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

[R8ers]

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

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Jiu Jitsu Jon

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

That is ****ing hilarious if true.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Sorter

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.

[TheGuardian]

If this is true I love Bill Callahan.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

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.

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

[DTLB58]

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.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Sorter

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

Well in Callahan's defense, he didn't know he was going to play Tampa till 2 weeks before the SB. And yes he would want to change some stuff up but audibles you have been calling for 2-3 years. That would be tough to do.

Oh and Callahan is an idiot for not trying to bait Tampa with fake audibles.

[fan4ever]

What a whiny pussy. Better to bemoan the past than to face the bleak future of the Raiders I guess.

[Frankie]

The only way I see the Raiders switch game plans is that they prepared power running all along and on a whim, Al Davis, changed it right before the big game, because he loved downfield passing. Al Davis was crazy and meddling as an owner and that's a historical fact.

[PGM]

The Raider Way

[scott free]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

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.

Between the statements of bucs players and now to find out Rice backs the assertions? it does have a tainted odor to it.

At best, it points to that organization as being the most dysfunctional of the last 20 years.

[Marco Polo]

Tim Brown will be a finalist for the NFL Hall of Fame this year. My bet is that he doesn't get in because of this.

[R8ers]

Originally Posted by Marco Polo

Tim Brown will be a finalist for the NFL Hall of Fame this year. My bet is that he doesn't get in because of this.

I don't think it helped his cause at all

[theelusiveeightrop]

Does Tim Brown still swallow?

[Jiu Jitsu Jon]

Originally Posted by Sorter

That is ****ing hilarious if true.

It is absolutely true. I watched something where Bucs players were saying they know exactly what plays were coming because the audibles were unchanged. I think one has to actually TRY to **** it up this bad. It makes me wonder...

If Callahan really did take a dive on purpose I hope he gets penile cancer.

[Jiu Jitsu Jon]

Originally Posted by Frankie

The only way I see the Raiders switch game plans is that they prepared power running all along and on a whim, Al Davis, changed it right before the big game, because he loved downfield passing. Al Davis was crazy and meddling as an owner and that's a historical fact.

Don't know about the first part, but the second part is absolute truth. I caught a lot of shit over on raiderfans.net for saying that Davis' death was the best thing that could have happened to the Raiders, but I stand by my assessment.