But things need to change from the top down. Davis needs to stop down or give up some control so the coach and his staff can bring in players that fit the scheme and can produce. And allow the coach and his staff come up w/ the plays and call the plays and do their thing.

Then we need a coach that’s competent, knows what he’s doing, can manage the team, can command (not demand, command) respect of the players and put together a scheme that works.

Then we need players, some of the current ones and some new ones, to come in and play as a team. To take whatever lumps there may be in stride and bounce back as a team. Sure tempers will flare and thing will be said and actions will be done, they are still human, but they need to be able to bounce back as one unit. That’s Offense and Defense are one team.

Then we the fans need to continue what we’re doing and step it up even more. This is our team, my fellow Raiders fans, our baby. We all get disgruntled w/ the losses and the stupidity we see in the organization. But we need to continue to be strong. Even it means to write the team and tell them we’re still backing them. Maybe it’ll make them play harder knowing we’re not a bunch of band wagon jumping morons. Every little thing helps you know.

Just my thoughts, take it as you will.

HE NEEDS TO BE TOLD TO ACT LIKE A BLUE COLLAR HARD WORKER INSTEAD OF ALL THAT GAUDY JEWLERY, FURS AND SUNGLASSES. HE IS ‘ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE’ HE COMES OFF AS REALLY ATTENTION STARVED, TRYING TO MAKE UP WITH HIS MISERABLE PLAY BY DRAWING ATTENTION TO HIS GAUDINESS. WHEN ONE COMPARES CUTLER, RIVERS, RYAN, FLACO, ROTHLESBERGER, ETC. THEY WILL BE GREAT BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL REALLY GOOD FROM THE START, RUSSELL IS REALLY BAD, AND HIS ONLY HOPE IS TO END UP AS ’ SERVICEABLE’ HE WILL NOT BE GREAT. HE REMINDS ME OF A QB WE ONCE HAD NAMED JAY SCHROEDR, WE WON WHEN HE WAS ON, AND WE LOST WHEN HE WAS OFF. JR IS OFF 80% OF THE TIME. THIS GUY JUST DIDN’T GET OUT OF JUNIOR HIGH, HE PLAYED IN THE SEC, AND HAD A FEW GREAT GAMES, AND THAT’S IT, IN THE NFL, HE IS PLAYING AGAINST PLAYERS THAT ARE 10 X BETTER THAN WHAT HE PLAYED AGAINST + THE EXPERIENCE. MAYBE WE LOOK AT TIM TEBOW

As long as Al Davis is with the Raiders this team is all but done ,they will continue to have bouble-digit loss seasons until he steps down or dies.I have been a fan for 40 years and I am done…NO MORE!!!. Al Davis has spent these last six years trying to prove he’s right instead of trying to do what’s right for the organization and its fans.There is no denying what Davis has done for the NFL,but what he has done to both L.A and Oakland both in and out of the courtroom is a joke and now this team is the joke of the NFL…thanks Al. We will never no what Kiffin could have done but he was definetly headed in the right direction . I am now a Vols fan and this is coming from a loyal Cal Bear fan,I can where 2 hats. I feel sorry for the fans that go to the games and have to witness a once great oranization plunder to the latest cocktail joke.Raider fans have a passion for there team that is unmatched in the NFL,its just too bad the owner can’t see it from his ivory tower.

… as long as Al Davis the management under the current configuration. What we all did not appreciate was that when Bruce Allen was the general manager and Jon Gruden was the coach, there was a buffer that allowed for the team to function in a way that the focus could remain on winning football games. It helped that Jon Gruden had a quarterback such as Rich Gannon managing the offense which made Jon Gruden’s job easier. Notwithstanding Gruden’s immaturity Bruce Allen was the buffer between he and Al Davis. In the 1970s John Madden brilliantly was able to work with Al Davis keep the team focused on winning.

Ever since 2002, when Bruce Allen left there has been no buffer between Al Davis and the coaching staff. We all recognize Al Davis desire to win however his philosophies are too incongruent with current day coaching methods as well as player attitudes. The result has been a travesty which embarrasses every raider fan across the nation.

Until Davis wises up and brings in the general manager who can then allow the coach to focus on his job without too much interference from the top we are destined to watch top-quality draft picks continue to go to waste. The other players on the roster will jsut continue to shake their heads as the losses continue to pile up.

Al Davis, gone. Tom Cable, gone. Rob Ryan, gone. John Defilippo, gone. While we’re at it, can I just ask why Ronald Curry and Robert Gallery still work for us? Can we exercise the Old Yeller Clause in their contracts and just take them out back and put them down? Please? No? Curses.

The issue isn’t the players. We have the best fantasy football team in the league, we have talent, we have big play makers outside of the receiving corps, and we have a good set of young and veteran talent. What we lack is a front office, coaching staff, and receivers.

Naturally everyone says Al Davis needs to go. Al, you’re old and tired and you have failed the organization. Step down. Hire a whole new coaching staff on both the offense and the defense, bring in a new system.

Hire Wes Welker, Steve Smith, and Ocho Cinco (baha) in the off season, AFTER Al Davis steps down and AFTER his replacement hires a new coaching staff. Otherwise we wont be able to get ANY quality players. By quality, I mean not Jevon Walker, not DeAngello Hall, and not Gibril Wilson.

The Raiders have Hope, but the only Hope we have is to see Al Davis come to the realization he can’t do this by himself anymore and to bring in qualified help who can then hire quality coaches and hire a world classed receivers corps.

I would suggest we cut our losses with Walker and possibly T. Kelly. Al offered to much money and we just eat the salary loss at the end of this season. After all, the NFL becomes uncapped in 2011. Which I think the best players will land at whoever wants to play the most. After all, raider tickets have always sold out a few times in the year which means Al is bringing in the money. BTW, I’m going to my second Raider game tonight. I live in San Diego so I have to deal with the most fareweather fans this world has ever seen. Every Charger fan around me will be selling off there tickets for the rest of the season if they lose tonight.