'Next time, you're not gonna slip': What the Giants, and football, owe to Bill Parcells

“When they choose their methods, they want them to be 'aesthetically pleasing' to them," Parcells told me. "They want to be creative. They want to be the next Bill Walsh. They have computers, they have four, five hundred plays. My teams might have had 60. They have schemes, they have wrinkles. It’s a highly technical world they live in.

“But some of them get on the plane on Sunday night, and they don’t know why they lost. They’re busy saying, ‘Oh, we turned the ball over here, this guy didn’t do that’ … But they neglect the rationale of the complexity of what they’re doing contributing to the demise of the execution, to the point where it’s game-affecting. More

By Greg Hanlon

February 2, 2012 4:21 pm