Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

Albert Haynesworth Will Be Here – Bruce Allen on ‘Total Access’ (http://www.footballnewsnow.com/2010/albert-haynesworth-will-be-here-%E2%80%93-bruce-allen-on-%E2%80%98total-access%E2%80%99/)

Nice article Matty

clearly BA hasn't been listening here:
After this question, Bruce Allen didn’t miss a beat.

““Well, there’s conversations going on all the time with our players,” Allen responded, “and Albert has elected not to be a part of the volunteer program and we understand that because he wants to work with his private trainer and we’ll respect that decision.”
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Well Rich, a lot of the reports that have been out there, whether its trades or things of that nature, simply aren’t true in the Albert Haynesworth situation. ...”

The Oompa Loompas are up in arms!

And this:

Rich Eisen countered, “But he has made it very clear he doesn’t want to play the defense that, uh, Jim Haslett has been brought in to install. And there‘s been a lot made about what you (being the team) – about what he can do to fit into this defense. Is there any… …are you frustrated that he hasn’t, I guess, trusted you guys in that respect and to come in and work along with you?”

After this question, Bruce Allen didn’t miss a beat.

“Well Rich, a lot of the reports that have been out there, whether its trades or things of that nature, simply aren’t true in the Albert Haynesworth situation.

“Well Rich, a lot of the reports that have been out there, whether its trades or things of that nature, simply aren’t true in the Albert Haynesworth situation.

But....but....but......

Still waiting to hear/see/read AH say that he doesn't want to play in this D.

Yet somehow that's been taken as fact.

The Redskins did measure the trade value of several of their contracted players like JC, CP, AH, etc by talking trade with other teams. When they saw they were not going get what they wanted for certain players they moved on. The fans and the media did not.

The LeBron and Cleveland situation reminds me a lot of the AH situation, only in that the media and fans in Cleveland said some really insulting things about LeBron out of anger and frustration after the final loss in Cleveland. I could not believe some of the things that were said in the media about a fairly decent guy that tries/plays hard and really wants to win a championship. Cleveland fans and media might have shot themselves in the foot, because they want and financially need him to come back. The ironic thing is now that the fans and media have spewed their venom, why would LeBron want to come back to Cleveland?

I like how Allen says "a lot" of the reports out there about trading Haynesworth aren't true. He didnt deny that some of them were.

I don't think any reasonable person doubts that if a team offered the right compensation for AH, he'd be gone and Allen and Shanahan would be pretty happy about it. But at this point, every team in the NFL has had a chance to offer the right compensation and, obviously, they were either unwilling or unable to meet our demands. The only way he gets moved in 2010 is if a stud DT on a "contending" team suffers a season-ending injury and the team panics. Baring that, Haynesworth should be here through 2010.

From Haynesworth's side, I am not backing down from my opinion that, having just received a 20MM check, he should be willing to do whatever the team asks him to do. We know that, at minimum, he has rebuffed Shanahan's, Hasletts, Allens, Phillip Danie'ls, and Donovan F. McNabb's requests/pleadings that he show up like everyone else. All will be forgiven if Haynesworth shows up for mandatory activities, gives 100% at whatever role his coaches assign him, and dominates during the regular season. But right now, those are very high expectations and Haynesworth's absence makes him look like a primadonna who care's more about himself than the team. Again, nothing we didn't know before signing him. Right now, we're getting what we paid for.

It is a legitimate story, and the media is doing their job by continuing to report on it. I don't think either JLC, the WaPo, PFT, or any other major media outlet is "making stuff up" by reporting what their sources are telling him. This won't go away until Haynesworth is traded or he starts participating in team activities.

I don't think any reasonable person doubts that if a team offered the right compensation for AH, he'd be gone and Allen and Shanahan would be pretty happy about it. But at this point, every team in the NFL has had a chance to offer the right compensation and, obviously, they were either unwilling or unable to meet our demands. The only way he gets moved in 2010 is if a stud DT on a "contending" team suffers a season-ending injury and the team panics. Baring that, Haynesworth should be here through 2010.

I'm just curious to know what are your thoughts about the change to the 3-4 (without thinking about AH). Part of me wants to somewhat agree with folks that are saying what you are saying.

But my logical side is telling me that it is a bad idea to switch to the 3-4. That making this switch is creating needs on defense that we didn't have before and that it seems that this new coaching staff is willing to gamble in making several players on defense play a new position. With this in mind, it is a bit hard to ignore AH saying that he wants to play a position that will make him more effective.

I'm just curious to know what are your thoughts about the change to the 3-4 (without thinking about AH). Part of me wants to somewhat agree with folks that are saying what you are saying.

But my logical side is telling me that it is a bad idea to switch to the 3-4. That making this switch is creating needs on defense that we didn't have before and that it seems that this new coaching staff is willing to gamble in making several players on defense play a new position. With this in mind, it is a bit hard to ignore AH saying that he wants to play a position that will make him more effective.

I think switching to a 3-4 base defense in 2010 is completely retarded. We had a Top 10 defense in 2010 with a uber-conservative DC that had two of our top potential playmakers playing out of position (3 if you want to include misusing haynesworth). Additionally, the defense was also hurt because our innept offense couldnt score points and the HC made stupid calls that constantly put our defense in tough spots.

Shanahan's offense and play-calling alone would indirectly improve our defense. Move Landry to SS, Orakpo to full-time 4-3 DE, and let Hasletts more aggressive calling work its magic. In my mind, those changes alone would make our defense top 5. Instead, I don't see any way our defense is not in the bottom 10 of the league in 2010. we've simply got too many guys on the roster who don't really fit anywhere in the system and/or who are playing out of their natural position now. IMO Haynesworth is, by far, the best player on our defense, if not the entire team, and the coaches should be doing everything as possible to get the most out of him. Shanahan and Hasletts forcing the 3-4 on the team now is no different than Cerrato forcing the WCO on Jason Campbell. Its a square peg and a round hole. Eventually, you can make it ok, but the coaches are just making a problem when there doesnt need to be one. Great coaches are supposed to adapt their systems to their personnel. All teams run a little bit of everything to confuses offenses, and i'm not averse to the team going to a base 3-4 eventually. But doing it in 2010 is just further evidence that Shanahan is still a moron when it comes to defense.

Good god. If that is the way DS handles his football business there is no wonder why we sucked and were never rewarded with the big payoff from signing these types of guys. As another note, for the player to think that he can come in and have the owner tell the staff what to do with so and so player, really takes the coaching aspect out of things. Wonder why there has been no way to get these guys to gell? Or for that matter why we couldn't win? The Zorn and Blache experiment was doomed from the word go under that logic. No when Gibbs 2.0 ran things we were a little more organized.

Now that we have gotten rid of the dead weight and Synder turned the team over to people who really know wtf they are doing, we may finally have some success. I pray that we do so Synder learn that he needs to keep his little hands off the football team and let the guys who know how to run an organization handle the football side of things. He can still pump the Redskins Propaganda but at least now we do have some hope for a brighter future as a respectible franchise.

Even under Gibbs 2.0 things were a little laxed at Redskins Park. Again, Jason Reid was talking about how under Jim Zorn players would be in the weight room very chatty and not really into it. Under Shanny it's more intense, focused, and the climate has definitely shifted. I don't think anyone is suggesting that players didn't workout under Zorn or Gibbs, but I get the sense that they were going through the motions and just punching the clock.

The one thing that I keep hearing over and over again is that for the first time in a long time, perhaps since Snyder has owned the team, there is an air of professionalism at Redskins Park. They are actually run like an NFL organization from top to bottom, and they're not doing things and bringing in players by the seat of their pants. Bruce Allen has plan in place; Shanahan has a plan in place.