February 26, 2026 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Check the clock, what time high new I'll make you famous.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The day is half over. Now it's time to enter
the Fletchi Zode.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's get it going on a Thursday. What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Ben Fletcher's Sammy Long with until two o'clock today. John
Schaefer is gonna take over. Then we got a busy day.
Jonas Knox of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe
is gonna be on at twelve thirty, Kevin Acey at
one thirty. Get you a Padres update with the Ace
Man coming up in just a little bit. We have
those nine inch nails tickets for you. We got some
ass texts hoops tickets for you. We got a busy
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day coming up, So lock in everybody, And I asked
one question to start the show, Sammy Long, are you
ready to have a great show.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm ready have a great show.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Are you ready to have a great show.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We're gonna have a San Diego State as texts over
Utah State performance type show.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hell yeah, brother, this is gonna be a good one,
and we're gonna step up and we're gonna beat those
aggies all the way back to Logan, Utah, which is
exactly what the San Diego State Astexs did last night.
It is funny now a college basketball season, you can
go from the tippy top of the mountain to the
very bottom of the depths of Hell and then jump
right back up in one game later, and that kind
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of feels like exactly what the Aztecs did. I do
have a problem myself of getting too bogged down in
the minutia of the bracketologists and bracket matrix and Joe
Lonardi and going through all the things and making snap decisions.
Happy to say, one seventeen point win later, you can
find yourself right back on the bubble. And I do
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think that's kind of what the Aztecs did. Now, there's
some caveats to it, right, you gotta go on the road.
You gotta win in New Mexico, you gotta go on
the road. You gotta win in Boise State. Neither of
those things are easy. Hell, you gotta win that game
on March six, which we have tickets for you against UNLV.
But I do think if the Aztecs do all three
of those things, because with a massive seventeen point win
over the then ranked number one team at the Mountain, way,
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you probably catapulted yourself right back into every conversation you
want to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So an impressive win.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I would say the best forty minutes of basketball the
Aztecs have put together this entire season took place last
night at Viejas Arena, and it was resticks and waters in.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The first half.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
If you noticed the first five minutes of the second half,
it was Miles Bird that really put the nail in
the game.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Pharaoh Compton played excellent.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You had toaj De Gourville, who in the second half
was really running the whole show.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Eight assists.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He was incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I thought that that Aztecs team that we saw last
night is absolutely a team who can make a scary
run in March. Is absolutely a team who could do
all the things that we thought this team could do
this past offseason. If we see that team more often
here moving forward, who knows where the ceiling is for them?
Because they are wildly talented, and when they're making shots
and when everyone Magoon Gwothe has a smile on their face,
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they are playing some really good basketball.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It was an exciting performance last night, and I think
the az takes depth, which was why we were so
excited about this team because last year, again going back
to it, it felt like it was the Nick Boyd
and Miles Bird show and then everyone else was kind
of chiming in. And sometimes you have some big Wayne
McKinney performances, you have some big BJ Davis performances. McGoo
glothe went through an injury there last season. But this year,
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I mean, look at this box score. Tay Simmons double
dig its, eleven points, Feral Compton eleven points, double digits
off the bench, Taj twelve points off the bench. BJ
Davis eight points. When you're getting that kind of production
early on, even though the Asseecks were struggling in the
Players air A tournament, the one kind of positive was
that they were one of the highest scoring bench teams
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in the entire country. And then it allows Resix and
Waters to have twenty points. Tay Simmons felt like a
complete lightning rod off the bench. He was getting the
crowd animated, really into it, rebounding the ball super well.
It did feel like everything came together in this game
last night, and it was probably a response into to
the last week. I mean, the Asseecs don't normally lose
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at home. Grand Canyon was kind of an anomaly in
that they came out flat in that game. They didn't
look like themselves, and then they didn't look like themselves
on the road in Colorado State. But to take it
to take the fight really to Utah State, and Utah
State looked lost even after the first ten minutes that game.
It was kind of a slow offensive start for the
Aztecs and you're sitting there kind of going, Ah, the
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Assecs still can't get it going. They're hanging around, but
then down the stretch of the first half in the
second half to really shut them down, take them apart.
The Aztecs is serve of all the credit in the world,
and it really sets up a really fun matchup Saturday
with a lot more stakes on it. Had they lost yesterday,
the game wouldn't matter as much. But playing at the pit,
this is if you ever won an at large big conversation,
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if you ever won an at large big case, you
beat Utah State at home, you go beat New Mexico
on the pit. Maybe we're having a different conversation next
week about where they are in that large.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Conversation and when you talk about things breaking their way
I mean, I'm not one hundred percent positive on this,
but I'm almost ninety nine percent sure San Diego State
would that win yesterday. If they win out, I do
believe they claimed the number one seed in the Mountain
West Tournament as well, because they should have tie breakers
now over Utah State who dropped to Nevada, who San
Diego State's already beat twice, and New Mexico who also
dropped to Nevada, who San Diego State has already beaten
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at home. So I think tiebreakers work out in their
favor as well. I'll have to do a little bit
of digging on that, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
So here, as San Diego State sitting yesterday, sky was
falling today, things are looking pretty good for San Diego
State basketball and maybe, just maybe we get to have
a fun little run in March to go with it.
Long ways to go till then three more regular season
games again this Saturday National TV game at the Pit.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
In New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You think about the crowd that San Diego State had
last night with just chanting I believe good luck Carson
Templin all night long.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's what they were saying, right Sammy.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah the show not big fans of Carson Temblin.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Good Luck Templin, good Luck Templin with all that channing
going on.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Which was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If we're being completely honest and kind a part of
why we love college basketball, that's gonna come back your
way on Saturday. It just is that's what the environment
at the pit is like. Do not like Aztecs. They
haven't for years now. You think about some of the
games over the last few years between San Diego State
and New Mexico. You had the house games that were
insane at Via House Arena where he's flipping off the
whole crowd. So that's the environment you're going into this weekend.
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By the way, a very good New Mexico team in
San Diego State in order to make this seventeen point
win against Utah State means something needs to go get
a win at the pit and I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well, and I think even if I do think that
there's a glimmer of hope for the at large conversation
because you won last night and because of how you won.
But let's just say, let's just say that that's done.
Let's just say that it's all about the Mountain West
Conference tournament because they've done too much damage to themselves.
I think last night is something you can point to
heading into a tournament in Vegas where you have to
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win three straight games and go that's if we play
basketball like that, we're gonna win a lot of games.
Because I think you could see them starting to doubt
themselves a little bit last week because really they hadn't
They had this signature whenever Utah State, yet they got
beat by Grand Canyons twice, they lose to Colorado State.
They were kind of lacking for marquee wins outside of Nevada.
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But you win this game last night, and then you
could talk about confidence if you're able to go do
it away from Via House Arena on Saturday in what
you were just talking about, one of the toughest places
to play in the country. I mean that I think
the Asthets will start feeling like the Aztecs that were
picked number one to finish in number one of them
Mountain West in the preseason poll, and not the team
that we've seen the last couple weeks now.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
For the shortened the bench crowd which has been out
there all year long, Jeremiodin did not play at all
last night. Sean Newman Junior, I think played six minutes
last night. You had rees up over thirty. Miles Bird
was right around thirty. So it happened for you last night.
If you wanted to shorten the bench, that's exactly what
went down last night. They played ten and really Sean
Newman Junior didn't play much at all. So for San
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Diego State, it worked last night. Now I'm assuming that's
gonna be matchup dependent. Do I think that Jeremiodin won't
play again this season for the Aztecs, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's got to play. He plays meaningful minutes for the team.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
The Aztecs are undefeated in games. They have a nine
man rotation, had ten last night. But what I'm saying,
but when they put they've played eleven man rotations, ten
man rotations and nine man rotations the short of the record.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I do think that gets overblown a little bit. I
really do, honestly in my heart.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But it's a talking point.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But I also convenience, like, well, sometimes they've played worse
teams when they have a shorter rotation.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's all fair, it's all fair, But I think when
you play eleven guys, that's hard to eight. Let guys
get in rhythm in a game, knowing that the second
they turn the ball over, the second they have a
couple of bad minutes, stop you play, they're getting pulled.
And especially with a team that is kind of built
on a big three, a big four, you gotta let
these guys work into the game a little bit. And
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I do think trumping their rotation is a little bit.
It's nice that you have those guys there that you
trust that can play. I'm not calling for Oden to
not play, or Sean Newman Jr. Or not play, But
if you set your nine guys that are going to
play tonight outside of getting into foul trouble, I think
there's easier game plan heading into a game versus who knows.
I mean, this guy could get twenty minutes and then
he's to sitting on the bench the next night. I
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think shorting the rotation is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Sammy Long and all social media warriors, no more than
Brian Deutcher.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh please, that's what we're saying right now, all right
at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh Jonas Knocks.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Coming up in twenty minutes, Kevin Ac coming up in
an hour. In twenty minutes, we got a fun show
for you. We need some redemption on long shots. Plus
in about five minutes, I'm gonna tell you why nobody
in the history of the planet, of the world, of
the universe had a worse night than Sammy long last night.
It was just truly devastating. Before we get to that,
we are going to get to the Big three here
where Sammy rips through the top three stories in the
world sports semi smash it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Lunch. Frank is here.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Ready to go back to the office and knock the
socks off your friends.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean co workers.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Takes time for about top stories of the day, A
big three three.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
All right, you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Text line is open seven zero four seven zero. Start
your message with the word team.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Beep beep templan beep my beep beep go ass techs.
That's from the six to one to nine. Some creative
editing there, but six P one nine. I don't know
if you're saying beep is editing it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Beep beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep beep, Texas thoughts
on last nights game seven zero four to seven zero.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm telling you the team good luck template they were.
It's good sportsmanship. Sammy.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Listen. If Utah State and the Aztecs me with a
shot too. For the Aszeks be in the tournament, in
the final of the Mountain West Conference tournament, that's gonna
be a really fun matchup going both ways.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Carson Templin, that dude plays a brand of basketball that
I'm not a huge fan of. If I'm being honest.
He I saw him go low on Magoon Gwathe again
last night. It is a it's a dirty brand of basketball. However,
the dude's entertaining. He is very much Grayson Allen. All right,
where are we starting?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Sammy? All right, we're actually here. We're have NBA. So
the Boston Celtics, unfortunately for long shots, last night, got
beat by twenty. They were actually hanging in there. I
felt very comfortable about my pick. They did not come
through at the end.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was actually the second you texted me things started
to switch up for the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes, you're like Parlay is holding strong.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I was feeling real good because Yukon won the Kings
were winning and then and then it went down here,
but they lose by twenty last night. Jason Tatum is
scrimmaging five on five. He has not played all year,
originally expected to miss the entire season, but now because
of the Celtics being in the number two seed in
the Eastern Conference has started to ramp up. Would you
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like to see the Celtics bring back Jason Tatum even
if there is a higher injury risk for him.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
See the answer to me is if he gets medically cleared,
I would love to see it happen. The thing with
injuries in today's NBA like there is a very good
chance the Celtics and the organization was kind of lying
to us about how long he needed to stay out
because of this injury.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Ultimately, it was an acl right last year for Jason.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The playoffs, Remember he ripped it with But if.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Treated properly, he should be able to come back this year.
I would imagine now, of course, there will be a
higher risk of injury.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There's a high risk of injury.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Anytime anybody steps out of basketball on a football court
off a curve. That's just kind of how injuries go.
I broke my leg fricking sliding down a hill on accident.
So there is always gonna be risk. But if Jason
Tatum can go, the Celtics have put themselves in a
position to where it would be beneficial to the team
and potentially back to or your way into a national
or an NBA title conversation. So absolutely, Tatum, get back
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on the court as soon as you can.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You and Jason Tatum just had it real hard.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, we're the same, they build the same height, this
is this is a same.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I think people see some vulnerability in Oklahoma City. That's
what I think. I think people thought Shay's never on
the court last year. No, but even when he was,
even when he was with Jaylen Williams and all this
team and Chet Holmgren, Yes they should be the favorite
in the NBA. But I think we thought heading into
last year this team was gonna go on a dynastic
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run where they was gonna win the next five NBA championships.
And maybe they do, maybe they do. They prove us
all wrong. I keep going back to this. The Nuggets
took them seven games. I give them credit for blowing
out the it's in that seventh game in the NBA
finals Tyre's Haliburt and the Pacers took him to Game seven.
Haliburton is twelve points, Rips's achilles. We never know what happened.
Give them all the credit in the world, but I
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think we're seeing teams like Boston, like San Antonio, like
Detroit kind of smell a little blood in the water,
and that this Oklahoma City team isn't quite the Oklahoma
City team that we thought they were where they were
just gonna run through everything. Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson,
Draymond Green, those Warrior teams that really felt unbeatable outside
of Lebron in the Cavs. I do think if Jayson
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Tatum's healthy, it would be fun to see him on
the court. That is a team they played defense at
a clip that if they get a number two star
score in Jason Tatum, you have two number one superstars
in Jalen Brown Jason Tatum. They could actually give Oklahoma
City or San Antonio problems. If I'm the Eastern Conference,
the Knicks and the Pistons, I do not want Jason
Tatum to be back on the floor. All right, let's
head a college football. Interesting story happening here. So the
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quarterback Brendan Sowarsby, who is the former quarterback at Cincinnati,
has now left got a massive NIL deal with Texas Tech.
Texas Tech is thrown out money left and right. But
since he is now suing Sortsbee for over one million
dollars for an exit fee for transferring, the question is this,
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is this how you fix the nil?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Because I love that Cincinnati is doing this, I really do.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I too.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think contracts need to be put in place.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Brian Dutcher actually last week's Coaches Show was talking about
the fact that college sports, not just football, not just basketball,
but the way everything's operating right now is.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The least sustainable thing ever.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Cincinnati should absolutely be suing the crap out of him
because they expect one thing and then something else is happening.
You fix nil by making a big enough stink about it,
right and schools are getting shafted right now, players are
getting shafted right now. And the more you can make
it to where there's a little bit of punishment for
what's going on here. I don't know if since he
wins this court case, but guess what we're talking about.
It So until a some sort of players association, school
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association is in place where they can have a collective
bargaining agreement. Yes, that's where we're heading in college sports.
More stuff like this is gonna start happening, because right now,
as a college football head coach, you can wake up
every single day and not know who's on your roster.
Is that a good spot for the sports to be in.
I would say no, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We've seen a tight end that went to Wisconsin, that
transferred to Wisconsin and transferred a week later, transferred like
three times in the span of two weeks. This is
I'm all four guys getting their money. It's cool. I mean, like,
let's say Sannengostate for example, Sanego State profits off Restixs
and Waters, McGoo Gwath and Miles Bird. So I applaud
Miles Bird, Restixs and Waters and McGoo glathe for getting
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their money. They should because if one of them has
a massive injury all of a sudden, maybe their NBA
career is in jeopardy vice versa. But this is where
it's gone too far. It went from colleges having too
much control, where it was kind of my way or
the highway and guys get hurt than their career is
done and they made no money to now where it's
just complete free enterprise. I can sign I had a
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five million dollar nil deal and then I just rip
it up and decide to go somewhere else. The way
to solve ANIO is you make them pay it back.
You can transfer, you could head to a different school,
but you're paying back that money. So it'll make guys
think twice about whether they want to just keep leaving
school after school for years. You had to sit out
a year. That's a potential option where you still had
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to sit out for a period of time to transfer.
It's it just feels like it's gone a little bit
too far and we need some rules and regulations before
it gets two out of hand.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Let's just try to throw this real quickly at the
perspective of the NFL. Say you have a quarterback, Say
Kyler Murray, All right, Kyler Murray is about to be
can go wherever he wants and sign right. Say he
goes to the Cleveland Browns expecting to go to Cleveland,
get his NIOL money, his contract, and be the starting
quarterback and play out a year and maybe he gets
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to get a much bigger contract on the other side
because he plays really well for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Three months before the season begins.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Four months before the season begins, Patrick Mahone says, now
I'm gonna come over to Cleveland and I'm gonna be
the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's not just the school or the teams that get screwed,
it's also the players who are already there, who are
uprooted their entire life to go be somewhere else and
play and imagine them being the starting quarterback there.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All of a sudden, Soresby is just going to take
the Texas text.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I mean, it used to be that if your head
coach left the guy who recruited you, you could leave
and you didn't have to sit out a whole year.
But now with the fact that right you can just
i mean transfer left and right, there's no continuity at
small schools. You're not keeping any of your good players
because all the blue boots are picking them. It just
it just feels like it's gone a little bit too far.
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So I credit Cincinnati for suing Soresby back.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You should have to pay back the money if you
are gonna leave for a new Niol.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And it does sound like he broke some sort of
nil contract with Cincinnati. I would imagine Cincinnati actually does
win this. All right, we're gonna save Big three number
three for the other side. Dinas Nails tickets as stext
tickets all still to come. Jonas Knox coming up in
about twelve minutes. Stay here at San Diego Sports seven
sixty live on my heart rate.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Did you hear the presser from Mike Rabel. Mike Rabel was.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Basically asked, we talked about cutting off, is we wei?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
No, I didn't hear that. That's not what I heard.
But I was talking about A. J. Brown. So AJ
Boll Yes, of course, I don't know. I don't know
what he's doing in his free time. But he said if.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
He he would cut it off to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh, we didn't happen this year. Yeah, must, I'll.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Still be there, you know. They anyway, AJ Brown, Howie
Roseman per report today, they're looking to move on from
AJ Brown. They're they're they're they're they're more open to
listening to offers for people that are making a case.
And Mike Rabel went and said that he keeps in
contact with him every day, and he's like a very
good friend, basically doesn't shut down any report of that.
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The Patriots wouldn't get a J. Brown. It's a logical
choice because they he coached him in Tennessee. I'm curious
if would you want a receiver like that with Drake
May with a young quarterback trying to build coming off
a terrible Super Bowl and not even a great playoff front.
He just ended up winning three games kind of because
the defense, are you sure you want to invite a
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headache into your locker room like AJ Brown to deal
with the young quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
There's a very different thing with the Eagles and with
the Patriots, and it is the head coach, Mike Rabel
was not happy when the Tennessee Titans moved on from
AJ Brown and set him over to the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Mike Rabel is pissed about it. Actually, I remember that
very well.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Mike Rabel has a very different leadership style than Nick Sirianni.
It kind of feels like Sirianni gets walked over by
pretty much everyone, and as soon as anyone criticizes anything,
all of a sudden he's making wholesale changes. Does Mike
Rabel seem like a guy to you who if someone's complaining,
he's gonna say, oh yeah, here, bud, now he'll be out.
I'll get you some more targets. No, he's gonna say,
shut up, get back in the gym and work harder,
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and then you'll get some more.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But if you deal, if you're dealing with Stefon Diggs,
who's already a headache.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Are they still gonna be dealing? They paid him a
ton of money. But I don't know that that was
a loving relationships.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I just think I I think, like as a whole,
George Pickens is, they're they're leaning towards Steven Jones said
he's leaning toward tagging him. I think George Pickens works
in Dallas because even though Dak Prescott's not a top
five quarterback, Dak Prescott commands a lot of respect and
has been the MVP conversation multiple times throughout his career.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And it's a gunslinger offense.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He's throwing the ball right and Dak has a way
of not getting walked over. It's odd for how your
Mahomes doesn't get walked over. Josh Allen does to get
walked over. Burrow Lamar. Guys like that that have earned
the MVP status are currently listed as one of the
top quarterbacks in the game. Dak Prescott doesn't have that.
So I get paying George Pickens if they choose to
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do that. But if I'm the Patriots and Drake May
even despite having a great a great head coach like that,
you gotta think Drake Mays Psyche's a little bit shook,
especially after the way he didn't play good in any
of those playoff games. Again, like it was they the
first team in twenty thirty years to win two playoff
games scoring fewer than sixteen points. So the way he
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played in the Super Bowl, I don't know that just
trading everything to get a star wide receiver puts you
at the top of the AFC.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Now it's also having to come with the caveat that
you think AJ Brown is totally wrong for being as
unhappy as he was in Philadelphia. Like he was misused
in my opinion in Philadelphia fair he wasn't used enough.
I think that it got a little out of hand
with how he complained about it. The twitch stream was
way over the top, but AJ Brown wasn't used properly
as a Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver. Do you think that's
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more to do with Sirianni or Jalen Hurt. It's Sirianni
and it's the scheme they run. They're a power run team.
They run with the quarterback, they run with Saquon Barkley.
That's the scheme that they like to go with. And
in New England, I do think Mike Rabel knows how
to use Aj Brown a little bit differently. Have we
once since Aj Brown's been in Philadelphia seen a consistent
level of success like he had with Tennessee when he
became a.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Superstar wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
His personal numbers no.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Right exactly, So I would say Mike Rabel probably knows
a little bit better how to utilize the talent that
is AJ Brown, who I still think is probably a
top six, top seven wide receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
The Eagles play a brand of football which.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
They're just trying to get short yardage on every play.
That's not what Aj Brown is exactly. They play a
brand of football thirty forty years ago. It's it's hybrid.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
There's obviously different you know, intricacies in today's NFL, but
it's really more about the collective. This is why I
think Jalen Hurts doesn't command a ton of respect to fight.
Despite the fact that he's been into Super Bowls, played
well in both and won one of them. People still go, yeah,
but it's really the team. Howie Roseman he put that
team together.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It's because they're stoked with going three yards at a time,
all the way down the field.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
It's not sexy like that's it. People don't. You don't
look at the highlights and watch a push push as
a casual fan and go, oh, that's that's, you know,
making the Sports Center top play. But the Eagles are
really about just advancing the football down the field. And
I know it didn't work the greatest last year, but
that's kind of the mindset they have there. And a
guy like AJ Brown, especially in today's NFL, whether it's
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Tyreek Hill or it's AJ Brown or Stefon Diggs or
George Pickens, any receiver that's command and asking for a
certain level of targets that doesn't fit within the system.
And you wonder if those kind of receivers are on
the way out not on the way out, and that
teams aren't gonna want them. But do you man.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Diva wide receivers have been around since the eighties, But
how many round forever? How yes, Terrell Owens was maybe
the biggest diva wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Ever, how many? How many diva wide receivers don't have
won Super Bowls?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Randy Moss won super Bowls.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
In the Bill Belichick system with Tom Brady correct, there's
a certain level you can get to. Tyreek Hill wasn't
a diva before he became one. Chiefs won one Super Bowl.
They shipp him out of town.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean you're not totally wrong about that, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
In San Diego Sports seven sixty, we have Jonas Knox
coming up next, the star of two pros and a
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Speaker 2 (23:54):
May March. What month is this March night?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
How many days in a row are you gonna mess.
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Up at Pachanga Arena?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
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You're going to the show at San Diego Sports seven
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two Pros and a Cup of Joe Fame.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Hi, Jonas, how.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Are you no?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm gett out of you, guys. That's way too kind
voice of the generation. Our generation is screwed if that's
the case. We're just doing our best, guys. We're just
hanging out, getting getting ready for baseball, watching guys run
around in tights in Indianapolis and doing our thing.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
The Underwear Olympics are fun, and honestly, if you've been
watching spring training baseball, the pants do seem to have
gotten a little bit tighter, maybe a little more seen
through here in twenty twenty six. But Jonas, this is
kind of a fun time of year where everything sort
of slows down for a second.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We get like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Right after the Olympics, we all got to watch tam
Usa go kick some hoosier ass or not hoosier?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What are they not? Themedians who teen eighty ass?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Uh? Probably that you get to get a little break
before March madness and the chaos of that and the Masters,
and the baseball is in swing Basketball playoffs right around
the corner. What fills up your days here as we
are kind of in this little break of the sports world.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I mean, look, I love Baseball's fun. Uh it's just
baseball fields. I don't know if you guys feel the
same thing, but baseball fields, like it's not a little
bit of a heater, Like there's momentum building for baseball.
It's similar to what a lot of people are hoping
for from hockey. Following the Olympics, you've got the World
Baseball Classic, which I think I was sort of I
(25:31):
always kind of dismissed it is it felt a little gimmicky,
felt a little forced, and then the first time I
watched it, I realized, oh, this is awesome. And I
know there's been games, you know at Petco that have
been just fantastic, real classics, and so that's coming up,
that's gonna be a lot of fun. March Madness is
always fun. Like that's just that's where it's you know,
(25:51):
acceptable to have you know, two year olds gamble, which
is always which is not really I think you talk
about the voice of the generation, like there's gonna be
a bunch of degenerate gamblers walking around, and they're going
to point back to the fact that they had something
on McNee State winning a Sweet sixteen game that helped
their dad win something that let them buy them a
new toy. I think all that stuff is fun. And
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you know, if the NBA can figure out how to
get out of its own way and stop, you know,
continuing to let us know about all their flaws, just
think about this. The NBA has an opportunity now where
the NFL goes by by, everybody's looking around for something
to do. We need a fix, we need we've got
we need some sort of some sort of adrenaline going,
(26:33):
we need something to get us by and the NBA
rolls out an All Star game that was just a
bucket of puke. It was awful. The festivities, well, the
game was competitive. The game was competitive, with three different teams,
gimmicky names, all the other usual suspects that they try
and pull off to make us believe that this is
(26:54):
a real basketball game. And then they come out afterwards
and the only headlines are Jalen Rounds party got shut down,
and how do we fix the awful dunk contest and
the three point shoot at It's just it's par for
the course. But baseball will be here and the NFL
offseason is always fun.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
So there's that Jonas switching to the NFL. What do
you make of this whole? Fernanda Mendoza feels like he's
been getting a lot of criticism this week all of
a sudden. Now with the combine here, do you feel
like he is the surf He's a surfire number one pick,
but is he the deserve it surfire number one overall
pick or is this because there's a lack of a
quarterback class behind him.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I think he's the deserved number one pick, But you
can't argue at the fact that the quarterback draft classes
is not what next years is going to be. And
I think that's why you're seeing a lot of teams
doing what they're doing this year when it comes to
the quarterback position. Let's be honest. You could feel however
you want to feel about, say Tyler Murray or Tua
(27:53):
Taga bay Looa the Dolphins and the Cardinals, and people
can label it whatever they want to call. Well, they
don't like the contract that this is strategic they're trying
to help the organization. No, they're tanking. Like there's teams
in the league that are looking around, going, we can't
really get a surefire solution at quarterback in this draft
(28:14):
because after Fernanda Mendoza, you've got Tysimpson, who's probably going
to be a late first round pick. But when Dante
Moore decided to go back to college, then you've got CJ. Carr,
then you've got our commanding. You just start looking around
at next year's draft and you go, that's the one
you want to be in if you're trying to select
a quarterback. So I think a lot of teams in
the NFL recognize, yeah, Mendoz is the number one pick
(28:36):
this year, but this is not the year you want
to be involved if you're trying to find the quarterback
of the future. So I think teams like the Dolphins,
teams like the Cardinals, and other teams around the NFL
are looking at it this going. Listen, man, it wouldn't
be the worst thing in the world if we lose.
If it means we've got to swallow ninety nine million
dollars and get rid of Tua and start Quinn yours
(28:56):
and be a worst football team because of it, than
so be it. We're going to go out and get
our quarterback in the future next year, because next year
is the draft class you want to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Jonas Knox two Pros and a Cup of Joe with
us here on San Diego Sports seven sixty. You hear
them every morning on your drive into work, or at
least I do when we're going to work early early
in the morning. Jonas, you look at dead cap around
the NFL. You look at the worst salary cap hits,
and the worst one is still Deshaun Watson somehow or another.
Is there any chance Deshaun Watson is starting for the
Cleveland Browns Week one this year?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh yeah, well, And by the way, it's the gift
that keeps on given, Like, just think about the world
we live in. If you're a Brown fan, right and look,
if you're a Browns fan, godspeed, But think about the
world we live in. Or you're a Brown fan and
you're torn between two mid round quarterbacks that were taken
in the same year, or a weirdo who's had more
(29:53):
assault allegations than starts for your franchise, and you gave
them two hundred and thirty million guarantees. But I say
I've said this before. If they want to get Deshaun
Watson to start playing like he did back in the day,
you need to put like neon lights in the front
windows of the facility and make it thing like he's
going in to get his back rubbed down, like if
you if you want to get this guy back on track,
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that's the move. But we'll see what happens. And you
know what, if he's making forty six million dollars this year,
the least he could do is go out and perform
and try and you know, get back some value for
that team that gave him all that cash to begin with.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
At least be focused with the neon lights.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Lots of hand towels too, Yes, that was the big
part of the thing was as towels were too small.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh yeah, listen, and he brought his own and he's
like that. He's like the guy there's a there was
a there's a burger place in where it was Santa
Monica back in the day. Uh, and it was it's
called Father's Office. And their big thing was, hey, we
don't put ketch up on our burgers. So you get
all these nerds who would walk in with like a
(30:52):
hind bottle peeking out of their pocket like they were
like they were getting ready to rob a bank with
a gun. And you know, Deshaun Watson was like one
of those losers who walked in with like a handtoul Gondo.
This one feels better, especially after she works on me.
I've had her before. I don't need a cigarette in
the parking lot. Give me that one. That one's going
to make me feel better after this whole thing is done.
(31:15):
Why do you guys got to get your heads out
of the gutter. Okay, we're trying to do We're trying
to be professional here and you guys are taking us
out at the shot of Washston Road.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
We're up, We're sorry. This is the vibe of our
show today, I guess. But Jonas, what do you make
of in the top twenty prospects and a lot of
a lot of people's boys like Daniel Teremiah, there's only
two SEC players. Do you make that as just kind
of a down year for the SEC? Or is this
are we seeing a change into the guard with the
Big ten? The Big twelve are kind of overtaking as
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some of the dominant conferences.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, yes, now everybody else can offer money, and all
of a sudden they look at Indiana, for example, Indiana
was nobody for one hundred plus years, literally one of
the worst programs in the hit Street the sport, and
they went out and put everybody in a clown suit
this year, including SEC teams and everybody, including Alabama, and
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everybody is looking around going, well, howd that happen? Well,
it's easy. Now everybody can pay, and everybody can pay
on the up and up. It's not like you know,
back when you would have to lie and you know stake.
You know, hey, we got this guy's We really recruited
him hard and he loved the area. No, because he
had a dubble back full of cash in the back
parking lot and his parents went and picked it up.
Everybody now can pay that if you have a booster
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or you have an a lum who's got enough money
and enough enough saved up to where they can offer
the program a little bit of assistance to try and
get some of these players and it benefits them. Then
you're just seeing the balance of power shift all over
the place. And look, the Big Ten has been the
better conference for a little while now, and SEC fans
don't want to acknowledge that SEC fans want to make
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believe that it's SEC and everybody else's secondary. But the
Big Ten has been putting on banger after banger when
it comes to games of the season. ESPN doesn't really
like it. They're not big fans of MAD because it
means that they're starting to lose their grip on the
powerhouse of college football. But once Edio was brought in,
I think it even the playing field for everybody else,
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and now you're starting to see better talent in different places.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Jonas, Before we get you out of here, I got
to ask one question because Samuel Long is sitting over
there and he has this wild hope and he keeps
saying I can't wait till the next NFL season, which
is true for all of us, We can't wait till
football is back in our lives.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
On a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But are we really supposed to believe that one draft
class can switch around everything? For the Kansas City Chiefs,
who were just the bottom of the NFL this year, I.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Mean, I'll be honest with you, I think it's over.
I don't think the Chiefs get back to what they are.
The only thing that I would love I would love
to see this happen. I would love to see Jeremiah
Love in Kansas City. Like that's the one that I
look at and go, if they had a legitimate stud
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super are running back, which would be really beneficial considering
they haven't really had that. They've been relying on Patrick Mahomes.
They've been Patrick Mahomes is gonna if he comes back.
I think he's going to start off the year possibly
on the pup list, so they might not even have
him the first month of the season. I do think
Travis Kelty's coming back. But if you had a legitimate
superstar running back, like a Jeremiah Love, who everybody looks at,
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is as a sure thing as there can be in
this draft class, That's where I think things get interesting.
But other than that, I just looked at it and go,
they're getting older. Who knows how long Andy Reid's going
to be around. And I think it illustrates how incredible
it was what the Patriots did because they had their
first dynasty, took a little bit of a break, and
then rolled out more super Bowls afterwards. I think it's
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a long shot. But if you get Jeremiah Love, I
think they got an opportunity next year.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Jonas, this interview is going so well, man, and then
it's a good turn.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Listen, man, and I know how the combine makes you
know the long skill just from there's a lot of
great highlights from the combin for anybody that wants to
see one of the great bloopers in the history of
the NFL combine Chris Jones running the forty. We take
something man that looked like a produce truck dropping goods
all over the highway like he did. I mean it
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was everywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I mean you saw it all.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
So anybody that's wondering what we're referring to, the Chiefs
ended up picking a winner. That guy's going to be
a Hall of Famer, But it could be worse. Man,
look around the NFL. At least you had Super Bowls.
You can remember there's teams that are trying to figure
out You got Aaron Glenn telling people that his superpower
is calling plays. Dude, they didn't have an interception last year.
(35:37):
They had none. They were the worst defense from a
turnover ratio in the entire league. And yet we got
coaches out here talking about having superpower. So listen, the
chiefs are fine, and you got enough time before we
have to really start worrying about things based on the
fact that you've got all the success recently.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So it is funny Jonas February twenty six, we're around
that time where the NFL combine is starting out the
underwear Olympics, so we remember that day, of course, But
do you know what February twenty six, twenty twelve was.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Ooh, remind me, Pete Webber, who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I am, oh man, by the way, bowling, I don't
even know if that's I don't even know if that's
an Olympic sport should be an Olympic sport.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
A great the guy.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's a guy who butchered what he was planning on
saying and just rolled with it. It's like Kevin Garnett.
Anything as Possible wasn't really what he was supposed to say,
but he forgot and just rolled with it, and then
everyone said, oh man, what a money line at the
end of the finals. Did he got it wrong? Pete
Webber probably got that wrong and just roll with it.
But yeah, I'm telling you man, bowling should be in
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the Olympics, an underrated sport. Same with shuffleboard.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I Am?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Has gone down in history and it was on this
date in twenty twelve. Jonas, thank you for your time.
Appreciate you always.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
We'll be listening tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Love you guys. Thanks for having me as always, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
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Sports Radio. You hear him every Saturday here on seven
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Speaker 4 (37:08):
On my Heart Radio app plus two and a half
getting a couple of points at home. Ban Carroll and
them have a big outing, all right, So we're going
with the magic plus two and a half against Houston,
a little bit of a rest advantage at home. I
think they're also just as talented as Houston, So give me,
give me, give me the magic there plus two and
a half Philadelphia to cover the spread at home against Miami.
Norman Powell not looking like he's gonna go in that game.
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That's gonna hurt the Miami scoring Philly minus two and
a half. And then we're gonna go to college basketball.
Give us tom Izzo in the Michigan State Spartans plus
seven and a half on the road taking on the
Purdue boiler Makers.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You got two dogs tonight, two dogs. Bark bark maybe
bark bark.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
By the way, I was just appointed last night because
Yukon destroy Saint John's not even close Saint John's. Saint
John's had like all time bad perform. Saint John's missed
twenty four straight shots is insane. And then the Kings
are winning in the third pyeer, they blow that and
Boston has the game tied at half and they don't
come up. They don't come up big. It's like they
had a little vendetta against Sammy Long and the greater
(38:09):
San Diego population betting public.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It wasn't Sammy's fault, it was their fault. Al Rich
on YouTube saying Tay Simmons got the crowd fired up
a few times last night. At Tay Simmons is a
special freshman man. I don't know what it's going to
take to keep him.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Probably a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
So they're doing the impact campaign right now at SDSU,
So if you want to keep Tay Simmons, you might
want to head over there. I think it's go aztex
dot com slash impact.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
They're trying to match from public funding what Chase Fisher
did with blenders, so trying to match up to a
million bucks. Our buddy Fridge Watcher on YouTube says the
lawyers love nil money.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Yes they do.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Lawyers are the biggest winner in college sports right now.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Steven says aztecs by seventeen last night, hell yes, Den
and also fridge Watcher talking about the Chiefs saying they
created fifty million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Is that true? Yeah they did because they cut my Dana.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
But I thought they were already way over.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, they're They're currently eleven over the cap right now.
But it looks like Jawan Taylor is probably gonna be cut.
Chris Jones hasn't even restructured his contract yet, so the
Chiefs are gonna have some some money to spend.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
H We'll see Najee Harris, maybe Briceall.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
They didn't running back to the end the Chiefs run
game has been dreadful the last two years.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Jonas has thought Bryce Bryce Underwood, that's not his name.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Let just make the quarterback in Michigan Jeremia Love, Jeremiah
Lovema Love would be a fantastic tick. He's a He's
gonna be a beast kind of the Derrick Henry mold
Out a Notre dame.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
We'll see, I don't know. Jonas also said the Chiefs
have done for the next generation.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Well, we love Jonas, but I mean people, people like
Ben Fletcher want to pray this out so happy. That
made me so happy when Jonas went the direction I
thought he was. I was gonna ask Jonas, who was
running out of time, about the forty nine ers cap situation.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Well, I heard Jonas say something similar about the Chiefs
a couple of days ago, and I was really hoping
he was just gonna run it right back, and he
absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So good on Jonas knocks. All right, take a quick
break here in hour number two, we.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Got some Aztecs basketball tickets for you for the home
finale against you next week. We also have Kevin Acey
coming up in hour number two. If you've been paying
attention to Kevin Acy articles, Padres offseason is getting going
in a big way. Maybe, just maybe we'll get a
little update from keV on new ownership situations. We'll see
what's going on with the Padres with Kevin Acy coming
up in our number two at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
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The day is half over. Now it's time to enter
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let's get it going on a Thursday. What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Ben Fletcher's Sammy Long with until two o'clock today. John
Schaefer is gonna take over. Then we got a busy day.
Jonas Knox of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe
is gonna be on at twelve thirty, Kevin Acey at
one thirty. Get you a Padres update with the Ace
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ready to have a great show.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I'm ready have a great show.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Are you ready to have a great show.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We're gonna have a San Diego State as texts over
Utah State performance type show.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hell yeah, brother, this is gonna be a good one,
and we're gonna step up and we're gonna beat those
aggies all the way back to Logan, Utah, which is
exactly what the San Diego State Astexs did last night.
It is funny now a college basketball season, you can
go from the tippy top of the mountain to the
very bottom of the depths of Hell and then jump
right back up in one game later, and that kind
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of feels like exactly what the Aztecs did. I do
have a problem myself of getting too bogged down in
the minutia of the bracketologists and bracket matrix and Joe
Lonardi and going through all the things and making snap decisions.
Happy to say, one seventeen point win later, you can
find yourself right back on the bubble. And I do
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think that's kind of what the Aztecs did. Now, there's
some caveats to it, right, you gotta go on the road.
You gotta win in New Mexico, you gotta go on
the road. You gotta win in Boise State. Neither of
those things are easy. Hell, you gotta win that game
on March six, which we have tickets for you against UNLV.
But I do think if the Aztecs do all three
of those things, because with a massive seventeen point win
over the then ranked number one team at the Mountain, way,
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you probably catapulted yourself right back into every conversation you
want to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So an impressive win.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I would say the best forty minutes of basketball the
Aztecs have put together this entire season took place last
night at Viejas Arena, and it was resticks and waters in.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The first half.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
If you noticed the first five minutes of the second half,
it was Miles Bird that really put the nail in
the game.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Pharaoh Compton played excellent.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You had toaj De Gourville, who in the second half
was really running the whole show.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Eight assists.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He was incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I thought that that Aztecs team that we saw last
night is absolutely a team who can make a scary
run in March. Is absolutely a team who could do
all the things that we thought this team could do
this past offseason. If we see that team more often
here moving forward, who knows where the ceiling is for them?
Because they are wildly talented, and when they're making shots
and when everyone Magoon Gwothe has a smile on their face,
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they are playing some really good basketball.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It was an exciting performance last night, and I think
the az takes depth, which was why we were so
excited about this team because last year, again going back
to it, it felt like it was the Nick Boyd
and Miles Bird show and then everyone else was kind
of chiming in. And sometimes you have some big Wayne
McKinney performances, you have some big BJ Davis performances. McGoo
glothe went through an injury there last season. But this year,
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I mean, look at this box score. Tay Simmons double
dig its, eleven points, Feral Compton eleven points, double digits
off the bench, Taj twelve points off the bench. BJ
Davis eight points. When you're getting that kind of production
early on, even though the Asseecks were struggling in the
Players air A tournament, the one kind of positive was
that they were one of the highest scoring bench teams
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in the entire country. And then it allows Resix and
Waters to have twenty points. Tay Simmons felt like a
complete lightning rod off the bench. He was getting the
crowd animated, really into it, rebounding the ball super well.
It did feel like everything came together in this game
last night, and it was probably a response into to
the last week. I mean, the Asseecs don't normally lose
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at home. Grand Canyon was kind of an anomaly in
that they came out flat in that game. They didn't
look like themselves, and then they didn't look like themselves
on the road in Colorado State. But to take it
to take the fight really to Utah State, and Utah
State looked lost even after the first ten minutes that game.
It was kind of a slow offensive start for the
Aztecs and you're sitting there kind of going, Ah, the
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Assecs still can't get it going. They're hanging around, but
then down the stretch of the first half in the
second half to really shut them down, take them apart.
The Aztecs is serve of all the credit in the world,
and it really sets up a really fun matchup Saturday
with a lot more stakes on it. Had they lost yesterday,
the game wouldn't matter as much. But playing at the pit,
this is if you ever won an at large big conversation,
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if you ever won an at large big case, you
beat Utah State at home, you go beat New Mexico
on the pit. Maybe we're having a different conversation next
week about where they are in that large.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Conversation and when you talk about things breaking their way
I mean, I'm not one hundred percent positive on this,
but I'm almost ninety nine percent sure San Diego State
would that win yesterday. If they win out, I do
believe they claimed the number one seed in the Mountain
West Tournament as well, because they should have tie breakers
now over Utah State who dropped to Nevada, who San
Diego State's already beat twice, and New Mexico who also
dropped to Nevada, who San Diego State has already beaten
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at home. So I think tiebreakers work out in their
favor as well. I'll have to do a little bit
of digging on that, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
So here, as San Diego State sitting yesterday, sky was
falling today, things are looking pretty good for San Diego
State basketball and maybe, just maybe we get to have
a fun little run in March to go with it.
Long ways to go till then three more regular season
games again this Saturday National TV game at the Pit.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
In New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You think about the crowd that San Diego State had
last night with just chanting I believe good luck Carson
Templin all night long.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's what they were saying, right Sammy.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah the show not big fans of Carson Temblin.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Good Luck Templin, good Luck Templin with all that channing
going on.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Which was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If we're being completely honest and kind a part of
why we love college basketball, that's gonna come back your
way on Saturday. It just is that's what the environment
at the pit is like. Do not like Aztecs. They
haven't for years now. You think about some of the
games over the last few years between San Diego State
and New Mexico. You had the house games that were
insane at Via House Arena where he's flipping off the
whole crowd. So that's the environment you're going into this weekend.
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By the way, a very good New Mexico team in
San Diego State in order to make this seventeen point
win against Utah State means something needs to go get
a win at the pit and I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well, and I think even if I do think that
there's a glimmer of hope for the at large conversation
because you won last night and because of how you won.
But let's just say, let's just say that that's done.
Let's just say that it's all about the Mountain West
Conference tournament because they've done too much damage to themselves.
I think last night is something you can point to
heading into a tournament in Vegas where you have to
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win three straight games and go that's if we play
basketball like that, we're gonna win a lot of games.
Because I think you could see them starting to doubt
themselves a little bit last week because really they hadn't
They had this signature whenever Utah State, yet they got
beat by Grand Canyons twice, they lose to Colorado State.
They were kind of lacking for marquee wins outside of Nevada.
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But you win this game last night, and then you
could talk about confidence if you're able to go do
it away from Via House Arena on Saturday in what
you were just talking about, one of the toughest places
to play in the country. I mean that I think
the Asthets will start feeling like the Aztecs that were
picked number one to finish in number one of them
Mountain West in the preseason poll, and not the team
that we've seen the last couple weeks now.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
For the shortened the bench crowd which has been out
there all year long, Jeremiodin did not play at all
last night. Sean Newman Junior, I think played six minutes
last night. You had rees up over thirty. Miles Bird
was right around thirty. So it happened for you last night.
If you wanted to shorten the bench, that's exactly what
went down last night. They played ten and really Sean
Newman Junior didn't play much at all. So for San
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Diego State, it worked last night. Now I'm assuming that's
gonna be matchup dependent. Do I think that Jeremiodin won't
play again this season for the Aztecs, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's got to play. He plays meaningful minutes for the team.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
The Aztecs are undefeated in games. They have a nine
man rotation, had ten last night. But what I'm saying,
but when they put they've played eleven man rotations, ten
man rotations and nine man rotations the short of the record.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I do think that gets overblown a little bit. I
really do, honestly in my heart.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But it's a talking point.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But I also convenience, like, well, sometimes they've played worse
teams when they have a shorter rotation.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's all fair, it's all fair, But I think when
you play eleven guys, that's hard to eight. Let guys
get in rhythm in a game, knowing that the second
they turn the ball over, the second they have a
couple of bad minutes, stop you play, they're getting pulled.
And especially with a team that is kind of built
on a big three, a big four, you gotta let
these guys work into the game a little bit. And
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I do think trumping their rotation is a little bit.
It's nice that you have those guys there that you
trust that can play. I'm not calling for Oden to
not play, or Sean Newman Jr. Or not play, But
if you set your nine guys that are going to
play tonight outside of getting into foul trouble, I think
there's easier game plan heading into a game versus who knows.
I mean, this guy could get twenty minutes and then
he's to sitting on the bench the next night. I
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think shorting the rotation is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Sammy Long and all social media warriors, no more than
Brian Deutcher.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh please, that's what we're saying right now, all right
at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh Jonas Knocks.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Coming up in twenty minutes, Kevin Ac coming up in
an hour. In twenty minutes, we got a fun show
for you. We need some redemption on long shots. Plus
in about five minutes, I'm gonna tell you why nobody
in the history of the planet, of the world, of
the universe had a worse night than Sammy long last night.
It was just truly devastating. Before we get to that,
we are going to get to the Big three here
where Sammy rips through the top three stories in the
world sports semi smash it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Lunch. Frank is here.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Ready to go back to the office and knock the
socks off your friends.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean co workers.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Takes time for about top stories of the day, A
big three three.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
All right, you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Text line is open seven zero four seven zero. Start
your message with the word team.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Beep beep templan beep my beep beep go ass techs.
That's from the six to one to nine. Some creative
editing there, but six P one nine. I don't know
if you're saying beep is editing it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Beep beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep beep, Texas thoughts
on last nights game seven zero four to seven zero.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm telling you the team good luck template they were.
It's good sportsmanship. Sammy.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Listen. If Utah State and the Aztecs me with a
shot too. For the Aszeks be in the tournament, in
the final of the Mountain West Conference tournament, that's gonna
be a really fun matchup going both ways.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Carson Templin, that dude plays a brand of basketball that
I'm not a huge fan of. If I'm being honest.
He I saw him go low on Magoon Gwathe again
last night. It is a it's a dirty brand of basketball. However,
the dude's entertaining. He is very much Grayson Allen. All right,
where are we starting?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Sammy? All right, we're actually here. We're have NBA. So
the Boston Celtics, unfortunately for long shots, last night, got
beat by twenty. They were actually hanging in there. I
felt very comfortable about my pick. They did not come
through at the end.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was actually the second you texted me things started
to switch up for the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes, you're like Parlay is holding strong.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I was feeling real good because Yukon won the Kings
were winning and then and then it went down here,
but they lose by twenty last night. Jason Tatum is
scrimmaging five on five. He has not played all year,
originally expected to miss the entire season, but now because
of the Celtics being in the number two seed in
the Eastern Conference has started to ramp up. Would you
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like to see the Celtics bring back Jason Tatum even
if there is a higher injury risk for him.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
See the answer to me is if he gets medically cleared,
I would love to see it happen. The thing with
injuries in today's NBA like there is a very good
chance the Celtics and the organization was kind of lying
to us about how long he needed to stay out
because of this injury.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Ultimately, it was an acl right last year for Jason.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The playoffs, Remember he ripped it with But if.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Treated properly, he should be able to come back this year.
I would imagine now, of course, there will be a
higher risk of injury.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There's a high risk of injury.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Anytime anybody steps out of basketball on a football court
off a curve. That's just kind of how injuries go.
I broke my leg fricking sliding down a hill on accident.
So there is always gonna be risk. But if Jason
Tatum can go, the Celtics have put themselves in a
position to where it would be beneficial to the team
and potentially back to or your way into a national
or an NBA title conversation. So absolutely, Tatum, get back
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on the court as soon as you can.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You and Jason Tatum just had it real hard.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, we're the same, they build the same height, this
is this is a same.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I think people see some vulnerability in Oklahoma City. That's
what I think. I think people thought Shay's never on
the court last year. No, but even when he was,
even when he was with Jaylen Williams and all this
team and Chet Holmgren, Yes they should be the favorite
in the NBA. But I think we thought heading into
last year this team was gonna go on a dynastic
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run where they was gonna win the next five NBA championships.
And maybe they do, maybe they do. They prove us
all wrong. I keep going back to this. The Nuggets
took them seven games. I give them credit for blowing
out the it's in that seventh game in the NBA
finals Tyre's Haliburt and the Pacers took him to Game seven.
Haliburton is twelve points, Rips's achilles. We never know what happened.
Give them all the credit in the world, but I
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think we're seeing teams like Boston, like San Antonio, like
Detroit kind of smell a little blood in the water,
and that this Oklahoma City team isn't quite the Oklahoma
City team that we thought they were where they were
just gonna run through everything. Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson,
Draymond Green, those Warrior teams that really felt unbeatable outside
of Lebron in the Cavs. I do think if Jayson
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Tatum's healthy, it would be fun to see him on
the court. That is a team they played defense at
a clip that if they get a number two star
score in Jason Tatum, you have two number one superstars
in Jalen Brown Jason Tatum. They could actually give Oklahoma
City or San Antonio problems. If I'm the Eastern Conference,
the Knicks and the Pistons, I do not want Jason
Tatum to be back on the floor. All right, let's
head a college football. Interesting story happening here. So the
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quarterback Brendan Sowarsby, who is the former quarterback at Cincinnati,
has now left got a massive NIL deal with Texas Tech.
Texas Tech is thrown out money left and right. But
since he is now suing Sortsbee for over one million
dollars for an exit fee for transferring, the question is this,
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is this how you fix the nil?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Because I love that Cincinnati is doing this, I really do.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I too.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I think contracts need to be put in place.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Brian Dutcher actually last week's Coaches Show was talking about
the fact that college sports, not just football, not just basketball,
but the way everything's operating right now is.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The least sustainable thing ever.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Cincinnati should absolutely be suing the crap out of him
because they expect one thing and then something else is happening.
You fix nil by making a big enough stink about it,
right and schools are getting shafted right now, players are
getting shafted right now. And the more you can make
it to where there's a little bit of punishment for
what's going on here. I don't know if since he
wins this court case, but guess what we're talking about.
It So until a some sort of players association, school
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association is in place where they can have a collective
bargaining agreement. Yes, that's where we're heading in college sports.
More stuff like this is gonna start happening, because right now,
as a college football head coach, you can wake up
every single day and not know who's on your roster.
Is that a good spot for the sports to be in.
I would say no, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We've seen a tight end that went to Wisconsin, that
transferred to Wisconsin and transferred a week later, transferred like
three times in the span of two weeks. This is
I'm all four guys getting their money. It's cool. I mean, like,
let's say Sannengostate for example, Sanego State profits off Restixs
and Waters, McGoo Gwath and Miles Bird. So I applaud
Miles Bird, Restixs and Waters and McGoo glathe for getting
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their money. They should because if one of them has
a massive injury all of a sudden, maybe their NBA
career is in jeopardy vice versa. But this is where
it's gone too far. It went from colleges having too
much control, where it was kind of my way or
the highway and guys get hurt than their career is
done and they made no money to now where it's
just complete free enterprise. I can sign I had a
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five million dollar nil deal and then I just rip
it up and decide to go somewhere else. The way
to solve ANIO is you make them pay it back.
You can transfer, you could head to a different school,
but you're paying back that money. So it'll make guys
think twice about whether they want to just keep leaving
school after school for years. You had to sit out
a year. That's a potential option where you still had
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to sit out for a period of time to transfer.
It's it just feels like it's gone a little bit
too far and we need some rules and regulations before
it gets two out of hand.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Let's just try to throw this real quickly at the
perspective of the NFL. Say you have a quarterback, Say
Kyler Murray, All right, Kyler Murray is about to be
can go wherever he wants and sign right. Say he
goes to the Cleveland Browns expecting to go to Cleveland,
get his NIOL money, his contract, and be the starting
quarterback and play out a year and maybe he gets
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to get a much bigger contract on the other side
because he plays really well for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Three months before the season begins.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Four months before the season begins, Patrick Mahone says, now
I'm gonna come over to Cleveland and I'm gonna be
the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's not just the school or the teams that get screwed,
it's also the players who are already there, who are
uprooted their entire life to go be somewhere else and
play and imagine them being the starting quarterback there.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All of a sudden, Soresby is just going to take
the Texas text.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I mean, it used to be that if your head
coach left the guy who recruited you, you could leave
and you didn't have to sit out a whole year.
But now with the fact that right you can just
i mean transfer left and right, there's no continuity at
small schools. You're not keeping any of your good players
because all the blue boots are picking them. It just
it just feels like it's gone a little bit too far.
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So I credit Cincinnati for suing Soresby back.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You should have to pay back the money if you
are gonna leave for a new Niol.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And it does sound like he broke some sort of
nil contract with Cincinnati. I would imagine Cincinnati actually does
win this. All right, we're gonna save Big three number
three for the other side. Dinas Nails tickets as stext
tickets all still to come. Jonas Knox coming up in
about twelve minutes. Stay here at San Diego Sports seven
sixty live on my heart rate.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Did you hear the presser from Mike Rabel. Mike Rabel was.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Basically asked, we talked about cutting off, is we wei?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
No, I didn't hear that. That's not what I heard.
But I was talking about A. J. Brown. So AJ
Boll Yes, of course, I don't know. I don't know
what he's doing in his free time. But he said if.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
He he would cut it off to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh, we didn't happen this year. Yeah, must, I'll.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Still be there, you know. They anyway, AJ Brown, Howie
Roseman per report today, they're looking to move on from
AJ Brown. They're they're they're they're they're more open to
listening to offers for people that are making a case.
And Mike Rabel went and said that he keeps in
contact with him every day, and he's like a very
good friend, basically doesn't shut down any report of that.
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The Patriots wouldn't get a J. Brown. It's a logical
choice because they he coached him in Tennessee. I'm curious
if would you want a receiver like that with Drake
May with a young quarterback trying to build coming off
a terrible Super Bowl and not even a great playoff front.
He just ended up winning three games kind of because
the defense, are you sure you want to invite a
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headache into your locker room like AJ Brown to deal
with the young quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
There's a very different thing with the Eagles and with
the Patriots, and it is the head coach, Mike Rabel
was not happy when the Tennessee Titans moved on from
AJ Brown and set him over to the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Mike Rabel is pissed about it. Actually, I remember that
very well.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Mike Rabel has a very different leadership style than Nick Sirianni.
It kind of feels like Sirianni gets walked over by
pretty much everyone, and as soon as anyone criticizes anything,
all of a sudden he's making wholesale changes. Does Mike
Rabel seem like a guy to you who if someone's complaining,
he's gonna say, oh yeah, here, bud, now he'll be out.
I'll get you some more targets. No, he's gonna say,
shut up, get back in the gym and work harder,
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and then you'll get some more.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But if you deal, if you're dealing with Stefon Diggs,
who's already a headache.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Are they still gonna be dealing? They paid him a
ton of money. But I don't know that that was
a loving relationships.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I just think I I think, like as a whole,
George Pickens is, they're they're leaning towards Steven Jones said
he's leaning toward tagging him. I think George Pickens works
in Dallas because even though Dak Prescott's not a top
five quarterback, Dak Prescott commands a lot of respect and
has been the MVP conversation multiple times throughout his career.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And it's a gunslinger offense.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He's throwing the ball right and Dak has a way
of not getting walked over. It's odd for how your
Mahomes doesn't get walked over. Josh Allen does to get
walked over. Burrow Lamar. Guys like that that have earned
the MVP status are currently listed as one of the
top quarterbacks in the game. Dak Prescott doesn't have that.
So I get paying George Pickens if they choose to
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do that. But if I'm the Patriots and Drake May
even despite having a great a great head coach like that,
you gotta think Drake Mays Psyche's a little bit shook,
especially after the way he didn't play good in any
of those playoff games. Again, like it was they the
first team in twenty thirty years to win two playoff
games scoring fewer than sixteen points. So the way he
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played in the Super Bowl, I don't know that just
trading everything to get a star wide receiver puts you
at the top of the AFC.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Now it's also having to come with the caveat that
you think AJ Brown is totally wrong for being as
unhappy as he was in Philadelphia. Like he was misused
in my opinion in Philadelphia fair he wasn't used enough.
I think that it got a little out of hand
with how he complained about it. The twitch stream was
way over the top, but AJ Brown wasn't used properly
as a Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver. Do you think that's
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more to do with Sirianni or Jalen Hurt. It's Sirianni
and it's the scheme they run. They're a power run team.
They run with the quarterback, they run with Saquon Barkley.
That's the scheme that they like to go with. And
in New England, I do think Mike Rabel knows how
to use Aj Brown a little bit differently. Have we
once since Aj Brown's been in Philadelphia seen a consistent
level of success like he had with Tennessee when he
became a.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Superstar wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
His personal numbers no.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Right exactly, So I would say Mike Rabel probably knows
a little bit better how to utilize the talent that
is AJ Brown, who I still think is probably a
top six, top seven wide receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
The Eagles play a brand of football which.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
They're just trying to get short yardage on every play.
That's not what Aj Brown is exactly. They play a
brand of football thirty forty years ago. It's it's hybrid.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
There's obviously different you know, intricacies in today's NFL, but
it's really more about the collective. This is why I
think Jalen Hurts doesn't command a ton of respect to fight.
Despite the fact that he's been into Super Bowls, played
well in both and won one of them. People still go, yeah,
but it's really the team. Howie Roseman he put that
team together.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It's because they're stoked with going three yards at a time,
all the way down the field.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
It's not sexy like that's it. People don't. You don't
look at the highlights and watch a push push as
a casual fan and go, oh, that's that's, you know,
making the Sports Center top play. But the Eagles are
really about just advancing the football down the field. And
I know it didn't work the greatest last year, but
that's kind of the mindset they have there. And a
guy like AJ Brown, especially in today's NFL, whether it's
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Tyreek Hill or it's AJ Brown or Stefon Diggs or
George Pickens, any receiver that's command and asking for a
certain level of targets that doesn't fit within the system.
And you wonder if those kind of receivers are on
the way out not on the way out, and that
teams aren't gonna want them. But do you man.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Diva wide receivers have been around since the eighties, But
how many round forever? How yes, Terrell Owens was maybe
the biggest diva wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Ever, how many? How many diva wide receivers don't have
won Super Bowls?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Randy Moss won super Bowls.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
In the Bill Belichick system with Tom Brady correct, there's
a certain level you can get to. Tyreek Hill wasn't
a diva before he became one. Chiefs won one Super Bowl.
They shipp him out of town.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean you're not totally wrong about that, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
In San Diego Sports seven sixty, we have Jonas Knox
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Speaker 2 (23:54):
May March. What month is this March night?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
How many days in a row are you gonna mess.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Up at Pachanga Arena?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nine and Nails are going to be performing eight seven
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
Hi, Jonas, how.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Are you no?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm gett out of you, guys. That's way too kind
voice of the generation. Our generation is screwed if that's
the case. We're just doing our best, guys. We're just
hanging out, getting getting ready for baseball, watching guys run
around in tights in Indianapolis and doing our thing.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
The Underwear Olympics are fun, and honestly, if you've been
watching spring training baseball, the pants do seem to have
gotten a little bit tighter, maybe a little more seen
through here in twenty twenty six. But Jonas, this is
kind of a fun time of year where everything sort
of slows down for a second.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We get like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Right after the Olympics, we all got to watch tam
Usa go kick some hoosier ass or not hoosier?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What are they not? Themedians who teen eighty ass?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Uh? Probably that you get to get a little break
before March madness and the chaos of that and the Masters,
and the baseball is in swing Basketball playoffs right around
the corner. What fills up your days here as we
are kind of in this little break of the sports world.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I mean, look, I love Baseball's fun. Uh it's just
baseball fields. I don't know if you guys feel the
same thing, but baseball fields, like it's not a little
bit of a heater, Like there's momentum building for baseball.
It's similar to what a lot of people are hoping
for from hockey. Following the Olympics, you've got the World
Baseball Classic, which I think I was sort of I
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always kind of dismissed it is it felt a little gimmicky,
felt a little forced, and then the first time I
watched it, I realized, oh, this is awesome. And I
know there's been games, you know at Petco that have
been just fantastic, real classics, and so that's coming up,
that's gonna be a lot of fun. March Madness is
always fun. Like that's just that's where it's you know,
(25:51):
acceptable to have you know, two year olds gamble, which
is always which is not really I think you talk
about the voice of the generation, like there's gonna be
a bunch of degenerate gamblers walking around, and they're going
to point back to the fact that they had something
on McNee State winning a Sweet sixteen game that helped
their dad win something that let them buy them a
new toy. I think all that stuff is fun. And
(26:12):
you know, if the NBA can figure out how to
get out of its own way and stop, you know,
continuing to let us know about all their flaws, just
think about this. The NBA has an opportunity now where
the NFL goes by by, everybody's looking around for something
to do. We need a fix, we need we've got
we need some sort of some sort of adrenaline going,
(26:33):
we need something to get us by and the NBA
rolls out an All Star game that was just a
bucket of puke. It was awful. The festivities, well, the
game was competitive. The game was competitive, with three different teams,
gimmicky names, all the other usual suspects that they try
and pull off to make us believe that this is
(26:54):
a real basketball game. And then they come out afterwards
and the only headlines are Jalen Rounds party got shut down,
and how do we fix the awful dunk contest and
the three point shoot at It's just it's par for
the course. But baseball will be here and the NFL
offseason is always fun.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
So there's that Jonas switching to the NFL. What do
you make of this whole? Fernanda Mendoza feels like he's
been getting a lot of criticism this week all of
a sudden. Now with the combine here, do you feel
like he is the surf He's a surfire number one pick,
but is he the deserve it surfire number one overall
pick or is this because there's a lack of a
quarterback class behind him.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I think he's the deserved number one pick, But you
can't argue at the fact that the quarterback draft classes
is not what next years is going to be. And
I think that's why you're seeing a lot of teams
doing what they're doing this year when it comes to
the quarterback position. Let's be honest. You could feel however
you want to feel about, say Tyler Murray or Tua
(27:53):
Taga bay Looa the Dolphins and the Cardinals, and people
can label it whatever they want to call. Well, they
don't like the contract that this is strategic they're trying
to help the organization. No, they're tanking. Like there's teams
in the league that are looking around, going, we can't
really get a surefire solution at quarterback in this draft
(28:14):
because after Fernanda Mendoza, you've got Tysimpson, who's probably going
to be a late first round pick. But when Dante
Moore decided to go back to college, then you've got CJ. Carr,
then you've got our commanding. You just start looking around
at next year's draft and you go, that's the one
you want to be in if you're trying to select
a quarterback. So I think a lot of teams in
the NFL recognize, yeah, Mendoz is the number one pick
(28:36):
this year, but this is not the year you want
to be involved if you're trying to find the quarterback
of the future. So I think teams like the Dolphins,
teams like the Cardinals, and other teams around the NFL
are looking at it this going. Listen, man, it wouldn't
be the worst thing in the world if we lose.
If it means we've got to swallow ninety nine million
dollars and get rid of Tua and start Quinn yours
(28:56):
and be a worst football team because of it, than
so be it. We're going to go out and get
our quarterback in the future next year, because next year
is the draft class you want to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Jonas Knox two Pros and a Cup of Joe with
us here on San Diego Sports seven sixty. You hear
them every morning on your drive into work, or at
least I do when we're going to work early early
in the morning. Jonas, you look at dead cap around
the NFL. You look at the worst salary cap hits,
and the worst one is still Deshaun Watson somehow or another.
Is there any chance Deshaun Watson is starting for the
Cleveland Browns Week one this year?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh yeah, well, And by the way, it's the gift
that keeps on given, Like, just think about the world
we live in. If you're a Brown fan, right and look,
if you're a Browns fan, godspeed, But think about the
world we live in. Or you're a Brown fan and
you're torn between two mid round quarterbacks that were taken
in the same year, or a weirdo who's had more
(29:53):
assault allegations than starts for your franchise, and you gave
them two hundred and thirty million guarantees. But I say
I've said this before. If they want to get Deshaun
Watson to start playing like he did back in the day,
you need to put like neon lights in the front
windows of the facility and make it thing like he's
going in to get his back rubbed down, like if
you if you want to get this guy back on track,
(30:14):
that's the move. But we'll see what happens. And you
know what, if he's making forty six million dollars this year,
the least he could do is go out and perform
and try and you know, get back some value for
that team that gave him all that cash to begin with.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
At least be focused with the neon lights.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Lots of hand towels too, Yes, that was the big
part of the thing was as towels were too small.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh yeah, listen, and he brought his own and he's
like that. He's like the guy there's a there was
a there's a burger place in where it was Santa
Monica back in the day. Uh, and it was it's
called Father's Office. And their big thing was, hey, we
don't put ketch up on our burgers. So you get
all these nerds who would walk in with like a
(30:52):
hind bottle peeking out of their pocket like they were
like they were getting ready to rob a bank with
a gun. And you know, Deshaun Watson was like one
of those losers who walked in with like a handtoul Gondo.
This one feels better, especially after she works on me.
I've had her before. I don't need a cigarette in
the parking lot. Give me that one. That one's going
to make me feel better after this whole thing is done.
(31:15):
Why do you guys got to get your heads out
of the gutter. Okay, we're trying to do We're trying
to be professional here and you guys are taking us
out at the shot of Washston Road.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
We're up, We're sorry. This is the vibe of our
show today, I guess. But Jonas, what do you make
of in the top twenty prospects and a lot of
a lot of people's boys like Daniel Teremiah, there's only
two SEC players. Do you make that as just kind
of a down year for the SEC? Or is this
are we seeing a change into the guard with the
Big ten? The Big twelve are kind of overtaking as
(31:44):
some of the dominant conferences.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, yes, now everybody else can offer money, and all
of a sudden they look at Indiana, for example, Indiana
was nobody for one hundred plus years, literally one of
the worst programs in the hit Street the sport, and
they went out and put everybody in a clown suit
this year, including SEC teams and everybody, including Alabama, and
(32:07):
everybody is looking around going, well, howd that happen? Well,
it's easy. Now everybody can pay, and everybody can pay
on the up and up. It's not like you know,
back when you would have to lie and you know stake.
You know, hey, we got this guy's We really recruited
him hard and he loved the area. No, because he
had a dubble back full of cash in the back
parking lot and his parents went and picked it up.
Everybody now can pay that if you have a booster
(32:30):
or you have an a lum who's got enough money
and enough enough saved up to where they can offer
the program a little bit of assistance to try and
get some of these players and it benefits them. Then
you're just seeing the balance of power shift all over
the place. And look, the Big Ten has been the
better conference for a little while now, and SEC fans
don't want to acknowledge that SEC fans want to make
(32:52):
believe that it's SEC and everybody else's secondary. But the
Big Ten has been putting on banger after banger when
it comes to games of the season. ESPN doesn't really
like it. They're not big fans of MAD because it
means that they're starting to lose their grip on the
powerhouse of college football. But once Edio was brought in,
I think it even the playing field for everybody else,
(33:13):
and now you're starting to see better talent in different places.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Jonas, Before we get you out of here, I got
to ask one question because Samuel Long is sitting over
there and he has this wild hope and he keeps
saying I can't wait till the next NFL season, which
is true for all of us, We can't wait till
football is back in our lives.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
On a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But are we really supposed to believe that one draft
class can switch around everything? For the Kansas City Chiefs,
who were just the bottom of the NFL this year, I.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Mean, I'll be honest with you, I think it's over.
I don't think the Chiefs get back to what they are.
The only thing that I would love I would love
to see this happen. I would love to see Jeremiah
Love in Kansas City. Like that's the one that I
look at and go, if they had a legitimate stud
(33:59):
super are running back, which would be really beneficial considering
they haven't really had that. They've been relying on Patrick Mahomes.
They've been Patrick Mahomes is gonna if he comes back.
I think he's going to start off the year possibly
on the pup list, so they might not even have
him the first month of the season. I do think
Travis Kelty's coming back. But if you had a legitimate
superstar running back, like a Jeremiah Love, who everybody looks at,
(34:21):
is as a sure thing as there can be in
this draft class, That's where I think things get interesting.
But other than that, I just looked at it and go,
they're getting older. Who knows how long Andy Reid's going
to be around. And I think it illustrates how incredible
it was what the Patriots did because they had their
first dynasty, took a little bit of a break, and
then rolled out more super Bowls afterwards. I think it's
(34:44):
a long shot. But if you get Jeremiah Love, I
think they got an opportunity next year.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Jonas, this interview is going so well, man, and then
it's a good turn.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Listen, man, and I know how the combine makes you
know the long skill just from there's a lot of
great highlights from the combin for anybody that wants to
see one of the great bloopers in the history of
the NFL combine Chris Jones running the forty. We take
something man that looked like a produce truck dropping goods
all over the highway like he did. I mean it
(35:13):
was everywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I mean you saw it all.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
So anybody that's wondering what we're referring to, the Chiefs
ended up picking a winner. That guy's going to be
a Hall of Famer, But it could be worse. Man,
look around the NFL. At least you had Super Bowls.
You can remember there's teams that are trying to figure
out You got Aaron Glenn telling people that his superpower
is calling plays. Dude, they didn't have an interception last year.
(35:37):
They had none. They were the worst defense from a
turnover ratio in the entire league. And yet we got
coaches out here talking about having superpower. So listen, the
chiefs are fine, and you got enough time before we
have to really start worrying about things based on the
fact that you've got all the success recently.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So it is funny Jonas February twenty six, we're around
that time where the NFL combine is starting out the
underwear Olympics, so we remember that day, of course, But
do you know what February twenty six, twenty twelve was.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Ooh, remind me, Pete Webber, who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I am, oh man, by the way, bowling, I don't
even know if that's I don't even know if that's
an Olympic sport should be an Olympic sport.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
A great the guy.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's a guy who butchered what he was planning on
saying and just rolled with it. It's like Kevin Garnett.
Anything as Possible wasn't really what he was supposed to say,
but he forgot and just rolled with it, and then
everyone said, oh man, what a money line at the
end of the finals. Did he got it wrong? Pete
Webber probably got that wrong and just roll with it.
But yeah, I'm telling you man, bowling should be in
(36:41):
the Olympics, an underrated sport. Same with shuffleboard.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I Am?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Has gone down in history and it was on this
date in twenty twelve. Jonas, thank you for your time.
Appreciate you always.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
We'll be listening tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Love you guys. Thanks for having me as always, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Jonas knocks two pros and a cup of Joe Fox
Sports Radio. You hear him every Saturday here on seven
six and every morning as well, with two pros and
a cup of Joe. All right, quick break long shots
on the other side, Samy's gonna make us all some money.
That's next at San Diego Sports seven sixty live.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
On my Heart Radio app plus two and a half
getting a couple of points at home. Ban Carroll and
them have a big outing, all right, So we're going
with the magic plus two and a half against Houston,
a little bit of a rest advantage at home. I
think they're also just as talented as Houston, So give me,
give me, give me the magic there plus two and
a half Philadelphia to cover the spread at home against Miami.
Norman Powell not looking like he's gonna go in that game.
(37:30):
That's gonna hurt the Miami scoring Philly minus two and
a half. And then we're gonna go to college basketball.
Give us tom Izzo in the Michigan State Spartans plus
seven and a half on the road taking on the
Purdue boiler Makers.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You got two dogs tonight, two dogs. Bark bark maybe
bark bark.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
By the way, I was just appointed last night because
Yukon destroy Saint John's not even close Saint John's. Saint
John's had like all time bad perform. Saint John's missed
twenty four straight shots is insane. And then the Kings
are winning in the third pyeer, they blow that and
Boston has the game tied at half and they don't
come up. They don't come up big. It's like they
had a little vendetta against Sammy Long and the greater
(38:09):
San Diego population betting public.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It wasn't Sammy's fault, it was their fault. Al Rich
on YouTube saying Tay Simmons got the crowd fired up
a few times last night. At Tay Simmons is a
special freshman man. I don't know what it's going to
take to keep him.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Probably a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
So they're doing the impact campaign right now at SDSU,
So if you want to keep Tay Simmons, you might
want to head over there. I think it's go aztex
dot com slash impact.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
They're trying to match from public funding what Chase Fisher
did with blenders, so trying to match up to a
million bucks. Our buddy Fridge Watcher on YouTube says the
lawyers love nil money.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Yes they do.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Lawyers are the biggest winner in college sports right now.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Steven says aztecs by seventeen last night, hell yes, Den
and also fridge Watcher talking about the Chiefs saying they
created fifty million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Is that true? Yeah they did because they cut my Dana.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
But I thought they were already way over.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, they're They're currently eleven over the cap right now.
But it looks like Jawan Taylor is probably gonna be cut.
Chris Jones hasn't even restructured his contract yet, so the
Chiefs are gonna have some some money to spend.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
H We'll see Najee Harris, maybe Briceall.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
They didn't running back to the end the Chiefs run
game has been dreadful the last two years.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Jonas has thought Bryce Bryce Underwood, that's not his name.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Let just make the quarterback in Michigan Jeremia Love, Jeremiah
Lovema Love would be a fantastic tick. He's a He's
gonna be a beast kind of the Derrick Henry mold
Out a Notre dame.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
We'll see, I don't know. Jonas also said the Chiefs
have done for the next generation.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Well, we love Jonas, but I mean people, people like
Ben Fletcher want to pray this out so happy. That
made me so happy when Jonas went the direction I
thought he was. I was gonna ask Jonas, who was
running out of time, about the forty nine ers cap situation.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Well, I heard Jonas say something similar about the Chiefs
a couple of days ago, and I was really hoping
he was just gonna run it right back, and he
absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So good on Jonas knocks. All right, take a quick
break here in hour number two, we.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Got some Aztecs basketball tickets for you for the home
finale against you next week. We also have Kevin Acey
coming up in hour number two. If you've been paying
attention to Kevin Acy articles, Padres offseason is getting going
in a big way. Maybe, just maybe we'll get a
little update from keV on new ownership situations. We'll see
what's going on with the Padres with Kevin Acy coming
up in our number two at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
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