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Sources: Tom Cable Punched Defensive Assistant

While watching ESPN, I came across a "this just in" story while Jay Harris was anchoring the desk along with NFL analyst Adam Schefter. Nonetheless, I was surprised and even more disappointed with the report of Tom Cable punching defensive assistant Randy Hanson some time ago.

According to a report Monday on the Web site National Football Post, Raiders defensive assistant Randy Hanson was punched in the jaw by another member of the team's coaching staff during an Aug. 5 altercation at Oakland's training camp headquarters at the Napa Valley Marriott.

Multiple NFL and Raiders sources have confirmed the victim of the alleged assault was Hanson, a third-year assistant who is in his first season with the team under the title "assistant coach-defense." Two NFL sources have told FanHouse the attacker was Raiders' first-year head coach Tom Cable, and "that Hanson never saw it coming."

David White of the San Francisco Chronicle first reported that a Raiders assistant was involved in an altercation about three hours ago. A couple of hours later, Nancy Gay confirmed that it was Tom Cable as noted by David White in his report.

A Raiders official declined to comment. Cable will meet with reporters after today's 3:30 p.m. practice.

More as details continue to emerge ...

It's almost explaining time, coach.

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UPdate By OAKFOSHO:

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.

OakFoSho