Dan Orlovsky doubles down on Fernando Mendoza-Ty Simpson take with an even worse one

This is the epitome of palm to face. Leave it up to ESPN's Dan Orlovsky to not only step out of the back of the end zone, but to do it repeatedly when it comes to his scorching hot takes on the top of the quarterback draft class. Amazingly, he would rather see the Las Vegas Raiders ride with Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson over the consensus No. 1 overall pick in Fernando Mendoza out of Indiana...

Orlovsky appeared on Get Up on Monday morning with a horribly bad take that will haunt him later on.

"Completely different world. If we're being honest, and people won't say it, I will, Ty Simpson is schematically a better fit or marriage for what the Las Vegas Raiders would do under Klint Kubiak than Fernando Mendoza."

Orlovsky kept saying that Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak was not going to adapt his scheme at all.

"So Klint Kubiak is a coach, and he's not going to change, this is how we was brought up in football, most of the things that he does, at least half of the things that he does from a scheme standpoint are underneath the center. If you look at it since he's become an offensive coordinator in the NFL, over 50 percent of his snaps are from underneath the center. That's the most in the last five-plus years in the NFL."

Yes, Mendoza only took five snaps under center his career, but he dazzled when he was in shotgun.

"Fernando Mendoza took five snaps total from underneath the center in his college career. So this is going to be a drastically different experience for Mendoza when it comes to operating the quarterback position."

Let's make one thing clear. If Kubiak wanted to lead the Raiders, he knew Mendoza would be the pick.

"And America, Kubiak is not changing. He's not going to completely try to change the way he goes about offense, so I think that's going to take much more time for Mendoza to get comfortable playing than people expect. And that's why I say, and this isn't a Simpson thing, that's why I say fit-wise, it's going to be very different."

Orlovsky then referred to the challenges Caleb Williams has had early on while starring for Chicago.

To put this as bluntly as possible, the Raiders will side with Mendoza over Kubiak, all things equal...

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Look. Bringing in Kirk Cousins in NFL free agency was a smart move for the Raiders. He knows Kubiak's system from their time together in Minnesota. He has the same always-pleasant demeanor as Mendoza. If he is up for it, he could be the perfect mentor to Mendoza while closing out his Hall of Very Good career. There is also the Tom Brady and the Raiders of it all when it comes to this situation.

The Raiders are one of the most dysfunctional franchises the NFL has to offer. If Kubiak cannot make it work with a talented player like Mendoza, owner Mark Davis will have no issues kicking him to the curb. He has done it before, and he will most certainly do it again. Again, Kubiak had so many opportunities to be a head coach this offseason. He chose the Raiders. He signed up for this chaos.

With Brady and his former Michigan teammate John Spytek calling shots upstairs, they know they have something special with Mendoza when it comes above the shoulders. Mendoza got into Yale, went to Cal, and starred at Indiana. He is not a dummy. He is going to figure out how to play under center. Even if he is not elite at it, he will have far more equity in the long run than Kubiak in Las Vegas.

For now, any thoughts of anyone else going to the Raiders at No. 1 overall other than Mendoza is silly.