Everything the Oakland Raiders do this season – most especially if it’s in the negative column – will be viewed through the Khalil Mack prism.
Run defense sucks? Wouldn’t if we’d had Mack setting the edge. Pass defense sucks? Wouldn’t if we had Mack pressuring the quarterback. Not scoring enough points? Logic be damned, we’d be putting up 50 points a game if we still had Mack. The climate change problem could be avoided if — okay, you get the point.
The fact of the matter is that, it was a no-win situation, no matter which way you slice it.