The dysfunctional Oakland Raiders have released cornerback DeAngelo Hall just months after they signed him to a huge a 7 year contract worth $72 million.
“When you look at the consistency and the play and those sorts of things, it was just the decision we felt was right for this football team,” interim head coach Tom Cable said.
Former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown has recently he would love to work for the worst owner ever, Al Davis.
“It would take me about two seconds to make that decision,” Brown said.
Warren Sapp was a guest on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” and he had some interesting things to say about the Oakland Raiders and their owner Al Davis.
“Al Davis knows football — it’s just ’60s and ’70s football. That’s what it is. He’s thinking that Cliff Branch is outside and [Jim] Plunkett is dropping back and you can throw it 80 yards down the field — deep ball, deep ball, deep ball,” Sapp said.
Former Raiders and current Denver Broncos head coach Mike Shanahan is jealous that Kiffin lasted longer than him in Oakland.
“I was a little disappointed, to be honest with you. When you take a look at it, I was there 582 days. Lane Kiffin was there 616 days. So, what it really means is that Al Davis liked Lane more than he liked me,” Shanahan joked during his weekly news conference.
After months of speculation, the Oakland Raiders have finally fired Lane Kiffin and have named offensive line coach Tom Cable their new head coach for the rest of season.
“I reached a point where I felt that the whole staff were fractionalized, that the best thing to do to get this thing back was to make a change,” Owner Al Davis said.
San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami almost gets in a fight with Oakland Raiders executive John Herrera.
I wonder what the Raiders will do tomorrow to embarrass their organization.
Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin is hoping quack owner Al Davis fires him immediately and he dreads the thought of staying in Oakland for another whole season.
“That’s the funny part about people asking if he’s worried about getting fired,” said a source close to Kiffin. Read the rest of this entry »
With reports that owner Al Davis will be firing Lane Kiffin as early as this week, the Oakland Raiders rallied behind their head coach and beat the Kansas City Chiefs 23-8.
“I don’t worry about things I can’t control. That’s not my decision whether I’ll be here,” Lane Kiffin said after the game. Read the rest of this entry »
Oakland Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin thinks wide receiver Javon Walker is overpaid and overhyped.
“There’s a couple of balls there that we would have liked him to come up with,” Kiffin said during the opening statement of his teleconference Saturday. That’s discouraging because he was paid an awful lot of money, paid like one of the top five receivers in the NFL. We need him to make those plays.” Read the rest of this entry »
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker remains hospitalized after he was beat-up, robbed and left unconscious on a Las Vegas street after a long night of partying.
“We don’t believe this is a random act,” Police Lt. Clinton Nichols told the San Francisco Chronicle. “They knew who he was and [Walker] presented a target. We did get a surveillance [video] of a vehicle and suspects that may have been involved. We know there were suspects, possibly two [but] we haven’t identified anyone yet.” Read the rest of this entry »
