1 key person?how 'bout GM's Shack Harris (Jax) and Phil Savage (Clev) comming from here?It won't happen until Davis dies (or maybe becomes incapacitated). It sounds crude to say, but it's also true because I just don't seem him giving up control of that team to anyone voluntarily. Let's also define our terms here: by "worst franchise" we're talking about the franchise that has shown the least ability to consistently build and field a winning team. The Cowboys and Redskins are the two most profitable teams (or at least highest revenue-generating), but I don't believe they're even close to the best run teams.Fully agree with what you're saying here, however, I'm talking about results on the field.I would love for this team to get a new owner/GM and a young bright coach, like Payton (remember how he turned them down), Mangini or Gruden.You're kidding, right?Let's not confuse the quality of a team with the quality of an organization. The Raiders have been dysfunctional for more than two decades, but managed to hide it for years. They were exposed by the salary cap which required a much more organized approach to management, and they got a brief respite with Gruden . . . who they managed to drive out of town. If you list the names of the Raiders coaches since Madden, you see one distinct theme: all of them are guys (at least as perceived when hired) who seem distinctly unlikely to challenge Davis' authority within the organization. Frankly, even Madden who was very young and who to this day defends Al Davis fits that mold to a degree, but he was obviously able to do the balancing act better.
The two guys who weren't loyal subordinates and who actually wanted to assert their own control on the team they were coaching - Shanahan and Gruden - not coincidentally butted heads with Davis and were shown the door. Also not coincidentally they were by far the two best head coaches the Raiders had during that period.
In short, the fact that the Raiders got to the Super Bowl a few years ago means very little in light of how many entrenched problems they have. As with the Chargers in 1994, that Super Bowl appearance has to be seen as an aberration.
By those standards IMHO the obvious answer is the Cardinals, who can't point to expansion or a tough division or any other excuse. The Bidwell's flat out suck. Frankly, unless Marvin Lewis shows me more, I still look almost as skeptically at the Brown (family) in Cincy. The Raiders and Lions are in that category too. Then I'd consider the two expansion teams because they're expansion teams - I actually think the Texans aren't as bad of an organization as they've looked, they've just had some bad luck on a few prominent picks.
I think that there are a number of organizations that would be discussed more heavily in this thread than they are but for one key person that's propping them up (in no particular order):
Chargers (AJ Smith)
Redskins (Gibbs)
Cowboys (Parcells)
Cincy (Lewis)
Buffalo (Levy)
Jets (Mangini)
New Orleans (Payton)
Chicago (Smith)
Carolina (Fox)
Baltimore (Newsome)
or current HC's Nolan(SF), DelRio(Jax) or MLewis(Cinn)?
dime gets you a dollar Rex Ryan gets a gig after next season, putting 6 people from this current administration in head front office or coaching capacity
...and more to follow
I voted AZ...the Cards need to stick to a plan for 5 yrs, any plan, rather than shifting gears every 2-3 yrs
