DeVone Claybrooks knows what it feels like to win the Super Bowl.
When the newly-named B.C. Lions head coach was playing for Tampa Bay the Buccaneers, the team made it to the NFL championship game in 2003. Their opponents: the Oakland Raiders, who had Marc Trestman as offensive coordinator at the time.
Trestman helped Rich Gannon win the NFL MVP award throwing while for a league-leading 4,689 yards to go along with 26 touchdowns against 10 interceptions in a high-scoring Raiders offence. But the stingy Bucs defence shut down Trestman’s offence in the title game and won 48-21.
“I end up playing for Trestman down the road after I won the Super Bowl and I really was curious to ask really what happened offensively in that game because those guys didn’t change any of their checks or anything like that,” Claybrooks told the story on Sportsnet 650 in Vancouver this week.
“He really just kept it straight, he was in typical Trestman fashion “DeVone I thought a great offence would beat a great defence and I guess wrong.”
