Mike Florio

So they're going to proceed.

But they do have a problem now.

And even though they can automatically restructure Max Crosby's contract and reduce the cap number for this year, it's still $30 million in cash.

And these teams all set a budget for each year of the cash they're willing to devote to free agency and to the rest of the roster.

So they've got to go back to Mark Davis and say, hey, that budget that we came up with, we need to add $30 million back into it now if they have to keep him.

And right now...

All indications are, and who knows what to believe because it could be posturing, the Raiders are content to keep him.

Crosby is content to stay, and he may have had like an epiphany.

Hey, I want out, I want out, I want out.

He goes through this experience in Baltimore, and now he comes back.

It's like, you know what, I'll just stay here, and I'm happy with all these guys we've signed.

Maybe we're going to be competitive now.

So he may truly be interested in staying, but this is all part of the pushback to get –

the next team, if there is one, to be more reasonable in what they think they can get him for.

And I look at it this way.

We talked earlier today on PFT Live about whether or not a trade could still happen.

I think it could happen, but maybe it's going to happen once he's able to pass a physical.

Maybe it's going to happen later in the year, maybe even after the draft.

Maybe they still get two first round picks, but it's 27 and 28, not 26 and 27 after the dust settles on a lot of things and after

the doctors of whichever team may be interested in Max Crosby can get a look at not where he is and might be, but where he actually is after months of rehabbing this meniscus repair on his knee, which is usually a three-month injury.