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Boomer & Gio

Fernando Mendoza The Guy For The Jets?

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Is Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza the Trevor Lawrence-level franchise savior the Jets need? Boomer sees him on the level of Trevor Lawrence or Caleb Williams.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody always talks about tanking at this time of year, and we always say,

0:04.3

listen, the players don't tank, the coaches don't tank, you know, maybe a general manager

0:08.4

to make a decision of like throwing a quarterback out there that, you know, we want to see

0:12.2

this guy and see what he looks like and evaluate him, and maybe that's like the slightest bit

0:16.5

of a tank from a general manager. So back in, it was the 2020 season, or was it the 2020 season where I think, yeah, because it was the 2021 draft that Zach Wilson was drafted, right? Right. So the 2020 season, if you remember, nobody was in the stadiums. Right. So if you went and go, if you went to go play on the road, it was like you're playing in your backyard.

0:38.3

That's right.

0:38.8

Or you're a high school football stadium. So the Jets went out to L.A. to take on the Rams. They were a big underdog. They hadn't won a game yet that year. And they went and beat the Rams on the road. And that was a year that Trevor Lawrence was coming out. and they ended up losing the first overall pick to the Jacksonville Jaguards.

0:56.8

The Jaguars that Trevor Lawrence was coming out. And they ended up losing the first overall

0:54.9

pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars took Trevor Lawrence and then Zach Wilson went number

0:59.4

two. And I really did feel at that time that that was a, I mean, not that they should have lost

1:03.5

on purpose, but it was just unfortunate for the Jets to win that game. I don't, I'm not there yet with

1:10.5

Fernando Mendoza and the Jets. Now, I think that there's a good

1:14.2

chance that they don't win a game the rest of the year, but they also are going, and I think

1:18.4

the Giants are going to win a couple games. So they're going to have to worry about Cleveland.

1:23.2

They're going to have to worry about Vegas, maybe even more in particular, than Cleveland.

1:28.9

But if the Jets win one of these games or two or whatever, do you view it as a disaster because they could get Mendoza?

1:41.1

Does Mendoza, really the question is, do you believe that Fernando Mendoza, as we sit here today,

1:47.1

is so important for the Jets to get that they either got to get this number one overall pick

1:52.1

or they've got to package these picks that they have to go and get him because he's the guy

1:55.8

that's going to finally turn this franchise?

1:57.4

I will say he will be the first quarterback taken.

2:00.7

That I will say, and he will be the first quarterback taken. That I will say,

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