Michael Crabtree has become the El Nino of the NFL. That is, he's the guy you point to when things go wrong. Crops failed? It's Michael Crabtree. Mudslide? Michael Crabtree. The latest person to cite the Michael Crabtree effect is Bills first-round draft pick Aaron Maybin, who blames his contract impasse on the fact that Crabtree hasn't signed. Crabtree was the No. 10 pick; Maybin went No. 11. "This Crabtree kid is putting people in this predicament," Maybin's publicist and friend LaVar Arrington (yes, that LaVar Arrington) told the Associated Press. "I just think people's hands are tied until this guy gets around to doing what he's going to do." I'm not defending Crabtree, a guy who apparently has a massively inflated sense of entitlement. But using Arrington's logic, couldn't Crabtree blame his stalled contract on No. 9 pick B.J. Raji, who also has yet to sign?
-- Matt Barrows
