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Breaking down the coaching openings

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Now that his vampire lieutenants have alerted Al Davis the sun has set, and nudged the Oakland Raiders owner from his coffin long enough to fire Bill Callahan (the Raiders are expected to make an announcement Wednesday), the number of pink-slipped head coaches has risen to seven. For a season that began with the notion that 2003 might produce few dismissals, since the pool of 32 head coaches had such short aggregate tenure with their incumbent franchises, seven seems like a big number. Fact is, ...

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