Gibbs Ii In My View

[Monkeydad]

I don't believe Gibbs changed at all. His knowledge, abilities, drive and perspective on the game are all solid. However, the game has changed a bit during his break from coaching. Free agency, salary cap, a lot of rules and even strategies (3-4 defenses now arising in favor of 4-3) have all given Coach Gibbs a learning curve in resuming his position as best coach in the game. He'll get back there, he just needs to adjust from what he had known his entire career before taking a vacation from it.

Gibbs would make a GREAT front office man for us. He seeks out players who won't disrupt the organization and play for the team more than themselves. As you can see from his benching of Lloyd for being a distraction, he puts the team first always. We'll never degrade into a Cowboys or Eagles-like mess while he's in charge.

He's had an amazingly difficult season, mainly through injuries and somewhat from assistant coach confusion witht he new Saunders system (that Gibbs seems to have scrapped for his old style of run-first ball) and no healthy players on defense (Archeleta bust too). If he had his usual dominant defense that we've had the past few seasons and all of his weapons on offense, we'd be calling him a genius instead of anticipating his retirement. However, we can take a lot of positives from this year thanks to Gibbs: Betts emergence as a top-notch runner IF we can keep him next year, Campbell's developement seems to have been handled perfectly and he'll be great in the future, we have some GREAT defensive reserves who will be great to have when the starters return from injury next year (Golston, Fox, even Jimoh).

I thank Gibbs for returning and getting our team back to it's traditions and making the future look very bright for us. The team was a DISASTER from Snyder's first few years (with Gibbs picking players and Snyder handling the contracts, we have a great management team) and the Spurrier experiment. We barely resembled the team we knew and loved. Now we do again, even if our record doesn't show it. We've had the WORST luck of any team I can remember in ANY sport this season, but we still have a lot to be excited about, even if we have to wait until next year to reap the benefits.

Hail to the Redskins and Coach Gibbs.