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How Sold Are You on Fernando Mendoza?

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Every year before the draft there are a handful of players pundits debate if their worth a 1st round pick. This year Fernando Mendoza has dominated conversation with fans and online communities in this aspect as the Raiders are set to take him 1st overall. College “feel good” stories come to die in the NFL and I don’t see him as a 1st overall selection.

That is rarified air where a team is hoping to land a future Hall of Famer not just a serviceable QB. You get those in the late 2nd or even the 3rd round which is what Mendoza’s play suggests. Yes he won the National Championship but so did Matt Lienart, Ken Dorsey, Stetson Bennett (who), Mac Jones, & JJ McCarthy. Bennett sits behind reigning MVP Matt Stafford with the Rams. Jones is on his 3rd team and 2nd string to Brock Purdy who just signed a $265 million deal, and McCarthy is a lame duck behind freshly signed Kyler Murray & Carson Wentz. He may not make the opening day roster in Minnesota.

I threw in Lineart & Dorsey as both were coming off back to back college championship visits and both had 34 consecutive wins just snapped in title games. So if you want to start with the he’s played so many college games as a defense… and lets face it: Did you know the Hoosiers won with 47 guys over the age of 23? He was on a well coached team that was 4 years older than many of the kids they faced in college. That won’t happen in the NFL. He ran an offense that was not sophisticated and his mechanics have to improve.

Its one of the reasons the Raiders signed Kirk Cousins who undoubtedly will be the opening day starter.

The Raiders had a tremendous offseason fortifying the defense and put themselves on a collision course where they have to take him #1 overall. If they fortify the line in the draft, Ashton Jeanty will break out and this is an 8 win team and drafting a QB next year #1 won’t be an option.

Mendoza does provide hope and he will be a serviceable starter. In the NFL Linebackers are 1 1/2 steps faster than their collegiate counterparts. The plodding runs you watched with Mendoza in college will lead to his getting hit and he has to be eased into the pro game. Hence the Cousins signing. His play projects to the NFL most reminiscent of Andy Dalton in Cincinnati. On a talented team he can make enough plays for a few playoff runs. Winning a Super Bowl? I don’t see that dynamic a QB.

Indiana and Mendoza caught lightning in a jug with a team old enough they should have been 2nd year NFL players. I’m sold on Mendoza being an average pro quarterback, nothing more.

 

 

Maxx Crosby Should Sue The Baltimore Ravens

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In the wake of the underhanded way the Baltimore Ravens handled the Maxx Crosby trade, he should sue them for what happened. Now his value as a player has been sunk behind a bogus “he failed the physical” which was the copout they could use. They had the ink dry on the Trey Hendrickson deal in less than 18 hours and the fallout is he has to go back to Las Vegas.

Now the market has been completely blown up for Crosby

DE Trey Hendrickson signed by Ravens $114 million

DE/Edge Bradley Chubb signed by Bills $43.5 million

DE/Edge Joseph Ossai signed Jets by $36 million

DE/Edge K’Lavon Chaisson signed by Washington $12 million

…and all this before we bring up his Raiders signed both DE/Edge rushers Kwity Paye & Malcolm Koonce anticipating replacing him. The Dallas Cowboys pulling the trigger on a trade with DE/Edge Rusher Rashan Gary with the Green Bay Packers. Now he was robbed of a year where his market was at its highest for his services and now the Ravens reneged. He is forced back to a team he had said goodbye to and looking forward to a new start in Baltimore.

Think not? The pic at the head of this article was from his Instagram page thats since been deleted. Crosby should sue for potential financial and professional loss. He now has to live with the scarlet letter of a failed physical that will follow him and bring down his value the rest of his career. He should do it to force the players association to act upon his behalf for players who will be stuck in limbo if the NFL doesn’t step in and stop franchises from doing what the Ravens have done. On purpose or inadvertantly they labeled a player from outside their organization that will cause every team to lowball him if there are contract negotiations moving forward.

After this happened, the 1st thing I went to look for is if the Raiders played the Ravens this year but they don’t.

What happened to Maxx Crosby was completely wrong and I would sue them. Just have to figure how much value he lost in this situation with his attorney and agent.