The Oakland Raiders have been reading the reports floating around that Jim Harbaugh rejected their coaching offer and that they’re reaching all the way into the UFL and the CFL to find head coaching candidates (even though the head coach job is currently occupied).
Raiders Deny Contacting Harbaugh And Interviewing Other Candidates
And the Raiders want you to know that they’re wrong. All of them.
First, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Raiders had contacted Jim Harbaugh only to be rebuffed.
“I called Adam and told him that he was totally off base,” Raiders senior executive John Herrera said.
Second, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday that the UFL’s Jim Fassel and the CFL’s Marc Trestman had interviewed for the head coaching job currently held by Cable.
“The reports that we’ve interviewed prospective head coaches are totally untrue, totally false,” Herrera said.
Backing up Herrera’s words is a public denial from Jim Fassel himself as well as a denial from the agent for Marc Trestman.
While the Raiders spokesman says that Cable and Davis have “had meetings of substance and depth”, no decisions have been made on the head coach moving into 2010.
However, according to Silver and Black Pride, there is one thing that’s becoming more clear.
It is appearing clearer by the day that Davis will not abandon JaMarcus Russell as his QB and we will all have to endure another season of the Russell experiment.
That sound you just heard was a collective sigh from the rest of the NFL.
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