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Retired defensive lineman Warren Sapp apparently had one more crushing tackle left in him, unleashing an attack on Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis during a television appearance.

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"Al Davis knows football, it's just '60s and '70s football," Sapp said on Showtime's "Inside the NFL. "That's what it is. He's thinking that Cliff Branch is outside and (Jim) Plunkett is dropping back and you can throw it 80 yards down the field -- deep ball, deep ball, deep ball."

Sapp, who retired after last season, said Lane Kiffin never got a fair chance as the head coach in Oakland when he arrived at the start of the 2007 season. Kiffin was fired this week.

"He came in there with a change of mentality," Sapp said. "The whole system. He changed how the locker room looked because it was going to take that kind of overhaul for Oakland to become the proud franchise we all knew it was."

Sapp, who played four seasons with the Raiders, said Davis undermined his coaches by calling plays from the owner's suite in the stadium.

"I remember the first two weeks I was there, we played a preseason game," Sapp said. Somebody came up one time and said, 'We're going deep right here, dog.' I said, 'How do you know?' He said, 'The phone just rang.'

"All the preparation that goes into a week of work is there, the practicing that you have to put in order to do these things, sometimes (Davis) messed with that part of it and that's what kills you,"

The Raiders have lost 11 of more games for five straight seasons and are off to a 1-3 start this fall. Sapp said the Raiders' problems won't go away until Davis does.

"You take him out, put him at home watching film or whatever he is doing (and) you have a functioning football organization," Sapp said.

The former defender's advice for players and other personnel in the meantime?

"Any person that calls me on the telephone, (I say) do not go anywhere near Oakland."

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