I can’t help but feel for Paul Guenther. The guy came here excited to work with Jon Gruden and try to improve this Raiders defense and now is probably asking himself what he got himself into. Normally you expect to take over a team and stick with what works and fix what didn’t. And by the season opener, the team was without their leading tackler (Navorro Bowman), sack leader (Khalil Mack), and top interior defensive lineman (Justin Ellis) from last season.
This left them with a defensive line that can’t stop the run, no pass rush to speak of, and a linebacking corps that can’t stop anything.