Jackson: ‘I am pissed at my team'

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Hue Jackson was, in his words, pissed, which means we finally have the first Raiders slogan for the Post-Al Davis Era.I Am Pissed At My Team. Order up the shirts and sweats, kids. We now have a replacement for Pride And Poise, Commitment To Excellence, Just Win, Baby, and We Have Got To Be The Stupidest Team In America.In fairness, though, Jackson wasnt so pissed at his team in the wake of their shambolic season-ending 38-26 loss to San Diego that he didnt make his play to seize the fulltime controls of the Oakland Raiders for the foreseeable future.Im going to take a stronger hand in this whole team, in this whole organization, the Raiders head coach said after supervising the latest and greatest late-season implosion in recent Oakland history. There aint no way that Im going to feel like I feel today a year from now. I promise you that.Theres no question. Defensively, offensively and special teams. I aint feeling like this no more. This is a joke. To have a chance at home to beat a football team that is reeling after being beaten by Detroit, is one of your rivals, and come in and beat us like that . . . yeah, Im going to take a hand in everything that goes on here.
He feels like I do today because the Raiders basically turtled their way to failure while the team they were pursuing, the Denver Tebows, were taking the pipe at home to Kansas City. The defense did nothing, the offense came close to matching that achievement, and the final sellout crowd of the year roiled with a rage that comes from feeling like it had been had. Because it had.And toward all these ends, Jackson made it spectacularly clear, through the way he excoriated his players (he said he was pissed at the players nine times), all but announced the firing of defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan, and used the words I, me or my an inspiring 127 times, that this was his team now.Sundays performance, with the teams first playoff berth in nine years sitting before it like a holiday turkey, was particularly craven. On the same day that the Broncos failed horribly at home to open the door to validation, they slammed it shut with enough force to break the frame.Which, interestingly enough, is what Jackson intends to do with the Raiders now. Break the frame, and remodel it his way, without any interference.It starts with me and I gotta fix it, he said. Im pissed about this. Itll wear on me for quite a while but it will push me into this next season to really make everybody thats here understand, because this ones going to burn in me for a long time, to make everybody understand what it takes to win consistently in this league. Im tired of hearing we dont have good enough players. We have good enough players. Some of these good enough players gotta start playing good. We gotta make plays, we gotta challenge to make plays and we gotta finish plays. If you dont, youre going to get beat.The game details, for those who enjoy a good post mortem with their meal, are revolting enough even for those who did not pay their way into the Coliseum. The defense forced no punts and had no sacks, after having six of each in the first meeting between the two teams. It allowed five touchdowns to finish the year at 53, including the game-sealer on a 99-yard drive that lasted four plays and less than three minutes, two weeks after allowing a game-winning 98-yard drive to Detroit.And the offense amassed another four field goals for Sebastian Janikowski, and managed not only two touchdowns itself but managed to gain more than 500 yards fir the second time this year and losing both games.In short, the new Raiders performed like the old Raiders, only this time the coach didnt defer to Al Davis, because there is no Al to defer to any longer. Jackson is positioning himself to be the next Al Davisthe first and final word on all football matters.Starting with the word pissed.

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