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Originally Posted by jdubya

Only browsed the last couple of pages but it seems some are a little behind in the news regarding the Raiders. The days of the Raiders firing HC`s every 1 1/2 years seems to be over. Looks like Mark Davis has more patience than his dad otherwise McKenzie and Allen would have been gone 2 years ago. Having said that, no matter what coach was hired after McKenzie took over was destined to be the lame duck coach while the Raiders purged their roster of outrageous contracts and Al`s scholarship players. That took 2 years to do. They also had very few draft picks the first 2 drafts thanks to the previous sins of Al davis. This years roster was the start of a few young foundational players and a few FA`s picked up on 1 year deals so not to affect next years salary cap. This offseason, the Raiders will have all their draft picks beginning with a top 3 pick and they have a boat load of salary cap space. Davis intends to hire a "real" HC this time around and may get some qualified candidates to come talk because for the first time in over a decade, the franchise is fiscally sound and the FO is getting more stable (again, Mark davis appears to have more patience than his dad)

Now on Harbaugh. Don`t really like him myself because he just rubs me the wrong way but he has won everywhere he has coached. Yes he took over a stacked Niner team but he made them formidable winners. Local rumor has it that before the ink was dry on his contract, there was already bad blood between him and owner York so he was never going to last very long with SF. The Niners this year are currently 7-7 but maybe that is what happens when you are missing Patrick Willis, 2/3rds of your Oline, your QB sack leader etc for most of the year….The niners were snake bit this year with multiple key injuries.

My guess is the HC for the Raiders will be either Harbaugh, the Walrus (Holmgren) or Rex Ryan……other longer shots may include Del Rio, John Pagano or Stanfords current HC.

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