The Raiders opened training camp with non-contact drills only and many people called them soft. The team began full-contact drills on August 3rd, but Tom Cable got into the action a two days later. According to FanHouse, the Raiders head coach allegedly sucker punched defensive assistant Randy Hanson. FanHouse also reports that “Hanson never saw it coming” and that one source indicated Hanson may have a broken jaw. Maybe Hanson reminded him that he coached the Raiders — I’m sure that would piss off a lot of people. Too bad facepunches won’t make JaMarcus Russell less fat or give DHB the ability to catch balls.
Via FanHouse:
The always volatile Oakland Raiders are now fighting amongst themselves — in the coaching ranks, no less.
According to a report Monday on the Web site National Football Post, Raiders defensive assistant Randy Hanson was punched in the jaw by another member of the team’s coaching staff during an Aug. 5 altercation at Oakland’s training camp headquarters at the Napa Valley Marriott.
Multiple NFL and Raiders sources have confirmed the victim of the alleged assault was Hanson, a third-year assistant who is in his first season with the team under the title “assistant coach-defense.” Two NFL sources have told FanHouse the attacker was Raiders’ first-year head coach Tom Cable, and “that Hanson never saw it coming.”
Neither Hanson nor the coach who threw the punch were identified in a Napa, Calif., police report taken Aug. 6 at Queen of the Valley Hospital. But one well-placed NFL source told FanHouse of the attacker: “It’s a well-known coach. Very well-known.”
Pressed to confirm the identity of the attacker, the source said, “It was Cable who hit him.”
According to Napa Police Lt. Brian McGovern, police followed procedure in responding to the downtown Napa hospital when Hanson arrived to receive treatment for what was described as an injured jaw.
X-rays were taken. The results are not known, although one NFL source told FanHouse Hanson sustained a fractured jaw as a result of the punch.
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