Here’s the cleanest of scenarios when it comes to the unbelievable breakdown of the canceled Maxx Crosby trade to the Ravens: A surgeon and an agent paid by Maxx Crosby have a rosier assessment of Crosby’s overall health than a team that was about to pay him $30 million per season while also surrendering a pair of first-round draft picks for the privilege.
Another team (the Raiders), who shut Crosby down due to the medical issue last season and are now starting an old-fashioned statement duel over the collapse of this trade, thought the Ravens understood more clearly the difference between a meniscus trim, which most athletes receive, and a meniscus repair, which carries an extended recovery timeline (and is especially difficult to analyze and project in a vacuum, at this stage of recovery if you’re an individual team’s doctor charged with assessing a risk worth hundreds of millions of dollars).
