If Zorn Wins..........

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If we are successful this year, not only do I think Joe Gibbs will deserve credit for building the team, he will also deserve credit for putting together the coaching staff and for instilling a new spirit and a new attitude in this team. This team, the players and the coaches, is still mostly the team that Gibbs put together and he should get at least some of the credit for any success that Coach Zorn has this year.

Beyond that, however, I really believe that Gibbs' lasting impact has been to change the attitudes and mindset of the organization. At the end of the Spurrier era, the Redskins were an organization that I no longer recognized. The team and the organization seemed to be headed in the direction of the Cardinals and the Lions as perennial losers. Gibbs turned that around. Without Gibbs, I don't think we'd even be the position to hope that a new, first time coach could lead us to success. For leaving the Redskins in a position for us to even be thinking about success next year, Joe Gibbs deserves credit.