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Originally Posted by skinsfan69

If this is the case then I could see the players union getting involved here. I don't have a problem with MS making an example of AH. But let's not take it too far. The reality is he only missed 2 mandatory practices. There are other ways to make him earn his keep.....putting him w/ the 2nd team, which they're already doing. Not starting him in the pre season games and so on.

Redskins Insider - More on Albert Haynesworth's failed conditioning tests

According to Wright, Haynesworth failed Thursday's test because he did not complete the runs in the allotted time after being forced to restart due to a long bathroom break.

"What happened the other day was he ran the first rep and then he had to use the restroom," Wright said. "You get three and a half minutes; he was gone close to 10. So I gave Albert the option, 'Do you want to run this again?' My suggestion was, let's just wait until the morning. He wanted to run it again, so we ran it again. So you get three reps as opposed to the two that it normally takes."

Asked if he felt Haynesworth would have passed without the bathroom break, Wright said, "He might have." Wright also said Haynesworth would not have been required to start the test over if he had returned within three and a half minutes.

"No, he could've gone and ate a hamburger if he came back in three and a half minutes, he was ready to run," Wright said.

Haynesworth is the only player on the team that had to take the test, according to both Wright and Coach Mike Shanahan. Wright said it was not a Haynesworth-specific test, but that he was the only player who did not meet a 50-percent attendance mark during the offseason.

"The guys that were under 50-percent [attendance] were notified, 'You got to get over 50 percent or there's going to be a test,'" Wright said. "Andre Carter was close, Rocky McIntosh was close, so we let them know. They're over 50 percent [attendance]. Our team was so high, we're 90.4 as a team, so no one was in danger of having to do a test."

So, from the bolded text, one can definitely conclude that Shanahan did NOT "force" Albert to take the test again, that Albert did three times due to him choosing the option of taking it again, and that this test could have been stuffed on ANYONE with less than 50% attendance rate in the offseason workouts and that they did notify the players. It's just that Albert was the only one who attended less than 50% of the offseason workouts.