Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Am I missing something here?

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Teammates to Albert Haynesworth: You should be at Redskins Park

washingtonpost.com

By Mike Wise
Monday, May 10, 2010

Albert Haynesworth couldn't stand John Palermo, his defensive line coach last season, and therefore wasn't a big fan of practice. But even teammates could not believe his abject apathy as he sat on the side of the field while they were going through drills on one day last season, when Big Al had another little "owie."
"My ankle hurts," he complained in that soft, lilting voice that makes coaches lose their minds.
Phillip Daniels was playing through a torn biceps tendon that day. Another player later remarked, "I think that's the same day I was practicing with three cracked ribs."
I could make a lot of bad jokes about Haynesworth's ballooning weight and physical fitness, mostly his lack thereof. I could keep calling him Mr. Butterworth and Albert Ain'tworth and lace into the Redskins' previous regime for even offering this ingrate of a player a $100 million contract -- the largest ever signed by a defensive player in the NFL.
But all that would serve to do is get Big Al and his supporters angrier toward the press. And he gets to keep playing the victim while casting the media jackals as the perpetrators who just cannot understand why a man of his supreme size and talent is broken up about having to play in a new defensive scheme, so much so that he refuses to take part in any voluntary workouts with other veterans in Ashburn.
Instead, I'm going to cut deeper than that, right to the heart of the matter, to the only thing that may wake the man up from his selfish slumber: