The Raiders Disaster: A Silicon Valley Perspective

I realized while reading a rant this afternoon between RaiderCardAddict and RaiderSteve that I've seen this before, although not in football. But first, a little background:

We Raider fans are learning that there is a big difference between not performing and imploding. The Bugel years we didn't perform.  Watching Jeff George as our QB was an exercise in non-performance. Loosing Gannon started a skid of subpar performances that has culminated in what can be viewed as little short of disaster. 

But in non-performance, there is always hope.

Over the years we've had Woodson, Brown, Garner, Wheatley, and some of the most dominant offensive lines in the game.  And we've had the much maligned Al Davis who, for all his flaws, remains one of the premier coaching talent evaluators in football history (SB winners Tom Flores, John Madden, Mike Shannahan, and John Gruden are all Davis hires). 

True, he's as good (better, even) at firing premier coaches than finding premier coaches, but he was our man and our leader, and we were with him.

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