Dan Patrick (8:31)
Thank you. Thank you, David. The. The weekly cowboy roast with our daily cowboy roast with David. We'll talk to Dan Orlovsky about this coming up. Also, as a former quarterback, we look at quarterbacks. The, the previous year we go, man, that guy. Next year in the draft. And then we get to that next year in the draft. And now there's only two quarterbacks who are going to be taken in the first round. You can go back to last year and there probably was five or six first round quarterbacks, but you know, Cade Klubnick, Nussmeier, Lenore Sellers, you know, even Ty Simpson in Alabama, you know, you, it was like, oh my God, next year's class is always better than the current class. And then here we are with Fernando Mendoza and Dante Moore. I don't know how good they are, but they're going to be elevated because they're the best of this year's quarterbacks. And I watch Mendoza like full games. I, and, and I told you what a scout told me. Now, the scout did preface this by saying, I haven't met with him. I haven't, you know, I'll get to see him at the combine, but I, I'm going to need to see a little bit more because his numbers weren't great this year. The story was great and he was the quarterback for one of the great stories that we've had. But if you're looking at Heisman Trophy winner stats at that position, his are just, okay, how much of this is the story and how much is Fernando Mendoza? And look, you got to ask these hard questions. Same with Dante Moore. He played it for bad UCLA team. Now you go to Oregon, Oregon can make you look a Lot better. You got to ask these questions and not fall in love with somebody. I gotta know when you know, can you process? This is what guys are going, you know, hey, man, look at him roll left and throw back 50 yards. I couldn't care less because last I looked, when they do that at your pro day, nobody is rushing you, nobody is covering the wide receiver. It doesn't make any impact on me. So I want to. What is it about Mendoza that stands out? Is he another Joe Flacco? And that's a compliment. Like if you said he's Joe Flacco, his career, let's take out the super bowl just regular season, and you have that kind of career. Or he's Kirk Cousins, like we always look, and you go, man, he could be just like John Elway or Tom. No, no, let's don't put that label on him. But he feels like a safe pick. And in today's NFL, we've seen Trey Lance or Anthony Richardson or, you know, you're Mitch Trubisky and you think you've outsmarted everybody. And you have it getting a for that franchise in Vegas. And you get him. He says all the right things, but I want to know what to expect from him. Because we like to do comps like Dante Moore. What if Oregon wins the national title? Do we look at Dante more differently than we do Fernando Mendoza? Different skill set. So people who give you these mock drafts, they're not, you know, with these players, you know, the personality. You got to talk to their teammates. You, you talk to defensive coordinators, who, I mean, there's so much that goes into this. And I, I, I've seen this happen, you know, for a long, long time. Every year we do this with quarterbacks. Be like, man, did you see that game? Man, did you see that throw? The scouts, they take away the clutter. They want to know exactly what's, what's the meat of this. How good are you? What if I give you two, Two plays? Go up on the chalkboard there, diagram it. Now, I'm going to have you change the play right now. Hey, explain to me what happened on this play when you threw this interception. That's. And then you want to know, you want to know their medicals, and you're going to want to know your personality, that, that you have, and then you do your background check on them. So before we go, oh, my gosh, these guys can't miss. They can all miss, depending on where you go. If the Raiders don't have an offensive line, I Don't care how good Fernando Mendoza is, he can't run away from all the pressure he's going to face. If Dante Moore goes to the jets, say a couple of Hail Marys because you don't know. That's why when guys fall in the first round, I always feel like they have a better chance of succeeding because they're going to a better team. Lamar Jackson went to the right team at the right time. Jalen hurts, same way. Tom Brady said to me years ago, if he went in the first round, he probably wouldn't have stayed in the league that long. His words, because he said I wasn't ready. And that's why I know we love this story and Indiana is an incredible story, but I don't want to fall in love with the story. And I'm, I'm just asking these questions because I, I'm not in a position to critique as much as I am ask those questions and they're hard questions because people are going, wait, why are you hating on Indiana? I'm not. I said, it's the modern day version of the basketball movie Hoosiers. It's been that incredible turnaround and story and hopefully Kurt Signetti stays there until he retires. It's been a great story. But you got to ask these questions because at that position we're still. I don't know if Tua can play. Like, I can go down the list of court. Kyler Murray, I don't know if he can play Kyler Murray. He couldn't miss. Man, look at that guy. He's going to be unbelievable in the NFL. And then he's not. So you start to look and you go, why did that guy succeed now? That guy didn't. And sometimes it's where you're drafted. Got an offensive line, who's your offensive coordinator? Who's your head coach? What kind of stability do you have? And that's why I don't know how good Fernando Mendoza is. I mean, that's a great pass to beat Penn State, but why did you need a great pass to beat Penn State? You went to Oregon and won that game in Oregon. That was impressive. The game against Alabama, that looked like, you know, two different levels of college football and those are big moments that you want to see.
