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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Move the Sticks.

I am Bucky Brooks.

And on the other end is my guy, Lance Z stepping in for DJ.

And Lance, I mean, free agency has come

fast and furious. They call it the frenzy. It certainly has been that now that you've had an

opportunity to kind of sit back, reflect, digest all the moves that you've kind of witnessed,

what are your thoughts?

Well, you know, I think it's, I mean, right off the bat, I thought the teams that had money that needed to make moves like the Chicago Bears, they did that.

And, you know, for me, that was like, that's what first wave is for.

First wave is for making the the big moves with

your own guys that you read you know the really good players that you're redoing or you know with

with with obviously with uh players off of other teams i mean the top free agents i thought the bears

did a really good job with that but But, you know, I'm always

interested, and we can get into some of the bigger ones. And I know we talked a little bit about,

I can't remember, I think we talked. Yeah, we talked a little bit about it on the first

move the sticks that we did. And then we're following up. Now, I'm always interested by two things.

The way teams are able to manipulate the cap with these contract

redesigns, really paying guys money up front is what they're doing just to just to borrow from

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