Last year. I didn’t even think I was going to play, I was playing a lot of scout team. Now, I’m in the system and I’m playing and practicing I think it’s time for me, the sleeping giant, to awake and go back on the field and play football again.” -Albert Haynesworth
Haynesworth and Wilfork have the potential to be the best sports combination to hit Boston since Manny Ortiz. Personally I always wanted to see Wilfork play in a more attach 4-3 defense. Since he’s been here his job was to clog gaps and take on double teams so the linebackers could be free to make plays. To the naked eye you didn’t see him make too many flashy plays. In a 3-4 defense, a nosetackles job is never going to be flashy. His job isn’t to attach but to be unselfish and create opportunities for others to make plays. Now that has all changed. With Haynesworth Ridding shot-gun, big #75 is now unleashed. Individually, they both have been regarded as the best defensive tackles in the league. Together they could form the most lethal defensive line combination in NFL history. Could the Haynesworth do something stupid at any moment and get cut? Sure. But what if he toes the line and follows the Patriots modo? What if he returns to his pro bowl from? If he does the rest of the NFL better watch out. Vince Wilfork by himself is Mack Truck. Vince Wilfork next to a motivated Albert Haynesworth is like two 18 wheelers loaded with cargo, coming down a steep hill with no brakes. Impossible to contain, impossible to stop.
