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Pats Cut The $100 mil Man; Haynesworth Released..........
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Tue Nov 08 02:55pm EST
New England releases former All-Pro Albert Haynesworth
By Chris Chase
The Albert Haynesworth(notes) experiment has ended in New England. Four months after trading for the mercurial defensive tackle, the New England Patriots cut Haynesworth on Tuesday after eight games in which he was largely ineffective on the league's last-ranked defense. The Boston Herald first reported the news.
Haynesworth got into a heated discussion with defensive line coach Pepper Johnson during the third quarter of Sunday's loss to the New York Giants. He didn't return to the game following the incident.
Haynesworth was all smiles in the preseason, proclaiming that he was having fun playing football again. Some took it as a sign that his disastrous two years in Washington, best remembered for his failed conditioning tests and loafing on plays, would be a hiccup in between All-Pro performances in Tennessee and New England. Instead, the change of scenery didn't do anything for Haynesworth's play. When he was in, his sheer girth managed to clog running lanes, but he was hardly the dominant run-stuffer who commanded a $100 million contract in the opening minutes of the 2009 free-agency period. In six games, he had two tackles. Boston.com's Extra Points picked out three consecutive examples of Haynesworth failing to move his feet on plays during the Giants game.
New England's risk was minimal. The team traded a fifth-round pick for Haynesworth in July and will only owe him $700,000 if no team picks him up before 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. As Yahoo! Sports' Jason Cole reported in August, Haynesworth would have been owed $1 million if he played 20 percent of the team's snaps and an additional $3 million if he played in 65 percent of defensive plays.
Back in July, when the 2011 NFL season still held the possibility of a career rebirth, Haynesworth vowed that the Patriots would be his final team. "If God forbid, I got cut from this team, I know I could go out there and play for another team," he said on Sept. 3. "But, I feel like this is going to be the last place I'm going to play. If it doesn't work out here, I'm not going to play anywhere else."
Even if he has a predictable change of heart, will any team want to give him a chance?
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Is it even possible that there's a dumber SOB than him in all of football? The guys has the natural talent to be a HOF'er and a $100 mil contract top go along with it and he won't even make the effort to live up to half of his potential. What a waste.
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Hope they cut Ocho too as I'd like to see if he's got anything left- or enough left to beat out Rwill.
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short faced bear 
Hope they cut Ocho too as I'd like to see if he's got anything left- or enough left to beat out Rwill.
If Chad cant do well with Tom friggin Brady and the Pats OL, then i highly doubt he will have much success in Chicago.
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soulman Surprise, surprise.
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Originally Posted by
soulman Is it even possible that there's a dumber SOB than him in all of football? The guys has the natural talent to be a HOF'er and a $100 mil contract top go along with it and he won't even make the effort to live up to half of his potential. What a waste.
I would say he is one of the smartest players in the NFL because he found a sucker that would pay him a 100 million dollar contract. Once he was guarenteed a shit load of money he didn't have to work anymore.
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JA picked up one Pats reject. Why not pick up another? Man I hope he doesn't, but I think he would just to keep his bonehead GM award.
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go4bears JA picked up one Pats reject. Why not pick up another? Man I hope he doesn't, but I think he would just to keep his bonehead GM award.
Nope, we're safe, LOL. It seems there may be a GM out there even more hopeless than Angelo.
Shutdown Corner
Wed Nov 09 04:55pm EST
Albert Haynesworth’s next ex-team is the Buccaneers
By Chris Chase
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be the latest team to find out that Albert Haynesworth(notes) is overweight, lazy and not worth the time or money. One day after being cut by the New England Patriots, the former NFL defensive player of the year was claimed off waivers by the Bucs.
Tampa will take on the contract Haynesworth signed with New England. The team will pay him $705,882 over the final eight weeks of the season. If he plays for the team in 2012, his salary escalate to $6.7 million, not including a $400,000 roster bonus due Aug. 1.
Whereas you could make the case that Haynesworth signing with Bill Belichick in New England was a good example of low-risk/high-reward, the same can't be said about the Bucs. Sure, the risk is similarly low, but what's the reward? What's the best-case scenario for Morris? At worst, Haynesworth is the same player he's been for the past three years. At best, he shows flashes of the play that made him a $100 million man in 2009 and single-handedly leads Tampa to the playoffs. Then what? He dutifully plays the role of the humbled veteran in the offseason, working hard and preparing for training camp, where he'll show up slimmed down and ready to contribute even more in 2012 without asking for a contract extension?
The last thing a young coach like Raheem Morris needs in his young locker room is headaches, and now the Bucs have gone out and created one for him.
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