Parcells on Real Sports Tonight

[CowboysFan73]

Not sure if this has been posted, but read this in today's USA Today...

"Parcells blames Romo miscue on retirement"

Bill Parcells will tell Andrea Kremer of HBO on Real Sports tonight (10 p.m.) that Tony Romo's inability to catch a snap for a field goal in the playoffs forced him into retirement.
According to a transcript sent out by HBO, Parcells had enough.
"We’d just lost to Seattle and I’m flying back,'' Parcells told Kremer. "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.”
It was the third time that Parcells retired.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2008/07/parcells-blames.html

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

If Romo is responsible for Parcells retiring, then we all owe Romo our sincerest gratitude.

That fumbled snap was the best thing that could've happened to this organization if thats the case.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

USA Today needs an editor and an English teacher.

Maybe he blamed the bobble for his retirement, but not on it.

(And for the record, I don't think Parcells was really saying the bobble alone made him retire.)

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

If Romo is responsible for Parcells retiring, then we all owe Romo our sincerest gratitude.

That fumbled snap was the best thing that could've happened to this organization if thats the case.

Amen!

 

[theogt]

If Romo is responsible for Parcells retiring, then we all owe Romo our sincerest gratitude.

That fumbled snap was the best thing that could've happened to this organization if thats the case.

Agreed.

 

[dmq]

Yeah and a missed field goal from the other team made him a legend. You've got to take the good w/ the bad.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

thank you Moxie!

 

[Hostile]

Oh joy, oh rapture.

 

[MetalHead]

Duane's at it again.
What a miserable little being.

 

[superpunk]

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122147

Good thread.

 

[CowboysFan73]

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122147

Good thread.

Thanks SP. I figured it had been posted but I guess I didn't search far enough back...

 

[superpunk]

Thanks SP. I figured it had been posted but I guess I didn't search far enough back...

No problem.

The more threads that get started on this iconic figure in Dallas Cowboys history, the better, I always say. You can never have enough threads reminding you how amazing Bill Parcells is.

 

[theogt]

No problem.

The more threads that get started on this iconic figure in Dallas Cowboys history, the better, I always say. You can never have enough threads reminding you how amazing Bill Parcells is.

Dude.

4 wide receivers. Base defensive package.

Glad he came. Glad he left.

I wouldn't call him great or amazing. He was a good short-term motivator with a penchant for making safe draft choices.

 

[superpunk]

Dude.

4 wide receivers. Base defensive package.

Glad he came. Glad he left.

I wouldn't call him great or amazing. He was a good short-term motivator with a penchant for making safe draft choices.

I too loved the way he reworked our roster from barely NFL-caliber to immensely talented. It's alot more fun being contenders in the NFC. We can only hope we get a little more production from the 2008 draft class than just a kicker.

 

[dcfanatic]

What a crock of ****.

Find me the quote where he says 'tony romo dropping that snap is the reason I retired'.

I recorded the interview.

To paraphrase. Putting in all that work and then going home after an event like that where 'all you have to do is make a FG and we win' was hard to take.

He didn't think he had it in him to go thru all that work once again.

 

[mbanx]

Thats exactly why he chose to retire :laugh2: He was the Alpha and Omega here but for some reason (which from this article was all Romo's fault). Starting Bledsoe the first six games had nothing to do with it like running a very "hold back" defense. Oh well he is Parcells he never makes bad decsions just bad choices. I love what Parcells did for this team but what a complete narcissict.

 

[theogt]

I too loved the way he reworked our roster from barely NFL-caliber to immensely talented. It's alot more fun being contenders in the NFC. We can only hope we get a little more production from the 2008 draft class than just a kicker.

Are you saying it took a lot of work to improve one of the worst teams in the NFL? I agree that he's not incompetent, but that's pretty much all you're saying when you say he improved the team from what it was. He essentially got us 4 more wins per season over a 5-11 team.

Yes, Bill Parcells was not incompetent. Was what he did here great? Impressive? No.

The single biggest reason this team was 13-3 and we're Super Bowl contenders is that Tony Romo is ridiculously good. And that was a complete fluke.

 

[superpunk]

Are you saying it took a lot of work to improve one of the worst teams in the NFL?

Sure it did. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it - and there's plenty of evidence of that not happening.

The single biggest reason this team was 13-3 and we're Super Bowl contenders is that Tony Romo is ridiculously good.

That's probably the thing I'm most thankful to Bill about. Taking a chance on an undrafted QB, developing him while the owner had already nominated a Michigan boy the heir apparent. I mean, if strong-willed Bill hadn't been there, who knows what direction Jerry would have went at QB? We might be in year 4 of the Drew Henson experiment by now.

It took some balls, but Bill did the right thing there, for sure. Phenomenal.

 

[theogt]

Sure it did. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it - and there's plenty of evidence of that not happening.

I agree that there are a lot of incompetent GMs in the NFL. Simply not being incompetent doesn't strike me as impressive, though.

That's probably the thing I'm most thankful to Bill about. Taking a chance on an undrafted QB, developing him while the owner had already nominated a Michigan boy the heir apparent. I mean, if strong-willed Bill hadn't been there, who knows what direction Jerry would have went at QB? We might be in year 4 of the Drew Henson experiment by now.

It took some balls, but Bill did the right thing there, for sure. Phenomenal.

What were his first words about Romo? If he ever saw game time he'd have every ball batted down? If he didn't think much of Henson, I can't say anything other than, well any competent person shouldn't have been impressed by anything he was doing either. I never understood what anyone saw in the guy. He was terrible.

It was pure dumb luck that Romo stuck around as long as he did. Thank goodness for drug habits, huh?

I can't believe Parcells was dumb enough to keep Bledsoe as the starter as long as he was. It was pretty disappointing those first 6 games.

 

[superpunk]

I agree that there are a lot of incompetent GMs in the NFL. Simply not being incompetent doesn't strike me as impressive, though.

Then I'm sure you're plenty impressed with what he was able to accomplish here.

What were his first words about Romo? If he ever saw game time he'd have every ball batted down?

Romo acknowledged something similar. Surely you can separate feelings then from feelings as Romo gained experience and allowed himself to be taught?

But that's getting off topic. Bill in a radio interview with Seattle media way back in 2004 said (when the Seattle personalities kept asking about Henson) "I've got another one down there you guys don't know about yet." Romo was identified, and was extended for a gigantic contract for an unproven backup.

Truly some amazing planning and foresight by Bill. Always good to reminisce.