Gibbs to Resign as HC/President

I am not concerned about the coaching part of Gibbs leaving. We have the best coaching staff in the NFL and hopefully Snyder will not feel the need to make his typical splash of announcing some big name coach from outside the organization. Dan please promote from within.

My big concern in the front office. I was going back and forth with Smootsmack yesterday on another thread about my concerns in the Front Office. We finally both agreed that with Gibbs around there is no immediate problem. Well now with Gibbs leaving we are back with the two headed draft failures in Cerratto/Snyder. These two guys wrote the book on how to mismanage player personnel and salary cap for an NFL Organization. Their track record is not very good. I do not want them running the front office. This is not good.

But... that may be exactly the kind of special advisory role Gibbs will play from this point forward to Dan and Vinny. I'm not willing to accept that those two guys haven't learned anything from 4 seasons of Gibbs' leadership.

But... that may be exactly the kind of special advisory role Gibbs will play from this point forward to Dan and Vinny. I'm not willing to accept that those two guys haven't learned anything from 4 seasons of Gibbs' leadership.

Please no more Snyderatto runing the Redskins.
They have proven to be failures.
Why does Snyder have one set of rules for ability to do your job for players and coaches and another for him and Vinny?
I am not willing to accept them running the team again after the track record they left behind them. Gibbs is just now turning the team around from the mess they created.

I feel like the wind as been knocked out of me too. I'll probably feel better after I hear him speak. Right now, I just need someone to tell me not to worry and everything will be ok.

Don't worry, everything will be ok.... ;)

I feel like the wind as been knocked out of me too. I'll probably feel better after I hear him speak. Right now, I just need someone to tell me not to worry and everything will be ok.

God, I sound like such a sap. I really need to get it together. I hereby reserve the right to go back through this thread and edit my posts to reflect what an emotional retard I am.

If you can't be emotional now when the Skins are in disarray, when can you?

i'm not upset at all. I'm almost happy. I think most of my posts show that I love gibbs and want him to stay but if he is ready to go then more power to him. He wouldn't leave us unless he felt that we were heading in the right direction. I'm not happy to see him go but happy that he feels he can go. Gibbs put all the pieces together. We are a FAR better team then we were when he came here. He did a fantastic job and i am happy for him. I'm not REALLY surprised and i wasn't when i heard it, especially after it was hinted at after his press conference yesterday.

Its all good. We have gone to the playoffs twice in the last 3 years and that is much better than the skins have been my whole life. Whats not to like. I love our players. Really, there are teams with crazy ass stupid players but we have character. We are fun. Every team in the NFL has a different type of character but i honestly like ours the best. All of our players are fun and good guys. Just look at the interviews from today and you can see our team is mature. I don't think many players act this way when their coach retires. They had a lot of respect for Gibbs and what he has done here. Rock said the team is like a family. I just hope it stays that way. I think it will if GW is our coach.

If we promote from within then gibbs is a fucking magician. He comes in and fixes up the team and slowly backs away and prepares us for his leaving. This year he took a step back in his duties and got us ready for when he was going to leave. That is awesome. He set this team up for future greatness. He is the man. Today is a good day. We should celebrate gibbs and nothing more today. Today isn't a bad day at all.

He didn't come back to win championships but he came back to put us in position to win in the future.

I am not concerned about the coaching part of Gibbs leaving. We have the best coaching staff in the NFL and hopefully Snyder will not feel the need to make his typical splash of announcing some big name coach from outside the organization. Dan please promote from within.

My big concern in the front office. I was going back and forth with Smootsmack yesterday on another thread about my concerns in the Front Office. We finally both agreed that with Gibbs around there is no immediate problem. Well now with Gibbs leaving we are back with the two headed draft failures in Cerratto/Snyder. These two guys wrote the book on how to mismanage player personnel and salary cap for an NFL Organization. Their track record is not very good. I do not want them running the front office. This is not good.This has probably been mentioned, but what about bringing Charley Casserly back?
He still does Redskins analysis for Comcast so he can't hate the team all that much for letting him go.
Plus, his last draft with Houston looks pretty good after 2 seasons.

If you can't be emotional now when the Skins are in disarray, when can you?

I have to say...I'm glad I can come on here and see other people feel the same as I do...

I've been on the verge of tears all day...

Thank God I work in a job that requires me to wear wraparound sunglasses alot because they've been put to use...lol

This has probably been mentioned, but what about bringing Charley Casserly back?
He still does Redskins analysis for Comcast so he can't hate the team all that much for letting him go.
Plus, his last draft with Houston looks pretty good after 2 seasons.

Be careful you will piss alot people off by mentioning Casserly. I don't hate or like him, but for some reason some people hate him on this site.
Kind of weird.
But for some reason some like Cerratto. I am not sure why? Maybe it is all the success when he and Snyder were running the show.

The day Coach Gibbs came back was one of the happiest days of my life.

Today is one of the saddest. I feel like crying.

While this may be true (I don't know), I would think the death of Sean is a pretty stark reminder of the frailty of life to a man like Joe, and a reminder that you need to think about what's truly important in your life.

For everyone who's upset that Joe didn't finish the contract, or any of that stuff, ask yourself this question -- "What if Joe came back next season and keeled over from a heart attack and died?" Wouldn't we all pretty much feel like selfish bastards and wish he'd retired, the same way we'd wish for pretty much any outcome for Sean other than the one we got?

Having just lost my grandfather, a lifelong Redskins fan, and a man who was among the strongest and most positive people I've ever met, a man who also had an extraordinary amount of faith and was one of the most successful people I knew -- certainly a man who was always a "winner" -- I can say I understand why Joe would want to walk away now. My grandfather and Coach Joe probably would have gotten along very, very well. And if my grandfather were alive today I know he'd tell me to focus on all the good things Joe accomplished while he was here, not on his decision to retire (again).

Finally I just want to say that Joe is a true leader, and what that entails doesn't always show up on the stat sheet, but it does show up on the hearts and minds of the people he worked with, who will be forever changed as a result of being associated with him. A huge part of leadership is the task of building up other leaders and then passing the torch.

In his true brilliance of leadership, Joe has made Snyder a better owner, Williams and Saunders better coaches (to say nothing of all their assistants), and many players on the team better players and men. Most importantly, he has returned the confidence of the fans, and restored just a portion of the lost luster of this organization, enough to give people hope for the next 20 years.

And, if you think about it, the phrase "he doesn't have anything else to prove" is really key here. Joe didn't have anything else to prove when he came back four years ago. In fact, you could say he did it to give back to the organization that he loves so much. He did it at the cost of a lot of personal sacrifice: health, time with his family, and frankly an awful lot of second-guessing, mean-spirited commentary from analysts and fans, and at the expense of a coaching record that had been Legendary and now looks "only" Really, Really Good by comparison.

Our only regret should be that the timing couldn't have been better, but honestly, there's never a great time for things like this. We'll soon see if the right decisions have been made on selecting Joe's successor, but I would be shocked if continuity and camraderie in the locker room aren't made the highest priority.


bravo ...
you hit the nail right on the head.....and yes what else is there for joe to prove heck he already has three superbowl rings to his credit..and not to mention he has carried out that same example in nascar with the people who work thru him at the raceshop in charlotte. joes family comes first....

amen