With New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie moving his war with words on the union toward some of the reps from opposing teams, it’s time to wonder what team outside the Jets would even consider bidding on his services.

Cromartie has proven in the past he is cancer for public relations and he’s doing his best to prove that again.

A player who takes it upon himself to step up to a microphone or let his fingers offend and assault, recently hit his keyboard and Tweeted, “You got our head union rep acting like an asshole. They got their guys acting like a-holes. So they just need to get their shit together and just get it done.”

Realizing how hurtful communications like that could be in a difficult negotiation period, Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck who is one of his team’s union reps wrote back on Twitter:

“Somebody ask Cromartie if he knows what CBA stands for.”

Cromartie who sometimes reacts like a man relying on two brain cells fired back:

“hey Matt if u have something to then say it be a man about it. Don’t erase it. I will smash ur face in.”

I will smash your face in? That is not only a direct threat that falls under the definition for “assault” last time I looked but it also verifies non-uniformity for the players; but Cromartie doesn’t appear to be smart enough to figure that out.

Hasslebeck should not have Tweeted back the crack about what CBA stands for but you have to seriously wonder if Cromartie knew what the acronym did represent. . . or even what an “acronym” is, seriously.

Hasselbeck apologized back to his union bro writing: “Sorry for the joke man. No hard feelings. DB’s & QB’s have a hard time getting along I guess sometimes. lol””

As you might imagine there was no apology back from Cromartie who is developing a reputation that is surely to cost the player a ton of cash in his upcoming new contract negotiations.

If anyone can’t afford to come up shorter in a contract it’s Cromartie who was said to have received a front from the Jets in March 2010 for $500,000 to help cover the back child support payments that go to some of the nine children he fathered with eight different women in six different states. With the Jets needing to restructure his contract to keep him out of legal trouble with some of these women, what will happen to Cromartie if and when his paychecks come to a halt with a lockout.

While some are praising Cromartie for “wanting to play” others are realizing it may be more of a selfish reason that the player is suddenly so interested in the union and league’s contract. In reality, wanting a quick deal under any circumstances is a selfish stance to take. The NFLPA has an obligation to represent well over a thousand players and not just pacify an individual like Cromartie.

This season is not the first that Cromartie has been a P.R. nightmare on Twitter. Before getting dumped by the San Diego Chargers, he was fined $2,500 for a Tweet he made blaming bad food at the team’s facility for a failing season. Afterward the man with the mouth that runs like a faucet, said: I think I’m going to keep my mouth shut from here on out,” he said. “I ain’t going to say nothing else. I want to make sure I keep everything positive.”

Well it appears that calling Tom Brady, the NFL and his union negotiators all “asshole” and telling one of another team’s union reps he’s going to “smash his face in” is Cromartie’s form of keeping his mouth shut.

Cromartie’s reputation has clearly followed him to New York and chances are it will follow him wherever he goes. That said; how much would you be willing to spend on a guy like this?

I’d like to ask Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder that question after what he just went through with another player that was signed when “questionable character” was ignored.

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