So if everybody wants to retract from saying “sabotage” so be it, but nobody can deny that is one of the greatest coaching blunders ever. I personally have no problem saying Callahan made one of the dumbest decisions ever bu a coach, on the grandest of stages, and could easily be perceived as sabotage. I just wonder why this all resurfacing now at a larger scale then it did right after the super bowl.

that game set me back a few years.

i think tim brown and jerry rice were onto something…

Worst case scenario Callahan is corrupt, best case scenario Callahan is incompetent.
He did not change the calls, it’s obvious. Whether that equals sabotage is irrelevant. This act alone is an indicment on Callahan.

As for Brown making it to the HOF- he is a RAIDER the chances are slim. It just speaks to the anti-RAIDER sentiment that is prevalent in the league- mostly by bitter owners and ignorant fans- sometimes by “journalists” with a HOF vote, right Gantt?

Go RAIDERS

1) Why would Bill use all the same plays that Gruden used? If your a head coach you implement your own plays, schemes, and philosophies. ie. Jim Caldwell isn’t running the exact same plays as his predecessor Cam Cameron. Todd Bowles didn’t run the same exact defense that Juan Castillo ran. These two coaches took over in the middle of the 2012 season. Peter King actually expects us to believe that Bill Callahan changed nothing with regards to the offense used by the Raiders that season? He was the Head coach all throughout the season and coached in Oakland one year beyond the super bowl.

2) If you loose your starting center you don’t switch the game plan from Run heavy to Pass heavy with a back up center. Coaches “dumb down” the game plan for backups. That typically equates to a more conservative game plan (running the football). It’s easier for OL to Run block then to pass protect and in this case a back up Center calling out O Line adjustments.

Just something to ponder. NFL teams do so much research when they Invest in players, I find it very difficult to believe that the Raiders didn’t know about Robbins Bi-polar condition.

I’m equally skeptical as to why Brown waited a decade before voicing these sentiments.

The statement in your article is an outright lie. Paul Zimmerman has stated publicly that he would never ever vote for Ken Stabler for the HOF. Is this slim ball still voting? I believe he is. One of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game is being black balled by Zimmerman and others. The people who vote for the HOF are corrupt.

Although we know that even today, coordinators try to cover their mouths when calling in plays (which still doesn’t prevent a telescopic mic from picking up the calls), there’s a great many fans who have spent years convincing themselves that one and only one team in the NFL has ever filmed and analyzed play calling.

Of course there’s no rule against this – Goodell simply would prefer to foster the perception that such “cheating” never occurs.

It seems they’ve got a long list of reasons why its always someone else’s fault that they lose.

Mike, Nobody cares what Peter King thinks, nobody.

Why you keep talking about what he thinks is way beyond me.

SMH.