I Dislike Your Favorite Team

Albert Haynesworth, in five tries, has not been able to pass a conditioning test. He failed the first two attempts, skipped two attempts due to soreness in his knee, and quit today's test after seventy-five yards due to alleged soreness in his knee.

Tuesday UPDATE: complaining of his knee, Haynesworth skipped the conditioning test yet again. That makes six failures to do what a female reporter, a sixty-one year old reporter and a lineman sixteen years retired all managed to do on camera. Pathetic.

Wednesday UPDATE: still resting the knee. This is moving beyond pathetic, to an unknown frozen hell of shame.

It now seems pretty clear why Haynesworth wanted to work with a private trainer: it was a toilet.

Haynesworth's sole goal was to lose weight in order to be too light to play nose tackle. He obviously didn't lose thirty-five pounds from exercise. He lost thirty-five pounds from diuretics and diarrhea.

Coach Shanahan may actually relent at some point soon. With the test's main goal of worldwide humiliation achieved, there's no reason to keep this story around. His Washington teammates are disgusted. Potential trade partners are spooked. The media is treating this story as a joke. Does Haynesworth have any pride? All evidence indicates that he's flushed it all away.