Worst Teams, Fantasy Football Fortune-Telling, Nadal's GOAT Case

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
So much much, lunch Timers, Matt Thomas, Thomas, Ross VI
Real is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Twelve two nights Chown.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
What's happening, lunch timers.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Thursday edition
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk
seven ninety. We are very happy to have you with
us as we navigate these murky waters of not the
action pack, thrill seeking, headline chasing game watching events of
the week. We've got a Texans game Sunday in New England.

(00:45):
We've got baseball playoffs, which are interesting, but when they
don't involve the local nine.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's just not nearly as interesting.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
We had a Rockets preseason game that I swear to God,
I've never called so many players in my life. I've
never called an overtime preseason game in my life. Thank
you Jack mc for doing that for me. Who Jack McVeigh. Okay,
this is Sean's cousin. He's a secret agent. Okay, I
don't get that. I don't mean I'm just saying it's
just secret agent checking badge saying he's he's an Aussie, Okay,

(01:13):
or an Aussie I think I prefer, okay, Ozzy. I'll
have to ask my other buddy, Jacqueline Jaques Landale. He's
doing he great. Everything. He calls me made every time
and again. He that's what you call everybody. But yeah,
that's fine. It's like he's your maid. He's got a
little nickname for you, Matt. It's just for you.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's just between you two. I don't believe it to
be accurate at all.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I am made to Jacques Landell, I am bosson Jabari
Smith and the rest of the players have no idea
who I am.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
That's great, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Mouse. That's what nobody calls you, chief big dog. Nope, no, okay,
I mean, don't give him ideas. That's fine. Well, welcome
back from Oklahoma City. Yeah, uh yeah. We won't get
in too much of that, but it was interesting, uh
seeing Tari's back on the floor for the first time. No,
Fred van Vliet, a good steady that I had of

(01:56):
Reed Shepherd, uh. And then a bunch of New Orleans Nortons,
a bunch of Oklahoma City players that I had no
recollection who they were and won't be on the roster
when start of the season. Welcome to the preseason in
the NBA. Yeah, that's exactly right. So you didn't do
a postgame show last night. There was no Rockets wrap.
Oh we should do Unfortunately, we should do that, right.

(02:17):
I forgot to watch the game too. You're down two games? Yeah,
I know, I got it recorded. Your DVR is like
Catcher loaded. It's not a big deal. It's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I was diving into the slate man, getting ready for
my big debut.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
As you're a fantasy expert. Now, Roto's gonna Roto texted
me this morning he will be on with us tomorrow.
I think I'll be in the normal slot. So I
wasted my time. I know you well enough to know
that you didn't spend much time, except I just spent hours. Really,
I made spreadsheets. I'm ready to go. All right, let's
forget it, let's get into it. Who sits and starts
in the arizon A Green Bay game?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, I think the problem is the waters are a
little bit muddied right now with the Green Bay pass catchers.
You got Christian Watson coming back from practice, same thing
from Robino Dabs. As you know last week he was
out because he was suspended by the team. Because he
was upset with his target share. There wasn't a lot,
a whole lot publicly said about that, but we've had
been playing Dontavian Wicks in the absence, so obviously fire

(03:09):
up Jaden Reid, no problem. Tucker Craft has really emerged
as a tight end that you're gonna want to go with.
And I really like the pass catching matchup. Arizona pass
defense is horrible, so definitely fire up those guys. And
I think Josh Jacobs should be able to get close
enough to score a couple times as well. So all
system go on the Green Bay Packers and on the
other side, Marveson Harrison Junior. I would keep an eye
on Jay her Alexander. If he's gonna practice this week,

(03:32):
he's gonna probably shadow Marvin Harrison Junior. But he was
I think limited in practice yesterday, so we'll see what
happens there. Michael Wilson has been getting a lot of
the target share. James Connor, of course, is a go
and I think Kyler Murray could be behind throwing a lot,
running a lot and scoring a lot of points. Who
the hell are you? What the hell was that I

(03:55):
told you I was ready? You just gave the audience
literally irrelevant information for seventy five seconds. You've never done that.
You've never given seventy five seconds irrelevant information thirteen fourteen
years is Jesus, what the hell is that? That was unexpected?

(04:17):
I told you I was getting ready. I just threw
a random game at you. I didn't even give you
a chance to look anything up. You just that went
off the top of your There is nobody in the
marketplace that gives you more on the Arizona Green Bay
game than Rossfield Dereale just gave you. That's what I'm
hearing about. But that's okay. Doctor Roto is the expert,

(04:37):
and if he can, I'm glad he can make it.
That's great. So everything's okay with him. In Fort Myers,
I mean, yeah, a lot of us watching the hurricane
hit and it just look like devastation all over the
place at Fort Myers, a little bit south. Did they
call that the dirty side or something like that? It
was whatever, one thing was so hilitious, it don't matter.
I think, Yeah, the storm surge looked awful in Fort Myers.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
I was ware of that.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Our guy, doctor Rhode. There's lots of crazy madness tornadoes, wind, rain,
but we got lucky. Now, ironically enough, let's just show
you how crazy the storm was yesterday on the other
side of the state, west Palm Beach, where the Astros
of spring training, they were tornadoes. Like every five seconds
there were tornadoes just ripping through. I mean, so that
just shows you how wide this bad boy was. Now,

(05:20):
the benefit was we all woke up this morning and
I was in the car at one fifteen ish listening
to Weather Channel radio on my phone on my app
in the car because I wanted to kind of hear
what was going on. You woke up this morning six
seven hours later and it was all gone. It's already
out in the Atlantic. I mean, it's gonna it's going
through my it's going through Orlando, and it's gonna be out.

(05:40):
I mean it's it's a fast moving storm. Thankfully, yeah, thankfully.
And linger like how many days was Harvey just hanging
over Houston and just pouring.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Mushroom cloud over it. It just wouldn't move.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
So to me, it's about wind, debris, torn debris, tornadoes
all throughout the state, high lots of rain, and then
rest in peace. Tropic Canterfield because the tarp they were
trying to house people there, right, Yeah, Now, what the

(06:12):
coating of it, the top, the roof is is not
made of any sort of It didn't seem like anything sturdy.
I don't. I don't know what exactly it's made of.
But whatever it was, it could not sustain the winds
of it. I believe it was tissue paper. That's what
it looked like they put on top of there.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I believe it was.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
They called the Kleenex dome at one point. Seriously, Wow,
that was incredible. Yeah, uh so, I have relatives that
live in Newport Richie, which is north of Tampa, not
far from north of Tampa, and their power is out,
so they are they don't have phones or anything working.
Uh So I will check on them letter today. But yeah,
at least again, it's just what we kind of expected.

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Huge winds, debris, trees down, power lines down, lots of rain.
But thankfully people got out. Now here's the question. And
I don't mean to get morbid on you here for
a second, but in my life, I've never evacuated tropical
Storm Allison. When we had that here many many years ago,
I worked Harvey happened. I worked Barrel which just happened.

(07:14):
It was a quick one. Do we know what to do?
Do we really know what to do? Do we like
when you ever evacuated? I I don't think so. I mean,
would you so you have relatives? I think a lot
of that is because we have work responsibilities. Yeah, if
you haven't had work responsibilities. Has your family evacuated? No,
they never have. Okay, but I mean if you evacuate,

(07:34):
so you have relatives in fourth correct, that's the ones? No,
we have, course can't. My mom has evacuated a couple times,
to course of canna because we have I have her
sister's there. Yeah. I was gonna say, so you've got
a spot, I have relatives in Dallas. But even if
he had relatives, do you just get in the car
and you just drive and go? Okay, let's we've far
enough away from the storm. Let's get a hotel, call
to day, fill up your gas, maybe even fill up

(07:56):
a gas can.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, and and then get out.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
But that'd be hard for any of us, and I'm
sure many people who listen to our voices right now
have done this before. Get in the car, grab your dogs,
grab a couple of valuables, and you don't know what
you're coming back to. Mm hmm, that's pretty freaking scary.
I should have evacuated in Harvey. I had to swim
out of my mom's house that'st to the front of

(08:21):
the neighborhood. I was pretty sure I was gonna get
any kind of e coli and dysentery. That water was nasty. Ough, okay,
thankfully I was okay, But I literally had to basically
wade out to the front of the neighborhood of my
mom's neighborhood, get picked up, and get taken to my
dad's house, which is thankfully okay. That's nuts. So Trotfield,
the top of the roof is. It looks like about

(08:42):
eighty percent gone. They were able to get it one
side last night was being filmed, and then they got
up in the morning, went around the other side and said, yeah,
the same thing was kind of happening. So I don't
know if that's gonna hot. Where do you buy parts
for that? I mean, does that get fixed? A lot
has the roof changed over the years. Poor Tampa Bay. Oh,
they don't like spending money. They're gonna have to ship

(09:04):
off a color of the trade away a couple more players. Now,
all right, I got it. Let's just real quick. The
one player they played, wander Franco. They paid him, didn't
They give him some kind of big deal? And all right,
gut feeling, do the race play in Tampa in St.
Petersburg this year? Ooh oh?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
And is the stadium gonna be ready? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
I will say, gut feeling, it's it'll be okay because
it's October. And well they're not playing right now. Is
it got six months? I would say six months. They
should be fine. I don't know. I have no idea. Yeah,
this is more of a question for an architect. Where's
the I guess the question is where are the priorities? Yeah?
Are there that would be so Tampa Bay rays of them? Yeah,
we could have spent thirty million dollars fixing this roof,

(09:43):
but we're just an outdoor team now, or or if
we didn't pay the insurance because it wouldn't be an issue. Yeah,
now they're shooting that. We're looking at video right now
of inside the stadium, which are where the first responders
are supposed to be hanging out. Yeah, not a great situation.
And debris falling in Oh my gosh, we mess seven

(10:05):
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety is how you
reach the program today. Look, I'm hearing lots and lots
of Texans preview from No. One Ross. We're here for
the people today. Okay, we're gonna break it down. Okay,
see the injury report for the Texans. It's lengthy, not great,

(10:26):
but it is the Patriots. It's Drake May first game,
it's the Patriots. Let's bring it down. Let's cussin this game.
Let's do it. Let's cuss. You're ready, Customs, I'll give
you some more you discussed. Okay, let's do it. You
know what, you may be able to break the whole
thing down because you just gave us Arizona Green Bay. Yeah,
imagine if you gave us Texans Patriots. I'm ready to

(10:46):
do that. Next two twenty rotten five today, two thirty
the return. I just don't get it, and that's an
easy one. There's a lot of things in our life
we just don't get. What are we gonna get? Okay,
I'll have that two thirty today, believe it or not. Today,
two fifty some tennis players retiring na dollar is it Rafa? Yeah?

(11:07):
How do I know that?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Before you?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I saw somebody saying, please, Rafa, don't go, but I
didn't know that's meant he was retiring. Ah, that makes
me sad. Probably unpopular opinion, He's the greatest of all time.
To me, I think most people would go with Federer
or maybe even Djokovic, but I'll go with Rafa.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
And well, we'll save it. We will save it.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
We've never the TNS tea, We've never teased Tennis at
the history of his show until right now. It's really
gonna get him to hang on.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Let me tell you this, I'm most in a lot
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five seconds. We're gonna keep you entertained. If we go
to Tennessee's as we'll do it seven one three two,
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Speaker 1 (13:18):
Mt lunchtimers, lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Twenty on Sports Talk seven eighty. We we always invite
you guys to join the show. There's no ifans or
butts that we probably I would safely say we take
probably more phone calls than any other show in the
marketplace by fivefold. Now that's a benefit sometimes because I
feel like interaction between our audience and our friends is good. Yes,

(13:53):
sometimes we get some dumbasses to call the show happens,
and that's gonna just be part of the of the
requirement of you know, not everybody is awesome when it
comes to phone calls, but we love you nevertheless. Yes,
So today is really frankly, I mean peeling the curtain back.
I don't think we're gonna get into a deep dive
of the Rockets Oklahoma City game last night. I think
the game is the Texans Patriots has already been kind

(14:15):
of already exhaustibly talked about. Now tomorrow we'll get a
little more energy because it we'll be closer to Sunday kickoff.
Can I just call out for somebody right now? Okay,
I would like someone to smack talk you on ou Texas. Oh,
like a Sooner fan? Yeah? Can I get a Sooner fan?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's a Sooner fan. They're fourteen and a half point dogs?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Are they going to be? We have we have Astros
are out. Cougar's you know, off the huge win against
CC aren't playing. We have no baseball team that's that
we really particularly care about in the playoffs. We have
a Texans team that's going to go up there probably
and beat the kick, kick the crap out of the
Patriots on Sunday only seven point. I want a little

(14:57):
I want a little some some little juice juice. Okay.
So I'm going to actively ask, and I'll probably ask
maybe once or twice an hour, okay, twice an hour. Well,
I'm not overly encouraged by the thought the prospect of
this is happening. Okay, So if you have to keep
asking just to get different, Rossie, I would love for
an ou fan to come in here, and I don't

(15:19):
care if he's breaking it down like a muda, just
smack talk you. Well, Uh, they're fourteen and a half
point dogs and their number one receiver was just ruled out.
So I don't know how good Sooner fan is feeling good.
I don't think we need to. I'm not looking for
a deep dave because look I saw Oklahoma plate. I
think you guys are gonna kill him. I think it's

(15:40):
pretty good. I think i'd have to go look at
it what the total is, but I don't think it's
going to be super high scoring. If they can get it,
they're gonna need to get it obviously a couple turnovers,
that is true. Oklahoma will play without their five best
wide receivers. How many five five? They don't even have
five great receivers. Well, their best one is out. Okay,

(16:06):
So if you are an Oklahoma fan, Dion Burks or
you know someone that is forget about the game it
stuff because you're probably gonna lose by about fifteen to
eighteen points. Okay, just come in into your some normal insults,
like what, I don't know what they're in Norman, Oklahoma?
What do what do owe you and Aggie fans say
about Texas fans, you definitely goes to the seven Championships

(16:27):
to four card, which I mean, hey, they have scoreboard there.
Texas has the all time head to head lead, but
oh you has been dominating since about two thousand. All right,
let's forget. I can't push all that aside. Let's get
to the brass tacks on this. Whose girls are hotter?
Oh you're Texas. Oh you's got some talent. I've been
to fat some I'm saying I went to o you

(16:48):
to do. I did it once around while we were
up there, just to check it out, once around campus,
just check what out, to check the beautiful architecture. Oh okay,
what was it? I don't shaking style postmoderns. It was Greco,
it was Roman Greco, it was Del Greco, it was

(17:09):
Ny Vinnie den necro.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
So.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I that's that's a toss up on that. I gotta
be honest with you, not going to give the edge
to Texas fifty to forty eight. Texas. Having gone to
five OU Texas games five times, I've been like, hey,
it's not too bad over there. All right, let's talk
about education. If you're gonna get a better education or
are you getting it from Oh you were Texas. Texas

(17:37):
is probably one of the top twenty institutions publicly in
the country. It's I believe it's officially a public ivy
now and that's not an official time, No, that the
kids are saying that. And then I'm guessing Oklahoma's close
to open enrollment basically. I mean, I don't think it's
overly Well let's see, let's accept them right right in
Normandy's days, you didn't.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I don't mean you to chuckle there.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Sorry, I'm getting choked up as the allergies or the
weather's changing seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Wow, that's that's deep. Who that's it.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
They're not too discriminating over there, Yeah all right, uh uh.
The city itself. I was in Norman a few weeks ago. Then, great,
a lot of CBD places, not that if you're judging him,
I mean judging mcjohal Olahoma had it legal or is
that not true? I don't even know. No, I mean
there was dispensaries doing around Norman or is it medical only?

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Now?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
They do have a big casino there, big big casino
right off of thirty five. Still take. Do you still
anty on black shirts?

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Dad?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't know. I have a friend that says that
they still do it, but I have not seen it myself.
But I mean their casino has got all the table
games there. Used to be they didn't have craps and
all that stuff and they would just play like clots.
But they have everything now. Food, gotta get the edge
to Austin, stuff to do outside of campus, Gotta get

(19:04):
ar football?

Speaker 4 (19:05):
What?

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 6 (19:06):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I think Switser's alive. Is Barry Switzer's won more games
than John mccomack. I think it's dominating since two Thousand's
what I just told you, seven championships to four, dominating
since two thousand. Those are the Those are the cards
the go to when you're playing the hits. That's what
you're playing. Yeah. But also I think there's a respect
between the two fan bases. So there's no one's gonna
call between now and three less respect. No one OU

(19:30):
fan is gonna call in today. You see, the ultimate
Spurs fan is an OU fan. That's right. Oe you
Cowboys and God, how bad is all of that? Yeah?
That is there anything we like about her except her personality.
She's very nice. She's very nice. It's the most important.
Actually yeah, but the team she loves m it's from

(19:54):
bad do worries. All right, So if you're an OU
fan seven one three two one two five seven ninety,
just come in and say something. Get tell us a
joke towards Texas, because I got some news for your roster.
You're getting mad at me. We got A and M
Texas week. Well, aggie fans coming in? Okay, test that
them fans are gonna call in? Are they gonna Are

(20:16):
they gonna hiss at me? Should Peyton Reese call the show?
Actually he might curse, So we have the dump. Let
me tell you something, Peyton, if my son Peyton called you,
he would uh, he'd he'd probably hang up and go, Dad,
why did you make me do that? I don't like
ross to begin with seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

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because yesterday was quite lengthy, and we'll see what's going
on in Textanville today and see I any of those
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Speaker 3 (20:57):
Talking about wings.

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Speaker 1 (21:46):
Lunchtimers Lunchtimes. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here
on Sports Talk seven ninety with you till three oh clock.
Coming up later on. We got the rotten five we
got I just don't get it, believe it or not.
We're gonna go with Rafael on the doll as he
announced his retirement, one of the old time great tennis players.
We don't talk a whole lot of tennis on these airways,

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but I mean got to give some respect to a legend,
certainly a part of the Big three along with Novak
Djokovic and Roger Federer in the history of tennis. Phone
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two five, seven ninety if you'd like to get in
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ou Texas this weekend. We do have the Texans heading
up to New England to take on Drake May. And

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this Patriots offense has just been horrible all year long.
They are over forty five percent a three and out
rate from England by far the worst in all of
the NFL. So they're trying to shake it up. They're
going with Drake May. They're throwing them into the deep
waters against the Texans. Some people think it's disrespectful, that's

(23:11):
that the Patriots would do this, and they're trying to
show some disrespect to the Texans and we don't respect
your pass rush. I don't think so. But Drake May
is getting the start this weekend. We'll see how it looks,
and that should be advantage Texans. It hasn't moved the
line at all. Funny enough, it opened up at seven
the Drake May announcement came and I believe it's still
been holding at seven as the Texans head up to

(23:31):
Foxborough yet again, and it doesn't have the same field
that it did in years past. Matt One like Bill
O'Brien would be going up there to face Bill Belichick
and it was the student versus teacher. Now it's the
Texans and it's well just a crappy Patriots team, all right,
So let's do this. Let's make the most out of
this injury report. Tray, would you give us the music

(23:52):
to the TV show, what's the most r e er theme.
Let's go to the er theme and we don't pull
out the doctor villaryal card very often. Oh no, okay,
but I would like to you. Is this yesterday's practice report? Yes, okay,
that's all because the new one won't come out until Thursday.
One is usually more telling. The Friday one is. Basically

(24:13):
it's the it's the fit of complete for some people.
So find an er theme and when you finally just
start playing it, because we're gonna we're gonna find out
from you, doctor villar Real. Okay, how concerned you are
on the variety of injuries? Okay, because this is a
lengthy listen you we met the This list is so
long we might even have to play the song twice. Okay,
we can get it ready, all right. One, two, three, four, five, six,

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seven eight nine. The nine did not participate two three, four, five, six,
seven eight nine limited participation, three and one full participation.
So Curt heinish, We will not give you any run. No,
he's fine, he's fine.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
He has a calf. What's like five snaps this year?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, I don't think that made a huge difference. All Right,
we find the song here we go. This is a
jam right here we go gets the people going ross
defensive end. Derek Barnett has a shoulder issue. Okay, worst
case he was a DNP limited or it's a d

(25:15):
NP baby. Ooh, DNP certainly not good. You'd like to
have him as a pass rush. The Texans do like
to rotate their guys in and out, but they were
going with a little bit of Dylan Horton last week,
and Demiko Ryans talked about how well he was playing.
So you do miss some certainly with the veteran presidents
of Derek Barnett, but they should be Okay, all right,
let's go to guard Kenyon Green DNP limited. This is

(25:38):
either all DMPs. Oh you're telling me, I'm sorry, you're
all dnps. Yeah, that hurts. Kenyon Green isn't great. I
mean you can go to ken Drick Green or I
don't know exactly what they're gonna use as a backup plan,
but he has been somewhat effective in the run game.
He's had a couple of good games, he's had a
couple of bad games, but still even mediocrity at the

(25:59):
offensive line, and it's probably gonna be a dropped drop
down from Kenyon Green, Jake Hanson out linebacker with a
bad back, Jake Hanson special teamers. Okay, they'll be sure,
all right, Titus Howard with a hammy. This one hurts.
I really look Blake Fisher, nice kid, I'm sure he's smart,

(26:21):
went to Notre Dame. He gets you SHO type. And
there are some dumbasses in with the South Bend, there's
no question about it. I mean they probably done you
a fake girlfriend. One bright Well, that's a different type
of it. He had a bad social intelligence. Maybe he's
got a book smart So Blake Fisher sucked on Sunday Blake.

(26:41):
PFF has Blake Fisher as the second worst tackle in
the NFL. He was getting bull rushed to death. He
was getting destroyed on multiple plays. So going the drop
down from Taddis Howard to Blake Fisher's significant right. For
those who don't know, PFF is Pro Football Focus. Yes,
it's run by a bunch of guys that don't have sex,
but they do give you a good inform. You do
watch a lot of football. They have a lot of football.
Kamari Lassiter has got a bad shoulder. Oh my god,

(27:03):
he dmped that's significant. I got a hot take that
I don't know if I'm ready to go with, but
I'll go ahead and let me taste him.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's the middle of the week and no one's listening.
Go ahead to it.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
He might already be better than Sting. What what I
told you? It's a hot tag that is so fun.
That's a strong hot is good. But Lassiter, I mean
he made some big tackles in the run game. His cover,
he's very good covering. I I've been really impressed with
Kamari Lassiter. And that's not and that's not actually not
even even anything against Sting. Thing's been good. He's so

(27:36):
close you just call him Sting. That's not He's not
a lockdown guy to me. He's not the shutdown corner
that say, a sauce gardener is man Thomas fort Enterprises.
That was a huge hit. Patrick's retained the second. But
he's not one of those guys. But I like Lasser.
That's a huge loss, all right. Joe Mixon did not
participate because of an ankle. Oh my god. Laramie Tunnel

(27:57):
did not participate because of an ankle. And he's also
a loafer. He'll be Yeah, that's probably veteran rest. I'm
not worried about which is stupid sing Gordy brought that
up thirty years old.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
He ain't thirty nine. Get out there and practice for what.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
As long as he's raidy to suck this year, he's
absolutely he has a false staration machine.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Okay, pre snap he sucked. Post snap, he's.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Still very good. Well, guess what, it's all part of
the equation. Absolutely, it all adds up. Pre snap he's
been awful. Post snap, he's been their best offensive lineman
and it's not even close. So you need him healthy.
If he goes down and you have Titus Howard down,
the whole thing crumbles. Let that man get his rest.
I think he's been babied diverses. He's been here, could
have been called for a couple of full starts last week.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I think you see, you know, I live all twenty two.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I don't say you know what. We're the same thing.
We raise our voices. We just don't want to say
something like like does.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
This make me look fat?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Doesn't make you look fat? All right, Jimmy Ward, bad
groin man. You can't have a bad he I expect
him probably still to play. He played some limited snaps.
I think Kaylen Bullock has been doing very good, very well.
Eric Murray is kind of just a guy, so yeah,
you do need the safety help from Jimmy Ward, but
they didn't have him much last week. Now, Nico Collins
is not on this list because he is definitely on.

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Robert Woods did not participate because of the interesting I
don't know if that's veteran is I mean, obviously probably
you would have continuing to slot up. I think Xavier
Hutchinson ahead of him in the pecking order, so John
Metchi would get some more looks. It has been nice
having some steady handed Robert Woods as far as punt returning.
But you'll be fine, all right. And last one, this
is a limited participation. Deshaun Phillips, I him know who

(29:36):
that is. Del Sean Damian Pierce had a limited participation
because of a hamstring and Stefan Diggs did not particularly
did not practice yesterday because of rest. Okay, good, Yeah,
keeps Jefon Digs fresh ready to go. Tank Dell's gonna
get some more looks. Dalton Schultz back in the game
plan be all right. So the question is with all

(29:58):
these things in play. Granted, some of these things are
not going to be very serious. But I'm going to
assume off this list of nine players that did not
practice yesterday that there's going to be a handful that
are not going to be available for the game. Yeah,
today is a bigger day, of course, to find out
what's going on with the practice. Those are some of
those guys that rested. May practice today, and then tomorrow,
of course, will be we'll really get a clear picture. Yeah,

(30:19):
all right, seven, one, three, two, five seven, Doctor villare ill.
Not a bad job by you, Thank you, Matt. I
appreciate it. You did not predict doom and gloom for
any of these people. Well, t is Hord being down.
It's going to hurt the most. I would say, Well, Joe,
mix them first, maybe. Yeah. That Texans running game just
just still not much going right now. Let's go to
a bill and pass the get down. Dan at twelve
forty on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Bill, Good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
How y'all doing wonderful?

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Great.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I appreciate listening to your show.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Listen to it every morning.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
I've got to quick Joe, all right, two guys, you
went up north, no ice fishing.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
It's never been ice fishing before.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Didn't have a clue.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
So they go into the bait and tackle shop and
they asked the guy behind counter.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
What do we need for ice fishing?

Speaker 9 (31:06):
And they say, well, you need bake, you.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Need tackles, you need a couple of ice pooers. So
these two guys say, well, we got.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
The cat and sells the bait y'all use and a
couple of ice picks.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
So off they go.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
About three and a half four hours later, they come
back into that same bait and tackle shop.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
And they're sweating their butt sauce and the guy behind
the counter says, what's up, fellas, And the guy from
OU says, listen, I need every cotton.

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Picking ice pick you have.

Speaker 8 (31:34):
And the guy says why, and the guy from OU says,
we just now got our boat in the water.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
That's it. Ll Hi bill, Yeah, that's about the correct
billy love you you know that right, that's just to
insert whatever these people are. Yeah, yeah, that was you
could say two guys Dallas or two Aggies or two
red Raiders. Originally it was an a joke and oh

(32:07):
so you slipped trying to entertain your audience. You know what,
Billy did a great job. But man, thank you very much. Yeah,
we're gonna probably try to We're gonna try to eliminate
any further jokes of the conversation the kids, you and me.
Sh hmm, man, Yeah, you know what it was, Billy,
You tried. You can't fail if you don't try. Of course,

(32:31):
sometimes things are better said than not said. Right, But
you know what, Bill, Bill trying to add something to show.
I appreciate that you've always trying to add to the program.
H turned my mic off by yeah by seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven. We gotta pay off on

(32:52):
this tennis take, because there I'm getting Twitter and being
inundated with Matt.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
He didn't get rosted.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Phones are ringing out the hood, didn't didn't didn't finish
on why he thought that? Who do you think is
the greatest tennis player? Vault Rafael and all or raffa Adal.
I go with Rafa. We're close like that, we're tight.
Well you were calling Stingley sting, Yeah, we're sting staying.
We're tight. If five guys walked in here right now.
You Couldn'tyeah, yeah, why to Stan call himself? Fleet does

(33:20):
the Northfield? I mean he just it's just easier. Don't
you think he put on the back of his jersey
in Virginia? Fleet start calling you Matt Tom No, you're
not Matt Moss. Nope, I think buff seven one three,
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Speaker 10 (34:33):
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or now pitch for the A's.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Hey, this is Mike Fires Sometimes.

Speaker 11 (34:47):
I'm getting fired up for more Houston sports Talk.

Speaker 10 (34:49):
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Speaker 5 (34:53):
Astros Baseball lives here.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Hear that heavy sigh? We can we get rid of that?
I mean, have we had enough? Have we just had enough?
It's pretty funny, you know. The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross will not have that liner in it. I hope not. Well,
whenever we get this a quarter two and it's fine,
you got may I got I was thinking more like
April fifteenth. Okay, all right, twelve forty nine Sports Talk

(35:25):
Sementiney The Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
With Ross and Ross.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
You can You've got as much leeway as you want
on this about tennis, because I can give a rats
ass about it. So, okay, does that make me a
bad person, because let me tell you what I like.
I like basketball, I like baseball, I like football, I
like college sports. I like volleyball. I will watch an

(35:51):
occasional major if Sunday is really cool in uh in golf.
I'll watch a little bit of Wimbledon just because it
is what it is. French Open, maybe a little bit.
But that's about as deep as my sports fandom goes Bro,
I just can't do it. So you know what. I
can't do hockey, certainly can't do soccer. You just gotta,

(36:15):
you gotta. Your depth is way more impressive than mine,
and I give it just why. I just like more sports.
I guess I don't know why. So for whatever reason
is yours, do we have will be a good tennis song?
Is there a such thing as a tennis song? Wimbledon theme? Game,
set match, Oh, Breakfast at Wimbledon. That's what you picked?
You picked that as one of the best themes of

(36:35):
all time. It's terrible picking money, and I deserve sometimes
I deserve the all on that that that would have
been one of those weeks. Okay, So for the four
people that remain on this radio station that may like tennis,
the floor is yours. Yeah, I mean, I guess the
argument definitely could be for Novak Jokovic. He does have
the most Grand Slam titles of all time with twenty

(36:56):
four raf and the Doll's got twenty two. And to me,
the dominance on clay is what sets him apart. And
let me explain, it's to me, more pure tennis. Whereas
Wimbledon on the grass, like Pete Sampers can win seven
to eight Wimbledon's or whatever it was because he just
has a bigger serve than everybody and then he's just
gonna serve and volley and you into oblivion. And Pete

(37:18):
Sampers barely had a backhand and he could win at
Wimbledon because he has a big serve. On clay, you
have to have the shot making, you have to have.
It's more of a mental game, it's more of a
physical game. It's more of the stamina is more important
because you're gonna have like thirty hit rallies more on
clay than you are anywhere else. So the shot placement

(37:39):
has to be better and everything has to be better.
It's more pure tennis to me on clay, and nobody
was better on clay than rofen Adell all time. Even
if you take away his fourteen majors that he won
on the clay service, he won eight off off of clay.
Talking about Wimbledon's Australian Opens, US Opens, that's as many
as Andre Agassi, that's as many as Jimmy. So you

(38:00):
take off all the clay and then you add fourteen
of those greatest of all time turn argument, it's just
some more. You can't just overpower someone on clay. You
got to out fox them, You got to outplay them.
You gotta be more consistent than them, and you have
to have more stamina than them. So to me, pure tennis.

(38:24):
And this is somebody who grew up as a Pete
Sampras fan. Pete Sampress was like my goat, and then
I realized I'm stupid. Ralls better, better tennis player. So
if you're at a bar, at a tennis bar, would
people say your take was ridiculous or pretty good or
I think they would just say they would just say
twenty four over twenty two. Bro, it's got to be
Novak first of all, no tennis player versus Bro, sir.

(38:50):
So maybe, lad, I think you can. You can argue
for all of Novak, Nadal or Federer. But I'm gonna
go I'm gonna stump for Nadal just because, like I said,
I think the most French opens he wanted fourteen. Let
me see who's second most. Oh no, I lost my page.
By the way, this is not a terrible song. It's
not great, but it's not terrible.

Speaker 7 (39:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
It fits the sport, not rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Do you hear this, you think tennis?

Speaker 6 (39:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (39:20):
When I hear this, I think it sounds like a
nineteen eighties or nineties Sega Genesis video game. Yeah, so
there you go. That's right. So for the rest of
us that don't care about tennis, and we want to
care about what's most important. What was Nadal's female clientele

(39:40):
like over the day?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
I think you said a wife for very many years.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Why what does have to do with this? Because when
I think of Pete Sanpress, I think it what's her face? Oh?
Bridget whatever her name is. And then when you think
of on Ragassy, you think of Brookshields. Let's see, bjorn
Borg won six French Opens, and that's the most and
I think it wasn't at Clays entire time. Like he
dominated one surface more than anybody else dominated one surface.

(40:06):
I mean Sampras won seven Wimbledon's, but Federer one eight,
Novak won seven. Nobody was as good at one surface
as Nadal was. And like I said, he's got eight
championships that are not on that surface. Yeah, all time,
great the greatest in my opinion. I let me tell
you something. As a novice, you gave a logical, unprovoking conversation,

(40:26):
why don't you bring up to baseball maybe next year?
Give me time. So in the first hour of the show,
you've let's just put things in perspective. You gave the
audience an Arizona Green Bay by breakdown from a fantasy perspective. Huh.
And then you gave us an enlightening conversation about why
Roughing Adell is the greatest tennis player of all time.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Imagine ross, Imagine ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
If he brought the same you know what in Vinegar
to Houston Sports, how good the show would be?

Speaker 3 (40:57):
What are you talking about? Let's just put everything in perspective.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
The other stations in town or talking Texans, and they're
talking Texans, and they're talking some more Texans, and we
gave you Arizona, Green Bay Fantasy and rafaeld Adell goat
conversation that separates us from the rest of the marketplace.
And I would have it no other way. Thank you. Oh,

(41:19):
we are getting tennis responses on Twitter. What are they saying?
Anybody chastising you for your for your commentary. One says
they're gonna fight me. No, they're not. You had fighting tennis. Yeah,
it would be our good friend at that's a big
tennis hank of the she's a yeah seven. She's like

(41:41):
she's bragging about going to ou Texas Weekend. She's a
fan of every team she ever goes to see. She
loves the Red Raiders, she loves the Texas Longhorns, Pittsburgh Steelers,
any any game she's at or watching, she's the fan
of that team. Yeah that's fine.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
So now she hates you because your tennis take.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
I don't even know. I mean, I don't know who
she's I mean, she can disagree she's wrong, all right, Well,
but you won't make fun of her because you you
always respect other people's opinions on sports takes. Do I know, Matt?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
You are from it?

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Far from it? Twelve fifty six Second Hour The Matt
Thomas Show begins at a matter of moments two twenty.
This afternoon, we will have the Rotten five two thirty.
I just don't get it. If you don't know what
I just don't get it is, it's sweet. Call up
and say, Matt and Ross, I don't get why this
happens anything.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
It's it's open ended. It actually makes a pretty good segment.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
We havent do that in a few weeks, but it's
kind of fun to just take aways say just don't get it,
and then we'll do Roth and n Adell Believe it
or not wonderful, which I guarantee you every person that
will be calling into playing that game will be completely
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Speaker 5 (42:58):
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Two on Sports Talk seven ninety Matt and Ross with
you here. We're with you till three o'clock this afternoon. Well,
that storm move quick. We're looking at the weather channel
right now. That bad boys out in the Atlantic. I
mean it went right through the state. Yeah quick, Yeah, No,
I'm no expert. Is that somewhat of a blessing that
it kind of just blew through and it's gone and
it didn't linger and do more damage or something like

(43:25):
that going, If you're scheduling a vacation to Bermuda, you
may want to postpone that bad boy. It's crazy. The
thing is, it's it's as big as the state of Florida. Yeah,
it's huge, absolutely crazy and now Florida. I'm looking at there,
we're looking at the radar right now. It's clear, not
even a cloud in the stat in the sky. Insane. Yeah,
all the tornadoes, all the damage, we've been there, done that,

(43:49):
my man. Yeah, all right, on other things. We'll get
a Texans update. Practice practicing right now. We'll figure out
who's outre who's not. We'll give you anupdate coming out
in a few minutes on that. Oh you Texas, This weekend, big, big,
big college football game.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Uh, it's so big.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
The University of Houston decided not to play a game
that's week to kind of give you guys space you
needed for that. Appreciate that. Yeah, I figured you'd like that.
What else is going on? I do want to get
into what's going on over the Tote Center. It's kind
of interesting what's happening there the rest of the SEC.
The Aggies this week are off m okay, not bad cool.

(44:28):
Missouri Tigers are Connor's team. They're licking their ruins at
you mass this week. Oh man, that's a nice that's
a get right spot right there? I did?

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Did?

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Did?

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Did Missouri lose a bet or something? That's crazy?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Yeah? I don't know. We had all those top twenty
five teams lose last week. What's what's the other sexy
matchup in college football here? Top twenty five?

Speaker 4 (44:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
I'm focused on the Longhorns because they got Ou, then
Georgia and then Matt at Vandy. That ain't ain't a
freebie anymore. No, Home versus Florida should be in Arkans
at Arkansas. I mean that's a rivalry game. Let me
ask you this did, Does taxpayer dollars pay for the
goal post to be removed from the river? Well? Is
that a private school of Vandy? Oh?

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Okay, then oh to remove it?

Speaker 5 (45:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Probably? Yeah, that's so crazy and thankfully you ready for
an unpopular take. Yes, I don't think it's a good idea.
Somebody could get hurt. Yeah, removing goal posting dragging you
three miles? Oh, here comes the fun police. No, I mean,
I get where you're coming from. It's just far I
guess far be it for me to tell what a

(45:34):
drunk a bunch of drunk twenty year olds what to
do when you beat Alabama? I think that's once in
a lifetime for a Vandy fan. So number one Alabama,
you know what if there's one day, Yeah, don't do
it for I don't know any other team. Basically, you
beat number one Alabama, you can do whatever you want.
I don't know if you saw the Saturday out, but
the last eight times Alabama has lost fans of Arsta

(45:56):
the field. Okay, that makes sense. I don't know if
that if that's exactly right, but I've seen numbers that say, basically,
every time you beat Alabama, it's such.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
A big deal. Take it as a compliment.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah. But the thing I want you to go back
and look at, if you have a chance to do this,
is you got to go look at the stands before
the game in Nashville. It's all crimson. It was eighty
percent crimson because it's only about three and a half
hours from from Alabama to uh up to Nashville. Okay,
so they you know people that go to Alabama games
that can't afford them, because you got if you're going
to Alabama games, you gotta put down the donor money

(46:29):
and then you gotta go tickets. You can just go
to Nashville and just buy it and scoop them up
two for twenty fries and drink with it. Get half off.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
So and he'll say, all right, so among the games
of top twenty five interests, there's nothing okay, oh you text,
Oh no, it's actually not true. Ohio State plays Oregon Saturday.
Oh yeah, that's a big one. That's a big forgot
about that. How I feel about this new looking big ten.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
It's weird. I still don't know who's in it.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
I'm I know who's in it, but it does take
me a millisecond to kind of like, for instance, when
you think of Penn State usc mm hmm, it sounds
like a rose bull.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
It sounds like it's January first.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah. No, it's just a regular old Big ten game.
I mean it's pretty incredible. Yeah, Ohio State, Oregon. Okay,
well they playing for the national championship. No, it's a
Big ten game. That's why I don't know what's going
to ultimately happen Sports RV. But if you're the SEC
in the Big ten, aren't you just taking off and

(47:30):
going by? That's gonna happen. Or they're gonna try to absolutely,
they're gonna try to hold these TV network They're gonna
try to make an alliance or do whatever, hold these
TV networks hostage. They're gonna accumulate all the big brands,
which they basically have done outside of a couple because realistically,
and look, I love my Big twelve. It's nice to
be in it, but it's got good cachet, it just

(47:52):
doesn't have the same cachet the other ones. Who's got
the most cache in the league among those in football
probably Utah. Utah has had a decade of sustained success well,
and Cam Rising has been there for all of it.
Cam's also got gray hair at this point, two children,
and I believe he's got a four one K got
built up there. Yeah, Utah, not a national power. Oklahoma

(48:20):
State to a smaller, smaller extent, better was until about
three or four years ago. And to David Randa's turned
that into assess Bowl at this point. Not his fault. Well,
I mean it's his fault, but there ain't much okay.
Point being is this if the SEC and the Big
ten just said, you know what, Bro, I'll take our
conference champion, We'll take your conference champion.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
We're gonna play for our own national championship.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I know who's got the most colorad of buffaloes? No,
but the most pressed. But they have they have a
lot of notoriety. If you subscribe to the no such
thing as bad publicity, they're number one, that's exactly right.
But they actually had some nice, decent wins lately. I
mean they're they're undefeated in Big twelve play. Yeah, yeah,
all right, so that's going on on that front. Oh,

(49:06):
do you ultimately think that those two conference will break
off and say Mega Conference A versus Mega Conference B
for a Mega Championshi, I don't know how long it's
going to take, but I think so they're going to
be doing their own thing, which ultimately would be the
elimination of a twelve team tournament, which is what ESPN's
pay their teams. How many we'll think about at the

(49:27):
end of the day, there'll be probably seven at least
maybe from the two conferences. Well, I think what there are.
Aren't they already trying to get more pay than the
other conferences or something like that. As far as the playoffs,
I'm sure yeah, I wouldn't surprise at all. One other
college note before we get back to the other stuff
going on in the world. By the way, we've got arbitration,
uh not arbitration. We have one year deal numbers in

(49:48):
from Major League Baseball tender deal. So the Astros are
going to offer Alex Bergman a one year deal. He's
going to decline it. He's going to decline, but the
number is appltay. But that comes up in the next segment.
But let me get to this football qualifying offer. Qualifying offer.
Kendrick Perkins, as you see an ESPN yes, has started
up an nil company. How's that going? Well, you let
me ask you this, So Basically, he's taking these kids

(50:10):
and he's offering him a little guarantee signed with Kendrick
Perkins Incorporated, and we're gonna give you ten to fifteen
twenty twenty five thousand dollars and then anything you get
for the next seven years, we're going to take a
pretty good chunk of it. Mmm. So they're giving the
upfront money, uh huh, and then taking money on the

(50:33):
back end. Well, it's not very popular in the world
of college athletics. In fact, ESPN is even doing a
story about it, which is strange because their own guy
is out there layoff for fire with cause Sham's contract
ain't gonna pay for itself.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
The company is called Nilly. It offers high school Nilly.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
He named his nil company Nilly Yep. Come offers high
school and college athletes upfront cash in exchange for the
right to sell their name, image, and likeness, while taking
a percentage of the profits. The upfront payments range from
twenty excuse me, I want to let me correct one thing.
The upfront payments start at twenty five thousand dollars can
go up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, with the

(51:17):
company receiving between ten and fifty percent of the player's
NIL earnings for up to seven years. Wow, this is
the first. Nilly is the first company apparently to offer
one catch advance on ANNIL earnings. ESPN obtained one contract
that Nilly signed with a high school athlete, which pays

(51:38):
the player fifty thousand dollars in exchange for the exclusive
rights to his NIL deal for the next seven years.
The company takes twenty five percent of the player's future
NIL earnings up to one hundred and twenty.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Nilli, Nilli, Uh, if you're taking advantage of this is
shame on you. If you're taking advantage of poor teenage
athletes who probably don't know a whole lot about nobody
is the way he knows anything about handling money.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Let's be brutally honest.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
A lot of disadvantage families that could take the upfront
money and help ride away. Yeah even though yeah, exactly,
that's that's even makes it even worse and even more
predatory that you're gonna give this upfront cash and take
long term on the back end.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Shame on you. That's sickening.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
And you know why you can do this because again,
there's absolutely zero regulation of an I ow, all right,
this is horrible. Name one person in the sixty seconds
we have left in this segment. Who's gonna be the
savior for this Who's gonna come in? Nobody? It's a
broken sit it's been We've been talking about how broken
this system.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Is for for decades.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Well, I mean, but since I Atting broken her brokener
something I would say, who's the most Could Mark Cuban
come in and save savvy businessman who knows both sides
of it, runs a prudent business but is still very
player friendly. I think didn't. They're they're looking into measures

(53:13):
for salary for these players, and I think that's it's
clearing legal hurdles. But then how do you say these
are amateur athletes. I don't understand. Oh, I'm forgetting about
the forget about the compensation just to pay these kids.
I'm talking about just the nil Who could be the
nil zer who is the most responsible fiscal American that
can say we got to take care of these kids.

(53:34):
We have to regulate it so we don't have this
shadiness that's going to be obviously with Kendrick. And on
top of this, the shadiness. That could be one school
paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in one school not
being able to the NCAA can't get into regulation. They
are knowing it. Yeah, they don't want to get into it.
They want to keep their nonprofits done right, which has huge,
massive tax implications. Correct, Yes, and more money for you.

(53:57):
They would ultimately cost them money. They're a billion dollar
television I don't want you to do. Yeah, who'd be
the guy thinks think about it?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Who could be the most? I mean it would happen.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
You'd have to get the conference is the conferences together.
I guess you'd have to get the schools and the
conferences and the NCAA state out of it. But how
are you going to collectively bargain? How are you gonna
all get you into the base same document? SEC schools
don't have kids. They don't care perhaps about what Mountain
West schools exactly. So I don't think that's what I'm saying.
I don't know that there's a solution. That's why you
need a commissioner, because commissioner in sports, like in baseball,

(54:32):
looks over Kansas City like they try to share negotiates
with the union and then so where's the are all
these players, all these nineteen year old is going to
form a union? They tried to at Northwestern and that
got struck down, I think by this Supreme Court. All right,
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Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
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when I was doing the PA, it was Mike Mumley
and I would scream free chicken. Yes, so weill Jonathan
Sanford scream free burgers, probably because he'll be a bit steeling.
Cheese is gonna be extra, imagine, and probably the lapinos
as well. Right, you gotta go with the cheese and alopenos. See,
I love halopenos. They just they tear you up. They

(58:30):
tear me up. But if the grill them, they're not
nearly as bad A might just make.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, it takes a little of the sting out of it.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Yeah. So will you cook anything like if you fresh halopinion, Yeah,
it's gonna be a real no no no that it
won't be at work the next day. You've just roasted. Okay,
so we gotta go grill halopenos, grilled onions, mustard, yes, bacon, yes, cheese. Okay, boom,
I go no pickles if I do holopenios, because then
pickles and the tomatoes on the too double salinity. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
That's you're anti solitic.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
No, I mean I don't want both pickles and Hallopenos
is just too salty to me. Okay, So I just
take the pickles off. No, I'm hungry. Why do we
do this? Let's go eat.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Somebody else could do the rest of the show.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I was gonna say, Wax, come in here and talk
Texans defensive line for an hour and a half.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Yeah, let's do it, all right. Have you been checking
Progress Supports?

Speaker 2 (59:19):
What's going on our Texans at practice today? I have
not been checking Aaron Wilson, what we got, What's what's a doggs?
What's Jonathan n m Alexander saying probably there's a good
chance that Texans gonna win this game this week. I
just and you and I disagree in this a little bit.
I don't feel any buzz about this game. I don't
know if there's any buzz, but I think it's interesting.

(59:41):
I think Drake May getting his first NFL start is interesting.
I think operating without Nico Collins is interesting. We'll see
what happens to the run game. I think actually I
mentioned that the line hadn't moved. It looks like it's
at least on ESPN they got it back to it's
down to six and a half from seven. So slate movement.
It's like, I don't know. I I've done sports radio

(01:00:03):
long enough to know that preview talking only lasts so long.
Like if you're previewing a baseball game, it's quick because
you just had a game to recap and you got
a game coming up to get into five days. I mean,
I feel like everybody's haven't been doing it for five days.
Well what do we do on say, Monday? I was here, Yes,
since we recapped the Bills Texans game like a recap. Yeah,

(01:00:24):
we're not previewing. Were doing preview much? What would do
on Tuesday? On Tuesday first hours, Dan Northfleet hung out.
We did talk a lot about the Bills and the Texans.
He get measured for a Texans ring, Yet I don't know.
I don't know that he did. No, did he get
one of the jerseys?

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
I don't think. My guess the only person that got
a jersey here would.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Be Wex Okay, Texans WEX. Texans, WEX. But he loves
the team. That's fine. Let's see and the should you
should be getting. You're a bigger, chierder than anybody else
I know in this place. That's true. Battle Red Ross.
Let's see one o'clock hour, I was solo and we
did NFL rewinded one thirty. Then WEX came in. We
talked a little, We talked some Texans, and we talked
some Bregman and Astros. Speaking of bread, the Taylor Scott stuff.

(01:01:01):
We played some of it yesterday. Yes, Taylor Scott, great
friend of the show, great friend of the show. Probably
gonna talk about how important Bregman is, Like his scouting
reports apparently better than what the Astros were providing him.
Isn't that crazy? That's insane that he is. That's why
I said what I say, twenty thirty five for what

(01:01:21):
manager of a manjor league baseball team? Okay, yeah, I
got you. I don't know what the hell you were
talking about, but yes, could be the manager of a
baseball team at some point, all right, And you can't
really put a dollar value on what that type of
preparation does for a team. Yeah, I'm looking for that
numbers on the arbitration not it's the what they call it,

(01:01:45):
the qualifying offer, qualifying offer of twenty one million dollars.
He's gonna say thanks. But now all the Astros have
to do within five days of the season ending is
offer him a one year deal for twenty one million dollars,
which they will do, and he will do it. He
will take the offer, he will rip it up up
and say thanks, bro, and then he will search for
his new team or stay with the Astros. Now, as
long as they have a qualifying offer, they will get

(01:02:06):
draft compensation for him if Bregnant was to leave.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
I'm trying to think of this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Have the Astros ever not offered somebody something that when
Verlander was a free agent, they didn't qualify offer.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Springer got a qualifying career. I got to qualify.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Yeah, that's what you do because you want your time.
Assuming Garrett Colt, I mean, anybody that's any good always
gets a qualifying prefer And I think it's the average
of the top one twenty five players in baseball something
like that. I'll take your word for it. Twenty one
million dollars. It's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Imagine being a human being thirty years old.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Yes, someone says I'm going to give you twenty one
million dollars to do a job, saying, don't you say
no because I'm about to get two hundred and whatever million?
Or we'll see. We got a chip bet? You know,
line is six point zero years? Oh we do?

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Is it just a bag of chips?

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
That's it? I think so. So if it's a six
year or it's a it's a wash. If it's a
seven year, you win. Well I'm gonna win. Do you
think so? I think we should up the bet? Okay,
what's the next bet up? From chips?

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Kso yeah, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
So. You think he's not getting more than five years
from anybody? Yeah? If if why, I think you're insane.
I think age? Okay, well yeah we can yeah yeah, age.
I think six is probably about right age. And now
see the problem is that what's his face from the Giants?

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
Matt Chapman, he got six? Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yeah, he's actually older. No, let's up the bet, you
know what? I still yeah, let's up the bet. Let's up.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Let's up at not much.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Let's do lunch heavy heavy app heavy app like a
fried mushrooms cheese, fast casual lunch like a rot ray
ray ray or mive dies. Yeah. Uh, fast casual lunch, fast,
casual lunch. Six years, nobody gets anything. Yes, five or

(01:04:09):
less I win? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Seven or more?

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
You win? Okay, okay, I think six. Maybe this sweet spot.
I think it's a good line. Yeah, I think so.
I think I went all right. Seven one three, two
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Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Level for the Texans game on Sunday? My feeling is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Again I had the Textans win, am uh losing by
ten this past week? So what do I know? Remember
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I never got them right. I mean never got them right.
It's week to week. Yeah. By the way, I went
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Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
I don't think I can this week. But thank you
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One thirty four Sports Talk seven ninety Thursday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show. By the way, Roto normally in
this spot will with us tomorrow. He is just kind
of not digging out of what's going on, but certainly
trying to make sure his house is able to sleep
and living, and that kind of stuff with the bad
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the first direct hit to the West coast of a
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so that I caused a lot of problems.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
But this was a direct kid. This was in Cesta Key,
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It's about sixty miles from Tampa, so south south of Tampa.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
You've Judy Fraeman reference or where that is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Okay, how about the fact that the Disney World was
late to close the park, so they're like, we got
to get every diamond before we get going ridiculous, I think.
So there weren't some of the workers having problems leaving? Yeah,
but they always have sex in our employe areas anyway,
So what are they worried about? What? Yeah, you know
that's what that you go to work? What does that
have to do with a hurricane, because why is that
where your brain goes?

Speaker 9 (01:11:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
You know what? No, no, are you donating your brain
to science? It's because they don't they can hang out
with their fellow with twenty one year olds.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
You're a sick individual.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
There's a natural disaster bearing it down these folks, and
all you can talk about is sleeping with snow White. Yeah,
is godon locks hanging out with their three I don't
think the bears are interested in her.

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
All.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
All I can tell you is I've known plenty of
people that have worked at Disney, and they always go
back to the same story, like, what was it fun
working with kids and being able to make small children
have a great time with the excitement of riding these
rides and doing these big theatrical productions of what I'm like, No, man,
we would party so damn hard on the Disney employee

(01:12:32):
headquarters basically the same thing as like an Olympic plaza. Okay,
three things that are similar. Olympic plaza, Olympic village, Yeah,
Olympic village, Disney employee headquarters, and when you would be
a summer camp lear and when you're in high school.
M okay, so, but yeah, they they kept the park

(01:12:56):
open as long as they could. I guess Orlando's airport
finally closed estudy. I don't if the airports are still
closed there or not whatever, But I know there's a
pre season Orlando game that had been postponed or just
can't I flat out canceled it. So yeah, you feel
terrible for them, but you're like, damn, we were okay
because we've been there and done that. Crazy. I mean,

(01:13:19):
Helen was just affecting the Baseball playoffs with the Braves
and the Mets. Braves didn't seem over concerned about the situation.
Mets didn't seem overly concerned about the situation. Yeah, how
about Game five coming up between the Padres and the Dodgers. Yes,
how many objects will be thrown on the field at
Fernando Tatis.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Can we say let's go Padres?

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Absolutely, Let's go Padres. Would that be okay with that? Absolutely?
I'm rooting hard for the Padres, and I got the
Royals are letting me down big right now. And I
got some more news for you, Ok, let's go Royals.
Game four? That series is tonight and then tomorrow. Actually,
let me give you the schedule for tonight. Tonight It's
Guardians and Tigers at five o'clock. Tiger's laue tw to one.

(01:14:01):
Could a J pinch be taking another team with the
American Leaguechampionship Series. He could. I mean, look, even if
they lose this game, they got Scooball in Game five,
and he is sitting there going I'll throw left handed,
I'll throw right handed, I'll throw one hundred and seventy
five pitch cent. Does that make this a wait? It
is a must win game for the Guardians never mind? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:14:22):
So to answer your question, yes, it is a must
win game Yankees Royals. We need the Royals to win
the series. First of all, their uniforms are spectacular. Second all,
they beat the Yankees. Let's go right, Because I have
a friend of mine who travels with us with the Rockets.
Is Garrett Cole for the We're screwed against. Michael Waka

(01:14:47):
Walka had a good year, old man, Michael Waka, how
old is he buy the thirty three? He was like
a young He first came up with what the Cardinals Ryeah? Yeah,
he was like a phenom. And then Friday is game
number five between the Podres and the Dodgers. Mmm. If
the Potteris beat the Dodgers. If you're a Potteris fan
and you're at that game, the number one thing you

(01:15:09):
can do is leave the stadium as fast as possible.
And second, as you're leaving the stadium, take off your
pot gear and put a Dodger's cap on or something
just to protect yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Or put on a shirt that says security. That's your
best shot.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
So what do you think of the fine most dangerous
place to watch a game? Dog Stadium, two h STA Center. No,
what's so bad about Rose Coliseum? Four Calseum. I'll give
you that. It's not the great part of town. Stable
Center is okay. I've been there before and after games.
I've been outside of the bb Oakland the Oakland Coliseum, Yeah,

(01:15:44):
whatever the name was. So it's the LA facilities. I
don't know if New York and Boston are dangerous. They're
just gonna yell at you and call you names. They're
not going to necessarily try to beat you. No, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Is the Bronx. How does the Bronx doing these days?
Everything go right over there?

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Then I say, cushy plush Stadium now so old Yankee
Stadium probably so New York, New York. You see them much,
not so much. And then in Boston they just call
you an arse, you know, and finish it from there. Okay,
So I don't I don't know. It just seems to
be that La has the dynasty on terrible places to

(01:16:22):
get your ass beat in sports events.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
You know who can you know who can throw some
fists in town? Is this one here? And we live
in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
There's minute made and our g can throw hands too.
Wasn't there a an Astros fan that got knocked out
by a Dodgers fan a couple of years ago. Yeah,
we've seen Texans fans fight with other people before. I
think there's been Rangers Astros fights too. There's been a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
They don't fight in Arlington, do they? No, I'm talking
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Minute Mathon's one of a wine and cheese crowd. I think,
is it Arlington? Well, I mean Ranger fans come out
of there's a nice joint, there's the stein Mart.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
They don't live in Arlington.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
They right in and get out as fast as possible
and stop at Arby's on the way out. Yes, seriously,
fine dining in Arlington Arby's. Yeah, fine? Shopping stein martin, Hey,
don't bag on stein Mart, al Ip. I used to
buy stuff on stein Mart all the time. Yeah. Look,
I used the Darshals and the moss. Let me tell
you something. I used to lose three belts a year.

(01:17:19):
I would go to Ryan Ryer all the time to
buy him. Hey, I'm not saying I know shot there.
I'm just saying that's the nicest joint in Arlington. M Okay,
So what else going on? Ross? Not a whole lot?
How's how's Jalen Green looking? I made a gut feeling
on Tuesday that I'm already regretting. You want to run

(01:17:42):
to them?

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
No, just I said, after Jalen Green knocked out all
those threes, I said, he's gonna have his best offensive
offensive season. Why are you laughing about it? Then? Uh?
Didn't he miss a ton of three? Yeah, but it's
a preseason. Who cares? Okay, Well, Tray's got one? What
it's Tracey? I don't remember. I'll have to check the archives.
He just said in my ear he's going to stand
by on his Okay, Well, I was I tune out

(01:18:05):
when he talks. So mine was that the Rockets would
make the play in that's not crazy, that's not crazy.
Eight nine, ten, Yeah, I'm okay, possible, we'll see. I
would like him to be right. Let me tell you something, Tray.
If the Rockets make the playoffs, not the play in,
I'll buy you a play lunch if you're choosing. Oh, okay,
there we go.

Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
I want that in writing, and I want there to
be like real specifics around what play lunch means, because
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Say fake plate. Yeah, like you'd get a protein, a
couple of sides, and uh maybe a tortillam.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
Yeah, cut the audio. What're you talking about? You'll be fine?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Okay, cool Google? Yeah, Yeah, I'm thinking eleven twelve dollars Max,
that's reasonable. Yeah, we spend on you. I mean, you
hardly work here, so it's not Although if he's doing
a great job. Although if if Connor winds up marrying one,
two or three and they and they make she makes
the move out of town, we'll have to get on
the producers. So what Okay, I don't think he's that's

(01:19:01):
I don't think he's any serious with any of those
girls enough to be getting thinking about Mark. Stop talking
about that man's business on air. Hey, he likes it.
He likes the par you know, it's his own small
way of being part of the show. Well, it's easier
than Okay seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
So again, doctor Royal normally in the spot. He'll be

(01:19:21):
with us coming up, but tomorrow I think he'll be
at one thirty, but could be a two thirty. We're
still trying to figure that out right now. Oh, did
you any any other observation with the Rockets you wanted
to tell me about? No, I told you, I got
to catch up. I'll watch the games tonight, both of them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
I was good to see Tarry Easton back out there playing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
That's great. What else I'm trying to think of anything
that was noticeable from the first because it's these preseason
games are so choppy. It's hard to figure out what's
what because again you're going to like, for instance, the
Rockets started their starters in the second half, yet last
night in Oklahoma City enter their bench, So it was like,
what do you gain on a plan that and vice versa.

(01:19:57):
The five on the Florida end the game that night
was this is the overtime game last night. Nate Hinton Okay,
Jermaine Samuels Junior. I know who those two are, at
least Jack McVay that sounds made up. That's really a religious,
really a rive person. Who else? Nate Williams is out
there and Jeff Green it was kind of an interesting lie.
Jeffree was Other's like, man, I want to play Okay,

(01:20:21):
m interesting and an overtime victory against Oklahoma City Huge
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Speaker 10 (01:21:47):
Quick canimal fact number two hundred and thirty three. Most
whales don't watch sports. They're Dallas fans.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
And when I think of whining, I think of Dallas.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Oh And speaking of whales, back to former whale Matt Thomas.

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
I'll be back to my girlish weight of two eighty six.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
On Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
We've got a very very bizarre tweet coming into the
Matt Thomas Show Twitter account at sports mt Hey Sports
Harvey with basketball season around the corner, ask sports MT
about the time he was in the Rockets locker room
bent down during a player interview, assuming he was getting
out of the way radio, getting out of the way
of the TV camera and a towels removed.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
Yeah, I don't think so. I've heard that story.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Oh I know. I still tell it to people. Yeah,
I'm still scarred by it. Yeah, a staring eyed eye. Yeah,
why don't we want to bring that up?

Speaker 6 (01:22:58):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:22:58):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
What's what's about that? Somebody with you? Let's see who
this is, Stoic. Come on, Stoic, I'm still trying to
get past that. Your seer's still scarred. What's your most
uncomfortable locker room moment ever? Oh? Uh, this was when
I was first Okay, i'll give you, I'll give you one.

(01:23:20):
We used to hand out a Player of the Game certificate,
get certificates from kt r H to uh mogo to
to chat maw the brazilianuseka, we got you, we got you.
And so I was in there with the Mighty Gwynn
and we were giving the award while they were when

(01:23:42):
they go on the road and their player of the
game when they came back, we would go into the
clubhouse and get the certificate. It's like, hey, here you go, man,
you want a great way to bomba players player exactly
your player of the game while you're on the road.
Here you go. Uh, here's a certificate for for dinner
for two to this Brazilian steakhouse. And so while we're
on they were on the road, Brett Myers had pitched

(01:24:02):
a good game, and so when he came we came
back from the road trip, Dylan and I went in
there to give him his certificate. Well, the Astros happened
to have lost at night, and he Brett Myers wasn't pitching,
but they lost, and he's just gonna shock you, man.
He was in a funky mood. So one of the
biggest douchebags ever I've ever covered in Houston cast the
gift certivit. This is free Brazilian steakhouse. He looks at it,

(01:24:27):
He's like, what the bleep would I want this for?

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Why the bleep would you get to give this to me?

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
He throws it on the ground and like rubs his
foot into it and kicks it away.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Zero surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
And so we picked it up and kept it. But
good played by you. What a d bag. I'm sorry
you were a player of the game on the road
trip and we're giving you free Brazilian steakhouse for.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
A guy who's making millions of dollars. Yeah, so that
was weird.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
And then there was a certain Astro in that same
era who to like most players are very discreet when
they're changing their clothes, there was a certain player that
liked to parade around with no clothes, and that was weird.
I'm not gonna say who. So he would walk around.
So is that era of Astro is around twenty ten? Yeah,

(01:25:18):
I'll think about it during the break. I don't want
to any name names break. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
So he would just walk around and just let it
all hang.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Yeah. Yeah. And it was very cold in there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
What did you expect it to be hot?

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
That's all I'm gonna say. Because it was hot, it
to be the opposite correct or if you if you
just got out of the pool like a Stanza significant rinkage. Yeah,
that one. My young sports casting in life had a
lot of issues. Just just never get into a catcher

(01:26:06):
stance ever for an interview in the locker room. I
don't know why I would do that well, because the
summon had really small locker rooms the time. Okay, you're
trying to get really packing in there. He was packing
for sure, that's nobody. No, that wasn't necessary.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Well I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Hmm, I mean I put that on the t I
didn't know if you were going to hit it yet
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Look, it's it's a light time in the world of sports.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Right now. We can give you Texans Patriots right down
to it. The face you think Drake May is gonna do,
Matt You want to guess the number of completions, Well,
I'm also had a number for you right now. Are
you ready? Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Twelve?

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
I'll say over because they're probably gonna work like six
screens in there. What if he gets what if it
gets can cussed before the game? That's true, couple of
Antonio Gibson dump offs. We could probably find the player
props get you the actual number. Oh look, you know
the best part of the game is gonna be is
hearing Kevin Harlan call the game. He can take a

(01:27:05):
horrifically non competitive, uninteresting game and with his verbiage just
add drama to it. Yes, ooh, let's see, Well they
have rushing attempts on here looks like fifty four and
a half passing yards up a twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
He did had to have more completions than that if
he's gonna hit that number.

Speaker 10 (01:27:29):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
How about this? Who's the leading receiver for the Texans
on Sunday? Stefan Dicks, No Tank Dell. I think Dell's
your your second guy, and then probably I would go
Hutchinson or maybe you get Schultz in there. Yeah. I
think Diggs has been getting a high volume of target.
Some of it has been short stuff and all that,
but I think the targets are gonna be there. I
think they're gonna work more of the short passing game

(01:27:51):
with him. I think they're also going to try to
use Tank Dell more in the running game. They've got
to get something going where they're not consistent. Second down
and eight, I think he ended up with was it
four catches last week? He didn't have a ton of yards,
but they were definitely working him in. He had the
end around he lost. They lost five yards on it.
But they're they're clearly trying to get tanke Dell the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Stroud said that in the press conference last week, So
that's gonna be even more so with Nico Collins out there.
Do you think some fans are letting Bobby Slowk have
it or is that just media driven that Bobby's got
to be more innovative? I think I think right now
that even with the Texans offense not firing off on
all cylinders. I hate that term. I hate that term,

(01:28:32):
but I think Bobby Slowak is going to be a
name that you're going to hear a lot about in
openings for the NFL. I just yeah, regardless of what's
going on right now, I think the play design is
very good. I think the play calling people have issues
with because they continue to try to establish the run.
People are like, well, they averaged the more they have
more EPA success rate on passes than they do on runs,
so why don't they pass it all? That's not that's

(01:28:54):
that's not how NFL works. You don't pass every single
down just because you get more yards per pass. You
have to establish would have run, You have to make
a threat. A lot of these passes that they're getting
that are so successful, it's predicated off.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Of play action.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
It happened on Sunday where you had the Bills linebackers
biting down on a lot of the play action stuff,
and then that was opening things up in the passing game.
So the and you just and you can't throw fifty
to sixty times with c J. Stroud getting hit like
he is, certainly with if Titus Howard is going to
continue to be out and everybody outside of Titus Howard
is basically an average pass block. I mean to simplify

(01:29:29):
it to its core. The more times that c J.
Stroud is in passing formation taking a five seven step drop,
the more times he has a chance of potentially scrambling,
or the more times he has a potential of getting sacked,
and the more times he's got the potential getting hurt.
You've got to get some assemblance of a running game. Ye.

(01:29:51):
If it's not gonna be Damian Pierce, and it's not
gonna be cam Akers, and it's not gonna be what's
Walley's first name, darry Daria, I think you gotta. I
think you're going to see at least two end rounds
on Tank Dell just tru trying something to diversify it, Okay,
I love it, and the screen games in working as well. Yeah,

(01:30:11):
Quick Quick throws one step drop on the flat to
like maybe Dalton Shultz something you've got you're playing with,
You're playing with fate here if you're going to continue
to let CJ drop back forty times a game, I agree,
all right. Final hour of the show features the Rotten
five and twenty minutes thirty minutes from now, we'll do
I just don't get it, Worth there's something in your life,

(01:30:32):
sports realter, or just in your life that you just
don't get. Maybe you're an engineer at a radio station
and you spend a lot of time on a TV
show and you just don't get why you do that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
You know you can do that on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
And also we got believe it or Not today Rofi
Nadal all story ahead of the final hour of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
It's moments away here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Bross special shout out to one of our favorite listeners,
Chase listening to the show right now, big fan of
the show. Chase called Trey Are a producer off air
and just said, want to let Matt know he's the
biggest d head on seven ninety. I mean, I don't
know why how I could possibly disagree. I mean I
would either, So I call a lot of good points.
I called him back and thanked him for it. You did, Oh, yes,
I did. And he said I'm a cross dresser, and

(01:31:23):
I said that's fine, it's not a big deal. I mean,
I don't people can cross dress. He says he has
not been touched by a woman in twenty five years.

Speaker 6 (01:31:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
And apparently he's a barista that makes three dollars an hour,
so that feels illegal. Seeing the Philippines or something. He's
probably committed cross Okay, I think Chase is a tax evator.
I believe he's also mentioned a cross dresser. Yes, taxivator.
What else? If there's anything wrong with that? What taxivating?

Speaker 6 (01:31:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
I don't think it's great. I think it's a pill
popper and just an overall douche. But thanks Chase for
thos to the show weekdays. Talk appreciate it here on
Sportstock seven night. So if you're gonna call and you're
gonna rip on me, I'm gonna call you back.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
Okay, it feels fair and it feels good.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
That's okod. I'm invigorated. Yeah you do? You look inner,
jet I'm excited, woken up going there and tell unleash
the beast exactly. Poor Chase has no friends, doesn't know
what the touch of a woman's like. Never mind. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

(01:32:28):
three two one two. If Ross's ever d head, let
us know too. Daily I've got talking about your friends.
I'm talking about just general audience members. All right, seven
one three two one two. At least you're listening. I'll
appreciate the listening. Yeah. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Let's go to uh Felipe on The

(01:32:48):
Matt Thomas Show with.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Ross at to oh four Felipe, Good afternoon.

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
Good afternoon, guys, Good afternoon, doctor Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Uh you are doctor Ross. Yeah, he's after Ross. Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:32:59):
That was a actually a good one with the the
packers of Green and Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
Yes, yeah, really great.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
Uh No, I mean they were talking about Dodger Stadium
and all the fans fighting.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
You know, I wanted to understated him last year.

Speaker 7 (01:33:12):
When the Astros went and it wasn't really that bad.
I'm not gonna let you like it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
I don't. It was a lot better than what I
thought it was.

Speaker 11 (01:33:19):
It's gonna because I really thought I was gonna get
in fights and I was looking for a fight.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Did you wear wa man, dude, what did you wear
astros gear?

Speaker 5 (01:33:28):
I wore.

Speaker 11 (01:33:29):
Look every game I go to, I go head to toe,
my socks, my underwear.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
Okay good.

Speaker 11 (01:33:36):
I had my rings, my little replica rings on all that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
You were looking to throw hands. You were looking to
bust somebody up with those rings, weren't you. I was
looking for a fight. I didn't drink. I don't know that,
but I was looking. I was like if some I
told my wife, I said, look, if someone with.

Speaker 7 (01:33:51):
The mouths off and it gets too crazy, I'm fighting.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
I told you this. You on YouTube. I wanted to
be on YouTube, and I got that, like the fans were.

Speaker 7 (01:34:03):
I sat right behind the ash was dug out, and
I did walk around the stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
And uh nothing.

Speaker 11 (01:34:09):
I mean I got a little heckles here and there,
and you know the typical stuff you get going to
another stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
I didn't even get in a fight.

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
Through nothing, none of that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Like some guys even offered me beers. So you're frankly disappointed.
You couldn't go have a get into a fracas a fisticuff.
If you will at Dodgers Stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:34:26):
Yes, well, I mean I've seen do just fans fight
here in minime whenever they come.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Oh yeah, fight each other.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
I mean, I I think, I think Houston. I don't
mean to. I don't know it's a good thing or
bad thing, but I think we're top ten in cities
that like to fight it with sports events. I mean,
I'm I'm up for it, but.

Speaker 7 (01:34:43):
I was really disappointed, you know, Like I mean, if
I if I was from San Diego or have Pad,
that's a different story.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Yeah, but I didn't get that with the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (01:34:53):
But I did like the stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
It's a little old, but it showed us. It shows
us aide. But it's nice. No, it's it's the oldest
stadium in sports today that still carries a tremendous mistique
to it.

Speaker 11 (01:35:05):
Yeah, the whole atmosphere is great. One thing I didn't
like those is the game started and our seats had
the sunlight shining right in our faces, so you know,
we're blinded for a few for an hour or two.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
But it was great. Well, you know what, you are
the official bodyguard of the Matt Thomas Show at ross
because if you want to throw hands. You know, people
that want to attack us, and people call me off theair,
call me a d head. So I want to have
you go chase after chase for me. Fully bang, we'll
fix him and make sure his mouth doesn't move for
a month any time. But yeah, I'll be going next year.

Speaker 11 (01:35:35):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:35:36):
They going to Colorado then the Dodgers, So I'll be
going next year to color Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
Just go to Dispenser and get a bunch stuff ahead
of time. You'll be just finally get to La. Well
that's my wife, but she'd stop doing that now.

Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
But I'm good with that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:49):
But man, I think my next trip is to actually
sitting the outfield with the with all the Tolos and
the you know, the the what do you call it?
The uh, the gang bangers sit out there with them.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Man, So are you going cripside or blood side?

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:36:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
I sort of want to get arrested or get beat
up right here.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
I don't think I want to sit with you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
If you're sitting in between the crips and bloods, that's
just a personal preference of mine.

Speaker 7 (01:36:17):
I'll sit on the sidelines and let them handle that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Oh, Okay, I got you, I got you.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
Yeah, I was watched, but they'll throw hands down.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
I was testing, man, I was, well, you know what
you know again, if we ever go to our road trip,
Thanks Philippe for the call.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Good to your voices.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
Always. I want to have Felipe on our side. How
often does a person caller radio showed admit you know what,
I went to a stadium looking to get into it.
That's how Raider fan thought for basically thirty years. Yeah,
you don't dress up at Oakland Raider games expecting you
just to dress up just for the hell of it.
Not every game is Halloween. You want to do it
because you want to scare people. Well, they want to
be in get on TV and be in the black hole. Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Now it's the bullpen.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 3 (01:37:00):
That's what the Texans have? I guess is that what
they still call it?

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
Yeah, okay, there's a bunch of people that dress up
with that. If you're dressed up to go to a
sporting event, I'm not talking about jersey wearing. I'm talking
like face paint and uh, spiked shoulder pads, no, and
lots of blank like you're working at TGI Fridays. No,
I just wear either a polo or a I haven't

(01:37:26):
won a jersey in many years, that since I was
a teenager.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
I think I wore a jersey, but it was my
own name on the back of it.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
I'm not a huge jersey collector, so I don't know.
But there's more of a question for Adam Clanton. Yeah, Adam. Yeah,
what is up with Adam buying all these jerseys? I
think he got the h Town blue one? Did he really? Yeah?
You were out of town. He wore it just so
you could say something about him and then you were
out of town. Oh yeah, he was just so he
was quite disappointed. Yeah, it's fine. He knows me. He
knows my schedule. I mean, yeah, I know he doesn't.

(01:37:54):
Nobody can nobody can track. Okay, I'll be home for
you to share your Google calendar with us. I would
be happy to home all next week you although, although
I'm going to Kansas City just for the day next Saturday,
so you're not. I'm only going on Saturday. It just
playing Kansas at Arrowhead Citium. I've never been to Arrowhead
CITIU Why are they doing that? Because Kansas is refurbishing
their stadium. Oh, I was gonna say, why would they

(01:38:14):
invite sixty eight hundred people? Oh gods, the game is
a two thirty on ESPN next Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
What are you talking about? ESPN?

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
What Plus? Excuse me?

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
ESPN?

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
Is that the subscription website ESPN Plus Plus. You know
why I couldn't even get you on ESPN News. You
know what spnu?

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
You know it's not plus is because it's so much
better than Plus.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Every other match, Yeah, it's that in second division Belgian
soccer on ESPN Plus on Saturday, goes forward to it.
It feels rude. It might be a little accurate, but
it's phil still fills rude. And then after that Utahs
coming in that's top fifteen teen feet. We're gonna storm
the field too. You want to keep those utes? Yeah,
all ninety eight hundred of you stop?

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
What do you keep doing it for?

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
What's the It's not been great, but we're gonna We're
gonna fill the building up. We're gonna pack, pack the
t DC, you pack the weather called the credits they
are changing, they are it'll be next year. What's it
going to be? Well, I'm not giving a sponsor mentioned
I'll spend money with. Oh, it's another Okay, the I
think said t moo dot com t do MoU te woo.

(01:39:22):
I think they called the what the I don't even
know what they call it the cash boy. I don't
want that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
What is a nickname for? I don't even know what
it is?

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
It's the deck?

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
Excuse me? The what the deck?

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Oh? Okay, that's what a certain former seven ninety host
that nick names Oh. By the way, that this former
Cereminny host, uh just sent me a text and said that, Uh,
I'm sorry, but there's only one person this talent's giving
tennis takes. It's not Rossfield or Reale. I had it unpopular.
I wonder I want to the sales pit. Yes, every

(01:39:51):
person back there is like, Matt, how are we going
to sell y'all show when you're talking tennis? You did
it the Collective City Houston. They went to go look
at They went to KSBJ to find something else to
listen to. They're like, we're not listening to Ross's tennis takes. Well,
we do have some quick career highlights of rafin a doll, Matt,
if you'd like to hear it. Oh, I thought my computer,

(01:40:13):
I said, must be quick. I thought you said your
leader h your thoughts. It was competitive for a while.
Could you imagine doing tennis play by a play on

(01:40:34):
the radio? Ooh, what is that like? I don't tune
into Wimbledon. My guess is it's like Boban that Wimbledon
has a radio channel. Probably now I've heard golf on
play by play. Now you can somewhat do that, but tennis,
to me, would be about as uninteresting as if a

(01:40:55):
play by play on radio. Left right, Yes, you gotta
do it your British accent, Matt, I don't have a
British accent. Oh, Rolf wins. The point, isn't it? That
was your British accent. I'd rather give you give me
some more Arizona Green Bay takes. I'm good. I think
I tapped out all that. Can I throw another random

(01:41:17):
game right now?

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
Sure, do it? You want another random game? Okay? Hold on,
I gotta find deep. Don't don't look at your computer. Okay,
I'm gonna try to get fantasy analysis of a Rando
NFL game that I would think no one cares about.

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
Let's go, hum, oh god, these are.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
All right, Let's go Jaguars Bears go oh, Jaguars Bears. Okay,
nice bounce back week for Trevor Lawrence last week, Brian
Thomas really emerging as a star, and the number one
overall wide receiver Gabe Davis really just hasn't shown you much.
Evan Ingram practicing this week, should be back into the fold.
I think that helps out. Obviously, the water's a little

(01:42:04):
muddy in the backfield there with Tank Bigsby getting a
lot more of the work, so you're still gonna get
in full PPR leagues more pass catching with Travis atn
Bigsby not really catching a whole out of the backfield,
but I don't expect a whole lot against that really
good secondary with the Chicago Bears. On the flip side,
all systems go with with Caleb Williams, with Keenan Allen,
with Dj Moore because that Jacksonville secondary is just not

(01:42:26):
very good. DeAndre Swift emerging now, he's not getting the
goal line work with Roshawn Johnson getting a lot of
the one yard touchdowns recently, but still with the pass
catching and playmaking ability with Swift, I would still start
him thoughts Houston. That's good. Thank you, Matt. There is

(01:42:51):
not another host in this town that gives you Arizona,
Green Bay and Jacksonville Chicago breakdown, and maybe no other
host of town will want to do that for their
personal future. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(01:43:11):
The Rotten Five is next on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Two nineteen Sports Talk seven nighty, real quick, Cougar fans.
Time now for the Cougar Update, brought to you by
the joint Chiropractic Cougar basketball team ROSSI predicted to finish
second in the Big twelve conference. Only team that expected
to finish higher Jayhawks, Kansas Jayhawks. They're pretty good. Yeah.

(01:43:44):
Big twelve basketball gonna be fun, far superior than Big
twelve basketball. There no football, yes, so there. Unfortunately football
drives the revenue. But the basketball league should be really
fun in every conference even ACC football revenue sec yeah sec,
I mean anything. Yeah, Sun Belt Kentucky makes more off

(01:44:06):
of football than they do off of basketball. Pretty crazy,
which is crazy because they're buildings like twenty thousand seats
and they filled up every single time. Louisville eight plays
in a nineteen thousand seat center, the maybe one of
the more peculiar names in sports, the KFC Yum Center.
Yum m hmmm, we'll trouble that. When do you use
the word yum in general? All that?

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
When I'm eating food? Really give me in context place?

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Wow? This, uh, sir, loin steak is yummy in my tummy?
Is that what you say? Absolutely? Don't believe that for
a second. Can I stret a manager? I would like
to compliment the chef as well? Do you any on
how yum this is? Do you have any yummy yogurt?

Speaker 6 (01:44:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Grown ass man use the word yummy? What are you
shaking your head for? Are you sure it was last again?
You're just you don't say about how yummy?

Speaker 11 (01:44:57):
Taylor?

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
What's her name?

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
All the time? I want to talk about food? I
got me check on I didn't check on her today.
You know what? This is on me?

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
This is on you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
It's your fault. I didn't mean to bring her up.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
I think we're on a streak of forty seven straight shows.
She's been brought up. Got her Twitter account is blowing up.
She's now on one hundred and ninety nine thousand. Good god.
Oh now she's recapping from her bed. How did her
picks go? She was three and two.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
That's not great. Yeah, she see, but this is the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
She picks like big favorites and like, oh, yeah I went,
I went four and one. Well yeah, three of those
were minus three hundred favorites and you're adding it up.
That's that's that's what Tony the Hatchetman Valentine used to do. Yeah,
but Tony Tony doesn't have nine thousand followers on Twitter anymore.
And she's traveling the world. She was in the Minnesota

(01:45:48):
game with the Jets on Sunday. Before that, she was
in a Ruba Girl Tato gets around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
Okay, two twenty two.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
That absolutely takes no talent whatsoever to give you the
five best teams in the NFL. It takes something special
to take you the five worst. Time.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
We present to you Rosses Rotten five.

Speaker 6 (01:46:11):
They've gone downy, they draw flies.

Speaker 5 (01:46:17):
It's Ross's Rotten five.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
This don't smell quite right? All right, folks, let's get
it going to another edition of the Rotten Five and
the Worst Teams in the NFL. And this week we
have a new team on the list if it isn't
the Los Angeles Rams, who now sit at one and
four on the year. Strangely enough, the lone win was
a pretty good one against the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

(01:46:41):
They have been hampered with injuries, with Cooper Cup and
Pooka Nacua going down, but the defense has just been
absolutely one of the worst in the league. They have
lost to some bad teams like the Chicago Bears and
the Arizona Cardinals. Stafford and the Boys face Aiden O'Connell, oh,
Aiden O'Connell in the Las Vegas Raiders this week, but
they probably could get to win. They better get to

(01:47:02):
win because matchups after that the Vikings and the Seahawks,
who have been very good, could be a win this week.
But as of now, the Rams the fifth worst team
in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
Oh no, it's bad, It's real bad.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Well, I guess Andy Dalton wasn't going to be the
savior of the Carolina Panthers in twenty twenty four. After all,
coming off like gangbusters with the win over the Raiders.
The Panthers that follow that up with two double digit losses,
including getting absolutely destroyed by the Bears this week thirty
six to ten. The Panthers allowing an NFL high thirty

(01:47:35):
three points per game. Well, how's the offense going? They're
twenty ninth end points per game. Other than that, thing's
going real great for the Carolina Panthers. As their number
one overall pick quarterback sits on the bench, things probably
get worse. They do have the Falcons and the Commanders
in the next two I predict losses in both of
those and the Panthers could slide down the list. But

(01:47:56):
right now, the fourth worst team in the NFL, you
doc ass all right, congratulations to the Jacksonville Jaguars. You
want a game. The last winless team in the NFL
finally got on the board. Even if it was against
Joe Flacco and the Indianapolis Clotes. They're simply not a
good football team. Trevor Lawrence actually didn't look awful, but

(01:48:17):
that Indie defense is horrible. We'll still count it as
a step in the right direction. Jacksonville Jaguars do take
on the Bears defense this week, so I expect some
regression for Jags, and for the Jags and for Trevor Lawrence.
But right now, the third worst team in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:48:32):
You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
I want the Jaguars on this list for the whole season,
just for Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
Lady Drops we find her by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
I hope she's okay from all the storms and storms. Yeah,
that's bad. Hey, hopefully she's all right? All right? Safe
to say Aything going pretty poorly for the New England
Patriots here. They lost four games in a row, a
three and out rate over forty five percent, far worst
in the NFL. Things are so bad they're throwing their
quarterback of the future in the fire against one of
the best defenses in football in the Houston Texans. Drake

(01:49:04):
May getting the start this weekend for the Patriots, searching
for something, anything, to get things going this year. The
defense hasn't been that great either, So all in all,
bad season for the Patriots, who are the second worst
team in the NFL. Good rid for cancer, That's what
I'm doing. No, you're not. You're getting ready for Houston.
You're not even the coach anymore? Bill, What are you
talking about? All right? Holy smokes? The Cleveland Browns are trash.

(01:49:24):
They have only managed to win one game all year.
That was against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who appeared earlier on
this list. Since then, the Browns have lost three trade.
This last weekend, they got destroyed by the Washington Commanders,
which is, I mean, I guess excusable, but that Commander's
defense is terrible. They gave up thirty four points to
the Comedies, the offense only mustering thirteen against one of

(01:49:46):
the worst defenses in the league. Deshaun Watson continues to
play like he's broken. The defense has not lived up
to where we thought they were gonna be. And oh,
by the way, you go to Philadelphia this week as
the biggest underdog on the NFL slate this weekend. The
Cleveland Browns are horrible, terrible, awful and rotten. They're the
worst team in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
You are a factory of sadness.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
And that's you're run five. Good news. Joe Mixon back
on the football field today practicing what that is great
new Damian Pearce is out there as well. Okay, so
maybe you've got a little more depth in that running
back situation. Look, feeling good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
Sexes can't go up there and lose that game, right,
I mean that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
That would be very non Suitabowl contender esque of them.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
It may not be pretty, maybe a close game again,
but they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
They're far superior, even with the injuries, to what New
England can throw at them. If as long as they
don't play like they did the first few weeks of
the season, turning the ball over like crazy and a
bunch of penalties, they're gonna be They're gonna win by
double digits. I think, Okay, we'll make our grandiose predictions tomorrow.
List so I cannot wait. All right now, listen, there
are things in your life you just don't get right. Yes,

(01:50:57):
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should say every Thursday, A lot of Thursday. When we
have time, we like to go into the world of
our lives a little bit, peel the curtain back and
ask each other why we don't get certain things. And Ross,
I feel like that at least half of my stories
about what I just don't get are involving my travel,
whether it's uber, whether it's hotels, whether it's airplanes. And

(01:52:45):
I might have brought this up early in the game,
but I.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
Need to bring it up again.

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
I have been on probably four or five commercial flights
in the last month, and of those flights, every single
one of them is involved the following.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
Somebody taking their shoes off.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
God, it feels like it is an epidemic that's getting worse.

Speaker 6 (01:53:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
So, by the way, if you have something you just
don't get in your life, something's going on, let us
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don't get something seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety So I will say to you Houston, Texas, and
to you Rossville orrel people taking their shoes off on airplanes.

(01:53:29):
This isn't your living room, this isn't your bedroom. You're
in a public place. Now I'm going to assume that
they're gonna be The planes are vacuumed, but I don't
think they're the most there, not the cleanliest places on earth,
because there's thousands of people getting on planes each and
every day, and they have very little time in between

(01:53:50):
changing uh you know, crews out and cleaning things up.
I would say to those of you that take your
shoes off, why are you doing it? Trey? You may
actually absolutely chime in because I can tell you this, Tray,
I just don't get it. Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:54:06):
So I have a follow up question with that, and
is it is there a threshold in which it is acceptable?

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
That's no, you take your shoes off on a plane,
don't you the time?

Speaker 7 (01:54:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
No, no, no.

Speaker 9 (01:54:21):
The only time I've done it was when I came
back when I went to and from Italy on an
eleven and a half twelve hour flight, and I took
my shoes off because I'm sitting there, I'm tired of
having my shoes on. My dogs need to breathe. Yes,
they're covered with socks. They are covered with sock.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
No, that's worse. Eleven hours is worse?

Speaker 9 (01:54:44):
Okay, hold up, they're fresh.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I would normally destroy this comment, But what do they say, Typically,
when you're on a plane of that length, you need
to get some sleep. Who sleeps with.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
Their shoes on?

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Me in a plane on a plane so you're saying
that they're no link long trips. You can untie them
if you need that much room. What is that doing?
You gives you a little space. Come on, They give
you slippers, slippers on flights that long for a reason.
Your shoes not fit.

Speaker 9 (01:55:13):
They give you slippers for a reason because they expect
people to take their shoes off.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Okay, so Ross Trey gets it. Yeah, he's yeah, he
takes his feet, take it. He gets his dogs barking
on the plane. I would say, and considerate, Like tomorrow,
I'm going on a trip to considerate. Nobody wants to
smell your foot odor. I'm going on a trip to
the East Coast after the show tomorrow. Okay, it's the
first part of the trip. Gets me. I fly to

(01:55:39):
New York first. Okay, I'm not gonna take my shoes off.
It's a three and a half hour flight. I can
live with my shoes on for three and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (01:55:45):
And I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
Okay, I think that's fine. Will be flying in November.
I will be flying to uh Korea and it's a
sixteen hour flight. I will not take my shoes off.

Speaker 9 (01:55:55):
You're punishing yourself. No, I'm not you're yourself to make
a point, you can sell it to point. To be
considerate of others. I'm sorry, I'm considering other Being considered
of others is covering your mouth and your nose when
you sneeze and cough on a plane in general.

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
But on a plane, I'm not talking about that. It's fine.
Your selfish off your feet, I mean taking off your yeah,
taking off your shoes. You're sick. No, no, no, and selfish.
I don't want to hear it soft.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
Then we have a problem. Then we have a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:56:20):
But your shoes is fine on a sixteen and a
half hour flight, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
You're all right. There you go. So one of us
gets it and one of us does not get it.
What you got this week? I've been watching. I don't
know how you've been locked in how much you've been
locked in on the Major League Baseball playoffs, Matt, But
I've been watching a fair amount, Okay, And unfortunately there
is a certain man on play by play. Oh yeah,

(01:56:47):
it is getting giving lethargic calls of big moments. He's
getting stuff flat out wrong, calling line drive hits when
it's a soft pop to second base that gets caught.
He seems to be openly rooting for the New York Yankees.
Of all the play by play men we have on
the planet, why are we still trotting old man Bob

(01:57:09):
Costas to sleep walk through these calls of playoff games
on television that are supposed to be I mean, playoff baseball,
as you know, is some of the most intense sporting
in America. Why is Bob Costas on the call? I
don't get it. Bob Costas seventy two years of age.

(01:57:29):
There's nobody better. There's hundreds of people that are better. Costas,
as I mentioned with you on the show a couple
of days ago. In the eighties and nineties, was the
premier sportscaster Olympics, NFL, NBC, Basketball, baseball. If there was
a big sporting event, seven times out of ten, he
was there and was polished. He remember he used to

(01:57:51):
do a TV show called Later with Bob Costas. It
was an interview show, really good, but something happened to
him where he has gone that blank crazy and he
gives two craps about the game he's calling, which is
tough because because very few seventy two year olds get
to call major League Baseball playoff games, they just it's
not it's not the demo. So I would say to you,

(01:58:15):
I just don't get it either, Thank you, Matt. But
he was good back in the day, but now he's
just really super cranky. And by the way, I'm seeing
those memes of people giving these long explanations and then saying,
Ron Darling is saying that was a good curve, Bald
he through you know what you're talking about a couple
days ago, all right, So if there's anything you would

(01:58:36):
like to get to that you just don't get seven
one three, two one two five seven, don't, Trey, you
have jumped into the fray on this, and so I'm
afraid whatever you're going to say, Ross is going to
disagree with you because he just wants to be antagonist.
I'm true.

Speaker 3 (01:58:49):
So without any further ado, Trey, what don't you get?

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Mine's a bit of an old one. Eh. That's it's
it's a couple of weeks old.

Speaker 3 (01:58:59):
Go ahead, and it's.

Speaker 9 (01:59:03):
It's because watching the Saints can be so painful at times,
particularly within division rivals. But I guess this extends past
that into all special teams returners, and that is if
you were going to field, if you were going to
fair catch a punt or a kick inside of the

(01:59:24):
five yard.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
Line, which had happened last week for the Texans, Why
are you trying to field it at all?

Speaker 9 (01:59:32):
With what three possibilities that can happen, and two of
them being bad ones? Why field it at all and
instead not just take the chance of letting it be
a touchback.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
So basically a basic fundamental of special teams is still
having difficulty among certain return people. I just don't get it,
you know, I don't get it. It's the same thing wrong,
same thing, guys with why coaches still maintain complete deficiencies
and calling timeouts and using of the clock two minutes
of games. These are coaches that are coaching at the
highest level in college and pro football, and they still

(02:00:04):
don't have any idea how to massage timeouts or use
the clock. Yeah, they're under a lot of pressure, and
they still just don't get better somehow. When you again
I don't know why, and some have done this before,
Why don't you just have somebody that's like your backup
that just text you or like, but you know, on
a pagers, get him on the headset yea allegedly this

(02:00:25):
case Ario on the headset with Damiico. Do we have
confirmation on that? Oh, we would never know that. Do
you think to make Damiko? Wouldn't let them do that?
I mean as much as your respects, cause Sarah, he's
not letting Cassiro on the headset. But you need a
time out, like, uh, you know how you have like
you know, when you have like a good angel on
your left shoulder and a bad angel on your right shoulder,
you have to have like a you have to have
a good team timeout guy on one shoulder and a

(02:00:47):
bat on the other.

Speaker 3 (02:00:48):
Oh, go for Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
Yeah, we're we're seeing fundamentals of football still at the
highest level the NFL and college suffering.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
So I don't get it either. Yeah, isn't the rule
inside the ten?

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
You let it go? I don't know that sounds seems like,
but I'm with you. I'm saying, fair catches the seven
yard line. I'm like, bro, you're not doing yourself any
favors here. All right, That's all I got, thank you.
But the whole shoes thing is just it's becoming more
and more popular. My part, my one of our broadcast
partners in the u H broadcast Ted Party UH takes

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pictures of people when they take their shoes off and
says it says, put your shoes on. And he hates it.
He hates it worse than I do. Are you sure
he's not saving him for later? What that's disturbing? You
think you're saying that Ted Party is a foot fetish.
I didn't say that, you did. I'm saying he does not.

(02:01:44):
I'm saying he does not as well me too. By
the way, what kind of fetish is that is the
word for it? I'm no on your fetish? Right, all right,
let's move on you number one fetish. You're not gonna
tell us? Okay, that's fine. I don't have one either.
I don't know. I'm fetish free. I think I am
trying to think. Oh right, I mean Taylor Matthes. Please

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stop not counting her obviously, all right? Seven one three,
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today all things Roffing Adell, there is no way in
the world that anybody has a firm grasp of Roffing
n Adell's career. So ROSSI have fun with this bad boy,
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of the Matt Thomas Show here on Sports Talk seven
ninety ros Vireal Matt Thomas with you Believe It or
Not coming up in just a moment as well. I'm
gonna be honest, I am sending the questions right now
to Trey and well we'll get to that in just
a moment. Tomorrow on the show, we will have Doctor
Roto of course it will be in Anything Goes Friday.

(02:03:57):
Are we gonna have a Patriots guest. I'm not sure,
but we can ramp up a little bit more on that.
Drake may making his first start and then doctor Rode.
Oh hopefully as long as the I mean is settled
and doctor okay for Myers, he is going to be here.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
Okay, great. We were just talking.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
Adam Clinton and I were talking about, uh, the Wizard
of Oz and how when I was a kid when
the witch, when the character turned into a witch, I'd
run into the bathroom and shut the door and wait
for my mom to tell me the scene was ever
worth Okay, it washn't new with the Texans and Patriots.
I just wanted to tell you that that's why I

(02:04:34):
was late. Sorry, we were talking about as long as
you think it was worth it. It wasn't worth it,
that's all. I'm not coming to apologize to you. Thank
you appreciate. All right, tomorrow we'll do non Florida stories
as well. Oh yeah, yeah, and definitely stay out of Florida.
It's almost gonna need to be nice and give him
a Florida star kind of true. Actually, all right, let's

(02:04:56):
see what else we got going on tonight Thursday football,
San Francisco, Seattle. We have the Tigers playing the Guardians.
Tonight we have the Royals against the Yankees. Go Royals, absolutely, Tigers,
go Padres, Go Padres tomorrow. It doesn't matter. I guess
nothing could be more painful than what happened last year.

(02:05:17):
You can't win a game at home against the Rangers,
who then beat up on the Diamondbacks in the World Series.
Win one home game and you faced the Diamondbacks. Could
that sweep them? Could that have been the least sexiest
World Series? Maybe in the last thirty years? Rangers Diamondbacks? Rangers? Well, yeah,
I mean, don't Padre fan love the Padres? Yeah? I

(02:05:41):
don't think Royals fans love the Royals too. Although they
get there have star power. They do. Yeah, it's but
it's Kansas City, It's it's my home's country. It's roles
are kind of an afterthought. I think the Yankees are
gonna win that series. Fox thing so too prank cool.
Fox is praying for Dodgers than Garrett Cole on the

(02:06:02):
Hill against Michael walk Up minus one fifty five for
the Inks.

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
So those are you playing?

Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
Mention? Someday we're gonna be able to actually play in
Texas that way, mm hmm, it's gonna be beautiful. All right,
let's do this five minutes something go.

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
On the show. What should we do?

Speaker 5 (02:06:19):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:06:20):
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Speaker 3 (02:06:23):
We simply call it Believe It or Not?

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category today is all things about roughing Nadell. Are we
just naming about on Nadal? If the same is completely
utterly accurate, you'll say this, it saves Ronie is full
of bunk of manup. You'll say this to believe or not,
it's in a row in your prize. What will we
playing for today?

Speaker 9 (02:07:06):
Trey Parrot took us to Jeff Elnd's e l O.
There you go October sixteenth. There you go on sale
now at Live Nation doc.

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
And if you get three in a row right, you
get to take your shoes off in any flight you want,
any distance.

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Not we can't endorse that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:23):
No, we cannot. Only apparently to Italy and Ross. I
guess you're a bollowed to take your as a corner
to Trey. You know what we'll see if if I
will be honest when I come back from that trip,
I'll tell you if I took my shoes off, if.

Speaker 9 (02:07:32):
I have him on since he stood on it, John
on seven, are you ready to play?

Speaker 2 (02:07:36):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:07:39):
John, John's not ready to play.

Speaker 2 (02:07:42):
Let's go to Matt on seveninty, Matt, you're ready to play.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:07:47):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
Although Rafaa on the Doll plays tennis left handed, he
is naturally a righty Believe it or not Believe it?
That's right, believe it state but number two for the
way and Rafa on the Doll was also an elite
swimmer as a ju your athlete, but decided to focus
fully on tennis at age thirteen. Believe it or not?

(02:08:08):
That is correct? Ross, You know what. That's now, that's
ten in a row.

Speaker 3 (02:08:14):
We'll get somebody wh'll get one wrong today. It's ten
in a row.

Speaker 2 (02:08:16):
Just give me one. Davis on seven Nintie Davis, what
was your favorite part of today's radio show? Davis? Hello?
Are you there? All right? He's not there. Let's go
to uh Tony on seven ninety Tony, what was your
favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Hey, they're speechless, so.

Speaker 2 (02:08:42):
We're having technical problems here. What's going on here? All right,
let's try Mike. Can you hear me? Mike? Mike? All right?
Rafie on Nadal is an Avid Catholic and has met
two different popes, Benedict the sixteenth and Pope Francis.

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:09:00):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:09:01):
No, he's an atheist. That would be just the opposite,
and the streak of ten correct answers is out. Let's
go to John on seven ninty John, what was your
favorite part of today's radio show? John? Everything all right?
Raffee On Adell's father, al Varro, was also a professional
tennis player. He reached his peak world rank of number

(02:09:21):
seventy six back in nineteen eighty four. Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
No, I don't think he ever played. Let's go to
Matt on Sevenintie. Matt, you're ready to play? Believe it
or not?

Speaker 4 (02:09:36):
I already played?

Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
Oh you did well? That's not great.

Speaker 5 (02:09:39):
You can't go.

Speaker 2 (02:09:40):
No, you can call tomorrow, my friend, call tomorrow. Thank
you for playing all right, And a lot of these
people are dropping here. John on seven, aint you ready
to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:09:48):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
John, Good luck to you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:50):
Raffia on Ndal has won an astonishing twenty six tennis
titles on clay courts without even dropping a set.

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:09:59):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
Yes right?

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
Statement number two for the way.

Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
In as far as the Spanish La Liga goes Rafael
and the Dolls supports his hometown club Valencia. Believe it
or not. No, he's a real Madrid fan. Dude, everybody
should know that. Let's go to uh Tony on SEVENINTI Tony,
You're ready to play? Believe it or not. Rafael Nadal
is also a fashion enthusiast and has twice walked the

(02:10:24):
runway at Paris Fashion Weeks. Believe it or not. Believe it, No,
he's never done that. I'm sure he's a handsome man,
but not good enough for that. Uh, Greg on SEVENINTI Greg,
You're ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:10:38):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:39):
Rafael Nadal is an avid poker player and has even
been sponsored by the Poker Stars website. Believe it or not, not,
he has, he loves it. He loves playing. Uh, all right,
we rebound it today?

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
Yes you did? You did quite.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
He's an Omaha high low guy. I was gonna say
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