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Fernando Mendoza’s Selfless Nature Shows As He Is Skipping NFL Draft 4-21-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. As you may know here
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  Speaker 1: at one look up Alex Media. It's Draft week and
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  Speaker 1: the Giants are having a watch party at Hudson Yards.
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  Speaker 1: Rubates is having a party The Roobates Show with Jalen
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  Speaker 1: and Josh. They are having a party for Game three,
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  Speaker 1: which is now a critical Game three. Shouldn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be a critical Game three, but it is twelve point lead.
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  Speaker 1: Choked up last night, God, Atlanta, no matter what, teammates
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  Speaker 1: always gives us fits, doesn't it. Anyway? I digress the
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  Speaker 1: big line for tonight and the Jets are doing their
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  Speaker 1: watch party up here. Something the big one for today
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  Speaker 1: that I want to talk about, because once I catch
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  Speaker 1: these headlines, I just obsess over them until I get
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  Speaker 1: to talk about them. So here we are. The New
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  Speaker 1: York Post is reporting and others. Fernando Mendoza reveals why
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  Speaker 1: he's kipping the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: the Star, the stud, the man is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be present at Thursday's NFL Draft and guess why. Originally
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  Speaker 1: it's the opportunity for a photo shoot with Roger Goodell
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  Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh. However, you look deeper into this. You look
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  Speaker 1: deeper into this. My mom really wanted to do it
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  Speaker 1: at home. I mean, it's about his mom. The post
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  Speaker 1: says it's about Goodell, but read further. My mom really
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  Speaker 1: want to do it at home, and so did my parents.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot easier for us, especially with the family situation.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, his mom is in a wheelchair and
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  Speaker 1: cannot move around as well. And God bless her for
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  Speaker 1: being at that title game. I'm getting a little choked
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  Speaker 1: up because, my God, the dedication she has to her
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  Speaker 1: son and the dedication he has to her. Her as
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  Speaker 1: his mom or however you want to word it as
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  Speaker 1: her son, there is a bond there that is preventing
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  Speaker 1: him from going to the draft. You cannot criticize Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza for skipping the draft, even though he's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: draft prospect out there, because of his mom. Because of
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  Speaker 1: his mom, it will be a lot easier to stay
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  Speaker 1: at home. And you know what I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Ryanson here listening to me talk about this. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I've seeing about Ryan In the MLB draft,
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  Speaker 1: they never really present anybody up at the stage. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of these kids get a call from where they're
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  Speaker 1: at with their family, and even some of these draftees
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  Speaker 1: get the call, they don't really always go up on
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  Speaker 1: the stage. They get a call and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza is allowed to be a human being and not
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  Speaker 1: questioned why he's not going to be at the draft
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  Speaker 1: except I think most likely the first pick or being
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  Speaker 1: drafted the first pick. He's allowed to not be there
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  Speaker 1: because of his family. Mendoza's mom has multiple sclerosis and
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  Speaker 1: she was diagnosed fifteen years ago, which affects her mobility.
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  Speaker 1: They write to us a wheelchair and has had difficulty
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  Speaker 1: using her limbs. Make it easier for the Mendoza family.
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  Speaker 1: Not as this is a selfless human being. He is
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  Speaker 1: not a selfish person. He doesn't come off as cocky,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't come off as you know, arrogant and in
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  Speaker 1: your face. He's as grounded, he's as selfless, and he's
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  Speaker 1: as amazing a person as he is a football player.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want Fernando Mendoza getting crap for not
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  Speaker 1: being of the draft this year. Okay, he's the number
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  Speaker 1: one prospect, He's probably only number one for suore God.
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  Speaker 1: I hope the Raiders protect his being and protect himself
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  Speaker 1: and protect his his jovial he also has a very
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  Speaker 1: jovial spirit. He's got a very energetic vibe and and
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  Speaker 1: and the Raiders downswing. I don't want that to let
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  Speaker 1: let that get to him. That they better protect him.
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  Speaker 1: But this, this is a story I could not ignore
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  Speaker 1: here at one Lego Balx Media. It's an adapting story,
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  Speaker 1: it's a sports story. It is a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: news story because obviously Mendoza made news running Indiana all
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  Speaker 1: the way to the title game and winning it. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's not going to the draft for a very
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  Speaker 1: very very valid reason. His mom. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: make her fly out to I think it's he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to make his mom fly out and that's just
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  Speaker 1: so special, that is so special, Like he doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that well the post, Rid's spurning the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna say no for in a photo
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  Speaker 1: shoot with Roger Goodell and Pittsburgh because of his mom
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  Speaker 1: and his family. And you know what I'm thinking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that Bratt UCLA quarterback who transferred from
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee to Ucla because he wasn't getting paid enough college football.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up. There are guys in the league. We have character.
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza is one of them. NFL wake up, there are
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  Speaker 1: people with character that want to play football and do
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  Speaker 1: it at a very high level. To a national title
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  Speaker 1: game with character and so what for? Mendoza is doing
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  Speaker 1: what he has been doing, how he's uplifted the entire
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  Speaker 1: city of Bloomington, the entire state of Indiana should put
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  Speaker 1: every college kid on notice on how to be a
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  Speaker 1: human being, a star, an athlete, a person, and a
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  Speaker 1: selfless one at that. Mendoza's character should be recognized and
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  Speaker 1: duplicated and emulated. I guess the word I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: say by kids that want to play football by the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: or is that play football already. I'm I'm really moved
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  Speaker 1: by this, and it moved me so much. I want
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  Speaker 1: to tell you why he's not going to pitt to
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  Speaker 1: be with his family, to be with his mom. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's a guy, as Chris Collinsworth would say, that gets it,
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  Speaker 1: that gets what life is about. You put the lights
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  Speaker 1: and the bright lights and the cameras and the picture
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  Speaker 1: and the and the and the stage lights away and
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  Speaker 1: do what matters most to you, which is family first.
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  Speaker 1: And damn, I wish a lot more athletes would recognize that,
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  Speaker 1: I really do. Nanda Mendoza is not just an NFL
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  Speaker 1: or or NFL prospect and a most likely NFL first
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick and first pick of the draft. He's
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  Speaker 1: a stellar human being and this draft week is an
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  Speaker 1: example of example of that. So good on you, Fernando
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  Speaker 1: for doing the right thing, for being with your family.
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  Speaker 1: I know I put everything down for my family when
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  Speaker 1: I need to, and that's what he's doing here. God,
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  Speaker 1: I wish more athletes were like him, and that's my
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  Speaker 1: message at one like a Ballex Media