I give Parcells alot of credit for the two super bowls he won in NY, those were really good teams. Winning the super bowl in 1990 with Jeff Hostetler and beating the Niners on the road and then a great Bills team was great.
But he was never the same coach after that. As great as those two super bowl teams were, the Giants teams following those seasons didnt even make the playoffs.
The fact that all his postseason success was with Bill belichick on his staff, and that belichick went onto to postseason success of his own w/o Parcells is telling.
He went onto postseason success without parcells in person in the organization.
Yet all of the staff, most of the core of the defense and some offensive players and others like a guy named scott pioli were guys brought into the league or the jets by parcells years before. Those first two superbowls in new england had parcells handprints all over it, its not even debatable.
They had all been taught the nfl by parcells.
Parcells in Dallas had only maurice carthon that he knew, so along with coaching the players, fixing the front office he had to coach the coaches what he wanted done. Its a tremendous task.
In new england and with the jets he had immediate turnarounds with big success because he already has his staff in place who knew what they were doing, he had a hand in the front offices..........
In Dallas he was forced to be everything to everyone for a long stretch.
I dont think he is the greatest coach of all time or anything but I think he is in the conversation and on short list of great ones and so is belichick.
and as far as the giants missing the playoffs, they were a veteran team that had a qb controversy and a new group of coaches, belichick went to cleveland and took some giants veterans and parcells had a heart issue and had to get healthy.
Dan reeves had them right back in it by 93.
