Tom Brady knows excellence when he sees it, and he reportedly has no plans on letting excellence walk out the door in his role as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders.
"He has his hands all over everything," Dianna Russini of The Athletic reported Friday on her Scoop City show (31:50 mark). "… He's going to make sure that Maxx Crosby is a pillar of the Las Vegas Raiders. You can't move on from a guy like Maxx Crosby."
Crosby is signed through the 2026 campaign and remains one of the best pass-rushers in football, so it makes sense Brady doesn't want to lose him.
Yet the 27-year-old brought up his future this month during an appearance on Good Morning Football (h/t Tashan Reed of The Athletic) and said, "I'm currently under contract, but I have no guaranteed money left. There are a lot of things that need to be discussed. ... Regardless, I'm in a great place, and we're going to have those discussions real soon."
Perhaps those discussions will include a contract extension given Brady's reported feelings on the pass-rusher.
Crosby is coming off his fourth straight Pro Bowl campaign that saw him post 45 tackles, 7.5 sacks and five passes defended in 12 games. Had he played all 17 games, he could have reached double-digit sacks for the third straight year.
He is a source of stability for a Raiders organization that has cycled through head coaches and quarterbacks of late and will be starting a new era in 2025 under head coach Pete Carroll.
Brady apparently doesn't want to lose that stability and star power along the defensive front and will do what it takes to make sure he doesn't.
