{"id":511073,"date":"2026-03-08T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:46:08","slug":"tanking-effort-utimately-blew-up-on-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511073\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanking effort utimately blew up on Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes tanking comes with a cost.<\/p>\n<p>For the Raiders, the apparent effort to clinch the first overall pick in the 2026 draft included a decision to shut down defensive end Maxx Crosby and tight end Brock Bowers, both of whom had been playing through knee injuries. Crosby didn\u2019t react well. It was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back, prompting him to request \u2014 and get \u2014 a trade.<\/p>\n<p>If the Raiders hadn\u2019t put Crosby on injured reserve before a Week 17 game against the Giants, would Crosby have asked to be traded? While it\u2019s still possible he would have decided that he\u2019d had enough, the decision to put him on injured reserve with two games left undoubtedly played a role. <\/p>\n<p>Crosby addressed in a late-season episode of the Let\u2019s Go! podcast the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/maxx-crosby-football-is-my-whole-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">importance of football to him<\/a>. He had two games left to play in 2025, and the Raiders took that away from him.<\/p>\n<p>They won by losing. The Raiders got the first pick in the draft. But they lost the heart and soul of their team in the process, a guy who was willing to do anything and everything to help the team win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes tanking comes with a cost. For the Raiders, the apparent effort to clinch the first overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-511073","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\/511073","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=511073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}