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Maxx Crosby dodges question, refuses to address status with Raiders
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Sometimes the most important details are not in what you say, but what you *don't* say. There have been a couple examples of that recently with regard to Maxx Crosby's status with the Raiders .
First when GM John Spytek was asked if Maxx Crosby is untouchable in terms of a trade and he didn't say "Yes" but rather a whole bunch of other words.
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Today, Maxx Crosby hopped on The Herd with Colin Cowherd and was asked a similar question about where he stands with the Raiders. And rather than answering the question, he said a whole bunch of other words instead.
"Yeah. You know it's funny, I'm glad you brought that up, because, you know, it's like damned if you do, damned if you don't," Crosby replied. "For me in the past I've learned being too vocal and too involved with trying to make, you know, 'I want this coach or I want this...' I've learned my lessons and I've learned from that. That's not my job. My job is to be the best player I can possibly be. To be that guy in the locker room every single day, the leader, that's who I am to my core. That's all I care about and love is being the best version of myself in that locker room and on the field Sundays and in practice and doing all those...in the weight room. Leading from the front. Not talking and not leading every day. I do it every single day, so that's what my importance is.
"And nowadays, you know, especially like this past year, year and a half, I'm not talking about stuff like that, because that's not my job. And I've been advised, 'Hey, Maxx, I think it'd be best'... You know, some of the best mentors in my life. 'Maxx, just, I know you care a lot. You're obsessive about it. You want to win no matter what, but you can't control everything', and I've learned that. So now that I be quiet, now that I'm quiet, now I got random people making big statements for me, and they're like, 'Oh, Maxx, must have told them this'. For me, I just sit back and laugh, because I know my truth, and when I go to bed at night, I have a smile on my face because I don't have to explain nothing to nobody.
"I've said it over and over again. I'm getting healthy. I'm in the building every single day. I'm in this building before 6am and it's dark out, and I am in here until almost two o'clock, almost eight hours I'm putting in straight work, rehab and lifting, getting prepared for next season, like that's all that I care about. So all the noise, it's news to me sometimes. I got up two days ago, I look at my phone, and all of a sudden, now I got a bunch of PR people talking about what Maxx is doing. And it's like, I just, I just laugh, because if I address it, then someone's going to pick apart what I say there. So it's a lose/lose. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. I'm getting healthy. I'm going to be the best version of myself upcoming this year, and I'm going to put myself in the best position to do that. And that's why I'm taking care of myself and being the best version of myself on a daily basis.
"So I just try not to, you know, address certain things. Because no matter what someone's going to, you know, pick it apart and make it some way. So I'll let people do their talking. All I'm about is my actions. And my actions? Everyone knows what my actions are. I do the same thing every single day, and I'm going to be the hardest worker on the planet every single time. So that's all I care about you."
So, let's get this straight. Maxx thinks that by not addressing questions about his status with the team, he doesn't give anyone anything to pick apart? Ok, well, allow me to pick apart his lack of an answer. Honestly, it doesn't take picking apart, really. You just have to remove the noise.
He says he is just being quiet. I guess he means if you start AFTER he showed up the team by posting videos of him jumping on the trampoline and playing basketball with his kids when they sat him down with injury. So, we'll go with that.
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Also, the noise here sounds different when you realize everything he said here could just as easily serve as a pitch to prospective teams looking to trade for him.
He's learned from his mistakes and promises not to make any demands about who his coach will be. Great. Good lesson to learn for sure. Teams no doubt like to hear that.
He's working as hard as ever, putting in eight hour days rehabbing...in early February. Also good to know. Not for nothing, the next big date circled on the calendar is the new league year March 11 when trades can happen and players will need to pass physicals to formalize it. That's not to say he shouldn't be at the facility rehabbing. But just that the mere existence of that rehabbing says nothing about his status with the team.
Then there's the part where he mentioned "random people" speaking for him. Jay Glazer is not just some random person . And Maxx doesn't refute anything Glazer said. Maxx just said he sits back and laughs about it. Then he said it's "news to me sometimes". Not that it's news to him THIS time specifically. But sometimes.
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That whole bit rang to me a lot like listening to Davante Adams in training camp a couple years ago after Desean Jackson appeared on this same show and said Davante wasn't happy in Las Vegas and wanted out . To which Adams never denied wanting out, but simply said he never spoke to Jackson and called it all BS and clickbait.
Low and behold, by week three of the season, Adams was done officially with the Raiders and demanding to be traded.
Will Maxx stay with the Raiders? Who really knows. If Maxx's preference is to stay in Las Vegas, he could easily let everyone know that. And at this point, not making that simple statement is speaking louder than anything.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Maxx Crosby dodges question, refuses to address status with Raiders
