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In announcing the firing of head coach Lane Kiffin, Raiders owner Al Davis said that Lane’s father, Monte Kiffin, wanted to leave his job as defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccanners so he could join the Raiders’ staff.
The Bucs say that isn’t true.
“Monte kept me informed of everything, and Monte wasn’t going to the Raiders,” Buccaneers General Manager Bruce Allen told PewterReport.com.
Monte Kiffin had the opportunity to leave as a coaching free agent when his contract expired after the 2007 season, but he signed a two-year contract extension to stay in Tampa Bay. This week Monte Kiffin has kept a low profile while his son’s name has been in the news, and Allen indicated that the Bucs didn’t want anything to do with the story.
“That’s their issue, not ours,” Allen said. “I didn’t see how it was said, that is their issue. I don’t know what was said at the press conference.”
Monte Kiffin has been an NFL assistant coach for 25 years, the last 12 of which have been in Tampa Bay.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Oh WELL then, nevermind. Allen said it, so it is bond.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
What else are they going to say?
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
“I didn’t see how it was said”
What a big fat lie. Everyone in the league has seen that press conference by now.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Monte Kiffin is far too experienced and wise to go anywhere near that clusterf#*k of an organization over ther in oakland.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Florio — how the scenery on Raider Island. Just you and Weird Al against Mort, Sapp, Gannon, Kiffin I, Kiffin II and Allen. You better be looking under Al’s skirt for that immunity idol.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I never wanted to join the Raiders staff either but that bastard Al Davis forced me to accept a pile of money against my wishes.
- Lane Kiffin
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October 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Remember the good old days when coaches and managers told the truth or said nothing !
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Al Davis is a piece of work man.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
You’d have to be nuts think that Monte Kiffin would want to go where his son had been buried under fecal matter.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Why is Florio not all over the fact that Al Davis said “Lane Kiffen talked to Monte Kiffen about the D-cord position” while he was under contract with the Bucs?
First, Lane was an employee of the Raiders at the time. Second, that means that Al Davis just implicated the Raiders in tampering and should lose draft picks.
Double-you Tee Eff!
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
“That’s their issue, not ours,” Allen said. “I didn’t see how it was said, that is their issue. I don’t know what was said at the press conference.”
Can anyone in the NFL, player, coach, or owner, please speak a single coherent sentence for god’s sake. Just once would be great. Their issue, huh?
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Fans are only on a need to know basis. What is it to you people that Bruce Allen was or was not telling the truth anyhow. Furthermore it ISSS their issue, if Bruce Allen seemed defiant, then well, he probably was, it has nothing to do with the Bucs. Plus, Monte I believe is the highest paid assistant in the NFL, he lives on the water in Bayshore, 60 something yrs old. Yeah surrrre, like hed wanna bolt to some dirty rat infested team like the Raiders
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I think all of this stemmed from Lane Kiffin wanting his father to come to Oakland, not Monte himself. Lane also wanted to empliment his fathers style of defense, so lord knows how this all came about to make Al say what he said.
None of us truely know, so to say anything, is just being speculative or absurd.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
How many people can Davis smeer at one time?
Raiders fans must be sick of this.
At least there’s hope in Detroit. Maybe Millen can land on his feet in Oakland.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
who is lane kiffEn?
who is monte kiffEn?
It’s Kiffin…jeez…at least learn to spell their names right if you’re going to comment on either of their situations.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Allen said it and now it should be over.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
They could make a reality show if Parcells or Ditka was Al’s coach.
Start off with the Married with Children theme….
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October 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Al Davis has finally out did himself on the last termination. Not only do you violate Lane Kiffin Right of privacy but He stated so many comments that have opned a pandora box of issues that will lead to either being repremandated by Roger Godell or 24 of the current owners vote on conditional changes by AL. All the NFL owner have to do is get 24 of 31 owners to vote on some kind of ownership directional change.
Al is getting senile and it starting to exposed such a disfunctional relationship and the organization. It become such an black eye to the NFL league and the 31 other owners. This is an test of how Roder godell will handle the situation at hand and will set a course for the league to deal with rouge owners like AL.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
The whole freakin world saw the press conference but not the GM of the Bucs, what a pile of crap.
Love him or hate him, Al Davis is one of the very few in the NFL that tells it like it is.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Another of Rambling Al’s “he believed it” statements proven wrong or “Mis-remembered” as Roger C. would say in Al’s defense.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I was gonna jump in but I’d have to flag myself 15 yards for piling on Al!
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October 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Please someone put down that old dog Al Davis. He has seriously lost it. He’s acting like a child. To his defense though, much like a baby…he probably wears diapers as well.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I see what your saying Bearable, but I think this was a case where Al had to “air out some laundry” due to the beating he was taking in the press. A lot of the crap we all have been reading, has been just that, crap. Still, Al was in a situation where had to come with something, even if he looked bad in doing so. Like Madden said, he was damned if he did, and damned if he didn’t.
What’s funny, is that it hasn’t changed a thing. The sheeply NFL fans still make their absurd comments, as if they think they know more than him.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
funny, i bet allen knows al a lot better than any of those who have ther lips friction welded to al’s ass out there in internetland.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
WWHHHHAAAAAAA….
Daddy help me….You raised a b!tC#..
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