On Sept. 1, 2018, this reporter had the audacity to patiently suggest via Twitter that maybe the Bears overpaid for Khalil Mack and that maybe, just maybe, Raiders coach Jon Gruden wasn’t the biggest dunderhead in the history of the National Football League.
You can imagine how that went over.
Patience? Twitter? A blockbuster trade involving a great All-Pro pass rusher in his late 20s on one side and a minimum two-year wait to assess Oakland’s full return on the other?
Let’s just say the cyberland pitchfork posse that rode in from down south was not receptive to that long-term train of thought.