Al Davis

[Radio_Bugtussle]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

[letsgocards89]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

I could see the Chiefs booting Edwards if things don't start coming together for them.

[Fat Strat]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

I could see the Chiefs booting Edwards if things don't start coming together for them.

They won't. They like what he's doing there with the youth movement and through the draft. Carl Peterson will get the boot before Edwards. (Then again, a new GM usually wants a new coach, so I guess it is a possibility).

[Leroy]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

Wouldn't that be interesting if he went to KC though. Turner - fired by crazy Al. Shanahan - fired by crazy Al. Kiffin - fired by crazy Al. Maybe then Al could bring back Shell - fired twice by crazy Al.

I wonder if Madden is available.

[Radio_Bugtussle]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

I could see the Chiefs booting Edwards if things don't start coming together for them.

They won't. They like what he's doing there with the youth movement and through the draft. Carl Peterson will get the boot before Edwards. (Then again, a new GM usually wants a new coach, so I guess it is a possibility).

I doubt that Peterson signs another contract. He's coming up on 20 years in KC and is nearing the age where retirement looks pretty good. He's got a fair chance to go out as a hero for being willing to change approaches and go all out with young guys.

The Chiefs have looked pretty decent over the last six quarters. (Thigpen's stupid pick 6 v ATL excepted)

I haven't said anything bad about the Chiefs OL since LJ got away for that 65 yard run early in the Donkey game. Things would have to reverse pretty severely for Edwards to get run out of town now.

I remember the Chiefs hiring Art Shell as an OL coach in the mid 90's. I strongly suspect that Mr. Hunt and CP did that solely to yank Al's chain. Art Shell in Chiefs coaching gear was as out of place as Don Kessinger as a Cardinal or Jimmy Baseball as a Cub.

If there is an assistant vacancy, it would be fun to see Kiffin in Chiefs Red and Gold. Gunther Cunningham is also a disgruntled Ex Raider staffer. He seems to delight in sticking it to the Raiders.

[Leroy]

I didn't know Gunther was with the Raiders.

[Freed Roger]

this makes the Rams look better.

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en- ... d67e2bd1fd

[Spider John]

How dysfunctional are the Oakland Raiders? So dysfunctional that Warren Sapp warns anybody who asks him about signing there to stay far away.


"Nobody tells you how bad it is," the former defensive tackle said on Showtime's "Inside the NFL." " ... any person that calls me on the telephone, do not go anywhere near Oakland."

"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 even said that Davis would call in plays when Sapp was playing for the Raiders.

"I remember the first two weeks I was there, we played a preseason game. Somebody came up one time and said, 'We're going deep right here, dog.' I said, how do you know? He said, 'The phone just rang.'

"All the preparation that goes into a week of work is there, the practicing that you have to put in order to do these things, sometimes [Al Davis] messed with that part of it and that's what kills you," Sapp said on "Inside the NFL."

He cited one particular example of a Raiders defensive gameplan being thrown out the window at the last minute. Sapp said Davis was behind it.

"Al Davis is the total bottom line, buck stops right there," said Sapp. "I remember one time we had a defensive game plan because we were struggling against the run. We were going to get our safeties and put them up in the box and almost have a nine-man front. We practiced this thing 80 percent of the time on Wednesday and Thursday. We showed up that Friday morning, [defensive coordinator] Rob Ryan came in and he looked like someone had just shot his dog. He said he [Davis] pulled it on us ... He snatched the teeth out of our defense."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3622637

[JL21]

It would be fun to see Kiffin resurface in the AFC West but I don't see the other three teams making a coaching change anytime soon.

I would chortle heartily if Mike Shanahan hired him and groomed him as his replacement.