Rookie quarterbacks and first-time head coaches and what realistic expectations should be.

That plus more on Monday's edition of the Locked-on Raiders podcast for April 13th, 2026.

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Calls, text, a lot of great feedback gathered over the weekend.

We'll get as many in as possible coming up, segment number three.

Segment number two we're

going to continue with our thoughts on round number two for the silver and black last week late

week talked about trading up into the back end of round one for a particular player or two who would

you have your eyes on today want to talk about sticking and picking.

I'll tell you how this conversation even popped up. A couple of players that I still have on my mind in that round number two, that number 36 overall selection, and we'll kind of compare and contrast. But we'll stick with the theme round number two coming up in segment number two. Here in segment number one, news and notes of the day, and really it just has to do with rookie quarterbacks and first-time head coaches.

We'll jump into that after I tell you about the title sponsor of the show, and that's Fandul. Right now, new customers can bet just $5 and get $250 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Head to fandole.com to get started today. So over the weekend, saw a really good article from Ryan McFadden from ESPN. It's on ESPN.com right now. Matter of fact, he dropped it on the 9th, but I just saw it over the weekend saw a really good article from Ryan McFadden from ESPN it's on ESPN right now matter

fact he dropped it on the ninth but I just saw it over the weekend so really good stuff but

obviously it caught my attention because it has to do with rookie quarterbacks and rookie head coaches

and that combination and really it's called how Raiders can learn from the past with Mendoza and

Kubiak so one I encourage you to go read the whole thing really Really good stuff by Ryan McFadden. I'll see him later on this week at the Raiders facility when they get ready for John Spitech and company to meet with the media ahead of the draft. But yeah, he does a really good job. He took over for Paul Gutierrez, who now works for Raiders. But he puts in this article, how the Raiders can learn from the past with Mendoza and Kubiak,

if the Raiders indeed draft Mendoza with the first pick on April 23rd, it would be the second

time in franchise history and 11th time in the common draft era since 1967 that a quarterback

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