Parcells PC 1/3/2007 - Recap?

[Apollo Creed]

BP is a legend for being able to put up with half the crap thats gone on this year, and still get his team to the playoffs.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

No injuries - Reeves and Ratliff look good - may or may not play

Seahawk injuries and their affect on Bill's gameplanning - they are not changing scheme

Success against Alexander last year - doesnt matter for this game

Romo - taking care of ball is crucial, Turnovers beat us last week

Punt Returns - hurt us

O-line - played all 16 as complete O-line
Bill - is happy and thinks he is fortunate... they are well conditioned

Healthy team - validates your coaching methods?
Bill - keep them in BEST physical conditions
If you dont have team that is mentally tough you can lose your edge.
My team isnt beat up physically.. its a fine line to have that and not lose them mentally.
Gives credit to Joe Jurassic. Consistent weigh-in's weekly. Hasnt had weight fine in a long while.

You dont have many years left coaching? Do you cherish these times?
Of course, Yes. Opps are less. Gotta take advantage. Spoke to Mike and he feels the same way.

I havent thought about retirement yet. I am concentrating on task at hand.
Havent spoke to Jerry yet. We have an understanding when to talk about it.

How you perform over next few weeks affect your decision?
I would doubt it. Its not about a few weeks period. Its about whether you feel like you want to go through it again.

Whats your energy level?
I dont know you tell me. After game I was disappointed. That doesnt assess my energy for the season or remainder etc...

Lions game - Lowest point.
It was the lowest point BECAUSE we gave it away. Not for any other reason.

Maybe go to coach a college team like Saban. No that aint happening.

Do you subscribe to theory that big time players come up big in big games?
Yeah I do but not the level of what you guys write about. Unrealistic.

Do you expect more from Terrell?
I expect more from everyone. Solid play. Doesnt want any players to do anything stupid.

good solid play and we have a chance to win... without it we wont

Can you get more from Terrell in post season than in regular season?
I dont know as with any player if they(opposing teams) are determined to negate that individual they can make it very difficult to do. If they do that to Terrell then they have to deal with Terry and Jason etc... Its more difficult to do that against us now than it was a short time ago.

Have teams concentrated on TO and made it easier for Glenn and others?
I wouldnt say and inordinate amount of the time. There have been times that they have tried to take TO away and then there were times when they took chances. I wouldnt say an inordinate amount of time but I am not going to say it doesnt happen.

Has TO been as good as his numbers suggest?
He has been pretty solid.

When will you know about how your team will do? During week or gametime or when?
If you a football player... the situation you are in should take care of that. You should be ready.

December fades? Anything to it?
Not indicative of anything. Every year, team is different. You cant blanket statement those things. No pattern to see.

Better feel for this team than 3 years ago?
Oh yeah.. we have a much better team than then. We have atleast 150 more points than the Quincy team. 3 more points and we are 2nd in league in scoring. Offensively we are good. Would take this offensive every year.

We have had trouble on defense but its not 16 weeks of defense. Its the last couple of weeks.

Something about Romo and selffulfilling prophecy? If Romo hears something negative out of Bills mouth in PC will it happen?

Practiced outside in 44 degree weather with wet ball. Forecast calls for 44 degrees and rain.
Tony practiced with gloves.
Receivers are getting used to catching wet ball in practice.
Just tried to get everyone used to it.

I didnt tell players anything yet about the game.
Its not right time.

Then when? Before the game.

Watkins - have you seen enough that he could be a good safety?
Bill - yes. Always thought he had enough ability. Just needed time and experience.

Different players have different clocks... some get it sooner... some later...

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

BP is a legend for being able to put up with half the crap thats gone on this year, and still get his team to the playoffs.

Wow , well said ! Deal with the TO mess , bench your staring QB , lose your best rushing DE , can your kicker , and still make the playoffs !!!

Go back to training camp at the beginning of the season and lay out all the scenarios listed above . Then ask yourself if you think Dallas could make the playoffs ?

There's no doubt that this team is dealing with mediocrity right now , but it has very little to do with the head coach .

 

[peplaw06]

Wow , well said ! Deal with the TO mess , bench your staring QB , lose your best rushing DE , can your kicker , and still make the playoffs !!!

Go back to training camp at the beginning of the season and lay out all the scenarios listed above . Then ask yourself if you think Dallas could make the playoffs ?

There's no doubt that this team is dealing with mediocrity right now , but it has very little to do with the head coach .

The problem with that is most of that stuff happened early in the season. The Ellis loss and K fiasco were midway through, and we were still on a decent winning streak. The week after the kicker was changed, we won our 4th in a row.

I think the Ellis situation can explain some of the drop off of the D at the end of the year, but the rest of that stuff was pretty much resolved.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

The problem with that is most of that stuff happened early in the season. The Ellis loss and K fiasco were midway through, and we were still on a decent winning streak. The week after the kicker was changed, we won our 4th in a row.

I think the Ellis situation can explain some of the drop off of the D at the end of the year, but the rest of that stuff was pretty much resolved.

err.... we changed kickers for game 12. I see what you mean though... the kicking fiasco....

 

[Dcz84]

With Seattle's injury's will you game plan different?? No we wont !!! That say's it all right there.

 

[AbeBeta]

With Seattle's injury's will you game plan different?? No we wont !!! That say's it all right there.

Yeah. Maybe he should just tell the press exactly what he's going to do. Is that what you want?

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Yeah. Maybe he should just tell the press exactly what he's going to do. Is that what you want?

Understood....

But... he could be serious :bang2:

 

[Juke99]

Sorry...fellas but I'm goin' for it.

"You are what your record says you are"

Better team than 2003?
oh yeah, much better... how many points did we score in 03, we have at least 150 more points than 03, I don't know exactly... the year before they had 217, we now have 425, three more and were 2nd in the league, potentially offensively we've produced very good #s

 

[silver]

With Seattle's injury's will you game plan different?? No we wont !!! That say's it all right there.

well, if he is, he's not gonna tell them before hand.

 

[silver]

good news on reeves and ratliff. it's obvious we need all the bodies we can get on defense.

 

[AbeBeta]

well, if he is, he's not gonna tell them before hand.

Honestly, I don't think we go with a radically different plan. This is a team built, at least in theory, for ball control. The forecast is for rain and cold in Seattle -- that doesn't strike me as a situation that lends itself to deep passing.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

Thanks for the recaps, guys.

Some VERY interesting things in this one.

 

[MetalHead]

The problem with that is most of that stuff happened early in the season. The Ellis loss and K fiasco were midway through, and we were still on a decent winning streak. The week after the kicker was changed, we won our 4th in a row.

I think the Ellis situation can explain some of the drop off of the D at the end of the year, but the rest of that stuff was pretty much resolved.

The kicking has been a problem.
But on the Ellis situation,I disagree.
I have a very difficult time believing that the loss of one player who just changed positions,and who never has had double digit sacks can affect a defense so much.It's something else.
Those players on D are lost.
Case in point:
Look at the play where Watkins got the INT.
The D line didn't know the formation.They were all confused and Kitna saw it and hurried the snap.
He got greedy and lucky for us Watkins made a play.
The players don't know the defensive calls!
Fergie allegedly said it and we saw it first hand.
Who is leading these men???

 

[Dave_in-NC]

the only thing that is "crap" is the level of play of this team

It's not "crap" to expect more than mediocrity from a coach in his 4th yr here, thats picked all the players and does all the schemes and has been paid around 20 million to do so

what is "crap" IMO is fans that think mediocrity for our team is somehow now acceptable or even some kind of "excellence" because the team sneaked into the playoffs with a lousy record after playing horrible football for the past 5 weeks

David

Or this crap. Two trick pony.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

The kicking has been a problem.
But on the Ellis situation,I disagree.
I have a very difficult time believing that the loss of one player who just changed positions,and who never has had double digit sacks can affect a defense so much.It's something else.
Those players on D are lost.
Case in point:
Look at the play where Watkins got the INT.
The D line didn't know the formation.They were all confused and Kitna saw it and hurried the snap.
He got greedy and lucky for us Watkins made a play.
The players don't know the defensive calls!
Fergie allegedly said it and we saw it first hand.
Who is leading these men???

Flo out last season. one man huge change. It does happen. Yes Ellis changed positions, it was a great move.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Good to hear his appraisal of Watkins. My guess is that he IS the starting FS next year and we do not blow a high draft pick on one.

 

[Smith22]

Those players on D are lost.
Case in point:
Look at the play where Watkins got the INT.
The D line didn't know the formation.They were all confused and Kitna saw it and hurried the snap.
He got greedy and lucky for us Watkins made a play.
The players don't know the defensive calls!
Fergie allegedly said it and we saw it first hand.
Who is leading these men???

Good question. We need leaders on defense, NOW!

It comes down to 2 things I suppose, either enough of the players on defense don't give a damn or they just aren't buying in to the system. The only other option is that our coaching staff somehow hasn't noticed our last 3 home performances by the defense.

Something has to give........

 

[dbair1967]

Or this crap. Two trick pony.

for all you that keep beating up posts that slam Parcells, do you think he has done a GOOD job? What argument do you have other than the same, tired b/s of "well we were 5-11 three straight years with Campo"

facts are facts...the team is no better record wise in year 4 than we were in year 1 with Parcells...we havent won a division title or a postseason game, every yr he has been here we are far worse at the end of the season than at the beginning...the defense is the worst we have seen in years, maybe ever from our team...I've watched this team since 1975 and cant ever recall seeing a 5 game stretch where the defense was this pathetic

if you want to blame it on the players either being 1) not talented or 2) stupid, then you have to blame the guy that picked all of them, because he IS picking all these guys and in 4 years if all he is going to pick are bad players that he cant coach up, what good is he?...

or if you agree with me that he has done a good job upgrading the roster, you then also have to agree that he is doing a poor job coaching them because the talent is there to be better than this on the field

either way, he is a liability to the franchise at this point

David

 

[peplaw06]

for all you that keep beating up posts that slam Parcells, do you think he has done a GOOD job? What argument do you have other than the same, tired b/s of "well we were 5-11 three straight years with Campo"

facts are facts...the team is no better record wise in year 4 than we were in year 1 with Parcells...we havent won a division title or a postseason game, every yr he has been here we are far worse at the end of the season than at the beginning...the defense is the worst we have seen in years, maybe ever from our team...I've watched this team since 1975 and cant ever recall seeing a 5 game stretch where the defense was this pathetic

if you want to blame it on the players either being 1) not talented or 2) stupid, then you have to blame the guy that picked all of them, because he IS picking all these guys and in 4 years if all he is going to pick are bad players that he cant coach up, what good is he?...

or if you agree with me that he has done a good job upgrading the roster, you then also have to agree that he is doing a poor job coaching them because the talent is there to be better than this on the field

either way, he is a liability to the franchise at this point

David

I think you need to make up your mind....

The only argument that has any merit as to why Parcells is a liability to this franchise is the fact that the defense has been bad the past 4 games or so. I'll accept that, just to play devil's advocate.

So who's fault is that? We all know you're the "leader of GROZ..." Is the defensive ineptness over 4 games Z's fault, or BP's?

If it's BPs fault also... a thought I'm assuming you subscribe to... then who is to credit for the #1 defense of 2003, or the top 10 ranked defense we saw at the beginning of this season?

Lemme guess, you don't want to give Parcells credit for that?

But you do give Parcells credit for upgrading the talent on this team (which only an invalid would deny). Well, at what point should talent take over, and start to play up to par?

Our offensive talent is also much better than it was under Campo... Hambrick, Hutch, Hambrick vs. Romo, TO, Glenn, JJ, MB3, Witten. And guess what, they're actually PLAYING like they have more talent. Who gets credit for that?

If you stay true to your little campaign slogan -- "Parcells is a liability to this franchise" -- BP gets no credit for that. So who is it? You can't have it both ways. He's the head coach... He's not the DC, nor is he the OC. You can't ignore one entire side of the ball because the defense has had a few of bad games.