Maybe Tim Brown is just a big Beastie Boys fan. Or maybe he's still stinging from the Raiders' loss to the Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII. Either way, he's saying that game wasn't just a bad day for Oakland, it was "sabotage." Brown said Tuesday that then-Raiders coach Bill Callahan sabotaged the team by changing the game plan as a way to get back at the Raiders and help Jon Gruden. ESPN analyst Jerry Rice, who was also on that Raiders team, backed Brown up. So what do you think? Did Callahan intentionally blow the game plan, or was he just outcoached?
- Zaqwert: "Never attribute to malice what can easily be explained with stupidity. I don't doubt Brown's account of what happen, but it wasn't Callahan throwing the game, it was him just being a terrible coach."
- Poker Is Not A Sport: "One of the dumbest things I've ever heard from a player! You took the field knowing you "had no shot" because you were going to throw the ball a lot with league MVP at QB and the #1 passing game in the NFL? Okay."
- emidiodan39: "Its hard to believe that the Raiders actually made it to the Superbowl."
- tallsmile28: "The coach changed the gameplan 2 days before the game, but didn't change the verbiage when playing against the former coach. Either that's sabotage or really bad coaching. "
- DudeAbides84: "Yeah, Callahan would rather "sabotage" the Raiders than become a Super Bowl winning coach...I think Tim's still a little bitter they got destroyed."
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