Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - How likely is it that the Bears go after Raiders pass rusher Maxx Crosby?

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote debated how likely it is that the Bears will make an aggressive attempt to trade for Raiders star defensive end Maxx Crosby.

Lela Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, Rahimi Harris and Grody on 1043, the score. Yeah, Max Crosby isn't covered. I don't know. Yeah, as long as this is a possibility, it deserves to be discussed. I like to say, you know when it comes to trades, Mark? Dare to dream.

And when it comes to trades and trying to figure it out, start with your ideal trade first, and then you just have to work backwards from there. And as I know from learning from the texts that were leaked during the hacking scandal, both the Cardinals and the Astros, that's pretty much what happens. Like, James, they are a shooter shoot. They'll be like, hey, can I have Giancarlo Stanton? Yeah, for a unicorn and a billion dollars in gold coins. Or you know something.

But you have to ask because you just never know. Kind of like with Rob Polinka and Nico Harrison, he's like, you know it would be crazy as if you guys traded Luca. I mean, we'll take them off your hands. And then look what happens. Right, right. Go for the 10. So because of that, I talk about some wild trade ideas, and then I go from there. And we talk about Max Crosby, because Dare to Dream and then go from there. It's one thing if you do it, it's one thing if I do it.

Ray just says Max every now and then just because that's how much he's on his mind. Max, you guy. Ray, I'll just be sitting there looking off into space and then suddenly Max. How about Irish dancing with Max? Oh, yeah. He'd be your dance partner. We're really going to bring this thing to fruition, man. See, now that Robbie's not here to write things down, Grotty's just gone completely nails off.

I have. Well, I'm enjoying Ray's Irishness today with the Shamrock Shake, and he made a couple of Irish references. Well, he's just laughing in the background, Chris Tana Hill. Tanny Irish, you're out here into Irishness too? Yeah? What? He said what?

Tanny said his culture is not my costume. Sorry, Tanny. I just love the Shamrock Shake. I said that to a friend who posted a pick of a puka-shelled necklace that looked like it was from 2002, and I was like, my culture is not your costume. Puka. Nukuah. Macs.

That's the answer. Max. See, there we go again. Max. This is how it is. Get that man here. So, you know, this is us, romper room, whatever you want to call it. Yeah.

Kids table. That's us. We own it. Feel good about it. You're just jealous. You're not sitting here at the kids table with us. You know who I don't think is jealous since it's at the adult's table and likes it there? Brad Biggs.

You think Biggs would not want to sit at the kids' table? Brad Biggs is about business. He doesn't want to mess with us being silliness. I think Biggs would love to sit in here with us. No, Biggs has a sense of humor. I know he does. I know he does. Like Brad's welcome any time.

But like I would just waste his time. Well, not if he was, but he understands, he's hosted four-hour radio shows before. He understands that there's going to be times when it's just going to be fun times and we're going to be talking about one-arm guys. I think Brad gets that. Well, I know, boy, boys, what's going on. I know he gets it win on. I love the, I love Brad as the socks fan.

That's always my favorite plot twist. Oh, Brad's a great baseball fan. Yeah, like, yeah, no, he's fun to talk baseball. See, Brad would be. He's not very positive about the Cubs, that's for sure. Brad would be excited to hear about Sam Antanachi. Let me talk about Sam Antanachi and the Verducci brothers. Sam Antinacci and the Verduci brothers.

Or is it Vertucci? Hawkisms. Shout out to the Antonacci family. in Springfield and Sacred Har Griffin. Oh, my goodness, yes. So as we were saying, got a little off topic. But the point is, Brad Biggs, what he says has weight. And it's one thing for us to talk about the possibility of Max Crosby.

It's another for us to gauge the price. Diana Rucini confirmed it earlier today of the athletic. But Brad Biggs, Red Biggs put some fuel to the fire on this Max Crosby dream of ours. The bears are either keep it a close eye on the Max Crosby situation and potentially involved or someone out there is doing a really good job of convincing a bunch of folks that that's the case. Okay?

You follow me there and maybe the individuals doing that, perhaps being Clark County, Nevada, I don't know. But there's a sense that the bears are involved. Yeah, but to what price, right? And I don't think that's something that the Bears know now or the Raiders know. I think Dallas is involved. If you listen to people and the Cowboys, if you've been following some of that, I think they're really getting aggressive with some of their cap stuff to create space in an effort to win now. They're not kicking the can down the street with the cap.

They're kicking like the dumpster down the street. like it's going to get really full there in Dallas at some point. But Jerry Jones, God bless his heart, is out to prove that he hasn't been a loser to cowboy fans for the past 30 years. And he wants to, you know, saddle up and ride for a Super Bowl. So I would think they would be a team to watch out for potentially with Crosby. the blesses heart was the truth you're talking about Jerry Jones oh yeah yeah would that be something to see though wouldn't it Parsons and Crosby like allow yourself to just think about the aggression oh well that's that's why I actually think that

the intangibles come into play here not anymore though obviously why do you say that well you're saying on them on the same yeah if they had had that opportunity I was thinking them on the same division because Max. So I think there's a couple things at play here. Number one, I believe Brad Biggs when he says that Jerry Jones is after Max Crosby because that was some scuttle but at the trade deadline. And Jerry is talking in a way.

He did a recent interview where he was seated at some what looked like a cafe or something. And he's just talking about it wasn't, but it was that kind of scene where he was talking about how much he wishes he could win another Super Bowl. And what I saw was a guy who realizes he may not have a ton of time left to go witness another Super Bowl. He's 80 what? I got to look it off. He's in his 80. I'm going to guess that Jerry John, just for the guess, the sake of the guess, 83 years old. Now, God willing, he has a much longer life after this. Amen. But I think there comes a time for a lot of owners where, especially the ones who are emotional, attached to their team that way.

You saw it a lot in baseball, too, where guys would just stop at nothing because they wanted to see their team win. Sure. But in baseball, it's a little more easy to spot because there's no salary cap. Not yet. That's not the case here. All of that said, after moving $47 million off of the cap in restructuring two contracts, including Dak Prescott's in Dallas this morning, reportedly, Cowboys would still be $9 million over.

So where in there are you squeezing the $35.5.4. $8 million. That's why they're dragging a dumpster. Or how did he put it? You're kicking the dumpster down the road. Exactly. It's not a can. It's a dumpster.

This is a problem that at some point will come to roost. Big dumpster. What? The what? But the fact that Brad Biggs is saying that this is a possibility gives it a little more understanding. What do you say the Cowboys part of or the Bears part of it? The Bears part of it.

Yeah. I mean, well, it. I don't think the Cowboys thing happens, but I think there's probably intent there. I heard a little bit, though, and maybe I heard it wrong, but he said convincing people that it's true. I heard Big say that. It felt a little ambiguous in terms of they're just putting it out there to make it look like the bears are interested or the bears actually interested.

Can I offer you his Q&A from this morning? Oh, God, yeah. It inappropriate. The question is, if you're Ryan Poles, Are you trying to package both Tremaine Edmonds and DJ Moore to Las Vegas with a pick to get Max Crosby? Or are you going to trade them separately? Now, we all know the likelihood of Tremaine Edmonds getting traded before he's cut is pretty low. But Brad replies, sure, that makes a world of sense from the Bears' perspective.

The best intel I can provide you right now is either the bears are among a small group of teams exploring the possibility of a trade for Crosby or someone, the Raiders, is doing a good job of convincing people they are. Let's flip it around and examine it from the Raiders perspective. Fox Sports Jay Glazer reported a month ago, and then that's when he goes into the same thing that we heard Brad mentioned on the morning show. Okay, let's do the exercise here. Could you handle the Bears giving up two first rounders and a player on the roster to get Max Crosby?

And what player on the roster would you allow to go or think that would be worthy to the Raiders from their perspective that they would accept from the Bears. That's the question. I don't necessarily want to see DJ more leave the building. I've maintained, I still think he's wide receiver one. I maintain he helped win you games even though he was targeted fewer times last year than years past. I think that would be the most enticing offer to the Raiders.

Would you do it though? Like would you like do you think? That is a position where the bears have depth. So yeah. Yeah. Probably so. I'm trying to think, like, if I had a chance right now, like, hit the button, you're going to give up your first round picks for the next two years for this coming up draft and then 2027 and DJ Moore is going to be gone, but you get Max Crosby? I'd do it.

But do you think the Bears are one player away? Because if so, those draft picks become really important. Well, they... If you don't. That's a really good question. I mean, they won 11 games last year with a pretty bad defense, right? in a lot of ways. I mean,

there were some stars on the defense still, Kevin Byard. They got a lot of takeaways. They got a lot of takeaways. So you,

you, you managed to get 11 wins last year with the developing offense, which turned out to develop pretty nicely by the end of the season. And a poor defense, would that be the right? I mean,

I don't know. Underperforming. Underperforming average. Average. It wasn't average. I was below. But so I'm building up to this. Maybe they are one player away.

Like, if you got what you got out of that season last year and I now have to factor in the Drew Dalman, no left tackle. Perhaps that team was one player away. But we don't have that team on the field anymore. Because of the the

extractions. Drew Dalman and then also the four safeties and the linebacker and left tackle. That's not one player away. But I do think about what they were able to, what that team did with a good offense and a mediocre

defense. So like, depending on what you get out of the guys that were not as effective because of injury last year in Dio O'Dangbo. You talked about Grady Jared. I mean, you said it yourself. Grady Jarrett could, and I agree with you, could make that could actually give you a real Grady Jarrett year.

Shemar Turner might be something. If he's healthy, I think Grady Jarrett's a different dude next year. So I'm not dismissing the possibility that they're, they are. And you have other holes to fill. but that Max Crosby could be a difference maker on the team. So that's what we think. That's what Brad Biggs had to say. Well, what about former NFL players?

Teran Armstead talked about that with our afternoon show. We'll examine his opinion next.