We've got some more numbers with the Crabtree deal.  Profootballtalk.com gives us this breakdown.

More details are emerging regarding the contract signed on Wednesday by 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree.

Adam Schefter of ESPN has reported that Crabtree's contract represents over the first five years a 72-percent increase over the deal signed in 2008 by the tenth overall pick in the draft, Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo (which, frankly, says more about the quality of Mayo's de... Read More

1 comments View Entry

Want to know how poorly the entire holdout turned out for Crabtree?  Eugene Parker, Crabtree's agent, did not attend the press conference.  If the deal that got hammered out was the great coup that Parker had envisioned at the start of the whole process, you don't think he would have been there beaming?!  But is there any doubt that at this presser, Parker would have been absolutely, positively grilled about a holdout that, at the end of the day, yielded nothing?  N... Read More

1 comments View Entry

From profootballtalk.com

In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.

And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.

Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.

So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent.&nb... Read More

2 comments View Entry

Should I be thrilled to death that the 9ers finally signed their first-round draft pick?  I'm not really feeling it, I must admit.  I guess it's good that we signed him.  Early word is that the contract has alot of fluff incentives.  Does that mean that Eugene Parker can stand up there and say that he broke the ladder system or he just tries save face with this year's crop of potential clients?  

According to the John Crumpacker at the San Francisco Chro... Read More

1 comments View Entry

Well, well, well.  ESPN.com is reporting that Crabtree hopped on a plane in Tampa and returned to the Bay Area.  And his agent, the world's best, Eugene Parker, is expected to show up tomorrow. 

so I guess Deon Sanders is involved, just like it has been suspected all along.  Nice job NFL, letting one of your employees shill on air for his former agent all this time.

1 comments View Entry