Las Vegas Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza shares the advice that Tom Brady has given him so far
Having Tom Brady as a mentor is surely something that Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Fernando Mendoza will not take advantage of.
Having Tom Brady as a mentor is surely something that Las Vegas Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza will not take advantage of. Is there a better person to be your mentor if you’re a young quarterback? No, absolutely not. And Mendoza has already gotten some sound advice from him.
“What he says is that as a quarterback, you need to be the most of everything,” Mendoza said during the Silver and Black Productions Media Day broadcast. “You need to be the most competitive, lead the most, you need to be the toughest mentally and physically, and you have to embody all these things and lead by example before getting the equity and respect of your teammates in order to lead effectively.”
That sounds exactly like something Brady would say. And what’s even better, it sounds like something Mendoza already does well but knows he has to do at the NFL level now, because what he did in college no longer matters. Now, he is starting at the bottom, and he knows that. That’s exactly how it’s been during OTAs, too.
Fernando Mendoza is trying to get everyone’s respect the hard way
Mendozaa is the franchise quarterback and the Raiders’ future, no doubt. However, the franchise is really making him earn it. Sure, we all know that Kirk Cousins is the starter by now. There’s a “battle,” but it’s Cousins’ to lose. He’s got the experience, and he can still throw the pigskin, too. But Mendoza hasn’t even really been the backup yet.
At OTAs, he’s pretty much been running with the threes more than anything else. So, I guess you could say that Aidan O’Connell is currently QB2. Now, obviously, that won’t be the case this season. But it shows they are really making him work for it, and he’s shown he understands the position he is in. Mendoa has already taken Brady’s advice.