
Michael Crabtree who the San Francisco 49ers drafted with the 10th overall pick in the 2009 Draft back in April is still unsigned. The reason the"rookie" remains unsigned is because he is upset with his contract negotiations with the team. You see Crabtree slipped to the Niners to the suprise of everyone when the other Bay Area team, the Oakland Raiders selected Darrius Heyward-Bey over him with their 7th overall pick. Crabtree who was regarded as the best WR in the draft and a top 5 to top 10 pick (which he was #10) wants to be paid as the best WR and a top 5 pick even though even if Oakland would have taken him it wouldve been #7 not top 5 (it aint SanFran or the other 30 teams in the league fault that Oakland over pays all their players). The Raiders have guaranteed Heyward-Bey $23.5mil and Crabtree wants more. It is said that the two parties (the Niners and Crabtree's camp) are more than $10mil apart.
In every Pre-Draft Mock Draft Michael Crabtree was assumed to be the top WR taken in Aprils draft. He came from the well-known high passing offensive of Texas Tech and caught the game-winning catch as time expired against then undefeated and #1 ranked Texas. While Darrius Heyward-Bey came from a school mostly known for basketball, Maryland. Meaning although nearly everyone believes Crabtree is the better player only time will truely tell because most of us have either never seen Heyward-Bey play or only seen a very small amount of times compared to Crabtree who you could see just about every week on ABC or ESPN Nationwide.
It has now come out that Michael is prepared to sit out the entire 2009 season and re-enter the draft in 2010. It is not the first time a player has threaten this but I hope the two sides can come to some sort of agreement where that does not happen. Even though Ive never been a Tech fan and I hated Crabtree all the way up to the draft because of what he did to my
Longhorns, I do know the tremendous talent he possesses and I do want to see him in the league this upcoming season with a franchise that I have the utmost respect for in the 49ers (their also the team Im running my Franchise with on Madden so come on homie stop trippin Ill make you an All Pro and youll get your money.... on my game at least). But TRILL TALK I just dont really think its a smart decision for him to sit out the whole season. My advice would be to just ask for a shorter contract meaning less years than he is expected to sign for as the teams first overall pick. That way he can get out there show his worth and then earn even more money quicker than Heyward-Bey or any of the pther first round pick. Its called beating the system baby! Find a loophole because you might think you would be winning by sitting out but really what good would that do you, you'd loose an entire year of playing, you might slide down to #10 again or maybe even worse, and the biggest thing if you slide down and your picked by San Fran again who won then. THINK ABOUT IT!!!
Signing out DaKING, Jody-Jo.....YEZZIR!!! BALEE-DAT
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