The Green Bay Packers tried to swing a trade for Khalil Mack just before the start of the 2018 season when the Oakland Raiders opted to make a deal with the Chicago Bears.

“The whole Khalil Mack thing, it’s not that we didn’t try,” then-Packers President Mark Murphy told WSSP-AM 105.7 in Milwaukee the next summer. “We were aggressive. We wanted to sign him. I think, ironically, the Raiders took the Bears’ offer because they thought they would be a better draft pick.”

The Bears went on to win the NFC North that year as Mack led a fierce Vic Fangio-directed defense while the Packers wound up firing coach Mike McCarthy midseason. So, the Raiders’ bid for better draft picks didn’t pan out. The Bears haven’t had a winning season since, and the Packers have been to the playoffs in five of the

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