{"id":548628,"date":"2026-03-27T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:53:09","slug":"things-have-a-way-of-working-out-the-way-theyre-supposed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548628\/","title":{"rendered":"Things have a way of working out &#8216;the way they&#8217;re supposed to&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/raiders-ravens-backed-out-of-trade-for-pass-rusher-maxx-crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nixed<\/a> <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/maxx-crosby-x6606\/\" title=\"Maxx Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxx Crosby<\/a> trade sent shockwaves through the NFL. The <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/raiders-trade-de-maxx-crosby-to-ravens-for-two-first-round-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed swap<\/a> of two first-round picks for the pass rusher crumbled due to the Baltimore Ravens&#8217; concerns over Crosby&#8217;s knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath, the Raiders and Crosby are left to pick up the pieces. The stance from the team and player since the trade fell through has been that they&#8217;ll plow forward together in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/audio\/john-spytek-maxx-crosby-tyler-linderbaum-free-agency-nfl-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">team\u2019s podcast network<\/a>, general manager John Spytek reiterated that he still values Crosby and believes the failed trade might work out best for the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My relationship with Maxx since I&#8217;ve gotten here has been great,&#8221; Spytek said, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/news\/john-spytek-maxx-crosby-2026-free-agency-tyler-linderbaum-nakobe-dean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">via the team\u2019s official website<\/a>. &#8220;We had a lot of conversations throughout the season, at the end of the season obviously, through the offseason and obviously we were presented with a difficult decision to make. Things have a way of going a certain way and working out the way they&#8217;re supposed to. We welcomed him like he never left, because he really never did.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nixed Maxx Crosby trade sent shockwaves through the NFL. The proposed swap of two first-round picks for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,1812,29218,3,349,6257,215714,99],"class_list":["post-548628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-maxx-crosby","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548628","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=548628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}