Mike Florio

But that doesn't mean that the players should not be treated as human beings, that they should be given proper treatment, that their families should have proper treatment.

That's one of the categories how teams treat the families of the players.

And you're going to have good teams, you're going to have bad teams.

And the bad teams tend to stay bad.

And the dysfunction starts at the top.

And it's the owners of those teams that don't want to be publicly shamed into trying to spend more money or view their players differently than they do.

Well, now I know what I'm going to be doing for an hour this afternoon because I haven't seen that podcast yet.

Oh, okay.

I will be checking it out.

Max Crosby is dealing with his discontent in Las Vegas so differently than Miles Garrett did last year.

Garrett came out Super Bowl week with this lengthy statement saying, I'm done with the Browns.

And we know what happened.

Cleveland, which it usually does, threw enough money at the problem to solve it, and Garrett stayed there.

And it worked out for him.

He...

Defense Player of the Year and single-season sack record, but the Browns continue to be the Browns.

Crosby, I think...

kept his mouth shut for so long and dealt with the situation in Las Vegas for so long.

I think that they broke him when they shut him down for the last two games of the 2025 regular season with a knee injury that he had been playing through, that he wanted to play through.

They took from him the thing that is most important to him, the ability to go play football with his teammates and to be in that pit of competition.