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Guaranteed Human. What's up, football world? I am Buckingie Brooks, and that is my man. Nick Shook over here joining me on Move the Sticks. Nick, what is going on? How are you doing? Oh, I'm doing fantastic, Buck. I'm glad to be here. I think this might be the first I've ever been here, and I'm very excited to be here. Oh, that's, no, that's cool.

We won't make it, uh, doing fantastic luck. I'm glad to be here. I think this might be the first I've ever been here, and I'm very excited to be here.

Ah, that's, no, that's cool. We won't make it your last time when it comes to being on the pod.

Look, I know you are the person that we love to go to when it comes to offensive lines

and those things, but before we even talk about the offensive line, I wonder what fascinates you most when you're looking at O'Line? Like, why have you dug so deep into the offensive line? I mean, that's what I played when I played. And so it's what I know best. I understand the intricacies of it and what is required of these guys. But I think once you get to the, really, the collegiate and then the NFL level is really we get the supreme athletes, especially as the, as football continues to push toward

more getting basketball players, former basketball players playing tight end or playing tackle, right?

Like you think about the Lane Johnson types.

And so you see these supreme athletes who are also 300 plus pounds who are able to move.

And the technicalities that you need to be so good at this position, I think, goes very overlooked because these guys aren't touching the football. So the common fan doesn't look at them and think about those things, but there's so many intricacies that they have to get to know. And seeing those guys do that at a high level, like true excellence just gets me fired up, man. I love seeing a guard, pull, you know, it's a long pool kicking out the end, and we're open up a big running lane because everybody's celebrating the touchdown run, but I'm celebrating the guy who nailed the end, sealed it off and created the alley for the touchdown run. Now, it's interesting that you brought up like the basketball, like athletes, you brought

up guys like Lane Johnson and those things.

I believe the position has changed so much and it continues to evolve because we kind of have

this yin-yang where we go back from the zone base blockers, the guys that are super athletic,

but they may be a little lighter to the road

graders that may play in pin and pool type systems, garpool, power coming downhill.

When you look at today's game, where do you feel like the league is trending when it comes

to O-line play and the schematics that showcase what some of these offense alignment do?

I think we're getting further away from the road greater types, the classic like bulkier

linemen and we're getting more toward the moving guys because the zone scheme has become so

popular over the last 15 or 20 years, right?

We still get some of those traditional schemes, those pin and pools, right, the power schemes,

but more often than not, we're worried about guys being able to get off the first level, get to the second level, and really create explosive play. So I feel like it kind of began with the tackles because as the edge rushing, you know, landscape blossomed over the last 10 years or so and it became such an important position, the offense had to have a counter to that, which is why you got the more athletic tackles that are able to stay in front of those guys. But then you move to the interior and we see less of the big power guys. Now you still get like the rare combo between the two. You get the Quentin Nelson type. That's a combo between the two. But I think about this year's draft class, Van Gaione, one of my favorite guys in this draft moves really well for his size, but is still built like a classic road grader. You get less of those guys than you have in previous years. So I think we're going to continue to see more of the fluid athletes, which look, man, when I'm sitting in Lucaswell Stadium at the Combine and I'm watching these guys go through the drills. Every once in a while, you see a guy who just moves differently.

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