Ravens president offers insight into reputation hit after Maxx Crosby trade

Ravens president offers insight into reputation hit after Maxx Crosby trade originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Baltimore Ravens , in the hours and days after they walked back on the Maxx Crosby trade, were public enemy No.

1, with many questioning how the franchise would be received in future deals. Some thought that due to the Ravens walking back on the Maxx trade, it would hinder their ability to do business with some teams in the future. With things now quietening down, there is still a sense that some across the league aren't entirely happy with how things were handled, despite the Ravens, technically, doing nothing wrong.

But as for the reputation hit that many think the Ravens took, President Sashi Brown doesn't think the franchise took a big one at all. “We’ve got strong and long relationships across the league,” Brown said via The Athletic . “We have emphasized the importance of doing things the right way.

We’ll continue to do that, and we understand that it is a headline story because of its profile and significance. “We believe our relationships, to the extent that you need time to repair them, people understand who we are and what we’re about. Our locker room understands that as well, but when you have high-profile transactions like this and opportunities like this, it’s unfortunate that sometimes these things do happen.