CowboyRoy
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Uhh Parcells had Simms and Bledsoe. Bledsoe threw the ball as well as anyone who has ever played in the nfl in fact when Bledsoe was young in the mid 90's I am not sure there has ever been a guy who threw a prettier football. He was basically the mold of an nfl qb.
On parcells not giving payton the coordinator name. There were a couple of reasons for that. The first was that Parcells had divided up the roles over the few years he was there and after firing carthon didn't really have an offensive coordinator.
More importantly back then you could not hire a guy for an equal job, so say Payton was the coordinator in 04 he would have to be named to a higher position on another team. After talking payton out of taking the raiders head coaching job in 05 (This clearly negates your he wanted to get out as soon as he could theory) He named Payton the assistant head coach and let him call plays. this basically guaranteed Payton Head Coaching offers/interviews after the 05 season. It was done in Payton's favor to help his career.
The season ended and a great job came along and Payton took the job in New Orleans. He brought Gary Gibbs with him to be his defensive coordinator. Gary Gibbs is the guy Parcells told Jerry to hire as head coach when he left. Payton copied his first training camp after what he learned from Parcells and how he did it.
Bledslow was really the only legimite elite type passer he had.
Regardless, most of Parcells QB's were bus drivers. And he did the same nonsense here and failed miserably.
Copying a training camp structure has nothing to do with what I am talking about. Im talking about offensive scheme with the passing game and the aggressiveness. Not sure you seem to be capable of distinguishing that.
When it came to offense, Payton made parcells look like the over the hill dino that he was.
You can whatever opinion you want...………….for me, Payton was overjoyed getting out from under Parcells and his limited offense.