| Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano Says Bill Parcells Stepping Down Is No Big Deal | | |
According to Tim Graham of ESPN.com, business as usual was Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano's mantra the day after Bill Parcells stepped down as vice president of football operations to the diminished role of "consultant." General manager Jeff Ireland has taken over football ops. "My day didn't get longer today," Sparano said on a conference call. "It's still a 16-, 17-hour day." Tony Sparano is the spokesman and the public face of the Miami Dolphins. So Sparano was the one who had to field questions about Tuesday's surprise announcement and how it will affect the team in the days leading up to the season opener. "The timing, to me, doesn't seem peculiar one way or the other," Sparano said in his first comments on the change. "When I came in here as the head coach and Jeff, Bill and I were together for the first time, we knew this was part of the plan and it was eventually going to happen. So the timing really is not something that [is], honestly, an inconvenience." Sparano says he does not expect his dealings with front office to change either. "It really doesn't affect me in my day-to-day dealings right now one way or the other to be honest with you," Sparano said. "This is something that's probably more important to you the media right now and it affects you more than it affects me from my end. My day-to-day dealings mostly are with Jeff Ireland. He's the guy I talked to five, six times a day."
Source: ESPN.com
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