but this is a signing I really DO agree with.

The Titans can still one-up the deal, but let’s be real. Since when does Dan Snyder not win these wallet battles?

IIRC, we offered Jerametrius Butler a contract when he was a RFA with the Rams, but they matched it. Butler later signed w/ the ’Skins as an UFA, but was cut.

this contract is HEAVILY backloaded (well…. EVERY Redskins contract is backloaded, but this one even moreso) in the anticipation (hope) of an uncapped year.

at ESPN’s NFL rumors site. (It’s Insider only, so I have no idea what they say. If anything.)

(I don’t, actually) but here’s what he wrote yesterday in his MMQB column:

There’s no long line waiting to pry Albert Haynesworth from the Titans.

In fact, Washington might be the logical landing spot. Hmmmm. I wonder why Redskins owner Dan Snyder was having dinner with the agent for Haynesworth, Chad Speck, at Morton’s here Saturday night. I’m sure they were just talking about how it was colder here than at the Arctic Circle. But I kept asking all weekend: "Who wants Haynesworth — or, more appropriately, who’s going to pony up for him?‘’ And I got the old "it only takes one’’ answer a few times. But one coach told me the smartest thing, and this was a coach who has some interest in getting Haynesworth at the right price, which is about half of what Haynesworth is hoping to get. "Everybody I’ve asked this weekend says, ’We’re out of that,’ or ‘I don’t think you’ll see us involved in Haynesworth.’ ’’

Sad, really, because he’s a great football player, an impactful player who can change a game from the interior defensive line spot. The downer stuff about Haynesworth:

• He’s never played a full season. He’s started three, 11, 10, 14, 10, 12 and 14 in his seven seasons.

• He’s never played more than 65 percent of the Titans’ defensive snaps in a season. You might say a Nnamdi Asomugha is tremendously overpaid at $15-million a year (much more on him later in the column), but Asomugha or a quarterback is going to play 95 percent of his unit’s plays in the course of a year, barring injury. Even if healthy, Haynesworth’s going to come off the field a third of the time, minimum. So do you want to pay quarterback money to a player who never touches the ball and plays two-thirds of the snaps a franchise quarterback plays? It makes no sense.

• He’s got a reputation for coasting on some plays.

• He’ll be 28 on opening day. You want to pay a 335-pound guy who’s never started more than 14 games and is entering his eighth year $13 million or $15 million a year? Good luck.

In the end, my guess is Snyder will pay up and grab him. He’s the kind of trophy player Snyder would love to have, and the kind of player, if healthy, who will really help the Redskins close the gap on the Giants in the NFC East.

Emphasis added — that’s really the only part that gives me pause.

King seems to think that we might really be Painsworth’s only suitor, but he seems to be of the opinion that if he isn’t worth that kind of money, he’s VERY close.

if he DOES come to DC and underperform, I REALLY hope somebody takes Snyder by the scruff of the neck and rubs his nose in it.

Bloggers at ESPN think that the Bucs are also in the running for Haynesworth.

I almost crapped my pants until I read that the “source” is a radio host in Houston.

This guy is seriously a donkey!!! One person isn’t going to make or break a team (perhaps break the bank)!!! There has to be CHEMISTRY (see cowboys and jerry jones). Maybe fat albert will fare well, perhaps he won’t, he will still be an overpaid ass regardless of where he winds up.