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Obviously I am a defender of Gibbs. I think that he did things last year for reasons we will never truely know, but some things we know are...

1. Our offense was not that good and took half the year to get in sync. We lost games on penalties and turnovers early in the year. Gotta blame players and coaches for that but most of that falls on Gibbs and his adjustment to the speed of the game. Good news is those problems were solved by the end of the year.
2. Injuries caused us to pull guys off special teams and put them in the starting lineup. This made our special teams weaker than they should have been.
3. Coles hurt his finger and dropped a few passes in the middle of the year that stopped drives. Yeah, Gardner did it all the time, but we had to be able to count on one of them and with a dislocated finger, he just couldn't hang on a few times.
4. Gibbs ran the same plays over and over. BUT... this is not the bad thing that it has been made out to be. Gibbs won his superbowls by running a limited number of plays to perfection knowing that when it started clicking, defenses could not stop it. I know this is true because I watched almost every game the man ever coached the Redskins in.
5. Gotta agree with Daseal about this one troubling point. Gibbs did not adjust at halftime last year the way he did in his first stint. He used to get his butt kicked in the first half, go back at halftime, and dominate the rest of the game. For him to be successful, Superbowl successful, he has to learn to do that again. Maybe it's just that he needs to get truely comfortable with his core group, but this is the one thing that has worried me.
6. Like it or not, 7 points more a game last year would have put us in the playoffs. Ramsey knows what he is talking about. You start by scoring 7 more points, then 10, then 14 ..... I'm all for that way of thinking.