Do Raider fans have their head in the sand? I’m sure that they all agree that Al needs to go, yet they still blame Kiffin.
The Raiders failure this season so far and yet to come was predetermined in the offseason. It was so simple. Davis took away all of Kiffins authority. He’s a “Lane Duck” so to speak. If a head Coach has no authority to add, cut, discipline or hire players and Coaching Staff, then he is useless.

Davis is dillusional. Kiffin is nothing more than a figurehead. Davis has given him mud, but no straw and he wants kiffin to build bricks.

It’s very simple that Kiffin makes these types of remarks, just as when he didn’t wear Raiders gear at the League meetings. How can he feel like he represents the Raiders when he is told to do nothing. Don’t step on the toes of the coordinators, don’t discipline the problem players, don’t make any deals and or talk to any prospects..“What!”

Kiffin is the weakest Coach in the League. How can his players respect him? Even that comment “his players” is not something he can say, because it’s been made clear to him that they are not his players. They are Al’s players.

So, my advice to Raiders fans is to demand that Al get his wrinkled butt out of his wheelchair and come down and run the damn team himself, or give his Head Coach some authority and get the hell out of the way.

And as far as Rob Ryan goes, he’s as arrogant as his father. Boasting on his family name, as to him being one of “the best”. Well Kiffin didn’t have jack to do with Denver hanging 41 on them. That is all Ryan. On the other side of the ball, Kiffin has to work with an overated first pick in Russell and a runningback that he never wanted.

Raiders fans should be lining up tonight with the torches and the pitchforks at Al’s mansion and put an end to the nightmare.

from Ryan in a press conference. The stark emotionalism that Ryan runs on is why Davis favors him. Davis has his eggs squarely in the emotion basket, and is trying to drive the raiders to success purely by force of will, with little consideration for reality.

Towards the end Ryan gives some insight into why the raiders looked so poor (cutler is better than he thought at making decisions this early in his career), what happened to Hall (defensive calls were intended to feature Hall defending in a deep third portion of the field and Royals routes were designed to press that and release into deeper routes via double moves), and some of the problems with scheming against Shanahan (notes that Shanahan’s playcalling develops as the game goes on and is designed to force a defense to adjust as the game progresses). Really good stuff.

Ryan: A couple of those plays were definitely on me. The one max pressure where we hit our head the guy had a triple move on him and shit I don’t know who could cover that. Willie Brown, maybe, back in the day. That’s just the truth.

Seriously, he’s a solid young HC who has been undermined at every turn. He’s known (thansk, HT) as an educator/coach, he has talent and drive. We talked here last week or so about having a program – the raiders have been programmed for failure for decades now.

Maybe Ryan does get the job, and good luck to him – I wonder if he thinks, as people do, that things will be different when he changes hats.

At least according to the link you provided Ted (I have not heard the actual ESPN report on TV). They are relying on a report from the San Jose Mercury News. That report is written by a reporter who also reported that Kevin Garnett had been traded to the Warrioirs during the NBA draft last year.

I may be giving Al Davis too much credit for logical and consistent thinking, but if he refused to fire Kiffin in the offseason because he did not want to pay him (which was why he was trying to force Kiffin to resign) I don’t see what has changed since then.

“He’s not the guy I hired,” Davis said in mid-August of Kiffin, according to the report in the Bay Area newspaper.

He thought he was hiring Mike S. again.

Amazing how history repeats itself, I am sure Kifin will land as an O-coordinator somewhere, get some rings and then come back and coach someone like the Chiefs and punk Davis twice a year.

I really don’t know why if you were a Raider fan you would show any support for this team based on how Al Davis screws everyone (fans, coaches, players, the NFL).

what are the odds of him landing in Kansas City? (Also assuming a deportation of Herm, but you understood that.)

Could it be possible to have two bitter ex-Raider coaches in the AFC West to haunt Al Davis?

Please? Pretty please?