“That really made no sense,” Gibbs said of Hamlin’s rookie year. “Honestly, every single thing he’s touched — Denny just seems to have a gift and nobody would have guessed that. We put him in the FedEx car because we decided we were going to put him in just to see what he looked like, and for him to do what he did — I was blown away.”

You definitely get some points for honesty, Joe, but admitting that his success was crazy and that you just threw him out there to see what happened, expecting very little, well, that’s kind of a backhanded compliment, no?