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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Show two in h Town.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Sports Talk seven nine.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I hope you guys had a peaceful, easy Monday. I
mean to go egals on you, but that's fine. I
do have a peaceful, easy feeling. Yeah, rockets and a nice,
peaceful easy feeling against something.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Called the Washington Wizards. Yes, that's a challenge.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I mean I'm peeling the curtain back for a team
that is as nondescript as they are. That's not an
easy game to call. First of all, the uniform numbers
are terrible. Second of all, they have no stars. Yeah,
and Thursday cuz he's a star. Just ask him. Jordan Pools,
the star, just ask him. Yeah. But that's the two
after that, it was not. Cory Kispert is a guy

(00:54):
on you a little buse me. Bless you, Corey Kisbert, Yeah,
bless you. It's soon tight, but not a not a
very wreck as able team. Corey Kispert, who saw his
life flash before his eyes when Steven Adams ran at him. Yeah,
it's funny. He was like Corey Chisper is ready to
throw hands. Adams comes his way, and then he chuckles
a smile and goes back to the direction. He just

(01:16):
had that deer in headlights look like, oh yeah, that
was great. It was funny Steven Adams tag team wrestling
partner you ANDAs Valentunas was on the floor yesterday for
the Wizards, Well, if that's whatever you're into, mate, yeah,
as he was saying, he told you that was an
awkward thirty seconds of Steven Adams conversation that I'll never
get past. But that's a different issue for a different time.

(01:36):
All Right, Hey, hope you guys are in a good mood.
Ladies as well, We are with you till two o'clock today.
We haven't done this in a while, but it's, you know,
something called Texans hangover.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Do we still have that?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm hanging over. I'm not feeling great, but you're gonna
go five and do the rest of the way class
if you can guarantee me that, I guarantee. But I
can guarantee you four. I can, absolut without a shadow
of a doubt, guarantee you four. Well that's bad for
you now, unless C. J. Strode gets hurt. But I don't, right, Yeah,
I mean, anybody lose a franchise quarterback. I can't guarantee

(02:10):
you four wins that the Kansasity Chiefs lose Pat Mahomes
with wrestling. And I would also say, if Joe Mixon's out,
that's true. Even though he got forty six yards, it
wasn't his fault. It's not your fault, Joe. So what
do you think it was? How does the offensive line
give him so much protection one week and two weeks
and three weeks and then all of a sudden he
gets kabashed? You know, I don't know, man. We'll have
to break down the all twenty two into the ends

(02:31):
of the outs. And maybe there were some problems with
the run blocking, because obviously even with Kenyon Green and
all the issues he had with the pass blocking, we
know that they the run game was still pretty good. Yeah,
you know, the Texans aren't as good without Nico Collins
on the field, of course they aren't. You know, we
said that. Yeah, everyone knows that doesn't take a rocket

(02:52):
sciences to know, even Gary who called the previous show
to knock on us or not, you know, just loving
every second of his take. You know, mister Stacato, not
scatto voice, socratic socratic voice. Well, it was decratic method.
He's asking questions to point prove his point. Let me
take you something. Other people call this. Other listeners call
the show to rip on our host. I ain't taken that,

(03:14):
done that. I've done that for a long time period
of time. So you can't call another show and rip
on me. Oh you know what, I like it though.
I like when people call this show and rip on
Adam Klanton or Wexler. No, I don't. I don't like it.
I love it. So Gary shuts your ballb ass up.
You know I called the shell that was after Yarons.
I think it's starting at ten o'clock, and you know,
I was like going through some points and they weren't

(03:34):
having it. Of course we were having it. Yeah, we
had a discussion. We just didn't appreciate your tone. We talked.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It came across as douchey, and we called you on
on it.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I just think it's an oversimplification to say that Nico
Collins here Texans win all these games. Yeah, I think
it's competition. I think it's of course, Nico Collins is missed.
And look, the production is not good. I mean, Xavier
Hutchison downfield doesn't present present the same sort of three
or scare that other teams do. But you also win
against the best safeties in the NFL. You also win

(04:06):
against a defense that still put plenty of pressure on
its quarterback. And you know, a couple of times during
the course of the game, especially second half, CJ. Stroud
threw some passes that he I guarantee you would like
to have back. Yes, it's gonna happen against elite teams.
If that was Jacksonville, something I had seven to twenty.
First of all, the game wouldn't be out seven to
twenty yet at noon. It might be at eight thirty

(04:27):
in the morning. That's true. But you have to you know,
you have to rise the competition. I think that's the
main thing we'd spent yesterday talking about. Was you just
you want to get one of those victories against super
elite teams that make you say you don't what come January,
look out here we come. You want a statement win.
You want to be able to say the Texans can

(04:47):
hang with the best. And I would say the Buffalo
Bills win at home at no question, is probably the
biggest feather in their cap. But since then now Mario
Cooper hadn't eve been playing. But the Bills are playing
a lot better football. And I would if you go
on a neutral field right now, the Bills would be
the favorite in that game, neutral field against the Steelers.
How are you feeling? You don't want If you don't

(05:08):
want to answer that question, you're okay, you don't have to.
I told you them Steelers are coming, Maddie. The defense
is playing well. Russell Wilson will have a nice factoid
for you about quarterback play in Pittsburgh coming up on
the NFL. Rewind, we're gonna make the people wait a
whole hour and a half of that. Yeah, it's it's
not worth waiting for an hour a half. But if
you happen to be around in an hour and a half,
then you know all right. Latest standings. If the Texans playoffs,

(05:32):
if the AFC playoffs will start today, Kansas City would
have the buye. It would be a legit buye because
buys are not off weeks. This is a legitimate bye.
You would then have buff Charles. You'd have Buffalo taking
on the last walled card which would be the Denver Broncos.
Houston and Pittsburgh would play. Uh, you know that's not right. No,

(05:55):
that's not There are divisional leaders. This whole thing is
wacky when it comes to the the ESPN thing. Let
me see what the let me see the playoff. Let's
see if this helps out. Okay, now we got it.
Kansaity has the bye week. It would be Buffalo versus Denver,
Pittsburgh versus the LA Chargers. Baltimore would be coming to Houston. Baltimore.

(06:19):
Is here a Christmas Day? Yes, so it would be
a little bit of a n f A AFC wild
card weekend preview.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And why are you shaking your eyes? Wait, well you're not.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm sorry. I was just picturing Lamar Jackson against this defense,
this Texans defense. Now Texans defense is very good, but
it's just Lamar Jackson is I'm gonna say, the most
dangerous weapon in football right now? What is And I'm
not asking you to look this up right now, but
just off the top, Lamar Jackson again, if I'm wrong,

(06:49):
I'm wrong, just an average playoff quarterback? Or no, am
I simplifying it? He's been about that. Okay, he's had
some bad playoff games, and we've talked about the AFC
Championship game this past year. I feel like I feel
like he was pressing. I feel like he was There
were throws, everything was in their category. They were home
for Kansas City. Yeah, okay, short to intermed. Now, first
of all, the Chiefs have a great defense, but I

(07:11):
feel like the short to intermediate throws were there, and
he was trying to drive the ball deep and unfortunately
he wasn't accurate in the Unfortunately for him, he wasn't
accurate in those throws and they lost. It was a
close game. I think it was a one score game.
So I'm thinking off the top of my head because
Lamar is probably going to win, if not another MVP award,
but he'll be probably top three, right, yes, because typically

(07:32):
the award goes to quarterbacks, at least it has in
the last of ten or fifteen years. Is there somebody
that you've followed that we have talked about that is
mister everything in the regular season, but you may you
just can't count of. And there's been baseball, of course,
there's been a couple here in town, Clayton Kershaw. I'm
talking about football. Okay, Uh, people would say that about

(07:54):
I wonder if Dan Marino's if we went back and
looked at Dave ma Reno's playoff numbers, you know, only
one super Bowl appearance in his life, lots of playoff appearances,
but only one super Bowl. People would say that about
Peyton Manning. He's got two titles though, yes, but his
record and and this is in lway probably towards the
beginning of his NFL career, was one of those guy

(08:15):
people said that about Joe Montana. No, they didn't say
no Ntown. I'm gonna say, off the top of my head,
I just remember Peyton Manning having a bad playoff rep. Yeah,
who else? Lamar Jackson does have it right now? Yeah,
I looked at them. He threw for two hundred and
seventy two yards, had a touchdown. One would you say

(08:37):
that Josh Allen has been a playoff disappointment?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
No super bowls for the Buffalo Bills exactly.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's the thing. It's like, there's no we're talking about
single football games you can be out in the NFL.
It's just so overrated. These discussions of playoffs in general.
We've brought it up to on this show talking about
you know, Kyle Tucker, and everybody's like, he just freezes
in the playoffs. Well, yeah, he's you know what it
is to me, it's not even my Freezeize's.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
First of all, it's a very small samples.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
A second of all, you're not going against Chopp Liver,
You're not facing the other one A's pitching staff. Yes,
you're going against a team that is as good as
you are and in some cases better and maybe although
if you're if you are a Ravens fan, which I
don't expect there be too many here in the marketplace.
But if you're a Ravens guy, you're a Lamar Jackson guy,

(09:23):
you gotta be thinking, Man, we lost our best opportunity
because we had. When you have a home field game
in an AFC Championship, you're basically already making your reservations
with the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You kind of are.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well, not when Pat Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs
are at the other scene. See that's what you did.
We just said. Oh, by the way, Lamar Jackson's awesome.
Oh by the way, there's another guy on the other
side of the ball that's just as good, if not better.
Than you are. I mean, they were great, and it's
also one game. If they'd have played ten games, maybe
the Ravens win five and the Chiefs win five. It
just it's just that's how it happens. That's the nature
of football, and it is what it is. And I

(09:57):
feel like, honestly, if we go through the year, Tom
Brady probably got lucky a lot. He did get lucky
a lot. Yeah, and you've gotten more failure than success,
maybe with except in Tom Brady's case, because we know, Brady,
we lost three Super Bowls. What a loser? I know,
I know. All right, Rocket's gonna win last night against
the Wizards. If you will want to talk about that,
if you would like to get in a conversation about

(10:19):
if you're suffering with a Texans hangover on this Tuesday,
seven one three two one two five seven ninety the
number again to reach our show.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
We'll be with you all the way till two o'clock.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
So really not a lot of hard hitting headlines in
the world of sports today. We have another week until
we have a chance to two on the Texans Cowboys game,
because the game would have been last nine a week ago.
So we'll get into a lot of other things. We
will also get into Alex Bregman taking a photo with
his gold glove and thinking, are we just gonna have

(10:50):
to sit by our phones and wait for the tweet
from a Rosenthal or from a Jeff Passing to determine
what's going on? By the way their new betting odds
out on where Alex Brigman goes if he doesn't stay
with the Astros and you're not gonna like one of
the teams he's thinking about going to at least what
the Vegas folks are thinking. Seven one three two one
two five, seven ninety. We also have got feelings today
at one o'clock where you call in and make your
sports predictions, a very easy segment. You called in, you

(11:12):
make a sports prediction. If you hit it, you call
us back a couple weeks later and brack it about yourself.
If you don't hit it, you don't wear about We don't.
We don't judge you. Typically, Uh, we've got the NFL rewind.
We've got believe it or not today at one fifty,
where someone is going to win. The very first person
wins the game is going to win a pair of
tickets to see justin Timberlink in concert. It's a nice
size Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show. We want
you here with us at seven one three, two, one

(11:34):
two five seven ninety lunchtimers, lunchtimers.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Ratings for the Texans game against the Lions was really good.
Highest rank Week ten game in five years now. That
would have require us go back and looking at previous
week tens. Yeah. Look, friend of the show, Greg Orage on,
I don't I guess diget Top ten markets for watching

(12:15):
the Lions, Texans, Pittsburgh, let me taste some You could
put on Carolina every week in Pittsburgh would watch it.
Just Pittsburgh just loves its football. Seriously, Wait, you're saying
they were one no. Number ten? Okay, wow, it's like
what I was really shocked. Pittsburgh ten, Las Vegas nine
interesting gambling. Yeah yeah. Sacramento, Sacramento huge football market. What yeah,

(12:42):
the Sacramento Mountain Lions are huge over there.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I mean of the UFL. If you really wanted to
go expand the NFL, which I don't think they're gonna do,
I would be I'd put Sacramento in the shortlist, you
see j Strout from Sacramento or something. I don't know.
It's crazy seven, Austin six, since Sinnati Huge football, five,
Milwaukee huge. That's Green Bay by miss Wisconsin for Minneapolis

(13:06):
huge football.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Three, Houston three. Yeah, oh, come on.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're three in your own Sunday night game.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
So let me give you. Let me give you a
put into perspective. A rating is attached to a number
of listeners. A share is number of television sets. Okay,
shares percentage. So if everybody was at a sports bar,
it could hurt them. You know, that's a good question.
I don't know how that works out shares percentage. So
twenty here's the thing that's crazy. Pittsburgh. Twenty five percent

(13:36):
of all television Marcus televisions in Pittsburgh, according to the Nielsen's,
were on the game.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Twenty five percent love football. I love that.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Vegas thirty three, Sacramento thirty two, Austin thirty seven, since
Anty thirty one percent, Milwaukee thirty one percent, Minneapolis thirty
five percent. Houston was the third highest rated game. Forty
one percent of all households in Houston had the Texans
game on. What are the other fifty nine percent. Are
you doing great? Question? Let's watch some Texans and some
Lions football waiting all day for Sunday night. The second

(14:06):
highest rated, above the city Houston. Kansas City love their football,
just atually love their football, and they got mediocre ribs,
so they're just upset. You know what. I'm not gonna
let you do that. I'm just kidding. I haven't eaten.
The food in Kansasity is really really Kansas City. You know,
we're talking about always want to talking about bands. Underrated

(14:28):
city generally gamble the good sports, fans, good food. The
thing is, I can't trust your paltt though, so I'm
gonna have to find out for myself. Oh, come on,
let's go. All right, I don't know we're gonna go.
Maybe go you know, I do want to go to
a game of grol State. Let's go to the AFC
Championship game and then Arrowhead. Who are they playing the Texans? Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Thirty eight percent of all television sets in Kansas City
watching that, Okay, so more percentage of sets in Houston.
So that means in Kansas City they stayed with it longer. No,
it means that and how is it rated higher?

Speaker 5 (15:03):
There?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Explain this to me like I'm five okay, for every
point you get, that equals say, eleven thousand sets. Okay,
So they had more people, were a bigger market, right
if we have more If we have more sets, then
we should have more rating share.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
Ummm.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
So that means people are no, no enough. We can have
a higher rating, but a lower share because we have
more television sets. Here, our one point may mean worth
twenty thousand, yeah, or they're one point in Candidy, maybe
worth fifteen thousand.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Does that makes sense to you? Guess not really. Let's
just move on. Okay, but here comes the coup de gras.
So Houston had a fourteen point one rating. Okay, let's
say each rating point meant three thousand left viewers or
fifteen thousands Detroit rating twenty nine point five. Wow, So
here's the most stunt. Yeah, sixty four percent of anybody

(15:56):
watching television in Detroit was watching the Texans, and the
line as sixty four percent. Basically, you went to ten
households better than six of them would have the game on. Wow,
that's crazy, and in Houston only four yes, case in
point my house on Sunday when I got home from

(16:16):
Detroit with the Rockets and Pistons, we had two television
sets on. One was watching I believe Yellowstone and one
was watching the Telowstone. No one was watching the Texans game. Okay,
so kind of cancel each other out. Frankly, you think
about it, I guess so. Yeah, So, uh, ratings wise, Texans.
The city hughes that. We just we watch our local teams.

(16:37):
We don't have much interest in anybody else. Like I'm
going to assume that last night's Miami Charger game wasn't
seen by a whole lot of people in Ram Houston Rams,
whatever doesn't matter. So my point is is that we're
not a huge fan of neutral teams. Yeah, like Pittsburgh is.
Now we'll draw for Cowboy games, That's true. A lot
of Cowboys fly every city in American keep draws from

(16:58):
couple people hate watching Cowboy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I hate watch things all the time. I hate listen
to all the time.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
We know, so sixty three percent. Wow, that's crazy. Well,
congratulations to Detroit. I mean, what else you gonna do there?
It was cold and rainy and order some middle mess.
Oh the media spread there mine. God, it's so good.
Best media food in the league, not even close, well,
not the best team in the league. No, Kate Cunningham's good,

(17:26):
He's okay. If you look at triple double Machine, he's
pretty good. Three of his last four games triple double. Yeah,
that don't include our Kate Cunningham talk for the show today.
I thought we're gonna do a deep die. They don't
even talk about Kay Cunningham and Detroit. I thought we're
gonna get into his analytics. More people are upset that
the Red Wings lost four the Rangers the night before.
Did they? Yeah, yeah, I'll take your word for it.
I wouldn't make that up. You're locked on Red Wings.

(17:48):
I locked wings seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero is how you reach the show? With you
till two o'clock today? I can't watch first take? Why
because that brunette is just I'm getting distracted by Molly Carum.
Let me change it. No, I'm gonna turn in and
look at you. If there's something I'm not interested in,

(18:10):
and it's certainly Rossfielder. Real's with that is seven one
three two one two five seven tear down today. I
don't want you making eyes at me. No, trust me.
All that grain in there, no chance if you died it.
Maybe you have a puncher chance, but not really. Seven one, three, two,
one two, five seven out. Okay. So the Rockets last
night get a victory against the Washington Wizards, and no

(18:32):
Fred van Vliet, I mean Thompson steps in, Tarry Easton's
doing his thing.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's kind of a nice little run here the Rockets
are put together.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh, what does on pace guy say when you win
seven under your first eleven? Okay? Go ahead? Are you
are you asking me? Well, I'm gonna do the quick math. Okay,
So there's eighty two. There's eighty two one second, fifty
two wins. That's an over. That's a significant one. I
had forty I predicted four eight. Okay.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, then I ask you, Matt, does this feel like
a fifty win team to you?

Speaker 6 (19:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Because I can't ever tell anything after eleven games. That's
not fair to say that to anybody, right, I don't know.
We're judging the Texans after ten games. By the way,
you know the Milwaukee Bucks are like, what's their record?
They're two and eight. Yeah, we can judge them. They suck.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
How do you feel about Bill Simmons.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Bill Simmons, I think he used to be the gold
standard for fun sports writing. I read his book Book
at the Basketball back in the day. But I believe
he's becoming increasingly out of touch and passe.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Okay, I believe he's the one.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
That I I was catching a tweet listening to it
before the game yesterday that intrigued me very much. Okay,
And we'll play it for you coming back here in
a minute.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Seven one three two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
If you want to reach the program today, we'd love
to have you as part of our show with you
to two o'clock this afternoon and again coming up at
eleven o'clock, which is in about thirty five minutes from now.
We're gonna ask you to make some sports predictions. They're
called gut feelings. Okay, and when you hit, you brag.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety ten

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thirty one Sports Talk, seven ninety It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We thank you very very much
for making part of your day with us. Means a
lot to us, it does. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two, one, two,
five seventy. And remember we take more calls than anybody
else in the marketplace. It could be to our detriment,
but we often we believe that it's y'all show. It's

(20:43):
not us just rambling for four hours, because frankly, Ross
doesn't have that kind of material to cover four hours.
So challenge accepted. Nah, that's good. By the way, Ross
is gonna work extra hard this week because he's taking
the next two weeks off. Am good. I'm not working
extra hard. I'm in vacation mode. Matthew, I'm checked out
as I checked out my friend. No, you shouldn't be.

(21:04):
You should not be at all. I mean, what should
I pack mode? You're going for two weeks? Yes?

Speaker 2 (21:09):
How much of the bags for each for the trip?

Speaker 3 (21:12):
How many? What do you mean? Well? How much do
they cost?

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
For me, the first two are free?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hmm. But you're not a fickling flyer.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
No, I'm not. But I'm traveling to someone who is,
and they put me on the reservation, so we're good
to kind of circumvent in the system. I don't think
I would say I wouldn't say that. I'm going to
say it. Trust me, I'm paying enough those flose flights
to Korea, folks hit the savings account.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Can I can I say it?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Do you know what? You don't want to say?

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
I mean I can fish. It was fifteen hundred dollars
to fly over there. That's back.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Honestly, that's not terrible.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I disagree. I was horrible. Me think about it. You
get to go to LA and New York, it's gonna
cost you six I wanted to spend a good one
ninety nine. By the way, you cannot fly mirroat to
do to trust me, I tried, No, I did. By
the way, when as soon as I got to the
arena yesterday, we were having dinner in the media dining
room and there was a headline apparently there was a
shooting on a Mirriant plane. Really yeah, how did they

(22:04):
get a fut I didn't.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
I was working and get ready for the Rockets games.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
So I don't know. There's no way google it. What
we talk talk to some people. Let's talk to that
sounds like an urban legend. Ryan and friends would at
ten thirty three on seven ninety Ryan, thank you for waiting.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Good morning, Oh, good morning, and it's Brian.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Hi. Brian well, sorry, I heard.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
You talk about the ratings and I was wondering does
it take into account people who maybe streaming the game
to their computer or phone or tabot.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
It usually does not. Now we have some streaming things
we can do on our radio station. We can do
I don't know if television do the same thing, but yeah,
I think it's literally the last time I checked, and
I don't know it's complete certainty, Brian that it is
television sets.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Okay, Well, because both me and my son, who were
both huge TIS fans.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, we were both streaming the game. Yeah, yea, I'd
have to probably ask a television executive that I don't
know that for sure. As I said, Brian, I know
radio is. I don't know if television has made that
adjustment to it. And my guest isn't. Thank you Brian
for the phone call. If they were smart Roster, they
would do that. Now, downloads are easy to calculate because
Amazon Prime when they put their Thursday nine game on,

(23:18):
they tell you in the next day how many difference
people stream the game. Yeah, they have a much more
of a certain way of doing it, where everybody that
carries a television box that represents Nielsen represents like, if
you had a box on and you were watching the game,
you represented five thousand Hustonians. M h. So yeah, I

(23:40):
don't know. But I'm also I imagine people in Detroit
were streaming too, So I mean no, no, I think again,
I don't know anybody in the TV world, and if
you are a TV person, know this answer. I think
generally speaking, it's number of television sets that are on, okay, And.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Again it's it's a guestimation.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Of course. Absolutely, systems are extremely flawed. Like I'll peel
the back here in Houston. The reason why we don't
talk about ratings, ever, is because the system is largely flawed.
There's about, give or take, seventeen hundred people in Houston
that carry a meter. Can you talk about this, I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
I think you can.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's like a pager, okay, and those seventeen hundred people
determine the listening habits for a metropopulation of six million people. Yes. Now,
the dorks that are the analytic people say that's all
you need to properly measure. That seems to be completely
wackant to me. But you know what, I'm not a
calculus major. So yes, they think the sample size is good,

(24:38):
which is true. You can have a pretty small sample
size and it be statistically significant. But if I and
here's the argument that I get with people all about
time with radio, if those seventeen hundred people don't listen
to sports, like let's say that you had six hundred
of them that were African American that listened to Magic

(25:01):
or the Beat or something, and you had another five
hundred that were Hispanic you listen to Spanic. I mean,
you just it's hard to me to feel like you
can get a proper sample size of rando seventeen hundred people.
They don't randomly pick them. They pick some people of
certain age and of certain demographics. So I mean, do
they do that to fit the ages and demographics of
the market that I don't know? I guess I let

(25:22):
to ask our radio people above all our heads ano
is that we thank you for listening, no matter what
they ever say. And uh, congratulations to the Matt Thomas
Show for with ross for being at number one in
the marketplace in our time slot in quarter three. Yes,
and one of us got the benefit from it seven
one three two one two off of us. No, I

(25:44):
believe if Connor and I are shut out on that,
so Connor's not, Oh, Connor's not, Oh, then maybe two
of the three of us got the benefit from there.
Fine seven one three two one two five seven Dotty
Larry and O fours to the Matt Tamas show of
Ross Larry, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yes for I want to ask about a favorite player
of mine I've been watching from north Shore High School.
I say, with the freshman, one of the best running
backs I've ever seen, Zachary Evans. I don't understand why
he's not playing.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
I really don't.

Speaker 8 (26:12):
He's been described as a heat seeking missile. That's his
running style, very explosive, good size. I don't understand why
Zach is not playing. Why the Rams would release him,
I don't get it. And then why someone else hasn't
picked him up.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
I don't know. Maybe maybe he's not that good. I mean,
just one thing, and I'll tell you this, Larry, the
best I covered high school football for many, many years,
and the best high school running back I ever saw.
Do you remember Trey Williams? I do, from the Cane
High School.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
He single handedly took the Canny to the state championship.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Absolutely and you know what, it didn't work out for him.
He went to Texas A and M, and he bounced
around the NFL, and for whatever reason, maybe it's pass protection,
maybe it's attitude, maybe I don't know, for whatever reason,
he never panned out. And like you're saying, Zach Evans
was a legend at north Shore, and yeah, he'd kind
of bounced around even in college. And then, as you mentioned,

(27:10):
he was recently released from the practice squad of the Rams,
and he's a free agent. The reality is is that
he got caught in the preseason. He signed to the
practice squad, and then the Rams released him from the
practice squad, making him a true free agent, and no
one has picked him up. I see a report that
he worked out with the Colts about a month ago,
but he wasn't signed. My goodness.

Speaker 8 (27:31):
You know, he may be lacking on pass protection, but
I think his running ability makes up for that in
my opinion. Yeah, I hope to freak back again. He's
one of my all time favorite players.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Well, you know what, he's got a friend like you.
He's going to be in a good shape for the
rest of his life because you have loved for him, Larry,
and sometimes I wish people have love for me like
you have love for Zach Evans. I do, thank you
very much. I appreciate it. How about that, Larry, I
don't if they really didn't tell like they really he
just so, Larry sounds like a guy just went to
high school games. Who is this kiss high school football?

(28:03):
That's great. But I got a friend of mine named Bill,
longtime sports administrator has been retiring for about ten or
fifteen years, that when he was towards the end of
his professional career, before a Saturday football game, especially on
the road, I'm speaking of Bill Cousins, my friend whused
working Rice. He and our statistician for the Rice broadcast
would get in a car in a road city like Tulsa,

(28:25):
or they would go to Reno or anywhere with the
cougar the Rice I was were playing. Andy'd run a
car and they would just drive to try to find
some Randall High school football game on a Friday night. Yeah,
it's a good time. I don't wouldn't say I'm miscovering it,
but it's got its. Uh, it's got its. I don't
know certain something. Here's what. I'm not a huge high

(28:46):
school fan, but here's what we could do sometime Friday night,
but I don't have a cougar game or something involved
with the Rockets. We go, We get in a car, okay,
and we get an I forty five, and we follow
the lights until we find some Well, let's keep like
north of north of the Belway. Now I'm talking about
like a lot of the city limits. Yeah, that's good idea.
I'm not going to own some alding limits.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (29:07):
No chance, Auxiliary? No, No, it's a good stadium. I
want to go, like to like uh Centerville, Centerville. Okay,
I think Corsicana's got a good squad. But does Buffalo
Texas have a high school team?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Gotta three four year I'm sure they do, but I
don't want to go.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
If they're crappy, they're gonna go get beat seventy seven.
I don't want to se very long. Oh, we drive,
We eat something at the game, okay, critique their food,
watch maybe a little bit of the game, maybe watch
the halftime, and then.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Go off and check the next game.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah. We get a choped beef sandwich and a bag
of fritos, and then we go to the next precisely
you you don't know life as good as it is
until you've had a chopped beef at a high school
football game. Okay, I'm in and I could to three
or three games in that one night. All Right, we
go find go try to find a six man oh
like seven on seven? No, six man? Okay, I don't know.

(29:57):
I don't think it's six I don't think it's seven man.
I don't think it's six man. They played six man summer, right,
I don't know you do that back in the day.
I only know about seven on seven. No, I think
it's called six man football. Hmm.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, so that would be what is that the little
game with the Magnets.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, it's that's really small, super super tiny towns. Okay
that had football. But going to find single a football
where both guys where guys had to play both ways
and they play in the band at halftime.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh, ain't that America for you and me?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah? You're on the punt team, the kick return team,
the offense defense, and you're on.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
The homecoming court.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah. God bless America Texas football, baby land that I love.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety seven
one three. Oh, we get some information on the airplane
shooting here? Oh thank god? All right, pass a good down, Dina,
thanks for calling me. Update on Merit. What's going on?
Hoty here?

Speaker 9 (30:52):
It wasn't a shooting inside of the plane, but apparently
the plane was going to land in Haiti and somebody,
like on the ground, somebody else shot at the plane,
actually hit the plane a few times.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
What is it? What is it?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
What is a Merrit plane doing in Haiti?

Speaker 9 (31:05):
I have no idea, and I know everybody likes making
Merrit jokes and whatnot, but uh, I mean, imagine being
on that plane game shot at the head? Oh don't imagine?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh hell no, I don't care what airline I mean.

Speaker 9 (31:17):
I mean, am I surprised?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Really?

Speaker 9 (31:19):
Haiti is not the nicest place. But yeah, that's what happened.
It wasn't a gun on the plane. Plane actually got
shot at.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
I don't know anyway.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah, wow, I didn't know that realized that the Mirrit
flew to hate It was like maybe a charter flight
or was it was a commercial service flight? Commercial? I'm
not sure. Prince one more thing?

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, what the hell is going on?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
To Texans? Jesus Christ, dude, hold on everybod everybody should
hold up, Hobby or I want you to say what
you just said because I want to record that for us.
Hold on what you just said that one sentence. Don't
say any more than what you just said. Go ahead.

Speaker 9 (32:00):
What the hell is going on with the Texans? That
was garbage?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Don't forget to JC.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
I know for a Monday and both Texans teams are
gonna both Texas teams have a suck off.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Like who sucks worse? Like, ah, dude, what a mess?
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
Anyways, guys, you have a good day.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Thank you. We'll see you later. That's Monday show a
suck off. You will be here for that. Me and
Dan Matthews will We don't want to be here for that.
It's a Texans Cowboys suck off on Monday. Yeah, you
and Dan enjoy your suck off, y'all? Are walcome to
join us on our suck off Monday at ten o'clock
here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Three seven one three two.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
What much is it for?

Speaker 9 (32:50):
What?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's free?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Listen to?

Speaker 2 (32:54):
This show is free.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I've never heard heard of anything being a suck off
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Speaker 2 (34:20):
All right, feelings are coming up.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
At eleven o'clock. You simply make predictions. It's very simple
how this segment works. By the way, enough with you
sending me tweets and emails about the suck off, it's
not gonna happen. And if we call it that, we're not.
There's no way we're calling that. We're not calling Monday
Show the Texans Cowboys suck off. It's not happening enough,

(34:42):
gonna bring a whole different crowd. Yeah, maybe some of
the same crowd. What if you want that. Yeah, I
was gonna say dudes on dudes, but I's forget that. Please,
you don't have to do that, all right.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
I have to tell you I love.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Not conspiracy, but wacky sports predictions from people. Okay, And
I would say, of the wacky sports predictions you hear,
ninety five percent of them don't ever come to pass,
but once in a while. Yeah, that's the Man Thomas
Show in a nutshell.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
That's right. But I love when other people do it.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Okay. And Bill Simmons was recently on a podcast of
some sort, because everybody and their mother does a podcast.
His podcast, who knows, but I saw this on a
tweet and he was asked and discussed that if things
continue to go south in Milwaukee, would the would the
Bucks and would Yannis request a move out of Milwaukee

(35:40):
because I think they've got issues and he'll explain the
issues coming up here. I think in this in this
sound by the one I'm thinking is right. But it's
interesting where Bill Simmons thinks that Jannis might end up here.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
It is to me.

Speaker 10 (35:55):
It's either Brooklyn or Houston, because Houston's the other team
that could they have picked young players. It's just like,
if I'm Yannest, would I rather go to Brooklyn or Houston?

Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
Houston's minus one twenty eight Houston. Has Houston made that trade?
They have Brooklyn's twenty twenty six first, they can swap
Brooklyn in twenty seven. They have a Phoenix FIRSTUS twenty seven.
They went all their own picks. They have a Phoenix
or Dallas first to an ad like they have enough
to put a Giannis thing together with some contracts.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
They give them a young player.

Speaker 10 (36:25):
The problem is they gave extensions to Green and Shangoon,
so I don't think those guys can be in the trade,
but they could patch up together. But I think those
are the two teams I think that. I don't think
Miami has enough.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Lack of tradable draft picks, an aging roster, and a
lot of money behind a guy that I don't know
if one sustain Milwaukee the rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oh oh, you've got an initial.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
You've got a gut feeling to this, gut gut commentary
to what you just heard.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
You're wincing. This is just is this him talking about
his ass?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah? To me, Now, first of all, I like that
now talking out of my ass on one of my specialties.
I mean, that is what it is. So I like
when I hear some of this crazy stuff too. This
is just podcast spitballing. There's just it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he listed why it's not going to happen
in his own points, like they just re signed Jalen

(37:25):
Green and Alprin Shongoon. Unless the Milwaukee Bucks are in
love with one or both of those players, it doesn't
make a whole lot of sense. They're locked in for
a long time. Well, Jalen Green can opt out after
two years, you'd have to match his salary. Which would
be about forty nine million dollars. Yeah, so you'd have
to send probably one of those. Or are we talking

(37:48):
about I mean some conglomeration of Jabari Smith Junior and
Dylan Brooks and whatever else. No, no, no, no, you'd.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Have you'd you'd have to give them Tari and the men.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, and even if you if you know what Tari is,
at the end of the day, I think a men's
ceiling is significantly higher. Tari's playing out of his mind
right now, and I'm so happy for him because he's
so aggressive on both ends of the floor, and he's
having a really great season and a men's doing all
the little things. Amend's got potential, not super star, but

(38:26):
major star power. Where he you're not you're not building
around him, but he is certainly a core piece too.
I think would be a team that is looking to say,
you know what, I want to be better. I think
Amen Thompson does so many things except the number one
thing about we shooting, but everything else, defense, rebounds, can
play four different positions, great defender, spectacular high IQ for basketball.

(38:52):
For a guy as young as he is, you just
can't send Jay Shawn Tate. I mean I like Jayshawn
a lot personally, but you but you'd have to send
some you'd have to send a tray that would hurt. Yeah,
And I just I don't think it's gonna happen. And
I what I don't get is I don't know how.
And again I'm not a basketball coach. So how do
you space Alpria and Shengoon and Gianni's on the same

(39:13):
floor together? Oh well, if Amend's gone, I guess that
takes away some of the non shooting. But yeah, you
would have to be you'd have to have the Milwaukee
Bucks in love with Alprin Shingoon and wanting to pay
him the money he's making the next four years. Now,
I guess. Now, how long do they have to wait
before they can train? I was talking about it, not
training opering. Is there a world where Apurn and Janis

(39:34):
would be on the same basketball team you're saying you'd
have they'd have to take Jalen Green. Yeah, there's got
to be there's a certain length of hold on players
you sign. Yeah, this feels like to me more of
a something you would discuss at the end of the season,
not in the middle of life. I looked I'm sorry, Yeah,
this is just all right. Well, I just want to
throw it out bit balling from from Bill Simmons. But

(39:56):
I will say this, the NBA has something on the NFL,
and there's very few things that the NBA has in
the NFL. Their off season is way sexier, their trade
deadline is way sexier. It's almost the most exciting part
of the calendar year. Unfortunately, that's what the problem give.
You give me July over the first two months of

(40:17):
the year. I'll take July right because it's you just
can't wait to guess and where a player is gonna go.
What do you mean, Matt, you're not excited to see
who wins the NBA Cup. By the way, Friday night,
you need to be in that arena. The floor.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh lord, it looks cool. It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
It's gonna be a lot of red. Yeah, and very
little pete.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
What is it that would be? Peach called it beige,
is what I think I said on the floor last night. Okay, Yeah,
so the Clippers are a tope or a bone. I
don't think I would use the word bone in that
particular case. You save that for Monday Night Cowboys Texans. No,
and when you use it, usually use the word boning

(41:01):
yours seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two really proud of yourself
to himself soulf not not at all. It's time for
us to get your gut feelings. I need you to
make some sports predictions. Can you do that for us?
We'd appreciate that. Seven one three two one two five

(41:23):
ninety Hour number two of the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Ross continues.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Listen up and sit so Appealsn't that Thomas?

Speaker 1 (41:38):
You'll they got a gut feeling.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
Time for you to make your sports predictions at seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety You make the predictions,
you get them right, you brag if you get them wrong,
unless theyre just totally preposterous, we will give you absolutely
no crap for making those wrong predictions. First and foremost,

(42:03):
before we go to the phones and get our predictions
in for this week, we ask all of you to
listen to how we did one week ago.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
That's where Ross comes in and tells.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Us, Yeah, let's see, I have you met. We're talking
about the election. Why does the election seem like it
was a month ago election? Not decided by tonight? I
don't know when was it officially called? Was it the
next morning or was it that evening? No, No, I
was wrong. That's a wrong hit because it was it
was done by Tuesday night. By the time I went

(42:35):
to bed, I thought it was gonna be come. I
did not know. Also, you had the Texans losing by
ten point by double digits to the Detroit lines. That's
also a wrong one. See it happens, folks. We can't
all be perfect. Well, I know, I'm here to help you.
I'm here to remind you. That's all I wrote for you.

(42:57):
Did you do anything else? That's it? Okay? I wrote
your candidate deserved to win, and I stick by that.
Your candidate deserved to win the election. Congratulations or I
my condolences. I also had Texans cover in the three
and a half.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Here's such a dog.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Texans covering the three and a half, which they did.
That's a good beat for you. Or that's a good
it's a bad win. What's a good win? What do
you mean?

Speaker 2 (43:20):
It's a can you know what? You cash?

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Twenty three to seven? They should have won that game.
And I also lete you down. I also had the
under forty nine and a half. That's what you ching,
and it's ching and you start giving out the lock of.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
A week on a recorded line.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, and that's all I wrote down for me.

Speaker 8 (43:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Our good friend Connor McGovern had i'll be with twenty
plus points on Wednesday. I don't know what he did
that game last Wednesday. I'd have to go back and look,
he's had twenty seven and back to back games under that.
For a fact, I think he had. I think it
was a dud in that game sixteen points. Yeah, yeah, No.
Against San Antonio where the Rockets won by twenty seven,

(44:02):
Shinguon only had sixteen. So that's an l That's like
three wire to wire, four wire to wire wins for
the Rockets this year. He said will Anderson will play?
He did not. He also said Nico will not play.
That was correct. He also had a Dalton Schultz touchdown
that didn't That didn't happen. But John Mitchi got a touchdown.

(44:23):
I don't think anybody had John Metchi on the Bengo
card I did. By the way, are we going to
predict more success for Dalton Schultz back half of this year?
Maybe a concerted effort by the Texans to get him
more involved in the offense. I don't think so. I
mean he's been involved. Look at Titans around the NFL.
If you're not one of the top ones. I mean,
he had three catches for sixty six yards. That's what

(44:45):
Sam Laporta had the Titans eight times on Sunday it
was thirty three Dalton. I'm gonna go Dalton Schultz. Targets
have been up, especially since Nico went down and then
Diggs as well. All right, I'm gonna start with the gupalve.
I'm gonna I'm gonna segue from what I just said,
Dalton Schultz finds the end zone. This is Monday Night,
stealing Connor's thunder Man. He's been predicting this every week.

(45:08):
I'm going with Dalton show to the end zone. You
know what, I like to personally apologize to you, O Connor.
If you want to jump in on.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
That, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
No, I'm gonna go against it. He doesn't find that,
Oh you're off the Dalton Schultz band wag. You know
that's called the classic fade MT on the show. Okay,
Dalton Schultz TD this weekend? Yep, Okay, Rockets go two
and one Monday. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Yeah, Rockets go two and one the rest of the week.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
They will. Uh They've got two La Clipper games and
a game against Chicago Bulls two and one the next
three games two and one. That seems right. Yeah, I'm
gonna be I'm gonna jump on that bandwing with you
a rocket them at nine and five. A right, there're
seven and four right now? Correct? Yes, I'm tasting that
playoff trip already. Look at me putting the cart well
before the horse. I'd be a chained to myself. You

(45:54):
on the road, Morris, sounds great. You're in the road
for two weeks. I ain't bitching about it. Yeah, but
I'm not gonna beat on Yeah what Yeah? I wanted
to connect from Korea that I mean ethern That works right,
like midnight or something. I would love that. By the way,
a listener of ours was able to find a potential
three way trade between the Rockets and the Bucks and

(46:16):
the Pistons. Okay, what's going to the rockets? I'll run
through it a little bit from the trade machine. I
don't know, but thank you, JF. I appreciate you sending
that to me. Okay, I send to you too. Oh
my god, it's it's like a two pages long. Yeah,
it's two pages long. It's like a bet at the
golden nugget. All right, Okay, well I got Dalton Shelton,
the end zone, Rockets going to and one?

Speaker 2 (46:37):
And what else do I have?

Speaker 6 (46:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Texans went by double digits.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I'm getting sneaky scared by that game. Why I'm just
sneaky scared? Is it because they're on the road. They're
on the road. Protection has been horrible on the road.
Rush is starting at quarterbacks and cranky did you hear
what he said over yesterday's upset? And then he goes
to his podcast, Hey, athletes, stop going to your podcast.
Nobody want to listen to your podcast? Why not? Because

(47:09):
these podcasts last about three weeks. Michael Parsons had a
podcast for a couple of years. Yeah, nobody listens to it. Man,
somebody is well, many cowboy fans? What's your problem? Matt,
what I hate podcast? Okay, well, why don't you let
Michael Parsons have his podcast? Cause he he he. You
go to your podcast to apologize for crazy stuff you
say on the record.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Shut your bull ass up, Michael Parsons. That's good for him.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
That's a good business, Matt, shady business. It's like you
making the terrible takes on your Twitter and then coming
here and apologizing.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
I don't make terrible takes on my Twitter.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
They're informative, they're concise.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
They it's seventy five percent like volleyball dad stuff. And yeah,
the other twenty five percent is bad at least it's
our honest and and sincere.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Who I am?

Speaker 3 (47:51):
You know what you're You're on the provisional mute list
whatever seven one three, two, one two five sent what
else you got for some predictions, I'm with you. The
Rockets are gonna win who out of three. I also
am going to predict a Tank Dell touchdown, Tank Dell
bounce back week, Tank Dell comeback season. On Monday, he

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will score a touchdown against the Cowboys. By the way,
listeners are sending me emails about who should be on
the Suck off on Monday.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Oh right, I'm not repeating any of those names.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Oh my god, I'm not gonna be here for any
of this. Yeah, let's see how long am I I'm
gonna predict that you're gonna have a good Thanksgiving. Connor,
you are going to have to record these gut feelings
from here on out because I'll never be able to
find them. Okay, send me the sheet. All right, what
are your predictions? By the way, what do you got
this week? I'll say Nico Collins and Joe Mixon touchdown. Oh,

(48:44):
a lot of touchdowns in this game being scored on
Monday night, the Texans win by less than ten.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Oh, win's a win.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
I'm with that as well. Texans win by under ten.
And then I'll say Rockets lose on Wednesday. It's the Clippers,
but they'll bounce back for win their first game towards
the NBA Cup, so they'll win. They'll lose Wednesday, win Friday.
Because honestly, if you're if you're, if you're I don't
think anybody particularly cares.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
But the game on Friday.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Means just a little bit more than one on Wednesday,
because it just means it's a tournament Cup game, you
can make the NBA Cup. And by the way, if
if the Rockets make the tournament and go to the
NBA Finals in season tournament in Vegas, you all are
welcome to come join me. Okay, I'll get a bigger room.
We can all stay in one room. I'll make another prediction.
Go ahead. Uh, Free agency is open in baseball? Correct?

Speaker 2 (49:33):
It is wide open?

Speaker 3 (49:34):
All right? Alex Brigman not signed by the time I
get back on December third, Do you guys want to
make a dat as to win? He'll be signing closest
without going over wins. Now, Boris Boris, you hear that,
Scott Boris? You hear that You've been practicing in the mirror,
haven't you? Well, yeah, I do a lot of things
in front of the mirror. Uh sor Boris boris Is

(50:00):
deals were last year super super late, and I don't
think Scott wants to do that anymore. I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I think Scott got a little.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Bit of a bad reputation or Montgomery didn't care for it.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
No, no, no, Can I stay before the calendar year changes?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Sure? Why not? All right? I'll go December fifteenth, that
we will know by December fifteenth, where Alex Bergman is
playing his baseball. Okay, what you guys say, this is
rand This is a random gas. Sure, I just said
not by the time I get back in December third, okay, December.
How long are you gonna be gone for two weeks?
I mean people actually might miss you. I don't think so.
It'll be fine. You're right, you'll be in good hands

(50:36):
with Dan Matthews and Chris Gordy. Scordy's gonna step in
a little bit now. She's gonna earn a little bit
of a salary. Wow. Really, Yeah, So you guys are
gonna be as long as he doesn't step away from
his radio appearances in Jackson and Shreeport. You better study
up on your LSU. Tiger's fine. No, I'm serious, I
get ready for that. That's right. Hey, man, I got
a great guest idea. Let's get on Tiger Dropping's offensive

(50:57):
line recruiter and coordinator Mark Tibodau. He'll give us a
rundown of everything happening. Okay, whatever, Gordy, that's fine, you
can do it. It sounds like a good guest. I
think you gonna have Mike Detillier on weekly well, do
we have it? We can get you know, there's a
great report in the Birmingham News. He talks a lot
of SEC is really informative. Okay, Gordy, we'll have SEC

(51:18):
guy on. That's fine. Anything else from you, Connor? Are
we done? Let's go all right, we're gonna talk to
the people next. Yeah, I think we're good. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
He's like, come on, let's go.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Jerry Gabriel,
you will be first up. You guys want to follow
up those two fine gentlemen with your gut feelings. It's
eleven twelve of the Matt Thomas Show. As you listen
to Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers, lunchtimers, this is the
Matt Thomas Shown't that Thomas, Yo? They got a gut feeling, lunchtimers.

(51:52):
Gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas Show. Seven
one three, two one two five seven. You got something
in your gut we want to hear from you. I do,
I got I got some more for you. Please, I'm
gonna miss I'm gonna be gone for three Texans games. Cowboys, Titans, Jags,

(52:13):
Texans go three and ozero, and by the time I
come back, we're talking about how they have stabilized the season,
and all this himming and hahn about losing to the
Detroit Lions will not be completely washed away. But we're
gonna feel a lot better. Texans go three and oh

(52:33):
on their next Really, I wonder where you got that from.
Good Lord, what do you mean? I said, they're gonna
go five and two the rest of the one. I'll
listen to you.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
You should weekdays ten to two very rarely.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
And I got one more. I don't know if it's
gonna happen by the time I come back. But however,
the biggest free agent in baseball history since Shoho Tony
last year, One Soto is signing with the new Arc Mets. Mets.
I think he's gut feeling, gut feeling. Jan Soda is

(53:07):
a New York met that just it feels like Steve
Cohen wants to tease one that he has a reason
to spend all the money. You want to twist the
knife on the Yankees. He's gonna go the extra mile.
He's gonna overspend. They went to the playoffs, last year
and win national championships. Here, you're gonna build on that.
You're robbing blind from your chief competitor in your own market.

(53:29):
It just feels like Cohen could go all in. I'm
going with one Soto New York met. I despise the
fact that I have to agree with you, but I'm
gonna go with you on that.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, make that happen. Let's talk to
some folks.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Now.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
We'll start with Jerry on seven on eight. Jerry was
in your gut this week.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
So two things can I say him?

Speaker 11 (53:47):
Or only one?

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Go ahead, salesman, as you want, all right, great. So
the first one is I see Ryan Presley getting traded
for a middle.

Speaker 9 (53:55):
Of the pack infielder and a little improfit.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
That's number one, all right. Sarry Ethan gets in the
Starry lineup at some point because you know Jamar Smith
is underplaying. It's not playing really good. Okay, yeah, those
are good, you know what, Jerry, very reasonable gut feelings there. Yeah.
We had a caller on the Rockets rap last night.

(54:19):
I want Atari starting for Jabari Smith junior. Yeah, I
think your team instantly gets better. The question is do
you miss the instant boost that you get from him
right off the bench.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Could Jabari provide that?

Speaker 3 (54:34):
No, but I'm not exactly concerned about that. I think
what they do want to do is they want to
use Jabari Smith Jr. To guard the other team's best
big because Alpern chingun Quin frankly can't do that defensively.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, I think it would have to take.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I don't want to say continue because Jabbari's underperforming offensively,
but the intangibles I think the Rockets still like. And
I think again, it's awfully hard to take a top
five draft pick, of which a couple of years ago,
and say we're gonna move you to the bench. I
do think they like the energy of a man and
Tari being the first two guys off the bench, and

(55:10):
they're so awesome. It really it inspires you because they
first of all, are scoring beautifully. Secondly, they're defending. Third
they're an instant steel machine. They're both getting like one
or two steals per night on the on the regular.
I think it's gonna take something dramatic for that to happen.
Combined seven steals and six blocks I think last night, Yeah,
I think they had seven blocks of six rockets about

(55:30):
nine blocks last night, something crazy like that. All right,
then Thompson's all over the place. Yeah, so fun and
did an I shot running point And Aaron Holland got
some playing time yesterday, and Reid Sheppard got some playing
time as well. Reed Sheppard the fine and aprising young man.
He was letting go those pull up minies. I like that.
Gabriel on seven ninety and eleven twenty Gabe, what's in
your gut?

Speaker 12 (55:50):
Hey guys, I think Scott Boris and the Astros will
not be able to come to an agreement on Brigman's contract.
He played his last game as a strow. I also
think they're gonna let Fromberg go. They will sign Kakushi
to a short term deal, and they will sign Tucker

(56:12):
to a longer term deal.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Uh is Alex Bregman masking his voice? You sound like Bregman. Hello,
you sound like Bregman talking. I've got seen his matches
year contacts. Well, I've never heard that before. Well, you
know it's a it's a go back and listen to
the podcast. You sound like Bregman disguising his voice. Yeah,

(56:37):
it's not it's not a It's not a bad thing. Yeah.
You know what, though your ARIE code is not the
same as his, so it's not really you. Okay, thank
you Gabriel for it. Let me chew on what he
just said first and foremost gone back. Kyle Tucker gone,
I agree with that, but I'm but I think if
you're gonna break your your rule of nothing over five years,

(57:01):
you do it for someone young like Kyle Tuckan. Yep.
But I think the dollars are gonna are going to
become the problem more so than the length of the contract.
Kakuchi he gone, I think he's gone and you don't
have to get You don't have to give up a
draft pick to sign him. And Scott Boris mentioned that,
and of course that's Scott Boris's drumming up market, but
he's right. More teams are going to be interested because

(57:21):
they don't have to give up the draft pick. Yep.
And the fourth thing, uh, I wouldn't be surprised, and frankly,
this may be an unpiplar take. Don't get mad at me,
astro fans. I would kick the tyres on trading from
Brevaldez right this season. You needed him down the stretch.
He was your ace down the stretch, after those three

(57:42):
home after that three home run game, and many angels,
you can I don't. This is the thing. Okay, uh,
you're Jim Crank. But I can go get one. I
can go get a picture. You can't get an ace
from where. It's already under contract and he's going to
be fourteen to fifteen million in arbitration. I mean as here,
this is, this is. I don't want to him in hogs.

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I know that's not what we're supposed to do. It's
a good feeling, and.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
I'm just not all in.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
I'm and I know he had a really good season,
and I know that when he starts dealing and the
curve ball starts to to snap like it does, he's
a ground ball machine. But man, when he implodes, it
is uncomfortable to watch, and he just can't get out
of his own way. He's bad. He's been bad in
the playoffs for two straight years. But he was also
spectacular in twenty two. Well now, okay, not. I think

(58:31):
spectacular is probably overselling it if we look at the numbers.
But very good in twenty two when you won the
World Series. This is the question, though, if you trade
him away, I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying,
then then there's no reason to sign Bregman and you're
basically hitting a reset one. How long is that going
to go? I don't know. I don't think you're hitting it.
I think I think the world of baseball is hitting
it for you. Because if you if you let Bregman

(58:53):
and Tucker go in subsequent years, that is your two
of your three of your two of the three most
valuable parts of your offensive lineup. No disrespect to Hoseel too, Bay,
but it's Jr. Don, it's Bregmant, and it's Kyle Tucker.
You let two of the three go, you are kind
of resetting yourself. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. How long
does that last? Because unfortunately in baseball generally it's it's

(59:14):
multiple years. And here's the problem, which with your original statement.
While I agree with you still to hate the team,
he's gonna want to macee money, I can't imagine. Oh no,
I don't want to pay him. I So you're saying,
keep one more year and then get that off from
a tender qualifying offer and then let him go.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Absolutely Okay, So if you want to so I'm.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Doing this is I'm going to trade for players that
I know I want your training, You're going to be
looking to get one more year of him and then
draft somebody in his spot. I'm saying it depends on
your mindset. If I'm just putting you in Jim Crane's chair,
do you want to win a World Series next year?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
I think he wants to win every year.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Do you want to do it? Do you want to
do everything possible to win a World Series next year?
I'm thinking the answer is going to be no. So
if the answer is no, be because you're not signing
Alex Bregman, then absolutely trades it or should be on
the table for for Kyle Tucker and fromber Valdez. I
think one should lead to the other. I think when
if and when you go, you're telling me that Alex
Bregman not on this team means there is no chance

(01:00:13):
the Astros make the World Series or limit Alex Bregman
not on this team. Uh Astros or Yankees. Oh, I'm
not arguing with that. Going Ashros are Guardians, keep going
Astros are, I don't even Angels. Hey, we'll take That's
what I'm saying. If if you're not signing him back,

(01:00:34):
then you're probably the fifth sixth best team in the
American League. Then yeah, trade away Fromber' So you what
you're saying is makes making sense as long as you're
ready to admit the reason why I'm trading Frombers is
I know I'm not going to sign him long term
and that if I trade him now, I can get

(01:00:54):
the players that I want that I have recon on
as compared to offering him a qualifying offer and getting
a draft pick who may not be able to help
me out for several years after that. If I'm trading
for Fromber and I'm getting two to three in high
end prospects, those prospects are ready for me either sometime
this season or in twenty twenty six. Where if I go,

(01:01:17):
if I go to the draft to get that pickup
of that of the pick that I get because I'm
giving away Fromber after qualifying offer, that guy's finding helping
me to twenty thirty. Maybe you trade you trade He
and Tucker now, Man he and Tucker now and try
to get four or five prospects. A couple of them hit.
You're still got the you still got Jordon's prime in
front of you. Janardez is still it has some productive

(01:01:39):
years in front of him. But who else? Who are
your centerpieces? If you if you've got no Tucker, no Valdez,
no Bregman, Altuve, it's Jordan and not much by the numbers,
not mine, not my opinion. By the numbers, I'll to
the worst second basement in baseball the last two years
and has as far as defensively I was gonna say
defensively defensively and has shown heurial slippage offensively last year.

(01:02:02):
And he's thirty four or thirty thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
No, here, you're not building around Jose ever.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Again, he is a great supplemental piece, and I'm glad
he's here, and I'm glad I'm gonna see him play
every last minute of his professional career as an astro.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
I'm I'm not if you think I'm disparaging Jose t No,
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
But I'm talking about I'm talking about how is this
team contending. I'm not making fun of Jose two. I'm
talking about is a practical matter. You have to separate
yourself from everything that he's brought. And we're talking about
how is this team going to contain you're gonna have
to go get crafty with some money that you're gonna spend.
Was Josh Hater on the table one year ago at
this point? No, okay, that's so you have Josh Hater?

(01:02:38):
Who is this team building? If if Frommer is gone
and uh and Tucker's gone after one year and Bregman
is not signed and now two days aging, what is
the core of this team? The core for twenty twenty
five would definitely take a hit, but I'm not ready
to make that. I'm not ready to make the prediction
for twenty six. And to answer your question, yeah, twenty six,
the two guys you just mentioned certainly would be key.

(01:02:59):
He needs going to be stars. Stars, of course you do. Yeah,
they're high end draft picks. You want your high end
draft pis be stars. They're not just guys. They're not
They're not Jake Myers. I don't disrespect to your fancly Hey, oh,
I'm sorry. Gold Glove finalist?

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
What was his batting average after thirty first?

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
I wa talk about? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
That's got feelings for this week?

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Time
for us to go on the NFL rewe we'll do
that with Ross next seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. All right, astra fans, I know you're
all bumping around even in the fall here. Would you
kick the tires on fromber or do you say, you
know what? You just don't get rid of an ace?
You just don't seven one three two one two five

(01:03:41):
seven ninety. Every Tuesday at this well, it wasn't exactly
at this time. Yeah, every Tuesday since the start of
the season. We decided to Ross sending me. He said, Hey, Maddie,

(01:04:05):
why don't we do some issues about the NFL. Not
necessarily giving you a score recap, but just kind of
finding things around the NFL. I'm like, are you sure
you want to do this? He goes, Matt, I will
forget about this to be great. I didn't say that.
I never promised I wouldn't so any further, Ado, Matt,
you still for one more second?

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Seven one three two one two five seven Hot he
come on in and say hello to us. Seven one
three two one two five seven On is Ross is
clearly not prepared for the NFL? Rewind and again he
sees a pre show tweet. I sent a calendar on
every week with our segments. I told you I'm checked out.
I told you I'm in I'm in vacation mode. I'm sorry.

(01:04:41):
And you wanted the name on your you wanted your
name on the show too, mm hmmmm, mad Am, I
gonna have to do this when Ross is in here. Yeah, absolutely,
and Rotten five to Androtten five, I'll handle. Believe it
or not, you'll do a much better job. Absolutely, no
doubt in my mind, you'll do great. Connor, Connor, this
is really your chance to take over of the segments

(01:05:01):
and it can become the Matt Thomas Show with Connor,
and we can bump Ross. You know what, you do
the Matt Thomas Show with Connor and sometimes featuring Ross.
I like that Matt Thomas Show with Ross starring Connor.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Oh you're going for the sneaky top billing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Have we killed enough time?

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Yeah? That's good enough. Ladies, gentlemen, to present to you
sports every with his NFL Rewind. All right, Matt, Well,
first of all, as we kind of normally has been
our custom, we're gonna start with the NFL Rewind on
Monday Night football. Last night, the Miami Dolphins with a
rousing twenty three to fifteen victory over the La Rams,
but a lot of the talk after the game Tua

(01:05:42):
tongue of aaloa after throwing a pick making a tackle
with his head, Tua, what are you doing? I feel good?
I went up to that dude.

Speaker 11 (01:05:51):
Dan intercepted me and asked them, like, bro, you couldn't
just like ran out of bounce or like cut back.
It's like you see me and I seeing you, like
you wanted to just run me over. He told me
after the game. There was like there's no room there,
like there was nowhere else to go. So he got
to do what you gotta do to to help his
team win games.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
And I wasn't.

Speaker 11 (01:06:12):
I wasn't planning on using my head to go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Matt, add to my gut feelings, this isn't going to
end well, Tua doesn't. What are you going to say
he's out, he's out for the year before the end
of the season, or what are we going to go?
I'm going to say that probably his life after forty
will be full of vegetables and a blunder. So, like
most NFL players, correct, you know what, I'm gonna make
a gut feeling Matt Tua Tuas survives the year, Okay,

(01:06:42):
Like he's not put on IR at some point because
of concussion.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
All right, that's him.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
I choose to believe he's going.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
To be okay, Okay, I'll go with that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
All right, Matt, let's keep it going on the NFL
rewind Uh, did you wake up for the early morning
game in Munich, Germany? Germany?

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
Matt?

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
I did not? Oh why not? Because I was breakfast
and getting ready for a highly anticipated matchup between the
Rockets and the Pistons in Detroit. Did you see Sean
Hockyley call a penalty in German? That was fun? But
also what happened well, Daniel Jones was terrible. Jones takes
the snap, here's the pressure, here's the throw, pay the

(01:07:18):
flat and Joseph O'Toole.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
The Panther's taking away.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
What a play? This reach?

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Said?

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
It stolen. Brian Dable asked this week if Brian, excuse me,
if Daniel Jones will remain the quarterback in New York.
He was noncommittal. All he said was, quote, we are
evaluating everything. The Giants suck. Everything should be evaluated. Maybe

(01:07:51):
their existence a franchise. You don't think sacrament would appreciate
the chacra of Giants. Yeah, I guess not. All right,
we can move on from that. Let's go to another
quarterback situation where there was a change and things have
been going well. Madam been telling you don't sleep on
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hey, since settles back raises the foot,
gets the snap back to pass, looking could have floated
up left for Williams and Whyiams in the enzode wanta throw?

(01:08:15):
You wanna catch? Mike Williams, in his first game in
a Steelers.

Speaker 6 (01:08:19):
Uniform, has holded a thirty two yard touchdown strike from
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns in that game. It has
not happened for a Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback since Ben Roethlisberger.
What is that about four quarterbacks ago? Yes, it was
twenty twenty one, so it was fairly recent. Yeah, but yes,
Mitchell Trubisky, Mason Rudolph, Kenny Pickett, justin fields, all those

(01:08:49):
quarterbacks they've been through, none of them have thrown three
touchdowns in a single game since since Ben Roethlisberger. Terry
Bradshaw's like that had been a long time. Ben Roethlisberger
was pretty good in his day. But I mean, how
about that, Matt, And are we done sleeping on the
Pittsburgh Steelers? Are they going from pretender status to contender?

(01:09:13):
This radio show is not sleeping on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This radio show is not sleeping on the La Chargers
or the Denver Broncos, because one of those three teams
will be inside NRG Stadium for Saturday Wildcar Weekend at
three thirty on Peacock. Yeah, it sounds about right. That
sounds about right. All right, let's uh, you know what,
Let's go to the AFC and this one kind of

(01:09:34):
does have a Texans slant. How about Kyler Murray in
the Arizona card I go with two receivers, one right,
one left, play clock at one, snap to Murray and
he's gonna keep it running right to the outside. Ten
stays in bounds at the five and into the end
zone for a second touchdown. But he takes the football
and hoist it into the casino. Two things Cardinals have

(01:09:56):
won four in a row. They had to bed division.
I mean, the division has the Niners and the Rams
and the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
They're all five hundred five hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
But that I mean they've won four in a row.
So you're saying for tender status Arizona Card. I'm they
will not be found anywhere close to NFC Championship weekend. Okay.
So the fact of the matter also is though the
team that they beat thirty one to six, the New
York Jets who beat the Texans. Ooh, that was not
making me feel good watching that on Sunday before the

(01:10:28):
night game. Feeling a little queasy. So I guess the
Jets firing their head coach. Things not necessarily working out
there in the meadowlands. You know, that makes the Texans worse,
lost ten times worse, right, I think so? But she
got beat by Aaron Rodgers and DeVonta Adams. I went like, yeah,
well they were also playing last week. Righth Jets are bad.

(01:10:54):
How about being a New York fan on sixty six wfan,
You got Jets talk and Giants talk. That's like eyed
or rat poison? Which one do you want? Oh hmm,
I'm gonna go with the rat poison. That'd be like
listen to one bad you tube broadcast on Texans versus
another bad YouTube broadcast in the Texans pick your poison.
All right, let's go elsewhere to Uh, how's go Dallas?

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
You wanna go Dallas if you want to. I'm trying
to help you out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Okay, I mean I've got one, I've got I've got
one more highlight and then we can go to Dallas.
Fair enough? All right, let's go to this one blocks
waiting for the SNAM placement us down.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Let's just take us blood, block block, the chase, block attack.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
They're gonna stay undefeated. The Kansas City Chase blocked a
thirty five yard field goal a tech can Zash City
wins this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Game on the block field goal.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
The Kansas City Chiefs are nine and oh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Hope play guys, all right? Was breathing heavy there?

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
What is this voodoo magic that Pat Mahomes and ay
re pulling off? How are they still nine and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
They're not going seventeen?

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Or zer as thought about yesterday during the during it
to tell the truth, as quickly dismissed by Connor McGovern,
it was and me, Ross, what do you think though?
I mean, this is it just just close games almost
every week that I think they're so good?

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
They down?

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
I mean, you're ready for a stupid assessment I love it.
They go seventeen and oh they won't not win the AFC.
I think you have to taste a little despair in
the regular season. Is that crazy or not?

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
I don't think that's extremely crazy. I've heard crazier things
that you've said. Thank you, usually on a on a
mostly on a weekly basis. You wanted to go to Dallas, man,
we can go to Dallas. How about them Philadelphia Eagles
hurts Stamps's foot hurts, keeps it runs, cuts back inside
touchdown number ten, the Caper thirty four to six. How

(01:12:58):
about Micah Parsons throwing the old coach under the bus? Uh?
What exactly did Michael Parsons say? I believe Connor we
have the audio, do we? I believe we do? All right,
We'll have him get it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:13):
That's both of my pay grade about if Mike is
coaching again next year, but you know, all coaching inside coaching,
you know, Mike can lead and go wherever he wants.
But the guys, I, you know, I kind of feel
bad for this, Guys like Zach Martin and guys who
might be on their last year, on their way out,
you know, because that's what I want to go hold
the trophy for Yeah, you want to win games and

(01:13:35):
do great things with those type of legends who put
in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did.
So those are the kind of guys that I have
so much sympathy and hurt for it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
There's the bus driven by Michael Parsons and he rolls
it right over the Mike McCarthy the grave, and then
of course he goes in his podcast next to to clarify,
stop clarifying, own what you said. Hmm. You know we
are ross. We're just a world a ward of clarifications.

(01:14:06):
Somebody asked a question. You say something that's gonna ruffle
a few feathers, and immediately you're like, oh, oh, I goofed.
Say what you mean, say it with your chest, put
your name on it. Now. There may be some things
that you may say in life that are insensitive, that
may hurt aggr people, and then you have to back
jack and apologize for those things. Uh huh, that's not
a case. Here. He was asked about Mike McCarthy's future,

(01:14:29):
and he's like, I love the above, my pay grin,
but I'm still going to tell you how I feel.
He's soft pedaled it and then he went full for attle. Yeah,
he's like, I'm not getting on the bus, and then
he got the Express training to run over him. God,
oh my incredible. H Well, Mike McCarthy was a puzzling
hire to me in the first place. But digits could

(01:14:50):
be it not saying it right, not saying it's definite.
And you will not be texting me or tweeting me
from wherever you are. Do you have what's happ I do?
Do you have kakaw talk? Nope? Okay, that sounds like
a little sinister backdoor texting deals you got going there?
Cow talk? No, it's like the WhatsApp of Asia.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Well, how was I supposed to under minister? Is it
called again?

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
Cow talk talk? Do you have that to Connor and yours?
You have you talking to Asian women from three thousand
miles away? No?

Speaker 13 (01:15:20):
Okay, okay, Well it's not sinister, Matt. Fine, it feels
a little. It feels a little dastardly. Now, what's happy?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
If you confuse me? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
I what's happy?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Okay? Yeah? If you if you reach out on WhatsApp,
I'll reach out back. If not, I'm good, okay, And
that my friends. Was the NFL rewind. Send me a tweet.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
You're gonna check Twitter?

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Wy are gone?

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
I have to I'll probably not a lot. Must you
podcast him over there? Well, i'd have to. I'm not
probably not gonna pay. It's like twelve dollars a day
to pay for madame. Yeah, but you're already paying fifteen
hundred to go to over there to fly what's another
of twelve bucks a day among friends? But I don't really,
I'm not. You don't go away for two weeks to
stay connected to home, go away for two weeks to disconnect.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
I'm trying to get a say, you're just connect for
two days and I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
All right. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
That was the rewind. We got the news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Coming up today, and we'll have the top headlines, including
a Rockets win last night's game between Miami and the
La Rams. If you're still enjoying or not enjoying, or
fearful of a continued Texans hangover, we'll get to that.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety lunchtimers, lunchtimers,
this is the Matt Thomas Show. Welcome back to The

(01:16:51):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross vir Real Matt Thomas
with you coming up in just a few short minutes.
We have the news at noon on the new format
of the show ten two two pm.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Ten a m.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Two two pm marks the halfway point, little refresher, get
some of the news of the day for you. So
we have that coming up. Looking forward to that, and
if you want to get in and have some conversations
with us, you can do so. Phone lines are open
and available at seven one three two one two five

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ninety is your phone number. Did some gut feelings earlier,
and I'm feeling good about the future of the Texans.
Cowboys suck. Of course, you should the schedule get significantly easier.
You should feel great about yourself. Yeah, alright, you're feeling
just fine. That Dolphins games looking kind of tough again, eh,
Dolphins two Rams aren't great. The Rams aren't great, but

(01:17:47):
the Dolphins controlled that game. They've got to a tongue
of aloa back. Tyreek Hill finally caught.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
A touchdown race for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Yeah, and I think he had a toe injury before that,
so he's banged up. But still I mean that running back,
those running backs that they have, Devon a Chan and
uh In Maraheem Mostert and who's the other one, Jalen Right,
they're all really good. They took the Bills to the
wire and they pretty much it was an eight point game,
but they pretty much stomped the Rams. That Dolphins games

(01:18:15):
looking tough again, I think ain't scared. Okay, five and two,
four and three puts them at ten minimum. Ten wins,
your division champions. You're gonna probably win the AFC South
by three to four games. You're gonna be in your
normal spot and you're gonna you know, you'd be probably
favored in any wildcard game against opponents I mentioned earlier,
either the Chargers, the Broncos, or the uh who's my

(01:18:39):
third team I think in Pittsburgh, and I think you're
gonna running No. A Buzsaw against Baltimore or Kansas City.
I don't think Buffalo is pretty scared. Buffalo is eight
and two. Now, their losses are a close one where
they I mean, they didn't give wrap that game to
the Texans, but it was a massive comeback by Buffalo

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came up a little bit short, I give you that,
and it was Josh Allen's worst game ever ever is
a quarterback, and they got absolutely stumped by the Ravens.
And back to back weeks since then, they won five
straight and they're looking pretty good to me. A little skier,
little skier to the Bills. I would put the Bills
in a class slightly above if we're doing power rankings,

(01:19:21):
which we don't do that, I would put the Bills
even though they lost head to head. I just think
they're playing better football with five or straight wins. So
it's Kansas City one, Baltimore two, Buffalo three, Houston four
in terms of your top four. Yeah. So I mean
you're you're up there. You're in a good spot, and
you're gonna feel better about yourself because you're gonna you've

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got some very winnable games coming up yourself. Two tennessees,
you got one Jacksonville. Dallas is in full implosion. The
question is, don't let your guard down against Miami and
maybe try to split the Baltimore Kansas City games. Yes,
that sounds good. That's a plan. That's a plan for success. Man.
I like that. But that's still I can get you
anything better than Maybe that makes if you can go

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six and one the rest of the way, they maybe
get you the two seed, which you then you would
take on the worst wild card left.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
I think five and two is as good as it gets.
Four and three. You're making me sound like it's more realistic.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Good news is you do have the head to head
against the Bills, So those Steelers in Ravens games could
have AFC big AFS. Oh no, they don't play the Steelers,
do it. I'm just thinking of the Ravens game because
the Ravens do have three losses, So that's a team
that if you beat them head to head you could
stay ahead of in the pecking order if they lose

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this game with the Cowboys on Monday. Hey, what's twosi?
You like to run these parts? First of all, I
don't want to know. Douchee Cowboy fan calls in, oh
heard from this entire season, five time world champion Dallas Cowboys, Matt,
we sucked this year and we still beat you guys. Ah,

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we are America's team. We've always been Texas's team. Yeah,
I would think for Houston. If you're a Texans fan
your mental health. You need this to be not only
a victory, but a resounding victory to make you feel
better about yourself, to shut the cowboy fans up once
and for all, at least till next year. And third,
to get your mojo back. They should not hang around

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with the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, because guess what. Philadelphia
went there, didn't hang around with them. Even sucky New
Orleans went there and didn't hang around with them. Detroit
went there and kicked the crap out. I mean that
the Cowboys aren't just losing ROSSI in Dallas, they are
getting annihilated. That's true. Hopefully there's a lot of traveling
Texans up up there on Mondays. Oh Darling cannot wait,

(01:21:44):
Oh my god. She's like almost stop at bakes and
we'll take some photos there, and then we're gonna stop
at this place, and then we're gonna put our Houston
Texans flag over the city of Dallas flying, and then
we're gonna go to Jfkse a place where you got shot.
They're gonna do that, yeah, the book Depository. Yeah, Darling
and her little friends about you know, and then we're
gonna try to find out where Monday Football is doing
their show. We'll get on TV a bunch and then

(01:22:05):
they're gonna ask me who three Texans are and I
can't do that. So what do you mean she knows
JJ Watt and the boys? Again, this is a figure
of my imagination, so uh, I do I think that's
what figment? Or that too?

Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
She's a figment of my imagination. So I'm gonna go
with this. She knows J. J. Watt. She has to
know J. J.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Watt.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Of course, she can name the the least the the
skill players.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
She knows who Miko calls. Does you know where Henry
Toto is?

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Maybe she's heard the name that's familiar. She could get
him out of if it was a multiple choice tests,
she would pick that he would play for the Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
Okay, does she know who Stephen Simms is?

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Well, he did muff a punt. Speaking of that, and
I'm falling on deaf fiers. We have the news at
noon here. Okay, this kickoff rule just continues to suck.
It's not in interesting. It's a giant waste of time.
You've had multiple taken back for a touchdown this year.
I haven't watched the game of one. Well, well, you
don't know. You're not watching enough games. It's happened multiple times.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
You know what, I'm putting a poll question up for it. Okay,
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
Can I just go like it or love it or
hat or the previous system was everybody it was just
a touchback every time I feel like you got some returns.
Now you're getting almost no return. How many kickoff returns
we had this year? Okay, I don't know. I'll go
look because uh three three wow, three wow. I know

(01:23:40):
you're saying you got mad at me from missing one
of those three. Oh hell no, you said none kickoff's return? Kickoffs?
Suck kick? How many? How many were in twenty twenty three?
All right, so let me make sure you get this right,
because you're always the decider of what my poll questions
should look like. Okay, all of last year there were four,
and there's been three so far this year. Okay, what

(01:24:00):
about average return? That maybe is a better indicator. Okay,
all right, so my NFL kickoff roll, my poll question.
Love it is that? Okay? Okay? Like it? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Indifferent or hate?

Speaker 8 (01:24:19):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Is that fair?

Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
O'kay? Why not just make sure because you always don
care what they say, because people always want to complain
about change no matter what. Oh, the extra basement is
the extra man on base. This is the worst thing ever.
Oh I can't do this. Oh the pitch clock, Oh no,
I can't do this. This pitch clock is terrible. Oh
no that there's just a bunch of whiners. You gotta
move into the twenty first century.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
I'm gonna get rid of love it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Players are getting hurt. They're looking for the best happy
medium where guys aren't crashing into it, where the biggest
strongest athletes on the planet aren't crashing. Every single playing
full space, every single playing football, you have no, no,
that is not every single playing football is. They have data.
There's more injuries on kickoffs than their world on other plays.
They're not just making this up. They're not changing it.

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And get rid of it completely. Let's just get right
of the twenty five years. You got to complain about that.
How can you get rid of the kickoffs? This has
been one hundred years of tradition. We're just gonna whine
and cry about every single change that has made in
a sport. There are rules that have been changed in
sports that I do like this one that I don't like,
and I think I'm entitled to say. I think it sucks.
I know here you are. I didn't say your night.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
I'm not asking you to agree to disagreement.

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
I'm just telling you I've tried and tried and tried
to get into it and I just can't do it.
Like it, indifferent, hate it? Okay, one full day. The
News at noon is.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Next, lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve four
in h Town.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
What's happening? Lunch Timers walk him to the third of
four hours of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven. Ati. We are very happy, and I
mean that's sincerely that you guys are spending your middays
with us here on the radio program. We look forward
to talking with you until two o'clock. We have a
believe it or not today at one fifty category to
be determined, but you're gonna want to play. Do you

(01:26:09):
think I can eat a quick ruling before we get
to the News at noon? Connor, you have a huge
part of this decision. When I ask people what their
favorite part of the radio show is and they said
they just tuned in. Should we drop them. You really, oh,
because these are these are Timberlake tickets. This is not
just some you know when we come up with it,

(01:26:30):
this is what we should do. We should come up
with a password, and we can't do it today. I
guess every hour we're gonna give somebody a password. What's
the password to play? Yeah? I think we can do
it right now, rock your Body or the name of
a justin Timberlake song and if they answer the password,
then we let them play.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Is that want you want to try it today and
see how it goes?

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Sure, but I mean now here what we'll do it
in fairness, Unfortunately people listening in the first two hours
of the show are missing out. Okay, we call back.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Let's suit tomorrow then okay, and we'll reout.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
We'll repeat the same pathwork. Yeah, because we want to
get because we know we'd love for it people to
listen for four hours, but it's impossible. You have to
work and do things.

Speaker 8 (01:27:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Yeah, Well, we'll give the password out several times. I
like this, Connor, make sure we remember and write it
down because there's no chance to ross and I remember it.
Let's get you the news at noon. Well, Matt A
lot going on in the sports world. Of course, the
Rockets with the victory, we will get to that in

(01:27:27):
a moment's place. Should be always I mean, my god,
was it's so good. We of course are still talking
about the Texans. Are you asking, Matt are we having
a Texans hangover? Well, here was Joe Mixon after the loss,
and he said something that a lot of people are
thinking about the Texans playing not to lose.

Speaker 14 (01:27:49):
Obviously, it's a tough one, you know, those those games
like that, That one's hurt. But you know, at the
end of the day, if that's the NFL's best team,
I think we'll be all right, you know. But I
definitely feel like, you know, come back to work, own

(01:28:10):
your work, lock in to the details, and you know,
just get ready for the next week. We got that
pivotal point and we just got to look ourselves in
the mirror, keep our hands up high, no matter what
nobody talking about, and we got to we gotta be better.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
That sounds like a player that's lost three to their
last four games. Well, at least he didn't go full
Micah Parsons and blame Demiko or something. Man Casario would
just get us an offensive Lineman or two. Oh it's
too late, it's the deadline's past. But a get right
spot this week for the Texans traveling at two the
Dallas Cowboys in Arlington on Monday night. Mattuh, just a

(01:28:48):
gut feeling. A percentage of Texans fans in the building?
What is it? Seat about one hundred and five give
or take. Can we get twenty thousand Texans fans up there?
That's the number that popped in my head as well,
and that scares me that we were on the same page.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Twentieth. Here's the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
It's a Monday night, which means you have to take
Monday off work and Tuesday, if not all Tuesday. Yeah,
but a lot of traveling Texans are unemployed, that's true,
and that's their chance to have sex together. Who just
kidd see why didn't go to this car togain because
they're they're row Because that's what the hook up group.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Yeah, it's basically an orgy?

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
What yeah? What at the inside the warped mind of
Matt Thomas. Okay, if you're a secret traveling Texans, tell
me I'm not telling the truth. Tell me if you've
been to a traveling Texans orgy call seven one three,
seven ninety. Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
I'm saying that, not saying that you've participated in it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
But if you've heard, there is no way that that
group of largely not very bright people aren't hooking up
a lot of battle red and deep steel blue yes
going on there? All right, So if you're part of
Traveling Texans, have you ever hooked up with somebody in
Traveling Texans? Seven one, three, two two five seven ninety?
All right, let's move along, you know what, but we're

(01:30:08):
gonna keep it with the Texans, Matt uh. The NFL
has released the top ten Jersey sales of the year
so far. Okay, there is a Houston Texan in the
top ten, c J.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Stroud?

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Hell have you seen this?

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Vaguely?

Speaker 5 (01:30:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
Okay, just like for one second. Well, Number one in
the NFL is CJ. Stroud. So I say to you, Matt,
the number one sol Jersey so far this season in
the NFL across the NFL is CJ. Stroud. I would say,
I'm completely in, one hundred percent stunned. I'm with you.

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Number two, Caleb Williams, number three, Patrick Mahomes number four,
Aiden Hutchinson, number five, Jayden Daniels. So four quarterbacks in
the top five, three of them in their first or
second year.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Beyond stunned.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
I love it. It's it and I and I don't mean
to do this, but it's the people that are on
that list are so young and have yet to reach
superstardom almost but I also want to there's apartment thinks
that that that the polling results are wrong. Well, these
are the These are like the sales counts. It's not
a pole.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
I mean, it's like it's at NFL dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Is that what it is? I imagine, Oh yeah, they're
they're not tracking the fake ones from China. Is that
what you're saying, Well, I'm saying that does buying jerseys
at Rick's Roaring Roods or to Monatomy Well generally though
also it's not gonna be stars players who have been
stars for ten years. You're not gonna generally you're gonna
have their jersey already, unless they're coming with a bunch

(01:31:48):
of different colorways like on this now. Patrick Mahomes is
kind of the the stalwart of this. Now, how much
of this, let me ask you this, how much of
this has to do with the fact that the Texans
have changed their uniforms this year. That could be homes
and the Chiefs Day and changing it. But if you
bought the if you bought a C. J. Stroud Rookie jersey,
did you go out and buy a C. J. Stroud
battle red New Year Jersey? I guess some people I

(01:32:09):
would think. So this is a question for Jersey Bro.
So we need to get Chris Jersey Bro no am
planting Adam, Adam clann and Chris Gordy on the line.
Stat Jersey Bro, please come chime in. Jersey Bros. You
know where you are sevent one three, you know the
you know the hotline as well. Do you have to
like does it make it more likely to buy when
they change the jersey or less likely? I think for

(01:32:30):
Jersey Bro may be more likely. Correct. Okay, all right,
let's move on. Let's go to the NBA. How about
those Houston Rockets with a fifteen point win last night.
Pull at the ball strip. There's a steel tap by
Thompson into the hands of Easton on the trail. It's
a man, He'll chame it down to seal this Rockets game.

(01:32:52):
So the Rockets get the victory last night. Alprean Chngoon
played very well. He had twenty seven points and I
believe seventeen rebound and it was another victory for the Rockets.
As Matt, if you look, have you looked at the
standings in the NBA recently, it's a four or five
matchup again for the Rockets. This time they would be
the team of out home court advantage that they would

(01:33:14):
take on the Denver Nuggets. Who Nuggets in five or four?
No shock the world? Baby? Well, do you know what
seed the Rockets would be if they were in the
Eastern Conference, which is dog water right now? The two seed?
They would be the number three seed. There's only two

(01:33:36):
teams with a winning record in the East. The Cavaliers
are a perfect twelve and zero, Celtics are nine and two.
Pacers are the third seed at five and five of
the East. Can we petition to move the Rockets to
the East? Polace, We'd have to bump somebody from the
East and move them west. I would say, listen to Chicago,
Milwaukee west to move Houston East? Love it are? Yeah?

(01:33:56):
Absolutely all right? Well then, also just a quick Rockets note.
Zach Lowe recently laid off by ESPN, but a great
NBA writer. He used to come on the show until
he got big time to say that is true. When
he was on Sports Illustrated, he did. When he went
to ESPN, he said, I'm too busy for you guys.
I'm very busy. Now maybe he's available again, so maybe
we get him back. He says he is unnotice about

(01:34:17):
the Rockets, and they're two impact bench players, although a
me in starting last night, Tarry Easton and the Men
Thompson are doing extremely rude things to opponents on defense,
most entertaining bench tag team in the league, both making
strong cases to start. If Ema Udoka ever feels the
need to shake things up, which one of the two
would you rather start? If you were to If Ema

(01:34:38):
came to you and said start one, I'm gonna go
with Tari as a better fit because his three point
shooting has been very good this year. He's already he's
not like forty one percent, So basically you'd be going
for strictly shooting over everything else, because everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Probably a man is greats higher.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
The men's a better ball distributor, I would say, better
starter or engine of the offense. They're both really smart players.
But I would give him the advantage there and then
Tari Easton the advantage shooting. So if if Fred van
Vlid is starting, I would go with Tari Easton. All right,
we have Corey and Paarland. He is a member of
the Traveling Texans, okay, And by that way, Corey is

(01:35:15):
our official most valuable traveling Texan.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
He will tell us the deats, okay, and.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
He will not lie, he will not embellish. We like
doing both those things on this show. But we will
ask Corey to tell the truth, but the truth about
life as a traveling Texan, and that is up next. That,
by the way, was the news Pat newd no off
beat story today. We don't have time. We gotta get
the break. That's fine. Seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety. Now, last night was a perfect night

(01:35:42):
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out there for the college football games this Saturday or
in the NFL games on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
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tickets in ninety minutes. One pair now, if nobody knows today,
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(01:38:05):
We got a couple of Monster Jam tickets left over,
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Monster Jam is ro Ryan gonna be out there. Probably
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(01:38:26):
own Monster Jam car truck? You? Well, what would it be? Me?
Big picture on my face, A big picture of my face.
I'm like to be scary and intimidating man. That would work.
That would work, all right, ladies and gentlemen. Well, now,
I don't know if this is true or not, because
I don't think our listeners lie. I mean we lie,
but I mean our listeners do. Corey in pair Land

(01:38:49):
with us on the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk
with Ross at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Uh, Corey, good afternoon. How are things hi?

Speaker 6 (01:38:59):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
How are you you? Corey? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
How long you been a traveling Texan?

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Fiber six years?

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
And how big is the group these days?

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
I don't know. Two hundred people.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
That's not terrible. Now, how many games have you gone
to this year?

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
This year? Just three games?

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
That's not bad. Three is better than zero.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Three road games or three total games? Three total games,
two road games one one home game? What is you?

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
What road games you go to?

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
Hello? Hello? Hello?

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
What road games? What road games did you go to?

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
I went to Indianapolis and the other ones escaping me? Sorry,
they all rolled together after a while. Mat Okay, Now
do you guys get really crazy and wild or is
it a pretty uh tang group? No, it's a wild group.

Speaker 8 (01:39:53):
And here's the reason why I call it because your
mom's in the group too and would believe me.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
We all hook up? Yeah, ma, yeah, dude, you're a dumbass. Seriously,
let's get his number out. We're eight three to two.
You all ready for this?

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
I knew that was a setup.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
I became me when he couldn't name me. Yeah, it
was like, Oh, all run together. I'm calling Guess what, Corey,
We're calling you out for the show today and we're
gonna harash you for twenty minutes. You best get ready.
Bach you think you were having fun on my show?
Guess what I'm gonna indate, you better lock my your
phone number up because you better turn your cell phone off.

(01:40:33):
Kind of got that number down, perfect, I got it.
Oh hell yeah, get ready, Corey. I'm calling you after
the show. I've had me a second cup of coffee.
I'm locked and loaded. It's a beautiful thing about color.
I d We'll find you Bach's and we're gonna get
you back. You best get ready. Man, that is rude.

(01:40:53):
He said your mother was at a monster Jack.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
I mean there wasn't a terrible line. I thought it
was kind of funny, but I know something, but it
just yeah, it couldn't make any sense. Ang and Dip
the other one. Don't remember? You don't remember? Okay, he
did lie to us. So it's a mantra of the show.
So how about them Texans this week against the Cowboys?

(01:41:18):
They're one of my ten points. I told you that before,
like Diane scared and actually, you know what I don't
like that. Well, you've said they were going to lose
by ten points to the Bills, and they beat them.
He said they're gonna lose by ten points to the Lions,
and they nearly beat them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Okay, so how do you feel now?

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
I like, Yeah, you're just mixed. I don't know what
to believe.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Seven one three two one two five seven doty seven
one three two one two. That just shows you again,
traveling Texans probably have limited intellect. Probably, hey, leave these
people alone, probably claiming unemployment multiple times per year. Credit
card debt, a lot of credit card debt. What also,

(01:42:00):
what various stereotypes come we go through? You know, that's
that's not even a real traveling Texans person. We can't
even do that. I'm sure most of are lovely people
that don't attention seek on television and don't care about
naming five players. Well, they haven't tweeted since twenty twenty.
Maybe the group is dormant. Seems like it. You think
they'd come back now that team is good again. You know.

(01:42:21):
You know people are dropping Twitter left and right, that's true.
They're going to threads. Are the people on threads? Follow
me on threads? If you're on thread people have been
responding to me on threads I have threaded? Is that
what the phrase would be? Threaded? Twice? I'm down to
get off of Twitter. It's too many bots and stuff. Yeah,

(01:42:42):
I mean, there's just so many people are there it's
just gonna be. It's just twenty five times more popular
than than whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
I heard Blue Sky is big?

Speaker 6 (01:42:53):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Can I get a faction of you ready to go
on the threads? Or blue? Is Blue Sky open to
the public though you tell you needed a like a
test link or whatever? All right, Hey, real quick, I
got an update on baseball people predicting the future of
Alex pregnant. I want to give you that one come back,
but I do want to give you one small baseball Apparently,
according to Tampa Bay Times, Tropicana Fields roof can be

(01:43:16):
fixed and ready for twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six,
but when's the new stadium open?

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Later than that? Clearly it can be fixed for fifty
five million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
Ooh, who's the c Who are they going to make pay?
Saint Petersburg, it's where the city, it's where the team
plays must decide if it will be pay for the
repair or continue planning to open a new ballpark in
twenty twenty eight. I wonder if it delays the new
stadium opening by year. If they spend that money to
repair the roof, the Rays will most likely play at

(01:43:47):
the Phillies or the Yankee spring training Park in twenty
twenty five. Do you know what the part that the
attendance of a spring training park is in those two areas.
I think maybe where the Yankees plays eleven thousand. Maybe
it's probably about what they get in normal big as
if Phillies is about eight thousand dollars eight thousand fans. Okay,
so the attendant is going to go up, is what
you're telling me. I'm saying it's a full house.

Speaker 6 (01:44:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
The avan is the word Twin Avan said, full house
and raised in a very long period of time. I
went for the Astros Rangers or Astros race playoff series
and it went a full house. They still tarped off
the upper deck. Yeah, it's embarrassing. I don't know how.
Why are they building a new stadium and keeping the
team there move them to to Nashville. But it's gonna
be like thirty thousand seats. It's ridiculous, all right. By

(01:44:30):
the way, Kyle wants to apologize on behalf of Paarland.
First of all, Kyle, it's not your fault. Secondly, Pairland's
a wonderful part of our community. How are you, sir man,
I'm very disappointed because because I don't feel that way
about you. You're a hell of a nice guy. I
am a hell of an mom.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
I bet your mom is a super lady who raised
a fine young man.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
Well, she tried her best. She's she's not perfect, and
thus on their end results at her failings. As you see,
Kyle May, my mother is going. Let's see how my
mother was born in forty eight, so she is seventy
six years old. Wow, so a man called my radio
show and talked about my mom getting a monster jam
at seventy six. I'll hope you all are proud of yourselves.
But let me tell you something, Kyle, Kyle, thank you

(01:45:11):
very much. Don't worry during the BREAKO.

Speaker 4 (01:45:14):
Go ahead, man, give me his number and I'll have
him eliminated.

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
No, that's what I like it. No, just know that Kyle,
I'm calling or you have his number right Connor, we're
calling him during the break. Hello, FBI agent that is
listening to this. Matt Thomas did not order this man
to be eliminated. In fact, I'm living right now because
ross can take about one of our fine sponsors, and
I'm going to call that dude right now and I'll
tell you how it goes after this, after you know what.

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Matt's got some high energy lately. How's your energy? Ben?
How's your motivation?

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The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
Hey, Cory at your buddy, Matt, smart move on your
part to go to voicemail, because guess what, I'm going
to leave you a voicemail message every single day until
you pick up the phone. Yeah, our boy Corey did
not answer the phone, went straight to oy smell shame. Yeah,

(01:47:11):
revenge is best served warm intended to on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I thought it was revenge. Is that dish
best served cold?

Speaker 10 (01:47:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
In my case, it's warm, No, prob much warmer when I.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
Do it, You silly, silly fools. I live for the
chance to get your caller ID and call you back.
I live for that. That's okay, Well that's your life, Matt.
It is my life, and it's now or never, and
I'm gonna want to live for I have no rockets
so tonight, so I might as well just call people back.

(01:47:45):
That's true. What are you gonna do tonight, Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
I'm going to go pick up my dry cleaning.

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
Okay, I'm gonna work on it. I need to do that.
I'm gonna work on the U of H pregame show,
which we'll have Friday night from Tucson.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
I will not be there, but I'll be working on
it tonight. So that's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Versus h Arizona have a coach Fritz with us on
the show tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
Really? Yeah? Okay, any may do Oak on the radio
show two Coaches, although that's the coach you want to
hang out here? Why do you get just give yourself
a fist pump. I think it's great content. What do
you mean? I feel like I'm guessing there's probably a million,
it's a minus one million that you're going to be
hosting the Rockets Launch Bad.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Rockets Launch Pad tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
It's six o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety, getting
you ready for the Rockets and the Clippers versus two Yeah.
By the way, the two game set, I always say
a two game set. Pulp question is out the NFL
kickoff rule. One hundred and fifty votes are and that's
a very small sample size. One to fifty seven like it,
ten percent in different, fifty one percent hate it, thirty

(01:48:42):
nine percent.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
That seems about right. I just it to me, just
a waste of time.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
What do you want to do? No kickoffs at all? Yeah?
Do you give the ball to twenty five? Yeah? Stood
that way, So you'd rather have zero touchdown returns than
three that they have. Now it's logistically a waste. It's
it's a sequence in play that makes absolutely I mean,
it's like the intentional walk.

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
If you're gonna walk them, just do it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
That's no, it's if you do if you don't want
to kick, if you don't want to kick off and
have a return, just give it the twenty five. There's
no chance of a run scoring on a on an
intentional walk. There's a chance that a touchdown being scored.
Bases are loaded there, yeah, am I right? All right?

Speaker 6 (01:49:19):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:49:20):
Prime Barry Bonds isn't coming up to the plate. I
don't know how many bases loaded intentional walks of there
bit ever, I'm just telling you it's an unnecessary sequence
in the play. You know what it does. It gives
us if you're gonna if you're if that's what you're
gonna do, and I'm not, I want the old kickoff
rules back. But if you're gonna not do that, then
put the ball twenty five sing get some more plays

(01:49:41):
in the old kickoff rules were a seventy three percent
touchback rate. So far this year it is a sixty
five percent touch back rate. But my point is I
would improvement. I would even and again this is so
not popular, but I'd bring the back ball back to
the twenty yard line to inspire more kicks. Kickoffs should
be an active part of the game. Again, they're going

(01:50:02):
away from this because of the amount of injuries that
were happening. But my argument is, and again, you're gonna
have the science of the numbers that you can get
hard on every single play of every football absolutely, but
more so when people are running at each other full
speed forty yards down. I don't know a defensive lineman
chasing after C. J. Stroud is going full speed. Yeah,
and he's played every game this year until he eventually won't. Well,

(01:50:25):
we'll see, all right, go ahehead. I don't know. You
made me forget the point I was gonna make. It
was just about the kickoff thing. But it's fine if
you think about it. We got time to come back.
We're still until to a five. We got plenty of time.
Seven one three seven one three. Try to remember what

(01:50:45):
the heck I was gonna say about kickoff. So ESPN
has five baseball writers I've only heard of in this
group one, Jeff Passing, No, it's a bout. No no, no, no, no,
no no no, I stink correctly. It's not ESPN. These
are all on ESPN people. Oh, Michael Schwab put this out.
I don't know where you got it from, but these
are five baseball writers. I mean he's an aggregator. I

(01:51:09):
mean my I think Michae will be the first admit
that he aggregates everything or most everything. I don't know
where you got this from, so I don't know, but
five baseball writers predicted where Alex Pregnant was going to go.
Uh and let me give you the people and maybe
you can help me with who these friend people are.
Gabe Lequez lock like locks l A c q E. Yes,
I would a French yet GiB here. I don't know

(01:51:32):
who that go is. Steve Gardner, Steve Gardner, isn't he
a former GM or something like that? Scott Bolke, b
O E c K. Jesse yamtav the is this buddies
of Michael Schwabs or what? I don't know what's going on?
And then Bob Nightingale. Okay, these are USA today right now? Okay,

(01:51:52):
so USA baseball writers, Jesse and yamtav says that Alex
Bregman is going to the New York Mets and the
conversation of maybe him going there and playing second base,
m hm, he says the man he says, which the
thought of Bregman playing second base brings the Mets into
the conversation. Since the NL runners up have Mark Vientos

(01:52:13):
now firmly in trench at third, the thirty year old
Bregmant is coming off the worst season of his career
in his twenty twenty five employer may be largely determined
by the trickle down effect of Soto's ownership. Courtship. Excuse me,
Scott Booke b o E C K back whatever says that.
Scott says, the Alex Beredman is going to sign with
the Astros. It's hard to see Bregman, the face of

(01:52:34):
the franchise, to part after nine years. But then again,
Houston let All Stars shortstop Carl's koreewalk. So that's frail,
very lukewarm endorsement on that one. Something called Steve Gardner
says Houston Astros is there any way, the Astros actually
let Bregman walk. Teammates and fans want him back. Plus
he'd be crazy to leave Houston, where his medium pole
power is tailor made for depositing home runs into the

(01:52:55):
Crawford boxes, and left field does have a point. Bragman's
made for right for the left field defenses. Right, Yeah,
name for the boxes, Gabe Law says. Washington Nationals Jim
Green Jim Crane gets pushed beyond the comfort level and

(01:53:16):
lets another dynasty building asset walk from Houston. Bregman becomes
the veteran glue for a promising corps that needs a
north Star. And last, but not least, and probably the
most recognizable of the five USA Today writers, By the way,
U said, Today's employing five baseball writers.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
That feels like a lot, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
I mean, what's the last time you had pulled a
copy of the USA Today and read it at a hotel?

Speaker 6 (01:53:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
No, they don't even deliver a feminine hotels anymore. But
here's a Bob Nightingale says. Bragman has always loved the spotlight,
dreaming of playing on the big stage. And what's bigger
than New York New Yonky Yankees. He'll have both the
New York teams bidding for him, but the Yankees will
be the ultimate winner. Okay, well he's the one I

(01:54:02):
put the most stuck into because Bob Nightingale, while he's
gotten some stuff wrong, he's pretty plugged. He probably has.
First of all, he's plugged in more than the other
four guys can bind. Second of all, his winning percentage
is about seven fifty. Probably has an open line to
Scott Boris, but not that Boris would leak that to him.
But but Scott Boris probably has lenks things to not before.

(01:54:23):
But I don't think it's happening here necessarily. There's probably
still a bidding and all that. No, but who would
Scott He's gonna look at to somebody. I think he's
absolutely right. And well, uh oh no. Maybe it was
the yamtav which which one said that it'll be after
Sodo trickle down from Sodo. I think it's correct. So
I think the team that signed so Top will come
off the board, be at the Nationals, Yankees or Mets,

(01:54:43):
all listed on this list of possible suitors for Alex
Bregman services, and then they will pivot and I think
Alex Bregman will be one of the kind of bridesmaids
or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
So, if you're Alex, you are waiting to find out
or does the market.

Speaker 3 (01:55:00):
Make you wait? I think the market which I think
teams are gonna try this. They're gonna swing at Soto
first and then they'll pivot. So does that mean the
teams that are currently in on Soto or at least
think they have a chance, are the ones same ones
going after Bregman. Yeah, if you're willing to spend five
hundred million dollars in Sodo, you wouldn't say, you know what,
consolation prize hundred and eighty million on Alex Bregman. I

(01:55:21):
think I think that I'll you know what though, Yeah,
do you know what that does? Being in the same
free agent class for Bregman, it really helps him because
they're gonna be You're gonna be too many teams are
going to say that Juan Soto is too rich for
their blood and maybe we'll get better value at a
lower dollar amount for Alex.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
That's genius actually, And you know.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
What, Yeah, I'll gut feeling that now Bregman signs after Sodo?
Is that really pretty chalk? If you want to, if
you want to give yourself credit for that one to
the chalk, yeah, chalk play You're not getting you know,
you're only getting forty cents on the dollar in return
on that. But I think that's the way it go,
that plays out. Yeah, I think so too, because if
you're Bregman, why would you because you're not You are

(01:56:03):
not going to be going Wow, if Soto signs, there's
no more money left for me. Is Bregman the second
most highly sought after free agent in this offseason? Corbin Burns,
I think is one, and I think Bregman is three.
I'd have to go look at other people's recent rankings,
but okay, I think we have to have our heart

(01:56:24):
to heart with our audience and just now, let's you
rip the band aid he go. I don't know, is
there somewhere that Bregman goes that you just can't forgive him? Oh,
people have Blake Snell ahead of him and as far
as position players, So it's Soto and that's it. But

(01:56:45):
also Rookie Sasaki, the Japanese pitcher supposed to be a
twenty three year old phenom, also going to be highly
sought after. But that's that's also a picture, you said, right, Yeah, okay,
So here's the question will we turn our our stomachs
if he goes to the Yankees. I want you all

(01:57:06):
to think about that for a second. And then if
you want to because you're an Astros fan and like
to listen to the show, I want you to close
your eyes as long as you're not driving ross close
your eyes closed, and I want you to envision Alex
Pragman in Yankee pinstripes. Yeah, you know what we are.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
We're therapist. How do you feel right now?

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
Imagine Opening day Yankees versus Rays at New Yankee Stadium
on sixty six WFN and having people in the outfield scream.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Alex Bragman, Alex.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
Bragman after booing him for years and years and years
and call him a cheetah, stole a championship from us Cheetah,
MF and Cheetah. Speaking of cheetahre's Cheetah. Open your eyes
and call right now seven to one to three, two

(01:58:07):
one two five seven nighty. Just let me know what's
in your raw emotions if I've said that Alex Bregman
is wearing Yankee gear seven one three two one two
five seven ninety The morning sports show for those who
partied in Midtown way too hard last night the Matt Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
All Right, so a lot of you on Twitter have
been sending me releases a responses to imagining Alex pregmant
is a Yankee. The overriding factor is if you've loved
Alex Bregman for even one minute, you have to applaud him.

Speaker 5 (01:58:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:58:52):
I'm not saying every single time, there's no way in
the world that Alex Bregman is going to ever say.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
A disparaging word about the city. Houston are one of
our friends.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
In the show, Tiffany sent in a suite and said,
the best part of it's going to be is watching
Yankee fan have to root for the guy if he
goes there. No, they won't care, they won't think twice
about it. It'll be the biggest hypocrisy maybe in recent
sports history, that they will if he goes in. I'm
not saying he's a favorite because it look honestly, any
free agent worth anything, the Yankees are always manically going

(01:59:27):
to be favorites because they have the most money they
can spend, and I'm never worried about competitive spending under
any circumstance. But could you imagine how the outfield when
they screamed the players' names. Yeah, they've screamed Alex Pragman's
name a lot in the last seven or eight years,
but it was usually the word F in front of it,
Bill Flip. They won't forget about it, they won't think
about it. It's Twins fans yelling cheater at jose Al

(01:59:48):
Tuovey and then cheering Collins Korea. Yeah, it's George Springer
on Toronto, right, it's I mean, anything else you can
think of, they'll be over it in five seconds. He
hits a home run, he makes a great play at
third done, and that's just it. Of course, highlights the
hypocrisy of all of it. But it's not even really

(02:00:09):
Yankee fans. As much as I want to say that
Yankee fans are a special breed, it's everybody. Everybody hates
when you don't wear your gear, but when you let by,
you let by gods be by guns, when they're wearing
the team gear of your team. It's just the reality
of it. We've had a lot of that in here.
It's Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley is a rocket, cheered
his ass. They probably didn't cheer Scotty that much. No,

(02:00:34):
he hardly played. So give me some more examples. Uh,
Chris Paul coming here was a big one for me.
Hated Chris Paul. He screamed Russell Russell Westbrook. Yes on
the football side, Uh, Ed Reed, nobody eatn't everybody? Edybody
love Red Reid, but everybody knew that the moment he

(02:00:54):
signed up his way past his prime. People love it.
Have you ever heard Bill Belichick talk about Ed Reid.
He talks about him like he's his firstborn son. He
loves that man. Yeah, I'm trying to think of a
baseball Roberto Sona. There was backlash, There was backlash. Maybe
that wouldn't be that wouldn't be a good example of that.
But I'm trying to think of an astro player that

(02:01:14):
came here that was not well regarded until he got here.
Rannie Johnson was loved. Oh, Dylan Brooks, great example, Dylan
the villain boot everywhere he goes around the mbasse Still
to this day. People like him here. I like him,
Pat Beverly, Pat Pat became a badass here and then left. Yes,

(02:01:40):
so he built his reputation base of his activity. I'll
give you one. We weren't. Pat Beverly and Russell Westbrook
teammates with the Lakers. I want to say, yeah, and
that's where Pat when when he was a rocket and
and Russbrook was a was a thunder. They met at
mid courtney here and Beverly hard him during his calling timeout.
Patrick Beverly he was going for a steal. Yeah, kind

(02:02:01):
of undercut Russell Westbrook and at those two players like buygowns,
buy gowns. Yeah, we don't know it privately. If I
don't know if there was like a Jordan Poole Draymond
Green incident. But I wonder if they really got along privately,
they probably had to just say look this is Grin
and Barrett and go yeah. I mean there's spend. I
mean there's probably on every team there's people that don't
like each other. It happens and they still play together.

(02:02:24):
I'm trying to think of teams that I've covered in
my life that I didn't think liked each other. James Chris,
James Dwight, James Rush.

Speaker 6 (02:02:38):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (02:02:38):
I thought James and Dwight got along it at first. Oh,
they all get along at first. They all like, let's
work together, and then they realize that they're it's all
in the water. Mm hmm, in three different occasies. The
way you dispelled the reports that James and Chris hated
each other because they would still play cards.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
They would still play cards.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53):
Not again. Does that mean they were breaking bread and
having dinner and exchanging Chris's presence. No, But when you
hate someone, you don't play.

Speaker 2 (02:03:01):
Cards with them.

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
Okay, when you're not on speaking terms with somebody, you're
on different sides of the plane. You're on different you're
in different buses, you are whispering to the media people
that want to hear your whispers how much you hate
a particular person. Do I think they got along towards
the end.

Speaker 9 (02:03:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:03:16):
Do I think they were.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
They were completely different philosophical about where the Rockets direction
was for a team. Yes, but if you're playing bou Ray,
you're playing bou Ray. It's an international bonding game. Ross.

Speaker 13 (02:03:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
I won't you get into that game because they play
for too much money that way.

Speaker 3 (02:03:32):
Yeah, nobody's on your Your opportunity was when they were
all on rookie deals. Now you're way priced out. Yeah,
I know they played cards in the back of the planet.
I just don't go back there and ask yeah, because
they don't. They haven't said, hey, Matt, what what are
you doing up there? Come on back with us. I've
never gotten that invite just yet. And your wife's like,

(02:03:53):
what's this huge cash would draw from the bank account?
Why are you venmoing Jay Green thousands of dollars sixty
hundred dollars at Jay Sean tait on Venmo? What's up
with That's that's puzzling. I don't even know those guys play.
I'm just saying I think there's card playing back there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
I don't think we've ever played cards on the plane,
have we?

Speaker 3 (02:04:18):
You and I.

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
We've been on a bunch of trips together over the years.

Speaker 3 (02:04:21):
No, well you were a commercial still drink, you can
still throw some bas well, you're usually in the exit
row and I'm back there with the plebeians. Yeah, but
because you buy a basic economy, it pains me that
you sit in basic economy. I know you don't buy it.
It's just the seats are tight, you have no leg room.
You have like one person on them, and that's it.

(02:04:41):
They give you crap if you bring a second one
on there. As long as you travel with me ROSSI
you're never flying basic economy again. It's not that bad.

Speaker 2 (02:04:51):
I'll upgrade you to just good old fashion economy.

Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
Okay, thank you? All right, Well I'm cold. Can we
record this please? I mean you're you're jonesing it on
people eleasas anywhere with other airlines somebody you know, little
main cabin plus nice. Oh, I gotta pick my meals.

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
Do you get drinks? I hope so, I mean, I
guess you could pay for them if you need it to.

Speaker 3 (02:05:10):
I saw if I want to upgrade the fourth first class,
it's only gonna cost me forty two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:05:14):
Let me ask you this, do you want to drink
on a fly?

Speaker 6 (02:05:17):
Like?

Speaker 3 (02:05:17):
How long is your longest light? You went to Houston
to wear? I'm literally going to DFW, so that's forty
five minutes so that's easy.

Speaker 6 (02:05:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
And going from DFW two Incheon, which is the main
airport for Soul, South Korea, it's like fifteen hours.

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
Do you drink on that, bad boy? I don't think
I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (02:05:33):
I'm gonna watch longhorns in Arkansas are at eleven am
and you have do you have Wi Fi TV on
those long ass. I'm paying for whatever it is I
gotta pay for I'm paying for it. Okay, because I
have a lot of questions about international travel, You're gonna
have to answer fo we get back, Well, we will
do the day you get back, okay, and ask Ross
everything about the trick. Because I'm not gonna know anything
about sports. You're gonna have to fill me in. Like

(02:05:56):
I'm missing three Texans games, probably like seven eight Rockets games. Oh,
that's what's apps for. I'm gonna give you everything you
want to know about what's happening. It'll be the least well, actually,
I still won't be the least educated uh sports hosts
in the city. But that's okay. Who would that be?
I don't know. Hey, y'all, let Ross know who the
most least educated sports host in the city is. Yeah,

(02:06:16):
hit me up on threads at sports RV threads early.
I'm on threads. I mean I've been on there. Nobody's there.
I said hello, say hi to me on threads. I'm
gonna figure out what's going with the blue Sky stuff.
But I'm fine on Twitter now because I just mute everything,
and I've muted a bunch of words. But I've been
blocking people and they still get to read the stuff. Yeah,
see that's not fair. Oh, here's one from Paul Jeff

(02:06:37):
can't hated him? Did we hate him as a giant?

Speaker 6 (02:06:40):
Do? I?

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
You know, honestly, I hated it when he got here
because he was a bad guy.

Speaker 3 (02:06:46):
You're gonna say a different word I was.

Speaker 1 (02:06:48):
You were gonna say it different word.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
I had to filter myself there.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
All right, We have one hour left to go on
today's edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If
you'd like to join us. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Rockets with a win. Last night
we had the NFL Monday Night Football. We have the
Texans back on the practice field today because it's a
strange week because they're gonna take tomorrow off because they
play Monday in Dallas against the Cowboys. Seven one three

(02:07:14):
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Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
I'm gonna load in Justin Timberlake bumps every.

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Hour so we remember, Okay, we'll do that, and we're
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So uh, if you listen for any length of time,
you get in all right. Rockets. Last night, Rossie got
a nice victory against the Washington Wizards. They are now
firmly above five hundred huge I mean massive win, pacing
towards fifty two wins this year. How worried are we

(02:08:51):
about the long term health of Fred van Vliet He
was out with the hamstring injury or was that just
back to back injury maintenance.

Speaker 2 (02:09:00):
I'll put it this.

Speaker 3 (02:09:01):
Way, I wouldn't be stunned if he missed another game.
It didn't feel like I mean, I know that he
What was told yesterday by EMA doc is he played
through it and just felt it tightening up, and then
he definitely wanted to take the day off yesterday. That
it's kind of a question of literally a day by
day basis, how he feels waken up, how he feels
moving around, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if he missed.

(02:09:24):
But I also know that he wants to play badly
because he knows these games are coming up that are important,
because they want to obviously be better than anyone's got
up a shooting slump. And I think that Friday game,
especially with it because it's an NC and tournament game,
means just a tinge more he gets jacked up for
the NBA Cup with it a million person. What do
they get? I don't know what it is, but it's

(02:09:44):
an opportunity to, you know, play some really good teams, improved,
get obviously get wins, and then you know, I have
a chance. Maybe look at what Indiana did last year.
I thought they were gonna up it. What do the
broadcasters get? Broadcasters get at a boy, don't you get
if it's if they go to eighty four, it's an
eighty four game season if they win it, right or
eighty three eighty three? Sorry, so that eighty third game

(02:10:08):
does not count towards the standings. You can't have a
better percentage. Does Maddy t get an extra game check
or what?

Speaker 9 (02:10:15):
No?

Speaker 12 (02:10:15):
Oo?

Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
But if I could go to Vegas, that's like getting
a game check.

Speaker 3 (02:10:18):
Ye, that's true. Actually, it's like losing two game check
because I'm I have a few days off before the
end of the year, and then I have two days
I'm holding on to for playing because I think we're
gonna know where we're gonna play in relatively short notice.
So yeah, but I'm hoping those two days will be
me hanging around in Vegas, going to shows, eating great food,

(02:10:39):
and playing cards late hours. I was up to two
o'clock in the morning the night before the Rockets game,
so the great call. But were Yeah, on an afternoon game.
You look at you, You're like prime Dennis Rods. I
went to two.

Speaker 2 (02:10:50):
I slept till ten, thirty eight plus hours. You're got
a rhino until four. So buddy of.

Speaker 3 (02:10:56):
Mine, our producer, our director who travels with us, thought
they got thought he got me. Okay. These two women
came up to me at the casino and at the
MGM where I was, and I said, hey, man, what's
going on. I'm like, because we listen to you all
the time, I'm like what. I was stunned, because we'll

(02:11:19):
describe these women please. They had breast they.

Speaker 5 (02:11:25):
Okay, I was thinking age, oh oh, oh, okay, I
would say, they're probably in their forties.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
I would say, Michigan looking women. What is a Michigan
looking at woman? I mean, you know what?

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
A California woman looks like.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
No, and an Arizona woman looks like flowers in her head,
a Florida woman looks like not really, I guess okay,
And I said, how did you know I was here?
And they go, you, we knew you'd be here.

Speaker 13 (02:12:07):
Guse me know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
We talked about gambling a lot of the show.

Speaker 3 (02:12:10):
And I was so shell shocked that I didn't know
how to to say, Hey, yeah, when do you How
do you guys listen? I didn't, I didn't. You were flummixed.
I didn't do the recount on this, okay, but it
just something didn't seem right. So I found out the
next morning that my buddy, the director for the Rockets broadcast, Adam,
if you're listening, set those women up. He had met

(02:12:30):
those women and said, hey, go tell Matt that you're
listeners for the show. Okay, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
It would have been a lot better, it would.

Speaker 3 (02:12:37):
I would have been fooled a lot more if they
would have said, man, I listened to shut your ball
mass up or listen to non Florida stories or something. Really,
you know, how's raw something like that. The devil's in
the details. Yeah, So if you're going to try to
fool somebody, do some more work to really make him
fool when you were kind of fooled, I was kind
of fool but not full on. Okay, interesting, So that's

(02:13:03):
what happened. I don't know how we got into this story,
but I don't know either, but yeah, okay, back to it,
back to life. Rockets off tonight. Oh, we're talking about
the NBA Rockets and Clippers tomorrow and then Friday. Somebody
did send me an email said, is the stripper business
is going to be doing a lot better in the
marketplace now that James is gonna mean in for a

(02:13:24):
few days. Oh yeah, because they put in Okay City
last night. They probably flew here right after. You know
how you you gather up supplies when a hurricane's coming
into town. I think you gather up supplies when when
James Harden's coming in town at strip clubs. It is
funny people still to this day talk to me about
James and they bring up the fact that his jersey's
retired in a strip club. Yes, it's pretty incredible. Actually,

(02:13:47):
I got a nice they got a nice chicken joint
in the back of that place too. Speaking of that,
I have not we don't go to Atlanta for a while. Okay,
I thought you were going to get the Magic City Wings.
I might have already, I said I might. Did you
want the bone in or the bone out? Taso. I'm
been a boning guy since day one. No, I've looked
you to team Boneless for a while for remember that,

(02:14:08):
and then I became a girl. You're like, you know what,
this is logical? This is delicious, all white meat, chicken,
saust and toss the way I like it. I like
sauce and tossed, real bone like real man, eat it,
real man, eat the bone. Seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety. Let's talk to Tim and Katie.
Our time is won ten at Sports Talk seven. I
need Tim. Thanks for holding good afternoon.

Speaker 15 (02:14:30):
Hi guys, thanks for taking my call. Sure I wanted
to talk a little rockets. Uh And when do you
guys think Cam Whitmore is gonna get back up with
the main club. I know there was a lot of
Twitter stuff going on about reed Shepherd when he hit
a shot, and I'm okay excited about him, but man,
he's getting abused on the defensive end, and I'd like
to see Cam back with the big club and getting

(02:14:52):
a few more minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:14:53):
Thanks, thank you, Tim uh Well, I think part of
the reason why Cam went down was because a shot
wasn't falling in b I don't I think it's defensive
intensity was particularly good.

Speaker 2 (02:15:02):
My guess is ROSSI Cams back with.

Speaker 3 (02:15:05):
The team this weekend in Chicago Milwaukee. Uh Landell, I
think it's gonna be out for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:15:13):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
That shoulder elment is not that he plays the same position,
but you're looking to if you're gonna fill a roster spot, well,
they have to do something. What are they gonna Are
they gonna play smaller lineups? I guess with them and
Thompson and Tari Easton because Steven Adams can't play every game. Nope,
he's questionable. He's questionable every single game. Do you know
that we've basically have been told I'm not talking on
a turn here, that it's gonna literally a gay a

(02:15:34):
game day decision about everyone. It's like when Steven wakes up,
Now you know back to backs he won't be playing right.
So my guess is if you were to say over
under on Steven Adams games this year, my guess will
be in the forty range. Feels about right. But if
you have Landell, you're you're splitting those two. You're splitting
those two guys up. Now, if Jack is out for
a while, does that mean Jabari goes the five? They

(02:15:57):
like Jabari in five lineups. That's what they can. They
can switch and he can defend, and they could they
they it feels like Imodoka's preferences to do switch everything defense,
but they can't do that with Albert Shangun on the floor.
And back to Cam with the original question from tim Uh,
I think he just went down to go get his
mojo back. I don't think. I think Cam Went Moore

(02:16:18):
is going to be able to shoot the basketball at
the NBA level and score. Now, do you want it
at a higher success rate? Do you want it to
not be at the cost of seventeen or eighteen shots?
Do you want his defense and intensity good? Do you
want him not to drop his head after her missus
a shot. There's all the little things that I think
the Cam Went down there, and you know, I think
he played one game scored the twenty five, twenty six points,

(02:16:39):
something crazy like that. I mean, he's too good for
the for the G League. He knows that, and maybe
you just need a little refresher. I mean, it's like
guys go to triple A for a week, two weeks,
correct the hitch in the swing, except jose Brew obviously
that's a bad example. You went to the direction that
I was going to go. Are we calling him a
quadruple A player then using that Samuel or not? Oh go?
Because if this way, if Cam comes back and shoots

(02:17:02):
one for his next sixteen from three, then I would
think there would be cause for concern. I don't think
he's going to I mean, I think the shots will fall,
but I think it is there are some concerns about
what you said the defensive intensity consistently and honestly, Ross,
it is a mess at that small forward swing position
A man Thompson Tari Eastan. You're not taking those minutes

(02:17:24):
away from those guys, you know not. You want to
get Reed Shepherd on the floor a little bit to play.
Where's the minutes? I don't know they're in the rio
Grande Valley. Yeah. Seven one three two one two five
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Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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I'm the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (02:19:01):
We have believe it or not coming up at about
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of things going on tomorrow ten o'clock until two. Right
here on Sports Talk seven on eighty the Chicago Bears, Ross,
you have fired their offensive coordinator, gentlemen, by the name

(02:19:24):
of Shane Waldron, ten months on the job. Shane Waldron, Okay,
uh yeah, Well, first and foremost, there's offense has been terrible. Yeah,
But does that go to having a rookie quarterback? Does

(02:19:44):
that go to that the general manager do not supply
the proper pieces around this rookie quarterback. It's conservative play
calling or overly abundant amounts of liberal play calling. Look,
I haven't been bringing down bears tatement. No, you know,
I do watch I Caleb Williams hasn't been making throws.
Caleb Williams just from look like I'm saying, I'm seeing

(02:20:04):
clip Twitter clips, and I do follow people who do
break down film and just some stuff from them. And
it just seems like Caleb Williams is not turning it loose.
He's not seeing open guys. They also had both they
they had both of their tackles hurt in the last
game that they played. So this feels like scapegoating absolutely,

(02:20:28):
and eber flu is doing something to try to keep
his job. I mean, I haven't met eb has got
to be gone. Now you and I were talking, Yeah,
eber Flues, I think it's gonna be probably. I would
think he probably has a higher list of getting let
go before even Mike McCarthy. I don't know. No, it's
gonna be McCarthy, it's gonna be ebra Flus, it's gonna
be who's a Giants coach, Brian Dableball. They got the
dreaded vote of confidence such three. Who else is in trouble? Tampa, No,

(02:20:59):
Miami No. Mike McDaniel looks looking safe after this week
in Mia, Alana. Just hired a guy. New Orleans needs
a coach. Antonio Pearce has only not one year with
the Raiders, but that's been a disaster. How about this
is if you're deond you go kick the tires on

(02:21:20):
a job, thank you? Yeah? Absolutely? Travis Hunter is gonna
be gone, isn't Is Shird Doors Sanders gonna be gone
for this year too? Yeah, he's got one one son
will be is still there? Okay, And here's the reality
if Dion continues to do what he's doing, and that
is I mean surprise in the world. They were predicted
to finish I think eleventh and the Big Twelve this year.

(02:21:41):
Something's crazy like that. Seven and two right there, and
they've got a pretty decent path towards a Big Twelve
championship game. And as much as I'm not a fan
of his, I think he's bad for athletics, he's coaching,
he's winning games, so you have to you have to
give it up to him. What about Doug Peterson and Jacksonville? Oh,
another one? But it feels like, well, would this be

(02:22:01):
the year to make that happen? But then I think
of myself every year Rosster's six or seven jobs always.

Speaker 2 (02:22:06):
Open, Nick Sirianni and Philly. No, I think he's safe.

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
They don't. They hate him in Philly, well everybody, that's true.
It's Philly.

Speaker 2 (02:22:14):
It's Philidelphia. They hate everybody there.

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
Do you know the one guy who's like back to
back coach of the year, Yeah, Brown's been terrible. Yeah.
Who's the guy that was the who's in Arizona that
was supposed to be a Canada here in town that
interviewed so poorly. What's the Arizona coach's name? Jonathan something?

Speaker 15 (02:22:30):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:22:31):
I know that's the first place team. Nobody thought that
was going to be fixed that quickly. That's true, So
he's pretty safe. Point bing is this, if you're coming
off of a complete turnaround season. I think I think
that the Buffs went four and nine last year something
crazy like that. There, four and eight, and you're going
for a big twelve championship game possibility. If you get there,

(02:22:56):
you don't have to worry about nil or the transfer portal,
and you can just coach and you can surround yourself.
You're a CEO and you can just surround yourself around
high priced coordinators and assistant coaches. If you're Dion what seriously,
what's the end game for Dion? Does? Does Deon Stick

(02:23:17):
work for eighteen to twenty one year olds or thirty
one year old grown ass adults like Dion enough? Well,
I would imagine he would still have the respect to player.
He's one of their all time greats. I just don't
know exactly what his approach with the players is, so
I can't necessarily answer that question if his act would
wear thin with grown men. And also, it's gonna take

(02:23:41):
two to tango. I guess you could get one owner
to say, we're gonna take a shot, but do you
think of the thirty two owners? Of course, you're only
gonna have a handful of openings, like we're gonna say,
you know what, Deon Sanders is the guy that he's
the head coach to lead us into this our next
great era. I guess the question is what college coaches
are out there and have been successful that just say,

(02:24:04):
at the end of the day, my stick, my philosophy,
my way of coaching, my way of leading a program
is just better suited for the collegiate level than it
is a pro level. Nick Saban would agree with me
on that. Urban Meyer would agree with me. In the
college game is better as much as Jim Harbaugh had
won a national championship in at Michigan. He's got the

(02:24:25):
Chargers going to the playoffs right now, so kudos to him.
He can coach at both levels, clearly he can. But
I think he is somebody who is a candidate for
the act to wear thin in a couple of years.
That happened in San Francisco. Yeah, Oh, he's definitely gonna
be jumping from a job to job. Would man, I
don't you know again, we're not living in Denver. We

(02:24:45):
don't follow the Buffaloes, the Broncos. I'm talking about Colorado Buffaloes.
I don't know what he's doing there. If the way
he runs that that college operation would be the same
the way he would run an NFL team, I don't know.
Let's hear something of the media. They seem to love him.
Oh god, he has zero relationship, which would be perfect

(02:25:08):
is Bill Belichick Iver had a relationship with the media
and even But I do think, and let's think about this,
you it is easier to control eighteen to twenty two
year olds then it would be grown ass men making
millions of dollars a year. Yeah, but now the portal
in the NIL makes it a more difficult It was
already a more difficult job because we always talked about recruiting,

(02:25:31):
just with recruiting and dealing with boosters in itself. Now
is recruiting dealing with boosters and the NIL collectives, right,
and the NIL and the players and the transfer portal.
But if you want to do something like I want
to have practice every day at two o'clock or I
want to travel to this this work, I mean, you
do have a more leverage to do what you want

(02:25:53):
to do. Once you get in the NFL ranks, it's regimented.
If you have a general manager who constructs your team,
you would help him, but the GM is ultimately responsible.
Colleges don't have a general manager by it most in
most occasions, So you construct the way your team goes.
You construct how you practice, when you practice, where you practice,
where you eat, where where you guys work out. Everything

(02:26:17):
on a college level program is designed by you. I
think Demico and every one of the other thirty one
coaches in the NFL have input, But there's still a
regimented scale on how the NFL works because of the
NFL Players Association, how the schedule dictates things who you play.
You can't control that. You can't control what your general

(02:26:37):
manager spends on a player and the pressure to play
that player based off of what you're paying him. I
guess it just depends on how you're built as a
leader and also winning. You can be like a hard
nosed type of coach and if you're winning, that's fine.
If you're losing, then all the players are going to
hit the portal, or if they hit a little rough patch,

(02:26:58):
or if you have a five star wide receiver like
John Tay Cook just just said, you know what, I'm
going to the portal literally this week. It doesn't even
open for a month for the Texas Longhorns wide receiver.
Why would you go jump the portal here? At ut
He's like he has his snaps and his catches and
his targets have gone down. Oh so instead of actually
working hard to get those reps back, he said, I'm

(02:27:19):
out of here.

Speaker 2 (02:27:19):
He said, I'm out of here. He'll be at Troy
next year.

Speaker 3 (02:27:21):
Well he's got I don't know. I saw a fire
list of five landing spots. It was like Oregon and Alabama. Oh,
my goodness. Yeah, so it was really good spots. Yeah,
but I mean if you're but he's one of about
twenty to get to do that. The rest of them
wound up going to either going back to school they
originally at, or to a lesser program. Yeah, it depends there.
They're obviously they're they're people who've hit the portal and

(02:27:42):
things have gone worse for them.

Speaker 2 (02:27:43):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:27:43):
As much as I rip on the portal and how
I think college is screwed up, the school that should
be taking advantage of the portal is University of Houston.
Well let's go get John Tay Cook. I need Houston
guys too.

Speaker 2 (02:27:53):
Sad as home de Soto.

Speaker 3 (02:27:55):
It's not home home.

Speaker 2 (02:27:56):
Desoto's not Houston.

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Well let's go. We'll cut the check. Many you know
how you got to hit? You know how you will?
I I I contribute to otherwise not useful ones. I
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Speaker 2 (02:30:08):
I made a mistake, Rossie.

Speaker 3 (02:30:09):
I wanted to check on Facebook during the break, and
a lot of my friends, I'm gonna say a lot,
but I would say probably five percent of my male
friends are just going to Facebook and having in saying,
Please Jerry put a competitive team out there, Please Jerry
get a new general manager.

Speaker 2 (02:30:28):
Please Jerry fix this. Please Jerry.

Speaker 3 (02:30:30):
I'm sick of watching your team lose at home by
multiple touchdowns. I want to tell my five percent of
my friends that are mail. I don't think Jerry Jones
is on Facebook. He might be, aren't most eighty year olds.

Speaker 2 (02:30:45):
No, I would not say most eighty year olds are
not on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (02:30:47):
No, sorry, most seventy year olds. It we've got to
put pictures of the grand kids up somewhere, Maddie, that's true.

Speaker 2 (02:30:56):
It might be the most.

Speaker 3 (02:30:59):
Biggest way waste of time for a Dallas cowboy sports fan,
Gallas cowboy fan to spend any time bitching about Jerry Jones.
They've been bitching about him for twenty five years. He
doesn't care. He doesn't care cause you know why. You
buy his tickets, you drink his beer, you buy his merch,

(02:31:19):
you park in his parking lot. And they're the most
successful franchise financially in the history of sports. The ratings
are great and yeah, the highlest highest valued franchise I
believe in sports.

Speaker 2 (02:31:33):
Especially them in the Yankees. About every year, right, you
ever take well, you.

Speaker 3 (02:31:37):
Get the like there's a big European soccercer like real
the drugs talking about I'm talking about domestic So he
doesn't That's why he got so cranky with the Dallas
sports radio host, because my guess is Ross he surrounds
himself with yes man. Because if Steven his son, really, really,

(02:32:03):
really knew what was best for the Dallas Cowboys, he
would say, Dad, give me the keys to your car.

Speaker 2 (02:32:11):
You're too old to drive, and I'm not taking no
for an answer.

Speaker 3 (02:32:15):
Well, he ripped a Johnny Manziel card out of his hand. Okay,
So that's the one thing that we continue to hear
about for the last twenty years, Am I right?

Speaker 5 (02:32:22):
Thought?

Speaker 3 (02:32:23):
Serious? Well, I don't know what other major missteps have
they made. I just think I think, well, I think
the biggest criticism of this year, and we'll talk more
about that. We'll get a Dallas guy on the show
on Monday. You'll be going would be the money that
was spent on Ceedee Lamb, the money that was spent
on Deck and the fact they did not pursue other
parts of the team. And we'll get a better perspective

(02:32:43):
of this with Dallas folks later this week.

Speaker 2 (02:32:45):
But my point is.

Speaker 3 (02:32:48):
Who cross checks what Jerry does? And I guess the
question is how many people crosscheck general managers period? Do
you think, Mike do you how much do you think
the Demico cross checks Nick Cassario. I mean, and I

(02:33:08):
mean not like knockdown, drag out, What the hell are
you doing? I'm saying, I see w we're going with this,
but I want to do this instead, or I see
what you're doing with this and that's a good idea,
or hey, I hadn't thought of that about that good
job by you, Nick, Yeah, I want. I mean we
talked about it this year, like what trading a fourth
round pick for Jonathan Mingo? How does that make any sense?

(02:33:35):
And then and then all of a sudden, your your
quarterback that was he wasn't Dak Prescott hurt when he
made that trade. Now, we didn't know that he was
gonna necessarily need surgery at that point. We knew he
was he had not played, but we didn't know it
was gonna be a season ender. Yeah, I don't know,
like paying CD Lamb big money in Dak Prescott. I
feel like that's kind of that's part. You could find
a bunch of other franchises that would have done that.

(02:33:56):
But they brought Zeke Elliott back. Horror that was a
bad decision. Was just about to bring up like what
is what is his love affair? Withee Kelliott. Somebody said
on Twitter, I can't remember who like Zeke knows where
some bodies are buried. That's the only explanation of having
him back. And they've and and let's and let's face it,
the number of coaches that have been there since Jimmy
has left has been a mixed back of the very best.

(02:34:21):
Mm hmm. So how many general managers in the NFL?
And this is the answer that we don't have. How
the good franchises I think have a healthy, good honest
relationship between the head coach. I think Kyle Shanahan and

(02:34:43):
John Lynch have a really good relationship where they can
be brutally honest towards each other. That's that's how it
looks like to me from a distance. I think that
who's the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs. I
don't remember to think of his name off the top
of my hand, but I think that he respects Andy

(02:35:05):
Reid a lot. I think Andy Reid can go to
him and say, hey, this doesn't work. I think every
cow and I should say everyone, but I think a
lot of the Cowboys coaches that have been hired in
the last twenty years are basically working to keep their
job on a week to week basis, and they just
aren't going to get in the way of an eighty
something year old senow guy that's made a billion dollars.
And then some of the Dallas Cowboys Brett Veach named

(02:35:27):
general manager in twenty seventeen. Yeah, I wonder how much, Yeah,
I wonder how much he is like he has basically
been under Andy Reid's wing. I wonder how collaborative and
how much Andy Reid has maybe more final say, because
it felt like to me there wasn't a lot of
cohesiveness between Rick Smith and Bill O'Brien. Well we know that,

(02:35:50):
especially when Jack Easter came in and started to cuddle
up with old Bill O'Brien said, Hey, we can do
this ourselves. And then they had I don't even remember
his name, who was the general manager they had for
like one yari in game, Brian Gain. Then it was
Bill O'Brien's season, and Bill O'Brien thought I could do
both and we won. Wound up figure I can't do either.

(02:36:13):
By the way, Bill O'Brien's a great example of he
needs to stay in college. His boorish kind of leadership.
It will can't survive at the NFL. Just the mass Yeah,
my way to the highway, get the head out of you, hey,
way to go to from Brooklyn. I don't know why
he went to Flordham or anything like. I don't get
that at all. You get my drift though the steep

(02:36:36):
does sun cross check pops? No, because Mike McCarthy's just
holding on for dear life. Why would they? As you mentioned,
business is up, advertised dollars are huge, raids are huge,
and then of the most valuable franchise, And in Jerry
Jones's world, he's not really doing anything wrong. Now he
really wants to win a Super Bowl and he does.
It does hurt him when they're a laughing stock, but

(02:36:57):
at the end of the day, but I think every
single move that Jerry Jones makes, he thinks he's going
to win on the most valuable franchise in sports is
not in New York, LA or Chicago. It's in Arlington,
freaking Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:37:12):
He reminds me, see if this analogy works.

Speaker 3 (02:37:14):
A guy that wants the money at the blackjack table
a long time ago, okay, and lost like the last
ten trips, but every time he goes he thinks he's
gonna win. That's Jerry Jones. I won those Super Bowl
championships many many moons ago. I've had a deep run
of non success. But ever I'm going back to the
I'm gonna go back and run this draft. I'm gonna

(02:37:35):
can run this football team, and I'm gonna prove the
folks that i can win at.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
The Dallas Cowboys for the Dallas Cowboys. That's not a
great one.

Speaker 3 (02:37:44):
It's mid It's almost like he won the lottery and
then he keeps playing the lottery after winning the lottery.
I don't know, maybe that's not good either. I would
say both are average the best. Let's talk to Tony
and Sugarland at one forty one. Hi, Tony, Hey to
the Hey, I got a question to post to you guys.

Speaker 4 (02:38:02):
And I don't know if you got to talk about
this or not, but I know that the national media
is talking about this because I saw it on NBC
earlier today. But Demiko Rance went for a fourth and
four with about twos have to playing the game. I
think he was either on there for your line or

(02:38:23):
I think I forget the way it was. But the
kick itself gentlemen puts them in a bad situation if
they don't make it. You guys both agree, Uh yes, yes,
so so. So my questionnaire is is if you if you,
if you go for a fourth and four, what's the

(02:38:44):
difference of going for fourth and four and kicking the
field goal?

Speaker 3 (02:38:48):
Because even if you kick, even if you make it.

Speaker 4 (02:38:50):
You're still giving them a minute and fifty some seconds
left the playing the game. But basically two times out
right the tide of guy I even take the lead, right,
But I think that I think that tells you what
the Miko Ryans killed about his offense. I'm not trying
to so discord, but I just don't think that Demico
o Ryan's about his offense was in the position to

(02:39:12):
run the clock out and put him in a position
to win the game. I just wanted to put that out.

Speaker 3 (02:39:16):
There to describe as in a role succinc way. I
think Demko's played for the field goal way too much.
I mean, man, part of that is because it's a
good insurance policy. You're gonna get points. Because Kymie Fairbairn
has made a pluthor of fifty plus yard field goals

(02:39:36):
in crease situations. Teppy win football games. It's become a
little bit of a crutch, and it's simply not fair
to Kymie. It's not fair to any kicker to be
able to say fifty six yard kicks can be made
on the regular He he does often play for the
field goal because but in that particular situation on that

(02:39:57):
fourth and four, it was the right move to kick it.
I mean, I don't with having numbers and all that
stuff in front of me.

Speaker 2 (02:40:02):
What was the score at that point?

Speaker 3 (02:40:04):
It was twenty three to twenty three. What was time? Yeah,
twenty three to twenty or twenty two. No, because you
missed the field goal, giving their good opportunity. It's twenty
three to twenty three. Now, so he's saying, go for
on fourth down, keep Detroit off the field, get the
first down, get closer to make the field goal. But

(02:40:25):
if you miss, if you if you don't go for it. Yeah,
that's interesting, I would have to. I mean, it's not
a terrible thought. Like I'm sure they have numbers on
it was at the forty fourth and four at the
forty fifty six yards fifty fifty eight yard field day. Okay,
so the odds of Kimie Fairburn opposed to the odds

(02:40:46):
of getting a fourth and four. That's basically where you
have to where if you do get the fourth and four,
that game's over.

Speaker 2 (02:40:52):
Okay, so let's do this.

Speaker 3 (02:40:53):
That game is over. That's this what in your mind
forgetting about? What a computer in your mind? Well, I like,
when you close your eyes, what's better fourth and four
or Kimi fair Bearing making fifty eight yard field goal,
which he's done on a couple of occasions this year.

Speaker 2 (02:41:10):
Feels like a fifty to.

Speaker 3 (02:41:11):
Fifty for the field goal? Or is it more than that? Well,
the good thing is is Damiico Ryans has these numbers
or he should. Well, he may have him ross, but
I guarantee you it's not on his play card. It's
an it's he's had to be thinking about it. He
had to have some sort of assistant that says, hey,
we we think it's close, or we think it's not

(02:41:32):
even close, or whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:41:33):
Time you got this guy says I got this, I would.

Speaker 3 (02:41:36):
Say I didn't even really this doesn't even cross my mind.
But I'm thinking, go for it, because if you get it,
you're at the thirty five. That's a that's a three
fifty two to fifty three yarder and then you can
run off the clock and worst case scenario, you go
to overtime. I say, go for it. You know what.

(02:41:59):
Thank you to the last caller. It took us a
day and a half to figure this out. Maybe fourth
and four was the right decision. I also say, Tamiko Ryans,
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