Smoke Signals: D.C. stands for Drama City!

Head Coach Mike Shanahan met with perennially-disgruntled DL Albert Haynesworth yesterday, but he would not divulge the contents of that conversation.

“I was surprised last week after [Haynesworth] was saying he liked the 3-4,” Redskins end Phillip Daniels said. “And this week you get a whole different story. It’s just crazy. We all need to move forward. … Coaches coach and players play; once he realizes that he’ll be better.”

Daniels also laughed about Haynesworth complaining about playing in the second half of a preseason game. Daniels, entering his 15th year, was on the field with him.

“It’s no big deal with me and really it shouldn’t have been a big deal with him at all,” Daniels said.

My favorite quote comes from WR/KR Devin Thomas: “It’s Drama City around here sometimes.”

Watch Redskins Round Table panelists John Keim and Rick Snider of The Examiner discuss the ongoing Albert Haynesworth drama. Snider also writes that the Haynesworth-Shanahan battle is like the Jeff George-Marty Schottenheimer battle of 2001 and should be solved the same way -- with the head coach firing the malcontent player.

Watch this ESPN report on the Haynesworth soap opera...

Rookie LT Trent Williams, who was schooled by LB Terrell Suggs and injured in the Ravens game, says he's healthy and will practice all week.