Twitter: Parcell speaks. short but sweet

[Sheepherder]

It's both and has been. The culture in Dallas has created an attitude amongst the players that it's all about getting paid. Make some plays in your first couple of seasons and you will be paid like you are among the best at your position. Concerning yourself about you first and getting that 2nd contract is universal in Dallas and put far above winning and success as a team. You can see and feel it in everything the players say and do. The blame for this goes squarely to Jerry. He has an open door with the players and wants to be their friends. He talks way to much and defends them at all costs. His biggest fault has been that he has rarely let any player go that once made a good play or had a good game. Instead he has overpaid almost everyone even though time and time again, they never again play as well once paid. there have been a few exceptions but 80-90% of the players who have been paid well in Dallas have quickly regressed. Jerry's other main fault is not recognizing this and not hiring a coach capable of correcting it because let's face it, correcting it means freezing Jones out on all things related to the players which Jones won't allow. This is a never ending cycle and will not change as long as Jerry is alive. Maybe Stephen will be different when he takes over but who knows. I have said it for years and will repeat it here. Free agency and the draft mean nothing in Dallas under these circumstances. It doesn't matter which players come to Dallas, the culture may allow them some amount of individual success which leads to them being paid, but it will never allow them team success and championships. That died when Jimmy was fired. Yes, they won one more after that but those players were Jimmy's guys and they had not been corrupted yet.

Bill Parcells gets my vote for GM.

 

[starman22]

It's pretty clear now that A) no offseason hurt B) all the injuries hurt and C) some players need to go.

Carolina 3-3
Cleveland 4-2
Dallas 2-4
NYG 1-5
Washington 1-5

These are the teams with new head coaches this year. It seems that no offseason hurt the NFC East the most for some reason.
It should be noted however, that the other teams on this list changed all of the big 3 coaches. Head, offense, defense. Dallas of course kept their OC.

Not disagreeing, just food for thought

 

[CouchCoach]

Never missed one, they were legendary.

I remember he stopped one, I think at Oxnard to ask Anthony Thomas RB who was walking past at the time, where he was going!

That was the best part of his time with Dallas. I knew several of the people that would be in the pc's and their highlight moment of every pc was when Steve Dennis would start a question to Parcells. You could just see from Parcells' looking at Dennis, he was trying to figure out just what he was doing at the pc and how he had lived that long.

 

[CouchCoach]

Parcells quit on the team. It was not Jerry.
Jimmy wanted to leave, and pushed the right buttons to get Jerry to fire him.

He was forced out, by design, with the Owens move. He knew Parcells wouldn't be on board with a player that had been fired from two teams for openly disrespecting his OC during practices. But Booger saw no problem with that or his WR walking off on his team or his DE showing leadership by slapping the clipboard out of the STC's hand during a game while he was coaching.

Parcells had all he could handle of keeping Booger from himself and got tired of babysitting him.

 

[NEODOG]

The players don’t like nolan and or MM. they are used to running the team. They gave up on JG. We thought it was JUST the HC. But it was players. And more important it’s the so called leaders. They got paid and like the comfy atmosphere. When a new HC or staff comes in and wants to teach or do something they don’t want to do this is how they respond. This is a GM/Owner problem. Maybe the DC and some players need to go.

You hit on the head

Minus the MOST important issue the players have.....

 

[jazzcat22]

You honestly think he just quit on a whim? He quit because he didn't have any faith in the Joneses to run a winning organization. He even said something to the effect of "In three years it will be like I was never here."

That is typical for most coaches, so what he said had no bearing on the situation.
and yes, I believe he quit on the team. Half way through the year he was acting as if they got a winner building. after the playoff loss. he said he could not do it any more. And that would not be fair to the team.

However, the Jerry haters will always blame him regardless. I don't really care. nothing ever changes even if the proof is in front of them.

 

[jazzcat22]

He was forced out, by design, with the Owens move. He knew Parcells wouldn't be on board with a player that had been fired from two teams for openly disrespecting his OC during practices. But Booger saw no problem with that or his WR walking off on his team or his DE showing leadership by slapping the clipboard out of the STC's hand during a game while he was coaching.

Parcells had all he could handle of keeping Booger from himself and got tired of babysitting him.

Sorry, disagree. TO may have had something to do with it, maybe not. But he still quit on the team.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

It's the culture than has allowed the inmates to run the asylum.

 

[Maverick84]

THIS sounds alot like Rod's D.

This is a family forum.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

This is a family forum.

LLLOOLLL, go back to bed MAV!

 

[charron]

These players were not great under the previous coaches but i've never seen a DE like Griffen put such little effort on the field.

 

[kevm3]

Some of it is the players, but Nolan has produced some of the worst defenses in the league elsewhere. If coaches don't have any real effect and it's all about the players, why even pay the coaches millions of dollars?

 

[gjkoeppen]

this is on the players.

The owners have caved in on the last two CBA's which goes a long ways to explain why things are this way but also the record of Nolan's defenses and the number of teams he's bounce around on and those defenses failed playing his schemes, make people wonder if on the defense at least that it just might be Nolan and his schemes. There are other DC that every team they go to they build good defenses but Nolan can't say that. In fact he's only had one defense that actually cracked the top 10 and the rest have been in the middle or bottom half of the league. This isn't his first defense that is rated 25th or lower.
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[TheSkaven]

Boy do I miss this guy. Every day. When they find the fountain of youth, hope he gets to drink first.

 

[garyv]

We are just repeating what happened with Garrett. Many just blamed the players over and over but at the end of the day, while we had player issues, the coaches weren't all that good either.

McCarthy has burned through a lot of goodwill here but I don't have an issue with keeping him and staying on that course. Dak getting hurt really threw a wrench into this and I wonder if it would have been better for McCarthy to bring in his own OC. But then again, he brought in Nolan, which was a mistake, so it's possible he could have brought a boob in a OC too.

I don't have much of an issue with much of the staff right now. But Nolan has got to go, if not now, then in the offseason. He was the worst hire by far on the staff and he should not be anywhere near a defensive overhaul, which is something we desperately need. We will regret letting him mess up this defense beyond this season. I also wonder about Al Harris, as DBs coach.

I agree and I hate to trash Andy Dalton because Dak put up gaudy numbers because he had too first and most important this offseason re-build the Offensive LIne.
This is number one and naturally they need to retool the Defense. I'm a believer in this. Retire Sean Lee, move Jaylon Smith to MLB and draft or sign two OLB that
move to the ball and put fear in Wide Receivers. I believe the Defensive Line is ok need one DT in the middle. The secondary all trash except Diggs and Brown.
All in all they need: 3-OL, 2-OLB and 3 Secondary that is eight new faces to turn this thing around. One other comment we all know how Dak plays and the offense
we run you can't have Dak as your starter than turn around sign a backup QB that can't run and is a drop back passer. What is going on first and foremost the OL is
trash. Now you bring in Dalton who doesn't scramble so he can't do what he does best. The thing is if you have a Dak at QB than you need a backup like a Bridgewater.
I know hes a starter I'm just using as a comparison. They have to be similar so the offense doesn't have to change 180 degrees.

 

[Parcells4Life]

Listen I don’t have the best faith in Nolan.

All that being said.

There is no scheme that tells the DL to get pushed 5 yards off the line of scrimmage on running downs.

there is no scheme that tells the Lb to run around like a chicken with no head and then just run into OL and not shed them and get washed out.

there is no scheme that tells corners to get smoked.


There is no scheme that tells the DL to not get pressure and beat their man.



coaching issues may be why the defense isn’t very good. But coaching issues aren’t why this defense is on pace to be one of the worst in league history. That’s because guys aren’t doing the basics like beating blocks, and tackling well or covering their man.

if players were beating blocks and tackling well and the defense was still awful. Then we could ask if they’re being put in the best positions.

This. Dick Lebeau could be the DC and if the CB jumps an imaginary curl route when the WR is running a go route no scheme is going to protect that.

 

[glimmerman]

Yet Jerry is not interfering with McCarthy or calling for Nolan head. Fans clearly are Nolan gone yet Jerry has kept his hands off.

I think he is giving MM a chance but he could have made a mistake on DC pick. I did find it interesting that tuna said what we are doing on Defense is pretty much what we did when he was there. Not overly difficult. I wonder how different it is from Marinelli style. I know they kept most things in front of them. I am not real hip on the different styles. I know the difference with the 4-3 and 3-4 but Nolan doing the hybrid thing. Either the players don’t want to learn it or don’t like it. Could it really be so different that they can’t learn it.. Or do they just not want to.

 

[Doomsday101]

I think he is giving MM a chance but he could have made a mistake on DC pick. I did find it interesting that tuna said what we are doing on Defense is pretty much what we did when he was there. Not overly difficult. I wonder how different it is from Marinelli style. I know they kept most things in front of them. I am not real hip on the different styles. I know the difference with the 4-3 and 3-4 but Nolan doing the hybrid thing. Either the players don’t want to learn it or don’t like it. Could it really be so different that they can’t learn it.. Or do they just not want to.

I agree with BP this is not rocket science and while some of it has been miscommunication some has just been poor technique and lack of focus. Worley prime example he is looking in the back field in man coverage and allows the WR to blow past him. Result 80 yard TD. Nolan job is not to be popular with the players it is his job to get them ready and he needs to look at the guys he has and sub some guys out of the lineup. Easier said than done given what he is working with.

 

[glimmerman]

I agree with BP this is not rocket science and while some of it has been miscommunication some has just been poor technique and lack of focus. Worley prime example he is looking in the back field in man coverage and allows the WR to blow past him. Result 80 yard TD. Nolan job is not to be popular with the players it is his job to get them ready and he needs to look at the guys he has and sub some guys out of the lineup. Easier said than done given what he is working with.

Do we have any coming back from injury this week.

 

[Doomsday101]

Do we have any coming back from injury this week.

I know safety Steven Parker was brought up to active roster today Awuzie I believe is still a week out from having a chance to return to the lineup and my understanding Gregory will be in the lineup this game.