Anybody else notice the little nuance at play here?
Asked about continued playing time for Arrington, Gibbs described him as "a work in progress and we'll see where everything leads. You just work week to week and see where he is week to week. LaVar hopefully continues to make progress and you hope he plays a lot."
Everybody knows Arrington had a huge game, everybody knows that Arrington proved that he deserves to start, and everybody knows that he will be starting. But this little touch by Gibbs is vintage Joe; by insisting that LaVar needs to work week-to-week, Gibbs is keeping the big fella motivated. He's making him work for it. And you just know that Gibbs knows what a positive effect that has on the rest of the team: everybody EARNS it around here. And when LaVar's teammates see him earn the playing time by practicing hard, and then go out and kick ass on game day, you know they're rooting for him and you know they're behind him. THAT's team chemistry.
You don't know what you're missing until it's gone. Welcome back Joe!
That excerpt above comes from this WP article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102401678.html