Rumors around Maxx Crosby and the Raiders potentially heading for a divorce have picked up on the last few weeks, and while the Raiders head coach and GM tried to downplay those rumors last week at the NFL Combine, the storyline hasn’t gone anywhere in the days since.
It was reported this weekend that Crosby would like a new team but doesn’t want to force the team’s hand by requesting a trade, but according to flagship radio host ‘JT the Brick’, most of the news around Crosby in recent weeks has been “fake news.”
“We have told you that all of the news around the NFL is fake news. I don’t use that term much. You don’t either, because I watch the news every night,” JT said on his Raider Nation Radio Show on Friday.
“But when it comes to the news of Maxx Crosby, most of it has been fake and I’ve been telling you that for months. Now, could he be traded? Yes, he could be. If something happens and there’s an impasse at some point, I don’t see it, but if it is, it’s not the end of the world. I didn’t trade him. I’m not the guy to do it, and I don’t think he’s going to get traded.”
“Everybody keeps score nowadays. Everybody keeps score. And then a lot of people that have no relationship to Maxx at all, they need to be heard on this topic because their editors and bosses are saying, ‘Look, man. You got to get your clicks up because we got a paywall. We have a paywall, and people aren’t paying to read your articles on the Raiders or someone else, so we need you to come up with something on Maxx to get your numbers up,'” JT continued.
“So people do that… and what are your reports actually? What the hell are you reporting on Maxx Crosby that I’m not aware of? Oh, wait, what are you reporting? That they shut him down last year? Well, he was injured. The team was terrible. They fired all the coaches. So what are you reporting that’s new? Are you reporting that you heard something from him that is worthy of putting that up there on NFL Network or ESPN or FOX? No, you’re not, but you have to do it because then what the hell are you good for if you can’t put anything out there and you’re a news breaker?”
“That’s what you do. So everybody is running around and they’re just throwing stuff up there… [these people] that have contacts with all these people. I have contacts with all these people too. I have a lot of them too. Some of them better. But I’m not in the news-breaking business.”
The good news for everyone involved is that there will eventually be a resolution to Crosby’s situation in Las Vegas, and we will know who has been making up stories and who hasn’t.
The message from outside the Raiders’ building has leaned heavily toward the idea of Crosby being traded, but there has been an obvious pushback from those working and employed inside the building.
In theory, no one should have better access to Crosby and the Raiders than those wearing the team’s logo on their polo shirts, so maybe the chances are higher that Crosby will be back in Las Vegas next year than what’s generally being reported.
To JT’s point, everything will eventually come out in the wash. Everybody keeps score nowadays.
Crosby is either going to be with the Raiders next year or he isn’t, and a concrete decision on his future should be known at some point between now and the draft.
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One of the few times I agree with the Brick. This story has been beat to death, but everybody has to run their mouth on something or they don’t get their screen time. If the Raiders get an offer they cannot refuse, they will make the deal. It was that way yesterday, the day before and every freek’n day before that, because Max and everybody in that locker room is an asset and assets have value, when that value is exceeded by someone, you make the deal. 25 years ago, we traded our head coach. The most popular coach we had in the house since Madden. (I said popular not best, I got you on a pedestal Tom Flores)