Great Bill Parcells documentary

Idgit said:

I enjoyed Parcells. No idea why he gets such a pass for accomplishing nothing in the post season here.

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He took a Quincy Carter and Troy Hamnbrick team to the playoffs....please a little respect.
Two different teams to the Super Bowl and three different to playoffs...
Not sure JG could get our ‘92 team to the conf championship game.

Hardline said:

I ran across this on Youtube.
Brought back a lot of memories.
Great clips with a rookie Tony Romo and Jason Witten.

Parcells was a real hard ***.

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Hey Hardline Thanks for posting that vid here. Great watch.

It chaps-my-hide me that we haven't won a SB for so long.

In this vid. Witten had hair.

Oh how the years go by.

I’m not 100% sure Jerry ever REALLY wanted Parcells here in the first place, but he knew he needed to do something inspiring after three straight 5-11 seasons under Campo and underneath it all, he was trying to get his new stadium built. He let Bill hang around long enough to get the PSL’s up so Arlington voters would approve a tax increase to help fund the city’s stake in the stadium... and then he was gone.

I think Tuna did some good, important things. He helped change the losing culture in the locker room. He brought in a few good veteran players to improve the team and he showed the young guys how to work hard and win.

No, he didn’t set the world on fire and he was honestly past his prime, but he made an impact, I believe.

MikeB80 said:

Wade Phillips made jokes about parcells in his introductory press conference and ol Jerry and steve sat there and laughed and laughed.

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Man, I don’t remember that at all. I’m gonna have to search YouTube to see if I can find it. I must witness that for myself.

MikeB80 said:

I remember they signed the nickel corner from the titans who was a good player and would have made the defense even better and he decided to retire right before camp.

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Donald Mitchell, right? I remember him.

I thought he got thru camp and was hurt in a preseason game and subsequently released/retired.

Idgit said:

In a playoff game where we went conservative against a team playing CBs off the street.

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To this date, it's one of the strangest game plans in Cowboys history IMO. Seahawks were w/o their entire starting secondary. They were signing replacement players off the street for a playoff game. For some weird reason, I will NEVER understand, Parcell used a primary running game plan.

Also while we at it, he probably gets too much credit for Romo and Ware. If I remember correctly, he actually wanted to draft Shawn Merriman over Ware and yes he made the decision to start Romo but only AFTER Drew Bedsole experiment failed. He did not trust Romo, similar to how the FO didn't trust Dak. What's interesting is Romo knew it, which is why he ignored most Parcell so-called 10 commandments.

FanSince71 said:

Donald Mitchell, right? I remember him.

I thought he got thru camp and was hurt in a preseason game and subsequently released/retired.

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could be, off the top of my head I thought he didn't make it to camp.

panchucko said:

You know in my head. BP was a Giant that rented himself out to recover his divorce settlement. He was never really a cowboy. So in my head who cares about the tuna

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He was a giant yet he rebuilt one of the leagues worst franchises in new england. They have been winning since parcells showed up there.

Then he took a horrendous jet team and went to the afc championship and lost to one of the nfl's greatest teams the 98 broncos.

he turned this organization around also. Just was a little to old to see it through.

FuzzyLumpkins said:

It's called the media leading people by the nose. With Parcells it was never the X years since Y playoff game narrative. Instead it was to blame Zimmer, Romo, or Carter.

Garrett gets the media narrative.

I get why there is an electoral college.

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OMG. are you suggesting I think parcells did a good job here because the media manipulated me into thinking he did?

what in the world does garrett have to do with it? Is that what this is about with a few of you?

Garrett has been here since 2007 and he can't get past the divisional round while having a fantastic qb, one of the franchises best defensive players ever and a number of outstanding offensive players and defensive players and Dan Bailey.

I am all done posting in this thread. People complaining about the seattle game and the gameplan. The gameplan worked. A young qb on the road in the most hostile stadium in the league, the defending nfc champions. Romo led a drive right before the half for a TD and led a drive in the games final moments that should have won the game. He hit witten for a first down and without sufficient evidence they overturned it and they had to kick the field goal.

and for those commenting romo couldn't hold a snap, he had been holding since 04 when he took over for Mcbriar. They had only had one other issue and that was at seattle in 05.

anyway. Maybe I am wrong and the media got me. I guess parcells was terrible because he didn't win a Super Bowl. Good thing we got rid of him.

LOL. Parcells is a blue-collar man who worked his way up in the coaching ranks and turned three different franchises around in his coaching tenures winning multiple SBs in the process to become a HOF coach and produced a tree of successful coaches than includes Bellicheat who many consider the greatest NFL coach ever. Garrett is here because of his daddy and he makes Jerry feel comfortable, unlike the former.

KingintheNorth said:

Yep, he fixed a lot of things organization-wise.

People forget how all-over-the-place post-Jimmy, pre-Parcells Jerry had this franchise.

Ultimately, Jerry had to force himself on personnel decisions and Parcells couldn't take it any more.

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beyond wrong

KingintheNorth said:

Yep, he fixed a lot of things organization-wise.

People forget how all-over-the-place post-Jimmy, pre-Parcells Jerry had this franchise.

Ultimately, Jerry had to force himself on personnel decisions and Parcells couldn't take it any more.

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Successful organizations have: accountability, vision, direction, and processes, that drive performance and develop their employees. Dallas was light-years from the structured organization they became under Parcells.

I believe Dallas organizationally still use some of the philosophy's Parcells taught. Scouting players that fit their scheme, take the most talented player, instead of forcing the draft toward needs, etc.

CapnB said:

beyond wrong

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Meaning.. he's right??

Personally I would scout players for a blend talent and character, and then as time goes on develop schemes around that talent to use it wisely. But's that's just me. I mean you can have your "main schemes" but you have to put the right players within those schemes in the right places to succeed best.

Established1971 said:

it really hurt to have him as the Cowboys coach, Im glad that era ended quickly. He will always be the Giants coach. Hated that hire.

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LOL

Our franchise had some storied HCs

Idgit said:

A lot of people forgetting how that game really went down.

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Parcells got the team to the playoffs with Quincy Carter

GMO415 said:

Our franchise had some storied HCs

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Hawkeye0202 said:

To this date, it's one of the strangest game plans in Cowboys history IMO. Seahawks were w/o their entire starting secondary. They were signing replacement players off the street for a playoff game. For some weird reason, I will NEVER understand, Parcell used a primary running game plan.

Also while we at it, he probably gets too much credit for Romo and Ware. If I remember correctly, he actually wanted to draft Shawn Merriman over Ware and yes he made the decision to start Romo but only AFTER Drew Bedsole experiment failed. He did not trust Romo, similar to how the FO didn't trust Dak. What's interesting is Romo knew it, which is why he ignored most Parcell so-called 10 commandments.

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It was worse than Merriman. He actually wanted to take Marcus Spears at 11, because he didn’t think he’d fall to our 2nd pick. Dodged a bullet there.

ghst187 said:

He took a Quincy Carter and Troy Hamnbrick team to the playoffs....please a little respect.
Two different teams to the Super Bowl and three different to playoffs...
Not sure JG could get our ‘92 team to the conf championship game.

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With the #1 overall defense. I’m not disrespecting him at all. That was a great job coaching. I’m the poster who actually understands how hard a job coaching actually is, remember. I’m saying that Parcells doesn’t get the same treatment other Dallas HCs get around here. His production gets a pass for some reason. And reading through the responses in this thread, there’s no denying that that’s the case. I don’t get it.