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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, Buck, with you.

Buck, what's going on, man?

Man, not too much, DJ.

You know how it is.

We're already in the thick of it.

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 at so fine. That's cool. Yeah, so that's it, man. It's crazy, right? Because the free season is, it's 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, I're really in the dog days. I mean, I know we're kind of at that point, but I don't know.

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.

So I think everyone is... preseason game number three. Is it live? Is it not? There's a long time between preseason game three and the regular season.

So I think everyone is figuring it out.

And I also just because someone asked me this, like, DJ, if you were in charge of a team and you see the charges and how they go about it, are you more in line with, hey, I'm going to play my guys and ramp up to the regular season, or are you more,

I want to get to the starting line with everybody available. So, hey, we, whatever it looks like

in the preseason, young guys can have it, but my starters aren't touching the field.

I am a joint practice guy. Like, give me, give me, give me, I'd like to do with two different teams just to get

some high speed reps where I can protect my quarterback and and I ain't playing him a snap in

the preseason no chance like like any of those guys like I just don't I it's just I don't you want

you just want to get out of the starting line man you don't want the season to be over before it

starts so I I am with you on that but then but the only thing that I put out there is when you make that so you make that decision how do you ensure that your team gets off to a fast start so for instance the Cincinnati Bengals have been what OwenN2 and five or six seasons that Zach Taylor's been there?

Like, what is the counter to get your team clicking and going, you know?

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