Joe Gibbs Thinks The Commanders Has What It Takes To Win

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3x Super Bowl champion Joe Gibbs joins G&D to discuss when he knew this team was special, and also thinks this team has what it takes to go to the Super Bowl.

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00:00And he did that with Rivera.

00:01He's always been very helpful and gracious in that way.

00:04But let's go right now to the Rood guest hotline

00:07and welcome on to the show,

00:09a DC sports legend and a dignitary

00:12and the man that brought this organization

00:14three Lombardi trophies.

00:16The great Joe Gibbs is with us on Grant and Danny.

00:18Mr. Gibbs, welcome back to the show.

00:20How are you?

00:22Hey, thanks Grant, Danny.

00:24Thank you all for having me on.

00:26I love every time I get a chance to speak there

00:30to the, I think the greatest fan base in all the sports.

00:34I love the fans and all my memories there.

00:37Appreciate you guys having me on.

00:39Hey, and we're all excited, man.

00:41I gotta tell you,

00:43Washington in the championship game this week

00:47is gonna be awesome.

00:48Can you believe this?

00:48It's pretty great, coach.

00:49Can you believe this is happening?

00:51I can't, let me say this.

00:53I told Josh, I was on the sidelines there in Detroit

00:57and I just told him before the game,

01:00I saw him and David there,

01:01just really thank a lot of both of them.

01:03And I said, I just wanna tell you what you guys have done.

01:06This is really special.

01:10And we all know that are in football or follow it,

01:13how hard this is.

01:15And what they've actually done in a little over a year

01:18is put together a team

01:21and that winds up being in the championship game.

01:24And so all of us really respect it.

01:27I think it's great and fantastic for all the fans there.

01:32It's great for us to all be a part of it.

01:35And I just think it's a special time.

01:39Coach, do you see parallels with this group,

01:42maybe playing together,

01:43the sum of their parts may be better than the individuals

01:46and some of the teams that you put together

01:48that went on such magical runs as well?

01:51Well, it's kind of amazing

01:54that in one of the things about football

01:57and you got a team,

01:59sometimes a team just gets a real feeling

02:03and they care about each other and everything.

02:05And it doesn't carry over from year to year.

02:07For instance, 87, when we won the Super Bowl in San Diego,

02:14we came back the next year and had our toughest year.

02:17It doesn't carry over sometimes.

02:20But when certain teams get a certain feeling,

02:23as a coach, I know I could feel it.

02:26And you just have a confidence about the team.

02:29And I think this team has done that.

02:32And when you think about it,

02:34the fact that Dan Quinn came in there,

02:38I think everybody likes him.

02:40The players like him, they respect him.

02:43You got a GM, Adam, when he jumps in there

02:48and makes the selections he did.

02:50And you got ownership with Josh and David,

02:54Josh doing all the things that he's done.

02:57It's just really, that is so hard to do and they've done it.

03:02And so they deserve the credit, man.

03:03I gotta tell you, you gotta give it to them.

03:06And who knows?

03:07I think when you get to the championship game,

03:10you can make a case for all four of these teams.

03:14So it could happen.

03:15Each one of these teams is gonna have a chance.

03:18A turnover at the right time,

03:21a great play at the right time.

03:23That's what it takes.

03:25That's why we all love it as fans.

03:27I know I'm gonna be fixed on everything

03:29that's taking place in these two games,

03:32because you know what's gonna happen.

03:36Two of these teams are gonna get to be a part

03:38of the greatest, one of the greatest spectacles

03:42that man can do, the Super Bowl.

03:45The best.

03:45You don't need me to tell you,

03:46because you know the voice.

03:48That's Joe Gibbs on Grant and Danny.

03:50Dan Quinn calls it his brotherhood.

03:51This is a brotherhood is the word that he uses.

03:55But I said this yesterday on the show.

03:57I did experience this most recently,

03:59once before around your teams in 05 and 07.

04:03I'm a younger guy,

04:04so I wasn't around for the Super Bowl years,

04:06especially after Sean's tragic passing in 07.

04:09And then in 05, when you guys won five in a row,

04:12in that locker room, there was, I call it like a chemistry

04:14or just a love between teammates.

04:17But that's been your whole life.

04:18You do it now in NASCAR with Gibbs Racing.

04:20You did it in multiple iterations here.

04:23How do you build that chemistry

04:25and that brotherhood in the locker room?

04:27And how do you know when you've done it?

04:29And how do you feel it?

04:31Yeah, it's kind of special.

04:35And I think certain parts of it,

04:37you're not sure how it did happen.

04:39But it's got a lot to do with the people you select

04:42and the people on the team and the character that they have.

04:46Yeah, I said early on for me, I was not a good athlete.

04:50The only award I ever got in sports was Most Improved.

04:54So I said, I better get in team sports.

04:56And so I love football because it's team

05:01and it's putting a team together.

05:03And when I was the athlete, I said,

05:06I better be in team sports where other great athletes

05:09can make the plays and I can get some credit for it.

05:13But I love teamwork.

05:14I think that's what it is in football.

05:16That's what it is here at NASCAR.

05:19It's getting the right people together.

05:21And then, I can tell you definitely in football,

05:26at certain times, in certain years, at certain times,

05:29the team kind of gets that feeling.

05:32And they have a confidence

05:34and they make the plays at the right time.

05:36And it's just a feeling it's like,

05:38and I think that's the reason why we love it.

05:40And I love that part of coaching, when you get that.

05:45I had a group of players that first go around

05:49and the second go around where we had a group

05:53of about eight to 10 players that I leaned on.

05:56And when I had a problem with the team,

05:58I used to tell them, this is your team, fix it.

06:02And honestly, they would fix it.

06:04I mean, that's what great teamwork.

06:08It's not all the coaches directing things.

06:11And I'm sure that that's the first thing

06:13that Coach Quinn would tell you.

06:16Certainly, it's what I felt.

06:19Coach, watching this team from afar

06:20and then getting to be there with them this past weekend,

06:23when did you know that this group was special and different?

06:28Well, you kind of see it in times

06:31where they won some of those close games.

06:35I think everybody was focused too,

06:38because we know how important the quarterback position is.

06:41And with Jaden, honestly, he is,

06:44have you seen him with any emotion yet?

06:47This man is cool as a cucumber.

06:50I mean, nothing shakes him up.

06:52And when you look at the pictures of him

06:54on the sideline and everything,

06:56he's just ready for the next play.

06:58I think he made the statement, I'm prepared,

07:00so I don't have to worry about getting upset.

07:02But that has been, obviously, a big part of it.

07:07But also, it's all the other team guys.

07:11And you know, on any team,

07:13when you put something together

07:14in this short period of time,

07:18they find a way to actually play even better

07:23than what you would think that the skill of the team is.

07:28And I think they've done that.

07:29They play together great.

07:30They got a great team feeling for each other.

07:32They do have playmakers, for sure.

07:34That showed up in Detroit.

07:37And so, they've got what it takes.

07:40And like I said, what's exciting for all of us,

07:44the Redskins fans, I have a tendency to say that,

07:47instead of the Washington and Commander fans.

07:49But all of us, we're excited because it can happen.

07:54And so, that's what's exciting

07:55when you get to the championship game.

07:58Speaking of that championship game, Coach,

08:00I mean, what advice would you have

08:02about trying to normalize that game as best as possible

08:06so that they can make sure

08:07it's not the last one they play this season?

08:10Yeah, I got nothing to coach them up on.

08:12They are way beyond me.

08:15They're doing a fantastic job.

08:17So, they don't need me to tell them anything.

08:19These guys are on it.

08:21You know, the entire organization there

08:24is just absolutely doing great.

08:26I think we all, what we'll be pulling for,

08:29for them to seize the moment.

08:32And it's, you know, when you get to this point,

08:35it's like I said, a turnover here, a big play there.

08:39You know, all it takes is one play sometimes

08:42to turn a game around.

08:43And that's why we love football.

08:45It is physical.

08:48So, we love the idea of seeing the physical part of it.

08:52But it is also mental.

08:54You gotta be smart, okay?

08:57You wanna protect the football.

08:58You don't wanna be hitting people on the sidelines.

09:01You don't wanna hit the quarterback low or high.

09:03It is, you've gotta play the game smart.

09:07And I think that's what this team is doing.

09:10Joe Gibbs giving us a couple of minutes

09:12out of his busy schedule.

09:13You're under a month away from your own Super Bowl

09:16and in NASCAR again, the Daytona 500.

09:19And yet again, you guys are having to replace

09:21a points champion, I think Chase Briscoe

09:23coming in to take over for Martin Truex.

09:25So, we're T minus under a month, coach.

09:27You're busy from all angles here.

09:30Yeah, we are.

09:31We got a lot going on.

09:34And for sure, I think we get excited about our,

09:37we have an unusual thing.

09:39We have our Super Bowl as the first game of the year,

09:43which is the Daytona 500.

09:46Yeah, we added Chase to our group.

09:48I think we got four cars that can win, that's for sure.

09:52And then we're kinda working extremely hard right now

09:55because in this sport, what's different

09:58from football, basketball, and baseball,

10:01you gotta have great partners and their sponsors

10:04is what we call them.

10:04But they're really more than that.

10:05They're really partners.

10:08And we just had, we celebrated Kings Hawaiian

10:13coming on board for us.

10:15A great family organization.

10:18We're a family organization.

10:19We really fit.

10:20I'm going to California tomorrow to be able to see them.

10:23It's fantastic.

10:24We got them on board with all their great products.

10:28And then we have SIA, which is a trucking firm,

10:33a huge trucking firm that we just signed.

10:35So we're in the middle of that,

10:37getting everything dialed in for the Daytona 500,

10:42going there for a huge week of racing.

10:46And I love it because it's a sellout.

10:50Everybody's there.

10:51And it's a great forum to have a great weekend.

10:54And NASCAR, I love it because it's aggressive.

10:58It's the best race teams in the world racing in NASCAR.

11:02Coach, good luck to you.

11:03This is always a treat to catch up with you

11:05and enjoy Washington's game this weekend.

11:07Like the rest of us.

11:08Will you be at the game or are you going to be on the couch?

11:09How are you going to watch it?

11:10I'm going to go to the game.

11:12Oh, let's go.

11:13That's my plan.

11:16Let's go.

11:17Let's go.

11:17Here we go.

11:18Coach, we appreciate you.

11:21Thank y'all for having me on.

11:23You got it.

11:24Joe Gibbs will be in the house in Philly

11:27for the Commanders and the Eagles and the NFC championship.

11:29Walk down that sideline, tap on someone's ears.

11:31Hey, you know what?

11:32Play would be good.

11:33Yeah, you can go help him out.

11:35So you didn't want to help him out?

11:36We'll take all the help from Joe Gibbs.

11:37We can get it.

11:38Right at that guy.

11:39Run a little countertry over there.

11:40God, I love it.

11:41I'm 10 years old every time I hear his voice.

11:43Every time, man.

11:44It's the best.

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