2018 NFL off-season thread: Mr. Alex Smith goes to Washington

Man, I was just about to take a shit-talking trip down memory lane to when the UVA-VT rivalry was competitive and compare Farrior to Druckenmiller, and then you had to go and bring up Jon Harris. What a bust.

 

Charges filed from the incident in February. She must have really done something to provoke him. /StephenASmith

Swell guy.

Officials charge 49ers' Foster with 3 felonies

Officials said Foster, now 24, "physically attacked" his live-in girlfriend, leaving "her bruised and with a ruptured eardrum."

 

Genius pick by Lynch.

 

If you know anything about Reuben Foster's background, this is not a surprise.

Not making excuses for the guy, but Foster had probably the most unstable upbringing of any athlete I've ever heard of. He was actually shot by his father when he was an toddler (his mother was shot, too. The father later escaped from jail and wasn't caught until Reuben was a senior in high school).

It's amazing Saban managed to keep him out of jail for four years. But I think we can safely say the incident at the combine last year was not "blown out of proportion."

Again, not to excuse his behavior, but I'm no longer shocked to hear that athletes who grow in up shitty environments and play a game where they are trained to get their opponents to physically submit to them have problems in their interpersonal relationships.

 

Yikes. I didn't know about his parents. It would make a huge amount of sense then that he would attack his girlfriend.

I don't think the 49ers are going to be able to keep him though. Shoot, I don't even think this is the last time he'll be arrested between now and September.

 

In other fucked up tangential 49ers news:

Prosecutors: Smith posted .40 BAC at arrest

I can’t imagine how far gone you have to be to have that much alcohol in your system at once.

 

Welcome to today's NFL. Kneeling during anthem, bad! Getting beyond blitzed and attacking your GF, okay!

 

Those are football moves.

 

Peter Boulware, Chris Naeole, Tarik Glenn and Ross Verba were all very good players as well. It was a great year for offensive linemen. Looking at that first round, about two-thirds of the 30 players picked had pretty solid careers to the point their names are recognizable at least as "Yeah, I remember that guy," guys. Probably a lot better than most drafts.
But yeah, that was a shit stain of a draft for quarterbacks. The minute I knew the Eagles, down 14-3 in the fourth quarter, were done in the 2003 NFC championship game against the Panthers was when Koy Detmer came into the game.

 

Naeole ended up being one of the few good draft picks of the Mike Ditka Saints era, along with Kyle Turley and Cam Cleeland. (Ricky Williams was also a good player, but obviously not good enough for what they gave up to get him).

 

Wow!