Yet another Haynesworth thread: his style of play

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

There is a good article in the WP about his freelancing style of play vs. the style of rigid play Blache tends to favor from this defensive lineman. His old d-line coach in Tennessee basically gave up on trying to reign him in. In this article Blache indicates that he's not going to try to restrict him:

My concern is shouldn't we have done the same thing with Jason Taylor last year? How can we be sure that Blache has learned his lesson? The only way I can see Haynesworth not working out here is if we try to make him something he's not. We really have to just stick him in the lineup and let him do his thing.

Yeah, I'm concerned that we brought in AH just because he was the most talented free agent without a premeditation of how we are going to implement him in our system.

This freelancing style is concerning too because let's say that it doesn't work with our defense the first half of the season. What would be the fix?...Get AH to play outside of his natural talents?

Also if we switch our defensive scheme to conform to AH's style of play and then he goes down for a while that will bite us in the ass too.


It's almost as if the AH signing gave us more questions than answers to our problems.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

Yeah, I'm concerned that we brought in AH just because he was the most talented free agent without a premeditation of how we are going to implement him in our system.

This freelancing style is concerning too because let's say that it doesn't work with our defense the first half of the season. What would be the fix?...Get AH to play outside of his natural talents?

Also if we switch our defensive scheme to conform to AH's style of play and then he goes down for a while that will bite us in the *** too.


It's almost as if the AH signing gave us more questions than answers to our problems.

Only because its the offseason, and everyone asks what ifs.
Do you think any signing the FO made would not be second guessed??
I think these questions will work themselves out in OTAs/Preseason. If we can't utilize the players we have than I think coaching, not talent will be questioned.

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

Yeah, I'm concerned that we brought in AH just because he was the most talented free agent without a premeditation of how we are going to implement him in our system.

This freelancing style is concerning too because let's say that it doesn't work with our defense the first half of the season. What would be the fix?...Get AH to play outside of his natural talents?

Also if we switch our defensive scheme to conform to AH's style of play and then he goes down for a while that will bite us in the ass too.


It's almost as if the AH signing gave us more questions than answers to our problems.

Tee you're my bud man but come on. I've never heard so much negativity about bringing in such a good player to a position of need in my life. When the DL coach at Tennesee stopped trying to change the way he played is when he shined. He will do the same here. He will draw double and at times triple teams. He will cause the opposing "O" to be concerned about him on every play. He will make our LB's, DE's, and CB's better. What more out of him do people want? If Blache is dumb enough to try to force him to play his way, then Blache needs to be let go not Haynesworth. It's not like this guy misses a bunch of games. He was in on a higher percentage of plays then anyone on our d-line according to one of the posts in another thread. It seems more time is spent on what can go wrong instead of what can go right. Tennesee had a hell of a defense and AH was a BIG part of that. Seems like with all the talk about how bad our d-line was last year we would be happy to have him. But that's just me I guess. At least we didn't give up a 2nd round pick for him.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

Yeah, I'm concerned that we brought in AH just because he was the most talented free agent without a premeditation of how we are going to implement him in our system.

This freelancing style is concerning too because let's say that it doesn't work with our defense the first half of the season. What would be the fix?...Get AH to play outside of his natural talents?

Also if we switch our defensive scheme to conform to AH's style of play and then he goes down for a while that will bite us in the ass too.


It's almost as if the AH signing gave us more questions than answers to our problems.

Personally I doubt they made this move without knowing what it would mean to the defense and the scheme. I'm sure Blache put his stamp of approval on the move and it wasn't just a "Madden move" of going after the best player on the board.