When the Dolphins announced just before the season that Bill Parcells was ceding full control of the football operations to General Manager Jeff Ireland, it launched speculation about whether Parcells’s peripatetic career would soon take him out of South Florida.

Parcells made his first public remarks since the job change on Thursday during a conference call to mark his inclusion in the Giants’ new Ring of Honor that will be unveiled Sunday night.

His vague comments will do little to convince anyone that he will not soon leave the Dolphins, where he is now a consultant, entirely. And that he won’t be retiring when he does it.

“I am not a sit-around-the-fireplace guy,” Parcells said. “I don’t know. I am not certain about it. We will see what happens when the time comes. I know I want to do something even if it is not day to day or something like that, I know I want to do something. I don’t like sitting around. I like to get up and go do something. We will figure it out when the time comes.”