Raiders favoring Packers’ Winston Moss to coach?

When the Oakland Raiders take the field to start the 2012 season, it will do so with its seventh coach in the last decade. One hopes that the new GM, Reggie McKenzie and owner Mark Davis will be looking to inject a little stability into the franchise.

The word from the San Francisco Chronicle is that McKenzie has a short list of candidates and it is dominated by folks from the team McKenzie was just hired away from, the Green Bay Packers. The paper notes that Green Bay linebackers coach Winston Moss, secondary coach Darren Perry, offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, and quarterbacks coach Tom Clements "all could get a interview, though they will have to wait until after the Packers' season ends. Two sources tell the paper that Moss is the early favorite to snag the job just vacated by Hue Jackson on Tuesday.

As the paper points out, McKenzie is looking to re-create the kind of relationship that Packers general managers Ron Wolf and Ted Thompson had with coaches Mike Holmgren and Mike McCarthy during their Super Bowl runs. "I only know one way," McKenzie said, according to the paper. "I've been working at it for the last 18 years and it started with Ron Wolf, what he implemented in Green Bay. I saw how it works. That's the only way I saw and that's the only way I know."

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