"The fastest way to ruin a quarterback is to put him on a bad team, with a bad line, with no weapons, with no continuity in the coaching staff. That pretty much describes the current Raiders. The game has passed Al Davis by, and he's the only one who doesn't know it. Every time the Raiders get a good coach " Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Norv Turner, etc. " who doesn't buy into Al's outdated program, he fires him." - John Elway

via www.greenberg-art.com

Al Davis might've done great things for this team back in the days, but that was about 20 years ago. I've read up on his history ,Heck I must say the raiders just wouldn't be the raiders without the old man of course. He did great things back in his days winning 3 superbowls with the real raiders color but unfortunately over time the Mystique has grown weak. What use to been the NFL winningness has became a commitment of a joke over the years since you guessed it the jon gruden era. Don't get me wrong I'll love this team until the day I die however after watching the browns game sunday. I've seen that Raider Nation is more like a shadow of it's former self. Now a days we either go on the road or stay at home only to get destroyed by teams that use to fear us =(. Like our raider father that saved this team he's also single handledly ruined us over the years. By making horrible decisions like drafting the nfl biggest bust not to forget firing our coaches almost every single year. Sadly tho he's the one that's been calling our plays ,but seems to never be taking any blame for it probably one of the reasons why Kiffin got fired cause he didn't wanna be a "Yes man Coach" like Tom Cable..... I'm not hoping our owner dies btw (A Real Fan wouldn't wish his death) ,but please Al me and all of raider nation hope that you step down after the ravens game soo we can really rebuild our once proud Franchise for a change...