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Best of the Bus: Maxx Crosby On His Longterm NFL Goals + What Other Coaches Say About Him
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
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Maxx Crosby
Lenovo.
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Podcast Host (Lenovo Ad)
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
So good.
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Maxx Crosby
Your bill, ladies. I got it.
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Podcast Host (Lenovo Ad)
I got it.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
No, I got it.
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Maxx Crosby
Seriously, I insist.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I insisted first.
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Podcast Host (Lenovo Ad)
Oh, don't be silly. You don't be silly.
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Maxx Crosby
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Rock, paper, scissors.
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Maxx Crosby
Shoot.
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Podcast Host (Lenovo Ad)
No.
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Maxx Crosby
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
What's up, boys? On this Best of the Bus episode, a series where we drop a best of every Saturday and recap some of our favorite episodes. Throwing it all the way back to when Max Crosby came on the bus. The boys were in Vegas before the 2023 season with the one and only Max Crosby. Mad Max, just elite, specimen, specimen of a pass rusher in the NFL. Max opened up about his goals and how he's leveling up for next season and what it was like playing with AB and Devonte Adams. He also gets real on the Derek Carr situation. He will drop a monologue that'll make you run through a brick wall and get your piss hot. Big hugs, tiny kisses. Enjoy this episode.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Bus with the Boys. Obviously, we are not on the bus right now. We are in a pristine location, unkn unknown, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the home of the legendary Max Crosby. And if you're at home right now, go ahead and give him a round of applause. We'll do it, too.
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Maxx Crosby
Appreciate you guys.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Buddy, this is an outstanding place.
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Maxx Crosby
I appreciate it.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah. When did you. When did you move into this residence?
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Maxx Crosby
We moved in in May. I lived about three minutes away before, and me and Rachel were looking at houses for a long time. And it was a very stressful look at Brooklyn. Very stressful situation. You know, we're going back and forth, arguing, I'm done. You know, I was at the point where I'm like, I'm done looking at houses. Like, until I get my contract, like, I'm done. And then all of a sudden, my boys come in town, we're going to the UFC event that weekend, and Rachel's like, there's this one house we gotta see. You know, whatever. I'm like, I'm done. I'm seriously, I'm done. I'M done looking at houses. She pulls me in the car, we're going. We drive around the corner, and that was it. We literally put an offer on this house that. That same day. So really? And it's this house.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
So, yeah, there is, like, a weird transition. What's that?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I said, he knew that bag was coming.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He knew the bag was coming. But when the bag's not secured yet, you do start playing the game of, like, man, I wonder what I could get. And you start. You get on the Zillow app, and you're looking at the things, all right, this is what I can get right now. But if I get this contract, I could go and get that and that 100. It's a crazy game you play in your head.
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Maxx Crosby
Yes, it's the best, though.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Was that, like, a stressful time for you? Like, before contract stuff was, like.
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Maxx Crosby
I wouldn't say stressful. Like, it was honestly, like, a good stress. Like, you know the situation. Like, it's hard. You don't know. Like, you want to get to your number. Like, you're really hell bent okay on this.
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Podcast Host (Public Investing Ad)
Boom.
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Maxx Crosby
I'm not going below this. But then in the situation, like, when it really came down to it, I. You know, you're never gonna get exactly what you want. But at the end of the day, like, I got enough where I don't have to. You know what I mean? I don't have to worry about money anymore. So, like, that's the ultimate goal. But it's, you know, for me, it's not really about the money. Like, my. I've always heard from coaches everything. Like, they're like, the second contract's what the NFL is all about. And for me, like, I've always thought about. I always try to do above and beyond. Like, my goal is to get a third contract. Like, I want to be the highest paid in a few years. Like, that's. That's my ultimate goal. So, like, this contract was a big deal for me. Like, I'm set, but at the end of the day, like, I want to reset the market. So, like, that's, like, my goal for sure. One of my goals.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
How long you want to play?
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Maxx Crosby
12, probably 12 to 13, just depending. I honestly don't know. But, like, I don't. Like we just talked about, I don't ever want to step on the field and feel like, like, not like myself. Like, that's when I'll know. Like, if I get to that point, I'm be done.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Because there are players that, like, young when they're Younger in their career, they play super hard. Like, we were, we were in the car driving here and like, the adjective I think we used for you was like, did you play relentless? You play hard and when. Sometimes when dudes play that hard, that puts some wear on the tires. And then dudes get older and they have to change up their game a little bit. And you're not, you don't want to sacrifice that.
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Maxx Crosby
No, no. You know, honestly, I've. I've always kind of had that mindset, like, ever since I, you know, started playing football. Like, I truly believe there's only one way to play. And yeah, if I, if I'm playing and being cautious about jumping in piles and things like that, like, I probably shouldn't be playing. And yeah, like, I just want to look back at my career and be like, yeah, he put a great body of work. I don't want. The last thing they remember is like my old ass trying to bend the edge and falling over and stuff. Like, that's the last thing I want. You know, for me, I really want to go out on my terms because there's. Most guys don't. And that's kind of the hard thing about this business. Like, I, you know, I'm not in control. I don't know, you know, what's going to happen in the future. But like, I know the preparation I put into it. I do everything I can to try to be at my best and be able to play that way. So, you know, that's kind of my, my long term goals. But I'm just literally just trying to stay in the present. That's it.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah. It's almost like, how do you know? You know, I mean, like, if you're, if you end on, if you end on a high note. Right. The competitive nature in everybody is you continue to go. It's like, I don't feel like you would actually find out if you've lost a step unless you had a year where it's like, oh, damn, maybe I don't have it like I did the year before, year prior. So it's almost like, how do you know? Because you're almost. You're also addicted to all the success as well.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You know what I mean? How do you feel like you would know?
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Maxx Crosby
I don't know. I feel like his old ass. That's a great question.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
His old ass bending around the edge. I feel like that wouldn't happen unless it's like week 15 of maybe your last season and you're like, fuck, maybe I am slowing Down. Down.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, no, that's. That's true. You never. Like, I feel like you're never gonna know. Like, exactly. But it's just like, like jj, Like, I feel like it's a mental thing too. Like, you know, when you're done. Like, there's guys. Like, I feel like there's certain. Like, even I know Sean McVeigh. Like, I don't know the. All the story, but, like, I know how he works and people talk about his work ethic. Like, he's like, when he's in it, like 24 7. He's 24 7. He doesn't stop. And like, people are saying he might take a break and there's rumors of that just because of how he is. So, like, if I ever get to that point where I'm, like, sick of it and like, I'm really not enjoying it and I'm, you know, I'm at that point where it's like I'm, you know, I've already. I've given everything I got to it. Like, it's time to just, you know, call it a career. Like, I know. I feel like I'll know when that day comes. Like, even J.J. watt, like, you've seen, he's balling like he had just had 12 and a half sacks this year, and he's just like, I'm done. But he knows he kind of hit that limit. He played, what, 12 years.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, but look at, look at Tom Brady.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, but it's different though. Like, he's. He's not taking big hits running and putting his shoulders and shit. So, like, that's different. Like, I feel like, especially playing up front, you know, Taylor, like, it's a lot and it's every single day in practice. Like, a quarterback's not taking any damage during the week. They're not doing it during the off season. Like, we do it all the time, all year round. So, yeah, like, my goal, like, there's. There's main goals I want to hit. Like, I want to be the Raiders all time sack leader. Like, that's something that's like big on my checklist. Like, there's a lot of things that I want to hit before I'm done. So, yeah, you know, I'm just going to stay in the present. That's all I can do. But when that, when that day comes, I feel like I'll know.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
What is the all time sack leading?
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Maxx Crosby
I think it's 107 and a half. Greg Townsend.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
So you're at 100 sacks year 10, 8. Yeah. Let's say. Okay, yeah, yeah. Let's say you're at 100 sacks year eight, but you're losing a step, but you need seven sacks to get that all time sack. Do you come back the next year to get to check your boxes where you feel like you're close, you know what I'm saying?
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Maxx Crosby
I feel like that's different. Like if I'm in year eight and I feel like I'm losing a step, then maybe I'm not doing something right. You know what I mean? Like, maybe that, that's.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You're so relentless all the time. Like, maybe, you know.
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Maxx Crosby
Nah, that's. I'm still young, bro. Like, I'm 25 and I've. I'm going into my fifth year. You know what I mean? Like, if I'm not. If, like just looking at it from, like there's. You look at the Kobe's, the gods like that, like they work relentlessly. They were able to play 20 years. I know it's a different sport, but like even the NFL guys, like, I know injuries are. Injuries happen. Like that's a part of it. But, you know, I feel like if you do all the right things, you take care of your body, do sleep well, recover well, do all the shit right, you practice right, keep, Keep ahead of things, like, you'll be fine. And that's how, like I played almost 1100 snaps this year. Like, I played a ton of snaps, but like, I feel good. Like I could go, I could start training tomorrow if I really wanted to, but I have to force myself to slow down. So like, I'm not fucking stupid. I don't think like I'm above other people and I don't. You know what I mean? That's not how I look at it. But like, I just, I feel like if I just keep doing the right things, bro, I'll be able to kind of control my destiny in a way.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I was more trying to give it a hypothetical of you're slowing down, but you're also right there on the cusp of a couple of those checks.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I'm going again. I'm gonna play one year and if I go and have four sacks, then, okay, it's time. But like I'm a. Yeah, I'm Gonna Definitely.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, 107.
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Maxx Crosby
You're right.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I guess it would be like, you know, it wouldn't be like year 12 or 13 where.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, 36, I think 37 and a half.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Okay, that's pretty. All right.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What are other goals on that? What are other goals on that list.
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Maxx Crosby
There's that. Oh, my bad.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But it's your mouth.
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Maxx Crosby
There's, There's a few. Like, like, I want to be in the hall of Fame. That's something I, I want to be in. I want to be the Raiders all time sack leader. You know, there's, there's a lot of things I can't say everything but like, there's like the main goal is like, I want to be. Definitely do that. But I want to, I want to have a career where like, when people look back, like the biggest thing for me, like the numbers and is cool, like the jacket, all that shit's cool. But like, my main focus is like trying to impact the way the game is played. Like, I feel like in the NFL now there's a. There's only a few guys that you really look at and they're like, damn, he's just fucking. He's different. I don't know what it is, like, just the way he plays. Like, I watch like Chris Jones and like Micah Parsons and those guys, like, they're just something different when they're out on the field. Like, it's like a presence and like, that's what I want to leave back. Like when people look back and talk about me, they're not going to talk about the stats. At the end of the day, they don't talk about Lawrence Taylor Sax. They talk about when that dude is on the field, he's a fucking animal. And that's, that's, that's the way I look at it. Like, inspiring kids. Yeah, inspiring kids. Like, I want to be that guy that kids want to be like, like, that's, that's what matters most to me. So if it's six years and I feel like I'm losing a step, like, then it is what it is. Like, and I'll know I'm done. But like at the end of the day, like, I feel like the impact I leave on the game, like I want to be, I want to bring that back. Like the old school way of playing football. Flying the ball, not giving a shit, like throwing my body. Like that's, that's what I feel like is missing nowadays for sure.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What?
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
From an inspiration standpoint, when you were playing at Eastern Michigan, of all places, in Ypsilanti, which is wild. Like, we did unpack, like how you went there.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Wild shot at the boys in red. I think it's way better than Nebraska.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh, man. Until this year. Until this year, when you're, when you're playing, like, obviously the first person that comes to mind, somebody you've already mentioned like two or three times, is J.J. watt. Was that like your guy at Eastern?
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Maxx Crosby
No, not at Eastern. I liked. I was a big JJ fan. Like, when I first started playing dn, like, my first year playing DM was. I was a senior in high school, so I was new to the position. I'm like, what, what? Who's the best at what I do? So, like, JJ at that time was like Superman. So I definitely. I like watching jj, but there's a ton of guys. Like, I love Jared Allen growing up. There's a. There's a ton. Like, and it's not just defensive ends. Like, I played growing up. I was a middle linebacker the whole time until my senior year. So, like, you know, I could go on and on about different players, but yeah, I watch everybody and I just. I want to be like, unique. Like somebody not just another guy, another hard working. Like, I want to be somebody that look back, it's like, damn. Like, in that time, like, this dude was different than most dudes.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Because J.J. was one of those dudes who like, fought through the fringe. Like, when I first got to Tennessee, it was like, that was when JJ was. Was jj. It was terrifying.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And then, you know, he went through like a three, four year spell where he like played six games, played nine games. Like, didn't really play a whole lot. And he could have easily been where we've been. What we've been talking about was like, is he losing a step?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And he goes back to the Cardinals. And like you said, he had 12 sacks this year. Yeah, Loki was balling this year.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
It's a competitive. I feel like it's like a. That competitive fire.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like, also the fight of being like, this can't be the end for me. Like, I need to make this comeback real 100.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But you're in it, though. Like, you're in your own. Like, some people could objectively say, like, maybe you are losing a step, but I guess only, you know. But then that obsession of being so uber competitive, maybe you don't necessarily know it, but you keep going back for sure.
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Maxx Crosby
And that's the thing too. Guys like the game. You evolve, like, over time. Like, especially, like, even if some guys are a little bit older, that's the thing too. Like, my game is from my rookie year to now, it's like, pull it. You know what I mean? I've gone. It's not even like the same person. I watch my film, so even I feel like it's when you get older, too, like, you see a guy like this, I always refer to the NBA, but, like, you see James Harden, like, he used to be dropping 40 a game every night, and now he's like a pass. First he's leading the league in assist because he's lost a step, but he's also like, the best passer in the league now, and he's just evolved as a player. So, yeah, I feel like that's the thing. Like, I have this vision of what I want my ending to look like and how it's going to be. But, like, I truly don't know. Like, I really don't know. I just. I just try to stay. Stay in the day, bro. And if I can maximize every day and do what I do, like, it's just going to work out the way it's supposed to. You know, it's not. That's not under my control.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What's it like now?
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Maxx Crosby
You're right.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I was going to switch the subject, but if you're staying on.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, I was just. I was playing. So everyone. Everyone really has this, like, everyone's writing their own little story in their head and they're like, they're narrating their own story. Like, if I do this, like, it's going to look like this. And, like, you're literally watching yourself daydream of how it's all going to end. Everyone plays it out and you're right. Like, a lot of dudes can't go out on their own terms. Like, a lot of people. Like. Like, for me, two ACLs in three years. It's like I was on top of the world before that and I thought, oh, man, I'm getting this jacket. Like, we're gonna keep going.
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Maxx Crosby
Oh, yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And things just switch up on you. You have to learn to pivot and be happy with what you've done.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. 100.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What's it. What's it like being Brian Baldinger is one of his favorite players. I feel like my man is always shouting you out because of what you talk about, the impact on the game. I feel like he does a great job of spotlighting that and showing that the Commodore, whether or not you're getting the stat of a sack, the way you affect the game, what's it like like having a legend like that talk about you multiple times throughout the year?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, it's awesome. You know, ever since my rookie year, for some reason, like, my first game that I really got to play in was Indianapolis game. I think it was week four of my rookie year. And he put a video out, and he made up the Condor nickname and all this stuff. And I was, like, thrown off. I'm like, damn. Like, I didn't realize.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Juicy. He narrates that stuff.
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Maxx Crosby
The comment, the whole thing is classic. So it's like when he's first started doing that, like, I reached out back to him and I was like, man, I was like, I appreciate it. It means the world. And then, you know, I just. As my career's gone, he's always doing videos. And now, like, we'll talk, like, before, you know, after a game, I'll be like, go, go watch what I did on this third down. Boom. And he'll check it out and be like. And we'll just have conversations back and forth. He loves.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He's pushing the Commodore.
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Maxx Crosby
He loves football, bro. And that's. That's the type of people I like to like to associate myself with. So, you know, like, Marinelli and those guys, like, th. I talk to Marinelli to this day, every day. Like, he just visit him, didn't you? I just saw him in Texas. I was just on the phone with him, like, two hours ago. Like, he's one of those guys that, like, I need in my life to keep. Like, everybody has those people, especially, like, in your sport, that you, like, just have a different level of respect for. And, like, Baldy and like, Marinelli, those guys, like, I constantly. Even when I'm not training, like, right now, I have a couple weeks to kind of get off my feet. Like, just. I need it. Like, it's my part of, like, my addiction. Like, I. I love playing football. So having those guys just talk ball and just feed me knowledge is. Is really cool.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
How do you get the Commodore nickname?
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Maxx Crosby
The Condor?
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Condor?
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Maxx Crosby
Excuse me.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Did I say Commodore? Did you say Commodore?
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Maxx Crosby
What is a Commodore? Isn't that, like.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I don't know. Vanderbilt? Anchor down, dude.
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Maxx Crosby
Similar.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I mean, yeah, similar schools.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah. How'd you get that nickname?
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Maxx Crosby
It was just from Baldinger. I. I think it was that wingspan. Yeah, I guess the wingspan, like, you
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
do have, like, a solid caveman, like, knuckles touching knees. That's a big. That's a big compliment you got. Things are flying, too, when you're playing.
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Maxx Crosby
I've. I've heard a lot of different, weird. You don't need to hear.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You watch your film. You see them. You're touching the right guard when you're playing the left tackle.
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Maxx Crosby
See, that's the funny thing, bro. Like, and this is weird, and y' all can believe me or not, but when I went to the combine. I'm like, you know, everyone's always told me that, like, bro, you got long arm. Like, you're long athlete. I went to the combine, I was like, almost the bottom when it came to wingspan. No, they were like, I swear to God. They had articles, Eastern Michigan, because, like, I did good at the combine, so people started talking about me more, but they're like, yeah, I don't know, his wingspan's short and blah, blah. And I'm like, wait, what was your. It was like 610 wingspan. I don't know my arm length. It was like, how tall are you? Six five.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh, I think that's a dub, right,
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
if your wingspan's longer than your boy.
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Maxx Crosby
No, that's what you were.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You got them stubby.
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Maxx Crosby
Walks, wrestler build.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
His hands in his pockets to relax.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, you gotta pull his shoulders way down.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I'm trying to hit that ball the other day in the shop and all.
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I can't.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I can't get it started. I'm like, I gotta kind of bounce the ball a little bit.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You do got them little stuff, but they make your arms look bigger, though, that way, like, if you have real long arms, your arms don't look as big.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, but I don't know if it's weird, brother. People in the football world would always
- [20:45]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
say, you must have a small torso.
- [20:47]
Maxx Crosby
There's got to be something wrong.
- [20:49]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I got a small torso.
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Maxx Crosby
I think I got wide shoulders that make my arms seem longer.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Unless you got a fucking wings out there, dude.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yo, that's hilarious. Okay, Eastern Michigan.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like, how did you end up there?
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Maxx Crosby
It's funny you brought this up. So yesterday my D line coach from Eastern called me and he, you know, we're just chopping it up, talking. Talking ball and whatever, and somehow he brings it up. He's like, yeah, you know. You know, it's hilarious. You know, we've been interviewing a new D line guy because he's going to move to linebackers there at Eastern, and they're getting a new D line coach. And he was like, coach Creighton, my head coach. He's. He started this thing. In his interview process, he puts up five high school players, film and shows the D line coaches and has them rank the. The D lineman. He puts, like, whatever. One of the guys they're trying to recruit, he puts my film in there from my high school, like when I was in high school, and he puts like, you know, four other random guys. He said, so my D line coat. My old D line coach told Me, yesterday, he said, every single coach ranks me at like, fourth or fifth from high school. And I'm dying laughing.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
And they don't know that it's you.
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Maxx Crosby
They don't know. And then they're like, yeah, you know that's Max Crosby, right? And they're like. They all get awkward.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
But, yeah, that's gotta be a tough. You just gotta sit there. That meeting, go, I'm not getting this job.
- [22:09]
Maxx Crosby
Right? It's over. But that's. That's kind of like, bro, I was a late bloomer. Like, I was a. I was a linebacker all the way up to my senior year. Then we got these new coaches and I had a big growth spurt, but, like, my body, I wasn't caught up. Like, bro, my knees were hurting. I was slow, twitch as fuck. Like, if you watch my high school film, you'd be like, yeah, I'm not surprised you went to Eastern. Like, I was surprised I got a D1 offer. They were the only D1 to offer me, bro. They're my only offer in general. So, like, I got that offer, I jumped on it, committed, and boom. And then. Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Were you a basketball guy?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I played basketball.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You were a Bees, huh?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I could hoop.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No.
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Maxx Crosby
Easy.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Buckets.
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Maxx Crosby
No.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You play in the paint.
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Maxx Crosby
I was. I was like a sweat, you know, like a stretch four kind of guy. I could shoot. I could shoot the ball. I swear to God, I rather shoot than be on the block. Like, I'm not a. Back to the basket.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Come on.
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Maxx Crosby
I'm. Catch the ball at the top, get to the lane, hammer that paint guy. Absolutely not.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You can't.
- [23:02]
Maxx Crosby
I could rebound, but, like, I'm not back to the basket. Old school George Mikin type. Come on.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Can you dribble?
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Maxx Crosby
Well, I'm not going to hype myself up, but I have the Serbian. My mom's. Serbian is. It's translated to the court.
- [23:15]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Can you do the dribble between your legs?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Can you dunk?
- [23:19]
Maxx Crosby
I could win.
- [23:20]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Can you do the thing?
- [23:21]
Maxx Crosby
Go right there and I'll win. I'm talking about the other hoop. We have a court back there.
- [23:25]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Is it even regulation?
- [23:26]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
It's probably eight feet. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be eight feet. Can you do the thing where you bounce the ball and you pick your shirt up and the ball goes in and you slap it and it goes around and.
- [23:33]
Maxx Crosby
One mixtape. Yeah, I don't think I can do that.
- [23:36]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You think you're the best basketball player on the Raiders?
- [23:38]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I think guys would tell you that too. I'm not going to hype myself up. But we've all played again.
- [23:43]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I see you over there getting a little. You keep like twitching a little bit.
- [23:46]
Maxx Crosby
Like I can get wiggly.
- [23:47]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, like you're a little triggered that we're kind of questioning your basketball.
- [23:50]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, it hurts, but it's, it's normal for, you know, being a white guy. They will always question you at first, but then you go on the court and you.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
That's why you had to get yatted everywhere.
- [23:58]
Maxx Crosby
It changed.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, yeah, dude, you, you are, you are tatted is. What's it like playing defense? Being white is that tough.
- [24:08]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I remember when Taylor called you, oh, he's just another normal white guy out there.
- [24:12]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Actually, Will told me that story. I forgot that even happened. Explain that, Steve.
- [24:16]
Maxx Crosby
Or my feelings.
- [24:17]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, what happened that day? Because I don't remember when saying that to you.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You remember.
- [24:21]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, I really don't. Told me my whole focus in that game was you. When we were playing the Raiders, you
- [24:28]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
literally told me we were pulling up. You're like, hey, was Max the guy where I said, look, it's just another white guy?
- [24:32]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, but I. Yeah, yeah, because you've told me that story, but I don't remember in the moment saying that. I just remember him saying that to you.
- [24:38]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
We finally got you guys here together. Max will let me down on like,
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I think I oh wait, no no. I was telling you I'll give you $200 per sack you got on Taylor.
- [27:47]
Maxx Crosby
It was something like that. Yeah. They run a long hey, I got the Titans back this year though so I was proud and I let Variable know about it.
- [27:55]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Did you really?
- [27:55]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [27:56]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
What'd you say to I was talking
- [27:57]
Maxx Crosby
to the Whole game, you're just sitting there on the sidelines. His hands and his knees. And after y' all tried to run that weird reverse boot shit. And I just.
- [28:03]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Fucking great play calling.
- [28:05]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. It was like on a third down and I just jetted. Smoked Tannehill. And I looked to the sideline. Variable. Just looking. He was right there. I was like, stop running that at me. Stop running that. And he's like, okay. Shaking his head and. But I. With Variable, bro. He's one of those coaches. This is random off topic, but he, like, he texts me all the time. He's cool as he was my coach of the Pro bowl last year.
- [28:28]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Max. Probably the Titans.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He's playing.
- [28:31]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You got to respect that third contract.
- [28:33]
Maxx Crosby
You just gotta build relationships. You never know.
- [28:36]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Bring you to Nashville with the boys.
- [28:37]
Maxx Crosby
I don't know about that, but you
- [28:40]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
look fantastic in two tone blue.
- [28:43]
Maxx Crosby
You never know. You never know. But. Yeah, I'm happy where I'm at.
- [28:47]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You join the boys in that show.
- [28:48]
Maxx Crosby
Wouldn't you? If they didn't want me here anymore? Yeah, of course. But I think. I think it's gonna work out just fine.
- [28:55]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Dude. Like, you don't know Rabel. Like, we know Variable because he'll go in meetings, like on Wednesdays and Thursdays and pull up tapes. Tape. And just dummy guys, like, just verbally assault them. And we. I remember playing. I think it was that year, rookie year, we played in Oakland.
- [29:09]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [29:09]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That's when we played each other.
- [29:10]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [29:10]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He would put you on the film and he. There wasn't really a bad thing. Because you play hard.
- [29:14]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [29:14]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And there wasn't a bad thing. He's like this loud mouth. Like, just like circling was like, this guy. He can't touch the quarterback. This guy, like going off about you the whole time. And that's got to be a great feeling because I've had the same thing with like Bill O' Brien and Bill O' Brien be like a 77. He's a fake tough guy. And that. That hurt every time.
- [29:33]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Remember Gunther in the defensive meeting that week?
- [29:37]
Maxx Crosby
What did he say?
- [29:37]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
It was like. It was like the same kind of stuff.
- [29:39]
Maxx Crosby
Similar to talker. He's going to. Yeah, he's going to be trying to
- [29:42]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
get a chirpy the whole time.
- [29:43]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. It's funny, but that's like, I have. You know how the NFL is. You have friends on all different teams. You know, a bunch of guys like, that's the funniest shit. When you sit there and talk after the season and they're like, yeah. In our meeting, you know, we circled you and just kind of hearing what other teams have to say about you, like, that's interesting. You know, everybody has their own kind of perspective on who you are as a guy. Yeah, there's some teams that think I'm the biggest piece of shit on the planet. Like, really? Of course.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like, he's so loud.
- [30:09]
Maxx Crosby
I'm loud.
- [30:10]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And he. He makes a play, he's like, show me what, motherfucker.
- [30:13]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. Yeah. I can't help myself. I love it. Like, I'm loud, but that's like, there's. There's certain teams that you could tell, like, they. They're trying to fuck me up. Like, the Niners team, like, the Niners coach and all them. They, like, butter me up all week. They're like, man, besides Bosa, he's, you know, he's probably the best guy. Once we got to the game, they tried to send the fucking house at me, bro. They were doing, bro, just different, weird. Like, the Niners blocking, like, the schemes and shit they do. I've never experienced anything like it. Like, bro, they were tackle, tight end, both going down, and the guard would, like, they were coming at angles. You didn't even know where the they were coming from, bro. It was just different. But, like, that's the thing. Like, that's the coolest thing about the league is, like, being in a position. You know how it is. Like, you're on an island the whole game. You don't even have to worry about it. So, like, that's your responsibilities. For me, it's the opposite. I know they're going to be sending shit at me, and it's like. It's a different type of challenge every week. And all the offensive coordinators, they all got a different way of approaching it, and it's. It's cool because after the games, they'll talk to be like, yeah, we're trying to fuck you up, and we're trying to do this. And I'm like, oh, you got me on this, but fucked you up on that play. So it's cool, man. That's what the league's all about.
- [31:21]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Dude, Kyle Shanahan's so good. I was watching their first playoff game, and the. The blocking seams are wild.
- [31:28]
Maxx Crosby
Wild.
- [31:29]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like, there was. What was the play? Oh, they, like, the tight end, like, went out on the. The end and then, like, flashed the end as if he wasn't. Like, he was gonna block him, then went away. Then Trent was there. That was when McCaffrey had, like, that long like 55 yard run. But the, the blocking scheme was just so unique and it's simple.
- [31:49]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Because you look at it from an office line like, oh, they're just running this play with like these two little different things. Yeah, but they do such a good job of opening up holes.
- [31:55]
Maxx Crosby
Yes.
- [31:56]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
They got studs all around, I was gonna say.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, that helps as well. When you got between Debo and McCaffrey, like those in open field, there's probably, there's not. You can't name anybody really better than them. Like you got tyres and like that. But like McCaffrey and Debo, like an open field, they're fucking electric, bro.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Dangerous, dude.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What's it like playing against Trent Williams?
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Maxx Crosby
He's a stud.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
He's a stud.
- [32:18]
Maxx Crosby
He's a stud. It was fun though. We had, we had some good battles.
- [32:21]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Did you get one on him?
- [32:21]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I got a couple. I didn't get a sack on him, but I had a nice little QB hit on a little inside move. It felt good. No, we, we were talking. He's cool as we see he's talking, like just having conversation. But I usually I'm a. I line up on the left, so like I'm going against the right tackle most of the time. So once I went over like, we knew like Trent's gonna be on an island. So during the game we kind of schemed it up where, okay, Max, you're going to play a little bit more on Trent because you'll have more one on one opportunities because they're going to probably chip with the right tackle and stuff. So I got to rush against him a couple times, but I fared well. I had some good rushes. He had some good. He's just a big motherfucker and he's athletic. So athletic. It was a good matchup, bro. We got the best of each other a few times. It was cool.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You were telling that story on the plane about him and desean Jackson.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
They were like just his athletic ability. Yeah. There was one off season where we were in OTAs and they were basically trying to narrow down who had like the fastest start. So like every group. I mean, very subjective, but 10 yards, it's kind of hard to figure out who wins every one, but every position group would go and then they would put everybody together. But the final two were DeSean Jackson and Trent Williams because he could just get out. Like he's extremely athletic. They would talk about him playing back. They would talk about playing legs and.
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Maxx Crosby
Makes no sense.
- [33:41]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
They said he would when they would Play basketball at the Y that he play like beyond the arc. He windmill dunk, like, do all this stuff. He's just like, I believe, a super athlete, bro.
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Maxx Crosby
He's a freak, bro.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He really is a freak. What about McGlinchey, that right tackle for the Niners?
- [33:55]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, he's a big dude. He's a big guy.
- [33:57]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He's. He's a little more stiff, but I feel like he's an underrated cat. Like he doesn't get enough respect.
- [34:01]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I didn't know. I thought he was solid. You know, it's. That's a weird thing. Like, especially now, like, I'm like this year especially, like, I played on the left side majority of the time and like early on with me and Chandler both going, like, the chips would go back and forth, so I would have some more one on ones and shit. But Chan got hurt against Pittsburgh and like the last few games, it was like, if I wasn't moving around, like, I'm getting. They're sliding and they're chipping, so it was hard. It was really fucking difficult to kind of get those true one on ones. And especially when you're not up in games, like, you don't, you know, it's a lot less, you know, it's a lot more predictable what they're doing. So. No, I got, yeah, Mike McGlinchey, he's a big. He was, he was solid. We definitely, yeah, we had, we had a good little, little back and forth. It was, it was fun, bro. And that's the thing with the Niners. There's certain teams, bro, that like, they just make it really difficult for your D line and shit to get off. And that's, that's always the biggest challenge. Like the New Englands, like, you know, when you're playing New England, they're gonna literally do everything they can to try to stop this guy and this guy. And like, Tennessee is like that too. I know Vrabel's come from the Patriot. Patriot way too. So, like, I sit there and hear McDaniels, he's like, okay, Bosa right here. Every single time we're gonna slide, we're gonna boom, we're gonna. And I already know going into the week, like, I'm playing Bill Belichick, he's gonna try to fuck me up every play in Tennessee. I know Vrabel's not gonna let me just go and try to wreck the game. And that's. I feel like that's. As years have gone on, like, that's been, you know, like in my game, like, having to evolve, you have to truly, like, you have to truly be on it every single play because they're bringing more than one more than more than less.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
It's got to be a hell of a compliment, though. Yeah, they're sliding to me and chipping me.
- [35:43]
Maxx Crosby
It's got to feel good. No, it's awesome. But at the same time, it's very frustrating. Like, that's. That's, like. I feel like the biggest part, like, in the past, like, last year, like, I was getting in my head because I wasn't getting. Like, I was getting a shitload of pressures, but I wasn't getting home. Like, there was, like, a stretch where I'd, like, had six games in a row where I didn't have a sack. I felt like I was rushing my best, but I wasn't getting home for some reason. And, like, that's the thing as a rusher, that's so difficult. Like, there's no play called for you. You have to go earn every single stat, every play, every sack, every tfl. So, like, that's the challenge. And, like, people from the outside world, if you're not getting sacks as a rusher, like, they think you're. You're, like, not balling. You know what I mean? Like, Chandler was balling, and people were on his head because his sack numbers were low. And, like, you feel like Chandler was the same guy last year that I was calling like, bro, Like, I don't know why I can't get a sack, and he's helping me out. So, like, having Chan here this year, like, I was getting a lot of sacks, and Chan was, you know, going through it a little bit, and, like, being able to be there for him is, like. It's, like, crazy, bro. It goes full circle because, like, Chan's a dude I looked up to forever. He's 100 plus sacks, and he's in year 11, and he's, like, going through it, and it's, like, it's tough because it just shows, like, as a rusher, like, this shit is really difficult, and you have to appreciate every single stat and everything you get because, like, you could rush great for the whole game, but they could just be getting rid of the ball. They could be. You know what I mean? That's the tough part about it, but that's also, like, the beauty in it when there's a reason why sacks are, like, a big thing, because it's not. Everything's got to go right. They got to hold the ball. The coverage has got to be on point, everything's got to be, you know, on point for you to get home. So.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Football.
- [37:20]
Maxx Crosby
Chandler. Oh, yeah. So I didn't. Yeah, I forgot. Yeah. Yeah.
- [37:26]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Oh, you forgot.
- [37:28]
Maxx Crosby
Chan's a dog. But I love as a human being, the dude's one of the coolest dudes I've ever met.
- [37:33]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
When I was playing him in 20, 21, he had like four sacks that day. I gave up two of them and there was like the end of the game. At that point in the game, I was at such a low point. I was like, I just need to get the out of here and regroup somehow.
- [37:46]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [37:46]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And he, like, rushed me and he went to pull away and I had his chain and I tore it off.
- [37:50]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [37:51]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And he's like, oh, man, now I'm really mad. Now I'm really coming. I'm like, hey, I like walking back to the huddle. My hair. You have four sacks. You're all right. Like, just relax. Just relax. That was the lowest football moment, but low key. Even before I got hurt, I never played him well. He always played really well against me. Like my second year I played him. He was at the Patriots and like the first, third down, dude, he takes me to the back of the quarterback. Strip sack, fumble return for a touchdown. That's how the game started. First series.
- [38:19]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Why do you think he's always done so well? Like, what do you feel like makes him, like, great?
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He's. I don't. I think, like, if I were to play. If I were to play him again, I would. I would vary at my sets more. He's so long and he does a good job. Like, it looks like he's always on a step cadence. Like 1, 2, bowl, 1, 2, 3. Like, turn those shoulders. And he's really long too. So short corners are not good against him. Like, if you get him to like nine and a half, he's got that capability to reach with the far arm and get that quarter of that. That ball out. So it's like he's got enough speeds where, like, I gotta respect this. But also he can turn in power also. And then dudes, that. And I. I can't remember if you put like this or not. But, like, he doesn't necessarily, like, play like, sound run defense. Like, so you. Like when you're trying to shoot off the ball like we do at Tennessee, he goes inside. Like, he can jump around. Like, if he has that kind of freedom, like, that's an easy way to like second guess yourself. And he. He's a He's always been. He's always played me well. I think of all the players I ever played, like, he's been a guy that's always kind of had my number.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Even before getting hurt. He's a stud.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. There's always Guy. There's always those guys in the league. Every year you're like, okay, I know this is about.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Gotta mark this one down.
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Maxx Crosby
This is about to be. Yeah. Like, I gotta be on my. And that's. Yeah. Chandler's just. Bro, he's just unique. Like, how he explained. He's got. He's not fast, but he's got. Like, he's not fast. And he'll tell you that. He knows he's not. But he's just. He's so long and he's so. Like, he's just a different athlete. It's like his brother. Like, they're so long, but they're not fast and they probably. They can't jump high. But they're like freak athletes. I don't even know how to explain it. Right.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
They're just really visibles, aren't there? But like you said, the game film is way different than what you see.
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Maxx Crosby
Like, his combine numbers would be exactly. He just. He's just a unique, unique player, bro. He was born to play football, dudes. Dude's a stud, bro.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You met his brother?
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Maxx Crosby
No, I haven't. No.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I heard he's gonna fight again, right? He's fighting.
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Maxx Crosby
He's got.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He's got two brothers. Arthur Smith. He played in the league too.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, the whole family. Whole family in the league.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Pros. Yeah.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
It's Arthur, right?
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Maxx Crosby
Not that's the coach of the Falcons, but am I who the last name is? Jones. Arthur Jones.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Arthur Jones. I don't know why I said Smith that black label. Because he was my favorite teammate in Washington.
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Maxx Crosby
Arthur.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Arthur Smith. I'm like, they're brothers, right? Like, that's not even the same name.
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Maxx Crosby
I don't think that's the same.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What Arthur do.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Is he. Is he an athlete as well?
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Maxx Crosby
He was a. He won a Super bowl in Baltimore.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh, I didn't know that.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. He's the oldest, though.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, he's the oldest. He didn't have as long as a career. But like, that whole family is just
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Maxx Crosby
a breeding brothers in the NFL. That's. That's ridiculous.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah. No.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Ch. He's a stud, man. And you're right. He's like an anomaly. Like, you look at him, he's got like, the. The size like you. Like, you look like his he must have a short torso as well.
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Maxx Crosby
How long his arms are, Long toes, but.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
But like, he legit, like, does a, like, incredibly wacky, very unorthodox, extremely unorthodox rusher, but he just. He does well.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You mentioned earlier about the Patriot way. What's it like playing for Coach McDaniels? What's it been like playing for Coach McDaniels transitioning from Coach Versace last year? Obviously, you guys are super close. Versace of legend.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I've always heard good things.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But then you. Coach McDaniels comes in. What's it been like playing for Coach McDaniels?
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Maxx Crosby
Honestly, my experience has been great. You know, I feel like every time you get a new coach in, there's new expectations. And I feel like it definitely takes time to adjust, you know, as a whole, like, if you're halfway in, halfway out, you're not going to last in. The way he coaches, like, he has a very specific way that he wants things to be done. He's all about work ethic, all about doing the extra mile. Like, that's how he approaches it. And I. Like, we talked about off camera, like, me and him, we've had a great relationship ever since I got here. The dude. That's how I think when it comes to training and stuff. I'm always doing extra. So it's nothing new to me when it comes to that. But like I said, if you're a guy, that's the normal NFL guy. They're not training all off season. You know what I mean? It's just. They're doing it. They're. It's like. It's hard as. It's not like a normal NFL team. Like, it's just. It's just different.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You're talking about the way he. The way he runs the operation.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, just the operation. Like, we're really working, bro. Like, even during the season, like, we're in pat. We were in pads, like, late in the season at some point.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I've heard some tough days.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, there's some tough days, but, like, that's just. That's what it is. Like, you know what I mean? You can and complain about it, or you can show up and improve and get better. And especially in our situation, like, Bro, we're 6 and 11. But, like, we lost. We were in every single game, basically, besides New Orleans. Like, we lost every game by, like, less than a touchdown. So we're right there. And that's the probably the hardest part about it is like, fuck, we're right there. But we have great building blocks on this team. You know, we have Devonte, we have Josh Jacobs, we have a ton of guys. It's just we're not there yet, but I feel like we're definitely like on our way. Like if things go our way, you know what I mean? This year, like, we could have easily been a double. We could have won 10 games easily. But that's not the reality. Didn't you know, last year we won every single close game. And that's the toughest thing about it. It's like you can either, either overthink it and, you know, dwell on it and bitch about it. But we went 6 and 11. That's our record. It's fucking. It's not acceptable. But I feel like Josh is a, as a coach, he's done a really good job for sure.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Go ahead.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, he just seems like. Yeah, because this is like, this is not meant to be a shot. This is just like an observation. Like the Raiders, like really underperform for based on the. You guys have an incredible amount of talent on that team.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And so how do you. Obviously, without overthinking it, what are the. What are the little things here and there that you guys lose by? Losing by seven, you can now win by three. Like, what are those little changes?
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Maxx Crosby
I think, you know, I've talked about this already, but it's like for me, it's the standard, like holding guys to there. There has to be a standard set. It can't just be. You show up to practice, you do the plays. We're not going over, we're not sitting here and you know, you should watch the film and everybody should be graded. You know, are we really running to the ball like little shit like that? I feel. And that's just how I, I have an old school mindset when it comes to that. Like just the little details of running to the ball Loafs like the shit we talk about, like, that's, that's what I think's the difference. You know, at the end of the day, like, if the, if the standard is not set in the off season OTAs and like that is never. You're never going to go on the field and everybody's going to be on the same page. It's just not reality. And that's where I feel like, you know, last year or the year before, like when you were there, like, that's. We got to that point at the end of the year, like everybody was playing for each other and that's the new thing. Like, and it's not like it's McDaniel's fault or anything. Like everything's new, so it does take time. And that's, you know, something. As a leader, like, that's what I feel like I need to, you know, take another step. You know, as a leader and being a captain, like, that's something I'm really focused on, is building, you know, bringing up the other guys. The guys that really want to be, you know, really want to be great and be a difference maker, not just another guy on the roster to fill out a spot. Like that's, that's what we need. You know, I feel like, like you said, we have the talent in big spots, but like, we do have a lot of things we got to improve on. Like, you know, our D line wasn't good enough. Our, our defense in general wasn't good enough. As a whole, like, it wasn't, we did not play to what I believe the standard should be. You know, we played, we rushed a lot better the year before. We covered better. You know, there's, there's little things that we got to improve on. So, you know, that's. And it's a, it's a group effort, you know, it's got to take everybody. And, you know, I feel like we're definitely going in that direction. The second half of the season we played a lot better on defense, but that's just the tough part about it. You can go back and forth and, you know, we lost close games, but like, but either way we lost like, and that's. At the end of the day, 6 and 11. 6 and 11 is fucking terrible. So, yeah, you know, I believe in them. I believe that, you know, we're going to keep building up the roster in a lot of key spots and, you know, just keep going in the right direction. But the main thing for me is a standard, bro. Like, we have to have a standard and there can't be guys that are halfway in, halfway out, because you know how it is. You have fucking nine guys on the same page and two are halfway out. The door is never going to work.
- [46:23]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
So do you feel like that's what it was? The standard wasn't held the entire year because a lot of the, the talks and the headlines and the conversations was, you know, last year we ended up
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
And then you go in, you think you're gonna build off, you have a new regime come in. Of course it does take time. But then putting the year that you guys did put together, you keep alluding to the standard and everything else and half in, half out. Do you feel like it was upholding that standard if you, when you do look at it?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I feel, and like you said, like we talked about, it's not easy. You know, the way, the way of, you know, how Coach McDaniels does it is not easy. We're working hard. Like, bro, we're in training camp, it's fucking 100 degrees out. We're on the field. Like we're not practicing at 7 in the morning. Like we're practicing like 10, like that. It's hot, bro. Like people are dying. And then we're running gassers at the end. Like it's not a joke. That desert heat, bro, that desert, that real heat. And so that's my point. Like as a player, like I pride myself on my routine about doing it every day no matter if I'm in a bad mood, if I'm feeling like shit, like showing up and trying to improve regardless of how I feel. And I feel like we didn't have enough of that this year. Just we didn't sustain it for a whole season. You can do it in camp, you can do it in OTAs for the first couple months, but it's like we need a bunch of guys who are down or are willing to sacrifice the whole year and be on, be on point. And you know, that's, you know, that's just a part of it where, you know, I feel like we're going to bring in more guys that are like minded and you know, I just, I'm trusting it, you know, it's not my control. I'm just, you know, I just want to be a leader, you know, that's, that's My main goal, lead the guys, bring up the younger guys, and show them the way. So when you're.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
When you're saying, like, I. I have a standard for myself that I said every day, whether I feel like or I feel good. Like, when you feel like. And you don't want to do it, because I feel like a lot of people are going to hear that and be like, I do. Everyone goes through the same thing. Yeah, everyone's got motivation week one, and now all of a sudden, it's week 10. You're like, oh, man, I really don't want to get up and go do it again. Like, what are the things that you tell when you're working through that process? Like, you wake up in the morning, you're sore, it's Wednesday. You know, you're going into pads. You know, it's week 12. Like, how do you make sure not only you set that standard for yourself, but as a leader, like, you're saying, set that for everybody else.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. You know, the main thing for me is just. It's that foundation. Like, if you don't have a solid foundation going into the season, like, if there's little cracks in it, that the whole house is going to come down by, you know, halfway through the year. And that's like, my main thing. I'm a very. Like, I have an addictive personality. You know what I mean? I'm an addict at the end of the day. So, like, I use it to my. As a superpower nowadays. Like, there's certain shit. Like, every single day, I'm doing the same thing. Like, Normatec stretch. Every. Every night before I go to bed. Like, cold tub, hot tub. Every single day, I'm. You know, there's certain things I have to do. My meal prep, everything. So, like, even when I'm feeling like shit, I have to. Like, every morning, I know I have to do it. Like, it's an agreement I have with myself once the season ends. Like, and that's something I'm doing right now, trying to figure out, okay, what can I do better? Well, how am I going to be better next year? What am I? Like, there's certain things I write down. Like, I'm not breaking this. Like, there's no. There's no conversation with myself in my head, no matter how fucking bad I feel. So I feel like it just. You know, the main thing is just being mentally. You know, obviously, you got to be mentally strong, but you have to just make agreements with yourself. Like, I'm not breaking this, and we'll see. What happens if it goes great, if I play great, whatever. Like, that's amazing. That comes with it. But, like, if I don't play up to the level I expect, like, I know I did everything trying to do that, so I'm not gonna feel like a piece of, like.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Right. Statistically, the numbers might not be there,
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Maxx Crosby
but knowing if I put everything I have. No, I can't feel bad about it. So. But obviously that's not the case.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. Like, and just trusting it. So, like, that's what I. I always try to tell the young guys. It's like, like my thing this past offseason. Like, what could I do better as far as going into training? Like, the weird little difference I made, like, I was going in at 8am and going to train. My agreement with myself this past offseason was I'm gonna be in the building by 6, no later every morning, 6am Monday through Friday. And that's fucked. That's not easy in the offseason.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No. Especially Fridays when you get to go in later.
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Maxx Crosby
Fuck yeah. Yeah. And. And this is. I'm talking February, March, when there's no. I don't have to. To be there. Technically. Like, this is all offseason. And I did that. So once the season got there, like, that was like a boom. I checked that off. I did that. Like, that's. For me, that's where I get my confidence from. It's a little shit that, like, nobody. Nobody's telling me I got to do this. It's little shit that, like, it's challenging as in the off season when I could sit here and sleep and get relaxed till 8am you know what I mean? But I'm getting up at 5:15 and I'm going and going and working out when there's nobody in that. That's kind of what I. You know, that's just one thing, but that's how I pride myself. It's just like setting the standard. Boom. This is what I'm doing regardless of the situation, no matter how I feel. I'm getting the fuck out of bed and I'm doing this. And that's where all my confidence comes from. And that's how I try to push the guys around me because I'm not like a big hoorah guy. I'm not gonna stand there. This is what we fucking gotta do. Blah, blah, blah. I'll speak when I have to. But as a leader, I feel like at the end of the day, the true leaders, they show that shit every single day. And that Comes to practice, the weight room, like, that's what I try to carry myself and pride myself on. Because if you go and ask any guy in the locker room or ask Dave, you can ask Dave when you get there. You could ask fucking coach McDaniels. Like, they can say whatever, you know, I might be a dick sometimes. I might. Whatever. But redhead, yeah. Red beard, everything. You know what I mean? Super white. But at the end of the day, they can never say, I don't work harder than anybody in that building.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I think it's showing.
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Maxx Crosby
That's what I pride myself on that matters.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Having non negotiable is like a massive. A massive thing that people need to have.
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Maxx Crosby
It's huge, bro. It's my whole life. It changes. Two years ago, when I got that surgery, bro, I started doing that. It's changed my whole fucking life.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
It definitely. It definitely shows. And that's like me being there. You are literally there doing your shit every day.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
When you talk about the standard, not that you have to get out of character or get out of personality with it, but do you feel like approaching this next year, maybe you do speak up a little bit more to kind of uphold that standard, because you are a guy who's earned your stripes in the league now. Like, everybody knows this stuff, and you're talking about your routine every day now, right?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
So people know about that and understand, you know, how you come correct every day. Do you feel like you need to speak up a little more to fill more of that leadership role, to uphold that standard that you were alluding to earlier?
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. You know, like, I evaluate everything from my leadership to my play to my. Just my attitude, my presence. Like, everything I really sit down and break down, all right, what can I do better here? And I feel like that's with anything, you know, I could. There's always room for improvement as a leader. But I feel like, you know, my third year when you were there, we beat the Chargers last game. Like, that was my first year being a captain, and I'd never been a captain my whole life. Like, so that was my first time really being voted a captain. So it was like I was learning a lot, you know what I mean, Being in that leadership role. But it was different. It was a lot easier when I had a bunch of guys who thought, like, me, like Quentin Jefferson, Solomon, Thomas, Yannick, like, they're all. Like, all of them are legit. Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like that.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, they're size. Like, they're all kind of crazy in their own way, but, like, that's how I am. So, like, I. I really didn't have to push. You know what I mean? We're all like, they've seen how I work there. There wasn't negotiables. They're with me after the work, you know, I mean, after practice, running with me.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Kj, Right?
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Maxx Crosby
I had a full squad. Yeah. Like, I wasn't having to. That's what I feel like this year. It was diff. You know, it's a lot different because I got a whole new team, basically.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
More youth.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. A lot of younger guys. A lot of guys coming from other teams, practice squads, and boom, they're playing on Sunday with me. So that's. That was the challenge this year is like, this dude doesn't fucking. I don't know this guy at all. I just met him two days ago, and now I got to try to lead him. You know what I mean? Like, that was the biggest challenge this year, is there was a lot of change, a lot of different guys in and out, ton of injuries. So, like, it was a big challenge. And I feel like, overall, it's like, the hardest year mentally for me, because I feel like I was playing my best ball, and I really had a lot of shit that was going on. We were struggling. We're losing a lot of close games. Like, there was a lot of moments where I could have just fucking lost, you know, lost my marbles and act out, you know, just fucking lash out. But, like, I really had to sit there and just internalize a lot of shit and just be grateful for just being in this situation. Cause I could look at it and bitch about it. Oh, I don't have. You know, I don't have a bunch of Pro Bowlers playing with me. I don't have this. He has this. And. And point to other teams. Well, this guy's got that. You know what I mean? Like, I could do that, but it's just. It does nothing. And that's what a fucking coward would do. And for me, it's like, bro, I trust what I'm doing. I know I'm working like no other. And I trust in the end, it's all going to work out the way it's supposed to if I just continue doing the right shit. And, like, I look at guys like Aaron Donald, like, bro, he was in with the Rams, they sucked for years, and he was the best player in the league, but nobody was really talking about him like, how they talk about him now. But over the time, he stuck to the process. He continued to dominate and Then by year, what is it? Year 10? Last year, he's in the Super Bowl. Biggest moment. Everyone fucking sees Aaron Donald, there's no question he's the best. And he goes on the biggest play and fucking wins the Super Bowl. Like, that's the shit I think about. Like when I get those moments. Yeah, like it's touchdown, bro, and he wins and gets home ball game. Like that's the type of shit I think about. Like I can lose my shit right now and be like, well, the fucking Michael Parson is rushing with DeMarcus Lawrence and you know, he's got other, you know, whatever. But that's not, you know, that's not what it is. My story is different than everybody, so I just trust that, bro. And I continue to just grind, bro. I work non stop and I trust it's all going to work out the way it's supposed to.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
When you first get to the NFL, like, there's a lot of distractions and guys like you, you have no money, then all of a sudden you have a bunch of money regardless of where you're drafted, like it's more money than you've ever had. And that is difficult anywhere you go. But it's. I can't imagine what it's like being a rookie or a younger guy and coming to Las Vegas to play for the Raiders. Like, how is that, how are you going to work through that process? Because that stadium, you can see it, you can see the strip.
- [59:38]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And it is a cool place to be. Yes, it is fun. And you, if you're a young cat with no, with all this money, like, how do you keep guys straight during the season when you're not winning all the games you should be winning?
- [59:50]
Maxx Crosby
That's, that's a tough question. You know, everybody's different and that's, that's the biggest difference. When you get to the NFL, it's not like college, you know, everybody in college, it's like, like even structure. Yeah, it's a lot more structure. Everybody's on an even playing ground. Nobody's richer than this guy. It's like, this is what it is. You know what I mean? Now you get to the NFL and this is any city you can play with New York Giants here in New York City, it's, there's always going to be that. Like I, bro, I was in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and I still found ways to get fucking lit and have fun and do all that shit. So, like being in Vegas obviously is amplified, but I feel like just having a solid foundation, bro. Having good people around you, being around the right people, because there can be. There's. Well, there's a million people that are gonna pull at you. And, hey, I got this for you, bro. Hey, coming to this club, I got you hooked up, and then all of a sudden, two months later, like, you owe me $20,000 from that one day. What? You know what I mean?
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Your motors are skeevy, bro.
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Maxx Crosby
Fuck, yeah. So, like, bro, I just. For me, it's just. I don't even. Bro, I don't even go to the club. I'm chilling all the time. The. I go to cigar lounge. That's the only thing I do, so. But you have stayed out of straight. Yeah, I have a different. But. Yeah, for young guys, bro, it's hard. Like, if I was here as a rookie, I. Bro, I don't even know what the. I was.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I was gonna say, like, you've been. You've been really vocal about your whole process.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
When you first came in the league, imagine if you were in Vegas.
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Maxx Crosby
Oh, bro, it'd be crazy. And that's. That's the thing. Like, I say, like, these rookies, I can't sit here and be like, stay in your house and do it, like. Because at the end of the day, bro, guys are gonna go out.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Especially if you're saying.
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Maxx Crosby
Guys are gonna. Especially if you're saying you're gonna be out doing whatever you're gonna do. It's just about being. Being smart, bro. Be cautious. Don't go out by yourself. Don't go out. People you don't know. Like, you really gotta roll with the people you trust and stay out the bullshit, because there's a bunch of bullshit going on, especially at that. Bro, you go out to a nightclub, you don't know what the fuck's gonna happen. You know what I mean? Somebody. They see you, they know you're an NFL player, you're immediately a target, no matter what it is. Like, they want whatever you got, so. And people are willing to lose whatever they have to fucking get what you have. People will fucking rob you in broad daylight. They don't care. And that's just the thing, you know, for the young guys, just knowing who you're around and trust and don't just be out and about like it's normal. You know what I mean? You're not. I think that's the thing. I, like, I still have to slap myself because I'll drive and pull up to a gas station by myself and the fucking big chain on my. I Won't even think about it. You know what I mean? And that's. That's now, like, as I gotten older, like, I. I truly have to, like, slap myself in the face. Like, I'm not. I can't just roll around and do whatever like normal sometimes. Because people are crazy, bro. You see it all the time, guys. NFL players go to LA and get fucking their whole shit robbed and taken, and they're just going out there to go hang out with family. It's like. It's dangerous, bro. Especially nowadays, bro. You see more and more of it all the time.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Can you talk about when the. The switch with Derek Carr was made?
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Maxx Crosby
How.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
How it impacted you and how you felt like it probably impacted the team in that moment, if at all? Because obviously there was a lot of noise outside of the building.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, a lot of noise. A lot of noise, definitely outside the building. It was tough, bro. I remember that morning because D.C. has
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
been the defranchised guy since you've. You've came to the Raiders.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, yeah, he was all four years. He was my quarterback. He's nine years as a starter, which is crazy. It doesn't happen. So, yeah, I'm sitting there, you're hearing rumors like, okay, is Derek gonna get benched this week? You know what is going on, blah, blah, blah. And you're just kind of hearing rumors room. But you know how it is. You don't believe all this. You're just like, okay, we'll see. And then all of a sudden, like, we went in that morning, and me and DC are always the first two guys in there, and we sit there and eat breakfast. So, like, squad is at 8. Like, we're in there at 6 o', clock, and we sit there and we eat breakfast together, we talk, we go in the hot tub, I go take a dump. And then he goes and does whatever he does. You know what I mean? So I go in there and DC wasn't there at the breakfast table. And so I asked Angie, who's there? She runs the kitchen. She's the best. Shout out to Angie. This is the camera. I love you, Angie. She's the best. She always sits with us and watches us and just chops it up with us. And I was like, angie, where's dc? Have you seen him? She's like, no, he hasn't been in yet. And that's in my head. I'm like, fuck. You know what I mean? Something. Something went down. So, yeah, like an hour later, I'm in my locker. I just got out the hot Tub. And DC walks in, and he's looking at me, and I just knew. Like, I already. I just knew immediately. And he just. Whatever. He gave me a man hug. He's like, bro, I don't want to make it look like I'm, you know, quitting on y' all or anything, but, like, me and Josh talk like, I'm, you know, I'm gonna be. I'm gonna go home and for these next two weeks and, you know, figure out my situation. Well, it was like, you know, obviously, they had their business behind the scenes, and they've had, you know, had an agreement. So, like, it wasn't like, he's just like, it. I'm not showing up. It was just like, you know, business. So, yeah, it was tough. Like, DC's my boy, bro. Me and DC have been always, you know, as friends. Like, bro, he's a great dude. I love dc, and he's gonna. You know, somebody's gonna have him as their starter next year, and hopefully I get to play against him. It'd be dope, but I wish him the best, bro. It's just. It's hard. Like, in this league, there's really, you know, you can play for a team for 10 years, give everything you got, like. But unless you're like Michael Jordan or you're Tom Brady, like, even Tom Brady, it's the same thing. Like, bro, he was in year 21 6, Super bowl, and they're. He ended with a bad relationship, and they got rid of. You know what I mean? And there was kind of friction. Like, it's crazy, bro, at the end of the day. So business, it's a business. And that's the thing. You got to realize it's not personal. It's not. Like, people don't like dc. Everyone. You know, everyone's cool with dc. We love them. But it is what it is. You know, Josh and Dave, they got their vision of what they want, and, you know, that's just part of this business, man. And I trust them. You know, I'm on this team, and they're my coaches, but at the end of the day, I gotta believe in what they got, you know what I mean? And what they're bringing and what they're doing. But at the same time, it's hard when it's your boy and there's emotion to it. So it's like, damn, what the fuck? And then you, like. You want to get mad, but it's like, at the same time, you have to understand both sides of it, and that's Kind of what I've learned, you know, being in the league more, it's like you can't, you can't take shit personally because it's not personal, bro. It's a billion dollar business and it is what it is, dude.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I've been around Derek just like a handful of times. He's like the nicest. He seems like the nicest guy.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Of all time. Focused, kind like charismatic. Good dude. So he's gone. This is the off season. Hypothetically, who do you want to be the quarterback of the Las Vegas Raiders?
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Maxx Crosby
Who do I want?
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like if it was just your world, they call you say who you want, you got who you want.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You get to play gm.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You get to play gm. Now this will be taken out of context. People like, oh, Max wants this guy, wants that guy. I'm just saying, perfect world boss.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah. Fun hypothetical.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Fun hypothetical.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Fun hypothetical.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
We're just hitting. We're having a little giggle time, dude.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, this is a nice little boys hanging out. Yeah, Tom Brady might be on the market.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Two dogs, three dogs down and see a little one over there.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, she's snuck in.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, she's snuck in behind the dude. Tom Brady.
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Maxx Crosby
I would love to have Tom Brady. Oh, hey, how I. I don't know how that could be controversy. Tom Brady as a leader, as a player, as the goat. As the goat, Yeah. I would love to play with Tom Brady, bro. He came to. If come to Vegas, bro.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Have you met.
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Maxx Crosby
I'll fucking fly. I'll go to wherever he's at to introduce myself. The level of respect I got for him, bro, is out this world. So yeah, I would love to have Tom Brady, but we'll see. I don't, I don't know what's going to happen. But I've, I've only met him when I played him two years ago, it was the COVID year and he was on the field. We played, we played in Vegas. Empty ass stadium. We come in for pregame and I always like early on in my career I'd always like kind of walk around the field and it was like a part of my routine in like my full like pre game outfit, like just my, my fit and I'm walking by myself going around and then Brady walks out of the locker room by himself and I'm like, oh my God. Like I felt it. Yeah, I felt the aura and I seen him. We didn't say anything to each other at the time. Whatever. I was just walking, doing my thing. He's walking, he's just kind of Looking around, looking at the stadium, which is, in hindsight, it's kind of crazy. You know, it's just plotting out. But yeah, but anyway, so I talked to him after the game. He's, you know, obviously he's a great dude. He was super cool. But yeah, bro, I, I would love, obviously I would love to have Tom Brady. Dude's a, he's a goat.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
So he is the goat.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Very few people you ever meet in your life had that kind of aura.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, it's different.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
But everyone I've met who has met Tom is like, dude, dude. There's like a glow behind him.
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Maxx Crosby
It's different, bro.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, he's like too handsome.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I feel like he's had something done.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh yeah. But like a classy amount. Like there's. He doesn't look like he's.
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Maxx Crosby
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Like, you know my Mangus Botox.
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Maxx Crosby
Like it's, it's, you know them teeth ain't real. No.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
But I think he's done a classy amount of work.
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Maxx Crosby
High class, expensive.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He doesn't get like filler and stuff and like all.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You know what I'm saying?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I would let you know what's happening. Like what's going down with the cheeks.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You see Stabby baby, his little thing?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
No.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
With them. Yeah. I'm not gonna even do it.
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Maxx Crosby
He says some.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I can't say. But yeah, dude, he does. Because you look at pictures of him and I Hope on this YouTube right now we're flashing a picture of Tom from his ear because my God, he had that rounded out face. Yeah. No cheekbones. No.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
It's different.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, bro, he different now, bro. He's like 47.
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Maxx Crosby
He's like 47. Dude. He's not just getting younger on the
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
do you think he still got it? Sorry, I hate to cut you off. I. I know you probably. You're pivoting, but do you think Tom still has it?
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Maxx Crosby
Absolutely.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I love that. I agree with you. 100.
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Maxx Crosby
Absolutely. I hate when people.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You think so. I mean, 40s, like mid-40s matter.
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Maxx Crosby
They said that when he was 40, you know, he's 46 now. Look how they got into the playoffs, bro. He was snapping and having comeback games. He threw for 400 yards just two weeks ago. They had a lot of injuries, bro. They had, bro. I watched football and Tom could still play. He's their, their whole line was getting murdered this year, and that's just out of respect. They were, I think they were ranked last in the league. Like he was getting hit all the time. They had a lot of injuries, their backs were hurt. Like they had a lot of shit going on. But it's funny, you look back, you see what he did his last year in New England when he all beat him. He. Everyone said the same thing, oh, he's done, he's washed, he's done. And this is. I look at it like. And I'm, you know, I like to write that little story. It's like, oh, well, it's gonna be his last hoorah sign on two, three year deal, you know, in Las Vegas. Come on, let's be real.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
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Maxx Crosby
So we'll see.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah. And you got studs on offense too. He a good, good line.
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Maxx Crosby
Our old line was played a lot better than people expected. This year they did really well the
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
league in rushing yard.
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Maxx Crosby
Josh let him rush.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Chip on the shoulder.
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Maxx Crosby
Devonte went for over 1500. We have Colt Miller, one of the best left tackles in the league. We got a lot of, bro. We got, we got a lot of. A lot of s guys, for sure.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Do you think. What do you think Josh Jacobs future is with the Raiders right now? Because he's about to be a free agent.
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Maxx Crosby
He's free agent. Yeah. So I know for a fact that the coaches love him. Obviously when they first came, they. We had three first round picks from my class. It was Cleave, Josh and John Abram. And before the year, they declined all their fifth year options. So everyone's like, oh, they're cleaning out. You know how they are in New England. They don't value the running back. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. From my perspective, I know Josh. Like me and Josh have been boys since I got there. And Josh is one of those people that like, he need, like, I feel like he needs that little Extra motivation. Like, oh, you don't. Okay, I remember exactly what you said. He's gonna make you look dumb. And that's what I feel like this year was like everyone was saying, oh, it's New England. They don't, you know, they don't value running backs the same. They'll just bring him in. Josh literally was the best running back in the league. And this year. And you can't even argue it every category, yards per carry, broken tackles for amount of first downs, run like, he did everything. And so I'm extremely proud of him, obviously being, being one of my boys. But I think he's going to stay here, bro. And no matter. I don't know how this, what that's going to look like if they tag or try to sign extension, but I think he's one. He's 1000% earned an extension. Like, the dude has been a Pro Bowler. I think this is third time now in four years. So, like, he's. The dude is a dog. He's an absolute dog. You know, Josh, he's the. He plays through. He's always banged up and he's always
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
about like, you know, I remember when we got our asshole from the Chiefs.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
And he was so pissed about him fumbling like early in the game and just like, man on the outside looking in. What do you feel like it is? I'm like, I just got it. Like, we just got our ass off type of deal. But he's very much like in it.
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Maxx Crosby
He loves football.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, he loves ball.
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Maxx Crosby
That's what I talk about. The guys like that, the Devontes, we need guys that have that mindset. No matter what the talent level, the Duron, Harmon's, the dudes who really love football. That's what you need in the building. And Josh is 100% that guy.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Going back just for a Second, on the D.C. situation, was there ever a time where you're like, fuck, man? Cause there is a lot, you know that. I think it was a statistic that was out there that the Raiders have been ranked like bottom tier defense since he's been a quarterback. Do you like ever sit there and you're like, fuck, man. Like, you put a little bit on yourself. Obviously you ultimately don't or you can't, but you're just like, fuck it. We could have just.
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Maxx Crosby
Honestly, bro, I don't know how to answer that. You know what I mean? Early in his career, like, their defense is like bottom defense every year. Like, we haven't been the worst of the worst, but we haven't been great. But also, you just look at it. We've had three different D coordinators in the last three years. So, like, I think stability is a big thing as well. And that's something, you know, having Pat Graham back next year for the second year, I feel like we're only going to get better. And, you know, having Josh back, like, everybody, if it immediately doesn't work, they're like, fuck it, fire everyone. Vote. That's. That's the outside world. And that's just, you know, that's natural because you see other coaches, like, day ball comes in, boom. Giants playoffs, already won a playoff game. Like, oh, fuck, why aren't we doing that?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Josh automatically gets compared to immediately compare.
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Maxx Crosby
But every situation is different. And so, you know, it is what it is. You know, as from the fans perspective, it's like, what the fuck him? We're firing him. That's how they think about every coach. If you don't succeed right away. But, you know, I feel like Josh is doing the right thing. It's just going to take time for sure. And I feel like we're, you know, we're going the right direction.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Are you the. Were you the biggest Pro bowl snub in the league?
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Maxx Crosby
I made the Pro bowl or All Pro.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
My fault.
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Maxx Crosby
The all probably.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Were you the biggest all Pro snub in the league?
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Maxx Crosby
That's not me to decide.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But you're a competitive dude.
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Maxx Crosby
Like, no, it's that.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, I saw that.
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Maxx Crosby
Pissed me off.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You vocalize it a little bit or enough to be like, hey, this is a receipt I'm keeping.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, for sure. But it's. It's like anything else, bro. When I look at it, you know, you have this own story in your head. Boom. This is how it's gonna go. I want this. I want this. I'm gonna get this. Like, this year, bro, if I look at like, I made all Pro last year, I was second team all pro. I had eight sacks, but I had 100 plus pressures. Boom, whatever. And that was like, you know, from the outside world, everyone's like, oh, it was a fucking flash in the pan. He's just doing it. Cause it was a contract. He needed to get a contract. Like, I heard that shit all off season. Like, okay, it was like this big storybook magazine told everybody about his sobriety story. Like, it was just like, people. That's. Everyone had like, oh, it's just too good to be true. That was his year. But, like, people. I feel like people in the outside world didn't truly respect me like, fully as, like a miles Garrett or T.J. watts, because, you know, they're all first round picks, they're all top 10 guys, they're all consistently ballers. Like, so for me, going into this year, like, my attitude was like, fuck that. Like, I'm that guy. Like, I'm gonna be that guy. I'm gonna be. Cause I'm always compared. Ever since Khalil Mack left, everyone talks about how the Raiders been missing a pass rusher, missing Cleo Mack. We haven't recovered from Khalil Mack leaving. And that's like something I take super serious, bro. Like, and I take offense. Like, I take offense to that shit. Like, but in a good way. I let it use his motivation. And so, like, in my storybook, like, I have a lot of things that I want to do. And going into this year, like, all right, how am I going to do better? How am I going to do better than second team All Pro? Okay, I want to be first team All Pro. I want to do. There's a lot of things, but I'm not like a big, like, number. I don't. I don't put a number on anything. Like, I'm gonna get this amount of sacks, this amount of blah, blah, blah. For me, it's like, I'm gonna fucking improve. Well, whatever that looks like, I'm gonna improve as a player and take it to another, Take a whole nother step. And I've just. From a film perspective, from a stat perspective, I did that in literally every facet. I have more. I, bro. I. I led the team in tackles as a DN. I have 89 tackles. Like, I had 22 TFLs. I led the league. I had 12 and a half sacks, was like, tied six pressures. I was top three in the league. Like, every category. Like, I took big strides. And for me, in my head, like, my perfect story is, boom, I'm gonna start in the Pro bowl again. I got that. The last thing was All Pro. And I'm waiting. I'm like, boom. I can't wait. But then all of a sudden, I look at the list, I'm like, what? And like, I was shook, bro. Like, I was hurt. Like, you know what I mean? Deep down, like, that. That hurt my pride. I'm like, what the. I. I got better, bro. I know I got better. And. And I didn't make it. And that's like, that's the thing. And if my perspective in my world, like, I wanted that was the final thing that I wanted on this season, you know, we didn't make the playoffs. I knew we weren't making the playoffs, like, just from my personal goals. And then I didn't get that. And I'm like, all right, motherfuckers. Like, I. The season went great, but I'm not doing enough. That's just the way I took it. And I know I got better.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Like, you almost forgot.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah, but at the same time, like, bro, like, yeah, Like, I know I got better. My goal was to get better. I did, bro, everything in my power. All off season, every. I did everything right, and then that was the last thing that I wanted, and boom, I didn't get it. And so for me, I could sit there and. And go on Twitter. Fuck. That is bullshit. You know, you see guys all the time bitching about this shit. You see just a couple games ago when fucking dude had a meltdown and blaming the refs, and I see dudes blaming old lineman hold all the time. Refs don't call it. Like, I'll never be that guy, bro. I think that's, you know, shit like, that is so weak to me. Like, you're gonna get held. Like, I'm. I know. I get held all the time, bro. You watch the Rams last drive against us was. Bro, I was getting literally tackled. But I'm not gonna go and double down and go look like a little crybaby. You know what I mean? That's not me. So at the end of the day, like, the last thing I wanted was to get that all pro. But I know at the end of the day, like, I'm gonna look back next year when I do everything I set out to do and be like, yeah, this was for a reason. God needed that little. That little thing that's gonna push me to do that extra little rap. The extra little. And it is what it is. Like, that shit pisses me. Like, it really hurt me.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Don't you like that? You know, that's kind of not for me to decide. It's like, hey, come on, now. He's like, man, I fucking.
- [82:24]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, bro. That shit. Yeah, I'm gonna let y' all know
- [82:26]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I'm not like that, but that shit, dude.
- [82:28]
Maxx Crosby
No, like, bro, I did.
- [82:30]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I get it.
- [82:31]
Maxx Crosby
It is what it is. And I can't do anything. Like, in my young self, Like, I thought the same thing. Like, my rookie. When I was going my rookie year, like, I thought I was gonna win rookie of the year. I thought I should have won it. I didn't. Didn't and. But that helped me the next year. Like, it's always something that every player needs that little extra motivation and, like, I can't control that. But at the end of the day, bro, I know, like, it's all gonna pay off. Like, it's all gonna. I don't need to force it and talk on Twitter and do all this extra and complain and what is that gonna do for me, bro? It's gonna make me look like an ass if I go next year and don't play as well, you know what I mean? Like, I'm gonna do everything I can to be better than I was this year. And that's. That's what's going to push me. So. Yeah, it is what it is.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
What is. So if you're looking at it now, like, I was snubbed, that pissed you off? I think I got to work harder and do. What are things? Little minor critiques you make to your off season training regiment that might get you that all pro.
- [83:28]
Maxx Crosby
I honestly, I think that that's something I'm looking at right now. Before I start training again. Yeah, before I start training again. I do it every year, especially these last two years, just.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You train here?
- [83:39]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I train in Vegas.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah. Do you train the facility?
- [83:42]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. So, yeah, that's something I'm evaluating right now.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Sorry. He's like, he hears my mouth in the microphone.
- [83:54]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Dude, bro, anytime someone goes and starts talking, he opens his mouth like that
- [83:59]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
shit's going on up, up, up top. And he's juicing me up.
- [84:03]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I can't put your lips together.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You know what I mean? I'm just like. That's just me taking it in, I guess. I can't fucking help you say.
- [84:14]
Maxx Crosby
Got me riled up. I'm fucking fired up.
- [84:17]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That was like a hype little deal right there. Someone needs to cut that and put that bunch of music behind it.
- [84:23]
Maxx Crosby
Spartan music.
- [84:23]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, dude, it's like Drake, dude. I had somebody tell me I fell off. Ooh, I needed that.
- [84:28]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, I needed it. But that, that's. Yeah, for me, like, my routine, that's something I'm gonna break down. Like, I've already talked to the strength staff, the nutritionist, we've already sat down and boom, we're gonna. This is what we're gonna do. Little adjustments where I can, you know, improve on. But it's. It's not the work ethic part of it, bro. I put in. I know I work extremely hard. It's just about, how can I make it a little bit better? What can I do? A little bit smarter. Little like that. And so that, like, this second year, like, going into my third year, there was a lot of big adjustments I had to make, and I felt like I took another big step. Like, I added boxing into my off days instead of just doing strictly tubs and chilling. Like, I added an hour boxing in. In. In that. So there's something, you know, there's always gonna be little. Like, I'm. I'm starting. I'm gonna add yoga this offseason. Like, just adding a little. But I, you know, I don't know everything yet, but just try to take that. To take that next big step. Because I know in this league, bro, like, if the biggest thing is the guys that continue to do it and you know, this fucking well, being a Pro bowl, doing it over and over, like, you either get worse or you get better. And, like, there's no in between. You don't just stay the same, you know? Like, for me, it's. I can't. Like, I can't even. I don't even know what life would look like just in my brain if I didn't do all the things I was doing out. Like, if I could just chill. This off season, like, some. A lot of guys do it. They're fucking chilling and. And just take a step back. Like, I can't even sit. Like, I have to take this time off to just let my body rest, but I'm still meal prepping, stretching, Normatec, and every day, like, I have to do it for my own sanity. So, like, that's. That's what it is for me, bro, just taking that next step. I'm fucking, like, obsessed with the process because I know where I want to go, and I can't do it any other way. So I'm just fine tuning everything and we'll, you know, we'll see what we got on the agenda this off season.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And that addiction becoming a superpower.
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Maxx Crosby
Oh, yeah.
- [86:23]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
This is a outstanding first impression for me with you.
- [86:25]
Maxx Crosby
I'm very impressed.
- [86:26]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I'm glad you guys are finally. I'm glad you guys are finally meeting too. It is crazy because I'm like, damn. I thought, I guess you guys haven't met each other.
- [86:34]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
It's just crazy because when I literally, when I saw you, you were waiting for us outside, which is very kind of you, by the way, to wait for us.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Of course, when we were pulling up next to the.
- [86:41]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I legit sounds like, oh, there's the boy. Like, I feel. I literally feel like we made met
- [86:44]
Maxx Crosby
before 100 and hung out.
- [86:45]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
So this has been. And it's cool to see your mindset because you've got it, bud.
- [86:50]
Maxx Crosby
I appreciate it.
- [86:52]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Everything. But being white. Like, everything's going for you.
- [86:55]
Maxx Crosby
It means a lot, bro.
- [86:57]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
When I got to Oakland and my boy checked in on me after my first day of school with the Raiders, and I was like, hey, somebody on the squad is, like, a fan of busting with the boys. I was like, it's Max Cross. But you weren't who you are now, but it was like, I don't know now looking back. That's cool.
- [87:13]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, it was crazy.
- [87:14]
Maxx Crosby
It's crazy when you were like, reached
- [87:16]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
up, you're like, hey. You're like. He's like telling something. He goes, no, this man's famous. I'm just kind of sitting there, like, nervous. Like, you know, first day in the first day.
- [87:23]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [87:23]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh, you think he's somebody? He's like.
- [87:25]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He's like, no, I rock with busting with the boys. I'm like, yo, let's go.
- [87:29]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That's a hilarious contrast to you going up to Will being like, hey, I with you guys. And then Richie incognito being like, oh, I do busting with the bullies.
- [87:37]
Maxx Crosby
Just bullying.
- [87:38]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, bullying.
- [87:39]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Bully me.
- [87:40]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
What was it like playing with Richie?
- [87:42]
Maxx Crosby
I love. Richie's one of my favorite teammates I've ever had. The dude is he, like, it's. You talk about work ethic. That works, bro. And, like, takes care. The way he take took care of his body, how massive he is. And playing 15 years.
- [87:56]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Body, bro.
- [87:56]
Maxx Crosby
A semi truck, bro. And he looks like he's 16 years old in the face. He's no straight. Like, he just. The dude is different. He's been through a lot of. And, like. Like, just being around him and getting to, you know, become closer with him. Like, he was truly one of the best teammates. Teammates I had, like, take me under the wing, like, type of dude. Like, he was exactly that guy. Like, for some reason, when I first got there, like, we practice, you know, we start practicing doing OTAs together, and, like, we started to, like, become boys because I'm up in the head. Like, he is. Like, I'm practicing hard as. Like, we're not even in pads. And, you know, I'm a rookie. I'm just trying to make an impression. And, like, I'm flying around the field. And for some reason, like, Richie, obviously, is he paying. He's paying attention a little bit, seeing how I do shit. And, like, he just. We immediately click because he respected it just how I did Shit. And ever since then, bro, we became boys. And I still, like, when he retired, I went up and seen him like on his retirement and like, me and him have always, you know, been really cool. And he goes to all the freaking games. I'll be on the sideline, about to walk, the game's about to start. He'll be in there in a polo, fucking grab me, give me a biggest hug on the planet, throw my rib out because he squeezes the life out of me. But he's, yeah, he, I, I can go on and on about Richie, bro. He's, he's a loyal die hard, just like real, real, bro.
- [89:12]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
A healthy, a healthy, one of the best friends to have.
- [89:15]
Maxx Crosby
No, literally, bro, he is an incredible human being. Absolutely.
- [89:19]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What a massive dog.
- [89:20]
Maxx Crosby
He's, he's a big boy now.
- [89:22]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He stood up and everybody can see him too. Everybody's like, holy. Literally, he like, take my life.
- [89:27]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
And he said, oh, anytime you wanted,
- [89:29]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Max, I, I like, I came in the house before I came in the
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Maxx Crosby
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Hey, just walk straight. Don't really don't look down. I don't make any facial expressions and I'm just kind of like walking the house and Max just starts laughing. He's like, yo, he's not gonna do nothing. But the dude's massive hey, watch the wires. Watch the wires. Dirk, Derek.
- [92:58]
Maxx Crosby
Go buddy. He's just gonna. He'll be fine. He'll stand there for like five minutes.
- [93:03]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He was assessing the situation before I came over.
- [93:05]
Maxx Crosby
He doesn't want to it up.
- [93:08]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Careful dog. Should we do tear talk?
- [93:09]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, do we have.
- [93:11]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Let's take a quick pause and then we'll find out.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
- [93:16]
Maxx Crosby
All right.
- [93:16]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
So for tear talk this week, we are going to do best dog breeds. And I feel like best and favorite. There's a gray line there because I'm sure you can look up the best dogs and it's probably not going to equal out with us. We'll say our favorite dog breeds for our tear talk. Yeah. Do you want to go first? You want me to go first?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I can go first.
- [93:34]
Maxx Crosby
My.
- [93:35]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
No honorable mentions. My tier three is going to be Rottweiler with a dog. Growing up, my parents first dog before they had me. You know how parents do the trial run. Like, let's do a dog. We can take care of a dog. We can take care of a baby type thing. They had a Rottweiler named Conan after Conan the Barbarian. They had him trained all the way up to, like, he could have been like some kind of like the police style training dog, but he would have had to leave for like three months. But a very well trained Rottweiler. And so ever since, like, growing up with Conan, it was like, I love the Rottweilers. My Tier 2 what I currently have, Waffle English Bulldogs, they're just so, like, unique to me, dude. And like, you come home, they don't greet you. They stay on the couch. You go and like, you have to go give them love. They kind of just look sad and like. But they love you.
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Maxx Crosby
They.
- [94:28]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
All they want to do is cuddle. You got a couple issues. Yeah. But all in all, like, I love English bulldogs. My buddies would have. Would have them when I was growing up and I'd go to their house and I love playing with them. And then Rob. Rob Dyrdek on Fantasy Factory and everything when they had that dog and it was skateboarding, everything else, I just always thought it was the fucking coolest. My tier one pit bulls. I know it's. I know you love pits as well. I think pit bulls are awesome. Yeah. I used to have. I used to have a pit named Boogie. I named. I made my dog Boogie after Levante David Levante. David's nickname in college was Boogie Little horny boy. And so I told. I told Boogie. I said, when I get my first dog, it's going to be a pit, and I'm going to name him after you. So that's my story about having my pit. Then, you know, my girlfriend. I broke up out of, you know, guilt. You kind of like, you can. Yeah, yeah, we can.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You don't got. We don't need to hear.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
We can cut that part out. But did pit bulls, dude, Pit bulls.
- [95:30]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I think he was horny as boogie.
- [95:33]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
No, no. If you guys hear a baby, that's Max's newborn. She's a stud.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
She's.
- [95:38]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
She's trying to get some time in on the pod. You got to respect that.
- [95:40]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Got to respect that.
- [95:41]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, she likes attention, but.
- [95:43]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But that's my tear talk now. What the rule is, you go around the room and everybody gives a one word answer on how they feel like your tear talk win. Kind of like a judgment thing.
- [95:54]
Maxx Crosby
Okay, I'll let Taylor start this.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Diseased.
- [95:58]
Maxx Crosby
Jesus.
- [95:59]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Not a fan of pits.
- [96:05]
Maxx Crosby
Magnificent.
- [96:07]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Fun. Contrast.
- [96:09]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What would your word be? I'll go ahead and echo it.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
Swole.
- [96:14]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Mitch. Almost.
- [96:18]
Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
Do you want to go?
- [96:19]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You want me to go next?
- [96:20]
Maxx Crosby
I'll go.
- [96:20]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
All right.
- [96:21]
Maxx Crosby
Go tier three. I'm gonna start off. Little curveball. You know, the only dogs I've ever had are pits. My parents, they own Little Yappy Little. I love them, but I never claimed them. I'm gonna start tier three with Dobermans. And the reason why is because they're excellent athletes. They're fucking terrifying. And there's something about them. Every time I see a Doberman, you get a little like, you don't know what's gonna happen.
- [96:53]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Is he gonna kill me?
- [96:54]
Maxx Crosby
Is he gonna kill me? Or is he like, I want this dude by my side? Yeah. So every time I see a Doberman, I just have a level of respect for the dog that I felt like it needed to make the list. Cause, you know, they're not loved on enough, I feel like. And they're feared in a way, but I respect them. Tier two, I'm gonna have to go with Rottweilers. My teammates in college, ton of them had rottweilers. Cleve Farrell, he's got a Rottweiler. Great dog, super loyal, Big ass Teddy bears. But if they need to get the job done, they'll get the job done. So I respect the shit out of them as well. But number one, unanimous decision. Pit bulls. I got three best dogs on the planet. They're loving, they're loyal as, but they will take you down if you cross the line. And that's the thing with them, especially that big. Yeah, my big guy, he's a X. He's two pit bulls in one.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
But is he knows like a. Like an xl?
- [97:53]
Maxx Crosby
He's an XL bully. So he's a pit and a American bulldog. The other two hit mixes. Yeah. So, yeah, the thing with pits Bro, like they're super loyal, but they're big babies at the end of the day. Like if they love you, they're gonna just lay like they act like they're human in the house and every time I come home, there's the response is always the same. So I respect their consistency. I respect that they got the grit and they, they're dangerous enough where people, you know, have a little bit of fear when they try to cross the line, but they'll always be there for you. So big shout out to pit bulls all around the world.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Gritty.
- [98:34]
Maxx Crosby
Yes, I love that.
- [98:39]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
JP Dominant from jp Mitch Tough Alpha. Just speaking of. Dude, I wish the camera can catch that. Look at that, man. Did you try to rob this place? And that dog's right there.
- [98:52]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Come here, Dirk.
- [98:54]
Maxx Crosby
Dirk, Dirk, come here. All right, here he comes. That was the most Dan Campbell 4 Answers I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, Grid tough Chevy Tahoe should just say Dan Campbell.
- [99:09]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
We could have just said Silverado. All right, mind your talk,
- [99:19]
Maxx Crosby
Bro.
- [99:19]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He just walks loud.
- [99:21]
Maxx Crosby
He's heavy.
- [99:23]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah. All three of my tears are pit bulls. Okay, let's see by tier three. I grew up on a ranch in Arizona. Every cowboy had this dog and it was the blue heeler. Those dogs would work cows, they'd work with horses, they'd work with sheep. They do the job that needed to get done. The reason why they're not higher on my list is because they are a rambunctious, energetic and if they're not trained properly, they will absolutely ankle bite any visitor at all times. I love the way they look. I love the way they get after it. And they're hard working, just like the Chevy Silverado. And that's why they must be in my list. I love that. That is my tier three.
- [100:02]
Maxx Crosby
Taylor, I don't want to cut you off, but those blue heelers look very similar to like German shepherds. But they're kind of smaller, right? Or am I completely Dirk?
- [100:10]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He's getting the business out.
- [100:11]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Shorter. They're like, they're shorter haired. It's hard to explain. Like any smart movie you've seen with a cowboy in it.
- [100:19]
Maxx Crosby
Okay.
- [100:20]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, extremely smart. And we'll go all day, like they'll, they'll go and work all day for you.
- [100:24]
Maxx Crosby
Okay.
- [100:25]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
But if you want to own one, you gotta like, you gotta have some wide open spaces for them to run.
- [100:28]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
- [100:29]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
My tier two, this dog would have never made my list until I met my wife. She has this dog. I think I didn't know what to Think of, I thought they were beautiful, majestic, I thought scenery like up in the mountains with the snow, I'm like, wow, what a, what a beautiful dog. But I don't think I'll ever own this one.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
1.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
This dog is going to be the husky. Siberian husky. They shed like. But my wife's dog, Akira does. Getting pets from her is like pickles on a sandwich. She'll take them or leave them, it doesn't really matter to her. She hangs out, she does her thing. She's the most low maintenance dog in the world. And it's completely changed my views on, on huskies. I think they're an incredible species of animal. Extremely smart and very vocal. And my tier one goes out to the greatest dog you could possibly get. When you go down to Humane Society and you look around those little crates and gates and you see dogs staring at you, it's not just one type of dog, it's a whole bunch of types of dogs. And when you take a cocktail combination of animals and you put them together, most of the time you're gonna get the best combo possible. So my tier one is the mutt, the mix of all those animals. You put them together, they look funny most of the time. They are funny most of the time. And they usually have the best personalities. So the mutt, those pound puppies are my tier one.
- [102:00]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Sure.
- [102:03]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Unique, respectable.
- [102:07]
Maxx Crosby
I have to be politically correct.
- [102:12]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
JP said politically correct.
- [102:14]
Maxx Crosby
What do you mean? Just, we all know you're real number one.
- [102:20]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, you do never own the number one. The God tier,
- [102:28]
Maxx Crosby
the true number.
- [102:29]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Why not Honorable mention it. You love the. I had him in there.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I had him in there. But he's right. That's why I got a little up in arms as I thought. Damn, I'm gonna get. I don't think I'm ready to take this right now. I'm not ready to take these hands on the Internet. But I do love the Chihuahua. I think the Chihuahua, what is hilarious. When I was a little kid and I would see the Takiro Taco Bell dog ripping around the little short hair, brown colors, I would always say to myself, myself, someday I'm gonna have this dog. And I would have little matching outfits, maybe cool little glasses, little chill boys hanging out. Now I have a stipulation for these dogs that I'm going to get someday I will own a Chihuahua. Someday I have to make sure that I got. This has got to be an anomaly of a Chihuahua. It can't bark and it can't bite. Other than that, dude, they're chill. Boys. And they're outstanding. Maybe you guys should.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Boy's gonna have a muzzle.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah. I'm not going to stereotype, but every Chihuahua I've met is the meanest dog I've ever met.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Number two in dog attacks.
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Maxx Crosby
Yeah.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
So the Chihuahua is the rank number two amongst all dogs and attacks.
- [103:33]
Maxx Crosby
Wow. That's. Wow.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
You want to redo your one word?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
No, no. If you were going to have Chihuahua, I was going to have a high maintenance.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I know who I am anyways. Wow.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Well, boys and girls, that is way
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
to end the episode.
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
Yeah.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Shout out Chihuahua.
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Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Is there anything else we got for Maxi?
- [104:00]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I don't think so. Were you guys listening throughout the episode and was intrigued to get a question out or go any further into anything he was saying. Mitch loves ball. So I'm kind of looking at Mitch. I feel like he's like, was getting a boner over there listening to you talk about work ethic. And question I have, I guess would be like, how.
- [104:18]
Maxx Crosby
What is like, devonte. Coming from?
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Our ESPN reporter, Mitch wants to know what devonte Adams brings to a team.
- [104:32]
Maxx Crosby
Devonte Adams, the thing with him, like, I've been, you know, you were. You were there with the whole AB saga. Well, you. You came after.
- [104:43]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
I came right after. But it was that same year.
- [104:45]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, it was that same year. So that was the first superstar receiver I ever dealt with. So I'm like, okay, this is, you know, you hear their divas, they're so. I got to experience that whole thing. So my first, like, initial thought was like, okay, I've heard nothing but good things about devontae. Like, just from the outside world, like, you don't hear him talking and like, I'm the best. Blah, blah, like, on the outside, he's not. He's never been that guy. So when he was coming, I was kind of. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if he was, you know what he was like, whatever, get another ab. Yeah. Like maybe another diva. Like, that's not the guy you want in the locker room, regardless. And the day he came in there, bro, like, when I talk about everything, I talked about like a teammate you want to do to practices the right way, trains the right way every single day. He's that guy, bro. And he's one of the most humble dudes, but extremely confident at the same time. He's not arrogant. He's not that.
- [105:40]
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Maxx Crosby
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Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
You wouldn't clean the tail end of
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Maxx Crosby
your truck with dry paper towels, so why would you wipe with dry toilet paper? Wetter just cleans better.
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Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
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Maxx Crosby
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- [109:13]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
League.
- [109:13]
Maxx Crosby
Like, he's always in that conversation. So. He's just a great teammate, bro. And he's awesome, like, just being around him. I love Devonte. Like, he. I don't. I don't know how to explain it, bro. He's unique. He's super smart. Like, he's just a different type of dude. And you could tell, like, there's a reason why he's different. You know what I mean? Just the way he plays, bro. He has no fear. He knows he's the guy. And, like, he loves football. And that's. That's really all you can say about him, bro. He's. I can go on and on, but he's a. He's a great teammate, bro. I love him to death. And I've only known him for a year, bro. I fucking. I've talked to him all the time. Like, it's not like, you know, in most locker rooms, like, sometimes you just talk to your D line guys and stuff like that. Like, Devonte is one of those guys. Like, he's one of my. One of the best teammates on the team. I talk to him all the time. He's a captain. He's just. Yeah, he's a total package.
- [110:01]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
That's fucking dope.
- [110:02]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, he's a stud, bro. I love that dude.
- [110:05]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He's just done.
- [110:06]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Good question.
- [110:07]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Good work, Mitchie. Yeah.
- [110:10]
Maxx Crosby
Oh, Shots.
- [110:13]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That's okay.
- [110:14]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Damage.
- [110:14]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
We're always looking to improve Mindset.
- [110:16]
Maxx Crosby
Yes. Improve. Yeah.
- [110:24]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
- [110:24]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
If you can hear that in the background right now, Dirk is chugging.
- [110:27]
Maxx Crosby
Yes.
- [110:29]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
He's getting after it. Dude, on that, I totally forgot what the AB thing like as a rookie. What was that experience like for you? Was it as bad as it seemed?
- [110:39]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah, I bet that was wild.
- [110:41]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't know how to explain it. So when I. When I first came in, boom, I got drafted by the Raiders. We signed like, we had signed AB Richie Vontes Burfick. Like, we, like every big. Like, you think about the craziest. They were all on our team. So I didn't know what to expect. The ab, like, AB is a person. Like, if you. If AB sat here with us right now and you genuinely, like, it's just us in the room, no cameras, nothing, you would love a B. He would love a B. You'd be like, he's down to earth. He's a great dude. But the second he left the building, bro, you didn't know what the. Was about to happen. It was every day, bro, he would go, what's up, man? Hey, man. What up, man? Eastern Michigan, blah, blah. I played, you know, he played essential. Like. Like, that was like my end with him as a rookie. I'm like, I want to be cool with that. And so we were cool, but, like, you would go home and all of a sudden there's something on Instagram. And then like, as a start getting crazy because he came in, he burned his feet off and then he had the helmet. So he was never practicing. He never was around the off season. We're like, what the is going on? He would show up here and there,
- [111:49]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
but, like, it wouldn't be with like a camera crew. And like, bro, he would bring a
- [111:52]
Maxx Crosby
posse with him every. Everywhere to the facility.
- [111:54]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
This locker room in the facility. It was not a. It was kind of like a high schoolish. Like, you had some aisles, but not a lot of room in the. In the facility locker room, bro.
- [112:03]
Maxx Crosby
Like, he had his own posse. So it was like in the weight room, he had his own trainers come. So it was just a lot, bro. But you would never, like, if you just sat there, like, he could be really is. Like, he's not. I don't. I don't know. He's got. He's got his own shit he's got to deal with. You know what I mean? There's a lot of shit that's going on. But like, like my experience, one on one with him, outside of the media, outside of that, like, he Was cool as, but I don't know. He's got a lot of going on. But, like, vontes. Like, vontes. You would think about Vonta's birthday, like, oh, my God, that's a murderer, right? He's the coolest dude, bro. Like, cool as. He came right up to me was like. At first I was terrified. I'm like, okay, this is vontez Burfig. That's a bad. Like, oh, yeah. I was. You know, I'm a try to earn that respect. Like, I didn't even know how to talk to him at first. He was cool as shit. Great leader. Like, great dude in the locker room. Like, everyone fucked with him. And he was a real leader. He was dope. And then Richie's the same thing. Like, obviously, Richie's had his shit too. Like, he's gone through a lot of shit, but Richie is a fucking great teammate. So, yeah, my whole experience with everybody, like, you would think from the outside, it was like, oh, my God. But like, inside the building, like, AB was gone before the season. Like, we were just waiting. Like, we're like, okay, is AB even to play? Like, there was something after. There's just always something. And then the. He leaked, like, Gruden's call on the Instagram, bro. Literally after he came up and talked to the whole team. He came up, bro. All the captains went up there. AB walked up on the stage. He apologized. We're like, all right, bet. So we're like, okay, he's about to Play. Like, yeah, AB's on board now. So everyone's excited, bro. That night, he posted the with Gruden and how you know that is wild. The same day me and clear.
- [113:51]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
What?
- [113:52]
Maxx Crosby
Like, we literally just talked about this. He's like, I'm done with the games, man. I apologize. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, bro. Like, we get it. Like, everybody goes through. So, like, I'm. That's from my personal bro. I always give people the benefit of the doubt. So, like, I. This is ab, bro. Like, it. He's going through his. But, like, he wants to play everything seem 100 genuine. Boom, boom, boom. Literally that night, he puts on Instagram like, the whole Gruden every and just like, I'm like, what? And then by the next morning, he was cut me and clear in the building. Mayox walking up through the hallway with a smile because Mayock had to deal with all this and May I really wanted him to be a part of it. Gruden, they. They wanted to love him, but, like, there was more to It. You know what I mean? He was going. I don't know what he was going through, but, like. And I pray for dudes like that. I don't know what he's going. What's got. What he's got going on upstairs. Like. Like, it's tough. But, yeah, like, people were like. It was like a breath of fresh air, bro. It was something every single day. And he was supposed to be our franchise guy.
- [114:49]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah.
- [114:49]
Maxx Crosby
Like, we're bringing a B to Las Vegas.
- [114:51]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Like, the best, bro.
- [114:52]
Maxx Crosby
The best. He was. So I'm like, he's my team, bro. He's the coldest.
- [114:57]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
And they said, like, when he's out on the practice field, like, that is running all day long, running and trying to do extra after. Like, it's just. It seems. Just seems like a bizarre.
- [115:07]
Maxx Crosby
I've never seen anything like.
- [115:08]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Was there ever a weird dynamic between Vontes Burf and ab?
- [115:12]
Maxx Crosby
Not at all. Really, boys? Because he executed.
- [115:17]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That's like. Everyone's like, go to. It's like, AB was never the same after that hit. That's what people say.
- [115:22]
Podcast Host (Jim Beam Ad)
Yeah.
- [115:22]
Maxx Crosby
They're like, oh, he got CTE from that. You know, everyone. That's what they're saying.
- [115:25]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Like, yeah, yeah, everybody.
- [115:26]
Maxx Crosby
Oh, they must not, bro. When they came in the locker room, bro, everybody was. Everybody was cool as, like, Vontes and him were, boy. Like, it was no. There was no friction at all. Richie and. And A.B. were boys. Like, it was when we were all just together as boy, like, as teammates. There was no issues, but it's just. There was a bunch of going on on the outside, and it just. You look back, you're like, damn, what if? But you'll never know, right? It's crazy, bro. Like, we've had ab we kind of had ab. Now we have Devonta. Like, we've had some guys come in. It's just some cats crazy, bro.
- [115:59]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Some dudes.
- [116:00]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Dude, we appreciate you, man. This has been phenomenal.
- [116:03]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
This has been a phenomenal episode.
- [116:05]
Maxx Crosby
Yes, I've had a blast. I'm glad you guys got to come to the crib, meet the dogs. The whole Shabam spend.
- [116:12]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
That was amazing.
- [116:13]
Maxx Crosby
Some wing stop some pizza.
- [116:15]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
You know how to host, too? Yeah, Wing stop pizza water the boys.
- [116:18]
Maxx Crosby
It's, you know, was a little intimidating
- [116:20]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
pulling up and seeing what you got out sitting outside.
- [116:22]
Maxx Crosby
You like that?
- [116:23]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, it was nice.
- [116:24]
Maxx Crosby
Thank you.
- [116:25]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I appreciate that was all like. Seemed like it was perfectly, like, manicured for that.
- [116:28]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
He's like, all the boys are coming down.
- [116:32]
Maxx Crosby
Porsche.
- [116:33]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, that's perfect.
- [116:34]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Episode of MTV Cribs, bro.
- [116:36]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
It really was. Absolutely. Yeah. You've earned it.
- [116:38]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
And you're wearing the chain on.
- [116:39]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Oh, hey, look at the wrists. Both of them.
- [116:42]
Maxx Crosby
A little something.
- [116:43]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
A little something. How many you going to. You going to do full bodysuit tattoo? What are we talking about here?
- [116:49]
Maxx Crosby
I want to get my chest, my upper back, and my, like, I want to get my whole, like, torso done. This offseason. My guy is moving to Vegas. He's from Boston. So like, like, I usually only get to see him like once, an off season and we just knock out, but he's moving here in March, so we might get some. Some action.
- [117:06]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
Yeah. Get it right.
- [117:07]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. I'm trying to get like you. You got all type of.
- [117:09]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Yeah, we're covered up a little bit. I guess I got work to do still.
- [117:11]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah, for sure.
- [117:12]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
There's work out there.
- [117:13]
Maxx Crosby
Yeah. My legs, bro. My legs. I haven't even got back to him
- [117:16]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
because I'd have to see his chest. He's got a cool little stag.
- [117:21]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
I'm starting to get. I'm starting to have most of my torso done. I need. There's a couple more pieces right here, but I have my whole back done. Need to get like a couple places. It's not important, but I'm gonna get a lot of time. Yeah, I'm with you. It's gonna be a big office.
- [117:34]
Maxx Crosby
Hello.
- [117:36]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
Well, thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. Please, like, subscribe unsubscribe resubscribe. Hit that merch if you're looking for the Budweiser. Can't get it anymore. It's over, boss.
- [117:45]
Co-host 2 (Interviewer)
So I love how that's like, as you're saying, you're like, ah, yeah, by the time this comes out, it's gonna be over with.
- [117:51]
Co-host 1 (Interviewer)
No, no. I knew that said the last time I did it a couple days ago, I didn't. Yeah, but big hugs, tiny kisses.
- [118:01]
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