Klint Kubiak 'fired up' about taking Raiders' coaching job

[Torc]

I'd rather have ambitious coaches. Getting them poached is the price of success.

An ambitious coach who's ambition is to be the best darn OC in the league and win Super Bowls is just fine with me. They don't have to want a head coaching position.

 

[rjdriver]

I'm not sore about it. Dude's advancing his career. Like anyone would. Maybe the chance doesn't come around again.

Yep.

It’s always easy to give advice to someone else’s decisions.

I was thinking about this last week. Bottom line is there are 32 NFL coaching jobs in the world, most offering generational type stability for your family.

You just can’t pass it up. Particularly when you used a defense to leverage your success. Plus, tomorrow there could be some other young guru who looks like a male porn star rise unexpectedly to become the choice of “better” jobs.

Yeah, working for Davis would be nerve racking, but the Raiders have no where to go but up and Kubiak will have a chance to pick his QBOTF this spring. Raiders are in the AFC so I wish him the best.

 

[Donn2390]

Pete and Geno shit the diaper well before going to the Raiders.

I love how former personnel who did so much for our Hawks get a knife in the back after they leave rather than apprecating what they did for us.
The OC is getting it and he isn't out the door yet!

 

[Natethegreat]

Not surprising to be fired up about getting a head coaching job. Good for him. I'm sure we will be able to find a suitable replacement.

 

[MORGULON]

definitely gets him more money. Don't know if it will advance his career. I sense a 2 year debacle imcoming.

He's not the long term answer

 

[Rat]

An ambitious coach who's ambition is to be the best darn OC in the league and win Super Bowls is just fine with me. They don't have to want a head coaching position.

I don't know that such prospects really exist. The closest example I can think of of a great coordinator who probably could have gotten a HC gig but didn't want to is Monte Kiffin.

Seems like all the best coordinators are either young up and comers with aspirations of climbing to the top of the ranks with their own team, or older guys like Wade Phillips or Dick LeBeau, who failed badly as HCs and aren't considered serious candidates for future jobs.

Maybe we could find one of those older guys who want to settle into this as their last job, but even they're a retirement risk.

 

[JustTheTip]

I love how former personnel who did so much for our Hawks get a knife in the back after they leave rather than apprecating what they did for us.
The OC is getting it and he isn't out the door yet!

I don’t love how Seattle fans putting sentiment above current ability results in long stretches of mediocrity or worse in the sports teams I am a fan of.

 

[keasley45]

I love how former personnel who did so much for our Hawks get a knife in the back after they leave rather than apprecating what they did for us.
The OC is getting it and he isn't out the door yet!

100%

 

[chris98251]

Yep.

It’s always easy to give advice to someone else’s decisions.

I was thinking about this last week. Bottom line is there are 32 NFL coaching jobs in the world, most offering generational type stability for your family.

You just can’t pass it up. Particularly when you used a defense to leverage your success. Plus, tomorrow there could be some other young guru who looks like a male porn star rise unexpectedly to become the choice of “better” jobs.

Yeah, working for Davis would be nerve racking, but the Raiders have no where to go but up and Kubiak will have a chance to pick his QBOTF this spring. Raiders are in the AFC so I wish him the best.

Maybe, we don't know if he will have any say in the personel, Davis, Brady and Spytek, thats a lot of big heads in one room picking.

 

[CallMeADawg]

Good for him! Well earned

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Well I certainly wouldn't expect him to say anything else given that Raiders fans (who are ecstatic) are watching. I do hope he's back in a year.

 

[glenwo2]

So he's not going to be at the Parade?

 

[HOF Hater]

I bet you are...... have fun still having a top 10 pick for your contract.

Could have stayed won a second ring and gotten a job for an actual team....

Buh bye... Peetz? Arthur? Who is it.... cant imagine the philosophy changing that much. Its not like Klint scripted up some amazing plays we havent seen



What say the posters here?

I say you don't know ball because KK dialed up some great plays in the Superbowl, specifically the lone TD we had.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

He deserves the opportunity to be a HC. Good for him. And he's a SB Champion.

 

[Hawkpower]

I love how former personnel who did so much for our Hawks get a knife in the back after they leave rather than apprecating what they did for us.
The OC is getting it and he isn't out the door yet!

Most of us are seemingly wishing Kubiak well on his way out from what I am seeing

As for others, I think it depends on how they leave.

 

[glenwo2]

He deserves the opportunity to be a HC. Good for him. And he's a SB Champion.

No question he deserves it.

But I really wish the Raiders could've at least let him take part in the Parade first.

He was just as instrumental in this team's SB win as the players on offense.

What would've been the harm in letting him flying down there on Thursday instead of immediately? meh.

 

[Jac]

No question he deserves it.

But I really wish the Raiders could've at least let him take part in the Parade first.

He was just as instrumental in this team's SB win as the players on offense.

What would've been the harm in letting him flying down there on Thursday instead of immediately? meh.

It also may be just as much his choice. This is his big opportunity, and he's SO far behind right now.

 

[glenwo2]

It also may be just as much his choice. This is his big opportunity, and he's SO far behind right now.

Far behind in what, though?

I'm trying to understand here.

What would be the loss in waiting a few more days before starting his new job?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

No question he deserves it.

But I really wish the Raiders could've at least let him take part in the Parade first.

He was just as instrumental in this team's SB win as the players on offense.

What would've been the harm in letting him flying down there on Thursday instead of immediately? meh.

Do you have info that he's not going to the parade tomorrow?

 

[CalgaryFan05]

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