Ravens Maxx Crosby trade highlights a busy weekend on the eve of free agency
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
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When we signed off for the weekend on Friday, we said we'd come back before Monday if the news dictated our sooner return. Welp, the news dictated just that. Maxx Crosby to the Ravens for two first-round picks. Connor McGovern back to the Bills! Taylor Decker released! Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman cover everything that went down over the weekend, and get ready for free agency, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.4 | Special Sunday episode for you guys today on the eve of the tampering period and the league |
| 0:12.6 | you're starting in the NFL. |
| 0:14.5 | We talked about it on Friday. |
| 0:16.0 | If some stuff happened and we felt like there were enough newsworthy moments over the |
| 0:19.8 | weekend, we would record something on Sunday. I would say that the weekend cleared the bar. I think we got there. |
| 0:26.1 | Max Crosby traded to the Baltimore Ravens for two first round picks. We didn't talk about the |
| 0:32.1 | Raiders side of this at all on the show, which that's on me. Let's do it now. Totally make sense for the Raiders. |
| 0:38.9 | Like, you're a team that's resetting to get two first round picks for Max |
| 0:41.8 | Crosby, I think, is where you want to be as you kind of put everything on the table when |
| 0:47.3 | it comes to your roster. |
| 0:48.5 | It's a lot to get for a 29-year-old player. |
| 0:51.5 | We don't often see this sort of price tag for guys on third contracts that are |
| 0:56.3 | hitting this point in their career. We talked about that element from the Raven side at length on |
| 1:02.3 | the show. But from the Raiders side of this, Max Crosby is a fantastic player, but I completely |
| 1:07.1 | understand if you're the Raiders and you're totally resetting, thinking this is |
| 1:11.8 | the best path forward. We've seen what the Raiders are with Max Crosby and not much else. |
| 1:18.2 | And I think trying to explore a different sort of reality completely makes sense if you're |
| 1:22.5 | John Spitech and if you're Las Vegas. |
| 1:24.9 | A bunch of other moves that came down the pike over the last couple days. |
| 1:28.7 | We had some other movement on the edge rusher market with Khalil Mack. |
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