Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie is currently being lauded as one of the league’s top executives, and rightfully so. In essentially four years, he has undone a decade and a half’s worth of dysfunction and disorganization, and has all but fully restored one of the NFL’s most recognizable franchises to its proper place among the ranks.
I feel like I’ve read a thousand different versions of the previous paragraph just in the last month, as the national media continues to rehash what is probably the favorite narrative around the league this season. The Silver and Black is back.