NO COACH IN THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO PLAY FOR AL DAVIS. So we are stuck with incompetent or extremely inexperienced guys in there who are never really even given a chance. Kiffin definitely got this team to compete at a much higher level but he still did not have very much control over personal or plays. Davis needs to be in control of everything and he sucks. Kiffin had nothing to do with the defense so don’t even go there. We had pretty good players this year but our O-line sucked, our qb was inexperienced, our receivers sucked, the system sucks, etc. We have to overpay players to play here and most guys on the team are over rated.

as KA1Z3R said, “He calls the plays, he signs the players, he tells the players what’s going on (evidence is Curry), he drafts the players, he’s the entire team’s front office and coaching staff.”

It all starts with Davis and in this case, it does trickle down. the entire organization is dysfunctional because of him.

Al hired the coach, he drafted the QB, he signed Javon (a one hit wonder with a history of knee and effort problems), traded for problem child DeAngelo Hall and then gave him a 68 million dollar contract and then cut him half way through the season. Al himself said that Lane was against all of those signings, and Lane made comments saying the same thing. Comments that Saint and others shredded him for

He signed Kwame Harris who was so bad that San Francisco tossed him out. Tommy Kelly is a bad DT and everyone knew it, football outsiders has metrics that show we were worse against the run with him in the game last year.

Who hired Art, Norv, Lane, Callahan and Cable? Who hired Bugel and White and Shell the first time?
It’s obvious that Lane was running the D because they play a cover 2? You udnerstand that every team in the NFL runs a cover 2, all that means is two safeties over the top. And you know that Lane was the offensive coordinator at USC, not the D coordinator, right? Lane wanted to get rid of Ryan and bring in someone else to run the D, not run it himself. Al said that during the press conference to announce Kiffin’s firing.

He was sick of losing 5 years in a row? Since the Raiders came back to Oakland the best record by a coach not named Gruden is 8-8. He’s been losing for 14 years now.

Why is it so hard for you to understand that Al does not understand football any longer? Because he throws money at free agents? Thats the sign of a bad GM, in today’s salary cap era GMs are valued on their ability to bring in cheap contributors (mostly through the draft). They’re valued on their ability to rotate new players in as aging “names” rotate out to teams foolish enough to pay them for past achievements. Al has demonstrated time and again that he is completely incapable of doing that, he’s the complete opposite of that. He’s demonstrated that he has no concept of the team he wants to build and has demonstrated that even if he had a plan he wouldn’t be able to execute it.

We can only hope that at some point the NFL steps in and removes Al from the teams decision making process the way baseball did with Steinbrenner and Schott.

Al more than a good stroking of his ego. Good luck….