00:00As the Texans going to be hosting the Las Vegas Raiders.
00:05Now, we weren't quite sure who would be playing or who wasn't going to be playing for Houston.
00:11But D'Amico Ryan's head coach did confirm that it does expect, you know, the CJ Stroud and the starters
00:18to to play a couple of series there.
00:21Now, whether that means likely just the first quarter, but the same means for that defense of Houston as well.
00:30And meanwhile, I don't know if we're going to see Kirk Cousins here tonight, but I do know we're going
00:34to see a lot of Mendoza who's taken a lot of reps with the first team this week.
00:40We are hearing. Here's my dilemma, Craig, with what's going on.
00:46You've got a number one overall draft pick.
00:48The last six who were picked number one, by the way, in the draft that were quarterbacks have all started
00:56game one of the regular season.
00:57It feels like an eternity goal where you draft a guy one and then you sit him and let him
01:03learn.
01:04That hasn't happened in ages, but the Raiders seem hell bent on.
01:09Kirk Cousins is going to be our starter against Miami week one and Mendoza will bring him in when he's
01:16ready.
01:16My problem is, OK, what happens if Kirk Cousins wins the first three or four games of the season?
01:24At what point are you planning on pulling Kirk Cousins and what happens if you lose to Miami in game
01:30one?
01:30Are we already in the Mendoza era?
01:34I'm not quite sure where they're going with this.
01:37A lot of good points by you.
01:39I'd like to expand on some of the conversation here.
01:42So I think, from my view, Fernando Mendoza, as the number one pick in the draft, is not much different
01:53than a lot of the other number one overall picks in the draft.
01:56As you mentioned in the past, what would you say, decade?
01:59Is that fair to say?
02:01Cam Ward, Trevor Lawrence.
02:03I'm probably missing a lot of first overall picks, and you can throw them at me if you want while
02:10we're doing this.
02:11What I think is happening, in my opinion, Joe, is the NFL and their teams are dialing it back to
02:19the way it was when you and I grew up,
02:22which was the number one overall pick did not play for a long time, no matter what.
02:28That guy held the clipboard and waited because I think, Joe, what we're seeing is so many first-round quarterback
02:36busts now that maybe the idea is wrong.
02:41Maybe the evaluation of these teams throwing the guy right in right away is failing.
02:47Let's try something different no matter what, no matter how good he looks.
02:52Let's make him hold.
02:54I mean, I don't even know if they're using a clipboard.
02:55Let's use the iPad.
02:56Let's make him use and hold that iPad for at least a week or maybe two just to see and
03:05let him get the flow almost like a basketball player who used to come out after he was in high
03:11school,
03:12and now they make him just go for a freshman year.
03:14Why?
03:15It doesn't make any difference.
03:16It's just to get him a little bit more acclimated as to what could potentially come from college to the
03:22pros.
03:23So, crazily enough, I agree with the Raiders.
03:27I do.
03:27I think that that's the right move.
03:29I think throwing these guys into the fire, Joe, it doesn't seem to be working.
03:34And you're investing so much initial money on these players to ruin their careers because they're not prepared.
03:42I tend to think the Raiders are going in the right direction, and I think that that trend may continue
03:49in the National Football League.
03:51Look, we're never going to see a scenario anymore where you take a quarterback that high in the first round
03:56and the guy doesn't play in the first year.
03:58I understand that, and he's definitely going to play, whether it's week two, as you said, or five or seven
04:03or 15.
04:05But let this kid go through the next three or four weeks.
04:10First of all, D'Amico Rines, what he also said is no defensive player is playing tonight for Houston.
04:15They think they have the best defense in the NFL.
04:17They're not going to risk it, and that's the end of it.
04:19So, none of their defenders are playing tonight for Houston.
04:21So, Mendoza's probably going to look good, Joe.
04:23He's probably going to look really good, and we're going to probably start yelling for Mendoza.
04:27But I think we're headed toward a new day.
04:31Don't destroy the confidence of the kids.
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