You guys are right. It was Gruden's team that Callahan ran but it doesn't change the fact that we won under the Gruden/Callahan era. Whether gruden was coach and Callahan was OC or Callahan was coach doesn't matter. It was a time when control was not completly in AL's hands and we won as a direct result of that. I will say (though we are starting to get off topic) that Gruden's system was a west coast Offense that mixed the run and pass about 50/50. You can't say that Callahan's first 2 years as coach was even close to that. Callahan had a Martz type style that passed almost 90% of the time. Sure it was Gruden's players. Sure Callahan was Gruden's student. That's what killed us in the superbowl. Gruden knew are team inside and out. But Callahan's offense led us to a superbowl. Gruden's didn't. Callahan's offense was ranked #1 in the NFL. Gruden's never was. Finally, Gannon was given the chance under Callahan to unleash his game what helped him achieve MVP status. That never happened with Gruden. The point is that Callahan and Gruden were directly connected and Al wanted them out because of that reason. You can make the case that Martz, in his first year as coach, only got his team to a superbowl because he took over Vermiel's great team. However, don't forget he was the OC of that Superbowl Champ team and dispite loosing the superbowl the next year as head coach, he was given the chance to coach for quite a few years and prove he could win with "his" players such as Mark Bulger. The guy had his team in the playoffs every year. Callahan was never given a fair chance to prove himself like that. No coach does under Al Davis. All of us can agree (even Maximus) that going through new coaching staffs year after year had a negative effect on our team. There is no one else you can blame for that but Al Davis.