11 total draft picks in almost $130 million in salary cap space is what the Raiders will have

now that they've agreed to trade Max Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens. That plus more on Monday's

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And honestly, this is one of these shows

that I can do, a double disc,

triple disc, whatever you want to call. Like, you want to call the old Kupak days? We can do that, right? I mean, I could do one whole show just the calls and text, as you can imagine, got a ton of them over the weekend. And of course, on Friday, when the news of Max Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens broke from ESPN's Adam Schaefter. But we'll close out the show as we normally do hear from you calls and text. We'll try to get as many in as possible. Not only will we talk about Max Crosby on the today's show, but we'll also talk about the legal tampering period when it comes to free agency because, oh, by the way, it opens today. It opens this morning. So everything moves fast in the NFL. The calendar never

slows down. And here we are. We're already talking about free agency. Boom. Max Crosby trade and then boom, free agency. So that's how it goes down. We'll talk about legal tampering and what maybe to expect from the silver and black, especially with all the salary cap space they have. We'll do that coming up a segment number two segment number one news and notes of the day so let's go ahead and jump right

into it and notes of the day. So let's go ahead and jump right into it. And, of course, the biggest news is Max Crosby after seven years with the Silver and Black is on his way to Baltimore. We've been talking about it a lot. I know a lot of people have been getting tired of talking about Max Crosby. Oh, he's going to be a Raider for life. He's got it tatted on him. That's what he said. Some people, hey, he's gone, right? He's played his last down with the

silver and black. Well, now we know officially that he's on his way out. He's headed to the Baltimore Ravens. My local show, Radio 920, and that's a roughness. So funny, man, it got wrapped up on Friday. I was preparing for my ESPN show game night in about 30 minutes before the show started.

Also, we got the tweet from Adam Schefter, ESPN sources. The Raiders agreed to trade five-time Pro Bowl defensive end Max Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for 2026 and 2027 first round picks. The trade cannot be processed until next week, but it is in place and Crosby expected to be a Raven with ones going Raven with two ones going back to Vegas. And that's the first time in the Ravens 31-year history that the franchise will use the first-round pick to trade for a player. Not only are they giving up one, they're giving up two. And now there's five teams coming up in the draft in April 23rd that have two first-round picks. The Raiders pick one and 14.

The Jets 2 and 16.

Brown 6 at 24, Chiefs 9 and 29, the Cowboys, 12 and 20.

So a lot to unpack, right?

Obviously, Max Crosby, I mean, we could do a whole show based just on Max and what he means

to the Raiders and what he's meant to the Raiders since they drafted him in the fourth

round back in 2019.

But this is kind of what it is. A lot of us expected that there was going to be eventual fire. We talked about the smoke. It just seemed like it was just too much momentum towards him getting traded for it not to actually end up happening. So the trade can't become official until Wednesday, 4 p.m. Eastern one Pacific time. That's when the new league year opens up. But he's going to be making his way to Baltimore. He's already put out about 13-minute video. Just kind of thanking Raider Nation, thanking the Raiders, you know, shouting out the Baltimore Ravens, their fan base and let them know what they're going to be getting in return. But I thought John Spitech did a really good job.

He stuck to the guns and decided that he wanted to get two ones at least for Max Crosby. Wanted two ones in an impact player. They ended up with two ones. That's pretty stinking good in exchange for a 29-year-old player coming off of a knee surgery. Right? and there was a lot of teams that were interested in Max Crosby,

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