On Wednesday, Jay Glazer stirred up the biggest storyline of Super Bowl week when he said he believes the Raiders will trade Maxx Crosby by the NFL Draft.
As a guest with Yahoo Sports host Jason Fitz, Glazer talked about the Raiders’ decision to shut down Crosby at the end of the season and said the All-Pro edge rusher called him as soon as he got the news.
“When that happened, I remember Ian Rapoport, the team went to him and said ‘We’re going to do right by him. We’re going to shut him down and really going to protect him from him,’” Glazer recalled.
“And then Maxx is on the other line going ‘Man, screw these guys. They’re shutting me down. I am not about this. Hell, no. I’m not doing it. I left the facility. I’m out. I want to get traded. I’m done.’ I was kind of trying to talk [Maxx] off a ledge,” Glazer continued.
“I went to the GM, John Spytek, and I’m like, ‘Spy, you’ve got to understand. There’s a couple guys, if they tell you they’re playing, they’re playing. It’s not open for discussion. They’re playing. There’s certain guys they need it. For a guy like Maxx, he’s an addict… he needs structure. You can’t do that to him, so I want you guys, you can still go for the first pick, but it can’t involve him.”
It had been rumored that Crosby wasn’t happy with the Raiders, but no one had reported on Crosby’s status since the end of the regular season.
Glazer’s words on Wednesday didn’t leave a lot of room for interpretation, but on Thursday he offered a little room to fill in the blanks. Asked by popular Raiders’ content creator Samoan Raider if he was “kidding” about Crosby, Glazer offered a cryptic response.
“Maxx didn’t say it. I was saying it,” Glazer said.
And as Samoan Raider’s video so eloquently says below… what did you mean by that, Jay?
Inquiring minds would love to know.
For what it’s worth, Jason Fitz was the host who interviewed Glazer and Fitz didn’t think the FOX insider was bringing up an issue that had previously been resolved.
“I got the vibe from Jay that this in an ongoing thing. I don’t know why Jay picked [us]. Maybe we were just the first ones to be in line. He was going to drop that to the first person that asked. I don’t know. But it definitely felt like this was not something that has gone away,” Fitz said on Raider Nation Radio’s Unnecessary Roughness with Q Myers.
“I’ll be transparent… Maxx is a buddy. I text Maxx and I haven’t heard back, so I genuinely don’t know,” Fitz continued. “[Maxx] might not respond to me on it. My intent was not to create a viral moment, but if Jay Glazer is going to create that viral moment, what am I going to do?”
If Crosby isn’t happy with Glazer’s message, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to clear the record.
But one thing Crosby won’t want to do is fail to return Glazer’s call the way Aaron Rodgers did this year…
x: @raidersbeat
If Jay Glazer works out with Maxx, he looks like his work out began and ended with McDonalds.