Al Davis is an incompetent lunatic

[cboy4]

Yea, Al, you've run the Raiders into the ground and it's always everybody else's fault, ha?

Has the Bay Area mentioned enough how much we hate you? :puke: :puke: :puke:

Raiders coach refuses to heed Davis' call to resign

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3214665

By Chris Mortensen
ESPN.com

Updated: January 25, 2008, 8:14 PM ET


Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has been pushing for coach Lane Kiffin to resign and is considering Dennis Green as a potential replacement, sources close to Kiffin and the team said.

Davis has gone so far as to draft a letter of resignation for Kiffin to sign, a source said. Kiffin has refused to do so but has dared Davis to fire him instead. The letter, the source said, was sent to Kiffin two weeks ago.

One season into the job and Lane Kiffin has quite a dilemma on his hands. Raiders owner Al Davis wants him out, but Kiffin's not budging.

Kiffin, who was 4-12 in his first season as coach, has two years remaining on his contract at an estimated $2 million per year.

In the letter sent to Kiffin's legal representatives, Davis stated that only he would have control over his staff and full personnel decisions, sources said. According to a source close to Kiffin, Davis had promised Kiffin when he hired him that he would have more control over staff and personnel matters than recent Raiders coaches. Kiffin was allowed five offensive assistants and to name his own staff when he took the job after the 2006 season.



One season into the job and Lane Kiffin has quite
a dilemma on his hands. Raiders owner Al Davis wants
him out, but Kiffin's not budging.

[Cush]

1. Dan Snyder says "Hi"

it's too bad owners can't be fired.

[cboy4]

2. Yea, there are some really awful people in charge of

legendary franchises.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Oh Danny Boy

Oh Danny boy, the fans, the fans are calling
From glen to glen, after watching the franchise slide
Another seasons's gone, and all the fans are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go, or we will Skin your hide!

[TZ]

5. heh

Too bad we can't get Snyder and Al Davis together for a steel cage death match.....
You CAN at least make the case that Al Davis may be getting a little senile.....Danny Boy is what, in his late 40's?

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. He's 43 I think.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503432_pf.html


Snyder's Power Play

By Sally Jenkins
Saturday, January 26, 2008; E01

Maybe Dan Snyder's got a big hire in his back pocket. Maybe he knows something nobody else does, including his own coaches, players and fans, whose patience he has exhausted. But the Washington Redskins still don't have a head coach, and meantime they've got too many assistants with fancy titles and big contracts, including the newly hired Jim Zorn. Maybe Snyder has a master plan, but at the moment it looks like nonsense, something a little boy would draw in crayon while he waits for the ice cream truck.

You know how sometimes kids stare in their food and see a face in it? Maybe that's how Snyder will make a head coaching hire: He'll see the face of the next coach in a grilled cheese sandwich. It makes as much sense as what he's been doing lately, stringing along first Gregg Williams and then Jim Fassel in job interviews. Who knows why each rose or fell in Snyder's favor, or why he has delayed naming a head coach and instead signed Zorn as offensive coordinator. The Redskins have let Al Saunders go, but they still lead the league in offensive coaches with titles, what with assistant head coach-offense Joe Bugel, and offensive coordinator Don Breaux still hanging around.

Who knows why Snyder needed so many job interviews with Williams, despite the fact that he has been the defensive coordinator for four years. The suspicion here is that Snyder wanted to see if Williams would be his football buddy, let him play X's and O's, and sit in on tape sessions as if they're video games. Can't you hear the conversation?

Snyder: Okay, I have some really, really, really important questions for you.

Williams: Fire away.

Snyder: What are your all-time favorite TV shows?

Williams: My favorite shows?

Snyder: Yeah. Mine are "Star Blazers," "Airwolf," "Super Friends."

Williams: I thought I was here to discuss the Redskins' position.

Snyder: And I really love "Land of the Lost," and best of all, "Kung Fu Theater."

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[cboy4]

4. Ailene Voisin: Davis continues to hurt Raiders with his power trips

Last Updated 12:09 am PST Saturday, January 26, 2008
Story appeared in SPORTS section, Page C1

http://www.sacbee.com/100/story/663619.html

This is a ridiculously easy play to call. Lane Kiffin should sit back and let Al Davis twist and shout, looking like an even bigger buffoon than usual, and force the Raiders' owner to decide between common sense and dollars and cents.

You know what he'll do. You win if you wait him out.

Then take the money and run.

The organization's protests and spin control notwithstanding, Davis clearly doesn't want his promising young coach around anymore, and Kiffin doesn't need any more of Davis' chronic meddling. Though reasonable men would resolve their differences and collaborate on the formidable task of rebuilding the Raiders, that will never happen.

Davis just can't help himself. He's a power-hungry has-been, and no matter how many coaches he devours, he's never satisfied.



What's He Thinking?

Ray Ratto, San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, January 26, 2008

(01-25) 19:08 PST -- For $4 million, Al Davis has decided to embarrass the brand name Oakland Raiders. For $4 million, Al Davis wants to degrade his legacy yet again. For $4 million, Al Davis wants to find a new scapegoat to take the blame for this rotting hulk of a franchise.

To which we can only say, that must be one important hunk of money.

Davis is so unhappy with Lane, a.k.a. Lance, Kiffin as his coach that he is willing to make Kiffin crawl pantsless over a mile of hot gravel just to get the rest of the money promised to him under a contract Davis signed one year ago. He won't fire him, but he sent him a letter of resignation that, if Kiffin doesn't sign, still strips him of most normal coaching prerogatives.

The letter hasn't been seen, but too many people know about it, and have spoken quietly about it for the better part of a week. Even the boilerplate Raider denial says only that "Kiffin is the coach, there isn't an issue," not that there is no such letter. The Raiders are too skilled at denials to forget a loose end like that, especially one that would make so many of their media enemies look foolish.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/26/SPGLUMPBT.DTL

[Auggie]

7. Patience... Al can't have many years left