DENVER — Las Vegas Raiders three-time Professional Bowl edge rusher Maxx Crosby spoke on his crew’s contentious week, wished possible soon-to-be-traded teammate Davante Adams properly and reiterated his personal need to stay with the crew following Sunday’s 34-18 loss on the Denver Broncos.
This got here after a hobbled Crosby had two of the Raiders’ three sacks, every week after lacking the primary recreation of his six-year profession due to a left excessive ankle sprain.
“You assume I am not used to this s— occurring?” Crosby requested reporters gathered at his locker with fun. “It’s what it’s. I have been coping with it my complete profession, so it’s what it’s.”
The week appeared to get off to a very good begin for the Raiders after their house win towards the Cleveland Browns within the wake of coach Antonio Pierce saying sure gamers had made “enterprise selections” in a loss to the Carolina Panthers. However within the recreation towards the Browns, Crosby watched from house to relaxation his ankle and Adams, nursing a hamstring concern, cheered from the sidelines.
Then a social media account linked to Pierce preferred a Sports activities Illustrated submit Monday night time suggesting Adams, lengthy the topic of numerous commerce rumors, may need already performed his ultimate recreation for the Raiders. The like was later eliminated.
A day later, Adams, showing on the “Up & Adams Present with Kay Adams,” mentioned he had not heard from Pierce.
“All I can management is that this discuss we’re having proper right here,” he mentioned. “And after we’re finished with this, all I can management is the following factor that I am on to.”
Sources advised ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter that the Raiders would “contemplate” buying and selling Adams for a package deal that included a second-round draft decide and extra compensation.
“Davante’s my boy, and I like Davante, and he will do what he will do,” Crosby mentioned. “Praying for him, want him the perfect. He is not wholesome proper now. He is acquired to get wholesome. However we’re targeted on the Raiders. … We’re targeted on who’s right here now. We’re targeted on profitable. So we have got to search out methods to do this.”
Adams, on Friday, posted to his Instagram account a photograph of famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, presumably a reference to the Baltimore Ravens as a most popular vacation spot.
Additionally this week, Pierce was slapped with an eight-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA for violations dedicated when he was an assistant coach at Arizona State.
“No remark,” Pierce mentioned Friday. “I work for the Raiders.”
All of this preceded Sunday’s come-from-ahead loss in Denver, the place the Raiders led 10-0 and have been on the point of going up 17-3 earlier than quarterback Gardner Minshew threw a 100-yard pick-six to Pat Surtain II to tie the rating at 10-10.
Minshew, who began 9-of-9 passing however completed 10-of-20 with two interceptions, was benched late within the third quarter for Aidan O’Connell.
Requested whether or not Minshew was nonetheless the starter going ahead or if O’Connell was now the man, Pierce mentioned, “I do not know.”
Then there was high-priced defensive deal with Christian Wilkins, who seemingly suffered an harm to his left foot when fellow DT Adam Butler jumped on him to have fun a second-quarter sack, sporting a protecting boot within the locker room.
Simply one other couple of drops of drama for the Raiders and Crosby, who vented about different reviews on him, his loyalty and his purported need to go away Las Vegas too.
“I’ve acquired to listen to these clowns speaking on-line and speaking on ‘The Pat McAfee Present’ saying one thing’s occurring they usually’re talking for me, saying I must be on the sideline after I’ve acquired a excessive ankle sprain,” Crosby mentioned. “These clowns, they’re sitting on the sofa speaking about what I must be doing. However the actuality is, I am gaining yardage and attempting to get proper and so I can get again on the sphere. Everyone is aware of my intentions, they usually attempt to converse for me when s—, in the event you converse to me, if you recognize what is going on on, then we may have a dialog. However do not converse on my identify … when you do not know what the hell is occurring.
“These guys know I will take a bullet for them, everybody on this locker room. So you have acquired clowns which might be on-line and speaking, they acquired their in the future of the week the place they get to go on ‘The Pat McAfee Present’ and discuss … about what we should always do. And you have not even been a GM, [or] you are a GM for one 12 months. So it is embarrassing. Do not converse for me.”
Crosby acknowledged the discuss bothered him.
“I take plenty of warmth and I may do it … I have been by means of that,” he mentioned. “However do not discuss me when you do not know what is going on on and also you’re talking for me … or talking concerning the group, ‘Oh, one thing have to be occurring with Maxx.’
“Come on bro, you recognize the place I need to be. You assume I need to be wherever else? No. I acquired this s— tatted on my physique. I do not need to go wherever.” Crosby confirmed a tattoo of the Raiders emblem on his proper elbow.
“It’s simply humorous,” he mentioned. “You have acquired lots of people which have so much to say after they actually do not know what is going on on.”
