Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Should there be any restrictions on Bears' 'best available' approach in NFL Draft?
25 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Rahimi, Harrison, Grody.
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Would you like the kind bar? The kind bar. So now Clay, he's got a snack now. He's going to not be hangry later today. There's a production meeting for CHSN.
Nice music choice as well. We're back with Clay Harbor on 104.3 The Score. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody, the nine-year NFL veteran co-host of the big pro football show on CHSN with David Haw and Ruthie Polinsky. And I think there's a bigger conversation to be had surrounding why there's still fallout from this trade that didn't happen. Why? Because it set the market with Max Crosby.
This is such an issue. I wonder how this is going to affect the NFL's negotiating period after this, because that's been something that I feel like a lot of the experts have kind of said to the side. They're like an Andrew Brandt, if you will, or somebody along those lines is like, oh, well, it might affect the negotiation period or something. That's the danger of the negotiation period.
So I'm wondering, given that all these other teams made decisions thinking that he was off the board. How much do you think it affects how that three days goes before a free agency is official?
I think it affects it. I think it's like game theory. When I'm getting my MBA from Kelly School of Business, Marshall, we had to take a game theory class. That's basically, think chess. You're thinking five moves ahead. What's your opponent doing? All this stuff. So I think it's just going to make people... be a little bit more reserved in some of these moves they're making.
Maybe be a little bit more picky on who you're doing business with. I think you're going to do business with the people you know, you trust, the guys you've been in the same organization with. I think you see that right now.
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Chapter 2: How does the Max Crosby trade impact NFL negotiations?
You see the Eagles, the people they work with. A lot of them are in the Howie Roseman tree. You see how Ryan Poles, obviously, with the Joe Tooney, the Kansas City Chiefs, places he's been. So it might kind of turn in...
to something to where you're doing business with guys you are comfortable with, you know, and that you know if there's something that goes wrong, they're going to be fully open, open dialogue, tell you right away, not wait until the last minute when you look at a knee. Do you have x-ray vision when you look into a knee and see something wrong? You already have the imaging.
That's why I don't understand how you're able to see an issue when you've already seen all the imaging.
I hope that we've cleared this up. They were able to pivot because Trey Hendrickson's price came down and that was the main driver in this. Despite what anyone will try to tell you, that cannot be ignored. Here's why I don't think it will be something that really changes things.
Because at the end of the day, the guys who help you win football games, you want them on your team and you're willing to do whatever to get them. This is an example of a superstar who did not work out.
It may have an effect on smaller deals with smaller players who are less impactful, but if there's a superstar on the market, I don't think teams are going to operate any differently the next time a Max Crosby height player comes available.
Well, in baseball, they do, you know, it's typical that one person sets the market. Everybody waits for that individual to go off the board and then things get done. This was different in that some of these deals were obvious to the, the NFL GMs who wanted to make them. That's why we saw a lot of like clay, your freight favorite free agent pass rushers went off the board pretty quick.
Adafi always comes to mind in that, for example. So, um, That's why I wonder if this does make it a little bit different from here moving forward.
Yeah, I think it'll definitely make it different. And I think guys with injuries... going into free agency will probably be a little bit of a disadvantage. And that's sad because a lot of times, obviously most of the time it's not their fault, but it happens a lot, guys going into free agency, even if it's something like a meniscus that doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal.
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Chapter 3: What role does game theory play in NFL decision-making?
There's risk taken every day. It's football. It's not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Guys get hurt. So you're taking a risk one way or another. I think this will change, like I said, a little bit. But overall, if Max Crosby is available, like we know the price has not come down. That's something we've learned. The price has not come down. And that's why he's still a Raider.
Whether he'll be a Raider at the start of the season, that's something we can obviously debate on. But if the medicals continue to be clear... And he gets to training camp. And he's fully healthy now and ready to go. Because like you said, Clay, this isn't a freaking ACL. It's a meniscus. This is standard operating procedure every offseason. Tons of guys get their meniscuses done.
It's $30 million in cap hit, though. I think that's what makes it a little more inflexible.
No, I get that part. So what I'm saying is if they come off the price a little bit, first and second, as opposed to two firsts, then that becomes much more palatable for anyone saying we need Max Crosby. We can now become a Super Bowl tender or solidify our stance as a Super Bowl contender by making this deal.
Speaking of Harry Roseman, you'd see what the Eagles did getting another receiver. They got Elijah Moore.
And they're talking about this possibly being ready to move A.J. Brown. A.J.
Brown for Max Crosby. Who says no?
Oh, my God. Poor A.J. Brown.
I think the Eagles say no to that. Really? Eagles have waves of guys, do they not? And they're looking at the draft like, we'll just get some more guys, because every year, what do the Eagles do in the draft?
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