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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 5531171, member: 5058"] I'm not sure you are as familiar with Bill Parcells and the job he did with the Giants, which includes elevating and enabling (and mentoring) BB. The controversy, sticking with the wrong QB, winning a SB with the backup, crafting a team around his own tough guy defense first persona and mentality... Lets not forget that at least three other franchises turned to him to turn themselves around, including your NE Patriots, (Jets, Dallas, Atlanta [nixed by Pete Rozelle], Miami). From Wiki: Feeling dissatisfied with his life away from football, Parcells returned to the sport in 1980 as the linebackers coach of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Patriots']New England Patriots[/URL] under [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Erhardt']Ron Erhardt[/URL]. It was during this stint with the Patriots that Parcells adopted his "Big Tuna" nickname. Whenever he thought his players were trying to get away with something, Parcells would yell "Who do you think I am? [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna']Charlie the Tuna[/URL]?," referencing a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarKist']StarKist[/URL] commercial of the era featuring a naive cartoon fish named, "Charlie the Tuna." [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]The following season, Parcells was approached once again by Perkins to join the Giants' staff as an assistant coach, and Parcells accepted the offer.[/COLOR][B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)] As defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, he was allowed to change the team's[/COLOR] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%933_defense']4–3 defense[/URL] [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]to a[/COLOR] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%E2%80%934_defense']3–4 system[/URL].[/B] When Perkins announced on December 15, 1982, that he was leaving the Giants at the end of the season to become head coach and athletic director at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama']University of Alabama[/URL], the Giants announced that Parcells would succeed him as head coach. After this dismal first season, Parcells made a finally healthy Simms the starter again for 1984 and replaced half the roster. The team's record improved to 9–7 and 10–6 over the next two years, and earned them their first back-to-back playoff appearances since 1961–1963. In 1986, he led the Giants to the first of two [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl']Super Bowls[/URL]. In the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_New_York_Giants_season']1986 season[/URL], the Giants compiled a franchise-best 14–2 record and the first of three division titles. [B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]Parcells, whose stifling 3–4 defense (known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew)[/COLOR][/B] led by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Taylor']Lawrence Taylor[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Banks']Carl Banks[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carson']Harry Carson[/URL], and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Marshall']Leonard Marshall[/URL], and an offense under the direction of Phil Simms, knocked off the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_San_Francisco_49ers_season']San Francisco 49ers[/URL] 49–3, and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Washington_Redskins_season']Washington Redskins[/URL] 17–0, in the playoffs before routing the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Denver_Broncos_season']Denver Broncos[/URL] 39–20 in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXI']Super Bowl XXI[/URL]. Parcells is credited as the first coach to be doused with Gatorade at the end of a Super Bowl, which led to a Super Bowl tradition. Parcells led the Giants to a second Super Bowl in 1990. The Giants began the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_NFL_season']1990 season[/URL] 10–0, but lost Phil Simms to injury late in the season and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_New_York_Giants_season']finished 13–3[/URL]. [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B]Playing with a back-up quarterback[/B][/COLOR] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hostetler']Jeff Hostetler[/URL] and a 33-year-old veteran running back in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Anderson']Ottis Anderson[/URL], the Giants convincingly defeated the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Chicago_Bears_season']Chicago Bears[/URL] in the divisional playoff, 31–3. They followed that up with a dramatic, come-from-behind fashion over [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_San_Francisco_49ers_season']San Francisco[/URL], 15–13, in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391_NFL_playoffs#NFC_Championship:_New_York_Giants_15,_San_Francisco_49ers_13']NFC Championship game[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXV']Super Bowl XXV[/URL] proved equally exciting as the Giants used tough defense and a ball-control and power-running [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Patriots_strategy#Erhardt-Perkins_offensive_system']Erhardt – Perkins style offense[/URL] to stop the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Buffalo_Bills_season']Buffalo Bills[/URL], 20–19. Parcells retired from football after Super Bowl XXV due to health problems. During his coaching tenure, the Giants secured three division titles (1986, 1989, 1990), [B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]had only two losing seasons[/COLOR][/B] (the Giants went 6–9 during the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_NFL_season']strike year[/URL] of 1987), and tallied an 8–3 playoff record. Parcells, along with former Giants head coach [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coughlin']Tom Coughlin[/URL], [I][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)](our own Tom Coughlin, who he hired into the franchise)[/COLOR][/I] both made the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs']NFL playoffs[/URL] five times as Giants head coach, and the two [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions']Super Bowl titles[/URL] they each won with the Giants occurred in their fourth and eighth seasons with the franchise, respectively. [/QUOTE]

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