Unreal that Hue almost had the arrow pointing up a couple of years ago. What a dumb decision to fire him when they did.
Well he
did orchestrate that great Carson Palmer trade.
Well when management shows zero patience and as coach you could be out because boss man got the wrong calzone for lunch, it was pretty much then or never, this was the result. Can't blame Hue it was a rational move from his POV.
Hue's a respected guy.
Now they have Flynn and Pryor.
This franchise needs to restore patience and long term thinking.
Respected you say? He went from an up and coming offensive coordinator to a head coach and Cincy picked him up when no one else wanted him to help shuttle water buckets as the asst secondary coach. Tell me how that looks like a linear professional progression of a 'respected guy'?
Wait a second - the comment above was correct, the Raiders were pointed in the right direction, and then he got canned for trying to make them a playoff team then and there. You think teams held all that against him?
I know that they did. Else he would have been a hot commodity as an OC, right? Makes sense with his relative success in Oakland. But he proved to be a megalomaniac who tried to strong arm Al Davis's son into greater GM authority and sayso. Once Reggie McKenzie came on as GM, he saw all he needed to see and showed Hue the door. Nobody goes from being a head coach to an assistant secondary coach in one year. The writing is on the wall as to what real GM's and owners think of Hue. Cincy bailed him out from the unemployment line. Maybe in consideration for that one-sided deal to scam Oakland of its high draft picks in the Carson Palmer deal.
Honestly, I defer to the Raider fan.
But from the outside: it looked like an unmoored ship, no direction, Al kind of out of it, and that team had a shot at the playoffs and Hue had to take control. That Palmer deal may have ruined his rep in terms of being a personnel decision maker, but again he was probably thinking he was looking at one year to do something and you know what - he was.
To me Hue going back to Cincy where he had been and had been successful made total sense, a natural. Marvin Lewis obviously saw no problems with him.
Hard to remember, but from what I recall Oak had a top-10/15 offense a couple years ago, McFadden and Bush were terrific.
