Two people on his interview list have been identified as former Giants coach Jim Fassel, who now coaches UFL champion Las Vegas, and former Raiders offensive coordinator Marc Trestman, the head coach of CFL champion Montreal.

Several sources, including one within the organization, believe Davis may re-interview 2009 candidates Kevin Gilbride, the Giants’ offensive coordinator, and Winston Moss, a Packers assistant head coach, if he hasn’t already.

If Davis has indeed made a decision on Cable, no one with the organization either knows or is talking about it.  His inner circle is as small as it is airtight.  If anyone knows Davis’ plans, they’re not saying.

Whoever the head coach is next season, Davis appears ready to assemble a supporting coaching staff.  Former Giants defensive line coach Mike Waufle will interview for a similar position with the Raiders, according to NFL.com.

There is also nothing new about Davis interviewing assistants and coordinators from around the league in January.  As two team sources put it, Davis loves to “pick the minds” of coaches to see what they are doing and what they would do in Oakland.

Moss and Gilbride interviewed for the head-coaching vacancy last year.  Gilbride is believed to be the finalist who lost out to Cable.  Fassel reportedly wrote to Davis asking for the job, and interviewed for the position in 2007.

Just when you think this situation couldn’t get any weirder.

Forget for a minute that Tom Cable is still the head coach and lets assume Davis plans on hiring someone in the next few weeks.  Instead of letting that person hire his own staff, he has gone about bringing in various position coaches that could have completely different philosophies from the new coach.

Like Buddy Nix mentioned yesterday, even the Raiders have people that want to be their head coach, but notice how all of the candidates are names that no other team is interested with.

Though it was reported Raiders coach Tom Cable would meet with owner Al Davis yesterday, according to senior executive John Herrera that meeting was never planned.

“I never had any knowledge of a meeting on Monday,” Herrera said.

That didn’t stop news trucks from staking out the facility in Alameda or reports airing that Monday would be the day that Cable learned whether he will return as Raiders coach.

By late afternoon, Cable and Davis still hadn’t made an appearance at the team’s year-round headquarters.

Cable said he expects to be the Raiders coach next season.  Davis is undecided, according to several people familiar with the situation.

Calls to Cable were not returned.  He met with Davis on Jan. 4, the day after the season ended, and said they agreed to meet at some point this week.

So while every non-playoff team is getting a jump on 2010, Al Davis is taking his sweet time… Nice.

I’m not even going to talk about how terrible it must be if you’re a Raiders fan because at this point it goes without saying.

Either fire the guy or let him go to work.