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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Bill Parcells
ilmost surely will be back as coach of
he New York Giants next season.
Ottis Anderson almost surely will
>e exposed to Plan B for the third
traight season despite his Super
owl MVP award.
And the Giants hope they won’t
epeat the mistakes they made after
hey won their last Super Bowl,
hich led to their only losing season
[n eight years.
Parcells, who won his second Su
er Bowl when the Giants beat the
uffalo Bills 20-19 on Sunday,
idn’t exactly say he would return to
he Giants.
a ? But he signed off this way on
^londay:
“To you New York writers. I’ll see
ou in training camp next summer.”
After the Giants won their first
uper Bowl in 1987, Parcells was of-
ered the job as Atlanta Falcons gen-
ral manager and coach. .
There has been speculation that
e would resign after this game to
ke the same position with the
ampa Bay Bucs.
“Everything that’s been written
bout me is a fabrication,” he said.
[There no truth to any of those ru-
ors. I haven’t talked to anyone
bout anything.
“Last time after we won this thing
didn’t give my owners or George
oung (the general manager) any
ime to savor the victory. That’s not
oing to happen this time.”
i
The hedge came when Parcells,
who has one year left on a contract
that will pay him $900,000 for the
1991 season, added:
“Just like every year. I’ll sit down
and evaluate where I am and what I
want to do.”
Parcells then talked about his
plans for the next few weeks.
He will be making up his list of
Plan B players; attending the pre
draft scouting combine in Indianap
olis; and revamping his coaching
staff, which has already lost receivers
coach Tom Coughlin, the new head
coach at Boston College.
It also could lose defensive coordi
nator Bill Belichick to a head coach
ing job with the Cleveland Browns
or Tampa, and running backs coach
Ray Handley, who has been ac
cepted at George Washington Law
School.
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shake-up
Belichick and Handley would
have been the two most likely candi
dates to suceed Parcells had he de
cided to leave.
As for Plan B, one of those on the
Giants’ unprotected list will un
doubtedly be Anderson, who has
been on if. the last two years.
“I should be on it,” said the 33-
year-old running back, who won the
MVP after rushing for 102 yards on
21 carries in Sunday’s game.
Anderson was instrumental in the
Giants last drive, when he carried
several times while New York ran
out the clock.
The Giants have a stable of young
running backs headed by rookie
Rodney Hampton, who had moved
ahead of Anderson until breaking
his leg in the playoff victory over the
Chicago Bears; all-purpose back
Dave Meggett and second-year man
Lewis Tillman.
Like most successful teams, the
Giants tend to expose older players
and protect younger talent.
Parcells also said that as far as he’s
concerned, there’s no quarterback
controversy for next season.
Jeff Hostetler, the 29-year-old
who is 7-0 as a starter, led the Giants
to three playoff victories in place of
35-year-old Phil Simms, who injured
his foot Dec. 15 against Buffalo.
“I’ll let you know at the start of
camp next year,” Parcells said. “Ph
ilip was 10-0 as a starter and that’s
not too bad.”
Bills take Super Bowl loss valiantly
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — In the hour of their most dev
astating defeat, the Buffalo Bills may have actually vali
dated their greatest triumph of the 1990 season.
The Bills swore all season that the “Bickering Bills”
of 1989 were history, but it was a statement made in the
euphoria of a 13-3 season.
“Winning solves everything,” said Jim Kelly.
The flip side wasn’t addressed often, but more than a
few skeptics wondered whether the stress of a big loss
would destroy the chemistry and camaraderie forged in
the course of this Super Bowl season.
In the face of the most adverse conditions, the Bills
backed up all that team talk with the poise of cham
pions.
The Bills were remarkably composed as their season
faded into the Florida night with Scott Norwood’s kick.
Many held hands along the sideline, a familiar sight
to those who watched them do that in last year’s playoff
game against the Cleveland Browns when another last-
minute drive ended unsuccessfully.
The players, and owner Ralph Wilson, said they were
convinced Norwood was going to win the Super Bowl
for them. - -
“You give that kick to him 10 more times, he’ll proba
bly hit 10 of them,” Pike said. “In my mind, I never
thought we’d lose.
“That’s the way it’s been all year. The whole year I
just knew if we had the ball last, we were going to win
the football game.”
“I thought we were going to win it,” said Wilson. “But
fate didn’t quite blow our way last night.”
When it was over, there was no finger-pointing, no
angry locker-room confrontations, no crying about
what could have been and no laying of blame beyond
their collective responsibility in the loss.
As they left Tampa, only coach Marv Levy declined
to answer questions.
“I just don’t have anything more to add,” Levy said.
“I talked myself blue in the face last night.”
Several Bills promised they’d be back next year.
Others said they wouldn’t make that kind of predic
tion.
It was the first time in the history of the Buffalo fran
chise that the team had been to the Super Bowl.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Now that
I Jeff Hostetler has led the New York
fGiants to the Super Bowl
1 championship, all he has to do is win
| the job as No. 1 quarterback.
Hostetler, who played his college
I ball at West Virginia, has been trying
I for seven years to take over for Phil
I Simms and the only way he managed
I was when Simms suffered a sprained
1 right foot on Dec. 15, which side-
! lined him for the season.
That made Hostetler the Giants’
| quarterback.
And he certainly made the most
| of his chances.
He led the Giants to victories in
the final two regular-season game,
before guiding them through the
playoffs and a 20-19 victory over the
Buffalo Bills in Sunday’s Super
Bowl.
It all leaves coach Bill Parcells with
a headache when training camp
opens.
Does he give the starting job back
l to Simms, the 35-year-old MVP of
j the 1987 Super Bowl, or does he let
Hostetler, wno will be 30 in a couple
; of months, keep it?
“Every year we go to camp I tell
the guys the same thing,” Parcells
said Monday. “Whoever plays best
i will play.”
That would seem to leave the job
open.
However, Parcells left the job up
I for grabs after last season, too, and
Hostetler really never seemed to get
a fair chance at winning the job.
Parcells is going to have to give
him the chance next season.
Hostetler, who had started just
two games entering the season, did
not throw an interception or turn
the ball over in his five-game season.
He was 45 of 76 for 510 yards and
three touchdowns in the playoffs.
In the Super Bowl win Sunday,
Hostetler completed 20 of 32 for
222 yards and a touchdown.
His biggest play of the game may
have been the one on which he was
sacked for a safety to give Buffalo a
12-3 lead.
As Hostetler was falling, Buffalo
defensive end Bruce Smith grabbed
Hostetler’s ball hand and tried to
strip the ball. But Hostetler tucked
the ball under and fell to the
ground, giving Buffalo two points,
but avoiding a possible Bills touch
down.
“I have no idea what’5 going to
happen,” Hostetler said Monday be
fore taking a team charter for a re
turn to New Jersey. “I don’t know.
I’m just thinking about the game.
What happens, happens.”
Hostetler and Simms offer the Gi
ants different quarterbacking styles.
Simms is a pocket passer, with a
good arm and tremendous experi
ence.
Hostetler is less experienced, but
he makes up for it with a good arm
and great mobility.
“They were so concerned about
the rollouts at one point, that they
were not getting to the run,” Parcells
said.
Giants offensive coordinator Ron
Erhardt said there would be no
room for two No. 1 quarterbacks
next season.
One of the raps against Hostetler
has been that his scrambling style
would test his durability in a 16-
game season.
But he proved his toughness on
Sunday, taking several big hits from
Bruce Smith, Leon Seals and Corne
lius Bennett.
Hostetler did get hit a little more
and Monday he said he still had a
headache, a sore knee and sore right
elbow.
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