LaMont Jordan was never satisfied with being Curtis Martin’s backup when he was with the Jets. Now that he’s a starter in Oakland, he isn’t any happier.

In fact, he sounds more miserable playing for Norv Turner than he did when he was here with Herman Edwards and felt underappreciated.

“I’m very frustrated,” Jordan said after he gained 49 yards on 14 carries in the Raiders’ 26-10 loss to the Jets yesterday at Giants Stadium. “You lose to a team that’s missing its starting quarterback, starting running back, starting center, starting tackle and on defense, one of its starting linebackers, and we’re supposed to have this high-powered offense.”

They hardly looked the part yesterday, and haven’t for quite a while.

The 4-9 Raiders, who went with Marques Tuiasosopo over former Giant Kerry Collins, were utterly ineffective on offense. As Jordan eloquently put it, the “offense once again, pretty much [bleeped] bricks all day long.”

Jordan wasn’t especially productive himself, failing to gain more than 10 yards on any play, but he blamed that primarily on a lack of carries.

“You can’t come in here against a defense that’s 29th in the league against the run and only run the ball 15 times,” Jordan said of the Raiders, who actually kept it on the ground 17 times for 95 yards – 27 on a reverse by Alvis Whitted. “I personally feel we could have effectively run the ball against this team.”

Jordan all but called out the troubled Turner for not utilizing him more, particularly because of the Jets’ shaky run defense and that Tuiasosopo was making only his second career start.

“It’s frustrating to sit back and watch a rookie get double the amount of carries I did,” Jordan said of the Jets’ Cedric Houston, who had 28 carries on the day. “You bring in a new quarterback, you’d think you’d emphasize the run.”

Turner, who made a bizarre decision to kick an extra point in the fourth quarter when a two-point conversion would have made it a one-possession game, said that Jordan didn’t get more work because the running game overall was “ineffective.”

Jordan didn’t want to hear it.

“There are certain answers they don’t want to accept,” Jordan said. “I’m not gonna say I’m the answer.”

Perhaps not, but that’s clearly what he implied.

“I know I said some things on the sideline,” Jordan said of his use. “Whether they were heard doesn’t matter. We’re going home with the same excuses.”

And Jordan, not surprisingly, is going back to Oakland displeased.

“As an organization, we have a lot of searching to do,” Jordan said. “Myself included.”