The AP is reporting that after weeks of speculation and power struggles between owner Al Davis, head coach Lane Kiffin and defensive coordinator Rob Ryan the team wants Kiffin to resign. Reportedly the kid's reponse has been daring them to fire him instead, which is sort of smart considering the roughly $4,000,000 remaining on the final two years of his contract.

My reponse? Why? This all started when Kiffin tried to get Ryan fired. Dumb move by an inexperienced head coach. Granted, the Raider defense was much worse in 2007 than in 2006 when Kiffin was busy at USC. They fell from #25 to #31 in total run defense and from #1 to #8 in total pass defense. The scoring ranking dropped from #18 to #26 and total yards was a free fall from #3 to #22. However, was this Ryan's fault?

All Ryan can do is draw up schemes. He can't help the fact that their interior lineman are subpar, pass rushing depth is slim and safety play is marginal at best. What can he do with good linebackers and a quality #1 corner? When the personnel improves through another draft the unit will as well.

The man in line to reportedly replace Kiffin is Coors Light commerical laugher Dennis Green. Yeah, the guy known for his "they are who we thought they were!" rant when his Cardinals gave away a Monday Night game against the Bears. (Lay off the Mickey D's there Denny) This might have been a good move a coach or two ago when the team had veterans who would respect him including Randy Moss, possibly enough to have him still in Silver & Black. Now the team is young and at least from my perspective seems to be responding to Kiffin's fresh offense.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. In the NFL head coach is the position with the least amount of security and Al Davis has been the leader of the firing brigade for years. He actually got upset with a reporter when introducing Lane Kiffin when she asked about how many people have filled the position in recent years. The word we're looking for is "senile".