Jump to content
[[Template core/front/custom/_customHeader is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

Kiffin expects Moss to stay...


kpholmes
 Share

Recommended Posts

(Rotoworld) Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin said Tuesday that he believes Randy Moss will be back with the team in 2007.

Impact: Moss has been a frequent subject of trade rumors this offseason. Kiffin's comments could be construed as posturing before the draft.

 

Goodbye Calvin Johnson... :D

Link to comment
Share on other sites

(Rotoworld) Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin said Tuesday that he believes Randy Moss will be back with the team in 2007.

Impact: Moss has been a frequent subject of trade rumors this offseason. Kiffin's comments could be construed as posturing before the draft.

 

Goodbye Calvin Johnson... :D

 

 

Well, this could be a hint at the Culpepper situation also. Personally, I'd hate to see Calvin Johnson in Oakland. It just feels bad professionally for him.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

link The link is a local story about Kiffin, the boy wonder. Interesting that he says today's players are motivated by money first and winning second. If they play good and play hard, they get more money. But Moss got his paycheck already. :D

 

Kiffin tackling a job few wanted

Fixing the dysfunctional Raiders is a daunting task for Lane Kiffin, the NFL's youngest coach.

By Kevin Seifert, Star Tribune

Last update: March 27, 2007 – 11:46 PM

 

Vikings: Wilf asks for patience in rebuilding

PHOENIX - Lane Kiffin enjoyed a slight advantage Jan. 22, the day he met Oakland owner Al Davis to discuss the Raiders' coaching vacancy: He had sat in on a previous interview with another candidate.

"I guess I got the answers to the test before I took it," Kiffin said Tuesday, smiling as he related a story that inadvertently symbolized the Bizarro World he has stepped into. A few days before his own interview, Kiffin was invited to observe Davis while he interviewed fellow USC assistant Steve Sarkisian, a highly unusual arrangement as Davis groped for ways to find a new coach.

 

Kiffin accepted the job after Sarkisian withdrew his name, and at 31, the former Bloomington Jefferson standout is the youngest coach in modern NFL history. Some league observers rank his hiring as the most glaring example yet of Davis' slipping football acumen, and on paper Kiffin appears mismatched in galvanizing a team that includes some of the league's most notorious malcontents -- most notably, receiver Randy Moss.

 

"People have asked me if I took this job just so that I could be the youngest head coach in the history of the NFL," said Kiffin, the son of longtime NFL assistant Monte Kiffin. "But that's not the case at all. I talked to my dad about it, and he told me not to take it just to take it. There was a number of things I needed to be assured of, that things would be done a certain way, before I knew it would be a job I could take. I felt comfortable with those things."

 

And so Kiffin began addressing the issues facing the NFL's most dysfunctional franchise, using a mix of convenient naiveté and progressive thinking. His top priority: connecting with Moss, who as of Tuesday remained with the Raiders despite rampant trade talk earlier this month.

 

According to multiple reports, Moss told Kiffin -- in colorful language -- to leave him alone during their one and only telephone conversation. Kiffin, however, downplayed the intensity of the discussion and predicted Moss would remain with the Raiders this season.

 

"I called Randy Moss the day after I got hired," Kiffin said. "Randy was good. No insults. Nothing like that. We had a conversation that lasted about 15 minutes. Got to know him a little bit. Talked about our offense, my belief in the [receiver] position and what that position means to an offense. That was the extent of our conversation."

 

Asked to provide his best guess about Moss' future, Kiffin said: "I think he'll be on our team. I do."

 

Kiffin, in fact, said he believes Moss will appreciate his role in the Raiders' new offense, one modeled after the pro-style set Kiffin learned as an assistant at USC. He said he would hold Moss to a higher standard than the Raiders did in 2006, and sounded confident that Moss will get plenty of opportunities to catch the ball and respond better to a more direct style.

 

"You treat him like everybody else," Kiffin said. "He's on your roster. He's a player. You get to know him. You coach him hard. You tell him what you want. You have to tell a player what you expect from him. You can't get mad at players because they don't do what you want if you haven't told them."

 

After watching the baby-faced coach move through the NFL's annual meetings this week, however, it was difficult to imagine how well Moss would receive Kiffin's message. To varying degrees, Moss has turned on his four previous NFL head coaches -- Dennis Green, Mike Tice, Norv Turner and Art Shell -- and he easily gets frustrated.

 

To that end, Kiffin said he will take a remarkably progressive approach to motivating Moss and all other Raiders players: money. As in: Listen to me and get more of it.

 

"What motivates players?" Kiffin said. "Money and winning. And let's be honest. Money is probably more important than winning to some of them. So how do they get they money? Well, they get new contracts because they play better. That's what we [as coaches] can help them do.

 

"I want these players to feel ... how I can help them get better and get more money. That's what motivates them in the end. How do they get more money? They play really good."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

link The link is a local story about Kiffin, the boy wonder. Interesting that he says today's players are motivated by money first and winning second. If they play good and play hard, they get more money. But Moss got his paycheck already. :D

 

 

 

 

 

That may be true but I agree with those who say disciplining them by benching them works better than fines. The team is a social structure for players and making them sit often works. What's $25,000 to a multimillionaire?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information