Mike Sullivan

That was the game right there.

What has Mike Sullivan specifically brought to that quarterback room with all the experience, the leadership, and the things that he's seen in the NFL brought to you guys?

Yeah, experience, number one.

Been in many quarterback meetings with Mike and going back to days in Denver, and I learned so much football from him, and now he's pouring into our quarterbacks, extremely hard worker.

I was like, all right, what exactly is that? And so I started looking up to see what this looked like, and I come across the video of Fernando Mendoza from the game, helmet on, chin strap buckled.

He's looking at his play card, and he's talking to Mike Sullivan, and you happen to write a fantastic piece on what Fernando Mendoza was doing through that whole game and that process.

Yeah, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Um, if he was actually, you know, going out there and conducting the play, but he told me, um, He can't do that on the sidelines because he doesn't want to give out a tell to the opposing team and he doesn't want to have an opposing team have a camera trained on him or anything like that to see that he's given away what the play call is going to be before it happens.

So he's talking out...

the entire play to Mike Sullivan on the sidelines.

He's basically glued to his hip going through what his progression would be like, how he would react to a defense based on the looks that they're giving him, everything like that.

For now, Mendoza on the sidelines, he's out.

Like there was video of him talking to Mike Sullivan and reciting the play call that he was hearing at home.

And just as a backup quarterback, what's the benefits of doing that, especially during game day?

I think you're just putting yourself in the game.

But I think it's more about reading the body language of the players and what you see developing in front of you and going from there.

Fernando was wearing his helmet the whole time during the game, and it looked like he was kind of describing his duties back to Mike Sullivan when he was on the sidelines.

Was that something that the coaching staff brought up to him, or did he take that upon himself?

I would say both.

And then you just kind of go through the paces on game day, watching the game, whether it's talking with the other quarterbacks or with the quarterback coach, just kind of staying in it at all times and being ready at any moment.

That's kind of always the journey when you're one play away.

We saw him having his helmet on pretty much the entire game and repeating kind of his duties back to Mike Sullivan.

It's kind of what do you make of his diligence kind of going into

But I think it's more about reading the body language of the players and what you see developing in front of you and going from there.

Fernando was wearing his helmet the whole time during the game, and it looked like he was kind of describing his duties back to Mike Sullivan when he was on the sidelines.

Was that something that the coaching staff brought up to him, or did he take that upon himself?

I would say both.

And then you just kind of go through the paces on game day, watching the game, whether it's talking with the other quarterbacks or with the quarterback coach, just kind of staying in it at all times and being ready at any moment.

That's kind of always the journey when you're one play away.

We saw him having his helmet on pretty much the entire game and repeating kind of his duties back to Mike Sullivan.

It's kind of what do you make of his diligence kind of going into the