Austin Bonta

I ran what Glazer said past somebody in a position to know, and I was told, draw your own conclusions.

I don't need to be invited to do that usually, but I did.

I don't think he wants to be there.

Now, there's a way to go about it.

He's choosing not to go flamethrower like Miles Garrett did last year with the Browns, although the Browns ultimately threw enough money at him to get him to change his mind.

I don't think Crosby is going to be swayed by that.

I think he's going to be caught by this principle that he wasn't able to do the thing he loves to do for reasons that seem to be part of an effort by the Raiders to ensure they'd earn money.

earn the number one overall pick in the draft they shut both Crosby and Brock Bowers down for those last two games and they successfully finished at the top of the draft order and obviously the bottom of the league so I think something's going to happen here now he's got the knee injury head surgery on and that's going to take time to heal but I don't know that's going to stop anyone from doing a deal if the Raiders make him available part of the game is to make it look like you don't want to trade him in order to get greater value but if you can get

two, three, four teams at the table, you don't need to act like you're going to keep him.

You can do what the Texans did with Deshaun Watson when they had four teams.

You name your price and you let them battle it out.

So I think it's one of the stories to watch this offseason.

And when you look at it from where the Raiders are right now, by the time they would get to a point where they would be competitive, because I don't think this is a quick turnaround.

This isn't Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.

This is

Clint Kubiak and quarterback TBD with a lot of holes in the roster.

By the time they become competitive, we're going to be close to the end, if not past the end, of Max Crosby's prime.

Sell high, get what you can for him now, and then try to use those draft picks to build a contending team.

I'm with you on that, Mike.

I'm so glad we get to talk to you now that the NFL season is finally in the books.