Crabtree Re-Enter Draft

**Ball_Hawks** · 08-06-2009, 01:30 PM

**Texecutioner** · 08-06-2009, 01:37 PM

That's pathetic. Sign a reasonable contract to where you were drafted. You haven't done **** in this league and stop acting like a pre-madonna. And plus, how is that going to help him for next season??????? What team is going to take him that high next year and give him all of that money after missing a year, and especially after seeing what kind of trouble he may become down the line? Him sitting a year out would only make things much worse for him where he would make less money.

I mentioned character issues with Crabtree last season though, and no one really wanted to listen. I heard a lot of stuff about the guy from my buddy's little brother that went to TT last season and saw the guy around campus all the time and knew a lot of people that dealt with Crabtree. He's not a bright young dude at all.

**Parrish** · 08-06-2009, 01:43 PM

It won't happen, it's from PFT or PFW anyways.

**Dreamers** · 08-06-2009, 01:46 PM

I'd laugh if that happened. His injury was bound to have him falling a little so he should not get top 3 money. Considering Crabby will likely not be able to play his 1st year I'm not sure if he holds any of the cards on this one. Then if he thinks he will be a 1st rounder next year he needs to think again. Next year will be stacked with good WRs and teams are not likely to jump on a guy that refuses to sign. Just ask Bo Jackson how that went.

**Ball_Hawks** · 08-06-2009, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Parrish

It won't happen, it's from PFT or PFW anyways.

Espn is reporting this also.

Adviser: San Francisco 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree ready to sit out, re-enter draft in 2010 - ESPN

**|(evin|(olb|(ritik** · 08-06-2009, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamers

Just ask Bo Jackson how that went.

In all fairness Bo's situation was dramatically different.

Bo Jackson refused to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because they wouldn't allow him to play professional baseball and football simultaneously. When Bo re-entered the draft there was a Michael Vick'esque reaction to the guy, teams who could use him and who loved his talent absolutely refused to even consider taking the guy because they didn't want him to play baseball. As far as we know, the only owner in football who wasn't worried about the baseball thing was Al Davis, and even Davis recognized that you couldn't take a guy who wasn't 100% comitted to the sport in a high round.

**Texecutioner** · 08-06-2009, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by O Doyle

In all fairness Bo's situation was dramatically different.

Bo Jackson refused to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because they wouldn't allow him to play professional baseball and football simultaneously. When Bo re-entered the draft there was a Michael Vick'esque reaction to the guy, teams who could use him and who loved his talent absolutely refused to even consider taking the guy because they didn't want him to play baseball. As far as we know, the only owner in football who wasn't worried about the baseball thing was Al Davis, and even Davis recognized that you couldn't take a guy who wasn't 100% comitted to the sport in a high round.

Exactly. Bo was just a tremendous athlete in both sports and was sort of a special case at the time.

This is was different and Crabtree's living in in fantasy land here. He thinks that because he feels that he's a much better WR than Heyward Bey, that he's supposed to get paid all of this extra cash that doesn't fit where he was drafted and he's pretty dilusional to think that way. I'm pretty sure he'll get signed at some point but this looks like it will be one of those long dragged out disputes where he probably doesn't sign until pre season somewhere and he won't get a lot of playing time and he won't be in line with the play book, and with Singletary as a coach, that won't help matters with him at all. If Crabtree wants to be a diva, then he'll learn a real hard lesson early on when Singletary brings him back to earth in a "tough love" type of fascion.

Now if he were to sit out the season and go into next year's draft he'll have buyer beware written all over him, and he'll make less money and probably a significant amount less as well. He'd be one of the dumbest guys in the last 10 years of the draft if he were to do that, but I'm pretty sure he'll sign at some point but just not for a while.

What this does mean, though that Crabtree won't be any real factor this season.

**Hawkeye** · 08-06-2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamers

Just ask Bo Jackson how that went.

Bo's first love was baseball, so when TB wouldn't let him do both, he signed with the KC Royals.

The next year he was drafted in the 7th round by Al Davis and paid starter money to play football part-time.....so I'd say it worked out very well for him.