Bill Parcells, a consultant to the Miami Dolphins, is taking his Team Rehab show on the road once again. The well-traveled NFL head coach, general manager, consultant and talent evaluator's next gig will be under the studio lights at ESPN.
Parcells, who was with the Dolphins organization since 2007, will be joining ESPN for a third time as host of a program about the NFL draft.
The taped hour-and-a-half special titled "Bill Parcells Draft Confidential" will give viewers inside look at the NFL draft process. Parcells' thirty years of NFL experience will give fans an insider's perspective as how the draft works.
The 69 year-old team fixer-upper will break down how football teams evaluate players and "how difficult it is to draft successfully."
Parcells may want to explain to Dolphin fans how he let quarterback Matt Ryan slip through his hands a few years ago. Instead, he drafted a great offensive tackle in Jake Long, but the bane of the Miami teams during his tenure was the lack of a good or injury-free signal-caller.
The Big Tuna, named for his once-rotund body and penchant for the sandwich, had a reputation as a great coach and team flipper. He twice turned the three-win 1983 New York Giants into Super Bowl Champions during seven years, and took the New England Patriots to another in 1996.
Parcells' magic touch started to fade after coaching the New York Jets and the Dallas Cowboys. He left both teams in flux before moving to Miami as the V.P. of Football Operations.
The Dolphins were 11-5 his first year and won the AFC East title, but the team never met expectations the next two years. He passed the V.P. job to Jeff Ireland before last season and stayed on as consultant.
Where Parcells lands after this is any one's guess. He has "retired" before due to health reasons or refusing to cow-tow to a flamboyant owner, but his football I.Q. is still in high demand. Even the label 'egomaniac' won't scare away prospective suitors.
ESPN could keep Parcells on it's analyst roster. He has broadcast experience and done it many times before. Parcells worked with NBC for two years and co-hosted a weekly show with Mike Francesa in New York, where he is still idolized by Giants fans.
It's a good bet Parcells will be netted by a struggling team needing a quick-fix and turnaround. The lure of the game is too strong for the coach.
It'll be interesting to hear Parcells' calculations on the Carolina Panthers first draft pick--quarterback or lineman? The former linebackers-coach has a soft-spot for lineman. Look how hard he rode Phil Simms and threw roses at L.T.'s feet during the Giants championship years.
I just wonder if Parcells regrets not taking Ryan and if he had taken the quarterback instead of Long, would he still be Miami?
The show airs Tuesday, April 26 at 9:30 ET.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Giants Host Dolphins at Meadowlands Practice Facility
The New York Giants invited the Miami Dolphins into their training facility tomorrow to help them prepare for the Dolphin's Sunday afternoon game against the Giants co-tenants, the New York Jets. While the Jets head coach Rex Ryan was burying a jinxed football outside his team's practice facility yesterday, the Jets owner, Woody Johnson, was digging up negative feelings between the two New York teams who share one stadium.
Giants co-owner, John Mara said he didn't contact the Jets owner because he felt it was just a simple case of civility. Jets fans think it sounds fishy that their New Meadowlands roommates would turn their practice field into a northern version of Sea World right before a big game against their AFC East division rivals. All that's missing is Miami consultant--and former Giant and Jet coach--Bill "Big Tuna" Parcells performing a Shamu act.
The Giants agreed to allow the Dolphins team use of the indoor field almost a month ago. Mara said he wishes he contacted the Jets before the invitation. The Dolphins head coach, Tony Sparano, is the Giants former defensive coordinator.
Johnson did phone Mara and voiced his displeasure at his alleged friend's version of "Three's Company." Mara said he told Johnson he wished he called first and said, "We have a long partnership that's going to last for many years and the last thing I want to do is get them upset about an issue like this." Johnson has made no public comment.
Jets fans disagree. They have always felt like illegal squatters in the Meadowlands. It goes back to the days of trying use green bunting to hide the blue walls of the old Giants Stadium to recent disagreements with the design of the new stadium before it was completed.
The fans claim they are the stadium's second-class citizens and are still irked by the "rigged" secret coin toss, which decided the team who would pop the cherry of the New Meadowlands Stadium by hosting the first regular season game.
Mara should have taken the Jets inferiority complex into consideration before making the Dolphins--one of the Jets sworn enemies--comfortable. The Jets might view this as revenge for opening up a multi-stitch gash in Giants quarterback Eli Manning's head during last summer's pre-season game. Ryan was asked if he was angry about the Giants' hospitality and only remarked, "Officially? No." The usually vocal coach then added, "It's their facility, they can do anything they want with it."
Ryan wasn't so generous later and said, "I don't want anyone using our facility but us. When we have the Super Bowl [in the Meadowlands] I'm going to make sure we're in it...I don't want anyone in the facility but us."
While New York sports radio was burning with pissed Jets callers, the Giants players took it in stride. "It's cool," said Giant wide-out, Steve Smith, "They'll bring a little South Beach love here."
Sparano brought the Dolphins to New York early, not so much as a sneak attack, but more of a bonding outing for his team. They plan to see the Broadway show "Lombardi" and get acclimated with the cold weather. In an indoor practice field? Mara also mentioned his son is an associate producer on "Lombardi." Maybe the Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez--a noted Broadway buff--is a little jealous?
After all was said and done, the Jets and Giants owners made up. In a Jets fan's warped vision, it is still a Giants town. Forty-two years without a Super Bowl appearance can make a person greener than the Jets uniform. Maybe the Jets ought to roll out the red carpet for the Philadelphia Eagles next week, right before they play the Giants. Sanchez can take them to see "Elf."
The Giants agreed to allow the Dolphins team use of the indoor field almost a month ago. Mara said he wishes he contacted the Jets before the invitation. The Dolphins head coach, Tony Sparano, is the Giants former defensive coordinator.
Johnson did phone Mara and voiced his displeasure at his alleged friend's version of "Three's Company." Mara said he told Johnson he wished he called first and said, "We have a long partnership that's going to last for many years and the last thing I want to do is get them upset about an issue like this." Johnson has made no public comment.
The fans claim they are the stadium's second-class citizens and are still irked by the "rigged" secret coin toss, which decided the team who would pop the cherry of the New Meadowlands Stadium by hosting the first regular season game.
Mara should have taken the Jets inferiority complex into consideration before making the Dolphins--one of the Jets sworn enemies--comfortable. The Jets might view this as revenge for opening up a multi-stitch gash in Giants quarterback Eli Manning's head during last summer's pre-season game. Ryan was asked if he was angry about the Giants' hospitality and only remarked, "Officially? No." The usually vocal coach then added, "It's their facility, they can do anything they want with it."
Ryan wasn't so generous later and said, "I don't want anyone using our facility but us. When we have the Super Bowl [in the Meadowlands] I'm going to make sure we're in it...I don't want anyone in the facility but us."
While New York sports radio was burning with pissed Jets callers, the Giants players took it in stride. "It's cool," said Giant wide-out, Steve Smith, "They'll bring a little South Beach love here."
Sparano brought the Dolphins to New York early, not so much as a sneak attack, but more of a bonding outing for his team. They plan to see the Broadway show "Lombardi" and get acclimated with the cold weather. In an indoor practice field? Mara also mentioned his son is an associate producer on "Lombardi." Maybe the Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez--a noted Broadway buff--is a little jealous?
After all was said and done, the Jets and Giants owners made up. In a Jets fan's warped vision, it is still a Giants town. Forty-two years without a Super Bowl appearance can make a person greener than the Jets uniform. Maybe the Jets ought to roll out the red carpet for the Philadelphia Eagles next week, right before they play the Giants. Sanchez can take them to see "Elf."
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