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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is speaking up again about the Maxx Crosby trade pitch, and he's getting strong reaction.
One of the main storylines of the 2025-26 NFL offseason was Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders being available for trade, and the Dallas Cowboys were one of the teams in the hunt for him. Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has expressed that the team was very serious about bringing Crosby on and made three trade offers, but instead, Crosby went to the Baltimore Ravens, only to fail his physical and come back to the Raiders.
Now, Jones is talking about Crosby again. The Ravens, of course, cited Crosby’s failed physical as why they took back their offer to bring him to Baltimore. Speaking with reporters at the NFL’s annual league meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Jones basically said that the Cowboys would have done the same thing.
“There’s no hidden item there — you’ve got to pass a physical,” he said, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. “We’ve never completed an agreement until the player passes the physical. We would have had the same conditions with the physical.”
Jones added, “As you know, we were in on making an offer for him. So he would have come to Dallas, and we’ll all just guess what would have happened.”
Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Gets Words After Maxx Crosby Comments Made at NFL League Meeting
As for those comments from Jones, Jerry Trotta of The Landry Hat says in a Thursday, April 2, feature that “the ‘bad faith’ crowd isn’t going to enjoy reading that quote.”
“Jones didn’t go as far as to say that Dallas would’ve followed Baltimore’s lead,” Trotta adds, “but he didn’t have to. And it makes you wonder if other interested teams would have done the same.”
Trotta goes on to comment on how the Ravens handled their situation and why it was controversial, to put it lightly. “It’s one thing to back out of the trade because of a failed physical. What makes Baltimore look so shady is that they reportedly communicated with free agent Trey Hendrickson before bailing on the Raiders,” he says. Of course, the team then signed Hendrickson to a four-year, $112 million contract, according to research from Spotrac.
So, “knowing how much Jones loves making headlines — and how much star power the Cowboys need on defense — it’s pretty bonkers that he walked away from the biggest move of the NFL offseason,” Trotta adds. “That almost vindicates Baltimore’s decision, as shady as it looks in retrospect.”
Dallas Cowboys’ Maxx Crosby Trade Pitches Included Three Bold Moves
According to a report from ESPN’s Ryan McFadden out on March 24, the Dallas Cowboys proposed three different deals to the Las Vegas Raiders that started with pick No. 20 in the 2026 draft and Osa Odighizuwa to get Crosby to Texas.
“Initial offers centered on Dallas’ second first-round pick at No. 20, and defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa,” McFadden said in the report. “The Cowboys then offered their top first-rounder at No. 12 and a third-round pick.”
He added, “Ultimately, the Cowboys moved to No. 12 and their second-round pick, but the last two offers, sources said, did not include Odighizuwa, who was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a third-round selection.”