Doobie Doo
Veteran
I am ready toss in the hat on RG3 but Papa Joe gives us hope.
Joe Gibbs hasn’t given up on Robert Griffin III
Resize Text
Comments 117
By Dan Steinberg September 8 at 8:30 AM
biggest Redskins fan in the world” has weighed in. That would be three-time Super Bowl-winning coach Joe Gibbs, and he doesn’t sound like he’s quite done with RGIII yet.
“I think first of all the thing that you can say about Robert Griffin is that he won the division his very first year, as a rookie,” Gibbs told the Junkies on 106.7 The Fan Tuesday morning. “We all saw him. He made great plays. You can’t go in that division and win the division unless you’ve got a quarterback that’s really operating. I think he’s proven to people he can do that, and so I think it’s a matter of health, the health issues, making sure that he’s totally healthy.
“And I think you’ve got somebody there that’s got great talent,” Gibbs went on. “Things haven’t gone his way. He’s been hurt. But I think you’ve got somebody there that is a real talent, and has proven that he can do it. It’s not like we’re guessing. This guy’s won the NFC East, and I know how hard that is to do. So I think we’ve got a great talent there. We’re going to start Kirk [Cousins] this week, [and] I think there’s probably still some questions there about Robert, making sure he’s totally healthy.”
Gibbs is doing a media tour this week to promote this weekend’s NASCAR arrival in Richmond, and it’s a particularly good time for Joe Gibbs Racing. All four JGR teams have already clinched a berth in the upcoming NASCAR playoffs, and Carl Edwards’s victory in Darlington on Sunday gave JGR seven wins in the last 10 Sprint Cup events. Gibbs sounded almost giddy when discussing that run, the sort of sustained success the Redskins have only had one time since his second retirement.
The coach was also asked about the perception that Daniel Snyder had preferences in the quarterback situation, and as he so often has done in the past, Gibbs lavished Snyder with praise.
“I would say this: Dan never once, ever, interfered with anything that was going on with the coaching staff, the whole time I was there,” Gibbs said. “Dan was totally devoted into just giving us everything that it takes to win. And I would have to say it’s exactly the same today. The guy has a burning desire to win, he was so supportive of me. And I don’t care if it was signing a free agent, he was on the phone with me at 12:01 as an owner, talking to players, trying to recruit them.
“The agents probably loved Dan because they knew that they could make a deal with him, and we did very well in free agency,” Gibbs said. “The whole time I was there, if we lost football games, it was my fault, never Dan’s fault. And he never interfered with things. I would go in and talk things over with him, because he’s smart. A sharp guy. And so we shared that, and both of us just wanted the Redskins to win.”
Gibbs said he used to enjoy talk of quarterback controversies — like the Jay Schroeder and Doug Williams one in the late 1980s — because it meant that he had two good players at the most important position. He said he has met Kirk Cousins while during some promotional work in the D.C. area, and said that “everybody really liked him as a person.”
Joe Gibbs hasn’t given up on Robert Griffin III
Joe Gibbs hasn’t given up on Robert Griffin III
Resize Text
Comments 117
By Dan Steinberg September 8 at 8:30 AM
biggest Redskins fan in the world” has weighed in. That would be three-time Super Bowl-winning coach Joe Gibbs, and he doesn’t sound like he’s quite done with RGIII yet.
“I think first of all the thing that you can say about Robert Griffin is that he won the division his very first year, as a rookie,” Gibbs told the Junkies on 106.7 The Fan Tuesday morning. “We all saw him. He made great plays. You can’t go in that division and win the division unless you’ve got a quarterback that’s really operating. I think he’s proven to people he can do that, and so I think it’s a matter of health, the health issues, making sure that he’s totally healthy.
“And I think you’ve got somebody there that’s got great talent,” Gibbs went on. “Things haven’t gone his way. He’s been hurt. But I think you’ve got somebody there that is a real talent, and has proven that he can do it. It’s not like we’re guessing. This guy’s won the NFC East, and I know how hard that is to do. So I think we’ve got a great talent there. We’re going to start Kirk [Cousins] this week, [and] I think there’s probably still some questions there about Robert, making sure he’s totally healthy.”
Gibbs is doing a media tour this week to promote this weekend’s NASCAR arrival in Richmond, and it’s a particularly good time for Joe Gibbs Racing. All four JGR teams have already clinched a berth in the upcoming NASCAR playoffs, and Carl Edwards’s victory in Darlington on Sunday gave JGR seven wins in the last 10 Sprint Cup events. Gibbs sounded almost giddy when discussing that run, the sort of sustained success the Redskins have only had one time since his second retirement.
The coach was also asked about the perception that Daniel Snyder had preferences in the quarterback situation, and as he so often has done in the past, Gibbs lavished Snyder with praise.
“I would say this: Dan never once, ever, interfered with anything that was going on with the coaching staff, the whole time I was there,” Gibbs said. “Dan was totally devoted into just giving us everything that it takes to win. And I would have to say it’s exactly the same today. The guy has a burning desire to win, he was so supportive of me. And I don’t care if it was signing a free agent, he was on the phone with me at 12:01 as an owner, talking to players, trying to recruit them.
“The agents probably loved Dan because they knew that they could make a deal with him, and we did very well in free agency,” Gibbs said. “The whole time I was there, if we lost football games, it was my fault, never Dan’s fault. And he never interfered with things. I would go in and talk things over with him, because he’s smart. A sharp guy. And so we shared that, and both of us just wanted the Redskins to win.”
Gibbs said he used to enjoy talk of quarterback controversies — like the Jay Schroeder and Doug Williams one in the late 1980s — because it meant that he had two good players at the most important position. He said he has met Kirk Cousins while during some promotional work in the D.C. area, and said that “everybody really liked him as a person.”
Joe Gibbs hasn’t given up on Robert Griffin III
for calling another man papa. How do you go home and explain that to your son
