Tom Cable, Randy Hanson and a Few Other Questions

Well, this should make for an interesting week of practice.

On one side of the Internet, the story leaked out via AOL Fanhouse that Tom Cable sucker-punched one of his own coaches in a hotel back on August 5 or 6.

From the general sounds of it, Cable broke the third-year assistant coach's jaw, drawing a lot of ire from the haters and a lot of respect from the fans.

Then this last detail surfaced, from ESPN:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4405681

In a nutshell, Cable never hit the guy.

But from the article below the video, a he said/she said storyline was passed down through the media, involving every Raiders fans' favorite hater, Chris Mortensen.

While it runs light on sarcasm, it seems Chris was running on the "fact," from a friend of a friend, Daniel Jeremiah.

From the sounds of it, the injury occurred when Cable flipped the assistant coach from his chair and hit a cabinet nearby. This in turn was caused by Hanson swearing at John Marshall, the defensive coordinator for the Raiders...probably not the more intelligent thing for Hanson to do.

And of course, Cable's opinion on the matter is that it is an internal issue. But he would also not confirm or deny if Hanson was still employed by the Raiders.

From what is being seen, several media people were looking for a story. Nancy Gay, the author who broke the story on Fanhouse is known for bias. Chris Mortensen as well, loves to report on anything anti-Raider.

It also doesn't make a lot of sense for a coach to come out in the media 10 days after an event of this nature takes place.

Was he coerced? Or was he hoping to get a settlement for damages from Al Davis and Cable?

It should be interesting to see how this turn of events plays out.