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jerry jones has been no better than al.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-oakl...6347--spt.html
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Raiders fired coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday after just one season at the helm in the first major move since Reggie McKenzie was hired as general manager.
The decision to get rid of Jackson came four days after the team announced the hiring of McKenzie as the team's first general manager since the death of longtime owner Al Davis in October. McKenzie was to be formally introduced later Tuesday.
The firing was confirmed by a person with knowledge of the situation. It was first reported by ESPN.
The move marks a rapid fall for Jackson, who was in charge of personnel decisions and coaching after Davis died of heart failure on Oct. 8.
Jackson made the trade for quarterback Carson Palmer after starter Jason Campbell broke his collarbone, costing the Raiders a 2012 first-round draft pick and a conditional 2013 second-rounder.
While Palmer showed signs of giving the Raiders a big-time quarterback, he was unable to get Oakland to the playoffs for the first time since 2002, raising questions about how effective that trade was.
After starting the season 7-4, the Raiders lost four of their final five games to mark their ninth straight season without a winning record or a playoff berth. A late-game collapse at home to Detroit on Dec. 18 and a 38-26 loss to San Diego at home in the season finale did in the Raiders and ultimately Jackson.
Owner Mark Davis, Al's son, made the decision to bring in McKenzie last week and gave him the authority over the coaching staff. McKenzie will now get to pick a new head coach, providing the Raiders a fresh start in their first full season without Al Davis involved since 1962.
Jackson talked at the end of the season about having more involvement in 2012, but instead he will have none.
"I'm going take a stronger hand in this whole team, this whole organization," he said after the season finale. "There's no way that I'm going to feel like I feel today a year from now. I promise you that. There's no question. Defensively, offensively and special teams. I'm not feeling like this no more. This is a joke."
Jackson joined the Raiders as offensive coordinator in 2010 under head coach Tom Cable and engineered a dramatic improvement as Oakland more than doubled its point total and improved to 8-8. That helped him get the job when Davis decided not to retain Cable.
The offense wasn't quite as effective with Jackson as head coach as injuries to star running back Darren McFadden, receiver Jacoby Ford and Campbell played a part.
But the biggest problem this past season was on the defensive side of the ball. The Raiders had franchise worsts in touchdown passes allowed (31), yards per carry (5.1), yards passing (4,262) and total yards (6,201), while giving up the third-most points (433) in team history.
Oakland joined this season's Tampa Bay team as two of the four teams to allow at least 30 TD passes and 5.0 yards per carry in a season, a distinction achieved previously by only the 1950 Baltimore Colts and 1952 Dallas Texans. The Raiders also became the sixth team since the 1970 merger to allow at least 2,000 yards rushing and 4,000 yards passing in a season.
McKenzie will now have the opportunity to bring in a whole new staff, overhaul the roster and change the scheme if he deems necessary. The new coach will be Oakland's seventh in the past 10 seasons, following Bill Callahan, Norv Turner, Art S , Lane Kiffin, Tom Cable and Jackson.
McKenzie, who had been director of football operations in Green Bay, is a former Raiders linebacker. He was well-respected for his role in helping to build a Super Bowl championship team with the Packers.
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AP Sports Writer Janie McCauley contributed to this report
jerry jones has been no better than al.
I'll take Jerry Jones and Al Davis's putrefying corpse over Randy Lerner.
They could have saved all the typing and just put hugh douglas was fired because he was black.
The guy who fired him is black, you stupid n!gger.
foh...he ain't black. he's what we call a COON. he probably tap danced his way into the owners office in black face with a big ass kool aid grin on his face and to get in good with whitey decided to fire the only other brotha with some say so in the organization.
reggie and you.
What a dumbass move. If not for McFadden's injury, the Raiders go at least 10-6 and make the playoffs.
I understand wanting your own guys, but considering how much turnaround this coaching position has had, and this is the first guy who has actually shown some progress out of the team since Jon Gruden, this makes no sense at all. If they run out there next season with basically the same team + a healthy McFadden and do worse than 8-8, this guy is a pure got IMO.
He had the same record that Cable had the year prior. I by no means think he shoulda been fired, but it's not like this was a horrible move or anything.
It's not horrible yet, but if they go 4-12 next year, and the team is either clearly poorly coached, or just flat out hate the replacement that came in, it's a horrible move. They really seemed to have a lot of respect for Hue, and it has to be pretty annoying for the players to constantly have a new head coach on an almost yearly basis.
True. Obviously if the replacement sucks then it is a horrible move.
Well I think this good be good.
If the replacement comes in and coaches the team to a better record and makes the team more respectable, than you definitely have to like the move.
This move could also be bad
If the replacement is not a good fit and the team begins to go backwards then you have to go back and rethink the decision to let Hue go.
imo
So ing happy to see this guy leave. He's been overrated by Raider fans cause they have finally had a competent QB for the past two seasons and want to say he was the savior on offense.
But it does suck that we have another year of non continuity again.
Good move, he wasn't anything special. You'll really know Al's still alive if Art S is the new HC.
The Raiders did okay despite losing their best offensive player for half the year, and having to integrate a brand new QB.
I can't say exactly how good Jackson was, obviously, but the death of Al Davis was supposed to finally bring some stability to the Raiders organization....and this firing is basically business as usual for the Raiders.
This was in a yahoo or espn article, but look at all the franchises in the NFL that are successful year after year - Patriots, Steelers, Packers, Saints, Eagles, etc. They all have stability within the organization, especially at head coach. They don't can a guy after one bad year. And that's why they keep winning. The article also pointed out that two of the greatest coaches of all time, Tom Landry and Chuck Noll, would have been fired within 2 years of coaching the Cowboys and Steelers in today's NFL.
I agree on the Landry/Noll quote...owners have a quick trigger these days and only a few aren't caught up in immediate gratification--or else sect.
As far as Hue goes though, I believe he was put in charge of player/personnel kinda as a pseudo-gm when Al passed. The Palmer deal is what did him in. It could ultimately prove to be a good move, but he got fleeced by the Cincy front office...supposedly they were fielding offers for one 4th or 5th rd pick only before oakland showed up and blew their wad.
I understand the early kc and den losses, as he was getting acclimated, but they regrouped and were 7-4 heading into december, then had bad losses to Miami (piss poor effort), detroit (blew a 13 point lead with 5 minutes left), and choked at home ij the finale against a charger team who had nothing to play for.
I agree that the Raiders need continuity, but Hue wasnt some offensive or defensive genius, and the raiders were still the most undisciplined team in the league (yeah i know, they always are).
Whoever they hire next they should just give him the keys for the next 3 seasons
Those teams have continuity because they win. All of them took big leaps very early in the tenure of the present coach- 1st-year for New Orleans, second year for the rest. They got quick positive results.
IMO when a coach goes, say, 4-12 and 5-11 in his first two years, he usually isn't going to get better than that. Maybe he can pull a fluke playoff season out of his butt a la Jauron in Chicago in 2001 (worst 13-3 team in NFL history), but that's about it. Vermeil w/the Rams in '99 is the exception.
Noll and Landry's teams posted better records in the 2nd yr than in the 1st, so while they didn't win consistently, they had the Steelers and Cowboys going visibly in the right direction. Granted, they went 1-25-1 combined as rookie coaches, so there was nowhere to go but up.
Noll didn't make the playoffs until his 4th season. Landry didn't make it until his 7th. Both of them would have been fired well before that point in today's NFL.
Looks like he could be a character in Dumb and Dumber.
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