In Silver And Black...

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Stabler....

"The worst thing I could do would be to let my guys see me with a worried look. I'm not a worrier anyway. I'm really relaxed and loose on the field, no matter how tense things are.

"Sometimes I think of all the things that could go wrong if I screw up. But then I know that I'm not going to, so it ain't no big deal."
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Stabler.....

"I try to give the defensive back the impression that I'm on a deep pattern," he explained. "As soon as he turns his back and starts running, I plant my foot and go either back toward the line of scrimmage, or toward the middle or out toward the sideline. That gives me two chances to beat him, either by forcing him to turn and start running before I plant my foot or by coming back toward scrimmage.

"Success often depends on knowing what your own backs are doing on a certain pattern. If I'm running a hook, for instance, I know that the outside linebacker will follow our backs coming out of the backfield. So I'll slide over a few yards toward the vacated spot."
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"Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard it would lift both his feet off the ground. I remember one game, when the opposing QB tried to scramble for a first down; and Jack knocked him out cold. So they put their back-up in and Jack knocked him out too. Then the punter came in; same thing happened. They ended with their tight-end under center."
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- Woody Hayes, Tatum's coach at Ohio State
 
“It’s interesting because people will bring me a Raiders jersey to sign and say, ‘I know you won’t sign this’ as if the jersey has something to do with it. I have nothing against the Raiders. I had a difference of opinion with one guy. That should not define my relationship with the people who worked up there that I liked and all the players.”
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Marcus Allen on the perception that people get about his feelings for our team....
 
"I still don't know how that referee changed that call. He was right there - the referee has one responsibility and that's the quarterback - he's the guy standing right behind the quarterback. He sees that play and called it a fumble - that was his call on the field. His call - not a back judge, a side judge or an umpire - the referee made the call. Now he's the same guy that goes and looks at it during a challenge. On the field he made the call a fumble and I didn't see enough evidence with the pictures to change that from a fumble to an incomplete pass. I know the "tuck rule" and the arm going forward - all that stuff - but I still didn't think there was enough visual evidence for him to change that."
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John Madden
 
I think anyone with any sense knows that. Anyone who brings up the tuck rule is full of it, or an apologist. When Brady's second hand touched the ball, it, by definition, was tucked.

Let's go with the incomplete pass thought. If he'd have released that ball on purpose, right before he was hit, in the position his hand was at the time, he would have thrown the ball at his feet. Since he was in the pocket, that would have been intentional grounding.

But hell, it's all moot. They did what they did, and everything wound up they way it did. Close the books and turn the page.
 
Porter.....

Raiders WR Jerry Porter on Gruden, whom Porter didn’t see eye-to-eye with — and thus rarely played in his first two seasons: “When Gruden left, I breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't help me at all. He only hurt my career. He created an uptight atmosphere, but when he left, everything got back to football.”
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Bill Callahan....

Raiders head coach Bill Callahan on Rich Gannon’s role in the Oakland offense, which has grown considerably since Jon Gruden left to take the head coaching job in Tampa Bay, so much so that the quarterback is reportedly authorized to change the play about any time he sees fit: "He does an incredible amount for this offense. The volume that he handles, the information that he is required to learn in a short period of time. … The preparation and the work is astronomical, and he continues to take on more responsibility. He has stretched himself considerably in terms of trying to get better and trying to improve this offense. His ability to change plays and diagnose defenses and get you into the right play, it's key for us. For our style of play, he's the guy that does the best job. We wouldn't want anybody else."
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Bugel, who joined the Raiders as an assistant in 1995, became the team's third head coach in four years. He got off on the right foot with the boss....

"I don't mean to embarrass him, but I love Al Davis," Bugel said at his introductory press conference. "This love affair has been going on for 22 years."
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Al............

The Raiders, George's third team in eight years, say they did plenty of homework on the temperamental QB before offering him the deal....

"We checked as much as we can check, short of bringing in listening devices," Davis says. "We might have done that, but we can't admit it."
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Jeff George...

"I'll be embarrassed if at the end of the year we're not playing for the AFC championship, because we have the talent. We're going to win."
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The No. 2 overall pick was spent on USC defensive tackle Darrell Russell. That raised the eyebrows of ESPN analyst Mike Gottfried, who drew the Raiders' ire when he said North Carolina tackle Rick Terry was a better player than Russell.....

"He might be suffering from burnout," Bugel said of Gottfried. "He needs a vacation. Something may be seriously wrong with him." If Russell, who Bugel says reminds him of a young Reggie White, racks up 10 sacks this season, nobody will care what the draft mavens said."
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Darrell Russell on Al....

"It makes me more comfortable knowing that I'm under a person with a mind like his," Russell says. "He has an impeccable record. Everywhere you go, everyone either fears or doesn't like the Raiders."
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"Rich did this, and we all helped," center Barret Robbins said. "That's why he's the most valuable player of this league. You could sense a calm feeling out there."
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Barrett after Rich brought us back to an overtime victory...
 
Lincoln Kennedy on Jon Gruden’s (with Tampa Bay) intense demeanor....

“He wants to rule the world. I'm 6-7. He is 5-foot-nothing. You look at him and he wants to rule the world. He has this little scrunch on his face when you are around him. He takes little shots at you. It's funny. I laugh every time I see him. To me it's tickling. He's not mean in any way. For me to try to look at him when he is trying to be big and bad is hilarious.”
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Raiders chief executive Amy Trask quieting talk that 73-year-old owner Al Davis might retire if his team wins the Super Bowl...

“He’s fine. He’s not going anywhere. He’s the owner. He’s not retiring. He will continue to lead this team as he always has, and his personal achievements and contributions to the game of football will continue. Everyone you know in the NFL will be retired before he is, and long before he’s finished making contributions to this game.”
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Joe Washington, a Redskins running back, on our defensive line (Super Bowl)...

"They were butchering us at the line of scrimmage. They just put an old-fashioned can of whip-ass on us."
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