Jim Fassel and Keith Rowen are out.

Tom Walsh is still in office.

The guess here is there will be a few posts below from fans who are less than enthused that the Mayor is still presiding over the NFL’s 32nd ranked offense.

Meanwhile, two former Raiders assistants, who were coordinators elsewhere, were displaced. Baltimore coach Brian Billick let Fassel go and will call plays himself. Arizona coach Dennis Green awoke from an epic meltdown against the Bears and replaced Rowen with quarterbacks coach Mike Kruczek, who will call the plays when the Cardinals visit Oakland Sunday.

While Shell’s selection as offensive coordinator remains highly questionable, given how long Walsh had been away, there is no sense in making a change now.

It could turn out following the season that Walsh will be held accountable for the Raiders’ offensive failings, just as Norv Turner was a year ago. If things continue at this pace _ the Raiders have four offensive touchdowns in five games _ Shell’s reprieve will likely include the mandate of a new coordinator.

For now, the Raiders may as well ride it out and see what happens. Shell has shown no signs of panic through five games. Canning Walsh would be a clear message that Shell is not the rock he seems to be. Shell’s stability may be the only trait the Raiders can bank on if they hope to avoid finishing the season at 2-14 or worse.

A Walsh firing, while bringing much rejoicing to parts of Raider Nation, would be a one-day high. The comes the tricky part.

Who is the replacement?

You don’t bring in someone from the outside. Remaking an offense five games into the season is not realistic. You may replace a few loose boards, but houses aren’t torn down and rebuilt in the middle of a snowy winter.

Painful as it may be to watch, Oakland’s offenisve system is what it is. They’ll have to try and do what they do better, rather than do it differently.

Oakland’s coaching roster, and this is one of the flaws of the staff Shell assembled, is short on play-calling experience.

Shell has never called plays, and has enough on his plate anyway.

Quarterbacks coach Jim McElwain was last an offensive coordinator at Montana State from 1995-99 and is in his first year as an NFL coach.

Tight ends coach John Shoop was offensive coordinator with the Chicago Bears from 2001-03, and his backround is with the sort of highly-conservative, short-passing system that the Raiders have no interest in.

When Tim Brown floated the idea on KNBR a couple of weeks back that Shoop might start assisting Walsh with the play-calling, Shell rejected the idea. Shoop, someone in the organization told me, very nearly wasn’t even rehired by Shell and his move from quarterbacks coach to tight ends was essentially a demotion.

There really are no other realistic candidates on staff.

The Mayor stays.

The NFL trade deadline is Tuesday, and most likely it will pass with the Raiders and every other team letting it pass quietly with some smal talk and no action.

Randy Moss fanned the flames a little on his weekly Fox Sports radio spot, telling host Chris Myers, “It’s been brought to my attention there might be a trade. To whom or to what, I don’t know. I’m fresh off the game, I got in late, and I had to come in early.”

Moss, who seemed upbeat following the 13-3 loss to Denver in the visiting locker room Sunday night, seemed OK with either scenario.

“Like I said last week, if they feel knowing next year the cap number for me being so high and they would need or wouldn’t mind trading me, I wouldn’t mind being traded,” Moss said.

Moss has a salary cap number of just over $11.7 million in 2007 and a little over $13.2 million in 2008. Removing his name from the books would save the Raiders more than $7 million next season.

Any team that deals for Moss picks up approximately $5.1 million in pro-rated salary this season and salaries of $9.75 million in 2007 and $11.25 million in 2008.

But when it comes to making deals, Al Davis isn’t fond of dump jobs. He wants either top dollar (or millions of dollars) and probably multiple draft picks that would include a No. 1.

It would be hard to imagine that Jerry Porter, currently under suspension for conduct detrimental to the team, has much trade value at this point. Dealing him would mean a $6.45 million cap acceleration in 2007. Davis’ original demand of a $4 million bonus repayment would shave that amount from the cap hit.

Coach Art Shell, when asked if there were any deals possible for Porter, said, “Not that I know of.”

In-season deals of the kind that sent Eric Dickerson from the Rams to the Colts in a three-way trade that also sent Cornelius Bennett from Buffalo to Indianapolis are rare. The Dallas Cowboys rebuilt their franchise with an October trade that sent Herschel Walker to Minnesota for payload of draft picks.

Shell remembers the Raiders acquiring Mike Haynes from New England during the season in 1983 as one of the key moves in a Super Bowl run. The Raiders sent the Patriots a No. 1 and a No. 2 draft pick.

“Over the last 10, 11, 12 years, there hasn’t been a whole lot of movement,” Shell said. “People are beginning to keep their own players. They’re trying to hold on to what they have, unless there’s something out there that they think is of value to their team and that they don’t have to give up a lot to get that value.”

Monday news and notes:

– RB Justin Fargas, who had to have his shoulder popped back into place and missed the second half of the Denver loss, may be available sooner than expected. Fargas and Shell both said it wasn’t as bad as first feared.

The guess here is that Fargas won’t play against Arizona.
– CB Fabian Washington said he plans to push his hamstring this week in practice and hopes to be back in the starting lineup.

– RT Langston Walker reported having a headache after missing much of the Denver game with a concussion after being kicked in the head. When asked if he’d had a concussion before, Walker said, “Not that I remember.”

Funny guy.

– Someone put out an APB for Ronald Curry. Oakland’s most reliable receiver the past couple of weeks was on the field for maybe 10 plays against Denver as the Raiders went to more double-tight end sets instead of those with three-wide receivers.

When the Raiders use two receivers, Moss and Alvis Whitted are on the field. Shell said it wasn’t out of the question for Curry to be used along with Moss.

Considering Oakland is currently an offense which springs the occasional big play but has trouble with sustained drives, having a big target who knows how to get open beyond the first down marker seems to be a no-brainer. Curry should be playing a lot more.

– Watching the Raiders unsuccessfully attempt to sweep around end with LaMont Jordan against what might be the NFL’s fastest set of linebackers brought to mind the days when 49ers fans would chant “No more sweeps, no more sweeps” every time Roger Craig was hit for a loss or stopped for no gain on a horizontal dash.

– Shell said he is not concerning himself with Porter could successfully appeal his four-game suspension.

“That will take care of itself in due time,” Shell said. “The only thing I’m concerned about right now is this football team.”

– Aaron Brooks left the Raiders Sunday night to be with his wife, who expect their first child.

DENVER _ Jake Plummer kneeled on the ball to end the game with Denver deep in Oakland territory, as the Broncos dispatched the Oakland Raiders 13-3 Sunday night at Invesco Field.

More to come . . .

SAN FRANCISCO _ LaMont Jordan is in denial.

He is in many ways the conscience of the Raiders, calling out his teammates while at the same time conceding his own culpability.

Following a 34-20 loss to the San Francisco 49ers Sunday at Monster Park, Jordan took the podium in his familiar battle fatigues and continued his weekly tradition of pushing the bottom line one week into the future.

“It’s gut-check time for us,” Jordan said. “We’re at a crossroads.”

The guts, of course have already been spilled across football fields from Baltimore to the Bay Area in four losses.

As for the crossroads, the bus has has the Raiders well down the route to oblivion. The Raiders have been at the bottom of the AFC West for 24 consecutive weeks and look to be good for another 24.

Sorting through the rubble of another halftime lead gone bad:

– Once upon an opener the Raiders could have been a good team if weren’t for that pitiful offensive line.

Against the 49ers, the offensive line might have been the best part of the Raiders, although the opposition had something to do with it.

– The Raiders have improved their tempo, completed some short passes and look to have the complementary back they’ve desired for Jordan in Justin Fargas. Fargas gained 63 yards in eight carries.

–The Raiders have a bonafide medical miracle in Ronald Curry, who had 4 receptions for 94 yards. No one was happier for him than Norv Turner, the man who essentially pushed Tim Brown out the door so Curry could play a rule in his offense.

“I got to talk to him before the game,” Turner said before he boarded the elevator fromthe press box following the game. “It’s a great thing to see.”

– Turner got a game ball, which he spiked in the 49ers locker room. The last time the Raiders got to give a game ball, it also went to Turner. Warren Sapp awarded it to Turner last Nov. 20 after the Raiders beat the Washington Redskins 16-13 _ which just happens to be the last time they won a game.

“I just never saw the power running attack, I just didn’t see it,” Raiders owner Al Davis said when he fired Turner.

Davis got an eyeful Sunday, with Frank Gore rushing for a career-high 134 yards on 27 carries and breaking the first hit on probably 20 of those attempts. Oakland’s defense, thought to be an average to above-average unit with aspirations on being good, is instead far from it.

The defense also got suckered on a screen called by Turner in which Maurice Hicks went 33 yards for a touchdown.

– Turner wasn’t cut out to be a head coach, but he’s a heck of an offensive coordinator. If Davis had hired Shell in 2004 and insisted on Turner as the coordinator, maybe they’d have something.

– Special teams contributed mightily to the demise when ReShard Lee whiffed on  Manny Lawson, leading to a blocked Shane Lechler punt which erased the Raiders lead for the rest of the day.

– Offenisvely, the Raiders had some good moments both running and passing. They avearged 6.7 yards per rush and spread 18 completions to nine receivers good for 216 yards.

– Andrew Walter did his best Kerry Collins impersonation Sunday, looking very good until he threw back-breaking interceptions and an ill-advised lateral to help turn a 14-13 deficit into 31-13.

– Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo threw four interceptions to a team which now has four interceptions this season.

– The Raiders, who cling to their tradition like no other, reached back into the archives for one of their most painful moments. Jordan played the role of Charlie Smith, who let a Daryle Lamonica lateral bounce to the ground and then walked away from it. The Jets recovered and won the AFC championship, 27-23.

Smith, at least, was a rookie.

“As a veteran running back, that’s something I’ve got to be aware of,” Jordan said. “I made a mistake on that one. It was pretty costly.”

– Randy Moss got the 100th touchdown reception of his career with a 22-yard reception from Walter before halftime. He should have had 101. He dropped a Walter strike in the first half in a drive in which the Raiders had to settle for a field goal.

Chances are he’ll talk about it today on Fox Sports Radio with Chris Myers, and lend his own special brand of doom and gloom the proceedings as well.

– DT Warren Sapp (knee contusion), TE Randal Williams (quadriceps), TE John Madsen (quadriceps) and G Kevin Boothe (severe nose bleed) did not finish the game. Boothe was sent to the hospital, accoridng to coach Art Shell.

– Paul McQuistan, who started the season as the starting left guard, replaced Boothe. McQuistan was working in warmups at right tackle and may be challenging Langston Walker. Walker received three penalties _ two false starts and a hold _ but had no glaring blocking errors as the Oakland line had its best game.

– Shell deflected all quarterback talk with regard to the starter in Denver. Aaron Brooks said he was having a medical exam Monday to assess the condition of his pectoral strain.

– The Raiders have extended the longest losing streak in the Al Davis era to 10 games and have won just 13 of their last 52 games.

– NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was supposed to address the local media Sunday, but never showed. Must have been anticipating all the questions about Monster Park and the chances of either of the Bay Area teams moving to Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO _ Wide receiver Jerry Porter has now spent a quarter of the season on the inactive list as punishment for a running beef with coach Art Shell.

Porter was one of eight Raiders declared inactive, joining quarterback Aaron Brooks, cornerback Fabian Washington, guard Brad Badger, guard Corey Hulsey, defensive end Kevin Huntley and linebacker Grant Irons.

Inactive for the 49ers were third quarterback Shaun Hill, cornerback B.J. Tucker, fullback Chris Hetherington, guard Larry Allen, tackle Patrick Estes, tight end Vernon Davis, wide receiver Taylor Jacobs and defensive tackle Damane Duckett.

Profootballtalk.com, the highly entertaining Web site which has broken more than its share of stories, reports that Jacksonville assistant Mike Tice is lobbying management to swing a deal with the Raiders for Randy Moss.

As stated in this space two days ago, a deal for Moss appears unlikely,and the Web site specifies some of the same reasons I did.

But I wouldn’t discount it completely for one reason _ when Moss was traded from Minnesota to Oakland, PFT had it well before anyone else. Having scoffed at their story at the time, I won’t make that mistake again.

To review, dealing Moss would have some troublesome but not insurmountable cap issues. The Raiders would have to account for just over $2 million this year as well as 25 percent of Moss’ salary of $7.5 million. An acceleration charge just over $4 million would be charged to the 2007 cap.