WP: Haynesworth will skip minicamp, wants trade

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

1) Do you really think AH would be holding out if we were running a 4-3 and he was being used in the way he wanted to be used?

2) Do you really think the plan from the start was to come here, collect a ton of money up front and then force a trade the very next year?

That's pretty far-fetched and there are no official reports, legitimate sources, questionable sources, or even rumors alleging that this was the master plan all along. Its a conspiracy theory with absolutely no supporting evidence... at best (or worst?)

1) Yes, i do believe that if there was no coaching change and no D scheme change, he would proffer another excuse for being unhappy. He and his agent had to know that zorn was not going to be the coach after last season. He and his agent had to know that blache was old and had to be brided out of retirement by gibbs, then begged to stay on when gibbs left.

Everyone knew zorn and blache were coaching their last year. AH knew it.

2) Yes. The skins made an unprecedented contract offer that opened the window for AH to collect an unprecendented 32 mil for 13 months of work.

What scenario would make AH the most money when he was a FA last year:

he turned down more money (in a traditional pay as you play contract) with the bucs b/c why? the skins and blache were so damn attractive to him? no. it was the freakin 32 mil dangled in front of him for 13 months of work.

I feel like my conspiracy theory is right. Has been all along. Is so far fetched that a player like AH (who loves money and not football, had big time debts) would try to take 32 mil that was stupidly put in front of him with no incentive for him to play after the 13 months.

The writing has been on the wall.

Ask yourself what scenario would get AH the most money last year.
Answer: take the skins 32 million, after the april 21 mil check clears, get a trade and sign a new, traditional pay as you play contract.

BHA - do you honestly think AH had any intention of playing for the skins in 2010 for 4-5 mil, in 2011 for 4-5 mil and 2012 for 5-6 mil? He is 28, he is in his prime years. No way AH ever had any intention of playing the next 3 years of his prime for 4-6 mil. No freakin way. to think otherwise is really giving too much credit to the integrity of AH.