With fresh allegations of domestic abuse being made against Raiders coach Tom Cable, Peter King of NBC predicts that Cable will be required to undergo an evaluation and/or counseling after the 2009 season ends.
King cited this key portion of the Personal Conduct Policy during Football Night In America: "Apart from any disciplinary action, persons arrested, charged or otherwise appearing to have engaged in conduct prohibited under this policy will be required to undergo a formal clinical evaluation."
The breadth of the phrase "arrested, charged or otherwise appearing to have engaged" in prohibited conduct could encompass the claims made against Cable either by multiple women or defensive assistant Randy Hanson.
Then again, Cable would contend that the only time he has laid hands on a woman came 20 years ago, when he wasn't an NFL employee. As to Hanson, Cable would claim that he has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
Regardless, neither the Raiders nor the league can continue to ignore the smoke surrounding Cable. Maybe there's no fire at all -- but it would be reckless for Cable's employer to continue to rest its head in a sandy hole.
Cable could be required to submit to counseling
Posted by Mike Florio on November 1, 2009 9:48 PM ET
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3 STRAIGHT LOSSES!? WTF OVER? IT'S NOT JUST THE DEFENSE, ELI MANNING IS PLAYING LIKE HE IS A BUST!
WHERE IS ALL THE ROMO IS A BUST TALK AND ELI IS THE SECOND COMING OF PEYTON NOW?!
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YOU GUYS WOULD BE ALL OVER IT LIKE RABID DOGS! AND YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE...
So 1 article (full of favre press conference quotes instead of lord florio's valued opinions like the multiple ones prior to kickoff) is all the Vikings get? If Green Bay had won, florio would have posted 7-8 different spins on why favre is washed up.
Shows florio for what he is. Not like I expected anything else.
Too funny. And all too accurate.
Cable... "required to undergo a formal clinical evaluation."
Loooooooooong over due!!
Nonsense. How can Cable be required to submit to counseling after the 2009 season when he will no longer be an NFL employee at that point?
If Cable were a horse, somebody would have shot him by now.
Goodell is smart taking his time on this. He's always waited until criminal proceedings have moved forward. And I don't want to hear that this is a coach vs player thing. How long was Ben Roethlisberger's suspension?
Yeah, youre wasting your time with this one, Florio. He will be unemployed as a head coach soon enough.
Tom Cable is the newest member of the Axis of Evil.
Why is it Cable has to constantly defend himself that he didn't hit someone...... does that happen to other NFL coaches??????
It seems like me that Goodell is doing his best to leave Al the hell alone (possibly to avoid the legal wrath that Taglibue and the Raiders always seemed involved in).
Sadly, this too will "go away" without action.
I would still take Manning over Chokey-McChokstien in Dallas. Every week we hear the "Romo is back" chant then Romo goes out and has a bad game and its all quiet on the Romo front.
I am hoping for an article comparing DHB and Michael Crabtree just to see the comments.
There are four coaches in the UFL that should be ahead of this guy.
Only in Oakland does the Cable Guy get to be a coach.
News flash: Cable Guy needs counseling. Is this a football story?
Men who abuse women should be dragged into parking lots and beaten with big sticks. BUT what right does the NFL have to order Cable to counseling about a private matter that occurred two decades before his employment and another for which he's been cleared by authorities? Does it count if reporters are the only ones blowing smoke?
@B_radC ... It's a good argument in Roethlisberger's case no investigation was ever launched. Roethlisberger's accuser filed a civil suit for $3 mil. There's no tangible evidence of a crime. The cops/DA were never involved. Win or lose, no charges will be filed. So win or lose, there's no reason the NFL should EVER suspend Roethlisberger. Players get sued every day. The NFL won't start suspending them based on who's trying to get money out of them, regardless of the allegation. If they did, there'd be no one left to play.
@ Florio ... They have a point about the Giants. Three losses in a row for the team that three weeks ago was hailed as the best in the NFL? That's big news. Yet so far, no posts. I know one will be coming tonight or tomorrow. But it seems like bigger news than Cable or Lerner. Just sayin'.
Well, I guess I'm also done with this BS site now. Whatever happened to actually talking about the GAME of football, Flowerio?
You and Peter King are two piss-ants in a pod, that's for sure...can't report on anything except off the field stuff.
God, how I long for the days when you could actually beat the crap out of people and nobody gave a shit...King would be first on my list and Flowerio - you would be a very close second.
This pussification of American society with all your 'counseling' is just what's wrong with the world and that's why all your little snot-nosed spoiled brats will grow up to be even bigger pussies than you already are.
Seems like writers are causing the smoke more than anything.
And people have a point here. Why is there no write ups about the Giants yet? You would think that would be first priority over a situation that hasn't had any flare ups since the DA said they weren't going to pursue the case against Cable.
Senile Al will probably try to rehire Art Shell. If Shell is too busy playing shuffleboard he'll put a call out to Tom Flores.
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Cable needs help?
Who knew?
Twinies are cutt off....
"Fresh charges" from 20 years ago, lol.
Nice story, Florio.
That he is not being brought up on charges for assaulting a colleague is amazing.
Cable dodged another bullett at least hes a equal opportunist he beats down woman and men
I think ESPN should be required to submit to counseling. This smacks of a vendetta to me. They gots the Raiduhs and Cable renting space in their head.
I think Peter King's prediction is right-on. So does Ethic Soup blog, which questions why NFL Commissioner Goodell hasn't already taken appropriate mental health intervention with Tom Cable. Acknowledging that not every one in the NFL is an abuser off-the-field, Ethic Soup asks "where are all the good guys -- why don't any of them speak up and say that they think this violent behavior is wrong?" That's my question. Omission suggests approval. What are these guys afraid of? Another good post at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/11/for-tom-cables-love-of-women-hitem-again-harder-harder.html
I felt I should clarify a little, even though nobody will probably read it.
If Cable has a problem with violence towards women, then the guy needs help. I didn't intend to minimize that or make light of it. I just find it strange that in a league most likely disproportionally full of these types, Tom Cable ends up in the crosshairs-- right after getting off the hook for the punch-in-the-jaw incident. ESPN has a jones for the man, obviously. Its very similar to the heavily biased OTL report on Brandon Marshall-- which made a painstaking effort to ignore BM's very solid defense.
To me its overt abuse of a very powerful pulpit, and they keep picking and choosing when and where they'll abuse their power...apparently based on their own subjective formula for who deserves it and who doesn't. I wonder when the media will start holding its self accountable. After all, its this type of B.S. that gave the upstart PFT a foothold in the market. It seems like bad business, and you wonder why everybody lets ESPN continue on its smug and power hungry gorge.
@Scoop ...
I read it, and you make an excellent point--and that's coming from a woman with zero tolerance for abusive men.
It's a huge stretch to go back two decades and pull out an old domestic violence allegation, then try to link it to a current altercation that the police have found doesn't merit further investigation. I don't think any of us wants things we did 20 years ago brought into the discussion when we're dealing with the here and now. For all these people know, those allegations weren't true or Cable did get counseling at the time. We have NO idea what those circumstances were. But we know they aren't relevant to the Hanson case in 2009.
If it's learned he has an ongoing pattern of violence over 20 years, that's different. But right now they're talking about incidents that occurred 20 years apart. If I got a speeding ticket in 1989 and another in 2009, should I be considered a menace on the roadways and stripped of my license?