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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 and Buck with you.

Buck, what is going on, man?

Not too much, man.

DJ, this is the fun time.

I know you've started this process or you're beginning to start it. Like I started looking ahead to the 2026 draft. There we go. I know you tend to start with the big uglies. I start with the fun positions just because I'm familiarizing myself. So I'm looking at all these quarterbacks and I'm just beginning to kind of see what's out there, even though some of these guys want to declare. It's just an interesting class. And I'm saying interesting and good. And I say interesting and bad. Just interesting what these teams are going to have to decide upon when you're thinking about the next version of franchise quarterback that so many of them want. Yeah, no doubt. And look, there's been times where we thought it was a good year and it didn't turn out to be such down the road.

We've had times we thought it was a bad year and then all these guys develop and surprise you. So, you know, we'll see how it goes with all these quarterbacks. I was, you know, just kind of thinking about this the other day. when you look at the quarterbacks last year,

not this current class that we have as rookies,

but these second year players,

think about how quickly the narrative has shifted on,

you know, the quarterbacks last year, not this current class that we have as rookies, but these second year players. Think about how quickly the narrative has shifted on some of these guys.

Obviously, Drake Mays in the MVP discussion. Caleb's got it, you know, he's getting better

and better and better and just keeps showing you what he's capable of in clutch moments.

Bo Nicks, you know, maybe took a little bit of a step down in some eyes, but then has all these comeback wins and he's got his team as the number one team in the AFC. Got Jay Daniels in a conference championship game last year. What he hasn't been healthy. And that whole team went from, you know, right on the cusp of the Super Bowl to looking like they're pretty far away at this point in time.

And JJ McCarthy,

we hadn't seen, you know, he gets out there and it hasn't been great. And then Pennix, I think that stat was something like what in his last eight years of football. He's had a season ending injury in five of them. Woo! That's a lot of it. It changes quick, man. it changes quick, but you know what also, it brings me back to is some of those truisms that we learned very, very early in scouting.

And as much as we try and run away from those things, those things kind of come back to the forefront.

When we talk about time on task, so we value quarterbacks with a lot of start.

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