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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 Buck with you.

Buck, how are we doing?

Man, we're good, DJ.

I mean, obviously, it's a, not a weird time.

It's a slow time of year when it comes to football.

But it's the last time in terms of getting your vacations because DJ literally, once we hit that designated date, 4th of July, it's over.

Football comes in a hurry.

You think about training camps, having at the end of July.

It seems like we have a long time, but football is really on the horizon. No, it's common. I was going to ask you a couple basketball things before we get into some of the football stuff we're going to hit on today. I don't know if you ever have this. Like if you see somebody, I'll just explain it to you this way. So this is what happened. So we see the injury, right? We see Halliburton Achilles. So you know I did my Achilles, maybe eight to 10 years ago, tore my Achilles. So during this time of year, it's nice out. I like to run. So I, you know, get my runs in. So Buck, now I'm just like, I don't know, man, my Achilles feels kind of weird.

But I don't know if this is a if this is the placebo thing or something where I just like, that's in my head because I just saw this guy. But I'm scared to death. I'm like, I think I got a walk. I'm going to walk for maybe a week. Let this, let this kind of calm down a little bit. Yeah, I am worried. Like it's funny, DJ. And maybe it's just because there's more attention on injuries.

You think about in basketball, three prominent stars having Achilles. You're talking about Jason Tatum, Dame Lillard and then Halliburton. Man, I just think about in the NFL, we've heard that injury pop up more than ever. And DJ, I remember like doing the scouting process. I can't even

remember. We thought it was a death sentence. Like you're like, oh, my Jack, it's over.

Like a rare thing. And then we would have some scouting buddies that would pop in Achilles playing

racquetball or any of those things. And so it's always been a thing that I was scared of death of.

So look, man, you talk

about that PTSD and you have certainly bounced back from it. But it's one of those things.

I'm like, petrified of it. Like, man, that is miserable. The sad thing is not the sad thing.

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