that the like. ESPN reported that no one “Wowed” the raiders and they were not hired or had further discussions

Right now the raiders are still suffering from the coaching stigma created by big AL. When you consider a head coach has not lasted more than 2 seasons since gruden was lost, most coaches are scared to take the raiders HC job. yeah big AL is dead and there is now someone else in charge, but when the VERY first thing that GM does is fire the HC, creating yet ANOTHER raiders coach who has had more success than any raiders HC since gruden/callahan (refer to previous post) then that doesn’t exactly give the warm fuzzies to other HC candidates out there for longevity.