HENDERSON, Nev. -- And in the category of most understated yet painfully obvious statement of the recent NFL owners meetings, we present Exhibit A:
"I'd like to see some defensive progress [slight pause] for sure."
Exhibit B?
"We didn't quite get the Darren Waller [production] that could have really helped, helped us even more [dramatic pause] but that still wouldn't have stopped teams from scoring. So ..."
Yeah, the Las Vegas Raiders' defense was a problem last season, and owner Mark Davis, reflecting upon the lost campaign in a restaurant inside the posh Arizona Biltmore resort, was, in the parlance of the day, simply spitting facts.