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This is from Boston.comListen bro, if you have "evidence" that "for the 2 weeks before the superbowl from his hotel room, Parcells spent a couple of hours a day on the phone with Jets HQ" then I will entirely retract my support of Parcells for the Patriots HOF. So far your source is someone you can't remember who allegedly had phone records. Who was it and where are these phone records?
This isn't the first time I've heard about these phone records but I don't recall seeing anything that amounted to "evidence." Two hours per day for two weeks is pretty specific... if it's accurate then there's got to be something you can show me.
“To this day, Parcells denies communicating with the New York Jets during that Super Bowl runup. His hotel phone records suggest otherwise, as did his longtime deputy, who’d first joined the Patriots at Parcells’s behest in February 1996 as assistant head coach.
“Yeah, I’d say it was a little bit of a distraction all the way around,” Bill Belichick told Holley in ‘Patriot Reign’. “I can tell you firsthand, there was a lot of stuff going on prior to the game. I mean, him talking to other teams. He was trying to make up his mind about what he wanted to do. Which, honestly, I felt totally inappropriate. How many chances do you get to play for the Super Bowl? Tell them to get back to you in a couple of days.”
this one is from the LA times.
“A tie between Parcells and the Jets had been the worst-kept secret of the last season, with reports coming out of New York and New England as early as October that Rich Kotite would be fired by the Jets and replaced by Parcells. Parcells tried to put to rest the stories during the season, in which he coached the Patriots to a 35-21 Super Bowl loss to the Green Bay Packers, but they flared during Super Bowl week when his agent, Robert Fraley, told a Boston reporter the deal was done.”
I do find it odd that icant find the actual original report from Will McDonough? I think? But the point is enough people have said it I believe it happened. I don’t care how bad the work environment is, you only get so many chances at a friggin Super Bowl, you spend every bit of spare energy you have trying to win it. To your point was it the sole reason they lost the game? Hell no, Bledsoe did play like poop, they didn’t run Martin enough, and DEFUQ were you thinking kicking to that guy and not having Troy Brown on your coverage team. They did enough they deserved to lose, but it was close enough and Parcells behavior egregious enough to make you wonder. That for me is enough to say HELL NO he does not belong in the Patriot HOF.