Raiders Install Cable...

The Oakland Raiders have finally made a decision on a head coach for the 2009 season, removing the interim tag from Tom Cables title and making him their 5th head coach since 2003.

It took over 5 weeks sincve the season ended for the Raiders to decide on a head coach and interviewed several candidates including NY Giants OC Kevin Gilbride and Green Bay Packers assistant head coach Winston Moss, bu in the end decided to stay in house and install Cable (I hope that it is not Comcast) the former Idaho head coach who joined the Raiders in 2007.

Now that the head coach decision has been made the Raiders have a ton of other coaching positions to fill as several key coaches have left this off-season for greener pastures, including defensive coordinator Rob Ryan (Cleveland), offensive coordinator Greg Knapp (Seattle), special teams coordinator Brian Schneider (Southern California), running backs coach Tom Rathman (San Francisco) and linebackers coach Don Martindale (Denver).

Cable follows Bill Callahan (2002-03), Turner (2004-05), Art Shell (2006) and Kiffin (2007-08) in charge of the Raiders, who haven't had a winning season since Callahan led Oakland to the Super Bowl in his first season after replacing Jon Gruden.