Bill Parcells

Say what you will about Miami Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter - and there's not much good we in Baltimore would generally have to say about him - but one of Las Vegas' most feisty blackjack players does kind of get to the point. When Bill Parcells showed up at Dolphins practice Thursday, Porter observed that players moved a little "faster" and coaches coached a little "louder." In other words, everyone's job is in jeopardy in Miami. The chances that first-year coach Cam Cameron and general manager Randy Mueller will be retained appear to be next to zero.

Rex Ryan is going to have to be part coach, part chemist this season. The Jets coach, whose team surprisingly came within a victory of the Super Bowl last season, let three locker-room fixtures go — Thomas Jones, Alan Faneca and Leon Washington — and made some high-profile and dicey additions, including Santonio Holmes, Antonio Cromartie, LaDainian Tomlinson and Jason Taylor. The football world will get an up-close view of what unfolds, as the Jets are the featured team on HBO's reality series "Hard Knocks."

NEW YORK -- Now we know why so many conflicting reports surfaced in Florida and New Jersey last week. Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse thought he had wooed a marquee coach. But Bill Parcells, who never signed on the dotted line, decided Tampa Bay was not the place to resurrect his career.Late Saturday night, Parcells, the 50-year-old former New York Giants coach, stunned Culverhouse, 72, by rejecting a five-year, $6.5-million, 38-point guaranteed offer to assume total control of the Bucs as coach and director of football operations.

NFL teams have gone 1-15 before. But how many have had their franchise quarterback get sent to Leavenworth, and then had their head coach skulk out of town before finishing his first season, leaving "Dear John" letters in his players' lockers? Yeah, give me Mike Smith. He didn't make chicken salad out of ... what Michael Vick and Bobby Petrino left behind in Atlanta. He made chicken cordon bleu. At least in Miami, when Tony Sparano was entrusted by Bill Parcells to put the pieces back together, there were pieces to put back together.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- When Tom Coughlin was the New York Giants' wide receivers coach in the late 1980s under Bill Parcells, he was a relentless man on a staff of relentless men. On Christmas, Parcells called the Giants Stadium office to leave a message on Coughlin's voice mail. The phone rang. No one would be working on Christmas.The phone rang again. Coughlin answered. He was the only coach at the office that day -- had been for hours. "I don't know if I should be proud of that story or not," he said.

NEW ORLEANS -- Trying to figure out Bill Parcells has become something of a cottage industry in pro football these days.The man who has become the dominant figure in Super Bowl XXXI even though he won't be pulling on shoulder pads remains an enigma even to those who appear to know him."You think I know Bill Parcells? I don't think anyone knows Bill, even himself," said David Meggett, who has played for Parcells with two teams.The New England Patriots coach concedes even his wife has trouble understanding him."

They talked all week about moving on, about leaving the past behind, about adjusting to new beginnings.No, Bill Parcells said, he didn't want to revisit history. He didn't want to relive his messy divorce from the New England Patriots or his nasty fallout with Patriots owner Robert Kraft or his domineering relationship with his former Pro Bowl quarterback.Neither did Drew Bledsoe, the Pro Bowl quarterback, want to renew the sometimes public feud that has percolated since Parcells abandoned the Patriots two days after Super Bowl XXXI.

Good morning--Bill Parcells -- You can tune a piano, but we'll no longer have a Tuna coach.

The number 4 Consecutive openers in which Colts have scored a defensive touchdown. The quote "Hey, I might as well do it. I'm going to get the blame for it." Bill Parcells, Cowboys coach, on his decision to call his own plays

"I don't socialize much. I don't go out. I'm not seen around town. When you are 65, you need to store up your energy, especially in this business." Bill Parcells Dallas Cowboys coach

For weeks, Bill Parcells has been hearing plenty about his feud with Jason Taylor. Parcells says it doesn't exist. Ending his silence about the much-discussed topic, the Miami Dolphins' football operations czar not only said yesterday that he wants the six-time Pro Bowl defensive end on his team this fall, but he also tried to eliminate the perception that he deliberately snubbed Taylor during a chance encounter at the team's headquarters earlier this...

Say what you will about Miami Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter - and there's not much good we in Baltimore would generally have to say about him - but one of Las Vegas' most feisty blackjack players does kind of get to the point. When Bill Parcells showed up at Dolphins practice Thursday, Porter observed that players moved a little "faster" and coaches coached a little "louder." In other words, everyone's job is in jeopardy in Miami. The chances that first-year coach Cam Cameron and general manager Randy Mueller will be retained appear to be next to zero.

"We were messing around in the locker room waiting for the Yankees to finish their game," Papelbon told Mississippi's Hattiesburg American. "We won the AL East for the first time in 12 years. We were drinking a couple glasses of milk, and I got a little tipsy after those glasses of milk. We were like kids playing a game. I first danced in the locker room, then I took it out to the field." It sounds as if Papelbon is a candidate for Dancing with the Stars. "I'm trying to teach my wife to dance like me," Papelbon said.

Good morning -- Wade Phillips -- You've already followed Dan Reeves and Marv Levy. Why not Bill Parcells?

"I don't socialize much. I don't go out. I'm not seen around town. When you are 65, you need to store up your energy, especially in this business." Bill Parcells Dallas Cowboys coach

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Bill Parcells has never been crazy about kickers. Martin Gramatica may have changed the Dallas coach's opinion. Gramatica, signed last Monday after Parcells cut the enigmatic Mike Vanderjagt, kicked a 46-yard field goal with one second left yesterday to give the Dallas Cowboys a 23-20 win over the New York Giants and a two-game lead in the NFC East. "I've got to thank the Cowboys for giving me a second chance," said Gramatica, once a top kicker who had just one field goal in three games since 2004.

In personality and professional demeanor, they are as different as the wing-T and the wishbone. Joe Gibbs is a homespun, Bible-reading North Carolinian who has coached one team, the Washington Redskins, for 15 seasons over the past 26 years. Bill Parcells is an in-your-face, burger-eating Jersey guy who has coached four teams for 19 seasons over the past 24 years. Collectively, they have won 337 of the 557 games they have coached in the NFL. They have led their teams to seven Super Bowls, winning five.