Parcells: the gift that keeps on giving
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Posted by Michael David Smith on April 12, 2011, 12:18 PM EDT
As Bill Parcells looks back on his time running the Dolphins, he can’t
help but second-guess himself over some draft picks gone wrong. And no
pick looks worse in hindsight than the decision to take Pat White in
the second round of the 2009 draft.
“We violated our principles,” Parcells told Armando Salguero of the
Miami Herald, in reference to picking White. “He just wasn’t a
prototypical quarterback pick. He was a great college player, and we
let that color our judgment.”
Parcells thought White had the potential to be a game-changing player
in the wildcat offense, but looking back on it, he thinks the Dolphins
should have been looking for a pro-style passer, not an all-purpose
athlete.
And the best pro-style passer to enter the league in the three years
that Parcells was running the Dolphins’ war room, Matt Ryan, is one
player Parcells wishes he would have drafted. Asked if the Dolphins
should he have picked Ryan instead of offensive tackle Jake Long in
2008, Parcells said, “maybe, we should have.”
Although Long has turned into a fine tackle, there’s no “maybe” about
it: If the Dolphins had taken Ryan first overall, they’d be a
franchise in much better shape right now.
Ray O'Hara
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his cooking skills well exceeded his grocery buying skills
MZ
Interesting. Hard to imagine having regrets about drafting a player
like Jake Long.