After Cable was hired by the Raiders a few of my Seahawks friends were chirping. Yeah not an inspiring hire but only two days later the news of the Hawks hiring KNJ as their defensive coordinator and talk about karma. I'll take Cable over KNJ any day as he was the worst defensive coordinator I have seen in the NFL since Chuck Bresnahan. I get that Carroll wants a puppet coach that he can get to run his defense but the problem with KNJ is that he can't get guys prepared to play. The Raiders have had some awful defenses over the years but I don't remember one where so many players were out of position, confused where to line up, and plain soft. The Raiders defense immediately improved from amongst the worst in the league to top 15 in the weeks after the firing and that was achieved despite a lot of backups and players off the practice roster filling in for injured starters. This hiring may mean the end of the Carroll era in Seattle.
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