Can you think of something worse in sports than to be the Raiders head coach? I honestly can’t. I’d rather coach a team in the WNBA than the Raiders. Lane Kiffin has the job right now and every day a rumor is started or continued that he’ll be let go. Every day Kiffin wakes up and wonders if today is his last day on the job. He answers questions about it all day long and each of his players wonder if today is the day they get a new coach.

Al Davis has to realize that this simply isn’t working for him. The last winning coach they had was Jon Gruden and he got to walk to Tampa Bay. After he left the Raiders got Bill Callahan who took them to a Super Bowl in his first year on the job. Soon he tanked and was canned basically after two seasons. Then they hired Norv Turner who has nearly been hired by every single team in the NFL. This guy has been given more chances to be a head coach than anyone I can think of. He’s failed so often as a head coach but people still keep trying to give him a job. He didn’t cut it after two seasons and was canned. They brought in Art Shell because apparently he didn’t prove he could cut it the first time so he went 2-14 again and was fired. Now we have Lane Kiffin who was brought in to clean up the crap and teach a rookie QB who isn’t ready to be a starter in the league. They’ve played better than nearly anyone expected yet he’s about to get fired so we can start the circus all over again.

Kiffin should’ve kept his job at USC and ended up a head coach at some major university somewhere. Instead he becomes another casualty of the Raiders coaching circle and that’s nothing to really be proud of. BUYER BEWARE if you get offered that job after Kiffin is gone.

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