SportingNews- The Niners GM said Monday the team is still gathering information before they come to a conclusion whether Reuben will remain with the team.
“The gravity of these charges has not been lost on us,” Lynch said, via NBC Sports Bay Area. “We take it extremely seriously. We do feel like patience is the right approach right now. We’re gonna learn things through this legal process. "I do want to be abundantly clear that if these charges are proven true, if Reuben did indeed hit this young lady, he will not be part of this organization going forward.” ------ Incredible. Just incredible. Sometimes you think these brilliant NFL minds are too compartmentalized and therefore liable to making each and every moral sacrifice that gives them even a slightly better chance to win football games that they can't remember the requirements of being a half decent human being. That's why it's so refreshing to hear from a General Manager that has a zero tolerance policy regarding the employment of players, no matter how young or talented, that are serving significant time behind bars. Considering the 49ers invested such a high draft pick in a player like Reuben Foster that proved to be more than worth it on the field, it couldn't have been easy to promise that they won't continue to pay him a substancial chunk of change from a restricted sum of money while the only field he's seeing is more accurately described as a yard. I can't help but feel like John Lynch has earned himself a standing ovation. Not only agreeing to cooperate with a legal process that has determined that - if guilty - a enigmatic linebacker will spend the next decade+ in jail, but also being stern enough to refuse to do business with said linebacker as his (potential) indefinite sentence for hitting a woman denies him his athletic prime? In a word, heroic. The truth is, John Lynch is in a tough spot so I have absolutely no idea what I would have preferred him to say. I just feel comfortable making fun of what he did actually say since promising the contract termination of someone who, in all likelihood, would be looking at long term incarceration is just about as soft of a hard stance as swearing off marshmallows for lent.
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