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KLMNO PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Sore knee another headache for Haynesworth redskins from D1


week ago, the knee problem would have prevented him from practicing the past few days. “It’s like somebody spraining an an-


kle,” Shanahan said. “You sprain an an- kle and you can’t run, you can’t run and you can’t practice. Just like if you’re knee’s bothering you and you can’t go out there and run, you can’t practice.” As the drama surrounding Haynes-


worth’s conditioning test stretches into a sixth day, there are people within the or- ganization and close to Haynesworth who privately expressed doubt that Haynesworth will be able to pass the test anytime soon — with or without a healthy knee.


Shanahan, however, said he’s confi- dent that Haynesworth eventually will post the required times in the two sprints. “He’s a fast guy,” Shanahan said. “He did very good the first time. He did it easily.” Haynesworth’s best performance on the sprint was still his initial run last Thursday — the lone time he completed a repetition in the allotted time. Because he missed all but one day of the team’s offseason conditioning pro- gram, Haynesworth is required to com- plete two 300-yard shuttle sprints — the first in 70 seconds or less and the second in 73 seconds or less. He’s allowed a 31


-minute break between runs. The sprints are broken into 25-yard out-and- back increments; Haynesworth must run 25 yards, touch his foot on a line and sprint 25 yards back until he has reached the 300-yard mark. Last Thursday, Haynesworth passed


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Albert Haynesworth is relegated to watching as veteran Phillip Daniels hits the blocking sled at Redskins Park. to play with his teammates.”


the first run but needed a restroom break before the second. He had to re- start the test and was too tired to post a passing time. The next morning, Haynesworth was too slow on the first sprint, and he didn’t attempt another run until Monday be- cause of swelling in his knee. Arriving at Redskins Park before most of his team- mates for a fifth day in a row, Haynes- worth hit the field early to test out his knee, accompanied by defensive coordi- nator Jim Haslett, strength and condi- tioning coach Ray Wright and the head athletic trainer, Larry Hess.


Haynesworth completed two 25-yard turns, but on the third pass, his knee was bothering him too much. “He was doing well,” Shanahan said. “He was running really well and had to stop.” Shanahan said he could allow Haynes-


worth to put on pads at some point, but while the knee pain lingers coaches can’t consider allowing him to hit the field. “That’s one of the reasons he’s not out there practicing with the team. You got to be in certain shape to go through a practice,” Shanahan said. “That knee af- ter three sprints, back and forth, couldn’t go any further. Hopefully with treatment, it gets better, he gets in foot- ball shape and he’s out there and ready


While coaches obviously want


Haynesworth to pass the test, they need him healthy in general. The more time that passes before he can practice, the more he’s missing, as his teammates learn the new defensive scheme without him. Haynesworth has continued to work with coaches after practice, learning the finer points of his pending assignments in the new scheme. In these sessions, Haynesworth has spent considerable time studying the right defensive end spot, though coaches also have discussed nose tackle responsibilities with him. But when the team is actually running


TRACEE HAMILTON A veteran who knows camp play is all business hamilton from D1 So, how does he feel about the way he


has played in this camp? “I’m tired. It’s camp.” Older players in any sport are


sometimes referred to as graybeards, but in Galloway’s case, that’s also a description. If his razor decides to skip its mandatory workout on any given day, Galloway’s stubble is unquestionably cottony. It’s not a traditional look for an active NFL player. But Galloway isn’t your traditional


NFL veteran. Eyebrows were raised around the league when the Redskins signed him as a free agent. In his past two seasons, he played in just 12 games and made 20 receptions. But in the tantalizing three seasons before that — 2005, 2006 and 2007, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — he played in all but one game, averaging 16.6 yards per catch and scoring 23 touchdowns. Coach Mike Shanahan hopes to get the Galloway of those three seasons, age be damned. “Usually people that can run, they can


run,” Shanahan said. “He’s been a fast guy since he was in high school. I still think he’d probably run a 4.4 [40-yard dash] right now if he ran it today, or maybe even under that. He’s a guy that takes great care of his body, and has been able to maintain his speed. So that gives him a chance to make our football team and help our football team, and hopefully there’s no setbacks.” In his best season — 2005, when he amassed 1,287 yards and scored 10 touchdowns — Galloway worked with a youngster named Kyle Shanahan, who was in his second year at his first professional coaching job. Shanahan, Mike’s son, was the offensive quality control coach then; now he’s the


chart for the split receiver position. He knows the competition is all


younger. Devin Thomas and Malcolm Kelly have made the transition this season from youngsters with whom the team will have some patience to veterans who need to impress the coaches now or risk not making the roster. Kelly’s nursing a sore hamstring, but Thomas has made some good plays in the past few days. With 15 training camps under his belt, Galloway knows better than to take anything for granted. “For a group of receivers, when you


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“They all feel fast. They all feel long. They all feel hard,” wide receiver Joey Galloway said when asked to compare this year’s training camp to his previous 15.


Redskins’ offensive coordinator. The difference between the relationship then and now, five years later: The teacher has become the student. “He’s more knowledgeable,” Galloway said of Kyle Shanahan. “He’s running a system now. There he was still learning. I taught Kyle everything he knows when he was in Tampa.” (He’s laughing when he says that, but you get the feeling it might be partially true.) “So it’s a little different when you’re learning a system as opposed to running a system. “When we were there, I wasn’t really asking Kyle a lot of questions. And now, we’re here, I’m asking him a ton of questions. So it’s just different.” Galloway’s a funny guy; his sarcastic streak is a little like quarterback Donovan McNabb’s. In fact, Galloway took a shot at McNabb when a reporter


started a question by saying it seemed that McNabb had really been “on” during Sunday’s practice.


“I think the receivers were really on,” Galloway interrupted. “It wasn’t Donovan.” McNabb retaliated Monday, saying of Galloway: “Joey was probably playing his fifth year in the league when most of the guys were born. He probably played back when John Riggins and them were playing.” Joking aside, Galloway and McNabb were among a handful of players who remained on the field Sunday after practice ended, running extra drills. Galloway has impressed coaches since organized team activities, when he and fellow free agent Roydell Williams — who hasn’t played the past two seasons — found themselves tied atop the depth


first meet in camp, you start with 12 guys and you know that at the end of the day there’s only going to be five or six guys there,” he said. “So those 12 have to go out as a group try to improve every day, eliminate mistakes and make plays. And I think we’re all working to do that, and then we’ll see what happens as camp goes on.” Still, part of the duties of a graybeard is to look back at the “olden days” and make comparisons: How does Mike Shanahan’s camp compare to Jon Gruden’s? What makes this camp different? Galloway refuses to play the role. “This one’s in Ashburn, Va., and the other ones were in other places,” Galloway said. “It’s NFL camp, and NFL camps have the same feel. Every day is a grind, you gotta roll out of bed every single day and put your feet on the ground and see what hurts and then go out and try to practice. It’s camp.” Asked if he preferred a harder


afternoon practice, or a more of a walk-through, which the Redskins are doing this season, he grinned and gave the now-familiar answer: “I prefer to stay inside that white building over there and talk about it on the inside.” hamiltont@washpost.com


plays on the field and squaring off with the offense, Haynesworth is relegated to the sidelines, wearing his jersey and a cap, but no pads. Without Haynesworth, the first-team defensive line has featured Adam Carriker at left end, Maake Ke- moeatu at nose tackle and Kedric Gol- ston at right end. Carriker and Kemoea- tu both missed all of last season with in- juries, but Shanahan said he’s pleased with what he’s seen from both so far. “Until you actually put the pads on and do football-related drills, you don’t know for sure,” Shanahan said. "But both guys have done exceptionally well. Hope- fully, they just keep on getting better.” maeser@washpost.com


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redskinsinsider Fan favorite Brennan


is a Redskin no more The Redskins on Monday released third-year quarterback Colt Brennan, a fan favorite who had hoped for a long career in Washington. “I was totally surprised,” Brennan said in a phone interview shortly after leaving Redskins Park. “I actually was walking off the field today and someone asked, ‘How’d you do today?’ I said I had a good day.” Brennan struggled in training camp and the Redskins acquired quarterback John Beck from the Baltimore Ravens for cornerback Doug Dutch earlier Monday. Brennan, however, said the Redskins’ decision was based on their strong interest in Beck. “To be honest with you, it was


never a situation with me playing and how I did,” Brennan said. “It was basically that they always had a real strong interest in John Beck.” “They told me they think I can


play,” he added, “So they just wanted to give me an opportunity to catch on somewhere.” Brennan hurt his left hip during


the final 2009 preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The team put him on the season-ending injured reserve list and he underwent surgery. Brennan had surgery on his right hip before his rookie year. Brennan had base salaries of $295,000 in 2008 and $385,000 last season. Although he became a fan favorite after his productive rookie debut in the 2008 Hall of Fame game, he has never appeared in a regular season game. The former University of Hawaii standout quickly achieved cult status after he went 9 of 10 for 123 yards and two touchdowns in a 30-16 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Canton, Ohio, when the Colts were playing many rookies on defense. If Brennan clears waivers in the


next 24 hours, he would be free to sign with any team. “It’s definitely a bummer because . . . I definitely love the area, and I can’t say enough about how good the fans have been to me,” he said.


Moore is making plays Third-year free safety Kareem


Moore had two interceptions in three plays Monday during the morning session at Redskins Park. Moore, who has worked with the


first-team defense since organized team activities, made a nice catch on a deep ball quarterback Donovan McNabb intended for wide receiver Joey Galloway. He then caught a pass McNabb threw to tight end Chris Cooley. “Just trying to play the defense, to


make plays,” Moore said as he jogged off the field to lift weights. “Don’t try to be too aggressive, man. Just when they come, just make them.” Considered the only true free safety on the roster, Moore, 25, is expected to start alongside strong safety LaRon Landry. The Redskins did not move Landry, who played free safety the past two seasons, to strong safety to create more playing time for Moore, but Moore is taking advantage of the opening, the team says.


“Kareem is a true free safety,” said


safeties coach Steve Jackson. “He was drafted to play free safety, and what happened was he was stuck behind LaRon.” As a rookie in 2008, Moore played


in 14 games, starting one. He played in every game last season with one start. “He has tremendous range in the middle of the field and he has great ball skills,” said linebacker London Fletcher. “He’s a good interceptor of the football. Now, it’s just a matter of him getting out there, getting comfortable in what we’re doing and just making his calls.” —Jason Reid


TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010


TRAINING CAMP TRACKER INJURY REPORT


Wide receiver Malcolm Kelly (hamstring) again did not participate in team drills Monday. He worked on the side with trainers and will continue to be evaluated. . . . Defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth did not complete his third attempt at a conditioning test because of continued irritation in his knee. He did not practice with the team and it is not clear when he will attempt the test again.


WHO’S TWEETING


@WillAnderson79 My man Big Albert is having rough go at it.


@ericwinston:Why would he even try to pass the test? He could hang out getting in shape for the next couple weeks and save his body.


@WillAnderson79: Bengals never made me run 1 till my last training camp there! I knew then they were getting rid of me.


Summer stories


Chad Rinehart has had a rough eight months. In Week 11 against the Dallas Cowboys last sea- son, the right guard suffered a broken fibula that ended his season. He had started four games


before the injury. Then in January he was arrested for public intoxication at a pizza place in Iowa. Now the Redskins’ third-round se- lection in 2008 is looking to put the tur- bulence behind him and compete for a job on a revamped offensive line. “It was definitely frustrating,” the Northern Iowa product said. “It took


about a month longer before I started running than I expected. In OTAs and stuff I wasn’t moving as well as I wanted to or used to. Coming back into camp right now, I feel like I’m back to 100 per- cent and I don’t really notice the injury anymore.”


When the 6-foot-5 Rinehart met with Coach Mike Shanahan in the offseason, they talked about Rinehart’s losing weight.


Shanahan has been known to favor


lighter, quicker offensive linemen in his zone-blocking scheme. Rinehart said he has dropped 10 pounds from last season and now weighs 310 pounds. Other than that, he said there hasn’t been too much difference for him in the Shanahan Era. “The schemes haven’t been too differ-


ent [than under former head coach Jim Zorn],” he said. “A lot of it is the same techniques, and we’ve done some zone blocking in the past.” Shanahan told reporters that he’s been impressed with Rinehart and his recov- ery, but he currently has Artis Hicks at right guard with the first team. “We got 14 offensive linemen and we


got a lot of guys that are part of the 80 that got a chance to make our football team, so Chad’s in the mix,” Shanahan said.


“I think he’s really made some strides since his injuries. In the OTAs, you could see that he was really favoring that leg. Now he’s looking much more comfort- able being in football shape and you can see he’s pretty close to being healed.” — Jorge Castillo


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