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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going long with Shammy. That's gonna be hot on the
story of the day. Plus it's warming now it's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome everybody to goin long with me with Sammy Long.
We got you obviously been home with Fletch for the
last couple hours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Potter is currently on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
They're up one zero trying to try to salvage the
series against the San Francisco Giants. So we'll keep you
updated on that situation as we on that game as
we go on, but we're gonna focus on a few
things that we're go get into the NFL here in
a second, but the eighteen game slate and coming up
next about fifteen to twenty minutes, we're talking about Ryan Day. Now,
(00:43):
college football and college basketball has become kind of a
sport that'ses on all the time, and it used to be,
I think with recruiting and different things that used to
certainly have an offseason, but because of the NIL it's
here all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In my third segment, we're talking about Eric Scarr from
kfive from Hooves Talk with Alan Sliwa from The Laker Channel,
hopping on at talking Little Lakers, and then of course
we get some crossover with Slee and Schaeffer at two
forty five. Okay, So the NFL, the eighteen games slate
has become a topic of conversation at the owners meetings.
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They're all out in Phoenix, they're all out in Arizona
over the last couple of days. They always do this
going over potential rule changes, and it's not happening this year.
But we've seen the NFL go from sixteen games to
seventeen games, and then it makes sense because to go
to an eighteen game slate, to go to to have
an even number in the NFL is expanding left and right.
(01:42):
I mean, we're seeing games in Australia, who seeing games
in Madrid, games in Mexico City. London has certainly become
a factor in the NFL. It's just there's been a
lot a big question about this of will it oversaturate
the league because it feels like and I think it
is the only sport that we clamor for more of
(02:05):
because Baseball one hundred and sixty two games we've talked
about for years. I mean, they could shortened this thing
by half, and it creates it's funny. We've been talking
about the Potter's and the one and four start. We'll
see what happens today. But you have half of I
think Pottery fans who were like, it's early, you can't,
we can't get a judgment five games into the season.
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And then you have half people who are frustrated and
they're frustrated with the way this team's playing right now.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But the NFL.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The reason why I think the NFL is a number
one in ratings and it's not even close to everyone else,
is because the greatest reality show on television, it's a
week by week chapter that unfolds. We've seen teams start
off four to zero and then sitting there a month later,
they're four and four in Jeopardy and missing the playoffs,
where in baseball you go on seven game losing streaks
and still be in the lead of the division. Baseball
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we clamor for less games. The NBA, we clamor for
less games. At eighty two. That's been talked about, certainly
with Adam Silver. I think college football. In college basketball,
I don't know if we clamor for less games, but
we certainly clamor for less playing of directional schools. I mean,
so much of the college football schedule or even the
college basketball is get schedule. In the college basketball schedule,
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it always starts off with a bang in November, playing
those Thanksgiving tournaments, the Players Era tournament like San Diego
State was in. You're having big time matchups, and then
it feels like you go through a non conference schedule.
Teams don't want to mess up their resumes, so they
schedule teams that they're that much better them. But the NFL,
nothing's bigger than the shield. And it's the only sports
league where no matter what it has done, whether it's
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gone overseas, whether it is gone, they've increased from sixteen
games to seventeen games, whether they've increased the amount of
teams that get in the playoffs for the AFC in
the NFC from six to seven. And Jerry Jones was
asked about this today. Mark Cuban had a quote not
too long ago talking pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered,
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talking about the NFL constantly expanding, and Jerry Jones responded
to that and the only way Jerry Jones could and said,
when a duck is hungry, you feed it. And now
he's I don't agree with Jerry Jones on a lot
of stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He's right. Everything the NFL has done works.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And one of the reasons in I believe we have
some mel Kipers down here in a second, but the
NFL is the only league where the NFL Draft is
bigger than the NFL Draft will average more viewers and
have more viewers than sometimes the NBA Finals, sometimes the
World Series. The NFL is the only sport that we
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look at and we go, they can do whatever they want,
they go. The NBA had Christmas, it was always the
NBA's day. The NFL moves in in some uncompetitive games
last couple of years still averaged about forty million people
and Thanksgiving. We know the NFL owns it. But taking
us back to nineteen ninety four in the NFL draft,
the NFL draft before nineteen ninety four was more like
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the MLB draft is now. The NBA Draft has has
a lot of buzz depending on the year in the
players that are in it, but the NFL Draft has
become a reality show. And to set this clip up, basically,
mel Kiper was the first, the first pundit, the first
mock draft pundit to give his opinion on picks of
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the NFL draft, because most of the time before nineteen
ninety four, you just saw who the rookies were on
your team went on Sunday in the next year. Now
the NFL draft has become a massive event. He was
criticizing the Colts for taking for taking a player of
another player, and this is the reaction to that one question.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Build a lot of criticism about not taking a quarterback here.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Your response, well.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know, we got a guy up there.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Who in the hell is mel Kuiper?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
In a way, I mean, here's a guy that criticizes everybody,
whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you
should take and who you shouldn't take. In my knowledge
of him, he's never ever put on a Jocks draft.
He's never been a coach, he's never been a scout,
he's never been an administrator.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And all of a sudden he's an expert.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He's in our papers two days ago telling us who
we have to take.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We don't have to take.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Anybody that mel Kuiper says we have to take. Mel
Kuiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing
than my neighbor. And my neighbor's a postman and he
doesn't even have season. Take us to the NFL. Nol Kuiper, Well,
Tobn obviously not going out to dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, Chris, I'll tell you I'm secure in my position.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Obviously, Boltovn is not very secure.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
In his position. To me, it's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You cannot go with Jim Harriball and pass up Trent Dilford,
forget it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
That's why the Colts while the laughing stock of the
league near in and year out.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, because Trent deil Fer ended up being awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That is one of my favorite clips of all time.
It just the reason I play that clip is it
goes to show that the NFL Draft has become an
event and where it's the month of April, the NFL
drafts coming up here in what three three to four weeks,
and the NFL I've heard a lot when we hear
about this eighteen game schedule of will it oversaturated? Is
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the NFL expanding too big too fast? They've talked for
years about are they going to have a team in London?
Are they going to potentially put a division over there?
But because of what the NFL has been able to
do and capture a single day of the week where
everyone plans they leave everything off on Sunday to watch
NFL football. I just don't see that happening. Texas seven
zero four to seven zero. Start your message with team
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what you think. But I just think the NFL can
basically do whatever the NFL wants because it's the NFL.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
The NFL's gonna do whatever they want because it's the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I think what makes the NFL special is the fact
that we don't get it every day of the week,
you know. I think that's what kind of grinds on
people with the one hundred and sixty two game season
for baseball, is that, you know, it's not that special
to some people because they play six games a week.
So you know, if you miss Tuesday's game, who cares
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because you still got plenty of games to watch to
where NFL, you know, now, it's yeah, the three days,
but it's still you only have those three days that
you can watch it. So I'm kind of worried about
it becoming oversaturated. You know, I love Pepperoni pizza, but
I don't want to eat it for every single meal,
every single day, for you know, all year, because I'm
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going to get sick of it eventually.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It doesn't matter how much I love it. Eventually, I'm
gonna get sick of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I just think with the NFL, and I get that point.
I just think with the NFL, like Baseball, there's such
a lack.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Of importance on individual games.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And it goes back to what I was saying earlier,
is like people are, well, you could go on a
six game losing streak and it doesn't really do all
that much in the divisional standings. It's just going to
eighteen teams, especially if you're gonna have you're gonna do
games in Australia, which the Niners and the Rams are
opening up the season with in the second game, and
all these international travel teams are playing flawed schedules where
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they might have nine home games one year eight away
games and then vice versa. I just think the NFL
can do whatever. And like getting back to the draft
clip that I just played with mel Kiper when you
know Bill Tobin calling him out.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It is the only sport where I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
They're giving draft grades the second people come down the
second drafts come down. In the NFL, draft is just
has this magnitude where it is literally a twenty four
to seven sport, And I can't always be said for
everyone else.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Well, because the NFL inserts themselves in everything. You know,
they don't let a time period go by where people
don't think about them. The other sports when they go
into their off season, you know, baseball will have the
Winter Meetings, but then.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's about it.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
It's not like, you know, the NFL will make a
big deal when free agency opens up. They'll make a
big deal with you know, uh, you said when the
draft kicks off, they'll make a big deal about that.
But yeah, ohha's you know, uh, just the draft combine.
You know, they find any excuse, you know, and some
of the other sports, you know, they should try to
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and serve themselves as much like this, but they just
don't have the cloud to do it. Because you know,
Thursday Night Football is a perfect example. They can try out,
you know, two of the worst teams in the league
and you'll still get fourteen to seventeen million people to
tune in and watch it, even though it's not you know,
the super Bowl of the greatest teams they're.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Playing the NFL in like agreed, the NFL can throw
any match about there because nothing's bigger than the shield.
And when like the NFL has just had done such
a genius job of so many people have an NFL team, right,
you're a massive Bears fan. I'm a massive Chiefs fan,
But I don't know how many people even around this
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office come in to talk to us and everyone about
who should start on their fantasy football teams in the
NFL was also the first league to really embrace gambling
and then making the NFL Draft in absolute production to where.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They're telling you the stories. I mean now in ESPN.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
ESPN has the one the one live broadcast where they're
just talking about the players, and then they have the
ABC broadcast where they're talking about the journeys of the
players and what got them there. It's like the transition
that we see, and it really starts with college football
because college football is such a big sport. The fact
that we know these guys and we've grown up watching them,
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and then we're seeing them transition to the NFL. It's
kind of been a problem for the NBA. Wish is
why the NBA. I think has such a.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Big draft this year.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's a lot of buzz around this draft because you
have stars people recognize, Cameron Boozer, Duke Darren Peterson, Kansas,
Darius Acuff Arkansas, Aja, debonsta from BYU. These are all
players that we saw in marsh Madness that we got
to watch, We got to watch all season. I mean,
remember a couple years ago when Rasapse was one of
the top picks and the both top two picks in
the NBA draft were European players, which is great, But
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when you're trying to sell people on a draft and
it's European players or G league guys who people are
just taking scouts word for it, it's kind of a
hard sell. But with the NFL, it's just like they
have done such a good job of marketing the draft, marketing,
making free agency as special. Major League Baseball's free agency
period is just open ended. Like Lucas Giolito we're talking
(12:12):
about for the Padres would be a massive help, is
still a free agent and he's been what a free
agent for what now five months?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Six months?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like it's kind of crazy that the NFL has just
lapped so many leagues in terms of how they schedule
things out, and I just think with the eighteen games,
whether they go to that like people make them plain,
people make complain about, oh the games are on Netflix
now or on Peacock, and yet they still draw extremely
high ratings because it's just nothing. Nothing is bigger than
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the shield when it comes to the NFL. All right,
Coming up next on Going Along, We're gonna get to
little college football. Ryan Day from Ohio State had some
really interesting comments about the state of college football and
what that means and people adapting in some people not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We're getting into that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
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Speaker 1 (13:23):
Welcome back to Going Long, so to.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Mentioned earlier college football well first, Coming up next, we
got Eric Skarr from KFI, as well as Hoops Talk
with Alan Sliwa Channel I'm on. Of course, you all
know Alan Sliwa, John Shaffer's new co host, talking a
Little Lakers after they dismantled the Calves last night, and
then we'll have Shaffer and Sleewa jumping on at two
forty five for the little crossover. Now, just like the
NFL we were just talking about, is literally a twenty
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four to seven sport. I mean, the other day with
the owners meetings, the top seven stories on ESPN, six
of them were NFL stories.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
College football, because of.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Nil in the way the sport has changed and you're
buying players left and right, fighting to keep your own
players has kind of become a twenty four seven sport
as well. Ryan Day, Ohio State head coach, obviously won
the championship two years ago. They ended up losing this
year to Miami, had this to say about college football
and comparing it to a dinosaur extinction.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I mentioned this to somebody that day, and you know,
I had went on a couple visits with my son,
and so I had a little free time, you know, traveling,
and so I watched that Netflix documentary on the dinosaurs.
And you know, if you want to feel insignificant, watch
that because it talks about how the dinosaurs were on
Earth like two hundred and fifty million years ago, and
you know, throughout time, you know, it got all the
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way to like sixty five million years ago. Over that time,
the world changed, the climate change, the earth changed, and
some some some dinosaurs figured out how to continue to
adapt and some died. And I guess that's a little extreme,
but I think it's kind of the way it is
in college football. The people who know how to adapt
are going to continue to move on, and the ones
who don't they die.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now. I said this with Fletch the other day.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
He should be crediting Billy Bean because Billy Bean did
say adaptor die in Moneyball. He's talking about the athletics.
But Ryan Day is not wrong, and so much has
been made in both college basketball and college football. And
in college basketball the last couple of weeks we've been
talking about is the Cinderella Dead. Is the Cinderella story
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in college basketball that we've all known and loved over
the years. UNBC finally beaten one seed, Saint Peter's the
fifteen seed making it to the Elite eight?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Is it dead?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And if you think so, you probably think so because
of the nil And it's fair to think so because
in the Sweet sixteen, Iowa had the cheapest or the
least to spend at NIL, and that was six point
two million dollars in a lot of programs. Most programs
on the country don't have over six million dollars. Where
I think that NIL is hurt college basketball because it
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really has separated and made an even bigger gap between
the top and the bottom.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And we do love those Cinderella stories.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's kind of why March Madness has so much allure
and charm that if your school's out, it's there's something
to get behind. When you see a group of kids
who are literally not going to the NBA, not big
time recruits, beating guys that they have no business on
paper beating in college football, I think it's different. I
think the NIL has actually changed college football for the better.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And we can all pretend like.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Over seventy five percent of the schools the second the
collegeootball season kicks off is done like they don't even
have a shot, and we can pretend like they do.
And now they have a little bit more of a
shot considering there's one team in the college ball playoff
that's not for the group of four the power for
excuse me, but it's like the NIL has changed instead
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of five star quarterbacks going to sit. Three five star
quarterbacks sitting at Ohio State. One's gonna play and they're
just sitting on the bench because they're waiting their turn.
I can go to Nebraska, or I can go to
one of these schools that doesn't have the alert of
an Ohio State, but I can go be a star
and Ryan Day. It's interesting, he says this because adaptor
(17:14):
die Ryan Day, Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson were schools that
dominated when it was all about recruiting. If you recruited
a guy that were likely going to stay with you
your entire college career because to transfer, you couldn't transfer
in conference a lot of times. A lot of times
you had to wait a whole year to get your
transfer eligibility and who wanted you and things like that.
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And I think we've seen schools like Ohio State adapt
in the Big Ten is completely adapted. Ohio State, Michigan,
Indiana has all won championships in the last three years.
And we've seen the SEC and some ACC schools not
in Alabama and Georgia used to just get anyone from
the South. If you were in the South and you
were a big time football player you were going to
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one of those schools, and now it's not the same.
And the big program that has had the biggest fallof
is Dabosweeney and Clemson. Dabosweeney was avidly against the transfer
portal and what made it a point that he was
going to be one of the guys who wasn't going
to use it. And look what's happened to Clemson five
losses last year, completely falling off the face of the earth.
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Compared to ten years ago when you had Trevor Lawrence
into Shaun Watson in the National Championship Game. It felt
like every year, so the whole adapter die. I think
people want to complain about the nil and the fact
that LSU is twenty five to thirty million dollars to spend.
It's like, that's how college football is, and if you're
not gonna get with it, you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Get left behind, just like Clemson.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
See I look at it a little differently. What I
take what Ryan Day said as more not so much
referring to schools and programs, but referring to coaches. I
think this is the main reason why Nick Saban retired
when he did, because he didn't want to deal with it,
and not so much that adapt or die, but it
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is more of a case of adapt or get out
of the way. And I think Saban didn't like the
way it was going, so he quit and just got out.
Now you know, there was the basketball coach for Miami Hurricanes. Yeah,
that were tired because of it, because he took the
Hurricanes to the Final four, and after the Final four,
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like a three quarters of his team enter the transfer
portal and he went into him, was like, did I
do something wrong? Do you guys not happy here? And like,
oh no, we love your coach And he's like, well
then why are you leaving? And he just couldn't figure
it out, so he got out of the way. So
I kind of look at what Ryan days. What he's
saying is, you know, kind of directed towards the coaches
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to where if you don't like nil, you don't like
the transfer portal, that's the way. That's the game now,
and that's the future. If you don't like it, you either,
you know, adapt and get with it or just get
out of the way, because that' the future of football,
whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That is a good point because it is when you
look at it was always kind of thought of that
college football was the safer job because if you were
a legacy at one of these schools, it was like
you were basically either going to coach until you until
you croaked, or if you wanted to leave. And it's
funny how it's flipped with the nil to your point
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about Nick Saban some of these top tier coaches that
have got out of it, because not only are you
fighting to recruit guys, recruiting commitments don't even mean anything anymore.
National Signing Day used to be a national holiday because
it really told you who was going to be ranked
towards the top and who was going to be one
of the premier football teams in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But signing it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You get commitments from guys all the time, and they'll
commit and then immediately go take visits with those other schools,
And not only are you fighting to keep to get commitments,
you're fighting to keep commitments and keep your own players.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Whereas the NFL is a what if you done for
me lately? League? And are you much more likely to
get fired in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes, But I also think in the NFL you don't
if you're the coach of even the Jets, who have
not been an organization who has been devoid of success
for a long time. You don't have to convince NFL
players and guys to take the Jets job. You're you're
coaching the guys that you have on your roster, and
it's up to the GM and in that in the
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front office to put the team together. Whereas in college football,
I mean, to that end, you could have all the
all the the best players in the world, great relationships
with them, and if they get a higher nial deal
somewhere else, they're gonna go. Look at James Franklin when
he was at Penn State, they were playing in the
College Ball Playoff in their backup quarterback, got an nil
deal at Missouri and had to leave because they didn't
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want them to get hurt, you know, playing for Penn State.
And it's just it seems like it's a totally different league.
And to Ryan Day's point, Adapter Die and Brent, I
like your point about the about the coaches too. I
think I think it's for the players, the schools, and
the coaches all right. Coming up next, jumping in the
hot seat with me, Eric Sklar from KFI as well
as Hoops Talk with Alan slawa channel I am on
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as well, breaking down Lakers get a big w over
the Cleveland Cavaliers. We're getting into that are the Lakers
championship contenders. Stay tuned on the other side, coming up
next on Going Long with San Diego Sports seven sixty
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hey know the wrong with a little heat around here?
Lighting fires? Who's next in the hot seat? Welcome back
to Going Long?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Joining me right now the man, Eric Sklar, technical producer
for KFI John Cobalt, and then he's on a producer
for SLIWA with.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
On Hoops Talk.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Him and I will actually be doing a preview video
of the Lakers showdown against the Thunder later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Eric, what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Are you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
DAMMI good? How are you show? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you man, Thank you man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Thank you for thank you for hopping on so our
Lakers last night. I mean I was texting you. I
didn't expect that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I thought that they could beat the Cavs, certainly, but
I mean the Caves are a team that's been averaging
almost one hundred nineteen one hundred and twenty points per
game this year fourteen to four with Harden in the
lineup until last night. What'd you make of the Lakers
last night and have they kind of changed your thought
of how far they could go over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, you know, we were kind of talking about it
last night during the game over text, and we were
both shocked at how well the Lakers were playing and
how much control they had of that game. Going up
against the fourth best team in the Eastern Conference. I
was really worried heading into that game, especially because Marcus
Smart was missing his fourth straight game. I thought initially
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that they were kind of using those cupcake games against
the Pacers, the Nets, the Wizards to kind of get
Marcus of rest after that long, grueling six game road trip,
but he ends up missing last night, and I thought
the Lakers were going to have some problems on the
defense end with how high powered that Cavs offense is,
but they were able to keep their big four in
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check last night. Jared Allen got most of his points
most of his eighteen points in the first half. James
Harden only had seventeen points, Donovan Mitchell only had ten points,
two in the first half, one for six from the field,
and Evan Mobley, their other star big man, six points,
four rebounds. So I was just really impressed with how
well the Lakers played on defense without their anchor Marcus Smart.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, I'm with you on the on the defense, it
was surprising that they were that good defensively, and you
know they've been They've been great defensively over the last month.
That road trip that you know included wins over a
couple wins over Houston, Minnesota, and New York. Like, what
do you make though the Lakers record and clutch time games,
So the best clutch time team in the league, which
is meaning it's within a few points, within under five
(24:50):
minutes to go. Do you think it's because the Lakers
closers are Like what makes the Lakers such a good
clutch time team going forward in the postseason?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, not even not even just the fact that they're
the best clutch time team in the NBA. They're thirty
seven and one when they're leading heading into the fourth quarter.
They're thirty three and two when leading at halftime. And
so I think that clutchness has now got to be
something you stable as part of their identity, and I
definitely think that's going to be a benefit for them
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in the playoffs because they've been through some adversity, this
road trip that they had and then the five game
homestand that they had before this. I mean, they went
fifteen to two in the month of March, seventeen games
over thirty one days. That's one of the best months
probably an NBA history. So it's that clutchist I think
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is definitely going to be a huge factor for them
in the playoffs because they've been able to go through
some adversity and been able to withstand it and been
in some close games here at the end and where
it's been back and forth, but they've been able to
find a way to squeak out a win.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What do you make so much as been made of
the Luca MVP conversation and kind of maybe the lack
of respect there, like, so he had six hundred points
in March. You mentioned it, Lakers go fifteen to two
in March in Wenby and Shay are both kind of
the odds on favorite depending where you look. Yeah, Yokich
up there, Jalen Brown, do you think Luca's being slided
for the MVP in terms of not getting enough consideration,
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or do you think it should go to one of
those other guys.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Listen, if the MVP goes to Shay Gilgess, Alexander, Am
I gonna be upset or think Lucas got robbed.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, at the end of the.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Day, probably not, because SGA he's the best player on
the best team in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They're the defending champs.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
SGA is a phenomenal, phenomenal player in this league. He's
the reigning MVP. But I just I think if you're
not even putting Luca in the conversation, you're doing a
disservice to yourself. It's like with the whole defensive talk
about Luca's not a defensive player player. It's like, no
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one's saying he's the best defensive.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Player in the world.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
But if you're watching the games, he's putting an effort
in on the defensive end. He's top ten in steels,
he's top ten in charges. He's making an effort on
the defensive end. And I don't think his I think
his reputation is kind of holding him back to where
people kind of just have this one view of who
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he is as a player, and I just I don't
understand some of the vitriol that the media is using
against him when they're speaking about him. It's like, you
don't need to tear Luca down to prop up an
Sga or prop up a Wemby or a Jalen Brown
or a Nikolay jokicch Like, these guys are great players,
but you don't have to to push Luca down to
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prop these guys up.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I agree, it's funny how with Luca it's kind of
a viscerated and I don't know if it's just because
he's a Laker, and.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I think that has a lot to do with it,
To be honest.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I agree because I think I think it's it's a
lot of you know, Lakers have one of the biggest
fan bases in the NBA. But if you're Lakers a
lot like the Yankees are the Cowboys, if you're not
a fan of one of those teams, you're probably not
a big fan of them. But it does feel like
Shaye and Nikola jokis. Not that they're not deserving, I'm
with you on that, but it does feel like this
whole narrative he doesn't play defense. We can't win the
(28:28):
MVP peele have just decided that he can't play defense,
And I feel like.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Well, and yeah, where was this defense? Where was this
defensive conversation when guys like Harden was winning MVP, when
Steph Curry was winning MVP, Steve Nash won back to
back MVP, when Kobe Bryant was a nine nine time
First Team All Defensive player over his career, Like it,
when has defense really been that important to the conversation
(28:55):
for MVP. I understand, yes, defense is important. Defense wins championships,
it's half of the game and all of that, but
it's like, why is there this magnifying glass on Luke's
defense when there's not a magnifying glass on other guys
completely agree.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It does feel like with Luca ever since the trade.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Maybe it was the overwhelming love that the Lakers got
from the trade and that it was such a bad
deal from Nico Harrison, it's like coming back the other way,
but Luca does get I feel like unfairly kind of
criticized with that. The Lakers, currently at the three seed
right now, clinch the playoffs last night along with the
Denver Nuggets, So Lakers at the three seed, Nuggets at
the four, Timberwolves at the five, in Rockets at the six.
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What team would you most like to see for the
Lakers in the first round ere.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I think realistically, for me, it would probably be the
Houston Rockets. They're missing Fred Van Vliet, They're missing their
bruiser center, Steven Adams. They in the games that the
Lakers played during that road trip to two games back
to back, even though there was a day in between,
the Lakers were able to exploit the fact that they
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don't have a primary ball handler that can help set
the table for a guy like Kevin Durant, and so
I think that's gonna be one of the biggest things
that the Lakers would hone in on in a seven
game series, because in the playoffs, everything slows down. You're
able to make adjustments. You're playing the same team over
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and over again. You have adjustments that you make each night,
and you see how the team on the other end
will react to those adjustments, and you make the next
adjustment for the next game. So I'm gonna be very
very interested to see how the Lakers would approach a
series with the Rockets, And I think the Lakers would
have the upper hand against Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Eric quickly before I get you out of here, you
got a show to do. Lakers taking on a Thunder
tomorrow night. We're gonna be doing a preview video on
Allen Channel channel hoopstock Balancedly what later tonight you want
to check that out? How much single game importance do
you put on tomorrow, like if the Lakers, if the
Lakers lose a close game, what do you need to
see from the Lakers to think that they can compete
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somehow with a Thunder or Spurs.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is it a win? Is it just a competitive game?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Because a lot of these games against the Thunder with
the Lakers haven't even been competitive.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No, I definitely need to see a competitive game. I
definitely think the only way I'd say that the Lakers
could compete with the Thunder and the Spurs is if
they beat the Thunder in one of these upcoming games
that they have against them, because they do have another
game against them next week.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And so.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
With the Thunder being who they are, I think this
is going to be the perfect test for the Lakers
after this grueling month of March where they went fifteen
and two. We talked about it before the Houston series.
I said that the Lakers needed to get greedy and
really take the tiebreaker from Houston and set themselves up
good for getting that three seed come the end of
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the regular season, and they've done exactly that. And now
they got their their final exam with the Oklahoma City
Thunder and as two of their last six to seven
games here in the regular season.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Eric, you the best, brother, Go give him a follow
on at the Duke of Sports on X and again
we will be having a preview video later tonight of
Lakers Thunder if you want to check that out.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Eric, Great talking to you, dude.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Sammy appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All right, Coming up next, closing this thing out, before
we handed off to Schaeffer in SLIWA. But that's exactly
who is popping in. In the next segment. We're gonna
get to get to know Allen even more and get
a get a little update on these padres.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
As they are in action right now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Coming up next on Going Long on San Diego Sports
seven sixty live on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to
San Diego Sports seven sixty. Closing out going along Shaeffer
in SLIWA. Coming up next day three of the new show.
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They're filing in right here. See John on the stream.
How you boys doing.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
We're doing well, man, just getting set up, getting ready
for another day.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah we uh you know, Potter is doing all right
right now, but we will we will see. Yeah, yeah,
you got it right there.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Do it, Sammy, don't do it. Don't start doing the
whole here's what's happening. Yeah, actually know this is some
quiet optimism right now. You know what.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, what's you boys? What's you boys not going on today?
Any any big guest jumping on?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
We will have Kevin ac Okay, does he qualifies a
big guest?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I would say yes, Yeah, I think so. He's a
big hitter. She's a big hitter.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I think he gets much more excited to come on
your guys show than us.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What happens to give me a vibe? The difference of
the vibes agrees, Yeah, and he knows that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
When he answers the phone, there's always a little bit
of a oh, yeah, I have this to do today,
you know, So feel free to bring that up to him.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
What you should do next time he comes on? Give
him all, give him kind of the same. Oh yeah,
that's right. A s's on at this time, go right
back at him.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, yeah, what we do shaef.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, he's the first guest, by the way, in the
history of Schaeffer and Sleewea.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I was listening. Yeah, yeah, so you heard that. He
wasn't very impressed by the way.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
No, he was like, okay, that's a good way to start,
by the way, you on your new podcast, which is fantastic.
Potter is Collective with matt and Devine. We had matt
On and Kevin Acy. Yeah, Kevin smiling on that show.
He is, Yeah, he's I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You know what I mean? You guys just bring a
different side out of it. How did you get him
to what's a special over there?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:36):
You know, he doesn't do a lot of YouTube like
the three of us do in general, so I think
he's kind of enjoying the casual nature of the space. Yeah,
you're like sitting, You're like fitting in a ten minute block. Yep,
you're like in and out of something. We're on YouTube.
It's like, I want to have a thirty minute show,
have a thirty minute show, want to have a ninety
minute show.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So different ninety minutes.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
So different, but so there's a lot of similarities to
to you know, what's weird. We're talking about this yesterday.
I would like to figure this portion out because I
do like taking phone calls. But what YouTube has done
is the chats. Yes, they're they're the equivalent of a
phone call.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The immediate reaction, the immediate reaction.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
And you could take one of those and that all
of a sudden gets you into a certain topic, and
you spent X amount of minutes on a certain topic
and it came from a chat.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's kind of what the phone calls.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
I know, you guys using the text I'm still am
not able to get into the text.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I got to do the whole you gotta go through
the text line is my favorite part about radio. Now
he loves it. I love it now he uses it.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
When we also got used that, we got to start
using the talk back Mike. Okay, our listeners could just
go to the app and be like, hey, Alan, I disagree,
I agree, And here's why you're.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
An idiot exactly.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
You grew up on the East Coast where there's a
lot of talk, yes, yeah, a lot of very vitriol
immediate reaction, it's a little differ.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I mean again, it's been oh bro, but it's wildly
is it the fil exactly the.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Exact same because of social media now as opposed to
waiting on hold for forty five minutes on WIP, you can.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Just go Twitter, you tag me or you. But I
still think there.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
I got a feeling if there's any market that's still
taking those.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Philly New York, it's gonna be that. Yeah, yeah, Philly,
you up Boston probably too. On the manage game is
in there? I I uh, just switching outs real quick. Yeah,
would you bring in here? Okay? So I brought in
My mom's gonna be very proud of this. Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
These are called table topics, all right, the game or
so it's like a game you can have. I will
show the camera. There's like a game. You can have
this on a table And there's a gazillion questions in here.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I don't know about you. I've been to many extended
family dinners, okay, where we've heard every story that's been said.
There's nothing new that we can say to each other,
right okay, and there's certain family members who know who
they are. But this is what we do to bring
out to make this a little bit more interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So I thought to get to it.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
We all know you, but there's some stuff that we'd
like to know about you, sure, as well as Alan.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So do you want do you want to pick one
out here?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I want to pick one.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
I don't really trust do you trust Sammy with saying, hey,
just you know, grab this question.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I will pick my. I think we're gonna find some
good stuff about it. But Shaffer, okay, I think we
know John, but I think we're gonna find some good
stuff out.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, this good one. It's gonna what are your favorite apps? Oh?
Favorite apps on a phone? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:08):
I thought you're gonna say like appetizers like Monterrella, which
don't count as I mean, I'm obsessively on I'm obsessively
on X you know Twitter? Yeah, because it's so relevant,
I feel like to like what we do?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Have you done this? What's that?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Have you guys ever taken any of the the any
of these Instagram?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Twitter? Have you taken them off of your phone?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I should do that.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
Mine are currently not on my phone. So the only
time I'm going on Twitter or Instagram is on like
a computer. Is when I'm on my laptop, which I'm
on my laptop lot, but brother, there's times you just
it's too addicted, like honestly, like it's too addicting, and
it's it's good to have a little kind of separation.
The problem is each one of them, Like YouTube is
(37:54):
I consume the most on YouTube the app?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You the app?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I use YouTube all the time.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Well, YouTube's got it short, so I'm scrolling just like
I'm doing on the ex or Instagram.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm glad you just mentioned that though, real quick, because
I saw something within the last month that said, you know,
like short form content is like ruining people's brains.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, yes, the short.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Like personally, I've like taken that to heart. I will
not watch short form content by and large. It'll get
you can I see it, I get away from it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I a create TikTok you.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Deleted to Yeah, I don't use TikTok, but I'll create it,
like if there's something between me and Allan on the show.
I think it's good content in general, but I don't
like the ramifications of constantly.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I can imagine if you're sixteen eight kid, you can
just end up scrolling forever and then you're.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Like because it's created to your feed, so you like
like it.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I'm really I.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Stay away from short for I love long form content.
I want to learn about something. Sits down for twenty
or thirty minutes and learn about some yeah, but everything, and.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
Sometimes sometimes I prefer short form and I'm learning nothing.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
And it's so freaking addictive it is. And you said so,
I don't know which one you guys said it. Imagine
somebody who's eight, ten, twelve, fifteen have one of those.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
There's a surprising app that I've been using a lot
recently as an app called colm see comc check out
my Cards. It's how I buy and sell cheap trading cards,
which I've gotten into as interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
So you wouldn't know that, but I use all the time.
I like that on a car. Right now, this is
for you, sliwa okay, uh seven.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Wow, this is this might take more than sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
We got deep pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
What obligations you believe you have to your country? WHOA,
it's pretty I mean, that's asking a pretty significant I
think I got an answer.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Okay, let's hear it. Being honest about your country. It's
a great answer.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Because you don't have to just pretend like everything is perfect.
But you could be proud about your country, proud about
you know, the opportunities your country has given you.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
But the one thing.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
I don't like is there's a little bit of you
can't be critical about the country.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Of course you can. You can be critical, you can
you know both, You could want.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
You could want what's best for the country and have
a different vision than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So I would say that that to go from Tom,
what do you believe? Where religious is?
Speaker 6 (40:12):
This is?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
This is for it's Thanksgiving dinner and uh uncles had
a drink?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
This is yeah, this is cool?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Quickly with one minute left for a lighter note. What
fashion trend you followed was very cool then but now
looks ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Man, you guys rocking the shining?
Speaker 8 (40:30):
I think I have one, but it's back, which is
very weird.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Growing up, baggy jeans was a thing, So in high
school we'd wear bag jeans, and then just recently I'm
starting to see sixteen year olds anything they got baggy jeans,
So it's kind of came back. Okay, that as it
came back for me because if I'm trying to do
anything so badly in here with bag.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I don't know about fashion transmit. Look, but I do
remember rock put together. I remember rocking the starter jacket back.
You know, the specific starter starter would still kill it today. Nfler,
How about this? When I was like nine, this made
no sense. I think I just liked the color. I
had a Tennessee. I've never liked Tennessee my entire life.
I had the Tennessee bright orange, Like what's that called
(41:12):
creamsicle orange? That's a starter jacket, just because because I
was like nine, and I love sports, and I just
like the color.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's fantastic. Well, it's just like everyone had the Charlotte
starter jackets. Charlotte starter jacket. Yeah, thank you, all right, Sammy,
thank you Sam. That was a good idea.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
I honestly, I don't think those should go to it.
I'm gonna leave us unless the FAM wants them back here.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
No, no, no, no no, we're keeping these here because when
we when Thanksgiving rolls around, I'll take them back until
that happens.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I like it, all right, Thank you for much for
tuning in.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Make sure to stay tuned for Shafer and I'll be
back to mamm with flesh at twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
We'll see every body tomorrow
Going long with Shammy. That's gonna be hot on the
story of the day. Plus it's warming now it's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome everybody to goin long with me with Sammy Long.
We got you obviously been home with Fletch for the
last couple hours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Potter is currently on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
They're up one zero trying to try to salvage the
series against the San Francisco Giants. So we'll keep you
updated on that situation as we on that game as
we go on, but we're gonna focus on a few
things that we're go get into the NFL here in
a second, but the eighteen game slate and coming up
next about fifteen to twenty minutes, we're talking about Ryan Day. Now,
(00:43):
college football and college basketball has become kind of a
sport that'ses on all the time, and it used to be,
I think with recruiting and different things that used to
certainly have an offseason, but because of the NIL it's
here all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In my third segment, we're talking about Eric Scarr from
kfive from Hooves Talk with Alan Sliwa from The Laker Channel,
hopping on at talking Little Lakers, and then of course
we get some crossover with Slee and Schaeffer at two
forty five. Okay, So the NFL, the eighteen games slate
has become a topic of conversation at the owners meetings.
(01:21):
They're all out in Phoenix, they're all out in Arizona
over the last couple of days. They always do this
going over potential rule changes, and it's not happening this year.
But we've seen the NFL go from sixteen games to
seventeen games, and then it makes sense because to go
to an eighteen game slate, to go to to have
an even number in the NFL is expanding left and right.
(01:42):
I mean, we're seeing games in Australia, who seeing games
in Madrid, games in Mexico City. London has certainly become
a factor in the NFL. It's just there's been a
lot a big question about this of will it oversaturate
the league because it feels like and I think it
is the only sport that we clamor for more of
(02:05):
because Baseball one hundred and sixty two games we've talked
about for years. I mean, they could shortened this thing
by half, and it creates it's funny. We've been talking
about the Potter's and the one and four start. We'll
see what happens today. But you have half of I
think Pottery fans who were like, it's early, you can't,
we can't get a judgment five games into the season.
(02:25):
And then you have half people who are frustrated and
they're frustrated with the way this team's playing right now.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But the NFL.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The reason why I think the NFL is a number
one in ratings and it's not even close to everyone else,
is because the greatest reality show on television, it's a
week by week chapter that unfolds. We've seen teams start
off four to zero and then sitting there a month later,
they're four and four in Jeopardy and missing the playoffs,
where in baseball you go on seven game losing streaks
and still be in the lead of the division. Baseball
(02:52):
we clamor for less games. The NBA, we clamor for
less games. At eighty two. That's been talked about, certainly
with Adam Silver. I think college football. In college basketball,
I don't know if we clamor for less games, but
we certainly clamor for less playing of directional schools. I mean,
so much of the college football schedule or even the
college basketball is get schedule. In the college basketball schedule,
(03:13):
it always starts off with a bang in November, playing
those Thanksgiving tournaments, the Players Era tournament like San Diego
State was in. You're having big time matchups, and then
it feels like you go through a non conference schedule.
Teams don't want to mess up their resumes, so they
schedule teams that they're that much better them. But the NFL,
nothing's bigger than the shield. And it's the only sports
league where no matter what it has done, whether it's
(03:36):
gone overseas, whether it is gone, they've increased from sixteen
games to seventeen games, whether they've increased the amount of
teams that get in the playoffs for the AFC in
the NFC from six to seven. And Jerry Jones was
asked about this today. Mark Cuban had a quote not
too long ago talking pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered,
(03:57):
talking about the NFL constantly expanding, and Jerry Jones responded
to that and the only way Jerry Jones could and said,
when a duck is hungry, you feed it. And now
he's I don't agree with Jerry Jones on a lot
of stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He's right. Everything the NFL has done works.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And one of the reasons in I believe we have
some mel Kipers down here in a second, but the
NFL is the only league where the NFL Draft is
bigger than the NFL Draft will average more viewers and
have more viewers than sometimes the NBA Finals, sometimes the
World Series. The NFL is the only sport that we
(04:37):
look at and we go, they can do whatever they want,
they go. The NBA had Christmas, it was always the
NBA's day. The NFL moves in in some uncompetitive games
last couple of years still averaged about forty million people
and Thanksgiving. We know the NFL owns it. But taking
us back to nineteen ninety four in the NFL draft,
the NFL draft before nineteen ninety four was more like
(04:58):
the MLB draft is now. The NBA Draft has has
a lot of buzz depending on the year in the
players that are in it, but the NFL Draft has
become a reality show. And to set this clip up, basically,
mel Kiper was the first, the first pundit, the first
mock draft pundit to give his opinion on picks of
(05:19):
the NFL draft, because most of the time before nineteen
ninety four, you just saw who the rookies were on
your team went on Sunday in the next year. Now
the NFL draft has become a massive event. He was
criticizing the Colts for taking for taking a player of
another player, and this is the reaction to that one question.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Build a lot of criticism about not taking a quarterback here.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Your response, well.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know, we got a guy up there.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Who in the hell is mel Kuiper?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
In a way, I mean, here's a guy that criticizes everybody,
whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you
should take and who you shouldn't take. In my knowledge
of him, he's never ever put on a Jocks draft.
He's never been a coach, he's never been a scout,
he's never been an administrator.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And all of a sudden he's an expert.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He's in our papers two days ago telling us who
we have to take.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We don't have to take.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Anybody that mel Kuiper says we have to take. Mel
Kuiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing
than my neighbor. And my neighbor's a postman and he
doesn't even have season. Take us to the NFL. Nol Kuiper, Well,
Tobn obviously not going out to dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, Chris, I'll tell you I'm secure in my position.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Obviously, Boltovn is not very secure.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
In his position. To me, it's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You cannot go with Jim Harriball and pass up Trent Dilford,
forget it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
That's why the Colts while the laughing stock of the
league near in and year out.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, because Trent deil Fer ended up being awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That is one of my favorite clips of all time.
It just the reason I play that clip is it
goes to show that the NFL Draft has become an
event and where it's the month of April, the NFL
drafts coming up here in what three three to four weeks,
and the NFL I've heard a lot when we hear
about this eighteen game schedule of will it oversaturated? Is
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the NFL expanding too big too fast? They've talked for
years about are they going to have a team in London?
Are they going to potentially put a division over there?
But because of what the NFL has been able to
do and capture a single day of the week where
everyone plans they leave everything off on Sunday to watch
NFL football. I just don't see that happening. Texas seven
zero four to seven zero. Start your message with team
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what you think. But I just think the NFL can
basically do whatever the NFL wants because it's the NFL.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
The NFL's gonna do whatever they want because it's the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I think what makes the NFL special is the fact
that we don't get it every day of the week,
you know. I think that's what kind of grinds on
people with the one hundred and sixty two game season
for baseball, is that, you know, it's not that special
to some people because they play six games a week.
So you know, if you miss Tuesday's game, who cares
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because you still got plenty of games to watch to
where NFL, you know, now, it's yeah, the three days,
but it's still you only have those three days that
you can watch it. So I'm kind of worried about
it becoming oversaturated. You know, I love Pepperoni pizza, but
I don't want to eat it for every single meal,
every single day, for you know, all year, because I'm
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going to get sick of it eventually.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It doesn't matter how much I love it. Eventually, I'm
gonna get sick of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I just think with the NFL, and I get that point.
I just think with the NFL, like Baseball, there's such
a lack.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Of importance on individual games.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And it goes back to what I was saying earlier,
is like people are, well, you could go on a
six game losing streak and it doesn't really do all
that much in the divisional standings. It's just going to
eighteen teams, especially if you're gonna have you're gonna do
games in Australia, which the Niners and the Rams are
opening up the season with in the second game, and
all these international travel teams are playing flawed schedules where
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they might have nine home games one year eight away
games and then vice versa. I just think the NFL
can do whatever. And like getting back to the draft
clip that I just played with mel Kiper when you
know Bill Tobin calling him out.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It is the only sport where I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
They're giving draft grades the second people come down the
second drafts come down. In the NFL, draft is just
has this magnitude where it is literally a twenty four
to seven sport, And I can't always be said for
everyone else.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Well, because the NFL inserts themselves in everything. You know,
they don't let a time period go by where people
don't think about them. The other sports when they go
into their off season, you know, baseball will have the
Winter Meetings, but then.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's about it.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
It's not like, you know, the NFL will make a
big deal when free agency opens up. They'll make a
big deal with you know, uh, you said when the
draft kicks off, they'll make a big deal about that.
But yeah, ohha's you know, uh, just the draft combine.
You know, they find any excuse, you know, and some
of the other sports, you know, they should try to
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and serve themselves as much like this, but they just
don't have the cloud to do it. Because you know,
Thursday Night Football is a perfect example. They can try out,
you know, two of the worst teams in the league
and you'll still get fourteen to seventeen million people to
tune in and watch it, even though it's not you know,
the super Bowl of the greatest teams they're.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Playing the NFL in like agreed, the NFL can throw
any match about there because nothing's bigger than the shield.
And when like the NFL has just had done such
a genius job of so many people have an NFL team, right,
you're a massive Bears fan. I'm a massive Chiefs fan,
But I don't know how many people even around this
(10:40):
office come in to talk to us and everyone about
who should start on their fantasy football teams in the
NFL was also the first league to really embrace gambling
and then making the NFL Draft in absolute production to where.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
They're telling you the stories. I mean now in ESPN.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
ESPN has the one the one live broadcast where they're
just talking about the players, and then they have the
ABC broadcast where they're talking about the journeys of the
players and what got them there. It's like the transition
that we see, and it really starts with college football
because college football is such a big sport. The fact
that we know these guys and we've grown up watching them,
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and then we're seeing them transition to the NFL. It's
kind of been a problem for the NBA. Wish is
why the NBA. I think has such a.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Big draft this year.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's a lot of buzz around this draft because you
have stars people recognize, Cameron Boozer, Duke Darren Peterson, Kansas,
Darius Acuff Arkansas, Aja, debonsta from BYU. These are all
players that we saw in marsh Madness that we got
to watch, We got to watch all season. I mean,
remember a couple years ago when Rasapse was one of
the top picks and the both top two picks in
the NBA draft were European players, which is great, But
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when you're trying to sell people on a draft and
it's European players or G league guys who people are
just taking scouts word for it, it's kind of a
hard sell. But with the NFL, it's just like they
have done such a good job of marketing the draft, marketing,
making free agency as special. Major League Baseball's free agency
period is just open ended. Like Lucas Giolito we're talking
(12:12):
about for the Padres would be a massive help, is
still a free agent and he's been what a free
agent for what now five months?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Six months?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like it's kind of crazy that the NFL has just
lapped so many leagues in terms of how they schedule
things out, and I just think with the eighteen games,
whether they go to that like people make them plain,
people make complain about, oh the games are on Netflix
now or on Peacock, and yet they still draw extremely
high ratings because it's just nothing. Nothing is bigger than
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the shield when it comes to the NFL. All right,
Coming up next on Going Along, We're gonna get to
little college football. Ryan Day from Ohio State had some
really interesting comments about the state of college football and
what that means and people adapting in some people not.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We're getting into that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
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Speaker 1 (13:23):
Welcome back to Going Long, so to.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Mentioned earlier college football well first, Coming up next, we
got Eric Skarr from KFI, as well as Hoops Talk
with Alan Sliwa Channel I'm on. Of course, you all
know Alan Sliwa, John Shaffer's new co host, talking a
Little Lakers after they dismantled the Calves last night, and
then we'll have Shaffer and Sleewa jumping on at two
forty five for the little crossover. Now, just like the
NFL we were just talking about, is literally a twenty
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four to seven sport. I mean, the other day with
the owners meetings, the top seven stories on ESPN, six
of them were NFL stories.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
College football, because of.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Nil in the way the sport has changed and you're
buying players left and right, fighting to keep your own
players has kind of become a twenty four seven sport
as well. Ryan Day, Ohio State head coach, obviously won
the championship two years ago. They ended up losing this
year to Miami, had this to say about college football
and comparing it to a dinosaur extinction.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I mentioned this to somebody that day, and you know,
I had went on a couple visits with my son,
and so I had a little free time, you know, traveling,
and so I watched that Netflix documentary on the dinosaurs.
And you know, if you want to feel insignificant, watch
that because it talks about how the dinosaurs were on
Earth like two hundred and fifty million years ago, and
you know, throughout time, you know, it got all the
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way to like sixty five million years ago. Over that time,
the world changed, the climate change, the earth changed, and
some some some dinosaurs figured out how to continue to
adapt and some died. And I guess that's a little extreme,
but I think it's kind of the way it is
in college football. The people who know how to adapt
are going to continue to move on, and the ones
who don't they die.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now. I said this with Fletch the other day.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
He should be crediting Billy Bean because Billy Bean did
say adaptor die in Moneyball. He's talking about the athletics.
But Ryan Day is not wrong, and so much has
been made in both college basketball and college football. And
in college basketball the last couple of weeks we've been
talking about is the Cinderella Dead. Is the Cinderella story
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in college basketball that we've all known and loved over
the years. UNBC finally beaten one seed, Saint Peter's the
fifteen seed making it to the Elite eight?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Is it dead?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And if you think so, you probably think so because
of the nil And it's fair to think so because
in the Sweet sixteen, Iowa had the cheapest or the
least to spend at NIL, and that was six point
two million dollars in a lot of programs. Most programs
on the country don't have over six million dollars. Where
I think that NIL is hurt college basketball because it
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really has separated and made an even bigger gap between
the top and the bottom.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And we do love those Cinderella stories.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's kind of why March Madness has so much allure
and charm that if your school's out, it's there's something
to get behind. When you see a group of kids
who are literally not going to the NBA, not big
time recruits, beating guys that they have no business on
paper beating in college football, I think it's different. I
think the NIL has actually changed college football for the better.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And we can all pretend like.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Over seventy five percent of the schools the second the
collegeootball season kicks off is done like they don't even
have a shot, and we can pretend like they do.
And now they have a little bit more of a
shot considering there's one team in the college ball playoff
that's not for the group of four the power for
excuse me, but it's like the NIL has changed instead
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of five star quarterbacks going to sit. Three five star
quarterbacks sitting at Ohio State. One's gonna play and they're
just sitting on the bench because they're waiting their turn.
I can go to Nebraska, or I can go to
one of these schools that doesn't have the alert of
an Ohio State, but I can go be a star
and Ryan Day. It's interesting, he says this because adaptor
(17:14):
die Ryan Day, Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson were schools that
dominated when it was all about recruiting. If you recruited
a guy that were likely going to stay with you
your entire college career because to transfer, you couldn't transfer
in conference a lot of times. A lot of times
you had to wait a whole year to get your
transfer eligibility and who wanted you and things like that.
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And I think we've seen schools like Ohio State adapt
in the Big Ten is completely adapted. Ohio State, Michigan,
Indiana has all won championships in the last three years.
And we've seen the SEC and some ACC schools not
in Alabama and Georgia used to just get anyone from
the South. If you were in the South and you
were a big time football player you were going to
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one of those schools, and now it's not the same.
And the big program that has had the biggest fallof
is Dabosweeney and Clemson. Dabosweeney was avidly against the transfer
portal and what made it a point that he was
going to be one of the guys who wasn't going
to use it. And look what's happened to Clemson five
losses last year, completely falling off the face of the earth.
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Compared to ten years ago when you had Trevor Lawrence
into Shaun Watson in the National Championship Game. It felt
like every year, so the whole adapter die. I think
people want to complain about the nil and the fact
that LSU is twenty five to thirty million dollars to spend.
It's like, that's how college football is, and if you're
not gonna get with it, you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Get left behind, just like Clemson.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
See I look at it a little differently. What I
take what Ryan Day said as more not so much
referring to schools and programs, but referring to coaches. I
think this is the main reason why Nick Saban retired
when he did, because he didn't want to deal with it,
and not so much that adapt or die, but it
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is more of a case of adapt or get out
of the way. And I think Saban didn't like the
way it was going, so he quit and just got out.
Now you know, there was the basketball coach for Miami Hurricanes. Yeah,
that were tired because of it, because he took the
Hurricanes to the Final four, and after the Final four,
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like a three quarters of his team enter the transfer
portal and he went into him, was like, did I
do something wrong? Do you guys not happy here? And like,
oh no, we love your coach And he's like, well
then why are you leaving? And he just couldn't figure
it out, so he got out of the way. So
I kind of look at what Ryan days. What he's
saying is, you know, kind of directed towards the coaches
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to where if you don't like nil, you don't like
the transfer portal, that's the way. That's the game now,
and that's the future. If you don't like it, you either,
you know, adapt and get with it or just get
out of the way, because that' the future of football,
whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
That is a good point because it is when you
look at it was always kind of thought of that
college football was the safer job because if you were
a legacy at one of these schools, it was like
you were basically either going to coach until you until
you croaked, or if you wanted to leave. And it's
funny how it's flipped with the nil to your point
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about Nick Saban some of these top tier coaches that
have got out of it, because not only are you
fighting to recruit guys, recruiting commitments don't even mean anything anymore.
National Signing Day used to be a national holiday because
it really told you who was going to be ranked
towards the top and who was going to be one
of the premier football teams in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But signing it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You get commitments from guys all the time, and they'll
commit and then immediately go take visits with those other schools,
And not only are you fighting to keep to get commitments,
you're fighting to keep commitments and keep your own players.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Whereas the NFL is a what if you done for
me lately? League? And are you much more likely to
get fired in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes, But I also think in the NFL you don't
if you're the coach of even the Jets, who have
not been an organization who has been devoid of success
for a long time. You don't have to convince NFL
players and guys to take the Jets job. You're you're
coaching the guys that you have on your roster, and
it's up to the GM and in that in the
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front office to put the team together. Whereas in college football,
I mean, to that end, you could have all the
all the the best players in the world, great relationships
with them, and if they get a higher nial deal
somewhere else, they're gonna go. Look at James Franklin when
he was at Penn State, they were playing in the
College Ball Playoff in their backup quarterback, got an nil
deal at Missouri and had to leave because they didn't
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want them to get hurt, you know, playing for Penn State.
And it's just it seems like it's a totally different league.
And to Ryan Day's point, Adapter Die and Brent, I
like your point about the about the coaches too. I
think I think it's for the players, the schools, and
the coaches all right. Coming up next, jumping in the
hot seat with me, Eric Sklar from KFI as well
as Hoops Talk with Alan slawa channel I am on
(22:08):
as well, breaking down Lakers get a big w over
the Cleveland Cavaliers. We're getting into that are the Lakers
championship contenders. Stay tuned on the other side, coming up
next on Going Long with San Diego Sports seven sixty
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Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hey know the wrong with a little heat around here?
Lighting fires? Who's next in the hot seat? Welcome back
to Going Long?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Joining me right now the man, Eric Sklar, technical producer
for KFI John Cobalt, and then he's on a producer
for SLIWA with.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
On Hoops Talk.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Him and I will actually be doing a preview video
of the Lakers showdown against the Thunder later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Eric, what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Are you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
DAMMI good? How are you show? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you man, Thank you man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Thank you for thank you for hopping on so our
Lakers last night. I mean I was texting you. I
didn't expect that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I thought that they could beat the Cavs, certainly, but
I mean the Caves are a team that's been averaging
almost one hundred nineteen one hundred and twenty points per
game this year fourteen to four with Harden in the
lineup until last night. What'd you make of the Lakers
last night and have they kind of changed your thought
of how far they could go over the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, you know, we were kind of talking about it
last night during the game over text, and we were
both shocked at how well the Lakers were playing and
how much control they had of that game. Going up
against the fourth best team in the Eastern Conference. I
was really worried heading into that game, especially because Marcus
Smart was missing his fourth straight game. I thought initially
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that they were kind of using those cupcake games against
the Pacers, the Nets, the Wizards to kind of get
Marcus of rest after that long, grueling six game road trip,
but he ends up missing last night, and I thought
the Lakers were going to have some problems on the
defense end with how high powered that Cavs offense is,
but they were able to keep their big four in
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check last night. Jared Allen got most of his points
most of his eighteen points in the first half. James
Harden only had seventeen points, Donovan Mitchell only had ten points,
two in the first half, one for six from the field,
and Evan Mobley, their other star big man, six points,
four rebounds. So I was just really impressed with how
well the Lakers played on defense without their anchor Marcus Smart.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, I'm with you on the on the defense, it
was surprising that they were that good defensively, and you
know they've been They've been great defensively over the last month.
That road trip that you know included wins over a
couple wins over Houston, Minnesota, and New York. Like, what
do you make though the Lakers record and clutch time games,
So the best clutch time team in the league, which
is meaning it's within a few points, within under five
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minutes to go. Do you think it's because the Lakers
closers are Like what makes the Lakers such a good
clutch time team going forward in the postseason?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, not even not even just the fact that they're
the best clutch time team in the NBA. They're thirty
seven and one when they're leading heading into the fourth quarter.
They're thirty three and two when leading at halftime. And
so I think that clutchness has now got to be
something you stable as part of their identity, and I
definitely think that's going to be a benefit for them
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in the playoffs because they've been through some adversity, this
road trip that they had and then the five game
homestand that they had before this. I mean, they went
fifteen to two in the month of March, seventeen games
over thirty one days. That's one of the best months
probably an NBA history. So it's that clutchist I think
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is definitely going to be a huge factor for them
in the playoffs because they've been able to go through
some adversity and been able to withstand it and been
in some close games here at the end and where
it's been back and forth, but they've been able to
find a way to squeak out a win.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What do you make so much as been made of
the Luca MVP conversation and kind of maybe the lack
of respect there, like, so he had six hundred points
in March. You mentioned it, Lakers go fifteen to two
in March in Wenby and Shay are both kind of
the odds on favorite depending where you look. Yeah, Yokich
up there, Jalen Brown, do you think Luca's being slided
for the MVP in terms of not getting enough consideration,
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or do you think it should go to one of
those other guys.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Listen, if the MVP goes to Shay Gilgess, Alexander, Am
I gonna be upset or think Lucas got robbed.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, at the end of the.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Day, probably not, because SGA he's the best player on
the best team in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They're the defending champs.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
SGA is a phenomenal, phenomenal player in this league. He's
the reigning MVP. But I just I think if you're
not even putting Luca in the conversation, you're doing a
disservice to yourself. It's like with the whole defensive talk
about Luca's not a defensive player player. It's like, no
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one's saying he's the best defensive.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Player in the world.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
But if you're watching the games, he's putting an effort
in on the defensive end. He's top ten in steels,
he's top ten in charges. He's making an effort on
the defensive end. And I don't think his I think
his reputation is kind of holding him back to where
people kind of just have this one view of who
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he is as a player, and I just I don't
understand some of the vitriol that the media is using
against him when they're speaking about him. It's like, you
don't need to tear Luca down to prop up an
Sga or prop up a Wemby or a Jalen Brown
or a Nikolay jokicch Like, these guys are great players,
but you don't have to to push Luca down to
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prop these guys up.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I agree, it's funny how with Luca it's kind of
a viscerated and I don't know if it's just because
he's a Laker, and.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I think that has a lot to do with it,
To be honest.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I agree because I think I think it's it's a
lot of you know, Lakers have one of the biggest
fan bases in the NBA. But if you're Lakers a
lot like the Yankees are the Cowboys, if you're not
a fan of one of those teams, you're probably not
a big fan of them. But it does feel like
Shaye and Nikola jokis. Not that they're not deserving, I'm
with you on that, but it does feel like this
whole narrative he doesn't play defense. We can't win the
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MVP peele have just decided that he can't play defense,
And I feel like.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Well, and yeah, where was this defense? Where was this
defensive conversation when guys like Harden was winning MVP, when
Steph Curry was winning MVP, Steve Nash won back to
back MVP, when Kobe Bryant was a nine nine time
First Team All Defensive player over his career, Like it,
when has defense really been that important to the conversation
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for MVP. I understand, yes, defense is important. Defense wins championships,
it's half of the game and all of that, but
it's like, why is there this magnifying glass on Luke's
defense when there's not a magnifying glass on other guys
completely agree.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It does feel like with Luca ever since the trade.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Maybe it was the overwhelming love that the Lakers got
from the trade and that it was such a bad
deal from Nico Harrison, it's like coming back the other way,
but Luca does get I feel like unfairly kind of
criticized with that. The Lakers, currently at the three seed
right now, clinch the playoffs last night along with the
Denver Nuggets, So Lakers at the three seed, Nuggets at
the four, Timberwolves at the five, in Rockets at the six.
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What team would you most like to see for the
Lakers in the first round ere.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I think realistically, for me, it would probably be the
Houston Rockets. They're missing Fred Van Vliet, They're missing their
bruiser center, Steven Adams. They in the games that the
Lakers played during that road trip to two games back
to back, even though there was a day in between,
the Lakers were able to exploit the fact that they
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don't have a primary ball handler that can help set
the table for a guy like Kevin Durant, and so
I think that's gonna be one of the biggest things
that the Lakers would hone in on in a seven
game series, because in the playoffs, everything slows down. You're
able to make adjustments. You're playing the same team over
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and over again. You have adjustments that you make each night,
and you see how the team on the other end
will react to those adjustments, and you make the next
adjustment for the next game. So I'm gonna be very
very interested to see how the Lakers would approach a
series with the Rockets, And I think the Lakers would
have the upper hand against Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Eric quickly before I get you out of here, you
got a show to do. Lakers taking on a Thunder
tomorrow night. We're gonna be doing a preview video on
Allen Channel channel hoopstock Balancedly what later tonight you want
to check that out? How much single game importance do
you put on tomorrow, like if the Lakers, if the
Lakers lose a close game, what do you need to
see from the Lakers to think that they can compete
(31:06):
somehow with a Thunder or Spurs.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is it a win? Is it just a competitive game?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Because a lot of these games against the Thunder with
the Lakers haven't even been competitive.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No, I definitely need to see a competitive game. I
definitely think the only way I'd say that the Lakers
could compete with the Thunder and the Spurs is if
they beat the Thunder in one of these upcoming games
that they have against them, because they do have another
game against them next week.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And so.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
With the Thunder being who they are, I think this
is going to be the perfect test for the Lakers
after this grueling month of March where they went fifteen
and two. We talked about it before the Houston series.
I said that the Lakers needed to get greedy and
really take the tiebreaker from Houston and set themselves up
good for getting that three seed come the end of
(31:59):
the regular season, and they've done exactly that. And now
they got their their final exam with the Oklahoma City
Thunder and as two of their last six to seven
games here in the regular season.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Eric, you the best, brother, Go give him a follow
on at the Duke of Sports on X and again
we will be having a preview video later tonight of
Lakers Thunder if you want to check that out.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Eric, Great talking to you, dude.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, thanks for having me, Sammy appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All right, Coming up next, closing this thing out, before
we handed off to Schaeffer in SLIWA. But that's exactly
who is popping in. In the next segment. We're gonna
get to get to know Allen even more and get
a get a little update on these padres.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
As they are in action right now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Coming up next on Going Long on San Diego Sports
seven sixty live on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to
San Diego Sports seven sixty. Closing out going along Shaeffer
in SLIWA. Coming up next day three of the new show.
(33:01):
They're filing in right here. See John on the stream.
How you boys doing.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
We're doing well, man, just getting set up, getting ready
for another day.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah we uh you know, Potter is doing all right
right now, but we will we will see. Yeah, yeah,
you got it right there.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Do it, Sammy, don't do it. Don't start doing the
whole here's what's happening. Yeah, actually know this is some
quiet optimism right now. You know what.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, what's you boys? What's you boys not going on today?
Any any big guest jumping on?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
We will have Kevin ac Okay, does he qualifies a
big guest?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I would say yes, Yeah, I think so. He's a
big hitter. She's a big hitter.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I think he gets much more excited to come on
your guys show than us.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
What happens to give me a vibe? The difference of
the vibes agrees, Yeah, and he knows that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
When he answers the phone, there's always a little bit
of a oh, yeah, I have this to do today,
you know, So feel free to bring that up to him.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
What you should do next time he comes on? Give
him all, give him kind of the same. Oh yeah,
that's right. A s's on at this time, go right
back at him.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, yeah, what we do shaef.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, he's the first guest, by the way, in the
history of Schaeffer and Sleewea.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I was listening. Yeah, yeah, so you heard that. He
wasn't very impressed by the way.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
No, he was like, okay, that's a good way to start,
by the way, you on your new podcast, which is fantastic.
Potter is Collective with matt and Devine. We had matt
On and Kevin Acy. Yeah, Kevin smiling on that show.
He is, Yeah, he's I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You know what I mean? You guys just bring a
different side out of it. How did you get him
to what's a special over there?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:36):
You know, he doesn't do a lot of YouTube like
the three of us do in general, so I think
he's kind of enjoying the casual nature of the space. Yeah,
you're like sitting, You're like fitting in a ten minute block. Yep,
you're like in and out of something. We're on YouTube.
It's like, I want to have a thirty minute show,
have a thirty minute show, want to have a ninety
minute show.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So different ninety minutes.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
So different, but so there's a lot of similarities to
to you know, what's weird. We're talking about this yesterday.
I would like to figure this portion out because I
do like taking phone calls. But what YouTube has done
is the chats. Yes, they're they're the equivalent of a
phone call.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The immediate reaction, the immediate reaction.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
And you could take one of those and that all
of a sudden gets you into a certain topic, and
you spent X amount of minutes on a certain topic
and it came from a chat.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's kind of what the phone calls.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
I know, you guys using the text I'm still am
not able to get into the text.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I got to do the whole you gotta go through
the text line is my favorite part about radio. Now
he loves it. I love it now he uses it.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
When we also got used that, we got to start
using the talk back Mike. Okay, our listeners could just
go to the app and be like, hey, Alan, I disagree,
I agree, And here's why you're.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
An idiot exactly.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
You grew up on the East Coast where there's a
lot of talk, yes, yeah, a lot of very vitriol
immediate reaction, it's a little differ.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I mean again, it's been oh bro, but it's wildly
is it the fil exactly the.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Exact same because of social media now as opposed to
waiting on hold for forty five minutes on WIP, you can.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Just go Twitter, you tag me or you. But I
still think there.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
I got a feeling if there's any market that's still
taking those.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Philly New York, it's gonna be that. Yeah, yeah, Philly,
you up Boston probably too. On the manage game is
in there? I I uh, just switching outs real quick. Yeah,
would you bring in here? Okay? So I brought in
My mom's gonna be very proud of this. Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
These are called table topics, all right, the game or
so it's like a game you can have. I will
show the camera. There's like a game. You can have
this on a table And there's a gazillion questions in here.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I don't know about you. I've been to many extended
family dinners, okay, where we've heard every story that's been said.
There's nothing new that we can say to each other,
right okay, and there's certain family members who know who
they are. But this is what we do to bring
out to make this a little bit more interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So I thought to get to it.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
We all know you, but there's some stuff that we'd
like to know about you, sure, as well as Alan.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So do you want do you want to pick one
out here?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I want to pick one.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
I don't really trust do you trust Sammy with saying, hey,
just you know, grab this question.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I will pick my. I think we're gonna find some
good stuff about it. But Shaffer, okay, I think we
know John, but I think we're gonna find some good
stuff out.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay, this good one. It's gonna what are your favorite apps? Oh?
Favorite apps on a phone? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:08):
I thought you're gonna say like appetizers like Monterrella, which
don't count as I mean, I'm obsessively on I'm obsessively
on X you know Twitter? Yeah, because it's so relevant,
I feel like to like what we do?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Have you done this? What's that?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Have you guys ever taken any of the the any
of these Instagram?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Twitter? Have you taken them off of your phone?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I should do that.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
Mine are currently not on my phone. So the only
time I'm going on Twitter or Instagram is on like
a computer. Is when I'm on my laptop, which I'm
on my laptop lot, but brother, there's times you just
it's too addicted, like honestly, like it's too addicting, and
it's it's good to have a little kind of separation.
The problem is each one of them, Like YouTube is
(37:54):
I consume the most on YouTube the app?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You the app?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I use YouTube all the time.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Well, YouTube's got it short, so I'm scrolling just like
I'm doing on the ex or Instagram.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm glad you just mentioned that though, real quick, because
I saw something within the last month that said, you know,
like short form content is like ruining people's brains.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, yes, the short.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Like personally, I've like taken that to heart. I will
not watch short form content by and large. It'll get
you can I see it, I get away from it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I a create TikTok you.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Deleted to Yeah, I don't use TikTok, but I'll create it,
like if there's something between me and Allan on the show.
I think it's good content in general, but I don't
like the ramifications of constantly.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I can imagine if you're sixteen eight kid, you can
just end up scrolling forever and then you're.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Like because it's created to your feed, so you like
like it.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I'm really I.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Stay away from short for I love long form content.
I want to learn about something. Sits down for twenty
or thirty minutes and learn about some yeah, but everything, and.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
Sometimes sometimes I prefer short form and I'm learning nothing.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
And it's so freaking addictive it is. And you said so,
I don't know which one you guys said it. Imagine
somebody who's eight, ten, twelve, fifteen have one of those.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
There's a surprising app that I've been using a lot
recently as an app called colm see comc check out
my Cards. It's how I buy and sell cheap trading cards,
which I've gotten into as interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
So you wouldn't know that, but I use all the time.
I like that on a car. Right now, this is
for you, sliwa okay, uh seven.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Wow, this is this might take more than sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
We got deep pretty quick.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
What obligations you believe you have to your country? WHOA,
it's pretty I mean, that's asking a pretty significant I
think I got an answer.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Okay, let's hear it. Being honest about your country. It's
a great answer.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Because you don't have to just pretend like everything is perfect.
But you could be proud about your country, proud about
you know, the opportunities your country has given you.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
But the one thing.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
I don't like is there's a little bit of you
can't be critical about the country.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Of course you can. You can be critical, you can
you know both, You could want.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
You could want what's best for the country and have
a different vision than somebody else.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So I would say that that to go from Tom,
what do you believe? Where religious is?
Speaker 6 (40:12):
This is?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
This is for it's Thanksgiving dinner and uh uncles had
a drink?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
This is yeah, this is cool?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Quickly with one minute left for a lighter note. What
fashion trend you followed was very cool then but now
looks ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Man, you guys rocking the shining?
Speaker 8 (40:30):
I think I have one, but it's back, which is
very weird.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
What is it? You know?
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Growing up, baggy jeans was a thing, So in high
school we'd wear bag jeans, and then just recently I'm
starting to see sixteen year olds anything they got baggy jeans,
So it's kind of came back. Okay, that as it
came back for me because if I'm trying to do
anything so badly in here with bag.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I don't know about fashion transmit. Look, but I do
remember rock put together. I remember rocking the starter jacket back.
You know, the specific starter starter would still kill it today. Nfler,
How about this? When I was like nine, this made
no sense. I think I just liked the color. I
had a Tennessee. I've never liked Tennessee my entire life.
I had the Tennessee bright orange, Like what's that called
(41:12):
creamsicle orange? That's a starter jacket, just because because I
was like nine, and I love sports, and I just
like the color.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's fantastic. Well, it's just like everyone had the Charlotte
starter jackets. Charlotte starter jacket. Yeah, thank you, all right, Sammy,
thank you Sam. That was a good idea.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
I honestly, I don't think those should go to it.
I'm gonna leave us unless the FAM wants them back here.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
No, no, no, no no, we're keeping these here because when
we when Thanksgiving rolls around, I'll take them back until
that happens.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
I like it, all right, Thank you for much for
tuning in.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Make sure to stay tuned for Shafer and I'll be
back to mamm with flesh at twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
We'll see every body tomorrow
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