Al Davis will likely fire Lane Kiffin on Monday

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Davis will soon fire Kiffin for insubordination


Sunday, September 14, 2008

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<!-- end types/article/articletools.tmpl --> (09-14) 18:10 PDT Kansas City , Mo. -- Only the Raiders can bring you awkward situations like this: Moments after they drilled the hapless Chiefs 23-8 and stunned the crowd at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, coach Lane Kiffin discussed whether he would still have an NFL job by Week 3.








If ever a team to fade..

 

[whormoan]

What took Big Al so long? USC fans couldn't get him out of there fast enough. Kiffin should've been thankful to have one of 32 gigs in the world. Instead he got big-headed and picked a fight with Al. Granted, Al Davis is killing the Raiders, but he's still the owner, and he signs the checks. Kiffin should be fired

 

[krk1030]

Great job by Kiffin to not resign. Dont let that senile fuck cheat you out of money.

 

[hippieki11er]

Lofton to take over.

 

[krk1030]

The raiders will be a laughing stock until Davis dies.

 

[w8lifterguy]

The raiders will be a laughing stock until Davis dies.

Couldn't say it any better. Al Davis is a cornerstone of the early days of the league but needs to be on a tombstone before this franchise can ever escape the wrath of him selling his soul for the franchises early 70's and 80's success.
Watching the game last Monday it doesn't look like Al's health is holding out all that well either.
He will continue to drive coach after coach out of town...Kiffin has possibilities to be a good coach

 

[hippieki11er]

bump

Tomorrow's the day apparently.

 

[clearx1]

any story printed out about the Raiders, Al Davis will take it seriously. have a mock draft and tell what the Raiders need to fill, he'll listen. sucks to have an owner as the general manager.

 

[3peet]

I think its outrageous Davis blamed Kiffin for the loss against the Bills. What I also found intresting (and i'm glad its happening), the players contacted Fox SPorts expressing thier disappointment about the decision.

As a 31 year Raiderfan and counting I'll say this.

FUCK AL DAVIS!!!!

...and so begins my official boycott of Raider home games and merchandise until Al Davis checks out. Hopefully sooner than later.

Mother of God talk about wrecking a franchise.

 

[hippieki11er]

You can tell he was just waiting to fire him and was planning on doing it last week thinking they were gonna lose to KC. Now he'll probably cite the fact that Kiffin didn't use either of the team's final two TO's at the end to at least ice the kicker and leave some time on the clock for a Raider final drive. Of course the loss is entirely Ryan's fault who went with the prevent D on the final two Bill drives, so he should be shown the door first, but of course won't since he loves to kiss Davis's ass.

 

[ChickenDinner]

Get him out so we can see him shine without a huge Al Davis BlacK Cloud over his head.... If you watch their games they are calling good plays and getting people open...just failing on plays...... put him in Cincy they are going to need a coach...

 

[3peet]

What i'm afraid of most is him ending up as an opposing coach and whooping our asses for the coming future.

Kiffin went from Gruden II to Shanahan II in 18 months.

 

[hippieki11er]

It's got to be tomorrow then.

Third time's the charm?