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.

[KillerRaider30]

Nice to watch, but I’ve noticed something. I mean, nobody else deserves the slogans synonymous with Big Al’s Raiders, but they don’t ring quite as true anymore. We need to win to earn them back. I’m tired of the cringe when I see them now.

“Commitment to Excellence”. No. It’s been 24 years since we hung a “W” in a playoff game.

“Just Win, Baby”. Not too much. Last consecutive winning seasons was 2001 and 2002.

“Pride and Poise” . Nope. Only thing that’s held firm in the “Pride” department is the Team Name, Team Colors, and Team Emblem. “Poise”, not even remotely.

“Once a Raider, Always a Raider”. Decades of bad drafting has a major impact on this one. Hell, it’s more a threat of embarrassment for Raider Nation.

“Team of the Decades”. Ah man, smh. This one should just be mothballed until further notice. Maybe I’ll be alive when we could use it again.

”The greatness of the Raiders is in its future”. Big Al began saying this in the early 80’s, somewhere after Super Bowl XV (1980), but before our domination in Super Bowl XVIII (1984). Since that Super Bowl our record is 289-349.

”We would rather be feared than respected”. “The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win”. Nope.

Hoping Mendo/Spytek/Kubiak/Brady can fix this shit while bridging us from ”The Era of Incompetence” to a non-Davis run Raiders organization. We’re right at the precipice. For the Love of Raider Nation and Football, let it be so.

Frodo: "But he was destroyed! Sauron was destroyed."
Gandalf: "No, Frodo. The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring, and the Ring survived."

[GoodTimeCharlie]

Frodo: "But he was destroyed! Sauron was destroyed."
Gandalf: "No, Frodo. The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring, and the Ring survived."

A ring of fire… after a pepper eating contest.

[Be_Easy_25]

Any chance we trade the pick and pursue Arch or Dante next year?

[raidersince63]

Any chance we trade the pick and pursue Arch or Dante next year?

I seriously doubt it.

Edit; no f'n way.

[GoodTimeCharlie]

Any chance we trade the pick and pursue Arch or Dante next year?

What a wonderful idea, and after that the entire FO should soak their ballsacks in buckets of chum before skinny-dipping in the Pacific.

[Hellbound]

Any chance we trade the pick and pursue Arch or Dante next year?

The only way that would even have a chance of happening is if Mendoza wasn't in this class. With that happening, good luck trying to get someone to move up

[CWood24]

Any chance we trade the pick and pursue Arch or Dante next year?

Why would we wait on Manning?

If his last name wasn’t Smith not one person on this board would be talking about him as a top tier prospect, right now we’re talking mid round pick with what we have seen

The only reason the draft media seem to question Mendoza now is because he is far to safe, boring & straight laced, they see him as a high floor low ceiling guy when they want to gloss & glaze over the raw high ceiling type prospects simply because it gets them views

Draft Mendoza & build the team around him

[chucker]

It's possible that a year from now neither Arch nor Dante look like top QB prospects - it happens a lot that the top prospects heading into the college season have a rough year and don't develop as hoped. Mendoza is absolutely the pick and should be the pick. Don't overthink it.

[DanKD]

Ive put up with so much as a raiders fan but if they trade the pick Im done with them.

That said they are 100% taking Mendoza

[chucker]

Ive put up with so much as a raiders fan but if they trade the pick Im done with them.

That said they are 100% taking Mendoza

I'm sure the reason Mendoza is working with Griese is because the Raiders told him that was the guy they wanted him to work with to prep him for his Raider career. No mystery. He's the pick.

[BoKnows81]

Kubiak only took this job bc of Mendoza. Let's not get it twisted.

[mstrbass2000]

It's possible that a year from now neither Arch nor Dante look like top QB prospects - it happens a lot that the top prospects heading into the college season have a rough year and don't develop as hoped. Mendoza is absolutely the pick and should be the pick. Don't overthink it.

agree 100%
neus,allard,beck all were touted the season before as top prospect going into 2025 and fernando emerged as #1 and those guys had crappy season and are now looked at as day 2 picks or later

arch reminds me more of danny dime then a manning

[raiders93]

It's possible that a year from now neither Arch nor Dante look like top QB prospects - it happens a lot that the top prospects heading into the college season have a rough year and don't develop as hoped. Mendoza is absolutely the pick and should be the pick. Don't overthink it.

Even beyond the issue of whether these guys develop, you can’t guarantee you’d be able to get one even with a bunch of 1sts in the bank.

I’m sure the jets are running into that reality right now with us and Mendoza. Congratulations - you have the 2nd overall, 16th overall and 3 1sts next year…. Still can’t move up 1 spot and get the QB.

[DanKD]

I hear theres this 3rd grader who can really spin it. Maybe wait for him?

[raidersince63]

It's possible that a year from now neither Arch nor Dante look like top QB prospects - it happens a lot that the top prospects heading into the college season have a rough year and don't develop as hoped. Mendoza is absolutely the pick and should be the pick. Don't overthink it.

Between the two of them, if I had to choose, it would be Dante. I realize Moore is older than Manning but overall, I'm not that impressed with Arch.

In fact, if his last name was not Manning, we probably even be having this convo.