has Michael Crabtree lost his mind?............

[99jc]

http://sports.yahoo.com/n...;prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Crabtree is threatening to sit out the 2009 season by negotiating off mock drafts which didn't occur rather than the real one that did.

Crabtree has decided that he shouldn't have to be paid less because - based on all the made-up, predicted drafts - Al Davis made a mistake. He wants to be paid more than Heyward-Bey, demanding his contract reflect that it was actually he who was the higher selected receiver.</p>

It's a ground-breaking, if intellectually bankrupt, concept.</p>

 

[ckDOG]

17 him. I hope he sits out the year and breaks both of his legs.

 

[jmbeck]

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[hatfieldms]

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[Optimus Prime 4]

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[Oxford Godfrey]

They deserve what they get.

 

[hullabaloodog]

But, Heyward Bey didn't deserve Heward Bey money.

 

[patdog]

nm

 

[Shmuley]

and y'all can run some madden 2010 simulations for your agent to use in negotiations!

 

[38843dawg]

when his actual agent heard the news, he said that it the news comes as a shock to him, becuase he hasn't heard nothing of it. Sounds like he is bigger dumbass than I already thought if he is making his "advisor" his cousin. Never good to mix family members into your financial success.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

It happens a lot. Same thing as a fifth rounder in baseball asking for first round money.

 

[rebelrouseri]

After all he got this sweetheart deal for Ricky Williams: master p say be a man

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Paid by the Yard</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1">

The most important incentive in the first four years of Ricky Williams's performance-driven contract gives him the chance to boost his rock-bottom base salary ($175,000 for 1999) in the following season by reaching any of the lofty rushing totals listed below. But only 15 NFL runners (including just three rookies) have reached the clause's easiest goal, 1,600 yards. What's more, New Orleans hasn't fielded a rusher who gained even 1,000 yards since Dalton Hilliard ran for 1,262 yards in 1989.-David Sabino</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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Players to Reach the Plateau</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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15</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

25</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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1,800</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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11</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

$1.5 million</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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$2.5 million</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

2,106</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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1</p> </td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">

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[RobbieRandolph]

He hasn't proven anything as an NFL receiver. No one in the top 9 draft slots thought he was good enough, or fit in well enough (almost equally as important on pro rosters) to draft him. He should get slot money.

 

[msudawg12]

coming off that injury and having proved nothing. It bothers me that these rookies have the power they have. If they truly want to reform the sport and calm all this ******** down the nfl and players unions should just agree to stepped contract prices based on position and place taken in draft and just get past all this ********

 

[patdog]

There are a lot more variables there (signability, class year, etc.). It's not uncommon at all for a baseball player to be drafted much lower (or not even drafted at all) than he otherwise would be just because of signability issues. Also, if the player drafted is a college SR, he's going to get shafted on his bonus no matter where he's drafted. None of those come into play in the NFL draft.

 

[ckDOG]

Plus, you have a salary cap in NFL. It's already bad enough that you have to sign these guys for 6 years with a good chunk of the contract guaranteed. It's taking $$$ out of the hands of proven veterans, who deserve it, and putting it into the hands of an unproven rookie. If you are going to have a cap environment, you might as well be like the NBA and set the going rate for draft positions and cut down the contract length to two or three years.