The Oakland Raiders are Awesome

Can you think of a better word than "awesome" to describe just how much the Raiders suck? Six straight seasons of at least 11 losses.

No other team has done that. Not Detroit. Not Tampa. Not Cincinnati.

The Oakland Raiders. Unbelievable.

Except I do believe it, because I've watched (or listened to) just about every one of those losses.

There's no hope.

Scott Ostler makes jokes. Lowell Cohn doesn't. But they make the same point: Dan is right. This team knows no nadir.

JaMarcus threw a couple of nice passes. But too often, he looked like a guy trying to throw his shoes at George W. Bush, missing wildly as he gets gang tackled.

Just Fire Him Already.

Lowell Cohn has a column about the Al/Lance feud. It goes over the PR people handing out the Kreidler column, and he says he thinks Nancy's case about firing Lance for insubordination is pretty spot on. My favorite part:

There’s an element of self-loathing in Davis’ campaign against Kiffin. This I believe. He hired Kiffin after a whirlwind courtship — four days or something. You’ve heard of mail-order brides. Kiffin was like a mail-order coach. Davis hardly knew Kiffin when he hired him and now he regrets the hire and wants to get out from under the financial obligation. It’s a mean little drama all around.

I don't know the Davis mind, but reading what's been going on this week, this makes a lot of sense to me. I mean, we are no longer the Dumbest Team in America. We are the Dumbest Team in the World.

This is even less competent than the Bush Administration. At least they'll actually FIRE a person before they start leaking ugly things about him, or distributing damaging press columns about her.

13-0

How hurt does McCown have to be before you get him out of there?

Kiffin is reminding me of George Bush not firing Rumsfeld after three years of blatant incompetence, or saying "Heckuva job, Brownie."

Or maybe not. McCown just threw a TD pass to Curry. We're dominating...