Rod Woodson To The Raiders- New CB's Coach
 

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ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Oakland Raiders added a Hall of Famer to their coaching staff, hiring Rod Woodson on Monday as an assistant to coach the team's cornerbacks.

Woodson was one of the most accomplished defensive backs ever to play the game and was named to the NFL's 75th Anniversary Team. He played the final two of his 17 seasons with the Raiders, helping the team win the 2002 AFC championship.


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"It's an honor to be back with the Raiders and be able to talk to Raider players about true football," Woodson said. "I'm looking forward to working with the organization and the challenges of the 2011 season."

Woodson had recently served as a television analyst at the NFL Network and Big Ten Network but decided to get into coaching.

Woodson spent the bulk of his playing career with Pittsburgh, starring for 10 seasons on the Steelers. He was named AP Defensive Player of the Year for Pittsburgh in 1993 and helped the Steelers reach the Super Bowl following the 1995 season.

He also spent one season with the San Francisco 49ers and four with Baltimore, winning the Super Bowl with the Ravens following the 2000 season.

Woodson was named to 11 Pro Bowls, the 1990s all-decade team and was named a first-team All-Pro six times as either a cornerback, safety or kick returner.

"I'm excited that we have a Hall of Fame player who is coming back to the organization," coach Hue Jackson said. "I was extremely impressed during the interview process with his communication skills and I'm looking forward to Rod imparting his wealth of knowledge to our players."

Woodson's 71 career interceptions rank third all-time in NFL history. He is the career leader in interception returns for touchdowns (12), and interception return yardage (1,483).

The Raiders still have not announced who their defensive coordinator will be next season. Chuck Bresnahan and Kevin Ross are both on staff listed as defensive assistants without any position responsibilities and could be candidates.

WTF is he thinking?

Why on earth would he do this? Epic stupid. Even if the faid pull themselves from the cellar, cushy job at NFLN>Al Davis.
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Gotta start somewhere and this certainly is the bottom.

Touch me.

you have the creepiest posts on this whole site. and that's saying something.

Great players make bad coaches?

Maybe this will pave the way for Trent Green to be our OC?!?!

The question is can he coach?

And the answer is "Hell No" ROFL

You are probably right.... who knows

good players very rarely make good coaches because most of the time, they didn't have to work at anything. it just comes naturally to good players--shitty players have to scrap, and this gives them a better grasp of the mechanics of the game and how to properly do things.

I'll let Cee Low Green make my response.....


So you wanna coach the raiders
and I hate their guts
and uh....F youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

I've tried to have respect for this guy. He had an all-time great career. I hate being bitter about those kinds of players.

But damn, he's a ****ing piece of shit and I hope he and his family die in a fire

Our school won a grant to Keep Gym in School and we had Will Shields and Rod Woodson come for a day. Shields was great, generous with his time and had no one "guarding" his time.

Woodson was very aloof and had a woman that fended off the kids after about 30 minutes of his time. He acted like he was way above what he was doing because it wasn't all about him. He was a piece of shit. Shields was a great classy for the kids guy.