Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by JLee9718

AH hasn't done enough to have earned the $32M. Maybe with Allen and Shanny we'll get some players who care about teamwork, not individual stats. No more AH's or CP's!

Albert was pretty good on the field last year, I imagine that there will be a repeat of that this year. He worked well with his teammates. Despite what we want to believe it's not a part of their contract to be there for voluntary camp, to teach rookies (that's what we have coaches for), or to be media darlings. How many of you guys show up while not getting paid to mentor new people? Outside of the office team-building activities (that don't involve drinking), etc?

[tdSKINS1]

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder 'disappointed' in Albert Haynesworth - ESPN

[mlmdub130]

what a stupid f-ing article. f espn it's like some one turned in a positive article about the skins and the editor said wait lets put some hayneworth shit in there it is the skins afterall. i'm so sick of this crap and can't wait for the season to start so we can get past this crap

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by mlmdub130

what a stupid f-ing article. f espn it's like some one turned in a positive article about the skins and the editor said wait lets put some hayneworth shit in there it is the skins afterall. i'm so sick of this crap and can't wait for the season to start so we can get past this crap

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/1...orths-absences

Redskins' owner 'disappointed' by absent Albert Haynesworth - NFL - SI.com

Haynesworth's ascense disappoints Redskins owner - NFL News - FOX Sports on MSN

Don't shoot the messenger, it's not an ESPN story. It's the Associated Press. Would it be nice if the focus was on refurbishing the inner city field? Sure. But let's not kid ourselves, even here that a thread on that would get maybe 3 replies before it turned into a bitch session

[GMScud]

We should just merge all the Haynesworth threads into one mega fat Al thread and just let it die. I'm so tired of hearing about this guy.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GMScud

We should just merge all the Haynesworth threads into one mega fat Al thread and just let it die. I'm so tired of hearing about this guy.

Aren't you supposed to be halfway to plastered by now?

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by GMScud

We should just merge all the Haynesworth threads into one mega fat Al thread and just let it die. I'm so tired of hearing about this guy.

I'll agree with that.....Many people are upset with Haynesworth about now. Everything that can possibly be said about him has already been said. Different thread title, but will solicit basically the same type response.......merge!

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Snyder expresses disappointment in Haynsworth's absences - NFL - CBSSports.com Football

Redskins' owner 'disappointed' by absent Albert Haynesworth - NFL - SI.com

Haynesworth's ascense disappoints Redskins owner - NFL News - FOX Sports on MSN

Don't shoot the messenger, it's not an ESPN story. It's the Associated Press. Would it be nice if the focus was on refurbishing the inner city field? Sure. But let's not kid ourselves, even here that a thread on that would get maybe 3 replies before it turned into a bitch session

lol @ FOX Sports title.. "ascence" instead of "absence"

they must've let the geniuses at Fox News take over for the day

[WaldSkins]

I dont mind hearing about him.....in one thread....

[NYCskinfan82]

We are just under 3 months before the season starts you better get use to threads like this. I don't like it either but it is what it is.

[takethecake]

Haynesworth is another matter. The Redskins have paid the two-time All Pro $32 million in guaranteed money the past 15 months, but he skipped two voluntary minicamps this spring and stayed away from all of the team's offseason workouts mainly because he's unhappy with the switch to a 3-4 defense.

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

[NYCskinfan82]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

I've said it before no body police's the media they can cut/slice/edit a comment anyway they want it & there never questioned on it. IMO.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

I seriously doubt it's blown out of proportion. In fact, I think it's completely true and accurate. Do you think Haynesworth and Allen are going to have a presser and say, hey guess what, Albert doesn't want to play nose tackle? I know there are a lot of reports and stories and "sources" out there right now, but I'm inclined to believe someone who's inside the building at Redskins Park a couple of times a week. So Jason Reid is reporting back in January there was a meeting between Haynesworth, Shanny, and Allen and they told him in no uncertain terms that they want him to play nose tackle. Period. They don't want him getting after the quarterback, they want him drawing double/triple teams and eating up space. Haynesworth basically said he wasn't interested in playing NT and that's not what he agreed to when he inked the deal with the Skins.

Now from what I understand, neither side is happy but won't publicly say so. Everybody expects Haynesworth to be in camp on June 16 for the mandatory workouts and he'll say and do all the right things. If for no other reason, he doesn't want to be a distraction and not giving the organization a reason to fine him. Which, by the way, as of yesterday he's not interested returning any of the bonus money in order to buy his way out of Washington.

When Albert Haynesworth was interviewing with teams across the NFL, including the Redskins, he made it clear that he had specific goals in mind. He wanted to get to the quarterback a lot. He wanted to have career stats. He talked about Reggie White's legacy and how he would want to be a Hall of Famer one day. So all of this fuss isn't about him training alone or at Redskins Park. The guy is flat out unhappy about the whole situation.

[30gut]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

You know what gets me?

Albert probably doesn't want to play NT but that was never Haslett plan in the first place.

And Even if Haynseworth doesn't want to play NT he's never said it that way.

He's said that he doesn't see himself as having the bodytype or style of play of a NT and he's right he's too good to be a typical 2-gap NT.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

Yep, and not to discredit the staff at the Skins and for me to mention for the 11tyth time that he decided on this before our new regime was even in place (let's not forget how abysmal the training program was as reported by former staff and players) but think about the Olympics.. these guys didn't become the best by staying in the same gym that they started in, they got people to train them and ended up typically getting the BEST to train them. His trainer can focus a lot more on HIM solely.

The only real thing that Albert's said about it was that he talked to them about how he thinks that he can best be used (same thing he did before coming to the team to begin with). He also said that they planned to have him in the middle some and on the end some and that once he looked over the 3-4 DE assignments he felt that it was close to his techniques in the 4-3 at DT so that would probably be the best fit for him. I think that we ALL agree that he wasn't used properly last year and I remember quite a few of us weren't happy about that. We signed the guy with promises and if anyone was being selfish in that regard it was us, whether The Danny called for it or not. Who knows if he would've went to another team had we not promised him the world.