NFL 2015 Season - Page 76

On August 27 2015 05:08 xDaunt wrote:
God, I hate to even be thinking this, but I'm starting to get the sense that the Niners may not be quite the shit show this season that everyone is predicting. The Defense is looking like it may hold to last year's excellent form despite all of the turnover. Young guys are stepping up in a big way on the line, and, by all accounts, Navarro Bowman is back to being the beastly ILB that he was two years ago. I don't like the Niners corners, but the play of the Front 7 and the safeties will mitigate that liability. There simply is no way that the Niners offense can be any worse this year than it was last year. Thank Christ that Greg Roman is now ruining Buffalo's offense instead of the Niners'. If the Niners can piece together something resembling a functional offensive line and if Kaepernick can start connecting on some deep passes to Vernon Davis and Torrey Smith, the offense might actually look respectable. I don't think that the Niners are going to make the playoffs coming out of the brutally tough NFC West, but I can see them having an 8-8 or 9-7 finish as opposed to the 5-11 or 6-10 type of season that a lot of people are foreseeing.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks and troubled former teammate Ray McDonald have been named in a sexual assault case dating back to an alleged December incident at McDonald's home.

The Santa Clara County grand jury has indicted McDonald on one count of rape of an intoxicated person, and the county district attorney has charged Brooks with misdemeanor sexual battery against the same alleged victim.

The 49ers cut ties with McDonald last December amid a repeated pattern of run-ins with the law. But that didn't stop the Chicago Bears from signing McDonald to a contract this spring, only for them to release him after he was named in another, separate domestic violence incident.

Brooks was named in this case on Wednesday, and the 49ers said he was sent home from Denver, where the team was holding joint practices with the Broncos, and will remain home when the team plays its third preseason game there on Saturday.

"We take any charge against a member of this organization seriously and are in communication with the NFL," 49ers GM Trent Baalke said in a statement. "Ahmad is returning home to California and will not participate in Saturday's game."

If conviced, the 31-year-old linebacker Brooks faces up to six months in jail.

A civil lawsuit was filed in May against both men. The victim accused Brooks of groping her while she was intoxicated at McDonald's home before, the suit claims, McDonald carried her to his bedroom and sexually assaulted her.

McDonald, 30, could face a maximum of eight years in prison if convicted of rape. He previously had countersued the alleged victim for defamation of character after the 49ers released him.

McDonald's career almost certainly is over. On Brooks, we will have to wait and see how things play out — and how the team will handle the situation in the meanwhile. But for now, the offseason from hell continues for a franchise that has been snakebitten by injury, departures and a slew of arrests, charges and other legal troubles.

On August 29 2015 04:10 QuanticHawk wrote:
as a rule of thumb i generally dislike when athletes/coaches go into that field. i watch sports to not have to think about that bullshit that isnt even remotely related to the sport at hand. i cant stand how that little midget bob costas has to get on his soapbox at every available opportunity