Practice disputes happen all the time in the NFL. Players don’t like being blocked or hit a spoken to a certain way, and they get pissy. But, rarely does the scuffle result in both men being sent to the locker room with the head coach for a period of time. That’s what happened today at [...]
According to beat writer Jerry McDonald of the Oakland Tribune, the Oakland Raiders first-round pick from a year ago is starting to get it. He says that Darrius Heyward-Bey is looking a lot better than he did last year. “Can’t roll my eyes anymore when Tom Cable tells how much Darrius Heyward-Bey has improved,” McDonald [...]
San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary said that Michael Crabtree will make his season debut on Sunday against the Houston Texans. It’s not shocking that he would start playing finally, but we can’t imagine him as anything more than a fourth wide receiver at this point. Josh Morgan, Isaac Bruce and Brandon Jones would [...]
It’s finally over. The stalemate between Michael Crabtree and the San Francisco 49ers has ended. The Niners and Crabtree have agreed to a six-year deal that voids to a five-year agreement if Crabtree has two or three stellar years. According to PFT, Crabtree could have had this deal in July. Essentially, agent Eugene Parker decided [...]
ESPN’s Adam Schefter predicts that Michael Crabtree will have a deal in place with the San Francisco 49ers by this evening. In response to a concerned fan, he tweets “My prediction – it ends today.” This supports a PFT report that Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were in town to visit the 49ers, who somehow [...]
A source close to the San Francisco 49ers tells Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports that while he doesn’t want Michael Crabtree to miss the entire season, “the kid is weird enough that he just might do it.” Crabtree would be risking a ton by holding out and re-entering the draft next year. There are a [...]
Alvin Keels, the agent for #6-overall pick Andre Smith, will meet with Cincinnati Bengals team officials on Sunday to see if they can get any closer to a resolution that would get Smith signed and into camp. We have a feeling it won’t matter. We all know how stupid Michael Crabtree is being in San [...]
A highly placed league source tells Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News that San Francisco 49ers WR Michael Crabtree won’t sign until just before the season opener on September 13th. Brilliant move. That’s how you get your career off to a rip-roaring start. Nope, the source says that the two sides are too [...]
A league source tells PFT that San Francisco 49ers’ WR Michael Crabtree could sit out the entire 2009 season and re-enter the 2010 draft. Supposedly, agent Eugene Parker hasn’t even made a formal offer to the Niners so it’s tough to tell what he even wants. Now, his cousin is even getting involved, telling people [...]
Ouch! Don’t look for this deal to get done any time soon. Matt Maiocco of the Press Democrat estimates that the San Francisco 49ers and Michael Crabtree are about $8-$10 million apart on guaranteed money on a rookie deal. Wow. That’s a lot. Crabtree is falling farther and farther behind every day and it’s not [...]
According to Matt Maiocco’s Twitter account, nothing has changed with regards to the holdout of Michael Crabtree. “There are no new development in 49ers-Michael Crabtree negotiations. Crabtree hasn’t changed contract demands, and 49ers aren’t budging.” This could get interesting. Crabtree wants to be paid like a top-three pick and the 49ers (correctly) don’t think that’s [...]