by Chris Harry

Filed under: Dolphins

Bill Parcells is on the move again. He’s just not going very far.

At least not yet.

The Miami Dolphins announced an organizational shakeup Tuesday, with general manager Jeff Ireland taking over full control of the team’s football operations, with Parcells, the executive vice president of football operations since December 2007, stepping aside but staying on as a consultant.

“This was the intent of the structure put in place in the past,” the Dolphins said in a statement released through the team’s media relations department. “Bill Parcells will remain with the club on a daily consultant basis.”

The Dolphins open the 2010 season Sunday at Buffalo.

Parcells, 69, came out of his third retirement and signed a four-year contract and assumed control of a football team at the tail end of a 1-15 season in ’07. Parcells fired then-coach Cam Cameron and brought in two of his lieutenants from Dallas in Tony Sparano, hired as head coach, and Ireland, charged with overseeing personnel.