{"id":476622,"date":"2026-02-18T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476622\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:18:07","slug":"maxx-crosby-makes-waves-with-comments-to-caleb-wlliams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476622\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxx Crosby makes waves with comments to Caleb Wlliams"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest stories of the offseason will be the future of Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby. And one of the most obvious potential trade destinations, if the Raiders move him, is the Bears.<\/p>\n

Crosby has remained largely quiet at the center of the storm of speculation, fueled by comments from folks like Jay Glazer, who said during Super Bowl week that Crosby is \u201cdone\u201d with the Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A new interview of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams on Crosby\u2019s podcast<\/a> is making waves.<\/p>\n

The quote that has drawn the most attention is this one, from Crosby to Williams at the tail end of the 68-minute episode: \u201cJust to be open and honest, bro, like we talked about earlier, but respect at a different level, bro. You\u2019re one of those guys, for sure, and you\u2019re just getting started. I don\u2019t even know you understand yet how good you can be, and that\u2019s the scariest part. You know what I mean? Just keep that mindset, keep doing what you\u2019re doing. You know we\u2019re locked in forever. So keep doing your thing, bro. You need me, hit me at any time. It goes vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Raiders have shown no inclination to trade Crosby. If Crosby truly has no intention to play for the Raiders, their choices could be to trade him or have him essentially retire.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a pipeline that was used nearly eight years ago, when the Raiders sent disgruntled defensive end Khalil Mack to the Bears for a package headlined by two first-round picks.<\/p>\n

Could it happen again? First, the Raiders have to decide to trade Crosby. If they do, the Bears make plenty of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest stories of the offseason will be the future of Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-476622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}