Ryman...with all due respect, you have your nose so far up Albert's butthole, I bet you could tell me what he ate for lunch 6 weeks ago.
"the chance to be used effectively and build a hof legacy to carry off of an already solid career."
First of all, it sounds like you are assuming being a 3-4 NT or DE automatically precludes you from ever going into the HOF, or having a "solid career."
Second of all, that's the biggest copout in the history of copouts. People get asked to do different things on the job all. the. time. This has been going on since the invention of money and the idea of giving it to someone else to do **** for you. The concept is simple - someone pays you a salary, you do what they tell you within reasonable limits. Its not like Shanahan has asked Albert to be clean the bathrooms at FedEx Field; he has asked him to play football. To say the Redskins reneged on our end of the bargain is so incredibly incorrect its actually amazing to hear someone verbalize it.
1) You are incorrect literally - unless you are intimately familiar with the Fat One's contract, and know there's a stipulation in there that he only plays 4-3 DT and only rushes the passer, then he is expected to play whatever position Shanahan wants him to play. If Shanahan wants to use Haynesworth as a Mike Vrabel or Refrigerator Perry on the goalline, he better run out onto the field.
2) You are incorrect figuratively - even in the sense of a "good-faith negotiation," Haynesworth already forfeited any possibility of your argument being correct when he accepted the $21M bonus and said he was 'on-board' with the 3-4. By doing so, he said yep, I'll play 3-4 NT and do whatever you want, cause you're giving me an F-ton of money to do so.
3) As Miles said, you're just plain wrong on his motivations. Give me a break with the back to school special crap - Haynesworth came for the money, plain and simple. If he wanted to do all that other stuff, he'd have stayed in Tennessee. He was in apparently the ONLY system according to you that he could excel in, on a competitive team only getting better.
You know what Haynesworth's rap was before he came to DC? He's a hard worker when motivated, but as soon as he gets that fat contract, he's gonna be a big fat lazy B and do nothing. What has he done here so far? Only not show up for ANY voluntary offseason stuff, show up out of shape, whine and moan about the scheme, coaches, and pretty much every other damn thing possible and oh yeah - BEEN A BIG FAT LAZY B!
I'm so sick of this discussion, and so sick of people defending this piece of human waste. I cannot wait until he's off the team; I don't care where he ends up. He is not only a waste of oxygen, but he's also a prime example of everything wrong with the Redskins and Snyder.
GET. HIM. OUT. NOW.
No lanky you are completely wrong, your post is so filled with misinformation and half truth that you obviously dont have even an inkling of whats gone on here, given that you have shown yourself capable of thought in other threads im going to assume you just bought into the media driven BS on this.
1- of course you can make the HOF as a 3-4 NT (and more rarely a DE) IF YOU ACTUALLY ARE ONE IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE. NOSE TACKLE MAY BE THE MOST UNDERRATED POSITION INSOFAR AS VERY FEW PEOPLE CAN PLAY IT SUPERLATIVELY. the problem that you and about 80% of the fan base and even a large percentage of coaches have is that just because someone physically meets the prereqs to be a nosetackle or OLB or whatever, DOESNT MEAN THEY CAN PLAY THE POSITION. pHYSICALLY AH LOOKS LIKE A PROTOTYPE NT BUT HIS SKILLSET IS A DIRECT OPPOSITE OF WHAT A NT DOES ON A DOWN BY DOWN BASIS.
The easiest way for me to explain this is to use an offencive comparison, you are the coach, you have antonio gates and tony gonzales at TE, rather than throwing to them you decide that both of them are good size TEs so they will now become primarily blockers. its the same thing as asking a penetrating disrutpter type to set the edge or hold the POA rather than doing what he does best. hes still a DT but now he is doing something outside his skillset, some guys can most cannot.
I know this, because its happened to me, we got a new coach who looked and saw a 6-5 guy who weighed 330 pounds and who played college basketball, he immediately decided to build a 3-4 defence around me, I told him to watch film on me , im not a mauler, I dont do well at two gapping , my best moves are swims, rip to swims and spins, none of which translate well to playing inside in a gap control system. Im a pretty strong guy but my strength comes from my legs, and im not a guy who benched 225 40 times but I could bench 370 pounds 3-4 times. I knew my limitations. IM also fragile, like most very large people, I have bad ankles (they are thin compared to the rest of me lol) but I found I coupld protect myself inside by simply being quick off the ball because I wouldnt be standing still reading the play id be attacking and its harder to get into my legs if im on the move.
long story short I went from being our teams dmvp and the lineman of the year for the league to being a solid player who managed to play only a couple games before getting injured, our defence collapsed and went from being a top ranked unit to being near the bottom of the league. So I saw a lot of parralells between my situation in 2000 and alberts last year.
now lets deal with your points.
1- actually he was promised by someone who had the power to make the promise that he would be used effectively, for him that doesnt mean solely as a pass rusher or in a 4-3 it means used in an attacking defence from effective positions.
It is his fault he didnt get it in writing, and I imagine that very few free agents will be inclined to take danny at his word anymore.
2- on this you are completely incorrect outright wrong. the 21million dollar payment was Alberts the minute he signed the dotted line, it was disguised as a roster bonus to help us beat the cap, this is known. therefore we screwed up when the team decided to use money he had already earned to negotiate with him. we could avoided the payment only if we cut him, even had we traded him the money would have been due. you are buying the media spin on that and its wrong.
3- I never said money wasnt A motivation I said it wasnt the only motivation. yes we offered one of the best packages, but tampa and the gnats also offered solid packages. he chose us because we already had a good defence (funny eh?) and because we ran a defence that he could excel in if used correctly.
truth be told im often shocked at how often fans take the media at their word let alone how many people jumped on the AH hatewagon.
Is he an idiot and not always the best person? yes and he needs to get a clue about being a decent human being , but he was not entirely at fault here.
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