April 22, 2026, 1:47 p.m. PT
Just while you ponder whether Fernando Mendoza might really be extra suited to be the (*2*) decide at primary general, one other element comes out about him to additional cement that.
Wednesday, Mendoza joined the Dan Patrick present the place he revealed some very fascinating particulars about his course of and preparation for this second. A course of that started at the very least two years in the past.
“There was two years ago where I watched all [Kirk Cousins] Minnesota Vikings pass tape,” stated Mendoza, noting their comparable play types. “Every single pass, whether it was incomplete or a completion throughout the entire season. Which is a lot because the NFL has a lot of games.”
“When I was back in California there were a couple comparisons on ‘hey, you play a little bit like Kirk Cousins and Sam Darnold, just from our NFL guys. And so at that point I was like ‘let me watch these guys and see what they do.’ . . so after I was done with my process I’d watch 30 minutes or an hour of Kirk Cousins or Sam Darnold.”
Little did he know that two years later, he could be within the place the place the staff poised to take him atop the draft that not solely has Kirk Cousins on the staff, however has Klint Kubiak as the top coach, who was Cousins’s QB coach then OC in Minnesota for three of these seasons Mendoza was finding out. And, in fact, he coached Sam Darnold with the Seahawks final season.
So, in essence, Mendoza was unknowingly getting a two-year leap on preparing to work in Kubiak’s system alongside the NFL QB to whom he was most frequently in contrast.
Sometimes issues simply work out the way in which they’re supposed to work out.
