Hostile
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Q: Mr. Wiley out of the four teams you played for which was your favorite to play for and which was your favorite opposing town to visit? --the kid 05
A: My favorite team to play for was the San Diego Chargers. It was great playing with Junior Seau. Learning how to be a professional and learning his work ethic which is by far the most tedious most stressful most uh physically exhausting situation to be in. He had this society he called Breakfast Club. And in the breakfast club you woke up every morning at 5:30 and worked out thirty minutes and this is before two a days and before practices and it was a tremendous workout where you were fine, actually financially fine for sweating dripping on benches uh for actually putting your hands on your knees for saying you were tired for showing you were tired. All those kinda things so, it was just a great environment. Rodney Harrison was there, Curtis Conway. Just great guys would be in the locker room with me. My favorite opposing town to visit was Buffalo, that's where I started my career. That's where the fans still have total love and faith in their team...the fanamonium, exists even for old players like myself when we returned to town.
Q: On Mike & Mike in the Morning in recent weeks, you described Bill Parcells as a great X's and O's guy, but said he fell short on the Y's. Can you expound on both comments? -- Hostile
A: Parcells is a take me as I am coach, my way or the highway. He's the best, the best teacher of X's and O's and a talent in the NFL. He just knew every player at every position he knew their talents, their weaknesses. He could talk about the kickers, he knows the sport he didn't make the transition when the players changed. The players have changed since he started coaching in the NFL. When he had his most success there was no free agency, guys weren't making 20-30 million dollars a paycheck. Guys stayed with the same team they believed totally in. There was a loyalty of from the team and players. That's changed now, guys are coming in with more of a free spirit. More of a confidence in their own abilities and they want to be trusted. They wanna say ok, let me put my signature on this team, instead of this team putting a signature on me. I have to be a role model, well that came to a head when Parcells came into contact with this generation X of players, so I would say his mentallity is "I'm not gonna explain myself." "I'm not gonna give you the why's." That's why I made those comments about Parcells, it was nothing to slight him. It was just to see the culture has changed and the dynamic has changed. You have a situation where, now he's in a front office position removed from the players. He can focus more on the structure, as opposed to X's and O's of the team. I think that's just his role.
Q: Mr. Wiley, Thank you for taking the time to answer Cowboy Fan questions. You have been associated with both the San Diego Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys. Do you have any insight into how the Chargers organization felt about having there team raided of personel in the 2006 off season, how the players delt with that and what your thoughts might be for what the Cowboys might face in simular circumstances this off season? --ABQCOWBOY
A: The Chargers have a firm belief in the draft if you watch Buddy Nix and AJ Smith are all descendants of John Butler. His leading an organizations and his skills, this team they build a team from the inside out. With the talent they acquire every year in the draft, guys are going to raid their organizationbecause they know that's where the cubbard is going to be full. That's where the Chargers are and that's what they have been doing since they all came from Buffalo a few years ago. I don't think that they are too concerned, as long as the draft exists they're going to be able to restock. The other teams can get their sloppy seconds.
Q: Do you hate Bayless as much as us Cowboy fans do? Its obvious he hates the Cowboys and he sounds like a idiot trying to bash the Cowboys. Welker over T.O.? Eli over Romo for the next 5 years...? --Letemburn
A: No, I don't hate Bayless. You gotta understand he's one of the most positive nice people you can meet if you were not in front of the cameras. When he gets on camera man he gets his opinion across and he's strong minded and he's very articulate and he's going to speak his mind. He's not going to waver from that, uh, so I don't hate him. Off camera he's a great guy, on camera I can see where you're coming from. I call him a superstar hater because it's not just Cowboys. It's the LeBron James, Tiger Woods of the world. I call him a superstar hater. He's a great guy though. He doesn't take anything outside television.
Q: Mr. Wiley, First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. You played under Wade Phillips in Buffalo. How does he (and the Phillips 34 system) compare to playing for Bill Parcells in Dallas? Also, what was the general perception of the team in Buffalo of Coach Phillips (especially going through such controversies as the Flutie/Johnson QB debate, the Music City Miracle, an 0-2 playoff record, and ultimately his disagreement in dismissing the ST coach)? --Mavs Man
A: Umm...Well Wade's 3-4 system is more attacking. Parcells is more of a two gap...and let the linebackers fill those gaps coming off of those blocks. It's a difference because the line gets to come off the ball, and attack. You're able to stunt, move around, not let them catch you. Parcells is more of a hold up the offensive linemen and allow linebackers to make plays, so you can see the difference in that and how the players respond. Based on your position, I think a defensive lineman would enjoy a Wade Phillips scenario as well as linebackers would enjoy both. If you're a defensive lineman it's more to your advantage to be with Wade Phillips because you'll see you get a lot more opportunities to make some plays.
Q: What was it like playing in Buffalo? Not much social life in those parts? Did Parcells really sit you down early in training camp and ask you if you were on drugs? --Nors
A: It was great playing in Buffalo just because of the fandamonium. The love they have for their players cause there's nothing else going on up there. So, all the focus and love and attention goes toward the players. You can affect the mood of the community just by wins and losses. Uh, yeah Parcells really sat me down in training camp, well actually asked if I was on drugs was when we had our first meeting, after I signed my contract. He didn't show up to my press conference, so i went to his office, maybe before that. It was the same day. The first thing he said was how you doing sit down, Marcellus are you on drugs and that was the first thing and it came from his personal relationship with Lawrence Taylor like he said, he didn't want any thugs. He's more concerned with more than just the players, he's concerned with the person.
Q: Hey Marcellus, Impressive start to your broadcasting career. What do you see as the future direction for defenses in the NFL to be successful? --Coblue
A: Thank you um, for them to be successful they have to open their minds and playbook just as much as the offense are. You can see this year more so than ever that this is a pass happy league. You look at the Colts and you look at the Patriots and some of the teams are really becoming happy with the pass and then some of their running games are being dismissed in the favor of short passes. Well, there's a way to counter that and that has to happen with NFL on the defensive side of the ball. We went from a 4-3 to a 3-4, we went through that revolution. Someone has to slow down teams like the Patriots, they need to figure out the X's and O's of that situation. So, you might see a different defense outside of the 4-3, 3-4.
Q: Having played the game, what is the one thing that most people watching it on television never understand? --BARRYRAY
A: They never understand that when you see the game it's much more that meets the eye. It's much more than the person, which is the player you see. That sometimes guys don't really show their true colors and tru selves in the interviews and the media and that's not because they wanna hide it's just a total different social group in the lockeroom that exists everywhere else, so. You gotta remember there are guys who are in book clubs, there are nerds,there are quiet guys. It's not just the superstars, the big hitters, the aggressive athletes that we see all the time in the media. They're just normal guys who go home after practice, walk to Walmart, have kids in a stroller, play in a park. They're just normal guys and I think that sometimes gets lost in what sensationalize football players. On the field, not every guy is out there for aggression. Some guys just love it because they've been playing since they were seven. They have fun with it and that's just what it is. It's not a business to them. It's just another way to exercise and have fun. Exercise one of their talents that they've been doing their whole life.
Q: Mr. Wiley, Thank you for taking the time to answer Cowboys questions and congratulations on an outstanding beginning to your broadcast career. I noticed that you commented in a recent broadcast that coach Parcells was correct in moving you more toward run defense rather than as a pass rush specialist during your stay in Dallas. Do you think Parcells could have handled the matter in a more diplomatic way on a communication level at the time in order to make better sense of the transition? --ROYDESTROY
A: Yeah, I think he would have been better suited. I'm sure it wasn't uh, a malicious attempt to deceive me. I was brought in with a certain intention and desire. I obviously didn't live up to that and they wanted to make the transition and make a change. That's no problem with me ya know, it's communicated in the short and long term goal of it. I don't think that was communicated and I don't think I was receptive of it if it was. I don't blame them, I'm a big boy, I'm respectful of them. I was on the tail end of my career so, he saw something in me. I could play the run, I could play the run right now if the Patriots called, I could play the run. Getting around those guys, getting the pressure and sacks you know that's what seperates the good defensive ends in this league. I wish it was better communicated, but I also wish I was more receptive to receiving that message.
Q: Mr Wiley, How do you feel about the whole cheating fiasco with the Patriots, and the accusations by many fans that the refs call in the Patriots favor? And, how do you feel the Cowboys would fare against the Patriots if they met them again in the Superbowl? --DT101
A: I know the Cowboys won't be playing the Patriots because they lost, sorry about that. The cheating fiasco, my feelings are, if you cheat you need to be reprimanded, you need to be disciplined, I don't know what that means. The NFL obviously thought it meant fining them and um, taking away draft picks. That's fine and dandy, but I think some guys have spoken on that. When you cheat you should be reprimanded. Whether it's taking away of games, whether it's discipline that you just can't write a check about or lose a draft pick about. It's definitely more severe. We see jail time now for people just lying, this is cheating you don't see and jail time. You don't see this situation. Should there be an asterisk? Minimum you have to at least put in paranthesis, I mean theyre doing it with the whole baseball era, they're doing it with the steroids, that was probably the (inaudible) of this. When it's all said and done if they go 19-0, they share space at the top with th '72 Dolphins. I think that's enough. Patriots fans think surely that the cheating didn't mean anything. If it didn't then they wouldn't have done it.
A: My favorite team to play for was the San Diego Chargers. It was great playing with Junior Seau. Learning how to be a professional and learning his work ethic which is by far the most tedious most stressful most uh physically exhausting situation to be in. He had this society he called Breakfast Club. And in the breakfast club you woke up every morning at 5:30 and worked out thirty minutes and this is before two a days and before practices and it was a tremendous workout where you were fine, actually financially fine for sweating dripping on benches uh for actually putting your hands on your knees for saying you were tired for showing you were tired. All those kinda things so, it was just a great environment. Rodney Harrison was there, Curtis Conway. Just great guys would be in the locker room with me. My favorite opposing town to visit was Buffalo, that's where I started my career. That's where the fans still have total love and faith in their team...the fanamonium, exists even for old players like myself when we returned to town.
Q: On Mike & Mike in the Morning in recent weeks, you described Bill Parcells as a great X's and O's guy, but said he fell short on the Y's. Can you expound on both comments? -- Hostile
A: Parcells is a take me as I am coach, my way or the highway. He's the best, the best teacher of X's and O's and a talent in the NFL. He just knew every player at every position he knew their talents, their weaknesses. He could talk about the kickers, he knows the sport he didn't make the transition when the players changed. The players have changed since he started coaching in the NFL. When he had his most success there was no free agency, guys weren't making 20-30 million dollars a paycheck. Guys stayed with the same team they believed totally in. There was a loyalty of from the team and players. That's changed now, guys are coming in with more of a free spirit. More of a confidence in their own abilities and they want to be trusted. They wanna say ok, let me put my signature on this team, instead of this team putting a signature on me. I have to be a role model, well that came to a head when Parcells came into contact with this generation X of players, so I would say his mentallity is "I'm not gonna explain myself." "I'm not gonna give you the why's." That's why I made those comments about Parcells, it was nothing to slight him. It was just to see the culture has changed and the dynamic has changed. You have a situation where, now he's in a front office position removed from the players. He can focus more on the structure, as opposed to X's and O's of the team. I think that's just his role.
Q: Mr. Wiley, Thank you for taking the time to answer Cowboy Fan questions. You have been associated with both the San Diego Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys. Do you have any insight into how the Chargers organization felt about having there team raided of personel in the 2006 off season, how the players delt with that and what your thoughts might be for what the Cowboys might face in simular circumstances this off season? --ABQCOWBOY
A: The Chargers have a firm belief in the draft if you watch Buddy Nix and AJ Smith are all descendants of John Butler. His leading an organizations and his skills, this team they build a team from the inside out. With the talent they acquire every year in the draft, guys are going to raid their organizationbecause they know that's where the cubbard is going to be full. That's where the Chargers are and that's what they have been doing since they all came from Buffalo a few years ago. I don't think that they are too concerned, as long as the draft exists they're going to be able to restock. The other teams can get their sloppy seconds.
Q: Do you hate Bayless as much as us Cowboy fans do? Its obvious he hates the Cowboys and he sounds like a idiot trying to bash the Cowboys. Welker over T.O.? Eli over Romo for the next 5 years...? --Letemburn
A: No, I don't hate Bayless. You gotta understand he's one of the most positive nice people you can meet if you were not in front of the cameras. When he gets on camera man he gets his opinion across and he's strong minded and he's very articulate and he's going to speak his mind. He's not going to waver from that, uh, so I don't hate him. Off camera he's a great guy, on camera I can see where you're coming from. I call him a superstar hater because it's not just Cowboys. It's the LeBron James, Tiger Woods of the world. I call him a superstar hater. He's a great guy though. He doesn't take anything outside television.
Q: Mr. Wiley, First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. You played under Wade Phillips in Buffalo. How does he (and the Phillips 34 system) compare to playing for Bill Parcells in Dallas? Also, what was the general perception of the team in Buffalo of Coach Phillips (especially going through such controversies as the Flutie/Johnson QB debate, the Music City Miracle, an 0-2 playoff record, and ultimately his disagreement in dismissing the ST coach)? --Mavs Man
A: Umm...Well Wade's 3-4 system is more attacking. Parcells is more of a two gap...and let the linebackers fill those gaps coming off of those blocks. It's a difference because the line gets to come off the ball, and attack. You're able to stunt, move around, not let them catch you. Parcells is more of a hold up the offensive linemen and allow linebackers to make plays, so you can see the difference in that and how the players respond. Based on your position, I think a defensive lineman would enjoy a Wade Phillips scenario as well as linebackers would enjoy both. If you're a defensive lineman it's more to your advantage to be with Wade Phillips because you'll see you get a lot more opportunities to make some plays.
Q: What was it like playing in Buffalo? Not much social life in those parts? Did Parcells really sit you down early in training camp and ask you if you were on drugs? --Nors
A: It was great playing in Buffalo just because of the fandamonium. The love they have for their players cause there's nothing else going on up there. So, all the focus and love and attention goes toward the players. You can affect the mood of the community just by wins and losses. Uh, yeah Parcells really sat me down in training camp, well actually asked if I was on drugs was when we had our first meeting, after I signed my contract. He didn't show up to my press conference, so i went to his office, maybe before that. It was the same day. The first thing he said was how you doing sit down, Marcellus are you on drugs and that was the first thing and it came from his personal relationship with Lawrence Taylor like he said, he didn't want any thugs. He's more concerned with more than just the players, he's concerned with the person.
Q: Hey Marcellus, Impressive start to your broadcasting career. What do you see as the future direction for defenses in the NFL to be successful? --Coblue
A: Thank you um, for them to be successful they have to open their minds and playbook just as much as the offense are. You can see this year more so than ever that this is a pass happy league. You look at the Colts and you look at the Patriots and some of the teams are really becoming happy with the pass and then some of their running games are being dismissed in the favor of short passes. Well, there's a way to counter that and that has to happen with NFL on the defensive side of the ball. We went from a 4-3 to a 3-4, we went through that revolution. Someone has to slow down teams like the Patriots, they need to figure out the X's and O's of that situation. So, you might see a different defense outside of the 4-3, 3-4.
Q: Having played the game, what is the one thing that most people watching it on television never understand? --BARRYRAY
A: They never understand that when you see the game it's much more that meets the eye. It's much more than the person, which is the player you see. That sometimes guys don't really show their true colors and tru selves in the interviews and the media and that's not because they wanna hide it's just a total different social group in the lockeroom that exists everywhere else, so. You gotta remember there are guys who are in book clubs, there are nerds,there are quiet guys. It's not just the superstars, the big hitters, the aggressive athletes that we see all the time in the media. They're just normal guys who go home after practice, walk to Walmart, have kids in a stroller, play in a park. They're just normal guys and I think that sometimes gets lost in what sensationalize football players. On the field, not every guy is out there for aggression. Some guys just love it because they've been playing since they were seven. They have fun with it and that's just what it is. It's not a business to them. It's just another way to exercise and have fun. Exercise one of their talents that they've been doing their whole life.
Q: Mr. Wiley, Thank you for taking the time to answer Cowboys questions and congratulations on an outstanding beginning to your broadcast career. I noticed that you commented in a recent broadcast that coach Parcells was correct in moving you more toward run defense rather than as a pass rush specialist during your stay in Dallas. Do you think Parcells could have handled the matter in a more diplomatic way on a communication level at the time in order to make better sense of the transition? --ROYDESTROY
A: Yeah, I think he would have been better suited. I'm sure it wasn't uh, a malicious attempt to deceive me. I was brought in with a certain intention and desire. I obviously didn't live up to that and they wanted to make the transition and make a change. That's no problem with me ya know, it's communicated in the short and long term goal of it. I don't think that was communicated and I don't think I was receptive of it if it was. I don't blame them, I'm a big boy, I'm respectful of them. I was on the tail end of my career so, he saw something in me. I could play the run, I could play the run right now if the Patriots called, I could play the run. Getting around those guys, getting the pressure and sacks you know that's what seperates the good defensive ends in this league. I wish it was better communicated, but I also wish I was more receptive to receiving that message.
Q: Mr Wiley, How do you feel about the whole cheating fiasco with the Patriots, and the accusations by many fans that the refs call in the Patriots favor? And, how do you feel the Cowboys would fare against the Patriots if they met them again in the Superbowl? --DT101
A: I know the Cowboys won't be playing the Patriots because they lost, sorry about that. The cheating fiasco, my feelings are, if you cheat you need to be reprimanded, you need to be disciplined, I don't know what that means. The NFL obviously thought it meant fining them and um, taking away draft picks. That's fine and dandy, but I think some guys have spoken on that. When you cheat you should be reprimanded. Whether it's taking away of games, whether it's discipline that you just can't write a check about or lose a draft pick about. It's definitely more severe. We see jail time now for people just lying, this is cheating you don't see and jail time. You don't see this situation. Should there be an asterisk? Minimum you have to at least put in paranthesis, I mean theyre doing it with the whole baseball era, they're doing it with the steroids, that was probably the (inaudible) of this. When it's all said and done if they go 19-0, they share space at the top with th '72 Dolphins. I think that's enough. Patriots fans think surely that the cheating didn't mean anything. If it didn't then they wouldn't have done it.
