BREAKING NEWS: Bill Parcells Retires

[Redskinhog1963]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Al Saunders can coach, I'll leave it right there.

he is a good coach,but the better part of 2006,the skins looked like shit,but that was on both sides of the ball,and in the lockerroom too!i just wonder what type of offense the redskins would run if saunders did leave?

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Redskinhog1963

he is a good coach,but the better part of 2006,the skins looked like shit,but that was on both sides of the ball,and in the lockerroom too!i just wonder what type of offense the redskins would run if saunders did leave?

I think if Saunders left, we'd definitely see more of what we saw over the second half that made Betts so effective.

That being said, while I think Saunders is a candidate and a good offensive coach, I'm not 100% sold, as Matty pointed out, how good a head coach he would be. Could he be a good coach, probably so.

Would he be a playoff caliber coach, don't know?

[hesscl34]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

I think if Saunders left, we'd definitely see more of what we saw over the second half that made Betts so effective.

That being said, while I think Saunders is a candidate and a good offensive coach, I'm not 100% sold, as Matty pointed out, how good a head coach he would be. Could he be a good coach, probably so.

Would he be a playoff caliber coach, don't know?

Our luck he would leave and take the next team he coaches to the Superbowl.

[Longtimefan]

I was rather suprised to see Parcells step down and leave the team he built for someone else to coach. I'm convinced his decision to leave had more to do with TO than anything else.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I was rather suprised to see Parcells step down and leave the team he built for someone else to coach. I'm convinced his decision to leave had more to do with TO than anything else.

I don't think Jones is that dumb to let Parcells go over TO. Now if he feels that Parcells is not getting the job done then thats a different story.

[GhettoDogAllStars]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I don't think Jones is that dumb to let Parcells go over TO. Now if he feels that Parcells is not getting the job done then thats a different story.

I think it was more of a question of how much control Jones will give Parcells. It just came to a head on the TO issue.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I was rather suprised to see Parcells step down and leave the team he built for someone else to coach. I'm convinced his decision to leave had more to do with TO than anything else.

You're right. Parcells, Jones, nor T.O. won't ever admit that, but I think that's the case.

But more than T.O. as an individual, I think Parcells has been turned off, in part by the media and their need to always have news or a story to report. Training camps around the NFL have turned into mini dramas that almost appear to be driven by TV ratings. Also I think he's just flat out tired of the culture in today's NFL where individuals command more attention than the team. Parcells never said that, but I think he's tired of doing other things besides 'coaching'.

[AlvinWalton'sNeckBrace]

maybe his cankles were just tired from lugging all that weight around all day long...