On Second Thought: Should the Oakland Raiders “Bench” Tom Cable?

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Published: October 5, 2009

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... momentum.

This article is more of a lament on the status of the Raiders, after what had been a promising off-season.

Since 2003, the Raiders been mired in drama, starting most significantly with the Dumbest Coach in America, Bill Callahan, and his diatribe against a team that had struggled after losing the Super Bowl and their lost MVP quarterback, Rich Gannon, to a season-ending injury.

Some would say that the juicer Bill Romanowski and his training-camp fight was more emblematic, but when a coach goes and undermines the team in public, I would say that takes the cake.

After that season, the team was incrementally dismantled.  Most notably, the Raiders eventually let CB Charles Woodson walk and traded CB Phillip Buchanon, whom they selected with a pick received in the Jon Gruden trade.

Of course, the cackling vultures in the media have swarmed and scavenged around ever since, gloating with glee with every misfortune.  One of whom had even re...

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