Raiders call press conference

21 minutes late.:tongue2:

http://forums.thephins.com/other-nfl/17603-first-coach-down-2.html

Its official. Kiffin got the axe. I'm thinking James Lofton gets the interim job. Look for Kiffin to go to Syracuse at the end of college football season.

Ryan's defense is the reason they lost a few games with leads.

Davis is clueless.

The second he went for a 76 yard field goal he should have been canned :lol:

I really feel for Kiffen, but on the bright side, he wont have to deal with the Maniacal Grannie owner anymore.

I still think he is a very good coach and some team (Perhaps college as was mentioned) will benefit from this.

"NJFINSFAN1 wrote:

Ryan's defense is the reason they lost a few games with leads.

Davis is clueless.

There must be some rule that says an owner can't coach a team because otherwise he would be doing it. He looks like a 21st century Ebenezer Scrooge sitting up in the owner's box just waiting to yell at people when the game is over. I hope they suck till he dies.:shifty:

... And the vicious cycle continues for the Faders.

"Hero13 wrote:

The second he went for a 76 yard field goal he should have been canned :lol:

I heard he was doing it to make Davis mad and get him fired.

"azfinfanmang wrote:

I really feel for Kiffen, but on the bright side, he wont have to deal with the Maniacal Grannie owner anymore.

I still think he is a very good coach and some team (Perhaps college as was mentioned) will benefit from this.

Yeah I think he's a good coach as well. I question his and the OC's playcalling but he was working with a Quarterback whose still basically a rookie because of a boneheaded holdout. I only know one guy in that organization that does and listens to everything Al Davis says and that's Ryan the DC. That organization has a lot of internal troubles though. I know Warren Sapp was saying a lot of negative things about the organization and saying how it was hell. Mike Lombardi who I respect a whole lot was a personnel guy in the organization for a while and he was saying how every Monday morning, every player and staff member was worried about their job. To top it off, Davis doesn't contact with the personnel at all. He comes in at 4PM, which is when the staff members and others leave the facilities. Davis does everything at home and then just shows up when they're all gone. There has been a lot of uncertainty in that organization for quite a while and that needs to be changed. The opponent is the opposing team, not your own team and I don't think they realize that in Oakland.

On ESPN radio they said that Davis is trying to do the same thing with Kiffin that he did with Shanahan where he fired him but refused to honor the contract. Eventually Davis lost, of course.

Good thing I'm not a Raiders fan. Al Davis is losing it.

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How crazy is this PC? Holy crap!!!

This organization is unbelievable.

What's going on? I just turned to it. What I miss?

Lol @ Davis.

Sucks for kiffin. It seems he had that organization heading at least in the right direction. The team is improving, its really their defense that has let them down. He's done a good job in developing Russel... personally, this whole firing is personal for davis/kiffin. its too bad really. Kiffin will coach again in the nfl, and probably will do a damn good job. And if the raiders don't pay out his contract... thats pretty pathetic on their part IMO

I'm sorry but I can't help to laugh at this written statement made by Davis.

I'm VERY interested to see how Lane Kiffin reacts. It seems to me that Al Davis has everything documented on Lane.

Way to bring in Monte Kiffin lol. All these things that Al Davis makes Kiffin look bad but it makes him look bad as well. He's the one who hired Kiffin.

davis is officially the MDO of the NFL...Most discombobulated owner.

He finally hired a competent coach who was making some progress and now they can him. At least be smart enough to give the job to your OL coach who has been stellar.

The next guy who comes in as the HC will be the six one since 2001.

Jesus, talk about cleaning some closets, goodnight!!!

This is like As the World Turns.

good now that kiffin is gone they can start making progress.......

oh ........

wait......

Al Davis hates Chris Mortenson huh?

He just called Mortensen a "professional liar."