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The more you hear Fernando Mendoza talk, the more his responses tend to sound canned and rehearsed. As his star rose last season en route to a National Championship season and the top prospect in the country, the media began noting it potentially a red flag.
The thinking was that he may not be genuine. Which, of course, leads to questions about what's behind his seemingly over-prepared words. In essence, what's he hiding. NFL teams have to dig deep into that kind of stuff when considering who they select in the draft. That goes especially for a top pick and even more so for a quarterback.
So, when the Raiders interviewed Mendoza at the combine, the subject came up. At about the 21-minute mark of the Raiders' recent Behind The Shield episode, Spytek himself asked Mendoza about when he said he had a lot of "media training." Mendoza was open about it, offering a pretty good explanation as to what that means and why.
"My whole thing is you've got to communicate. You got to communicate with your teammates, with your coaches," said Mendoza. "So let me get really good at speaking. I'm always taking speech classes, I've always looked on YouTube videos how to communicate, how to be a better leader, I'm a huge reader as well, so with that it's developed senses where people are like 'Oh, this guy is ChatGPT' but whenever you ask any of my teammates - I don't want to speak for them -- but I've been able to connect with my teammates really well and not like a ChatGPT scenario."
When you listen to Fernando talk, it actually gives off a sense that his mind is working faster than he can communicate his thoughts. This can cause some of his words to get truncated. As he said, that requires work in order to speak clearly.
It's essentially like a person dealing with a stutter. In that it takes rehearsing and therefore can sound over-prepared. Mainly because it is. And there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean the words he's saying aren't genuinely him.
Not only that, but much of this is how he speaks to the media or in interviews, when he has to be more careful about how he may be perceived. He still needs to be able to communicate clearly with his teammates and coaches in practices and games, but, as Mendoza notes, his teammates have never said anything other than that he is authentic. That has been the sentiment from his Raiders teammates as well.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Fernando Mendoza opened up to Raiders on why he sounds like 'ChatGPT'
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The thinking was that he may not be genuine. Which, of course, leads to questions about what's behind his seemingly over-prepared words. In essence, what's he hiding. NFL teams have to dig deep into that kind of stuff when considering who they select in the draft. That goes especially for a top pick and even more so for a quarterback.
So, when the Raiders interviewed Mendoza at the combine, the subject came up. At about the 21-minute mark of the Raiders' recent Behind The Shield episode, Spytek himself asked Mendoza about when he said he had a lot of "media training." Mendoza was open about it, offering a pretty good explanation as to what that means and why.
"My whole thing is you've got to communicate. You got to communicate with your teammates, with your coaches," said Mendoza. "So let me get really good at speaking. I'm always taking speech classes, I've always looked on YouTube videos how to communicate, how to be a better leader, I'm a huge reader as well, so with that it's developed senses where people are like 'Oh, this guy is ChatGPT' but whenever you ask any of my teammates - I don't want to speak for them -- but I've been able to connect with my teammates really well and not like a ChatGPT scenario."
When you listen to Fernando talk, it actually gives off a sense that his mind is working faster than he can communicate his thoughts. This can cause some of his words to get truncated. As he said, that requires work in order to speak clearly.
It's essentially like a person dealing with a stutter. In that it takes rehearsing and therefore can sound over-prepared. Mainly because it is. And there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean the words he's saying aren't genuinely him.
Not only that, but much of this is how he speaks to the media or in interviews, when he has to be more careful about how he may be perceived. He still needs to be able to communicate clearly with his teammates and coaches in practices and games, but, as Mendoza notes, his teammates have never said anything other than that he is authentic. That has been the sentiment from his Raiders teammates as well.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Fernando Mendoza opened up to Raiders on why he sounds like 'ChatGPT'
Continue reading...
