by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–Former San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith who hit his neighbor’s car on Thursday night and the neighbor reported him and was arrested for DUI. Aldon in a very brief interview in his walk from the police station to his vehicle says it wasn’t a DUI. The arrest is clearly for a DUI whether that holds up in the long run and is something that we’ll have to wait and see.

The bottom line is Aldon is in for his third DUI and he also had a separate fourth arrest for a weapons charges that’s when he received the nine game suspension for last season. This is clearly someone who has a pattern of poor behavior involving alcohol even a weapons related charge that was at a party that clearly had a lot of alcohol in it. That arrest was clearly alcohol and the details of the arrest had alcohol involved.

Aldon spent a year or two ago with alcohol issues and he has not come to terms with it and has problems controlling it and he hasn’t figured it out and he’s a young guy and he has time to get better but when your talking about four arrests for alcohol fueled charges at a certain point you got to cut bait and that’s what the 49ers did. It didn’t make a difference here as Aldon was in the last year of his contract having a nine game suspension last season your chances are that this arrest probably led to a full season suspension.

Even if Aldon was available he wouldn’t have played for the 49ers anyways. If he ever comes back to the 49ers again it is up for debate ideally what he does is he goes out and gets some help and spends some time soul searching and spends a long time in rehab and cleaning himself up and really genuinely sincerely gets better.

Maybe a year or two years from now who knows he comes back I don’t know if it will be with the 49ers who knows? It could be with anybody maybe a few players who have his talent level for sacking a quarterback and is a talent that is in very high demand whatever it is when Aldon is ready to come back to the NFL if he’s ever ready to come back to the NFL someone will be able to pay for his services.

It will be a risk if he cleans himself up any team would hope he gets the chance whether if it’s with the 49ers who knows, this is a situation the 49ers didn’t have any other option they had to let him go. This what happened he wouldn’t have played for the 49ers this season anyways after this incident he was going to be suspended one way or another for the rest of the season.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com