Stop the Insanity

Gibbs is staying, until he leaves

An article this week in the Washington Post got all the redskin fans in a tizzy this week. It seems our beloved Coach Gibbs spent some time to go back and visit his NASCAR family and friends over the weekend. In front of a bunch of NASCR media and fans he uttered the following quote:

"My time in football will be short,'' Gibbs said Tuesday during a stop by the NASCAR media tour at Joe Gibbs Racing.”Hopefully, we'll be here forever. If we don't win a few more games next year, my time in football will be real short.''

My god. It is coming. The end of Gibbs II before it begins. Sound the panic alarm. The world is ending. Complete Chaos in the streets. Biblical earthquakes and volcanoes spewing molten lava. Cats and Dogs living together.

Hold on folks. Never have I seen such a panic over a small innocuous quote. Well not since George W. Bush called the Iraqi war a crusade. There is a blatant media obsession with when Gibbs will leave the Redskins that started on day two of his second tenure. The Redskin tribe are all a bunch of insecure ex-wives who just got remarried to their ex husband. We are so obsessed on when he will leave again that we are not enjoying the time he is with us.

Look we have heard this before from the media. Earlier in the season ESPN floated a blatantly false report Gibbs was going to step down because of his Diabetes. Gibbs has flatly denied it. Gibbs has stated he intends to fulfill his contract which has another four years on it…at least!!

When Gibbs was stating his time in football was short, he meant 5 years as opposed to his previous Redskin tenure of over double that. When he said his time in football would be short he meant in relative terms as compared to the 10 + years he has spent building his NASCAR franchise and will continue to do until he dies. He also owns Gibbs racing, as opposed to being a coach for the Redskins. He has set up his sons to take over Gibbs racing and that is where the forever part of his first quote comes in.

Just take a look at what Gibbs said later in the same article:

"I signed a five-year contract and what I'd like to do is get the Redskins back to being a consistent winner,'' Gibbs said. "I don't know what that will take. I don't know if it's five years or a little longer than that.''

Hell from that quote it looks like he might even be open to an extension on his original contract. Look I admit Gibbs isn’t here forever and I will probably cry when he leaves. But I trust Joe Gibbs words. He has consistently said that he will be here for his full contract, and barring a Superbowl win, I believe he will. He has always kept his word, even to the team’s detriment (Mark Brunell). The man knows that if he says something he has to mean it. And he does

So once he retires Greg Williams will become our head coach. That is why he is not seeking any other offers. If he waits 3 or 4 years he will have the dream job of coaching in a major market with an owner who, likes to spend money. Plus he comes in as part of the organization and with the respect of the front office. Oh yeah and the blessing of a legend. A much better situation then Buffalo. Greg knows that you only get so many bites at the head coaching apple, unless your Bill Parcells.

So calm down Redskin fans. We got four more years of St. Joe. Let’s enjoy him.

Pasqualoni to Dallas

Is it just me or are you feeling surrounded by former SU talent surrounding us in the NFC east. Donovan McNabb is leading the Eagles into the Superbowl. Will Allen of the giants always seems to pickoff a pass or two when we play them and now Coach P., recently fired SU coach, is heading to Dallas as an assistant coach. Perhaps it is a curse for how badly we treated Kevin Mitchell (We should have never got Trotter in 2000. Mitchell was a tackling machine and played with great heart the year before). Daryl Johnston tormented us when he was with Dallas in the 1990s. In fact we have to go back to Art Monk for SU alum that has helped us out. Perhaps putting Monk in the Hall will exercise that ghost.

Rich Tandler's Redskin Blog

For what it is worth you should really check out Rich Tandler's Redskin Blog at http://redskinsblog.blogspot.com/. He really has a good take on all the redskin information out there. For my post about Gibbs above I drew some material from his blog. He responds to emails as well as comments. He has authored a book about the Joe Gibbs years with the Redskins called "Gutcheck". I am planning on buying it soon.