Tom Cable

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Thomas Lee Cable Jr. (born November 26, 1964) is an American football coach who recently served as the run game coordinator for the Houston Roughnecks of the United Football League (UFL). He served with four National Football League (NFL) franchises between the 2006 and 2021 seasons. Cable played college football for the Idaho Vandals and was on the replacement team for the Indianapolis Colts during the 1987 NFL players' strike. After being an assistant coach for several college football teams, as well as head coach at Idaho, Cable became an offensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders of the NFL, before serving as head coach for the Raiders from 2008 to 2010. He was the assistant head coach and offensive line coach of the Seattle Seahawks, where the franchise made to it two Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl XLVIII. Cable returned to the Raiders a second time, serving as the offensive line coach from 2018 to 2021.

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1. date of birth: 1964-11-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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