Golden Nuggets: Jed York taking the bull by the horns?

this might be the Niners’ way of ending the negotiations. If Jed York offered to meet, say, two or three weeks ago, and the Crabtree camp hasn’t met, this is the Niners’ way of saying, well, we tried to meet with them but they wouldn’t. It is going public and pointing who is responsible for the lack of negotiations. Parker and Crabtree would have to cave and at least meet or they would be declaring their position so hardened that they won’t budge. That would shut the door, would ruin Crabtree’s value in any future negotiations with other teams and would put an additional question mark on anyone coming out of college represented by Parker. And, I might add, those would be not undeserved consequences to them.

The Niners know that Crabtree is worthless for the season, so this may very well be their way of cutting the losses. Right now the only people who support Crabtree either hate the Yorks so much they need to support their “enemies”, people who don’t understand economics (which would presumably include Crabtree himself) and Raiders fans.

Myself, I’m looking forward to seeing what Brandon Jones can do. He wants to play.

Crabtree seems to have no clue about the logic of the Niners’ offer. This is precisely what needs to be done. The decision to accept or reject the offer will have been made before Crazy Crab walks into the room. It’s the showdown. This meeting is for the Niners to decide how much of an a$$hat Crazy Crab is.

Parker is in control of his client as long as long as everything goes through him, so I suspect that he has already rejected this offer, rejected it by not responding to it.

So this may all be a public ploy to just end it all. “Look,” the Niners will be saying, “Crabtree and Parker won’t even talk.” Then the Niners can continue to lower their offer with impunity because they’ve written off the clown, and Crabs can be viewed as an epic fail for the next six months, Parker will be seen as bad news for kids coming out of college and the Niners, who already would not get the benefit of Crabtree this year, will have extra cash to sign a free agent next year.

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Another thing not pointed out is that next year any team that trades for Crabtree after March 1 would have to pay for him out of the money set aside for rookies in 2010, which means that the forty million would mean less for the draftees coming out who actually played some football this year. And here’s a scenario: The Niners trade Crazy Crab for a provisional draft pick, say a second or third-rounder IF he signs with the team. Suppose Crabs is offered, say, ten million, five guaranteed, and he refuses the offer. Now he’s refused the Niners and he’s refused the next team (hopefully, the Lions). What team in their right mind would waste a high draft pick on this guy?

And the two teams willing to pay him 40 million is just a load of crap. Deion has apparently already backed away from that one.