Dec 15th 2008 8:15PM by Adam Gretz (author feed)
Filed under: Raiders, NFL CoachingIt didn’t take Lane Kiffin long to find another job after his rather infamous year-and-a-half stint as head coach of the Oakland Raiders. Recently, he’s been named head coach at the University of Tennessee, and was able to get his father, Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, to join him.

Kiffin continued to fill out his staff at Tennessee this week by hiring a couple of his former colleagues in the Oakland organization. According to Jerry McDonald of the , offensive line coach James Cregg will be leaving to join the fighting Kiffin’s, while two other members of the Raiders front office — director of football operations Mark Jackson, and Steve Reaves, whose job was to essentially make copies and go on coffee runs — also left the organization today, presumably, to join Kifin.

Somewhere in his lair, owner Al Davis is throwing papers in the air trying to find a way to sue somebody, or, if all else fails, fire somebody. I’m sure at some point Davis will have a reaction to this in the form of a bizarre press conference, so, while we wait, let’s get the reaction of current Raiders sacrificial lamb (head coach) Tom Cable.Continue Reading