Tuesday, August 8th...one practice, and more to come...Parcells spars with the media...
11:30am-Bill Parcells Press Conference
We saw several sides of Bill Parcells today during his daily press conference.
Grumpy, stern, condescending, philosophical, and then loveable.
Parcells knew it was obvious the media (me included) wanted to know more about T.O.'s plans on bringing in his own trainers, etc...
After short-crisp answers, Parcells finally relented, "I'm just trying to get the best players on this team that I can, and as I told you the other day, I'm trying to integrate the player (T.O.) into the system, and right now we can't really proceed the way we'd like to proceed, but when we can then I will try and do it that way. In the meantime, I'm getting a sense that most of the media is just waiting for something to be controversial in that regard. And I'm here to tell you, it's not going to happen from me, so you need to get that in your head, okay? So don't use those words that have ambigous meanings, like "clouded", which is that kind of word, and expect me to respond to it, because I won't."
When asked if Drew Bledsoe would start or play this weekend against Seattle, Parcells said "I don't know", but said he's sat his starting quarterback in a pre-season opener before.
When asked if Tony Romo would start, Parcells said he didn't know that either, but "that's a possibility."
And Parcells also specifically said, "you guys (media) don't need to make a big deal out of this...this isn't today's big story."
Well, I checked various websites, and "Romo May Start" was everywhere...wow, we (media) sure know how to listen to the coach.
12:45pm-Interview with kicker Mike Vanderjagt went well...good guy, and we'll air the interview tomorrow during sports talk. When asked who has the worst stigma for being a little goofy, relief pitchers of placekickers, Vanderjegt said, "I don't know about relief pitchers, but I think we both get a bad rap on that deal."
2:00pm-Practice
2:05pm-Sports Talk, and today's guests include Jason Witten, Kilgore College head coach Jimmy Rieves, and both Mickey Spagnola and Jennifer Floyd-(troublemaker)-Engel.
5:07pm-Just interviewed former Troup running back Keylon Kincade for tomorrow's show. We wanted him live for today's show, but practice ran a little long, and he had to lift weights.
8:34pm-Craig Smoak, Nic Gregory, and I just returned from a good sports bar, "Cronies", with several television sets, flat-screen's and big screen's...we watched the Rangers build a 4-0 lead in thr 3rd-inning, only to hear upon our arrival at the Ventura Beach Marriott, the game was tied at 4-4 because Kevin Millwood couldn't hold the lead.
8:45pm-Craig Smoak hid our cooler, and both Nic Gregory and I are a little thirsty right now, but Craig is a little pre-occupied with shaving whatever that is off his face that's been growing since our arrival on July 27th.
There goes my razor.