On Wednesday, former Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth attacked Mike Shanahan and the team on Tennessee Sports Radio, saying, “I mean, it’s like, you can’t win with that team. And you think it was just me? I mean, look how he did Donovan. See what’s going on with RGIII. I met RGIII. He seemed like an extremely nice guy that’s willing to work. Now he’s gonna learn – I mean, I hate to say he’s gonna learn — about Shanahan, how he’s conniving and everything like that, where he’s not gonna help him out, it’s all about him.”
Then on Thursday, Shanahan responded to Haynesworth with an equally severe statement. “Let me put it this way: the only people I haven’t gotten along with since I’ve been a coach—a head coach, an assistant coach—is someone that’s lazy,” Shanahan said. “And, No. 2, when someone is lazy and they may lack character, or they’re lazy and they lack passion for the game. …When I take a look at, through my years, people who have been lazy or have lacked passion for their job, they don’t go into the next year. And when they do, they don’t last the next year. So the people I look at, that come back and complain or do some of those things that you do when you don’t get along with someone, [they]usually fall into one of those couple of areas: lazy, lack of passion and a lot of times a lack of character…And he fits all three.”
