The Eagles apparently showed no interest in the two time All-Pro selection.
I can understand why: Haynesworth was the story of the last offseason before Brett Farve "unretired". He signed a 7-year, $100 million dollar contract ($41 million of that guaranteed) and played in only 12 games last season.
There had been rumblings, before last season, that Haynesworth was looking for a big guaranteed payday. He had two one-year un-guaranteed contracts with the Tennessee Titans in both 2007 and 2008. He was one of the most dominate players in the NFL those two seasons and was named to the All-Pro team for both. This is a part of my problem with the old NFL salary cap. Once a player has $40 million guaranteed for at least the next 4 seasons and the team can't cut him, why play hard or through injury the first two or three of those years?
The new Redskins regime has no ties to Haynesworth's signing and is transitioning to a 3-4 defense from a 4-3, which is a better fit for Haynesworth. Hayneworth doesn't workout with the team in the offseason which is a point of malcontent for new Head Coach, Mike Shanahan. Head coaches don't like guys that make more money than they do, and don't want to fit into the "team concept" - a philosophy better known as "the head coach is the boss". Haynesworth has also let it be known he doesn't want to shift to his new position on Shanahan's defense.
So what do you do with an overpaid, underachieving, malcontent, out of position, and unavailable player? Trade him of course. I just don't know if a team will fall for Haynesworth's expensive trick twice.
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