Kiffin: Teaching Raiders how to win might take awhile

Raiders coach Lane Kiffin sounded the “24-hour horn” around 4 p.m. Monday, after which players no longer can discuss the previous game.

Until then, there was plenty of re-gnashing of teeth in the video room, where Kiffin carefully explained what went wrong in Sunday’s 12-10 loss to the guest Kansas City Chiefs.

The honesty might go down hard, but Kiffin doesn’t know how else to get across his points. The last thing he needs is players who think blowing games is no big deal.

“The first thing is you have to point out what happened - why are we losing? - so we go over that,” Kiffin said. “(It’s) ‘Tell the Truth Monday.’ We tell it how it is, bad or good, on all sides of the ball with the player specifically.”

Telling the Raiders how they got to 2-4 is easy. Getting them to change course, well, that’s another matter.

The Raiders have started 2-4 or worse the past four years. Former Raiders coaches Bill Callahan, Norv Turner and Art Shell got fired when they failed to right the ship.

Only one Raiders team has started 2-4 and finished with a winning record. That 9-7 team in 1994 missed the playoffs because it lost the head-to-head tiebreaker with Kansas City.

“You learn how to win, but it’s a matter of how fast it takes you to learn that,” Kiffin said. “As a team, we obviously haven’t mastered how to be a great team and finish teams off when we have them there.”

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