00:00But from someone in a position to know, the Raiders want two first-round picks and a player
00:04for Max Crosby. Now, round one, there's a big difference between one and 32, and that becomes
00:10just kind of the baseline. And I think some teams, like if the Buccaneers would get involved,
00:14they've got the 15th overall pick. Maybe they would be able to avoid a first-round pick in
00:182027 if they're offering up pick number 15. The player involved, that becomes critical because
00:24who do the Raiders want and will the team part with that player to help get the deal done?
00:30But with that many teams interested, the Raiders are in position to kind of do
00:36what the Texans did four years ago with Deshaun Watson, where you basically reach a deal
00:44with multiple different teams and then pick one. And if you want to be charitable to the player,
00:51you reach that deal with multiple teams, and then you let the player decide which team he wants to
00:57go to. And one of the arguments I've heard about trading for Max Crosby and giving up significant
01:02assets is, well, you know, his contract's very favorable to whoever gets it. Yeah, that assumes
01:07he's going to be perfectly happy with his contract when he walks through the door. When we see these
01:12trades of big-name players in their prime, they usually want a new contract on the way through the
01:18door. So that's another complication. So I think what the Raiders should do, identify three or four
01:23teams who are offering enough that the Raiders would take, and then let Max Crosby work out a
01:28deal with one of those teams, and that's the team that gets him.
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