Second-Year WRs to Watch & the NFL’s Top Defensive Fronts
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of Move the Sticks, Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks kick off the show with a debate over whether teams should play their starters in preseason games and how much that decision impacts getting off to a fast start when the regular season kicks off. From there, they shift focus to the young talent on the rise, breaking down the second-year wide receivers they’re most excited to watch and analyzing who could make a breakout impact in year two. Finally, they close out the episode by examining the league’s top defensive fronts, discussing which units are most dominant, how they’re built, and the challenges they pose for opposing offenses.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:11.2 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to Move the Sticks, DJ. |
| 0:13.5 | Buck, with you. |
| 0:14.3 | Buck, what's going on, man? |
| 0:15.4 | Man, not too much, DJ. |
| 0:16.5 | You know how it is. |
| 0:17.6 | We're already in the thick of it. |
| 0:19.9 | This weekend, go to New Orleans. It's got a Sunday game. Where are you at this week? What do you have? It's a home road game. So it's at the Rams. Same building. I move over two stalls. Let MJD have the palace. You know, we just kind of sneak down a couple boosts down there to the left. So we'll be it so fine. That's cool. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, so that's it, man. It's crazy, right? Because the preseason is funny. I was doing a pod. They were talking about like the dog days of training camp. And I was like, but do we really have dog days? I mean, are we really in the dog days? I mean, I know we're kind of at that point. But I don't know. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm still trying to figure out like the rhythm of the dog days. I mean, I know we're kind of at that point, but I don't know. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm still trying to figure out like the rhythm of the three-game preseason. Yeah. It still feels weird. It feels like it's short. Yeah, when you play your starters, when don't you play your starters? Like, how do we treat preseason game number three? Is it live? Is it not? there's a long time between pre-sensing game three in the regular season. |
| 1:11.9 | So I think everyone is figuring it out. And I also just because |
| 1:16.7 | someone asked me this, like DJ, if you were in charge of a team and you see the charges and |
| 1:20.9 | how they go about it, are you more in line with, hey, I'm going to play my guys and ramp up |
| 1:26.7 | to the regular season? Or are you more, I want to get to the starting line with, hey, I'm going to play my guys and ramp up to the regular season, or are you more, |
| 1:30.3 | I want to get to the starting line with everybody available. So, hey, we, whatever it looks like |
| 1:34.4 | in the preseason, young guys can have it, but my starters aren't touching the field. |
| 1:38.2 | I am a joint practice guy. Like, give me, give me, give me, I'd'd like to do with two different teams just to get some |
| 1:45.9 | high speed reps where I can protect my quarterback and and I ain't playing him a snap in the |
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