It's Tuesday and Lane Kiffin Hasn't Been Fired

All eyes are on the lair of Al Davis, anxiously waiting to see if the longtime Oakland Raiders owner is going to finally push the button and send his second-year head coach to the unemployment line. Such a move at this point -- after a win -- seems ridiculous, absurd and 100% crazy, but all of those seem to describe the current state of the Raiders' front office.

It's to the point now where it's simply a matter of when, and not if, Lane Kiffin is going to lose his job. After all, he spent most of his Monday press conference discussing whether or not he'll be coaching the team in week three, and not his teams 23-8 win on the road against a division rival. Fun times.

Apparently, Davis is still keeping his ultimate plan to himself, and will follow through "when he's good and ready." Translation: the next time we lose, he's gone.

It's been mentioned several times that Davis might use Kiffin's supposed 'insubordination' as grounds for his dismissal. I actually find that kind of funny, if not downright hilarious, seeing as how insubordination of Davis might be the best possible way for the Raiders to start winning again and rejoin the NFL. Whatever Al suggests, do the opposite, and then you might have the right move.

Think about it, since the Raiders went to the Super Bowl during the 2002 season they have gone an atrocious 20-62 (including this year's 1-1 mark). They haven't won more than five games in a single season, while no team has won fewer games over that period. By comparison, the Detroit Lions, the poster boys for modern day incompetence in the National Football League, have managed to go 26-46. The Arizona Cardinals have gone 30-52. Looking up to those two teams is not a good thing.

They've had four different Head Coaches (soon to be five), 11 different quarterbacks, four different starting running backs, and countless other player and personnel changes. The one constant has been, of course, Davis.

That being said, there's only one guy Davis can fire to assure his team gets back on the right track: himself.