Although Al Davis seems to always be famously quick on the trigger firing head coaches, he is not exactly taking quick action to hire a new one, but maybe that is for the best.
Davis isn't exactly in the good graces with anyone these days with his erratic and almost idiotic decision making, but I have to think he may have learned his lesson for being quick on the draw with this past decision like signing free agents DeAngelo Hall, Javon Walker and hiring a young head coach in Lane Kiffin.
It is pretty much common sense these days in professional sports that there is no such thing as instant success. Some teams get lucky by things coming together quicker than expected like the Atlanta Falcons experienced this season by gambling on rookie quarterback Matt Ryan and running back Michael Turner and having it pay off immediately, but that barely ever happens.
In the Oakland Raiders case, Al Davis tried way too hard to make a winner immediately by signing a bunch of overpriced free agents and expecting it to pay off without consequence. As everyone in the sports world knows, that didn't exactly turn out all that well as the Raiders lost a bunch of close games, fired a coach and paid a DeAngelo Hall a million per game for the eight games he played in silver and black before releasing him.
As for the the newly vacant head coaching position, interim coach Tom Cable should be the front runner for the job since he took a seemingly hopeless Raiders and turned into a team with promise going into next season.
I kind of get the feeling that some of the best available head coaches around aren't exactly going to be jumping at the chance to coach in Oakland with all the drama and a dictator like Al Davis running the show. No way in hell Mike Shanahan is going to go back to the Raiders, Bill Cowher has said he doesn't want to coach again and Eric Mangini will probably end up being the Cleveland Browns head coach.
Of course there are a ton of head coaches out there dying to get the chance to make the jump to the professional level in the NFL, but in my opinion, Cable should get the job.
Who knows what Davis is thinking or planning, but hopefully he gets some sense and doesn't make another rash decision going into 2009.
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