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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, joined by our good friend, Tom Telesco.

Tom, we appreciate you jumping on with us again here, man.

What you've been up to?

Yeah. No, thanks for having me on.

Just trying to stay active and busy, you know, watch some college guys and watching

the NFL and just trying to stay engaged as much as I can.

Go back through your years as general manager, Tom, when you're in this time of the season.

We're coming down the home stretch. Take us a little bit of behind the curtain here as you're trying to monitor

where your team is and you can sniff the playoffs. You're not there yet, but you can sniff it.

Well, you have to prepare like you're going to be in the playoffs because you've got a pro scouting

staff that has to have the advanced scouting of the teams. You be playing in the playoffs so December scouting from the pro side was always really fun because you send your guys in the road for potential maybe a team you haven't seen yet this year to kind of get ready for that or a team maybe you saw early in the year because that has to be done if you're in the wildcard team that stuff

has to be done right after the last game of the year so you've got that going on you're still trying

to solidify your roster just as strong as you can make it from the practice squad all the way up

to make sure if there's an injury that happens you can at least backfill it so you're always

working on that and then you know it's backfill it. So you're always working on that.

And then, you know, it's still important, but it's a little bit of a back burner is December is a big month for the college scouts as far as some some early meetings on some players. kind of get the draft board.

The draft board kind of starts to set itself in the fall,

but in December you can kind of get it moved around a little bit,

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