Mike Florio

Mack wanted nothing to do with John Gruden.

That was well documented.

And as that season unfolded and the Raiders thought maybe they could prevail upon Khalil Mack to stick around.

He was in his fifth year option at the time.

He held out, held out, held out.

And then that deal got done.

So, yeah, I think it's smarter if you're the Raiders to recognize if Crosby really is done.

that he means it and your best play is to maximize the trade possibilities and do the deal.

This assumes the Raiders are going to realize that they need to do it.

It's hard for the rational mind to predict the behaviors of the irrational.

And all due respect to the current power structure there, the owner is still the owner.

Mark Davis is still making these calls.

And there hasn't been a whole lot that he's done by way of decisions over the past 15 years that would objectively be called rational.

Well...

Yeah, when the most recent Epstein files document dump happened 13 days ago, Tish's name came up.

There were some emails with kind of skeevy, pervy content objectifying women, suggesting that Epstein was trying to connect Tish with younger women.

There's been no suggestion that anyone is not of legal age, but the whole thing just looks bad.

The problem for the NFL

And I don't know whether it's a problem.

This may be the way that they avoid having to do anything.