Saturday, September 20, 2008

Days of Our Raiders

Doesn't it seem like yesterday Al Davis was firing Art Shell and hiring Lane Kiffin? Well, at the rate Davis has been hiring and firing coaches, that's a fair assumption.
For the fourth time since 2003, Al Davis has been thinking about firing his head football coach. The only problem is that Davis doesn't want to pay Kiffin the rest of his contract. Kiffin, likewise, doesn't want to resign and lose his pay, but it doesn't take a keen eye to see that he wants out. What coach wouldn't want out of Oakland? Aside from the fact that the Raiders are just a pitiful team (even with five years of early first-round draft picks; lucky for them the Chiefs are in the same division), Kiffin doesn't even have control over his own personnel. In the future, Davis should simply keep hiring young coaches trying to beef up their resumes, because no one else is going to want the job. This team is going to be in the ground for a while, but seeing as how owners of other franchises have hurt their teams through micromanagement (Bidwell-Cardinals and Brown-Bengals), should I be surprised?

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