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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

Preseason Risers, Fallers and the Future of NFL Defense

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Jourdan Rodrigue and Cody Alexander tell you what opinions have changed heading into the new season. The trio talks about the Commanders defense (03:25) and offense (09:15), the Bills defense (12:10), the 49ers defense (16:30) and more. Plus, a deep dive into the evolution NFL defenses across the league (21:19) and their favorite defense to watch (28:00).

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:08.9

Welcome to NFL Daily where we don't know anything about the Sabin cover 7 man-match defense.

0:16.3

But our guest does.

0:17.8

I'm Greg Rosenthal, and I'm here with Jordan Roderig,

0:20.3

and I'm in the Chris Wesleying podcast studio. And I'm with one of Jordan's friends and one of the biggest ball knowers in the business.

0:29.5

Cody Alexander, who runs match quarters on the substack. And yes, that was like one of your recent posts was about the Sabin cover seven

0:39.2

man match defense and we're going to break that down on this show for a hundred and fifty minutes

0:45.1

it might take a little longer yeah right okay uh we're not going to do that actually because

0:51.0

you know i wouldn't know what you're talking about. Listeners do not turn off the show.

0:55.6

No. Yeah. And Cody also hosts the Let's Talk Ball podcast, but everyone check him out on

1:02.5

Substack where he has built up a big following. Top 10 in sports on Substack. And he's been building

1:08.8

this up for for almost a decade getting into the nitty gritty of defensive play. So what we're going to do on this show. First, we're going to talk a little bit like big picture about anything we've seen over the last month. Just quickly go around and talk about anything we feel differently about. And I'm sure for you, Cody, it'll be maybe on the defensive side of the ball, but just some rapid fire, what we feel differently about after watching some preseason

1:30.9

and everything. But then I think we're going to get into a bigger picture conversation about

1:35.0

what's next with defense. And Cody, it sounds like you're the type of guy that people like

1:41.2

Jordan and maybe coaches and just fans who want to know more, they go

1:47.8

to you to like understand how defenses are actually run. So instead of being the guy behind

1:53.0

the scenes, we wanted to have you on the show. We yanked him out from behind the curtain.

1:58.0

If we're not, instead of like stealing your information like Jordan normally does, we're going to have you here and you can just give it to our list. Much appreciated. Yeah, we're excited to have you, Cody. Obviously, you've taught me a lot about defense over the years. You've taught a lot of people a lot about defense over the years. And I think what's nice is we're highlighting defense today. Most of the time, everybody fireflies toward offense. Cody, I know you have a lot

2:18.6

of experience with that. You explain defense to people who need to know how defenses affect

2:23.4

offense. Right. Yeah. The thing about defense is that it's not just tackle somebody, right? Or

2:30.3

cover somebody, you know, there's a lot to it, and it's really an orchestration.

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