What’s Fernando Mendoza’s Ceiling In The NFL?
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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| 0:20.8 | Don't forget Paul Toboni, President and GM of the Washington Nationals. He will join us coming up at 9 a.m. So just about two hours from it now. Can you just tell me real quick when you hung out with Tobonit, what was it just 15 minutes or so before game? And that was down on the field? Do you went up to his suite? No, no, I was on the field. he was uh i think he was in the locker room and he was down on the field or you went up to a suite no no it was on |
| 0:37.6 | the field he was uh I think he was in the locker room and he came out of the dugout and I was just kind of hanging out there with James Wood's dad uh-huh waiting for batting practice which never happened right just did fielding so I watched fielding was fine uh-huh and uh yeah so he came out we talked for 15 minutes he's easy to talk to I wasn't here when he was in studio yeah good dude. Yeah. Yeah. Good. He was in studio? No, he was his studio. No, we were at that's out. We talked for 15 minutes. He's easy to talk to you. I wasn't here when he was in studio. Yeah, a good dude. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah. He was in studio? |
| 0:56.5 | No, we were at Nats Park. |
| 0:58.0 | We were at Nats Park. |
| 0:58.9 | We were at Nats Park. |
| 0:59.0 | I wasn't there. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | That was when he was introduced. |
| 1:02.6 | Very down to earth, chill dude. |
| 1:04.2 | Nice guy. was Fernando Mendoza, magical year for him, wins the Heisman, wins the national championship, |
| 1:13.2 | has the scramble touchdown, kind of an iconic play, and then becomes the number one pick |
| 1:19.4 | for the Raiders. Do you think he's going to be really good this year? Really good this year? |
| 1:27.0 | No. I don't even know. It's going to start. Do you think he's going to be really good ever? I'm not sure about that, but for him to be really good as a rookie on a terrible Raiders team, I know they're trying to turn things around, but you're not turning that ship around in one off season. I don't think he's going to be good this year. I think you should play him from week one, just get him out there, get him the experience. I don't know what waiting seven or eight weeks behind Kirk Cousins is going to do as far as his development is concerned. It depends on how well the guy knows, has a grasp of the offense, picks all that up. He seems like a second nature to him. He seems like a very diligent and smart guy. I'm going to guess he has a good understanding of the offense by the time training camp rolls around. You or you would hope. I don't know how long it takes somebody to learn, like, that kind of stuff. Yeah. And he's in a tough division, too. He's got to play the Chargers and the Chiefs. He's got to play the Broncos. Yeah. But we have no idea when he's going to start. Cousins could start for the first six to eight weeks. They are going to finish last in the AFC West. That's basic. I mean, I think that's pretty much a guarantee. Unless Patrick Mahomes isn't ready and the Chiefs, you know, play 15 games without him, |
| 2:34.4 | which I don't think is going to be the case. |
| 2:36.3 | Cam Ward played from day one, right? |
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