They say it’s always the guy doing the retaliation who gets noticed and therefore the one who is blamed. In this case it was the second scrap that was noticed while the first one did not.
On the Raiders’ second series against the Broncos Sunday in Oakland, there was a big brawl that was sparked by a scuffle between Michael Crabtree and Aqib Talib.
The two of them were carrying over an incident that happened in the season finale of last season in which Talib ripped off Crabtree’s necklace.