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Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome to move the sticks, DJ, Bucky

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Speaker 1: with you. As we head towards the final weekend of

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Speaker 1: the NFL regular season, Buck, we made it to the end.

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Speaker 1: It feels like it's a long run up to get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it seems like it's going by really really fast.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of funny that we do all the preparation

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Speaker 3: And then before you know it, here we are week eighteen.

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Speaker 3: We get a handful of games with playoff implications. Were

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Speaker 2: So it's exciting time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, you know, it's a time of year

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Speaker 1: We talked about the AFC games the other day, which

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it seems crazy, but I think the league

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Speaker 1: No question. All Right, New Orleans side of things. Let's

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Speaker 3: I would give them a shot because they have veterans.

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Speaker 3: Like, there's nothing, there's nothing really exciting about what the

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Speaker 1: Pushed this salary cap thing off every year, Yes, like

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Speaker 1: All right, last one and we'll move on with enough

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Speaker 1: This week, Chicago Bears at.

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Speaker 3: The Green Bay Packers. The spread is minus three favorite

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Speaker 1: One hundred one.

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Speaker 3: And there are a lot of games that we could

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Speaker 1: Everybody's got this one circle the game of the week.

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Speaker 3: Everybody taking on the Indianapolis for the division. So many

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears, we have the number one overall. Picking the

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Speaker 3: It is a fight for Justin Fields to maybe save

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Speaker 1: Hey, game of the Week, Baby Game of the Week.

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Speaker 1: Green Bay does have a lot to play for here.

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Speaker 1: This is what green Bay needs to do. Win and

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Speaker 1: a good opportunity for green Bay to get into the postseason. Now,

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Speaker 3: The young talent that they have in place, you look

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Speaker 3: Then defensively, man, they got young guys on defense that

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Speaker 3: And then the final pieces Jordan Love, Jordan Love, we

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Speaker 2: No one really believes in that approach. But then here

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Speaker 3: Pulled it off three times and Jordan Love and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: No doubt on the Bear side of things. Get ready,

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Speaker 1: we'll save it. But the you know, the fields versus

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Speaker 3: God man, it's such a such a fascinating decision, such

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Speaker 3: Just yeah, And so it's it's gonna be a fascinating thing.

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Speaker 3: And man, you talk about that and just all of it.

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Speaker 3: It look, man, it's a lot. It would be a

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Speaker 1: They need to win in a Green Bay loss would

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Speaker 3: Wentz can show people that he can play in a

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Speaker 3: different system.

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Speaker 2: The kind of elevates his game and allows him.

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Speaker 3: To remind people that, hey man, this dude was number

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Speaker 1: On his way to be in the MVP in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 3: Long and so maybe he has learned something along the

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Speaker 1: Eagles, Giants, Cowboys, Commanders. It seems like those are games

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Speaker 1: But man, the Eagles after last week, I wouldn't you know,

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Speaker 1: don't guarantee anything now, but they would need to win

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the Cowboys are going to lose to

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Speaker 1: the Commanders. So the Cowboys likely will stay in the

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Speaker 1: on the Road. All right, Buck, last time we go

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Speaker 1: do it again next week because we've got this final

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Speaker 1: week of the season. But the individuals with the highest

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Speaker 1: they were talking about the Green Bay Packers. He was

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Speaker 1: a remarkable season. So those were the individuals the teams Packers, Bears, Rams, Bucks, Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: We've talked about so many of these teams, but I

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the Cardinals their rookie impact from last week.

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Speaker 1: Michael Wilson, who's played great all year. He was out

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Speaker 1: there for sixty five snaps, had a touchdown, Starling Thomas

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Speaker 1: Paris Johnson eighty one snaps. Tackle. You've got to tight

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Speaker 1: end Elijah Higgins, who was Stanford kid. I remember, so

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Speaker 1: would say zero was expected of them, even though the

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Speaker 1: win total isn't high. Getting Kyler Murray back, there's some

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Speaker 1: hope there. There's something to get excited about going in

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Speaker 1: next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get to said about it. I think.

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Speaker 3: What's really interesting and Johnathan inn And got like a

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Speaker 3: hard time just kind of the way that he presented.

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Speaker 3: And I think sometimes we have to kind of give

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Speaker 3: people grace when it comes to those opening pressers and

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Speaker 3: how they do it. I think it's an unfamiliar role

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Speaker 3: for coordinator now jumping into standing in front of the

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Speaker 3: entire team, standing front of the podium and doing all

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Speaker 3: those stuff.

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Speaker 2: But these don a really good job.

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Speaker 3: And I think the common denominator between those teams that

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Speaker 3: they're playing well with young guys playing prominent roles. So

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Speaker 3: you know, in the scouting world, we used to always

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Speaker 3: say you got to you gotta scout the coaches. When

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Speaker 3: we were in those draft meetings. Coaches would come up

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Speaker 3: and talk about the players that they like. But then

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Speaker 3: you have to know how those coaches develop the teams

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Speaker 3: that have the synergy between the coaching staff and the

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Speaker 3: front office. When it comes to how you want to

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Speaker 3: develop and play the young players, those are the teams

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Speaker 3: that are benefiting. You talk about the Rams playing all

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Speaker 3: those young guys, the Packers, we've seen it, like the

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Speaker 3: Chicago Bears have made a change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the trade with Monte Swept helped them.

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Speaker 3: But playing young guy, you have to have a plan

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Speaker 3: to get your young guys on the field because you

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Speaker 3: benefit when you are able to play the young guys

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Speaker 3: in the early stages of their contracts.

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Speaker 2: Did it gives you.

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Speaker 3: A three better year run to have young, cheap starters

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Speaker 3: while you have money committed elsewhere, and once.

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Speaker 2: You paid a quarterback. That has to be the way

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Speaker 2: that it goes.

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Speaker 3: Is one of the things that we were talking about

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Speaker 3: in the spring as we cast our eyes to the draft. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: drafting players are great, but if you're not going to

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Speaker 3: develop them and put them on the field in a

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Speaker 3: position where they can succeed, it's all for not That

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Speaker 3: part of it has to be a big part of

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Speaker 3: the team building philosophy.

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Speaker 1: One thousand percent. All right, We're gonna wrap this one

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Speaker 1: up right now. A reminder we'll be back tomorrow fresh episode.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a Bucky's Coaches Corner, which is we do

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Speaker 1: each and every Friday. Be on the lookout for that

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Speaker 1: as well as we'll have some draft talking. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that National Championship game coming up on Monday. So

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Speaker 1: be on the lookout for a new episode tomorrow. I

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Speaker 1: tell them we appreciate you. We'll see it right here

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