The 49ers didn’t have linebacker Aldon Smith at practice today because Smith was in Los Angeles, dealing with the fallout from an April incident in which he was accused of making a bomb threat at Los Angeles International Airport. Coach Jim Harbaugh wasn’t in the mood to talk about it.
As reporters questioned Harbaugh, he was having none of it. Here’s the transcript:
Is LB Aldon Smith here today?
“No.”
He’s in Los Angeles?
“What’s that?”
He’s in Los Angeles for his meeting there?
“He’s not here today.”
You can’t say where he is?
“No. Is that my responsibility to tell you where he is?”
You’re the head coach of the football team.
“Yeah, OK. Well you seem to already know. He’s going through a process.”
Then there’s a couple of places he could be. New York being one of them, Los Angeles being the other. He’s in the latter.
“OK. I don’t know if that was a question or a statement?”
Harbaugh answered five follow-up questions without providing reporters with any relevant information. Bill Belichick would be proud.