Gibbs bringing NASCAR lessons to NFL?

[HOF44]

Back when Joe Gibbs first became involved in nascar you had alot fewer people involved in the team. Just as an example you ussually had a crew chief who took care of setting up the cars(shocks, aero, etc.), an engine team consisting of a few people to reseach and build new engines.

As nascar has progressed now you have a crew chief who has reporting to him a shock man, an aero engineer, a whole shop dedicated to engine building and research, a chassis engineer. Then they all report to the crew chief who then coordinates everything on the car.

Nascar learned that with the vast resources they had at their disposal it was best to get specialist in to work on the cars and reseach new things and have a crew chief coordinate more than develope. This proved to be the best way to operate by the results that were obtained.

I think Gibbs is bringing this style of managment to the NFL. People say he has to many coaches. Some thought the same thing in nascar when all the people started being hired to work on seperate areas of the cars. The old to many chefs spoil the soup theory. For the best teams in nascar it has worked great. Alot of that has to do with the managment of the large amount of people involved. In nascar you have Rick Hendrick, Jack Rousch, and Joe Gibbs who are masters of dealing with people.

I believe if Gibbs health remains good that this time around he might be remembered for changing how an NFL organization is structured. I hope and believe that what he is doing will lead to many good years for the Redskins.

It's Gibbs job in this organization to act as a conducter in an orchestra. He may not develope all the x and o plays as he did in his last tenure, but thats by his choosing. He has brought in the best and brightest football minds he could find and his job is to mesh together all of the knowledge and the personalities in a way to best help the team.

Sounds kind of like what he did for his nascar team.

[Strawhatter]

HOF44,

It is good to see a well thought out, intelligent post for a change.

To much we need to do this with this player or do that with a different player.

In any successful business ( and like it or not, football is just that a business) success begins at the TOP and then filters down. If the person at the top is a good co-ordinater of the people he has delegated to be in charge in their field of expertise you stand a much better chance of the business being a success.

So far as to what I see there is not an EGO problem in the coaching ranks,only time will tell. If the ego syndrom can be left at home by all the coaches and players that is a big step in everyone working together to create a common goal..... A winning team.

Of course I am not saying that you can do this without talent, and I believe that the Washington Redskins have many of these qualities already in place.

Joe Gibbs is a manager of people as HOF44 has stated in his post.

Hoping for a GREAT 2006 season.

[Thanos]

The number of mechanics grew as the sponsorship deals increased.Rouch,Penske have always had more reosurses thus more crewmen.That was not a Gibbs innovation in NASCAR. Listen,I love Gibbs, but he did not revolutionize NASCAR.He married up good crewchiefs with drivers and landed excellent sponsors and the rest is history.

[HOF44]

The number of mechanics grew as the sponsorship deals increased.Rouch,Penske have always had more reosurses thus more crewmen.That was not a Gibbs innovation in NASCAR. Listen,I love Gibbs, but he did not revolutionize NASCAR.He married up good crewchiefs with drivers and landed excellent sponsors and the rest is history.

If I implied Gibbs was the sole reason Nascar progressed in the way it did I apologize that was not my intent.

Actually the leader in the nascar changes was Rick Hendrick, but I believe Gibbs learned alot while in Nascar about managment of large and complex organizations.

I am trying to make the point that what he learned in Nascar he is trying to bring to the NFL.

I also think that Snyder has resources to increase personnel just as you stated in the post above. I think he and Gibbs are the first to go about it this way in the NFL. Thats why you see such a stir about it in the press.

[redman]

IMHO it would be more accurate to say that Gibbs brought excellent personnel management skills he got in the NFL to NASCAR. He certainly continued to develop those skills, but Gibbs has always been an excellent delegator of responsibility.

[tvan]

One draw back is that when asked, Bobby Labonte said one of the reasons he left JGR is because it grew to big. He said it complicated things and communication from him as to what he wanted it the car set-up was lost. He said the team doubled since he won the Championship in 2000 and there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

On the flip side it seemed to work for Tony Stewart.