Chapter 1: Why did the Max Crosby trade to the Ravens fall apart?
Max Crosby, this trade to the Ravens falls apart because it's so – the weirdest storyline with this was they sit him out towards the end of the year, and they thought that he was – or Max Crosby thought that they were exaggerating his injury, and then they were sitting him down thinking whatever was going on with him that ended up fracturing a relationship between –
him and the organization, the trust level was going down. And then they end up trading him in part because of the trust level and the relationship being set fire to just to get a trade rejected now because of a physical and medical reasons. And the reason why this is just so complicated and so different. Layered.
Yeah, layered is not only because now Max Crosby has to go somewhere else and the Ravens get the picks back, but these two teams operated in the first couple days of free agency assuming that this trade was done and was going through. It was the one big domino that had to fall and everybody started reacting off it. Yeah.
I mean, so now, like, what are you – it's funny because I saw our guy in the midday, Sean Moresh, say, all right, there was a couple of Ravens that, you know, were – came over to the Giants. And now the Ravens have, you know, more money than they did originally because the league year doesn't open until today. It could, like, last night –
the Ravens go, hey, by the way, you can come back to us because nothing is official Wednesday. We have more money for you. Could they do that with the punter or Isaiah Likely or anybody like that? No. Not at all. But it adds a question I never thought you could ever ask even. I think the one thing, so to back it up, one, this is weird to me because the Ravens knew –
Max Crosby was coming off the surgery table. He had surgery January 7th. So if you're doing an eval on a knee, of course it's not ready. Like, of course not. Now, if you looked under the hood, which does happen, and you realize, like, man, I'm looking at a knee, I'm looking at a couple other things with this knee that may be like, eh.
But today in modern science, guys are able to recover over, come back from anything pretty much. With that said, I also think, that they looked at this roster and they said, uh-oh. I think the biggest thing, the biggest uh-oh with them was they expected Tyler Lindenbaum to stay. Yes. And when they lost Lindenbaum, they realized with the loss of Likely.
I mean, look at Lindenbaum, Isaiah Likely, Charlie Kohler. They've lost some significant guys. Because think about how we viewed the Ravens last year. This was supposed to be a roster that they felt like they could win a Super Bowl with. They were Super Bowl favorites. I mean, they fired John Harbaugh because they thought they needed to take the next step, not because they needed to rebuild. 100%.
So I'm looking at this like when Lindenbaum said, you know what? Because supposedly they offered him $78 million and the Raiders offered him $81 million, right? So what's the difference? $3 million? We get that. But nevertheless, I think they expected Lindenbaum to take a hometown discount. That didn't happen. And then they lost their—they didn't have—they needed help by left guard.
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Chapter 2: What were the implications of the Ravens backing out of the Crosby deal?
So I think they said, our roster can't compete right now in our own division. So we may have to back out of this thing. Yeah, and the Linderbaum thing is exceptionally interesting because it's the Raiders who gave him all the money.
So it's like you're talking about these two teams that were involved in this thinking that they had Max Crosby off the books, which means that now they're not getting two first-round picks for him, that's for sure, and they've got to trade him somewhere, and someone's going to get Max Crosby on a discount. Cowboys. You think the Cowboys, huh? Cowboys are going to get him.
Jerry came out, which I wanted Jerry to make a bigger splash. He's like, we're going to spend more money than we ever did in free agency. Yeah, I mean, there's been nothing. Nothing has happened. So this gives Jerry another opportunity to show up and go get Max Crosby. Yeah, you know, that's something I hadn't thought about. Now Trey Hendricks, by the way. Yeah, Trey Hendricks is probably, yes.
This is like the greatest thing to ever happen to his free agency year. And he's a little older than Max Crosby, Trey Hendricks, but still enough in the tank. And if you're the Baltimore Ravens who have this money to spend now to go get somebody off of a team that's in your division that you know is very good, thus making them weaker and you stronger and blowing them out of the water.
I mean, that seems too good to be true for Baltimore after this thing became a disaster. I mean, there's a couple teams that are still on the desk for a Max Crosby. Buffalo Bills were supposedly high on them. The Eagles were supposedly high on them. The Cowboys. Bears, I heard. Bears were obviously up there. So there's some teams that would say, oh. This is great. This is amazing.
Yeah, and we'll get him healthy, and we don't have to trade two first-round picks because we weren't doing that to begin with, and we'll get him on the team. Red Pocket Mobile fan line brought to you by your new ultimate cell carrier, Red Pocket Mobile, 888-808-1019 for Dan and Belmar. What's going on, Dan? Hey, guys. Good morning. How are you? Great, Dan. What's up? Good. I agree with you guys.
I think this is bad business for the Ravens, and there's going to be some effects from it, whether it's down the road with agents and stuff. But in the short term, do you think it opens up an avenue for the Giants to maybe dump Kayvon Thibodeau to the Ravens?
I mean, if you're the Baltimore Ravens, the first thing you do is you try to sign Trey Hendrickson to a deal that isn't absolutely outrageous. To go from Max Crosby to Kayvon Thibodeau in a trade, to me, is massively disappointing. I'm not a Kayvon Thibodeau guy. I've never seen anybody play football with two bionic arms that he has. I mean, what are those arm braces that he plays with?
And he's someone who's not necessarily healthy either, so... Well, I would imagine, therefore, those are elbow braces. Did he ever suffer? I don't know what his injury report is. His resume, rather. But the two of them? I mean, he looks like he was built in a lab. No, I just don't know how you can play well with those two things. Oh, guys play with them all the time. But two of them?
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Chapter 3: How did the Ravens' roster changes affect their offseason strategy?
You know, he's not him. He just hasn't been able to produce. I was never high on him coming out of Oregon. I've never been a Pac-10 lineman guy. I mean, fifth overall pick, that's the context you need to talk about it in. And he's been, I mean, you draft an edge rusher number five overall. Well, the Ravens need it. They lost Van Noy to free agency. I mean, they have, do you understand?
I think the Ravens realize they're in deep, deep doo-doo. They've lost Lyndon Baum. And by the way, Matt Abiqua, their star nose tackle, he may have to retire because of his neck injury. And on top of that, that now Crosby situation. They look at it like, man, we're in trouble. We're in more trouble. And then on top of Lamar's contract situation.
So they're looking at this like, oh, we got a fire in front of us. Yeah, would you rather have, now the cap situation obviously is a big part of this, but there he is. I mean, Jesus. I mean, he's protecting his elbows. I mean, he looks like he's working on the space station. Yeah.
So if you're the Ravens, would you rather have your two first-round picks and pay Trey Hendrickson than have Max Crosby? 100%. So then maybe they're not as deep a doo-doo as you could have. Well, no, you are because who's your number one receiver? I mean, right now. Is your number one receiver Zay Flowers? Do you think you could win with – No. Right. You lost Isaiah Likely.
You only have Andrews. Like, you need help. And you need help to get younger, and you need help that can have an impact right away. So, yeah, this isn't good for the Ravens.
Well, they're trying to capitalize on the prime years left of Lamar Jackson, and it's just very difficult to do that when you're paying a quarterback that type of money and your cap is being absorbed and you haven't hit on a lot of drafts recently. I think people don't realize how bad this Ravens defense was. They had one of the worst pass defenses in the league.
towards the back end of that season. That's why Malik Willis has gotten a bag. Yeah. Because of how he played against the Ravens. Yeah. That's incredible, by the way. I mean, it really is.
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