I would be a little concerned if I am Redskin fan.
Yes you upgraded the quarterback position with Donovan McNabb and Head Coach with Wile E. Shanahan, but what I have learned is when you have a virus spreading it doesn’t matter how expensive your computer it still will crash.
The Redskins have a couple of virus.
Offensive line is shaky at best.
The over the hill Running Back committee.
Then there is the biggest virus of all Albert Haynesworth. It was reported last week that Haynesworth missed practice with a “headache” (it is a better excuse than being tired). Haynesworth didn’t seem to like how he was being portrayed and he is blaming the Redskins here is what he had to say after there preseason loss to the Ravens:
Keep in mind, every time Haynesworth mentioned that he had a headache, he used exaggerated quote marks.
Q: What happened this week?
A: I don’t know. I was told I had headaches or whatever and that’s why I couldn’t go out and practice. It was a little bit more than that, but they didn’t want to expose that.
Q: What was it?
A: You’ll have to ask them, but I guess they’ll tell you headaches.
Q: You didn’t have anything?
A: That was part of it, but it wasn’t all of it. They left out a whole lot of stuff.
Q: Why would they do that?
A: I don’t know, but I guess to make themselves look good, make me look bad for not going to their offseason conditioning program. Next year I’m not coming either. I’ll be with my trainer again and I’ll get back in the same shape I’m in and feel good about myself.
Q: Are they holding it against you?
A: Oh yeah I think so. It’s all right. I’m a football player and I know I can still play the game as long as I get this defense down I’ll be all right.
Q: How did you feel tonight?
A: It was all right; third quarter, ninth-year pro, I don’t think I should have been out in the third quarter but for having headahces, that’s what they wanted to do.
I don’t even think Haynesworth is lying.
I think the Redskins are screwing with him a bit, but when a relationship deteriorates to this degree as I said it becomes like a virus spreading throughout the locker room.
No matter how good of a player Haynesworth is (that is debatable as well), he is bringing a negative cloud over a team that needs to be thinking positive right now considering they were garbage last year.
This isn’t going to get better it is just going to get worse.
The breaking point is coming and when the pipes burst it is going to be an ugly scene.