Kiffin out as Raiders HC

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Warren Sapp rips Al Davis, defends Kiffin on inside the NFL:

ESPN - Sapp says Kiffin treated unfairly, blames Davis for Raiders' mess - NFL
ESPN - Sapp comments may support Kiffin's claim Davis tampered with defense - NFL

"Nobody tells you how bad it is, any person that calls me on the telephone, [I tell them] do not go anywhere near Oakland."

"Kiffin came in there with a change of mentality. The whole system. He changed how the locker room looked because it was going to take that kind of overhaul for Oakland to become the proud franchise we all knew it was."

"Al Davis knows football -- it's just '60s and '70s football. That's what it is. He's thinking that Cliff Branch is outside and [Jim] Plunkett is dropping back and you can throw it 80 yards down the field -- deep ball, deep ball, deep ball."

"I remember the first two weeks I was there, we played a preseason game. Somebody came up one time and said, 'We're going deep right here, dog.' I said, how do you know? He said, 'The phone just rang.'

"I remember one time we had a defensive game plan because we were struggling against the run. We were going to get our safeties and put them up in the box and almost have a nine-man front. We practiced this thing 80 percent of the time on Wednesday and Thursday. We showed up that Friday morning, [defensive coordinator] Rob Ryan came in and he looked like someone had just shot his dog. He said he [Davis] pulled it on us. ... He snatched the teeth out of our defense."
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