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in 2004, lovie smith took over the bears coming off a 2003 record of 7-9, he did drop to 5-11 in his first year. then he flipped it to 11-5 and now another year later, he's in the superbowl.
last year the saints ended their year homeless and with a 3-13 record. enter payton and a couple of solid players and suddenly they go to the NFC title game only to lose to said chicago.
like it or not, *this* is the baramoter of a successful coach in today's watered down NFL. this isn't like when i first started watching and you needed a franchise qb (although one always does make it easier) and then to build long term. i still want the long term approach, but getting getting early success should be easier than it used to be.
reference chicago and new orleans for an example.
now, enter parcells. likely one of the top coaches in the league and a HOF lock when he's eligible. he's proved he could do it "old school" and does have an eye for talent. yet in his tenure we go around .504 ball in 4 years.
new orleans can turn it around in 1 year.
chicago in 2, superbowl by 3.
again, like it or not this is how a successful coach will be measured - *end results* not past history. i know there are a lot of teams that for whatever resaon can't turn it around so i also know it's not as easy as chicago and new orleans have made it look.
or is it?
no one really hailed payton as a genious while in dallas. he was the dude parcells brought in from the giants when the giants didn't even want him around. so when you look at a rex ryan and wonder why he's not getting any looks, you can also look at payton to see that having people want to interview you is nice, can validate your qualifications, but it isn't the sole guideline of the coaches ability.
parcells has done some good things for dallas. though it took awhile to happen, we found our qb of the future and hopefully at 26, we didn't waste some good years on the clipboard.
we do have more talent across the board except for the OL where we've just historically had problems there so that can't all be parcells. players we cut these days get picked up by other teams where before, they just went onto their blue-collar life out of the NFL.
he's revamped the defense that by and large could be argued didn't need it, but it's done and hopefully someone more familiar with the 3-4 can do a better job of pushing the players like roy williams to quit going for highlight hits and play like we know he can.
then again, the coaches have to play him where he's best suited, not where "the system" calls for.
herein is my biggest issue. parcells is a coach who wants his system to work and won't deviate when it doesn't, but will kiss 'em all when it does. the adjsutments he may make are for the system itself it seems, and not to take advantage of the players he has on the field.
unfortuantely many coaches are like this and not as many, it would seem, coach according to what they have, not what they want.
we have an owner willing to get whatever parcells wants (and then some in TO) and pay the pricetag for it. he's turned over control to parcells almost w/o question and w/o interference. in a time where going from gutter to penthouse can take 2-3 years if done right, we're sitting in a nice average neighborhood a few miles away from the older side of town we used to live in.
hardly a valid upgrade for the money spent and talent assembled.
we do live in a "fix it now" society where when a war isn't won by dinner, maybe even after a few nights, it's a failure. people today have high (even if unrealistic) expectations that better be met or you hit the curb pretty quickly. the NFL is geared for this and every year we see a few teams smart enough to take advantage of that and they catch a wave and make it fit according to todays rules.
yet here we sit, the dallas "americas team" cowboys .504 in 4 years, and 2 playoff appearances that didn't turn out as hoped.
it would be different if we went toe to toe with philly when the division title was on the line and the defense had a fire and played to win. they just didn't seem to care, however. blame them? you can - but where do they look for their leadership? to a man who every year has to ask "do i feel like doing this"?
that has to draw on a player regardless of their being paid to be a professional. they're human first - we all are and if our leader waffled so much we'd have to ask why and to what extent is his dedication to the team? if little to none, why should i?
maybe that's not fair. it is a "team" effort after all and that concept alone means you can't simply blame 1 party and call it a day. the players could do better and someone on the D could step up and take over the leadership role. but no one has and we don't have those types of players.
but parcells has picked them all by now, so now what? we can't blame parcells for his indecision and we can't admit (well, some of us can't) that the indecision hurts the team but we can blame the players for not executing, but yet, parcells brought them here.
if you rise up from fandom and love of bp and just look at the overall state of the cowboys you'll see a team in disarray and w/o solid direction.
does payton have to soul search now to determine if he's coming back to NO to build off his momentum?
nope.
smith is now off and running to the superbowl in 3 years and after his interview last night, i DO hope jones makes a play for him. he far and away deserves $5.5mil more than our current coach.
even if only for the fact he's proven he can win in today's game of football. parcells has yet to do it but many keep hope he will. many see slight progress as a good thing while i see it as holding us back from pushing harder.
i'm sure we're about to see more excuses than the principals office on senior day, but in the end parcells simply isn't getting it done and excuses only go so far.
unless you're parcells, then you get a few more to take with you.
if he comes back 1 more year, that's pretty much his last excuse and i'll hope he finds the fire he used to have and pushes himself and the team to do what they can in a manner in in which we know/feel they can do it. we've beaten indy - beat the hell out of them to end their winning streak.
we know this team can play. we know it quit in december. we know it's done that 4 decembers in a row. we changed a lot of the pieces...we've added and subtracted some minor coaches around...so what's the constant?
parcells. there's likely a few more but in the end you are what you are and i don't care who you were before that.
todays nfl has shown the right man for the job can get it done in short order. why do we keep waiting for yesterday? i dunno. but it does test your sanity and patience.
so why can't you do it parcells, and what makes you think you can if you get 1 more year?
last year the saints ended their year homeless and with a 3-13 record. enter payton and a couple of solid players and suddenly they go to the NFC title game only to lose to said chicago.
like it or not, *this* is the baramoter of a successful coach in today's watered down NFL. this isn't like when i first started watching and you needed a franchise qb (although one always does make it easier) and then to build long term. i still want the long term approach, but getting getting early success should be easier than it used to be.
reference chicago and new orleans for an example.
now, enter parcells. likely one of the top coaches in the league and a HOF lock when he's eligible. he's proved he could do it "old school" and does have an eye for talent. yet in his tenure we go around .504 ball in 4 years.
new orleans can turn it around in 1 year.
chicago in 2, superbowl by 3.
again, like it or not this is how a successful coach will be measured - *end results* not past history. i know there are a lot of teams that for whatever resaon can't turn it around so i also know it's not as easy as chicago and new orleans have made it look.
or is it?
no one really hailed payton as a genious while in dallas. he was the dude parcells brought in from the giants when the giants didn't even want him around. so when you look at a rex ryan and wonder why he's not getting any looks, you can also look at payton to see that having people want to interview you is nice, can validate your qualifications, but it isn't the sole guideline of the coaches ability.
parcells has done some good things for dallas. though it took awhile to happen, we found our qb of the future and hopefully at 26, we didn't waste some good years on the clipboard.
we do have more talent across the board except for the OL where we've just historically had problems there so that can't all be parcells. players we cut these days get picked up by other teams where before, they just went onto their blue-collar life out of the NFL.
he's revamped the defense that by and large could be argued didn't need it, but it's done and hopefully someone more familiar with the 3-4 can do a better job of pushing the players like roy williams to quit going for highlight hits and play like we know he can.
then again, the coaches have to play him where he's best suited, not where "the system" calls for.
herein is my biggest issue. parcells is a coach who wants his system to work and won't deviate when it doesn't, but will kiss 'em all when it does. the adjsutments he may make are for the system itself it seems, and not to take advantage of the players he has on the field.
unfortuantely many coaches are like this and not as many, it would seem, coach according to what they have, not what they want.
we have an owner willing to get whatever parcells wants (and then some in TO) and pay the pricetag for it. he's turned over control to parcells almost w/o question and w/o interference. in a time where going from gutter to penthouse can take 2-3 years if done right, we're sitting in a nice average neighborhood a few miles away from the older side of town we used to live in.
hardly a valid upgrade for the money spent and talent assembled.
we do live in a "fix it now" society where when a war isn't won by dinner, maybe even after a few nights, it's a failure. people today have high (even if unrealistic) expectations that better be met or you hit the curb pretty quickly. the NFL is geared for this and every year we see a few teams smart enough to take advantage of that and they catch a wave and make it fit according to todays rules.
yet here we sit, the dallas "americas team" cowboys .504 in 4 years, and 2 playoff appearances that didn't turn out as hoped.
it would be different if we went toe to toe with philly when the division title was on the line and the defense had a fire and played to win. they just didn't seem to care, however. blame them? you can - but where do they look for their leadership? to a man who every year has to ask "do i feel like doing this"?
that has to draw on a player regardless of their being paid to be a professional. they're human first - we all are and if our leader waffled so much we'd have to ask why and to what extent is his dedication to the team? if little to none, why should i?
maybe that's not fair. it is a "team" effort after all and that concept alone means you can't simply blame 1 party and call it a day. the players could do better and someone on the D could step up and take over the leadership role. but no one has and we don't have those types of players.
but parcells has picked them all by now, so now what? we can't blame parcells for his indecision and we can't admit (well, some of us can't) that the indecision hurts the team but we can blame the players for not executing, but yet, parcells brought them here.
if you rise up from fandom and love of bp and just look at the overall state of the cowboys you'll see a team in disarray and w/o solid direction.
does payton have to soul search now to determine if he's coming back to NO to build off his momentum?
nope.
smith is now off and running to the superbowl in 3 years and after his interview last night, i DO hope jones makes a play for him. he far and away deserves $5.5mil more than our current coach.
even if only for the fact he's proven he can win in today's game of football. parcells has yet to do it but many keep hope he will. many see slight progress as a good thing while i see it as holding us back from pushing harder.
i'm sure we're about to see more excuses than the principals office on senior day, but in the end parcells simply isn't getting it done and excuses only go so far.
unless you're parcells, then you get a few more to take with you.
if he comes back 1 more year, that's pretty much his last excuse and i'll hope he finds the fire he used to have and pushes himself and the team to do what they can in a manner in in which we know/feel they can do it. we've beaten indy - beat the hell out of them to end their winning streak.
we know this team can play. we know it quit in december. we know it's done that 4 decembers in a row. we changed a lot of the pieces...we've added and subtracted some minor coaches around...so what's the constant?
parcells. there's likely a few more but in the end you are what you are and i don't care who you were before that.
todays nfl has shown the right man for the job can get it done in short order. why do we keep waiting for yesterday? i dunno. but it does test your sanity and patience.
so why can't you do it parcells, and what makes you think you can if you get 1 more year?
