The NFL trade deadline is just nine days away and teams have been working hard to figure out what kind of deals they can potentially work out before November 4.
Teams can’t reach out to opposing players directly, but there are clever ways to give and receive information, and one of those ways is to go through insiders like Jay Glazer.
Glazer talked on Sunday about a team that reached out to him about Maxx Crosby and was disappointed to learn that Crosby wasn’t interested in playing for another team.
“The Raiders told [Crosby] they aren’t moving him, but also Maxx Crosby said, ‘I don’t want to go anywhere,'” Glazer said on the FOX pregame on Sunday.
“There was one team who called me and said, ‘Hey can find out [about Crosby]?’ I told them ‘No, Maxx said he doesn’t want to go.’ The team said ‘Man, we’d love him because of his loyalty. We wish he wasn’t though. We’d have a shot.'”
Crosby signed a $106. 5 million contract extension in the offseason, and the deal was structured in a way that he can be traded at any time without major salary cap consequences.
Nevertheless, Crosby seems committed to head coach Pete Carroll and the newest leadership in the Raiders’ building.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported last week that Raiders’ owner Mark Davis has a “deep affection ” for Crosby, and that teams around the league believe Las Vegas won’t be entertaining offers for him.
“My sense is that Dallas would be pretty surprised if the Raiders actually moved on from Crosby, with whom owner Mark Davis has a deep affection,” Fowler said. “The Cowboys — armed with two first-rounders in 2026 and seven picks in total before compensatory selections — also have looked into Bengals edge rusher Trey Hendrickson, whom the Bengals don’t plan to deal.”
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Davis needs to stop his man crush. First it was Gruden, then Brady and now Crosby. Please sell the team to a businessman that isn’t afraid to make the tough decisions. Crosby is starting to breakdown physically and you’re not winning with him so trade him while we can get max return. Plus get rid of Carroll, too, he’s apparently not the motivator people make him out to be.