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| Cable officially named Raiders next coach |
NFL Football |
02/04/2009 |
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| Oakland, CA (MySportsbook) - The Oakland Raiders will introduce Tom Cable as the team's next full-time head coach at a press conference at 4:15 p.m. (et) on Wednesday. Cable will become the organization's 17th head coach after serving as Oakland's interim head coach for the final 12 games of the 2008 season. The Raiders finished the season at 5-11 but went 4-8 under Cable after the firing of Lane Kiffin late in September. The 44-year-old Cable joined the Raiders in 2007 as an offensive line coach. Cable was |
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| 49ers set to sign Raye as new offensive coordinator |
NFL Football |
01/30/2009 |
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| the vacant position, including former Super Bowl winning head coach Dan Reeves and former St. Louis Rams head coach Scott Linehan. However, San Francisco eventually decided on Raye, who had spent the last three seasons as the New York Jets running back coach. The 62-year-old Raye has been an offensive coordinator with six different NFL clubs, including a stint with the Oakland Raiders from 2004-05. Raye actually began his NFL coaching career with the 49ers, serving as the team's wide receivers coach in 1977. |
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| Report: Cable to coach Raiders next season |
NFL Football |
01/29/2009 |
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| Oakland, CA (MySportsbook) - The Oakland Raiders have reportedly chosen to remove the interim tag from Tom Cable and named him their permanent head coach. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Cable, who took over to replace the fired Lane Kiffin and went 4-8 over the final 12 games of the season, will get the full-time job. The Raiders finished last season at 5-11. Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride and Packers assistant head coach Winston Moss also interviewed for the job recently, according to the |
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| Bucs dismiss Gruden and Allen; Morris reportedly in as coach |
NFL Football |
01/17/2009 |
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| ith Gruden running the show, including a 3-2 mark in the postseason. Gruden's Bucs had brought home NFC South titles in 2002, 2005 and 2007, but four straight losses to end the 2008 regular season culminating with a 31-24 defeat at home to the lowly Oakland Raiders with the Bucs still in contention for a playoff seed appears to have sparked the parting. Tampa Bay was 9-3 prior to the collapse and in position to claim its fourth division crown. The firing comes almost one year to the day that both Gruden and Al |
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| Bucs dismiss Gruden and Allen |
NFL Football |
01/16/2009 |
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| ith Gruden running the show, including a 3-2 mark in the postseason. Gruden's Bucs had brought home NFC South titles in 2002, 2005 and 2007, but four straight losses to end the 2008 regular season culminating with a 31-24 defeat at home to the lowly Oakland Raiders with the Bucs still in contention for a playoff seed appears to have sparked the parting. Tampa Bay was 9-3 prior to the collapse and in position to claim its fourth division crown. The firing comes almost one year to the day that both Gruden and Al |
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| Browns tab Daboll and Ryan as coordinators |
NFL Football |
01/14/2009 |
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| Seely was head of the special teams unit. The 33-year-old Daboll was also the quarterbacks coach of the Jets alongside Mangini for two seasons. He has 11 years of coaching experience, nine of them in the NFL. The 46-year-old Ryan joins his fourth NFL team. He was defensive backs coach for Arizona from 1994-95, and also worked for the Patriots (2000-03) and had spent the previous five seasons as defensive coordinator of the Oakland Raiders. Seely spent the last ten seasons as the Patriots' special teams coach. |
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| Around FCS: The Coaching Carousel |
Division I-AA College Football |
01/14/2009 |
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| moving to NCAA Division II in 1998. Among the Vikings' alumni are Atlanta Falcons punter Michael Koenen, St. Louis Rams receiver Dane Looker (Looker transferred to Washington after starting at WWU) and linebacker Shane Simmons, who had been with the Oakland Raiders earlier this year. Coach Robin Ross, whose resume includes serving as a defensive coordinator at Cincinnati, Fresno State and Iowa State and as a defensive assistant for two years with the Oakland Raiders, had gone in to meet with the school's chanc |
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| Saints shuffle coaching staff, add Ingalls |
NFL Football |
01/12/2009 |
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| ue-high 13,910 yards, 88 touchdowns, 1,209 completions and a 93.8 rating. Kromer was the Saints' running backs coach in 2008 and, before coming to New Orleans, served as the offensive line coach in Tampa Bay (2005-07) and spent four seasons with the Oakland Raiders (2002-04) in the same capacity. A veteran of 18 years of coaching experience, Kromer also served as assistant offensive line coach for Oakland in 2001. Ingalls spent the past three years at Northwestern University coaching the offensive line. In 200 |
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| Knapp to run offense for Seahawks |
NFL Football |
01/09/2009 |
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| Kirkland, WA (MySportsbook) - The Seattle Seahawks tabbed Greg Knapp as their new offensive coordinator Thursday. Knapp joins the Seahawks after spending two years in the same capacity with the Oakland Raiders. Before that, he was with the San Francisco 49ers in 1995 and spent three years as their offensive quality control coach (1995-97) and three years as quarterbacks coach before being promoted to offensive coordinator from 2001-03. In 2004, he left to join head coach Jim Mora Jr. in Atlanta for a three- |
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| Rivers, Reed, Miller capture AFC monthly honors |
NFL Football |
12/31/2008 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed and Oakland Raiders kick returner Justin Miller have been selected as the AFC's top players for the month of December. Rivers, the offensive player of the month, led San Diego to a 4-0 record in December, as the Chargers stormed back to win their third consecutive AFC West title -- becoming the first team to reach the postseason after a 4-8 start. San Diego crushed Denver, 52-21, Sunday in a winner-ta |
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