Bill Callahan has denied allegations that he sabotaged Super Bowl XXVII.

Tim Brown and Jerry Rice have suggested he suspiciously altered the Oakland Raiders' game plan against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

"While I fully understand a competitive professional football player's disappointment when a game's outcome doesn't go his team's way, I am shocked, saddened and outraged by Tim Brown's allegations and Jerry Rice's support of those allegations made through various media outlets over the last 24 hours," Callahan said Tuesday in a statement. "To leave no doubt, I categorically and unequivocally deny the sum and substance of their allegations."

Tim Brown suspects former Oakland Raiders head coach Bill Callahan of sabotaging Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.

The Raiders lost the game 48-21 to Jon Gruden's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Callahan switched the Raiders' gameplan from a run attack to pass.

"We all called it sabotage ... because Callahan and Gruden were good friends," Brown said. "And Callahan had a big problem with the Raiders, you know, hated the Raiders. You know, only came because Gruden made him come. Literally walked off the field on us a couple of times during the season when he first got there, the first couple years. So really he had become someone who was part of the staff but we just didn't pay him any attention. Gruden leaves, he becomes the head coach. ... It's hard to say that the guy sabotaged the Super Bowl. You know, can you really say that? That can be my opinion, but I can't say for a fact that that's what his plan was, to sabotage the Super Bowl. ... That's hard to say, because you can't prove it."

Brown said the late change by Callahan affect center Barret Robinson who ended up not playing in the game.

Jerry Rice has come forward in agreement with Brown.

“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.’”

Rice said he understands the magnitude of the accusation.

The Dallas Cowboys have hired Monte Kiffin as defensive coordinator.

Kiffin was most recently with USC.

Kiffin had a 13-year run with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Kiffin will have to re-tool a defense that has been in a 3-4 scheme since 2005.

Pro Football Focus has announced their All-Pro Team for the 2012 NFL season.

Selections from Playoff Teams

Five selections: 49ers

Four selections: Vikings, Patriots

Three selections: Broncos, Packers, Texans, Ravens, Bengals

Two selections: Seahawks

One selection: Colts

No selection: Falcons, Redskins

(Second team selection in parenthesis)

Offense

QB: Peyton Manning, DEN (Aaron Rodgers, GB)

RB: Adrian Peterson, MIN (C.J. Spiller, BUF)

FB: Vonta Leach, BAL (Marcel Reece, OAK)

TE: Rob Gronkowski, NE (Jason Witten, DAL)

WR: Calvin Johnson, DET (Brandon Marshall, CHI)

WR: Andre Johnson, HOU (Vincent Jackson, TB)

WR: Reggie Wayne, IND (A.J. Green, CIN)

LT: Duane Brown, HOU (Joe Staley, SF)

LG: Evan Mathis, PHI (Mike Iupati, SF)

C: John Sullivan, MIN (Max Unger, SEA)

RG: Marshal Yanda, BAL (Alex Boone, SF)

RT: Andre Smith, CIN (Sebastian Vollmer, NE)

Defense

Edge Defender: Cameron Wake, MIA (Clay Matthews, GB)

Edge Defender: Von Miller, DEN (Aldon Smith, SF)

Defensive Interior: J.J. Watt, HOU (Muhammad Wilkerson, NYJ)

Defensive Interior: Geno Atkins, CIN (Gerald McCoy, TB)

OLB: Jerod Mayo, NE (Kevin Burnett, MIA)

MLB: Patrick Willis, SF (Bobby Wagner, SEA)

OLB: Derrick Johnson, KC (Daryl Washington, AZ)

CB: Richard Sherman, SEA (Antonio Cromartie, NYJ)

CB: Charles Tillman, CHI (Champ Bailey, DEN)

Slot CB: Casey Hayward, GB (Antoine Winfield, MIN)

FS: Jarius Byrd, BUF (Devin McCourty, NE)

SS: Eric Weddle, SD (Reshad Jones, MIA)

Special Teams

K: Blair Walsh, MIN (Phil Dawson, CLE)

P: Thomas Morstead, NO (Dustin Colquitt, KC)

Returner: Jacoby Jones, BAL (Leodis McKelvin, BUF)

Special Teamer: Ashlee Palmer, DET (Johnson Bademosi, CLE)