Gibbs, who built the team in to a national powerhouse in the 1980s, told Snyder that he’d promised himself when he returned to coaching that he would do things differently this time and wouldn’t allow the job to consume him, the person familiar with their discussion said. But he hadn’t been able to make that transformation. Instead, the 67-year-old coach poured himself into the job and found it to be every bit as taxing as it ever had been. When he got to the end of this season, he felt he had nothing left.
Gibbs was inducted into the football Hall of Fame after guiding the team to three Super Bowl victories in his first 12-year term as coach. But he enjoyed far less success since emerging from retirement four years ago to a five-year, $27.5 million contract. Compared to a 140-65 win-loss record between 1981 and 1992 — the NFL’s third-best winning percentage — the team has been 31-36 under Gibbs this time around. Two of his three losing seasons as an NFL head coach have come since 2004.
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