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It's silly season. Which is to say we're approaching April and the NFL Draft hot takes are beginning to fly. That means the more consensus there is on a given player, the more controversy will be drummed up just to keep things interesting. In this draft the most consistent consensus is that Fernando Mendoza is the top player in the draft, let alone the top QB. And is a lock to go number one overall to the Raiders. So, of course someone had to come out and stir up controversy about that. Not surprisingly the hot take artist this time is former NFL QB Dan Orlovsky.
Orlovsky's take at the moment is that Mendoza is not the top QB in this draft. That it should be Alabama's Ty Simpson, who most think may not even be worthy of a first round pick. And would probably fall even farther if there weren't an overall lack of quarterbacks in this class.
There is really no basis for Orlovsky's opinion on this. Simpson has a total of 15 college starts while Mendoza led Inidana to a 16-0 season and a National Championship. All of which gave Pat McAfee all the ammo he needed to righteously drag Orlovsky for his ridiculous hot take.
Orlovsky was busy getting incinerated by Pat McAfee, but desperately trying to hold the crumbling ground from beneath him by asking some trolling questions like "what biggest games?" seeming to act like he's got a point he's about to make that proves his position correct. But when he finally gets to that "point", it turns out to be completely based on how few points Indiana had scored on Ohio State through the first three quarters of the Big10 Championship game.
And that's it.
There are so many flaws this this argument, it's hard to know wher to begin. McAfee and his crew do a pretty job of pointing out that, first of all, Ohio State was the number two ranked team in the nation with the best defense in the country. But it goes much farther than that.
First of all, Orlovsky, while talking about "FACTS" gets his wrong. He said Indiana had scored just six points through three quarters, which is false. They were up 13-10 through three quarters. Kinda important that his ONE argument is false.
From there Mendoza and the Hoosier absolutely wiped the field with Ty Simpson and Alabama, ripping them 38-3 to open the college football playoffs. So, if Orlovsky's entire basis that Mendoza is not better than Simpson is that he didn't score a lot of points in a high profile game, he goes with the double standard for Simpson who didn't find the end zone and managed just one field goal to get knocked out of the college football playoffs without a win.
Then Indiana smoked Oregon 56-20. The same Oregon team whose only loss that season was to Mendoza and the top ranked Hoosiers. And finally, Indiana put up 27 points on Miami's smothering defense.
This whole thing is absurd, honestly.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Pat McAfee cooks Dan Orlovsky for hot take of QB Fernando Mendoza
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Orlovsky's take at the moment is that Mendoza is not the top QB in this draft. That it should be Alabama's Ty Simpson, who most think may not even be worthy of a first round pick. And would probably fall even farther if there weren't an overall lack of quarterbacks in this class.
There is really no basis for Orlovsky's opinion on this. Simpson has a total of 15 college starts while Mendoza led Inidana to a 16-0 season and a National Championship. All of which gave Pat McAfee all the ammo he needed to righteously drag Orlovsky for his ridiculous hot take.
Orlovsky was busy getting incinerated by Pat McAfee, but desperately trying to hold the crumbling ground from beneath him by asking some trolling questions like "what biggest games?" seeming to act like he's got a point he's about to make that proves his position correct. But when he finally gets to that "point", it turns out to be completely based on how few points Indiana had scored on Ohio State through the first three quarters of the Big10 Championship game.
And that's it.
There are so many flaws this this argument, it's hard to know wher to begin. McAfee and his crew do a pretty job of pointing out that, first of all, Ohio State was the number two ranked team in the nation with the best defense in the country. But it goes much farther than that.
First of all, Orlovsky, while talking about "FACTS" gets his wrong. He said Indiana had scored just six points through three quarters, which is false. They were up 13-10 through three quarters. Kinda important that his ONE argument is false.
From there Mendoza and the Hoosier absolutely wiped the field with Ty Simpson and Alabama, ripping them 38-3 to open the college football playoffs. So, if Orlovsky's entire basis that Mendoza is not better than Simpson is that he didn't score a lot of points in a high profile game, he goes with the double standard for Simpson who didn't find the end zone and managed just one field goal to get knocked out of the college football playoffs without a win.
Then Indiana smoked Oregon 56-20. The same Oregon team whose only loss that season was to Mendoza and the top ranked Hoosiers. And finally, Indiana put up 27 points on Miami's smothering defense.
This whole thing is absurd, honestly.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Pat McAfee cooks Dan Orlovsky for hot take of QB Fernando Mendoza
Continue reading...
