Update: Pat Shurmur emerges as new favorite in Oakland Raiders coaching search
Time to spin this NFL coaching carousel again, and this time it lands of the Oakland Raiders. The law of averages means something great is bound to happen to this franchise soon. The football regression to the mean indicates that the Silver & Black Attack is destined to move in a positive direction in someway.
Maybe. Potentially. Hopefully.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport on the Oakland Raiders’ head coaching search:
“Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio is set to interview with the Oakland Raiders today. There is a lot of mutual interest on both sides of this. For the Oakland Raiders, they are looking for someone to finally put them in the win category, someone to help them build maybe without all of the resources that some of the other NFL teams have. We know that Jack Del Rio had a consistent winning period during his time in Jacksonville. Plus, Jack Del Rio grew up a Raiders fan; his parents actually had season tickets for the Oakland Raiders. They’ve interviewed some let’s just say interesting candidates; Pat Shurmur, Eric Mangini. Tony Sparano is going to get a chance as well but Jack Del Rio may emerge as the favorite after today depending on how it goes.”
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How about Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton? How would be fit in the with Oakland Raiders?
Rapoport: “Certainly a young guy but impressive in his second year in the Colts offense and of course helping Andrew Luck achieve all of the success. I’m told the Buffalo Bills and the Oakland Raiders have both requested permission to speak with Pep Hamilton. If you want to know what kind of a head coach is he going to be, I talked to several people close to him to explain. First of all, he is going to go with that Bill Walsh model of running his own offense, being the play caller; he’s going to be heavily involved with at least one side of the ball. One person who knows him well said, ‘I promise you he’s going to impress any owner he is going to sit down with, he is literally a machine with his wealth of knowledge.’ But the other part of it is Pep Hamilton does understand the good thing he has with Andrew Luck [and] a young talented skill position group with the Colts. He is going to be a head coach eventually; that he definitely believes so he can be a little choosy in doing so.”
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