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December 31, 2007
One more reason to like Lane

ALAMEDA -- Lane Kiffin was asked about the "double-standard" that exists when it comes to officiating Raider games.

You know, the conspiracy that the NFL is out to get the Raiders. The one that only comes up when the Raiders lose.

I loved his answer.

"You mean am I finally going to buy in that everyone's against the
Raiders in this league? No I'm not. There's call that go both ways and
I'm never going to buy into that theory. You always see the ones that go
the other way. Trust me, we had a facemask yesterday that wasn't called
and they go the other way too and their fans think that they get the bad
end of the deal as well. We're going to play smarter, we're going to
make better decisions, we're going to go back to our fundamentals and
techniques that don't put us in position to get as many penalties as we
have."

No excuses and accountablity. Exactly what this team needs.

--Jason Jones

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