Haynesworth is Behaving Selfishly

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Can anyone please please please link an article which says AH is upset about NT? He said he wasnt thrilled about it, but will play whatever he is asked to play by the coaches.

Furthermore, he has stated he is doing this offseason plan as he feels it got him in shape in TN.

so if all of that is true, then that explains why he hasnt been at OTAs. But why didnt he show up for mini-camp? its not like coming to town for 3 days would have destroyed his entire offseason plan in TN?

Of course, publicly, Haynesworth is going to say all the right things. if he wasn't, he'd look like a problem-child and damage his trade value. however, actions speak louder than words. If Haynesworth were serious about becoming a better player and doing whatever the coaches asked him to do, then he'd, you know, do what theyve asked him to do and show for camp with the rest of the team.

[hooskins]

Am I missing something here?

[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:

[SmootSmack]

[over the mountain]

missing voluntary workouts is the symptom, the underlying problem is that AH does not want to be here for monetary reasons.

maybe people are lining up to be first to say i told you so.

My told you so is that AH and his agent agreed to the contract because he would be able to collect an unprecendented 32+ million dollars for 13 months of work then force his way out of DC and into a new mega contract with another team.

I find my told you so interesting. Noone wants to devel into it more than to say "AH is a cancer" or "its just mandatory". i get it and ill drop my repeated opinion on this subject.

none of yall found the ethical dilemnas of tampering interesting either or the fact that an aging back with declining production has an escalating salary either . .

man i sound like a lil bitch right now, my bad yall

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

missing voluntary workouts is the symptom, the underlying problem is that AH does not want to be here for monetary reasons.

maybe people are lining up to be first to say i told you so.

My told you so is that AH and his agent agreed to the contract because he would be able to collect an unprecendented 32+ million dollars for 13 months of work then force his way out of DC and into a new mega contract with another team.

I find my told you so interesting. Noone wants to devel into it more than to say "AH is a cancer" or "its just mandatory". i get it and ill drop my repeated opinion on this subject.

none of yall found the ethical dilemnas of tampering interesting either or the fact that an aging back with declining production has an escalating salary either . .

man i sound like a lil bitch right now, my bad yall

I understand what you're saying Mountain, but if him OR his agent think they can hop around from team to team getting that kind of money, they're out of their freakin' minds. He would have needed a better year than what he had last year for to be considered for a mega contract from another team. I think if he didn't feel he could get in better shape with his own trainer, the one he trained with when he made the Pro Bowls, and he didn't feel he was being jerked around with position changes, only speculation, he would be here for these workouts.

[SmootSmack]

Damn, this thread just keeps going and going. Maybe we should treat these threads like the Off-Season Rumors and Reports thread.

"Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 1" "Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 2"...there will be no Week 6 or 7, and 8 is just a sideways infinity sign

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Damn, this thread just keeps going and going. Maybe we should treat these threads like the Off-Season Rumors and Reports thread.

"Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 1" "Albert Haynesworth Bitch Session: Week 2"...there will be no Week 6 or 7, and 8 is just a sideways infinity sign

Honestly people need to get over AH not working out w/ the team, including his teammates. It is what it is. Hopefully he'll show up for some of the OTA stuff when they're installing the defense. That way at least he'll know where he's going to line up. But if he comes in at training camp and he's in shape and rebounds w/ a good year no one is going to care about the off season. If he plays like he did last year then he's really going to be miserable here cause the fans and the media are going to be all over him.

[12thMan]

You know we love to bitch, right?

[SmootSmack]

It's probably not right, but this would bother me more if it wasn't known for years that Haynesworth is like this, that he marches to his own beat. And it would bother me more if he hadn't told Shanahan from the get go that he wouldn't be there. I mean this isn't a case of a guy who always showed up all the time throughout his career and now suddenly is deciding to try things his own way, and this isn't a case of a guy not answering his phone while working out on his own in Arizona or Miami (or wherever)

[warpaint]

The Steelers just had a mandatory workouts but we are still doing voluntary ones. Who decides when a team can hold them?

I was under the impression that all teams had to wait till June. It would be nice to have a mandatory one to see AH and his conditioning and so we can finally hear from him and his thoughts on the new scheme instead of all the speculations.

[takethecake]

I'm not going to care about AH until he shows up for opening day out of shape and plays poorly. If he shows up in shape and performs on the field, we're all going to be eating crow for denouncing him this offseason.

[GridIron26]

D.C. Sports Bog - Cooley is tired of Haynesworth talk

On Haynesworth:

"He doesn't have to be here," Chris Cooley said, during an appearance on DC101's Elliot in the Morning. "And when the season starts, if he shows up and he's playing, no one's gonna give a damn what he did [in May]. Obviously he's gonna have to play for us. I mean, there's no way around it....

... I'm so tired of hearing about it, because he's still not doing anything wrong."

[Dirtbag59]

More crap.

Is Albert Haynesworth a bad teammate? - NFC East Blog - ESPN

Albert Haynesworth's Washington Redskins 'mates call him out - ESPN

Originally Posted by GridIron26

D.C. Sports Bog - Cooley is tired of Haynesworth talk

On Haynesworth:

I like this. Personally I'm not to crazy about all the players recently going public with their displeasure. It just adds more fuel to a fire that won't die.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by GridIron26

D.C. Sports Bog - Cooley is tired of Haynesworth talk

On Haynesworth:

Yeah I listened to that interview and agree.