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Sean Payton's Home Purchase in Dallas Undoubtedly Unsettling for Saints

Sean Payton, the New Orleans Saints head coach, is going to commute to Dallas. When exactly? The bye week? On a flyover for a West Coast game? Maybe it is possible to drive to a private landing field, jump on a private jet, and fly 90 minutes to north Dallas and then do it again the next day, or maybe once a week. What...

Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland Given Contract Extension

Two weeks after giving their coach a two-year contract extension the Miami Dolphins did the same for general manager Jeff Ireland by signing him to a multi-year extension. Ireland and Tony Sparano came to Miami on the same ticket back in 2008 when Bill Parcells was the team's executive vice president, and it was a big...

The Patriots Dynasty Officially and Unequivocally Dead

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It wasn't until Tom Brady failed to convert a fourth-and-long Sunday at the Jets' 34-yard line with about five minutes left and down by 10 points that I thought about the priest. I saw him swaddled in a heavy camouflage jacket in the raucous throng outside the Patriots' Gillette Stadium an hour...

Dirty (Half) Dozen: Defining NFL Quarterfinal Games

The presence of the Patriots, Steelers, and Ravens make the NFL's quarterfinals seem a bit familiar. So, to a lesser extent, do the Packers and Bears. But looking at from a different angle, the NFL of the past 15-20 years has been infinitely more balanced than the NFL of the previous 20 years, made that way by the...

FanHouse Roundtable: Wild Card Weekend ... and the Coaching Carousel

It's a Wild Card Weekend full of subplots: • For the first time since the merger, a sub-.500 team, the 7-9 Seahawks, not only qualified for the playoffs, but will host a game, against the 11-5 defending Super Bowl-champion Saints on Saturday afternoon. • The Jets, who have been talking Super Bowl since "Hard...

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05/22/12 Bills go from 3-4 to 4-3 in measured fashion, and look... Source: CBS - Volunteer WVLT - Knoxville TN Transitioning from one defense to another as can be as problematic as a coaching change, and coaches who rush into the scheme transition just because they believe in a system often are doomed to failure.
05/18/12 Friday Debate: Who Has More Staying Power: Tom... Source: Giants Football Blog Giants' CEO John Mara says that Tom Coughlin is the "best coach in the NFL."
05/08/12 Troy Brown Conference Call Transcript Source: NFL - New England Patriots Thanks, first of all, for having me and wanting to talk about this Hall of Fame thing and other things, of course, too.
05/08/12 Troy Brown on being a Patriot:âI loved the... Source: The Point After There has become a classification of "Ultimate Patriots" since the tides and fortunes starting changing in Foxboro, and maybe nobody resembled that mantra more than Troy Brown.
05/07/12 So Then Who the Hell are We? Source: Counterpunch "This is not a reflection of who we are or what we stand for."

Background on bill parcells

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells (born August 22, 1941) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006. He is known as "The Big Tuna", a nickname about the shape of his physique derived from a team joke during his tenure as linebackers coach of the New England Patriots.

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