Maybe we're all just stupid and Parcells hasn't really done crap to fix this team in his 2 (going on 3) years- but the exact opposite.
Maybe the Cowboys are like an ophanage and the types of players that work best here are the reject types that Parcells "high-moral" ground has been disbanding since day 1.
Now Julius is a definate upgrade over T-Ham...but are Keyshawn and Drew (+Vinny), really that much better, if much any atall, then who they replaced....Galloway and Quincy?
Think about the past..
Aikman was too hick.
Smith was too small and too slow.
Irvin was too flamboyant and full of himself.
...yet they became our treasures.
Now lets think what may have happen to those three players had Bill been here...
And Aikman is about the only one of the three that I could say Parcells would have likely drafted or even kept. Which is a stretch still- an overall #1 like that Parcells probably would have went Defesive Tackle.. Never would have drafted a player like Emmiitt and before year one training camp him Irvin probabably would have gotten into a confortation or Bill realized about his "party habbits" and traded him.
...and the Apple Dumpling Gang never happens in Big D. The first sign of the word "triplets" we hear is in Indy. Troy just an average QB without his other 2 parts of the Triplet magic, retires after his first few concussions....no need to go on, never won anything signifciant in his football career under Bill anyway. (Oh, made it too a super bowl, but lost- like Drew)
Emmitt, so slow and small, unable to handle the cold or punishment he's taking in Green Bay's frozen tundra week after week, makes it to a mear 5,000 yards and without the drive of the Star pushing him to excel, retires.
Irvin, a league wide disgruntle wherever he goes, still remains a fan favorite... Only just like the lost legacy of Dieon Sanders, it happens for MANY teams over the course of his career after being booted out of training camp that rookie year by Mr. Tunaman.
Down in Big D, we have our glorified "high-moral" team that Bill always strives for, but aint won crap in 20 years. No 3 out of 4 because Bill dismantled our team from the inside out, never drafted those that belonged in Cowboys uniforms, and cut the rest.
In closing... Simply because one style works one place, doesn't mean it will work everywhere. Bill Parcells could be the anti-coach to a team like Dallas. All I do know though....is so far he surely hasn't been any sort of savior for this team- and there Are players most of us thought were the future of this team, only for him to discard them like yesterdays trash simply because they didn't see eye to eye on everything. Bryant and Ross come to mind immediatly. And hate it if you want, but Quincy, for us, was a better quarterback then either Vinny and possibly Drew.
It very well may have been his destiny.
And come on, a "high" busdriver is a helluva lot safer to be behind then an "eldery" busdriver. Lol. Drew is really no spring chicken either. Yet, there is still a possibility that in the one year Quincy was here, that he equals the next two years/qb's winning totals. 4-12 is not out of the realm of possibilty for this team this year even as much as people would like to think the other way.
I hate to say it but I think the only way we truly look better as a team (as evidence so far states by actions) is at TE and RB and Possession WR. Defense is really still up in the air...and all that's known now is that it went from #1 to #zillion to 3-4 scheme in the short processes of a few months tied together representing a year and a half. And our Oline has had what, one, upgrade?
Bill's "Potential" is all nice 'n dandy, but this is the do or die year for him. In fact, don't expect him to retire or quit if this year goes bad....expect Jerry to fire him.
The writing is on the wall....only so far it hasn't drawn to appealing of a picture. Like the thread started off saying.. What, we can win with Quincy and T-Ham but we can't win any other way Bill has tried..............
