Was Al Davis Right About Lane Kiffin?
As we watched the Al Davis vs. Lane Kiffin saga unfold in Oakland over the past two seasons, it was difficult to not feel some sort sympathy for Kiffin. After all, he was a young, up-and-coming head coach that seemed to be trapped in the firm grasp of Davis’ lair, having little to no control over what was actually going on with the football team he was, supposedly, coaching. At least that’s the way it looked from my point of view. Now that Kiffin is out of Oakland, running his own football program at the University of Tennessee, it’s becoming painfully obvious that Davis may not have been as crazy as we thought. Lately, it’s been easy to pile on Davis for the current struggles with the Raiders. The team hasn’t exactly been a model of efficiency the past seven years, or lived up to the franchise’s long-time motto of a “commitment to excellence.” That said, in the efforts of fairness, it’s worth asking if Davis was right about Kiffin when he called him out during that bizarre press confe
