Fernando Mendoza Welcome To Las Vegas

[Sold My Soul]

Call your shot....or add your own.

Dante Moore:

https://www.nfldraftbuzz.com/Player/Dante-Moore-QB-UCLA

Fernando Mendoza:

https://www.nfldraftbuzz.com/Player/Fer ... California

May the football godz look kindly down upon the feeble and inept.

[raidersince63]

Yet more inane proposals...Raiders can trade for Joe Burrow ?...SMH

https://apple.news/A9sMqUgBCTzC05pIPq7c-Rg

Elsewhere in the multiverse, the Raiders trade for Joe Burrow — here's how
In an alternate universe where the two teams agree to tango on an all-time trade, the impossible becomes possible...
Jan 17, 2026
A preemptive request for anyone who reads this to chill out, because first of all, we're deliberately dealing with Fantasy Land. For the Las Vegas Raiders to have any chance at trading for Joe Burrow, he'd have to demand a trade out of Cincinnati first.
Unfortunately for the Raiders, they're about a year early from when this could be a realistic possibility. They'll never be in better position to serve up a Godfather trade offer to the Bengals than they are now, armed with the No. 1 overall pick and a disgruntled defensive superstar in Maxx Crosby.
If this was the year where the Bengals had missed the playoffs four times in a row, rather than after next season, Burrow would for sure be finding a way out of Cincy as best he could.
So roll with me on this. For those who don't know, this is sequel bait to my article over at Stripe Hype titled, "Elsewhere in the multiverse, the Bengals are Super Bowl champions — here's how."
Just Blog Baby's beloved, prolific writer of a site expert, Levi Dombro, and the FanSided NFL editorial staff gave me the sticks for JBB this week. Best believe I'm gonna get a lil wyyurd.
The Raiders need a head coach right? Trust that they'd be falling all over themselves to get to Vegas in this timeline.
What it would take for Raiders to trade for Bengals superstar Joe Burrow
Given that Joe Burrow has had an extensive injury history, you could convince me that it wouldn't take quite this much for the Raiders to acquire him. Nevertheless, elite franchise quarterbacks don't come cheap, so here's the package, centered around Crosby and the No. 1 overall pick:
Raiders receive: QB Joe Burrow
Bengals receive: DE Maxx Crosby, No. 1 overall pick, two additional 1st-round picks, two 2nd-round picks & three 3rd-round picks
The Bengals are nothing if not a cheap football operation. In this alternate universe where Burrow has already soured on the organization, they move off their oft-injured field general in exchange for the rights to Indiana Hoosiers star Fernando Mendoza.
This would actually be a heck of a haul for Cincinnati. My Who Dey Head bias aside, I'm not doing this exercise to just set up the Bengals for raging success. I want nothing, zilch, zero to do with an actual, IRL Joe Burrow trade.
Come on, though. If Mendoza hits, what a move!

[chucker]

Even Joe Burrow would be available in trade for that ridiculous price. The Bengals would take that in a heartbeat and the Raiders would never give it up. Fan articles are rarely any good..... this one fails to disprove that.

[Hellbound]

Now that we are drafting Mendoza, it is pretty simple. Get a fcking genius QB coach. With very few exceptions, no QB is successful without that voice in his ear driving home what is next in your development. And when you do that, it is like a ball of string. You keep winding it over and over until you have created habits that drive success. Manning did not become Manning his first day in camp. He had the will to succeed but he did not have the blueprint. That is the QB coach. He creates the plan and walks the QB through that plan. Mahomes is one of the exceptions. He has a head coach who created the plan and it worked. We don't have that particular head coach so we need that from the QB coach.

This is where I think Brady will help immensely too. If Mendoza needs anything at all, he has the GOAT on speed dial and/or down the hallway

[Hellbound]

Yea, Stewart, but you gave me a chuckle.

Can't lie, I had to rack my brain for a quick second too!

[Rabidraider]

Enjoy the Mendoza cheap years, paying Joe or Lamar with a broken team and no money would be stupid.

[Corleone]

Yet more inane proposals...Raiders can trade for Joe Burrow ?...SMH

https://apple.news/A9sMqUgBCTzC05pIPq7c-Rg

Elsewhere in the multiverse, the Raiders trade for Joe Burrow — here's how
In an alternate universe where the two teams agree to tango on an all-time trade, the impossible becomes possible...
Jan 17, 2026
A preemptive request for anyone who reads this to chill out, because first of all, we're deliberately dealing with Fantasy Land. For the Las Vegas Raiders to have any chance at trading for Joe Burrow, he'd have to demand a trade out of Cincinnati first.
Unfortunately for the Raiders, they're about a year early from when this could be a realistic possibility. They'll never be in better position to serve up a Godfather trade offer to the Bengals than they are now, armed with the No. 1 overall pick and a disgruntled defensive superstar in Maxx Crosby.
If this was the year where the Bengals had missed the playoffs four times in a row, rather than after next season, Burrow would for sure be finding a way out of Cincy as best he could.
So roll with me on this. For those who don't know, this is sequel bait to my article over at Stripe Hype titled, "Elsewhere in the multiverse, the Bengals are Super Bowl champions — here's how."
Just Blog Baby's beloved, prolific writer of a site expert, Levi Dombro, and the FanSided NFL editorial staff gave me the sticks for JBB this week. Best believe I'm gonna get a lil wyyurd.
The Raiders need a head coach right? Trust that they'd be falling all over themselves to get to Vegas in this timeline.
What it would take for Raiders to trade for Bengals superstar Joe Burrow
Given that Joe Burrow has had an extensive injury history, you could convince me that it wouldn't take quite this much for the Raiders to acquire him. Nevertheless, elite franchise quarterbacks don't come cheap, so here's the package, centered around Crosby and the No. 1 overall pick:
Raiders receive: QB Joe Burrow
Bengals receive: DE Maxx Crosby, No. 1 overall pick, two additional 1st-round picks, two 2nd-round picks & three 3rd-round picks
The Bengals are nothing if not a cheap football operation. In this alternate universe where Burrow has already soured on the organization, they move off their oft-injured field general in exchange for the rights to Indiana Hoosiers star Fernando Mendoza.
This would actually be a heck of a haul for Cincinnati. My Who Dey Head bias aside, I'm not doing this exercise to just set up the Bengals for raging success. I want nothing, zilch, zero to do with an actual, IRL Joe Burrow trade.
Come on, though. If Mendoza hits, what a move!

One of the more absurd ideas I've seen lately, these fan blogs are some of the worst you'll ever see. I wouldn't trade Mendoza for Burrow straight up if I'm being honest. One is 7 years younger, and under rookie scale wage which means that under Mendoza we have a chance to really spend and build the roster (think 4 year 55 million vs 4 years 164 million owed to Burrow). At the end of those contracts, Burrow will be 33, while Mendoza will be just 26 years old.

If Mendoza hits, we are so f[raiders_icon]cking back it's not funny. Depending on how you evaluate Mendoza, and I think a lot of NFL people are probably pretty high on him, you don't trade the pick for anyone. Let alone include Maxx Crosby (who's worth more than a first rounder), and two additional first rounders. Whoever wrote this ridiculous blog deserves to be kicked in the head several times.

[Reno Hightower]

We need to look forward, not backwards with players and coaches. Invest in young minds and young players. I wouldn't trade for Burrow either in that scenario.

Let's draft Mendoza and raise a QB better than Joe Burrow.

[chucker]

We're drafting Mendoza. Every article, tweet, idiotic post that says otherwise is purely for attention not actual discussion.

[raidersince63]

I was by no means adhering to that rediculous trade proposal...instead, I was only pointing how "inane" it was.

[Reno Hightower]

I was by no means adhering to that rediculous trade proposal...instead, I was only pointing how "inane" it was.

Oh I know. I was responding to the blog not your post.

[Attyla]

This needs to be the Mendoza thread, the Mendoza vs Moore needs to go away.

[ALLRAIDERWORLD21]

Sour grapes.
And….


No.

I wonder if Gruden ever spoke to Carr about the draft picks. “Hey Derek we’re getting you a Lineman, what do you think about Learherwood.” “Sure Coach that would be my pick. Everyone else sucks.”

“Hey Derek, Ruggs or Lamb..”

Yeah no one care anymore Derek..

[Raidernation1979]

This needs to be the Mendoza thread, the Mendoza vs Moore needs to go away.

We already have the welcome to Las Vegas Vegas, Mendoza thread, but people keep posting in this one instead

[raider_kin]

We already have the welcome to Las Vegas Vegas, Mendoza thread, but people keep posting in this one instead

We are a zany bunch, ain't we?

[Raidernation1979]

Someone did a merge.