ESPN is reporting that Al Davis is set to fire Raiders coach Lane Kiffin as soon as Monday.

At this point, is that bad news? They tried to get Kiffen to resign back in January, but he wouldn't take the hint. At this point, getting cut loose from the Raiders is like getting a day pass out of Hell. If I'm in the Kiffen family, I'm hanging streamers and happily updating my resume. This isn't a franchise with a long history of anything except front office insanity.

That's one thing about being a head coach in the NFL, there's only 32 jobs available. If you want one, you have to put up with crazy stuff sometimes like overbearing owners, absentee owners, and owners who don't even know who you are.

Al Davis was quoted in the article as saying "He's not the guy I hired." That begs the question, exactly who does Davis think he hired? Did he greenlight the hire based on seeing the name "Lane," and think he was hiring Bobby Layne? Dick "Night Train" Lane? Lois Lane?

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