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Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome to move the sticks, DJ and Buck with you

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Speaker 3: on a Friday, Buck, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: And that's too much? Man?

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Speaker 1: Friday is always a fun day. We've got a good

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Speaker 1: football weekend coming up, so I'm excited about all of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fun weekend of games, including a London game Jets

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Speaker 3: and Vikings. That's going to be nine thirty am Eastern

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Speaker 3: on NFL Network and on NFL Plus, so be sure

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Speaker 3: to look out.

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Speaker 2: For that one.

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Speaker 3: We're in the middle of postseason for baseball, Buck, it

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Speaker 3: feels like right now, heading into the fifth week of

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Speaker 3: the NFL season with the changes, you know, going to

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Speaker 3: seventeen games and then going down to three preseason games

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Speaker 3: and guys not really playing much in the preseason, I

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Speaker 3: feel like week five, I think that's a good I

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Speaker 3: think that's a good marker to kind of see where

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Speaker 3: everybody's at, and you know, you kind of look at

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Speaker 3: these standings where we are right now heading into week five.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to think of, you know, for today's show,

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Speaker 3: I want to kind of do some some surprises, right,

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Speaker 3: and so I've got some individuals, uh you know what

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Speaker 3: something we can learn from from those individual performances. But

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Speaker 3: I also wanted it to get to you on the

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Speaker 3: team thing. So I'm gonna give you how about you

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Speaker 3: remember we used to do the what was the thing

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Speaker 3: it was like thumbs up, thumbs down, Like eh, okay,

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Speaker 3: you know it's something like that. Okay, so we'll go

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Speaker 3: that route. I'm gonna I'm gonna give you some team

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Speaker 2: How about big surprise?

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Speaker 3: Uh uh no surprise, and then maybe just kind of

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Speaker 3: think it's kind of all, you're ready.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's start.

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Speaker 3: Let's go first of all, in the AFC east of

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Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins being one in three.

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Speaker 1: Big surprise, Big surprise because DJ we've been told for

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Speaker 1: so long that the weapons around two are propping them

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Speaker 1: up that anybody could jump in this offense and have

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Speaker 1: Lewa goes out and this offense is sputtering you have

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Speaker 2: You have other guys who can't get the rock.

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Speaker 1: I am surprised because I thought this team has some

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Speaker 1: of the most explosive firepower, was explosive weaponry that we've

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Speaker 2: But I just starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, uh, I think it shows you the value

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Speaker 3: that that that Tua possesses. I also, man, that bad

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Speaker 3: news just keeps coming from the Miami Dolphins other day,

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Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips season ending knee injury. Man, that is brutal

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Speaker 3: for a very talented young player who's just been really

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Speaker 3: surprised based off what they had behind Tua. That this

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Speaker 3: at this point in time, we should have seen that coming.

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Speaker 3: We should you know, That's something maybe we don't pay

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not many and The thing that I worry about

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Speaker 2: So now you roll the dice. It doesn't work out

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Speaker 1: And I mean you're trying to salvage some stuff without

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the next division here is how much

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Speaker 3: of a surprise that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the only

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think the records are reflective

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Speaker 2: And you're going to have to deal with how.

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Speaker 1: Each of these teams bring a little physicality and toughness

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Speaker 2: If he had his opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I think, to me, the fact that it took two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Cincinnati and Cleveland both being one and three, it

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Speaker 1: Gotta dj I gotta ask you this, man, because it's

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: It is one of the more remarkable stories that old

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is obviously you can't talk about

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Speaker 3: things aren't you know, separate what goes on in your

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Speaker 1: It's one of the things that we talk about, like

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Speaker 2: And it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't know if I've ever seen anything

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Speaker 3: Well, don't say that yet, because the next topic is

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Speaker 3: going to be the team that you work for being

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Speaker 3: oh and four in the AFC South with the Jags.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how shocked are you? Did you envision going

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Speaker 1: No, not over thought it would be tough sliding to

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Speaker 1: It bleeds into the following week. Now you can't get

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Speaker 1: You don't have any anything to really build upon it.

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Speaker 3: They have a negative forty nine point differential, So I

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Speaker 3: From the Jags, We'll see if they can get something

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Speaker 3: go to the AFC. West Man, It's hard to find

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Speaker 3: a surprise here. I mean when you look at the Charters, Raiders,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the surprise.

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Speaker 1: We thought it would be back to the fund days, right,

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Speaker 1: And Saveryworthy's given them flashes, but he hasn't given them

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go quickly for the NFC. If we

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Speaker 3: go to the NFC East Washington. How many people thought

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Speaker 3: Washington would be first place in the division right now?

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Speaker 2: Not me?

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Speaker 1: How many people thought Jade Daniels played like an absolute

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 3: I think Jaydon Daniels and you know you were these

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Speaker 3: look down at him, buck like I almost want I

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Speaker 3: almost wonder like if you put him in stressful situations

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Speaker 2: Doesn't feel like it? So common?

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Speaker 1: So cool, and it's just another case DJ prioritizing and

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Speaker 1: coveting experience at the collegiate level. Fifty five collegiate starts

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Speaker 1: significant and look, there's a common denominator we've seen. Brock

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Speaker 1: Fordy had forty nine stars, and Kyle is like, there's

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Speaker 1: all need rest, but there's something that these other guys have.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the NFC North quickly. Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Not the fact that they're four and oh really, not

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Speaker 2: Who got paid.

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Speaker 1: It is the weirdest interaction that I've seen a team

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Speaker 2: Look, it is just.

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Speaker 1: Such a weird situation in San Francisco that Look, I

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Speaker 3: Yep, I'm with you on that one. So those are

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Speaker 3: Number one Gino Smith is leading the NFL in passing yards.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb is a g He does agreed job of

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Speaker 1: I can't even say taking it across the street, but

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Speaker 3: So here's my question. I was on with Brockensack up

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Speaker 3: he says, look what two is making, Look what Trevor

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Speaker 3: here he's put together some some production here Seattle, and

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Speaker 3: could he could give you four a minimum, like four

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Speaker 3: really good years. How do you tell him no? When

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Speaker 2: Yeah? How do you tell him no? And how does

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Speaker 1: If you're going to go and stay behind in the

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like I feel for Gino when it

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Speaker 2: But that's kind of one of the number is it's

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Speaker 3: People lost their minds because I said. My point was, Hey,

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Speaker 3: like this dude two years ago was a pro bowler, right.

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Speaker 3: That was the year he goes complete seventy percent of

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Speaker 3: But if you watched him and seeing what he's done

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Speaker 3: And the other thing with him is, this is not

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Speaker 2: I know that.

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Speaker 3: I think EJ. Manual ended up going ahead of him,

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Speaker 1: Just so many guys, and I think about so many players,

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Speaker 2: I'll be You're right.

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Speaker 1: Gene Smith is putting together a strong little case to

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Speaker 2: He's done it.

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Speaker 1: He's played a nice guy role for a long time.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna give you four more stats and

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Speaker 1: There's so many Jordan Morgan and the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 3: Is that where you're hitting me with me?

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Speaker 3: I want to say four of them is just a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he is winning one on one and you did

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Speaker 2: This I love these little breakdowns.

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Speaker 1: I love having these conversations because we get a chance

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Speaker 3: Me no doubt, Well that's going to do it for

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Speaker 3: us today. I hope you guys have a fantastic weekend

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Speaker 3: of football. Again, a reminder, we've got the Jets and

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Speaker 3: the Vikings on NFL Network and NFL Plus. That's nine

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Speaker 3: to thirty a m. Eastern on Sunday morning, So a

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Speaker 3: little football with your coffee there as the Jets and

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Speaker 3: the Vikings they square off in London, so we be

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Speaker 3: going to look out for that. Appreciate you see next

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Speaker 3: time right here on with the sticks.

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