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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks.

DJ Bucky with you on a Friday. Buck, how are you doing, man?

Man, doing great, DJ. I got a big football weekend ahead. We got these college games that are coming up.

You know, the NFL is in full swing. And what I love about this part of the year when it comes to the NFL, man, down the stretch, this is when the stars begin to shine.

But also when some of those unheralded rookies, rookies that that we talked about, they begin to play prominent, prominent roles because injuries have put them into action and they got to make plays or their team won't win.

I've never asked you this question, but I'm curious. I've been around teams. I feel like I've seen this, but I've not known it for sure.

But someone who's been inside the locker room,

you know, talk about this being a long season. We use that phrase all the time.

Veteran guys, did you see, did you sense some of those guys that had kind of paced themselves? And then now you got to this time of the year. And now it's like, okay, this is the push.

You could kind of feel like, okay, now they're raising it up a little bit in terms of everything.

Yeah, no, it's funny because there are a few different ways that those veterans kind of get it going, right?

You'll see the teams try and preserve those players.

You'll see them take days off of practice.

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