While forecasting how a team’s draft will ultimately be judged on the field remains incredibly subjective, this isn’t: The class had a much different feel this year than last. Cleaner. Fewer red flags to investigate. Players that other teams hadn’t passed on for medical or off-field issues.
The 40-yard dash went from another metric to urban legend, and no drill is more anticipated or scrutinized than when a prospect explodes from a static start.
Marist School was founded in 1901 and is a picturesque setting from another time, where the current Rams head coach Sean McVay was a state champion as an option quarterback.
There is losing and then there is losing big to a dog team like San Francisco 34-3, but that’s what the Raiders did before an announced gathering of 69,592 on Thursday night at Levi’s Stadium.
This isn’t what Raiders fans imagined when they celebrated Gruden returning as head coach, his decision to trade the team’s best player in Khalil Mack, a defensive end in his prime who should he continue on a current trajectory of production, will one day be sized for a gold blazer in Canton.
We might be looking at the most efficiently run Super Bowl week in recent memory, and perhaps all memories.
Moving the ball right now is a Mile High problem for the Raiders, who fell at Denver 16-10 on Sunday.
It’s impossible for most of us common folks to understand an NFL player making $5.95 million wanting more, so to chalk it up to him being some thankless mercenary is both short-sighted and inaccurate.
