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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 Bach with you.

Buck, what is going on, man?

Yeah, man.

Just a great football weekend on the horizon.

I love this time of year because everything is in full earnest.

You got the NFL is in swing.

Now we're getting to a good part of ball because we're more than five weeks into it.

So people have kind of settled in.

You can see their identities.

And then in college football, we are right in the center of the competitive conference races.

Where now we begin to see these big matches.

We're seeing people beginning to build momentum to the college football playoff.

So it doesn't get any better than this.

I want to ask you a question I was asked the other day, which is an interesting conversation,

which was, and this full disclosure was talking with Brock Heward.

And Brock said he didn't remember when he was playing you know late 90s early 2000s

as many guys missing practices and games as we see now like he just felt like some of

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