After a couple weeks of he said she said, the Raiders have fired Coach Lane Kiffin. That brings the total to two after Scott Linehan was axed yesterday. This whole situation in Oakland was strange and in my eyes they will not do anything as long as Al Davis is in charge. To add insult to injury the Raiders are not planning to pay the rest of his contract and was told over the phone.
With essentially a rookie quarterback, a rookie running back, and not many playmakers they actualy had leads in the fourth quarter against Buffalo and San Diego (they lost both). I believe Kiffin is a good coach and will get more chances in the future.
Reports are saying that offensive line coach Tom Cable will take over as Head Coach. There is a press conference at 5:00 pm EST, so we will find out more then. The Raiders have a bye week this week followed by a road game @ New Orleans.
Interesting Cable over someone like Rob Ryan or Greg Knapp, both of whom have more than 2 years tenured in the league…
I guess a younger, less experienced coach is easier for Al Davis to control telepathically with his undead, skeleton powers.
Haha. Reportedly Ryan, Knapp, and Lofton all turned the job down.
wow, that is crazy that they turned it dowm, don’t blame them though. Did you see the press conference when they introduced cable? Al Davis was heard saying, “who is going introduce Cable?….me I can’t do it do, I don’t know anything about him”. Kinda funny