Mike Florio

or a lot less fun than it used to be.

Now you don't want to be labeled a conspiracy theorist.

There was a time where it was kind of cool.

But consider the way this all played out.

And at a minimum, the Ravens got lucky because Trey Hendrickson, if his demands weren't unrealistic and he came into this process wanting a lot more than the market was going to bear.

There was a report from Jonathan Jones of CBS yesterday

that there was a $10 million gap between what Hendrickson wanted and what teams were offering.

It reminded me of one of my good friend's father's favorite sayings, if I could buy you for what you're worth and sell you for what you think you're worth, I'd be very rich.

And if Hendrickson had just been more reasonable, he'd have been gone on Monday.

But because he was being stubborn, he was there, and the Ravens could swoop in and get him for $28 million a year, a million per year less than what Crosby was going to cost them

A renegotiation of the contract.

Crosby was going to be 29 and two first round picks.

They get Hendrickson for 28 and no picks of any kind to be surrendered to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Well, I think plenty of teams are interested if they can pounce on this weakness that the Raiders may now be dealing with because they've gone out and blown their budget on a bunch of free agents.

And reportedly, they're going to honor the agreements.

It'll be interesting to see if one or more of those guys fail their physicals on the way through the door.

But the Raiders could, if they want to, they could call up the agent for Tyler Lindenbaum and say, you know, we made this offer under the...

notion that Max Crosby's $30 million salary for this year was going to be off the books.

Now that it's back, we've got to reconfigure and we're sorry, but we can't proceed with this deal.

The Raiders have every right to do that.