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That job will have him doing nothing. Peyton is the offense.

Greg Olson new OC

Steve Corkran ‏@CorkOnTheNFL
Breaking news: Raiders hire Greg Olson to be their offensive coordinator, according to person familiar with the situation.

The QB Coach of Jags?

I like Olson. He wasn't bad in Tampa given what he had.

http://blog.sfgate.com/raiders/2013/01/19/raiders-hire-olson-as-offensive-coordinator/

Well he bringing in the power blocking scheme back and he seem to have a decent history....but they all seem to be one and done season =/

This hire doesn't really inspire confidence.

I wonder if this was Reggie's hire or Dennis Allen's. Hoping it's the latter.

I question Reggie's ability to attract talent and put together a staff worth mentioning.

HNL HI said:

I question Reggie's ability to attract talent and put together a staff worth mentioning.

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How come?

zube42 said:

I like Olson. He wasn't bad in Tampa given what he had.

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What up everyone. Skimmed the thread and they're a lot of good ideas floating around so far. I like Olsen too. He's not one of those flashy pick ups so to speak, but does have a lot of College and NFL experience. The main thing is he will go back to a power blocking scheme that Darren can thrive in. Freeman had his best year in 2010 under Olsen in Tampa. But only time will tell if he will work out. 

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How come?

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Has he shown anything to makes us believe otherwise? Every move makes you scratch your head.

Of course last year, there was an excitement just that feeling of not knowing. A new regime from top to bottom. But they quickly showed that they are all in over their heads.

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Th3RealF0lkBlu3s said:

How come?

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Has he shown anything to makes us believe otherwise? Every move makes you scratch your head.

Of course last year, there was an excitement just that feeling of not knowing. A new regime from top to bottom. But they quickly showed that they are all in over their heads.

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If we're talking about Allen's staff, then I'd say that falls more on Allen's head than Reggie's. No coach is going to walk into a situation without having control over his staff, and while Allen made a mistake with the ZBS and Knapp, I see it as his one mulligan that he's allowed as a rook coach. Of course, it can be said that Reggie made the wrong choice with choosing Allen, but I don't think we say for certain we have that answer yet.

As for the players, I think Reggie gets at least two years of leeway in terms of creating a roster (the first year having already passed). The cap situation was incredibly terrible with lousy contracts and underperforming players. He's stuck with crap until he can mold the salaries to his liking and seek out players accordingly.

I can agree with all of that, though I don't think Allen has made good on his bad hires last season with his most recent staff choices. He may be a good coach one day, but he just hasn't put enough time in to garner the respect of his peers to build a top staff.

As far as players, it will have to be done thru the draft. No way you will get top quality players to come to this terrible situation. Only way would be with a highly respected coach, what coach would be dumb enough to come here though. We are going to have to hit on an up and coming coach.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...abotage-by-bill-callahan-in-super-bowl-xxxvi/

Hm.

Th3RealF0lkBlu3s said:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...abotage-by-bill-callahan-in-super-bowl-xxxvi/

Hm.

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Very interesting.

Hmmmmm

I love Tim but he is kind of a conspiracy theorist with things I remember when he said Al Davis doesn't like black WR's from Notre Dame, I thought to myself that was a really specific hatred

Crockett and Gannon have already said it isn't true, though the gameplan was changed after Barret disappeared.

I mean... if Tim is saying that Robbins was "begging" Callahan to not change the game plan and that actually happened...

I have to believe that that was what made him go nuts.

The only thing that I learned today was that this team was a mess that year.

Jerry Rice agrees with Tim Brown: Bill Callahan sabotaged us


The bizarre controversy over whether former Raiders coach Bill Callahan sabotaged the team before Super Bowl XXXVII by changing the game plan at the last minute has taken another surprising turn: Jerry Rice has come forward to say he sides with his former teammate Tim Brown in believing that Callahan wanted to lose.

Rice, who was on the Raiders team that lost Super Bowl XXXVII to the Buccaneers, said on ESPN that Callahan disliked his players, disliked his team, and was willing to let his old boss, then-Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, beat him.

“For some reason — and I don’t know why — Bill Callahan did not like me,” Rice said. “In a way, maybe because he didn’t like the Raiders, he decided, ‘Maybe we should sabotage this a little bit and let Jon Gruden go out and win this one.’”

For Rice, a universally respected player who was named in a poll of experts conducted by NFL Network as the greatest player in NFL history, to say that he believes one of his former coaches actively wanted to lose a Super Bowl is shocking. ESPN’s Trey Wingo stopped Rice and asked him if he realized the magnitude of the accusation that Callahan once threw the Super Bowl. Rice said he understands the weight of his words.

“Yeah, I know exactly what I’m saying,” Rice said.

Until Brown made his bombshell accusation on Saturday, the biggest controversy to come out of Super Bowl XXXVII was the fact that Raiders center Barrett Robbins abandoned the team the day before the game. Rice blames Callahan for that, too: According to Rice, Robbins was so demoralized by Callahan announcing in a team meeting that he was going to call mostly pass plays that Robbins decided to bail on the Super Bowl.

“With Barrett, he was frustrated, like, ‘You cannot do this to us at the last second.’ Maybe that’s why he decided to not show up,” Rice said.

I have all the respect in the world for Jerry Rice, but blaming Callahan for Robbins’ actions is ridiculous. Robbins is a man who has struggled with mental illness for most of his life. A man who struggles with mental illness is battling demons much more profound than a coach changing his game plan. Does Rice also blame Callahan for the legal and personal problems that have plagued Robbins in the decade since his NFL career ended?

Rice also doesn’t seem to accurately remember how that Super Bowl went down. In his ESPN appearance, Rice said Callahan called on the Raiders “to throw the ball over 60 times.” But the Raiders didn’t throw the ball 60 times or even 50 times. They threw 44 times — exactly three more times than they had thrown the ball the week before, when they won the AFC Championship Game.

And that brings us to the strangest part of all this criticism of Callahan: Brown and Rice are insisting that Callahan sabotaged the team by implementing a pass-first offensive game plan. But the Raiders had been a passing team all season: They led the NFL in passing yards that season while ranking 18th in the league in rushing yards and 23rd in the league in rushing attempts. In other words, Callahan called a lot of passes in the Super Bowl because it was calling a lot of passes that had led them to the Super Bowl in the first place.

For Brown and Rice to suggest that Callahan was throwing the Super Bowl because he continued to call a lot of passes just as he had all season long is absolutely ridiculous.

Per twitter

Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez
#Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie just told us on @SiriusXMNFL that Terrelle Pryor will have chance to compete for starting job in 2013

AlBooBoo said:

Per twitter

Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez
#Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie just told us on @SiriusXMNFL that Terrelle Pryor will have chance to compete for starting job in 2013

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He'd better say that, what else would be done?

I'm know McKenzie is using the company line of everyone has a chance to compete. But it atleast gives me hope for the upcoming season.

Here is a video of Brown speaking on Callahan back in 08

Greg Olson huh. Know nothing other than what I've read on this page about him


Means absolutely nothing though...considering I know a lot about Greg Knapp :x

It's no secret that Bill Callahan is a jackass. Anyone remember the "dumbest team in america" comment? Yeah...he definitely didn't like the players, but to say he sabotaged the team? Tim says that Callahan let the veterans run the offense...why not run the ******g offense then in the superbowl? Why would it matter what Bill called for? Bottom line is we got smashed by the better team. And for the record...it's probably not a bad idea to change your game plan a bit if you're facing your ex-head coach from one year ago. As much as I hate Bill, Tim is simply blaming someone for that God awful performance against Tampa.

Olson said all the right things to satisfy the fanbase. Let's see what training camp looks like.