49ers Accuse Jets of Tampering With Michael Crabtree
by John B on Sep 21, 2009 10:02 AM EDT
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The San Francisco 49ers, mired in a contract impasse with first-round draft pick Michael Crabtree, have filed tampering charges with the NFL against the New York Jets, the New York Daily News has reported, citing unnamed sources.
The Jets denied the allegations through a spokesman, the paper reported.
We'll let the NFL figure that one out," Jets coach Rex Ryan said Monday on "Mike and Mike in the Morning" on ESPN Radio. "I think it's ridiculous, personally."
According to the Daily News, specifics of the allegations weren't known.
"I wish we were playing them," Ryan said of the 49ers.
I guess blaming the Jets is the in vogue thing to do for franchises with receiver contract problems. First the Pats in 2006 with Deion Branch. Then the Broncos with Brandon Marshall last month. Now this. We'll have to see how this plays out.
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Crabtree/ Jets tampering
I’ll be very surprised if Godell has the balls to do anything to the JETs or any other team tmpering with Crabtree.
It’s making sense now why this idiot is holding out, not just for $, but for another team.
I guess he is unaware the 49ers have five rings.
Someone needs to clue him in on how many the Jets have.
It’sbeen quite awhile since they won one with Joe Namath.
pretty agressive
To some players who care about the $$$‘s more than anything it’s not about how many rings have been won in the past, it’s about commercial endorsements and raking in the extra $$$‘s while also going to a good team. Now we may not have won a ring for a long time, but we have a good team here, so it’s a little pointless attacking the past to take a look through the tiny window of the future. It’s likely about the $$’s and I have said all along that Crabtree is acting a little like a petulant child here in the negotiating process.
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do teams that accuse other teams of tampering get fined or penalized draft picks if the allegations turn out to be B.S. ?
otherwise what stops teams from alleging tampering all the time?
Frankly I here about this kind of thing way too often and would like to see the teams that throw these accusations around get some sort of penalty if nothing is ever proven
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is done to teams who file charges which turn up to be completely false. I think that’s why a lot of people this morning, not just Jets fans but fans from a lot of other teams are taking these allegations with a pinch of salt.
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checkmate
one phone call record to crabtree’s agent is all that is needed to prove tampering.
that’s what happened to the niners when they got penalized re:bears lance briggs…there was a single phone call entry to briggs agent, drew rosenhaus.
if the niners can show a single phone call entry to his agent, the nfl has to penalize the jets…i’ll bet the odds the tampering charges include just that.
aaaaaaaannnnnnnnndddd....no!
Sorry Charlie but Crabtree’s agent, Eugene Parker, also represents the Jets’ stellar young te, Dustin Kellar. A call or two to him would prove nothing. For the record, I don’t want his ass on the Jets, he’s already a typical prima donna wr, and even hasn’t stepped on a nfl field yet.
LOL I guess blaming the Jets is the in vogue thing to do for franchises with receiver contract problems.
you guess? i wonder why the lions, seahawks etc don’t get blamed. where there is smoke, there is usually a fire. you’re just so numb from having and living the typical new york “i want i want step on anyone” attitude mr editor in chief john b.
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