Joe Gibbs Quotes (234 Quotes)

It's a real concern, ... It's a problem. We've got to get it corrected because you won't win games up here turning the ball over and I'd still say those are two areas where we have not showed the kind of improvement I'd like -- turning the ball over and penalties. So it's something for a real focus from now until game time. In the regular season, we've got to try to find something to fix it.

Well, you certainly have to give them a lot of the credit. Let's put it that way.

The thing about Ray is, he's not going to panic. He's been around forever. He was able to play tackle for us last year and now he's come in to play guard. He's a pretty unusual person. He's been given a great body, but with Ray, it's also about character.

The little guy fights his guts off, we really like him. We got some real tough decisions to make. Certainly he stood up tonight, he really played well. Those are the things we need to see.

The Ravens gave us some fronts that gave us trouble,

I know he's disappointed not making more of an impact, not playing more, ... It's something we just have to work our way through. I think our defensive schemes are trying to use all of our people. In this case, I could see people saying, 'Hey, I don't understand that.' But I think it's just something we're working our way through as we scheme it up. It's just one of those things.

You hate to see him go through something like this, ... and we have to go through it, so it's a tough deal. But I think we've just got to deal with it. His injury this time, they said if last year was a 10, this year is a 2. It's not nearly as bad.

Ethan's been around so long, it's a great credit to him. He might be as good a long-snapper as we've ever had. I put a lot of stock in snapping, and we pay him a lot of money to snap the ball.

Right now, for anybody in this organization -- I would hope in the entire town -- to be focused on anything other than Philly would be ridiculous. We're getting ready to play the most important game that a lot of our players will play. ... If we lose the game, we're not going anywhere. So my mind-set is on one thing, Philadelphia. That's the way I feel about it.

Nonetheless, the Redskins will focus on acquiring players through free agency because of the uncertainty of the draft, to be held in late April. We would like to solve everything that we could on our football team in free agency, ... That way you go into

I certainly had second thoughts about the way the second half went, so we want to be more balanced. We want to make sure we don't go into a game and come out of there saying, 'Hey, look, we let it get away from us by throwing the ball too much.

We always try to get it to him, and he's a major portion of our game plan. He had only two catches last week for 73 yards, but they were big plays. He's one of the keys for us, and we work hard to get him the ball.

It will allow me to focus on things where I can help the football team. It's tough when you're in meetings and the coaches are waiting on you. I can already see that we're farther down the road on some things by doing what we're doing.

A couple of times we make a mistake by being so aggressive, ... We come up and we probably had a chance to get the guy down, but we try to explode on him and miss a tackle.

It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.

From Mark's standpoint, when he was playing last year we weren't as good certainly as we are now, ... I think we're better now. And hopefully that will prove out to be the case.

Everything in the world today happened to Tony, and he still finished fifth. I got to tell you, that's pretty miraculous right there.

We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.

Adam's workouts and routines are kind of legendary. This is probably one of the best trained athletes on the league. He's extremely serious about football. We never talked any business until he felt comfortable about seeing how he would fit in with us.

We're going to go with two kickers until John is healthy, and then we'll make a decision, ... We are thin at some other positions, but we don't have a choice at this point.

Initially, the trainers that were here said it still felt tight and everything, so that was good, ... We'll just have to wait and see. It might be we have to wait overnight.

This is something that is extremely hard, ... You don't like doing this. I don't. Sometimes you don't chart the circumstances or what happens - it just happens. Certainly it wasn't the plan I had going in, but sometimes plans change, and I think you do the best you can in dealing with it.

When Mark was playing last year, we weren't as good personnel-wise as we are now.

Our goal is to try to hold it on offense in that situation, and don't give it back, ... Run time off the clock and protect the lead. We need to average more than that when we're rushing the football.

I'm just happy for him that he is playing well, ... A lot of times up here you go through tough things. At any one time in the NFL, you're going to have a number of players on a team who are going through tough situations. A lot of times the way they handle it is a measure of someone's character. I think that was Mark's situation last year and Patrick's situation now. The way you go through the tough times leads you to improvement and great performance in the future. It's a test of character when you go through that.

Now I was joking, so I hope everybody in Dallas - because I've got a lot of buddies there - I hope they all took it as a joke. But to anybody that didn't, I apologized.

Our biggest concern is Mark.

They had the upper hand for a long time out there. We had a tough time getting anything done against their defense. Any time you get into the playoffs it's a huge deal. I feel great for these guys because so many of them haven't experienced it before.

If I had to guess right now, it would be tough for John to make it back for Monday night, ... We'll be working full speed tonight to try to get all that done.

We think somebody who's 24 years old is going to be playing here a long time.

He's tough-minded. He's got a tough, disciplined way of doing things, ... I know from going against him out here, it's extremely tough. You've got to be ready for a little of everything. It's a scheme I admire. You've got to have a lot of admiration for what they did last year. A new staff, third best in the league stat-wise, and we didn't do what we should do on offense to support him.

We'll probably look at the film tomorrow and see some real good things, but right now we're our own worst enemy,

Gibbs said that Ramsey did not concur with the decision. This is something Patrick doesn't agree with. He's a very competitive guy, ... I understand that. But it's something we're going to have to work through.

Just doing his part, ... He doesn't have to do more than that, you know. Direct it and get us points, but just do his part. I think one thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart. When you put the game plan in he has a feel for what we're doing there, so he only has to do his part. He doesn't have to make something happen by himself.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

Coach Joe Gibbs said he spoke at length with owner Daniel Snyder on the phone Sunday night, and informed the players today of the owner's support. He thinks the world of our team, ... He thinks we've got heart and fight, and I think that's what we've got. We just need to find a way to close games and win football games.

I saw him show up a few times, I'll say that. He has a way of doing that.

We have a smart football team, and they understand,

I've got to do some creative thinking about it, ... We do a lot of stuff to emphasize turnovers and taking the ball away in practice. I probably need to think long and hard about it myself.

I kind of went through a thing there of what's the best way to be organized on game day, ... And I feel like Jack and Don had a good feel. So the way we're set up now, I'm real comfortable with it. They are upstairs in the booth. They get big input. They

I can promise you there are going to be some great players that come out of this draft from the fifth round down. Those are where the home runs are. Could we be the team that hits a couple of those

I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

I think that kind of depends on how he progresses this week. He looked pretty good today. We'll just have to see how sore he gets and what he looks like tomorrow or Thursday. But that will be something that kind of goes down to game day.

We're one of the aggressive teams in the league when it comes to signing free agents. That's the way we want to be. ... If we weren't aggressive over the last couple years, we wouldn't have people like Phillip Daniels, Cornelius Griffin and Marcus Washington.

The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.

He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.

Playing smart was a big emphasis this week, ... and we still had a number of penalties. That's still a real concern.

Right now, everybody is nervous. I would sure hate to see us go into free agency without (a new CBA) done. The other thing I'm hoping for is the date to be extended.

We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.

There are some real critical decisions we're going to make in that group. So we played them a lot. And hopefully the film will tell us what we need to know so we make good decisions.