Apluz;3477209 said:
Nay Mike is biting off more then he can chew this time.
Haynesworth still has all the leverage. His contract is so huge that the Skins only recourse is to cut him while there is no cap if Mike has him in his permanent dog house.
Haynesworth could just keep doing the test and failing and the team can not cut him to recoup there money. If Mike Shanahan is trying to play a game of chicken he will lose. The way Mike is handling this it has some of the Commanders players starting to come out in defense of Haynesworth now.
If I were Albert's agent I would tell him to fake a hamstring pull next time out and watch Mike blow a gasket! Remember this is not the physical to determine if he can play football that all players have to go through it is Mike's own personal test that he wants him to past in order for him to practice.
Reports are not all Commanders players even had to take the same conditioning test.
So many places you are wrong
Lets check with Jeff Fisher to see how incorrect you are
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-haynesworth-Commanders-jeff-fisher-titans-/1
There likely are some suspicions that the "condtioning test" the Washington Commanders are administering with Albert Haynesworth is punitive, meant to single out the $100 million man for missing offseason workouts with the team.But Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher was on the Dan Patrick Show today, explaining the typical tests teams use, and it appears nothing is out of the ordinary for Haynesworth in Washington. Said Fisher:
"Different clubs require different things when players report. We're doing the same thing that the Commanders do, based on some of the reports I read. The players come in, and they'll be required to run a 300-yard shuttle from the goal line to the 25-yard line and back. You do that six times, and you have a time in which you have to finish it, based on positions.
"For example, the skill guys will be right around 60 or 65 seconds. The bigger and the heavier they get, the more time you have to finish it. Then you have a rest and recovery period, and then you go out and you do it again. That particular test is something we've been doing for years. We have a baseline. The players are ready for it. They come in and it's not a big deal."
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More From Jeff Fisher
(on whether they do a third set of shuttle runs)
No, we just do two and what we do is if you’ve had a minimum number of offseason workouts then the test is modified. Those that have been here for at least 80 percent of the offseason workouts, it’s a 300 yard shuttle, they will run 50 yard increments rather than 25 yard increments so it’s a little bit easier. The 25 yard 300 yard shuttle is an appropriate test to find out what kind of shape you’re in.
http://www.titansonline.com/news/art...f-10a5fd78f67e
And from Matt Bowen
From Matt Bowen- former player:
They haven’t changed much. When I played it was a 300-yard shuttle. In different combinations (some require six 50-yard sprints and others require twelve 25-yard sprints), they add up to 300 total yards. Think of old-school gassers. Run, touch the line, and come back — over and over until you have run a total of 300 yards. Rest in between sets and get back on the line. The times are broken down into three position groups: skill (WR, DB, RB), semi-skill (LB, TE, QB) and linemen (OL, DL). Each group has a time they have to complete each set in.
In Green Bay under Mike Sherman, you ran three of them — with about a two minute rest in between. They are nasty. For the skill guys, the time limit was under 48 seconds. We ran the 300-yard shuttle — made up of six 50-yard sprints — took that small rest and got ready to do it again. By the end, your legs feel like Jell-O.
But the best is this:
If you play defense for Gregg Williams, his test is on the day of the first practice — in pads. Forty up-downs in full gear right after the team stretch (which are filmed and watched in meetings). Not fun in the Virginia heat and I can’t even imagine what it is like to do 40-up downs in pads down in New Orleans right now. And, don’t forget that you have a full two-hour practice to get through after you pass his test. By the time you get to 7-on-7 drills, your body is spent.
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So lets see, the Titans do this test every year. Guess where Albert played before coming to DC? Under Fisher, doing the same damn test.
And it looks like the Titans cut you some slack if you showed up for the offseason also.
And the Commanders old DC, Gregg Williams, under whom many of these guys on defense played (besides D-Hall who is the only knucklehead that could be in AH's corner) had the D do a test from hell. 40 updowns in full pads up here in July is not fun at all.
Albert has 0 leverage. He has burnt through his money, and clearly this is a pretty common practice amongst NFL teams.
Albert can run the test until he passes and participate and raise his trade value, or simply quit and the Commanders will go after his money and kill his career.
Its Albert's choice. But he isn't the one in charge here
...is it unlike anything we have seen in the entire history of that team?...what a joke
