{"id":154,"date":"2010-08-16T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-08-16T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:36:00","slug":"balmer-dealt-but-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Balmer dealt, but questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.foxsports.com\/fe\/images\/NFL\/Headshots\/140x170\/8806.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 170px;\" src=\"http:\/\/static.foxsports.com\/fe\/images\/NFL\/Headshots\/140x170\/8806.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Whether the deterioration of Kentwan Balmer\u2019s situation with San Franciso was related to the NCAA investigation of UNC is hard to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Balmer didn\u2019t show up for practice last Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday was the day former UNC player Cam Thomas told The News &#038; Observer\u2019s Joe Giglio that Balmer had paid for the trip Thomas and Marvin Austin took to California in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, reporters were eager to ask Balmer what was going on. But by Wednesday, Balmer was a permanent no-show at the 49ers camp. The view from here seem to connect the NCAA investigation and Balmer\u2019s reticence, but that might not have been the driving factor. Balmer, a No. 1 pick in 2008, couldn\u2019t crack the 49ers starting rotation and apparently was unhappy with his status. San Francisco coach Mike Singletary said it was a \u201cpersonal matter\u201d and didn\u2019t go further.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco traded Balmer to Seattle Monday for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/49ers\/archives\/2010\/08\/niners-deal-bal.html\">what the Sacramento Bee reported was a mere 6th-round pick. <\/a>That\u2019s awfully cheap for a decent defensive lineman and former first-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have strong connections to the 49ers and it is our understanding that Kentwan is ready to play football and in need of a fresh start,\u201d Seahawks general manager John Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like he does. But if he thinks he\u2019ll just move on to Seattle and dodge questions, he\u2019s in for a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the deterioration of Kentwan Balmer\u2019s situation with San Franciso was related to the NCAA investigation of UNC is hard to tell. Balmer didn\u2019t show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}