Mike Sando

I think everybody knew that that's not the case with Max Crosby.

So unless you went in there and found like a crescent wrench that the surgeon left in there, you know, there shouldn't be something that's that surprising about him.

Well, I think you go into it with eyes wide open.

So to me, if you really want a player and you want to do business with the Ravens, that's going to be based on your relationship with them and the trust factor, just like it would be for any deal.

So if you don't have that good relationship with him, maybe you're going to be wary, but you might be anyway.

And so that's why sometimes we see...

teams be trading partners more than once, right?

Maybe Ryan Poles worked with so-and-so in another front office, and he feels great about adding Joe Tooney, right?

He not only was there with them, but he knows the people there.

There's a trust.

The Chiefs aren't going to pull something like that surprising on Ryan Poles, probably, right?

So I think that's the, you know, that's the only effect.

But if someone thinks they can get a good deal from the Ravens, I think they're still going to do it.

Now, maybe you protect yourself better.

Like the Raiders could have insisted on, you know, a physical being done right away.

Let's figure it out.

Make sure you want to do this, right?

Let's lock it in.

And then there's other mechanisms a team can use to put pressure on the other team in terms of how things are announced or put out there to really make it feel a little bit more binding than it is.

Yeah, no, I agree.