RAIDERS WIN, KIFFIN LIKELY DONE AS HEAD COACH

Typically, winning football games in the NFL will bring you job security. As you all know by now there is nothing "typical" about the way the Oakland Raiders franchise is run. Lane Kiffin picked up the pieces of what has left of his team after being absolutely humiliated on Monday Night Football last week. He alluded to the fact that defensive Coordinator Rob Ryan and owner Al Davis have essentially frozen him out of the defensive side of the game plan. He made it clear that his job is indeed in jeopardy. He prepared his team for their next opponent, the equally hideous Kansas City Chiefs. His team went out and rushed for 300 against an admittedly piss poor defense. His team looked a billion times more competent than they did 6 days ago against Denver. The defense made plays when it had to. The running game was spearheaded by the new combo of Darren McFadden and Michael Bush. For the first time since this team started training camp there is some semblance of forward momentum. Kiffin's reward for showing improvement: Al Davis is likely going to fire his ass tomorrow.

The fact that Al Davis is seeking to fire a young, offensive minded coach is not surprising in the least. Uncle Al has shit canned coaches twice as good as Kiffin in the past, and so long as his henchmen continue to find him an ample supply of infant blood for him to dine on, he will possibly do so again in the future. Kiffin has been on the thinnest of ice since the end of last season when he attempted to fire Ryan for basically putting together the shittiest run defense known to man, only to be overruled by Davis. Right then and there he should've fired Kiffin so he could get someone else in there and have the whole offseason to put in a new system. That is what your TYPICAL NFL owner would've done. Instead, Al decided he would save some money by forcing Kiffin to resign. You know, leave the last 3 years of money he was due on the table and walk away. Being that Al lacks the Force mastery to pull off Jedi mind tricks and also that Lane Kiffin isn't a fucking retard, Kiffin declined to quit. Thus began the battle of wills.

All throughout the summer Kiffin was rumored to be on his way out. Every time he was asked about his job situation he'd chuckle and mention that as of TODAY he was the Raiders head coach. After a while it looked like he had weathered the storm and that he might even have a shot at making it through the season. This was before Rob Ryan and his shit eating Cover 0 defense came out and pissed down the side of their leg against Denver. Barraged with questions about the defenses ineptitude Kiffin did what any of us would do in the same situation: He distanced himself and pointed his finger at Ryan. After all, Ryan was Al's guy. Al was the one who went to bat for Ryan. Al was the one who decided being in good with the D coordinator was more important than having a working relationship with his head coach. Al was the one who brought all of this on the franchise. If the buck stops with him, then by God let the buck stop with him. Because of his candor, because of his balls, Lane Kiffin will be fired tomorrow.

Never mind the fact that this team has lost more games over the last 5 years than any other team in the league. Never mind the fact that a senile, pants shitting 79 year old fuck still considers himself to be smart and aware enough to handle the day to day management of his team. Go ahead and ignore all of that, Al. Ignore the fact that you killed this once proud franchise long ago and have dedicated the last 20 years to violently skull fucking what is left. Ignore the fact that your draft picks have a failure rate three times that of the Xbox 360. This is YOUR TEAM, goddamnit. You are the one who brought this league to prominence. You are the swashbuckling maverick owner who brought the vertical attack to the league. You are the genius who became a master at taking players the rest of the league had given up on, dusting them off and getting great performances out them. Yes Al, you did ALL OF THAT... 30 years ago. 

Best of luck in the future, Coach Kiffin. I hope you run up the score every time your boys play against the Raiders. Say hi to Gruden and Shannahan at the next meeting.