[sportscurmudgeon]

Let's try to look at this the way Mr. Spock would look at it - - logically.

Gibbs leaves only one of three ways: 1. Danny Boy fires him. 2. He steps down. 3. He dies or is kidnapped by aliens or gets caught up in some kind of monstrous government plot such that even Jack Bauer can't save him.

Let's rule out #3, OK?

Will Danny Boy fire Joe Gibbs? I put the probability of that at about .01% or one chance in ten-thousand. Snyder knows that Gibbs makes money for the Redskins and has a large loyal following amongst Skins' fans. Snyder is most unlikely to drop the hammer on him now. Despite the fan-boy rhetoric around here that all Danny Boy wants is to win, I think he's just really happy to be making a ton of money with the franchise at the moment. If they win big, that's gravy to him - - because then he'll make even more money.

Will Gibbs step down? Let me answer that question with a question. Why should he? He stands to make over $5M next year to be a CEO and watch a horde of other people coach the football team. What he has to do to put that $5M - plus in the bank is to hold two news conferences a week and wear a headset on the sidelines for about three and a half hours 16 times next year. If you had a job like that for $5M, would you "step down"?

As Mr. Spock would say, "That's illogical..."