And so it seems that Mr. Haynesworth is about to cash in. This should come as little to surprise to anyone who watched the titans play this year. He missed 3 contests and during those games, the Titans gave up an average of 30 points or so. While in the 13 games that he played their defense gave up a little more than 2 touchdowns a game...id say thats a pretty drastic difference. He was dominant at times, with his best game coming against the panthers where he had 7 tackles 3 sacks and seemed to throw offensive lineman aside each play. However how wise is it to take Haynesworth and only use this past year to judge him. Wasn't he the player that stomped on Cowboys center Andre Gurode face during a game last year? Wasn't he the player who only had 10 sacks in the other 5 years he played? A man who missed 3 games last season... 5 games in 2006, 2 games in 2005, 6 games in 2004, 5 games in 2003, and 3 games in 2002 all to injury? He is well known around the league for being a hot head and a punk, but some claim that in the 2007 season he matured and grew up. Whether he did that because he realized that he is no long a kid and should act like the professional he is, or because he knew that if he grew up for 1 year and played well, that he would make mad bank the year after when his contract expired? (Sean Alexander Style who set the touchdown record in 2005 and was a single yard shy of the rushing crown that year, and then went on to rush for a total of 1,612 yards the next two seasons with a total of 11 touchdowns... which is only about 18 short of the number he scored in 2005 alone...) Thus to me it is always risky to take one years stats and give a contract based on it. You must assess the players full career, college as well, and take his character and work ethic along with it. Haynesworth was considered to be a whole new man in 2007, was it a coincidence that it was his contract year? Or did he actaully grow up... either way the Titans will find out in 2008.
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