Haslett on Haynesworth: "Can you ever make the guy happy?"
"I don't think I've ever had a player just tell me he didn't want to play "Okie" defense [the base 3-4] and then later say he didn't want to play nickel versus the run, 'Just play me on third downs,'" Haslett said. "No, I've never had that before. And we tried to accommodate him. It's a shame because he's athletic enough. He can do almost anything he wants. Obviously, he didn't want to do it. Good athletes can do a lot of different things. Basketball players -- guards can play forwards, they can play different positions. I watch throughout the league, I see wide receivers do the 'Wildcat.' I think to myself, 'If you're a good enough athlete, you can do almost anything you want. You've just got to want to do it.'"
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Haslett was asked whether the resolution with Haynesworth made him regret, at all, that the Redskins switched to a 3-4 this season. But Haslett quickly pointed out that, while playing in the 4-3 a year ago under then-coordinator Greg Blache, Haynesworth also chafed.
" I saw a guy who just got a $100 million play bad as a three-technique," Haslett said. "Then … a defensive coordinator left, I saw a guy who blasted him, saying, ‘Well, I didn’t like the defense. I didn’t like the 4-3. I didn’t like the way I was used.’ So can you ever make the guy happy? I don’t know. What do you want? …
I Am Jack's Raging Bile Duct
The bottom line on Haynesworth:
…I mean, he wasn’t happy this year with the 3-4. He wasn’t happy last year with the 4-3. What else do you want to do? Want to run a 2-5?"
I Am Jack's Raging Bile Duct
Haynesworth wasn't raised right
I blame all his previous coaches, friends, and family for letting him turn out this way. He’s probably gone through his whole life with people accommodating him, nobody told him to shut up and do what he’s told
by Jedi Mind Kicks on Dec 10, 2010 2:52 PM EST reply actions
Who amongst us is 100% happy with
all our jobs require us to do? Probably no one: and then it goes down hill from there where many of us (not me now) have or have had jobs that were horrible. Yet, we all do what is necessary to get the job done. I’ve said it before, I don’t know how AH sleeps at night after raking the team for what he got and then putting in about 10% effort. I hope we don’t release or trade him. Keep him suspended/inactive for the rest of his career so he will go down in history as the worst DT ever.
I know some people are angry at Shanahan for being somewhat of an azz with this guy, but he is totally right not to kow-tow to this lazy turd.
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