If it's true, the 49er's deserve the 4-12 record they're going to earn this year.
49ERS POINTED OUT ARRINGTON ERROR?
Word around the league is that agent Carl and Kevin Poston first became aware of the fact that linebacker LaVar Arrington's deal with the Redskins was light to the tune of $6.5 million during negotiations with the 49ers regarding a new contract for linebacker Julian Peterson.
We're hearing that the Postons told the Niners that they wanted for Peterson a deal similar if not identical to the Arrington contract. And when the 49ers reviewed the terms of the Arrington deal with the Postons, the Postons realized that the contract was missing $6.5 million.
Though our opinion was, is, and always will be that the Postons are responsible for the mistake because they didn't read the final version of the Arrington contract, this development tends to lend credence, in a weird sort of a way, to the notion that they genuinely believed that the deal was worth $6.5 million more than it really was.
But whether they believed it remains a far cry from whether the 'Skins scalped them. Based on everything we've heard, our sense remains that the 'Skins are in the right.
But the reality in many cases is that two different people can have two different versions of the same events, and both can genuinely believe that their own version is the true and accurate one. If the Postons first found out about the true terms of the Arrington deal whilst trying to get those same terms for another client, it's possible that they're telling their own inadvertently skewed version of the truth, which of course lacks the benefit 100 percent accuracy because, as they've admitted, they didn't read the final deal.