When thumbing through the list of former Washington Redskins head coaches, one name rises above the rest: Joe Jackson Gibbs. ESPN's Rick Reilly is willing to take it one step farther, listing Gibbs as the second greatest coach in the history of the National Football League.
He does acknowledges that his selection isn't without controversy, however:
OK, here's where you start throwing shoes. But it goes back to quarterbacks. Nobody has ever come close to doing what Gibbs did, which is win three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks, none of whom are in the Hall of Fame. That's like crossing the Pacific in a Little Mermaid floatie.


