Mike Florio ponders what it would cost to trade for Maxx Crosby
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Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who's got a massive brain.
Mike Florio.
He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.
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Mike Florio is always working. It doesn't matter if the NFL's in season or not. I think that the week after the Super Bowl is still somewhat the case. Doesn't matter, though. Mike's always working for you. He is the creator, editor-in-chief of Pro Football Talk. He's at Pro Football Talk on X. And he joins us on the Circa Illinois hotline. Download the Circa Sports app today. He also is on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Mike, how are you?
Doing great. How's everybody today?
Well, we're good. We joke that Max Crosby at this point has become some sort of Pavlov's dog type of reaction for us here on the Midday Show. He's our favorite non-bearer, I feel like, because everybody wants him on the Bears. It's a big dream, I know. But he keeps talking like he doesn't want to play on the Raiders. So that's why we keep bringing it up. What's the latest that you gather from this dance that's been going on?
I think the most significant comment came last week when Jay Glazer was making the rounds at Radio Row. He has spoken in the past to Crosby. Glazer had a summary of a conversation with Crosby late in the regular season as it relates to his reaction to being shut down for the final two games of the year because of a knee injury he'd played with most of the season. He takes pride in playing injured. Something happened in that moment where a guy who's been very patient with a team that constantly is rebuilding, he decided he was done. Glazer said last week, Crosby is done with the Raiders. I ran what Glazer said past somebody in a position to know, and I was told, draw your own conclusions. I don't need to be invited to do that usually, but I did.
I don't think he wants to be there. Now, there's a way to go about it. He's choosing not to go flamethrower like Miles Garrett did last year with the Browns, although the Browns ultimately threw enough money at him to get him to change his mind. I don't think Crosby is going to be swayed by that. I think he's going to be caught by this principle that he wasn't able to do the thing he loves to do for reasons that seem to be part of an effort by the Raiders to ensure they'd earn money. the number one overall pick in the draft. They shut both Crosby and Brock Bowers down for those last two games, and they successfully finished at the top of the draft order and obviously the bottom of the league. I think something's going to happen here.
He's got the knee injury, head surgery on, and that's going to take time to heal. But I don't know that that's going to stop anyone from doing a deal if the Raiders make him available. Part of the game is to make it look like you don't want to trade him in order to get greater value. But if you can get two, three, four teams at the table, you don't need to act like you're going to keep him. You can do what the Texans did with Deshaun Watson when they had four teams. You name your price, and you let them battle it out. So I think it's one of the stories to watch. this offseason. And when you look at it from where the Raiders are right now, by the time they would get to a point where they would be competitive, because I don't think this is a quick turnaround.
This isn't Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams. This is Clint Kubiak and quarterback TBD with a lot of holes in the roster. By the time they become competitive, we're going to be close to the end, if not past the end, of Max Crosby's prime. Sell high, get what you can for him now, and then try to use those draft picks to build a contending team.
I'm with you on that, Mike.
What insights does Mike Florio bring about Maxx Crosby's potential trade?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:45
2
What insights does Mike Florio bring about Maxx Crosby's potential trade?
3:45–6:52
3
What factors influence Maxx Crosby's desire to leave the Raiders?
6:52–16:08
4
How does the trade market value Maxx Crosby compared to other players?
16:08–18:16
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