Why Las Vegas Raiders SHOULD draft Fernando Mendoza & FIRE Pete Carroll | Colin Cowherd Podcast

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1. I'll take one Mendoza and refuse the Carroll's 💯

2. Poor Mendoza. Like gettng drafted to Cleveland or Miami

3. You don’t trade great players keep maxx

4. Mark is a fool he should stay far away from the organization.

5. Mendoza going to be a bust

6. Mendoza overrated af

7. How about the Raiders offer the #1 pick and Crosby for Joe Burrow?

8. Why the raider should draft Mendoza…. They have no other option 😂

9. Clean house. Maybe keep d coach

10. gonna be hillarious when Maxx forces his way out and Mendoza turns out to be a bust.. I can already see the writing on the wall. The football gods will not look kindly to this situation .

11. I feel like you can’t fire Pete Carrol after one season . We gotta stop firing coaches so we can build a foundation

12. Draft Mendoza and let him sit behind Geno until he is ready no rush , yall ain’t going anywhere soon anyways . By time they get relevant Pete will be hitting 80 years old 😂

13. Pete sucks who keeps garbage on the team all year geno his sons didnt play the rookies hes senile old and has dementia

14. The Raiders are on par with the Browns as far as franchise mismanagement. We're all just waiting for TB12 to become the coach.

15. We’re not trading Max Crosby stop the fake news

16. I’m not sold on Mendoza but he is the consensus best QB. Finally we get some stability at that position. I’m excited

17. It’s doesn’t matter who the Raider draft anymore than who the Browns draft. Loser organizations will still mess it up.

18. Believe me, Raider Nation, don’t expect any miracles in the Win/Loss column from a rookie QB without us first addressing the O-line (among many other areas on the team).

    If Geno Smith (a multiple Pro-Bowl QB who’s seen it all in the NFL) couldn’t ever find any rhythm or consistency, what makes us believe a rookie QB will fare any better in year 1–especially if we have a new coaching staff and system changes?

    All things equal, we will still see a veteran QB playing for us next year until we build an O-line capable of optimizing the production of the talent we have (and will have) next season that is priority #1 in setting up a strong enough foundation for a rookie QB to be successful when his time comes to get significant snaps and start (assuming the obvious—we still pick one if we secure the 1st overall pick).

19. Mendoza is highly overrated

20. I can’t see them taking anyone but Mendoza

21. Mike McCarthy?

22. They should trade Maxx Crosby for multiple picks

    And I think Crosby should be pushing for this trade if he wants to win

23. The Raiders need to draft offensive linemen. It doesn’t matter who their QB is if you can’t block for him then you’re wasting your time. Get the O-Line fixed then go get your QB

24. Dart essentially played hard to keep his job. If he lost to the Raiders, the Giants would have seriously considered drafting Mendoza

25. I respect Pete, and I’m glad the raiders didn’t fire him mid season. But I think we should move on during this offseason!

26. Fire Pete !

27. Crosby doesn't want to leave unless someone is going to unload the bag

28. Not sure why TB12 doesn't just be the HC? That's Mendoza's HERO😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

29. Raiders will ruin him! 😢

30. middlekauff just blabbering away

31. Kliff Kingsbury is the guy for the job

32. To people in the chat👂. You need an offensive line before you draft a qb. When a team is loosing the coach is going to throw the rookie qb in to save their job. This qb will get smashed. 😢

33. Incredible to me how stupid these two are. And a lot of my fellow raider fans

    Mendoza is a product of what cignetti put all around him. What he looks like at indiana is NOT what he will look like on our very limited football team

    Go watch Mendoza film from CAL, where he was surrounded by middle of the road talent. Not great

    Raiders neeed to build out EVERYTHING before we start thinking about our future QB

    You could’ve put 30 or 40 other D1 QBs on that indiana team and it would be that guy that the “experts” would dub the number 1 guy

34. Cowherd also declared Caleb Williams a failure, and Bears should move on from him.

35. Surprisingly, every QB the Raiders, Browns, or Jets draft will be a bust. I wonder why?

36. We the Nation ,Raiders by pete an his son s

37. Crosby ain't going nowhere 😂 get ready nation. We git pieces. Mendoza R1. CB R2. OL R3. S R4

38. The Raiders have needed an O Line for at least 8 years and not one regime has addressed it with any amount of competence or seriousness.. They keep trying to bargain shop in free agency and then their scouts cant see talent coming out of college. They briing in bargain basement QB's and put them behind some of the most incompetent O Lines and expect them to perform at a high level. The RAIDERS should fire their whole scouting department and bring in people who can identify real talent.

39. Offer Klint Kubiak

40. Raiders should trade the pick and get as many picks as they can for OL and go after Mac Jones.

41. The Raiders will always be irrelevant in Vegas. The only real Raiders are the Oakland Raiders.

42. I love Crosby a warrior through and through! Sad to see him in this situation. I’d want to see him win at least 1 even if its not with us! 🫡 98!

43. I would bring in Joe Brady from the Bills if I'm the Raiders. Pair young QB in Mendoza with a good young offensive mind.

44. We need some coaches cause what we got clearly has reached short bus status 😆

45. He sucks shut up i hope your fired after this

46. I think the Raiders will make a financial decision in the draft by drafting Diego Pavia. The Raiders have a huge Mexican-American following thanks to Tom Flores and Jim Plunkett many years ago. If Pavia is just good enough, he will still sell a lot merchandise for the team. If he is better than expected, it will be a big bonus.

47. I work at the University of California as a chef in the athletic department so we feed all of the student athletes been to every game that Mendoza has played with Cal Barkley to be honest he’s not that good to me. I never seen a first overall pick in him.

48. Raiders have the 2nd most cap space in 2026, the O-Line will be top priority. As dog shit as the Raiders have been for the last 25 years they’ve only picked 1st overall once in team history. Gotta swing big on a QB!!!

49. Mendoza is not going to to be a good pro.. guaranteed