Chicago Bears: Good luck to the Raiders trying to stop Mack

The Chicago Bears travel to London to take on the Oakland Raiders and I genuinely feel bad for their offensive line.

Although the final score of the game may not accurately reflect it, the Chicago Bears thoroughly dominated the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. I’m not just referring to how the offense controlled the clock and the defense held them to a paltry output.

Rather, I’m talking about how the Bears imposed their will and physically dominated the Vikings, appearing to knock their souls out of their bodies on multiple plays.

One of the players primarily responsible for the Vikings’ nightmare, and putting them on the brink of a tailspin, was Khalil Mack.

As Bears fans, we all remember ‘Khalil Mack Day’ and where we were when we learned that Ryan Pace made a deal to bring the All-Pro to Chicago and accelerate the rebuilding process.

On the other side of that transaction was a lowly Oakland Raiders team who chose not to pay Mack, but found enough money in their coffers to pay Antonio Brown. We all know how that worked out with the drama that unfolded in training camp. But beyond the circus, AB brought to the Raiders, the Mack move left the Raiders with a humongous hole from a pass rush perspective.

Since arriving in Chicago, Mack has accounted for one less sack than the entire Raiders team during that time. He has also forced two more fumbles. To say the Raiders could use Mack is a gross understatement.

Well, they’ll get a first-hand look at what they shipped away on Sunday, when they face the Bears in London. Normally when a player faces his former team for the first time, he gives a pretty vanilla response to questions about it, like “it’s just another game.” But not Khalil Mack. I mean, did you expect anything less from a man responsible for the following quote?: “a dog that poop fast, don’t poop for long.”

Of course not. So it should come as no surprise that Mack has had this one circled on his calendar for a long, long time. He recently told Deion Sanders that it’s one he has been looking forward to.

Bears fans have had the pleasure of seeing Mack dominate week after week, throwing around offensive linemen like ragdolls. But now he enters a game with a little extra motivation — perhaps a revenge factor — and we could see a bloodbath at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Vikings couldn’t slow him down, let alone stop him, despite triple-teaming him on occasion. If the Raiders want to have better success, they may be better off praying he misses his flight to London.