[sportscurmudgeon]

Smootsmack poses a most interesting question here. I think that Joe Gibbs was deservedly inducted into the Pro Football HoF for what I call "Gibbs 1.0". And Joe Gibbs should be honored for the accomplishments that earned him that place in the HoF.

At the same time, I think fans need to remember Joe Gibbs as an amalgam of "Gibbs 1.0" and "Gibbs 2.0" because of the historical perspective that it puts on the game of pro football. When he brought back many of his former assistants, he and they could not work the same magic. It's not because they somehow turned into a bunch of dunderheads in the intervening years; it's because the game changed and they didn't because most were out of the game for a while.

This is important when you think about the NFL in historical terms and try to evaluate and compare "the way things are now" with "the way things used to be".

I think that an objective view of "Gibbs 1.0" as compared to "Gibbs 2.0" has some important lessons that people ought to think upon.