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Ok, I dont know if this has been mentioned already but this was in a recent article...
"I really give credit to my teammates, the coaching staff and the people within the organization for believing in themselves, continuing to battle week in and week out even when everybody else was counting us out,” he said.
Philadelphia coach Andy Reid kept his spirits up with some encouragement from a surprising source.
“Coach Parcells called me up and told me not to be pessimistic,” Reid said. “He relayed to me the story of about when (Phil) Simms went down and they had the quarterback change and they kept on winning at a championship-caliber level. If I had any plan of keeping my head down, he took care of that.”
Say what you want about potentially helping a division rival. To Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, sharing the story of his 1990 New York Giants was treating a younger coach the way older coaches had treated him.
“There’s kind of like a little kinship even though you’re rivals,” Parcells said. “When I was a young coach in this league, several of the more senior coaches, several, not all but several, took time for me. I’m not trying to be corny or anything, but I made up mind that if I was ever in that spot I would always do that for any young coach, and I have done that.”
Considering how things have turned out, does he regret it?
“No,” Parcells said. “If you’ve got to be doing something on Christmas, it might as well be something important.”
I think it's great about helping others and I understand its just football, but good grief, does he have to really give encouragement to a division rival? Perhaps I am being too extreme.
"I really give credit to my teammates, the coaching staff and the people within the organization for believing in themselves, continuing to battle week in and week out even when everybody else was counting us out,” he said.
Philadelphia coach Andy Reid kept his spirits up with some encouragement from a surprising source.
“Coach Parcells called me up and told me not to be pessimistic,” Reid said. “He relayed to me the story of about when (Phil) Simms went down and they had the quarterback change and they kept on winning at a championship-caliber level. If I had any plan of keeping my head down, he took care of that.”
Say what you want about potentially helping a division rival. To Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, sharing the story of his 1990 New York Giants was treating a younger coach the way older coaches had treated him.
“There’s kind of like a little kinship even though you’re rivals,” Parcells said. “When I was a young coach in this league, several of the more senior coaches, several, not all but several, took time for me. I’m not trying to be corny or anything, but I made up mind that if I was ever in that spot I would always do that for any young coach, and I have done that.”
Considering how things have turned out, does he regret it?
“No,” Parcells said. “If you’ve got to be doing something on Christmas, it might as well be something important.”
I think it's great about helping others and I understand its just football, but good grief, does he have to really give encouragement to a division rival? Perhaps I am being too extreme.
