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Speaker 1: another edition of the Move the six podcast. In for

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Speaker 1: d J. I am Rhett lewis here with Bucky Brooks

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Speaker 1: on a landmark day on the NFL calendar. Uh, here

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Speaker 1: we are. We are figuring out the remaining blanks in

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Speaker 1: the NFL calendar. It is scheduled release day in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Glad to have you here with us, Bucky.

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Speaker 1: You know, like this is this is a big day

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Speaker 1: on the calendar, right. We find out all two fifty

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Speaker 1: six today, all all the games. We know the schedule

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Speaker 1: is gonna start on the tenth of September as of now,

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Speaker 1: and we'll finish in Tampa on February seven, and man,

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Speaker 1: we get to know just about everything in between today.

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Speaker 1: It is funny that this has become like huge GV.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge deal to be able to watch the

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Speaker 1: schedules release and then the great thing that we do

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Speaker 1: and Super Bowl contenders and all those other things. But

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Speaker 1: he's a fun time because from our vantage point, we

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Speaker 1: that we think would be good. This is when they

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Speaker 1: other things. So it is a very very exciting time.

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Speaker 1: It does typically mean that football is right around the corner,

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Speaker 1: no question. And as we are taping today on this

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Speaker 1: schedule is not yet out. Again, that's coming out eight

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern time on Thursday. If you're listening to this today,

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Speaker 1: a big three hour special on NFL Network with Rich Eysen,

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Speaker 1: Colleen wolf In, the whole gang. So I'll be sure

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Speaker 1: to tune in for that so you can learn about

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Speaker 1: all of the two and fifty six games. Tons of

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Speaker 1: great guests lined up on the show. By the way,

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Speaker 1: in the same hour, you're gonna get Bill Belichick and

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Speaker 1: the fun guests that will have coming up for you

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Speaker 1: there tonight on NFL Network, But back here on the podcast, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna tie you in a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the schedule release information that we have to some

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Speaker 1: of the conversations that we're gonna have today. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into some of the rookie classes that we view

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Speaker 1: I want to start UM by taking a strategic look

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Speaker 1: at team philosophy as they entered not only the draft,

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Speaker 1: at UH following some of the transactions that we've seen.

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Speaker 1: So by the way, the Ravens, the number one seed

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Speaker 1: So how about that, uh, And not only that, but

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Speaker 1: maybe requires Doug Peterson to have a separate game. Sunfeld, right, sorry,

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Speaker 1: hand the ball to tour and tours performances. How the

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Speaker 1: draft class will ultimately be just yeah, and you know

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Speaker 1: there's another class that we talk about and look, I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of times you look at teams that

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Speaker 1: you know that we're picking in the first fifteen picks,

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Speaker 1: you know, the first twenty picks that you know didn't

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Speaker 1: end up making the playoffs, you would expect the guys

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Speaker 1: that they selected to maybe have an opportunity to contribute

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Speaker 1: a little earlier. I think the Raiders represent, uh some

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Speaker 1: something in that way with the drafting a guy like

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Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs, some way, shape or form that speed is

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Speaker 1: going to impact the game. And then I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: like maybe as good a job as any team in

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Speaker 1: finding potential impact players in every round in which they selected. Now,

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Speaker 1: they finished their draft in the fourth round, but I

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Speaker 1: thought they found a from top to bottom. They did

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Speaker 1: as good a job as anybody there in those first

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Speaker 1: four rounds and finding some impact players. Yeah. It's funny

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Speaker 1: because I had beating the Raiders up a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the Henry Ruggs pick and wondering how he translated

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Speaker 1: in terms of being a number two and number three

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Speaker 1: at Alabama to now being a number one with the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: And then I had a friend point out to me

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Speaker 1: that if you go back and look at John Gruden

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Speaker 1: when it was at Tampa Bay. John Gruden had a

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Speaker 1: guy named Joey Galloway. Joey Galloway was a burner, a

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Speaker 1: speaster out of Ohio State. He had played with the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Cyoaks. He had played with the Dallas Cowboys when

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Speaker 1: they made the move to get him. When Joey Galloway

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Speaker 1: went to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a speaster, he

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Speaker 1: actually lit it up. John Brewton found a way to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of that speed and explosiveness and get him

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Speaker 1: in a position where he can make plays after play

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Speaker 1: after play. When I look at Henry Ruggs, because I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at these numbers, and I just want you to

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Speaker 1: remember because this is kind of remarkable. Joy Galloway was

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Speaker 1: in his thirties when he gets there, He's thirty four,

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Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty six. He has yards a thousand, a thousand,

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Speaker 1: twenty three touchdowns in that three years space. And so

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here like, oh, oh I might I might

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Speaker 1: be over my skis. Maybe John Brewton is like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I got this. Give me my version of Joey Galloway.

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Speaker 1: A guy that can run the deep overs, the shallow

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Speaker 1: crows us is the big plays down the field, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to enable him to make big plays. It

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Speaker 1: may not be a guy that is a hundred Cats guy,

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Speaker 1: but he may average sixteen seventeen yards per catch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I'm just looking at that some of the highest

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Speaker 1: yards per reception of his career in his age thirty

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Speaker 1: five and age thirty six season. How how ridiculous is that?

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Speaker 1: Phenomenal seventeen seventeen. But yeah, but when my my buddy

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Speaker 1: told me that, I was like, oh, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: think about that. I didn't think about using Henry Rugs

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Speaker 1: in the manner in which he used Joey Galloway. But

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Speaker 1: now that I see that, oh, we might have to

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Speaker 1: pop in some old Joey Galloway tape some highlights and

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Speaker 1: see how John Gruen used him when he had him. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I mean like they were the most productive seasons of

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Speaker 1: his career outside of his his outside of year three

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Speaker 1: and year four and ninety seven and ninety eight with

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. That's tremendous, very impressivement. So when you think

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Speaker 1: about the Raiders, the Raiders being able to get him,

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Speaker 1: um being able to take and and I'm the lone

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Speaker 1: wolf a little bit on this with the Dame in

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Speaker 1: our net pick. I'm not saying that I had him

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Speaker 1: graded as a first round but I'm looking back at

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Speaker 1: my notes, I gave him a high second round grade,

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Speaker 1: and in that I talked about he is a technician,

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Speaker 1: he has great feet, he's tough, he has instincts, he's awareness,

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Speaker 1: he is solid in all areas. And in a draft

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Speaker 1: where we talked about maybe they were about fifteen really

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Speaker 1: blue chip players and from fifteen to thirty five it

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Speaker 1: could be a mix, aren't it kind of fell in

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Speaker 1: that fifteen the thirty five range for me, and so

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Speaker 1: for the Raiders. Maybe they're saying, we just want a

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Speaker 1: solid starter, someone that can come in and compete and

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Speaker 1: give us a chance. The speed issue is a concern.

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Speaker 1: Four six is not necessarily what you want. But man

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Speaker 1: on watching him play on the tape, he is a

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Speaker 1: really solid football player. Yeah, no question. Um, I'll open

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Speaker 1: up the floor to you here, um as I you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you could judge you can judge impact. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know for some of the teams that didn't even

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Speaker 1: draft in the first round as well. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: thought the Rams did a nice job. They're finding some

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Speaker 1: impact players and a guy like cam Akers in the

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Speaker 1: second round and they're not having a first round pick.

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Speaker 1: Any other teams that stuck out to you as a

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Speaker 1: that could see a major early impact from their rookie class, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna piggyback on you with the Rams because I

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Speaker 1: love cam Acres. I think camp Acres could jump into

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Speaker 1: the conversation as office of Rookie of the Year. Um,

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Speaker 1: I love Tid Gurley. Camp Acres can give them some

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Speaker 1: of that Tied Gurley stuff in terms of his ability

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Speaker 1: to be a guy that can touch it in a

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Speaker 1: variety of different ways and have an impact when you

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Speaker 1: go down uh and you look at them. Adding Van

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Speaker 1: Jefferson to that receiver corps, you now have three route

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Speaker 1: runners on the perimeter and Robert Woods, Cooper Cup and

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Speaker 1: Van Jefferson. I know Josh Reynolds is going to have

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Speaker 1: a role and he'll probably play early. Van Jefferson can

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Speaker 1: jump into that mix and give them something. So I

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Speaker 1: like their class. I'm gonna go to the Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: class and say that I'm very impress us with them

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Speaker 1: and what they have because not only will you get

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Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback in Joe Burrow and Joe Burrow has

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Speaker 1: weapons around him. Uh. When you think about a j

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Speaker 1: Green coming back, Tyler Boyd is a proven an established playmaker.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's John Rows and T Higgins, the third guy

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Speaker 1: will have some potential. But what they did defensively and

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Speaker 1: taking three linebackers Logan Wilson, a Keen Davis Gaither and

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Speaker 1: Marcus Bailey from Perdue, that potentially gives them three young

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Speaker 1: guys that can grow together. It reminds me a lot

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Speaker 1: of what the Seattle Seahawks did when they had Bobby

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Speaker 1: Wagner and kJ Wright and they were young and they

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Speaker 1: grew and they dominated two of those guys. We know

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play Logan Wilson at Keem Davis Gaither if

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Speaker 1: Marcus Bailey also can jump in that mix. Man, you

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Speaker 1: talk about being able to flip the speed and athleticism

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Speaker 1: with your defense, they would have been able to do

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Speaker 1: that with those picks. Wow. I think that's a great

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Speaker 1: way to end it. With the team that ended up

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Speaker 1: drafting first in every single round and not trading out

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Speaker 1: of that pick every single round, that speaks to me

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Speaker 1: to a team that was highly prepared to take advantage

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Speaker 1: of this opportunity. One they hope they don't get for

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Speaker 1: a long long time to be picking at the very

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Speaker 1: top of the draft. Anything else you want to get

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Speaker 1: to here before we wrap this one up here, Buck, No, man,

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Speaker 1: it's it's always it's always a lot of fun to

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Speaker 1: reflect and I can't wait we're able to really talk

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Speaker 1: about the schedule and yes, stampacks everything and then we

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Speaker 1: can kind of put some dates, uh together and if

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Speaker 1: we're able to go back to football kind of starting

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Speaker 1: all time and in the same sense of normalcy. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really you're talking about two months, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: around the corner. Yeah, And the NFL is obviously sent

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Speaker 1: a memo to all thirty two teams outlining a the

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Speaker 1: guidelines for a phased reopening of the club facilities. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, which again is just let's get prepared. Let's

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Speaker 1: prepared this thing for the reopening that we're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to do things as quickly and it's safely as we

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Speaker 1: can and then we'll adjust with contingencies if need be. So, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it certainly feels like we're getting closer. That feels like progress,

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Speaker 1: and uh, it feels good for sure, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: everyone out there listening will be glad to know that

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah will be back and ready to roll next

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Speaker 1: week for a couple of new episodes of the Move

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Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast. Remember you can download the Pot of

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Speaker 1: Apple podcast or on your favorite podcast tapp And check

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Speaker 1: out some more videos NFL dot com, slash mts video

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Speaker 1: and YouTube. Happy to know that today I did comb

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Speaker 1: my hair. I'm not wearing a hat um, so be

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Speaker 1: sure that I'm a professional. That's that's for sure. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening to Move the Sticks. We'll see

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