Rockets Disappoint In Season Opener, Texans Return From Injury, Overcoming Fantasy Football Fatigue

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yeah, lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh two at ah Town. What's happening in lunch timer,
He's good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Thursday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety reed left side, left elbow behind
inside due. Thompson brings it back out to read to
his right for shangun. He'll watch a three pointer. It
is up and its tend and there's your double double.
With eight fifty two remaining in the first half, twelve

(00:29):
first half points for Alfie, Rockets up by nine. Fam
belief hands it back to Alpha. He lost the basketball
freak got it back again out right side. Jane's gonna
try a three point shot in headed and it comes
at chess the right time. Fifth three pointer for Janen Green,
Rockets up eight eighty six eighty five baseline right seth
Curry opened three front iro or no weeks have rebounder

(00:49):
Richards a new fourteenth mall, A long three that's on
the way and good LaMelo ball has given the Hornets
their largest leading the game at five seven can second
at points ball with thirty two ball, give me it
back to Williams, pump fakes of three, takes up to
his left three point shot shot at Grant Williams with

(01:10):
a second three of the half, eight points, with a
game one O six one all three, Bamfleet in backcourt
two seconds mid court, heap is up off the backyard.
No good and the Hornets winning the season opener tonight
here in downtown. He's at the Tote Center the final.
We'll have the Hornets won ten and the Rockets one
oh five. I don't even want to go to your

(01:32):
house every time I sitting ROSSI it was just one game,
but we should stress again it was just just one game,
just one game. But but it was a buzz kill,
not to be a play on awards. It was not fun,
not a good time. Drawing myself in the first half.

(01:53):
Easy to say to yourself, I've seen this before. I'm
not letting you do that just yet. I'm just saying.
I'm just saying. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Good pull the song by the way for Tony McGovern
fantastic our Rockets insider. Yes he heard him on the
Calling show last night. Yes, giving us a locker room
report telling us, the mood of well, the dower mood
in the locker room last night. Yeah, it wasn't like
the city Houston was losing its mind in terms of

(02:27):
We're gonna win fifty five games, this is gonna be
a championship season. It was, Hey, we're going to take
the next step get into the playoffs, which clearly can
I mean we're not. We're talking about one. It sounds
like we opened the show where Ain't no stopping us
now or something like that. And then you had the
excitement I mean Franklin personal excitement for Opera and Shangun
and Jail and Green to get their big contracts. I
mean it doesn't affect you and me. No, it doesn't

(02:49):
good for them. Their families are taken care of. Yeah,
but there there are cornerstone pieces of the team that
have been taken care of financially for the foreseeable future.
So you got that, you get the brand new scoreboard,
You've just a little bit of you know, not there's
Texans Malais in a five and two, first place in division.
Let's go. But then you have you're looking for something
else to supplement your sports excitement. You're gonna build off

(03:12):
that momentum, and then you have Charlotte and you're thinking
Charlotte sucks. They won twenty one games last year. You
get up by as much as eighteen alprim Chingoon is
dominating in the first half. You got something Vasa Michic
jacking up shots all over the place. Yes, then LaMelo
Ball start of hit everything. Mm hm, Trey Man started

(03:34):
everything and hit everything and that's sixteen eighteen pointly in
the second quarter, Gonzo, and unfortunately the local basketball team
suffers lost number one of the season. Maybe it'll be
like last year we were talking about the Magic and
then two months later it's like, oh, you know what,
they're pretty good. Yeah, hopefully, And Friday we got a
chance to rebound, yes, against Memphis, and then two games

(03:56):
and point total on that forty nine and a half stop.
I'm just asking you, are you know?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
You?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Are you Rockets Twitter? Right now? Is that what you are?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, I'm not a sixteen year old that doesn't know
ball and it thinks that it's falling in love with
role players and thinking they're gonna be all stars. Yeah,
I will say this. I do follow quite a few
people on Rockets Twitter. I didn't see I saw a disappointment.
I saw you know how this is not a good trend,
which again, one game is on a trend. Five games
is a trend, not one. Yeah, it wasn't a state.

(04:30):
They fell flat on their face. They did. You signed
these big contracts, you get excited, you'd unfail your your
hashtag lift off and I mean raphel Stone was on
the show. I'm ready to go. I got my rockets,
red and white, Pom pod no. And they lose to
the freaking Charlotte Hornets. They fell flat on their face.
It was supposed to be a coronation. It was supposed

(04:50):
to be that the ushering in of a new era.
And it's one game. But they stumbled. Yeah, I would
say it was a stumble. That's that's a fair assessment
to say a stumble. And you don't want too many
of these because at the end of the season, the
team with a few of stumbles in that seven, eight,
nine to ten category correct will be in the seven
and eight spot. And if you stumble a lot you're

(05:11):
nine and ten. And if you stumble too much, you are,
you know, headed phil lottery again. So I thought Alpi
was on his way to a twenty twenty in the
first half alone. He had a double double in the
first quarter and was close twenty five and eighteen. Yeah,
twenty five and eighteen for him. Jalen last nine had
twenty eight points. Did not shoot particularly well. Friend Van
Vliet really struggled four of eighteen from distance. I mean

(05:35):
the Rockets just I mean, as a collective group shot
thirty seven percent thirty percent from three. Yeah, uh, and
didn't get a whole lot of their offense outside of
Alpi and Jalen. Friend helped out a little bit in
the second half of a couple of threes, but Dylan
Brooks did not do much, nor did Jabari Smith and
really the only player off the bench doing anything for
the Rockets offensive. He was a men Thompson love him.

(05:57):
N Thompson. So well, if we're looking for positives, yeah,
I really liked his what his game? So you know what, Uh,
I'm not going to cry for spill milk on this,
you know, uh, but yeah, just not though kind of
energy you wanted to leave the Toyota Center with Last night,
at about ten o'clock, somebody's texting you, no, sorry, I

(06:19):
had to restart my computer. That's okay, all right, so
we've got that to get to on the radio program today.
You actually calls last night on the All My Rockets trip.
I was very happy for you all people. I even
into the show with a plea, please keep doing this, Yeah,
please keep calling me on the post game shows win
or lose. I like, uh, to me, it is it
is very special. When I was a listener, Matt, I

(06:41):
always love postgame calling shows. You could that first visceral,
rapid reaction, what happened in the game, let's break it down.
And to be able to host those shows for my
favorite team, the Rockets and one of my favorite teams,
the Astros, I love being able to do it. But
the show doesn't work if nobody calls. So I appreciate
y'all calling in and let's keep it up. So yeah,
and I think winning or more consistency will help with that. Yes,

(07:04):
it will hopefully on a three or OZWO to four start,
that will. Unfortunately what I don't want to happen, and
I don't think it can even happen if they lose
tomorrow would be here we go, same old Rockets. Because
the Rockets last year lost their first three games and
then won six in a row. Yes, so it's not
out of the complete ordinary if the Rockets were to

(07:25):
stumble out of the gate. Although again, I think with
the buzz of the new contracts, the buzz of Reed
Shepherd who made his NBA debut last night, and you're
just thinking, Hey, somebody's gonna regress. And one of the
teams that might regress lost last night in their very
first home game ever at the La Clippers at the
End to It Dome, so you know what things happen.

(07:47):
Then you talk about a huge buzz for that team,
Clippers playing their brand new Majestic Palace and the Phoenix
Sun's going there. Kevin Durant and company beat them last night.
Shout out Kevin Durant, one of the greatest of all time. Yeah,
that's fine. Longhorn legend has I believe last time I
checked six burner accounts.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I think once he got caught in the burners, he's like,
I'm just gonna he collapsed the people on his regular account.
Now that's true. Good for him, that's true. I only
have one burner accounts wave Busters. H o U. How's
that going? It's good way the Rockets game so that's good,
no little bit. NBA fans smarter than that baseball fan
not so much. Although you know, the last time I
saw the wave in an NBA game, of all places,

(08:25):
it was Madison Square Garden. Really, I was like distraught.
I don't know. Was it a forty point deficit? It
was a blow out of it? Were they upset that?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
When was that?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
When Harden was dropping sixty on them? I don't know
what that was, but I was like, wait a minute,
of all of the buildings in professional sports to do
the damn wave, It's New York City at the Madison
Square Garden. I mean, I didn't know any better. Nick's
terrible at the time. All right, hey, we want you
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(09:15):
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(09:55):
We'll get to that, and we've got an interesting college
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Speaker 1 (10:08):
Ninty lunchtimers, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
We appreciate you spending some time with us today. We're
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Show with Ross seven one three two one two five seven,
and we'll talk to our buddy Derek Schultz tomorrow from Indianapolis.
I was looking some of the Colts numbers. Anthony Richardson sucks. Yeah,
he's terrible. Let's throws less than fifty percent completion, gets

(10:44):
hurt all the time. Yes, And I don't even think
it's one of those situations where he just takes a
seven step drop and just throws a deep ball all
the time. And and and that's what the numbers in.
I don't think the intermediate routes are a specialty of his. No,
short to intermediate not his game. He can, I mean,
he can throw it a mile, but yeah, it's just overhyped.

(11:05):
But the Colts are going to keep going with him
because the lack of quad and National Football League quarterbacks.
He's got to go out there. We're looking at it,
look at look at me. Teams are in a terrible spot.
Miami's gonna get to a back, but he's one concussion
away from not knowing his retirement. Yeah. The Raiders want
to wear the Guardian cap, by the way, which I

(11:26):
don't know. I guess maybe it doesn't help that much
or what those big extra cap that's stupid on his part.
Ninety nine percent of players don't wear them, so I
don't know if it feels like they feel like it
weighs him down or what the deal is. Well, but
he's a special situation. He needs to have as much
protection around his head as possible because it's it's pretty
much gonna be scrambledings next time he gets hit. Yeah,

(11:47):
but he knows that going in. I mean, he's not
hiding that fact. Raiders are in a terrible spot. The
Rams might need a new quarterback because Matthew Stafford's getting
up there in age. I mean, there are just loads
and loads of teams rossy that just can not throw
the football. Tennessee. I mean will Levis Thomas Sports Enterprises
was bullish. He's not been healthy, and when he's out there,

(12:09):
he throws terrible interceptions, a lot of turnovers. There's a
lot of messy teams in the NFL right now, a
lot of bad quarterbacks, a lot of great quarterbacks, a
lot of good quarterbacks, okay, a lot of good quarterbacks. Yeah,
a couple great ones. But you know, if you're good
to great, you're making fifty to sixty million dollars. Yeah,
Dak Prescott good, not great. He's making fitty Miller year

(12:32):
or whatever. That Prescott, yeah, is being paid like, I
don't know, a fortune five hundred company ceo. And right
now he's act like an office manager. He's just okay.
And I think of the NFL at some point, I
don't know how they're gonna do it, Rossie, but they're
gonna have to start to regulate these salaries for the quarterbacks.

(12:55):
Maybe create a quarterback scale where they can only pay
so much. I can make a max like the NBA
has max contracts. Yeah, even those max in the NBA.
But you're not gonna get players to necessarily agree to that.
I mean maybe hmm, Yeah, maybe lineman, linebackers and tight
ends all want to like have a mutiny against quarterbacks

(13:16):
for making all the money. But the quarterback's also the
most important position. But is that precluding teams from being
as good as they want to be in other positions
because of that? I don't think so. I mean, the
good teams are able to have expensive quarterbacks and have
others great skill position players, both offensively and defensively. Yeah,
that's why to bring it back here in Houston, you

(13:38):
need to seize the opportunity you have with a franchise
quarterback on a rookie deal because guess what we're gonna
talk about next offseason trying to start extending the CJ.
Guess what happens when the Chiefs have to pay Pat Mahomes.
You can't sign Tyreek Hill to a big deal. You
can't sign Lugarious Sneed to a big deal, or whoever else,

(13:58):
Tyron Matthew, whoever else is on on that team that
they've lost over the years. They paid Chris Jones and
they do have a good off a good defense, and
I paid Travis Kelce, but look what they have. Look
what they have as far as pass catcher, right, now,
even if they were healthy. They drafted Rashid Rice and
Xavier Worthy. But it's like they're bringing in Juju Smith
Schuster than Mikole Hardman. And then they got to Hopkins
now and that Park pick. So yeah, it's gonna hamsterring

(14:23):
you in a way. But that's also the way the
league is built. And I like the hardcap league, and yeah,
if you have to pay for a franchise quarterback, guess
what your other positions are going to suffer? That's okay, Yeah,
well that's the reality of it is. You better get
great value in your draft on the on the defensive linemens,
the tackles, the linebackers, not spending a lot of extra
money on the say, the third or fourth wide receiver.

(14:44):
That's why it's gonna be hard. Frankly, I think for
Stefan Diggs stain Houston this year forgetting about whether or
not he's worthy of being here. It's just hard to pay.
And we've talked about there are some examples in the
NFL that do pay for two high price receivers, but
Stefan wants to be in or find air with Nico Collins,
and I just don't think the Texans want to spend
that kind of money on a second guy who is

(15:05):
going to be towards not the twilight of his career.
But I would say the thirty, I would say the
back half. Yeah, sure, And I don't think they're going
to unless they want to do a one year franchise
do which I don't think they're going to do either.
But no, you would, No, I don't think so. I
don't think so. I mean, Nick Cassero's never even brought
the roally the term franchise targets, and he's been taking
over this team as a general manager. He pushed a

(15:27):
lot of chips in for this year and they're five
and two. All right, got a question for you. I
was listen to Sean Salisbury show this morning, Wonderful six
to ten right here on Sports Talks. They love it,
breathe it. I don't know if I breathe it, but
I listened to it.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
They were talking about whether or not the Texans five
and two record is soft. Okay, now we know you
like it hard and a five and two record can
be hard to achieve, but they've achieved it. Okay, So

(16:02):
the Baltimore is five and two is rock hard and
the Texans five and two is limp and something. Well,
that's what I'm going to ask you. Is it a
hard five and two or a soft five and two? Well,
can I say semi hard? You'll have to explain yourself.

(16:24):
First of all, it's the NFL. You win five games
out of your seven, you're doing good. And the one
game they lost was a complete blowout. But they also
want a complete blowout the NFL. The nature of the
league is you are going to be in a lot
of close games. They shot themselves in the foot a
number of times against the Buffalo bill What was it
did they have? I think it was two turnovers to zero.

(16:44):
They lost the turnover battle. Still beat the Buffalo Bills,
who are one of the best teams. They need to
clean things up, But no, you get out of there
with a win. That's all that matters. The Baltimore Ravens
lost to the Las Vegas Raiders, and who's there others
I can't even remember. Oh, Kansas City on Opretty night. Okay,
that's right, Kansas City on Opening Night. That was a
coin flip game too. Okay, well, there's no embarrassment in that.

(17:06):
But the Raiders suck. The Raiders literally replaced the quarterback
a couple of games later with Gardner Minshew. Unfortunately eight
and O'Connor got hurt. I think he's on iron now
and now Gardner minshew is back. But yeah, you take
anything that you can get. Let me ask you this,
So it's not soft. No, who has a harder? Five
and two? Buffalover Houston? Okay, I'll go through their schedule.

(17:29):
Let's see. Let's see what the Buffalo Bills did. They
got obliterated by the Ravens thirty five to ten. Okay,
they lost to the Texans on the road. That's similar
to the Texans. They got obliterated by the Vikings on
the road, and they lost to the Green Bay on
the road. Right, let's see, they beat the Cardinals close Dolphins.
The two had died two had died in that game, right, Well,
not literally, but they crushed the Jaguars, barely beat the Jets,

(17:52):
and crushed the Titans. That's pretty good five and two.
I don't think anybody's necessarily disappointed. Did they play head
to head and lose to the Houston text and that's
where a Tiberger can come in. Let's go so guess what,
Texan's better than the Bills? Do you really believe that?

(18:14):
I think if you played the game in neutral sight,
how much did the game be in Houston? Yeah, so
I don't. Now they have a Mario Cooper, maybe they're
going to be a little bit better, right, But Josh
Allen looked, He looked like a deer in headlight. He
had maybe his worst performance, maybe since his rookie year.
Mario Edwards to be back is that Mario chase him

(18:36):
down baby, as he's a ear was will hopefully be
back in this in this scenario this, as long as
Mario stays away from the recreational stuff, he'll be fine.
I'm just throwing it out because the Morning Show didn't.
They were figuring out, you know, what's hard and what's soft,
and I didn't even answer for I love talking about that,
and that's fine. It was brought up in the Morning show.
You brought it up on your show. You love hard

(18:58):
and soft talk? Well, I mean it's better than flabby.
Twelve twenty seven Sports Talk seven NINTI seven one three
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(19:18):
You like it hard, she likes it soft. You done,
you brought it up. You like it hard, she likes
it soft. Two You working together is a dangerous combination.
Love it seven one three two one two five seven.
Here I got something to make it feel better. I
don't even know what this is. They're probably getting after
it pretty hard. No, there it go. Thank God, somebody's

(19:40):
finally checking you and you're putting you in your place.
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(20:03):
go on, D cal McNair, D Calhoun, D calhoun McNair.
What's his first name? Do we forgot? I forgot Duke Declan.
I believe in a Rocky Dougherty daughter. I found it before.
What do you get somebody that's worth billions of dollars?

(20:23):
I mean, you don't give card him Daniel? Why does
he go by cow because it's probably what probably when
Bob and his his wife one name? Why can they
call him Janis?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Now?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I say this to somebody who goes by their middle
name as well. So what was barking up this tree?
It wasn't my choice, my parents did it. Maybe it
was his choice and their judgment. A lot a lot
of drugs fling around the eighties. Again, the same could
be said. Maybe maybe Jennison and uh and Bob or
hides a kite through Col's formative ears. Anyways, Okay, Daniel Calhoun,

(20:58):
Daniel Calhoun mcnah, I want to kin, I guess his age. Sure,
I'm gonna go sixty four. You haven't seen this anymore.
He's sixty three. Okay, So I was off at one? Yes,
not bad? Yeah, I think I'm pretty good with ages,
are you? I'm plus one? Or most times with people's age.
I think you're way off normally. No, there's some very
specific cases where I know you've been way off. Really remember,

(21:19):
help me. You fall for the filter game too often?
Oh that was in the past. Yeah, that's true, that's true,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
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cow Like, what do you give someone that's worth multiple
billions of dollars? I don't know, barbecue, pitt, Let me

(21:43):
ask you this. When Hannah goes when Hannah goes to
buy the gift with his back with his black card,
So you're basically buying yourself a gift. Yeah, but I
mean there are wives that do that. It was like
my daughter. My wife's birthday was yesterday. Oh really Yeah,
happy birthday to Kim. Yeah, and my daughter Carly brought
her some beautiful flowers. Yes, and it was on my

(22:05):
credit card. That's great. It's about the counts man, haven't
you ever heard that? No, it's it's who pays for accounts? Well,
did you shop around for hm? Where'd you get him from?
Went to the Woodlands Mall and go get it? She
was going, she was shopping. She's going to see Taylor Swift.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
This.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
We know she can go to the rachree ree no,
but she was going to the Woodlands Mall to get
some railer rift outfit. To where you got to get
a railer rift outfit? I guess, I don't know. I'm
not going. She's not gonna see you. Yeah, but they
have to dress like you know skanks. I didn't say that, Okay,

(22:40):
but it will be something that I will not be
comfortable with. I can tell you that for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
do you do a lot of policing as the father
of a teenage daughter. I just go away. I go
in my room and I shut my door. You just did.
Don't ask, don't tell, bury your head in the sand.
That is exactly right. That's great. There's a lot of
heathens out there. That's pretty funny. Yeah, I got it. Yeah,

(23:05):
there's a certain level. I will let her have her independence,
and then after a while it's like put some clothes on. Okay,
so all all of the men list in the show
and have daughters. Yeah, No, exactly what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about with the daughter.
Let me ask you something. Uh, well, the biggest difference
I'll see between Houston and Kansas City is the offensive line.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
If we don't get c. J. Strout some protection.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
I mean, I've seen him hit the ground, and what's
the deal with him staying in the pocket and not.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Using his ability to move around?

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Uh? I stayed in the pocket so much this year
and got sacked.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't know, I feel like CJ does an incredible
job of scrambling around. I mean, I don't think it's
a control rollout, but I think he's got escapability and
sometimes those plays in the offensive line, he may want
to get out of the pocket and move around, but
it's too late. I mean, I thought Green Bay was
tasting his breath for eighty percent of the game the
other night. They just they gave him absolutely no time

(24:17):
to move the football, to even look downfield, to move
around a little bit. I thought that was Uh, that
was probably the worst case of the offensive line this year.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Okay, And another thing, can y'all go across the Ravens
schedule the rest of the year, and I don't know
if anybody can beat them unless it became city.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, they've already played kansasity and loss. So that's what
thanks on the road though true as well. Opening now
we'll see well, I mean, the Chiefs do have the
tiebreaker and they're up to games on him right now,
so ye or a game and a half, I guess,
because Ravens haven't had their buy. But CJ. Stroud ran
five times on Sunday. You don't want him running a
bunch He's not really that kind of He's not like

(24:57):
the Lamar Jackson and Jayden Daniels, Josh Allen and frankly,
you don't want quarterbacks running much period.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
And he took a huge hit on one of those
runs on the sideline. I don't want that happened in
his days drought. But he does use it. He's uses
his escapability every single game. Yeah, I don't think he's
I would never consider him a guy that just stays
in the pocket too long. I think he has really
good intuition and when to take off and when to throw,
and when to keep the play alive with his legs. Yeah,
he's not an electrifying running threat, but he's not a statue. No.

(25:25):
When I think of statues, think of Painton Manning and
Tom Brady. He'll yeah, just I mean, he's just the opposite.
Let's see, I don't know who else is this is
Matt Stafford, whoever else? Yeah, trying to think of the
thirty five year old white guys, Kirk Cousins, Jameis Winstons
extremely slow, he'll be starting this weekend. Yeah, let me
just say that's the state of the NFL. When Jamis

(25:47):
Winston is starting a game for you. How about Andy
Dalton he was I watched a little bit of that
game against the Commanders on Sunday. He threw a pass
that was returned for a pick six early in that
game that his vision on the field must have been
absolutely at a zero level because he threw the ball
literally to the linebacker's hands. He's getting old. Maybe he

(26:11):
didn't passed his vision test recently. I don't know, But
I mean the money, amount of money he's made in
his life for being just a pedestrian quarterback. That's what
I'm saying. We will sit back and look at some
of these quarterbacks that have been very average for a
very long period of time and go, how the hell
did you make that kind of money. The simple answer
is you dan it because of the the position you play.

(26:33):
It's pretty crazy that we have, I don't know whatever,
four hundred million people in America and we can't find
more than ten good quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins. Good quarterback,
never elite. He he threw for five hundred yards earlier
this year. Maddie, I'll stay by my statement, never elit.
The amount of money. Remember, he even got franchise taged
back to back years with Washington quarterback. Ever he might be.

(26:56):
I mean the amount of money he has made with
all the teams he's played for is sickly for giving
you nothing. But I mean good numbers, but he never
made you great. He doesn't have any sort of distinguished
playoff victory success, career earnings all time Aaron Rodgers won,
Matt Stafford two, Kirk Cousins is sixth. How much as

(27:20):
Kirk Cousins made in his life two hundred and eighty
one million dollars, okay, two hundred and eighty one million
dollars to be what year in and year out? The
eleventh best quarterback in the NFL? Rogers Stafford, Brady, Matt Ryan,
Russell Wilson. Why is Matt Ryan in the NFL? Tay,
we need all that money, hey, Kirk Cousins pretty wild? Yeah, kids,

(27:46):
get stay away from being a wide receiver or running back.
Derek Carr's at the top twenty Jimmy Garoppolo is in
the top like twenty five. Where is he?

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Is?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
He not done? Done? I don't know what what is
he doing right now?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:58):
It looks like is he a backup with the Is
it the Rams? Yeah, so you got once statue for
another statue back there. I can't keep it consistent, that's true.
Twelve forty two Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
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(28:19):
at practice today and who is not? We return. We
got a lot of other things to get to, including
at one thirty this afternoon, doctor Roto. And you're gonna
try to have him walk me off the ledge too late.
I'm jumping man, Come on, full throttle, please, I'm done.
Comeback's been a good twenty year year. Nope, one more year,
one more year. I've been beaten down so much. You
gotta sometimes you just gotta take the permanent l seven

(28:41):
one three tick. Just take one to take a time
out and take one year off and come back. Okay,
that's fine. Seven one face you just made, that's the
face of do you believe that's going to happen? Seven
one three two one two five seven On E's twelve
forty two, we are here till three o'clock. Rockets lost
last night. If you were at the game, listen to
the game, watch the game, what were your initial thoughts?

(29:02):
Texans against the Colts. Is this a trap game? Alms
tell like Randy McVoy, I don't want to do that.
Let him do a Ranny mclvoy man, that's so Adam
Clinton's job. By the way, Brian and Lima did an
impersonation yesterday on that Shawn Salisbury show. We have on
of Todd Kallis. That was better than Todd Callis doing
Todd Kallis was Yeah, I didn't catch that. I was asleep.

(29:23):
We should actually do Todd Kallis on a mobile. We
could and in the limit two of them we have.
We have two people up here that do a Todd Kallis.
We do Oh Clinton two. Yes, we could have a
we could have a callous off that sound a little weird.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Cougar's
coach Kelvin Sampson.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Here.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You're listening to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk
seven to ninety and I believe we're gonna have coach
Sampson on for a few minutes tomorrow. They've got a
big exhibition game coming up against Texas A and m
it's a charity game for her game Barrel Relief, and
I'll be on the Call with Reed Guettis on Sunday afternoon,

(30:05):
four o'clock on the SPN Plus. But I want to
see you at for Tita Center for that. So if
you are in the mood to watch that after watching
the Texans Cults game at twelve noon, make a full
day out of it, Okay, And I don't think I will.
But congratulations too. That's amazing, amazing. Yeah, well, thank you.

(30:25):
I have nothing to do with it. I'm just gonna
call the game on TV. That's it. Oh, it's great.
You're gonna be I mean, well, it's an exhibition, but
it's a real big matchup. Yeah, I mean Beats playing
like Western Kansas. Yeah, you usually got to learn, like
all the transfers who transferred into the Stetson Hatters. I
have two more games with the ESPN Plus this year
beyond that, and that's gonna be two heavyweight matchups. One

(30:47):
with Toledo. Okay, the Rockets. You love calling Rockets games.
I do call. I do call Rockets games. And then
I have one against the I believe Troy is the
other team. There is the Trojans, right, Troy Trojans, I
think it is right. Yeah, seven one, three, two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety If you want to go to the

(31:07):
World Series game uh this weekend, which I would expect
no one from Houston unless you're just a diehard Dodger
fan they're doing that, or a diehard Yankee fan. Uh,
you can get face value tickets available. There are now
a few have come available. Really, eight hundred and seventy
five dollars a pop face value, right, they gotta relax.

(31:28):
That's a lot of money. So let's do this really quick.
Who's hosting Game one?

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Dodgers. Okay, it's Friday Saturday in Los Angeles, the Sunday
they travel, and then Monday, Tuesday Wednesday in Uh. The
three hundred and fifty million dollars pay rolls don't pay
themselves many. Let me ask you this because we, as
much as we want to say, oh, baseball is relevant
and baseball television ratings are good, and all the different
networks are going to start boasting about their their numbers.

(31:55):
World Series games are going to get dwarfed by old
regular NFL games, right, Yes, I think it's not an accident.
The World Series isn't going up against Sunday Night football. Well,
why are they going against Monday Night Because it's on cable.
Monday Night's a little easier. I guess you gotta pick one.
Is it the lesser of the two evils? Like, for instance,
what will have higher ratings? The big Saturday night game

(32:18):
in college football is L s U A and M.
What will have higher ratings L s U A and M.
Or Game two of the World Series L s U
A and M. I mean, hmm, there's more of a
One of the greatest things for television ratings is the

(32:40):
element of a one off. Well, for of course, like
a like a Game seven of the World Series, I
think would get pretty good ratings, but it's it's a
seven game series. It's like, oh, if I missed the
game today, it'll be one tomorrow, like Saturday night. This
is during the same These these are the top twenty
five games going up against World Series Game two. Florida
State Miami. Now State sucks so horrible, but that they

(33:02):
should fold up the program that in itself is a rivalry.
I mean, for State, Miami's given you some classic matchups.
You have Penn State Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Mmm.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
If you're if you have the big ten Mojo going, yeah,
you want to sit down, have a wheel of cheese
and watch them Big ten Football, L s U A,
and m Okay, Kansas, Kansas State which doesn't resonate, and
then you have SMU Duke. Those are the five top
teams in five games of only top twenty five teams?
Are they? Is it the Sunflower Bowl or what do
they call it? When Kansas cans something like that? They

(33:31):
play for something, do they? I think so? Yeah, they're
the Sunflower State? Right. It was funny. We've played Kansas
last week and we were in Missouri to play the game. Yeah, hey,
you're close forty five minutes. I put Sunflower Bowl on
and Google and I'm getting yeah, I don't want to.
We don't want to. We don't want a cup full
of sunflower seeds.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
It.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
So what is that going to? Now? Does Sunflower showdown?
Does the do the Yankees and Dodgers have a chance
to maybe be the highest rated World Series games maybe
in the last thirty years. It's true, I mean you
do have I mean it's the Yankees and the Dodgers.
If Major League Baseball and these TV networks could pick
a matchup, this is it. But let me ask you this.
It's just they gonna They're gonna have to rely on
just New York and Los Angeles because we here in Houston.

(34:18):
I don't think are gonna care. I don't think Dallas
is gonna care. I don't think Atlanta's gonna care. Oh,
there's a huge Yankee fan base in Dallas. Oh the
Cowboys and Lakers fans over there. Oh that's true. I
I think it's too presumptive to think that this is
gonna be one of the highest rated world series. About that,
I say, the Yankees have a national fan base. But

(34:40):
people also hate the Yankees too. But you can hate watch, Yeah,
but listen. I hate listening to sports radio, so I'm
I don't wrap to hate watch if they weren't playing
another team. I hate. Let's go Yankees, No, let's go Dodgers.
Did you hear what Brian Cashman said? You're gonna root
for Aaron Judge closing up his jersey. Mack jose L
Tuvey and Brian Cashman we have it once since nine

(35:04):
because we got cheated. You got cheated every year by
the Astros. Brian Cashman, or are you blaming another team
for your own failures? I have never rooted so hard
for the Los Angeles Dodgers, like I will know this
is Phil is disgusting, it's slimy, it's not what you want,
but you have a better chance of survival. But you
got to pick a side. Well, we're talking about the election.

(35:26):
Are we talking about the Fold series? Most people aren't
picking a side. Most people are like Matt, like my
poll question that it's like, I'm not voting, not doing it. Sorry, okay,
it's just there's there's who ended up winning the vote.
Dodgers were like fifty two forty eight something like that.
It was it was a dirty vote. I'm go Dodgers.

(35:48):
I can root for Showy o Tani. You root for
Mookie Betts cheater, but y'all cheater on my couch every
time it comes up. I don't know. It's just seventeen
an eighteen cheating Red Sox. Nobody says a word about it.
Nobody says a freaking word. It's conveniently forgotten about. I

(36:09):
just don't get it. No, I don't and we don't
have that today, but that, okay, I just don't get it.
Seven one three two one two five seven iney nobody
wants the Rockets game. Last night we got one call
I think on it. It's a handful. You got some
calls awsome imp about I was because we are we
are an interactive show. We want to hear what the
people have to say. Yes, we don't have an agenda.
We don't put it together a five page prep sheet.

(36:31):
We go through every segment and rehearse it over and
over again. You take this take, man. We are our organic,
uh improvisational radio show, and I'm very proud of that. Yes. Organic.
So when we say we age three, we want to
say we want to welcome the Rockets audience in this
looking for a little chatter on that we're here for you.
Yes we are. But Roto is standing by it. One

(36:54):
thirty just in case we got to get those fantasy
football questions in and you'll do that seven one three,
two one two five seven nineties. We're not rooting for
Garrett Cole. Huh No, yeah, exactly, We're root against Garrett Cole.
Too sticky stuff, merchant. Mister Scott Borow's hat wearing leaving
the clubhouse, Dude, that's the hattie wore into the clubhouse.

(37:14):
It doesn't matter. It was still distasteful. The optics were
wretchedy optics were poor.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
And the fact that he's like, I'm a free agent.
I don't have to speak, do I. Miss Piggy needs
me at home to do what we know that's between us.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
So if he's if he's Kerman, who's a fozzy bear?
And what's in Gonzo? Uh? Gonzo's Luis Garcia. By the way,
favorite Muppets character Oscar the Grouch is Dusty Baker. That's
sesame straight and that's not too far off. Sweedish chef.

(37:58):
Who's the Sweetish chef? You know who the Swedish chef is? Yeah,
but I don't know if there's a parallel of the
astros Connor, Connor find us find me a couple of
clips of real quick of the Swedish chef on YouTube.
It won't take you long, okay, because you couldn't understand
a word he said. But yet it was funny and

(38:18):
he always cooked and he's not the night No, I'll
pa something, not the sweetish Turkish chef. That's different. Seven
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We have no Gonzo, no Fazzy Bear. Who's miss Piggy? Uh?

(38:41):
Are you? Are you calling Kate Upton miss Piggy?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
No, no, what's Ben Verlander? Gotta be some riff raff
character who's hoping again on the stage at some point.
It's because the muppet character in front of him is
more famous muppets. I know you are getting get mixed up.
Seven one three two one two five were all Jim Henson,
aren't they? I think? So get back you.

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Speaker 1 (40:17):
Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show one.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
O two on Sports Talk seven nine, and we got
to Doctor Roto coming up at the bottom of the
hour to get your fantasy football questions in will he frets?
At two o'clock. Cougar is taking on the Utah Utes
Saturday night at six o'clock inside TDC Stateium. That's an
EESPN plus game. What's that? ESPN What? I think it's

(40:45):
on the ESPN Awesome channel that doesn't exist ESPN plus,
ESPN the goat. That's fine ESPN O g m hm,
Hey let me tast some I work the ESPN Plus games.
I'm dissatisfied. You shouldn't be to be ashamed of Matt
Cougar's trying to on the SEC network. Ooh against Vanderbilt.

(41:06):
Why is somebody worried about Vanderbilt? You guys are gonna
cream them? What do you what do y'all worried me?
They don't act scared. Eighteen and a half pretty big
spread makes you feel better. But now, what are they
gonna do with the gold posts? If they set the
gold post after the Alabama game into the river whatever,
they don't think they're gonna do anything with them. They
got fined heavily, and I think like they told their students, like,

(41:28):
don't do that ever again. Can you like really like
nail them down even more? I mean, hot hot? Are
they easy to pick up and pull out? Apparently they are?
They snap them, they get on top of there. They
got a bunch of kids on there, and I don't know,
maybe the heavy most heavy set of them. Not to
be all rocking up and down, not to be all
sad and everything, but I'm stunned that no one's gotten

(41:50):
seriously hurt. It looked dangerous when it snapped in the video,
and then you carried it three miles. That can't be
healthy for anybody either. I don't know they get out
of the state. How do they even get it out
of the stadium? But good for them, But no, I
think Alabama's tormented them much more than Texas ever has, right,
and they've been reprimanded, and the long Orange are gonna

(42:13):
win comfortably. They're gonna win. Say it, they're gonna wint.
Put your name on hords. Quin yours can't see more
than five yards down the field where he's running for
his life right this second, before go the phones, Quin yours?
What round is he getting drafted in? I wouldn't take
him in the first round. I would either, but people

(42:35):
talk about him that way, and I don't know. I
guess that the draft knicks no more than I do.
Quin yours draft grade, I'll go look it up. I
mean he has looked now again granted coming off of injury,
but has looked very pedestrian, not pinpoint, just looked like
just a quarterback. Up of the last couple of weeks.

(42:55):
Pro Football Networks is day three, Bleacher Report day two
or three, So we're talking second or third round. That
sounds about right. So you're not building an NFL team
around him? No, And the reality is, well, who needs quarterbacks?

(43:18):
A lot of people made it sure Sander's gonna be
the guy. See the first it looks like he might
be the number one. Thank god. The Texan textan, don't
have to worry about that. You set you have a
franchise quarterback. But isn't playing like a franchise quarterback right now?
I think he hasn't the balance of the season. He
had a bad game, but he was running for his
life the whole I think, and I'll honesty the issues

(43:39):
that that CJ had with his numbers and they were
not spectacular, which because of frankly, the fact the offensive
line gave him zero protection. Did did he pissed them off?
Or something? Does Kenyon Green hate him? Was like this,
It's like, you know, when good quarterbacks you play with
Kenny Green's girlfriend. When good quarterbacks have good offensive lines,
they buy them like watches and stuff. Take about to

(44:00):
big state dinners. What ATVs? As I suggested, and I
believe it or not a question? What's the what's the opposite?
What does an offensive line do except send them a
Hallmark card say I'm sorry because the Texans offensive line
owes c J strowan and apologetic vice gifts. Yeah, they're
all making pretty good money. Oh that's the problem. They're
all young, with exception of Tunel, But he's thirty. He's

(44:22):
not like he's aged. Tunsl's making more than C. J. Strout.
He should be buying him gifts. Yeah, no kidding. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Let's go to
James and Klein. Now, James, if you listened to my
underdog fantasy selections the other night, he would have won
because I did tell you to take the under and
Fred van Vliet and the over on Shingon and the

(44:43):
over on Jalen Green. I thought that's what I said. Well,
I think we did it collectively. Just kidding. Did James
do that? I don't know. I mean, James a smart guy.
You should listen to my underdog fantasy advice. Let's go
to uh line number one on seven. I think, James,
what's going on? Yeah, he did win, Thank you. Let's
go your walk On's a three teamer right there? Uh

(45:04):
Jabari Smith last night? What was that nonsense?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
He said?

Speaker 2 (45:07):
If the three point line didn't get I think got
one rebound. He was just not participating at all. That
was just crazy Jabari last night went eight points. He
had five rebounds. Well, so yeah, it's five. Is good
that it's not zero. But that was a good guess
in your part. Okay, Well, I mean it, This didn't
seem like he has done much. He is not a

(45:29):
focal point of their offense. And well to tie that
into underdog. That's why I think it's tough to put
over unders on Ji Smith Junior, because he's some days
he's going to make a shot, some days he's not.
They're not going to run thing through him. If they
find him on the low block with a mismatch, then yeah,
he's gonna do his little couple of dribbles back in,
turn around, fadeaway jumper. He's also a catch and shoot
last one in the front court three point attempt right,

(45:53):
and he shot thirty six percent from three. That's pretty
good for a big man. It's around league average. Yeah,
but they don't make it a point to get him
the ball, and I don't know that they should. I mean,
what are his exact offensive skills that you think are
not being tapped into. I just don't see it in
Jabari's case. For me, it's there's only one basketball and

(46:15):
you know that Jalen and Alp are gonna get their
shots in. You know that Fred van Blut's gonna probably
put up seven or eight three pointers attempts per game,
and last time he took up eleven, and Dylan's gonna
do some catching shooting as well. I just don't know,
as you said, if he's the first or even second
go to threat offensively, that mean he can't score offensively.
Doesn't mean that his numbers offensively can't improve, because it

(46:35):
did improve from season to one to season two. But
I don't ever anticipate Jabari Smith being a guy that
would be on the cusp of scoring, say twenty points
per game. Yeah, you're not gonna be at this point
in his career. We just haven't seen it to where like,
give Jabari the ball and get out of the way everybody,
because he's about to cook and that's just not how
it goes.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Good rebounder, Yes, solid one through five defender, switchable defender, Ye,
can play multi guys. Good stroke, not amazing. Would like
for him to get closer to that amazing part, because again,
he's gonna be given a lot of three point It
looks that's what he was supposed to be coming out
of Auburn was dead eye shooter. He shot only thirty
percent from three his first season, thirty six percent his

(47:16):
second season. So hopefully hashtag natural progression. Uh yeah, well
it's probably not going to go to forty two percent
this year. But a man can dream if he's if
he even if he hits thirty six percent, that's good
for a big man. Albern Shagun two for three last night,
right two three Alpi last night and three point range

(47:36):
two for three, made his first two. He was shot.
He shot a contested three. The thing about last night
is that the Rockets got their shots up. It just
wasn't very economical. They put one hundred and three shots up.
Oh pretty crazy, had sixteen offensive rebounds that they're forty three.
But there were a lot. I mean, there were stretches
in the first quarterns. In fact, there were stretches where

(47:57):
both teams couldn't find the basket, and the Rockets settled down,
started making some Alpay attacked the basket and then Alpi
I just didn't. It was out for pretty good chunks
of the second half. I don't know if it was fatigue,
whether it was defensive matchups were not good. It wasn't
like necessarily Nick Richards was doing much in the low
block to force up some more shots. Yeah, I think
it was combination. He looked a little gas on the

(48:19):
second half to me, Yeah, without having the tracking data
in front of me, it's funny. Jacques Lendell I think
had the first three pointer of the game for the Rockets.
Jacques Glandelle beast so not gonna play much with Steven Adams, right, No, no,
And by the way, from what I got from the
Rockets yesterday is that Steven Adams is going to be
literally a game time decision before every game. Every game.

(48:42):
It does what sounds like, it's like, how's he feeling? Yeah,
Steven Adams, how you feeling? All right? Go ahead, I'm
all right, yeah, all right, right, Remember that awkward question
asked him about him and Yona's Valentunis being the greatest
Russlers of all time. He's like, if that's what you
want to do, you want to get into that's you
fantasize about. That's fine, yeah, Stephen, I mean I'm definitely

(49:03):
afraid of you. We're gonna bond on the road this year.
What are you guys gonna do go out and have
some pints? Okay? Does he like to crush some? I
would think so, I mean me Landell and Steven Adams.
I mean he's got a uh, I mean he seems
to have although he's a big person, he's a slender physique. Yeah,

(49:24):
it doesn't have Chris Paul's built suit and that Chris
Bottom still so what remember we asked him? You asked him,
He's like, what the Yeah, it's like I wore that
thing one time. His head was spinding just from being
a Houston rocket match. I think he was mesmerized by
my presence. That's free. Like, I'm really nervous about this conversation.

(49:47):
The aura, as the kids say, Matt, it was overwhelming.
He just he just couldn't even his brain was scrambled. Overwhelmed. YEP.
I couldn't said it better myself. Thank you. Ross seven
three two one two five seven nine zero. Did you
see the in the game between the Pistons and I
forgot who they played last night? No? Did you say

(50:09):
the Pistons and I didn't watch it? Yeah, I was
gonna say it. Much of America. The Pistons got called
for a technical foul ROSSI okay, and you know different
ways to get technical fouls. I mean arguing with rest,
cursing all that it was there, playing the Pacers, by
the way, I don't know, throwing the ball at somebody

(50:30):
out all the above. The Pistons, for a small stretch
of the game last night, had six players playing on
the floor at one time. I was literally about to
say that, dang, yeah, I'm not even kidding. It was
gonna be the next thing I said. It came to
my mind. Yeah, they had six people in the floor.
I think I've seen that like one time before, and
it was obvious. They went into front court like one, two, three, Oh,
there's four, five, six. I think I remember that happening

(50:53):
like a decade ago sometime, and I'm surprised, frankly, doesn't
doesn't happen more because of all the substitutions that come
in and out of a game. So there you have it,
and then I'll conclude Pistons talk for the rest of the day.
Thank you, Matt. Did you shait about this wall in
Los Angeles of fans, Yes, it's like a student section. Yes, No,
visiting teams, fans can be in this section are not allowed.

(51:14):
How do they vet that? They probably say, if you're
wearing that gear, get out, we're gonna kick you out. Yeah.
What if you're just wearing What if I just go
in they're wearing a black shirt, but then I root
for the other team, Well, then they're going to make
fun of you. My guess is out. My guess is
as as technical there is a rule you have to
wear the gear of the Clippers to be in there.
Oh that's not Yeah, I'll do some check you when
I get out there. Watch my people. Yeah yeah, one

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thirteen on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two
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here on seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk seven ninety We.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Were just to talking off fair about our favorite part
of the Latest Dudes on Dudes podcasts. You and I
just got an argument.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Man.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
We were trying to name our top five favorite moments
of the podcast, and we just we couldn't agree. Yeah,
because there's so many great moments. I couldn't narrow it
down to every two minutes of the show was my
favorite part of Dudes on Dudes. Check it out for
free on iHeartRadio. I mean, you we we we should
make you pay for it, but you know we're the
gift that keeps on giving here at iHeartRadio. Dudes on Dudes.

(52:29):
I think the Dudes on Dudes is in concussion protocol.
I'm surprised they even know how to work the microphones.
Not a couple of I don't know what this is
talks not buy him America's meathead Rob Gronkowski. Nice guy
though lovely, I'm sure it seems like he is. What

(52:51):
if Rob Gronkowski want to come on the show to
promote Dudes on Dudes. We talked to him about what
n F I mean, the guy's probably lived the pretty
good life. I think he went on I think he
was interviewed on like sixty minutes or something. Said he
hadn't read a book since eighth grade, so I haven't either. Yes,
you have what the last three Tory Spell, Jose Consenko,

(53:15):
and Jerry Springer books. That's the most Met Thomas book
club list I've ever heard. I mean, I read thousands
of things every day. I am not interest in a
book at all. Okay, good. Now I'm in the minority
because when I get on these airplanes, I'm talking about
rockets' talking about just in general airplanes and people are reading.

(53:36):
I'm like, you know, I respect for you. You want to learn,
you want to you want to build your vocabulary, you
want to go in depth with certain things. Meanwhile, I'm
on the internet. I'm just texting people. Yeah, you're checking
see what Taylor's doing on Instagram. Now I'm not checked
Taylor yet today. She did not do on her NBA
picks last night. Speaking of expensive vocabularies, Well, there's expensive

(53:58):
other things. So what's going on in sports today? Sports, Harvey,
you tell me you want ESPN's number one sports headline
of the day. Please. You probably don't want to get
into this one. James Franklin refuses to comment on rape
charges against x Penn State football players skip Oh. Basically,

(54:20):
here's what happened. Two players at Penn State have been
accused of rape, and it happened this past summer. And
he was asked on two different occasions in a press
conference about it, and he walked away from both questions.
Why can't he just say those are legal proceedings, and
I can't comment that wasn't good enough. Okay, I don't

(54:42):
know the details of it, and I think he probably
in not so many words. I think the PR to
people at the school said, our coach is not going
to speak on this. Well, here's one headline. Number three,
Lionel Messi has raised MLS salaries for the entire league
since coming over to the MLS. That's good, that's good.
Sorry to hear about the WNBA labor issues. Dynamo make

(55:02):
the playoffs, Yes they did. Yeah, Cameron's season taking holder.
He told me all the time, He's give you Dynamo updates. Yeah,
that's great, he said. One you Dinamoe players on, I said,
I believe Nember nineteen we used to get them back
on the day. Oh that was called for and Brian
Ching and the boys. I could hear literally radio stations

(55:23):
and dials being turned at this exact moment. It was happening.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Man.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
The best was the PR department trying to act like
they were the freaking Yankees, Like, you guys aren't talking
about us every day? Yeah, you're the Houston Dynamo. Yeah,
well they've given up. Well, there's one guy where it
sends emails what time you guys come coming over for
our press converence? So I'm like very busy. They play
three game series in MLS playoffs. Now you're asking, Now

(55:50):
I'm pulling it up. It's a three game set in soccer.
Do they aggregate it or no? I believe the MLS
playoffs are as long as a regular season. What if
you draw three, We're not playing Uno? Draw four, okay,
a wild card. Would you rather play Uno for consecutive
hours or watch a Dynamo playoff game? With Dynamo playoffs,

(56:10):
e I'm gonna go to N I love Uno as well,
though Uno used to get violent back in the day. Yeah,
really yeah, because if you forgot to say Uno when
you're down to a car, oh, you'd have people just
stalking you like I'm gonna catch you and then you
drop a draw four on. Don't have to say Uno
when you win. That's just a house rule. I don't
think it's an official who would say Uno on zero cards?
You say, you know when you have one card. Some

(56:32):
people used to try to say you have to say
Uno when you win. That's ridiculous. I'm with you, Matt.
I'm just saying the streets are said it before. That's
like collecting two hundred dollars when you cross Electric Avenue
you going, you only collect too hundred when you go
past go, or sometimes you do not collect two hundred
dollars and you go straight to jail. Well, I've done
that myself too. I don't think I've ever played a
full game of Monopoly in my entire life. Once you

(56:53):
started buying the houses and the condos, it just becomes
so convoluted. No thanks, it's too much. Oh, I have
before actually on a video game. Okay, he's hanging around
drinking with the people. So you said to yourself, let's
have some drinks and let's watch them. Let's play Monopoly
in a video game. I think we had gotten home
from drinking and we wanted to have a couple more.

(57:14):
And so you flip the game on and you play
while you don't drink, and like, yeah, if somebody lands
on your property, you have they have to drink. Oh
my gosh. The game goes a lot quicker that way. Yeah,
and then everybody's passing out within six minutes. And then
you're like one player left. Look all this money I
have and everybody just passed out. It was like ninety
nine cents on my PlayStation and vomiting all over themselves.
Cost a dollar to play that. I think it's something

(57:34):
I'm saying about. You're judging and hating and I explained
to you and not that bad. Yeah, all right. So
the Dynamo Playoffs three game set against the Seattle set, nobody,
nobody kept moving on. They play once a week. We talked,
we're only talking about relevant things on the show. Hold on.

(57:55):
They're playing on Monday, and then a Sunday and then
another uh Monday. It looks like okay or Sunday. So
they play three weeks in a row. That's insane. How
many teams make the playoffs? I don't know. Robert Woods
is back in practice for the Texans. Steven Simms is
back in practice for the Texans. These playoffs are going

(58:18):
to take six months. Henry Toatoa is not there. Jimmy
Ward and alziz Al Shaier are not there. You know what?
The Texans are Assault five and two. No they're not
because where's the where's the hysteria, where's the excitement level?
Where is the I can't wait to get into this

(58:41):
Texans cold deep dive. Uh answer my question. Okay, I
don't hear none other shows in town.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
People are just talking to themselves. I think we get
amped on Sunday, Let eleven fifty nine before kickoff. I'm
amped right now, Matt. I don't believe that for a
second myself with excitement. No, you're not, or I'm just
really disappointing the Rockets. I feel got a little bit
of a Rockets hangover all right, Brian and parallel? Oh
good Brian, I mean, I mean brutally honest. Brian is

(59:11):
in sixty seconds, you get, Brian, you get literally thirty
Appreciate you, Brian, Thank you. Brian hooked me up with
some club seats at a dash game. I appreciate Brian.
Brian thirty seconds. The floorisiers after thirty one seconds, I'm
hanging up on you. Hello, Brian.

Speaker 7 (59:27):
Hey, Matt, No real quick rosse. It's a three game series.
At the last game is tied, they do go to
PK's to settle it so they can tie the first two,
but it has to be settled. It's the something I
think they started last year, and then it's one game
from there on out. So hopefully we'll see you out there.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
That was perfect. Thank you, Brian. My computer messed upis
so yeah. He did, he did it, He did in
perfect time. He did it. He has like actually ten
seconds off of the tie, and then then they go
to penalty kicks. All right, interesting, let's get some fantasy
football conversation going. Yes, and let's tell that I'm done waiting, Matt.
Come on, it's over. It's resuscitate. The toros say, it's

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Have to be made, and I've got trade.

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Proposals fly in my way.

Speaker 8 (01:01:40):
My first round pig turn out to be a big flop.
I don't know which wide receiver I need to drive.
Doctor Roto give me the news. I really don't know
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a bad keith a fair to see blue with it.

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It is the fastest thirty minutes of major market radio.
We say hello to the one of the only Doctor
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anti doctor Rono, I am raising the white flag. This
is my final year of fantasy football. It's over. I'm
done with injuries. I'm done with Tyreek hillsucking. I'm done

(01:02:34):
with Kyle pittsucking back. Tell them stop whining over. It's done.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Yeah, until next August when they ask you to play,
and you'll be like, sure, I'm in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Come on, Maddie, come on, we need them exactly, we
need one more. What is going on? Yeah, Terro, this
has been brutals. These years have been brutal.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Yeah, yeah, I yuke bad. I mean, look to Shaun Watson.
I know he was playing poorly, but you never want
to see that either. It's just you know, it's gruesome, right,
So and then some of them you'd say, well they
were down by ten points, the Buccaneers, why is he
even out there in these hip drop tackles. So it's
just it's it's a lot. But what I can say
is this, every pick counts. Right, So, when you're you're

(01:03:19):
draft and you're enjoying yourself with your friends, maybe not
paying attention. Maybe you're taking out that magazine that's too old,
or maybe you're on your fifth drink of the night.
That's Those are the winning rounds. You can't waste any picks.
You can't waste any you know, you never know what
you're going to need a player.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Right, well, there are certainly many many folks and still
enjoying it. So let's get some relevant information to them.
First and foremost, let's go to hmmm, uh, what did
you take away from Minnesota? Except for the fact that
I got a short week, long travel, lots of Los Angeles,

(01:03:54):
big scoring night, first loss the season. Is this a
bounce back week for them against a subparwer Rams defense.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Maybe, but Cooper Cup is expected back, and there's rumors
that Pooker Nakua could be expected back, So you might
see a different Rams team. You might see a wide
open game here tonight. I like Sam Donald a little bit.
You always like Justin Jefferson against the Rams defense. I
think Jordan Andison plays very well against zone coverage and
that's what the Rams through out there. So I think, look,
this Vegas has this game at about close to a fifty.

(01:04:23):
I think you could see that. I think, you know,
Cup should be great against that Vikings defense, but the
Vikings put a lot of pressure that blitz. And look,
we know the Rams offensive line is not very good.
So if Stafford can stay afloat, this game will be
an interesting one to watch. And I think there's fantasy goodness.
So I'm starting Kyron Williams. I'm starting Cup. If Pooka

(01:04:44):
is playing, I will start him. On the other side,
certainly Aaron Jones, certainly Sam Donald, Jefferson and Adsen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Have we dropped every New Orleans player from our starting lineup?
I mean, the implosion that has happened with that football
team is incredible right now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
Yes, and no, I think you start three guys. Think
you start Alvin Kamara. I think you start Chris o
Lave And we don't even know if he's back yet,
but if he's back this week, you start him. And
I think there's a place where Taysom Hill in lineups
if he qualifies at tight end in leagues, which he
should in most. Now they're desperate, they are desperate, and
they are a better team when Taysom Hill is playing.
So against the Chargers, do I think that Taysom Hill

(01:05:20):
could actually do something? It's one of those sneaky plays,
but those are the only three guys right now. Can't
trust anybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Maybe the sneaky good noon game besides obviously the Texans
and Colts coming up is Philadelphia versus Cincinnati. Philadelphia did
just enough to dispose of a very bad Giants team
and the Bengals starting to play a little bit of
a softer schedule with exception of this week, how do
you see this playing out?

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
Look, the Bengals should have beaten Kansas City. They should
have had two more victors, should have beaten the Baltimore
right so, right now, the Bengals are the best team
that people aren't talking about. Look, this plays right into
what the Bengals want to do. The Eagles secondary is awful.
Joe Burrow throwing at Jamar Chase t Higgins against man coverage.
You want to do man coverage on t Higgins and
Jamar Chase. Good luck on the other side, aj Brown,

(01:06:06):
DeVonta Smith, Saquon Barkley. This is a fantasy feast right here.
This game is a forty eight. Give me the over
and a large way. I'll take Chase Brown as well.
Almost all the pieces you start.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
We've seen Chicago play a lot better, especially after the
second week against the Texans. Are we noticing major fantasy
impact as I go to Washington this week take on
the very hot Commanders.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Well, look, the Commanders have an issue. Is Jayden Daniel
is going to play or not? Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I would guess no.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
I'm not sure there's a reason to risk him. I
think they go with Mariota. If Mariota is out there,
now you got this inconsistency. Maybe they'll be a good drive.
Maybe they'll bet be a bad one. I like the
Bears defense a lot. I think they're a really good
play for the Bears offense. DeAndre Swift has been absolutely
on fire. Caleb Williams has played well. The Commander's defense
the secondary's kind of week. The question is is it

(01:06:56):
DJ Moore? Is it Keenan Allen? Is it Romadunzi? Is
it Cole Comet? Don't know where the productions coming from,
but there should be production this game, and I think
this game could be. It has a chance to be
higher scoring if Mariota plays well. If he implodes, then
the Bear's defense will take over.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
One of the many reasons why I hate fantasy football
is Courtland Sutton with the Denver Broncos a goose egg
for me last week, Tyreek kal At a one point four.
I can't find another wide receiver duo that gave less
points than the ones on my football team. So let's
go to Denver first. What is going on? How are
they winning games by not really doing much offensively?

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Well, they're playing really great defense and the kickers looking
good and bone Knicks has been good. Bone Nicks has
been good. So this week, you know, don't laugh, Courtland
Sutton's a really good play, right, Courtland Sutton should have
a good week. I know the last thing you want
to hear, but telling me this Panthers with Bryce Young,
are you telling me that Denver's not scoring three touchdowns?

(01:07:55):
And if they score three touchdowns, Jervonte Williams should have
one and Courtland Sutton could easily you have one, Tyreek Hill,
this look two is back? Tyler Huntley's awful, Skylar Thompson's awful.
If two is back, Tyreek Hill goes from you know,
mediocre to fantastic again. So your team could be on
the precipice of immortality.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Put out you hear that on the precipice of immortality.
Thanks those two jabronis who got me nothing last week?

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
There's some for you there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Yeah, I was gonna say you were trying to sell
this very hard. There's not a lot of sexy Buffalo Seattle.
Are we intrigued about this matchup this week?

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
I think we are. I think the question is is
DK Metcalf playing and Kenneth Walker's are awesome sometime too,
So if Walker and DK are in there should be
a great game. Seattle's throwing the ball a ton, Geno
Smith is slinging it around, which is good thing. Walker's
look tremendous. Metcalf, Jackson Smith and jigb is in play.
Even Tyler Lockett is in play. On the other side,
the Amari Cooper trade was fantastic for Buffalo. Need to

(01:08:56):
play him. Shakir is certainly in play, and James Cook
has been spectacular. I think the big, big loser in
this whole thing is Dalton kim Kid, because I just
don't see the targets now that Cooper's in town, all.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Right, the loser of Dallas San Francisco on Sunday is
either going to be under five hundred and the Cowboys
or significantly under five hundred. So an important game with
two mediocre football teams right now, how do you see
it fantasy wise? Between the Cowboys and the Niners.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
This is like in wrestling, the loser leave town match.
One of these two teams is going to be done right.
So you know, I have a very close friend who
said he thinks the Cowboys are going to come back.
He's a big Cowboy fan. He said, look, they may
win this week, they may lose the next month, but
they were so embarrassed in that last game, and San
Francisco's reeling. You have no IU because Deebot playing. You know,

(01:09:44):
Purdy's been making mistakes. The defense has a lot of
guys who are injured. You know, do I love Dallas
this week? No? I really don't. Does Vegas love this game?

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
It's a forty six spot. So I think, well, I
play Lamb. I will well I played Jalen Tolbert. Will
I play Dak Yes? Will I play Ferguson?

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
On the other side, I will play Purdy. I will
play Jordan Mason for sure. I think Juwan Jennings is
in play, and I think George Kittles have played too.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
All right, before we start taking phone calls, Hall startled.
Were you by the lack of Texans offensive work last
week in Green Bay and will that translate to a
second straight week against the Colts?

Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
I was shocked. I was shocked. I mean, I know
they ran the ball well, but man without Nico Commins,
don't they seem a little lost on offense. A lot
of penalties, a lot of poor time penalties. Stroud didn't
look great. So what do I think happens this week?
First of all, you know, I'm still thinking Joe Mixon
is great. Secondly, Stefan Diggs against zone defenses. Give me

(01:10:44):
all the Stefan Diggs and hasn't it seemed like every
tight end is called a touchdown against the Colts. Dalton
Schultz is due. I mean he had one catch for
twenty eight yards, like the third play of the game,
and then they didn't go to him the rest of
the game. They have to get him involved. So I
think the big here is going to be is the
Texans defense. Can they stop Anthony Richardson. Richardson's been a mess,

(01:11:06):
but every week he can run, he can get a
couple of rushing touchdowns. You know what he's going to
do and he's going to throw the ball deep. You've
got to stop him running, and you get to stop
the long passes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
And as far as the cults are concerned, Anthony Richardson
is a starting quarterback in the NFL. He doesn't complete
forty eight percent of.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
His passes, not even close. I think forty eight is
being generous. But look at what he does. He runs
and he's he's throwing it deep, and if he connects
on two of those ten completions, they get you to
the one yard line. So it's kind of amazing what
the cults are doing with a pretty bad quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
All right now, if you've got questions about a particular
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seven on you with Dr Rodal Go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:14:01):
Mark, Yeah, Hey, I'm hurting really bad at my RB
two spots. So I have four guys. I probably need
to keep about two of them and maybe drop drop
two of them. I have Chath Brown, Alexander Mannison, Austin Eckler,
and Jonathan Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Well, look, you can't shop Jonathan Brooks. At some point
he's gonna come back and he's gonna be sensational I
think you played Chase Brown for sure. I don't trust
Alexander Manason against Kansas City. I think that's a bad matchup,
so I'll probably take a Sean on Eckler.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
All right, thanks for the phone call. Let's go to
Chris in downtown for doctor rodal Hi. Chris, Hey there,
Hey the guys.

Speaker 4 (01:14:43):
Hey, I have two for you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
I don't want to say so.

Speaker 9 (01:14:47):
Would you bench Ben Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
Or Juba Hubbard if Puka plays?

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Also, I have the Jets defense or forty nine Ers defense?
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
All right, I would play the Jets. I don't know.
I don't what I said. Brian Thomas Rapuoka. Look, I
don't think this is a Puoka game. I'm glad he's back.
I'm glad he's back on the field, But you know,
do I trust him tonight? Not especially? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Seven one three two one two five seven And if
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Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Man? Two questions with you?

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Dont roto.

Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
If dk meheal don't play, you play doh or Deontay
Johnson and another one my quarterback Jordan Love or Joe Burrows.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
That Joe, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Yeah, both those quarterbacks are in great spots. I'm gonna
go Joe Burrow, but you could start Jordan Loves. They've
both have been really good. I think that's the Bengals
at home against the batting Eagles. Chief should should thrive. Look,
I don't think DK plays Hopkins. It's his first week
with a new team. I know Deontay Johnson has been
a train wreck, and it's not his false He's been good.

(01:15:58):
It's just that now that young is there, it could
be messy. I think I'm gonna go Deontay over Hopkins.
But look, if Metcalf plays obviously he played him first.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
What is your long term forecast for Andre Hopkins as
the chief.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
I love it, really, I mean think about it. Rashi
Rice runs similar routes to Hopkins. They're both zone kind
of guys. He used to put his own coverage out there.
Hopkins just finds the holes and it doesn't matter that
he's not the fastest. Guy's got great hands, he always
finds a way to get open, and he's reliable. I
think Patrick MoU the Chiefs always make great moves. Empty.
This is another great move by the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Yea, let's go to Steve and garden Oaks on seven
hunting for doctor rot Oh Hi, Steve.

Speaker 6 (01:16:37):
Hey, doctor Roto needs two out of these four, please,
David Montgomery, Kate Brown, Jalen Waddell, and Romeo A.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
Dobbs. Okay, So I'm going to start Montgomery for sure
at home? I mean, Montgomery at home seems to be
a lock for a touchdown. Chase Brown's an okay play.
He's not fantastic, He's an okay play. There's nothing wrong
with it. Should be a high scoring game, got a
chance for a touchdown. I do like Waddle. I mean,
if if two is back, I think Waddle's back in business. Dobbs,

(01:17:06):
look has had two really good weeks. Can we expect
that again this week? You know, Look, they have Wicks
that have Watson, they have Reed, they have Craft, they
have Josh Jacobs. So it's not that I don't like Dobbs,
but you know, it's hard to trust Dobbs. So I
think I'm gonna go Montgomery one, Wattle two, Dobs three.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
All right, back of the phones. In a minute. We'll
run through a few tweets better tight end the rest
of the year. Comet Najoku or Ferguson.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
I think it's the Joku with Jameis Winston. The guy
had ten receptions last week.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
I'll take that all right. Caleb and DJ Moore or
Kuler and Harrison Junior for a half PPR league.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
I think it's Caleb and DJ and DJ Moore in
a game where the Bear should win this game, it
gets a suspect commander second.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
There, Judy de Mario, Douglas, Deontay Johnson worth keeping around
on rosters.

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
I mean, certainly Douglas is and certainly Deontay is. Who's
the first guy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Again, Judy Jerry Judy, Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Mean that's a tough one to cla. Look, I think
Cleveland will be better. We have Jerry Judy has talent.
We just haven't seen it with Deshan Watson there. So
you can't cut any of these guys just yet. You
gotta give you got to give them one more week
and see what's going on. Look, Baltimore's past defense is
bad and James Jamis will sling it. So let's see
what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
With Judy Shepherd or Lockett in the flex.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
You know Sterling Shepherd knows Baker Mayfield from his days
at Oklahoma. I mean against Atlanta, who I think you
can throw on. Not not the worst start ever.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
All right, let's go to Matt and Katie on seven
ninety Matt, what's your question for doctor Roto? Hey, doctor Roto,
I got too uh Nakua or McLaren and then quarterback
either Cousins, Mahomes or Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
So I don't love Mahomes. I mean he just hasn't
been thrown a lot of touchdowns. I do like Kirk
Cousins this week. I think he's in a really good spot.
You can throw on timp as we've seen all year.
Do I love look Lauren? No, I think I'd actually
start Pooka over McLaurin. Think of it this way. I
don't think Jayden Daniel is going to play if he's
not playing. Do I want Mariota against the Bears. I

(01:19:10):
don't think so, So I think I'll take it a
risk with Pooka.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
All right, Let's go to Nick and River Oaks for
doctor rod o heinik. Hey, there, I'm got him on
a desperate flex.

Speaker 5 (01:19:21):
McConkie sudden or Jalen McMillan.

Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
Yeah, they're all interesting plays, right, but the Saints run
a lot of man coverage. Lad mccakey is a beast
against man coverage. I like him, and like I told
them too earlier. I think Sutton didn't play this week,
so I wouldn't start McMillan over the other two. I
think i'd go I'll go sudden one Lad two. But
it's really close. I like Lad mccackay a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
All right, let's go to KESO. Would you chilli kin?
Question for doctor Rode?

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
Okay, So, hey, guys, who to start at the receiver position? Cup, Medcap.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Or Martin Harrison?

Speaker 4 (01:20:06):
Man? That was a rough phone.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
That was a rough fun Okay, so try it again.
We can barely hear you. Try one more time. Yeah,
that's not gonna happen. Sorry, Okay, So how about how
about this?

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
How about I like Cooper Cup tonight they are legitimately
trying to trade him. I thought it was a hoax
at first. That whole thing about Matthew Stafford to the Vikings,
that was a hoax, right, right, But the thing about
Cup being traded, that's not a hoax. When Jordan Rodriguez
and Diana Rassini are telling you that they're getting it
from from the sources. So I think this is a
game where the Pepper Cup with targets, Matthew Stafford does

(01:20:40):
whatever he can to get his guy who he really likes,
you know, the receptions, and Cup is probably on his
way next week. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Last one for Jeremiah in Magnolia on seven ninety for
doctor rote O, Hi Jeremiah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
All right, done, guys, Just one quick question for receiver.

Speaker 9 (01:20:55):
I got to start one at Will tonight or Waddle
or Devonte Smith of.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
DeVonta Smith for sure. I mean that's a that's a
really great game, and I'm not start to two outlaws
cutable when Pooka and the Copper back, I mean I
will cut him because you Cup could get traded, but
he's not playable.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
All right. And lastly, if DK doesn't play tonight, do
I start Dell or Locket?

Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
Oh? I mean we can wait on that. But I
don't like Tank Dell this week. I don't. I think
I'm starting Locket if he's out.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Are you are you off on the Tank Dell bandwagon
or are you just in a rut right now in
your mind?

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
I think it's a little bit of both. I think
I think Tank Dell is better against man defenses, and
the Colts run a lot of his own coverage, so
and the Colts are really really generous to running backs
and generous to tight ends. So it just doesn't feel
like a Tank Dell week. And he dropped that touchdown
in the end zone. I think he doesn't look confident
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Are you playing any skilled players in the Colts on Sunday?

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
Only Jonathan Taylor if he's back. I don't like Michael Pittman.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Oh, by the way, Michael Pittman's want my receivers too.
Trying to pass that along to you. You better call
me before you draft. No, there, we know I'm calling you.
Come on, I'll be calling you to see how Fort
Myer's doing, how your kids doing it? Rice, But I'm
not calling you out. Fantasy football, we got a stage
an intervention to keep them in the lead. Well, we'll
maybe do that in the final week of the season.
Ladies and gentlemen, we asked Doctor rohto once a week
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(01:22:19):
We present to you doctor Rodo's lock of the week.
What do you got?

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
I really, I really like that Bengals Eagles game. And
I know I've been talking Bengals, but let's not forget
the Eagles. Let's not forget AJ Brown. Cam Taylor brit
really a bad cornerback. AJ Brown should break at least
one for touchdown. Let's give him eight for one hundred
and a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
All right, That, my friends, is Doctor Rod's lock of
the week. What are we finding you between now and Sunday?
Where are you going to be and see?

Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
Of course you can find me at my website, Doctor
roto dot com. I'm on Serious XM Fantasy Sports Radio
Saturday morning from eight to ten am Eastern and of
course it's on exit d R R O T O.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Right, steffas always, talk togain next week. Thank you for
the time, as always were, all right, Doctor wordle with
us here on the radio program. By the way, I
just want to look at your Twitter account, which I
normally don't do. I'ly yeah, yours usually muted. I appreciate that.
And it says a experiencing fantasy football fatigue or do
you like it as much as ever? Very small sample
size mm hmm, but fifty nine percent are finding themselves

(01:23:21):
fatigued with it. Yeah, I'm uh, I thought it'd be
closer to fifty to fifty, but there's a lot of people.
It's I mean, it's been a brutal year for injuries,
and I mean draft pick misses. Unless you're scouring the
waiver wire every single week, it's yours core on Sutton
Tyreek kill, Michael Pittman. I've got Jayalen Wattall. He's been
terrible all year. DeVante Adams terrible, h and terrible. Yeah,

(01:23:44):
but those some of those guys are new teams. Now
you should feel better. I picked up Baker Mayfield. That's
the He's literally has been the best pickup of the
year for me. I drafted Trevor Lawrence. You know that went.
They're battling out here. Cow's rough Riders are battling. Happy
birthday of com McNair, d Calhoum McNair. Not today's believe
it or not? What is today's believer or not? You

(01:24:07):
tell me? We could be Willy Fritz. Okay, could be
Willy Nelson. It's true, but it's gonna be Willy Fritz
on the show next one on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Time for us.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Spend a few quality minutes with the head football coach.
If your Houston Cougar's Cougar's against the utah Utes this
Saturday night ESPN plus the TV, sib IT radio over
on nine fifty KPRC, and I'll have the pregame show.
And right now we are joined by head coach Willie Fritz. Willy,
Good afternoon, How are things good?

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
I got no complaints, coach, Thanks for taking some time
with us. Look, there was times where penalties got to you,
and then unfortunately the turnover bug got to your Saturday
in Kansas City. As you look back at the film, Look,
obviously you want to correct all those types of things.
But was it intense pressure or some some mental mistakes
by your squad that to turn turn into high turnover camp?

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Yeah, you know both. You know it's hard to you know,
like I've said a few times, you know, we got
to play really well this season to be able to
win in Big twelve. And you know the week before
that we played DCU more plus four turnover takeaway and win.
And then last week we're minus for it and I
didn't win, So we just got to clean it up

(01:25:24):
and do a better job coaching and playing and understand
how important, you know, possession of the ball is. And
I've given them a free series of downs without anything happening.
Good for you. So that's big for us. We talk
about the plan to win every week and the first
component of it is winning the turnover takeaway battle. And

(01:25:44):
you know, when you don't win it, you're gonna have
a tough time winning the ball game. So we've got
to do much better job in that area.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
How do you end game? Go to the well if
if a ball gets deflected or intercepted, are fumbling. Look,
these kids are a human. They don't want to be
making these haves of mistakes. But how do you try
to as a coach reinforced the let's not get into
this here we go again mode when you're in the
middle of coaching a football game.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Well, you really do it throughout the course of the week.
We try to, you know, we you know, it's the
number one thing that's printed up all over our buildings,
all that kind of stuff, and that's good. But we
spend a lot of time with drill work, you know, uh,
individual team, you know, working with proper ball security. And

(01:26:27):
then you know you got to make sure that on
pass routes and you're you know, throwing balls that you
got a great chance to complete. I know that sounds simple,
but you know, when you're you know, putting together a
game plan, you know, you got to make sure you
got the correct Jimmy against the correct Joe and hopefully
there's some separation and you're guys able to compete and

(01:26:49):
catch the football and you know, so all those things,
just making sure every day in practice, you know, carrying
the ball the right way. You know, it's we tell
him over and over again, it's not the guy you
can see who's going to create the turnover. It's the
guy you can't see, the guys in your blind spot,
the guy coming to the side. So you got to
always be protecting the ball and basically got our program

(01:27:10):
in your hands when you're carrying the ball. So some
way emphasized in great detail, but uh, we got to
go out and execute it, and we've got to coach
it better because you know it's not it's not sticking
right now. We got to do a better job with it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
You lost it on Chris early in the game to
injury on Saturday. How has he been for you this
week in practice?

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Well, you know better, we're hoping he's going to be
able to play on Saturday, you know, but if he's
not able to, you know, we got to h Donovan
and Hui you have got to do a good job
coming in and playing force and uh, you know, so
we're gonna find that out. Uh, you know. Unfortunately, uh,
he's banged up a little bit this season, and and uh,

(01:27:51):
you know, we're hoping he's going to be able to
finish the home stretch where he's healthy, and you know,
we'll get out there and participate and play because he
does some great things when he's when he is able
to play.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
So how do you if we were to partake in
watching some of your practices? Are you splitting quarterback time up?
Thirty three? Thirty three thirty three? I mean, is there
a percentage you can put on the three guys you've
had take STAPs for you so far this year?

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Well, you know, there was a couple of days there
where Zeon onen't able to take any snamps at all,
So you just split with the other two guys. You know,
it's hard to split evenly two guys, much less three.
So you've got to really, you know, figure out each day,
you know who's healthy, who's able to go, and then
you try to try to split it up amongst two

(01:28:36):
guys at the very most.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Wellie, you've been a great motivator no matter where you
have been. I've watched you from the distance motivate your guys.
Is before we leave the hotel to go to the stadium,
And I don't you call that something in particular, right
or is that just something you just walk in and
talk to the guys for your gun and the bus
all we do.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
We call it the hype session. You know, I don't know,
I got so many years and years ago. You can
I show a highlight tape things during the course the week.
You know, sometimes show that hype video the night before
the game.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Yeah, didn't really help you out.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
If it's a good video and you get taught, they
have a hard time sleeping, you know, want that. So
we tried to do it right before we get on
the bus and head of the game and hopefully it
generates some genuine enthusiasm.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Well, I'm I'm always fired up to have a better
broadcast when you're doing that. So I tell you it's great,
great motivation. Who motivated you in your life? You have
been around a lot of great college coaches. You played
obviously and worked from the ground up to where you
are now. Who is, in your mind, has been the
greatest motivator when it comes to getting you're talking about
ninety young men basically on a week to week basis,

(01:29:39):
ready to play a football game.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Oh, you know, I've motivated myself, you know, basically, And
that's kind of how I was raised with my mom
and dad. But the coach that motivated me and mostly
guy named Ron Raydelman. I was my college coach at
small school called Pittsburgh State up in Kansas, and they
took the reins at San Houston State University, and really
he was the first guy that went on a consistent

(01:30:02):
level there. Sam Houston and he and I talk every week.
You'll beat the game this weekend, and he's my number
one motivator.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
All right. As far as Utah is concerned, you're gonna
be going against a new offensive coordinator, as Kyle Winningham has.
They've decided to move on from Andy Ludwig. A thought
or two about that football team. They're also going through
quarterback issues of their own, and they've got a young
freshman that's getting snaps, and they really struggled offensively against
TCU last Saturday. When you turned the tape on what
did you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:29):
See, well, exactly what you said. They you know, they
had a very veteran quarterback, I think he was in
his seventh season here, Cam Rising, and unfortunately for the
young man, he got injured. And you know, they're just
trying to find their way. You know, when you have
a quarterback and whatever position, what does he do well?
Get him to do that, what does he do not

(01:30:50):
so well? Stay away from that? You know, and you
can't really find those things out until you play a
few ballgames. And that's kind of what's happened to us
right now. You go through spring ball and preseason camp
and you know, the quarterback's not live and you really
get a you know, diagnose where they're at during the season.
So they're a strong run team, you know, they've always

(01:31:11):
done that. And then they're really really good on defense.
Poor man in front, they're penetrating type front. They're jumping
off the ball, they're not a reading react they're trying
to make something happen with penetration, and they play a
ton of man coverage and one of the you're and
you're either one of the better defenses in the country.
So we got to make sure we get bodies on
bodies and not allow them to get back there quick

(01:31:32):
and disrupt the quarterback and you know, turn the ball over.
And we've been working on all their different blizz combinations
this week, so we want that to you know, really
play out on Saturday night six o two.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
I'm very good coach, always great to have you on
my show. We appreciate it, and best of luck this
Saturday against the Utes. Thank you, you got it. That's
Willie Fritz with us here on Sports Talk. Sev Unting
and Willie's visits every week are brought to you by
the Joint Chiropractic, the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics.
We are twenty minutes away from the Rotten Five and

(01:32:07):
I'm looking forward to finding out where Texans opponents have
been in that Rotten five. I know there's got to
be at least two of them and they're could there
be more. We'll find out more on that coming up
in a few minutes. We have Believe It or Not
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(01:32:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Two eighteen. On Sports Talk seven ninety Adam Clant giving
us a preview. He was a Texans practice today and
I had a chance.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
He was you get lost. He's our intrepid Texans reporter.
Is he trying to get to the Timmy chants over there.
I'm sorry the Mimi Man's, isn't it suck? There's no
good place to eat over there? In the hangout it's
been They've that stadium opened up in two thousand and two,
and there's just in Zilch. I mean, there's a mudda

(01:34:47):
murder On Kirby in there, and there is a Believe
Well Hemachos. Is the MACHOs still there? There's a Rock Orel,
and there's a Rarbie's. Yeah yeah. One hotel has been
changed fifteen times, and then the other ones where basically
you have sexual intercourse with prostetot. I mean, I guess

(01:35:08):
the Toyota Center in the in the minute made don't
really have any bustling restaurants. Nope, no oars by them either.
We were tired acting this. We've gone over this over
and over again. We are for as awesome as we
are in so many things in this community. We just
cannot vibe around Sports city. We don't go all in
on sports is a city really just saying yeah, Ticket

(01:35:29):
in Dallas is like their number one rated station in
the city, regardless of format. In Minneapolis, I went against
the radio station I used to get good numbers in
the station. Yeah, but the other station I was going
against beat me like three by three times because they
just were just I mean, when you have twelve percent
of the radio listenership listening to one radio station that's
an FM sports talk station, you're you're in tough shape.

(01:35:51):
All right, Let's go to a story before we get
to the Rotten five about what's going on at the beloved.
Would you say the Harvard of Mid South Tennessee University
Memphis is I don't think so? Or what's the accepted
rates over there? My guess is open enrollment. I'm not
saying it's you know, it's overly difficult. Go look, all right,
So the University of Memphis has Penny heart Away and

(01:36:12):
Penny has people with deep pockets. What is this real?
What is it? They're accepted? Threate is ninety five percent?
I find it to be completely accurate. Why do you
even put applications in? You don't, it's as you you
always make the open enrollment joke. That's open enrollment, that

(01:36:34):
is open roll five percent? Yeah, that's that's insanely high. Wow,
I've never seen that. What are most schools about seventy
percent give or tanks. I mean, obviously private schools and
ivs are gonna be a lot smaller, but I would
think generally speaking, your normal run of the mill state
schools gonna say, on average man, it's fifty No, just kidding, no, no, no,

(01:36:55):
all right, So let's get to the University of Memphis. Okay,
So there are some been some promises an IL players
won't understand, right, yes, and they're not paying up at
this point. Apparently some of their players are holding out
now NIL causing major issues the players over there for
the Memphis Tigers getting frustrated. All American center Jordan Brown

(01:37:21):
stepping away from the program with an illness last year,
was out for about a month and a half. There's
basically the rumor that he was getting unfulfilled financial agreements
in addition to the transfer Plortal is going to leave
the team because he was not getting paid according to

(01:37:42):
his contract with the Bluff City Collective. Is that what
Memphis City in Memphis hip? Okay? Apparently the agent has
given a bad review of the NIL operation as well.
Oh now there's there's people that are giving reviews of
of collectives. Yes, like there's a Craigslist of Hey, you

(01:38:05):
should go to this one, or there's a Oh no,
a Craigslist would be like a rotten tomatoes group running down. Yeah,
it's somebody who is the head of the Young Money
APAA Sports. That's the agency. Oh my god, what a
sinister group of people those people are. What do you mean,
I'm sure they got a great operation. Oh my god,
zero ethics whatsoever. When when those Memphis players uh called

(01:38:32):
the nuble A, I've gotten word, they said, deal with it.
They said, shut your bum ass. Yep, we're not bothered,
We're very busy. They actually said leave a voicemail. You
know how people leave voicemails so you know they never
get returned. Correct, That's what the NCAA is telling those
Memphis players. You you sign up for this, you figured out. Yeah,

(01:38:53):
Tyreek Smith is the player is apparently having issues, has
not had promises fulfilled by the Nile collective in Memphis.
Like I want to ask Willie and I don't want
to put them in a tough spot here, but look, Ross,
this is gonna come as no surprise. We need serious
influx of talent. They should have money. I'm also reading
a story that FedEx pledged twenty five million dollars to

(01:39:16):
Memphis in IL. That should be plenty for them. I
wonder if most of that went to football. That was
a football squad, look at the show. No, I would
say that most of it would go to basketball. That's
how they make their money. Memphis football draws like fifteen
thousand people a game. That's probably more than non average
of the basketball they put the FedEx's form. They sell
out all their games. They sell out games Tigers basketball.

(01:39:39):
Memphis Tigers basketball is huge. They't even make the tournament.
I'm just saying they typically go to the Turman every year. Okay,
But I would think from a glamour standpoint, from a
recognition standpoint, Memphis basketball is going to carry a lot
more cashier than Memphis football. If you don't have any
deal with the Memphis football coaches, do you no which
you know? It was Penny Hardway at Men, I know

(01:40:00):
who Penny Hardaway is. Point John Kella Parry before that. Yeah,
guys are calling in sick on the nil deals. But
shan what's gonna ultimately do for them? It's gonna hurt
their NBA draft status. Guys step away from basketball for
year and a half, two years, where are they gonna go.
I don't know. Yeah, Tyreek Smith transferred to Memphis in May,

(01:40:26):
and apparently his agent has gotten very upset. He's only
known as Boog. I don't know what his first name is.
What is his name? Boog? Boog the agent, Boog, the
agent with young money, A p A A sports That
is that is flat boogie, That is flat out sinister.
There is nothing. Please? What is your agent's name? Boogie? Surbably,

(01:40:52):
Satchmo wasn't available. Hey man, Boogie is moving and shaking. Apparently,
who's your agent? His name is Dom know? Oh okay, Boogie?
What are you going with stripper names?

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
Oh? My my agent when I was in college, Yes,
desiree mm that is a stripper name.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
Two places you can find the most stripper names, whereas
was at a strip club obviously. And number two would
be at a place that I believe it's no longer
a business, Rantastic Rams. Fantastic Rams. Yeah, you get your
haircut and you put a little curl in the thing
and get a balloon. No, you would, you would go
into I can say it now, I think it's out
of business. But you go into Fantastic SAMs and the
girls names would be on top of the of their mirrors. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:41:39):
hairdressers they would say sunshine on there, and they would
say penelope. Hairdressers are a different breed desiree strawberry with
a B E R R I. Diamond, Yeah, diamond, d
y m O N D diamond. They always had funky
spellings of their names. So yeah, I wonder how much
more this is going to be happening. The players refusing

(01:41:59):
to play because they're not getting their nil come and
it's fulfilled. I mean, it happened in UNLV. What happened
with that guy? Where is he now? Even though I've
even forgot his name? It's not a sign out of mind?
Oh n I L Please fetch your sluca, Please fix yourself.
What's the latest on Matthew Sluka? I bet you can
google and figure out. We'll see. Probably schools can't mention

(01:42:21):
where he's potentially going. He has reported himself. I have
not heard anything about it, all right, he still he's
still planning to leave the program. He hasn't left. You
think he's in school. I think he's in class right now.
Chance of that happening, Yeah, he's in the chemistry lab.
Mixing up solutions. He's in the library right now studying
for a huge history exam. Yes, I believe it's post

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Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
For sure, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
I was looking at the four utab because that's what
I do when I'm not prepping for the show. And
the New Orleans Pelicans twenty one hours ago. So that
Zion Williamson was out of last night's game against Chicago
because of illness. So he can only miss eleven more games.
He's gonna miss more than that probably, but that's a
different issue for a different time. What got me, what
was struck me funny was what one person thinks. The

(01:44:37):
reason is, uh, oh, it's a bad gumbo e Coli
outbreak link to McDonald's quarter pounders in multiple states. Now,
it hasn't been in Texas yet, but be careful out there, folks.
Apparently McDonald's the e Coli outbreak with quarter pounders is
in full effect. Forty nine people in ten states have
been sickened in the outbreak. One person has died. I

(01:44:59):
think so he died. Oh that's terrible, not good. But
it was interesting that this was the subtweet off of
the Zion Williamson his out illness. He's not crushing quarter pounders.
Come on, you don't know that, isn't that? Didn't Steven
Adams say that to us. He understands why Zion has

(01:45:20):
trouble sometimes losing weight, but out there he's supposed to
be like the best shape of his life. Now we've
heard that before coming into right seasons, but you know,
it's fine for real this time. But by the way,
who got hurt last night? Would? Did Jontay Murray break
his hand?

Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
He fractured his hand? Yeah, one game in geez, I
understand it's my understanding. You need a hand to play basketball. Yeah,
thank god, I'm not doing fantasy basketball. I'll probably have
Jonte Murray's my first round selection. Ye, let's start up
a league actually, no, no, Matt, come on, we can
do uh, we can do a fantasy draft of IG

(01:45:52):
models all in for that. Yeah, sixty one percent of
people experiencing fantasy football fatigue. Well, how are we gonna
fix that? I don't know. I'm in five leagues. I
still like it. You're in five leagues. Yeah, that's nuts.
I mean you have time for that. That's good, but
it's not going great. I'm four and three and four
of them and two and five in the other, so
you're gonna be in of the You'll probably be at

(01:46:14):
least one or two playoffs hopefully. All right, let's do this.
Let's give the audience some good old information while providing
some entertainment as well. We present to you. Well, we
don't can't do both those things, so instead we'll give
you Rosses Rotten five.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
They've gone there, they draw flies.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Its Ross's rotting five. This don't smell quite right?

Speaker 10 (01:46:39):
All right, There's been a lot of injuries and a
lot of bad football in the NFL, so let's go
ahead and get it started with the congratulations Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
You want a game but doesn't count when it's the
New England Patriots and their young quarterback Drake May. Yes,
it does count, truth be told, George Trevor Lawrence has
started to look a little bit better in the last
few weeks for the Jaguars. Maybe they can eventually get
on the right track. They have won two of their
last three games. They do get a real test coming
up this week though, against the Green Bay Packers, and

(01:47:11):
from there they do face the Eagles, Vikings, Lions, and
then the Texans. So we are about to find out
who the real Jaguars are in the next few weeks.
But as of right now, they are the fifth worst
team in the NFL. Oh, we've been strong.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
We're just playing by the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Please keep losing so I can put Jaguar Lady on
this thing, all right, The Tennessee Titans continue to lose.
Let's keep it with the AFC South. With or without
will Levis does not matter. Mason Rudolph getting to start
this past weekend due to injury, and well, things didn't
go well. How bad did they go? Well? The Bills
throttled them thirty four to ten, and the Titans immediately
went into cell mode and traded away to Andre Hopkins.

(01:47:49):
Will Levis limited in practice yesterday I don't think it
matters much who starts at quarterback because upper management already
deciding to dismantle the team and move on to next year.
My crystal ball says they'll be in the market for
a new potential franchise quarterback because Will Levis is bad.
The Titans are horrible. They are the fourth worst team
in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:48:10):
Guys, we got to go get Vince.

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
Bad news. Patriots lost six games in a row since
winning the opener versus the Bengals. But the good news,
Drake May and another solid start may have something with
him in the future. The rest of the team is
well complete trash juice around him. Defense very bad. Drake
May's offensive weapons, I mean, we're talking about Jalen Polk
to Mario Douglas, Ormandre Stevenson, Hunter Henry. I mean, come on,

(01:48:34):
we can't do any better than that. Gerad Mayo is
already there are rumors that he is getting fired. Swirling
as well. Doesn't matter. The Patriots could be in a
good spot if he continues to play well talking about
Drake May as well as racking up losses so they
could get a good draft pick. QB Hungry teams trading up.
They could get a lot of draft capital out of
said draft pick, so future could be bright for the Patriots.

(01:48:57):
But on the field, they are really bad. They are
the third worst team in the NFL. We're getting ready
for Cincinnati. No, no, you're not Bill and you're not
the coach anymore. Why are you even here? All right?
Carolina Panthers continue to put on a masterclass and losing
week after week. They did have the shocking win over
the Raiders in Week three, where they started off, of course,
playing Bryce Young. That Week three game, they turned to

(01:49:19):
Andy Dalton. He was good in that game, but shockingly
since then hasn't been the answer. Now they're going back
to Bryce Young. Okay, sure, why not? Bryce Young is
starting this week for the Panthers. Does not matter who
the quarterback is, because that defense is awful. The Panthers
surrendering thirty four point seven points per game, yes, in
the NFL, almost thirty five points per game, my goodness.

(01:49:42):
They're also dead last in EPA thirty second and DVA
thirty first and DVOA whatever, EPA, DVA points per game,
whatever you want to put it. Panthers defense terrible. Bryce
Young also against one of the great defenses in the NFL.
With the Denver Broncos expected of the loss, expect the
Panthers to remain at minimum the second worst team in
the NFL. They can't stop no, please, all right. I'm

(01:50:04):
not even sure how things could get worse from week
to week for the Cleveland Browns, but somehow it continues
to happen. Starting off the season as a playoff hopeful,
terrible all year, Deshaun Watson slapped with sexual harassment lawsuits.
He's been one of the worst quarterbacks in the field,
and now he ripped his achilles. My goodness, what is
going on in Cleveland? Wats an industry injury? Could end

(01:50:25):
up being a blessing in disguise for the Browns, though.
Now Jamis Winston is their starter, and well, he's not
any good, but he can't be any worse than what
we were seeing from Deshaun Watson. The Browns have lost
five games in a row. This week, they face arguably
the hottest team in the NFL, their inter division rival,
the Baltimore Ravens or intro Division I should say so.
I expect them to remain losers and remain the absolute

(01:50:49):
worst team in the NFL. The Cleveland Browns. You are
a factory of sadness and that's your rude and five.
Nicely done, Thank you, Matt. There's a lot of couldn't
even the Raiders are terrible. I couldn't even put them
in there. There's a lot of bad football being played.
But yet every time we hear about things, ratings are great,
that's true. Adding more packages are putting on streaming services.

(01:51:11):
Mm hmm, you know what I mean. I mean, there's
it's the revenue. Nothing is nothing is ever slowing down
in the NFL. Yeah, I mean, I guess once you
get out of like the bottom ten teams, everybody's kind
of mediocre ish, like the Buccaneers, Saints type of teams.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
Bears.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
Well, once Derek Carr gets back, maybe the Buccaneers are fun.
They just can't stop anybody, but they can score some points. Yeah. Well,
now their top two receivers went down. Mike evans Is
hamstring imploded again and Chris Godwin's ankle exploded as well. Exploded.
That seems kind of graphic. Okay, dislocated, all right, that
sounds a little bit better, not great, not good. Texans

(01:51:50):
are well, they're getting a little bit healthier. I guess yes,
I'm gonna double check the injury report from the technoy.
They don't put the official one out in until about
three thirty four o'clock our time. Do you want the
official now? This is extrapolated from Las Vegas betting lines.
Where the Texans fit in the pecking order in the NFL.

(01:52:12):
According to Vegas betting Lions out of thirty two teams.
What would you real quick? I want to say this.
Steven Simms is back, Kamari last year of practicing again.
Henry Tootoa is out out. Al Zir saw Al Schaier
is out with a kny injury. I thought Toto was back.
You lied to me he's a concussion protocol. I didn't
say he was there. You just weren't paying attention. No,
I was check the tape, all right? So what was

(01:52:33):
your question? Again? I was looking at a There is
an account I followed that put out the Las Vegas
betting market derived team power rankings.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Texans are sixth eighth. Okay, Chiefs, Ravens, Lions, Packers, Bills, Niners, Vikings, Texans.
Its about all right. So let's fast forward fourteen weeks. Okay,
and the Texans don't make the playoffs. Hey, no, no,
excuse me, Texans don't make the super Bowl. Okay, what's

(01:53:06):
gonna be our takeaway? They went all in on Stefan
Diggs and that was an l You gotta come back
and look at the cap space. You probably are gonna
need to address the offensive line. I think giving it
another go with the defensive interiors probably a good idea.
Uh Nico's locked up, tank, Dell Stilling a rookie deal.
That's good. You're gonna have Shultz here, but he's not

(01:53:28):
been playing extrumely. New tight end probably, yeah, you might
have to address tight end. It wouldn't hurt to do
it in the draft. I would say your draft priorities
probably would be offensive line, yes, number one. I don't
think it's even any question at this point, especially because
we're the Texans, will probably we wind up drafted. I
would say running back Joe Mixon is gonna be another

(01:53:49):
year older. It's not gonna hurt to get somebody in
the fold, help split duties, shoulder some of the load,
because right now it's all I mean, Joe mix is
going to carry the ball thirty thirty five times. A game.
I mean he's been break down by the end of
the season, and Damian appears probably unless something dramatically changes
between nine and in the years, just not going to
be your solid number two back. I thought he'd be
really cheap. I mean he busted a big run a

(01:54:10):
couple of weeks ago against the Pats. We're terrible, Yeah,
but I think obviously offensive line has to be addressed
first and foremost. Yeah. If you think Lassiter's okay, is
the second corner, You're okay? There a lot in the
game is okay, is one safety, But who's your second safety?
Long term? Well, they like Kylen Bullock. They've been playing

(01:54:32):
them a lot. Okay, does interception hurt Kirk mur He's
not good I used is more of like a I mean,
he's like a Nickel Blitzer slash run stopper. He's not
great in coverage. Yeah, So are you satisfied with your
linebacking corps? I would say, no. How's Christian Hair is doing?
I haven't heard word one from still out? What's what's
that guy's name, Devin White? What's Devin White up to?
He looking okay? Well, if he spoke to the media today,

(01:54:55):
he did yeah, I'm sure Wex was there and give
us complete insights. Great Texans, Wex will let us know.
And again, those that are expecting Devin White to be
a huge difference maker, the folks at Pro Football Focus,
who again they aren't in all but be all No,
but they spend more time looking at lineman because they've
got no friends. Well, they have five years of grades
of putting him as one of the five worst linebackers

(01:55:15):
in football. Son sounds very very exciting. I mean, let's
read the Tea leaves. Buccaneers didn't re up him, Eagles
signed him and did not play him a snap, not
a snap. So for us to think that he's going
to come in and be an instant pro bowler, whether
he's an LSU Tiger or not. Lord, it's just I
would say, lower you're at the LSU mafia around this marketplace,

(01:55:38):
is just absurd. All right, let's play Believe or Not?
What is the category today? DeAndre Hopkins? Yes, okay, could
there be some fresh material for DeAndre? There are? Okay,
very good if you'd like to play for? What are
we playing for today? Connor in the old Today's edition
to Believe or Not? Which band from the seventies is
available for we're still doing toads.

Speaker 11 (01:55:57):
We got the Toady's and then we also got one
final pas to go see the Cougars versus Utah this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
God, I feel like we should make that. You should
get five questions right to go see Utah versus Houston. Actually,
we should be handing those out like candy, No skittles,
no chance. It's one of the hottest tickets, and ten
is going to be happy people in there. No, they're
gonna go watch your brains get beat in for another loss.
For the counter chance. We should be giving those away
for free, all right. Instead, we're gonna make you earn
it Unbelieve it or not seven one three two one

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Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Watching Minnesota Rams tonight. Yes, I have no fancy players
in that I like sports, Madam, watching sports.

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
You know what, once you read a book tonight, I
will once I go to bed, once I lay down
and lay myself to sleep, wind down and try to
read twenty to thirty pages. Wow, what are you reading
these days? The Spy and the Trader book it's a
book about Oleg Gordievski. He was a Russian spy in
the eighties working for sixteen in the English. Okay, I'm

(01:58:20):
hosting a girl's volleyball dinner party at Big City Wings
and then going back to going home to pack and
start working on Rockets versus Memphis Grizzlies tomorrow. Okay, and
may read some of your book.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
I get.

Speaker 2 (01:58:35):
I'm almost done. I'm in basically the epilogue I can
give to you.

Speaker 4 (01:58:40):
We can't.

Speaker 2 (01:58:40):
Should we have like a sports mt sports Harvy book club? No,
because you're gonna pick Tory Spelling autobiography, really lighthearted stuff, okay,
like wrestling books. I tried reading the whole Cocoa book.
I couldn't get into it. Oh really yeah, but Terry
Bollia Terry does he drop in bombs in there like
he does in his real life physic little tool bra.

(01:59:01):
I'm just asking too, and it's look it up, Google it.
I didn't do it, all right. Five minutes left ago
in the show what should We Do? Wee should play
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You'll call seven one three two one two five seven

(01:59:21):
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Speaker 11 (01:59:55):
Our final pair of tickets to see the Houston Cougar's
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Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Shirts, Kevin on seven nine he ready to play. Believe
It or Not? Kevin believe It. DeAndre Hopkins major while
at Clemson University was Sports Science. Believe It or not
not not. That is correct. It was community recreation, sport
and camp management.

Speaker 11 (02:00:24):
Duh.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Statement number two for the way in DeAndre Hopkins' sister
Keisha plays wide receiver for the Houston Energy women's team.
Believe it or not, not she does. I didn't even
know they were so around Ross it said, I thought
I said played, Yeah, played, It says played and you
read plays. Oh I did say plays, so you misread it.

(02:00:47):
That's on you. I know, if we should let him win,
let him win. It's my mistake when Bob Barker used
to make a mistake on the prices. Where do you
let him win? No matter what it was. So the
previous caller calls any wins. There you go, Brian on Sevenini,
what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 4 (02:01:07):
Ross is rotten five it?

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
Oh, you're get a little critique that he wanted you
had the raiders in the rotten five. DeAndre Hopkins is
I considered it. DeAndre Hopkins is at DeAndre Hopkins on
Twitter and he has about three hundred and thirty thousand followers,
believe it or not.

Speaker 8 (02:01:25):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:26):
No, he's got seven to twenty. But did we do
take your raiders? Consideration very seriously. They are very bad,
but they did beat the the the Ravens. So let
me tell you something. You don't have to justify your
rotten five. They're just rotten five. Thank you. John on
SEVENINTI he ready to play? Believe it or not? I'm
always ready. DeAndre Hopkins is twenty third on the all
time receiving yards list, just behind Art Monk and just

(02:01:48):
ahead of Brandon Marshall. Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:01:51):
Believe it? That's right?

Speaker 2 (02:01:52):
It same number two, by the way, and DeAndre Hopkins
fired his agent and negotiated his own contract extension in
twenty twenty. Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
That's correct? You right? Slations Conrad on seven, Oni, Conrad,
you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:02:10):
If I am.

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
DeAndre Hopkins is a huge fashion enthusiast. It was named
Sports Illustrated's best dress athlete in twenty twenty. Believe it
or not, well, believe it. He's very daporate. Statement number
two for the way, and you only did seven questions
this week? Huh?

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
What is that? Right?

Speaker 2 (02:02:26):
DeAndre Hopkins is an advocate for reducing red meat and
diets and has partnered with Beyond Meat to raise awareness
for meat alternatives. Believe it or not, not, he has
I I thought I did I wrongly enough. Adam Clinton
is also a meat alternative, all right, I don't know.

(02:02:46):
It just sounded good. Well, we're gonna do an eighth question,
but uh, rock making it up for I don't know.
I don't even know what a clerical error. I'm sorry,
I actually have one by cancer substantiate the rumor, so
I can't mention it. But the rumor is so juicy
about ni Henry Hopkins that that he would never play
for the Houston Texas again. Is it about that ig post?

(02:03:06):
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It is the.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
Nightcap, Nightcap, And what do you have on the show tonight?
Great topics and talk really okay, that's what we call
a forward tease right there, all right? Up next, a
complete analytical breakdown of the Rockets game last night, A
deep dive into Bobby Slowack's conversations at Texans practice today.
Anything else you guys a want to get into. Nope,

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