Breaking: Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs Resigns
It's the final edition of the Passion of the Gibbs! Redskins coach Joe Gibbs is resigning, the Post is reporting. Gibbs will reportedly stay with the Redskins in some kind of consulting capacity, but the 67-year-old will no longer serve as head coach after 16 years in the job.
No decision has yet been announced on a replacement for Gibbs, but if owner Dan Snyder does what he said he'd do when he hired assistant coach Gregg Williams, Williams should be the new head coach.
After dishing out a few of the standard Gibbs criticisms, Kissing Suzy Kolber decides that a future with Williams in charge is no future at all:
You can challenge all of the obvious fumbles you want. Feel like calling back-to-back timeouts? Have at it! Hell, I'll even let all of the Jesus bullshit slide for another season or so, just don't leave us with that smarmy prick in charge of our franchise!
A press conference is planned for this afternoon. We'll have more on the Gibbs resignation later ...
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Gibbs' resignation doesn't come as a huge surprise to anyone who listened to yesterday's press conference, where he managed to field nearly a dozen questions about his future without actually giving an answer. It was about as vague and noncommittal as, well, all the rest of his press conferences, and, after a meeting with Snyder last night, the Hall of Fame coach will end his up-and-down second tenure in Washington.
It's something of a bittersweet day for Skins fans, some probably crying and some perhaps cheering the ageing coach's decision. The catalog of mistakes and bizarre coaching decisions has been extraordinarily well-documented this season, but in a season of unimaginable tragedy with the death of Sean Taylor, Gibbs held the locker room together and managed to inspire a dejected and stumbling team to 4 clutch wins and an unlikely playoff berth. That he did so with an unheralded backup who hadn't started a game in ten years at quarterback got the more nostalgic of us remembering Gibbs' first run as coach, when he managed to win three Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks -- the only coach to ever do so.
In yesterday's press conference, Gibbs told reporters, "It was the toughest [season[ for me. When you go through a season like that, it's kind of hard to re-grasp reality." Always a family man too, he's previously expressed his desire to spend more time with his "grandbabies" and, specifically, his ailing 2 year old grandson, recently diagnosed with leukemia.
So it's goodbye to Coach Gibbs, for good this time. Though he only went a mediocre 31-36 over four seasons in his second stint (1-2 in two playoff appearances) and while we'll remember this stint for his incessant repetition of trite phrases like "we really fought our guts out" and "he's a true Redskin", Gibbs deserves to be remembered as a three-time Super Bowl champion and the greatest Skin of all time.