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Bill Parcells is on the move again. He's just not going very far. At least not yet.
The Miami Dolphins announced an organizational shakeup Tuesday, with general manager Jeff Ireland taking over full control of the team's football operations, with Parcells, the executive vice president of football operations since December 2007, stepping aside but staying on as a consultant.
"This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past," the Dolphins said in a statement released through the team's media relations department. "Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis."
The Dolphins open the 2010 season Sunday at Buffalo.
Parcells, 69, came out of his third retirement and signed a four-year contract and assumed control of a football team at the tail end of a 1-15 season in '07. Parcells fired then-coach Cam Cameron and brought in two of his lieutenants from Dallas in Tony Sparano, hired as head coach, and Ireland, charged with overseeing personnel.
With the Dolphins expected to be much improved -- and clearly headed in the right direction -- Parcells figured his task of rebuilding the team was done. Now, it's up to Ireland to stay the course.
Ireland broke into the NFL as a scout with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1997 and moved to Dallas in 2001 as a national scout. In '04, a year after Parcells "un-retired" for the second time, Ireland was promoted to a vice president's role and remained in that capacity until January '08 when he left the Cowboys for the GM's role in Miami, where he was instrumental in tearing down and rebuilding the roster.
Last spring, Ireland made national headlines when word leaked that during an interview with Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant at the NFL combine in February, Ireland asked the prospect with the troubled past if his mother was a prostitute. Though Bryant reportedly told Ireland his father was a pimp and that his mother worked for his father -- thus prompting the question -- Bryant denied the report.
Bryant was drafted in the first round by the Cowboys and Ireland later apologized for his question.
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