As last season’s trade deadline approached, the idea of the Detroit Lions looking toward the struggling Las Vegas Raiders for players who could fortify their roster was definitely in play. More specifically, it was easy to dream about what it might take to acquire All-Pro defensive end Maxx Crosby and pair him with Aidan Hutchinson.
It’s a guarantee the Raiders, if they’d even consider trading him (very unlikely), will not give Crosby away. He’s entering his age-27 season, firmly in his prime, with four All-Pro team nods and three straight Pro Bowl selections over five NFL seasons.
The Raiders rightly rewarded Crosby with a four-year, $94 million contract in 2022. So there’s the not-so small matter of that too, with three years left on it and cap hits of almost $24.5 million (2024) and $27 million (2025 and 2026).
Lions fans can dream about them acquiring Maxx Crosby, and he has fueled that dream with his recent comments.
Again, Crosby is not freely available until at least after the 2026 season right now. And the cost to trade for him would be hefty, if the Raiders were even open to the idea to any degree (they should not be, until further notice).
But Crosby answered a question about which team he’d want to play for if not the Raiders, which he presumably knew was coming on his own podcast, honestly. Now the dreams of Lions’ fans that he’ll someday play for the team might be re-ignited.
nice drop pass from Hannah Miller and a perfectly placed shot over Emerance Maschmeyer by Spooner got Toronto on the board first.
Just over three minutes later, with Toronto short-handed, Kali Flanagan and Spooner broke out on a two-on-one. Flanagan’s clever feed under the stick of a defender was tipped into the upper portion of the net by Spooner.
It was Toronto’s third ‘jailbreak’ goal this season and fittingly freed Emma Maltais from the sin bin. Maltais had the first two short-handed markers earlier this year for Toronto.
If that wasn’t the pass of the game, then it belonged to Ottawa’s Katerina Mrazova who fed Brianne Jenner from the wing for an easy tap in of her own.
It was the Ottawa captain’s fifth goal of the season.
Toronto played its first game of the season without 30-minute-a-night defender Jocelyne Larocque and it was clear it missed the veteran blue liner.
Normally the tandem of Larocque and Fast eats up as much, and sometimes more, than half the game between them.
Her absence was most felt on the first Ottawa goal with Fast in the penalty box and the home side simply swarming the Toronto net before Watts changed the momentum of the game with that late-At the 2023 Pro Bowl, Crosby was captured having a conversation about Dan Campbell with Lions’ right tackle Penei Sewell, who we know he has great admiration for.period marker.
Maxx Crosby fuels the dreams of Lions fans with new comments
- On this week’s edition of his podcast, The Rush with Maxx Crosby, Crosby was asked “If the Raiders were off the table, who would be one other team you’d play for?”
