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Posted on 09/23/2009 10:44:56 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Michael Crabtree celebrated his 22nd birthday Monday. As an unwanted gift, multiple reports surfaced that the 49ers are poised to drop their offer to the No. 10 overall pick out of Texas Tech.
Citing team sources, Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports wrote that Crabtree's continued absence makes him less valuable to the 49ers on a prorated basis and added, "Translation: The team just reduced its offer and will continue to do so with each passing week."
A day earlier, Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reported that the 49ers sent a letter to Crabtree "modifying" their offer.
Responding to the Fox report Monday, coach Mike Singletary acknowledged that such a letter had at least been discussed. But Singletary said he was unsure whether the 49ers had actually dropped the note in the mail.
Singletary said. "I didn't want to hear about it any more after last Friday. I said, 'Hey, do what you have to do. I'm focused over here.'
"So I don't know if the letter's actually been sent. I know we talked about it. But at this point, the whole Michael Crabtree thing "... it's over there. I'm going to focus over here. We have our hands full with the 53 (players) that we have."
The 49ers' offer has been reported at five years and $20 million, with $16 million guaranteed. According to the Yahoo! report, the 49ers are willing to give Crabtree incentives that would take them to within a dollar
less of the package given to No. 9 pick B.J. Raji. (Raji got a reported five-year deal for $28.5 million with almost $18 million guaranteed.)
"We won't go over that," the team source told Yahoo! "Otherwise, we're going to have the same problem next year, and the year after that "..."
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bttt
Theres always arena football.
The kid is getting bad advice from his agent.
No there isn’t. The cancelled the season due to the economy.
Not this year. The whole thing has gotten pretty funny, if the league agrees the Jets tampered Crabtree could prove to be one of the greatest picks ever, without even signing with the team he could turn into a first and a second in each for the next two drafts (maximum penalty for tampering).
The kid is getting bad advice from his agent.
The rumor floating around is that another team has told him if he holds out and gets traded to them, they will pay him what he wants. Hence the 49ers tampering charge against the Jets.
The worth of a thing is the price it will bring. Nobody is the bad guy here. He has every right not to work for a penny less than he thinks he is worth and the 69ers have every right to keep lowering their offer.
Of course, the fact that other teams can’t bid should be a crime, but that’s another story.
What a sad saga this is....
He should be paid exactly what the first receiver got - the guy at the Raiders. Crabtree’s better, and is suffering from Al Davis’s need for draft day attention.
I have him on my fantasy team. Please trade him to the Jets. I need a really good active receiver.
I doubt Coach 50 would want him now in San Fran. He’s a team guy.
What would be the use of having a “draft” if players who are “drafted” could afterward tender bids from other teams? If that would be the case, then get rid of the draft completely and allow players to apply to any/all teams they wish (talk about the ensuing chaos of that system!!!!!)
He can hold out and go into the 2010 draft, as he’s threatened. However, the 49ers will hold the rights to him until the day of the draft. That means he cannot speak with other teams, work out for them, or participate in the combine. Not the best strategy.
Good job, Niners. Hold firm.
I think his hold out is proving Al was right to skip him. Maybe when he finally gets on the field he will prove to have better skills, but meanwhile he’s the most worthless player in the league because he won’t even get on the practice field. You should dump him, even if they signed him this afternoon he’ll be useless until late in the season.
Disagree. The Niners were fortuante to land him at #10. They should pay him as if he were the #7 pick, which he would have been had a sane person (i.e. not Al Davis) been making the selection.
I think the Niners are being cheap.
I’ve long said rookies should be offered a set amount for first year - maybe 250K - for one year - see what they do and then neogtiate after that year. Most of these kids comeout of college where, with the exception of the noted under the table money/deal offered by some schools, most have lived on pennies and suddenly are handed millions. Drugs, women, bad decisions - give them a decent amount to live on and see if they can really make the transition to the big leagues..... I’m disappointed by Micheal - I think he’s being greedy and also getting bad advice. Just shut up and play the damn game!
I agree. The Niners should give him the same money the Raiders are paying the other guy.
He can’t be traded until he is signed.
He's also going to find out that NFL defenders are bigger, stronger, and faster than the vast majority of the collegians he played against.
And that includes Oklahoma and Texas. Just ask Vince Young.
And where would he get drafted anyway?
If I had a top 10 pick next year, I wouldn’t touch him. Heck, I’m not sure I’d touch him in any round now. Team chemisty counts as much as talent. No matter how far he falls, he’s going to want top 5 money and act like the team revolves around him.
As talented as Vick is, only two teams (Eagles and Bengals) seriously considered signing him. 30 other teams decided he wasn’t worth it no matter how talented he is.
In 2010 Crabtree could be the first 7th rounder demanding top 5 money.
I agree with you on the first point, but I don’t think he is being greedy.
BTW, I think college players should be paid. (And seriously, what IS a TX girl doing in PA?)
You are right. This is where he is being stupid.
NO WAY he goes top 10 next year. A year out of football hurts. Remember Mike Williams (USC)?.
I believe some college players ARE paid to play.... but I think the free education is their payment.
Receivers are a dime a dozen (on styreet corners in gay San Fran), and many a former sprinter have been trained and excelled at the job. Get this boy a bagging job at a supermarket.
Won't be too long before Crabtree is "under water", i.e. his market value drops below what his agent is fronting him while waiting for the contract to be signed.
The NFL's still a cash cow, but there may be a lock out in two years. That would be a really stupid move, IMO.
There'll be enough college football to keep the average fan happy. As for me, football's there to keep me occupied until college hoops begins.
Back to the topic: Crabtree needs to pull his head out of his rectum and take the $15-16 million guaranteed.
You mean have the teams actually have to compete for players is a free market place. Imagine that.
BTW, I think college players should be paid.
Ummm, most of them are being paid - via scholarships.
Crabtree is a prick, since arena season is cancelled he should play minor league, the dose of reality will hit really soon after he PAYS to play with a minor league football club.
No football team will touch him if he demands more than he is worth - I call it the Bozworth priciple.
Oh and I will also use the POS from Ohio State as an example: Who’s he playing for?
From a news story:
You know you are a laughing stock when you become a Twitter “Trending Topic”. This is the case of Crabtree whose name is now synonymous with a few Trending Topics such as: #Crabtreed. An example of this: “The Judge wanted me to pay fines and court costs, but I “crabtreed” the offer and now I have a warrant out for my arrest.”
Another popular one was: #Crabtreechick. An example of this: “I met this “crabtreechick” at the club, she came back to my house and I thought we had negotiated all the terms to “seal the deal,” but she refused to “sign the contract.”
You can still say that after what has transpired?
Seems to me Al Davis's judgment regarding Crabtree is looking better all the time.
Yeah, that’ll work out real well for the sport. You’ll have a handful of teams that will survive the economics of that system, and the rest will disappear.
If I were Samurai Mike,I would go in front of the cameras and say:’I thought Crabtree wanted to play football;guess not.FUMC!’
So the Raiders had picks 7, 8 & 9? Jeez, there's parity and then there's parity
Jamarcus Russell at Oakland, Crabapple at SF. I say F'm both.
The NFL (and college and HS and Pee Wee) should all stop making these guys into prima Donna's).
I put this under culture, because there isn't a category for ego-driven, entitlement inpired stupidity.
Baseball survives without real salary caps. So did the NFL for a long time. If the league was worried about NY or LA being able to outbid Pittsburg, just institute revenue sharing amongst the teams, that way each team has the same amount of money available.
>>>You mean have the teams actually have to compete for players is a free market place. Imagine that.
Yes, it doesn’t get much more socialistic in sports than with the NFL. All teams share equally in television revenue, they all submit to a salary cap limiting how much they can spend, and the draft rewards poorer performing franchises.
The Niners are being prudent to not cave into the machinations of an untried player. Let this player prove his worth, then he can earn the pay he’s asking for. I’m sick of watching college players coming out of that system demanding money they have not earned.
$20,000 a year for an education is not worth what elite football players bring to big schools. the NCAA is a travesty.
Sure, but since there isn’t a uniform system, those arguments can be entertained. The other 31 GMs would probably have taken him ahead of Bey.
I just think the Niners should consider that they were fortunate to get a Top 5 talent at #10 because of Al Davis senility.
That said...Crabtree is making a huge mistake, and will never see this much money again. This is a Juan Gonzalez with the tigers, or Juliana Margolis with ER miscalculation.
There’s no need to imagine that - it’s been how leagues have operated in the past - and it instantly turns into a fiasco. You need to understand that a league needs to be a collective to survive. It doesn’t work as a free market pure system. Do you honestly think the New York Yankees putting the Kansas City Royals out of business is the same thing as Mr. Jefferson outperforming and thereby running Random White Guy Dry Cleaners into the ground is the same thing?
Revenue sharing already exists.
Disagree. The Niners were fortuante to land him at #10. They should pay him as if he were the #7 pick, which he would have been had a sane person (i.e. not Al Davis) been making the selection.
Dan Marino was drafted what..21st, and in in the hall of fame.
Alex Smtih was drafted #1, and now sits on the bench.
Matt Ryan went #3. Maybe today Miami and St. Louis wish they had drafted him, but at the time they decided they should pass on him.
9 teams passed on Crabtree for a reason. He was a #10 pick.
Honestly, it’s hard to feel sorry for a guy that is turning down millions for just a little more.
He could have taken the offer on the table, invested it in some conservative assets, and be set for life. Instead he’s risking that to get “just a little bit more”.
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