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Josh McNary Rape Charges Drape Dark Cloud Over Indianapolis Colts

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Heading into their AFC Championship showdown with the New England Patriots, the Indianapolis Colts need all of the help and luck (no pun intended) they can get. Having a player charged with rape a few days before the big game certainly doesn’t help.

According to reports, Colts linebacker Josh McNary has been charged with rape, but has yet to be suspended by the team as they investigate “what the relevant facts are.” Regardless, it drapes a dark cloud over the Colts’ do-or-die playoff game.

While McNary is far from a key cog in the Colts’ game plan, he has proven to be a semi-valuable backup linebacker and special teams player this season. Playing on 262 snaps, he’s racked up 24 tackles and one sack.

The Colts certainly won’t miss McNary on Sunday if he is suspended (he has yet to see the field in the postseason), but it definitely brings some bad juju to Indianapolis with one of the franchise’s biggest games in recent memory just around the corner.

In the grand scheme of things, this also doesn’t bode well for the NFL and its ever-deteriorating public image. The league has already dealt with a number of PR nightmares this season from Ray Rice to Adrian Peterson – this is just the cherry on top of the heaping piles of problems the NFL has endured over the last year.

People will say this doesn’t really affect the Colts on the field – and they’d be right – but it also isn’t a great way to start the preparation for the AFC Championship Game. The last thing this team needs is an off-the-field distraction.

Maybe society as a whole will be lucky enough for this to all just be a misunderstanding, but it’s unlikely.

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