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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, Bucky, Rhett.

Buck, we made it to the full slate of games here.

Are you ready to roll?

I mean, I'm ready to go.

Another more exciting than the first weekend of the NFL season because everybody believes they still have a chance. And they do so far. Yeah, I mean, I feel I feel I mean, in terms of confident level, I think I'm going to win the rookie draft. I feel confident. Wow. We're going to get to these slate of games here. So we're going to jump into some of our favorite games, and that's going to get me to this. It's time for Hot or Not brought to you by Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and my favorite game of the entire weekend. I'm going to go Ravens Bills, boys. I mean, I think that's where it ended last year for the Baltimore Ravens and that's where I want to

start this year. I think everybody seems to be on the Ravens train. Buck, did you, did you jump on

that train? This is the year the Ravens get over the hump. No, I haven't fully jumped on board.

Like, I have a ticket. Okay. I have a ticket, but I don't, I'm not getting on the initial thing right out of the station. I may pick them up midway. I may, I may jump on when they kind of take a little pit stop. I may jump on then. I just need to see this team display what I call the emotional maturity to be a champion, meaning that they keep everything in check or whatever. And the

problem is we won't really get a chance to see that during the regular season. They've been

terrific in the regular season in the past few years. But in the postseason, there's a different

version of the Ravens that shows up. Can they learn from all of those hard lessons, those heartbreaking

losses to be a team that exhibits what I call that championship mindset all the way through.

And then they carry that on into the postseason. So I have a ticket, but I'm not on the train yet.

Man, you got the two front runners for the MVP last year that ended up going to Josh Allen.

Certainly could have made an argument for

Lamar Jackson. But these two teams will be in play at the very end of this season. So I think

it's fitting that they opened the year this way as to kind of give us an early barometer of what

this thing really looks like. I think we're going to see, I guess I'm curious to see the maturation of a couple of targets for Josh Allen and whether that can ultimately, you know, elevate their offense even more.

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