The 49ers weren't informed that Michael Crabtree was flying into the area to negotiate a contract earlier this week. Soon after, San Francisco signed Crabtree to a six-year, $35 million contract. "Well you know, we've had contact since we drafted him. Not every day, not every week, but there's been contact made. You know, the unique thing was, after the game Sunday night, Jed said to me there's word they're flying to town," 49ers general manager Scot McCloughan told KNBR in San Francisco. "Eugene's flying in and Michael's flying in. It was unique because we didn't know about it. We had nothing set up, so they were flying in without us really having anything set up. So we got to Monday morning and got verification that they were in town, got a couple phone calls, got a meeting set up. At noon yesterday, we sat down. Jed, myself, Raag Marathe (chief negotiator Paraag Marathe), Eugene Parker and Michael Crabtree. And we sat there about an hour and talked as a group, then Michael and I went by ourselves for about an hour. And Raag and Eugene met through the night and into the morning and we got stuff ironed out."