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Originally Posted by Monkeydad
I blame your English teacher. 
A thief is a thief. It doesn't matter if someone left a door open, stealing is the crime of the one who stole it...and only his.
Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato may have overpaid players horribly, but they still gave them the contracts with the expectation that the player would give full effort to deserve and earn the money. Signing an old Deion Sanders or Bruce Smith like they were in their prime, or paying a bum like Adam Archuleta top money is still not "asking for it". The players are still expected to at least try. Haynesworth apparently came in with no intention of giving ANY effort at all and with a goal of being paid and forcing the team to release him so he can do it to another team.
That's break of contract, fraud and flat out stealing.
If you can't condemn Haynesworth, I'm shocked. Well, maybe not, look at the welfare state we live in these days. Stealing from the rich is actually endorsed now. |
I agree 100% with you Monkeydad. This is all on Albert Haynesworth. One can blame the Redskins organization all day long, but the bottom line for them was signing a football player who showed signs of greatness in terms of football talent - and AH had that. But to echo Smootsmack, he was too lazy to use it. Haynesworth could have been a beast for this defense if he had put in the effort. Imagine AH playing at the top of his game, while being flanked with Ryan Kerrigan and Brian Orakpo. That would have been pretty deadly! And I also agree that it didn't matter where Albert went, he would have done the same thing else where.
And the sad thing is, the franchise tried it's best to clear off the monetary mistake of one Albert Haynesworth from the books, and it wound up costing us $36 million more dollars. He really screwed the 'skins over big time!