Thread: Seahawks hire Tom Cable as assistant head coach

(01-18) 23:09 PST -- Tom Cable, let go by the Raiders on Jan. 4, will return to his native Pacific Northwest to be assistant head coach under Pete Carroll and to work with Seattle's offensive line.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz1BV4kLsrp

Hmmm, interesting move.

Good move by Carroll. I hate the Raiturds, but for some reason really like Cable.

Never knew cable was a direct student of the King of ZB
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Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Good move by Carroll. I hate the Raiturds, but for some reason really like Cable.

He seems like an inherently likable guy. Plus he punches his coaches. For some reason, I find that endearing.

Here’s a sample, with a big assist to Jerry McDonald at the Oakland Tribune and David White of the San Francisco Chronicle:

1. Davis on beating Lane Kiffin in arbitration: “I beat him because he lied. He’s a liar.” (Davis called him “Lance” Kiffin at one point. He also called Cam Newton “Kim” Newton.)

2. Davis said Cable would have been fired after the season even if the team made he playoffs because of his off-field problems. The Raiders owner crushed Cable for saying “We’re not losers anymore.” It was pretty obvious Davis saw Jackson as a potential head coach the moment they hired him.

3. A reporter asked Davis about the efficacy of the team’s background checks considering Kiffin and Cable’s history: “We’re very bad at it,” Davis said. Awesome.

4. In an upset, the line of the day went to Jackson: “What Tom Cable is as a football coach is an exceptional line coach.” (Ouch.)

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ss-conference/

Click on the above link to see the picture of Davis - looks like someone beat the crap out of him

AND

Al Davis takes aim at Tom Cable

As detailed by the San Francisco Chronicle (we’ve also got a snippet of the performance, thanks to our friends at NBCSports.com), Davis turned to the topic of Cable as the press conference seemed to be winding down. Davis cited the Randy Hansen incident, explaining that during an August 2009 meeting with Cable and other coaches, “Randy’s jaw was broken, to this day nobody is sure how it was broken.”

Davis also said that “[w]e had a spouse accuse the head coach of personal relations that were not good,” that the Raiders faced a lawsuit from a woman who claimed that Cable mistreated her, that Cable was “flying in friends so they could be with them the night before the game.” (The over/under on comments containing the phrase “lay some cable” or a variation thereof is 23.5.)

“I just wasn’t going to take it anymore,” Davis said regarding the decision not to pick up an option in Cable’s contract.

Davis also confirmed that he withheld $120,000 in pay from Cable, who reportedly has filed a grievance with the league office to force the payment of the money.

video on link - http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-at-tom-cable/

Good for him. He deserves to go to a team with a future.

Originally Posted by frauschieze

He seems like an inherently likable guy. Plus he punches his coaches. For some reason, I find that endearing.

he's also been accused of beating his GF, so possibly not such a great guy. . .

Originally Posted by dogfish

he's also been accused of beating his GF, so possibly not such a great guy. . .

He looks hungry, maybe she didn't bring him his gaddamm sammich.

I bet he punches Carroll in the mouth by week 3.

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

He looks hungry, maybe she didn't bring him his gaddamm sammich.

well, obviously anyone would understand given those circumstances. . . .