2026 Random Cowboys Stuff Thread...

[Simpleton]

He really knew how to coach and prepare a football team. Especially how to set up communication between coaches, GM’s office, and scouts.

His specialty was Defense and STs, but he was way too conservative and not innovative in the passing game. Ran the ball obsessively

He was also largely the architect of the 2007 team that was one of our best teams in the post-SB era, and you could argue the 2009 team was mostly his as well.

 

[bbgun]

You have the QB to lose.

There's so many. @bbgun

Sir, I collect screenshots from the Zone, not Parcells quotes.

 

[ravidubey]

He was also largely the architect of the 2007 team that was one of our best teams in the post-SB era, and you could argue the 2009 team was mostly his as well.

Except I highly doubt he ever would have signed “the Player” without the Joneses involvement, and honestly Owens WAS the passing game from 2006-2008. Witten was Romo’s security blanket and himself a dynamic player at the time, but Owens was the reason we could threaten any defense and win.

He was also fixated on Marcus Spears over Demarcus Ware, which was another mistake fricking Jerry of all people had to save us from. But the scouts still found Canty, Hatcher, and Ratliff to fit Parcells’ designs. In 2006, as he neared the end, he forced us to draft Bobby Carpenter when the guy was hopeless as a pass rusher.

But Spears and Barbie aside, the guy knew how to work the league, finding diamonds a.k.a. “Friends of Bill” here and there in Aaron Glenn, Terry Glenn, and Mark Colombo. Colombo helped us dump Tucker and without that influence Gurode became a serious player.

He also recruited some of the best coaching talent of the time, bringing in Sean Payton when people had left him for dead under Jim Fassell, Tony Sparano, Todd Haley, Gary Gibbs, and Todd Bowles. Four were future HC’s and Gobbs was KC DC for a while and has still found work around the league. Parcells worked well with Mike Zimmer, until he made the change to 3-4.

Without Payton, we’d have never found and signed Tony Romo.

So while I don’t think he could have done it himself, that team never would have come close to contending without him. He changed the org forever, TBH.

 

[NoDak]

He really knew how to coach and prepare a football team. Especially how to set up communication between coaches, GM’s office, and scouts.

His specialty was Defense and STs, but he was way too conservative and not innovative in the passing game. Ran the ball obsessively

Sure. He was a good coach.

Still overrated, tho.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

Except I highly doubt he ever would have signed “the Player” without the Joneses involvement, and honestly Owens WAS the passing game from 2006-2008. Witten was Romo’s security blanket and himself a dynamic player at the time, but Owens was the reason we could threaten any defense and win.

He was also fixated on Marcus Spears over Demarcus Ware, which was another mistake fricking Jerry of all people had to save us from. But the scouts still found Canty, Hatcher, and Ratliff to fit Parcells’ designs. In 2006, as he neared the end, he forced us to draft Bobby Carpenter when the guy was hopeless as a pass rusher.

But Spears and Barbie aside, the guy knew how to work the league, finding diamonds a.k.a. “Friends of Bill” here and there in Aaron Glenn, Terry Glenn, and Mark Colombo. Colombo helped us dump Tucker and without that influence Gurode became a serious player.

He also recruited some of the best coaching talent of the time, bringing in Sean Payton when people had left him for dead under Jim Fassell, Tony Sparano, Todd Haley, Gary Gibbs, and Todd Bowles. Four were future HC’s and Gobbs was KC DC for a while and has still found work around the league. Parcells worked well with Mike Zimmer, until he made the change to 3-4.

Without Payton, we’d have never found and signed Tony Romo.

So while I don’t think he could have done it himself, that team never would have come close to contending without him. He changed the org forever, TBH.

Even though he was a flash in the pan, he was responsible for Marion Barber too, which took a little sting out of the Julius Jones pick