Crabtree already playing with fire on his "diva clause"

ehh, 2 days late is better than 5 months late

Originally posted by GEEK:
If Carr and Smith were throwing passes to me, I'd opt to stay home and sit on my ass.

Originally posted by treetrunks:

Originally posted by GEEK:
If Carr and Smith were throwing passes to me, I'd opt to stay home and sit on my ass.

If he shows up and produces on Gameday is all that matters to me, besides, if he doesn't make has clasue then the niners save money.

My response to Gavin is "build lines first" and OL before DL. Once built, you make the QBs, RBs, TEs, and WRs better. Drafting a whiz kid like crabs, who then rewarded us with sitting on the bench while Oher started and was a very good OT by the end of the yr, and will be for the next 10 yrs, you tell me who was the better pick, crabs or oher. From my vantage, Oher should have been it , hands down. IN any event, they have a great 10 yr OT, and we have a hot/cold circus catch/stonehands half season wonder at WR. Seriously, you all don't think we got the better of the two players for a team with only ONE bonafide starting OL? Do you?

Guys, this isn't about his attendance. It's about legit concerns that Crabgreed could become a pain if/when his salaries escalators don't kick in b/c he failed to participate in 90% of the offseason program. The story isn't part of an ongoiung fued or "hateraid." It's informing the fans (those who care to read instead of blindly react) that Crab is at less than 90% already and it's only his first offseason. It isn't about his participation per se, it's about the danger that his attitude could change when he isn't being paid b/c of his own failure to participate.

All he has to do is show up on 2 more Fridays (make up days) and he will be at 100%. i don't know why some of you guys think he is not going to reach it.

Originally posted by Schulzy:
PFT = football's answer to yellow journalism

Exactly. This was clearly a hit piece by Florio, who hates Crabtree (for some unknown reason...I speculate Crabtree went Tiger Woods on Florio's wife in another life).

I find it hilarious that Florio hates Crabtree, but seems to really trust and respect the word of ERIC MANGINI...who is the genius who coined the "diva" phrase for Crabtree. This is the same Mangini that pisses everyone off he comes in contact with, and has a trail of firings/crocodile tears/sleezy dealings that would make a cheap prostitute blush.

Taking Mangini's word over anybody who has associated with Crabtree and denounced that character assassination....would be....stupid.

Well-done, Florio.

Originally posted by GEEK:
If Carr and Smith were throwing passes to me, I'd opt to stay home and sit on my ass.

That is because you are a geek and not a professional player.

Originally posted by DownSouth:
Guys, this isn't about his attendance. It's about legit concerns that Crabgreed could become a pain if/when his salaries escalators don't kick in b/c he failed to participate in 90% of the offseason program. The story isn't part of an ongoiung fued or "hateraid." It's informing the fans (those who care to read instead of blindly react) that Crab is at less than 90% already and it's only his first offseason. It isn't about his participation per se, it's about the danger that his attitude could change when he isn't being paid b/c of his own failure to participate.

That's like getting arrested and you mad at the judge for sentencing you, but you not mad at yourself for doing the crime. Plus you signed a contract with the judge stating you wouldn't do the crime, and if you did then the judge should punish you.

Originally posted by NattoNiner:

Originally posted by Trajik1:
I don't give a s**t if he misses all the work-outs as long as he's ready for training camp!

s**t, I care. I need him to be ready to roll with the gameplan, if there is any, before training camp. He better not f**k up the routes.

Here's to OTAs....

Forget it buddy, if we have Alex as the starting qb, routes wont matter anyways...

Originally posted by lamontb:

Originally posted by DownSouth:
Guys, this isn't about his attendance. It's about legit concerns that Crabgreed could become a pain if/when his salaries escalators don't kick in b/c he failed to participate in 90% of the offseason program. The story isn't part of an ongoiung fued or "hateraid." It's informing the fans (those who care to read instead of blindly react) that Crab is at less than 90% already and it's only his first offseason. It isn't about his participation per se, it's about the danger that his attitude could change when he isn't being paid b/c of his own failure to participate.

That's like getting arrested and you mad at the judge for sentencing you, but you not mad at yourself for doing the crime. Plus you signed a contract with the judge stating you wouldn't do the crime, and if you did then the judge should punish you.

So, you want to bank on Crabgreed showing good, rational judgment? That idiotic holdout says otherwise.

He's got plenty of time to make up the workout time. One would think after the last offseason, he'd want to put his best foot forward. He's still got plenty of time to do so and other than the first couple of days, he's done what he's supposed to do. As long as he keeps it up, he won't have anything to worry about (in the news or in the pocket book).