What’s interesting in the fallout of Tom Brady’s overturned suspension, Jolly Roger seems to have had his legs cut out from under him. Throw in the Bounty-gate overturning, and the absolute bungling of the Ray Rice/Greg Hardy suspensions overturnings and reinstatements, players these days are immune to misdeeds. Barring convictions. Seeing as most of these guys can lawyer up pretty hard, and can therefore put things off til the season is over, they are pretty much able to live abouve the law and hide behind the shield.
I’m sure this isn’t was Goodie Goodell intended by being a hard-ass not interested in due process, but now the players use that very tactic to put off legal proceedings.
Aldon Smith is the latest example of a guy who has burned bridges and broken laws at every turn, and yet gets a make-good deal with the Raiders. And we all know that if he was a scrub, he’d be working at Home Depot stocking shelves. But hey, I don’t begrudge the guy a damn thing. Get what you can get while you can. There’s no law against accepting a job offer.
My point is some should make a stand regarding this. Tiring, sure to point this out again, but the league and the owners don’t care that some of their players are habitual criminals. Domestic abusers, child abusers, drunk drivers, and drug-fueled steroid freaks. All is fine as long as the collective perception jives with the reality that no one really cares what these guys do. Except for the victims of their misdeeds, of course.
So who makes the stand? Well, in the Niners case recently, Jim Harbaugh hid behind the very due process keeping these guys on the field. Of course he gave Seattle and the Ravens shit for the steroid problems and the Ray Rice deal, but he sure wimped out when the chickens came home to roost in the form of Aldon Smith and Ray McDonald. He ate teo big helpings of crow over that shit.
Course it took 3 strikes to force the Nienrs hand with both RayMac and Aldon. Now they can at least try to get in front of another situation by benching Ahmad Brooks. The team? Hiding behind the shield. Same with Sir Jed Tweetsalot. Seeing as Harbs wimped out, maybe Jim Tomsula will be the one to make a stand.
Forty Niners Forever 
It’s amazing how interested you become in a team after watching Hard Knocks.
Pete “The Fuck” Carroll just got burned by his ill-advised onside kick attempt. Lambs score a TD and it’s over.
Wow. I swear the Seahawks have the refs in their back pocket.
NFL officials have way too much impact on the modern game. It takes away from what is otherwise a great sport.
Holy Onside Kick Batman! Seahawks try and fail to start OT. Rams start out at midfield. Refs call it a kick down into the ground and then popped up and an invalid fair catch???????? Someone’s on the take! HOLY SUCK CALL BATMAN! OK, they’ve got it right now. Non-reviewable – that’s gotta change!
Wow, beautiful ball by Foles.
Me thinks the 49ers are going to have trouble with the Rams this year. 6 sacks on Wilson so far today and tough on a good running team. With the Niner’s Swiss cheese OL, CK could take a major beating against these guys.
Seahawk O just destroying the Rams now. 18 pts in the 4th and they’re marching now. Doesn’t look good for the Rams despite the 3 pt. OT lead.
Rooting against SEA when playing STL is counter-productive. You know the Seahawks are going to get their wins. The Rams not so much.
It’s like rooting against the Dodgers when they’re playing a potential WC team the Giants need to beat out. It’s in the Giants’ best interest if LA beats that team.
You suck it up, and ROOT, ROOT, ROOT for the DODGERS!
It’s nothing like that. It’s the first game of the season. No one knows how the division is going to shake out at this point.
Dont even bother responding to Dennis. He’s a fucking useless troll at this point.
SEAHAWKS LOSE!
Wow. That’s the Rams winning their last 3 of 4 at home vs Seattle.
Stopped ’em!!!! NoFear called it.
His first prediction ever. Unles you count the one 5 years ago where he said the Niners would finish somewhere between 6-10 and 10-6.
Really going out on a limb there, NoFear. Then again the Rams have won 3 of their last 4 vs Seattle at home.
Tell ya though, I think the Rams got the better of the Foles/Bradford deal.
Well, the Niners and Cards have to lose yet for NF to be completely right.
Foles is now 18-3 in his last 21 starts. Seriously.
Wow, Del, you need attention that bad?
Pathetic. Put us out of your misery, please.
Attention is the last thing I crave. I aims to be incognito. Speaking of which. Wherre is that guy? He’d be an upgrade to our shitty OL. I forgot. We got the better of the two in that Miami “bullying ordeal.” How’s Jonathon Martin doing for our team nowadays.?
Buffalo Del
Rex = Richie
Jameis Winston’s first NFL pass…
I hope he at least got a side of crab legs to go with it.
This division early on looks up for grabs. Rams are for real. Let’s see how Niners do against a pretty good squad Monday night, could they possibly compete for the division title? NFC West definitely a bruising division again…
Hmmm, guess Harbaugh was the problem after all. Or Indy sucks on defense.
The Rams have a very fast defense. They will be a handful.
Rex has been saying that the Bills HAD a QB; there”s no controversy there. One game, we’ll see, but Rex has a way of making good teams really good. That defense he walked into must be a dream come true for him.
Tale of the top 2 picks in their 1st NFL qtr. Mariota 2 TD passes, one for 52 and one for 12. Winston 1 Pick-6 26 yds. Wonder what the 2nd qtr. will bring?
Early observation on my part.
Frank joined with a better QB perhaps but, both Indy and NOLA still have no D
Winston 5 yd. TD pass! One for them, one for us – welcome to the NFL rook.
Answer for us seems to be, up tempo/faster pace.
If we can do that, we can compete IMO.