00:00Mike, how many teams do you think are left now interested in Max Crosby still in the NFL?
00:07Well, I think plenty of teams are interested if they can pounce on this weakness that the
00:13Raiders may now be dealing with because they've gone out and blown their budget on a bunch of
00:18free agents. And reportedly, they're going to honor the agreements. It'll be interesting to
00:22see if one or more of those guys fail their physicals on the way through the door. But the
00:26Raiders could, if they want to, they could call up the agent for Tyler Lindemann and say,
00:31you know, we made this offer under the notion that Max Crosby's $30 million salary for this year was
00:39going to be off the books. Now that it's back, we've got to reconfigure and we're sorry, but we
00:44can't proceed with this deal. The Raiders have every right to do that. So they're going to proceed,
00:50but they do have a problem now. And even though they can automatically restructure Max Crosby's
00:54contract and reduce the cap number for this year, it's still $30 million in cash. And these teams
01:00all set a budget for each year of the cash they're willing to devote to free agency and to the
01:06rest
01:06of the roster. So, you know, they got to go back to Mark Davis and say, hey, you know, that
01:10budget
01:11that we came up with, we need to add $30 million back into it now if they have to keep
01:17him. And right
01:18now, all indications are, and who knows what to believe because it could be posturing,
01:24the Raiders are content to keep him. Crosby is content to stay. And he may have had like an
01:29epiphany. Hey, I want out. I want out. I want out. He goes through this experience in Baltimore
01:33and now he comes back. It's like, you know what? I'll just stay here. And I'm happy with all these
01:37guys we've signed. Maybe we're going to be competitive now. So he may truly be interested in
01:41staying. But this is all part of the pushback to get the next team, if there is one, to be
01:48more
01:49reasonable in what they think they can get him for. And I look at it this way. We talked earlier
01:53today on PFT Live about whether or not a trade could still happen. I think it could happen, but
01:58maybe it's going to happen once he's able to pass a physical. Maybe it's going to happen later in the
02:04year, maybe even after the draft. Maybe they still get two first round picks, but it's 27 and 28,
02:08not 26 and 27 after the dust settles on a lot of things. And after the doctors of whichever team
02:15may be interested in Max Crosby can get a look at not where he is and might be, but where
02:22he actually
02:22is after months of rehabbing this meniscus repair on his knee, which is usually a three-month injury.
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