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05-04-2003, 05:17 PM
IRVING, Texas -- Bill Parcells finally took the field as the Dallas Cowboys' coach Friday, and he didn't take long to set a tone for how he plans to do things.
When one player wasn't paying attention, the entire offensive unit had to run across two football fields and touch a distant tree before returning to try the play again.
"That's the way I do things. It's nothing new,'' Parcells said. "The point of it is they need to pay attention. That was just for emphasis. There are a lot of reasons they can run to the fence. Get used to it, you will see quite a bit of that.''
Missing from the helmets of the 19 rookies was the Cowboys' famed star logo, a decal Parcells said they will have to earn.
"It's the rookies, they're just numbers right now,'' Parcells said.
And when there was a break during the one-hour, 45-minute practice, rookie cornerback and first-round draft pick Terence Newman from Kansas State -- the fifth overall pick in last weekend's draft -- was fetching water for Parcells.
It's a job Parcells says Newman will keep for the next year -- until there is another first-round pick.
For the first time in more than three years, since his last season with the New York Jets in 1999, Parcells was back on the field coaching.
"It was fun,'' said Parcells, a head coach for 15 NFL seasons.
Parcells seemed at ease Friday, the start of a three-day minicap in which 46 players took part. In addition to the rookies were 25 veterans, including quarterbacks Chad Hutchinson and Quincy Carter.
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When one player wasn't paying attention, the entire offensive unit had to run across two football fields and touch a distant tree before returning to try the play again.
"That's the way I do things. It's nothing new,'' Parcells said. "The point of it is they need to pay attention. That was just for emphasis. There are a lot of reasons they can run to the fence. Get used to it, you will see quite a bit of that.''
Missing from the helmets of the 19 rookies was the Cowboys' famed star logo, a decal Parcells said they will have to earn.
"It's the rookies, they're just numbers right now,'' Parcells said.
And when there was a break during the one-hour, 45-minute practice, rookie cornerback and first-round draft pick Terence Newman from Kansas State -- the fifth overall pick in last weekend's draft -- was fetching water for Parcells.
It's a job Parcells says Newman will keep for the next year -- until there is another first-round pick.
For the first time in more than three years, since his last season with the New York Jets in 1999, Parcells was back on the field coaching.
"It was fun,'' said Parcells, a head coach for 15 NFL seasons.
Parcells seemed at ease Friday, the start of a three-day minicap in which 46 players took part. In addition to the rookies were 25 veterans, including quarterbacks Chad Hutchinson and Quincy Carter.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/2003/0502/1548592.html