Comments on: Davis Fires Kiffin http://www.zoneblitz.com/2008/09/30/davis-fires-kiffin/ Two Linemen, Dropping Into Coverage Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:43:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Andy http://www.zoneblitz.com/2008/09/30/davis-fires-kiffin/#comment-615 Andy Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:04:43 +0000 http://www.zoneblitz.com/?p=449#comment-615 You beat me to this one. I may add another post on this later. I found it interesting the different perspectives that people took from the press conference. J.T. The Brick, a Fox Sports Radio host who is a fan of the Raiders - might draw a paycheck from them for something too, haven't been able to figure that out yet - appeared briefly on one of the late Fox Sports shows talking about how nice a guy Kiffin is, but how he double-crossed Al Davis repeatedly. ProFootballTalk.com seemed impressed with Davis as well, finishing two posts on the conference by discussing their newfound respect for the Raiders and the aging owner. One of those can be read here: http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/30/davis-accues-kiffin-of-propaganda-lying/ But most of the commentary suggested that people think it's time for Davis to step aside. He rambled on and on yesterday and he seemed to be getting at the fact that he fired Kiffin, in part, because Kiffin disagreed with many of Davis' decisions. The Moss acquisition and the drafting of Russell apparently were major disagreements - but they certainly don't rise to insubordination. And if telling lies to the media equate to cause, well, every single coach in the NFL should expect that their contracts won't be honored when they are fired. This was a bizarre and ugly situation for the Raiders and the NFL. You beat me to this one. I may add another post on this later. I found it interesting the different perspectives that people took from the press conference.

J.T. The Brick, a Fox Sports Radio host who is a fan of the Raiders – might draw a paycheck from them for something too, haven’t been able to figure that out yet – appeared briefly on one of the late Fox Sports shows talking about how nice a guy Kiffin is, but how he double-crossed Al Davis repeatedly.

ProFootballTalk.com seemed impressed with Davis as well, finishing two posts on the conference by discussing their newfound respect for the Raiders and the aging owner. One of those can be read here: http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/30/davis-accues-kiffin-of-propaganda-lying/

But most of the commentary suggested that people think it’s time for Davis to step aside. He rambled on and on yesterday and he seemed to be getting at the fact that he fired Kiffin, in part, because Kiffin disagreed with many of Davis’ decisions. The Moss acquisition and the drafting of Russell apparently were major disagreements – but they certainly don’t rise to insubordination. And if telling lies to the media equate to cause, well, every single coach in the NFL should expect that their contracts won’t be honored when they are fired.

This was a bizarre and ugly situation for the Raiders and the NFL.

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