[dgack]

There's another possibility, and that's that some of the issues raised by that article were accurate, and the FO and coaching staff took care to address them. In particular, one thing that stood out to me was the notion that the safeties and corners had seperate coaches and the secondary as a whole never met together for meetings / training / film / strategy, which seemed really suspect.

Perhaps Gggggrilliamssss needed a little reality check after that meteoric rise in '05? Maybe ST took him aside and said, "look, help us help you". Gibbs has admitted as much for his part this season, that players asked him to ratchet down the intensity of practices late in the week so they'd be fresher for games. He listened, and they're winning.