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djnemo65:

Excuse me: You can take Joe Gibbs at his word all the time?

How many times did he say he was here for the duration of his contract? He won't be doing that...

Joe Gibbs is a football coach. Football coaches - at every level - live by telling the person in front of them what the person wants to hear OR what the coach wants them to believe. That applies to recruits, free agents, players agents, owners interviewing them for positions, assistant coaches, reporters, TV/radio people and etc. Football coaches who do not have that "survival skill" wind up unemployed.

That does not make football coaches into bad people and it certainly does not make Joe Gibbs a bad person; he is not. But you take him at his word all the time with the same comfort that you take a professional poker play at his word all the time...