Golden Nuggets: Marvel Smith and Michael Crabtree dominate the headlines

but I’ve got a bad feeling about Crabtree. He might have skills. He might be able to help the O. But so much of the Niner rebirth is based on having the right attitude.

Well, if he signs, at least we know Coach Sing will be watching him carefully. He missed boot camp. If he doesn’t come with the right work ethic, I have no doubt Coach will sit his ass down.

Crabtree has everything to lose. With a new CBA with hard rookie caps in 2011 looming, next year’s draft will be filled with great players of all positions. The latest I’ve seen is 5-6 wide receivers of comparable talent who’d enter the draft without a broken foot, a year and a half out of football and no diva contract tag. That doesn’t count all the quarterbacks, D and O linemen, corners, etc., whose value to a team would be higher than Crabtree.

If Crabtree sits out all of this year he loses four million plus and a year in his life. He could conceivably slide all the way out of the first round, meaning almost all of that guaranteed money would be gone. He’d be yet another year away from a second contract. In short, there is no way he can make the money he’s about to lose.

Any agreement with another team, if true, is unenforceable and so Parker and Crabtree cannot count on it and can’t even go to anyone to complain if they get stiffed. It is unlikely that a team who wanted Crabtree this year would be willing to pay him more than the Niners’ offer because, quite frankly, in the next draft Crabtree’s value will have plummeted.

Long short, this has all been a bluff and at the end either Crabtree signs or he commits financial suicide. If he does the latter he’s probably to unstable to be counted on as a pro football player.

His choice.

I just really hope he signs, i have been waiting way to long for this moment and i think its finally here. Lets just look at the bright side of things for a sec and remember that this kid was the top reciever in college and aside from the diva label we know this kid has tremendous upside. Who knows this kid may turn out to be a player totally opposite of a diva in part because we really dont know whos running the show. We all know what kind of agent parker is and the experience he has with the agent business, he has alot of great talent under his belt and including the best wideout at the pro level which im sure helps alot when it comes down to manipulating crabtree. At the end of the day this is still a business and most of us dont really know what goes on behind the curtain . With mike singletary as his coach i have a strong feeling this kid will mature and have a good mentality and he will bring some of those great plays he performed in college. I still think that him signing is alot better than getting a 3rd or 4th rounder in next years draft because it would be a total waste of a top 10 pick and we would probably end up drafting another bear pascoe, which would leave us with nothing for a top 10 pick. So lets just add a real threat to the recieving corps and even if he doesnt catch any balls im sure defenses will have to pay attention to one of the best recievers that ever played the game at the college level.(even if it was in the spread offense)