Lane Kiffen Fired...

[FCBarca]

Neither Kiffin getting the axe from Davis nor his refusal to pay Lane should come as a shock...Raiders, worst run organization in Football

 

[jbsg02]

Al Davis is just running his franchise into the ground

 

[Kilyin]

Commitment to Excrement!

 

[Seven]

If Kiffen had quit, he would've forfeited something like 3 million which Al Davis owed him. In the end, he looks a lot smarter than the Cryptkeeper even though he's (temporarily) out of work.

IMO.........Kiffen was speaking out loud so's he would be fired. Smart, smart man. I wonder who the next victim will be? Denny? Martz?


OH! OH! I KNOW!! None other than Matt Millen. Like a puzzle piece, I tell ya.

 

[Doomsday]

Neither Kiffin getting the axe from Davis nor his refusal to pay Lane should come as a shock...Raiders, worst run organization in Football

Davis should be required to pay his coaches up front, this is the 2nd time hes tried this BS. It took him a long time to pay Shanny.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Good for Lane, he gets paid and Al gets pissed.

Yep.

Kiffen will have a job inside of a couple of weeks, I'd bet. If I were the Rams, I'd seriously look at Lane Kiffen.

If for no other reason... just the way he handled this situation. Classy, calm and cool.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

most likely done the young coach a favor.

 

[FCBarca]

It's hard to believe anybody would take that HC job. That franchise is a farce.

The only guy who might take it is Ryan, their DC.

In the end, money talks...Even to be a whipping boy, someone will jump at being a HC there...Except, it will never be a blue chip coaching prospect...Instead, it'll be someone trying to climb the ladder there.

The thing that I find interesting isn't so much Kiffin (Kudos for sticking it to the idiot) but the rest of the Raider coaching staff...Talk about backstabbing corporate climbers...You're not going to endear yourself for future jobs by whoring yourself out to Davis at the expense of running a solid chain of coaching command there...Sounds like it was a coaching nightmare for Kiffin as his staff was all looking to get ahead without regard for the work.

So, yeah, in the end money talks

 

[Doomsday]

I think it would be funny if Kiffin went to the Chiefs so he can haunt Davis's dumb arse over and over like Shanny has. That would be pretty funny.

 

[FCBarca]

I think the question that's lost in all of it is is how good a coach is Kiffen anyway?...I mean, how could you even judge him to be a good or bad coach in that malignant environment there?

Who knows?...Maybe he stinks as a coach, maybe he's great...I do know, he showed some great character in all of this

 

[Chief]

It's being reported that Davis won't pay Kiffin ... that Davis has been making a list of Kiffin's supposed "insubordinate" actions in the past several months and will use that to get out of paying.

Mortensen reported that Davis fired Shanahan four games into the season 20 years ago and that Shanahan never got his money.

 

[Duane]

It's being reported that Davis won't pay Kiffin ... that Davis has been making a list of Kiffin's supposed "insubordinate" actions in the past several months and will use that to get out of paying.

Mortensen reported that Davis fired Shanahan four games into the season 20 years ago and that Shanahan never got his money.

If Kiffin's lawyer was smart he knew about the Shanahan situation and wrote language in the contract to make sure he got paid if he got fired.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

So old uncle al took a viagra and a centrum silver today.

 

[WoodysGirl]

CABLE WILL SUCCEED KIFFIN
Posted by Mike Florio on September 30, 2008, 2:29 p.m.

We suppose it’s fitting that Lane Kiffin, who was generally unknown when he was hired in early 2007 to coach the Raiders, will be replaced by another guy who is generally unknown.

Offensive line coach Tom Cable will take over the reins, according to Adam Schefter of NFLN.

Cable, 43, previously served as offensive line coach in Atlanta, and was the head coach at Idaho from 2000 through 2003. Cable also served as offensive coordinator at UCLA in 2004 and 2005.

It had been believed in some circles that the internal candidates would be James Lofton, Paul Hackett, and Rob Ryan. In the end, only Hackett was interviewed for the job.

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IT’S OFFICIAL: KIFFIN IS OUT
Posted by Mike Florio on September 30, 2008, 2:19 p.m.

After months of speculation, the Oakland Raiders finally have fired coach Lane Kiffin.

Here’s the text of the release: “Lane Kiffin has been released as head coach of The Oakland Raiders for cause. The Raiders will address the media at 2 p.m. this afternoon (Tuesday) at the team’s permanent facility in Alameda.”

The phrase “for cause” is a legal buzz word for, “And we ain’t payin’ him any more money.”

It has been apparent for a while now that the Raiders and Kiffin have been engaged in a game of buyout roulette, with the team trying to conjure evidence to support stiffing him and Kiffin trying to get himself fired in a manner that would nevertheless entitle him to get paid.

Though it’s likely that general counsel Jeff Birren has a laundry list of actual and/or perceived grounds to support the termination “for cause,” the Raiders likely won’t have as easy of a time with Kiffin’s coming grievance as they did with the claim made by former front office employee Mike Lombardi, who sought a contract buyout even though he . . . had . . . no . . . contract.

 

[AmishCowboy]

Good for Lane, he gets paid and Al gets pissed.

That's why he refused to resign, Good for Lane.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

As mad as we might be after a loss. At times when it seems we have totally misused our player, that our coaching staff is crazy and so on and so on. As many times as we have ripped on jerry over the years.

You have to sit back and count your lucky stars that we don't have al davis running the show.

 

[DallasEast]

CABLE WILL SUCCEED KIFFIN

Look at Al Davis! He's back in touch with the times after finally throwing out his old, rabbit ears antenna and is hooking up with cable! He's proving to be a real renaissance man and he should know. He was big during the Middle Ages.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Al Davis is stupid.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Al Davis is stupid.

That old guy has drank more metamucil and had more depends accidents than you have football exp mister and don't you forget it you young hooligan.

Now...get out of his yard with your sass talk.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

That old guy has drank more metamucil and had more depends accidents than you have football exp mister and don't you forget it you young hooligan.

Now...get out of his yard with your sass talk.