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edgecy said:Eh... I have a question, why do so many people take cheap shots at Charlie? The guy that was responsible for grooming our HOFer QB and here he's being compared to a phone book?
That's low by any standard.
I've never understood that either. NEM's personality disorder aside. Charlie and RAC had the kind of forceful and passionate personalities that allowed BB to remain focused on the big picture. Their presence was crucial to not only winning but changing the culture here.
In his first stint with the team under Parcells he was first the TE's coach who developed Coates into a Pro Bowler, then the RB's coach who lobbied for Martin and developed him into a Pro Bowler and then the WR's coach who coaxed a thousand yard season out of a rookie WR Parcell's referred to as She.
The story behind his bond with Tommy is pretty special. It was the 2002 off season and most of the staff was out of town. He was the first one to the hospital when the news broke that Charlie's surgery had gone very wrong and he was in a coma fighting for his life and had received last rites. Remained there with Charlie's wife until he began to rally and come out of it two weeks later. The lingering effects of the ordeal included nerve damage effecting his legs - at the time they didn't know if he would walk again and he now has a permanent limp. He returned to coaching in a wheel chair that fall and was instrumental in our winning two more superbowls back to back.
Many opined that Charlie went through all of this to land a HC job. Actually as a father of two including a child with severe diability, he did it in hopes he would live longer than his own father who died in his mid fifties and from whom Charlie inherited a lifelong weight problem. Charlie turned 50 this year.
So the bashing as well as the assinine weight jokes are beneath low. I assume it comes from bandwaggon fans who missed the early years stories because they weren't all that enamored of the team before it became a dynasty. And those easily influenced by jealous, loudmouth, know-it-all coaching wannabe's like NEM.