Filed under: Dolphins, AFC East

DAVIE, Fla. -- Tuesdays are normally pretty quiet around the Miami Dolphins' practice facility as the players are off. In fact, the only noise that could be heard this afternoon was dance music from inside the practice bubble where the team was hosting a community relations function for area school kids getting ready to go back to school.

But at 3:24 p.m., a short, three-sentence statement was released by the team addressing a major power shift at the top of its football operations between Executive Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells and General Manager Jeff Ireland:

"Effective immediately, Jeff Ireland will assume full control over all aspects and decisions in regard to the Miami Dolphin football team and support staff. This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past. Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis."

Just like that, the man referred to as the football czar in South Florida has turned over the keys to what was his Rolls Royce to the 39-year-old Ireland, 30 years his junior -- and just five days before Miami opens the 2010 season at the Buffalo Bills. The thinking all along was that whenever Parcells did decide it was time to move on that would mean he felt comfortable leaving the Dolphins in the hands of Ireland and head coach Tony Sparano, it just wasn't expected to happen until after his four-year contract was up at the end of the 2011 season.

 

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Filed under: Dolphins, AFC East

DAVIE, Fla. -- Tuesdays are normally pretty quiet around the Miami Dolphins' practice facility as the players are off. In fact, the only noise that could be heard this afternoon was dance music from inside the practice bubble where the team was hosting a community relations function for area school kids getting ready to go back to school.

But at 3:24 p.m., a short, three-sentence statement was released by the team addressing a major power shift at the top of its football operations between Executive Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells and General Manager Jeff Ireland:

"Effective immediately, Jeff Ireland will assume full control over all aspects and decisions in regard to the Miami Dolphin football team and support staff. This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past. Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis."

Just like that, the man referred to as the football czar in South Florida has turned over the keys to what was his Rolls Royce to the 39-year-old Ireland, 30 years his junior -- and just five days before Miami opens the 2010 season at the Buffalo Bills. The thinking all along was that whenever Parcells did decide it was time to move on that would mean he felt comfortable leaving the Dolphins in the hands of Ireland and head coach Tony Sparano, it just wasn't expected to happen until after his four-year contract was up at the end of the 2011 season.

 

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