The Raiders Heart Winston Moss

by Brandon on Jan 12, 2012 7:36 PM CST in Green Bay Packers News

Report: Moss frontrunner to be Raiders' coach | National Football Post. The article mentions that no coach for the Green Bay Packers can be interviewed until the playoffs are over. The problem for the top assistant coaches is that when their current team is on a long playoff run, it means their potential new employers will have to wait. And many teams don't feel they can wait to fill their vacancies.

Maybe that's a not problem in this case. If Packers assistant head coach/inside linebackers coach Winston Moss is the frontrunner in Oakland, it's because new Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie has been working with Moss for years in Green Bay. I doubt a formal interview would change his perception.

I'm not sure what to make of the possible departure of Winston Moss. He's not in charge of the defense, that would be Dom Capers job, and I'm not sure of the backstory as to why Moss was kept in 2009 when all the other defensive coaches were fired. Or how he came to have the title of assistant head coach. Certainly Mike McCarthy's confidence in Moss played some roll in the decision.

Does that mean Moss would make a good head coach, or that the Packers could afford to lose him?

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The Raiders are trying to raid our DC too…..
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d825f0ce7/article/packers-dc-capers-on-raiders-list-of-candidates?module=HP11_headline_stack

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by P-Townfan on Jan 12, 2012 8:18 PM CST reply actions

What?!

Dom better stay with us. I always saw him as an excellent coordinator but average to below average coach.

by king.nothing on Jan 12, 2012 8:58 PM CST up reply actions

Rooney Rule in reverse

Dom is just their obligatory white guy. HA

by gern blanston on Jan 12, 2012 9:18 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

Reverse discrimination in reverse?

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by NorthStarr on Jan 12, 2012 10:46 PM CST up reply actions

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by Buddhasillegitimatechild38 on Jan 13, 2012 12:24 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

It's the Silver & Black (Oakland), not the Silver & White

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by Wiedmann on Jan 13, 2012 2:23 AM CST up reply actions

I will KILL them if they take Dom…he’s not HC material anyway, I think it would be a bad move. Just like the best salesman doesn’t always make the best manager, the best DC doesn’t always make the best HC.

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by TrevorR on Jan 13, 2012 8:26 AM CST up reply actions

He was a good a HC for two expansion teams. (I believe, I didn’t look it up.) Personally, I think we’d be okay as long as Perry and Whitt stay with the Packers and Perry takes over the defense.

by MikeDB on Jan 13, 2012 9:54 AM CST up reply actions

48-80

That is his combined record as a head coach. Granted they were both expansion teams but honestly I don’t see how you can argue he was a good HC when he was fired after two four year stints as HC (esp the Houston one). Plus the guy is what 60 now? NOt sure he’s going to have too many teams looking to bring him on as an HC at that age.

That said, I still remember when the Panthers got to the Championship game against in 1996 only to lose to us. I was shocked how quickly he got that team there! It unraveled quickly though.

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by TrevorR on Jan 13, 2012 12:48 PM CST up reply actions

I’m thinking mostly of how hew he got the Panthers to the NFC championship game so quickly.

by MikeDB on Jan 13, 2012 7:22 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah it was impressive…but he clearly wasn’t able to replicate it in Houston so was it just the perfect storm (right combo of players drafted?) Who knows…that said, I don’t think his history speaks all that well for him as a Head Coach. Just cause you are the best salesman in the company doesn’t mean you’ll be a good sales manager.

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by TrevorR on Jan 14, 2012 12:43 PM CST up reply actions

It doesn't worry me

as long as Darren Perry stays as our defensive coordinator.

by MikeDB on Jan 13, 2012 9:53 AM CST up reply actions

assistant head coach

The reason he has that title is to prevent a lateral move. Kind of like when a team hires someone away and makes them Oline Coach and Asst HC, it allows them to hire a guy to the same position. This prevents that from happening. the only way Moss could move on is to become a coordinator or HC. To my knowledge that is really the only purpose for the Asst HC thing.

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by TrevorR on Jan 13, 2012 8:25 AM CST reply actions

Can we make all of our coaches "assistants?"

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by Chief Oshkosh on Jan 13, 2012 1:51 PM CST up reply actions

No...

On guy has to have final say and be “The” guy. Gotta have a HC… I like our hierachy!

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by Strohman on Jan 13, 2012 2:46 PM CST up reply actions

He meant make all of our assistant coaches "Asst. HC"

thereby making it impossible to hire them for anything but coordinator or head coach.

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by Wiedmann on Jan 13, 2012 3:21 PM CST up reply actions