Posted on 01/23/2007 10:07:40 AM PST by Perdogg
Is that all there was? Did the entire Bill Parcells in Dallas era add up to nothing more than a ho-hum 34-32 record and a pair of playoff losses in four years? Talk about much ado about very little. So much hype. So much hoopla. But a bit light on the fulfilled promise.
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In Dallas they went from 5-11 to 10-7, then to Quincy Carter's arrest to the bottom again.
The Cowboys were 5 & 11 for three straight years and 10 & 6 the first year with Parcells. At least he turned them back into a winning team and brought them to the playoffs twice.
In the NFL it generally takes 3 years to turn around a franchise. First year is about getting rookies some time to play and using whatever talent you had from the year before to build a team. Year two is your second draft and continued development of last year's rookies. Free agents making an impact as well and you shoot for a good year end close. Year three you have a 3rd draft with a mix of 2nd and 3rd year players and veterans. Since you drafted high prior to year one you got some star talent. Year two got you some good picks as well. The coaching staff is the one to out it together.
That Parcells teams show enough improvement to make the playoffs so quickly said something about his skills as a head coach.
I guess it takes more than a good coach.
We need great players, Romo will be one I think.
Parcells I think did pretty good here.
He put Chan Gailey to shame thats for sure.
I hope Jerry doesn't hire Bum Phillips Jr.
Whoever Jerry hires he's going to take back sole responsibility for the player personell decisions and the Cowboys will be right back at 5-11. Jerry Jones, an oil man, is going up against professional GM's, and he therefore loses.
I'm sorry to hear that. He'll ruin what Parcells built. That really sucks.
you're an OWNER....get yer a$$ up in the box seats, squeeze on some cheerleaders and STFU....
Didn't take good ol' T.O. long to shoot his mouth off. Team will be better off, "I" was not utilized properly, yada yada. Comments that serve no purpose whatsoever.
Parcells hasn't won anything since his days with the Giants. True, he got the Pats to the Superbowl...and then spent the two weeks before the big game negotiating with the Jets for a new job. He led the Jets and Cowboys from bad to mediocre. His need for attention was the only thing that kept the Tuna in the coaching ranks. His passion for winning seems to have waned about 20 years ago.
Was it just money that got him away from the Patriots??
I think the real villain in all of this was not Romo, or TO, but Quincy Carter. A lot people said that QC was a bad QB, but he was a very hard worker, he listened to Bill and did a pretty good job, even with a so so line. If Carter stayed cleaned, I think Dallas would have been in contention in 2004.
The Dallas team just fell apart. In 2003, he was blustery and mean, the team won, at the end of the 2005 season he just didn't care, it he was probably still in shock over the death of his brother.
I am sort of sad, because I can remember when he was young and active and now in 2007, during the Seattle game, he looked like he didn't know where he was.
The Jets went from 1-15 in 1996 to 9-7 his first year then 12-4 his second. They just missed going to the SB. They lost their starting QB on opening day in 1999 but still managed to finish the season on a 7-2 run with 4 in a row to close the season. Will McDonough of the Boston Globe said it was the best coaching job he had ever seem Fatso do.
Parcells screwed the Pats over royally though. Coming back to coach the Cowboys was a mistake.
How long do you give Joe Gibbs? Does he come back for the 2007 season?
Nope.
Coaches should not be coming back to the game after being out for a period longer than 3 years.
The last five games, it looked like the Tuna was unaware of how to attack the weakness of other teams. As if he had stopped studying game films entirely and relied on a game plan he found at the used book store.
I'm sure that wasn't the case. His game plans, however, were ineffective, invisible, and uninspired.
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