ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Shocking? No doubt.
Trading your best player, in his prime, definitely has a what-in-the-world-is-going-on feel to it … in the moment.
But the haul the Oakland Raiders will reportedly be getting from the Chicago Bears for Khalil Mack, well, it actually makes sense and sets them up quite nicely … in the future. So long as the locker room gets over this initial shock (more on that in a moment).
It's not what many Raiders fans, and Raiders players, want to hear. Not when Mack is a “generational” talent, as Hall of Famer Howie Long has called him.