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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.

And back again, our good buddy Tom Telesco,

longtime general manager of the National Football League.

Tom, we want to jump into some big games here.

We got some big games coming up this weekend.

And it's that type of year, that type of the season right now, that time of the season where you get to week five.

Where was your marker where you kind of felt like you knew what you had from a team standpoint?

Right now, I used to use four games. It's kind of the marker. I wouldn't look at any stats, any, any data until after week four. I just felt like you had a pretty good sample size at that point. Certainly have a better feel on your injury situation right now a month in. I just felt like the far as the strengths, the weaknesses of your roster, it's really

that October 1st, I'm starting to really see where we are, which is kind of perfect the way it lined up. You know, you got the trade deadline at the end of October. But this was an important time right now because I think you had your best feel, certainly much better now that you did on, you know, coming out of training camp. Did you ever have any like, oh my gosh, I miss read this?

Like you, you know, coming out of training camp. Did you ever have any like, oh my gosh, I miss read this?

Like you thought maybe it was going to be poor in one area and you were great in that area or vice versa where it's just you're a quarter of the way in. You're like, oh my gosh, this is not the team that I thought I had good or bad. Absolutely. It happens. I mean, every player doesn't perform to the level that you think, and it could go either way.

My first year at the Chargers, our receiver class, Absolutely. It happens. I mean, every player doesn't perform to the level that you think, and it could go either way.

My first year at the Chargers, our receiver group, I thought was going to be outstanding. And we have a couple injuries. We have one player not play as well as we thought. And now we're really struggling. And, you know, thank God we had Keenan Allen to jump in there as a rookie, and, you know, he kind of took it away from there.

But, yeah, you know, when you get a sense in training camp where you are,

you get a sense of where your depth is in certain positions.

But every year there be something, you know, you come into September,

maybe a player you claimed that they cut to 53,

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