Mike Florio

Because the knee could be a problem.

If you have that many doctors looking at this thing after a meniscus repair and having red flags.

And think about what happened here.

Max Crosby was mad when the Raiders finally shut him down at the end of the year with two games left.

He'd been playing all year with this meniscus injury.

And I talked to an orthopedic surgeon last night.

It's going to make it worse.

And it puts stress on other elements of the structure of the knee, this incredibly complicated joint with all these different interconnecting, interlocking

pieces that need to be all working right, for the knee to operate the way it needs to.

So that's really the key.

Will he be good to go?

When will he be good to go?

And if the Bears were interested before, if and when we get to a point

where we know that he's healthy now.

And I would suspect that any physicals that may be conducted in the future by a prospective Max Crosby trade suitor, those are all going to be done very quietly and discreetly and no one's going to know because nobody is going to want to be in this position where they're pulling the plug on a trade and the Raiders don't want it to happen again.

Crosby won't want it to happen again.

So I think that the passage of time

And if he can get healthy, that's the thing that could change everything.

So the Bears just need to monitor.

Anyone that's interested in Max Crosby needs to see how the next few months play out.