Gibbs Fans!!! Rejoice!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:57 pm
hey guys, anything good to say about gibbs? say it, lets get a good conversation going about a good....no great...coach!
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:50 pm
Anything good to say about Gibbs? A much more interesting conversation would be to see if anyone had anything bad to say about him...
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:30 pm
I don't think there's anyone...including non redskin fans, that don't respect Gibbs as a person and what he's done as a coach. He turns everything he touches to gold...he's just a pure winner.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:46 pm
Joe Gibbs is a winner in everything he dose in football and NASCAR. I was Hart brookin when he left and I am Greatful he has returnd to the Redskins.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:49 pm
I am lookint to win a SUPER BOWL in the next 2 or 3 years
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:18 pm
He is quite possibly the best in NFL history 
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:43 pm
Not only is Joe Jackson Gibbs one of the greatest, if not THE greatest coach in the history of the NFL, but he is the epitome of honesty, integrity, professionalism, and decency. Beyond his extraordinary abilities and talents as a head coach, he is above all a fantastic human being. PURE CLASS!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:43 pm
THE GREAT THING ABOUT GIBBS IS HE GIVES ALL THE GLORY TO THE MOST HIGH
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:19 pm
Agreed: it is hard to find anyone who will say anything bad about Joe Gibbs.
Let's review the few critics:
"Gibbs is out of touch...he never coached with a salary cap...he never coached when so players changed teams each year...his system depends on continuity among core players...he never faced players with outlandish egos..."
To which I reply:
- The "retirement" to NASCAR helped. Gibbs works hard; he had worked himself to massive insomnia, migraines, probably ulcers, and who knows what else. That last season was an awesome display of "gutting it out", both by some of the battered older Hogs, like Big Joe J., and by Coach Gibbs. He is eager...notice the quotes, that it's "fun" to learn about the "new" NFL? Gibbs always understates things. If something is "fun" to Gibbs, then wakeup, NFL.
- He had spent a dozen seasons working 18 hour days, sleeping at Redskins Park half of the week, and, he said, feeling the burden that he had pushed onto his wife to run the family. He ran NASCAR with his sons, and has the family's encouragement to dive into the NFL again. He seemed worn down and burned out ten years ago. Now he seems fresh.
- Out of touch? Gibbs studies hard...that's what those 18 hour days were about. By now, I'm sure he has mastered all of the new thinking -- if there really is anything that new -- in the NFL.
- Can't handle players changing teams? During the SB 22 season, the league went on strike. The Resksins had the only team that had no strike-breakers (for fairness, let's note that only Lawrence Taylor crossed the Giants picket line, so the G-men were close). Gibbs took a completely new set of players and made them a team in the blink of an eye. Yes, Bobby Beathard probably scouted hard to pick up some of the best of the strike-breakers, but Gibbs won all three games with that team. Running his basic plays.
- Relies on a stable core? Yes and no. Gibbs looks for character in a player, and keeps those who have it. But his system is made so that new players can be fitted in. His offense relies on a few plays, practiced over and over and over, so that the team runs them without jumping off-sides, lining up illegally, or otherwise botching them. Then he covers the few plays with a baffling number of "looks" and "packages" and motion before the play. During his dozen years, a few players held on for years, but there was always some change.
- Can't handle players with an ego? Every professional athlete has a giant ego: that's the biggest difference between a pro athlete and the rest of us. OK, this really means that Gibbs can't handle the "high-profile" players. Such as John Riggins, Joe Theisman, Dexter Manley, or Wilbur Marshall? Or the fiery players, like Gary Clark? He's done it. Gibbs quietly drops the show-boat guys who can't really play, and he gets the most from everyone else.
Let's review the few critics:
"Gibbs is out of touch...he never coached with a salary cap...he never coached when so players changed teams each year...his system depends on continuity among core players...he never faced players with outlandish egos..."
To which I reply:
- The "retirement" to NASCAR helped. Gibbs works hard; he had worked himself to massive insomnia, migraines, probably ulcers, and who knows what else. That last season was an awesome display of "gutting it out", both by some of the battered older Hogs, like Big Joe J., and by Coach Gibbs. He is eager...notice the quotes, that it's "fun" to learn about the "new" NFL? Gibbs always understates things. If something is "fun" to Gibbs, then wakeup, NFL.
- He had spent a dozen seasons working 18 hour days, sleeping at Redskins Park half of the week, and, he said, feeling the burden that he had pushed onto his wife to run the family. He ran NASCAR with his sons, and has the family's encouragement to dive into the NFL again. He seemed worn down and burned out ten years ago. Now he seems fresh.
- Out of touch? Gibbs studies hard...that's what those 18 hour days were about. By now, I'm sure he has mastered all of the new thinking -- if there really is anything that new -- in the NFL.
- Can't handle players changing teams? During the SB 22 season, the league went on strike. The Resksins had the only team that had no strike-breakers (for fairness, let's note that only Lawrence Taylor crossed the Giants picket line, so the G-men were close). Gibbs took a completely new set of players and made them a team in the blink of an eye. Yes, Bobby Beathard probably scouted hard to pick up some of the best of the strike-breakers, but Gibbs won all three games with that team. Running his basic plays.
- Relies on a stable core? Yes and no. Gibbs looks for character in a player, and keeps those who have it. But his system is made so that new players can be fitted in. His offense relies on a few plays, practiced over and over and over, so that the team runs them without jumping off-sides, lining up illegally, or otherwise botching them. Then he covers the few plays with a baffling number of "looks" and "packages" and motion before the play. During his dozen years, a few players held on for years, but there was always some change.
- Can't handle players with an ego? Every professional athlete has a giant ego: that's the biggest difference between a pro athlete and the rest of us. OK, this really means that Gibbs can't handle the "high-profile" players. Such as John Riggins, Joe Theisman, Dexter Manley, or Wilbur Marshall? Or the fiery players, like Gary Clark? He's done it. Gibbs quietly drops the show-boat guys who can't really play, and he gets the most from everyone else.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:44 pm
his record speaks for itself. not only in the nfl but you have to look at what he has done in nascar as well.
i,ll leave it up to the people at espn to judge for themselves.
i,ll leave it up to the people at espn to judge for themselves.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:26 am
“There’s a legacy there, and it’s a pretty good one,” Riggins said. “I think these guys will snap to it.”
“I’m 25 years old and those three Super Bowl trophies mean everything to me,” Arrington said. “If somebody has been to the promised land and they have a track record of being there on numerous occasions, that has to carry a lot of weight.”
“He’s come to rescue the franchise,” cornerback Fred Smoot said after a workout at Redskin Park. “I, for one, am ready to follow him down the yellow brick road.”
Snyder said in a statement released by the team. “Who better to set our strategy and lead the Redskins back to championship glory?”
and my favorite:
"Oh, they'll listen because Joe Gibbs will make them listen - just his presence in the room," said Joe Bugel, the Redskins' assistant head coach before taking a not-so-subtle shot at departed Steve Spurrier. "It's up to us to be enthusiastic with our players. If you walk around with a long face and a sour puss, your players have a right to do that. But if you're upbeat and you're a hard worker, your players will be. Toughness is contagious." ...
“I’m 25 years old and those three Super Bowl trophies mean everything to me,” Arrington said. “If somebody has been to the promised land and they have a track record of being there on numerous occasions, that has to carry a lot of weight.”
“He’s come to rescue the franchise,” cornerback Fred Smoot said after a workout at Redskin Park. “I, for one, am ready to follow him down the yellow brick road.”
Snyder said in a statement released by the team. “Who better to set our strategy and lead the Redskins back to championship glory?”
and my favorite:
"Oh, they'll listen because Joe Gibbs will make them listen - just his presence in the room," said Joe Bugel, the Redskins' assistant head coach before taking a not-so-subtle shot at departed Steve Spurrier. "It's up to us to be enthusiastic with our players. If you walk around with a long face and a sour puss, your players have a right to do that. But if you're upbeat and you're a hard worker, your players will be. Toughness is contagious." ...