Would the Dolphins draft Indiana's QB Fernando Mendoza?

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Things get real passionate when discussing picks and benching Tua... If the season continues the way it's going and the Dolphins end up with a top 3 or 5 pick in the draft, would the Fins make a move and draft local Miamian and Indiana's QB Fernando Mendoza?

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00:00Is there anything the starting quarterback of the Miami Dolphins can do tonight

00:04to earn his hour back for tomorrow's show?

00:07Can we give it to him if he plays well tonight?

00:09No, it's not going to even – it is not – here.

00:12It is not even on the docket until they get to 500.

00:17Okay.

00:18So they got to win, what, four more games, five more games in a row?

00:23No, no, I'm going to tell you this.

00:24No, no.

00:25Dono?

00:26Yeah.

00:27If they beat the Ravens and Buffalo Bills, it will be up for discussion.

00:34That's what I'm saying.

00:36I probably won't be here for the shows that come after that next game,

00:39but I would love to hear.

00:41I will be tuning in that day.

00:42That would be three in a row.

00:44That would be three wins in a row.

00:46Against two playoff teams.

00:47And then you win – well, I don't know if the Ravens are a playoff team.

00:50Well, no, they were playoff teams last year.

00:52We don't know what they're going to be this year.

00:53But I'm just saying you beat Lamar Jackson and you beat Josh Allen.

00:57So that's two big wins against two of the top five quarterbacks in the game.

01:02They might be up for discussion.

01:03I could make a –

01:04Let's not discount the streaky – let's not discount the streaky nature of this franchise.

01:09It would be last season they were the first team in NFL history to have a seven-game losing streak

01:14and a seven-game winning streak in the same year.

01:16So don't rule it out.

01:18Don't rule it out.

01:19Nobody's ruling it out.

01:20We're just saying you just asked the question, when is it considered?

01:23Smith and Smolik said, bro, you know how old you got to be to say I was reading the TV?

01:28Because I said when they go, Dono just said that.

01:33And I was like, I was reading the TV.

01:36And that's when I just saw it.

01:38I wasn't really listening.

01:39Was that the part about Coach O that he wants to ask you to?

01:42No, yeah, no.

01:43It was the part about the AD or the athletic director doing Texas A&M.

01:49I mean, if you're an athletic director and the governor of your state when you work at a state institution

01:54and the governor is openly feuding with you, that's not a good sign for your job security.

01:59Like, that can't be a good feeling.

02:01Especially when he appoints the board.

02:04Yeah.

02:06Yeah, I mean, when you're an AD and the governor says,

02:09I'm not going to let the AD of that school hire their next football coach.

02:12We're going to go around him with a board of people that I appoint.

02:15That's not a good sign.

02:16You got to leave.

02:17You got to leave.

02:18Yeah, but then, wait, you're fighting fire with fire.

02:21So now you're going to fire the AD and pay him?

02:23No, you got to.

02:24You see what I'm saying?

02:26That AD buyout doesn't slap the same way that the Brian Kelly buyout does.

02:30I don't think there's an AD buyout.

02:31You think there's an AD buyout?

02:33Yeah.

02:34Yeah, I think there's an AD buyout.

02:35And all of that, if you're.

02:37No, if you sign a contract, right?

02:43And you get fired before you still owe the contract.

02:47That is.

02:48It's for everybody except the players.

02:51Right.

02:52Yeah, I guess the players, it's these.

02:54And it's marketing deals, NIL.

02:56So it's not.

02:57Well, it's not even that.

02:57I'm talking about even in pro sports.

03:00Like, if I'm playing for.

03:02So, so, so, for example.

03:04It's buyout.

03:05No, Tyreek Hill has no guaranteed money after this year.

03:10On the NFL, maybe.

03:11Right?

03:11That's what I'm saying.

03:12Yeah.

03:13There's no guarantee.

03:14He has no more.

03:16NBA has guaranteed money.

03:17They got.

03:18Yeah.

03:18So, but I'm saying in football, right?

03:21Tyreek Hill has.

03:22So that big contract he signed, he has no more guaranteed money after this year, which means

03:27they'll probably do something, renegotiate it or what have you.

03:31But if Miami Daniel goes, he just signed an extension.

03:34He get all that money.

03:35Yeah.

03:35So, like Tua, after next year, Tua has no more guaranteed money.

03:42So, like, why everybody talking about 50 million a year, he basically got a three-year, $140

03:48million contract.

03:50So, with that being said, if the season still goes, you know, down the drain, you could draft

03:56yourself a quarterback.

03:58Just lose a, just, you know, let him learn.

04:00But, Vla, here's the problem with that.

04:03But, the biggest problem with all that is this.

04:07Fernando Mendoza.

04:08That you have so many spots to fill.

04:14To draft the guy to sit doesn't make your team better.

04:18Well, not maybe.

04:19Okay.

04:19Hold on.

04:20You don't have to.

04:21He doesn't necessarily have to sit a whole year.

04:23You could let him just sit like three, four games.

04:25But, Richard Darden, you could do Russell and Jackson Darden.

04:27Okay.

04:28But, but, but, but wait, why?

04:30I think if you, if you don't have, if you don't have the infrastructure around a quarterback,

04:40have you not seen all the young quarterbacks playing for different teams because they didn't

04:45have the infrastructure to be able to develop for a certain team?

04:49LeBron.

04:49All right.

04:50Let me, let me clarify this by saying, I'm thinking this is, there's going to be a new

04:54regime.

04:55Okay.

04:56And if you have a new regime, they're going to want to get their quarterback, but not

05:00the, you're still with all the areas to fill.

05:06I get what you're saying with all the needs that this team will have after the season.

05:14If you can get filled two or three needs.

05:17Or get a quarterback that's going to either sit, or you're going to end up paying two

05:24quarterbacks, $70 million, right?

05:27Are you helping your team or hurting your team?

05:32You're setting the table for the future.

05:35Oh, you're not.

05:36If you're setting it, if you were setting the table for the future, you'll be getting the

05:42infrastructure around the quarterback so that when you draft the quarterback, he can play.

05:47I'm going to get that quarterback.

05:48Okay.

05:49I'm going to get the, this might not be the best year to get a quarterback.

05:52So maybe next year is better anyway.

05:55With all the examples that we have of guys or teams or organizations that said, I'm going

06:03to go get that quarterback.

06:05And the quarterback ended up doing terrible because you got nothing around him.

06:08We're still going to go that route.

06:10But you got things around him.

06:12You don't have an offensive line.

06:14You've never had an offensive line.

06:15He played okay last week.

06:16Oh, all right.

06:17Okay.

06:18Like, you've never had an offensive line when you were good.

06:20Okay.

06:21Jonah had his best game.

06:22Patrick Paul looks pretty good.

06:23I know.

06:24I do believe these guys are going to get better.

06:27I'm not saying that.

06:29I said, but it's twofold.

06:32Tua has guaranteed money, right?

06:34If I have a high draft pick and I can get more picks and fill two or three needs, do

06:45I have to get a quarterback?

06:46How are you getting these more picks?

06:47Because if you have a high pick, you can trade down.

06:52So you wouldn't take?

06:53No, I wouldn't take a quarterback.

06:55So if you had a fifth pick.

06:57Right.

06:57I wouldn't take a quarterback.

06:59I'd trade down and get more picks.

07:01And what if you can't trade down?

07:02Then best player available.

07:05If it's a quarterback, then it won't be for lack of not trying.

07:08Yeah, because I'm trying to figure out.

07:10Like, oh, okay, fine.

07:11I know they need a lot.

07:12But do you understand how, like, it almost makes the situation worse?

07:18You understand what I'm saying?

07:20So if you draft a quarterback and you haven't done anything around the quarterback, that

07:25means the offensive line.

07:26You got a running game.

07:28Who's going to play opposite Waddle, right?

07:31What are you going to do on the defense?

07:33The young guys are coming along, but you got some guys who are getting older, and you

07:38got to get some other guys in the secondary, right?

07:41Well, so you want me to do all those things to build around Tua, who now we don't fully

07:46believe in?

07:47No, I'm not saying.

07:47Here's what I'm saying.

07:50I'm saying if you draft a quarterback at that moment in time, right, and you don't do the

07:59other things, right, and that quarterback isn't playing right away, or he is playing

08:08right away, and you got $50 million sitting on the bench, it looks worse to have that

08:14much money invested in one position.

08:15So we got to fix everything else first, and then we can get a quarterback.

08:18No, I didn't say that.

08:20Because here's the thing I'm saying.

08:22Okay, people are saying this is not a great draft, a quarterback draft in 26.

08:26Yeah.

08:27Yeah, I agree with that.

08:28Okay, cool.

08:29But are you telling me your guys are going to be that bad in 26 to be able to draft in

08:33the top five for a quarterback in 27?

08:35No.

08:36Okay, then.

08:37So if you're going to...

08:38There's a possibility that you might be in the top five this year.

08:42So if you're going to need...

08:43Fernando Mendoza's from Miami.

08:45He'd love to come back home.

08:47Miami, Columbus, high.

08:48I have to go in the stadium.

08:50But do you understand if you have that much money invested at one position, it's going

08:58to take even that much longer to get to a point that everywhere else that you can be

09:03competitive.

09:04I got Mendoza...

09:04If, say, the Dolphins had a chance to draft Mendoza, I would have Mendoza in a rookie

09:09deal.

09:09I've only got two for one more year.

09:12Right.

09:13But it's still a lot of money invested in one position.

09:16Fam, I messed up already.

09:17I effed up.

09:18Chris Greer effed up.

09:19Okay.

09:19So guess what?

09:20I got to eat that now.

09:21But if I can eat that for one more year and get what could be my franchise quarterback

09:27on a rookie deal, I will consider that very heavy.

09:31I would say, in all fairness, if I could get draft picks...

09:37Facts.

09:38Because you're stuck with Tua for another year.

09:41Okay?

09:41Facts.

09:42And so however you want to do it, okay, that's fine.

09:47But if you draft another quarterback and don't do anything to improve the rest of the team,

09:58regardless of who's the quarterback, you're still in the same boat.

10:02And so now we're going to have another Daniel Jones situation where now this dude is playing

10:10as a young quarterback behind garbage or behind development, and then we're going to say,

10:15this guy sucks too.

10:16Let's go get another quarterback.

10:18The cycle always tends to follow bad decisions with bad organizations.

10:23The same decision over and over again.

10:27You go New York.

10:29Let's go Indy.

10:30Let's go...

10:31We know the situations.

10:33Indy looking good now.

10:35Yeah, but guess what?

10:36With who's quarterback?

10:38Because they have the infrastructure.

10:41They are awesome in the front defensive line and offensive line.

10:45They have a hell of a running back, and they got weapons outside, including a beast of a tight end.

10:54Okay?

10:54That infrastructure was there.

10:57So when you bring Daniel Jones in, that guy is stepping into a situation he never had in New York

11:03because, yeah, your dumbass got rid of Saquon Barkley, and the only good year he had was when

11:09Saquon Barkley was running.

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