Week 9 is basically in the rearview mirror, the trade deadline is glaring from the dashboard, and the Dallas Cowboys just had a bye day to sharpen their pencils before Monday Night Football vs. Arizona. Translation? No excuses. Reports all morning say Dallas plans to be “aggressive,” which is adorable unless it comes with an actual phone call to Las Vegas about Maxx Crosby.
Crosby and the Raiders coughed up an overtime heartbreaker to the Jaguars on Sunday to slide to 2-6, and the star edge rusher hopped on X to post an open-love letter to Raider Nation that sounded suspiciously like a soft goodbye.
Cowboys fans didn’t need a second invitation. Half the replies are Zillow links in Frisco and welcome banners for No. 98. Even some Raiders fans begged him to escape the chaos and go chase a ring. When the other team’s fanbase is telling your target to leave, that’s your cue, Jerry.
Raider Nation I Love Yall With Everything In My Heart & Soul. Yall Deserve Better. Stay As One, It Will Change. 🦅🖤
— Maxx Crosby (@CrosbyMaxx) November 3, 2025
This isn’t complicated. Dallas has been linked to splash names across the defensive aisle, and Crosby has already been on the Cowboys’ radar with earlier inquiries.
If those talks had any pulse at all, it’s defibrillator time. The math isn’t even that ugly. If the price is a first, say, the one from the Packers, then the running tally on the recent blockbuster would read: you turned Micah Parsons into Maxx Crosby, Kenny Clark, and a 2027 first. That’s not “win now.” That’s “win now and later,” with a side of quarterback night terrors for the rest of the NFC.
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Crosby’s résumé is exactly what Matt Eberflus orders off the menu: four Pro Bowls, two second-team All-Pros, and 60-plus career sacks counting this season’s five. He plays angry, durable, and relentless … traits that travel in January. Pair him with Dante Fowler Jr. and let him tag-team snaps with the rest of the rotation, and suddenly the Cowboys’ “good defense” graduates to “offenses rethink their life choices.”
Deadline windows don’t stay open just because you feel “aggressive.” They slam shut, and then you’re left explaining to your fanbase how you almost did something awesome. The clock says 48 hours. The Cardinals are tomorrow. The opportunity is right now. Pick up the phone, Jerry, and stop window-shopping and buy the monster pass-rusher already.
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