00:00I saw one of the greatest acting jobs in the history of the National Football League,
00:04and it was by Eric DaCosta, the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens.
00:09What a charade that whole thing was with Max Crosby the entire week.
00:13So let me play this out for you here.
00:16So last week, they strike a deal with the Las Vegas Raiders
00:20to send two number ones to get Max Crosby.
00:23Now, knowing full well that he had meniscus surgery in January,
00:29you know, I had this thing explained to me,
00:32and I've had the meniscus procedure that Max Crosby had,
00:36not to the extent where he has had, but I've had meniscus surgery.
00:40Okay, it's like mowing the lawn versus resodding a field.
00:45He had the procedure that was more resodding the field,
00:49which takes a little bit longer time.
00:51There's players in the National Football League that play without meniscuses.
00:54Okay, just so you know, it's more of a maintenance
00:57for guys that really have played a lot of downs.
01:00And Max Crosby's played a lot of downs.
01:02Know this, he was never going to pass a physical.
01:07No matter what the Ravens were going to put him through
01:10and putting him through a physical,
01:12he had no chance of passing that physical with the Ravens.
01:16They still construct the deal.
01:19So you know what happened?
01:20Over the weekend, I believe they had buyer's remorse.
01:23They looked at it and they went, wait a minute here.
01:26We're sending two number ones to the Las Vegas Raiders.
01:29So you know what the Raiders started doing?
01:31They started signing guys like Tyler Lindemann from the Ravens.
01:34They started signing guys from the Eagles and the Kobe Dean.
01:39They started restructuring their football team and their salary cap.
01:43Well, guess what?
01:43By the time Monday came, Max Crosby was in the Baltimore building.
01:48And in that process, they were negotiating with Trey Hendrickson.
01:53So they knew right then and there that they were going to fail Max Crosby
02:00when it came to his physical.
02:02They were double railing, which is they were running a double here.
02:07They were negotiating with Trey Hendrickson.
02:09They gave him an APY, $28 million per year,
02:14which means that they paid him less than what they were going to pay Max Crosby.
02:18We had $35 million and they complete.
02:21We're going through some charade that, Hey, wait, we thought we would sign both.
02:26I was listening to Eric to cost of the entire time.
02:29Oh my God.
02:30I'm so heartbroken on what happened.
02:32Hey dude.
02:33So let me get this right.
02:35You renege on the deal, right?
02:37And then you send Max Crosby's Crosby back to the Raiders as damaged goods.
02:42So what you do is you send back a player and now the rest of the league looks at him
02:48as damaged goods.
02:49No other team is going to call the Raiders now and offer up two number ones.
02:54So what happened in the process with the Raiders, the Raiders who had a lot of money under the salary
02:59cap.
02:59They were able to fit all the teams and all the guys that they had signed for the team.
03:04And they honored all of the contracts that they went out and got free agency.
03:08But what you do is you absolutely diminish a player, the Baltimore Ravens.
03:14They put this entire charade on now.
03:16Look, here's the ugly thing about this.
03:19They really didn't do anything wrong.
03:21They had buyer's remorse.
03:22Remember it was legal tampering time on Monday.
03:25And so this gave them the opportunity all the way until Wednesday at 4 PM to be able to bail
03:31on this deal.
03:32But Haas, you send the player back as damaged goods.
03:37Look, I got a lot of respect for Eric DaCosta.
03:40You know, he learned from Ozzie Newsome, truly one of the greatest general managers in all of pro football,
03:45not just with his legendary playing days, but he went on to become a great executive.
03:50But I have to look at the Ravens moving forward.
03:53Do you really want to do business with an organization that is going to hurt a product that you have,
04:01which is your player, Max Crosby?
04:03Max Crosby now goes back and you know what?
04:06It's all like a love fest going on now with the Raiders.
04:10Oh yeah, we love one another because look, I'm not trading Max Crosby for tuna for two twos now.
04:16I'd rather have him on my football team.
04:1935 million a year.
04:21Now they've got to fit that back under their salary cap.
04:24Look, he's a good football player.
04:25And really this free agency market really wasn't a big time market anyway.
04:30There wasn't a needle mover in it.
04:32There was really more guys that were really going to be kind of plug and play.
04:35Take a look at Jalen Phillips' contract that he got with the Carolina Panthers.
04:39Guy's never made a Pro Bowl.
04:41Hell, Shador Sanders made a Pro Bowl.
04:42This guy's never made one and he's getting 30 APY.
04:4630 million dollars annually for a guy who also has injury concerns.
04:52Now his age helps him out.
04:54But look at what Carolina did.
04:55You're seeing a lot of really good football players getting exceptional money.
05:00That's what this free agency period was.
05:02But this train wreck of a deal in Baltimore, what an absolute train wreck it was.
05:08Sending Max Crosby back.
05:10You're negotiating at the same time with Trey Anderson and you had buyer's remorse.
05:17Let me get my two ones back.
05:19I get to pay the guy 28 million annually, which is less than what I was going to pay Max
05:25Crosby.
05:26Oh yeah, by the way, psych, I don't want to do the deal.
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