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| The Raiders defense took a step back last season, ranking near the bottom of the league in several categories. The rush defense was especially poor, allowing 160 yards per game. If this area doesn't improve, the Raiders defense will be in for another long season. Oakland didn't do a whole lot to shore up this defense. Linebacker Kirk Morrison is a legit star and cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha might be the best in the entire game. But after those two players, the Raiders don't have much. Oakland doesn't do a good job of pressuring quarterbacks and struggle to cause turnovers (24 last season). The Raiders have a great return game, though, totaling five touchdowns last season. Johnnie Lee Higgins had three punt returns for touchdowns last season and averaged 13 yards per return. He also did a good job on kick returns (23.4 per return), but Justin Miller split work with him and had two kick returns for touchdowns. Special teams are a strength for the Raiders.
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The Raiders offense doesn't help the defense, stalling and scoring little. But the team should be improved some, which could help this unit. We still don't like their sack potential, but Asomugha gives the pass defense a huge lift for interceptions and touchdown potential. And if you are in a league that is strictly touchdowns for defense, consider Oakland a top squad. Their return game is among the best in the game. But otherwise, consider them a marginal platoon unit for fantasy teams. |
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| Paul Gutierrez, of the Sacramento Bee, reports Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable has promised a decision would be announced by Wednesday, Nov. 18, on the team's starting quarterback for Week 11. |
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| ESPNews reports the NFL is looking into whether Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable needs to participate in mandatory counseling. |
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| ESPN.com reports Terry O'Neill, president of The National Organization of Women, said in a statement that Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable should be suspended by the NFL and Raiders while they look into allegations of Cable's violent behavior toward women. 'The Oakland Raiders, properly, say they are undergoing a 'serious evaluation' of these recent allegations,' O'Neill wrote in the e-mail. 'At the very least he should be suspended during this process. ... A man who has admitted battering his wife has no business being a role model for all of us who would like to be able to look up to the head coach of an NFL football team.' |
| Fantasy Impact: At this point, Cable seems about done as head coach of the Raiders - either soon or after the season ends. |
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| The Associated Press reports Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable said he has spoken with Raiders owner Al Davis about his alleged history of violent behavior toward women. Cable said his job status did not come up during the discussion. He plans to coach the team for the rest of the season. |
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| Tim Kawakami, of the San Jose Mercury News, speculates Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis may consider firing head coach Tom Cable during the team's bye week. If Cable were fired during the season, assistant coach Paul Hackett or Ted Tollner would take over on an interim basis. |
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| ESPN.com reports the Oakland Raiders will undertake a 'serious evaluation' of allegations that head coach Tom Cable has a history of violent behavior toward women. 'In conjunction with the league office, we will undertake a serious evaluation of this matter,' the team said in a statement Monday, Nov. 2. 'We wish to be clear that we do not in any way condone or accept actions such as those alleged. There have been occasions on which we have dismissed Raider employees for having engaged in inappropriate conduct.' Cable acknowledged striking his first wife, Sandy Cable, with an open hand in a statement Sunday, Nov. 1. Cable said the altercation happened more than 20 years ago and was the only time he's ever touched a woman inappropriately. |
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| The Associated Press reports Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable expects to remain the head coach for the team, despite allegations that he assaulted his former wife and girlfriend. |
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| ESPNews reports Napa, Calif. District Attorney Gary Lieberstein said during a press conference that Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable will not be charged for his involvement in an altercation with Raiders assistant coach Randy Hanson. |
| Fantasy Impact: This is good news for Cable, who should keep his job - for now. |
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| Bill Williamson, of ESPN.com, reports an announcement will not be made in the Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable case until later in the week, at the earliest. Napa, Calif., District Attorney Gary Lieberstein said that the next update will be given either Wednesday, Oct. 21, or Thursday, Oct. 22. Lieberstein said his office will take all the time it needs before making a decision on whether to charge Cable on assault charges. |
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| ESPN.com reports NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday, Oct. 13, that if Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable is implicated by police in their investigation of an alleged assault on an assistant coach, he will be subject to NFL discipline. Goodell expects to receive a report in the next couple of weeks on the Napa, Calif., police investigation, which is in the hands of the district attorney. Goodell said the league is 'allowing the criminal process to go forward for some period of time' before the NFL might get involved. |
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