{"id":632065,"date":"2025-12-27T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/632065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:58:26","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-bench-another-star-player-against-the-ny-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/632065\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders bench another star player against the NY Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Las Vegas Raiders have informed star pass rusher Maxx Crosby that he won\u2019t be playing this Sunday against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Crosby has been playing through an injury, he still has 10.0 sacks on the season to go with 20 QB hits and a career-high 28 tackles for a loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For their part, the Giants will be without left tackle Andrew Thoma, who suffered a hamstring injury last week against the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crosby is, pretty easily, the Raiders\u2019 best defensive players and one of their best players at any position. The decision to bench him comes hot on the heels of the decision to shut star TE Brock Bowers down for the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While we won\u2019t say that the Raiders are intentionally tanking with the first overall pick on the line, they\u2019re not beating the allegations. The decision to shut down their best players certainly makes their path to the No.1 pick much more clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maybe the Giants should counter by starting Mike Kafka at quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders have informed star pass rusher Maxx Crosby that he won\u2019t be playing this Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,82078,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-632065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-discussion","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115790473337886154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}