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Apparently coaching, the Raiders and punching people together enjoy a harmony unlike many things in this world. By now, everyone knows about Tom Cables alleged bouts with assistant coaches and wives.
But the phenomenon extends to their former players as well. Jeremy Brigham was a tight end with the team from 1998 to 2001 and now coaches 10- and 11-year-olds in the game that he briefly made his living playing.
And he's definitely no slouch. He won't tolerate his assistants missing film study. Yes, film study for youth football players. He fired Scott Haggerty, the dad of one of his players who coached with him for that infraction.
And heaven forbid he finds out you tipped plays to the other team. A day after a 38-0 victory Saturday, the opposing coach told Brigham that his former assistant had given his team all of the coach's plays. Which, even if true, got him a whole lot of nothing.
Haggerty claims the other coach was joking and that he didn't know the team's plays. Brigham didn't really want to listen. Instead, according to Haggerty, he found a four-foot fence to bend Haggerty over and then punched his former assistant in the back of the head. Some might call that an extreme response to having the playbook you created for your youth football team tipped to another coach, who happened to get shutout anyway.
So Brigham might want to ease up on his martinet-like coaching tactics. Or maybe just stop hitting people. I don't know. They do things different in the Raider School of Coaching.
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Lets jump on the ESPN bandwagon and start looking up every Raider coach or player that has ever done anything wrong. I do not condone violence, or the Raiders as a legitimate NFL team, but this is getting ridiculous. If you know of a crime, report it to the police, do not write it as news, hoping to gain readers!!!
by AW78 on Nov 4, 2009 1:14 PM EST reply actions
There are a lot of bad franchises in professional sports but this is by far the worst. I would not want to be affiliated with them in anyway.
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by x-pert on Nov 4, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions
Just because he’s a former Raider doesn’t make him more likely to hit someone.
There are a lot of over the top Dad coaches that never played sports who over-react at little league games, junior soccer, etc.
by trury on Nov 4, 2009 3:39 PM EST reply actions
It’s interesting that coaches sit in judgment of young players, determining their off-field lives as reason for or against using a draft pick. Yet, any questions regarding a coach’s personal life is off limits. A little hypocritical. So, we can judge and penalize a young man in his 20s (who is supposed to still be learning about life), but we cannot question a much older coach about his behavior, past or present? I’m not saying anyone gets a free pass at any age, but this seems a little backwards to me. An older man who cannot peacefully and confidently discuss his pass transgressions suggests a man who has not overcome his demons. When you are a coach – you know, someone who judges people and tells people what to do for millions of dollars – you are going to be under the spotlight sometimes. If Cable feels wronged, then he should crawl back into the shadows where most of us reside and quit complaining.
by wiredzen on Nov 4, 2009 7:51 PM EST reply actions
It’s good the jackazz is coaching kids. He’s obviously up to the task.
by SPARTAN2 on Nov 4, 2009 8:00 PM EST reply actions
Michael Tunison wrote this, huh? I’ll remember not to read him. His attempts to connect such unrelated incidents show his bias. I’d wonder what brought it on, but frankly it doesn’t matter. These types of blogs show that the person writing them are beneath contempt and deserve no further notice.
by XofDallas on Nov 4, 2009 8:17 PM EST reply actions
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