Parcells on Real Sports Tonight

[Alexander]

Please. Do me a favor. Recognize that simply not praising a person as "great" does not mean I don't think highly of them.

Excellent explanation.

Saying he "sucked bad AS A FOOTBALL COACH" you meant it in the best possible way and it truly conveys your sense of gratitude and high regard.

 

[theogt]

Excellent explanation.

Saying he "sucked bad AS A FOOTBALL COACH" you meant it in the best possible way and it truly conveys your sense of gratitude and high regard.

He was much more than just a football coach here. I appreciate what he did outside of Xs and Os. But in that regard, he's really just not good.

Sorry if by "football coach" it wasn't clear that I meant the Xs and Os, on the sidelines role.

 

[tyke1doe]

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.)

I don't either. I think it's just the last thing he remembers, and remembers how draining a season can be and then decides to quit.

Of course, if he has to blame anyone, he should blame himself for not attacking the Seahawks' beleaguered secondary.

 

[Beast_from_East]

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

Tuna convienently forgot that his boy Glenn is the one that fumbled the ball on his own 2 yard line for a safety.

Lets see, Glenn hands the Seahawks 2 pts on a silver platter and we lose the game by 1 point.

Glenn has just as much blame (more in my opinion) than Romo does for that loss.

Besides, it was Tuna and his genius game plan to not attack a secondary that signed guys off the street for that game. A freaking 5 yr old could have came up with a better game plan than that.

I also hated playing not to lose every week. The bottome line is that Tuna could not get it done, period.

 

[Beast_from_East]

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.

I also love how everybody says that kick was a game winner, revisionist history there. If I remember correctly, if we made the kick the Hawks still had over 1:00 on the clock and timeouts and all they needed was a FG.

Lets review the ending again, after Glenn fumbles the ball at his own 2 the refs call it a TD, but review shows the guy stepped out for a safety. We then free kick and the Hawks isolate Roy on their TE for an easy 7 from like 40 yards out.

Does anybody really think we could have kept the Hawks out of FG range with over a 1:00 left and they had timeouts also. Remember, our secondary totally sucked back then, thats kinda why we burned a 1st rounder and traded for Pac this offseason.

I am not saying we could not have stopped them, I am just saying that alot of people say that was a game winning FG, as if there was like 2 seconds left in the game. THAT WAS A GO-AHEAD FG, NOT A GAME WINNER.

 

[Beast_from_East]

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


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.

If we are going to give credit our for "finding Romo", the person who should get the thank you cards is Sean Payton, not Tuna.

Payton is the guy that liked Romo and convinced him to sign here in Dallas over Denver.

Giving Tuna credit for finding Romo is revisionist history at its finest

 

[Beast_from_East]

We need some more threads on why parcells sucks and How he held us back.

Its going to be interesting when the dolphins are contenders in the east and a solid franchise with the arrow pointing up by next year at this time.

It will be very interesting for me to read about because everyone hear keeps saying ireland and gaine have nothing to do with it cause parcells calls the shots, however in Dallas we had good drafts in spite of Parcells.

So when miami is winning I cant wait to hear how ireland is the main reason, I suppose all the people who keep saying he is parcells puppet will then switch their tune and credit ireland saying parcells is not around much.

Anyway carry on.

This site needs a special section. The why parcells sucks and it was just by chance Dallas became a powerhouse when he showed up. It would be the best.

Sorry Theebs, the Dolphins are going to suck like a Hoover next year. With Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas gone, I really dont see much talent on their roster. They will be lucky to win 5 games next year.

Also, they are in the same division as the Pats. They will not win the division until Brady retires and the chances of getting a wildcard in the packed AFC is slim and none for a long time for the Fish.

As far as if Tuna was good for the Boyz or not, I will leave everybody with one thought.

Wade Phillups basically took the same roster Tuna had and got 13 wins out of it. Yes we were one and done, just like in 2 of the 4 seasons Tuna was here, but I am just saying.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

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.

The best that could have happened for this team was Patrick Crayton being cut in the offseason, not Parcells leaving

 

[sago1]

Heck if it hadn't been for Romo we'd never have made the 2006 playoffs. After all, it was Parcells decision to stay with Bledsoe for 5 1/2 games before finally bringing Romo in.

 

[InmanRoshi]

I wonder what the correlation is between the fans who don't give Parcells credit and the ones that wanted to just ruin Romo by just "throwing him out there to see what he's got" when he wasn't ready? Of course, those same fans would have been the first ones trying to run him out of town when he predictably looked clueless out there. I wonder how many of those same fans are the ones who said "Why are we wasting our time with this spare undrafted free agent?" I wonder if these are the same stupid fans that were hollering and yelling when we passed on Aaron Rogers, because "We don't have a franchise QB on the roster!!!"

Not exactly a group of rocket scientists who really grasp the big picture, these guys.

 

[superpunk]

If we are going to give credit our for "finding Romo", the person who should get the thank you cards is Sean Payton, not Tuna.

Payton is the guy that liked Romo and convinced him to sign here in Dallas over Denver.

Giving Tuna credit for finding Romo is revisionist history at its finest

I almost forgot about how thankful I was that he brought Sean Payton aboard. I'm sure Payton is thankful, too. Thanks for the reminder!

 

[cowboys2233]

I almost forgot about how thankful I was that he brought Sean Payton aboard. I'm sure Payton is thankful, too. Thanks for the reminder!

Well, we might be able to split hairs about who found who, but anyone who can't see just how much better this team became under Parcell's watch is completely delusional.

If it's so easy, and Parcells just happened to fall into good fortune, how come this team continued to decline after Jimmy left...until Parcells got here? How does Parcells manage to build rock-solid teams everywhere he goes?

C'mon guys, you're not Philly fans -- you're supposed to be smarter than this.