San Diego will give Davis a comfortable retirement home in exchange for Raiders taking Marty Shot as coach.
Deal.
If Al Davis were to hire Marty Schottenheimer as coach, it would be to kill him. Marty absolutely despises Davis.
No i mean we will take Al Davis off your hands. Perm retirement.
You take MMMmmartyBall off our hands.
Yes MMmartys record vs Oakland is some incredible 24-7 or something like that.
Two birds, one stone.
You would take Mr. Al off our hands? Are we talking about a "forced" retirement?
There is a type of mental illness, sort of like megalomania or something, from which Al must suffer. He still thinks his way of playing the game of football is the only one that works.
He hated Shanahan for having the gall to install a form of the West Coast Offense, which he is on record as despising, thinking it is 'soft' football. Then he convinced himself that Shanahan lost the respect of his players because they had some trouble adapting to it.
Gruden has the rudeness to be too independent, and he featured a quarterback, Rich Gannon, who could not throw too far down field. This was never going to make Davis happy.
White, Bugel, Callahan, and Turner all were weaker men who succumbed to the pressure of having everything they did undermined and ultimately ridiculed by their owner/boss. So, the choices are to hire a young guy who stands up for himself, gets the team to win again, but gets fired or let go because he has the audacity to win HIS way and not the "Raider" way. (Please, name one other franchise that has not changed its offensive play book in forty years!). Or, to hire an older guy who he can manipulate until the players realyze the poor guy has no say in what goes on and he completely loses the respect of his players.
Davis has always been known as a players guy, until you say or do something that goes against him in some way, like Dave Casper and Marcus Allen did. Then he tries to destroy your legacy and your career.
Personally, this guy simply has lived too long and his 'retirement' should be of the permanent kind.