Maxx Crosby laid it all on the line for the Las Vegas Raiders this season, to the point where the star defensive lineman had to he shutdown to have surgery on his injured knee. Crosby didn’t like it at the time, but he hasn’t spoken out about it, not even after coach Pete Carroll was fired.
Everyone wants to know how Crosby is feeling and how he’s feeling about the situation, but the Raiders star is is playing his cards close to the vest. The Raiders held a round of interviews in Miami this week while the national championship game was being played, which inspired eye rolls around the league.
You’d think a guy with Crosby’s impeccable playing credentials would at least be kept in the loop, but that’s not how the Raiders roll these days. The fact is no one is sure how the Raiders do things these days, not even the minority owner who was conducting the interviews.
“I haven’t talked to them, not in the last couple of weeks,” Crosby said Wednesday when asked if he’d been kept in the loop about the coaching search in a piece written by Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. “I’ve just been focused on my family, my girls and getting healthy. But, yeah, I haven’t talked to them in a while.”
Meanwhile, Crosby is doing his rehab, which he describes as “a different journey.” The defensive end says rebab is about checking boxes, day after day, but the experience itself is something he’s never been through.
“I attack it like everything else,” Crosby added. “Everything happens for a reason.”
Crosby doesn’t know what that reason is right now, and neither does anyone else. He describes himself as “a little psychotic” when it comes to the way he approaches certain things, and his maniacal approach to football is one thing that definitely falls into that category.
The Raiders star also thinks of rehab as running a race, but what he doesn’t know now is where he’ll be running that race next year, and we still don’t know if Crosby is loyal to a fault when it comes to the Raiders. It feels like he’ll be traded for draft capital, but when the man running the show is doing the interviews from a couple of thousand miles away, it’s tough to know what’ going on.
Meanwhile, Brady made a statement about how the Raiders have taken a backseat to his broadcasting job today. He says he loves bing involved in football, but the condition there is only as long as he doesn’t have to put in a full day’s work in the facility where the job should be getting done.
Brady’s approach to this and his willingness to keep Crosby in the dark is going to come back at him, though, once he’s hired a coach together with John Spytek. He hasn’t taken a ton of heat for how bad things got this year, but all bets are off once he’s made this hire.