There are few teams in the NFL more enigmatic than our Washington Redskins. Fresh off an impressive road victory in Oakland — yeah, the Raiders are terrible, so what? — the D.C. club put together an historically poor performance at home against the New York Giants. Two weeks after going toe-to-toe with the undefeated New Orleans Saints, the ‘Skins had all sorts of trouble containing a depleted Giants pass rush, putting quarterback Jason Campbell in situations each more dangerous than the last. Three weeks after barely losing to Philadelphia in an entertaining shootout, the Sons of Washington got completely and totally blown out of the water in a game that featured what we and others considered the worst play call in league history.

And now, there’s the Albert Haynesworth debacle. Signed this off-season to a deal in which Dan Snyder threw ludicrous amounts of cash at the big man’s feet, Haynesworth has been impressive at times — but more often than not, hardly worth the paycheck. On Friday, after showing up late to practice and subsequently denying that he tried to convince teammates to join him, he began spewing nonsense about how the organization isn’t utilizing him the way he thinks they should. At a time when the Redskins needed nothing but to avoid more drama, they got 350 huffing and puffing pounds of it.