Raiders Offer Washington A Job

I guess a job is a job but Oakland is a fiasco from an organizational standpoint.

Is Washington a good coach...and why would he make a lateral move from a decent team, to a bad team?

HOW WILL DONATELL'S DEFENSE DO VS. THE RUN WITH NO POINTS SCORED ON OFFENSE? HE DID A GOOD JOB FOR TY W. AT WASHINGTON LAST YEAR. WOW WHAT A REACH. SOUNDS LIKE CABLE IS REACHING FOR HIS OLD IDAHO ROOTS? WHAT WAS HIS RECORD THERE?

Donatell, 50, is coming off one of the more difficult experiences of his coaching career at the University of Washington.

Hired by Tyrone Willingham to take over the Washington defense in 2008, the Huskies ranked 116th out of 119 Division I teams at 38.6 points per game, 117th in rushing defense (240.6 yards per game, 5.7 yards per carry) and 110th in total defense (451.8 yards per game).

The Huskies swept out the entire coaching staff after an 0-12 season.

Donatell worked on the same staff with Cable in Atlanta, where he was defensive coordinator under Jim Mora from 2004-06. He was also the secondary coach at Idaho from 1986-88, where Cable was a player in 1986 and a graduate assistant coach in 1987-88.

Its obvious that the Raiders will pursue a man to man defensive type of personnel in regards to the coaching staff, which IMO is a good idea.

Rob Ryan was a 3-4 minded coach and he couldn't work with the type of defense that the Raiders ran, I believe you'll see Ryan have a lot better success at Cleveland this year, being that they run a 3-4 defense.

I would rather have S.McDermott(Eagles secondary coach), but at least the Raiders are finally trying to get people in here who're FAMILIAR with a man to man type of defense.

Its a win win situation in Oakland. Come to the Raiders and you dont do well, everyones used to it because theyve been terrible the last 6 seasons.

Come to Oakland and turn things around and youre a messiah ! Get loads of job offers.

Why make a lateral move from a good team to a bad one?? any coach looking to move up in the ranks who has just been fired needs to establish some credibility, your right the raiders are a bad team but with a few good coaches to develop the talent they might just win some games no one would be ashamed of that on there resume.

Reaching for his Idaho roots what an idiot comment, how about reaching for an experienced coordinator whom he's familiar with??

Ed Donatell is a decent coordinator. Always felt he got the shaft in Green Bay for 4th and 26 when the fault for that loss was clearly on Sherman. I venture to say had the Packers had Donatell in 2008, the defense would not have been setting records for futility week in and week out...

Thanks James...I didn't know he had been fired, now it makes more sense him to take the job.