In 1999, with Parcells in his third season as the Jets’ head coach, he lost starting quarterback Vinny Testaverde in the first game of the season to a torn Achilles tendon.
Parcells was watching the Jets-Bills game on Monday night when he saw Aaron Rodgers go down with his own Achilles tear,“I think a coach’s challenge is your team has to have hope,” Parcells said. “You have to have hope. If the nucleus they built up there, if that was good enough to win, I think you’ll see a highly competitive team.”
“People, the media and fans, are going to say, ‘Oh you lost your quarterback, there goes the season,’ ” Parcells said. “What I will tell you [is] sports are very current. Three weeks from now they’re not going to be talking about Aaron Rodgers. They’re going to be talking about who dropped a pass or who fumbled the ball or who missed a tackle or who gave up a big pass play as the reason why the Jets lost.
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