Andrew Brandt talks saga of Ravens' nixed trade for Maxx Crosby
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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 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 injury. 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.
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Chapters
7 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:28
2
What led to the Ravens backing out of the Maxx Crosby trade?
5:28–16:21
3
How does a failed physical impact NFL trades?
16:21–17:11
4
What is the significance of the trade parameters in NFL deals?
17:11–18:04
5
What are the subjective elements of NFL player physicals?
18:04–20:38
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Why do teams fail physicals for high-profile trades?
20:38–22:40
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How do injuries affect the perception of player value in trades?
22:40–24:27
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