{"id":74863,"date":"2025-07-01T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74863"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:25:09","slug":"maxx-crosby-has-strong-words-for-patrick-mahomes-chiefs-ahead-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74863","title":{"rendered":"Maxx Crosby Has Strong Words for Patrick Mahomes &#038; Chiefs Ahead of 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2187498368.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2187498368.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2187498368.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2187498368.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Maxx Crosby Has Strong Words for Patrick Mahomes &amp; Chiefs Ahead of 2025 Season\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Maxx Crosby attempting sack of Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After years of inconsistency, the Las Vegas Raiders are hoping they have finally gotten things right with the hiring of Pete Carroll as head coach. The team they\u2019ve been chasing for years is the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have won the AFC West for nine straight seasons and are the favorites to win it once again in 2025. Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby has had some contentious moments with Kansas City and quarterback Patrick Mahomes, but he has massive respect for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ultimate respect when it comes to them,\u201d Crosby said of the Chiefs on ESPN, via Pro Football Talk. \u201cThey\u2019ve earned it. They\u2019ve won three Super Bowls, they\u2019ve got the best quarterback in football. But for us, as a pass rusher, I\u2019m going against the best quarterback. For me, I believe I\u2019m the best pass rusher in the world, so every time we match up it\u2019s match made in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crosby clearly thinks highly of Mahomes, but he\u2019s proven that he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to beat him and the Chiefs. It remains to be seen if this is the year to do it, but the Raiders should be a more formidable opponent than they\u2019ve been in the past.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Crosby Hoping for Quick Raiders Turnaround<\/h2>\n<p>Crosby has only been a part of one playoff game since getting drafted in 2019 and has never experienced a playoff win. In the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder slowly built up their team and had some rough seasons, but over the last two years, they\u2019ve been one of the best basketball teams and won a championship this year.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby is hoping for a similar trajectory for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime you go out there, you want to be in a position to win,\u201d Crosby said, per The Athletic. \u201cIndividual success and things like that are awesome, but it\u2019s not why you play the game. You play to win. We just saw it in the NBA: OKC, just a couple years ago, was one of the worst teams in the league. But they had a lot of young guys, they trusted the process, they developed and now they\u2019re the world champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to win. I want to win so badly. I put everything into it. I want everybody else to think like that. And that\u2019s been my goal, just bringing as many guys along as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Crosby Has No Problem Working With Opponents in the Offseason<\/h2>\n<p>Crosby was recently one of the hosts for the annual Sack Summit. This is where many pass rushers across many teams in the NFL work together to hone their craft.<\/p>\n<p>While these guys will be opponents during the season, Crosby thinks it is important for pass rushers across the football world to help each other out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what this whole thing is about,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cObviously, we\u2019re on different teams, but for this weekend we\u2019re on the same team together. \u2026 The pass-rush community is a very tight-knit one. You learn from the best. Seeing those guys and what they do to win, for me it\u2019s just about taking as much information as I possibly can and trying to apply it into my game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin Boyd has covered the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Lakers for Heavy.com since 2019. A Los Angeles native now based in Las Vegas, his featured work at Heavy includes interviews with NFL stars Darren Waller and Joe Montana, and a behind-the-scenes look at &#8220;The Shop.&#8221; More about Austin Boyd<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby offered up some thoughts on the Kansas City Chiefs and quarterback Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":74866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maxx Crosby Has Strong Words for Patrick Mahomes &amp; Chiefs Ahead of 2025 Season - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74863\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maxx Crosby Has Strong Words for Patrick Mahomes &amp; 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