Betting odds for Maxx Crosby being traded to the Dallas Cowboys have drastically shifted after the Pro-Bowl pass rusher posted a mysterious post on Instagram.
You thought Micah Parsons was cryptic and deliberate in the way he used social media?
Did you, like some Dallas Cowboys teammates, argue that his habit of maintaining an online presence and his growing podcast personality was a distraction from his football duties?
Well, you may be justified in those beliefs, but you won't be exempt from them potentially arising again if Dallas pursues star pass rusher Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders.
Crosby is a Pro-Bowl edge rusher by day. And by night he hosts the podcast "The Rush with Maxx Crosby", not to get confused with Parsons' "The Edge" show.
In his time in between, Crosby, too, likes to dabble in the social media game, where Parsons regularly would stir up controversy or rumors that sometimes didn't mean anything at all. In fact, that "stirring" is an exact philosophy Cowboys owner Jerry Jones admitted to doing last season during the rollout for his latest documentary.
This all suggests a match made in heaven with Jones and the star defensive end in Sin City ... whom we can report Dallas is "monitoring" in trade talks. Crosby's latest cryptic post feeds the rumors that have been following him for much of the beginning of the offseason, especially as they relate to the Cowboys.
Indeed, now comes a rumor that Dallas was "close'' to a deal on Tuesday night but is now "shifting its focus'' to signing Trey Hendrickson.
Maxx posted an Instagram story video listening to country musician Shaboozey's song "Beverly Hills" in which the lyrics describe the singer as a "lone-[expletive] cowboy."
Crosby also, either pointedly or coincidentally, panned his camera up to the stars that line the ceiling of his car. Might we be reaching? Potentially, but these are the fun games we play. Maxx knows it's coming.
Shaboozey's song begins by saying "Cowboys live forever." Make of that with what you will.
Cowboys Nation rightfully went ablaze on social media thinking Crosby is foreshadowing his move to "America's Team".
That attention has led to a dramatic shift in what team has the best odds of landing him on Kalshi, a public trading platform where users determine lines and odds for one another based on betting trends.
Crosby now reportedly has a 29 percent chance of being traded to Dallas, one percent higher than him staying in Las Vegas and three percent higher than him getting dealt to the Chicago Bears.
Rather than this actually representing a change internally, the odds are a reflection of the public growing belief that if Crosby were to actually be traded from the Raiders, it could be to Jones' Cowboys.
There was one more viral moment that shows Crosby's time with the Raiders coming to an end recently, and you guessed it, it came via a podcast (but not Crosby's own).
The five-time Pro Bowler said that he had already met his "new coach" and that he "seems like a great guy."
We acknowledge that this could very easily refer to new Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak, who takes over for Pete Carroll after being the offensive coordinator with the Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks.
But if we're reading into the gossip that tends to follow the Dallas Cowboys endlessly - of course, with cautious internet literacy?
There's no ruling out anything.