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JOE THEISMANN: NO ONE HOLDS JOE GIBBS ACCOUNTABLE
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 26, 2008, 3:45 p.m.
Former Washington Commanders coach Joe Gibbs is a revered figure among D.C. football fans, and his old quarterback, Joe Theismann, can’t help but think that maybe people should re-examine Gibbs’ legacy.
In an interview with Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post, Theismann said people go overboard in blaming Commanders executive Vinny Cerrato for things that go wrong with the franchise, and they’ve also gone overboard in crediting Gibbs for things that have gone right.
“[Cerrato has] been held accountable for a lot of things that happened, and up until this year, this is the thing that bothers me, nobody wants to hold Joe Gibbs accountable for bad things,” Theismann said. “They’d rather defer it and blame Vinny. If it was good it was Joe’s, if it was bad it was Vinny’s. Joe has to take responsibility for the hirings that he made, for the decisions that they made regarding personnel.”
Theismann noted that Gibbs won only six games in the first season of his second stint with the team, in 2004, and said Gibbs didn’t get enough criticism for that.
“Now obviously he had a 6-10 season; something went wrong,” Theismann said.
Tensions between Theismann and Gibbs are nothing new; Theismann has frequently said that he didn’t think Gibbs was supportive enough of him when he suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Lawrence Taylor in 1985. But it’s weird that Theismann cares enough, all these years later, to complain about Gibbs getting too much positive media coverage.
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 26, 2008, 3:45 p.m.
Former Washington Commanders coach Joe Gibbs is a revered figure among D.C. football fans, and his old quarterback, Joe Theismann, can’t help but think that maybe people should re-examine Gibbs’ legacy.
In an interview with Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post, Theismann said people go overboard in blaming Commanders executive Vinny Cerrato for things that go wrong with the franchise, and they’ve also gone overboard in crediting Gibbs for things that have gone right.
“[Cerrato has] been held accountable for a lot of things that happened, and up until this year, this is the thing that bothers me, nobody wants to hold Joe Gibbs accountable for bad things,” Theismann said. “They’d rather defer it and blame Vinny. If it was good it was Joe’s, if it was bad it was Vinny’s. Joe has to take responsibility for the hirings that he made, for the decisions that they made regarding personnel.”
Theismann noted that Gibbs won only six games in the first season of his second stint with the team, in 2004, and said Gibbs didn’t get enough criticism for that.
“Now obviously he had a 6-10 season; something went wrong,” Theismann said.
Tensions between Theismann and Gibbs are nothing new; Theismann has frequently said that he didn’t think Gibbs was supportive enough of him when he suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Lawrence Taylor in 1985. But it’s weird that Theismann cares enough, all these years later, to complain about Gibbs getting too much positive media coverage.
