Joe Gibbs Ugh Quotations

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

I told our players I couldn't be prouder of them. We fought extremely hard all year. I really appreciate them taking me with them.

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

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.

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.

We're going to have to wait that out, ... But if I had to guess right now, I think it would make it tough for him to make it back for Monday night. We'll just have to work our way through that situation and see what's the best way of handling that.

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 and a third.

That's about three of the toughest losses I've been through, ... This is going to be a real test for us. We'll see what we're made of here.

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'd had three tough losses in a row and everybody was down. I think our players said to themselves: 'Our backs are up against the wall and we've got no other option other than just to win, and if we lose another game we're probably out.' So they kind of took it as this last stand, and it was that way every week . . .somehow we found a way to win those last five.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Certainly I'm treating this as starting all over again and seeing if we can develop a winner in Washington. It's a tough league. We'll see what happens.

Looking back to 5-6, we talked at that time that if we lost another game we'd be out. Trying to win five straight is a tough deal, but our guys seemed to understand what it would take. We went back to the basics.

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.

It was a tough deal for us for him to get hurt. So what we're going to try to do is make the best decision.

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.

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

We decided to take our best shot and go at them. We didn't want to lose a Super Bowl by not being tough enough.

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.

He has fantastic long-ball, and ball reactions, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that quick. And then the other thing, he's got a great burst, and when you get him going downfield and put in the ball reaction, he can be running, I think, and doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he has such confidence there in where the ball is. Even though he's a shorter receiver, I think he's very much a downfield threat because of that, and then, of course, he's got great speed.

We wish Bill Musgrave all the best in his new role with the Falcons organization. Although it is unfortunate that he departed, we always want what is best for our coaches and their families, which is why we gave Atlanta permission to interview him.

Why this would happen to us? I don't know. We've had three tough losses and a total of five tough losses. I wouldn't want a different group to coach. These are the guys I like. It's up to us, and we're going to see what's going to happen down the road.

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.

He's got a great burst. He can be running, and he doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he's got such confidence. Even though he's a shorter receiver, he's very much a downfield threat because of that.

For us it was just hard-fought, ... We fought hard all day and kept slugging. That's about all you can say from our side. I was proud of our guys, because they had great heart like that.

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.

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.

I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

You can tell he's very comfortable with himself. I don't think he second-guesses things, which a lot of us would when we're going through in a tough situation.

We've got a real tough one next week, ... I'm going to enjoy tonight's dinner, though, at least.

We fought hard all day and kept slugging. I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.

We fought hard all day and kept slugging, ... I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.

I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).