what damn dumbass. I think Craptree shouldnt get paid jack shit just cus he is whining like a bitch. With Coffee working his ass off as well as Davis, Craptree is sitting on his ass waiting on money. Then Fck him. I say let his pansy ass holdout and see what team takes him next year. Piece of worhtles shit. Definitely a waste of a third round. Watch him fail us. e obviously dont give a shit about the game. We dont want pansies like that on our team especially after his pansy ass cried when Big Mike Sing cussed the shit outta him. Craptree. His name says he performance he’s gonna put up. Another bust and crappy player that prolly is gna end up sucking more that Darrrius Heyward-Bey. Good Job Al. You ended up being the smart one afterall.

I am just as frusterated as the next niner fan to see Crabtree holdout , but you guys sound like a bunch of illiterate punks.

Crabtrees Cousin: I understand we drop certain puncuation and spelling while typing, but this is getting rediculous. Do YOU even understand what you are saying?!?!

Omari: Knowone???? not only did you use this word, but you used it twice.

Go Niners!

“Some people just float through life blissfully unaware of their own ignorance”

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Your a tool.

I hope cashtree and his family have fun falling to about the 5th to 6th round in next years draft….cashtree has to be the most selfish, greedy, unproven, punk…..cashtree is the final nail in the coffin to put a rookie payscale in place…..AS a 9er fan, and former crabtree fan, i hope we dont see a #15 jersey hit the field…..

Goodbye Mike.

This is laughable. I’m a lifelong Niner fan and this stooge (Crabtree) is the goon of the league.

Crabtree is a solid player who was given some really lousy guidance. He is making a big mistake and will pay dearly for it the longer he holds out for the cash.

As a Seahawks fan: 1. I am glad we didn’t draft him and 2. The 9ers will be tough enough. Glad our old and slow secondary doesn’t have to try to keep up with him.

I agree with the anti crabtree 49er faithful… The 9ers or even the NFL , doesn’t need a greedy self righteous player like Crabtree in it… I hope n’ pray that they say hell with him n’ either give willis his fat contract , that he deserves or even sign a WR like Harrison or even Galloway…

I , like many others , was excited when we got him in the draft n’ even had him as my fantasy team WR…

But after all this BS , I dropped him like a bad habit n’ kicked his sorry ass to the curb…

Enjoy life at the bottom , Crabtree , cause you’ll never make it to the top…

I just want to know what he’s thinking. It just does’nt make sense. It’s the money!! Ah genius…hmm? I don’t dislike M.C., but I feel he’s hurting the team.

Swap him for Seymour.

The best comment made on this site was by Dan. Crabtree is a talented player who is getting REALLY bad advice. I wish he could have been lining up for my team… the Texans across from Andre Johnson.

Most of the post’s I’ve read seem to be by those who never played high school football… much less college. The teams I coach kick punks with dirty mouth out of the locker room. (State Champs)

When Crabtree signs… I plan to buy a 49ers hat.

He must be a first class dummy. He hasn’t done squat and wants to take any chance the team has of building a perennial winner by getting more than he deserves given his draft spot. Waiting a year will only cause more teams to take a pass. Crabtree needs to do 3 things the first is to tell his cousin to find a job that doesn’t include being a parasite to hus career, the second is to fire Parker\hire a new agent and third is sign the deal, claim that he put the negotiations in the hands of others and get his a$$ on the field.

In 1995, Parker negotiated Deion Sanders’ lucrative seven year, 35 million dollar contract, with a 13 million dollar signing bonus,
According to the Cincinnati Business Courier, “In plain English, it means Sanders and his agent, Eugene Parker, are every bit as good — if not better — than the reigning kings of salary cap circumvention, the San Francisco 49ers.”
In 2004 he negotiated a six year deal worth $60 million for wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, making Larry the highest paid rookie in the NFL ever
Fitzgerald left the University of Pittsburgh after a tremendous year in which he caught 92 passes for 1,672 yards and 22 TDs
Crabtree finished his freshman season with 134 receptions, 1,962 yards and 22 TDs.
Crabtree finihed his sophmore season with 97 receptions 1,165 yards and 19 TD’s
This is a knockdown drag out fight that has nothing to do with Draft position.

Two days after San Francisco 49ers team president Jed York opened the door for a détente with unsigned NFL draft pick Michael Crabtree(notes), the standoff still lingers between the team and agent Eugene Parker. And as the clock ticks, the lack of sympathy from the rest of the NFL only becomes more apparent.

On the heels of York’s offer, Yahoo! Sports reached out to highly placed personnel men from seven NFL teams, polling them on whether they’d support the establishment of draft pick protection. Crabtree has become the fourth top-10 pick in the past eight years to hold out into the regular season. Cornerback Quentin Jammer signed with the San Diego Chargers after the team’s week 1 game in 2002. Offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie didn’t sign with the Minnesota Vikings until Nov. 1 that same year. And quarterback Marcus Russell missed the season opener for the Oakland Raiders in 2007. So a simple question was posed: In light of threats about Crabtree re-entering the draft in 2010, would personnel men be in favor of adopting some form of Major League Baseball’s practice, which awards an additional draft choice to franchises which failed to sign a first- or second-round pick the previous year.

The answer? A resounding no, with all seven men coming out strongly against the idea.

“We shouldn’t become a league that rewards failure,” said one NFC North executive. “Why would I want to end up with a lower pick in [a subsequent] draft because another team couldn’t sign a player? … We’ve had very, very few [holdouts] like Crabtree, and fewer times where a player actually went back into a draft.”

The last first-rounder to sit out an entire season was Kelly Stouffer, drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals) with the sixth pick in 1987. The former Colorado State quarterback had his rights traded following the season to the Seattle Seahawks, where he spent five seasons.

“If you can’t find a way to sign a draft choice, it puts you in some bad company,” the aforementioned NFC executive said. “Somewhere along the way, you really [messed] up.”

Asked if that was meant to be a poke at the 49ers, he replied: “Read your history. Things like this are never one-sided.”

He wasn’t alone in that cynicism. While public and media sentiment have been overwhelmingly against Crabtree and Parker, all seven executives agreed the impasse marks a significant failure by the 49ers, too. While second-guessing is easy in hindsight, it didn’t stop some from suggesting that they saw a nasty impasse coming as soon as Crabtree slipped out of the top five and then had Oakland’s Darrius Heyward-Bey(notes) selected in front of him at No. 7 – particularly considering Crabtree was represented by Parker, who has a history of holdouts with draft picks.

“[Crabtree] didn’t even work out for teams, and he still had it in his mind that he was the best player in the draft,” the NFC North executive said. “People were in his ear telling him that from jump street. Honestly, I thought it could have been a problem if Seattle would have taken him [at No. 4]. Then they would have been asking for No. 1 money.”

Added an NFC general manager: “He was represented by Eugene Parker. That was kind of a giveaway right there.”

That lack of compassion appeared to be the foundation of why executives weren’t receptive to the idea of pick protection. As a fraternity, many executives subscribe to an every-man-for-himself attitude – feeling that when it comes down to business, it’s up to you to protect yourself. It can sound like a cold philosophy, but it is a distrust that stems from dramatically spiking rookie salaries inside the draft’s top 10 choices, and a finger-wagging nature that often ensues after teams sign what are considered to be “bad deals.”

The New York Jets, for example, continue to be heavily criticized amongst other front offices, largely because they have a history of lavishing contracts that were considered too favorable or “over slot” to rookies. Three Jets contracts in particular – Dewayne Robertson(notes) in 2003, Darrelle Revis(notes) in 2007 and Vernon Gholston(notes) in 2008 – have all been consistently lamented as bad deals in many other personnel departments. And by extension, such deals have fostered a belief amongst many executives that other teams can’t be trusted to make good decisions and negotiate solid deals.

“Sometimes the teams negotiating are just as much at fault as the agent,” an AFC executive said. “Conceptually, [pick protection] is a fair idea if the agent is holding an unfair gun to the head of the club. But the reality becomes, how do you determine that? Because there are some clubs that do some stupid [stuff] and aren’t negotiating in good faith. The bad faith negotiating happens on both sides of the ball. To me, the bigger problem lays in what has happened historically. This top 10 [financial] mess is a top-10 mess because agents have squeezed teams and teams have caved. Predecessors with organizations and clubs have had no [guts] whatsoever.”

Another AFC executive echoed those sentiments – that too many teams lack the intestinal fortitude to negotiate correctly.

“It’s spelled out very clearly for both parties,” he said. “If you don’t sign with us, we’re out a player and you can move on with your life. And we’ll give you a timetable of your life as a draft pick. Your money is there now and it will be decreased over time – decreased, decreased and decreased. That’s it. Game on.”

And that’s how many executives feel the 49ers should be conducting themselves now – with a defiant stance that forces Crabtree to follow through with his threat to re-enter the draft. Indeed, some say it’s a decision that should have been made before Crabtree was even selected at No. 10. Once he was available to San Francisco at that pick, executives suggest the franchise should have been prepared to make one of three decisions: draft him and walk away if he wouldn’t sign for No. 10 money, draft him and overpay him, or pass on him and select another player.

“Part of the art of the draft is making sure you pick the right guy,” the aforementioned NFC general manager said. “You owe it to the owner and the organization to pick the right guy in the right situation. Traditionalists are going to look at [Crabtree and his agent] and say ‘You should have known with this guy.’ … Just because he’s the best player on the board at the time you pick, you can’t just throw caution to the wind and say ‘well, we’ll be the one to change him.’ ”

OMG!!! Check out the headlines! Crabtree just signed a contract years 18 million guaranteed 28 million over the years with the niners.