by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–In terms of how the sexual assault battery allegations against the 49ers starting linebacker Ahmad Brooks is concerned he might face the same treatment that Aldon Smith and Ray McDonald got and the 49ers say their going to wait until due process to runs it’s course by that they’re going to wait until they hear from the police and the Santa Clara district attorney’s office.

McDonald has been indicted on a rape charge by the Santa Clara grand jury, Smith as everyone knows was released because of a DUI charge hitting his car into a neighbor’s car while intoxicated according to San Jose Police and was subsequently released by the team. The prosecutors are mulling over what decision will be made against McDonald and Brooks from the criminal justice system over a Dec 14th incident where the alleged victim who was drinking at a San Jose bar went back to McDonald’s San Jose home where it was alleged that Brooks groped her and McDonald allegedly raped her.

The Niners with Brooks might take a wait and see approach and make Brooks sit until the justice system decides what will happen. It’s not known if the team will officially suspend Brooks. It could be that if there is a signal that he’s going to get charged and he’s going to face a misdemeanor charge. They,re might be at a point that so many bad things have happened they just might want to cut bait and let him go. With everything that’s happened with Smith and McDonald in addition to the Brooks charges.

Most of the fault has been put on 49ers team owner Jed York and Trent Baalke, you have Baalke who signed most of these players either he himself or his staff are the ones whose suppose to evaluate these players and make sure that their positive influences or at least their not going to be troublemakers. York whose the face of the franchise he’s the owner he is the guy who said their going to be a class organization their going to find classy players.

Those guys get the bulk of the criticism here, it’s a wonder why former head coach Jim Harbaugh doesn’t get any criticism it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. He’s the guy who was head coach during the tenure of all these guys except for Jerome Simpson whose on a six game suspension by the league for DUI (his third rap). Harbaugh was the head coach with these guys and he’s the one who had the most interaction and he should have known them the best.

He should have been able to report any issues back to management and back to the administration it’s a question on why doesn’t Harbaugh get any flack on this? This is really beyond me, I understand Harbaugh is a great coach there’s no denying he brings a certain level of skill to the sidelines that makes his teams better and makes him successful in every stop he’s made in his coaching career. He doesn’t have an awful history of players doing awful things prior to the 49ers. With the 49ers there is a clear situation where the players during Harbaugh’s tenure they were doing a lot of bad stuff.

David Zizmor does the 49ers podcasts each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com