Maxx Crosby trade winners, losers. How much does Lamar Jackson benefit?

It has been a week of trades in the NFL – and a Friday night blockbuster became a delectable appetizer with free agency beginning, officially, Wednesday, March 11.

TheLas Vegas Raiderstraded edge rusher Maxx Crosby, no stranger to the subject of trade rumors over the years, to theBaltimore Ravensfor a package that included two first-round picks, according to multiple reports. The deal cannot be formally completed until the new league year at 4:00 p.m. ET (to be exact) on the 11th, but it is in place.

As is the case in a trade of this magnitude, there are winners and losers.

WINNERS

Maxx Crosby

All of the reporting from the end of last season indicated Crosby and the Raiders were headed for a divorce. FOX Sports said Crosby left the building when broached with the idea of being shut down for the final two games of the season as Vegas sought the No. 1 pick (which they "earned"). Crosby, 28, had minor surgery to repair his meniscus in January.

Now Crosby has a fresh start on the opposite coast looking to revive a brand built around violent defense – certainly fitting Crosby's own play style. Injuries have held Crosby back statistically during the past two seasons, but he managed 10 sacks a year ago, and 2024 was the first season he ever missed games.

Ravens' pass rush

Travis Jones led the Ravens in sacks last year with 5.0. They were 30th in hurry percentage (5.6%), tied for 30th in sacks (30) and 31st in sack percentage (4.6). Baltimore traded Odafe Oweh in the middle of last season, and other pass-rushers Kyle Van Noy and Dre'Mont Jones could leave in free agency. Adding Crosby should mean better production in 2026.

Nnamdi Madubuike's neck injury eliminated his 2025 campaign and could be career-ending. Having Crosby in the fold means Baltimore's hopes of getting after the quarterback don't depend entirely on his recovery.

Lamar Jackson

Putting stars around other stars is never a bad idea when organizations are in win-now mode. Jackson is a two-time league MVP who has to play better in the biggest games, sure, but eliminating question marks on the other side of the ball can only benefit his ultimate pursuit of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. And it looks like Jackson knew well before the news hit everybody else's social media feeds.

Fernando Mendoza

The Raiders are now picking first overall and 14th after acquiring the Ravens' pick. Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner and national champion from Indiana, will be pick No. 1. Now the Raiders can add a fellow incoming rookie with whom he can help transform the franchise.

Eric DeCosta

The Ravens had never traded a first-round pick for a player before. Baltimore's executive vice president and general manager made history by parting with not one, but a pair, to land Crosby.

According to Spotrac, DeCosta can convert Crosby's salary for this upcoming season into a bonus and lower the acquired cap hit from $30.7 million to $7.73 million. Owner Steve Bisciotti is normally wise enough to make such a thing reality.

DeCosta paid a premium but ultimately landed the object of several contenders' desires.

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John Syptek

Las Vegas' second-year GM took a distressed asset and nonetheless received market price set by the Dallas Cowboys' acquisition of Quinnen Williams from the New York Jets last year. He added a top-half-of-the-first-round selection in 2026 to help kickstart the rebuild. And the cap flexibility moving forward can only be a positive if Mendoza can provide some juice while on his rookie deal.

Jesse Minter

The first-year head Baltimore coach has said he expects to call defensive plays in 2026. The growing pains of installing a new system will inevitably become apparent early on. But the 42-year-old now has a potential magic eraser for any scheme mishaps with a game-wrecker such as Crosby lining up.

Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Bo Nix

The trio of AFC West quarterbacks who no longer have to see Crosby twice a year. Which one called the Uber to take Crosby to the airport?

LOSERS

Las Vegas Raiders, Mark Davis

Not that collecting a paycheck – especially a record-setting (temporarily) one – is a sign of loyalty, but Crosby at least rewarded the Raiders by signing his massive extension (three-year, $106.5 million with $91.5 million guaranteed). To lose a player of Crosby's ilk on the field and character off of it is a significant blow, however.

Eric Decosta

The Baltimore GM likely will need to do a new Jackson deal with Crosby's on the books. Baltimore has not been afraid to pay and extend its stars: left tackle Ronnie Stanley, safety Kyle Hamilton, linebacker Roquan Smith, cornerback Marlon Humphrey. That means the front office has to hit on filling out the rest of the roster while praying the big names can stay healthy. The formula can work. It's also a gamble.

Jesse Minter

Replacing John Harbaugh, who led the Ravens for 18 years, was big enough shoes to fill. The added pressure of having a player of Crosby's merit won't do anything to limit the playoffs-or-bust expectations in Year 1.

Ravens' chances of signing Tyler Linderbaum

Linderbaum himself isn't a loser – the center who was drafted by the Ravens in 2022 will be getting paid no matter what. But the Ravens being the team doing the paying became less likely with Crosby's massive deal now on the books.

AFC North offensive line coaches

For more than one third of the season, their game plans will have to account for either Crosby, the Pittsburgh Steelers' T.J. Watt or the reigning Defensive Player of the Year in the Cleveland Browns' Myles Garrett.

Joe Burrow

The lone team in the division without a stud on the edge? His own, assuming a Trey Hendrickson reunion is out of the question.

Rob Leonard

Leonard spent the past three years coaching Crosby and was the run game coordinator/defensive line coach who first-year head coach Klint Kubiak promoted to defensive coordinator. Not having Crosby as part of the scheme won't make his new job any easier.

Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars, New England Patriots

Otherwise known as the teams left at the altar. Not that 31 other teams couldn't have used Crosby, but man, the Patriots really could have used him. The Jags' attempt to acquire Crosby, as reported by The Athletic, suggests they'll be quite active over the next few weeks.

Lamar Jackson

Unless Crosby starts channeling Mike Vrabel, Jackson won't be throwing to Crosby. DeCosta and Co. have plenty to address on Jackson's side of the ball – from Linderbaum to Jackson's targets (tight end Isaiah Likely is a free agent) – now.

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'Oppenheimer' Actor Drops Big Career Admission: 'My First Love'

This may come as a shock to someCillian Murphyfans.

The Irish actor and producer is currently promoting the release of his new film,Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, where he is reprising his role as Tommy Shelby in the crime TV seriesPeaky Blinders. The upcoming movie, which has a limited theatrical release onFriday, then aNetflixstreaming release on March 20, follows Tommy as he returns from self-imposed exile during World War II. He reunites with his family to fight against a Nazi-backed attack to flood the United Kingdom, but hisson, Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan), is leading the Peaky Blinders into dangerous and reckless operations.

Ina recent Q&A that was published byELLE MagazineonThursday, Murphy talked with the publication about his favorite co-stars and what it was like growing up in a household full of women. He also revealed the career that he dreamed of before becoming an actor.

When writer Ryan D'Agostino asked the 49-year-old actor who inspired him when he was first starting out his career, Murphy quickly revealed that he actually wanted to be a musician, and it was his "first love."

"[Music] was everywhere when I was growing up. We used to go to an awful lot of traditional Irishmusicsessions in pubs, where I'd sit there with a Fanta and a straw listening to the people who show up with instruments and play. They would appear as if by magic. And then my dad introduced me to the Beatles when I was about four. There were always cassettes in the car," Murphy admitted.

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TheOppenheimerstar never professionally trained as an actor, but he participated in multiple theater productions from the ages of 20 to 24. He toldELLEa story of a time he was so eager to get out of rehearsal that he dropped his costume on the ground. An older actor went up to him and said, "Always hang up your costume," which stuck with Murphy all of these years.

"The lesson is, it ain't just you out there prancing around under the spotlights. It's every other person involved in this endeavor that's important, and show some respect," Murphy explained. "The technicians, the electricians, the carpenters, the drivers, the caterers—they're all part of this organism that keeps it going. Hang up your costume."

Murphy first started gaining attention in the early 2000s with his roles in28 Days LaterandGirl with a Pearl Earring, before he started collaborating with directorChristopher NolaninmovieslikeThe Dark Knighttrilogy,InceptionandDunkirk. He also became widely recognized forPeaky Blinders, which aired on the BBC from 2013 to 2022. In 2023, he portrayed physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Nolan's film Oppenheimer, which earned him widespread acclaim and brought him multiple major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, cementing his reputation as one of the most respected actors of his generation.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Manwill be out in theaters this Friday, then streaming on Netflix starting March 20. All six seasons ofPeaky Blinderscan be watched on Netflix.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber says 'nothing has ever been attempted' like immersive 'Phantom' show

NEW YORK – Steps away from Carnegie Hall and Brooklyn Diner, there's an unsuspecting art supplies shop with newspaper-plastered windows.

But walk inside the Midtown storefront, and you'll be whisked into the 19th-century Paris Opera House, where a masked genius haunts the halls and an iconic chandelier crashes to the floor.

Welcome to "Masquerade," a fully immersive production of "The Phantom of the Opera" that opened off-Broadway last fall. It's a wildly ambitious and richly emotional new staging ofAndrew Lloyd Webber's 1988 Broadway musical, performed concurrently every night by six different casts, who guide audiences from the Phantom's eerie underground lair to the star-filled rooftops of Manhattan.

"Nothing has ever been attempted like this in musical theater before," Webber tells USA TODAY. "Everything is so minutely timed down to the very last millisecond – it's an extraordinary technical feat."

For his part, "I enjoyed it madly. It was great fun to be on an adventure."

Why the immersive new 'Phantom of the Opera' is 'quite confronting'

"Masquerade" follows the familiar beats you know and love from "Phantom," which traces the doomed romance between the disfigured Opera Ghost and young soprano Christine Daaé, the target of his dangerous obsession and tragic longing.

But the production also goes to great lengths to better understand the Phantom, with a nightmarish carnival sequence where we first meet him as a young man in a cage. The unsettling scene challenges the audience's empathy, as cast members implore theatergoers to rattle his cage and feed him.

"It's a bit of a Rorschach test, like, 'How do we react in those situations?'" director Diane Paulus says. "At every performance, there are people who just sit by the cage and hold the Phantom's hand." And if you hang around long enough, the Phantom might even pass you a note, offering "deeper insight into his backstory and how he was left by his mother."

The sideshow "is quite confronting and disturbing because of the nature of the violence and the assault on our senses," says Maree Johnson, who has portrayed ballet mistress Madame Giry both on and off Broadway. "It's a mob mentality, and sometimes you see that with the audience."

How 'Learn to Be Lonely' found a new home in 'Masquerade'

After the Phantom escapes the carnival, Giry takes the facially deformed outcast under her wing, giving him shelter in the opera house and fostering his musical prowess. She also sings him "Learn to Be Lonely," a new song to the musical that first appeared in Joel Schumacher's2004 big-screen adaptation starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum.

The ballad was originally titled "No One Would Listen" and sung by the Phantom in his lair. But when the sequence got cut from the movie, Webber repurposed the melody for the end-credits number "Learn to the Lonely," which wasperformed by Minnie Driverand nominated for an Academy Award for best original song.

"When I was going through everything for 'Masquerade' with Diane, we felt that we only touched on the Phantom's backstory in the movie and that it would be really good to have something for Madame Giry," Webber explains. "We felt that 'Learn to Be Lonely' was really very apt for her, and it works rather touchingly in 'Masquerade.' It's also the last (instrumental) music you hear of the evening as you leave the space."

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The song might seem rather depressing taken at face value, with lyrics about learning to "laugh in your loneliness" and "be your own companion."

"It's a very harsh way of talking to someone," Johnson says. "But in the context of the show, it comes from a very nurturing place. Giry historically is such a tough character: She's had to learn to be lonely in this world, which has given her an iciness and distance. By doing this flashback, we get to see her vulnerability."

For Webber, "the song is really about saying, 'The world will always reject you and they won't see you for who you are,'" he says. "There really wasn't a place for this song before because the original stage show is so incredibly tightly constructed. But it's sort of found a use now, even if it's not where we originally intended it."

Andrew Lloyd Webber would love 'Evita' on Broadway with Rachel Zegler

"Masquerade" opened off-Broadway just two years after "Phantom" closed in April 2023 at the Majestic Theatre. Although sales had slowed for the Broadway production after the COVID lockdown, the beloved musical played to sold-out crowds in its final months, and it still holds the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, having played nearly 14,000 performances over 35 years.

"That should never have closed, it was ridiculous," Webber says. "It just had its best-ever year in London last year. It was a stupid decision to close it up, and it'll be very interesting to see if the Majestic ever has anything in there that … oh, never mind, never mind (laughs)."

Similar to the lateStephen Sondheim, Webber, 77, has been increasingly open to having his work reinterpreted in recent years. Just last summer, "Wicked" starCynthia Erivoplayed the Messiah in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and the Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger won a Tony Award for a stripped-down Broadway revival of "Sunset Blvd." And this spring, a queer ballroom take on "Cats" – dubbed "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" ‒ will open at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre.

"It's very good to have new directors and new thoughts," Webber says. "If a piece is any good, it can stand the test of time with many, many productions. It's interesting to let them go; you can't have everything precisely as it was done before. But what's common to all of them is that the music hasn't been changed. Musically, 'Jesus Christ Superstar' was exactly as it was at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1970s."

Just this month, Jamie Lloyd's radical reworking of "Evita" in London earned five Olivier Awards nominations, including best musical revival and best actress (Rachel Zegler). Theater fans have been clamoring for a Broadway transfer ever since the production's West End run last summer, where Zegler performed "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" nightly from an outside balcony.

"I'm afraid with 'Evita,' there are still some hoops to be gone through, but I'd love it to go. It's an extraordinary production," Webber says of a potential New York outing. "The one thing that absolutely cannot happen is what we did in London with her on the balcony. We can't do that in New York. I mean, something awful could happen. We have gun laws in Britain."

Regardless of what lies ahead for "Evita," the legendary British composer remains more prolific than ever, with London revivals of "Cats" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" coming this summer.

Plus, "I'm currently writing two musicals at once at the moment, and they couldn't be more different," Webber teases. "It's very exciting this year, but hopefully next year, I'll have two new ones. We'll see, we'll see."

"Masquerade" is now running through Sept. 6 at 218 W. 57thStreet.

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Edie Falco Worried People Would Know She Was 'Faking' Being a Mother and Wife in “The Sopranos”

Edie Falco attended a new exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City honoring 'The Sopranos'

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• The actress, who is known for playing Carmela Soprano, spoke on a panel with David Chase and Dominic Chianese

• During the event, she opened up about how her acting perspective on The Sopranos has changed since becoming a mother

Edie Falcohas long been celebrated for her unforgettable portrayal of Carmela Soprano on the HBO dramaThe Sopranos.

On Feb. 27, she appeared atthe Museum of the Moving Imageas the institution honored the groundbreaking series with a special exhibition. During a panel discussion alongside series creatorDavid Chaseand costarDominic Chianese, Falco reflected on her time playing the complex mob wife. She shared how her understanding of Carmela has shifted over the years, especially after becoming a mother herself.

"When we shot these things, I was not married nor did I have children, and I was very concerned that that would somehow…everybody would know I was faking," Falco said.

At the time, Falco worried that her performance as a devoted mother wouldn't feel authentic. Carmela, the strong-willed wife of Tony Soprano, was raising two children — Meadow, played byJamie-Lynn Sigler, and A.J., portrayed byRobert Iler.

Much of Carmela's emotional life revolved around protecting and guiding her kids while balancing the realities of her husband's criminal world. Falco admitted she doubted whether she could fully capture that maternal instinct.

"I didn't think I had that gene, but when A.J. pulls up after his trip, and how excited she is to see him, I was like, 'No, I totally believed that,'" she said, relieved.

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Years later, life gave her a new perspective. Falco became a mother when she adopted son Anderson and daughter Macy. Experiencing parenthood firsthand changed how she views those earlier scenes.

"After having a son, who's now 21, I behaved exactly like that when he was away for a weekend," she admitted. "I make a fool of myself and have him rolling his eyes at me."

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Despite her iconic role, Falco revealed in a 2024interview with PEOPLEthat her children haven't watched the series.

"They're so over it," she shared. "They've never seen it. Either of them. But I hope that maybe someday they will and maybe they'll like it. But yeah, they're not impressed at all."

Instead, Falco said her kids were more impressed with the perks of having an award-winning actress as their mother. "Not my work," she emphasized. "But the things that I have that are available to them as a result of being my kids, they're alright with that, oddly enough."

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Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.

The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that the U.S. intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information as theU.S. and Israel continue their bombardmentand Iran fires retaliatory salvos at American assets and allies in the Persian Gulf.

Still, it's the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran a week ago. Russia is in the rare club of countries that maintains friendly relations with Tehran, which has faced years of isolation over its nuclear program and its support of proxy groups that have wreaked havoc in the Middle East, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.

Trump on Friday evening berated a reporter for raising the matter when he opened the floor to questions from the media at the end of a White House meeting abouthow paying student-athletes has recalibrated college sports.

"I have a lot of respect for you, you've always been very nice to me," Trump said to Peter Doocy, the Fox News reporter. "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

White House officials downplayed the reports, but did not deny that Russia was sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. targets in the region. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday told reporters that "it clearly is not making any difference with respect to the military operations in Iran because we are completely decimating them."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a CBS' "60 Minutes" interview on Friday said the U.S. is "tracking everything" and factoring it into battle plans, when asked about the reports Russia was aiding Iran.

"The American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware of who's talking to who," he said. "And anything that shouldn't be happening, whether it's in public or back-channeled, is being confronted and confronted strongly."

Leavitt declined to say if Trump had spoken to RussianPresident Vladimir Putinabout the reported intelligence sharing or whether he believed Russia should face repercussions, saying she would let the president speak to that himself.

Asked whether Russia would go beyond political support and offer military assistance to Iran, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there has been no such request from Tehran.

"We are in dialogue with the Iranian side, with representatives of the Iranian leadership, and will certainly continue this dialogue," he said Friday.

Pushed on whether Moscow has provided any military or intelligence assistance to Tehran since the Iran war's start, he refrained from comment.

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Russia has tightened its relationship with Iran as it looked for badly needed missiles and drones to utilize in itsfour-year war against Ukraine.

The Biden administration declassified intelligence findings that showed Iran supplies Moscow with attack drones and has assisted the Kremlin with building a drone-manufacturing factory.

The former U.S. administration also accused Iran oftransferring short-range ballistic missilestoRussia for its war in Ukraine.

Details about the U.S. intelligence were first reported by The Washington Post.

Asked whether the revelation had shaken Trump's faith in Putin's ability to cut any peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine war, Leavitt said, "I think the president would say that peace is still an achievable objective with respect to the Russia-Ukraine war."

Meanwhile, Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyysays the United States and its allies in the Middle East areseeking Ukraine's expertiseincountering Iran's Shahed drones. Tehran has been supplying Russia with Shaheds for its war on Ukraine and are now utilizing them in retaliatory attacks throughout the Gulf.

Zelenskyy says that he's spoken to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait about possible cooperation.

"Ukraine knows how to defend against Shahed drone attacks because our cities have faced them almost every night," said Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Olga Stefanishyna. "When our partners are in need, we are always ready to help."

Trump, who has struggled to fulfill a campaign pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine war, has had an up-and-down relationship with Zelenskyy. He's frequently pressured the Ukrainian leader to heed Russian demands, including that Kyiv concede Ukrainian territory still in its control.

With the Pentagon facing questions about whether the Iran war is depleting U.S. stockpiles, Trump this week grumbled that former President Joe Biden provided billions in high-end weaponry to Ukraine and failed to replenish U.S. reserves.

Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report.

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