Originally posted by MadDog49er:
Originally posted by LA9erFan:
Originally posted by MadDog49er:
If you read the article by Brandt, someone agrees with me. An expert in the cap.
Only because you've shifted the paradigm.
All along, you asserted that Crabtree deserved a contract that was outside of his slotted position, that the 49ers were being obtuse in attempting to maintain the slot while dealing with a player in a "unique" situation like Crabtree, and that he deserved to make more money than DHB. You also asserted that Parker would be able to achieve these means, or close to them, by taking advantage of an inexperienced and inept 49er front office.
By those standards, which are the standards that YOU have been espousing all along, Parker fell well short, and the Niners came out the clear victors.
Brandt properly points out that this contract is reasonable for both sides (within the context of an unreasonable rookie structure), yet he hasn't established the false paradigm that you have over the last couple of months, using DHB as the measuring stick. You're now using nebulous phrases like "unique contract" (whatever that means) to point toward you being right all along.
You can always claim to be right if you shift your standards after the fact, which is exactly what you've done.
The first part of your paragraph is correct (if this isn't a unique contract and unique situation, then what is?), but I never stated that Parker would achieve numbers beyond DHB. Let's be fair.
Yes, let's be fair.
I said that you've asserted that Parker would be able to achieve these means,
or close to them, by taking advantage of an inexperienced and inept 49er front office.
This provides the opportunity for discretion. By no reasonable measure does Crabtree's contract approach anywhere near what DHB got. In fact, we're comparing him to Raji's contract, and he still falls short. And DHB was a measuring stick that you used on multiple occasions.
Furthermore, I'd guess that the gains that Parker did achieve were capable of being attained all along, had he just approached the bargaining table. The Niner offer was their baseline proposal, Parker counters, Niners re-counter, etc.
The holdout accomplished nothing that normal negotiations couldn't have 2 months ago, and the terms of Crabtree's deal (in relation to other picks) bears that out. So by virtue of Parker "getting on the plane", he did make more money for his client...but he could have gotten on that same plane 2 months ago.