The Oakland Raiders fired coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday. Rumors swirled Tuesday ahead of a Raiders news conference to introduce new general manager Reggie McKenzie concerning Jackson's future with the team, published reports indicated Jackson would not attend the media event. Monday night, Jackson told CSN Bay Area’s Kate Longworth that he would “probably see†her today at the news conference. The San Francisco Chronicle reported indications were that Jackson would return for another season, but there were indications McKenzie was “considering†replacing Jackson after his one 8-8 season. The team failed to make the playoffs despite acquiring quarterback Carson Palmer in midseason. Source: Sporting News
haha. whoops Hue. you thought you were strong enough to help select the new g.m. you didn't get a say in it and now you're crap-canned ............... quite honestly, he should be fired just for the trade for palmer, which from all indications was hue's decision.
He was too busy making friends of his players instead of being a HC and actually making sure his coordinators were doing what was best for the team...I knew Reggie was going to axe Hue...
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Damn when you look @ it like this it's so telling...hopefully for the Raider fans, management can now make good decisions for their next HC.
Who wants to coach in Oakland if you don't even get a few years to get your own team/players together? 1 and done isn't going to make good coaches/coordinators want to come in if they think you're going to crap can them the second they hit a snag.
well, hopefully now with an actual g.m., the raiders will change their ways. i don't blame reggie for firing hue. his butt is on the line depending on who is coach is and if he felt hue was not the right guy, he should have fired him.
8-8 two seasons in a row, the Palmer trade, the defense collapsing late, the record number of penalties....all after Hue Jackson said he would fix the issues. he dug his own grave with his hyperbole.
From what i heard didnt he fire the whole defensive coaching staff after the season? only one problem, he didnt have the authority to fire anybody lol
Wow terrible decision, with all the stuff he had to go through this year I'm totally shocked he wasn't given another year. Al Davis passing away, losing your starting QB, RB for the year. WRs frequently being injured and probably the worst DC in the game with Bresnahan. He had no control over any of these things happening yet he still got the team to play strong and go 8-8, sure the last month of the season sucked pretty hard and the Palmer trade was a pretty big over payment, and the penalties (He really isn't the one on the field, he can't get the players to stop committing those fouls, it's up to them. Could he have benched them? Yes, but why would he when he has to win in his first season, he can't be sitting his best players when most coaches coming into Oakland get axed after one season of no playoffs) but all things considered I'd say going 8-8 is still pretty good. And as other people said, why would any coach actually want to come in and coach here when you're hardly given a fair chance to turn the team around, you get one year to make the playoffs and should anything happen to deter that you'll get canned.
New GM's always want to look at what they have and make changes with personnel they are familiar with. Jackson didn't help his case after Rolando McClain hecked up and Jackson let him play anyway when in reality he should have sat him even the players were a tad upset that McClain played. Jackson was the one that said he was going to take a stronger hand to fix the situation and that ended in him blaming his staff and players, I wouldn't want to play for a coach who does that. He never took the blame it was always excuses. Grabbing Palmer for what they paid was not a good thing to do and the team is going to regret that for a few years.
First I'm a little surprised Hue got canned, not shocked, just surprised. Personally I would have giving Hue this year to make the playoffs, maybe eve win at least 1 playoff game or you are gone. Now unless you trade players for pics, you have not 2012 Draft picks and have traded a few 2013 picks on a QB with a strong relationship to the coach you just canned. Second, now that the decision has been made, who from the Packer's family is going to come in and be the HC, OC and DC. Every coach is going to be called upon to help right this ship.
