Dolphins' Parcells will give his coaches room

Here's another one along the same lines.

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What he does know is he will not be calling first-year head coach Tony Sparano with suggestions during a game.

"No, absolutely not. You'll never have to worry about that," Parcells told Andrea Kremer of HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" in an interview that will air tonight at 10 p.m.

i wouldnt expect any different. as a coach, Parcells was always preaching about how hard it is to do your job as a head coach when you have someone meddling from above you.

Good. I'm tired of hearing about Parcells. I trust Parcells placed the right people in the jobs. Now let Ireland and Sparano do their jobs.

i don't really think he wants that responsibility any more. he has stated that he sees himself more as mentor at this point, allowing Ireland and Sparano to bounce things off of him. i'm sure that during the weeks prep, he will have a thing or two to add now and then, but i really don't think he has that coaches conviction any more.

Good read, but i'm sure he'll give Sparano advice every now and then

That never was a serious concern with Parcells. On game days with the Jets, he kept out of sight and quiet as a mouse, he wanted people to know that Al Groh ran the show on the game days.

The problem is that game days are 1 day out of 7, 16 weeks out of 52. The rest of the time, Parcells by all means appears to have his hands all over the team. He's in the war room on draft day making calls the same as Jeff Ireland. Ireland admitted in an interview that Parcells has to give the say on certain decisions in the organization. The players consistently talk about having spoken with Parcells about this or that. The players also consistently and openly defer to Parcells as their ultimate boss, and hardly mention Sparano or Ireland. When Vinny Cerrato calls Miami to trade for Jason Taylor...who did he talk to? Bill Parcells.

Eventually, this can bite you in the rear. The team KNOWS that Parcells is ultimately in charge...but on game day, he's nowhere to be found. On game day, it's all Tony Sparano. So what's the problem? Well, it's impossible to lose football games Monday (since we have no MNF games this year) through Saturday (with the exception of Thursday night games late in the year, beside the point). It's impossible to lose football games February through July.

The situation is set up to where Parcells can easily get ALL of the player credit for things that go right...and NONE of the player blame for things that go wrong. All of the things that have been going right so far, be honest how many times have you seen the players attribute those positive things to Jeff Ireland or Tony Sparano? How many times have you seen the press do the same? They all talk about Bill Parcells. But, when things go wrong...is Parcells going to be the one that takes the blame? I'm not so sure. Parcells has been practically deified, by the media and by the players. The logical conclusion, given the Tuna's mystique and reputation, is that when things go wrong...it's because the Tuna wasn't handling those things. When things go right in July, look at the way Parcells has this organization wound up! When things go wrong in September, what is this Sparano guy doing? Parcells wouldn't have coached the game like that. We'd have won the game if he had the headset on.

That's the problem I see with this situation, it's the problem I feared when Bill Parcells took over, and we'll just have to see how it plays out.

"gunn34 wrote:

Good. I'm tired of hearing about Parcells. I trust Parcells placed the right people in the jobs. Now let Ireland and Sparano do their jobs.

"DOLPHAN1 wrote:

i don't really think he wants that responsibility any more. he has stated that he sees himself more as mentor at this point, allowing Ireland and Sparano to bounce things off of him. i'm sure that during the weeks prep, he will have a thing or two to add now and then, but i really don't think he has that coaches conviction any more.

Yeah but it was him who engineered and handled the JT trade, not Ireland.

I don't think he'll interfere on Sundays though. however, come Monday, I'm sure they'll hear his thoughts :lol:

"jdang307 wrote:

Yeah but it was him who engineered and handled the JT trade, not Ireland.

I don't think he'll interfere on Sundays though. however, come Monday, I'm sure they'll hear his thoughts :lol:

To be sure, I'm certain that there will be a large Tuna sitting in a chair during film reviews of the games...:lol:

Sparano is a rookie HC, I'm glad he has Parcells around, but CK is right, if Parcells and Sparano are not on the same page, the players will be not know how to react or maybe say "yeah whatever" if they get mixed messages.