I'M sorry, BUT Albert.....what the $%#@&*%$$$$ R u....

I would be losing patience with him, and would bench him if I thought he wouldn’t play hard. The thing is, I don’t necessarily believe the “sources”. Whatever Shanahan does is OK with me.

AH taking some plays off in preseason doesn’t bother me so much. But if in fact he has not really made demonstrated consistent interest in learning how the 3-4 works, then that’s a problem. That would seem to contradict what players have tended to say — that AH has been a good student and paid attention in meetings since he’s been in camp.

I wonder if there are incentives in his contract related to performance,starting , etc . MS has a ruff job dealing with this situation especially since it has been overlooked for sooo many years.AH has so much POTENTIAL (i think) that its hard to believe that he is not hell-bent on making himself a place in FB history…i just dont understand!!
Sure wish he’d come around!
Ms has a hard issue here ,but MUST stick to what is right . I support him!

I think that shanny should line him up and have one of our guys take his knees out and make sure he cant ever play again and teach this loser you are not going to steal 21 million and then cry like a lil bitch.

I’m hoping that he becomes motivated by his TEAM-MATES who will NO DOUBT be WORKING THEIR BUTTS OFF and kickin %^$^ & taking names.
If he continues on this childish path , I’m afraid that he’ll be labeled A TRAITOR…league wide!!
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I hope he is motivated, and learns the system – he talked like he would. But these latest reports say he won’t start against Dallas, and has been removed from certain sets, and didn’t practice much Saturday. The first two are OK on their own – logical to rest him some, and not put him in schemes he hasn’t mastered, and reasonable to keep him on the second team until he earns a start. Reasonable for me and Shanahan and Haslett. But what will it do to his confidence and motivation and general attitude? Will he get mad and want to show us how good he is, or sulk and mope around? If he’s not playing well, he shouldn’t play (much). So I worry a little. If I was Haslett, I’d be at least ready to bench him, and live with Carriker, Daniels, Golston. Holliday and Jarmon, and Bryant and Kemoeatu at NT. Unfortunate, but I don’t know what’s going on in Albert’s head. John Keim wrote a piece analyzing what kind of a guy AH is, and it was depressing. If he’s right, Albert will not play well.

When hope no longer exists…reality is that No One Man is greater than the whole AH has NO visions of Greatness and could easily hurt the TEAMS efforts this year. I’m less hopeful and not encouraged that AH is going to come around. The Dallas game will be the beginning or final chapter with this guy
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I just read the report on practice today, and was both shocked and encouraged, because Shanahan and Haslett basically, indirectly, refuted the discouraging report from Jason Reid (AH awful vs AZ, MS fed up, etc) that I mentioned above. On the AZ game, Shanahan said AH “worked hard” and made a few mistakes – hardly “awful”. Haslett and Philip Daniels pointed out the real problem – that Albert doesn’t know the whole defense yet – PD suggested it could be 2 or 3 weeks. JH and MS both affirmed that Albert might not start (logically, because he’s not comfortable in all packages) and Haslett noted that it doesn’t make much difference who starts because there are so many packages. MS and AH walked off the field together. So the report today showed that Albert has work to do – he has not internalized all the defenses – but is not sulking, is not on a black list, is working hard, the players have not turned against him, and (by implication) will play against Dallas. And, that report from two or three sources that everybody is mad and he might not play – was totally wrong. Just shows you can’t believe team or NFL sources – they play games and make things up (remember how we were vying with the Raiders for Houshmandzadeh?).