Hour 3 - Ravens & Maxx Crosby No-Deal, Breen On Knicks Issues, WBC Highlights & Thoughts
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It's the Boomer in Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, 8.04, our number three, the Boomer in Geo program on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Coming to you live from the Built Forward Tough Studio, Willie in New York. I am in the traveling Built Forward Tough Studio. In Chicago, as I am with Rutgers, who won last night as they beat Minnesota as they advance to tonight's third round of the Big Ten tournament. I want to get to the baseball in a moment, Willie, but just because we were on the football and kind of wrap up that conversation, the... Baltimore Ravens, and I know CeeLo's going to have audio coming up in just a little while of their GM talking about the way things kind of shook down. But this reminds me, whether it was his fault or not, with this whole Max Crosby situation, it reminds me of Costanza from Seinfeld quitting because he really wanted out of Vegas and kind of pushed his way out, which is why and what kind of started the trade situation.
It reminds me of Costanza quitting. And then showing up a few days later, I'm back, baby, and I never left. It's a very, very odd situation. And then you look at all the money the Raiders basically spent in free agency. I think they can fit him if he stays, but that's got to be a weird spot to be walking back in that building today, no?
Yeah, it's weird because I think as you mentioned earlier, last week he was saying his goodbyes and it seemed like he was ready to close the chapter and walk into a new one in Baltimore. I'm still scratching my head how we got here and how did the Baltimore Ravens land Trey Hendricks? Because you got to understand this, Jerry, he's a 31-year-old. edge rusher right who was limited seven games due to a core injury who by the way um isn't the best run defender right like so and then you let go of max crosby who's younger at 29 who's a better run defender and who we don't know the severity severity of the knee right but this is what i do know the man has played over 6 000 snaps in his career um if this knee was an issue, was willing to finish out the season.
We forget the Raiders had to put him on the bench because the man wanted to play. So I think the knee wasn't as bad as we think, but we also aren't doctors and we didn't check out any MRIs. Nevertheless, man, we do know whatever the recovery time was, you know, he was going to – because of his makeup and his character, he was going to put all his chips into that and he was going to be ready to go and be ready for week one for the Baltimore Ravens. Now, I think the Ravens looked at this roster and they realized – One, they lost Lindenbaum, who they expected to give them a hometown discount. Didn't happen. He goes to the Raiders.
Why did the Ravens back out of the Maxx Crosby trade?
Two, people forget they paid Matt Abiqua, their star defensive tackle, a lot of money. He may be retiring because he's dealing with a neck injury, right? And they don't know what's the state of his future. And they lost Kyle Vannoy to free agency. They lost Likely. They lost their big-time fullback to the Giants. And their coach. And their coach, right? The caveat to it all, with all those deficiencies, they lost those two first-round picks because of Max Crosby. So Eric DaCosta would never say it, but he had cold feet. He was like, oh, we can't do this. They chose the medical situation as an out because I think they realized with the current roster, even with Max Crosby, they weren't going to be competitive to –
possibly land into the playoffs or win the division. Think about it. They don't have a number one receiver. Zay Flowers is technically their number one receiver. So they need a lot of pieces. They need more help. And even with the roster they had going into this year, there was a belief that with the roster they had this year, they could win a Super Bowl. Obviously, that didn't happen. And so I think Eric Dacosta said, whoa, we got to rethink this thing. And if you're Max Crosby, you know, I don't know if this is a blessing in disguise. But I do know the Raiders have done a good job thus far of putting veteran pieces on that defense that can stabilize that defense.
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