Luke Kuechly on Coaching, Leadership and the Panthers’ Defensive Identity
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks are joined by seven-time Pro Bowler and former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Luke Kuechly to talk about his transition from playing in the NFL to coaching youth football. Luke shares his thoughts on the Panthers’ strong season and how head coach Dave Canales has helped the team embrace its identity. He explains why a lack of attention to detail and urgency frustrates him more than anything else on the field. Luke also reflects on his mastery of the Panthers’ defense during his career, while admitting he couldn’t have called plays at the same time. Plus, Luke shares what makes his former coordinator Sean McDermott so effective in shaping the Bills’ defensive style.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:11.9 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to Move the Sticks, DJ and Buck with you. |
| 0:15.3 | And Buck, I don't think we should waste much time here. |
| 0:18.0 | I think we should get to our guests we got today. |
| 0:20.2 | Yeah, Luke Eakley, one of the best players that I have ever seen in terms of scouting and |
| 0:24.7 | watch him take what we saw him doing college and translated to tremendous success as a pro. |
| 0:29.9 | Now doing all things with the Carolina Panthers and helping out the little fellas. |
| 0:34.5 | Him, Greg Olson, Johnston, Jonathan Stewart, and some other guys have a little middle school team that they have rolling. |
| 0:38.9 | I love checking them out on YouTube. |
| 0:40.6 | Todd Blackledge as well. |
| 0:42.3 | We're going to get into that a little bit about his youth coaching as well as what his take is on some of these quarterbacks that have turned things around, environments, good defensive schemes. |
| 0:52.6 | It's a long, long-ranging conversation that I think you're |
| 0:55.6 | really going to enjoy. Here's our chat with the great Luke Keekely. All right, Buck, |
| 1:01.5 | pumped to have Luke back with us. Luke, how are you doing, man? Oh, I'm doing good. It's, |
| 1:07.3 | I'm looking at my window right now and the leaves are changing. It's getting cooler. |
| 1:11.5 | It's a little brisk in the morning. |
| 1:13.0 | And this is always my favorite time of the year playing because stuff starts to really matter now. |
| 1:18.7 | Trade deadline's gone. |
| 1:19.8 | And you start playing meaningful games in November, December. |
| 1:22.5 | And we played in Green Bay, obviously, this past weekend. |
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