The Bill Parcells era in Miami is officially over.
The Miami Dolphins announced Tuesday that the legendary coach is being replaced as vice president of football operations by GM Jeff Ireland. Parcells will still be with the team on a "daily consultant basis."
The team released a statement saying that the Tuna was not canned.
"This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past," the statement read.
The timing is peculiar because it's the eve of the NFL season, but that may tell fans that parcells job has long been done.
Parcells came to the Dolphins three seasons ago after the team had its worst campaign ever, finish 1-15 in 2007.
His presence made an immediate impact and the team set the NFL single-season turn around mark, by going 11-5 in Parcells' first season and making the playoffs.
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Since then the team has been competitive but nothing spectacular.
Along with success have come some monumental failures under the Parcells regime.
Parcells, who is lauded as a draft guru, wasted a second-round draft pick last year on Pat White, who was recently cut by the team and is now looking for work.
The hard-nosed Parcells also engaged in a war of words and wills with fan-favorite defensive star Jason Taylor, who the team unceremoniously shipped off to the rival New York Jets earlier this summer. Taylor had been the face of the franchise for more than a decade.
Parcells is also responsible for several high-priced free agents who didn't pan out for the Dolphins, particularly in the secondary. He signed cornberbacks Gibril Wilson and Eric Green to monster contracts in 2008 and 2009.
Green didn't even make the team and Wilson probably shouldn't have.
But Parcells made up for those blunders by going after free agents Brandon Marshall and Karlos Dansby this offseason.
