Let\u2019s Go! podcast<\/a> on SiriusXM.<\/p>\n\u201cMe and Justin have a long history,\u201d Crosby told host Jim Gray. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone against each other, we\u2019ve battled for years and years and years. And for me, I definitely shouldn\u2019t have reacted that way. I just didn\u2019t appreciate a guy that, I know him, we\u2019ve gone to Pro Bowls together, we\u2019ve had conversations, and he\u2019s screaming in my ear and he hasn\u2019t said a word all game, you know what I mean? And he\u2019s screaming in my ear after a first down. Come on, bro. And I turn around and I push him and he flops. And if you watch the film, not one of his O-linemen came and did anything to me. And nobody did nothing because they knew he flopped. I guess he got me, but if we\u2019re gonna talk, you know how I am, I\u2019m gonna talk to you face to face. We\u2019re gonna talk our shit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crosby decided to hash it out, then and there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked up to him, I\u2019m like, \u2018Come on bro, you\u2019re better than that,\u2019\u201d Crosby said. \u201cHe was just kind of not looking at me and then I forced him, I\u2019m like, \u2018No, dap me up. I\u2019m like, don\u2019t be doing that shit.\u2019 I was like, \u2018You\u2019re gonna talk your shit to me, come talk shit to me.\u2019 Because I know him. I respect him. I have a ton of respect for Justin. He is a hell of a player. He is a good dude. I know how he is. So he was in the moment and screaming in my ear and I\u2019m like, \u2018What the fuck?\u2019 You know what I mean? I turned around, I\u2019m like, alright, and then he had a great little sell job on the fall. So it is what it is. It\u2019s a part of the game. It\u2019s a mental part of the game. I gotta be smarter though, ultimately, and not react that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crosby explained more generally the challenge of keeping those feeling in check during a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the arena, when the bullets are flying and you\u2019re one of the guys out there doing it, there\u2019s no way to describe that feeling and mentality,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cYou\u2019re in a whole different space. Yeah, you just gotta be able to control your emotions but ultimately your passion for the game is going to speak and sometimes they get the best of you. It\u2019s part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 15 yards didn\u2019t really matter. The Chargers were up by 10 with 4:07 to play. But Crosby recognizes the importance, and the challenge, of flipping the switch to \u201coff\u201d in between snaps.<\/p>\n
Besides, it\u2019s hard to fault Crosby for being generally frustrated. He\u2019s the best player, by far, on one of the league\u2019s worst teams. <\/p>\n
Now that minority owner Tom Brady has managed to clone his dog, Brady should dial up a few Maxx Crosby clones, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the fourth quarter of Sunday\u2019s game between the Raiders and the Chargers, L.A. quarterback Justin Herbert celebrated…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-418691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648046558142721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}