Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Report: Raiders could trade star pass rusher Maxx Crosby this week

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris reacted to the news that the Raiders could trade star pass rusher Maxx Crosby this week.

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It's really tough I know I've talked about those tough decisions in the past. I think what changes is when you win, bonds and relationships get deeper. And knowing that right now we sit over the cab, but we've got to make some decisions if that's cuss, if that's trades. There's real relationships of people that gave it up for the Chicago Bears to advance our organization. That is Ryan Pulse from the NFL Combine. This is Rahimi Harrison Grody.

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Fire Marshall Bill. Fire Marshall Bill. This is Rahimi Harrison Grotia on 104 3 of the score and we just got news. This is just coming down a little bit ago that David Montgomery is now out of the division. He has been traded to Houston for fourth rounder, offensive linens juice

Scruggs and another pick, a seventh rounder as I look. And that's, I think we're just going to see more of that this week. The league year begins on the 11th. That's next week. You know, we have the franchise tag deadline tomorrow. So that's another piece of this as well.

And teams who are over the cap, like the lions reportedly were, you're going to have to make a lot of moves. You know, 12 million, as I mentioned, according to over the cap, surprising a little bit, but understandable, given the extensions that they gave out like Aiden Hutchinson. So the moves are happening. And in the meantime, it goes back to how we're trying to dissect this draft and also therefore the value of the draft

picks. You know, that's a big part of this too. When you hear Todd McShay and Ryan Poles talk and Paul says this is a low number on his draft board, then how do you value the picks? You know, do they become as valuable if you want to trade them or are you a little bit more willing to part with them as well if you don't like this group of individuals that may be out there. Yeah, I mean, if you can get somebody, a real player that you could slot immediately in what I call a must-win window for the Bears, and we don't know how long that window will last. So I am going to say that going into this year, it is must-win. The Bears picks just for themselves, because of all the things that we're talking about,

with the bears being over the cap, as we've talked about, in the red and all of that, that makes these, unless you can use the picks to trade for valuable players, that makes this draft about as important as ever of a draft because the bears are coming at it from a position of strength where they can win this year, but they don't have a lot of other assets or available money right now to make other moves, to make other splashes. Like you talked to anybody who was at the combine and just listening to people on the score, the idea that the bears are going to make a big splash is a little bit far-fetched because of the lack of assets beyond what you're talking about here, Leila. And that is a first round pick, a second round pick, a third round pick, four, five, and two sevens as it stands right now. That's right. And so when you look at it, I like what Biggs had to say here when it came to trying to figure out the process. Big said, the question I had is whether anything shifts when a team is picking near the end of the round instead of the top 10 where the bears have regularly been because they haven't been good. I got some interesting replies.

Your process doesn't change, and National Scout said. You were still going to do your due diligence on everybody just to figure out who you think is going to be there in the 20s and then just in case someone were to slip through like Laramie Tunsell. I think he went 13th in 2016, but he was supposed to go top five. You need to be prepared for that. We know that was because of the video that had come out with tonsil involved. With the actual selection, you can be a little more risky in theory, but at the same time, if you're in the 20s, you feel like you're close so you don't want to take too much risk

because you want to get a player that is going to help you this year. Really, I think sometimes in the early to mid-20s is where you get your best value. And I think that that's true. Take, for example, the Seahawks drafting Jackson, Smith, and Jigba 20th. Is that pretty good? Did that work out for them? It did, in a slow 40 times. at all. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Also, Ohio State, once again, just showing that the receivers that they are

producing are making waves. Just not the quarterbacks. But, you know, the, fair enough. But the, but the point, you know, being made about how you feel like those picks are valuable, this is also part of the quote from, from Brad Biggs, said a college scouting director. Instead of having seven guys on the board that you would take, now you have to have 15 or 25 that you would like there. you get to a point where you're like, we don't have 25 players we like in the first round. Then you start thinking about moving back and getting some value. So if he says you have to have 15 to 25,

and Ryan Poles is saying he has fewer players on his draft board this year, what does it all mean? And then the quote goes on. It depends where they think their team is. Are you close? Do you have flexibility in free agency? You can take more risks late in the first round, but it depends on your mindset.

We're not going to take risks in the first round. We don't have any cash. Oh, yeah, there's that part. Like, neither do the bears right now. We have to hit on our first round pick, so we don't have the luxury of taking a really good athlete and hoping he hits and trying to develop him over time. So that's where I was.

You know, I said that last week. I think 25 becomes even more important because you have to use your draft capital because you can't exactly use the financial capital the way you want to right now. Not yet, not yet, unless things start to change. and with potential contract restructuring. There is the DJ Moore question, which continues to be incredibly interesting.

And hopefully we can get into that a little bit later. I know Weederer wrote a little bit about it. He and Kevin Fishbane and Weedsie will join us a little bit later on. But that is an interesting one, the DJ Moore, and what people are saying about DJ more, like anonymous sources, like the stuff that we know, that we know how valuable DJ Moore is, but we also know from watching DJ more that there hasn't been the full chemistry with Caleb Williams and this offense yet. Well, and then Albert Breer, you know, pointing out that the Raiders could trade Max

Crosby as early as this week. Here we go. So our longstanding national mystery might come to a close. Is that the Bears Stadium search or is that Max Crosby, which will have, note to self. For a question, what will happen sooner? A Max Crosby trade from the Raiders or the Bears settling on a new stadium? Definitely a Max Crosby trade.

Probably. There's not even a doubt in my mind. But what if he's not traded? Then how would you answer that question? Definitely a Max Crosby trade. It's still Max Crosby. Even if he doesn't get traded, he will get traded sooner than the Chicago Bears will have a new stadium in, I don't know.

Yeah, exactly. the lease is up in 2033 at Soldier Field. And how many times have you said to yourself, I'm leaving my place this time. Oh, I'm leaving. I'm buying a place. I'm leaving. And then I'm like, oh, the rent is flat this year?

Lela. I'm staying. I guess that's the single person, you and I, apartment dwelling person. That is me. I went on two very serious looks to buy a place. And I'm sure the people that took me are not happy

because I got right into it and then check it out twice. You flirted with the realtor? I flirted with the realtor twice, twice, and then I backed out. So you just brought up my life. How is that not the Bears right now?

That's a great point. Yes, flirting and then pulling out. Wait a minute. Nobody's going to say that's what she said. I was just going to let that one sit there. It was too easy. Also, we all just started laughing at the same time. That's what it's gotten to

with that's what she's because we've all said it we've all done it but now it's just like No we have not Well you do you do it too Layla oh I say that's what she said That's what I mean yeah but the other thing Oh my God What were you saying?

Oh radio jokes So here's what Albert Breer said about Max Crosby Yes ma'am yes Ma'am please So first of all it's in bold and italics That means pay attention to me Italics italics I'd lean toward a Max Crosby trade

happening and maybe this week. But there's going to have to be some needle threading. Gonna have to be some needle threading. Yeah. I don't think the Raiders want to go through the song and dance of shopping him, nor do I believe Crosby wants it advertised that he's looking for suitors,

given his bond with owner Mark Davis and his view of himself as a raider. Now you say that, now? What was all this? He's played his last down of football for the Raiders talk. Talk about dramatic. I get it, though. when you hear how he talked about football and how much he cares and what he does every year and then the way, just the intensity that he talks about going about his job, then you see it on the field.

Oh, yeah. Then you understand, you know, you were joking about Billy Donovan being like, you see what I have to work with out here? I got six guards out here. What do you expect me to do with all these guys? You think that's not the case for Max Crosby? That's true. Look at this. How am I supposed to work with these guys?

I can't even name guys. It was basically Max Crosby, Ashton Gentian. and then to the point where. And then boys. To the point where Ash and Genty was the fifth highest paid raider last season. Does that make a rookie? Everybody must go. That's it.

I mean, I don't know how you're not John Spitech saying I could trade. First of all, yeah, you can obviously build around him. But his timeline is just a few years later than everybody else is that you would theoretically be building around on your team. Theoretically, for Nanda Mendoza. Ashton Jentie. year older. So if that's the case, then, you know, how are you not looking at this like you could get a massive haul and then be able to help push some of those draft picks out even into the next year because you know they're going to be relatively higher? You know, how would you not want

to do that if you're trying to obviously two first rounders is the case? So why wouldn't you want those? You know, why wouldn't you want to be able to work with that if you're the Raiders? Absolutely. Like, let's be real. Is there a winning window for the Las Vegas Raiders while Max Crosby is at the peak of his powers? Probably not unless maybe Mendoza comes in and he's the greatest thing ever and he changes everything, but probably not. They need an offensive line. They need so much more. Think about how the Raiders lost to the Bears last year and your least favorite game of the 20-25 season.

Was that the Blockwell? Yeah. Blockwell. Yeah, Josh Blockwell. And then the game winner by the game winning field goals. Yeah. So that was the... That was Gentie went off in that game.

Was that Gentie's best game of the year? It might have been his best. I got to look at that. Yeah, I would have to as well, but I'm going to go ahead and guess that was his best game. But when you put it all together, it just, I don't know, it's, it makes everything a little more intense. Also something that I would like to bring up next when it comes to this is not just the fate of one Max Cross. Rosby, but I think there's something that I was thinking through yesterday that we want to bring up on the other side of this break. Additionally, we've gotten conflicting reports about possible roster movement on the Bears' defensive line.

So let's get into the latest from Brad Biggs and more on the Bears defensive line. And I think a guy who could really affect a possible trade that the Bears might have thought that they might have been able to do. So that's all next.