WP: Haynesworth will skip minicamp, wants trade

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

WOOOOOOOOW.

"I agree with the assessment that Albert has made a very selfish decision. When you play a team sport, you have to look at it and think about everybody involved in the situation. This is not golf, tennis, things like that where it's an all-about-you sport. What he's decided to do is make a decision based all about him. It's no different than his attitude and his approach to last year's defense, about wanting everything to revolve around him and him making plays. And if it didn't benefit him, he wasn't really willing to do it."

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"I want teammates who I can depend on, who I can count on, who in the fourth quarter of a situation, I know is going to be there to make a play or to do his job that the defense calls -- whether it's responsibilities holding up a lineman or penetrating a gap... I need guys I can depend on. We need people we can depend on. At the end of the day, right now, he's shown that he can't be depended upon."

In the past, I have been an AH defender. Although I thought the money obscene, I figured - "Hey its Snyder's money and it's isn't draft picks." Also, I thought he improved the overall defense last year as it appeared that Carter benefitted from his presence.

No more. Fletcher's quote makes it clear what the rest of the defense thought of him. Clearly, this guy is not about anything other than himself. On the defensive side of the ball, for success, it really takes all 11 to be on the same page.

I'm sure we have all met the type, the guy who is so convinced of his talent that he simply can't operate as part of team b/c they are absolutely unwilling to do work they consider "below them."

Essentially, AH is simply a less flamboyant, somewhat less stupid and somewhat more articulate LaVar.