Tim Brown suggests head coach Bill Callahan ‘sabotaged’ Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII
 

I know the Raider hate runs deep here but I thought you guys may find this interesting...
NOTE: Just to help you out, a Superbowl is the game where the AFC and the NFC champion plays for the outright title.



"We all called it sabotage...because Callahan and Gruden were good friends," Brown said. "And Callahan had a big problem with the Raiders, you know, hated the Raiders. You know, only came because Gruden made him come. Literally walked off the field on us a couple of times during the season when he first got there, the first couple years. So really he had become someone who was part of the staff but we just didn’t pay him any attention. Gruden leaves, he becomes the head coach....It’s hard to say that the guy sabotaged the Super Bowl. You know, can you really say that? That can be my opinion, but I can’t say for a fact that that’s what his plan was, to sabotage the Super Bowl. He hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl so his friend can win the Super Bowl. That’s hard to say, because you can’t prove it.
"But the facts are what they are, that less than 36 hours before the game we changed our game plan. And we go into that game absolutely knowing that we have no shot. That the only shot we had if Tampa Bay didn’t show up."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...3376--nfl.html

Very strong words from a reputable guy, but i still have a hard time believing someone would throw their chance at a championship.

I thought the game plan change was due to barrett robbins.

He said the game plan was the reason Barrett went awol

Still butthurt over a decade later LMAO

Rich Gannon has the real answer

Oh God, make a Raider tears are delicious thread, if ours produces a puddle the Cheapos would produce lake Superior LMAO

Former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon does not agree with his old teammate Tim Brown about coach Bill Callahan sabotaging the team in their Super Bowl loss to the Buccaneers.

Gannon said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that he believes Callahan coached to win in Super Bowl XXXVII, when the Bucs beat the Raiders 48-21.

“In terms of Bill Callahan, let me just say this: He was a good football coach, he was a good man,” Gannon said. “We all wanted to win.”

Gannon made clear that he likes and respects Brown, but he doesn’t accept Brown’s version of events, which is that Callahan “hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl.”

So why did the Raiders only run the ball 11 times while throwing 44 passes in that game? Brown says Callahan changed the game plan at the last minute, leaving the Raiders ill-prepared. But Gannon says the pass-heavy play calling happened mostly because the Raiders fell behind early and trailed 20-3 by halftime.

“I think what happened was that we came out and tried to run the football early in that game, we didn’t have a lot of success,” Gannon said. “We fell behind in the game and at that point we started throwing the ball too much.”

Considering that the Raiders gained only 19 yards on their 11 runs, that theory seems more plausible than Brown’s bizarre belief that Callahan would put in all the work necessary to lead his team to the Super Bowl and then purposely sabotage his team by changing the game plan at the last minute.

“I don’t know that the game plan really changed,” Gannon said.

Where Gannon did acknowledge the Raiders’ coaches screwed up was in not changing up the terminology they used for calls at the line of scrimmage. Jon Gruden had coached the Raiders for the four previous seasons before coaching against them in the Super Bowl, and Gannon says Callahan hadn’t changed any of the terminology the Raiders used on offense. As a result, Gruden had taught the Bucs the Raiders’ calls, and the Bucs knew what was coming when Gannon barked out his signals at the line of scrimmage.

“So much of our verbiage and terminology was a carryover from what Jon Gruden had installed in terms of our run checks, and so we were calling certain plays and guys like Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks were calling out the runs,” Gannon said. “So it kind of took us out of our no-huddle plan at the line of scrimmage.”

Failing to change the terminology so that the opposing coach wouldn’t know it was a huge gaffe by Callahan, and it’s completely reasonable to criticize him for that. But saying he made a stupid mistake in his preparation for the Super Bowl is a long way from saying he actually wanted to lose the Super Bowl.

The only sabotage was Callahan was an idiot and got outcoached.

I believe alot of this

Bullshit Callahan is just a dumbass.

If it happened crazy Al definitely had a lot more to do with it than Callahan. Rob Ryan has said when he was the Raiders D coordinator there were times when they'd practice a gameplan until Friday before crazy Al would call him in his office and make him throw it all away and start over.

Tim Brown is as stupid as the Raider fans

butthurt bonus

Jerry Rice agrees that something was unusual in there gameplan change.

This is the same Tim Brown who advocated players calling and running the plays during the Bugel/White years.

Tim Brown had no respect for coaches, and his attitude trickled down directly from Al Davis...

Why the **** did Callahan accept the Raiders job when Gruden left if he hated them so much? It's not a ****ing rite of succession.

Okay, in Oakland maybe. I have no ****ing clue how their shit works.

That team was better than any team the Chiefs ever had

I felt like he sabotaged Nebraska too

Heh. He's 2 for 2. :D

Your quarterback obviously wasn't as good as Grbac. We have head to head proof based on Marty's judgment.

Didn't the Chiefs beat the Raiders once that year?

pretty shitty if true.

Nice of Tim to let us all know that he gets a huge butt hurt feeling this time of year.

I'm sure this is isn't the only Super Bowl that was fixed.

Mannings pick 6 he threw was kinda shady to me. It was right to him, Mannjng is better than that.

Well hell any non Steeler fan knows that.

Tim Brown is just a T'eo fan and wants to get the spotlight off of him.

Anyone else see alot of things wrong with the decision to hire this guy as the head coach?

Perhaps your anger and bitching should be directed at the a**hole in upper management who overlooked a few important things.

No, hes not. not in crunch time.

Jimmy the Greek once said if you want to throw a game, the Center is the player you go with...

I don't know if we would have won that game, not saying we would have but If Robbins hadn't went AWOL the blocking would have been much better...

I think the Center is the most important position on the field as this player calls all the blocks.

Douchebag pussy ass shithead ****face Raitards. We physically intimidated those pussies. Tim Brown needs to STFU.

this is stuptarded

Any Oklahoma hillbilly rednecks up in this place?

Faider Tears, They're delicious.



in other news, Callahan is going to start calling players for the Dallas Cowgirls next year. :D

HAY GUYZ TOM BRADY LOST LAST WEEK ON PURPOSE BECUZ HE IS GUD FRIENDZ WITH RAE LEWIS. THEY GO TO CHURCH TOGETHER AND THEY GO ON MISSION TRIPS TOGETHER SO TOM WANTED RAYRAY TO WIN. TOM BRADY SABOTAGED.

He's as stupid as the fans. Stupidity must be contagious. He caught it from the fans.

They are a pathetic organization, but nobody in his position would ever do that. They just got bitchslapped.

LMAO

Now I get your takes on QB's.

You don't understand football at all do you?

You think Center is more important than QB? LMAO

QB won't be able to do shit without a center to keep his ass upright

Alrighty then Mr. True Fan

Pussy ass Tim Brown making excuses for getting the shit beat out of him. **** Barrett Robbins, he wouldn't have made a difference, Sapp would have eaten him up.

It must suck to be a Buc

Is that all you have? You probably believe Tim Brown's story...

Gannon finally proved in the end, in that Super Bowl, that he didn't deserve a starting nod in the NFL. Not a Super Bowl winning caliber QB. Case closed.

What do you think of Peyton's latest chokejob Hot Carl?

LMAO

It was silly, but still not the silliest thing posted in this thread.

I wouldn't call your comments silly, You have just been a Cheapos fan for years and you don't know any better.

Yeah, Center has been the missing link all along LMAO

Apparently he hated the Huskers too.

DAMN YOU HANK STRAM!!!! WHY DID YOU SABOTAGE THE CHIEFS IN SUPER BOWL I?!!!

:cuss:

I heard Rich Gannon was going to throw the game, but he figured it was out of his 5-yard range. Why do you think he got dumped for a QB with an arm?

Umm... Career ending neck injury? Maybe?

Before the garbage-collecting Raiders found him at the social security office, he got dumped for a QB who could actually throw passes.

Callahan was/is an idiot.

Jerry Rice just backed him up.

He is trying to get brain tramma compensation. Well played Timmy!

Another pussy Raitard. Gannon disagrees with Tim Brown.

RIch Gannon Takes Tim Brown To Task
January 22nd, 2013

Former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon flatly stated Tim Brown’s suggestion that former Raiders coach Bill Callahan threw the Super Bowl against the Bucs is wrong.

Earlier, Joe brought word that former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown suggested former Raiders head coach Bill Callahan threw the Super Bowl against the Bucs because, Brown implied, Callahan was indebted to Chucky and didn’t want to coach the Raiders.

That is such a preposterous statement, Joe doesn’t know where to begin.

Today on his mid-day radio show, “The Blitz,” co-hosted with popular sports radio personality Adam Schein, heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio, former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon took Brown to task for spreading nonsense and detailed why he thought the Bucs manhandled the Raiders to win the Super Bowl. And it had nothing to do with any coach forcing his team to lay down.

“I don’t’ know that the gameplan really changed. I think what happened was we talked about the best way to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and we thought that being physical and running the ball, but that was not who we were.

“We tried to run the football early on and we didn’t have much success.

“We didn’t change enough of our plays as far as verbiage at the line of scrimmage. It was a carryover from what Jon Gruden had as far as our run checks and Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks were calling out our runs. That took us out of our no huddle package a little bit. Then when we fell behind, we probably threw too much.

“You win together and you lose together and there was a culture and environment in Oakland at the time that was difficult to compete for championships and a struggle to win on Sundays and I think that is a struggle today. An attitude, an entitlement that we are the Oakland Raiders, the silver and black, all we have to do roll up on Sunday and we will beat you.

“Bill Callahan is a good football coach and a good man and I don’t think thing ever [would] intentionally ever [throw a game], based on a relationship with a former coach… we had too much invested.”

Gannon also said that Barrett Robbins, the Raiders starting center who went on a trip to Mexico and weirded out and was unable to play in the Super Bowl, was hardly the only Raiders to player to “party in Mexico” prior to kickoff.

To hear all of Gannon’s words, click on the yellow button below.

http://www.chatsports.com/tampa-bay-...ask-2-7278295#

LMAO

sounds like Timmy is still bitter about not getting as many passes as the goat.

Tim Brown is a ****ing idiot. Anyone that would stay in that organization as long as he did is obviously stupid to a degree that's hard to comprehend. My only wish about him was that someone should have ended his career long before he got a chance to retire.

Then there's also the fact that nobody thought it was important to change the audibles from Gruden's playbook after Gruden left.

So what your saying is that it was a (I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet)

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OMG SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED I WAS WONDERING

This

Yeah, Callahan hated the Cornhuskers so much that he sabotaged their game against KU in 2007. They allowed a record 76 points that day.


Or.......... He is just a shitty coach.

Yes, because he wanted to make himself and the team he coached look like ass on a World Wide Stage.

Good enough for me, mission accomplished.

Thank god the cheapos will never have to worry about anything like this

Looks like there might be something to this brain injury thing.

Yea, I'm sure that's what it is... I've read plenty of your posts and know you are better than this.

Thanks for the heads up, i didn't know this.

How would you? You are a Cheaps fan :thumb:

:LOL:

You mean R8rs? Yeah I agree.

Callahan responds:



I am shocked, saddened and outraged by Tim Brown's allegations and Jerry Rice's support of those allegations. To leave no doubt, I categorically and unequivocally deny the sum and substance of their allegation. To suggest otherwise, especially at this time when it involves the Super Bowl, is ludicrous and defamatory.

Any suggestion that I would undermine the integrity of the sport that I love and dedicated my life to, or dishonor the commitment I made to our players, coaches and fans, is flat out wrong. I think it would be in the best interests of all including the game America loves that these allegations be retracted immediately.


http://deadspin.com/5978286/a-pissed...and-jerry-rice

That is ****ing hilarious if true.

Oh it’s true. I’ve seen interviews with several players from that Bucs defense that said the same thing. They knew what the Raiduh’s were going to do all game long.

If this is true I love Bill Callahan.

Bwahahaha. Callahan vs. Te'o for the Worlds Smartest Man in Football Competition.

Tim Brown was scheduled to come on the Dan Patrick show today and is now backing out.
They are still talking to him and telling him its gonna look worse if you were scheduled to come on and don't than if you just come on and tell us your story, whatever that is now.

Stay tuned. Still have an hour of the show left where he can change his mind.

Update: Brown has decided to come on and "Clarify" things. Do on in about 12 minutes.