Daily Slop: Sensabaugh Likely Out for Redskins Opener; Sally Jenkins Goes Off

I agree with everything she said except for this:

It’s not too late for Haynesworth to become the responsible, self-determined, durable professional the Redskins need him to be.

I just don’t see this guy falling in line. He’s already been paid a small fortune. He has zero motivation at this point. It’s already been shown that he didn’t do all the necessary training in the offseason on his own, and he already said he won’t attend OTA’s with the team next year (assuming there is a next year) The first chance we get, we need to cut this turd loose.

She should be fired. Tantrum? Did she watch the video? That was a tantrum? I’d say AH was quite restrained.

 Why is she glorifying Shanahan playing a football game with a ruptured kidney? That’s just stupid. The conclusion to draw from that is not that Shanahan is tough, but that he’s stupid. It’s not worth killing yourself over a sport.

Why is Jenkins not satisfied with what Albert actually said? She adds her own fake quote, words she is putting in his mouth, because his actual behavior in this case was not really bad enough to support her rant. Albert didn’t say he was special. He said he was a veteran. Not controversial enough, I guess. You can still take issue with AH’s suggestion that he should start because he’s a veteran, but Jenkins apparently didn’t find that juicy enough.

As for the argument that he should have “figured out how to hydrate”, it’s possible to get dehydrated no matter how much liquids you take in. Dehydration does not necessarily mean you didn’t drink water all day. It might even mean you were working too hard that particular day.

Just like so many in the media, and so many of the blog comments we’re seeing lately, Jenkins comes across as a big baby, a childish name-caller is who more interested in beating up on an easy target than writing something thoughtful.

AH didn’t publicly disparage his team generally. He was clearly talking specifically about his coach. Is that good? No. But coaches have to be held to a higher standard, and that’s the kind of comment you are going to get from a player when, as a coach, you say sarcastic things in the media about your players’ ailments. AH has his failings, and did not look good in that interview, to be sure. But I saw it coming. As soon as I heard what Shanahan said in the middle of the week, and how he said it, I knew we were in for more of this.