by Jay Glazer

Kiffin has been informed by Raiders officials that Al Davis intends to remove him as the team's head coach as early as Monday, FOXSports.com has learned.

Davis blamed Kiffin for the Raiders' 24-23 loss on Sunday to the Bills, and told his underlings that he will make the move on Monday. However, word was leaked out last week in a similar fashion and Kiffin survived. Players reached out to FOXSports.com to express hope that the move would not be made, and with Davis you can never be certain.

Kiffin appeared at his regularly scheduled news conference Monday afternoon and gave no indication that he had been dismissed.

"Until I'm told by Al Davis that I'm not the head coach here anymore, I'm going to keep plugging away," Kiffin said. "And I have not been told by Al Davis that I'm not the head coach."

Asked whether a Raider official other than Davis had told him he would be fired, Kiffin said: "I'm not going to get in to what's been said by other people, or what I've been told by other people. I'm not going to get into everything that's said. If we believe everything that's said around here, we'd be in a lot of trouble."

Kiffin reportedly has been on bad terms with Davis since shortly after last season. Sources said that when Kiffin informed Davis of coaching changes he wanted to make, the owner actually sent word to those coaches that the head coach was looking to make a move, but that Davis would protect them.

The Raiders opened the 2008 season with a 41-14 loss to the Broncos and former Raiders coach Mike Shanahan, but rebounded from that by beating the Chiefs, 23-8. They took a 16-7 lead into the fourth quarter Sunday against the Bills, but lost on Rian Lindell's 38-yard field goal as time expired.