Popeyejones
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As for Aldon and Harbaugh playing him this weekend, I think he should have sat him down this weekend, but only for a single reason:
He should sit Aldon FOR Aldon, who needs to get his sh!t together and needs to get the message that he's pissing his career away. That's it. I think Harbaugh has a responsibility to Aldon as a person to introduce his own repercussions and not wait for the NFLs repercussions, which will be coming down the line.
Despite that (and I'm quite serious in believing he should have sat him down), bad reasons that are given IMO:
1) Fans who feign as if they're naive rubes and have suddenly stumbled upon the fact that in every organization (sport or otherwise) star players are treated differently than scrubs. Welcome to the world my new born foals! Sincerely, playing stupid opens one up to being treated as if they're stupid, and I think it's generally ill-advised. I'd say the same thing regardless of the star player or the team, be it Aldon, Lynch (who I love), Favre (who I hate), or otherwise.
2) People who take Harbaugh's comments about how 1) you don't know if a player or agent is telling the truth when the claim Adderal (which is a statement of fact, and something every fan everywhere knows) and 2) that you don't want players to get busted for PEDs because it opens up the door for knee-jerk 'their winning because they're cheating" nonsense (which is something I'd be shocked if Carroll didn't agree with too) and saying that it's hypocritical to play Aldon because of these statements. Taking PEDs to increase your performance on the field != driving drunk, and that should be absolutely obvious to anyone. Even if it did, which it unequviocally does not, "you want to be above reproach" (which Harbaugh said) is wildly different from claiming to be above reproach (which of course he never said).
He should sit Aldon FOR Aldon, who needs to get his sh!t together and needs to get the message that he's pissing his career away. That's it. I think Harbaugh has a responsibility to Aldon as a person to introduce his own repercussions and not wait for the NFLs repercussions, which will be coming down the line.
Despite that (and I'm quite serious in believing he should have sat him down), bad reasons that are given IMO:
1) Fans who feign as if they're naive rubes and have suddenly stumbled upon the fact that in every organization (sport or otherwise) star players are treated differently than scrubs. Welcome to the world my new born foals! Sincerely, playing stupid opens one up to being treated as if they're stupid, and I think it's generally ill-advised. I'd say the same thing regardless of the star player or the team, be it Aldon, Lynch (who I love), Favre (who I hate), or otherwise.
2) People who take Harbaugh's comments about how 1) you don't know if a player or agent is telling the truth when the claim Adderal (which is a statement of fact, and something every fan everywhere knows) and 2) that you don't want players to get busted for PEDs because it opens up the door for knee-jerk 'their winning because they're cheating" nonsense (which is something I'd be shocked if Carroll didn't agree with too) and saying that it's hypocritical to play Aldon because of these statements. Taking PEDs to increase your performance on the field != driving drunk, and that should be absolutely obvious to anyone. Even if it did, which it unequviocally does not, "you want to be above reproach" (which Harbaugh said) is wildly different from claiming to be above reproach (which of course he never said).
