Bucky's Theme of the Week & Previewing the Top Week 2 Games
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What's up everybody?
Welcome to Friday, DJ Buck back with you as we look forward to a weekend of NFL and college
football buck.
What's going on man?
Nothing man.
You know Friday is a fun day.
You got high school games tonight, you got big college games on Saturday and you got
a full sleigh of games on Sunday and I'm not going to lie, I love the NFL but I'm a
little intrigued.
Just a little intrigued by what is going to take place Saturday night.
DJ, we love watching what packed 12 after dark and I think we got served up a tasty little
appetizer, a tasty little treat that if you didn't expect Colorado taking home Colorado
state.
It was kind of a whole hum game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I guess Colorado state, hey coach, Jay Northville decided, yeah, this is yesterday,
did you just, yes, yesterday was a little bit of a stir the pot moment.
I think he wanted to stir the pot to make sure he had more eyeballs on this game and I
don't know why.
Can we just jump to this?
I know we have other business to take care of.
We're going to get to a new segment.
We're doing on Fridays.
We're Bucky's going to take kind of a word, a discipline is going to be the word of
choice today.
We're going to take a different kind of leadership coaching session that we're going
to do.
Bucky's been a successful high school coach.
Everybody knows about his playing career, but we're going to tap into that a little bit
and and give you guys some good stuff there.
We'll get to that in a minute.
We'll get to the NFL stuff as well.
But can we start here yesterday, Jay Northville, I'll make sure it's a, is it Mike or Jay?
Which ones at Florida state?
Which ones at?
Mike Northville's at Florida state, Jay Northville is at a, are they related by the way?
I don't think so.
Okay.
I did not know.
Anyways.
So, Northville comes out and by the way, it's on video.
It wasn't just like, I thought it was just like a local, you know, that coaches corner
type show that every college coach has to do.
But he comes, he comes in this interview, which is being recorded, Buck.
And they say, he said, I think, I want to say, he said, I don't care if this makes its
way over to Boulder, which he knew it was going to make its way to Boulder.
They play Colorado, Colorado state this week.
He said, all I know is when I, when I go to talk to a adult, is it, was that what he
said?
When I go to a door, I was taught to take off my hat and my glasses, yeah, in my glasses.
And obviously he's talking about Deon, about Coach Prime and how he does press conferences
and interviews with his sunglasses on a lot of times, his hood and the hat, whatever.
But this went from a game that even though college game day is there, big noon kickoff is
there.
It's kind of a cruddy weekend of games, not a lot of exciting games, and you're sitting
here going, Colorado, Colorado state, it's kind of a yon or maybe this thing's getting
kind of old.
I mean, Deon, let's just get to Oregon and USC, would they play the next two weeks and
we're going to learn something here.
All said now, it's like, well, I'm in, I'll tune in and see what this looks like.
I don't know much, but I know Deon and I know how he likes that and haven't watched him
the last couple of years at Jackson State, where there's always a lot of talk when you
deal with like the swag and HBCUs, there's a lot of conversation coaches don't mind like
having their personality and talking about others.
I just know how he's traditionally responded to conversation and a little talking.
This will be, this will be fun to see what the response is like.
I understand what Jay Normal is doing, maybe he's trying to get his team going, but we
have seen in each of the last two games with Colorado, when there has kind of been like
an in hint of disrespect or a slight, they use it, particularly the quarterback, get some
going.
And so this will certainly get the Colorado Buffalo's going, was he maybe Colorado
State knows something that we don't know, but I'm attuned to this at it tonight to see
what happens for sure.
Yeah, I mean, I almost think in some ways, maybe he's just crazy like a fox where he's
going, you know, look, they're, everybody's coming here to cover this game.
Deon is the number one story in sports right now.
The ratings have been gold for these teams like, they're going to suck up all the oxygen
and you know what?
We're here too.
So if I, this is the only thing I can do that they can talk, they're not going to talk
about my players.
So if I want, if I want Colorado State to get any part of the headlines here to be a part
of the discussion, I'm going to jump in the, I'm going to jump in the middle of the ring
and I'm going to take a little bit and that's what it is.
I'll take it.
Yeah, he'll take the flocking because this, by the way, it, you know, you know, you know
probably better than I do, but I'm curious about the other people you've been around.
You've been around Hall of Fame players.
I've been around some as well, but just I'd be curious.
He saw it in the, in the, in the Jordan doc, you know, in the, how they, they're, whether
they're real or perceived, some of these, some of these unbelievable talents, like tapped
into slights that they can find everybody, everybody does that.
Like every, give me example of like, who, who did you play with and you're like, man,
I don't, like, because I know you, you're, you're, you're level headed.
And so I know, I know, I know, I know, I know you're a boisterous when you played, but
but also, yeah, I also know that you could sit there as an observer in the locker room,
be like, is he really mad about this?
Like this, this is nothing.
Like, is he really getting this, gets fired up about this?
No, but I think, I think, I think you're always looking for that extra, you know, the
emotion doesn't last beyond like the first couple of minutes of a game, but just in terms
of the spark, like you're always looking for some just to kind of get them going.
Every competitive athlete feeds off of kind of like the hint of disrespect or nobody
believing in us.
That's why everyone, despite being the champ, they talk about, no, believe in us, you wrote
us off.
You wrote us off.
You wrote us off.
I didn't write back.
I mean, everybody's looking for that part to get sparked up and whenever you get it,
I know Nick Sabin talks about stuff being rat poison, like it's yummy when people
with just his team and all that other stuff.
This is an opportunity for someone to kind of feed off of that stuff.
It's so funny.
It's, it's, it's, hey, Colorado states in the news, you know, hey, if there's no such thing
as bad press, you know, why not go out there, but I, I, guys, I looked at their record
last year.
It was just first year there.
You know, he had success.
He's a good coach.
I had some good teams there.
Last year was his first year at Colorado State.
It was a rough one.
They lost pretty, pretty big to Washington State week one.
Hey, maybe he's, maybe he's just juicing them up a little bit.
Maybe he's getting his guys going, but I, I'm, I'm tuning in now because I want to see
is there a pregame handshake?
Is what's this look like after the game?
Oh, prime, prime of do all that.
He'll take no time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So when they release the video after the game, when they show the pregame speech, it will
be referenced.
I guarantee it.
Absolutely.
All right, let's get to our, our weekly theme here that we've got.
We're going to do this each and every week on Friday.
We got to come up with a catchy, a catchy name for this.
So if you're listening or watching, hit us up, hit us up, hit at Bucky Brooks, hit
at Move the Sticks and give us an idea to title this segment because we, we've talked to
so many coaches.
We, we both are, you know, love to read leadership books and there's a way all this stuff can
kind of tie together.
It's helpful, not only for teams, it also can be helpful for you as well.
So we want to kind of take one theme each week.
Bucky's going to introduce the theme, the word, and then we're going to have a nice little
discussion here.
But we need a title for this segment.
We don't have it yet.
So help us out on that front.
But get us going today, Buck.
First one.
What do we got?
Okay.
So DJ.
So we'll just talk as if I'm talking to my high school team.
Talk about discipline and we'll talk about the importance of discipline and how it has
to play out.
DJ, I feel fortunate in, in, in my career, I played for a lot of great coaches.
I mean, I can talk about my high school coach, Earl Smith, student in North Carolina,
Paula Fain, Mac Browns, and the college football, Hall of Fame.
Marv Levy is in the Hall of Fame with the Buffalo Bills.
You think about Mike Hongren and Marty Shottonheimer, John Grewton, Tom Coffin.
All those guys brought about different things when it relates to discipline.
But the best thing that I learned was from Marty Shottonheimer, who won 200 regular season
games in the NFL.
One of only seven coaches to do so when he talked about discipline.
I'm going to give you a great example about why he talks about your ability to be more
disciplined and other team will ultimately lead to success.
So we had a thing that we said more games are lost than one because the teams that typically
lose games give the game away.
And the number one way that you can give the game away is return overs.
And so in Kansas City, when we were there, we had this thing where we did not want to
turn the ball over.
And so before I got there, years before, the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Seattle Seahawks
and in that game, they fumbled the ball seven times because the ball was poked away.
So when I get there, there's a rule in practice that is called the Seattle rule.
So the Seattle rule is one so you can imagine you played quarterback.
So if you were quarterback or running back or anyone who handles the ball, there's a trash
can that is 25 yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
So when we're playing, there's like this little cone where everybody who runs the ball,
you always had to finish past the cone and then jog all the way back.
Well, DJ, within that run past the cone and back, you had to bring the ball all the way
back to the line of scrimmage and physically hand it to the manager.
Well, while you're doing it, the ball had to be high and tight the entire time.
So if you can think about it, we talk about the ball or your thing about your fist
me in two inches under your chin.
So imagine whatever you're doing, you have to now run past the cone, come all the way
back to the line of scrimmage and hand the ball to the manager.
It had any point, a defender, someone off the sideline, a coach.
If at any point they poked the ball out, it was a $100 fine.
Oh, jeez.
So if you can imagine how you're just running around and everyone, because all the defender
guys, they know if I poked the ball, it caused them a little change.
And so, but what it did, DJ, it reinforced positive habits on ball security.
And so then when you look over the course of Marty Schadenheim's career at Kansas City,
his things were always at the bottom when it comes to turnovers,
given the ball the way, funnels and those things.
And I found that even in working with a modified version of the Seattle rule in high school,
when you get what you emphasize.
And so discipline is setting up a set of reinforcements to make sure that you get the desired
behavior that you want.
So when thinking about the discipline that Marty had in enacting ball security,
it led to a lot of success.
We talked about 200 wins.
If turnovers are the number one determining factor or deciding factor in who wins or loses,
he decided to take the thing that ultimately leads to wins and losses in the league.
He emphasized it.
And because he emphasized it and put in practices, practice protocols to reinforce it,
he was able to win because his guys knew the understanding.
They understood the importance of taking care of the football.
To me, that's discipline.
You know what you're expected to do.
You do what is expected.
And because you do as expected, you ultimately reward it.
So this is so good.
And this is why I love this.
And we're going to do this each and every week.
Because I'm just writing down what you're saying.
And I'm just preparing my own notes here.
And as somebody who's the son of a pastor, I always think of an alliteration.
Because I always like to say, okay, how can I remember this?
Like what's a good way to remember it?
So if you think about discipline,
buck, it needs to be preached.
It needs to be practiced.
And then it needs to be perfected.
Like that, that is the order.
You better be preaching it.
You better be emphasizing it.
That's coming from above.
That's what you got to do.
Then you better be doing it.
You better be practicing it.
You better be doing it on a daily basis.
And then once that happens eventually,
you're going to be able to perfect it.
And I think that to me is,
if you look and say, who are the discipline teams?
You're going to find the discipline coach.
You're going to find teams that are doing discipline things.
You're going to find teams that have perfected those things.
It's not rocket science, right?
I mean, it's just, it's pretty simple.
Bing, Bing, Bing.
It is Bing, Bing, Bing.
And I can even go to it.
Because I add to it, like in terms of being a high school coach.
So I had an opportunity to do an internship
with the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL.
And so you talk about, don't beat ourselves.
The things that ultimately lead to losses,
turnovers, penalties, pre-snap penalties,
foolish penalties, and then big plays.
So DJ, so I just gave you a,
we'll implement the Seattle rule to make sure
that we take care of ball security.
Well, in Hamilton, what happened,
if you had a fall start,
everybody on the entire field had to do five pushups.
So I want you to think about,
I want you to think about,
you're down there in Endo,
I'm up here, whatever,
on the other side of the field.
The Y receiver foam will,
someone blows a whistle
and look at the entire squad doing pushups.
Or up there.
Do you know how bad you would be
in terms of holding people accountable for not fumbling?
But what, or not having penalties?
But what I notice is,
oh, well, if you do that,
and you make the entire program do it,
when they'll guys are like,
hey, man, stay on size, quit jumping.
All of those things.
So when we talk about dismal things,
as long as you're able to talk about,
preach it, practice it,
make it a point to make sure that it's done,
it works.
It just has to be things that everyone can understand
and you got to emphasize it every day.
You can't emphasize it on Tuesday,
but not on Wednesday.
It has to be a daily part of what you do
and the environment that you create.
Yeah, and I think as it relates to you,
individually, you know,
maybe you're not even in athletics.
This is something you want to be more disciplined
in terms of what your habits are
and maybe that's health-wise,
the diet-wise, all those types of things.
You better be talking to yourself about it.
You know, you better be working on it every day.
It seems to be something you're thinking about every day.
And then eventually, you'll get yourself into a routine,
which is the reaction of being disciplined.
It is a reaction being disciplined.
And the last example I use is not from football.
I actually, like, I think you notice,
like, I go to yoga every day.
Like, I mean, yeah.
I mean, yoga, I'm sparring, yogi.
Eventually, I want to teach yoga.
Like, this is what I do.
So, in my yoga class, like, every day,
they always say, set a word of intention.
So, if you can think about, like, okay,
what in the practice, if it's a 45-minute practice,
that word is what you want to accomplish
by the end of the practice.
And so, yesterday's word was like, focus.
So, when you're in there and you're wobbling
and you're getting tired,
what the self-talk is, focus.
Can I discipline myself enough
that regardless of what goes around,
the word that I have as my word of intention,
I continue to repeat that,
so I can work on that.
So, when you talk about discipling yourself is,
what is it that I want to accomplish?
And all my actions in line
with the goal of the behavior
that I want at the end of the day.
That is the discipline for all of everything.
Are you willing to sacrifice right now
for what you want down the line?
The only way you can do that
is to constantly remind yourself of,
what is it that I want to accomplish down the road?
Let's make sure that all my actions
are in line with what I want my goals
and my dreams to be.
No doubt.
All right, let's take a break here.
We'll come back, we'll jump into some
of these games right after this.
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So I appreciate you putting that all together.
It's awesome.
All right, NFL games this weekend.
Is there, you know, I guess we kind of grab a couple of them
that jump out to you.
You got a big one.
We've talked about that yesterday
with Jacksonville and KC.
I've got Chargers Titans,
but let's go outside of those.
I mean, to me, if I'm going to circle them,
if I'm going to circle, okay, the big three,
to me, Jets and Dallas is intriguing as heck.
Yeah.
That one is really intriguing.
I think Baltimore Cincinnati would be on that list for me,
for number two.
And again, we're excluding the games that we're at.
And then I would say for the last one,
I mean, I'd be honest, I kind of want to see
what that Miami New England game looks like.
Because you put New England down,
O2, you could put them in a pretty big hole
if you're Miami,
but you're going to have to do it on the road
for the second week in a row.
Yeah, so let's talk about them.
Let's talk about Baltimore Cincinnati right out the gate.
So to me, DJ, this is,
let's measure how far this Baltimore Ravens offense
has come with a new style.
Okay, so last week, we saw them win,
but I don't think anybody was impressed
with what they looked like on offense.
Them deciding to throw the ball more
or whatever, like it was fine,
but it wasn't a very impressive performance.
Now, against Cincinnati,
we get a chance to see them tested.
The Cincinnati Bengals were embarrassed
last week against the Cleveland Browns.
You know, they're going to come out smarting.
Their offense can put up points.
I want to see if this game breaks into a shootout.
Do the Ravens have the wherewithal to go?
Toe for toe point for point in a shootout
that is going to be offensive driven
through their aerial circus,
not through their ground attack.
That is a different approach of Baltimore.
My eyes on that when I'm looking at this game.
The Ravens get crushed
with injuries week one, too.
So they are a little beat up from Cincinnati standpoint.
They've got to protect better.
To me, you know, gosh,
they've got to get burrow comfortable and in rhythm
and they can't do that if they can't protect them.
So what does that look like?
To me, that looks like trying to get the run game going early.
Get the ball out of your hands.
You get an empty and let him just just get it out and get going.
See if you can find a little bit of a rhythm there.
If you're the Cincinnati Bengals,
but man, you're at home.
You've got a beat up Baltimore team coming into town.
You have to win that game.
You did not want to drop to 0-2
if you're the Cincinnati Bengals.
All right, two teams coming off wins.
Impressive wins for different reasons.
The Dallas Cowboys,
they're taking on the Jets at home.
It looks like, man,
that the expectation to use that word
is that Dallas should hammer the Jets.
I don't see that happening. How about you?
I don't see that happening either.
I think this is one where everyone
and look, overreactions normally happen after the first week.
Everyone is, oh, the sky's falling, this and that.
But I'm of the belief that many people missed the improvement
that Jack Wilson made throughout the preseason
and what he's kind of learned from Aaron Rodgers.
Just the apprenticeship that he had the entire offseason.
I'm not seeing that he is going to light it up
and be an MVP caliber player,
but even in looking at him play against Buffalo Bills
when he got thrown in,
here's a much different player.
More willing to throw the ball to the backs,
more willing to kind of work through his possessing.
Yes, he had an interception that was bad,
but he's going to have some of that
because he's a young player.
Their ability to run the football.
The Alvin Cook and Breesaw.
I'm beyond such a DJ.
Breesaw is even better than I even can imagine coming out of me.
Like he shows no ill effects of the knee stuff.
Their ability to run the ball with Breesaw and the Alvin Cook.
With that defense,
it may not look like we thought the jets were going to look
where we thought it was going to be the aerosurcus
but their ability to run the football and play defense
gives them a chance against anybody.
That's needs to be careful
because this is the perfect trap game for the Cowboys
coming off that big win against the Giants.
They can feel good about themselves
and get seduced into a game where like
it's a rock and sock and robot type game
and they may not be able to get it.
I mean, Dallas was dominant against the Giants.
Their front was dominant.
But if you're going to say,
how do you slow down a front?
Well, I would give you two examples.
Number one is you run the ball.
Number two is screen.
And you saw with the Daniel Hackett.
That was what he wanted to do
and what he did when Zach Wilson got in the game.
They ran the heck out of it and they hit you with some screens
and they can hit you with a variety of screens
because they've got two, three tight ends out there.
There's times they got two backs out there.
There's a lot of different dudes
you got to worry about in the screen game.
So to me, it's one of those ones
and you were around, you know,
shoot, I was around Andy Reed,
you were around Mike Holmgren,
some of these two of the better screen guys
and NFL history.
And there's a million of them.
If you think, oh,
how many screens there's a million different types of screens
you could run?
A million different ways.
And it's not only the screen game
because here's what I want everyone to understand.
We were talking about the backs.
Most of them, we were talking about running backs.
We were talking about
got one guys that run into other guys that receive
breeze hall and down and cook.
They're interchangeable.
Both of these guys are weapons
not only as runners, but as receivers
and beyond the screen game.
So I talked about this,
maybe on a radio show, whatever.
I was like, just imagine if you want to make the game easy
for Zach Wilson,
you can put one of those running backs
on the same side with Garrett Wilson
in the backside of three by one.
And we can say Zach picked the open guy.
I got Zach,
the oven cook on a choice route.
I got to come back behind
and we Garrett Wilson.
You the double team to run it back
and I'm throwing isolation routes
or whatever.
They can create problems
and I will say Nathaniel Hacker,
ignore what you saw with Russell Wilson.
I'm thinking about the Nathaniel Hacker
that I saw work with Blake Bortles
to help Blake Bortles and the Jaguars
get to the AFC Championship game.
If he's able to dig into some of that
to mass some of the deficiencies
that the quarterback has,
this could be a tough game for the Dallas Cowboys.
Let me throw this one out to you on the jets.
I'd be curious.
And I know obviously they want Zach
to continue to grow and develop,
play the position, all that kind of stuff.
But Buck, you can be out there in 22 personnel
and you can have,
you can have Breece endalvin in the backfield
and you can motion Zach Wilson out
and just see if they're going to respect him
with another human being.
And you could Wildcat 3, 4th,
snaps a game with those dudes.
Just challenge him.
You can do all kinds of stuff.
You can make this a very,
you can make this a very muddy game.
I was part of a team
to Carolina Panthers where
we played the Atlanta Falcons.
Chris Winky was slated to start the game.
John Fox did not have a lot of confidence in Chris Winky.
DJ, we ran the Wildcat the entire game
through seven passes.
DeAngelo Williams and the Sean Foster went bananas
running the ball out of the Wildcat.
So if you're willing to go to the edges,
they can get, they can create some problems.
Yeah, again, maybe you sprinkle it in.
Maybe it's two, three, four snaps,
but you can find explosives in the run game.
You can be creative with it.
Last one here, the big three.
Let's go Miami, New England.
Miami, right and high.
Big road win.
They got to go back on the road.
I mean, if you start the season
with a road win against the Chargers
and a road win against the Patriots,
hey, watch out.
Yeah, watch out.
This is a good one.
My name is just a problem.
My name is a problem with their speed,
their explosiveness.
They should have the matchup.
They should enjoy the matchup.
I have a favorable matchup against the Patriots,
but it's the Patriots.
Can Bill Belichet come up with something
that slows down this new stuff
that the dolphins were trying out?
I'm just excited to see the chess match.
We know that Bill Belichet
is one of the best tacticians
and strategists that we'll find.
But Mike McDaniel certainly earned a lot of phrase
for his ability to kind of work with the pin on the chalkboard.
This should be a foam in the watch.
Well, you know,
Belichet is going to want to try and shorten this game.
He's going to want to try and keep Miami's offense off the field.
He saw the Chargers run the ball down
that Vic Fangio defense throw last week.
I would imagine that's going to be a big part of their game plan.
This week, Patriots at their best
going their physical up front.
And then look, you draft a Christian Gonzalez
for this reason for teams like Miami with their wide outs.
So this will be a big test.
He had a great first week against the Eagles
and their talented group.
We'll see how he does against the Miami dolphins.
All right, as we look at the college slate,
we talked at the top about the Colorado, Colorado State game.
It's not a great week of games here,
but it's not a lot to get me super fired up
when I look at it.
It's a lot of lopsided opponents, a lot of lopsided games.
Is there anything that all that peaks your interest
when you look over this slate?
The only game that will slightly peak my interest
will be the game with Georgia versus South Carolina.
Only because South Carolina sometimes can be tricky.
In the SEC, we know that Georgia is a heavy favorite.
But South Carolina has played well.
We've seen them take down a couple of teams.
But if they haven't fixed that offensive line,
the offensive line that played against North Carolina,
they may absolutely trounce against the Georgia border.
But to me, I just want to see Georgia.
I haven't had a chance to really take a look at them.
I'm going to check that game out.
I want to see what the border does look like
and as they try and three people.
Yeah, I would just add Penn State, Illinois.
Illinois has got some good pieces on defense.
So Penn State is loaded.
They're roster.
Nobody's talked about them.
It's always been Michigan and there's Ohio State
in the quarterback situation.
How does that work out?
Don't forget about Penn State now.
They're number seven in the country.
I think that might be, I think,
I was talking to him the other day.
I think he might be at that game.
But Penn State's got big time offensive line play.
They've got backs.
They've got a quarterback who's big and physical
and make every throw.
They've got dudes and they've got all three levels
of the defense.
They've got athletes.
So they're kind of a team.
I feel like is, you know,
look, Deon's taking all the attention
from college football at this point in time.
But I feel like of those contenders
that are mentioned,
I feel like Penn State doesn't get their due.
So I'm going to peek at them a little bit
and see what they look like.
Yeah, she'd be a phone really excited to see
what Penn State looks like
because they're a team.
People talked about who could get in the hunt
and kind of emerge as a title contender.
Penn State's definitely squarely and it makes.
All right, that's going to do it for today.
This was a fun one again,
a little bit quicker on these Thursday, Friday pods.
But hope you guys enjoy them.
We will be back on Monday,
five new episodes coming your way next week.
So be on the lookout for that.
We'll see you next time right here.
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