an appearance<\/a> on the team\u2019s Upon Further Review podcast, Mendoza cast that competition as a cooperative effort by saying that they will \u201cbe competing with each other, not competing against each other\u201d over the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\u201cCompeting with each other [is] pushing each other to be the best quarterback we can possibly be for the Las Vegas Raiders, and to enable [us] to then win as many games as possible,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cAgainst [is] withholding information, wishing maybe not the best intent on somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s upcoming practices will show how open the competition for the top job in Las Vegas will be this summer and Mendoza will have to make the most of his time as a backup if that is how things play out to start his career. He said that \u201cthere\u2019s just so many different intricacies\u201d to the offense and that he\u2019s looking forward to the chance to learn from Cousins, Kubiak and anyone else who has something to offer. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s basically all in the palm of my hand and I just need to take advantage of it,\u201d Mendoza said.<\/p>\n
The Raiders\u2019 future is pinned to Mendoza making the most of the chances that come his way and this summer\u2019s work is going to be centered on making sure he\u2019s as ready as possible whenever they do call his number. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza signed his rookie deal last week and that leaves the quarterback with nothing to focus on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-786427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}