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Goodbye Gibbs, Again

After the toughest season of his Hall of Fame career, one that tested his leadership like never before, Joe Gibbs is stepping down.

Not only is Gibbs stepping down as head coach of the Washington Redskins but as well as his job as the teams president. This resignation comes three days after there tough playoff loss and after a brutally tough season with the death of saftey Sean Taylor. Gibbs and the Redskins will hold a press conference at 3 eastern time today to talk about his resignation. In his second go around with the skins Gibbs had a 31-36 recoed going just 1-2 in the playoffs. At the age of 67 Gibbs decided that he would return for the last year in his contract. His retirement most likely brings an end to a brillant career for Joe Gibbs. Both times that he coached the skins he brought them from the bottom of the NFC East either to win the division or at least fight for the division crown. Most people would say that of all of Gibbs years as coach this was his best performance.

This year brought death, a game where Gibbs blamed himself for the loss, when he called two time outs in a row given Buffalo a 15 yard penalty which allowed them to kick the game winning field goal, and then triumph. When the Redskins won four straight games to close out the season and win the final wild card spot. This resignation comes as a surprise to his players and other coaches who said that they would be shocked if he did not return for his final year. Gibbs told the media Monday that he was having a meeting with Daniel Synder, the owner of the skins to discuss the teams future plans as well as his. As we know now that meeting was to talk about Gibbs resignation from the team. Overall Gibbs was 171-101, 17-7 in the playoffs with three super bowl rings. He is also the only coach to win three super bowls with three different quarterbacks. After retiring the first time Gibbs was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996 but was lured out by Synder to rescue the Redskins. His career winning percentage is 629 which ranks third all time behind George Halas and Don Shula.

Although the team has been up and down in Gibbs’ second stint the team is just not losing the greatest coach in franchise history but one of the best leaders and one of the nicest people that the NFL has ever seen. Joe Gibbs saved that team in the early 80’s and now he has saved them again. The way that Gibbs pulled this team together after the death of there star safety, encouarging them to not give up and play there balls off, they won four straight and made it into the playoffs. If they did not fall apart in the 4th quarter then Gibbs would still be coaching but they just ran out of gas at the end. So here is to you Joe Gibbs, everyone in Washington should be saying thank you for all you did for that team! So Joe you say goodbye and i say hello!

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