Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

It's probably not right, but this would bother me more if it wasn't known for years that Haynesworth is like this, that he marches to his own beat. And it would bother me more if he hadn't told Shanahan from the get go that he wouldn't be there. I mean this isn't a case of a guy who always showed up all the time throughout his career and now suddenly is deciding to try things his own way, and this isn't a case of a guy not answering his phone while working out on his own in Arizona or Miami (or wherever)

To all of you who think people like me are just getting "our panties in a bunch", what is going to motivate AH to be in prime shape and give the skins his 100% effort this season?

the 3.8 million he is set to make this year and the next few years?

I think anyone who doesnt see the writing on the wall in this situation is being overly optimistic.

would i love AH to honor the remainder of his contract? a big f'in yes

do i think AH is going to play 100% for 3.8 million a year for the next 3 years? hell f'in no

sometimes you all just like to stick your head in the sand and not worry about anything until shit hits you in the face.

Ok lets say I just pulled my head out of the sand and shit has not hit the fan. So now what can I do?

The Steelers just had a mandatory workouts but we are still doing voluntary ones. Who decides when a team can hold them?

I was under the impression that all teams had to wait till June. It would be nice to have a mandatory one to see AH and his conditioning and so we can finally hear from him and his thoughts on the new scheme instead of all the speculations.

Damn, this thread just keeps going and going. Maybe we should treat these threads like the Off-Season Rumors and Reports thread.

"Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 1" "Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 2"...there will be no Week 6 or 7, and 8 is just a sideways infinity sign

Honestly people need to get over AH not working out w/ the team, including his teammates. It is what it is. Hopefully he'll show up for some of the OTA stuff when they're installing the defense. That way at least he'll know where he's going to line up. But if he comes in at training camp and he's in shape and rebounds w/ a good year no one is going to care about the off season. If he plays like he did last year then he's really going to be miserable here cause the fans and the media are going to be all over him.

Am I missing something here?\




Teammates to Albert Haynesworth: You should be at Redskins Park

washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/09/AR2010050903014.html?sub=AR)

By Mike Wise (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/mike+wise/)
Monday, May 10, 2010

Albert Haynesworth couldn't stand John Palermo, his defensive line coach last season, and therefore wasn't a big fan of practice. But even teammates could not believe his abject apathy as he sat on the side of the field while they were going through drills on one day last season, when Big Al had another little "owie."
"My ankle hurts," he complained in that soft, lilting voice that makes coaches lose their minds.
Phillip Daniels was playing through a torn biceps tendon that day. Another player later remarked, "I think that's the same day I was practicing with three cracked ribs."
I could make a lot of bad jokes about Haynesworth's ballooning weight and physical fitness, mostly his lack thereof. I could keep calling him Mr. Butterworth and Albert Ain'tworth and lace into the Redskins (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/redskins/longterm/sectionfront/index.html)' previous regime for even offering this ingrate of a player a $100 million contract -- the largest ever signed by a defensive player in the NFL.
But all that would serve to do is get Big Al and his supporters angrier toward the press. And he gets to keep playing the victim while casting the media jackals as the perpetrators who just cannot understand why a man of his supreme size and talent is broken up about having to play in a new defensive scheme, so much so that he refuses to take part in any voluntary workouts with other veterans in Ashburn.
Instead, I'm going to cut deeper than that, right to the heart of the matter, to the only thing that may wake the man up from his selfish slumber:

I'm not going to care about AH until he shows up for opening day out of shape and plays poorly. If he shows up in shape and performs on the field, we're all going to be eating crow for denouncing him this offseason.

D.C. Sports Bog - Cooley is tired of Haynesworth talk (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/05/cooley_is_tired_of_haynesworth.html)

On Haynesworth:
"He doesn't have to be here," Chris Cooley said, during an appearance on DC101's Elliot in the Morning. "And when the season starts, if he shows up and he's playing, no one's gonna give a damn what he did [in May]. Obviously he's gonna have to play for us. I mean, there's no way around it....

... I'm so tired of hearing about it, because he's still not doing anything wrong."

More crap.

Is Albert Haynesworth a bad teammate? - NFC East Blog - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/14008/is-redskins-dt-albert-haynesworth-a-bad-teammate)

Albert Haynesworth's Washington Redskins 'mates call him out - ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5176911)

D.C. Sports Bog - Cooley is tired of Haynesworth talk (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/05/cooley_is_tired_of_haynesworth.html)

On Haynesworth:

I like this. Personally I'm not to crazy about all the players recently going public with their displeasure. It just adds more fuel to a fire that won't die.

I'm not going to care about AH until he shows up for opening day out of shape and plays poorly. If he shows up in shape and performs on the field, we're all going to be eating crow for denouncing him this offseason.

Not me I made this post on the 5/9/10

You guys sound like a women complaining about not getting what she wanted for her birthday. If he shows up and is out of shape come game day then bitch all you want but for now lets wait and see. Last season people bitched because they said he took to many plays off and was out of shape. Now that he says hea is working hard to get into shape the same people are bitching. If you reply to this post while at home maybe you should volunteer and go into work today.

Sure they wish he would at camp, but I still dont see how they are up in arms and wont ever play well with AH again. Not too happy with the Post for this article. Also his teammates arent really calling him out. They were baited to give an answer on a pointed question.

No one came out anonymously and went to the media complaining about AH. They are saying that it would be better if he was heard. Well no crap captain obvious. He's doing his own thing.

I hope Cooley's feelings are aired on ESPN. They probably wont because its not the image of AH that they want to portray. I blame SS.