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Bill Parcells reportedly will not fill in as the Saints’ interim head coach during Sean Payton’s season-long suspension.ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reports that Parcells told Payton that he will remain retired rather than return to coaching. Almost immediately after Payton’s suspension for failing to stop the Saints’ bounty program was announced, discussions began that Parcells could fill in for Payton for the year. But in recent days it appeared more likely that the Saints would go with an in-house candidate as the interim head coach, rather than hiring from the outside.Bringing in Parcells would have caused all kinds of problems, including perhaps alienating the coaching staff that’s currently in place, and risking the Saints being in violation of the Rooney Rule, which would have required them to interview a minority candidate before hiring Parcells. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/10/bill-parcells-will-not-coach-saints/related/