Golden Nuggets: Liking the Mike Singletary image..

for kicking off this whole tampering thing with his Primetime mouth? How much is NFL Network tied to NFL policies? Granted, he doesn’t work for the Jets or the mysterious second team (…ahem ahem dallas ahem), but if the situation comes to a head, his relationship with those teams might be jeopardized.
Not that I’m really all that concerned for Sanders.

Anyway, here’s hoping for a third 1st round pick.

Pretty sick tricks!

There is no logic for another team continuing to tamper after the trade deadline back in August. Any promises made last summer just don’t hold any water now. And Parker/Crabtree, even if the Jets/Cowboys promised $40 million last summer, cannot in any way consider it a tangible offer that can in any way be collected on next year.

Long short, for the Crabtree camp, the Niners are the only game in town. They are the only team that will pay Crabtree this year. If Crabtree shows up in the draft next year he will have lost lots of money. Millions. Teams have signed players who have been total busts. Teams survive that. The Niners can survive losing a first round pick. But an individual who walks away from 18 million guaranteed because he thinks he’s worth 23 million and who is risking that money and losing a year’s playing time has a lot more to lose.

The Crabtree camp is not holding out now because of any tampering, if there is any tampering.

So with the above, the logical reasoning is that Crabtree will sign. If all remains the same it would be crazy for Parker/Crabtree to walk away from that. Now let’s say you are McCloughan. You know that Crabtree will sign. It would be insane for an agent to have his client lose all that money and it would be insane for a player to walk away from that. Parker knows that the draft next year will be full of great players too. This is it. The Niners know and Parker/Crabtree knows.

So why continue the charade? That’s what’s burning the Niners. Crabtree could be in Santa Clara getting into football shape, learning the offense and stretching those hamstrings. Each day Crabtree’s value to the Niners for this year goes down. Each day it becomes less and less worth the Niners’ while to make a better offer, and they weren’t going to make a better offer anyway.

There are rumors that Parker is doing this because he wants to be part of the players’ group in the upcoming CBA negotiations. I know very little about the workings of that, but I can understand why the owners wouldn’t want to have to deal with Parker over the contract.

Jed York’s offer to talk with Crabtree face-to-face was a public rebuke of Parker. It was saying, “Michael, Parker is blocking this thing getting done. He’s not serving you well.” He may very well say, if there was a face-to-face, that Parker is using Crabtree to vault himself into the CBA negotiations.

The tampering charge also should be looked at as an attack by the Niners on Parker. You can’t accuse a team tampering with another team’s player without accusing the player’s agent.

Now there are a couple of things to consider. If the Niners do sign Crabtree they potentially have a game-breaking player for the next half decade. He could in the future raise up the Niners’ offense to nicely complement the defense. On the other hand, there is probably a lot of buyer’s remorse. This is an awful lot of trouble for one player and people have to wonder if he really is a “diva” and will hurt the team.

Throughout this mess Crabtree has remained silent. All the noise has come from his posse (Deion, his cousin) or indirectly from Parker. All the things that fans hate him for really aren’t things he’s done. So the Niners may ultimately feel that when he finally comes in from the cold that he’ll be worth it.

But Parker continues the war when there’s nothing more to gain. Parker is hurting the Niners. And with every day he’s hurting Crabtree. And the Niners now want to hurt Parker. That’s what’s happening now. It’s becoming personal.

If crabtree even has the so called “itch” to play? It doesn’t seem that way seems like he loves to sit on the couch and watch sportcenter and every analyst rip him saying he’s dumb. If I was him I would listen to all the advice Jerry Rice, and Steve Young, and every other analyst is saying and tell my agent what’s going on here ur making me look like a fool just for a couple extra million that I probably already lost for sitting out this long anyway! At least meet with Jed York face to face and don’t ignore him jeez.