Joe Gibbs
Joe Gibbs
Head Coach

Joe Gibbs

"Whatever it took to win, he could adjust his personnel to do it." - Dick Vermeil
Matthew Berry
by Matthew Berry

Joe Gibbs, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was one of the most successful head coaches in NFL history. A three-time Super Bowl champion with the Washington Redskins – each with a different quarterback – Gibbs was a master motivator and offensive innovator who won 154 regular season games and went 17-7 in the playoffs. Born in Mocksville, North Carolina in 1940, Gibbs was an offensive assistant coach in college and the NFL during the 1960s and 70s. As an offensive coordinator in 1979 and 1980, Gibbs made the Chargers the first team to regularly utilize an offense with a single back – a one-back offense – and they went 12-4 and 11-5 in those two seasons and led the league in passing. He instituted that offense upon becoming Redskins’ head coach in 1981, won the Super Bowl in his second year, and the single set back formation eventually became a staple in the NFL.

Matthew Berry
Matthew
Berry
Matthew Berry is an Emmy Award-winning fantasy football expert who is ESPN’s Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst. Known as “The Talented Mr. Roto,” Berry writes the popular “Love / Hate” column for ESPN.com, is the New York Times best-selling author of “Fantasy Life,” and has hosted TV and radio shows centered on fantasy football such as “Fantasy Football Now,” and “the Fantasy Focus Football” podcast. Berry, who spent much of his childhood in Virginia, has been rooting for the Redskins for decades. “Other than my immediate family,” he has written, “it’s the longest relationship I have.”
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