CFB Playoff Quarterfinal Recap + Week 18 Game of the Week
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of Move the Sticks, Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks recap three of the four college football playoff quarterfinal games, diving into standout performances and key takeaways. The guys address the criticism surrounding Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty, responding to the narrative that he can't deliver outside the Mountain West Conference. They also tackle the narrative around West Coast football being "soft," offering their insights and setting the record straight. The duo evaluates Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers, analyzing how his skill set could could translate in the NFL.
Finally, they preview the highly anticipated Game of the Week: the Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions. With playoff seeding implications on the line, they discuss how the matchup could hinge on Jared Goff taking on Brian Flores’ defense.
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| 0:00.0 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:06.8 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to Move the Sticks, DJ Buck, with you. |
| 0:10.0 | Buck. |
| 0:10.5 | What is going on? |
| 0:11.2 | Happy New Year, man. |
| 0:12.4 | Yeah, happy New Year, DJ. |
| 0:13.7 | It's a great time. |
| 0:15.1 | Obviously, you start a new year. |
| 0:17.8 | You have resolutions if you're a resolutions person, but you try to be better in |
| 0:22.1 | 2025 than you were in 2024. And there are a lot of football teams, college and pro, that will |
| 0:26.9 | also have resolutions to be much better next season than they were this season. Yeah, some of those |
| 0:31.9 | teams are going to have new leadership, you know, be it on the field coaching-wise. Quarterback |
| 0:37.4 | play could be swapped out as well as even |
| 0:39.9 | a few general managers that could be swapped out. We'll have all that for you next week as we get |
| 0:45.1 | some reaction to how things finish up. And I'm sure change season will begin and we'll break that |
| 0:50.8 | all down right here. We're also going to, on this episode, Buck, dig into the matchup of the week, I guess, the game of the week, which seems pretty obvious with the Lions and the Vikings. |
| 1:01.8 | We'll break that game down. |
| 1:03.4 | But I think we need to start here with the college stuff. |
| 1:05.9 | We've got, as we're recording this, three of the four games have been played we're still waiting on uh georgia and |
| 1:11.6 | nonderdane which is going to kick off in just a few hours from when we're recording right now |
| 1:14.8 | we have three in the books um the three teams with the buys uh they can throw another buy on |
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