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I am considering the circumstances and I just disagree he should be given a great deal of credit at this juncture. He inherited some truly great talents. Then proceeded to hammered fuck a shitty opponent.Ludwig or Klein could have been dealt the same hand and would have arrived with a lot more positive reaction from the fans. Ludwig especially. Parker was received as a lukewarm hire. At best. Considering the circumstances that led up to Saturday, I think he should be given a great deal of credit. That's about as clean of a performance as we've seen in a very long time. The cards were dealt and the guy in the seat at the table was The War Daddy.
You play the hand you're dealt. That's life. Parker didn't wander in off of the street from an analyst job. He was on the staff last year. When you consider how everything went down with hockey games, the WTF reaction from the national public and the disappointment a lot of us felt about the hire he walked into the hand without a lot of fanfare or confidence from the fans. Parker can say he blocked out the noise, that it doesn't bother him and give us the sound bytes but these guys know what is being said.
If Saturday had been a shaky sloppy performance nobody would talking about the hand he was dealt. I think most people understand the situation as it is and 60 minutes of real football is just the beginning of a sample size. He's going to have some ups and downs. There will be play calls where we collectively wonder "why?". There will be some off games that are shaky, and hopefully they win them.
He's going to go up against Gibson at NCST in a few weeks. They just missed each other at WVU. That's going to be something to look at.
When the results are the same and Parker's finger prints on the offense extend beyond the TE room, then I hope he gets a huge raise.
