We don’t expect you to understand anything because you’re from Texas. Texans make Spongebob and Patrick look like Penn and Teller. You just go about your business. Wrangle up some cows and chase some chickens. Leave the football talk to us pros here.

“We would have won, but the refs conspired against us.”

“We would have won, but the Head Coach conspired against us.”

I’m anxiously awaiting the next conspiracy explanation for a Raiders’ lose.

Jeez, is that so difficult for some “reporters” to grasp?

It may not have been deliberate sabotage, but it is a level of mindboggling incompetence that is so extreme that is might as well have been deliberate sabotage. The effects couldn’t have been any worse.

That’s the really mind blowing thing about it. The Raiders knew that they were facing Jon Gruden. Did Callahan seriously think Gruden wouldn’t reveal every single detail to his new team?

Seriously, you are about to face one of the best defenses to ever play and you are still running the offense that was installed by your predecessor, who also happens to be the opposing head coach, what do you do?

There are currently two versions of what happened.

1) You do absolutely nothing, and approach the game in the same way you would against any other team.

2) The Tim Brown version. You make a dramatic change in the run – pass balance of your game plan, switching in plays that you haven’t practised in the weeks before the game.

You, still don’t change the terminology or bring in a lot of new plays, you just shift from calling more passing plays to calling more runs, wasting most of your practice time since the AFC championship game.

If anything Tim Brown’s idea that Callahan must have actually wanted to throw the game is the more generous. At its heart it is based on one single piece of logic: no NFL head coach could possibly have been that incompetent.

Was the gameplan changed on Friday?

That’s all Brown said that was a fact. The rest was his opinion on why it occurred.

Also, the media takes pot shots at Brown over this, while also straddling the fence and not criticizing the best WR to ever play the game, Jerry Rice.

Our media is a joke. This will probably get deleted in North Korean fashion like every other one of my posts, but it felt good to vent regardless.

It’s on video (YouTube)

The fact, that the media didn’t seem interested then, but do now(days leading to the HOF selections) is beyond me.
Was it lack of knowledge(so called sports media) or just no Raiders interest (2006 season 2-14) at the time?

I think it would’ve been better had the story been brought up years ago because I would’ve liked to hear Al Davis take on it. Did he force a change of gameplan?

Maybe Callahan didn’t botch the game, but he didn’t seem really motivated during Superbowl week, neither at pre-game or kickoff.

REAL QUESTION IS…………

Why “in the blue hell” did the NFL only give a one week preparation during that Superbowl?

I have only heard that the game was not sabotaged.

Why don’t you try asking that question?