Washington Owes A Lot to Joe, Good Luck Coach

Much to my dismay Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs is scheduled to officially announce his resignation later today.

It is gonna be hard to see him go especially after the job he did this season holding the team together. It's really unfathomable what he and all the Skins went through this year with Sean Taylor's murder. Gibbs led the way he always had though, with integrity.

Obviously bogged down by the emotions of that tragic week, he made a key error in calling two consecutive time-outs against Buffalo. But he took full responsibility for the mistake and refocused himself and the team to run off four straight wins to make the playoffs.

More people will remember him as the Redskins coach of the eighties and late-nineties, but some of us younger folk will remember the courage he had to come back after already being inducted in Canton. He stuck it out for four injury plagued years and one last tumultuous season.

I'll always remember the fortitude he instilled in the young players especially the ones he drafted like Sean Taylor. Nobody else could have brought the excitement and swagger back to D.C. like he did. I'll also always remember going to training camp each summer and seeing him and Joe Bugle really push the offense to get better.

His teams always played hard and respected the man. How could you not? The devout Christian was known as a coach who elected not to use curse words but instead be a model citizen for his young, impressionable team.

Nobody can really fault Joe for the decision. Joe is 67 years-old now and suffers from diabetes. He also has a two year-old grandson who was diagnosed with Leukemia in January. It's clear he wants to be with his family and he should be. Good Luck Joe Gibbs and thoughts and prayers are with you, your family and of course little 2 year-old Taylor.