As a GM? No way Bill watches away from the sideline , hes a hands on guy Source: Parcells could be in Dolphins mix By Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports October 25, 2007 If Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga decides to make significant changes this offseason, don't be surprised if Bill Parcells surfaces as a top candidate to help in a resurrection of the 0-7 team. While such change is purely speculative and premature at this time, a source close to Parcells said it's completely logical. "It makes a lot of sense that the Dolphins would be a job he'd be very interested in if it came open," a source close to Parcells said Friday. "But only as the GM. I don't think he'll ever coach again." Huizenga told The Miami Herald last week he is not only unhappy with the state of the team this season, but that he would have the team conduct "internal self-studies" before he made decisions on the future of both general manager Randy Mueller and first-year coach Cam Cameron. Huizenga expressed his unhappiness again earlier this week at the NFL fall meetings in Philadelphia. However, Huizenga said he hadn't spoken with Parcells since playing golf with the former coach in the spring at Huizenga's private course, The Floridian, in Stuart, Fla. "That idea (of hiring Parcells) is a shock to me," Huizenga said. If the internal evaluations lead to massive change by Huizenga, Parcells, who is currently an analyst for ESPN, would be a logical candidate on a number of fronts. Parcells has great respect for Huizenga and the owner's style of not interfering with the football operations. While that doesn't make Parcells unique in the football world, he also has developed a social relationship with Huizenga. In addition, Parcells spends a lot of time in South Florida, particularly in the offseason because of his love of horse racing and baseball. For Huizenga, the move would be logical because he has always preferred a "star" system for running the Dolphins, putting one person in charge of the entire football operations. Since 1993, when Huizenga bought the team, that person has normally been the coach, as Huizenga had with Shula, Jimmy Johnson, Dave Wannstedt and Nick Saban. This is only the second year in which Huizenga has had a GM/coach set-up. The other time he did that was in 2004 with Wannstedt and Rick Spielman. That season was a disaster, starting 1-8 before the firing of Wannstedt and ultimately finishing 4-12. The catch is that Parcells likely doesn't want to coach again and would probably only want to be in an executive role. Parcells, 65, was general manager of the New York Jets in 2000 after retiring as coach. Also, according to a book published this fall, he held a private meeting with Giants executives late last season while coaching the Dallas Cowboys. Parcells expressed interest in succeeding Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, who retired after last season. Parcells, who won two Super Bowls as coach of the New York Giants in the 1990s, has been adamant about running the football operations since becoming the Patriots head coach in 1993. Parcells has coached the Jets and Cowboys since then, retiring from Dallas after last season. All of that said, Parcells has been wildly unpredictable throughout his career, ranging from changing his mind at the last minute in 1992 about coaching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to leaving the Patriots after leading them to the Super Bowl in the 1996 season. While with the Patriots at the Super Bowl in New Orleans that year, Parcells was calling the Jets to work out a contract.
ugh. I'm a Dolphin fan and that doesn't even excite me. I think we just have to purge the problems left over from the Saban era. The draft we had wasn't that bad, so i would another year or two before i make a GM change. i dunno, it seems rather hopeless at this point anyway
Fat Bill always wanted to work in Florida, period. Now that Coughlin may not get sh*t-canned, I'm thinking his options with the Giants are dwindling. But who is to say. Plenty of season left for the Giants to lose their next nine games.
I didn't expect much out of the Jets this year, but I didn't expect them to be this bad. I didn't think the Dolphins would do well this year, but I didn't think they'd be as bad as they are, either. Imagine Jets fans and Dolphins fans crying in their coffee together. What the hell is the world coming to, I ask you. I feel itchy all over now. Pass the sugar.
Who cares, aside from one draft with the Jets he has did not draft that well here. If you have 4 first rounders, I shudder to think how bad of a gm you are if you can not find at least a couple of good players. Seriously, the Dolphins are a complete mess. Nothing short of blowing up the organization and starting from scratch is going to help them. Parcells will be gone in a couple of years there anyhow. He is not a long term solution for any team.
Hehe, the Parcells promotion team is on the job! Note that this idea came from a source close to Parcells. My guess is Parcells will try to turn around one more team before he's done. The Dolphins would be as good a choice as any.
Turn around what? He only WON the Big One with the Giants. Don't get me started on this Fat Slob. Oh, I'm sorry, it's Phat Slob.
The Tit Man has no options with the Giants, either as GM or head coach. The Giants promoted Jerry Reese to GM after Accorsi retired. Furthermore, the Giants won't stoop so low as to high an ex-Jets coach to coach their team even if said coach is also an ex-Giants coach. I surely hope the Giants don't collapse this year. They or Washington had better win the NFC East. It's bad enough the Patriots are doing what they are doing. I cannot stomach the faggy Cowboys.
Now you listen here, Mr. Hissy. I ALWAYS hated the Cowboys. But - and here's the big butt, although I don't have one - I can't say I don't root for them against the Giants. Makes me want to vomit to do such a thing, but there it is. I mothafuggin' hate the Giants so much, I can't even describe it. As to re-hiring Man Teats in any capacity, I had it in my head that was the Giants next move after giving Coughphlegm the boot. Ya know, if things didn't open up in a warmer clime. I have a suspicious mind.
Parcells has turned around (i.e. made from losers into winners) every franchise he has coached. Giants, Pats, Jets and Cowboys were all sadsack losers when he took them over and winners when he left. Pre-Parcells year to Parcells 0 or +1: Giants 4-5 to 9-7, Pats 2-14 to 10-6, Jets 1-15 to 12-4, Cowboys 5-11 to 10-6. That's pretty amazing when you think about it. The composites for the 3 years before Parcells took over to the 3 years after are pretty good too: Giants 17-24 to 22-25-1,Pats 9-39 to 21-27, Jets 10-38 to 29-19, Cowboys 15-33 to 25-23. On average over three seasons Parcells teams have won 11 games more than you would expect them to based on their immediate history prior to him. The Dolphins would be his perfect closing act and unfortunately would embed us in the cellar while he was doing it.
That's all well and good and I'm aware of all of that, but this is why I couldn't care less about he's "done" for the Jets in particular. He came here to give the Jets a ring, and he didn't deliver. We were just as ringless at 12-4. Personally I'd love to pin Parcells up against the side of my garage with a dumptruck, but such is life. He bailed on his, that pear-shaped quitter. Hey, scr*w that guy.
Here's a horrible thought- If The Tit Man returned to coach the Jets in 2000, it's doubtful the Patriots would have hired Bill Belichick in 2000.
I disagree there, you think BB would have come back to be a DC rather than go be a HC? The biggest reason he left us in the first plac was b/c of Parcells so why would he want to continue to be his DC when he could have been a HC?
He hated that he left to coach the Jets b/c belichick for some reason hates the Jets. Even though belichcik was in the wrong hehates the Jets I believe for the way Parcells handled his "retirement" and what Steve Gutman said about him upon leaving.
