And on the Third Day, Haynesworth Rested

As day three of Redskins training camp opened this morning most fans probably woke up hoping to find out that Albert Haynesworth finally passed his conditioning test. Well, he didn't fail it for a third consecutive day. Instead, after two days of testing, Haynesworth rested on Saturday and chose to watch practice and do a few drills with Ray Wright.

Redskin's fans may have been annoyed before, but I would assume that most of us believed he would pass it in a few days and begin practicing with the team and learning the new schemes. But not even taking the test on the third day? Unless there is some kind of injury that hasn't come out yet it is a disgrace that Haynesworth is taking a day off. I would hope a professional athlete could handle running for 140 seconds with a three and a half minute break halfway through.

This is just another day that Haynesworth won't be practicing with the team. He won't be with his teammates and he won't be learning the new defense. Instead Haynesworth can watch the practices from a distance and do some light conditioning work on the side. The worst part of all of this is not that Haynesworth failed the test the first two times (which is bad enough), but that on the third day he is simply opting out of the test and choosing not to be a part of the team today.

I haven't exactly been high on Shanahan, but I have to have trust that he will do what is best for the team today, whatever that may be. Apparently Haynesworth needs another message sent because having to pass a conditioning test and starting with the second-team defense, whenever he actually does get on the practice field, is not enough.