Jones Discusses Cowboys With Parcells

Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones met with Bill Parcells for five hours Wednesday, but no job was offered -- or even specifically discussed, both said.

“He inquired as to whether I thought I might go back to coaching or not, or would I consider going back to coaching. But he didn’t specifically ask me would I coach again or, ‘Would you coach the Cowboys?’ ” Parcells said Saturday on ESPN, for which he is an NFL analyst.

But the Dallas Morning News, citing sources close to Jones and Parcells, reported in today’s editions that Jones had already decided to fire Coach Dave Campo.

Parcells, who won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, said if he would return for “the absolute right situation.”

Asked if he wanted Parcells as his coach, Jones said, “I don’t want to get into that.”

The Cowboys have had three coaches in six seasons, with Campo in charge the last three. Campo has a 15-32 record, including 5-10 this season.

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Tampa Bay quarterback Brad Johnson practiced on a limited basis because of a severe lower back bruise and remained questionable for Monday night’s game against Pittsburgh.

Buccaneer Coach Jon Gruden said a final determination on Johnson’s availability probably will not be made until just before the game, and that Johnson probably will make the call himself.

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Doctors working for Korey Stringer’s widow claim that the Pro Bowl offensive lineman would have survived heat stroke if the Minnesota Vikings had given him proper treatment after he collapsed during a workout.

The five doctors and a trainer made the comments in statements prepared for Kelci Stringer’s wrongful-death lawsuit against the team, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported Saturday.

The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in June.

Attorneys for the team and the doctors who treated Stringer denounced the statements, saying their own experts will show that he received proper treatment from an informed training staff.