C'mon Crabtress argument that Crabtree should've been picked higher and deserved a top three contract......the agent was not going to tell Oakland that Crabtree wouldn't sign with the Raiders. Crabtree wasn't exactly jumping up and down when the Raiders selected DHB.
Something happened, or else the 49ers would have never filed the tampering charges. Even though Crabtree has signed the NFL is going through with the tampering investigation. So something happened......
IDK, the same reason the 49ers were caught tampering with Briggs a couple of years ago......
Yes. I reference back to Deion Sanders commments on the article I posted. Why would Deion Sanders go on air and make a statement like that.
I don't.
Crabtree never said that he was willing to sit out the entire season. The people stated that Crabtree was going to sit the season were Deion, and Crabtrees cousin. Denial? I missed that...what half baked denial
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We are headed to a uncapped year next year, aren't we?......if so there are teams that would be willing to sign Crabtree to 40 million dollar contract( Jets, Cowboys, Washington,etc).[/QUOTE]
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Few points. After his cousin said he'd sit out the year his agent came out and said he never said that. he then later confessed that they were willing to do so if they had to but that the cousin wasn't speaking for Crabtree.
Deion also said it on air, pay the man or he'll go back into the draft.
Briggs was going to be a free agent(possibly) and the 49ers were accused of talkign to him before they were allowed to. Crabtree wasn't going to be a free agent he'd have either gone back into the draft, or they'd have traded his rights before the draft. Under either scenario the Jets had no control other than telling the kid we want you, tell other teams not to take you.
And no I don't believe they told him that I don't doubt they had some interest in him as a player, but they knew the NFL rules, why risk tampering for a kid who can't play for you that year? They may have tampered but not because they thought it would get them Crabtree, but then I have no idea what they actually did.
And again, I don't believe much of anything Deion says, he seems to have set himself up as "player advocate" now. Constantly complaining the Cards need to pay Boldin, the Crabtree thing, now he gets Dez Bryant's college eligibility stripped by having him meet with agents(reportedly).
Deion is and always has been a great athlete and a pompous idiot off the field. Have you ever noticed how much he talks about himself when doing highlights of NFL games that don't involve him?
Crabtree is lucky he got signed now because with what happened to Bryant, the next draft would have had a situation where the first 2 WR's were "tainted" by their involvement with Deion. It might have been interesting. If Bryant winds up signing with Parker, he might not go as high as he wants to either.
And yes immediately after the draft kawakami said one of the rumors as to why the Raiders passed on Crabtree is his agent told them don't pick him he doesn't want to play for you. At the time I figured it's an excuse because they picked Heyward_Bey and were getting blasted, but as soon as the holdout started I began to think there was probably truth in it.
