Via Ray Ratto at SFGate.com:

So Michael Crabtree isn’t evil. And Eugene Parker isn’t an idiot. They’re just guys playing the percentages in an uttelry amoral industry. Now say you’re sorry to both of them for doubting their acumen.

It is becoming clearer that Crabtree and Parker have had irons in the fire other than the 49ers for some time now, and only a fool thinks that only the New York Jets might be involved in undercutting the 49ers. No other explanation for their contractual intransigence ever made sense, and since the 49ers got caught being clumsier in pursuit of Lance Briggs a year ago, they can’t take the high moral road here now.

No wonder Mike Singletary decided to go with “The league will look into it,” as his sole response to the story from the New York Daily News that the Jets are working Crabtree’s street. He knows what we’ve all suspected for awhile now — that Parker and Crabtree have not been restricted by the take-it-or-leave-it draft rules the NFL finds so heart-warming. They have found the happy medium between a no options and a full-on bidding war, and they’re going to play this for all it’s worth.

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