Bill Parcells reveals new details behind Belichick leaving the Jets!!

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flgreen, on 15 Oct 2014 - 1:45 PM, said:
Bill Parcells reveals details of split with Bill Belichick in new memoir 'Parcells': SI excerpt

The details of Belichick's betrayal of his mentor appears this week in a Sports Illustrated excerpt of Parcell's book, co-written with former Daily News writer Nunyo Demasio.
BY NATHANIEL VINTON , TERI THOMPSON
 
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
 
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 12:18 PM

           

Bill Belichick is Bill Parcell's hand-picked successor to take over the Jets.

Big Bill knows where Little Bill's bodies are buried.

Legendary coach Bill Parcells calls it like he sees it in a new memoir, at least when it comes to his protégé Bill Belichick's wiggling out of a New York Jets contract 14 years ago in order to traipse up I-95 and build his Patriot dynasty.

"He made a deal and then tried to get out of it," Parcells recalls of his former defensive coordinator. "A deal's a deal. You want out? You're going to pay. Simple."

Parcells dishes on the palace intrigue that swirled around two of the NFL's most revered coaches in "Parcells," due out Oct. 28. The details of Belichick's betrayal of his mentor appears this week in a Sports Illustrated excerpt of Parcell's book, co-written with former Daily News writer Nunyo Demasio.

Belichick's loyalists within the Jets front office are called the "Cleveland Mafia." Fans familiar with his famous public reticence may feel disoriented reading about Belichick's nervous chattering in the hours and minutes leading up to his famous farewell.

“I have decided to resign as the HC of the NYJ,” Belichick’s handwritten, three-sentence resignation letter said. It was thrust into a “stunned and angry” Jets’ president Steve Gutman’s hands, minutes before Belichick gave a 25-minute statement to the media, his voice occasionally cracking and sweat beading his forehead.

In the legal aftermath of the contractual break, Jets offensive coordinator Charlie Weis lobbied hard for Belichick’s job, the book says. “I can do this job, I’m your guy,” Weis told Parcells. However, Weis then testified on Belichick’s behalf during the grievance hearing over whether Belichick could be interviewed for other jobs, basically betraying Parcells, who would ban Weis from the premises the day after the testimony.

Bill Belichick announces his resignation as Jets HC which paves the way for Bill Parcell's former defensive coordinator to build the Patriots into a dynasty.

“Charlie, you need to get your s--- and leave the building,” Parcells told Weis, who would eventually end up with Belichick in New England.

According to the book, Parcells strikes a conciliatory tone about the incident with Weis.

"I've told many coaches that friendship and loyalty is going to be more important than ambition. Some guys don't realize that until after they're done,” Parcells says in the book. “I don't bear animosity toward Charlie. I can say that with a straight face because I know what he is. His actions back then don't bother me anymore."

Bill Parcells would eventually negotiate with New England to allow Bill Belichick to take over the Patriots.
To be fair, it is noted that amid January's "surreal switcheroo," Belichick was arguably exercising common sense. The Jets were in ownership limbo less than a year after the death of longtime owner Leon Hess, and were weighing competing bids from Cablevision founder Charles Dolan and Johnson and Johnson heir Woody Johnson.

Hess, whose gas station business had given the Jets their colors, had negotiated Belichick's contract to ensure Belichick would take the throne from Parcells.

"Belichick was apparently drawn to the possibility of being a GM or a head coach under a familiar owner like Robert Kraft, as opposed to working for a neophyte owner like Johnson or Dolan with Parcells hovering in an unclear position of authority," the book notes.

But there's nothing unclear about it now that Parcells has a pen in his hand.

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I felt for the jets fans, not the jerkoff ones though.  Beliscum had a superbowl caliber team in the jets, well more superior than new england at the time but deserted them & went to their enemy.  I guess it was karma for dwayne charles doing it.  If you got a playoff/superbowl caliber team on your lap, you run with it.  So what if the media says that you only won with someone else's players.  Scoreboard, you still won.