Today In Raiders News: Jon Gruden And Khalil Mack Have Not Spoken Once Since Gruden Was Named Raiders Head Coach

Man I love having the Raiders relevant in our lives once again. Not some vanilla 8-8 team with no fun stories or players. But the old “Chaos Is A Ladder” Raiders when Al Davis was running it. The Raiders that made headlines regardless of if they went 12-4 or 4-12. And make no mistake about it, Jon Gruden bringing 1998 Raiders Football back to Oakland as the rest of the NFL goes in the other direction should definitely have them ending up on the blog more than usual. That tweet reads like something that the Knicks, Mets, or Browns would do, who are no strangers to this site.

I almost feel like Gruden fell into all of this like a George Costanza storyline. He held out for an NFL coaching job forever and somehow ended up landing a massive, looooong ass contract and still can’t believe he can do whatever he wants as a football emperor. And any time someone in the organization disagrees with him, Gruden gets to hammer down the championship ring he got by murdering the Raiders in the Super Bowl like a fucking gavel.

Why does he need to call some sad millennial player that is a little cranky about his contract? Great pass rushers are easy to find in the NFL! You don’t become a Gruden Grinder by sitting out and crying like a baby about your contract. You do it by playing on the field. I can already hear Chucky telling a bunch of people in the front office “I’ll tell you what man. I already won one Super Bowl without Khalil Mack, so I can obviously do it again. Back in my day we didn’t even have holdouts or cell phones*”. If I read a story that the Raiders medical staff was literally replaced by people that simply rub dirt on injuries, I wouldn’t even blink twice. That’s old school 1998 Raiders football. Not trying to connect with your young, super talented player in the locker room before and during what could become an ugly holdout. I know it’s cliche to say, but the NFL is truly more fun when the Raiders and Cowboys are either really good or spectacularly bad. And I feel like under Gruden, the Raiders are going to be one or the other and entertaining as fuck either way.

*They definitely had holdouts and cell phones in 1998