Gibbsese Made Easy

Step right up boys and girls and open your eyes and ears to learn what Joe Gibbs is really saying when he whips out his many many clichés when describing your Washington Redskins. Gibbsese is a difficult language to understand at times, but the Deuce has deciphered the true meaning behind his many catchy phrases.

"Core Redskins" = Players we have this year, that took a less money for some reason to stay loyal to the team (example: Ladell Betts), suckers!!!; or, players we have this year that we want to take a pay cut to stay on the team for no reason other than our messed up salary cap situation (example: Mark Brunell), SUCKERS!!!

"Fight our guts out" = It was a really poorly called and executed game, but somehow we pulled that victory out of our collective asses.

"We have a lot of pride" = We really think we've assembled a fine collection of football players and think we're much better than we are which is inevitably going to be our downfall. [Pride is the original and most deadly of the 7 deadly sins. A religious man like Gibbs must know this. Pride caused Satan's fall from Heaven. Pride is one of the reasons they suck.]

"A learning experience" = The quarterback has yet to start a full year and we trust him less than other teams (example: Cowboys/Romo, Jets/Clemens, Bills/Edwards, etc.) trust their young quarterbacks because he has a nasty habit of overthrowing everyone, on every route. Short, deep, intermediate, it doesn't matter, the ball is high and far away from our midget receivers. He will gain valuable experience in learning to hand the ball off effectively until he fixes that cannon arm of his.

"Redskins Football" = As in, "That's more the look of what I envision Redskin football to be." Redskins football appears to be 1) handicap Al Saunders' play calling style by 2) running the ball as much as a football team can while throwing passes no longer than 5 yards for maximum offensive ineptitude. Example, running the same rushing play 15 times and praying the defense doesn't catch on or cannot stop it. All this is done to hide the fact that the receivers are average at best when healthy and that the quarterback is not to be trusted to make a play...not that the receivers will help him to do so.

"Back to the look we'd like to have on offense" = We're gonna run that damn ball down their throat until they stop it or we run out of backs to carry the ball. It worked in the 80s right? Surely it must work now!; See, 'Redskins Football'.