ESPN.com: Gibbs says 2nd NFL career to be short

From the Post:

"My time in football will be short. And if we don't win a few more games next year, it may be real short!" Gibbs said with a chuckle. "In any case, that will be just for a limited amount of time -- whatever God has in store there. But certainly the racing and everything here, we plan, Lord willing, to be here forever and continue to do this as a family."

Amazing how different it sounds when you leave out the fact he said it with a chuckle.

Take Breaux's comment at the end of the season "we've got to let her fly more".....what the hell was he thinking during the season then? It's like they wasted an entire season to learn that lesson...of course, having Brunell start earlier in the season didn't help. If they're going to stick with their original philosophy to run run run to set up play action, then they better beef up that line and get a stud blocking TE, else I doubt the philosophy will work.


Seems like it'd be tough to simply change offensesive strategies in the middle of the year. Despite why would you change strategy when you have just implemented a new one and spent months getting your QBs to udnerstand it. They realized they had to make changes but tried to make what they had work. Now that they have time they can retool the approach to better use the talent they ahave.


Take Buges for instance...gotta love his energy and enthusiasm on returning to DC, but I don't know how much he's got left in the tank as far as coaching goes. He keeps calling Samuels and Dockery really special players, when they've been rather ordinary. The Buges coached O-line gave up marginally fewer sacks than Kim Helton's great line last year. Buges used to be the best O-line coach, but now he's simply not in the same league with the Alex Gibbs and Grimms of the league.

I don't what games you were watching but their offensive line was far better this year than last. Don't simply look at sacks because that only takes into consideration one aspect. Both Brunell and Ramsey were able to hold the ball much longer this year than in the past and the crushing jail break sacks were basically eliminated. Work to be done for sure but they were definitly better. And also... you want Buges to come and say "well dockery and samuels play like little girls and we are seriously questioning their manhood"? It's called standing behind your guys and trying to keep thier confidence up. Plus anyways Samuels only gave up like one sack this year so using your sack comparison he had a great year.

Musgrave oversaw the 29th ranked offense (points-wise) in the league which led him to be fired from the Jags - why'd we get this guy? To develop Brunell more?
I don't think Musgrave had much to do with Brunell in Jacksonville but I could be wrong. As far as why we got him though I have no clue. I don't read too much into coaching the Jags but considering their talent level I am somewhat concerned. I will withhold judgement on this until he can hsow u something. I'd love to know what happened in J'ville.

Part of this comment was aimed at his NASCAR team and sponsors. He's the main reason that team Gibbs is successful, so if he's not going to be there for years, why would sponsors stick with it? This is to reassure folks in that part of the Gibbs empire.

That being said, I'd be surprised if GIbbs goes more than 3 seasons at head coach. My main hope is that he'll get us turned around as an organization, and that he'll oversee things as president down the road. I'd be very psyched if he goes longer, but he's not young, and he doesn't do the coaching thing halfway. The main thing that Gibbs brings is his committment to excellence. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's an attitude that makes an organization better. I believe that he'll get the offense turned around next year, but what really matters is changing the culture at redskins park. I think that has begun this year, and that's why 6-10 doesn't feel as bad as maybe it should.

As for GIbbs getting "canned" or Buges and co getting released, it aint gonna happen. Danny-boy is going to let Gibbs run things, that much I believe. If these are the guys Gibbs wants, that's the staff. I'd love to see a young o-coordiantor type on the staff to groom for the long-term, but that may be down the road (season 3?).

Ahhhh.. I didn't read the chuckle part.

""Part of this comment was aimed at his NASCAR team and sponsors. He's the main reason that team Gibbs is successful, so if he's not going to be there for years, why would sponsors stick with it? This is to reassure folks in that part of the Gibbs empire.""

Well if thats the case then why did he get another car in nascar and driver?

He hasn't given up his NASCAR team, and sponsors (especially with the new FedEx car) want assurances that he's still involved. Lots of money is involved, and no doubt the sponsors largely signed on because of Gibbs. They may be asking themselves "Is Gibbs really invovled here?" He responds that his stay in football will be short. Maybe he means less than 3 years, but my feeling is that it'll be three-five, and back to NASCAR--it's all in what 'short' means, I guess... His son runs the NASCAR operation day-to-day, so I read these comments as more of a genarl committment to stay involved, not an imminent return to day-to-day control in North Carolina. Our best hope for Gibbs staying on at redskin park is the success of his son with the NASCAR team. If things are going smoothly there, he can devote all his focus to the skins with no worries. So we ALL need to root for the three Gibbs drivers this year!

"you want Buges to come and say "well dockery and samuels play like little girls and we are seriously questioning their manhood"?"

Yes, thats exactly what I want. It's what Parcells would've done..can't remember the player it was directed to, but Parcells once said in a post-game interview .."yes, she had a rough day today".

Call Samuels out when Alex Brown beats him clean on a bull rush! Call Docile Dockery out when he's being manhandled by Cory Simon.

"Don't simply look at sacks because that only takes into consideration one aspect."

How about lower yards per carry from our RBs than last year. By no means am I advocating a return to the Spurrier-Helton philosophy, but it is indicative of big problems on the O-line.

Musgrave has had success developing QBs everywhere he has been. He isn't being brought in, in the OC role but to help develop Ramsey and bring some fresh meat to the table.

Buges probably isn't at the Alex "Chop" Gibbs or Russ Grimm calibre but he wasnt gifted the best of luck loosing Jansen turmoil in the line up for the fist half of the season and what is he to say about Dockery and Samuels they suck, they are the worst players in the world a waste of skin? That would be a great way to build their confidence team chemistry and belief in the coaches system.

I think the best thing in the article is a slight insight into the Gibbs-Snyder partnership and that fact they are still getting along well. One particular part where Gibbs is saying how the press starts to hound him when things go wrong he tells Snyder just said "don't worry about it they'll just blame me anyway"

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?id=1975954

there is the site for that Gibbs speach