Senior Bowl coming soon…
Johnnie Lee Higgins participated in the 2007 Senior Bowl
The 60th annual Senior Bowl will be played Saturday, January 30 at 4:00 pm ET at Mobile, Alabama.
More importantly, the practices begin January 25. And there is where hundreds of NFL coaches, personnel directors, scouts and many other staffers from professional clubs go to observe and evaluate potential draft picks and talent that will be available in the coming months.
In the past, Oakland Raider coaches have spearheaded the staffs in charge of the squads. Here is a list of those that donned Silver & Black that were at the helm of a sideline during the Senior Bowl:
2008 – Lane Kiffin
2005 – Norv Turner
1999 – Jon Gruden
1992 – Art Shell
What will be interesting is whether or not the Raiders will send a large contingent to Mobile for scouting?
One team – the New York Giants – have already reportedly decided not to send their coaches next week due to varying reasons such as the economy, the new stadium and pending labor situation states the NJ Star Ledger. But I guess that is not a crippling thing, since they didn’t either two years ago right before their Super Bowl winning season.
Oakland still has a staff in place, and Tom Cable is technically still the coach of the Raiders.
Al Davis has not announced his fate, but at this point, isn’t safe to say that Cable is still the head coach until further notice? If there’s even a need to make that publicly.
Mike Waufle has been hired, Hue Jackson has been bantered about and Cable is still on board.
With the Senior Bowl work-outs around the corner, maybe things will become clearer over the next couple of days.
