VetSkinsFan wrote:I'm with you on almost all accounts. The only thing I don't dig is that Shanahan claims that if they went thru the off-season program, they don't have to take the test. He said he KNOWS that the guys are in shape from working out a month ago.
If it's punishment then just say, "Hey, it's hell for you until I feel redeemed." Don't sugar coat it or call it something it's not. Big Al knows, it, we know it, and the media knows it. The detractors love it. But it's still Shanahan making sure big Al knows Shanahan's in charge. And it's a good thing.
Exactly what Ive been saying...If you think its punishment and Shanahan is just doing this until he feels redeemed, this is ridiculous. This his own personal agenda. Whats best for this team right now....?
1.) Haynesworth is practicing
2.) Haynesworth is traded/cut
3.) Haynesworth is paraded out each morning to run sprint tests that half the team wouldnt pass right now to drag this damn story out longer.
Why cant we just get moving on with FOOTBALL and stop trying to prove that "Shanhan is in charge" and "Hes showing disciplne". The team has bought in already! They know hes a "tough guy" and is a "disciplinarian". WE GET IT MIKE!! YOUR TEAM GETS IT!! You made him get here at 7:30am run damn sprints, and were going to put him on 2nd team Defense. Message sent! Get over your damn self and either get rid of him or put him on the damn field! Another thing, You know what is a great way to get into football shape? PLAYING FOOTBALL!
Hes been so bent outta shape about "the check". He kept saying "He took the check, He took the check". Well who gave him the ability/choice to take the check? If you had any doubts you shouldnt have made it HIS call to take the check. Lets see...
Mike: Albert if you take the check we expect you to do everything we ask of you, but if you want to leave we will cut you.
Albert: If you cut me, do I still get the check for 21 million dollars?
Mike: No Albert you dont, but you can find a team that will pay 21 million dollars guaranteed over a few years but, you might have a problem with that sense you had a awful year, and looked like an overpaid, outtashape, malcontent bust.
Albert: Ahhhh...Ill take the check!
(WELL NO S HE TOOK THE DAMN CHECK!)
You should have just cut his ass. Think about how much better camp we be right now.....The story of cutting Haynesworth would be almost 3 months old. We would be talking about the new O and the new D, McNabb, Jamal Brown, Trent Williams, Bruce Allen. The beginning of a new bright future here in Washington D.C. But....No we didnt do that. Now, Shanahan has to pull out his junk slap it on the table and say "Look how big it is everybody, even a guy worth a 100 million dollars couldnt have a bigger one." Im done with this story, lets get him practicing or off the team. After the year of being a joke franchise with the circus of bingo callers, swinging gate plays, and prime time blowouts. The last thing I wanted was some freak show, just bringing more of the same....laughing and pointing at the team who just cant seem to get out of its own way. (sigh) SMH.....Mike, dont keep this story going just to prove a point. Let it go man, I want to move on and talk about football and the Redskins as a whole not Mike Shanahan and Albert Haynesworth....As Luke Wilson put it when he got his second arm ripped off by a bear in the classic movie Anchorman...."THIS IS GETTN TO BE RI-GOSH-DAMN-DICULOUS!!"
They ARE NOT special rules... they are how team determined to test the conditioning of a player whom decided to skip OTA's AND mandatory activities... since no one else did that, what's the problem? Al guaranteed he'd be in condition... why can't the team test it?
