Khalil Mack is so explosive that Derek Carr could see him setting a new NFL record for sacks in a season.

Carr waxed poetic about Mack — whom the Raiders quarterback called “one of my best friends” — in an interview Wednesday on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Radio with Christopher Russo.

So how many sacks does Carr think the reigning Defensive Player of the Year will have next season?

“Because we know this is going to blow up, I’m gonna say 30,” Carr told Russo with a laugh. “If he doesn’t get held… If they start calling the holdings, if they start calling them like they should — I’m saying 30.”

Such a season would double Mack’s career sack total in three years, including 15 in 2015.

Of course, Carr is exaggerating a bit for effect. The league record is 22.5 sacks by Michael Strahan of the New York Giants in 2001 — and only nine other players have reached the 20-sack plateau.

A big part of why Carr can see Mack joining that crew is the linebacker’s competitiveness. That intensity shows through on the football field as well as in the pool at Carr’s Danville home.

“He’s over at my house all the time and we play pool basketball all the time. I guess they should call it more like pool wrestling — we get after it,” Carr said. “The thing that separates him from other kinds of people is…

When it’s game point or when it’s that moment, you’re going to get absolutely everything that he has. …

“It’s more dangerous when it’s game point and he’s playing defense than when I’m playing defense. He’s out there just trying to rip people’s heads off. I think that that right there is the difference. I think not a lot of people have it. On game point, you find out a lot about somebody. He’s been the one that I would say, I have to do absolutely everything in my power. Grab his legs, try to rip his hand off… Not really — don’t worry, Raiders.”

Carr continued by sharing a story about Mack finally dunking on him.

“I told him, ‘Hey man, it’s been about 10 times you’ve been over here and we’ve played, you haven’t dunked on me yet. I’ve been guarding you this whole time and you can’t dunk on me in my house,'” Carr said. “And so he grabbed the ball and he walked me all the way down the lane and then slammed it on me. It was quite fun.”

Even more fun will come when the Raiders suit up for the season.

“I can’t wait to report to camp,” Carr said, echoing a sentiment Mack seemingly shares. “The fire that’s burning inside of me to get back out on the field… (I want) to show people that it wasn’t just one season, it wasn’t just one fluke thing. We’re here to stay. And this culture that we’ve built here in Oakland is something that’s going to last. It fires me up to want to get back out there and show what we can do.”

Like, say, sack the quarterback 30 times.