Joe Gibbs Quotations | Page 3

We feel pretty comfortable as a team. I don't think we're under pressure to take any one particular spot, to be truthful, right now. I think we can be pretty comfortable at 53, just taking the best athlete.

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

We think that right now we got a core group of players that are extremely hard working. Now, how good we're going to be, how many games we're going to win? That remains to be seen.

To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.

We'll have to see how it develops in the days ahead. Mark tried to come back off of it, but couldn't.

We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.

We've had some big battles that I've been a part of in the first go-around,

Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back,

Everything is on the table. We didn't have the production we wanted late in the year. But we did make a big jump. It's a matter of evaluating everything and seeing the ways that we can help ourselves get more production. It's a little bit strategy, and it's certainly personnel.

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 so many injuries last year. I was kind of praying that we'd be much more in a good-health situation when we got to the regular season.

Across the board, we need to step it up.

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.

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.

The thing I want to emphasize is this: We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do. We have certain rules in the league. Here's the cap, here's the numbers, here's what you can spend. So everybody in the league can do what we're doing. It's just that many choose not to.

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.

Ray really looks like a stroll in the park. He looks like he could do it the rest of his life.

Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.

Something like that starts with me. . . . It was all of us together.

Experience is something I'm sure they probably would like to have,

With our free agents, we think we have the best place for them.

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

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.

As long as he's not getting in trouble, let him go out and have fun.

That's my responsibility. Obviously we wanted to be much more productive than what we were in the playoffs. We always each year try and look real hard at everything, and that'll be one of the things we look real hard at is, offensively, how can we do a better job.

That's never been done before in the NFL, so you'd have to say that this team is going to play a lot of close games, ... It's been phenomenal all the way across the board. They go after it super hard. Whether it's on offense, defense or special teams, they make key plays when they have to late in the game.

That's my responsibility and obviously we wanted to be much more productive than we were in the playoffs. That'll be one of the things we look hard at.

All of our guys thought he was on the ground. That's what everybody told me. I didn't see it, but that's what instant replay is for.

They rushed the football on us, ... We don't like anybody doing that. It kind of has been something that's happened to us a little bit here recently.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Probably what I'm going to have is two receivers mad every week. It's just a matter of which two among our group.

Right now we're in a precarious situation, ... One thumb, and now we've got two, so that's not going to work out.

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?

Santana has fantastic ball reaction, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that. And he has great burst. He can be running and he doesn't even put his hands up because he has such confidence. He's very much a downfield threat.

People say, 'Why would you go get the free agents? Well, look at the guys we wouldn't have on our football team.

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.

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.

There's no serious considerations for doing that. But I don't think you ever rule it out.

We had a couple of good talks. That's the only statement I want to make.

Trying to win five straight is a tough deal up here. Our backs have been against the wall for five weeks.

I've appreciated how Patrick has handled the situation all year. It says a lot about him and his character.

This is something that is extremely hard, ... You don't like doing this.

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.

You're always nervous about (losing Taylor). It would be real struggle for us (without him). I know what Sean says happened and what his group says happened. I think he is concerned about it and I think he felt like there is not much he can do about it now. He's kind of put it in other people's hands. You look a guy that big and that mature-looking and (you forget that) he's really young. He was real cooperative, much more open and friendly last year, and I think he had a heck of a year. I think he genuinely thought about (skipping the 2005 off-season workout program) and won't make some of those mistakes.

You never know what's going to happen, but our goal is to keep everything together. We have a lot to do trying to get ready for next year and continuing to add to our team and continuing to build something. I know we have the right kind of character and right kind of players to build around.

You're hoping for a new CBA because it frees up a lot of money for all of us.

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.

This is really a heck of a mess you left me in.

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 know this is something that I'm saying to every fan out there and every person that thinks the world of the Redskins and pulls for them, ... I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that. For me personally, I felt like it was a decision I had to make.

I know we don't have any Dallas people here -- they are the ugliest people in the world.

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

I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.

If there's anybody that's got better long-ball reaction than that guy -- he turned around and snatched that thing from I don't know where.

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.

I like it that after that first Monday, it's all Sundays until the last Saturday, but I think they should have a rule that if you play on Monday night, you should get to play at home the next week.

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

I'm just a cruiser, ... I'm not fast.

I'm looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback.

In the first part of the year when he was healthy, I think that's about as good as I've seen anybody run -- very forceful, very aggressive. I think that's a real problem for us because in the first go-round, I don't think he was healthy.

In talking to Mark, he gives me the impression that he thinks he can go and we'll work towards that.

If you're on God's team, you can't lose.

If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.

No. I think I know what his feeling is and he knows ours. He's a very important guy and we've invested a lot in him. But we can say he's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years with us. We've had a good game plan talking things over and we're moving ahead with it and we'll see where it ends. I wouldn't have a guess if something is going to work out or not.

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.

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.

The biggest misrepresentation there is that (it's because) Dan's got a lot of money. That's not it. We've got a rule. Believe me, if we had no rules, Dan would spend some money.

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you, ... You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that.

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you. You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that.

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

Not very good ones, I'll tell you that. We always seemed to have a tough time against them.

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,

I want to say a big thanks to our fans for all they did for us to get here. I feel humbled and really thankful. The Lord has blessed us with a great bunch of guys.

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.

It's probably one of our biggest concerns, with his groin. It'll probably be later in the week before we get a report on that.

It's great at least to be at 4-2, ... That part is fun. You get to play games that count now. We're entering a tough stretch here. It starts with the Giants.

It's been pretty traumatic, ... I thought we were kind of set there in a lot of ways. It just goes to show in the NFL you're never sure.

Every week we've had four or five opportunities to get balls in our hands and we have not been able to, for whatever reason, to either get the fumble or get the interception, ... I don't know how to explain it. But it's put us in a real bind because you're not going to play on that side of the giveaway and takeaway ratio and win many football games.

At the end, there was some unbelievable plays. It really took my breath away.

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

As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down,

That's an area we need to be looking at.

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.

in terms of personnel, or changing the technique, there are a couple of things you can do there. We shouldn't have any blocked, and we've already had two. So it concerns us.

I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that,

I know a lot of people would disagree with this, and I understand that. For me, personally, I felt like it was a decision that I had to make. I think we've got a situation where two quarterbacks can win ball games for us. ... I know this is something that Patrick doesn't agree with - he's a very competitive guy - but it's something we're going to have to work through.

I think NASCAR makes it pretty clear that they're not going to put up with any of that, ... I might be saying something different five weeks from now, but right now I'm not worried about that stuff.

Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.

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.

I'll worry about the pass routes, young man. You try and hold onto the ball a little more frequently.

I have said the NFL changes at roughly 30 percent a year.

If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.

I have to see how this all shakes out. We will see how everybody heals up, and I will sit and look at it and decide what we are going to do.

In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.

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.

In order to have a great rivalry, ... you've got to have two teams that are beating each other, and it's been one-sided. So I don't know. I can't speak for the rivalry part of it, but certainly we haven't been doing our part is the best way of putting it. And I think they're a much improved football team over last year from what I've seen on film. I think they've got a new system there on defense, and they're obviously very, very well-coached, and I have great respect there for Coach Parcells.

If you were to draw it up, I would say the best way to win the game is to move the ball ourselves and keep them off the field.

But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when you make a mistake like that, you've got to apologize. So I apologize to anybody that might have taken it the other way.

Hey, ... please don't give away plays from our play book. 'Deep Throat,' that's one that owner Daniel Snyder drew up for me.

He's extremely physical, if you ask him, he's going to pick an inside running play.