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Matty:
There is a fundamental difference between "hope" and "fantasy". And you know it.
Of course we can hope that Joe Gibbs builds such a loyalty between himself and his staff and his key players that they all stay here forever and ever and we all live happily because Danny Boy has to build a warehouse to keep all the Lombardi Trophies.. We can applaud each and every thing Gibbs does that works toward that goal and we can heap all of the praise on Gibbs when those things happen.
But unless you are also willing to blame him for his abject failures every time a free agent leaves town to get more $$$ elsewhere, then it's all fantasy. The NFL is not a game of Dungeons and Dragons; it is not Madden 2004 either. It is a business where the 32 teams and the 2000 or so players all make business decisions.
In the business world, SOMETIMES the highest salary offered is not the job you want to take because it demands something of you that you are not prepared to give to the job. But in the NFL, all the teams play football; it isn't like coming to the Skins gives you a job where you make money by eating and sleeping but going to the Cowboys gives you a job where you are pumping out clogged spetic tanks all day. Both teams play football so if the Cowboys offer a player $5M and the Skins offer him $3.5M, he's going to be booking a flight to Dallas about 99% of the time.
That's not Joe Gibbs' fault. It is the way of the NFL. And unless Joe Gibbs is allowed to drug all the agents for all the players who come to negotiate with the Skins, he will keep some of his coaches and players and lose others.
In the vernacular of the day, just trying to keep it real...
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