FYI Gruden will be holding a presser

[Bearly]

Jon Gruden said he was not involved in including the second-round pick that went back to the Bears in the Khalil Mack trade.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 3, 2018


Also:

Gruden has assembled the oldest 53-man roster in the NFL in years.

Jimmy Kempski of PhillyVoice.com, who has been calculating the average age of every opening-day NFL roster in 2012, reports that the Raiders’ average age of 27.4 years is the oldest roster as far back as his records go.

LOL

Rebuilding and that's great for us. Means the 2 should be high. Our 1sts may allow them to trade up from their already high picks to the top 3 where you usually get stars. sTill means they are using 2 1s to get a layer that is unlikely to be as good as Mack but it will help with their salary hell and to move towards a younger roster as we have. This may actually work out for both teams in different ends of a rebuild but bird in the hand and all that.

 

[Adipost]

Especially not with quarterback Derek Carr already entering Year 2 of a five-year, $125 million extension and sitting on a $25 million salary cap number.

"I don't know how many teams have done that," Gruden said. "Aaron Donald got signed, they don't have a quarterback that has been re-done yet. I think the Bears made this trade, [Mitch] Trubisky is still on his rookie deal. It's tough when you have two players that are the highest paid at their positions, so the economic part of it certainly weighs in."



Don't see the problem here. Bears could afford him. Raiders didn't 50 million tied up in 3 plays. That is the beauty of having a QB on a rookie deal.

One note on this specific statement by Gruden is that the 49ers were in on Mack.