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To: Lost1 who wrote (2645)	1/3/2003 8:40:04 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89572

How long before he butts heads with Johnson?

To: Lost1 who wrote (2645)	1/3/2003 8:45:17 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89572

Ya Ya...who cares??? Can he perform miracles??? Can he make my son want his old trash can back? Parcells, Jones insist they can work together By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer January 3, 2003 IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Bill Parcells is the unyielding taskmaster and demanding coach. Jerry Jones is the meddling owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. They insist they can work -- and succeed -- together. Parcells returned to the NFL on Thursday when he was introduced as the head coach of the Cowboys by Jones, who after three straight 5-11 seasons is willing to do anything he can to win again. ``We are both kind of at the same place, we both want to go to the same place,'' said the 61-year-old Parcells, a year older than Jones. ``I'm hopeful that we can provide each other the mutual vehicle to get there.'' The hiring came after more than a week of speculation and conflicting reports about a coach with a history of walking away from deals, and one who said more than once that he'd never coach again. No matter how unlikely the pairing, the two men need each other. Jones needed a proven coach who might be able to return the Cowboys to prominence. Dallas won the last of its five Super Bowls -- three under Jones -- in 1996 and hasn't had a winning record since 1998. Parcells, who took the New York Giants, New England Patriots and New York Jets from losing records to the playoffs in two seasons, wanted a chance to coach again. ``I know the window of opportunity was definitely closing on me. This opportunity, this situation has a nice appeal to me,'' Parcells said. Parcells, who got a four-year contract worth about $17.1 million, is the first Cowboys coach with prior experience as an NFL head coach. Jones described Parcells as the ``most qualified coach in our sport that you could draw up if you were drawing your own Rembrandt.'' Parcells coached the last of his 15 NFL seasons for the Jets in 1999, and is 138-100-1 in regular-season games. He's 11-6 in the playoffs, with only four coaches having more postseason wins. The Giants won their only two Super Bowls (1987 and 1991) under Parcells, who also took the Patriots to the championship game in 1997 and the Jets from a 1-15 record before he arrived to the AFC title game two years later. Parcells said he agreed to a ``partnership'' with Jones and that he accepted that the owner would have the final say in many decisions -- although neither gave exact details of how they will work together. ``There will be changes here, there's no doubt about that,'' Parcells said. ``It won't be status quo.'' But Jones said he already has given Parcells ``prior approval'' on any changes he wants to make with the coaching staff. Parcells said only that the coaching staff would be ``moderately reduced'' from its current 15 assistants and that he planned to ``talk to some of them, but probably not all.'' That alone gives Parcells more authority than anyone since Jimmy Johnson, the first coach Jones hired after buying the team in 1989. Parcells also will be the first Dallas coach to make more than $1 million a season. Jones is even willing to concede some of the power in personnel and roster decisions that he has been so heavily involved in under the three coaches since Johnson left after two Super Bowl victories. ``I've made a lot of mistakes, you know I have,'' Jones said. ``I am not going to grow careless with this relationship,'' After leaving the Jets, Parcells said he never wanted to coach again. He even wrote a book: ``The Final Season: My Last Year as Head Coach in the NFL.'' That was seven years after he took the New England job, saying that would be his ``last coaching job, without question.'' Still, he signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year only to change his mind. He also backed out of an agreement with the Bucs in 1992, but isn't walking away from the Cowboys. ``This is a situation that just hit me. Once we started talking, we kept going forward and forward and forward,'' Parcells said. Parcells replaced Dave Campo, fired Monday after being the first Dallas coach with three straight seasons of at least 10 losses. He also became the first coach to leave with a losing record, and the only one never to lead the Cowboys to the playoffs.