With silly season in full swing, it’s not surprising that Joe Gibbs is in the middle of it. Over the last month, the rumors of Carl Edwards considering a move to JGR have picked up considerably. But Coach says it would take a lot for JGR to add a fourth team. ‘I’m not going to guess on stuff and the rumors and everything,’ Gibbs said. ‘We get into this every year and there’s a period we kind of got to go through, I’ve come to feel.’ When asked specifically about Edwards, Gibbs would not offer a definitive answer. ‘Anything that’s going on right now, to me, is kind of that rumor time – and I don’t think I need to be commenting on it,’ Gibbs said. ‘So many times when the top guys come up, everybody in the sport kind of looks at it. There’s a couple of guys this year – that are on their last year, so it kind of happens.’ JGR expanded to three full-time teams in 2005, but moved to three full-time drivers with the addition of Denny Hamlin in 2006. Inevitably, it’s a question as to whether a fourth team makes sense for JGR. ‘We have said for the last five years that when things come up we have always looked at it,’ Gibbs said. ‘But it’s hard to do. Like I’ve said, it’s extremely hard to do cause you’ve get so many things to work to make it happen. I’d say for the last four to five years we’ve looked at it, but it’s hard to do and we haven’t been able to think it’s best for us.’(Motorsport)(5-18-2014)
