Cowboy Eye For The Parcells Guy

In My Humble Opinion
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Last night was MNF heaven.

In a game featuring the return of a division rival’s new coach to the city and stadium where he had previously won a couple of Super Bowl’s, the stage was set for a team and it’s fans to deliver an emotion-charged homecoming welcome and, hopefully, an ass whoopin’. What all viewers were treated to was one of the best contests the popular show has ever delivered.

The Giants hate the effing Cowboys and remember well their dominance in the much of the ‘90s. They’re not in the least bit saddened by the Boys later demise at the hands of Dallas’ unpopular, meddling owner. Any chance they’d have to rub their faces in some muddy New York turf would be met with great anticipation.

It certainly started off well for the home team as they picked off the Cowboy quarterback in the first quarter and returned it 30 yards for a touch, further placing his questionable legitimacy in doubt among the Dallas faithful. It looked like a rout with a side of whoopass was on it’s way.

But Dallas and quarterback Carter rallied and began to rack up points behind the obviously well thought out game plan of their coach, ex-Giant Bill Parcells. They led 20 to 7 at the half, conditions under which he’s gone on to lose the game twice while winning 38 times in the past.

However, New York wasn’t finished either and ran off 15 near the end of the 4th to tie with a couple of minutes left. Driving an inspired and confident offense near the end, Collins positioned the Giant kicker to make an easy chip for a 3 point lead, 32 to 29, with 11 freakin’ seconds left. Many headed for the exits.

Enter fate. As the squibb kickoff meandered toward the Cowboy pylon, it began to veer out of bounds and exited at the one yard line, thus giving the Boys the ball at the 40 with no seconds run off the clock. One quick completion later and the Cowboys kick a 52 yarder, good by a foot on the left, to send the game into OT. Beauty.

A drive, punt, punt and drive later and Cundiff kicks his 7th FG of the game to give Dallas and Parcells an unbelivable 35 to 32 heart stopping victory over his old team.

It was a great game, exciting and momentum swinging and at times very well played. It should firmly cement the acceptance of Parcells by the Dallas regulars and provide hope of many winning performances and playoff contentions in the near future.

But I’m hesitant. Something just doesn’t seem right.

Bill Parcells anywhere other than the sidelines of a northeastern team just seems wierd. Unnatural. Pigskin Koyaanisqatsi.

As much as I’d like him to stay, as sure as I am about the success he’d be bound to encounter, I just can’t believe this partnership is real and that it’s going to work long term. Something won’t let me embrace the pairing, something in the recesses of my mind says this is temporary and that his heart is still in New York and the rest of the Tuna will soon follow.

Am I alone here? Do others see the Texas match as just and good or is there a bond there that will someday bring Bill back New York way?

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I was shocked when I heard Tuna took the job, and I can’t get used to seeing him on the sidelines. I does seem horribly, terribly wrong in some indefinable way. I hope he comes back to a team that I don’t hate. It’s hard to root against him.

Now, a really interesting match-up would be if Phil Simms got off his ass and started coaching. Simms with the Giants and Tuna with the Cowboys? That would be something.

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Tom Landry was a NY Giants coach. Give it time…

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It is indefinable. I look at him pacing between the 40s and have this yearning to change something about the picture but I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.

Is it that he takes crap from no one and yet that’s Jerry Jones behind him in the owner’s box? Maybe, although I sure as hell (Gawd, thankfully!) didn’t see Jerry on the sidelines anytime during the game.

Landry had the genteel Clint Murchison as an owner. I positively cringe when I consider the personality conflict Parcells and Jerry Jones would have were it not for the gommon goal that brought them into close proximity.

I want it to be good. I’m not yet convinced it’s in harmony.

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Where the problem will raise its ugly head is when Parcells becomes a hero in Dallas and Jones can’t live with it. Last night was the first step in that process.

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I would rather see the overrated, pathetic excuse for a human being Billy Boy Parcells with a team I hate. Therefore I am glad he is with Dallas. Such a pity that they won last night. Hopefully they will lose all of their remaining games, and Billy the Cowardly Tuna’s career will end in utter disgrace. Then there will be no more talk about what a great coach he is, only the realization that he is nothing but a fraud who got lucky a couple of times.

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Jerrybear is there a story behind your feelings for Parcells? :confused:

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Nothing in particular, I just do not like the guy and think he is overrated. Greedy, no loyalty, blowhard, egomaniac…I mean, what is there to like about Billy Boy? I would compare him to Bobby Knight, but at least Knight was loyal to Indiana.

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He got lucky. That must be it. It can’t possibly have anything to do with coaching ability. As evidence, look at all the other teams that “luck” into conference championships and Superbowls. Happens all the time.

As a Giants fan, I was impressed with how disciplined the Cowboys played. I was blown away with the heart the team showed, especially Quincy Carter. All of these things point to a well-coached team.

But silly me, it was all just luck. Teams luck into “one of the greatest MNF games ever played” all the time.

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I’m awarding myself a prize for most uses of “all” in a post.

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To me, it’s both. I thought Parcells coached a very good game. He certainly had his team pumped up; I’ve never seen Quincy Carter play that well. I’m even aware of him playing well before, period. :wink: Dallas looked finished in the fourth quarter and hung on somehow.

That said, yes, they DID get lucky. Despite Carter’s performance, the Giants win the game if any of the following happen: 1) Shockey doesn’t drop an easy TD, 2) they run the clock down about ten more seconds before kicking that last FG, 3) their kicker doesn’t committ the MOST AVOIDABLE and STUPIDEST mistake in all of football by kicking the ball out of bounds. :smack: If any of those happen, Parcells coaches a good game (getting a much inferior team to compete very well), but still loses. That said, though, you make your own luck sometimes. They still had to do everything right to win, and they did. Part of being a good coach is getting your team in position to capitalize on those breaks when they get them.

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Not to defend Shockey, who I’m desperately trying to not think about, his TD drop didn’t matter…Ike scored two plays later in the same drive.

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Also, they would have had to call another play to run any more time off the clock. They used the entire play clock before calling timeout. It just happened to be that that left 14 seconds.

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I’d never seen Carter play that well either. Admittedly, I wasn’t in his camp before the game and after that bonehead interception in the first I was cussing him but good. Then he comes back and makes me eat crow. Parcells obviously is pouring a ton of effort into him and he just might make him a respectable talent. That’s al least one mentor relationship where they’re seeing immediate rewards.

The reunions Bill had with his old players before the game I think speaks volumes about how those he’s coached feel about the guy. There’s some pretty stellar exes out there that think the world of him as a coach and a person. I hope he’ll have the time to develop the same with his new charges.