Crabtree wants #5 money and was drafted #9. The Jets have made big mistakes in the past upsetting the slotting system. One of the reasons they are hated. I can't see them doing it again.
Because if the NFL is going to pick a team to hold a conspiracy grudge against, it's the one whole plays in the nation's biggest market and who won that Super Bowl that hastened the merger that basically turned the league into the juggernaut of American sports.
Wow, you didn't see it with spygate? Do you live under a rock? What do you think would have happened if the roles were reversed? And yes they are hated because they forced the merger to happen. The NFL wanted no part of the AFL and the money that is made today would be split among 14 or 16 teams instead of 30.
What do you think all those bad draft picks were all these years? They forced us to take them or else we would of had 7 SBs.
Yeah, because when 10 year old Roger Goodell was watching Super Bowl III, he took out his Crayolas and wrote his manifesto/plan to one day assume power and punish the Jets for what they had done. Amendment: Not to mention that the money made today wouldn't be made with only 14 or 16 teams. I don't want to keep arguing this too hard because I'm so disillusioned by all the good idiots turning out to be trolls, but my goodness you are wrong.
So in reading this it sounds like Sanders is Crabtree's shill. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/09/04/deion-wades-into-the-crabtree-fiasco/
We already have big money invested in a #6 (Gholston) and a #5 (Sanchez)... I don't think we'll invest top #5 money on another rookie so soon, especially considering we nned to rework some contracts (Leon, Mangold, D'brick)
I could be mistaken or confusing this with something else, but it was my understanding that if a 2009 draft pick was not signed by a certain date in August (the 14th maybe?) he could not be traded. If so, Crabtree's only options would be to sign with SF or sit out the year.
You are correct. From the PFT link, "As host Rich Eisen astutely pointed out in response, the window on trading Crabtree has closed. And, as we recently explained for SportingNews.com, by the time that window re-opens, a team would have to pay Crabtree out of a 2010 rookie pool number that gets no deeper to account for the presence of a holdover from 2009."
Must have been deleted because it's not there now. Actually I guess some of it is. Too bad there wasn't a link to the whole thing.