The boys get into whether CFB & CBB are headed in the right directions + why are NFL teams so in love with Aaron Rodgers? Fletch & Sammy become detectives when they try to find out which New York Knicks were denied access to Sabrina Carpenter & Madonna's MET GALA party! Tune in
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been Fletcher. That's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It brings a lot of the feeble together now live
from the East six Studios of San Diego Sports seventy
sixty week ago in the Zone with fletching Sammy pop
players on and Marto. Robbie and the New York Knicks
have in common.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
They both got denied from Sabrina Carpenter's met Gala.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
After the party.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
See this wow and Madonna, by the Madonna was a
part of the posting the party.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They got music, so we got music. There we go.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna hosting an after party after the
met gala.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well their besties now after their performance at Coachella where
they they slayed the like a prayer song Madonna's song?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How did they? How did they get jected?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The story goes Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna were throwing a
party and there was a tight two hundred person guest list.
It was a strict there were no if sands and
butts about it. And a couple of the Knicks players
tried to come in. They said, nah, Katie party.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
The party is purpleas reportingt TMZ. The party is being
held at Zero Bond, a member's only club located in
the NoHo neighborhood of New York City.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Sure, I mean I could have gotten in because I'm
a member, but nobody else.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Margot Robbie, Hailey Bieber, and Katy Perry were among those
who did receive who did receive access to the party?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh I thought it said they were mixed.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, they were allowed in.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, the New York Knicks with all the ones who
were nixed. So yeah, the Knicks just came off like
a thirty eight point win and they were like, nah,
eh not coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was this a shot at Shallo May? Probably because Chalome
would never have this. Challo May would get them into
The Knicks. They own this city. That's like a Yankee walk.
Like what I would say. It's Sabrina Carpenter, Dude, She's
on top of the world right now. She is like
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Now she's gonna marry an NFL player, and then all
of a sudden, Travis and Taylor are just gonna be deep,
deep history and it's gonna be Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And her new boom.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You're telling me Jalen Brunson, the King of New York
walks in there and they go, hey, no, no, no, no,
this is invite only.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look if you're not on the list, you're on the list,
and Sabrina Carpenter keeps you locked down, no access, access denied. Nicks,
get the hell out of here so that it is
what it is, all right, and I think they'll move on.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I think they'll be okay. Uh, they ended up going
to party at some other clids.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Is there an athlete in New York that would have
gotten into the park, Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I think Aaron Judge would have gotten I think.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Aaron Judge gets in.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Does just Jackson Dark kidding?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know, Jackson dar Jay Dart see cam'skataboo would have
just ran over the bouncer.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, who's gonna tellus Camp's scatab but you can't come in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Jackson Dart probably gets in. Malik Neighbors is questionable. Saquan
back in the day when he was still a giant,
gets in no matter what.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Odell definitely probably could still get in.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Odell probably was there. I'd be surprised if he wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If I'm being honest, Odell is still like one of
the most popular athletes in New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would know what Nicks like, was this I.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't know if Eli Manning gets in, was this.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Tyler Kohleik who decided like, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go to the party, Like I get that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Like if it was Karl Anthony Town's, I'd be like, yeah,
it makes sense keep him away from all this.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wait, I don't want Carl my party.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Jalen Brunson walks up, goes, hey, I want to pop
in here, and he just coming off a win destroying
the Sixers at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He can't get into the NoHo party.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I feel like it'd be different if like Ben Steller
and Timothy Shallome walked up with three or four Nicks,
you know what I mean. I feel like that way
they get in. But if it's just the Knicks, they
don't get in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Interesting you think.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ben Stiller gets in with Sabrina Carpenter of Madonna.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ben Steeler was probably there. They're probably big fans of
Severance like the rest of us. But no, the Knicks
to not get in, all right? It is San Diego
Sports seven sixty. I apologize about the met Gala talk
but it is important stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And when you know it's it's trending everywhere. Go check TMZ.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The met gala was outrageous by the way, idiklume what
she was wearing. I don't I don't even know how
to describe it. It looked like her outfit was alive.
But she looked great. I guess she looked great.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A five eight.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
That is a fantastic text. Unfortunately we cannot read that
on air. But that is a beautiful text about.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I want to read it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hey, you have at it. Here's the way to do this.
Hang on aon, No, the brain a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, can't read that text. You're right seven zero four
seven zero, So tell your message with team.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
A five eight nice work.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Six one nine.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We can't read that either. Six You can't make Homelanner references.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All right, let's talk about this Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
There are rumors today, and there were rumors last night,
and there were rumors a couple of days ago. They
keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger as the week
goes on, that Aaron Rodgers may be finishing his career with.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What the Arizona Cardinals so Kendrick Bourne is I didn't
even know Kendrick Bourne was on the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now is he on the Cardinals now?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wide receivers bounced around the league forever.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He was on the Niners for a couple of seasons,
that he was on the Patriots, and he was back
with the Niners. Now he's with the Arizona Cardinals. Apparently
he is kind of leading the campaign out there saying,
Aaron Rodgers, we'd love to have you in Arizona. Marvin
Harrison Junior is there. They just drafted Jeremiah Love is there.
They do seem like a team that's maybe a couple
of years away. Rodgers maybe can jump start the rebuild.
(05:03):
I don't know if that's the case. Why, I'll tell
you why. There's no shot Aaron Rodgers is going to
the Arizona Cardinals. That NFC West is probably the best
division in football next year. They got three teams who
are in the top five of Super Bowl adds for
next year, like the Niners, the Rams and the Seahawks
are all three gonna be big time teams next year.
Does Aaron Rodgers actually want to play his last season
of football where he's going over in his division. I
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don't know if that's the case. Look, d AFC North
isn't easy easier either. But you're talking about the Cardinals
their roster versus the Steelers roster. I'm taking the Steelers
all day.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Text line. We'll get to you in a minute, because
we got a lot of texts coming in about the Gallup.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Text line, clean it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Up Texas seven zero four seven zeros. How you can
metch with a team. Here's the thing, Kendrick Bourne. I
get why he wants Aaron Rodgers because he wants his
numbers to get inflated in. Aaron Rodgers is certainly a
better option than Jacoby Brissett or Carson Beck out of Miami.
But if you're the Arizona Cardinals, you're so close to
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being able to jump start your franchise.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
How many quarterbacks the next year's draft? I just read
a new mock draft yesterday. There was even more.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They have, like seven they have off the jump Arch
Manning Texas, more Dante Moore, Oregon, Leonoris Sellers. You got
a saying the local kid at Ohio State, CJ. Carr
from Notre Dame, Miama, from USC there is going to
be it's gonna be more like the old drafts next year,
where we're gonna have the top four picks, probably be quarterbacks.
There's on a Cardinals draft. They presumably big time running back.
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He was unbelievable at Notre Dame. I see no reason
why I wouldn't be in the NFL. You have a
young receiver and Marvin Harrison junior, young tight end, Trade McBride,
a young defense that's decent.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Here's here's the.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Best part about it is if you suck this year
and Jacoby Pressett as the quarterback. To your point, you're
playing in a division with the Niners, rams in Seahawks,
so your record is probably not gonna be all that good,
and you're gonna be able to pick Arch Manning or
Danteymore one of these guys. And then you have this young,
fun offense kind of like New York has they built
with Malik Neighbors, and now you got dart in Skataboo
(07:04):
and all these young pieces coming around. Aaron, if I'm
Aaron Rodgers and my only two picks are Pittsburgh and
the Cardinals, a neither on a Super Bowl window because
Pittsburgh's probably getting beat by the Ravens and or the
Bengals in their division. But if I was the Cardinals,
I would not want him, just like if I was
the Steelers, I would not want him. I want to
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lose as many games as possible to get a top pick.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now, there is kind of a serious debate that I
just played out in my brain while Sammy was talking
with Who would you rather have to lose you more games?
Aaron Rodgers or Jacoby Brissett. I don't know that the
answer is cut and dry, Like I don't know that
it's easy if I'm drafting those two to think who
would be better for my team next year, Jacoby Brissett
or Aaron Rodgers. I truthfully don't know. They feel like
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they're on the same level right now for me, Jacoby Presset,
Aaron Rodgers. Like Aaron Rodgers is gonna be a Hall
of Famer, Aaron Rodgers one of the most talented people
to ever pick up a football. That is all true,
But at this point in his career, Aaron Rodgers or
Jacoby Brissett, if I'm drafting one for just next year,
there's an argument.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To be made for Jacoby Presset well, and I would
if I was the Cardinals. You took Carson Beck in
the second round. Now I get the Carson Beck as limitations,
and you played at Georgia, went to Miami, but he
did lead a team in national Championship game, and a
couple of years ago. By the way, Carson Beck was
supposed to be one of those top five picks. Now
there's limitations. He's not super fast, he's not the most
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accurate player. But if you're gonna roll with someone, play Beck.
See what he if you If you found something and
he becomes the five star prospect that he was at
a high school, then you look like the GM of
a decade. Then Arizona looks like they just nailed everything
in the draft. If not, if he sucks kind of
like I make this argument with Shador Sanders, then you're
picking a top tier quarterback next year rolling with an
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aging veteran. The only team that I saw it makes
sense for an aging veteran Aaron Rodgers and the spots
already been filled was the Minnesota Vikings. Because the Minnesota Vikings,
had they had Aaron Rodgers, you would go all right
with Jefferson and Addison Hockinson and all the talent with
Brian Flores running that defense, they might be able to
be something, but the Cardinals and Steelers are going nowhere.
(09:11):
So I think Rogers just kind of in no man's
land right now.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
A quarterback room with Aaron Rodgers, Jacoby Brussett, Gardner Minshew
and Carson Beck. Sign me up, Arizona. You are in
a good spot with those four guys, all right. At
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
Lunch break is here.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Ready to go back to the office and knock the
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Speaker 1 (10:06):
Sakes time for the top stories of the day three
three all right, we're just.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Gonna read these out of context. Sixty one nine He
needs some milk A five eight. Jordan Clarkson thinks he's
a fashion diva, so I guarantee you he led the
group of nicks six one nine. The met galas sucked
six one nine. You could read my text eight five
eight never mind six one nine.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Brunson at Carpenter's party. He needs some milk. There we go.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Jalen Brunson is married and has a podcast with his wife.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Look, I just wanted to make good on our promise
to read all the text there was I left out.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hey, these texts are beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Our listeners run this show, and we welcome you. Seven
zero four sec.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I really wanted to know what knicks were there. I bet,
I bet you're now Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Clarkson makes a lot of sense, and he probably filmed
a TikTok outside of it while they were not letting
him into the bar.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
He was a laker though before so he probably has
had a little insider access.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You know, maybe where are we going, Sammy?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
All right, So the College of Playoff now, the the
voter of directors are looking at expansion to twenty four teams.
Twenty four teams in the college football playoff. This comes
after the college basketball is now expanding to seventy six.
They would be getting rid of conference title games and
the elimination of league title games. But twenty four teams
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would get in, the top eight would receive buys, and
then that the nine through sixteen, if I have this right,
would get to play their first game at their home stadium.
So twenty four teams get in. But there is a
benefit to being a higher seed, the one seed versus
the twenty four seed.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So he's talking about a twenty four team bracket for
college football playoff. Does that not essentially kill the bowl game?
The ball game is dead in this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
One hundred percent the bowl game. The ball game, you
could argue is.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Dead now probably, but the ball game is officially officially
dead in this scenario. If twenty four teams are getting
into the college actually.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
To be fair with more, there'd be another round of playoffs. Technically,
some of these bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Grunds, So you're including bowl games as playoffs.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The bowl will become a playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Sure, and that's fine for whatever that counts for. But
I'm saying the local bowl games like there the Alamo
Bule probably ceases to exist. The uh, what the what
the astecs played the Albuquerque Bowl probably.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Ceases to Albuquerque Bowl is definitely not making the college okay.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And I do think that that's bad. But you can
make the argument that those games are already dead. I
don't hate this. Logistically, I guess it makes sense. Twenty
four teams seems like so much are you taking games
away from the regular season. All this needs to be
factored in. Like I know you said conference championships are
going away. That takes care of one game. They probably
need to slice two or three games off the regular season.
(12:44):
More playoffs is probably a good thing. It lessens the
aperture on what college football teams you care about. I
think that's a negative thing. There's a lot still the
playout here.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, on a local angle, it's good for San Diego State.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Sure, because San Diego State is gonna be one of
those teams can benefit from this if they go out
and win the Pac twelve, they probably get a seat
at the.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Table, and a team like playing in the Pac twelve
what it's going to be. They don't have the opportunity
to play in Alabama or in Ohio State because anyone
in the Pac twelve is not at that level yet
as a college football program. But now of San Diego State,
where to schedule a tough schedule. Maybe they played UCLA,
maybe they played sc maybe they grabbed a couple of
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games as well as their Pack twelve schedule. You go
undefeated or have one loss, you have an argument to
be in the top twenty four teams. I like this
twenty four teams could be a little excessive. I mean
I would ideally put it at sixteen. But I think
what it does in college football is it expands. Five
star quarterbacks are not going to just sit on the
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bench at Georgia or Alabama or Ohio State like it
was when it's the top four. Some of that has
been expanded, has has gone down now with the Top twelve.
But think about the top twenty four teams this year.
You would have added Notre Dame in the field, Texas, Vanderbilt, Pavia,
USC would have been in the field. You would have
a lot of extra teams being in the field at
big national brands, and I think it widens the college
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football scope a little bit to the amount of teams
that can actually win something. I think this would be
really good for the sport, and I think college football
spanning helps it. I don't know the same can be
said for college basketball.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The college basketball one is getting more interesting by the way.
Maybe we could talk about that a little bit later
on the show. But some of the little caveats they've
thrown into the college basketball thing, I'm not I'm actually
liking it a little bit more. But Sammy, what's next.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
James Harden Cavs lose by ten points last night, one
eleven to one on one. James Harden goes six of
fifteen from the field, one to seven from three.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was he at the party?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
He was probably at a different kind of party in
the in Houston. In Houston, Yeah, in age down before
the game and after the game.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But his private jet bill is outrageous. He's still flying
back to Houston all the time. He's got to make
sure his jersey's still up in the rafters at whatever
Houston strip club. He'spent one point eight million, one point
eight MILLI he.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Was trying to get traded to the Magic just so
we could play at Magic.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
City, though I think he just ordered that many wings
and waffles and everything that they have at Trip Club buffets.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It was a very innocent night.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm sure the uh where does James Harden though, once
again not coming up clutch in the playoffs? Where does
James Harden stacked for you? An all time playoff choke
artist in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I mean, it's pretty easy to look at his former
teammates as well, like him, Russell Westbrook, I kept that, Yeah,
that whole core three with OKC, the team that was
probably better than anybody in the regular season and just
kept running up against Golden State. You can look at
all three of those guys and give all three of
them credits on the top ten all time playoff chokers list,
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with KD, James Harden, Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
James Harden man for the team that we put him in,
the last American to win an NBA MVP.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
He doesn't come up clutching the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Now, that's a good point bringing up Okay, see team
Russell Westbrook has not been in the playoffs, Katie has
with one team, with one team with Klay Thompson and
Curry and Draymond. I mean that's you know, it's easy
to look at with those guys. So James Harden, though,
we thought for a cup of coffee there that James
Harden was one of the next greats of American basketball
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for about a decade ago and consistently, whether it was
with you know, Houston or Philly, or with Brooklyn or
now now you know, with the Cavs or the Clippers,
he just has not come up big and clutch moments
and it's takes a lot of shots. Then he kind
of went to being more of a traditional point guard
with the Clippers. Harden is a great regular season player,
(16:42):
all right, College basketball expanding. I'm starting to come around
on it a little bit. Still don't love it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We'll get to it. On the other side at San
Diego Sports seven.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Sixty live on Nineheart Radio app there's another aging quarterback
and Russell Wilson who is apparently mulling a contract offer
with the New York Jets to be Geno Smith, the
chosen one his backup quarterback, or to move over to
CBS and join the CBS, NFL.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
What a vo Gino and Russ Seattle Legends? Well, yeah, Seattle,
I did you put that together? Seattle Legends, Pete Carroll's
quarterback tree.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's them. So I don't know if it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But Russell Wilson mulling TV or backup QB in New York.
I seriously like, I do think Russ would actually be
pretty good on TV. He is incredibly awkward and incredibly cringey,
but when you hear him talk stats, when you hear
him talk football, it is clear that he's a bit
of a savant. For one thing, he is an incredibly
cerebral quarterback. I do think he would do okay if
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CBS propped him up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm have we ever seen a kind of career arc
like Russell Neilson.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Never, Because I.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mean we've seen the Antonio Brown career.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You have a you're literally you are walking around in
a gold Hall of Fame jacket and then you tank
your own right, But a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Of those were because of a off the field. This
year a case of some kind. Russell Wilson went.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
From top five quarterback to nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I was I was living in Seattle when they drafted him,
and when when they took the team in Super Bowl
the Beast Mode run the year before against the Saints.
I mean that city was on fire and Russell Wilson
was like the next big thing, dude.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Russell was thrown for three point fifty on a regular basis, win,
four touchdown passes, deep ball thrower, better than anyone in football.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And he was beloved like he was a beloved player.
And then it is funny after he goes to Denver,
you know, Baldwin comes out, doesn't like him.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Richard Sherman, Marshawn says some stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Pete Carroll was kind of you know, Pete's never gonna
ruffle too many feathers, but didn't wasn't have the most
glowing remarks.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, Pete Carroll not one to ruffle feathers.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What what's wrong with Pete Carroll?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him and Jim Harball they hate each other.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, I guess that's true. I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's like a three decade feud at this point. But Pete,
he usually says the right thing is sure, Yeah, especially
about players. But Russell Wilson, it's crazy because it's one
thing to like have a drop in play, right, But
to go from like kind of a cool guy married
to Sierra, a number one quarterback in your league for
a decade in the NFC West, to go to Denver
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released one subway commercial which was the most cringing thing
anyone's ever seen, and then also suck at football, and
then also have rumors come out about how you want
a cubicle, about how you want all this special treatment
from the Denver Broncos. It was just a year of
weird for Russell Wilson, and that corresponded with his decline
in play. I also wonder if people look at Russell
Wilson as for other quarterbacks today, because Russell Wilson was
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one of the few first few guys he was in
that class with RG three where he Russell Wilson uses legs.
He was one of the quarterbacks that he would pick
up first sounds. When the NFL started changing to where
running quarterbacks started becoming a much bigger factor of the NFL,
he was kind of on the forefront of that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And I shake out about.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And text line, text line, whoa they but Russell Wilson.
You saw what happened when the running ability went away
after a couple of injuries and he became a pure
pocket passer. He was never the same guy, whether that
was with the Giants or with Denver or at the
end of Seattle. And you wonder how that impacts Lamar
moving forward, a guy like you know, maybe Jackson Dart
(20:25):
at one point Jade Daniels bow knicks to an extent
like some quarterbacks that heavily Josh Allen to you, Josh
Allen was better than Alan Ever was or than Russ
Ever was. But you wonder how this impacts them later
on their careers because Russell Wilson was a prime example
of when the legs go, not the same quarterback guys
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who spent so much time in their legs Jalen hurts.
You wonder if teams take that into account on their
second and third deals.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Also, what an elite move by Seattle's front office moving
on from him when they did bringing in Geno Smith's.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Being everyone killed it. They were like, what you're training
Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But they move on from him When they did, Denver
pays him the outrageous amount of money that he was
looking for. They bring in Geno Smith as a bridge.
They completely skipped the rebuild. Like they knew even with Russ,
they weren't going to win a super Bowl based on
the roster they had around him. It was a bunch
of aging veterans. The legion of boom was dead and gone.
They knew that they were in for an era of
suck unless they did something dramatic. They moved their quarterback out,
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They hit on a bunch of draft picks. They make
some smart trade. Seattle Seahawks just won the Super Bowl.
That front office, As much as I hate to admit it,
the Seahawks are maybe my least favorite organization in sports,
made genius moves at genius times, including moving on from
a Hall of Fame head coach and moving on from
at that time a potential Hall of Fame quarterback a
year two early, rather than.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your most hated player, Richard Sherman.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, Richard Sherman's weird to me because he finished his
career with the Niners. Oh yeah, he does a freaking
Niners podcast now, and every time I see it, I'm like,
why is this guy talking about our team? It is
bizarre to me, the Richard Sherman thing, And I don't
necessarily know how to feel about it. But yes, him
wagging the finger of Michael Crabtree's face, him completely owning
the Niners for about six years.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I can't stand right getting cooked by Watkins on the highline.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then he's at the Niners and he kind of
sucks as a cornerback.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It was like he was still haunting us. All right,
it's San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He meant to talk about college basketball now, but we
got some breaking NFL news, which on this show between
these two hours means something. So we'll go back to
college basketball coming up next in San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening live on my Heart radio app. Was it
worth it? Seven to six?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's what I want to know? Or did you membrny?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I mean, he's got right on the radio. He's he's
got a memory that will never leave him.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Did you wake up the next morning seven six so
and be like, did I actually just spend six hundred
and fifty dollars last night? That's what I'd be asking,
Like where else could you have put that six hundred
and fifty dollars?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, but you don't you put it in a roth ira.
In an ira, you don't have the memories.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
By the way, the IRA is looking pretty good these days.
Is something good is happening somewhere? I don't know, all right,
San Diego Sports seven sixty Ben Fletcher, Samul long with
you till two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
When we first talked about the NCAA tournament expanding from
sixty eight teams to seven six teams, it wasn't super
clear how that expansion was gonna happen. So you remember
we got that text that day saying, oh my god,
you're gonna get one versus nineteen teams, Like that's gonna
be a disaster. Probably, yes, that would have been a disaster.
In the days following it, it wasn't huge news, but
it did get clarified a little bit of what the
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expansion would actually look like. And it essentially, and we
haven't talked about this yet, but essentially it's expanding the
play in tournament from the normal the first four the
first four, so expanding the first four to the first twelve,
so i'd like the first twelve games, it's almost gonna
be like a separate bracket. So instead of having like
there's still gonna be one through sixteen for the actual
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March Madness Tournament. But the first twelve is gonna be
the play in bracket, and so there will be more
like you know how on your bracket before you get it.
There's like question marks on certain boxes because you don't
know who's coming out of the first four. Well, now
it's just gonna be there's more question marks when we
first get the bracket, and more teams have a chance
to fight their way in.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Which I like more.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I like it less than if they have to bracket alone,
but I like it more than what we initially thought
it was going to be. Where you're actually expanding the
field of sixty four.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Right, I still don't like that they're expanding because I
think it dilutes some of the college basketball regular season.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But in terms of that, well, I.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Think what it's going to lead to is more of
these conference champions out of the Big West might end
up in this round US twelve beforehand.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right if you if you win some scrub conference.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Miami of Ohio is the perfect descriptor to me, like
they belong in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
My thing like, like, so let's take Sanego se last year,
San Diego State, New Mexico, Auburn.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They would absolutely be Absolutely those three teams would have
made it into this first one.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But I also like where obviously all San Diego State
fans I went to the school, I want them to
do well, but if we're going off resumes, I liked
that they would have to play another game because because
if there is something too, if you're not in the
top you know, sixty eight or in the you know
top what is it, thirty two of at large bit
you know whatever it is, or forty eight.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean I liked that they did you have to
play another game. Now. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
We've seen teams like Tech that have played in the
first four last year end up getting through the first weekend.
UCLA was the famous one where they were the eleven
State Johnny Jewsang and Hotkaz and they went all the
way to the final four and lost to Gonzaga. I
like that you have to play another games so you
don't get just rewarded for you get rewarded for being in.
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But it's still is tougher if you don't play a
great regular season.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The more conversations I've had about this with more people,
I am actually starting to come around on it a
little bit. I think it could make a little bit
more fun. But we'll see. No one's gonna know how
this looks until it actually happens. It does look like
it's gonna happen this year, by the way, like it's
basically all but done. They need to sign some paperwork
across some t's dots, some eyes, and this is gonna
be happening next year. So you look at the situation
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that San Diego State is in next year, Well, it's
the new PAC twelve, right, which actually is a pretty
badass basketball conference. San Diego State, Gonzaga, Boise State, who
has been good several years in a row, now like
it's gonna be a very good basketball conference. There is
a chance that in you're one of the Pac twelve,
talking about four teams getting in because of this expansion,
maybe two teams who would be in the tournament no
matter what one whoever wins the Pack twelve next year, Gonzago,
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San Diego State, Boys State, whoever it is who wins
the Pac twelve next year, and then probably two other
teams who might not have gotten in on a normal
year will get in this year because of that.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That's what I wonder.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
If they're gonna do if they're gonna try to where
the sixteen seeds now.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Well, it's still all based on net rankings, which is
pretty unilateral across the board. It's the teams from the
Sunbelt Conference get treated similarly to the teams in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's just based on who you've.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Played and you who you've played against, strength of schedule,
offensive defensive efficiency all gets packed into it.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well, college basketball is telling us is the last two
years of a lack of upsets they think is going
to continue. Right, That's why this is happening because they're
going listen, the only way that we're gonna get upsets
is if Bartannego State all burning New Mexico all missed
the cut. San Diego State, auburtn in New Mexico were
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better than a fourth of the teams in the field,
or even more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You put any of them up against Miami of Ohio
who went thirty and one. They went right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So they're trying to get more established programs in the tournaments.
Even though San Diego State didn't play well when they
stepped up in competition, that's still as a team last
year that was full of guys that have as NBA
potential or guys that ended up getting deals elsewhere, you know,
in your Miles Birds or Magoo Guass, your guys like
that Resticks and Waters. So I do think we're gonna
start seeing less upsets. Maybe this counteracts it where you're
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getting not the quote Cinderella runs of no name schools
that no one's ever heard of going on these crazy runs,
but you're getting your you know, lower tier SEC teams
PAC twelve middle of the PAC twelve teams beating a
top ten Big ten team. That's more plausible than some
big Sky team rolling into the tournament and knocking off
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you know, Michigan or Duke or a school like that.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So I like that better.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I still don't think overall thesion, I don't think it'll
hurt the tournament. The tournament will still be great.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You're still gonna get the sixty fourteen tournament that begins
on the Thursday and then ends on a Monday a
few weeks later.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I think that's still gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And I think it will add even more buzz in
the first four.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That may, and it gives CBS another week and a
half to sell.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I don't think it's going to hurt the month of March.
Now that my problem with the expansion of the tournament
is college basketball. For a lot of schools, now santing
ST's a little bit different because they've been on the
cut line for a lot of these years. But a
lot of schools like Duke Knows, no, they're making the tournament.
It's about where they're gonna be seeded. So unless you're
a college basketball nerd and they're worried about seed lions,
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it can kind of be a little like, yeah, I'll
tune into this in February or March.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
All right, every Buddy Rich on YouTube says, aren't the
conference championships technically already play ins? If you win your
conference tournay, you get an auto bid. Yeah, see Rich,
that's what I'm worried about. Might be going away. So
the winner of the Sun Belt may not in this
new era, because we don't technically know how they're gonna
divvy everything up. The winner of the Sun Belt, the
winner of the Big West. They may say, well, now
there's more seats at the table. We're gonna slot them
into this twelve. The first thing, if they get in
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the first twelve, right, So if they change that I'm
less in on it, but they could be happening. Who knows,
because I would think that college basketball and college football
are translating more to a we're worried about the Power
four and we want them to be on the main
stage of everything, and we don't care as much about
the others.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Because at the end of the day, they draw the money,
right like everyone. It's fun when you see an upset
Cinderella run, but it will it will theoretically create more
upsets in the first weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
At least, the more opportunity for upsets, and our buddy
Rich also said, Gavin freaking the Sheets. Let's go, uh yeah,
if you're not watching, if you want a quick update,
Gavin Sheets hit a foul ball that went about a
million feet into McCovey Cove up in San Francisco, and
then the very next pitch hit a home run about
a million feet into McCovey Cove. Like it was very,
very Bondsian. If you remember those highlights from the then
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pack bell Ac and t Oracle Park up in San Francisco,
it looked Gavin Sheets with that lefty swing on a
high time fastball. It looked like a Barry Bond style
home run. So good for Gavin.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
For you you get killed up in the Bay comparing
Gavin Sheets to Barry Bonds.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Come at me, Bay Area. I think I win that
fight with most of your residences, all right. At San
Diego Sports seven sixty, Ben Fletcher, Sammy Log we are
gonna wrap this thing up on the other side. Plus
get you ready for going along with Sammy Big hour
coming up next shape for Instley. What will be your
drive home from three to six San Diego Sports seven sixty.
You're listening live on myheart radio app e Chuki los On.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's a shame they can't figure that out, man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, clearly there's something off right.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It's this is a little bit to me the Coamingo
Warriors situation, Like, Yeah, it feels similar, and sometimes the
best thing to do with that is just to move on,
and it's probably better for the player and for the organization.
So if something like we obviously don't know everything that happened,
everything that went down, clearly there is something we don't
know with Chuki Lozano. But maybe they work things out.
I doubt it. It kind of seems like everything we've
(30:54):
heard from the club, everything we've heard from Darren is
that this relationship is done well.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And you would think that given the last month and
a half of the offense has been the problem, right
you know, you know Pellegrino has been good, but.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You know, our guy uh Invertson is kind of docinating
right now.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Like they got a lot of talent on the winger
spots and the striker. But you do feel like if
you had a player like Chucky Lozano is certainly a
game changer. I mean, he's not playing on the Mexican
national team because he hasn't been playing with with SDFC,
so he hasn't been able to kind of gear up.
Could have gone overseas and played, but you know, I.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Mean largely you got as far as you did in
the postseason last year without him, So I like, I
don't really know where to stand on that, because clearly
there was something detrimental to the team that was going on,
and they don't want him to be a part of
the future, which is fine. It is just weird that
he's still kind of in the universe.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Let's see here a text line A five eight's asking
can you run through long shots one more time? Dammy,
why don't you pull that up while I read the
other A five eighths x that says Gavin big meat
freaking to sheet taking the Vanilla Barry Bonds aka the
home run Homo sap. Yeah, Gavin sheets man with a bomb.
Earlier today, I d to McCovey cove always fun to
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see Gavin freak into sheets, get into one a little bit.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yet, long shots, I doo got it right here, all right.
So we got that.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
The the Habs, the Canadians, the Montreal Canadians take it
on the Buffalo Sabers. I like the over five and
a half. Both really young teams, a lot of talent,
some of the stars though for this year at Caulfield
for the Canadians, Tage Thompson for the Sabers. In the
last series for both teams against the Lightning and the
Bruins didn't score much and yet they still scored a
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lot of goals. So I like the over five and
a half. The night line came down from six and
a half over five and a half. I like the
over two thirteen and a half in the Sixers and
the Knicks. I know Mbd's not playing. I actually think
that that strengthens the Sixers a little bit and they're
able to go a little bit more small ball, get
edge Combe more shots. I don't know why they don't
give him more shots. He's one of the best players
in the team. Just because he's a rookie, he should be.
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He's come up big in big playoffs spots so far
this year. He needs to take a lot of shots,
and I, alongside Maxie, I like the over there. I
also like the over I gotta at two sixteen and
a half is now up to two seventeen and a half.
Of the Spurs and the Timberwolves, I would assume back
tonight from Minnesota. Anthony I Overtch is still working his
way back from injury, and I don't think Wemby and
Daron Fox play as bad as they did in Game one.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So I like I like three overs tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I like it a lot. I really do.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Now, I will say, if we're talking about Stanley Cup playoffs,
if you're like me and you don't really follow hockey
all that closely during the regular season, do yourself a
favor and turn on some hockey tonight.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You want to see people working their ass off you
want to see a team all pulling in one direction,
working as hard as they possibly can. I'd like the
Buffalo game tonight. It's a perfect example. It's America versus Canada.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
You can get behind Buffalo tonight. So if you're looking
for something to root for, here Padres are playing in
the middle of the day to day and you're not
knowing what to do tonight because the Sixers have already
given up on their series, and you're like, what am
I gonna watch?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Turn on some Buffalo Montreal.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I promise you you are gonna see people working their
asses off to try to get a win. Hockey is
a fun sport man, especially this time the year. A
lot of people will tell you it's the best playoff
in sport, and it's hard to disagree. Like it's in
the hockey, the way that these guys work makes it so.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Much more well.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's also comparable to.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Major League Baseball playoffs in that the more talented team
doesn't always win, right. That doesn't aways happen the NBA,
doesn't aways happen in the NFL, but especially in the NBA. Now,
this year's kind of an outlier because we've seen seem
some big upsets, mainly the Sixers taking down the Celtics
some series like that, but typically over seven games, the
better team is likely going to win. Now if an
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injury happens and obviously changes things, but outside the Lakers
beating the Rockets and the Sixers beating the Celtics, a
lot of chalk happened in the playoffs. Hockey's fun because
just like a like the Diamondbacks a few years ago
were a perfect example, Zach Gallon and Kelly Merril. Kelly
got on absolute hitters and became two the best pitchers
in baseball. And although the Diamondbacks weren't the most talented, team,
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ran through the Dodgers, ran through the Phillies, and then
got waxed by the Rangers. The hockey's like that, you
have a hot goaltender, you can make up for a
lot of deficiencies in a lot of ways. So the
first round is very exciting because just because like the
President's Trophies for the best record the most points in
hockey in historically, that's the Avalanche. This year, they don't
win the Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I can't believe we almost forgot to do this.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We have like three minutes left on the show and
we forgot to get to one of the most important
stories in all of sports today. Sammy, what are we doing?
What it would like You're kind of fired for this one, honestly, bro.
We got life saving news out of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yes, the referees and the NFL have come to an agreement.
We will not have scabs to start the twenty twenty
six NFL season. We are not going to go through
multiple weeks where you have awful officiating, ruining games, ruining
playoff hopes. Literally, the actual NFL officials will be ready
to go for Week one. They're putting the finishing touches
on the existing CBA between the NFL and the NFL
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Referees Association and the Players Association. There is a new
collective bargaining agreement that will be signed I May thirty.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
First, sure this was getting ridiculous, Like well, like, let's
just let's get this result.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
We didn't need a group of six gentlemen in a
booth in New York watching over every call that every
ref made, making sure the right ones called this is.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
We didn't need a recap of the Packers and the
Seahawks from Monday night football in twenty twenty twelve, crazy
touchdown took it away.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, yeah, this where you.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Had one guy with his hands straight up in the air,
the other guys signaling incomplete at the exact same time.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Like I know, officials get a lot of crap in
every sport, and the NFL officials get a lot of crap.
I promise you, the ones who are part of the
association are much better than the ones who they would
be bringing in to replace them. This is very good
news for the NFL because, like Sammy was just talking
about with college basketball in the NFL, what happens if
you start zero and two in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Your chances of making the playoffs, God about nineteen percent.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank you, Like it really is from week one that
pedal is to the metal man. And if you have
anything that's messing up that isn't involving the twenty two
guys who were on the field at a time, like
the ref's, the best thing you could say about them
is when you don't notice they're there in a game.
And if that's the case, like you would notice the scabs,
I promise you. And so having the actual NFL officials there,
very big news for the NFL, very excited they got
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this time.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
You on a different note. You brought up a good
point yesterday.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
So if people haven't seen it, Skip Bayless is making
his return to Man. He the first Take on Friday
with steven A for a one time, one time show.
And I was telling Ben, I was like, are you
gonna be watching? And He's like, there's guarantee you going
to be some Cowboys news that break tomorrow, probably about
the three o'clock hour, four o'clock hour that we'll be
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rolling into first take in the morning. Because we know
Jerry Jones loves himself some media.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So what day it's happening on Friday?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So Friday morning, all of a sudden, the ESPN and Skips,
steven A and Skip have mended fences and everything's hunky dory.
He's coming back for a one time only event. Bring
in sports radio listeners back, bring in sports TV watchers back.
I promise you Jerry knows about this. I promise you
there's gonna like I don't know if it's gonna be
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uh George Pickens or if it's Dak Prescott Roth. Something
with the Cowboys is happening between today and tomorrow to
where That's why Skip Bayless will be on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
All right, Sammy, what do you got coming up in
the next hour we got.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Out, We're gonna get a little bit into Uh, I'm
gonna take my lumps for the Lakers little NBA playoffs.
I'll keep updated on the pottery game, and then I'll
get a little bit more in this college basketball college
football expanding and whether it's better for both sports.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And can Fernando Tazi Junior please hit a home run
today because I would be rich if he does. All right,
at San Diego Sports seven sixty, I will see you tomorrow, Sammy,
will see you coming up next. Your drive home is
Shaeffer and Sliwa have a lot of fun over the
next five or six hours at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Thank you for being here live on Myheart radio app.
I've been Fletcher. That's Sammy Long.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It brings a lot of the feeble together now live
from the East six Studios of San Diego Sports seventy
sixty week ago in the Zone with fletching Sammy pop
players on and Marto. Robbie and the New York Knicks
have in common.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
They both got denied from Sabrina Carpenter's met Gala.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
After the party.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
See this wow and Madonna, by the Madonna was a
part of the posting the party.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They got music, so we got music. There we go.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna hosting an after party after the
met gala.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well their besties now after their performance at Coachella where
they they slayed the like a prayer song Madonna's song?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How did they? How did they get jected?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The story goes Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna were throwing a
party and there was a tight two hundred person guest list.
It was a strict there were no if sands and
butts about it. And a couple of the Knicks players
tried to come in. They said, nah, Katie party.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
The party is purpleas reportingt TMZ. The party is being
held at Zero Bond, a member's only club located in
the NoHo neighborhood of New York City.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Sure, I mean I could have gotten in because I'm
a member, but nobody else.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Margot Robbie, Hailey Bieber, and Katy Perry were among those
who did receive who did receive access to the party?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh I thought it said they were mixed.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
No, they were allowed in.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, the New York Knicks with all the ones who
were nixed. So yeah, the Knicks just came off like
a thirty eight point win and they were like, nah,
eh not coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was this a shot at Shallo May? Probably because Chalome
would never have this. Challo May would get them into
The Knicks. They own this city. That's like a Yankee walk.
Like what I would say. It's Sabrina Carpenter, Dude, She's
on top of the world right now. She is like
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Now she's gonna marry an NFL player, and then all
of a sudden, Travis and Taylor are just gonna be deep,
deep history and it's gonna be Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And her new boom.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You're telling me Jalen Brunson, the King of New York
walks in there and they go, hey, no, no, no, no,
this is invite only.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look if you're not on the list, you're on the list,
and Sabrina Carpenter keeps you locked down, no access, access denied. Nicks,
get the hell out of here so that it is
what it is, all right, and I think they'll move on.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I think they'll be okay. Uh, they ended up going
to party at some other clids.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Is there an athlete in New York that would have
gotten into the park, Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I think Aaron Judge would have gotten I think.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Aaron Judge gets in.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Does just Jackson Dark kidding?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know, Jackson dar Jay Dart see cam'skataboo would have
just ran over the bouncer.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, who's gonna tellus Camp's scatab but you can't come in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Jackson Dart probably gets in. Malik Neighbors is questionable. Saquan
back in the day when he was still a giant,
gets in no matter what.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Odell definitely probably could still get in.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Odell probably was there. I'd be surprised if he wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If I'm being honest, Odell is still like one of
the most popular athletes in New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would know what Nicks like, was this I.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't know if Eli Manning gets in, was this.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Tyler Kohleik who decided like, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go to the party, Like I get that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Like if it was Karl Anthony Town's, I'd be like, yeah,
it makes sense keep him away from all this.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wait, I don't want Carl my party.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Jalen Brunson walks up, goes, hey, I want to pop
in here, and he just coming off a win destroying
the Sixers at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He can't get into the NoHo party.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I feel like it'd be different if like Ben Steller
and Timothy Shallome walked up with three or four Nicks,
you know what I mean. I feel like that way
they get in. But if it's just the Knicks, they
don't get in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Interesting you think.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ben Stiller gets in with Sabrina Carpenter of Madonna.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ben Steeler was probably there. They're probably big fans of
Severance like the rest of us. But no, the Knicks
to not get in, all right? It is San Diego
Sports seven sixty. I apologize about the met Gala talk
but it is important stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And when you know it's it's trending everywhere. Go check TMZ.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The met gala was outrageous by the way, idiklume what
she was wearing. I don't I don't even know how
to describe it. It looked like her outfit was alive.
But she looked great. I guess she looked great.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A five eight.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
That is a fantastic text. Unfortunately we cannot read that
on air. But that is a beautiful text about.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I want to read it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hey, you have at it. Here's the way to do this.
Hang on aon, No, the brain a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, can't read that text. You're right seven zero four
seven zero, So tell your message with team.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
A five eight nice work.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Six one nine.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We can't read that either. Six You can't make Homelanner references.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All right, let's talk about this Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
There are rumors today, and there were rumors last night,
and there were rumors a couple of days ago. They
keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger as the week
goes on, that Aaron Rodgers may be finishing his career with.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What the Arizona Cardinals so Kendrick Bourne is I didn't
even know Kendrick Bourne was on the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now is he on the Cardinals now?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wide receivers bounced around the league forever.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
He was on the Niners for a couple of seasons,
that he was on the Patriots, and he was back
with the Niners. Now he's with the Arizona Cardinals. Apparently
he is kind of leading the campaign out there saying,
Aaron Rodgers, we'd love to have you in Arizona. Marvin
Harrison Junior is there. They just drafted Jeremiah Love is there.
They do seem like a team that's maybe a couple
of years away. Rodgers maybe can jump start the rebuild.
(05:03):
I don't know if that's the case. Why, I'll tell
you why. There's no shot Aaron Rodgers is going to
the Arizona Cardinals. That NFC West is probably the best
division in football next year. They got three teams who
are in the top five of Super Bowl adds for
next year, like the Niners, the Rams and the Seahawks
are all three gonna be big time teams next year.
Does Aaron Rodgers actually want to play his last season
of football where he's going over in his division. I
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don't know if that's the case. Look, d AFC North
isn't easy easier either. But you're talking about the Cardinals
their roster versus the Steelers roster. I'm taking the Steelers
all day.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Text line. We'll get to you in a minute, because
we got a lot of texts coming in about the Gallup.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Text line, clean it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Up Texas seven zero four seven zeros. How you can
metch with a team. Here's the thing, Kendrick Bourne. I
get why he wants Aaron Rodgers because he wants his
numbers to get inflated in. Aaron Rodgers is certainly a
better option than Jacoby Brissett or Carson Beck out of Miami.
But if you're the Arizona Cardinals, you're so close to
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being able to jump start your franchise.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
How many quarterbacks the next year's draft? I just read
a new mock draft yesterday. There was even more.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They have, like seven they have off the jump Arch
Manning Texas, more Dante Moore, Oregon, Leonoris Sellers. You got
a saying the local kid at Ohio State, CJ. Carr
from Notre Dame, Miama, from USC there is going to
be it's gonna be more like the old drafts next year,
where we're gonna have the top four picks, probably be quarterbacks.
There's on a Cardinals draft. They presumably big time running back.
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He was unbelievable at Notre Dame. I see no reason
why I wouldn't be in the NFL. You have a
young receiver and Marvin Harrison junior, young tight end, Trade McBride,
a young defense that's decent.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Here's here's the.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Best part about it is if you suck this year
and Jacoby Pressett as the quarterback. To your point, you're
playing in a division with the Niners, rams in Seahawks,
so your record is probably not gonna be all that good,
and you're gonna be able to pick Arch Manning or
Danteymore one of these guys. And then you have this young,
fun offense kind of like New York has they built
with Malik Neighbors, and now you got dart in Skataboo
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and all these young pieces coming around. Aaron, if I'm
Aaron Rodgers and my only two picks are Pittsburgh and
the Cardinals, a neither on a Super Bowl window because
Pittsburgh's probably getting beat by the Ravens and or the
Bengals in their division. But if I was the Cardinals,
I would not want him, just like if I was
the Steelers, I would not want him. I want to
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lose as many games as possible to get a top pick.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now, there is kind of a serious debate that I
just played out in my brain while Sammy was talking
with Who would you rather have to lose you more games?
Aaron Rodgers or Jacoby Brissett. I don't know that the
answer is cut and dry, Like I don't know that
it's easy if I'm drafting those two to think who
would be better for my team next year, Jacoby Brissett
or Aaron Rodgers. I truthfully don't know. They feel like
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they're on the same level right now for me, Jacoby Presset,
Aaron Rodgers. Like Aaron Rodgers is gonna be a Hall
of Famer, Aaron Rodgers one of the most talented people
to ever pick up a football. That is all true,
But at this point in his career, Aaron Rodgers or
Jacoby Brissett, if I'm drafting one for just next year,
there's an argument.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To be made for Jacoby Presset well, and I would
if I was the Cardinals. You took Carson Beck in
the second round. Now I get the Carson Beck as limitations,
and you played at Georgia, went to Miami, but he
did lead a team in national Championship game, and a
couple of years ago. By the way, Carson Beck was
supposed to be one of those top five picks. Now
there's limitations. He's not super fast, he's not the most
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accurate player. But if you're gonna roll with someone, play Beck.
See what he if you If you found something and
he becomes the five star prospect that he was at
a high school, then you look like the GM of
a decade. Then Arizona looks like they just nailed everything
in the draft. If not, if he sucks kind of
like I make this argument with Shador Sanders, then you're
picking a top tier quarterback next year rolling with an
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aging veteran. The only team that I saw it makes
sense for an aging veteran Aaron Rodgers and the spots
already been filled was the Minnesota Vikings. Because the Minnesota Vikings,
had they had Aaron Rodgers, you would go all right
with Jefferson and Addison Hockinson and all the talent with
Brian Flores running that defense, they might be able to
be something, but the Cardinals and Steelers are going nowhere.
(09:11):
So I think Rogers just kind of in no man's
land right now.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
A quarterback room with Aaron Rodgers, Jacoby Brussett, Gardner Minshew
and Carson Beck. Sign me up, Arizona. You are in
a good spot with those four guys, all right. At
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
Lunch break is here.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Ready to go back to the office and knock the
socks off your friends, I mean co workers.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Sakes time for the top stories of the day three
three all right, we're just.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Gonna read these out of context. Sixty one nine He
needs some milk A five eight. Jordan Clarkson thinks he's
a fashion diva, so I guarantee you he led the
group of nicks six one nine. The met galas sucked
six one nine. You could read my text eight five
eight never mind six one nine.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Brunson at Carpenter's party. He needs some milk. There we go.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Jalen Brunson is married and has a podcast with his wife.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Look, I just wanted to make good on our promise
to read all the text there was I left out.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hey, these texts are beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Our listeners run this show, and we welcome you. Seven
zero four sec.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
I really wanted to know what knicks were there. I bet,
I bet you're now Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Clarkson makes a lot of sense, and he probably filmed
a TikTok outside of it while they were not letting
him into the bar.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
He was a laker though before so he probably has
had a little insider access.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You know, maybe where are we going, Sammy?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
All right, So the College of Playoff now, the the
voter of directors are looking at expansion to twenty four teams.
Twenty four teams in the college football playoff. This comes
after the college basketball is now expanding to seventy six.
They would be getting rid of conference title games and
the elimination of league title games. But twenty four teams
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would get in, the top eight would receive buys, and
then that the nine through sixteen, if I have this right,
would get to play their first game at their home stadium.
So twenty four teams get in. But there is a
benefit to being a higher seed, the one seed versus
the twenty four seed.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So he's talking about a twenty four team bracket for
college football playoff. Does that not essentially kill the bowl game?
The ball game is dead in this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
One hundred percent the bowl game. The ball game, you
could argue is.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Dead now probably, but the ball game is officially officially
dead in this scenario. If twenty four teams are getting
into the college actually.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
To be fair with more, there'd be another round of playoffs. Technically,
some of these bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Grunds, So you're including bowl games as playoffs.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The bowl will become a playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Sure, and that's fine for whatever that counts for. But
I'm saying the local bowl games like there the Alamo
Bule probably ceases to exist. The uh, what the what
the astecs played the Albuquerque Bowl probably.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Ceases to Albuquerque Bowl is definitely not making the college okay.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And I do think that that's bad. But you can
make the argument that those games are already dead. I
don't hate this. Logistically, I guess it makes sense. Twenty
four teams seems like so much are you taking games
away from the regular season. All this needs to be
factored in. Like I know you said conference championships are
going away. That takes care of one game. They probably
need to slice two or three games off the regular season.
(12:44):
More playoffs is probably a good thing. It lessens the
aperture on what college football teams you care about. I
think that's a negative thing. There's a lot still the
playout here.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, on a local angle, it's good for San Diego State.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Sure, because San Diego State is gonna be one of
those teams can benefit from this if they go out
and win the Pac twelve, they probably get a seat
at the.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Table, and a team like playing in the Pac twelve
what it's going to be. They don't have the opportunity
to play in Alabama or in Ohio State because anyone
in the Pac twelve is not at that level yet
as a college football program. But now of San Diego State,
where to schedule a tough schedule. Maybe they played UCLA,
maybe they played sc maybe they grabbed a couple of
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games as well as their Pack twelve schedule. You go
undefeated or have one loss, you have an argument to
be in the top twenty four teams. I like this
twenty four teams could be a little excessive. I mean
I would ideally put it at sixteen. But I think
what it does in college football is it expands. Five
star quarterbacks are not going to just sit on the
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bench at Georgia or Alabama or Ohio State like it
was when it's the top four. Some of that has
been expanded, has has gone down now with the Top twelve.
But think about the top twenty four teams this year.
You would have added Notre Dame in the field, Texas, Vanderbilt, Pavia,
USC would have been in the field. You would have
a lot of extra teams being in the field at
big national brands, and I think it widens the college
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football scope a little bit to the amount of teams
that can actually win something. I think this would be
really good for the sport, and I think college football
spanning helps it. I don't know the same can be
said for college basketball.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The college basketball one is getting more interesting by the way.
Maybe we could talk about that a little bit later
on the show. But some of the little caveats they've
thrown into the college basketball thing, I'm not I'm actually
liking it a little bit more. But Sammy, what's next.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
James Harden Cavs lose by ten points last night, one
eleven to one on one. James Harden goes six of
fifteen from the field, one to seven from three.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was he at the party?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
He was probably at a different kind of party in
the in Houston. In Houston, Yeah, in age down before
the game and after the game.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But his private jet bill is outrageous. He's still flying
back to Houston all the time. He's got to make
sure his jersey's still up in the rafters at whatever
Houston strip club. He'spent one point eight million, one point
eight MILLI he.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Was trying to get traded to the Magic just so
we could play at Magic.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
City, though I think he just ordered that many wings
and waffles and everything that they have at Trip Club buffets.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It was a very innocent night.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm sure the uh where does James Harden though, once
again not coming up clutch in the playoffs? Where does
James Harden stacked for you? An all time playoff choke
artist in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I mean, it's pretty easy to look at his former
teammates as well, like him, Russell Westbrook, I kept that, Yeah,
that whole core three with OKC, the team that was
probably better than anybody in the regular season and just
kept running up against Golden State. You can look at
all three of those guys and give all three of
them credits on the top ten all time playoff chokers list,
(15:47):
with KD, James Harden, Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
James Harden man for the team that we put him in,
the last American to win an NBA MVP.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
He doesn't come up clutching the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Now, that's a good point bringing up Okay, see team
Russell Westbrook has not been in the playoffs, Katie has
with one team, with one team with Klay Thompson and
Curry and Draymond. I mean that's you know, it's easy
to look at with those guys. So James Harden, though,
we thought for a cup of coffee there that James
Harden was one of the next greats of American basketball
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for about a decade ago and consistently, whether it was
with you know, Houston or Philly, or with Brooklyn or
now now you know, with the Cavs or the Clippers,
he just has not come up big and clutch moments
and it's takes a lot of shots. Then he kind
of went to being more of a traditional point guard
with the Clippers. Harden is a great regular season player,
(16:42):
all right, College basketball expanding. I'm starting to come around
on it a little bit. Still don't love it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We'll get to it. On the other side at San
Diego Sports seven.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Sixty live on Nineheart Radio app there's another aging quarterback
and Russell Wilson who is apparently mulling a contract offer
with the New York Jets to be Geno Smith, the
chosen one his backup quarterback, or to move over to
CBS and join the CBS, NFL.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
What a vo Gino and Russ Seattle Legends? Well, yeah, Seattle,
I did you put that together? Seattle Legends, Pete Carroll's
quarterback tree.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's them. So I don't know if it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But Russell Wilson mulling TV or backup QB in New York.
I seriously like, I do think Russ would actually be
pretty good on TV. He is incredibly awkward and incredibly cringey,
but when you hear him talk stats, when you hear
him talk football, it is clear that he's a bit
of a savant. For one thing, he is an incredibly
cerebral quarterback. I do think he would do okay if
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CBS propped him up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm have we ever seen a kind of career arc
like Russell Neilson.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Never, Because I.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mean we've seen the Antonio Brown career.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You have a you're literally you are walking around in
a gold Hall of Fame jacket and then you tank
your own right, But a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Of those were because of a off the field. This
year a case of some kind. Russell Wilson went.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
From top five quarterback to nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I was I was living in Seattle when they drafted him,
and when when they took the team in Super Bowl
the Beast Mode run the year before against the Saints.
I mean that city was on fire and Russell Wilson
was like the next big thing, dude.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Russell was thrown for three point fifty on a regular basis, win,
four touchdown passes, deep ball thrower, better than anyone in football.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And he was beloved like he was a beloved player.
And then it is funny after he goes to Denver,
you know, Baldwin comes out, doesn't like him.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Richard Sherman, Marshawn says some stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Pete Carroll was kind of you know, Pete's never gonna
ruffle too many feathers, but didn't wasn't have the most
glowing remarks.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, Pete Carroll not one to ruffle feathers.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What what's wrong with Pete Carroll?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him and Jim Harball they hate each other.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, I guess that's true. I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's like a three decade feud at this point. But Pete,
he usually says the right thing is sure, Yeah, especially
about players. But Russell Wilson, it's crazy because it's one
thing to like have a drop in play, right, But
to go from like kind of a cool guy married
to Sierra, a number one quarterback in your league for
a decade in the NFC West, to go to Denver
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released one subway commercial which was the most cringing thing
anyone's ever seen, and then also suck at football, and
then also have rumors come out about how you want
a cubicle, about how you want all this special treatment
from the Denver Broncos. It was just a year of
weird for Russell Wilson, and that corresponded with his decline
in play. I also wonder if people look at Russell
Wilson as for other quarterbacks today, because Russell Wilson was
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one of the few first few guys he was in
that class with RG three where he Russell Wilson uses legs.
He was one of the quarterbacks that he would pick
up first sounds. When the NFL started changing to where
running quarterbacks started becoming a much bigger factor of the NFL,
he was kind of on the forefront of that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And I shake out about.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And text line, text line, whoa they but Russell Wilson.
You saw what happened when the running ability went away
after a couple of injuries and he became a pure
pocket passer. He was never the same guy, whether that
was with the Giants or with Denver or at the
end of Seattle. And you wonder how that impacts Lamar
moving forward, a guy like you know, maybe Jackson Dart
(20:25):
at one point Jade Daniels bow knicks to an extent
like some quarterbacks that heavily Josh Allen to you, Josh
Allen was better than Alan Ever was or than Russ
Ever was. But you wonder how this impacts them later
on their careers because Russell Wilson was a prime example
of when the legs go, not the same quarterback guys
(20:45):
who spent so much time in their legs Jalen hurts.
You wonder if teams take that into account on their
second and third deals.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Also, what an elite move by Seattle's front office moving
on from him when they did bringing in Geno Smith's.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Being everyone killed it. They were like, what you're training
Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But they move on from him When they did, Denver
pays him the outrageous amount of money that he was
looking for. They bring in Geno Smith as a bridge.
They completely skipped the rebuild. Like they knew even with Russ,
they weren't going to win a super Bowl based on
the roster they had around him. It was a bunch
of aging veterans. The legion of boom was dead and gone.
They knew that they were in for an era of
suck unless they did something dramatic. They moved their quarterback out,
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They hit on a bunch of draft picks. They make
some smart trade. Seattle Seahawks just won the Super Bowl.
That front office, As much as I hate to admit it,
the Seahawks are maybe my least favorite organization in sports,
made genius moves at genius times, including moving on from
a Hall of Fame head coach and moving on from
at that time a potential Hall of Fame quarterback a
year two early, rather than.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your most hated player, Richard Sherman.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, Richard Sherman's weird to me because he finished his
career with the Niners. Oh yeah, he does a freaking
Niners podcast now, and every time I see it, I'm like,
why is this guy talking about our team? It is
bizarre to me, the Richard Sherman thing, And I don't
necessarily know how to feel about it. But yes, him
wagging the finger of Michael Crabtree's face, him completely owning
the Niners for about six years.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I can't stand right getting cooked by Watkins on the highline.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then he's at the Niners and he kind of
sucks as a cornerback.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It was like he was still haunting us. All right,
it's San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He meant to talk about college basketball now, but we
got some breaking NFL news, which on this show between
these two hours means something. So we'll go back to
college basketball coming up next in San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening live on my Heart radio app. Was it
worth it? Seven to six?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's what I want to know? Or did you membrny?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I mean, he's got right on the radio. He's he's
got a memory that will never leave him.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Did you wake up the next morning seven six so
and be like, did I actually just spend six hundred
and fifty dollars last night? That's what I'd be asking,
Like where else could you have put that six hundred
and fifty dollars?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, but you don't you put it in a roth ira.
In an ira, you don't have the memories.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
By the way, the IRA is looking pretty good these days.
Is something good is happening somewhere? I don't know, all right,
San Diego Sports seven sixty Ben Fletcher, Samul long with
you till two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
When we first talked about the NCAA tournament expanding from
sixty eight teams to seven six teams, it wasn't super
clear how that expansion was gonna happen. So you remember
we got that text that day saying, oh my god,
you're gonna get one versus nineteen teams, Like that's gonna
be a disaster. Probably, yes, that would have been a disaster.
In the days following it, it wasn't huge news, but
it did get clarified a little bit of what the
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expansion would actually look like. And it essentially, and we
haven't talked about this yet, but essentially it's expanding the
play in tournament from the normal the first four the
first four, so expanding the first four to the first twelve,
so i'd like the first twelve games, it's almost gonna
be like a separate bracket. So instead of having like
there's still gonna be one through sixteen for the actual
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March Madness Tournament. But the first twelve is gonna be
the play in bracket, and so there will be more
like you know how on your bracket before you get it.
There's like question marks on certain boxes because you don't
know who's coming out of the first four. Well, now
it's just gonna be there's more question marks when we
first get the bracket, and more teams have a chance
to fight their way in.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Which I like more.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I like it less than if they have to bracket alone,
but I like it more than what we initially thought
it was going to be. Where you're actually expanding the
field of sixty four.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Right, I still don't like that they're expanding because I
think it dilutes some of the college basketball regular season.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But in terms of that, well, I.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Think what it's going to lead to is more of
these conference champions out of the Big West might end
up in this round US twelve beforehand.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right if you if you win some scrub conference.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Miami of Ohio is the perfect descriptor to me, like
they belong in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
My thing like, like, so let's take Sanego se last year,
San Diego State, New Mexico, Auburn.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They would absolutely be Absolutely those three teams would have
made it into this first one.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
But I also like where obviously all San Diego State
fans I went to the school, I want them to
do well, but if we're going off resumes, I liked
that they would have to play another game because because
if there is something too, if you're not in the
top you know, sixty eight or in the you know
top what is it, thirty two of at large bit
you know whatever it is, or forty eight.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean I liked that they did you have to
play another game. Now. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
We've seen teams like Tech that have played in the
first four last year end up getting through the first weekend.
UCLA was the famous one where they were the eleven
State Johnny Jewsang and Hotkaz and they went all the
way to the final four and lost to Gonzaga. I
like that you have to play another games so you
don't get just rewarded for you get rewarded for being in.
(25:19):
But it's still is tougher if you don't play a
great regular season.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The more conversations I've had about this with more people,
I am actually starting to come around on it a
little bit. I think it could make a little bit
more fun. But we'll see. No one's gonna know how
this looks until it actually happens. It does look like
it's gonna happen this year, by the way, like it's
basically all but done. They need to sign some paperwork
across some t's dots, some eyes, and this is gonna
be happening next year. So you look at the situation
(25:46):
that San Diego State is in next year, Well, it's
the new PAC twelve, right, which actually is a pretty
badass basketball conference. San Diego State, Gonzaga, Boise State, who
has been good several years in a row, now like
it's gonna be a very good basketball conference. There is
a chance that in you're one of the Pac twelve,
talking about four teams getting in because of this expansion,
maybe two teams who would be in the tournament no
matter what one whoever wins the Pack twelve next year, Gonzago,
(26:07):
San Diego State, Boys State, whoever it is who wins
the Pac twelve next year, and then probably two other
teams who might not have gotten in on a normal
year will get in this year because of that.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
That's what I wonder.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
If they're gonna do if they're gonna try to where
the sixteen seeds now.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Well, it's still all based on net rankings, which is
pretty unilateral across the board. It's the teams from the
Sunbelt Conference get treated similarly to the teams in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's just based on who you've.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Played and you who you've played against, strength of schedule,
offensive defensive efficiency all gets packed into it.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well, college basketball is telling us is the last two
years of a lack of upsets they think is going
to continue. Right, That's why this is happening because they're
going listen, the only way that we're gonna get upsets
is if Bartannego State all burning New Mexico all missed
the cut. San Diego State, auburtn in New Mexico were
(27:02):
better than a fourth of the teams in the field,
or even more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You put any of them up against Miami of Ohio
who went thirty and one. They went right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
So they're trying to get more established programs in the tournaments.
Even though San Diego State didn't play well when they
stepped up in competition, that's still as a team last
year that was full of guys that have as NBA
potential or guys that ended up getting deals elsewhere, you know,
in your Miles Birds or Magoo Guass, your guys like
that Resticks and Waters. So I do think we're gonna
start seeing less upsets. Maybe this counteracts it where you're
(27:33):
getting not the quote Cinderella runs of no name schools
that no one's ever heard of going on these crazy runs,
but you're getting your you know, lower tier SEC teams
PAC twelve middle of the PAC twelve teams beating a
top ten Big ten team. That's more plausible than some
big Sky team rolling into the tournament and knocking off
(27:53):
you know, Michigan or Duke or a school like that.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So I like that better.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I still don't think overall thesion, I don't think it'll
hurt the tournament. The tournament will still be great.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You're still gonna get the sixty fourteen tournament that begins
on the Thursday and then ends on a Monday a
few weeks later.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I think that's still gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And I think it will add even more buzz in
the first four.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That may, and it gives CBS another week and a
half to sell.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I don't think it's going to hurt the month of March.
Now that my problem with the expansion of the tournament
is college basketball. For a lot of schools, now santing
ST's a little bit different because they've been on the
cut line for a lot of these years. But a
lot of schools like Duke Knows, no, they're making the tournament.
It's about where they're gonna be seeded. So unless you're
a college basketball nerd and they're worried about seed lions,
(28:38):
it can kind of be a little like, yeah, I'll
tune into this in February or March.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
All right, every Buddy Rich on YouTube says, aren't the
conference championships technically already play ins? If you win your
conference tournay, you get an auto bid. Yeah, see Rich,
that's what I'm worried about. Might be going away. So
the winner of the Sun Belt may not in this
new era, because we don't technically know how they're gonna
divvy everything up. The winner of the Sun Belt, the
winner of the Big West. They may say, well, now
there's more seats at the table. We're gonna slot them
into this twelve. The first thing, if they get in
(29:04):
the first twelve, right, So if they change that I'm
less in on it, but they could be happening. Who knows,
because I would think that college basketball and college football
are translating more to a we're worried about the Power
four and we want them to be on the main
stage of everything, and we don't care as much about
the others.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Because at the end of the day, they draw the money,
right like everyone. It's fun when you see an upset
Cinderella run, but it will it will theoretically create more
upsets in the first weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
At least, the more opportunity for upsets, and our buddy
Rich also said, Gavin freaking the Sheets. Let's go, uh yeah,
if you're not watching, if you want a quick update,
Gavin Sheets hit a foul ball that went about a
million feet into McCovey Cove up in San Francisco, and
then the very next pitch hit a home run about
a million feet into McCovey Cove. Like it was very,
very Bondsian. If you remember those highlights from the then
(29:53):
pack bell Ac and t Oracle Park up in San Francisco,
it looked Gavin Sheets with that lefty swing on a
high time fastball. It looked like a Barry Bond style
home run. So good for Gavin.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
For you you get killed up in the Bay comparing
Gavin Sheets to Barry Bonds.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Come at me, Bay Area. I think I win that
fight with most of your residences, all right. At San
Diego Sports seven sixty, Ben Fletcher, Sammy Log we are
gonna wrap this thing up on the other side. Plus
get you ready for going along with Sammy Big hour
coming up next shape for Instley. What will be your
drive home from three to six San Diego Sports seven sixty.
You're listening live on myheart radio app e Chuki los On.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's a shame they can't figure that out, man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, clearly there's something off right.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It's this is a little bit to me the Coamingo
Warriors situation, Like, Yeah, it feels similar, and sometimes the
best thing to do with that is just to move on,
and it's probably better for the player and for the organization.
So if something like we obviously don't know everything that happened,
everything that went down, clearly there is something we don't
know with Chuki Lozano. But maybe they work things out.
I doubt it. It kind of seems like everything we've
(30:54):
heard from the club, everything we've heard from Darren is
that this relationship is done well.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And you would think that given the last month and
a half of the offense has been the problem, right
you know, you know Pellegrino has been good, but.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You know, our guy uh Invertson is kind of docinating
right now.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Like they got a lot of talent on the winger
spots and the striker. But you do feel like if
you had a player like Chucky Lozano is certainly a
game changer. I mean, he's not playing on the Mexican
national team because he hasn't been playing with with SDFC,
so he hasn't been able to kind of gear up.
Could have gone overseas and played, but you know, I.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Mean largely you got as far as you did in
the postseason last year without him, So I like, I
don't really know where to stand on that, because clearly
there was something detrimental to the team that was going on,
and they don't want him to be a part of
the future, which is fine. It is just weird that
he's still kind of in the universe.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Let's see here a text line A five eight's asking
can you run through long shots one more time? Dammy,
why don't you pull that up while I read the
other A five eighths x that says Gavin big meat
freaking to sheet taking the Vanilla Barry Bonds aka the
home run Homo sap. Yeah, Gavin sheets man with a bomb.
Earlier today, I d to McCovey cove always fun to
(32:05):
see Gavin freak into sheets, get into one a little bit.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yet, long shots, I doo got it right here, all right.
So we got that.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
The the Habs, the Canadians, the Montreal Canadians take it
on the Buffalo Sabers. I like the over five and
a half. Both really young teams, a lot of talent,
some of the stars though for this year at Caulfield
for the Canadians, Tage Thompson for the Sabers. In the
last series for both teams against the Lightning and the
Bruins didn't score much and yet they still scored a
(32:32):
lot of goals. So I like the over five and
a half. The night line came down from six and
a half over five and a half. I like the
over two thirteen and a half in the Sixers and
the Knicks. I know Mbd's not playing. I actually think
that that strengthens the Sixers a little bit and they're
able to go a little bit more small ball, get
edge Combe more shots. I don't know why they don't
give him more shots. He's one of the best players
in the team. Just because he's a rookie, he should be.
(32:53):
He's come up big in big playoffs spots so far
this year. He needs to take a lot of shots,
and I, alongside Maxie, I like the over there. I
also like the over I gotta at two sixteen and
a half is now up to two seventeen and a half.
Of the Spurs and the Timberwolves, I would assume back
tonight from Minnesota. Anthony I Overtch is still working his
way back from injury, and I don't think Wemby and
Daron Fox play as bad as they did in Game one.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So I like I like three overs tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I like it a lot. I really do.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Now, I will say, if we're talking about Stanley Cup playoffs,
if you're like me and you don't really follow hockey
all that closely during the regular season, do yourself a
favor and turn on some hockey tonight.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You want to see people working their ass off you
want to see a team all pulling in one direction,
working as hard as they possibly can. I'd like the
Buffalo game tonight. It's a perfect example. It's America versus Canada.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
You can get behind Buffalo tonight. So if you're looking
for something to root for, here Padres are playing in
the middle of the day to day and you're not
knowing what to do tonight because the Sixers have already
given up on their series, and you're like, what am
I gonna watch?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Turn on some Buffalo Montreal.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I promise you you are gonna see people working their
asses off to try to get a win. Hockey is
a fun sport man, especially this time the year. A
lot of people will tell you it's the best playoff
in sport, and it's hard to disagree. Like it's in
the hockey, the way that these guys work makes it so.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Much more well.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's also comparable to.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Major League Baseball playoffs in that the more talented team
doesn't always win, right. That doesn't aways happen the NBA,
doesn't aways happen in the NFL, but especially in the NBA. Now,
this year's kind of an outlier because we've seen seem
some big upsets, mainly the Sixers taking down the Celtics
some series like that, but typically over seven games, the
better team is likely going to win. Now if an
(34:32):
injury happens and obviously changes things, but outside the Lakers
beating the Rockets and the Sixers beating the Celtics, a
lot of chalk happened in the playoffs. Hockey's fun because
just like a like the Diamondbacks a few years ago
were a perfect example, Zach Gallon and Kelly Merril. Kelly
got on absolute hitters and became two the best pitchers
in baseball. And although the Diamondbacks weren't the most talented, team,
(34:53):
ran through the Dodgers, ran through the Phillies, and then
got waxed by the Rangers. The hockey's like that, you
have a hot goaltender, you can make up for a
lot of deficiencies in a lot of ways. So the
first round is very exciting because just because like the
President's Trophies for the best record the most points in
hockey in historically, that's the Avalanche. This year, they don't
win the Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I can't believe we almost forgot to do this.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We have like three minutes left on the show and
we forgot to get to one of the most important
stories in all of sports today. Sammy, what are we doing?
What it would like You're kind of fired for this one, honestly, bro.
We got life saving news out of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yes, the referees and the NFL have come to an agreement.
We will not have scabs to start the twenty twenty
six NFL season. We are not going to go through
multiple weeks where you have awful officiating, ruining games, ruining
playoff hopes. Literally, the actual NFL officials will be ready
to go for Week one. They're putting the finishing touches
on the existing CBA between the NFL and the NFL
(35:52):
Referees Association and the Players Association. There is a new
collective bargaining agreement that will be signed I May thirty.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
First, sure this was getting ridiculous, Like well, like, let's
just let's get this result.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
We didn't need a group of six gentlemen in a
booth in New York watching over every call that every
ref made, making sure the right ones called this is.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
We didn't need a recap of the Packers and the
Seahawks from Monday night football in twenty twenty twelve, crazy
touchdown took it away.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean, yeah, this where you.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Had one guy with his hands straight up in the air,
the other guys signaling incomplete at the exact same time.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, this is good.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Like I know, officials get a lot of crap in
every sport, and the NFL officials get a lot of crap.
I promise you, the ones who are part of the
association are much better than the ones who they would
be bringing in to replace them. This is very good
news for the NFL because, like Sammy was just talking
about with college basketball in the NFL, what happens if
you start zero and two in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Your chances of making the playoffs, God about nineteen percent.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank you, Like it really is from week one that
pedal is to the metal man. And if you have
anything that's messing up that isn't involving the twenty two
guys who were on the field at a time, like
the ref's, the best thing you could say about them
is when you don't notice they're there in a game.
And if that's the case, like you would notice the scabs,
I promise you. And so having the actual NFL officials there,
very big news for the NFL, very excited they got
(37:09):
this time.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
You on a different note. You brought up a good
point yesterday.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
So if people haven't seen it, Skip Bayless is making
his return to Man. He the first Take on Friday
with steven A for a one time, one time show.
And I was telling Ben, I was like, are you
gonna be watching? And He's like, there's guarantee you going
to be some Cowboys news that break tomorrow, probably about
the three o'clock hour, four o'clock hour that we'll be
(37:33):
rolling into first take in the morning. Because we know
Jerry Jones loves himself some media.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
So what day it's happening on Friday?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Friday morning.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So Friday morning, all of a sudden, the ESPN and Skips,
steven A and Skip have mended fences and everything's hunky dory.
He's coming back for a one time only event. Bring
in sports radio listeners back, bring in sports TV watchers back.
I promise you Jerry knows about this. I promise you
there's gonna like I don't know if it's gonna be
(38:01):
uh George Pickens or if it's Dak Prescott Roth. Something
with the Cowboys is happening between today and tomorrow to
where That's why Skip Bayless will be on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
All right, Sammy, what do you got coming up in
the next hour we got.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Out, We're gonna get a little bit into Uh, I'm
gonna take my lumps for the Lakers little NBA playoffs.
I'll keep updated on the pottery game, and then I'll
get a little bit more in this college basketball college
football expanding and whether it's better for both sports.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
And can Fernando Tazi Junior please hit a home run
today because I would be rich if he does. All right,
at San Diego Sports seven sixty, I will see you tomorrow, Sammy,
will see you coming up next. Your drive home is
Shaeffer and Sliwa have a lot of fun over the
next five or six hours at San Diego Sports seven sixty.
Thank you for being here live on Myheart radio app.
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