When Nate, a 26-year-old football fan from Northern Maryland, learned that the Ravens had traded for star Raiders edge rusher Maxx Crosby, he had a different reaction than most members of the Flock. Not because he didn’t like the deal, per se … but because he now had to follow through on an extremely public promise he made when he believed the Ravens were too stingy to pull off such a bombshell move.
“I know how the Ravens are, and they don’t like to trade for big people,” Nate told Sports Illustrated in an exclusive interview last Friday. “And also seeing that they've never traded a first-round pick for a player, [I thought,] they're not gonna do it.
