Transcript
Dan Bernstein (0:00)
Dan Bernstein, unfiltered.
Russ Armstrong (0:02)
Unfiltered on 312. Sports DBU on 3. 1, 2. Brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And wow, do we have a lot going on right now. You know, there's one thing that I love, it's discounted meat. And now Max Crosby is over there on the left with the discount sticker on him. So my question right now is. And. And I'm going to answer my own question because it is. Is it worth a phone call? And based on our conversation yesterday, right here, when we talked about, you know, why were the Bears interested, as I think he said the Rich Eisen show had reported that the Bears had interest and were and. Or were involved in talks for Max Crosby. So. And I said, there's never any downside to talking. There's never. There's only upside to having these kind of conversations. Nobody knows your actual intent. Nobody knows if you are in it for real or if you're just trying to get information. But it is a free chance to be involved in some of these negotiations and see how your players are valued, how your draft picks are valued. So why not do that? And now that we've got this bizarre situation, we found out yesterday afternoon that the. And it was a. It was the Raiders commenting first, like, hey, the Ravens backed out of this deal. We have no further comment. Not sure what's going to happen. And what I thought was really telling was the next thing we heard was a statement from Crosby's agent that sounded like they were copying to whatever the physical issue was. They did not come out hard and say this, this is unfounded, that the facts are wrong. We don't know. This is an outlier opinion by their doctors. They could have done that from Crosby side of things, but they didn't. What they said was, he's going to be ready. He. Dr. Neal El Attrachet says he is further along in his rehab than expectation. And to me, that was an indication that whatever the Baltimore Ravens doctors flagged had some truth to it. Now, we're going to talk about that in a second, because people have to understand that medicine is subjective. Medicine is not absolute. It is very far from it. And some of these orthopedic diagnoses are nebulous, and this may be one of those cases. But should the Bears get involved again? Should they make a phone call? Hell, yeah, they should. I love discounted meat. This is walking over to the, to the, to the cooler, and it says, you know, here's a. Here's a prime Steak that is usually $24. That's. That's 13. Yeah. That's why you got a freezer.
Dan Bernstein (3:03)
Right? There's absolutely no harm in just making a phone call. You know, we don't know how deep the Bears were involved. If it went, you know, it was previously previously. If it was just a phone call before, great. Make that phone call again. And this is what the doctor said. The doctor said that. That doing that. He's doing very well. Early part of his REH rehab and recovery from surgery to treat a significant meniscus tear and the related stress injury to the bone and cartilage in his knee. He is certainly on track in his planned program. And what I've learned about these physical evaluations by teams, that each team has their own grading process and grading system where one team may say, hey, I'm not willing to take that risk. Where he's at, where another team could look at it and say, yeah, the doctors say he's well on track, and he's. He's on pace, and he'll be back at this point. And we believe confidently in what our doctors say about his return to 100% health. And a team, you know, two teams could look at the same knee and say, yeah, we're good. Other team could say, we're not good.