[sportscurmudgeon]

I've been saying it for a while now. The title of President does not mean Gibbs is making the football decisions. If he were, lots of the sidebar events of the last year or so would not have happened.

I'm not saying that Gibbs is out of the loop and takes whatever players come his way due to the genius of Danny Boy and Vinnie. But this isn't the old Green Bay Packers with Lombardi in charge such that when All-Pro center Jim Ringo showed up for camp one year and had the temerity to send an agent to talk to Vince about a contract for the next year, Lombardi said he did not talk to agents and traded Ringo to the Eagles about 30 minutes later.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what "being in charge" means. Lombardi hated agents - they are a fact of life today - and he made a football decision on the spot and traded his starting All-Pro center rather than deal with some agent. And he did not have an owner who questioned him or second-guessed him or had dinner with the agent without Lombardi present or anything like that.

Joe Gibbs has a louder voice in the decision making than Spurrier did, but he's not "in charge". That would still be Danny Boy who the author of this article most correctly points out is not particularly knowledgeable about football players.