Raiders promote Hue Jackson to coach
The Oakland Raiders have promoted offensive coordinator Hue Jackson to become the team's sixth head coach since 2003.longchamp outlet The team announced the hiring Monday. Jackson was widely considered the leading contender to get the job as soon as the Raiders announced Jan. 4 that they were not picking up an option to keep coach Tom Cable. This is Jackson's first head coaching job at any level. Jackson was hired a year ago to take over the play-calling duties from Cable and oversaw a transformation on offense. Oakland more than doubled its scoring total from the previous season. That increased scoring helped the Raiders win eight games and avoid an eighth straight losing season. Terms of the Jackson deal weren't immediately available. In the past,air max the Raiders signed first-time coaches to two-year contracts with two-year team options included. Yet "moderate" is still an unsavory label in some Republican quarters. Upton, for example, had to emphasize his conservative views on health care and other issues before he won the Energy gavel. The return of Bass and his ilk hasn't just affected the House GOP's ideological balance - it also has regional significance. The 2006 and 2008 elections took a devastating toll on Republicans from the Northeast. From the Mason-Dixon line to Maine, GOP lawmakers - some of them moderate, most of them from swing districts - took a drubbing. By the start of the 111th Congress, not a single Republican held any of New England's 22 House districts, and the GOP occupied just three of New York's 29 seats.Coach Outlet Online Democrats also held a 12 to 7 advantage in Pennsylvania.