Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

[takethecake]

Haynesworth is another matter. The Redskins have paid the two-time All Pro $32 million in guaranteed money the past 15 months, but he skipped two voluntary minicamps this spring and stayed away from all of the team's offseason workouts mainly because he's unhappy with the switch to a 3-4 defense.

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

[NYCskinfan82]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

I've said it before no body police's the media they can cut/slice/edit a comment anyway they want it & there never questioned on it. IMO.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

I seriously doubt it's blown out of proportion. In fact, I think it's completely true and accurate. Do you think Haynesworth and Allen are going to have a presser and say, hey guess what, Albert doesn't want to play nose tackle? I know there are a lot of reports and stories and "sources" out there right now, but I'm inclined to believe someone who's inside the building at Redskins Park a couple of times a week. So Jason Reid is reporting back in January there was a meeting between Haynesworth, Shanny, and Allen and they told him in no uncertain terms that they want him to play nose tackle. Period. They don't want him getting after the quarterback, they want him drawing double/triple teams and eating up space. Haynesworth basically said he wasn't interested in playing NT and that's not what he agreed to when he inked the deal with the Skins.

Now from what I understand, neither side is happy but won't publicly say so. Everybody expects Haynesworth to be in camp on June 16 for the mandatory workouts and he'll say and do all the right things. If for no other reason, he doesn't want to be a distraction and not giving the organization a reason to fine him. Which, by the way, as of yesterday he's not interested returning any of the bonus money in order to buy his way out of Washington.

When Albert Haynesworth was interviewing with teams across the NFL, including the Redskins, he made it clear that he had specific goals in mind. He wanted to get to the quarterback a lot. He wanted to have career stats. He talked about Reggie White's legacy and how he would want to be a Hall of Famer one day. So all of this fuss isn't about him training alone or at Redskins Park. The guy is flat out unhappy about the whole situation.

[30gut]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

You know what gets me?

Albert probably doesn't want to play NT but that was never Haslett plan in the first place.

And Even if Haynseworth doesn't want to play NT he's never said it that way.

He's said that he doesn't see himself as having the bodytype or style of play of a NT and he's right he's too good to be a typical 2-gap NT.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by takethecake

Completely untrue. It's mainly because he wants to do his own thing with his own trainer, who he knows can give him a training program tailored to his unique needs. This whole "albert doesn't want to play NT thing" is so blown out of proportion. He said it once, and now everyone assumes that's what everything's about.

Yep, and not to discredit the staff at the Skins and for me to mention for the 11tyth time that he decided on this before our new regime was even in place (let's not forget how abysmal the training program was as reported by former staff and players) but think about the Olympics.. these guys didn't become the best by staying in the same gym that they started in, they got people to train them and ended up typically getting the BEST to train them. His trainer can focus a lot more on HIM solely.

The only real thing that Albert's said about it was that he talked to them about how he thinks that he can best be used (same thing he did before coming to the team to begin with). He also said that they planned to have him in the middle some and on the end some and that once he looked over the 3-4 DE assignments he felt that it was close to his techniques in the 4-3 at DT so that would probably be the best fit for him. I think that we ALL agree that he wasn't used properly last year and I remember quite a few of us weren't happy about that. We signed the guy with promises and if anyone was being selfish in that regard it was us, whether The Danny called for it or not. Who knows if he would've went to another team had we not promised him the world.