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.

[BoKnows81]

Only way Spytek trades the #1 pick is if he can get 4 1sts-(26,27,28,29), a couple of 2nds and a starting guard, from a team that he thinks will be bottom 10 for the next 4 years (Cle/Az/NO??)

Then if you trade Max for 2 1sts and a 2nd, that would be alot of building blocks to rebuild this team.

If someone offers four 1st round picks for the chance to draft Mendoza, that's more reason to stay put, reject the trade and take him at 1.

Maxx I'm all for trading.

[chucker]

Only way Spytek trades the #1 pick is if he can get 4 1sts-(26,27,28,29), a couple of 2nds and a starting guard, from a team that he thinks will be bottom 10 for the next 4 years (Cle/Az/NO??)

Then if you trade Max for 2 1sts and a 2nd, that would be alot of building blocks to rebuild this team.

First, I think trading for more picks would be a bad idea. There are teams that loaded up with picks this year, likely hoping to be able to trade into the top spot and pick their QB, and they now can't do that because a QB needy team has the top spot.

Second, just a detail but you can't trade 2029 picks until the 2027 draft has started. And you can't trade 2028 picks until this year's draft has started.

[JRaider17]

First, I think trading for more picks would be a bad idea. There are teams that loaded up with picks this year, likely hoping to be able to trade into the top spot and pick their QB, and they now can't do that because a QB needy team has the top spot.

Second, just a detail but you can't trade 2029 picks until the 2027 draft has started. And you can't trade 2028 picks until this year's draft has started.

Its a great point, picks sound and look great until you realize they aren't even enough to get the guy you want because that team needs him also.

[Raidernation1979]

Thanks for this. My take a ways:

First he preps hard and knows how to articulate the job
He is really a nice guy but very focused
He listens, and that is important because he did get some great advice
He asked good questions and he also has great awareness.
Honest answer to the Heisman noise so he is self aware

He is going to be the next great Raiders QB

Football IQ is off the charts. Just talking about the safety having flipped hips as an indicator and then knowing how it would play out was fantastic to hear.

[Attyla]

Its a great point, picks sound and look great until you realize they aren't even enough to get the guy you want because that team needs him also.

And we are not just in need of him, we have been in need of him for way way too long. I don't trade this pick.

[Willmark]

Since 1960 this franchise has never valued or understood drafting QBs. Or at best doing so in a limited fashion often with disastrous results (Russell) or mediocre (Carr, Wilson) with a notable exceptions of Stabler (Ron Wolf pick) and Buerlein which the Old Man didn’t like.

The Old Man’s experience of winning two SBs With Plunkett taught him that QBs could just be picked up off the scrap heap and plugged in.

Then the NFL changed and he didnt.

We pick Mendoza and we hope he becomes the guy. And if not we keep drafting.

[tatalalicious]

As much as Flores is a head case he is being proven right though that Tua wasn’t that guy & that Herbert/Love were better options

Tua is the poster boy for why owner’s should never be involved when drafting because the minute they do then you GM & HC are on a hiding to nothing

Not that Flores is my first choice but he is a hell of a coach though & consistently puts out top tier defences

This is why i want Davis & Brady nowhere near our draft process, even though Brady was arguably the greatest to play his position it doesn’t mean he knows anything about scouting they are two completely different worlds

I hope the Raiders stay far away from Flores, he fields a great defense but his behavior towards Tua is a giant red flag to me, why take that risk? The last thing the Raiders need to worry about is whether their new hc is going to verbally abuse their rookie qb and interfere with his development. I dont trust Flores or his assurances that he's "grown" from his expirence at Miami, people generally dont change. Sure some of us who've been around long enough may be familiar with such tactics from a coach/boss but I dont think its a fit with todays generation.

[Opoponax50]

And we are not just in need of him, we have been in need of him for way way too long. I don't trade this pick.

Yep. Just two years ago, three teams were offered who knows how much in order to get into the top three and none of these teams were willing to trade. It's not just that there's zero guarantee that we'll be in the position to draft a #1 QB, it's incredibly unlikely to find ourselves in this position. This is our shot, we have to take it.

Unless of course, we discover that none of Fernando's teammates went to his birthday party.

[The Joe Joe]

Mendoza starts at about 25 mins. Great play break down

Great interview. Impressed with his passion for the x's and o's and his attention to detail. If he can keep up with the speed of the NFL he will have the potential to be a great one. He certainly will put in the work!

[tatalalicious]

And we are not just in need of him, we have been in need of him for way way too long. I don't trade this pick.

I watched some dopes on ESPN today arguing essentially that the Raiders are so bad they shouldn't take Mendoza but trade for more picks. Of course its fine for every other bad franchise to take Mendoza/Moore. Never understood this weird argument when there is great qb prospect available at the top of the draft and a team desperately needs one.

[Attyla]

I watched some dopes on ESPN today arguing essentially that the Raiders are so bad they shouldn't take Mendoza but trade for more picks. Of course its fine for every other bad franchise to take Mendoza/Moore. Never understood this weird argument when there is great qb prospect available at the top of the draft and a team desperately needs one.

yea, it is like they just want us to be bad so don't take the best player in the draft....damn that is some stupid shit

[Raidernation1979]

Also another constant with watching all these videos is his ball placement is insane. Not just accurately getting it to the receiver but them being able to keep running when they can or stopping them when there danger.

[Opoponax50]

I watched some dopes on ESPN today arguing essentially that the Raiders are so bad they shouldn't take Mendoza but trade for more picks. Of course its fine for every other bad franchise to take Mendoza/Moore. Never understood this weird argument when there is great qb prospect available at the top of the draft and a team desperately needs one.

They gotta have something to talk about and it's going to be a long four months to the draft, which means that people on the internet are going to be echoing a lot of the stupid things they see on TV.

It's a 100% chance that it's going to be Mendoza. Our energy is better spent worrying about the next HC, FA, and how this draft is shaping up for 2nd round players (unless we trade Maxx for first round picks).

[raidersince63]

They gotta have something to talk about and it's going to be a long four months to the draft, which means that people on the internet are going to be echoing a lot of the stupid things they see on TV.

It's a 100% chance that it's going to be Mendoza. Our energy is better spent worrying about the next HC, FA, and how this draft is shaping up for 2nd round players (unless we trade Maxx for first round picks).

Yup...we have to endure this crap every year around this time...listening to so called "experts" who act is if their opinion is any better than yours and mine after sitting a bar and doing 8-10 shots of Patron'.

And FWIW, after what's happened in the last 2 weeks, I believe there's a near 100% chance that Maxx is traded for a handsome return.

[JRaider17]