When Mike Mayock looks back at last season, the Raiders general manager dwells on the wide receiver position and the constant turnover and lack of production at that spot. It would be easy to blame Antonio Brown’s meltdown and subsequent release two days before the season opener.



But Mayock blames himself.



“I put that on me,” Mayock said in a phone interview Friday morning. “My anticipation was that he was coming off a situation in Pittsburgh where he wants to prove everybody wrong and he wants to ride into the Hall of Fame. That he was going to come in with Jon Gruden and Derek Carr and our offense and lead the way. … I really thought we were going to get the best out of Antonio Brown and we didn’t.



“We weren’t able to get anything out of him. So, at the end of the day, in hindsight, we lost a third-round pick and a fifth-round pick, and I can’t tell you how much pain that causes...