Warren Sapp on Oakland Raiders Owner Al Davis: All through his NFL playing career Warren Sapp was never shy about expressing his opinions publicly to the media. Well it appears as though that much hasn’t changed now that he is retired from the game. On a television appearance for “Inside the NFL”, Sapp was asked about the situation in Oakland, which ended earlier in the week, with head coach Lane Kiffin getting fired and embarrassed on national TV by owner Al Davis.

This week, the Oakland Raiders have a Bye-week, as they will attempt to make as many adjustments as possible with a new head coach.

Sapp went on the record by saying that, "Al Davis knows football, it's just '60s and '70s football, 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 decided to call it quits after last season with the Raiders, so he did have a chance to play under Lane Kiffin. The ex-Oakland Raider defensive lineman did say that he believes that Kiffin never got a fair chance as the head coach in Oakland when he arrived before the 2007 season. "He came in there with a change of mentality, 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."

According to Sapp, who played four seasons with the Raiders, Davis undermined his coaching staff 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 Pro-Bowler also gave an advice to everyone in the league: "Any person that calls me on the telephone, (I say) do not go anywhere near Oakland.”

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