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Message: [QUOTE="Digable5, post: 1640941, member: 144"] No disrespect to Parcells but his philosophy doesn't hold water. I would take a player based on ability over measurables every damn time. I think a lot of great players were overlooked or under utilized over the years because of this outdated mentality. Besides Parcells made plenty of "exceptions" over the years himself. Joe Morris for one, David Meggett for 2 and probably plenty of others. That being said, I 100% agree that "if you start making exceptions, you end up with a team of exceptions". The only difference to me is that if you start excluding good football players for bigger football players, pretty soon you have a team with bigger jerseys that can't play football. And, for every Andrew Luck you have 25+ Ryan Leafs, EJ Manuals, JeMarcus Russell, etc... You only have 32 NFL starting QBs and two of the best (Wilson, Brees) are 6'0" and under. How many others didn't even get a chance because of people like Parcells? [/QUOTE]