Joe Gibbs Quotes (234 Quotes)

You try to go within reason, ... and to make sure you're doing smart things. And you take a long, hard look at a game like this and say, 'Okay, what can we do to improve ourselves' But I think we need to stay aggressive, and I think we all want to be aggressive.

I do like that fact that the bye is in the middle of the season. I think that's the best place to have it. I like that once we get past the season-opening Monday night game, they're all Sundays and evenly spread out that way until we get to that last Saturday night.

Gregg is a valuable and important member of our organization. This is a first step in recognizing his contributions and maintaining consistency among our coaches.

My impression is that he's very accurate. I think he's going to be a guy that can really roam with the football. He's going to make plays with his feet. I think he has a sense of what the pocket is. He'll slide. He's going to be hard to sack because he's so big. We've seen a lot out of him. Now he needs to play.

Everyone in the organization felt like it was a big mistake letting him get out of there in 2001, ... They said you couldn't get a better guy. He's been very productive. He plays hurt. He'll do anything. He plays special teams. Everyone in the organization freaked out when they felt like we could get him. He's our kind of guy.

Hopefully, something starts working out so we can get Patrick some place that he would like. I don't have a time frame on it. We don't feel pressure or anything.

He's certainly a hard worker, ... a real classy guy, as everybody knows. Certainly, he was comeback person of the year to be able to bounce back and play the next year after reconstructive surgery and play well, so you hate to get a setback on something like that. You just have to see to what extent. Our first thought is always to protect him and what's best for him.

Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal.

We'll let Patrick go this weekend. I felt we needed to give Patrick a shot. Hopefully he'll play great for us and we're all going to support him. We're going to give him all the work in practice. He's got a tough assignment this weekend in trying to lead us against Philly.

If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.

We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.

He just has to do his part, ... He doesn't have to do any more than that. He directs the offense and gets us points. He doesn't have to try to make something happen by himself.

He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy, ... Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It's a huge loss to everybody.

I will be honest and say that I've never seen a schedule I like.

We felt like we kind of backed up there. We were fortunate to get out of some things with some rolls and stuff, ... It was just an evaluation thing. We like Andy, we just felt like we need to make a move for the team.

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

We're excited to have Brandon here. We think he'll add something to our program. He's a gifted receiver.

Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.

He has a bone bruise, plus he has a chip, which we cleaned out. We sat and talked to Brandon a long time. He is super important to us. We decided it was probably best for the team and for him, rather than to try and rush him back, to put him in IR.

Pass protection didn't look good, and we looked sluggish. Anytime you don't do well it's a concern, but it is the first time out and we had a lot of people in there.

Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost,

Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.

We'll see if there's a fit -- it has to make sense for both sides. He's a valuable guy, and you would have a hole if he's gone.

I attributed quite a bit of it to him being hurt.

Certainly I would hope that this victory would be one that the guys say, 'Hey look, we're never out of something,' ... We're going to keep fighting no matter what. I hope we can kind of build on that and correct the things that we did poorly.

We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.

For all of us, the collective bargaining agreement is a big deal. We've seen everything in this league - strikes, free agency and salary caps. For some teams in the league, it's going to be tougher. We'll be one of the teams that it will be tough on.

You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You're trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can say almost anything about it, but we thought we were trying to do smart things. Finishing off the game, that's a big deal, and that's what we've got to do.

I like our attitude. I like the fact that we have a lot of fight to us.

I've got to tell you, for a little old guy fighting his guts out, we really like him. We've got some tough decisions there to make, and certainly he stood up.

Obviously, we're very happy to have Tony with us for the foreseeable future, ... Along with Home Depot, he's been an important part of our organization for a number of years, and we're thankful that's going to continue.

This is an exciting thing for us. One of the biggest things here is we want to keep our coaching staff. It's very important to us. Gregg was willing to extend his contract.

When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you're going to ruin your good name. After the first year, we're halfway there.

My commitment to the players was to try to keep this whole group together and hopefully improve and step up again next year.

He's been real consistent with his play since we started back this year, ... He's been confident and sure. ... What I'm looking towards is somebody to really establish themselves as a quarterback, take over and take off with the football team.

I'd love to have a rule where if you play on Monday night, you have to play at home the following Sunday. It's tough to operate on a short work week like that.

(The Giants) completely dominated us the first go-around. We have a lot at stake and I know the Giants do, too. I think it's a big deal that you play the 15th game of the year and it's for something important. ... I get uptight because you worry about having to play the Giants. I don't like doing that, but we got a lot riding on it and I know New York does too.

Free-agent defensive end Courtney Brown took a physical, which was expected to determine whether Washington would offer him a contract. We're still interested, ... I don't think there's anything imminent.

In order to have a great rivalry, both teams have to be winning some games. Lately against Dallas, we haven't been able to do that, ... Until we start doing that, it's kind of hard to have a modern-day rivalry.

Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.

We're moving ahead, trying to see what opportunities are out there for him and also evaluating what's best for us. I'm not sure if anything will get done, but we're looking and letting him and agent Jimmy Sexton look and talk.

This is the most accurate our team has been since I can remember. It wound up being one of those games you dream about.

I would like for the offense to look good, but that's not going to be easy against one of the best defenses in the league that I've gone against, ... It will kind of depend on how the game goes for us, but our game plan would be roughly a third, a third a

That was a tough assignment there. That kind of tells you the reason why people fight so hard for home-field advantage. That was a tough environment today, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

I'm not a karma guy. I don't believe in any kind of luck, either. ... We've been fortunate. I would say that.

He's smart. He's been around a bunch. He kind of understands the game plan. He can walk through the game plan.

They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

He's got more or less a defect there that sometimes gives him problems.

Sometimes just getting out of the pocket and getting rid of the ball can be the biggest play of the game. As I've said many times, a quarterback's biggest play is when it's not there. Everyone is going to hit it when it's there. When it's not there, what do you do with it

I don't think anybody has a handle on it. If they continue to move it, it would be a concern as the season gets closer.