The Raiders seem to be down to two candidates to fill their head coaching vacancy, and every indication is the decision will come down to Klint Kubiak and Davis Webb.
Webb has interviewed twice for the job, and some consider him the front runner for the job.
Kubiak has been the other favorite to get the job but has only interviewed once and the California Post’s Vinny Bonsignore said Kubiak has been the one holding up the process.
“Klint Kubiak has not come in for a second interview. Unless we hear at some point that he’s agreed to come in here for a second interview, I think for right now you almost have to remove him from consideration,” Bonsignore said on Raider Nation Radio’s Morning Tailgate.
“It sounds like [Kubiak] is going to stay in Seattle and that’s a great decision for him and it will make him even more marketable… I feel like it’s a two-horse race at this point and my own opinion on this is that one is an extremely easy and positive sell in Davis Webb with the fan base and I think the fans [would] get behind him…”
Assuming Bonsignore’s information is accurate, the Raiders seem to be in an unenviable situation, especially after news on Tuesday afternoon that Denver fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi.
The assumption with Lombardi being fired is that Webb will be offered the Broncos’ offensive coordinator job, and if that’s the plan in Denver, it would make sense that the Broncos received confirmation from Webb that he would take the OC job if it were offered to him.
Firing Lombardi would be a huge risk if Webb might still be hired by another team.
It’s all speculation at this point, but it seems like the Raiders might be losing leverage with two of the top candidates in their coaching search.
Maybe Tom Brady and company are in a great position, but from the outside it doesn’t look like the Raiders got closer to hiring any of their top three candidates on Tuesday.
Brian Daboll went to Tennessee where he was hired as their offensive coordinator. The Broncos seem to be doing everything possible to keep Webb, highlighted by making the bold move of firing Lombardi. And last but not least, no one seems to know what is going on with Kubiak, who may be leaning toward staying in Seattle and is never mentioned when Adam Schefter talks about the most likely candidates to become the next head coach in Las Vegas.
So where do Tuesday’s developments leave the Raiders?
It’s hard to know… but if Kubiak wants the job, he might have as much leverage as any coaching candidate the NFL has witnessed in a long time.
Or maybe Webb is going to leave the Broncos and Sean Payton just wanted a scapegoat for his fourth-down blunder in the AFC Championship game?
x: @raidersbeat
Forget waiting around for Kubiak and go get Webb before he decides to stay in Denver.
Too inexperienced. Odds are he won’t succeed in LV where the job almost calls for a Jimmy Johnson type figure to right this woeful franchise. I think Web would be over his head.
They said the same thing about Nick Sirianni.
It’s clear that the Raider head coaching job is undesirable.
Yea, unfortunately the results are indicating that.
Leave it to the Raiders to screw this up again
Brian Daboll will be the next head coach. This is the results you get when you have decades of embarrassments. Personally, I’d go back to the Rams offensive staff, get one of their young guys. Whoever gets hired, 5 year contract and we have to ride it out, just to show stability.
When this coaching search first started, I predicted we would be last to hire a coach, maybe outlasted by the Cardinals. Tick tick tick tick …. Browns, tick tick tick ……Cardinals, tick tick ….Looks like Daboll is out, committed to Tennessee. Missed out McDaniels, Denver is securing Webb to be OC, and Kubiak won’t answer his phone. Way to go Tom. No one can figure out who is running the Raiders because our meathead majority owner handed the controls to a guy who who spends a couple of hours a week on the catching up. The autumn wind is echoing thru a long forgotten past………
The Marky Mark coaching search meltdown seems to be occurring yet again.. I can understand reluctance on the part of a lot of candidates to sign on with such a wishy washy, indecisive Owner in place..Even with a clear path to a QB most consider a franchise guy this time..Could the “surprise candidate” be none other than the disgraced, washed up Gruden?
I completely understand why many of these HC’s do not want to come coach the Raiders because there’s no stability there. Coaches get one season to show major growth and winning, and if not, they get the old boot! That’s not a winning strategy, nor does it make anyone want to run to your front office and ‘take your money’ so to speak.
Raiders organization makes it seem like coaches are knocking down their doors for the position. In reality nobody wants to coach under Mark Davis because the organization is so unstable.