Golden Nuggets: In His Shoes?

…giving him back the team.

I’m a Seahawks fan and I feel bad for you guys. This guy dropped to 10 because of ‘character concerns’ or ‘attitude problems’, not because of his injured foot. He feels like he should be paid #5 pick money, but he was the 10th pick, so tough luck. Maybe if he had interviewed better and wasn’t a risk to be a prima donna WR he would’ve been drafted higher, but he didn’t.
If he truly believes he is a great receiver, why not take the contract the 9ers are offering him, and then say for $2 million less guaranteed that he can have an opt out clause after 3 years (just in case he explodes for 1200 yards per season) so that the can get his FMV. Or have escalator or performance-based clauses in there such a pro bowls, 10 td seasons, or 1000+ yard seasons?
What’s worse is that I don’t even think this is a problem with his agent. Usually it’s the agent like Scott Boras who persuades his clients to hold out for a year just for an extra 10%, because while it doesn’t really affect Boras too much since he has so many clients, the individual client is making a huge risk by not playing against top notch talent and receiving world class training for the year they missed. In this case it seems to be a case of Crabtree and his ‘advisors’ that are greedy. Just sign a deal already. Threatening to re-enter the draft is stupid. No one will take you higher than 10 if you do. Several GMs like Tim Ruskell wouldn’t even consider taking you, and decreased demand is never a good thing if you want to be paid more. There are no Yankees in football to give you that large contract that you want without regards to a salary cap.

Drew Rosenhaus? After all, Scott Boras is a baseball man no?

Also, I think it’s funny that in it’s scouting report for the game this sunday, ESPN.com has the advantage going to the 49ers in almost every category, yet predicts the Seahawks to win. Then again, last week they gave the edge to the Cards’ in the RB category… what a joke.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/scouting?gameId=290920025

“If we’re honest, well admit that on a smaller scale, we’ve all boxed ourselves into an untenable position like Michael Crabtree. You start arguing that Brandon Roy is an underrated NBA star, and people mock you, and this ticks you off, and you tell them they don’t get it, and the next thing you know, you’re saying that Roy is better than Kobe Bryant, as good as Michael Jordan, and you think, Whoa, this makes no sense, what am I saying here? But you are stuck. You re backed into a corner and you’re too embarrassed to crawl out.”

I’ve done it – have you? I don’t know if this will mean that much to anyone on here, but I once drunkenly said that Dennis Bergkamp was hugely over-rated. I was, rightly, jumped on by pretty much all of my friends (those that were still sober enough to speak and hear) but I felt committed to it, so went with it all night, and even now, years later, a couple of those guys remember that night every now and then, and I STILL have to defend my corner, even though Dennis Bergkamp is one of the greatest players to ever play football (soccer), which I obviously know, but can never now admit, which makes me look a total [site decorum].