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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 and Buck with you. Buck, how are you doing, man?

Good, man. Good. Just taking on full schedule, DJ. We got games and games and games to talk about.

Yeah, we have a great weekend coming up of football. And this has been a fun week at Move the

sticks, really kind of our first full in-season week. So we got a chance to, you know, have

Baldy on Monday, which was a lot of fun. We had the PPU, uh, RET with us to do our, uh, recap of the rookie draft, a new rookie draft for the upcoming week. We, uh, we have these Thursday episodes where we're able to bring in, uh, a good buddy. This time it was Mayak who came on did a great job. Never know where the conversation is going to take you, but it's just fun, uh, to kind of freestyle with Mike. And then now we get a chance to look at some of these games that are coming up this weekend. Yeah, and I guess so the games. And you know how this is, DJ. It takes a while, three or four games before you know what your team really is. And so we're still in the discovery stages of the season, even though there's some people that are already hitting the red button. The overreaction thing is in full effect. Panicum. That's, that's very fair. We dug into the Philly KC game a little bit with Mike. I want to get some of these other interesting games that we have coming up this weekend. Let's start first of all here, Chicago, Detroit. One of these teams is going to be 0 and 2, Buck. I don't like the generic cheese ball. Who needs it more? Who can, you know, nobody wants to be 0 and 2. The numbers are not good if you start out 0 and 2. But there's a, I almost felt a little edginess coming out of Detroit. Like, hey, this is this has to have to win, got to have it type game.

Yeah, I think is more critical for Detroit given the change.

This is a team that was like, man, right in high last year, a team that many expected

to be a Super Bowl team and come back and be a Super Bowl contend that this year,

even though they change coordinators.

You didn't expect it to be a drop-off.

Man, it heats up in Detroit if they don't get this win.

Because now you talk about going from what they were a season ago to 0-2.

New coordinators, a lot of conversation.

We now want to listen to Sports Talk Radio if they fall up on the short end of this.

I think on the Chicago side of things, man, I know everybody's like, you had to finish better. If started well last week, you got to finish better. I think the start in this one's huge. Because Detroit, you're going to get their best shot coming right out the gate here. This is a team coming off, tough loss, expectations sky high for this team. they're going to want to come out and establish a physicality in this game. I think that's what they're going to fall back on is let's get back to being a real, real physical group. I think that's Dan Campbell's identity as a coach. So to me, it's a Chicago. You better be ready and strap on that chin strap nice and tight early on this game because they're going to come out and try and run it down your throats. And then offensively, hey, play smart, protect the football early in this ballgame because I think you're going to get a pretty big punch from Detroit coming out the gate. Yeah, I think you can get a huge punch. And I think what's interesting is the conversation, the national conversation about Haylor Williams and Ben Johnson. And does that force both of those guys to get out of character when it comes to putting in the game plan, sticking with the game plan and those things? We know from an emotional standpoint, Detroit is going to be ready for anything and everything. And they're going to throw a lot at them. How quickly can Caleb Williams settle down? What kind of answers does Ben Johnson have

on tap to settle the young quarterback down? Those are the things that I have my eye on when I see

this matchup. Yeah. I think it's going to be a very, very physical game. How about the game you're

going to be at, Jacksonville, Cincinnati? Yeah, interesting game, DJ. And it's interesting because

Cincinnati didn't play well against Cleveland, but they got the dub. Offensively, they struggled more than they normally do when you have Joe Burr on T. Higgins, Jemar Chase. And look, man, they got so many pass catches. It's hard to keep up with all of them. But you only score 17 points. You didn't have a lot of yards. This is one where they're backed into the corner. They're going to come out slinging it. To counter that, Travis Hunter is likely to play more snaps on defense. In a zone-based defense where we can break and drive and make plays on the ball and all that is our perfect fifth form. I just don't know if this team is going to be able to play balanced enough to make it where, look, it can be an even Stephen game going to the fourth quarter. That's from the Jacks perspective. And if you're the Bengals, man, you want to cook with grease right out the gate. You want this offense to heat up because, remember, they have not been a fast starting team in the early months of the season. Right now, they're trending to being more of what they've been as opposed to doing something different. Yeah, it was kind of a stinker offensively, but they still found a way to win against the Cleveland Browns. I don't think they can do that against Jacksonville. They've got to be better on that side of the ball. Pass rush-wise, what have you seen from Jacksonville so far? I mean, look, they're trying to have an effort, but, I mean, going against the Panthers,

one thing is completely different. Going against the Bengals and having to deal with not only the quick rhythm nature of Joe Burrow, but Orlando Brown on one edge and those things. I'll say this about the Jacks. Josh Hines-Dall and Trayvon Walker, they have to carry them when it comes to the

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