Raiders owner Mark Davis believes a good coach will want to work for him.
Davis, whose team fired coach Dennis Allen and promoted Tony Sparano to interim head coach today, said he believes the Raiders, thanks to a great deal of cap space, are a team that NFL coaches will be interested in coaching.
“The organization itself is in a very good position to move forward, whether Tony Sparano wins this year and becomes the permanent head coach of the Raiders or we bring in another head coach,” Davis said. “I believe the salary cap, contracts, all of those things, I think we’re going to have $60-$65 million in cap space next year and so it’s quite an encouraging thing and enticing for a new head coach if in fact we find one and go through a search that this could be an organization they would want to be with.”
Davis may be right about the attractiveness of ample cap space, but the Raiders job hasn’t been enticing in many years. Getting a coach to come to Oakland may be a tougher sell than Davis realizes.