DA is remaining the coach, confirmed by Underhill

Derrick 63 said
I think there is a pretty good chance that is exactly what happened. I guess we will eventually know. In fairness I should have added a disclaimer to my post. I'm REALLY not a fan of canning any coach after one year unless it devolves into an Urban Meyer/Jacksonville type of situation. I CAN see that Allen's time with the Raiders might have been the result of a crappy organization and then this year with all the injuries might have been the perfect storm for making him look worse than he actually is. Problem is, we have tons of guys on this site who want him gone and are quick to trot out his actual won/loss record. Those numbers are hard to discount.

My history on this site has been pretty obvious since 1999. A big fault of mine has been giving the HC a benefit of the doubt for just a little too long. That is one of the things that worry me about Allen. I just see too much stuff to let them slide. How he handled the QB situation this year was atrocious. How they game planned Kamara was atrocious. The game plan for Hill was mostly a waste of talent. I'm nervous as hell about this head coach until he proves my suspicions wrong for 2-3 years in a row. Not my happy place.

I agree with all of that.

The thing with the Raiders is, going back to 1990, they've had a total of 7 seasons with double digit wins. In those 33 seasons, they've made the playoffs 8 times. Only Gruden and Shell had multiple playoff seasons - 2 and 3 respectively. Nobody else has had anything resembling sustained success, or any real success at all. Gruden and Shell each had a season where they only won 4 games. It can't be overstated how bad that franchise has been since last winning a Super Bowl in 1983.

So Allen, like a long list of other coaches, ended up failing there. That matters, but I think it matters in context. The "terrible" former Raiders coach won 7 games in his first season in his next head coaching stint, almost doubling his Raiders win total. Hey, a lot of it was still ugly - and I wouldn't have been upset if the Saints had decided to move on - but he's getting another season, so might as well hope for the best.

His Raiders stint troubles me a lot less than his overly conservative in-game decision-making and personnel management. If that doesn't improve significantly, his time as an NFL head coach, and any future hopes of being an NFL head coach, will come to another quick end.