{"id":131516,"date":"2025-06-15T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/131516\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:45:17","slug":"re-signing-with-chargers-about-winning-ball-games-not-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/131516\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-signing with Chargers &#8216;about winning ball games,&#8217; not money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Chargers pass rusher <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/khalil-mack\/\" title=\"Khalil Mack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalil Mack<\/a> contemplated retirement before ultimately re-signing with the club this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old could have gone elsewhere to pursue a ring but called returning to L.A. a &#8220;no-brainer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not here, man?&#8221; Mack said on Wednesday, via <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45495317\/khalil-mack-los-angeles-chargers-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN&#8217;s Kris Rhim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mack <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/khalil-mack-re-signing-with-chargers-on-one-year-18-million-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inked<\/a> a one-year, $18 million deal to remain a Charger this offseason as one of the top free-agent edge rushers on the market. He said the decision wasn&#8217;t about money but rather that he wanted to be part of what Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s club has started to build.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to be fair in the approach to things and not making it about just finances and all the different things,&#8221; Mack said. &#8220;I tried to make it more so just about winning ball games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Chargers pass rusher Khalil Mack contemplated retirement before ultimately re-signing with the club this offseason. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[1227,241,7,3278,1014,262,2444,2443,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-131516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-khalil-mack","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangeleschargers","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-no-minute","19":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114686743282586710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}