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“MichaelThe word on the street is that the San Francisco 49ers will drop the tampering charges it filed against the New York Jets over rookie wide receiver Michael Crabtree(notes), according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The 49ers were negotiating with first-round pick/contract holdout Crabtree in September and former player Deion Sanders disrupted the ship when he said publicly that the Jets (and another unnamed team) would pay Crabtree the sum he was desiring. The 49ers filed a complaint pretty quickly after that.

Jets coach Rex Ryan denied the charges at the time and the world will never know exactly what went down since the 49ers are apparently set to drop the charges. Guess they finally are feeling confident in the six-year deal the team signed with Crabtree, who has had 22 catches for 292 yards since early October.

Source: San Jose Mercury NewsNew Window

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  1. park
    1. Posted by park Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:52 am EST

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    Who Gives a $hit!
  2. brian b
    2. Posted by brian b Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:13 am EST

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    crabtree is a stud. [profane] you Al.
  3. Great Year Jets, GL Next Year!
    3. Posted by Great Year Jets, GL Next Year! Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:20 am EST

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    The biggest mistake I see the Jets doing this off season was letting the old man walk to the Vikes. 20-3, 9-1 Absolutely this year's MVP is playing for the Vikes right now, the Jets were a QB away from one hell of a season! Too bad Sanchez will never be a good let alone a top end QB!
  4. Artist formerly known as Evil Empire!
    4. Posted by Artist formerly known as Evil Empire! Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:28 am EST

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    Of course they dropped it..there was nothing there.
  5. brian b
    5. Posted by brian b Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:38 am EST

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    Umm you can't say god followed by the word damn on here. Jesus Christ Yahoo. I agree with MIchael J. They got rid of a hall of famer for a bust.
  6. RULE !!!!!!
    6. Posted by RULE !!!!!! Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:23 am EST

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    stupid. why drop it. Its not like they have to do any investigating. why not just let the NFL make a decision and if the get something out of it. Its a win, and if they don't its OK since they got crabtree. It makes no sense. But I will say, I called it two weeks before the actually signed crabtree. I knew they would drop it after they eventually signed him. Figured it would be a contigent on the signing. Since there is a relationship with parker, Primetime and crabass.
  7. NorCalJon
    7. Posted by NorCalJon Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:04 pm EST

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    brian b #2.. no stresses, the dude (Al) can't live forever. You guys have some homers, but you also have some truly dedicated fans... hang in there.
    Artist #4
    Good morning sir! This is purely speculation, but the Niners wanted to make Crabtree difficult to draft if he had sat out the season. The Jets were probably the easiest team to trump charges against thanks to Deion's comments, thus becoming the Niners "Patsy." Any team that considered drafting him (including the Jets) would be under suspicion of tampering during the Niners earlier negotiation attempts, and most likely would have backed off. This was a battle of Niners vs. Crabtree (and agent) and the tampering charges were the weapon of choice.
  8. Steve T
    8. Posted by Steve T Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:41 pm EST

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    To park (post #1): Who gives a ****? How about any owner of a pro sports franchise trying to sign a player and there is evidence that another team could be tampering in order to influence that player to refuse to sign with the team negotiating him. Too difficult for you to understand? Maybe you should spend time on the food channel instead of polluting the Internet with your garbage comments.
  9. www.LSm.org
    9. Posted by www.LSm.org Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:14 pm EST

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    who care, if they still make last of Nfl team again
  10. RC
    10. Posted by RC Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:09 pm EST

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    The Jets didn't let Favre go, he didn't want to be here in the first place. He agreed to come to the Jets because if he didn't he would look like an idiot for saying all he wanted to do is play football and then not go to a team where he could play. His idea was to play with the Jets for a year, retire then unretire and go play for Minnesota. It worked great for the spoiled brat Favre. Personally i hope someone tackles the brat so hard they snap his arm in two!
  11. Judge
    11. Posted by Judge Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:54 pm EST

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    Exactly RC, Favre wasn't going to play another year for the Jets, he would have just retired.
  12. Tabb
    12. Posted by Tabb Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:21 pm EST

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    I wonder how much $$$ the Jets had to pony up to get the Niners to drop the charges? I guess we'll never know.
  13. Karen
    13. Posted by Karen Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:55 am EST

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    wow
  14. Scooter
    14. Posted by Scooter Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:27 am EST

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    Good to see Deion Sanders is still a dumb ass.

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