ShinobiMusashi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2026 5:33 am
7DnBrnc53 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2026 9:47 am
Ironically I think Pardee should have won COY in 1993. All that Houston turmoil and he kept them afloat as long as humanly possible
Pardee didn't really seem like he was in charge to me. It seemed like Buddy Ryan was more in control there.
I think that Pardee may have been a lazy hire by Bud Adams after he fired Glanville. He wasn't that great of a head coach during his previous NFL stops. I think that Pardee should have been fired (along with the whole staff) after that 1992 WC debacle in Buffalo.
I would agree. I think Pardee and Gilbride should have got the boot after The Comeback, and without all that turmoil a Buddy Ryan head coached Oiler team would have gone further with possible #1 seed in the AFC. I remember being 9 years old in 93 but being totally hooked into that Oilers' season, but was totally confused about who the head coach was. Buddy Ryan gets so much flak for that season ending up the way it did but I feel like without him that was a 6-10 team that year, his defense was the reason why they won 11 in a row not anything to do with the offense. They were hitting and getting after the QB like no other Oiler team did before he got there, watching some of the games a few years back it was pretty ridiculous how physical that defense was. I think they knocked like 6 consecutive QB's out of games, then went into Pittsburgh and outhit them and outphysicalled them at Three Rivers.
As much as I would have liked seeing Houston barge into the SB and give Dallas everything they had (Buddy vs Jimmy), was Ryan any better a post-season HC than Pardee? I’d, sadly, say not. Yes, there’d be no ’Bride yet alone a run-and-shoot OC for Buddy to clash with, and the HC in this case would actually BE the HC/the only one in-charge, but still. No run-and-shoot under his watch for sure, but being he never cared about offense, would Oilers’ O under him have been any more capable of leading them to a SB anyway? Especially against Montana (does he actually out-coach Schottenheimer or Levy)?
A Head Coach like
Bill Parcells would be the one to take them there! But as much as I would have rooted for Houston in such an event, and feeling that they highly likely give them a game, nobody in '93 was beating Big D for all the marbles, IMO, no matter who the HC would be! Even with Belichick at Tuna's disposal. Yes, both met in '91, but that Oiler-D didn't get to face that Dallas O-Line in full-bloom! And, of course, the usual suspects...Troy, Emmitt, Moose, Irvin, Novacek, etc. Dallas had a D as well, of course, and even Warren Moon even in this actual scenario with an actual strong post-season coach would have a hard time vs them.
