Should Kiffin be fired?
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No offense to Lane, but his tremendous lack of head coaching experience caused him to finish among the also-rans for the Gophers head coaching job, for gosh sakes.
Yeah, yeah, Davis probably hasn't given Kiffin enough good players to win with. But Kiffin has done little to direct or motivate the ones who are there. If you disagree, watch the Denver game again.
Calling those last two timeouts in Buffalo might not have changed the outcome of the game for the Raiders. But calling them would have at least avoided getting beat on a walk-off field goal.
The Bills had first-and-10 at the Raiders 39-yard line at the two-minute warning. They had second-and-3 at the Oakland 32 with 1:17 left.
Tick, tick, tick ...
The Bills had first-and-10 at the Oakland 24 with 1:11 left.
Tick, tick, tick. Um, Lane? Hello. You know Lindell is going to make it. At least give yourself some time to answer with a field goal of your own.
Nope. Forty-three seconds later, the Bills ran their last play from scrimmage. And 25 seconds after that, Lindell kicked the game-winner. Ironically, Kiffin tried to call a timeout to ice Lindell at the last second, but was too late.
Kiffin walked off the field and told reporters he "wasn't even thinking" about whether he'd be fired. He's lucky he and those last two timeouts weren't fired on the spot.
No offense to Lane, but his tremendous lack of head coaching experience caused him to finish among the also-rans for the Gophers head coaching job, for gosh sakes.
Yeah, yeah, Davis probably hasn't given Kiffin enough good players to win with. But Kiffin has done little to direct or motivate the ones who are there. If you disagree, watch the Denver game again.
Calling those last two timeouts in Buffalo might not have changed the outcome of the game for the Raiders. But calling them would have at least avoided getting beat on a walk-off field goal.
The Bills had first-and-10 at the Raiders 39-yard line at the two-minute warning. They had second-and-3 at the Oakland 32 with 1:17 left.
Tick, tick, tick ...
The Bills had first-and-10 at the Oakland 24 with 1:11 left.
Tick, tick, tick. Um, Lane? Hello. You know Lindell is going to make it. At least give yourself some time to answer with a field goal of your own.
Nope. Forty-three seconds later, the Bills ran their last play from scrimmage. And 25 seconds after that, Lindell kicked the game-winner. Ironically, Kiffin tried to call a timeout to ice Lindell at the last second, but was too late.
Kiffin walked off the field and told reporters he "wasn't even thinking" about whether he'd be fired. He's lucky he and those last two timeouts weren't fired on the spot.
Just calling it like I see it... The Raiders paid Javon Walker big money to be a big part of the offense. He got off to a good start in the Buffalo game but somehow they went away from calling plays for him/his number. So we can't blame Javon, he can only come through when his number is called. He has the right to complain if he does. I wouldn't blame him one bit.
Who cares if he only completed 8 passes for under 75 yards, that doesn't mean you have to stop throwing the ball. Curry let one get away from him again. As a head coach you still have to show "confidence" in the passing game. JR is executing just fine as evidenced by that 84 yard TD pass. Could he improve? Yes he can but Kiffin needs to call a few more passing plays to JR can establish some kind of "rhthym".
Who cares if he only completed 8 passes for under 75 yards, that doesn't mean you have to stop throwing the ball. Curry let one get away from him again. As a head coach you still have to show "confidence" in the passing game. JR is executing just fine as evidenced by that 84 yard TD pass. Could he improve? Yes he can but Kiffin needs to call a few more passing plays to JR can establish some kind of "rhthym".