HUIZENGA SAYS TUNA IS STAYING

Amid rampant speculation that, once Stephen Ross acquires controlling interest in the Miami Dolphins, V.P. of football operations Bill Parcells will exercise an option to receive the balance of his four-year contract and walk away with no strings attached, current owner Wayne Huizenga says that Parcells isn’t leaving. “Bill’s going to stay,” Huizenga said, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “He told me [Friday] he’s going to stay. He said he likes it here.” With all due respect, what Parcells tells Huizenga is far less legally binding than the terms of his contract. At a bare minimum, Parcells will parlay the current situation into a better contract with Ross. Otherwise, Parcells wouldn’t have leaked to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen last week the details of the Tuna’s “take the money and walk briskly” arrangement. Meanwhile, a league source tells us that former Chiefs G.M. Carl Peterson attended Sunday’s playoff game, and that Peterson was “loving up to Ross” before the opening kickoff. Earlier on Sunday, Adam Schefter of NFL Network reported that multiple league insiders are convinced that Peterson will join the Dolphins after Ross assumes control of the team. And, if Peterson is going to be there, it really doesn’t make sense for Parcells to stick around. Unless Peterson is going to be picking up the Tuna’s dry cleaning. Or giving Parcells lessons in how to spend 20 years with the same team and never go to the Super Bowl.