Article~Portis, Gibbs Differ on His Status

[corinthian_bob]

Finally!!

So it's the "club president's" strategy to deplete years of draft picks for overpaid, overage stop-gaps...way to look out for that future, all right!

Overpaid? Perhaps. Aging? Not at all. 99% are young guys who have accomplished something in the NFL. Nothing stop-gap about it. They'll be with the Skins longer than Bobby Carpenter will be with the Cowboys!

 

[corinthian_bob]

I was wondering what was taking so long!!

Actually, I was wrong earlier when I said Gibbs had been relegated to just the team's injury report. He's also currently in charge of the team's official "VCR", where he can make copy after copy of supposed blown calls made by the refs against the Commanders. Not sure whether he personally mails these tapes to the NFL or if that is one of Tom Cruise's new duties.

Gibbs mails everything HIMSELF! And they use DVDs, not VCR.

As long as I never see him on the sideline yelling "No Danny No!" I'm happy with him.

 

[corinthian_bob]

Dems is FIGHTING words.



We'll see when Mumbles wins one without Weis, and when Gibbs manages to develop a coaching tree as illustrious as Parcells' progeny.

But wait, Joe's got plenty of time.

I agree. Parcells has a great "coaching tree". Many, many of his assistants have had success in the NFL.

Gibbs has pretty much nothing. Nobody ever succeeds after leaving him.

Do you guys still need MORE proof of Gibbs' greatness? He's done it on his own. His assistants have been pitiful. Parcells can't get it done without all the top notch guys he's had to help him through the years. He's proving that year after year.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

His assistants have been pitiful. Parcells can't get it done without all the top notch guys he's had to help him through the years. He's proving that year after year.

Ridiculous. Gibbs had one of the best staffs of assistant coaches ever in both stints. They just haven't translated into head coaches.

 

[corinthian_bob]

Ridiculous. Gibbs had one of the best staffs of assistant coaches ever in both stints. They just haven't translated into head coaches.

That's my point. I couldn't find the "tongue-in-cheek" smiley. Everybody wants to suggest Gibbs < Parcells because his assistants haven't become successful head coaches. That's no way to measure a coach's ability. It also should give everyone an idea that Gibbs knows what he's doing by hiring Williams and Saunders.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

That's my point. I couldn't find the "tongue-in-cheek" smiley. Everybody wants to suggest Gibbs < Parcells because his assistants haven't become successful head coaches. That's no way to measure a coach's ability. It also should give everyone an idea that Gibbs knows what he's doing by hiring Williams and Saunders.

Wrong again. It does indeed reflect on a head coach whose coached as long as Gibbs that he hasn't nurtured, cajoled, browbeaten, mentored and deeloped young assistants into head coaching material. Granted some may not wish to wear the top dog's hat, but it's stunning that someone who has been at it as long as Gibbs has virtually no tree a'tall.

Gibbs has benefited from astute hiring of assistants, but one of the core aspects of good coaching is the mentoring of the young, as Bill is doing with Todd Haley, and he did with Payton and Carthon, etc, as he did with Belichick, Crennel, Weis, etc.

If Gibbs prefers to bring in already completely developed talent as assistants, good for him. But his legacy will be as a taker, not the giver that all good teachers are.