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Guaranteed Human. And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks. DJ, Buck, with you. Buck, how you doing, man? Man, I'm good. What's going on, DJ? What's that? It's backup time, man. It's backup season already in the NFL. That's what I wanted to kind of hit on on this episode today because, I don't know, we talk about star players so much and talk about building teams. And I think maybe an underrated aspect of that is preparing for the, for the worst case scenario, which the Bengals are there, obviously, with Joe Burrow having a long-term injury, but a bunch of other, you know, starters are nicked up and we're

going to have to see a lot of backups play this week. Yeah, it's so funny how quickly we get to

that point, right? We get to the point where we're talking about quarterback being the most

important position in football, and whether you rank the backup

quarterback on the roster and how much value are you placing in the backup?

And what some would deem to be a throwaway position because some would say, well, if your

quarterback gets hurt, the season is over anyway.

Others are saying, no, no, no, no, no.

Let's make sure we get a good quarterback in our system that we can develop.

And one of the things that since we're talking about it, I find fascinating,

Jake Browning with the Cincinnati Bengals.

And the reason why I'm fascinated is the outside world is saying,

what Cincinnati has to go trade for, quarterback.

Internally, the Bingers are saying, no, we got our gap.

He's been here for years in this system.

He's played for us.

We're good.

I just think it's interesting that so many people think that you can just drop a quarterback in,

and in two weeks he's ready to play and save our season. And I think, I just think that's an anomaly if it ever happened. Yeah, there's so many different areas to hit on that. And I want to, you know, talk about these guys we're going to see specifically talking about Jake Browning, Marcus Mariotta, potentially, with Jayden Daniels as we're recording this, A little iffy. Tyra Taylor is going to go for the Jets. We've got Mack Jones. We'll see what happens with Brock Purdy there. But Mac Jones looking like it with the Niners again. And Carson Wentz is one who's next up here with JJ McCarthy Hertz. So I pulled all these guys numbers from the last five years.

So I wanted to look at kind of what those numbers look like.

So we can get kind of the number look at it of what to anticipate there.

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