00:00Let's get to Mendoza.
00:01Okay, yes, because Fernando Mendoza, everybody's like,
00:05oh, he's going to be awesome.
00:06You just got to let him sit maybe a little bit.
00:09Kirk Cousins, he's going to be awesome.
00:12He's got a great personality.
00:13He's great in interviews.
00:17Josh mentioned this, I think, a couple weeks ago.
00:20You mentioned it as well, John.
00:21He hasn't looked that good so far.
00:24He's going to be behind Kirk Cousins.
00:26But, John, your thoughts, man.
00:28Put him out there.
00:30Put him out there.
00:31Let him stink.
00:32Let him stink the high hell.
00:35Let him.
00:35This is a can't.
00:38And this is what makes me upset about the way the Raiders are playing this
00:41as they're playing it right now publicly.
00:43It appears there's no announcement to my knowledge.
00:46If you have it, let me know.
00:47By this time, it may have happened.
00:49There's no reason to start Kirk Cousins.
00:52Let me tell you why.
00:53Let's say Fernando Mendoza struggles.
00:56So did Peyton Manning, by the way.
00:59So did Caleb Williams' rookie year.
01:03All these number one picks, the number one pick, not a first-round pick,
01:07all number one picks do not sit behind anyone.
01:11They play, and they struggle.
01:14Period.
01:15Again, Patrick Mahomes didn't play to the end of the year.
01:18He was not the number one pick.
01:20Tom Brady was not the number one pick.
01:22All these guys who you keep drawing, like Aaron Rodgers was not the number one pick.
01:27Brett Favre, not the number one pick.
01:29He was a trait.
01:30All these legendary players who everyone says, like, oh, these guys sat.
01:34They weren't the number one pick.
01:37So you let him play.
01:39You got him for a reason.
01:41Let him stink.
01:42So if you end up with the second or third pick, you know what you do with the second
01:45or third pick?
01:46You auction it off.
01:48In a time where you don't need a guy, but everybody in the top five will be fighting
01:53to get one of these guys.
01:56You trade.
01:57You get multiple first-round picks.
01:59Two years going forward.
02:00Now you have two first-round picks.
02:02If you play this right, but the Raiders feel like they don't want to do.
02:08This is a win-win situation.
02:11You let him take his lumps.
02:12You let him take his bumps.
02:14You also have one of the best tight ends in football.
02:16You also have a running back who showed flashes, but if you can block for him, he can protect
02:21Mendoza with play action, which is heavy in the Kubiak offense.
02:25But you got to put him out there.
02:27And to not put him out there, so he can watch Kirk Cousins lose?
02:32I'm telling you, the Raiders truly believe that they're close to competing.
02:38Close to what?
02:39I'm telling you.
02:40The exit?
02:41No, they truly believe that they took another...
02:44Now listen, I will tell you this, and I'm trying to tell you about probably how they
02:47think in the front office, because every action that they've had so far, John, is,
02:51hey, we're going to compete this year.
02:53Hey, in the AFC, we're going to try to be, I don't know, 9 and 8.
02:59Bruh.
02:59Bruh.
03:00I'm just telling you.
03:02So they really want Kirk Cousins to work.
03:04But here's the thing.
03:06It's okay to have a building year.
03:09It's okay.
03:10Sure.
03:11If having a building year secures that you come back next year with the idea of we're
03:17a playoff team now.
03:19And in the NFL, no teams, no leagues jump from worst to first than the NFL.
03:25But you got to build that.
03:27Yeah.
03:28Okay?
03:28You have to build that.
03:30CJ Strout was great.
03:31How's that going?
03:33Jayden Daniels was great.
03:35How's that going?
03:36Even when you come out like a cannon, you still hit some feet bumps.
03:42But you got to hit the bumps.
03:44I just don't, I don't see the luxury in playing Kirk Cousins with all he can learn
03:51from Kirk Cousins is what not to do.
03:54And you know what Kirk Cousins can tell you what not to do?
03:56After you've done it and you come over to the sideline.
03:59Because he done made every mistake in football.
04:02You know what a good point you made is, is Jayden Daniels and CJ Strout.
04:07And the reason I say that.
04:08Great rookie years.
04:09The reason I say that, John, you're right.
04:11Great rookie years.
04:11But the reason I say that is because, did you have the commanders going as deep as they
04:16did in the UFC that year?
04:18Right.
04:19Did you have the Texans being as good as they were?
04:23Hell no!
04:24So if you're the Raiders, and I'm backing up your point here to where, what if he has
04:29a season like that?
04:30What if he does?
04:32The Texans and the commanders said, you know what?
04:35Eh, we may be better, but we're not as good as the other.
04:38Let's just try it.
04:39You know, let's just try to see.
04:40And you could make the case, John.
04:43It's like, well, we didn't have a Kirk Cousins-type quarterback to play at the time, so we had
04:48to play our top draft pick.
04:49That's the excuse that they would give.
04:51You shouldn't have got Kirk Cousins this year!
04:53I agree.
04:54I don't know why.
04:54When I saw that notification hit my screen, I had no...
04:57I didn't understand why they did it.
05:00I did.
05:00You know, Raiders fans and NFL people, well, it's to help him learn, and it's a maturity
05:04thing.
05:05What?
05:05He didn't need him.
05:06If you're the Raiders, there's a good chance you could have the best young running back
05:12in the NFL and the best young tight end in the NFL with a franchise quarterback.
05:18That's a three-headed monty that took the Chargers to a decade of success, and now they
05:22got three Hall of Famers because of that.
05:24You can turn this into Philip Rivers, LaDainian Thomason, and Antonio Gates, but you gotta do
05:32it, man.
05:32You gotta do it.
