But all the rest, [laughs] how do you feel about that?

Yeah, it feels, it feels like a joke, but I did see a little bit of it on Sunday, right? Like, there, there ...

People that were always true believers in Dalton Kincaid are there already.

Um, I, you know, I feel like there have been two nagging issues with Dalton Kincaid, and one of, one of them has been availability for the season, right? He's, he's missed games.

Um, there have been some nagging injury issues that have come up.

And two is, like, his availability during games.

He, he comes off the field a bunch.

We're all starting Loveland, but the question more to you, to say the overreaction to week one might be, this is gonna be, you're just gonna have to start all of them, and there won't be a consistent option in the passing game.

How did you build it from there?

there?Yeah, I'll just say I th- I thought about Willis too, 'cause I, you know, 70 yards and a touchdown is, uh, rushing is on the table in any given week for Malik Willis.

Um, after that, I, I tied myself further to the Saints, and again, to a game that I think is just gonna, is just gonna feature a ton of points.

I mean, I, you know, I could be wrong, and maybe the Lions' defense is gonna be better in week one than I imagine.

But they're down a couple of safeties [laughs] like it's...

I, I think there's, I think there are yards to be had against the Lions in week one.

Huge total in the game, so I, I also threw Chris Olave and Jauan Johnson in this lineup.

So is, is going mega stack like that, quarterback, wide receiver, tight end from the same offense, is that a regular, uh, strategy for you? Is that more of a week one strategy?

So, um, uh, I'm curious what your reaction to the trade is, other than, oh my God, all sorts of booty jokes, 'cause Berry's like 12 years old.

[laughs] Yeah, I feel like you, I feel like you may have exhausted our supply of booty jokes there.

Um, it was, you know, as NFL trades go, this is one of the more predictable trades, right? Like, you could have seen this coming.

Uh, this is, this is not necessarily one that blindsided us.

They had a screaming need in Houston after the Jaden Higgins injury.

A- and Kayshon Boutte was a- he's at that level of player where, you know, he's, he's really valuable to some team in real life.

But obviously, the Patriots have, uh, have changed the receiving core.

Yep.

[laughs]

Uh, that's good, good for R.J. Harvey.

I'm, I, y- y- you know this, and anybody who's listened to the, the Yacht Club shows know this, I'm, I'm pretty locked in on this situation.

I, y- you know, I, I don't imagine my own opinion of these two runners changing.

Uh, I think R.J. Harvey has a known role.

I actually think anybody who, I, I don't know.

I feel, I feel like maybe some of the enthusiasm has dimmed out there a little bit because he did get an extended audition second half of the season, J.K. Dobbins out of the mix.

... to rescue secondary receiving weapons?

Yeah.

And, and so sometimes that is, that is a difficult thing to assess when you're trying to project a guy into the NFL.

But, um, he...

I mean, he checked every box for me in terms of, like, the, the balls he's able to throw, like some of the big boy NFL throws that we've already seen him make.

Um, so- some pretty sophisticated stuff.

I...

Like, that's, that's the funny thing to me about Kirk Cousins being there, is that Mendoza, I don't know what his ceiling is, but I think he can play right now.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And, and so sometimes that is, that is a difficult thing to assess when you're trying to project a guy into the NFL.

But, um, he, I mean, he checked every box for me in terms of, like, the, [sighs] the balls he's able to throw, like some of the big boy NFL throws that we've already seen him make, um, s- some pretty sophisticated stuff.

I, like, that's, that's the funny thing to me about Kirk Cousins being there, is that Mendoza, I don't know what his ceiling is, but I think he can play right now.

Like, it wouldn't-

Mm-hmm.

Um, was he Bijan Robinson? No, he wasn't Bijan Robinson.

So they, so they add him.

He sure was hurt.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I feel the same way.

He was he was he was not only hurt, but like when we thought he would come back, he didn't like fully.

He wasn't he wasn't fully back.

He wasn't fully operational.

Who's your seven?

Yup.

And it is, it is certainly on my radar that he might finish up that way.

So I guess I'd call him, uh-...

I'd, I'd probably call him a seven.

And I think, I think even some of his comments after the Chargers game about...

I don't think it was a throwaway cliché when he talks about y- adjusting to the speed of the game.

You're coming from the Mountain West, and you're coming from a conference where, like, man, you make one guy miss and it's a 60-yard house call.

Yeah.

About Jake Browning, what are your expectations for him going forward?

Yeah., The first thing I'll say about Browning is, you know, o- one of the things that I, that I continue to write at The Deep Shot is, uh, i- is waiver wire recommendations, which was, uh, one of my favorite pieces to produce, uh, in the Yahoo days.

And like, I had to officially, you know, like, you gotta come up with a fab recommendation.

And so like, officially, I wasn't telling people that they should go ahead and empty the wallet on Jake Browning.

But you also had to acknowledge that, like, in a Superflex league, somebody is definitely gonna empty the wallet on Jake Browning, 'cause it's, it's a, it's the quarterback who gets to throw to Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.

He is suddenly available, and we pretty much know that barring injury, he's gonna have this job until we get deep into the fantasy playoffs, so e- effectively, the rest of your fantasy season.

And that's how it went.

Mm-hmm.