Andrew Brandt talks Ravens nixing their trade to acquire Maxx Crosby (Hour 2)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This hour is brought to you by Jewel Osco. I've got a responsibility to the Ravens, to this community, to our fans, and to Steve Bishotti to do what we think is best for the club. And that's what we always try to do. Every decision we make is based on this idea.
Why did the Ravens back out of the Maxx Crosby trade?
Is this the best thing for the Ravens? Very, very challenging. Again, I understand how people might maybe from afar would feel that way. Nobody's more upset about this than me. That is Eric DaCosta from his press conference yesterday. He is the GM for the Baltimore Ravens. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. We broadcast live through The Score's Hyundai studios, brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers, and we go to our hotline. That is where we find a guy who I think can help us out with a lot of these questions when it comes to Max Crosby and what happened in Baltimore yesterday. what the process is for the salary cap for a lot of teams right now, how guys are creating space. Andrew Brandt, he is the executive director of sports law at Villanova.
He's an NIL consultant, the author of the Sunday 7 newsletter, host of the Business of Sports podcast, and the former Packers executive and player agent. Thank you so much for joining us, Andrew. Yeah, happy to be with you. It's always a busy time, this time of year. You know, for people in the business of sports, whether it's agents, whether it's team executives, now on the college side, which I'm doing for negotiating player contracts, the busy time of year is when there are no games. So it's counterintuitive to coaches and players, but this is where it all happens, where front offices in the NFL, massage, architect, mold their teams for 26, and it's the busiest week of the year for them. Well, Andrew, the reason I also thought about asking to have you on and we thank you again for joining us was sometimes we just need the nuts and the bolts and the process of how something like this would happen, say, with Max Crosby, where we know he had a meniscal repair injury that he he tended to.
We know that there was a surgery. We know that he wanted out. We know that there was a process as to whether or not he was worth two first-round picks and a player and then obviously the physical. So from an executive standpoint, how does this process go where it gets to the point where it does, where Baltimore decides to pick a different lane? Well, there's agreed-upon trade parameters. They go through it. I mean, I'm sure the Raiders were talking to a bunch of different teams and they got the best offer from the Ravens. But any trade, and this is something that so many people don't truly understand, any trade is contingent on a physical, and every physical is subjective. There's no standard NFL physical.
There's no physical that, say, the Raiders do, and everybody has to abide by it. So every team does its own physical, and this has happened many times. Maybe not so much a trade of this magnitude, but players... are signed. They think in free agency, go take a physical and it's not a pass. We saw this in the NBA last year when the Hornets traded Mark Williams to the Lakers, Lakers sent him back. So it happens. So the Baltimore physical was a fail. And that's kind of the end of story. And then all the, you know, all the media attention on what really happened or they get cold feet or, I just think in these situations you have to take people for their word, which is we're giving up two first-round picks.
It's going to be a very intense and comprehensive physical. And the report back to the GM was it's a fail. And obviously it gets a lot of attention, but these kind of things happen all the time in sports. Well, Andrew, I think you're saying then what I have been thinking, and I do like Eric DeCosta. I think he's been a good GM with what you said. The physicals are subjective. Trades are always contingent upon a physical. Even though Baltimore's getting hammered for this, and there are conspiracy theories out there, did Baltimore do anything wrong? I mean, we don't know all the details, and we don't know the...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:16
2
Why did the Ravens back out of the Maxx Crosby trade?
0:16–9:00
3
What factors influence NFL trade decisions?
9:00–13:17
4
How do physicals impact player trades in the NFL?
13:17–16:03
5
What are the implications of a failed physical for a player?
16:03–18:07
6
How does player valuation affect trade negotiations?
18:07–24:57
7
What are the challenges in managing a team's salary cap?
24:57–41:17
8
How do teams navigate player contracts during the offseason?
41:17–44:07
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