Oakland Raiders interim head coach Tony Sparano believes he’s done enough in the 2014 NFL season to warrant a contract as the team’s permanent sideline boss.
Tony Sparano believes he’s more than a cog in a wheel. When it comes to the Oakland Raiders, the spinning carousel of coaches to roll through town has been enough to cast doubt on the most ironclad of coaching candidates. That hasn’t deterred Sparano, who came plenty prepared with both numbers and motivation to support his candidacy.
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“All I want to do right now is be the head coach of the Raiders,” Sparano said at his year-end press conference, via CSN Bay Area. “So how badly? Very, very badly. This is my team. I left my team today and I’m looking forward to starting over again with them. Those decisions will be made down the road. As far as anything else with me goes, I only have one concern right now. It’s being the head coach of the Oakland Raiders.”
Sparano cited a multitude of figures that support his brief coaching stint with Oakland. They ranged from the extreme young age all over the roster to the various categories of improvement seen during his 12 games served as interim head coach in the 2014 NFL season.
While 3-9 is nothing to rally over, those three wins were the only found all season and Sparano undoubtedly turned some of the embarrassment around, despite the team’s season-ending 47-14 loss to the Denver Broncos. If that’s worth giving him another year with this team, then Sparano is ready to embrace the opportunity.
“I’m confident and I know the direction this is headed,” he said. “I’ve done this before, not quite like this, but there has been a lot of work done here, right now, and by God I want that work to be for me, for this organization.”
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