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Posted on Sat, Jul. 26, 2008
Bill Parcells is his typical classless self
By NEWY SCRUGGS
newy@newdawg.com
When will somebody call out Bill Parcells for being selfish? Really. This guy gets a free pass from reality and I don’t get it.
Just as Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is trying to get ready for the 2008 season, here comes Parcells throwing him under the bus.
Parcells, the Miami Dolphins’ vice president of football operations, was self-serving, as usual, when he told HBO’s Real Sports why he retired from coaching for what seems like the 14th time.
"We’d just lost to Seattle and I’m flying back," he said. "I’m sitting up with the pilots, you know; I have a little fear of flying, so I ride up in the cockpit. And I said, 'This is probably going to be my last trip.’ And you just know. You don’t want to go through the whole process again, to get to right where we were. You know? And all you got to do is kick a field goal, the most elementary of plays, and then you just don’t do it. And so I don’t want to go through that process again. Too much blood."
Let’s remember, the Seahawks had plenty of time to go down the field and win that playoff game if the Cowboys would have made that field-goal attempt, on which Romo dropped the snap.
What Parcells is really telling us is that he wasn’t man enough to get up off the mat. Parcells always liked to use boxing references in his news conferences. Instead of being a champion and getting back in the ring, he chose to call it a career and blame his cornermen for the fight he lost.
Typical Parcells. Don’t blame me. Blame the players.
He’s the type of guy who wouldn’t dare give Romo credit for saving a 2006 season that was going wrong because his chosen quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, couldn’t be trusted. Romo’s play got the Cowboys to the playoffs. The kid went to the Pro Bowl, for crying out loud.
Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor said it best about Parcells in the Emmy Award-winning series America’s Game when he exclaimed, "Bill’s just a big baby."
Think about how he treated Terrell Owens. Parcells refused to call him Terrell or T.O. Nope, he was "the player." Now who was the adult in that relationship?
When Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones signed Drew Henson, Eddie George, Anthony Thomas and Peerless Price, they were given limited roles because they were "Jerry" moves and not guys Parcells wanted. He preferred to run out scrubs such as Richie Anderson and Vinny Testaverde on the way to a 6-10 season in 2004.
I’ll always remember him getting defensive after the Cowboys lost a game, committing more than a dozen penalties, and him tersely saying, "I don’t coach penalties."
I really couldn’t believe he sold out his guys like that, but it was a line he used often when questioned about his team’s sometimes undisciplined play.
You can’t trust a guy like him.
He proved classless when he talked with Tampa Bay about taking over as the coach while Tony Dungy still held the job.
Parcells had a deal in place to take over the Atlanta Falcons’ football operations and reneged on team owner Arthur Blank. Parcells knew Blank had gone through hell the last nine months, dealing with Michael Vick’s dogfighting case and his head coach quitting on him during the season, but he left the good-hearted Blank in the lurch for the Dolphins’ offer to be VP of football operations.
Didn’t I say you can’t trust that man’s word?
Parcells will find some way to take credit if the Cowboys win this year.
Miami can have the man who never won a Super Bowl without George Young’s draft choices or without Bill Belichick on his coaching staff. Parcells should be grateful (Jerry paid him more than $20 million), but he just can’t let the Cowboys alone without a few potshots from South Florida.
It’s time for somebody to throw Bill Parcells under the bus.
Newy Scruggs is the sports director at NBC 5.
Bill Parcells is his typical classless self
By NEWY SCRUGGS
newy@newdawg.com
When will somebody call out Bill Parcells for being selfish? Really. This guy gets a free pass from reality and I don’t get it.
Just as Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is trying to get ready for the 2008 season, here comes Parcells throwing him under the bus.
Parcells, the Miami Dolphins’ vice president of football operations, was self-serving, as usual, when he told HBO’s Real Sports why he retired from coaching for what seems like the 14th time.
"We’d just lost to Seattle and I’m flying back," he said. "I’m sitting up with the pilots, you know; I have a little fear of flying, so I ride up in the cockpit. And I said, 'This is probably going to be my last trip.’ And you just know. You don’t want to go through the whole process again, to get to right where we were. You know? And all you got to do is kick a field goal, the most elementary of plays, and then you just don’t do it. And so I don’t want to go through that process again. Too much blood."
Let’s remember, the Seahawks had plenty of time to go down the field and win that playoff game if the Cowboys would have made that field-goal attempt, on which Romo dropped the snap.
What Parcells is really telling us is that he wasn’t man enough to get up off the mat. Parcells always liked to use boxing references in his news conferences. Instead of being a champion and getting back in the ring, he chose to call it a career and blame his cornermen for the fight he lost.
Typical Parcells. Don’t blame me. Blame the players.
He’s the type of guy who wouldn’t dare give Romo credit for saving a 2006 season that was going wrong because his chosen quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, couldn’t be trusted. Romo’s play got the Cowboys to the playoffs. The kid went to the Pro Bowl, for crying out loud.
Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor said it best about Parcells in the Emmy Award-winning series America’s Game when he exclaimed, "Bill’s just a big baby."
Think about how he treated Terrell Owens. Parcells refused to call him Terrell or T.O. Nope, he was "the player." Now who was the adult in that relationship?
When Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones signed Drew Henson, Eddie George, Anthony Thomas and Peerless Price, they were given limited roles because they were "Jerry" moves and not guys Parcells wanted. He preferred to run out scrubs such as Richie Anderson and Vinny Testaverde on the way to a 6-10 season in 2004.
I’ll always remember him getting defensive after the Cowboys lost a game, committing more than a dozen penalties, and him tersely saying, "I don’t coach penalties."
I really couldn’t believe he sold out his guys like that, but it was a line he used often when questioned about his team’s sometimes undisciplined play.
You can’t trust a guy like him.
He proved classless when he talked with Tampa Bay about taking over as the coach while Tony Dungy still held the job.
Parcells had a deal in place to take over the Atlanta Falcons’ football operations and reneged on team owner Arthur Blank. Parcells knew Blank had gone through hell the last nine months, dealing with Michael Vick’s dogfighting case and his head coach quitting on him during the season, but he left the good-hearted Blank in the lurch for the Dolphins’ offer to be VP of football operations.
Didn’t I say you can’t trust that man’s word?
Parcells will find some way to take credit if the Cowboys win this year.
Miami can have the man who never won a Super Bowl without George Young’s draft choices or without Bill Belichick on his coaching staff. Parcells should be grateful (Jerry paid him more than $20 million), but he just can’t let the Cowboys alone without a few potshots from South Florida.
It’s time for somebody to throw Bill Parcells under the bus.
Newy Scruggs is the sports director at NBC 5.
@ that article.
