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January 7, 2025 175 mins
Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" discuss the Texans' AFC South opponents going through major personnel changes after the Jaguars fired head coach Doug Pederson, the Colts fired defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and the Titans fired general manager Ran Carthon. Meanwhile, the Texans are preparing to host the Chargers for a playoff matchup, but former NFL head coach Rex Ryan does not give the Texans a chance, saying, "Chargers, basically I never realized they get a bye. Oh wait, they gotta play [the Texans]. What's the difference?" Matt and Ross also: 
  • preview the Rockets vs. the Wizards
  • debate the future of NIL in college athletics
  • recap Week 18 in "Ross' NFL Rewind"
  • talk about who has the coolest mustache in Houston
  • give their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Two NH Town.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a tunesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I'm here in our nation's capital, Washington, DC, where.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Every airport was closed yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Ross thousands and thousands of people stranded and basically five
inches of snow closes down America's capital.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
How'd you make it in? You guys got it early enough.
I don't you know. Honestly, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Maybe private aircraft has a little bit more leniency than
the commercial aircraft.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know. But okay, that's great. Glad you made it, Matt.
I mean, American needs Wizard's rockets tonight. Absolutely. Is there
going to be snow linking through the roof like there
was rain the other year? Oh my gosh, there's been rain.
There has been broken baskets.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
There's been all sorts of different things over the years
that have delayed games. Not finding a good net to
put up, I mean, having the the rims not calibrated properly,
all sorts of things that keep the NBA delayed. But
the games must go on. Sports RV how the hell
are you.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
And they do? I'm doing great. A must win game
for the Rockets tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
It is far from it, far from a must win game, okay.
And my goal for you in twenty twenty five is
to downgrade the absolute certainty of which the term must
win comes.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, you just make varying degrees of gray area and
I take it out, Matt. No, but sometimes you need gray.
I mean you've got gray sometimes. Sometimes you got to
take out the judgment calls, like the NFL did. Remember
they used to have the push out rule. They're like,
that's a judgment call. We're gonna take that out. We're
gonna eliminate it. We're gonna make it easier on everyone.
That's what I do. I make it easier on everyone.
Some people say Week eleven against the Cowboys must win game.

(01:55):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, but you're you're fighting this battle by yourself. I
think comedian you that comedian? Oh yeah, Brian Reagan. Brian Reagan. Yeah,
he's funnier than you. So I'm happy he's on my side. Yeah,
how's his curer these days?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think he's a multi millionaire comedian. Wow?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
All right, So maybe I should go to his side
of things.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Let me see, let's go to celebrity net worth for
a guy, Brian Reed.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Do you believe those websites? By the way, now, all right,
so this is seven million, is what this says? I mean,
I'm close to that in the negative in terms of
debt ross. All right, so let me tell you what
life is like here first and foremost, there isn't a
lot of ROSSI let's be brutally honest to the audience.

(02:40):
We don't like to lie to them. A lot of
piping hot sports news of the day, right.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
What do you mean? Tell us stuff going on? Well,
I will, I will let you go to those main headlines. Okay,
the Titans have fired their GM, Ran Carthon. Brian Callahan
is going to remain their coach.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Matt your thoughts, um, it's a hot, this mess of
an organization. Amy Crunk's drunk. I hate her, I hate
what they've done to my former team, and I despise her.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And that's about it. To round out the AFC South,
Doug Peterson fired, Carthon fired, and then Indianapolis and Jim
Ursa sticking with his guys.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, the general manager and the head coach both sticking around.
So all right, I got you on that. Uh So
back to my initial point. When there's not a lot
of high hot piping sports headlines, I I I've been
going to the fore you tab and it's probably a
major mistake.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm oh, geez.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
There are three things that have been on the for
you tab all day long. One has been the Washington snow,
which I didn't realize they don't get. They get snow here,
but they don't get like heavy dumpings of snow, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's this surprising me. It does to me too.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I was like this, like we're staying on Pennsylvania Avenue
when there's a big there's a more important building down
the street. But there wasn't a single person out last
night about seven o'clock last night. I mean nobody, we
said at the hotel on eight nobody did anything, just
to just hunker down in our hotel. And the area
which we were in, it was called Georgetown, which is
obviously not by by the school, is a.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Fantastic It's a west got a west you vibe to it.
Lots of restaurants, lots of bars, lots of shopping. It's
really really cool.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
But no one was out because they were telling everybody
don't go out because of the weather. So that was
the first thing I saw on for you. The second thing,
if I'm Joy Taylor ROSSI, I'm not looking at anything social.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Media maybe forever m was she tweeting last night?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
No, she went on her show last night.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
What else is she supposed to do? No?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't bet gards you from doing that. But it's
the jokes are endless. I mean they are non stop
about what a who she is?

Speaker 4 (04:51):
What?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Excuse me? I almost had a bad connection there, Yeah,
I must have. I think the line is blipping from Washington,
d C. Maybe maybe somebody from the government's checking this out.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, okay, But Jason Whitlock, her former FS one colleague,
has not been afraid to put out thousands of tweets
about her life.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
And so Joy Taylor is for a show that no
one watched. And I believe that When I say that,
when no one did, I don't think anybody.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Did, Right, I never watched it. I still don't mean.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, her most before Yester in the last forty eight hours,
I mean she was like the sidekick on Colin Coward
show for a while and that's when people kind of
knew her, but not really a lot. I mean, she's
just as Jason went, like I said, got peanut butter skin,
and you know large Jason Whitlock said, what she had

(05:46):
peanut butter skin?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
When Okay, that's weird. So that's number two and you
think that's weird. Yeah, Number three.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Netflix and the w w E Raw debut last night
was the third biggest thing I saw on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh my god, my for you tab is pushing that.
My for you tab thinks that I'm like the biggest
wrestling fan there. I feel like agendas get pushed on
the four you tab. Because I had never done anything
wrestling related. I was getting a million tweets about Monday
or Night Raw. It's funny. The same thing for me.
I got all these scantily clad women saying, oh no,
you nailed. No no, no no, that's not true. No no,

(06:27):
just like you crosshairs right there. Not true at all.
I look at nothing except sports information, entertainment news. That's
about it. That is the perfect fit. Not true at
all all Right.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
So that's the three things that I was thinking about
this and you and I have kind of had debated
over the years about how far streaming services are going
to become a.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Part of our sports world.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I still believe, and I will follow my sore on this,
we will never have a Super Bowl on a streaming service.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't know you would go down with that ship.
It could happen. I'm gonna stay with it. It could
be ten or twenty years, but it could happen. I
feel like it very well could happen.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
But for a show, and Raw is a weekly series
has been around probably thirty years.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean it's a heritage un territage show. What I
mean it is.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
I mean millions and billions of dollars made off the show,
large ratings no matter what network it's on. And they
in the WWE took a huge paycheck to go to
Netflix where they probably will have ROSSI amazing numbers. Look
at the NFL two Christmas Games. There were two really
frankly dog games. Netflix cannot brag about enough about how
many people watch those two games it made, which made

(07:48):
me think, I think maybe and you and I have
our kind of figured this out.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
How many people do we think Netflix people have? Netflix subscribers?
Are there? I thought it was three hundred million or
something like that. So what would that be out of
every ten people? What do you mean like one, like
out of very ten Americans as Netflix? Oh okay, no, No,
there's like three hundred and fifty minutes. Let's see two
hundred and eight I'm looking it up. Two hundred and
eighty two million subscribers. I think there's like three hundred

(08:12):
and fifty million people in America. I can look that
up too, But is that two hundred and eighty two worldwide?
And it's got to be worldwide? Think so? Yeah, well,
the US population is three hundred and thirty five million.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
But it's crazy to me that we're going to see
and I don't What I misjudged is the amount of
high end programming that will affect will go to streaming services. Yeah,
with college basketball, would the college Now college football Championship
is tied into ESPN for a long pert, but could

(08:43):
the Final Four when they're Turner deal ens go to
a streaming? Does does it have the does the final
does NCAA basketball have the cachet to go to streaming?
Could you see a I mean we've already seen a
weekly NFL package on Amazon Prime. Could we see additional
playoff games. There's one so far this weekend. I mean
to the levels that I never thought streaming would take

(09:07):
sports too.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's going to Yeah, Like I said, I wouldn't even
put it off the table that they eventually a SUPERWL
would be. Now, it's not gonna happen in the next
few years, but ten twenty years down the road, I
can absolutely see that happening. Yeah, I mean it's going
to streaming.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
How about opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies of Olympics?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Sure, why not? They can find among the Peacock.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, but the problem is if there's if they're on
Peacock and they're on Paramount. Plus those are sister companies,
those are spawns of the big networks.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm just curious at some point will who would who
would really Netflix separate themselves from a commercial television network
to go, We're gonna put all of our good crap
on Netflix and the WW is the greatest example of that, right, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Is it's Isn't it extremely clear that Netflix is trying
to contend with those big boys? I mean they literally
bought Christmas NFL games and they have the Monday Night Raw,
Like you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, and they bought two games at one hundred and
fifty million dollars, which we thought was a joke, right,
it was like, come on, there's no way to make
the money back.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
And then they had great viewership and on terrible games,
terrible games. And I think, and if you're Netflix stockholder,
or is it privately held or publicly? No? Yeah, I
believe it is is publicly.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, if you are that, and you are the executives
you are, you are smoking cigars, you are high five
in each other, You're like, this is the best thing
we've ever done. You know, honestly, I'd be mad at
I'd be mad at the NF.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'd be mad at.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
If I was a television network CBS, Fox, NF, ABC,
I'd be mad that the NFL is pushing these games
off these streaming services because it's given me less and
less games.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm sure everybody's mad, That's what That's what's interesting to me.
Everybody like CBS got mad or I'm sorry, ESPN got
mad because they were getting bad matchups on Prime was
getting mad because they got bad matchups, Like there's only
so many good games to go around.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I mean, you gotta stick Carolina somewhere.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Hey, Carolina's pretty good, all right, you gotta stick the
giant somewhere. Don't have me read the Bryce Young versus
c J. Stroud graphic earlier. Too soon Sports Harvey too soon?
All right.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
There has been some a little bit of disrespect from
the national folks about the Chargers Texans game on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Disrespect.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
First of all, there they're saying the time slot is appropriate,
which is really the disrespect. That's just, it is what
it is. But no one, I shouldn't say no one.
Very few people think this is going to be a
Texans win. Your thoughts on this, Houston, Texas seven one
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two one two five seven NINTI. We have gut feelings

(11:45):
coming up at eleven thirty. Rash, you have your gut
feeling from yesterday and the rockets. We've been saving it
for twenty four hours. I forgot no, you wrote it down.
There's no change. You forgot all right, fine, you did,
you did?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Forget God all right?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Ross very slow.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Gut feelings eleven thirty, Okay, what else? Please? I'm locked in.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I'm listening news at noon twelve o'clock. Your final NFL
rewind of the season.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh, thank god, twelve third. You can do playoff rewinds
for at least in the first round. Yeah, for sure.
And believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Today at one fifty, it is The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. I'm here in DC for tonight's Rockets Wizards game.
This is Sports Talk.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Seven ninety, Matt Thomas, Ross VIIEL. It's the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is ten eighteen of Sports Talk seven ninety, The
Matt Thomas Show with you today from Washington, d C.
Where they are trying to thaw out and the Rockets
and Wizards will be playing tonight in DC. Rockets will
be going to Memphis on Thursday to play the Grizzlies,
Saturday in Atlanta and then home for a game against
Memphis and back on the road next week. So a

(13:03):
lot of Rockets travel thirteen of the next seventeen for
the Rockets away from Toyota Center. Rex Ryan Rossi said,
the Chargers basically get a buy against the Texans.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Agree or disagree man on that's cool. I mean forcip No,
it's no, it's it's stupidity for for reactionaries, so he
knows they're not getting a buye. He's just saying that

(13:34):
he's trying to what platform is this on? What stupid
show is this that nobody wants to watch? Is on?

Speaker 3 (13:41):
It was on the Honest on the ESPN primetime show.
That the show he's on.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
By the way, he's still up for the job or
the Jets. He's not gettne the Jet. There's no way
got it.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's so weird that anybody would give him the time
of day. I mean, he's been gone for a long time.
What is going on with the Jets? Not that we
particularly overly care, but that's just a that's a really distant,
unfamiliar bad I mean, why why aren't they going after uh,
you know, John Gruden or why don't they get Urban

(14:13):
Meyer back for a second go around? I mean, what
did Rex Ryan do except maybe have a couple of
good years in New York and then really after that nothing?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Why would the Jets bring him back? Is he is
he still close boys with Woody Johnson or something? I
don't know. He said apparently on the Is Rex Ryan
off of his meds? Apparently he said on ESPN New York.
He thinks one percent he's getting the job. Yeah he's high.
Yeah he's high. Not that anything wrong with that, as

(14:44):
long as you're not driving and you know, and under
the influence of something. But yeah, I mean it's fine.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
But I think and again I'm not for Baltimore Material
because Baltimore Material is in twenty twenty four, especially one
hundred percent overrated.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
But but you can't say basically it's a bye. I mean,
that's basically discounting anything that any NFL.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Team would have done. And look, the Texas are ten
and seven. They have been very vulnerable the last I
don't know, seventeen weeks. They're not they want a very
poorous division. I don't think anybody has that grandiose thoughts
of them being ain't making a deep playoff run. But
there's no reason why they can't beat the Chargers on Saturday. Now,
whether you don't want to talk yourself into doing that,

(15:30):
it's two different things.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
But there are when C. J. Stroud has got going,
he's got decent pass protection, which is a huge question.
He's been able to establish a huge combination with Nico Collins.
Joe Mixon has been fantastic as long as he's been
healthy for the most part, in the offensive line gives
him some sort of I mean, and the defense with
Will Anderson out there and Daniel Hunter and the rest

(15:51):
of the group.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean, Stingley has had a all Pro season. Basically,
it's not void of I mean, this is not a
complete flu No, they're not in the upperational on the AFC,
but it's not flukish.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
They didn't win the division with a seven and ten record.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
So if I'm Rex Ryan, I mean, let's be let's
stay away from the hyperble a little bit.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Don't you think it's stupid, It's ridiculous. It's it's trivializing
what the Texans have accomplished this year. Rex Ryan doesn't
even believe that himself. As an ex NFL coach, he
knows that you have to get up and game plan
for every single game that anybody can lose on any
given Sunday. So for him to say this is just
completely dis and disingenuous and he's just sensationalizing for I

(16:33):
don't even know what eyeballs on whatever show this was
on that he said this, And this is just where
sports discourse is heading. And that's fine. It's actually where
it's already headed years ago. But to come out as
a former coach and somebody who's been around the NFL
this long to call the Texans a bye it's a
you're either stupid or you're trolling. It's one or the other. Yeah,

(16:56):
it's a trill job.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
And honestly, you know, maybe that's part of the reason
why Rossie not to get grandiosa on the sports media industry.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Maent No, Yeah, I know. I think about this every day, Matt.
Every day.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I really think about this being a wonderful career that
we established, and we try to keep it as extremely
lighthearted as possible.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, we try to have fun and we try to
have a good time. We try to we try to inform,
and we get things wrong, and we predict things. And
I predict things wrong every week. You predict things wrong
every week, Matt. But I mean to come out and
say that it is an absolute bye week for the
Los Angeles Chargers to go on the road to take
on a division champion that won ten games, and it's
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's at the third Yeah, it's saying that if you
want to say the Chargers are going to win this game.
That's fair. And if you said the Texan the Chargers
are going to have it be a ten point.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Win, that's actually fair. But to call it to buy,
I mean, and again.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't think any First of all, there are one
percent of the people in the Texans locker room that
know who recks Ryan is among the players, and so
that it starts it into conversation here.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
But it's what I think. I mean, he said that,
so the espn PR people can put tweets out saying, man,
Rex Ryan really comes down hard on one playoff team, right,
and then you know, he gets mentioned, he gets aggregated,
the show gets mentioned. We talk about it in this
show now.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
And it's yeah, but that's what we do. We you know,
we are a reactionary program. We don't we don't organically
bring things up. We react to what we see and watch.
So if we're watching and we're catching sports personalities and
I use that term very loosely saying things, then you
have to react to them.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
And I'm always of this belief, and I always find
it funny people say, you know, don't give those guys
a time of day because they win, they don't really win.
I mean, if Stephen A. Smith says terrible, stupid, illogical things,
I would not. I would if I said, look, I've

(19:01):
said goofy stuff over the years, and I fully admit that.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
But I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I don't think it's a win if I if I
say something so ridiculous that people make fun of me
and I want to being wrong, that to me is
not a win. That is a that is an ego
hit to me. That is a credibility hit to me,
and I'm not in for that. So anybody says, you know,
and you know, people will say, well, all publicity is
good publicity.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I think Joey Taylor would argue with that, Well, she's
raising her profile. Well, I'm sure her i G count
has gone up higher, I'm sure the DM number has increased.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Good for her.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
But but I don't believe that all publicity is good publicity.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I'll say ninety nine percent of publicity is good publicity.
I would with you on that.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I mean, when you think of joe Joey Taylor, now,
do you think of her as a female sports commentator
or do you think of her asmo.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
As a what getting the lines blipping out again? I
think I'm sorry about that. I don't mean maybe I'm
hitting one of the buttons here. Uh yeah, I'm only
remembering Joe Taylor for two things.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Peanut butter skin and big who has.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Okay, I was gonna say on the left and on
the right, but go ahead, Oh fair enough.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
You mean the guys are like in general political stance?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, all right to me. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
I just feel I am I am not of the
buyer of all, especially with social media. I mean, do
you want your name dragged on social media?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Because Joe Taylor? You gotta go, Shannon Sharp, you got
yours going. Stephen A.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Smith bumbles the name of a person that's dead who
thinks he's a starting quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
It hurts his credibility? What the hell was that? Thank you?
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (20:54):
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If you want to jump into the conversation, we are
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going on to the week at the NFL.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Rewind how about my cougar's last night ROSSI, the best
defensive team in the country, says everybody, let's go. How
did it go? Who do they play?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
They played Texas Christian University, who, by the way, did
not whoa whoa.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Whoa whoa TCU. Come on now, yeah, I knew I was.
I knew I was. Get in trouble. Long Warners have
a big matchup at the Moody Center against the number
two aubun Tigers. Oh very good, Chraig boy is gonna
do his seventh game in eight days. They are eleven
and a half point dogs at home. Eleven and a half.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
I have a bad connection.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Did you say something? Eleven and a half point dogs
at home? In college basketball? You get a lot of
points in college basketball for home.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Right, more so than probably in the Proom can be
ugly tonight on a on a big Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Are gonna watch or no? And I'll watch it?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Is it on the regular networkers?

Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right now, I'll probably do a postgame right around then.
I'll mean, I'll have an eye on the game. I'll
watch the game. Okay, that's my squad. What do you
mean I'm not gonna not watch.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So tomorrow when they upset the Tigers, We're gonna have
a huge celebration. We'll play the opening segment of the
show at ten o'clock will be Craigway highlights.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Okay, hopefully we need Trey Johnson to drop forty. Let's go,
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Ten twenty nine Sports Talk seven ninety This is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. If you want to jump on anything,
whether it be about the Texans expectations Saturday against the Chargers,
whether it's the Rockets against the Wizards, whether it be
about our beloved Houston Cougar's holding teams under fifty points
on a regular basis, whether it be about Joey Taylor

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Speaker 2 (24:20):
When I listen to the Matt Thomas Show, I don't
even understand the eclectic nature of the show, the dichotomy,
the ostentatiousness, the perfunctory that sounds about as smart as
Levon Ball. Back to the Matt Thomas Show, whoever he is?

Speaker 3 (24:40):
It is ten thirty four. It is about Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety here in Washington,
d C. Where the Rockets and Witches are good after
it tonight? Do you see the Chargers have a new
running back for Saturday's big game?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Gus Edward's back? Nope? Uh?

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Kamani Vidal? Oh you're really gant in the weeds now? Uh?
Who who they signed? Somebody is Zeke Elliott? Yes, I
had no idea. I was just guessing. Oh I guess,
I know. I know that JK. Dobbins came back. Yep.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Ezekiel Elliott has been has been signed as a playoff
push for the Dallas for the SNA.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
But where's he gonna be on the depth chart? Is
what I'm asking? Is Kamani Vidal hurt?

Speaker 7 (25:29):
Well?

Speaker 3 (25:29):
How many carries? I could a guy that just got
to the team like a couple of days ago.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Get well. He's also not very good.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
God, if he rushes for like fifty yards against the Texans,
it will be just salt on the Texans wounds.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
There's no way he's gonna be behind Dobbin Dobbin. Did
Dobbings get hurt last week? I'm out of I used
to be on top of all these things because of
fantasy football, but the season's over, so I don't care anymore.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, we should care, because they're obviously signed him to
play him. I don't think he's just putting uniform on
just blank and Gigler. Well, they might have signed him
just to have as depth.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, but it is interesting that they're going to get
somebody just for the playoff run, which actually kind of
happens a lot more than you think it does in sports. Oh,
he's signed to the practice squad. Yeah, hmm, Okay, Gus
Edward JK. Dobbins healthy. It looks like Gus Edward's questionable.

(26:26):
And then I guess they hate kamani Vi Doll. He
was playing okay earlier in the year. Look at you
with all this Charger knowledge, saw you win championships. Matt,
come on now. Yeah, well I'm done with that, so
I know it is. It is a huge relief. Is
we're going to miss you? Yeah, I know the league's
gonna miss your free money.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Dang, yeah you keep Yeah, that's fine, I'll be you
mean the charitable contributions I.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Make to the Oh, I'm sorry, yes, the five oh
one c we have absolutely exactly all right, seven one
three two one two five seven nine if you want
to get in seven one three two one two five
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against Tuesday. But it's met right, energy level is low.

(27:15):
Then how are other stations in town doing for twelve
hours a day on it? Well that's their job, that's
their thing, okay, And those are their hits and they
played them. Man, I need a hit. What kind of
hit we need to hit here?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
We need bregmant that goes sign somewhere so we can
have our final farewell. You know we played your your
your pre recorded while you were gone.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
What you did and the astro Oh yeah, I don't
even remember what I said or what was this again?
Can I hear what Connor, I mean playing for Ross.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
This is this is already locked and loaded for the
moment that Alex Bregman signed.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Oh, this was a case he signed while I was
away in Asia. Right, Okay, let's see if it fits
to Alex Prigman, because he is not going to sign
here now. The only question will be is will he
signed somewhere while mister Villarreal is away from this country? Alex, Alex,

(28:16):
Alex Alex F. Bregman. We really appreciate you as a
representative of the new era of Houston Astros baseball, where
we didn't have to watch Bull Porter bumble through double switches,

(28:38):
where we didn't have to watch Brad Mills just call
everyone special when they were replacement level, to where you
finally got some national recognition. You, Carlos Correa, dallas kyk Lentz,
mcculler's junior, Jose Al Tuvey, the foundation of the new
Houston Astros. We will always remember how you could hit

(28:59):
forty home runs when there was a juice ball. At least,
we'll always remember you're calling Trevor Bauer Tyler and being
brash and young and setting the edge and having an
attitude about the new Houston Astros and all the great
times you've given us and all the great plays over
there at the hot corner.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Maybe go ahead of del thank you.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Sometimes sometimes sometimes it Insday two time All Star, sometimes
Gold Glover, sometimes Crawford box shots. Sure you couldn't hit
home runs over four hundred feet, but they still went
out and we appreciate you for that, an all time
ash real great, well, welcome back, Welcome you back for

(30:02):
your orange jacket to be in the Astros Hall of Fame.
Go ahead, and as Marshaun Lynch would say, get your chicken,
and we appreciate you and we won't be rooting for
you as you play for insert team, but we'll always
love you and respect you and remember the greatness of
Alex F. Brickman.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
You know what we should have done, Well, that was perfect,
It was fine. We should have like inserted a bunch
of teams like yeah, uses only when he signs the Tigers,
the Detroit Tigers signs, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
The Boston Red Sox, the Oakland As you're spending money now, Matt,
you know what you could do. You could record some
for each individual team it's still.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Eligible to grab him like Detroit Centric one.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
No We'll just to delete insert team and just insert
the team. It's very simple. Oh that was a touching tribute. Wow,
a couple of backhanded compliments, but that was kind of rude.
But from you, from from from well, who else was
on it? Matt? This is me?

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, so you thought you did great? You want to
give yourself a pat on the back. I'm myself a
B plus if you were, If you were, and I
will say buckeye, you'd get a buckeye on your helmet.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, at least modesty is part of your decorm with
these days, I said B plus. Oh I was hiring that.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Now you should have guessed it on the exact day
it was gonna happen, which still doesn't happen yet.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, it hasn't. I thought. I'm a little shocked, and
it'd be interesting to see what happens now going forward.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Well, I mean, if anybody, if anybody can wait, it's him.
I mean it's not like he's you know, living his
life paycheck to paycheck.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, but these teams got to fill out their rosters.
I got to figure out who's going to be playing
third base for them this up coming year. Or second base.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, man, I wish I could call him. I could
call him, but he's not gonna return a call. But
I was like you getting a little nervous and send
him a text. No, let him be I watch him
congratulations when he gets the deal done, say what up?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Briggie Bombs? Who you sign a wit and just put
w I T You know I could do.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
I could, I could sell, I could uh slow play
and say, hey man, I haven't got any salts in
a while.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
You could. Although it's not Briggie bomb anymore, what is it?
I think it's a national brand name. It's Peace, Love
and Soul or whatever. Is that what it is? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
How did you realize peace, Love and Soul is the
salt of bread?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah? How do you spell soula so o u l Yes,
soul like sun in Spanish.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Okay, Well, he's trying to me. He's trying to make
it go national. That's the reason why I'm wishing him
the best, because my guess is Alex Bregman isn't really
well known in New Hampshire.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You think so, No, I said, it's probably Yankees fans
there to hate him.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
What if he goes to the Yankees. I can't hate
him then, true, that's Boston territory.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't want him to go to the Yankees, but
just for the pure hypocrisy of their fan base, it'd
be kind of funny. There'd be a silver lining.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
The lowest level of hate would be if he was
a Detroit Tiger, because I mean, how do you it's
you can't hate the Tigers?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Why not? Because they're not hateable? You can hate the
Red Simon what means suck at Spencer Torkleson? Oh is
that right? Yeah? Tark schoolball, you suck. I hate you.
I hate you. I do kind of hate the Tark
school just because he's so good.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
It's because he throws two hits over every nine inning.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
That's it. Especially facing the Astros lineup. Not good all right?

Speaker 3 (33:27):
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Speaker 2 (33:32):
So how's the weather back home? Is it still? It's chili?
It's not too bad though, it's good. It's a nice
chill in the air. I like it. I like it
much better than the eighty degrees you were stumping for recently.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh give me eighty every samday, give it to me
it's January, man old chill in the air.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
It was It was perfect. It got just at freezing
so nothing iced over. There was no problems. You can
put a hoodie on and wear some sweatpants. You can
actually feel like you live somewhere there's it gets a
little chill in the air. It's perfect right now to me.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
By the way, they're telling people in Dallas be super
careful for the Big Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah apparently. Yeah, I'm not making it up there.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I don't want you to go there.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh, this could cause the tickets to go super nuclear
low and then I might think about it, and then
you're gonna get stuck in like, yeah, I can't move.
Do you really want that? No? I guess you can
see your aunt while you're there. I mean think about that. Yeah,
Aunt Janet shouts to Aunt Janet. She's a big Longhorn fan.
Her and uncle Jim. Jim and Janet shout out.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
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Speaker 5 (35:58):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross be a real fine
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Speaker 3 (36:10):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to get in seven one three two one
two five seven ninety, our time is ten fifty.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Where weather shut down the city yesterday about half a
foot of snow in the area, which I didn't Again,
I thought they were used to this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
They were not. So everything has been closed down and all.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
The airports were closed for the most part yesterday. Some
flights were getting in and out, not many. We were
able fortunate to get here for the game. Uh take
on the Wizards, who are, hands down, Ross the worst
team in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
So get that going for you must win game.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Let's go it is not No one said that now
would be mus It'd be a very embarrassing game to lose,
so in some respects it is a must win. You
don't want to lose a game to a team that's
got the worst record of the NBA exactly.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
So thus it is a you know what, I'm glad
you brought this up. It is a must win. It
is a must win. Couldn't have said it better myself.
My god, I don't know why I did that. Yeah,
what are you doing back? I'm sorry, I was crinkling
up some trash. I thought my mic was off. That's

(37:20):
what happens when you leave. I'm sorry. What are we
talking about. Let's go Rockets, baby.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Jalen Green questionable for Tonight's what's going on with him? Well,
he's you know, the injury bugs hit every once in
a while.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, it's mid season. You're getting about forty games in.
It happens. Yeahr Easton's injury bug has been hitting for
a while.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, Uh, it's right. You know, having uh Jabari Smith
gone for four to eight weeks is not a great thing.
That's a wide that's a wide net. They throwing that
back for it is We'll see, We'll see by the
way he is, uh Jabari said, Jalen is questionable tonight
with a right knee contusion.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Mm okay, Well, I would say sit this one out.
They should be fine without him.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I mean if if you if you can't win without
Jaalen Green, then you weren't meant to win period.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Cam Widmore can come in and do a great job.
I think, Oh, Campbell take up thirty shots. By the way,
I love this opportunity. Can we have a little discussion
about Jalen Green and his perimeter defense? Why not going
really good lately?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Better than the recent Twitter conversations evolving Jalen.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Are we sitting there watching the game on Friday? There
were like three possessions where he locked up Jason Tatum
and even as a coach, you Doka mentioned he there's
one of them. He forced them into a twenty four
second violation. I was like, oh my god, Jalen Green,
let's go now. His his perimeter defense been good all
season so uh and improved all season. But I've really

(38:44):
really been impressed with the way that he's grown from
that standpoint lately.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Oh, the Rockets are gonna win games this year just
by sheer intangibles, defense, rebounding, not turn the.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Ball over a lot. But there are gonna be some
nights and the and the rock to be a first
admit they got to shoot better. Yeah, they're gonna hold
opponents to like under one hundred points quite often, or
under a hundred and fifteen under Celtics only scored one
hundred and nine, but you only scored eighty six? Was
the problem?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
H Yeah, Rockets, I think we're giving up about one
hundred and six a game. Last time I checked, somewhere
in that range.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I'm trying to find the last opponent to score over
one hundred and fifty on them. Looks like it was
the Kings a few weeks ago. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I mean, for all the things that people are kind
of saying, are the Rockets real, it's just flucish or whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
The standings don't lie, right ross. Uh, the standings can lie.
I think they're lying. In the case of the Lakers,
as I told you last week, they're fraudulent and then
they lost to the to the Rockets. But for the
most part, Yeah, it'll shake out by the end of
eighty two games.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah, Rockets to the number two seed. Right now in
the Western Conference at twenty three and twelve.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
There's one team in the top nine in the Western
Conference with a negative point differential. It is the Los
Angeles Lakers. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
By the way, speaking of that, you know Oklahoma City
they never lose, They've won fifteen straight games.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Is that good? I think it's amazing. Actually, are they
taking on the Cavaliers next? That game on ESPN tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Well, thank god ESPN be tied to make that change
instead of putting on the Bucks for the ninth time
in the last two weeks.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Man, Oklahoma City Thunder Cleveland Cavaliers the biggest game in
the NBA.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
You know, it's funny if you took the two smallest
NFL markets, nobody would care because the NFL has such
amazing branding through a third place.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
It depends on who the teams are. Okay, too small.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
The smallest NFL market would be I mean technically Green Bay,
but Milwaukee is really millwak It's really Milwaukee's team, right, Yeah,
so Milwaukee would be what in the market size among
the thirty two probably.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, Jaguars Titans not getting people excited.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
But no, what I'm talking about for the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Oh, for the Super Bowl? Yeah? Well I think yeah,
if they're really good, if you had a Jaguar Panther
Super Bowl now, it wouldn't carry as much cachet as
say a Steelers versus Cowboys. It would be close.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
No, but we still watch it. I have a feeling
and miss maybe this. This shows you the separation between
the NBA and professional football is if you had Oklahoma
City Cleveland in the NBA Finals, you might see epicy
lone numbers.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
I'd watch and it would be the two.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
It would be by far the two best teams in
the league. I mean, these two teams have what's that.
I mean, look at their records right now. I mean
Cleveland's lost four times in thirty five games. The Thunder
have lost five times in thirty five games.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah. But but let's say we we did this ten
years ago and it was Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers,
and it was Kevin Durant and the James Harden and
Russell Westbrook. Let Oklahoma City Thunder. It would get a
lot of cats. It's about the star star power. Well,
it's also about the NBA marketing and developing these stars.
They keep shoving and cramming Steph Curry and Lebron James,
forty year olds down our throats. They need to cultivate

(42:03):
and figure out that they need to get people invested
in these other star players, shake Yill, just Alexander is
should be a star, Donovan Mitchell is having a great
season for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Evan Bobley and other
guys on a team like it's just the the NBA
marketing has fumbled hard. Yeah, but let's do this. How
do you delicately do that but not put all that out?

(42:24):
I mean, if you put your all your eggs.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
In one basket and shake Yill, just Alexander and Donovan
Mitchell and ratings are epically down and interests down.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
You lose your job. Right, Who's gonna lose their job?
Adam Silver is gonna fire himself, some somebody something.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Point is that they have you have to you have
to satisfy the networks, and the networks have known for
a better part of ten years. Putting the Warriors and
the Lakers or anybody well, or the Knicks for that matter.
Those are three incredibly high, branded, high marquee.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Teams, the Celtics on the Saint Mix that are going
to deliver numbers for you, Right, So it's being short
sighted though you're saying, oh, it's a to b Oh,
this gives us numbers. We just want numbers. Here are
these teams. You have to invest in the future. These
guys are gonna get old, they're gonna retire, and eventually
they're not going to be the faces of the league. Now.
Also it's on these players as well. Michael Jordan was

(43:20):
also a huge star because he was great, but also
he had charisma. People liked him, people, you know, liked
hearing him. He was on commercials, he was everywhere and
they're like, you know what, that guy's kind of cool,
Like you need charismatic care.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Basically, Donovan Mitchell to go on Stephen.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Core, like Kawhi Leonard was never going to be the
face of the league because he just had for you know,
not that he doesn't want to have charisma, so he
has no charisma. So it's it's it's a number of factors.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
So you take the So what Adam Silver should do
is take these these four or five teams in these
smaller markets, the most recommendable players and said, let's get out.
Let's go out and maybe not throw every single game
of theirs on national television, but let's introduce them.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
To people to get him an interviewed, get him out places. Yeah, absolutely,
put him on the put him him on the Tonight Show,
partner him with some of your sponsors. I think shake
Yilders Alexander has a good personality, you know what. I don't,
you know, what's funny And I'm not trying to be glib,
but I don't know if he does or not he does.
I think I've heard him do say funny stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
I don't know, but this has a general sport. I mean,
if you and I went to a Rando sports bar
in Houston and said, hey, tell me what you know
about shake Yalders Alexander, right.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
A lot of that's the failing of the NBA too.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, I get you. I think you're absolutely right about that.
Ten fifty eight. It is the Matt Thomas Show, Sports
Talk seven ninety with Ross seven one three two one
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Speaker 3 (44:44):
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Speaker 2 (46:06):
If you want to get it ross. What is on
this Houston streets?

Speaker 3 (46:08):
What's the buzz around the Houston sports team today?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Let's go Texans and they have They're basically a bye.
I'm hearing that's what the people are saying, basically a
bye for the Los Angeles Chargers.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Well, I did a little more digging during the breaks.
I can't find many people that liked the Texans, and
not again everybody's First of all, did anybody like the
Texans against the Browns last year where I know shefter
Cleveland came in here and beat them during the regular season?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
No? And then I think the Texans put forty five
on the Browns right somewhere. I don't like that. That
was also Joe Flat I don't think. I don't think
Justin Herbert's gonna go Joe Flacco.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
And it's not like the Chargers had this this this long,
ridiculously successful postseason history themselves.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
They do not well, justin Herbert's never played a playoff game,
which is surprising to me. Correct, is he the best?
Was he the best quarterback going into this year that
never been to the playoff team? I'll say yes, just
because nobody else is coming to mind immediately, right right,
that makes sense. It's only twenty six years old, twenty

(47:15):
three touchdowns, three picks, and.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
They hardly used him in terms of passing early in years,
early in the fantasy quarterback and then well then he
came along.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
As you saw.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Man, there is such a relief that I don't have
to play fantasy football anymore. It's it's now we're gonna
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Roto on.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
This radio show. But man, he was. He was over
twenty fantasy points the last three weeks of the season.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, in must win games because they were trying to
make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
They were all must yeah, here we go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
What I am seeing though from attorney is that most
people think, hey, this will be a closer game, that
it should not be considered a foregone conclusion. Chargers still
favored what as the line moved beyond much two and
a half three.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
It's been fluctuating two and a half three so or
it's been that I've seen. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
To me, I always feel like people that try to
talk about point spreads or goofs when it comes to
well that half point means everything, It doesn't.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Really mean everything. Well, it depends on the half point.
Two and a half to three is huge. In nine
and a half to ten, ten can be big, but
you know do twelve and a half to thirteen is
not that big. It depends.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah, and the over under on the scorer on the game.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Is forty three and a half ish. Let me go back, Okay,
go down a point.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Could we see twenty three seventeen? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Right, absolutely, I'm going at this point god gut feeling
at the moment. Now, don't hold me to it. I'm
thinking twenty seventeen Texas.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Oh you're going to Texas with the win?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, let's go. Wait a minute, you had the charters
winning yesterday.

Speaker 11 (48:45):
I know.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
I told you. As the week goes along, I'll get
more optimistic. You are, so battle Racks seriously, let me
let me give me some space here, Texas pr e listen.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
The only person you send gifts to is Wexler. It's
time to put Ross on a list of gifts.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I don't go to games. Send him, send him some cookie,
send him a T shirt, give him a jersey, let
him hug Hanner because apparently it's a big deal for
a lot of media types in the town. Well not
media people that think they're media. I mean, come on,
it's down to forty two and a half.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
By the way, Okay, I think again. I don't like
to bet sports when I'm in Vegas because that just
feels better. I mean, I just feel like I I mean,
I don't have the same I don't have the I
have degenerate bones in my body. But that's not sports
betting isn't won Won't.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
You just call the recorded line and get any locks.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Of the week coy and then we could call WFN
and brag about him. After the Jets and Giants playing
this week, all f.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Them get you a proxy.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
And a lot of Northeastern teams aren't in the playoffs. Well,
the only team is what Philadelphia representing that whole second?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Does that count? Who Buffalo or is that Buffalo counts
for sure?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
And and to zero surprise, I believe isn't the Buffalo?
Then what time is the Buffalo game?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
The Buffalo games at noon on Sunday, I believe.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Oh, that's crazy because usually in the NFL likes to
put horrible weather, uh and prime time, so they can
have that be a huge part of the game.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, I'm not. I'm a little confused why they went
with Commander's Buccaneers. Mm hmm. That's interesting for the Monday
night game. No, No, for the Sunday Sunday night game.
It's not the sexiest of the match. What what's the
what is the one of all the games this weekend?

(50:44):
Denver Buffalo, No, Washington, Tampa could be close, Packers Eagles
could be close. It's the well, the closest spread is
Commander's Buccaneers. It's three until Monday.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
The NBC said, And you know what, that's the one.
We think it's gonna give us the best game at
the end of the day, all of them.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, I wonder, I mean, did I imagine there was
a pecking order and teams had choices or I don't know.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
And my guess is if your pecking order is this week,
the next week, the pecking order changes a little bit,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, I have no idea. There's so many people with
skin in the game now with ESPN, NBC, Fox and
CBS and now Prime Video and soon the Hallmark Channel. Yeah,
I love that. They will have you on the pre
and post game show from a Christmas tree farm.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
And soon every network will have at least three games
a week, which means the CBS NFL package will be
one game.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
It's I think Wednesday Night Football in ten years is
Wednesday Night football a weekly thing? God?

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Every other Tuesday football on A and E.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
You know, we're all about players, safety and protecting the players.
They are the product, they are the heart and soul. Anyways, guys,
see you on Wednesday. You know what.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Basically the NFL owners tell commissioner could tell just go
get us some more money. Keep the television partners at
a distance, Like you know when Netflix, when the NFL
said we're gonna put two games on Netflix, the CBS,
NBC and ABC.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
And are like, man, we're giving you all this money.
What are you doing.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
No, it's it's gonna be fine. We're gonna give you
some better games. And then when Netflix gets the games, Oh,
you should have given us better games. Oh no, we'll
give you some better games.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Next year, I think. And what does Kadell make about
forty five million dollars a year, give or take somewhere
in that range. All he does is he has to
keep five television partners happy at all times by lying
to them. Yeah, by the way, we got corrected. Justin
Herbert did play once in the playoffs. You know if
that's on me. I read that on a tweet and

(52:46):
I meant to fact check it and I didn't. That's stupid.
I shouldn't have believed everything I read on Twitter. I'm sorry,
that's my bad. I meant to fact check that yesterday actually,
and I just ran with it today. Okay, well there
you go. But am I right though? I mean, you
got every television networks can complain about their games, but

(53:07):
yet the owners are like, do this, Goodell, We're paying
you forty five million dollars a year. Keep everybody at bay,
and we can collect all these checks. Yeah, it's just
it's about money, and it's all. Nobody likes any of
these commissioners too, but they all do. They all keep
their jobs because you know, they take the fall. They

(53:29):
do the bidding of the owners. Yeah, everybody hates Roger Goodell.
Roger Goodell's is doing what the owners tell him to do.
He's making a bowload of money for them, and he's
taking the fall. He goes out there with a bold
face and lies to everyone and gets made fun of,
and the owners are like, man, good job. You're basically
the lackey for the owners.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
You are a lucky who basically has you know how,
I always tell the average person lies four times per day.
Godell's like in ten eleven easily, Yeah, you have to
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
We care about players safe, We care about our television partners.
We care about their athletes. We care about the coaches.
We care about the social freedoms. We care No, no,
you care about the checks that make you billions of
dollars every I mean, you know how every company said
we had ten percent growth from year to year, or

(54:20):
we had eleven percent, or we had four percent, or
we redormant. The NFL doesn't even count the percentages. They
don't need to because that was last year they found.
This past year ross they found one hundred and fifty
million dollars. They didn't have two Netflix games. Does beg
the question I've kind of been thinking about this too,
is where do we go from here? As far as
there's always this, we got to do this to make

(54:41):
more money, more money, more money, more money. It was
an eighteenth game, I guess is going to come. Yes, eventually,
I'm thinking sponsorships on jerseys. It's already hit Major League
Baseball and it's already hit the NBA, So I feel
like the next dominoes are going to be eighteen games,
sponsorships on jersey. As far as the avenues for Revat,

(55:03):
it's not gonna bother me. It's is now eighteenth game,
I think is a little much. Seventeen is already. What
was this last week? Like you, what was this last weekend?
Really the last two weekends of this NFL season, they
were dog terrible games and then most of them, ninety
percent of them didn't matter. Yep. Well, here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna get the eighteenth game.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
It's gonna bring more money in, which is going to
give you another television partner to pony up, Like somebody's
going to buy an additional set of games. And then
ultimately Ross, you're gonna get the most incredible amount of
international games you've ever seen before.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Yeah. I think that's another one too.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Because they're eventually going to tap themselves out of money.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
In the United States, these teams, these teams are all
walking wounded to by the end of the year. Man,
it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Yeah, such as but that just shows you the powerful
football it is. I've never in my life been around
an industry that could harass its employees treat them like again,
they're all being kind of Compson, So I don't want
to say they're treating you know, they're they're being treated

(56:12):
porting it, so they're not everybody's as a guilty association
of this. If we ross, if we hated the NFL,
we wouldn't spend money in the tickets. If we hated
the NFL, we wouldn't spend money on the Sunday ticket.
If we hated the NFL, we wouldn't spend money in
the jerseys. We're all sitting here complaining about what's wrong
with it, but yet we dial into it. It's almost

(56:33):
like nil and college sports. I mean, as much as
I despise the rampant craziness that is that the NIL
that I think is going to destroy the sport. It
doesn't destroy the sport.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, but the question is how long is that going
to last? How long if you consider and continue to
ignore your constituents who complain about this and that and
everything of the game, and they continue to I don't
think ratings will continue to just go up and up
and up and up and up, but forever, forever. At
some point you hit a tipping point. At some point
you do need to invest in your audience and give
the people what they want. Well, I do believe. I

(57:04):
think we're seeing them with the NBA right now.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Oh yeah, the NBA, And I am afraid the college
is going to crater at some point that there's going
to be basically about twenty schools playing for one championship
because I think the NIL. I mean, that's totally I
saw the other day Virginia Commonwealth okay VCU Mid mid

(57:29):
mid Major Atlantic ten. They did go to the final four.
What was it about a decade ago? I want to say,
shock a smart shoutout shot smart. Now, again, like you
said before, you don't always trust everything you see on Twitter,
but every one of their players can at least two
hudred and seventy five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
That's great, but how does that sustainable?

Speaker 3 (57:49):
VCU doesn't have the television dollars, or the enrollment, or
the size of the arena, or the endorsement dollars or
the presence it's Virginia Commonwealth.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Good for them. I'm happy for those players, but what
if the or if the checks don't clear, well, then
they're gonna sue them like THEFSU players did well. They
they were sued because they were promising. Coach. I just
I don't. I don't.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
You're tanking Virginia Commonwealth and giving those guys two seventy
five a year, and you're to go to do what
I mean, I guess just as a salary.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
And if VC you could pay two.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Seventy five a year, then imagine what the big boys
can really pay.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Like the number one recruit in college basketball for next
year is getting paid by BYU. They've got the money.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
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Show with Ross seven one three two one two five
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the news at noon NFL rewind from this past weekend?
And Ross, what is today's edition?

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I believe or not? Hell? If I know?

Speaker 3 (59:05):
How about all things about winter storm Blair?

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Did you know this? Winter storms have names to them,
like tropical storms and hurricanes. Do we're gonna do famous
ros example, Monday Night raw and raw oysters? Isn't there
a I don't want to say the phrase I don't
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(59:29):
This is Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
Ninety Matt Thomas, Ross VI real, It's the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
So i'mmarying about this.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
VCU into twenty twenty five, twenty six school year, BCU
athletes may soon see their hard work payoff and the
former dollar signs. The university joined hundreds of others in
a lawsuit settlement that will compensate.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
College after lets.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
This will be the first time the VCU athletes can
make money directly from the school based off their name, image,
and likeness. McLaughlin, the athletic director, says the school will
I allocate four to five million dollars to compensate them.
He says that money will have to be generated in
several different ways.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Hmm. He says men's basketball will likely receive more money
than other sports. He said the bigger parties of school
should be putting towards money. Student athlete compensation is still
a big one. They deserve to be paid for like
anything else I've done in the school. These are a
sports marketing managers. Blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Point being is that VCU's got to find five milli
o Texas at A and m hold my beer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
That's not an issue for them. Rosset's to be hard
for the youased.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
To find five million dollars next year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
If they were gonna pay athletes that kind of money,
gotta get you cutting them checks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Maddy, let's go. I've gotta need to. I feel like it.
I didn't realize that at this point. Nil VCU was
so strong. Yeah, they must love that team.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Who's the most famous? They got some kind of billionaire alum.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
He'd be surprised. I wonder who the most famous vcolum is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
I'm trying to look it up. Not a whole lot.
Trudy Benson, abstract painter.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
The first question I would ask is what exactly is
an abstract painter?

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
You know, abstract that's life kind of free form, I guess,
and that kind of there is that doesn't conform to norms.
Is that right? Or like abstract? Radio host? I guess
here's the official Dictionary definition existing in thought or as
an idea, but not having a physical or concrete existence.

(01:01:48):
The Matt Tamashoa Ross ten the Two Weekdays.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Yeah, I mean, you really couldn't define it any better
than that. Let's talk to Scott on seven nine eleven
twenty two. Scott, good morning, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 12 (01:02:03):
I just wanted to say I don't think it is
sustainable with these athletes getting paid. I thought, I guess
I grew up in a generation where the getting the
uh deck in the words deck coming words escaping me,
I'm sorry, getting a scholarship. The scholarship was the form
of payment for these players to come to their school,

(01:02:26):
and that was their payment. Now I agree that they
need to make more money and that's where they should be.
The door should be open to advertising local businesses and
things like that to make up a little extra money
so they can afford things while they're going to school.
I absolutely agree with that, but I don't think. I
think it's a dangerous and slippery slope to start paying.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
These athletes.

Speaker 12 (01:02:47):
Professional money basically.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Well, and that's just my opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Yeah, I got it, Scott, thank you. It's already happening,
and it has both the last couple of years, and
we have not seen a down turn in terms of
interest of the marquee events. But it's just and again
I don't have the numbers because I'm an economist, but
it just feels like to me, the renegade style of

(01:03:15):
nil right now is not sustainable for the long term,
whether it be for financing of athletic programs, whether it
be for just like we had the Florida State situation
where a coach says, hey, I got you. I'll make
sure you get taken care of, and the players are like,
where's our money. I mean, there's no governing board, there's

(01:03:35):
no watchdog group, there's no advocate for the schools, there's
no advocate for the athletes. It's just do whatever you can.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
And I don't care how cash flush an industry is
or how successful is, if you don't have some sort
of regulations, you're gonna it's gonna wind up destroying something,
and I don't know what that is. Yeah, destroying. What
the guy said, dangerous, who's in danger?

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
There's no many. He was being metaphorical. He was saying
danger of the end of the of the sport itself.
Nobody like, nobody's gonna get hurt or something.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
I mean, you know, if I told you that half
the schools.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
That compete right now in Division one athletics are gonna
go away in ten years because it can't stay into this. Frankly,
the other half are gonna be like, so okay, bye,
more for us to choose from. I think the habs
don't have any empathy at all for the have nots.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
They just don't.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Unless the have nots say we're never gonna play you.
We're never gonna come to your building and take your
check for a million and a half dollars to get
our ask it for three and a half hours on
a football field. We're not gonna take your money to
play a basketball game and one hundred thousand dollars to
lose by twenty five points.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
They're gonna do that. They need that money. They on
the programs.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
As I'm saying, if there is no you'd have to
absolutely say we're not going to play you. So if
you are Alabama or your USC or Penn State, you
can't find anybody to play except schools that play with
the same sort of economic situations you're in, which will
essentially mean you'd have one league of about twelve to

(01:05:24):
sixteen teams. Or if there was somebody out there that
said we want to play with the big boys, well contribute, Like,
for instance, ask the rumor is SMU is gonna have
plenty of money here down the road, seme wants to
be in the big boy game. They want to say, Hey,
we've been in these second tier conferences for a long time.
We've got a lot of people that want to back

(01:05:45):
the athletic program. We want to take care of these athletes.
We want to be in.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
The same level as Ohio State, in Michigan, in Florida
and Florida State. We're ready to do that. Isn't that
a good thing? More teams with skin in the game?

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
No, because there really will not be more teams in
the game. They're gonna be less team.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
So it's gonna be how's there less who?

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Because instead of having anybody play anybody just for the competition,
you're gonna have downo abouts. You're gonna have sixteen teams
playing for a one championship.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
How many teams have been playing for the championship anyway?
Not that won a championship. But it's but it's not
even it's not even the it's it's the whole thing
of it is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
March Madness was built on sixty eight teams playing with
upsets and the grandiose of the event.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
You don't have March Madness if you have sixteen teams. No,
you don't have. It's a completely different sport. Yeah, it's
a one elimination of a basketball game. Who who are
these have notts that have been involved in the playoffs
and have been competing for championships year after year years.
It never has about having just to have it. You
mean you're there are there are millions of.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
People that go to college football games every year that
know the team's not gonna play for the national championship.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Yeah, like SMU fans. And if they want to, hey,
they want to pull up their money and get their
skin in the game, they can, Yeah, and they'll be
in that initial group.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
But there's gonna be one hundred other schools that have
fan bases that have alumni that want to be a
part of a Saturday that will be in a second
tier group. And that's what we're gonna we're coming down.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
To, and that's where they've been at East Carolina University.
It doesn't just all of a sudden gonna win a
championship before or after. In il it's mostly there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
You are completely there's you're saying at that point that
there's no that East Carolina will never have a chance.
They will never have a chance to be in the
top twelve in the tournament. They will never have a
chance because it will be no more tournament. They do
have one now and they have as much chance as
they had before very little. Well, all we're doing here
is is we're recruiting the Titanic, and the schools that

(01:07:38):
have the money will be able to stay and live,
and though those that won't, we'll go away and they'll
they'll go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Down with the ship. Is what we got. I mean,
we have the have If you believe it, I haven't
had not society for college athletics, then that's what it's.
It's okay, I believe it hasn't always has always has
been and have and have not in society for college athletics.
I don't know Florida Golf Coast one of the final
four couple of years ago. And then I'm talking about
we're talking about football, and where's Florida Golf Coast and

(01:08:02):
where did they vault them? Did that get the that's
one magical run where they wont a couple of basketball games?
Is there Therey powerhouse?

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Uh, how's the recruiting classes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
That I don't know, But I'm telling you the memories
of the people that went to Florida Gulf Coast, that
went to those games, that went to the final four
had memories for a lifetime and they and they enjoy
that because they they got their moment in the lunch
in the sun.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
And it got them nowhere. I mean, that's great, and
that's basketball. So I thought we were talking about Footballyeah,
We're about it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
We're talking about everything we're talking about. Essentially, what we're
going to see is we're going to see the current
makeup eventually cut down to twenty schools and then another
group about and again, if you want to be the
top in the tier group, Tier two group, I guess
that's gonna be good too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
You're got, you're gonna sell it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
But it is the current process of ni L and
the rampant uh dysfunction of it is not sustainable.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
I think it's gonna the train is going to keep
rolling like it has been before.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
Until you have more athletes leaving because they're being promised stuff.
And then you're gonna have guy and then you're gonna
have teams, they're gonna be they're gonna have walkouts, you're
gonna have I mean, if anybody thinks there doesn't need
to be any regulation, that's as foolish. Do I believe
NIL should still be a part of college athletics, absolutely,
but we got to figure out. Somebody's gonna have to
kind of see some kind of washdog operation on this.

(01:09:26):
I can't believe if you could go find anybody that
would say, oh that, except for the true blue bloods,
there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I know, we're in it. We're good.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
You can't, I mean, I can't believe that there's America's
going this is a great system that even the even
the very successful schools, the second tier, the Texas Techs,
the Baylors, the Colorado's, the give me some other School
Washington's are.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
They Are they loving this? They're worried about it too,
everybody it should be. I just think I'm happy that
the players are getting compensated. They're getting some money they
used to get. As the caller was saying, I thought
the college scholarship was the payment. Yeah, well, okay, if
you want to be communistic about it, every single person
gets a scholarship. Why should somebody who's at the Texas

(01:10:12):
Longhorn Program or Ohio State or Notre Dame creating all
of this revenue get the exact same payment of somebody
from Kansas who played Kansas Jayhawks football, who is not
generating the same revenue. Why do they get the same
pay if you get a little bit of extra. And also,
it's what's being offered of these players. It's not like
they're stealing this money. This money is being offered to

(01:10:33):
them and they're accepting this money.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Are they getting paid though, that's a big question. Does
it sounds like to me there are a lot of
kids are not getting paid. I don't know, there's a
lot of kids who are getting paid.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
And like I said, this has been pay for college
football has been happening since early nineteen hundreds. As I
told I was reading the book about Jim Thorpe, there
wasn't even a college he was playing for. It's called
Carlisle School and it was for Native Americans, and he
was getting paid fifty thousand dollars bonuses in nineteen oh
nine and the players were getting paid. It's been happening

(01:11:02):
over one hundred years. Yeah. So so my argument is,
can we get somebody to regulated or are we just
gonna let it? The NCDABLEA has to do it because
they because they it's been a broken system since the beginning.
The NCAA broke the system by going on this amateurism stuff.
And it used to be yeah, nineteen well, like I said,
nineteen on nine, it was corrupt. But the theory was, hey,

(01:11:23):
we're a bunch of college people, we want to form
a club, we want to have some fun. We're gonna
play some football. Then they started selling tickets and then
it started going and then that's when the revenues got
it in that that Carlisle School that Jim Thorpe was
playing for, the teams would pay them to come play
because they would sell a lot of tickets. It's been
about money for over one hundred and twenty years. Let
me tell you, there's not on a radio show in
the marketplaces the more Jim Thorpe talk. I'm here for you.

(01:11:43):
I'm just telling you it's been a broken, messed up
system for years and years and years. I'm happy that
the players are getting an over the table, bigger piece
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Now and they are look the INCIDENTA and we gotta
get to break INCLA has been able to take advantage
of generations of players.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
You cannot possibly argue that it was exploitive, quite frankly
to me.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
But I but again, I don't know the answer, and
that's and that's the problem. I don't What is currently
going on is not sustainable.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
It just isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
And it's too bad because I do believe at in
the day that you should be able to keep as
many programs alive as possible and treat them fairly and
have as many people in the game as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
But that's not going to happen if there is no
regulation of it whatsoever. And I don't know, I don't
know who would want to regulate it, because as I
said before, Ohio State has no interest in keeping Nevada
in this spax they want.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
They want to say, we are Ohio State. We are
going to be able to pay you more and give
you more than Nevada. And we're not gonna let Nevada
or colorad State or South I don't know, Southwest Missouri
in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Yeah, but they were never any athletes, but now they
can get if in a bunch of Nevadas want to
pull their money and get in the game, they can't.
But before they had no shot. When's when's the last
time Nevada? I mean when Colin Kaepernick was there back
in the day, they maybe won a bowl game.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
Hey, Nevada, it's got a rich history of sports. I
think go wolf Pack, Go wolf Pack all right. Time
Now for some gut feelings. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven Hountie, it is time to make some sports predictions.
You got them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
We want to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
If you go and you call in and you give
them right, you call Speck the phone and we can
brag on them. If you're wrong, we'll largely forget them.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety eleven
thirty three. It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, this
is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Lift it up, so Peter Thomas, Yo, they got a
gut dealing.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Now, ladies and gentlemen, to give us your sports predictions
set seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
You make a prediction, you get it right, you bragg.
If you get it wrong, no big deal. Now just
to peel a curtain back. The only person online right
now with the gut feeling is Brad Christ And the

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longer you get to call in with your predictions, the
less you get to hear from Brad.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Please, guys, I'm begging you. This is a personal appeal
for me. Ross Hi, please get it in line, Haad
of Brad please seven one three two one two five
seven ninety How did we do last week? All right, Matthew,
let's take a look. You were on fire. You were
just the the hot take. Cannon was at full bore.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Stroud will not finish the first half, said you? That
was correct, Tennessee Titans will win the game. Wrong and correct.
Penness State wins by double digits. I think that was
very easy. A win on by twenty plus. Correct. Yeah,
Ashton genty does not run for one hundred or more yards.
He ran for one hundred and four, of which twenty

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six was on a late in the game. But that's fine.
You had the final four, Oh, you're a one off.
You had the final four of the college football playoff
as Texas ding. Oh no, you were too off. Penn
State ding, Oregon oops, and Georgia Oops. You had him

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in Thompson getting a two game suspension ding, and you
had Fred van Vliet getting one game suspension and then
another way. Like I said, you've got like ten per
turns all I gave.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
He was material this week, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
We appreciate that. You also had Quinn. You weers going
to transfer. Yep, still believe it's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
I think the nil will I think the nil will
be more beneficial to him than his draft status.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
We'll see, all right. I have c J. Stroud playing
four series or under. He played one, Yep, so that's
a win. I had Davis Mills throwing a TD. Unfortunately
he did not. He tried, he tried mightily, He almost tried.
He almost got a rushing touchdown. He failed mightily. I said,
Damian Pierce leads a team in rushing. That's a hit.

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It's true. Why is it paying you? I had it
was there ninety two on one play, which again was
ninety two. It is what it is. I had my
final four. I hit three out of the four Texas,
Ohio State, Penn State, and I also went with Georgia.
Mm hmm, I said, Boise State covers the eleven and
a half. That did not happen. Nope. And I also
have Quinn. I think this is going to be right.

(01:16:35):
I'm sticking with it. Matt quinn Ewers declares for the
NFL draft. Now, let's go to that for just a second.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Why would he declare unless he thinks he's going to
be drafted a lot higher than he I told you this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
You and I don't think quinn Ewers is going to
be a good NFL quarterback. Quinn Ewers probably thinks he's
going to be a good NFL quarterback. What is one
year in college going to do him unless he's doing
it just just for one NFL If he gets walletwhip
from somebody and now he's had or he had a
really good game against Arizona State. But also think about this,
if he has two more games, if he plays really
well for two games and they win the National Championship,

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then his draft stock is gonna go up. So if
he plays poorly, then also who's good? And then if
he plays poorly, he's not gonna want to come back
to Texas. They're not gonna start him, and why would
another team want him? So you really think his draft
stock could go up after two more games?

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Yes, ult, well that's true. He had one game against
but he was one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Game against Georgia and he vaulted his draft stock, So
I think it can happen. I think the book is
written on quinn yours. I agree, and I like I said,
will you and I agree. We don't think he's gonna
be a good NFL quarterback. And if so, if he's
not gonna be really good, why is the team gonna
pay six million dollars for him?

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Well, unless that's just.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
A Faull report that that schools out there are not
gonna wait again, if that's a full report, then he's
gonna go six for a mid quarter back, even a
third round rookie deal. I think is a good four
and a half million dollars, but not better than six
years for six million for one year. Listen there, Well

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we'll see. I guess the true for the guy who's
not even set foot on a college campus. Who is
the quarterback that Michigan allegedly played twelve million dollars for?
But I think that's also over four years. Yeah, so
it's a one year. So that's what three million a year?

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Maybe maybe we shouldn't believe the six million. Make a
bet on this, I'm gonna discard it that whoever that was?

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
How to Connor, do you do? Oh? I was trying
to get another bet? No more betting with you? Well,
it's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
No, because we haven't cashed on look on the Alex
pregnant bet yet, So we're not gonna do that until.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
We cannot have it. Add a new bet until we
have until the old BET's a result. Texans starters play
until at least halftime, said Connor McGovern, and he also
had the Texans losing to the Titans. He didn't believe
in Davis Mills and Damien Pierce. Shame on you, Connor McGovern,
whom you're wrong, And he had the Blues beating the Blackhawks.

(01:19:09):
I have no idea. I sure did nice, okay, and
that's a win, and that's all I have for him.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
All right, let's make a couple of real quick and
then we'll go to the phones after this. I believe
the Chargers are going to beat the Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
By a touchdown. You're rude. I didn't take fourteen. I
didn't say you're wrong. I said you're rude. There's a difference,
all right. I believe Laramie Tenseil will be called for
a penalty. Oh, come on, you're paid over.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Offensive lineman who would be lucky to play in a
flag football game.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Overrated period. End of story. Pro Bowler scoreboard the highest
paid tackles in the league. Scoreboard. Here's my scoreboard. False
start seventy eight, offense five yard penalty is still first down.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Here's mine holding seventy eight. Here's my legal formation seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
That's me. He hadn't had a legal formation a long time. Alright,
that's true, all right, Texans was by a touchdown. Whatever,
what do you got? I will say Texans beat the
Los Angeles Chargers. The whole crowd makes the rise of
the haters suck. It wrecks Ryan the Texans beat the

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Los Angeles Chargers. Connor what he got?

Speaker 13 (01:20:29):
Johnson scores a touchdown on the way to a Texans
win over the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
You didn't even hold on Joe Mixon? What touchdown with
the Texans win? All right? All right, that's what I'm
liking here. You didn't ask him about the one I've
been teasing Matt Rockets quickly, Okay, Matt the greatest of
this young Rockets core of the top first round picks. Yes,
I'm talking Jalen Green, Alprinchingoon, Men Thompson, Jabarsmith, Junr. Who

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else is in there? Somebody? I feel like I'm readchep
A Men Thompson read Shepherd to the g League. A
men Thompson will have the greatest career of all of them,
including Alpern Chinggoon and Jayalen Green.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
Huh, I'll give you one just as a pure gut feeling.
A men Thompson never leaves a starting lineup for the
Rockets ever.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Again. Ooh, I like that. That's it's got a little spice,
but I mean I could see that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
That's a perfect gut feeling. That is a pod not
a mega hot take, but it's yeah, I like it.
And that's not like he May's telling me that. No,
that's a pure gun on my part. No, no, you
guys are so close. We are close.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
Anything else Connor before we go to the phones.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Uh, rock seal. Rockets win three of the next four
Rockets by eleven tonight over Washington. By the way, add
that to my list. What was the spread?

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
I forgot that, No matter that even I think it
was eleven and a half. To take the points or
don't take the points, give the points away. Rockets win
by the.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
By the spread with twelve and a half. Actually, so
you got the you got the Wizards plus twelve and
a half.

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
I'll take I'll take the Rockets minus twelve and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Okay, see Rockets cover. Yes, absolutely, Wizards are terrible. They
do suck.

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
All right, we go to the phones. Next eleven forty
six Sports Talk seven ninety, Matt Thomas, Ross Viuriel. It's
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Russ and Thomas.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
Yo, they got a gut dealing lunchtimers. Gut feelings continue
now on the Matt Thomas Show. All right, two lines open.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
If you'd like to get in line ahead of Brad,
please let me stave this off for as long as possible.
Here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Gut Feelings
at seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Jim
and the Heights, you are first up. What is your

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gut feeling?

Speaker 7 (01:23:07):
Well, my gut feeling is probably from me being a
victim to a social media clickbait. But I got a
gut feeling that free agency in baseball is gonna roll
right up to players reporting to camp. There's just not
enough movement right now in some of these big names.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
What do you mean, like some.

Speaker 7 (01:23:31):
And tandor our own Bregman, you know some of the Yeah,
so I just had been lying, you remember a couple
of years ago. Yeah, it started kind of trending that way,
and I think we're gonna see that this year as well.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
That's true. Jordan Montgomery and Blake's now didn't sign till
extremely late. Thank you, Jim, appreciate that. And then Jordan
Montgomery fired Scott Boris over the whole ordeal all right?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety the
phone number. Let's keep it going on. Some gut feelings
with just see in the Conroe.

Speaker 14 (01:24:01):
What's up, Jesse, oh Man, I have a gut feeling
that there's something fishy up with those footballs that they're
putting in for the field goal kicks in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
I'll tell you what. Watching that Detroit Minnesota game the
other night, the referee stopped the game because they had
to put in the official kicking ball. Me and my
dad looked at each other and said, hold on, there's
no difference between one football and another.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
We've had a suspicion about all these field goals.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
They do have different field Yeah, they have different balls
that they kick. I think they soften them up with
the kickers like to kick them a bunch and like
soften them up. And they do have designated kicking balls.
That's been a thing for years.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
Well, I know, right after they stopped the game and
put in their special kicking ball, that ball hooked hard
to the right. And we've been suspicious about all these
hard hooks, maybe like a bowling ball.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
But anyways, I so the Vikings will play the Rams,
Is that correct? Is that who they're going to be
up against.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
The Vikings visit. The Rams are one and a half
point favorites.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Right, Okay, Well, I predict that they're going to blow
them out. It's going to be a twenty eight fourteen,
fourteen points but kicking because they just let the Lions get.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Us away with every hold.

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
Ever, I won't get into that, but I have another prediction.
I have a gut feeling that Scottie Scheffler is a
bad alcoholic. And I'll tell you why. He's driving up
to the Masters tournament at four point thirty in the morning.
I think he was still drunk from the night before.
He runs into a cop, then gets out and gets

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belligerent with them, and they take him to jail. And
then all of a sudden the other day he falls
and gets classed all in his hand. And if you've
ever had any friends that were whinos and bad alcoholics,
they often fall and break wine glasses into their hands.
So I have a gut bill and Scheffler will be
in rehab and about the next three years.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
Okay, Jessie, This one, by the way, quick correction from
Connor McGovern. It was the PGA Championship. Okay, good deal,
good deal.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Love the show, and thanks for the guys up there
rooting for the Texans. I mean, you gotta have mercy.
You gotta have one troll in the pile though, that
picks the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
I guess yeah. Matt Thomas, I mean he's the absolute worst. Jesse.
I'm with you, Thank you, Jesse appreciated. I'm I'm I'm
going with the Texans in an upset just because it's
a home game under three three pointed underspread. Home teams
are pretty good. I think the Texans can get it done,
even though the Chargers might be the slightly better team.
All right, seven one three two one two five are

(01:26:36):
on the air still seven one three two one two
live if you love to get ahead of bread and
what their what do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
I got locked out the room.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Oh my gosh, it's got the blood flowing there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
ROSSI I got the good feeling. Matt Thomas gonna have
a heart attack within the next six minutes. Are you okay? Yeah?
But I was a panic because I had to go
up down two flights of stairs and go get down
to the you poor baby two flights down. I had
tell him I got locked down. I was like I
got to hurry. Oh, sir, we didn's identification. I'm like,
I'm looking around for my idea. I finally found out here.
You're huffing and puffing, Matt like a man. You watch

(01:27:16):
you in a video in his car. I go for
some peanut butter.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
How about you?

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Ross? Right? Seven? One three? All right? We got a
lot of people left in a lot of times. This
is the this is your show, Matt, So I don't
know what you'd do here. We all let's go. We
got gut feelings to get you here for it. All right,
let's go with Tom in Monroe. Monroe's anna your own.
You're on black Hawk Talk what they call him hawks?

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
War Hawks, Yes, war Hawks.

Speaker 11 (01:27:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:27:46):
My gut feeling is that Alex Berkman won't sign with
a key until deep into spring training, and when he
does sign, it will be with the Detroit Tigers.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Hmmm, all right, I think that's not a I don't
think it's crazy. It was my original gut feeling. Ross.
I know, but you just about to crown the Yankees.
Now I'm on the Yankees. That I messed up. I
should have stayed with the Tigers.

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
I think Scott Boris has screwed him over.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Might have you think he fired Scott Boris after he
signed his deal like Jordan Montgomery? Sure, why not? I would?
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
Thank you, Tom by the way at Tiffany seven twenty
two says, this guy sounds like an idiot. Did you
have a back call out?

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
His gut feeling was that the NFL was rigging the
games because they went to kicking footballs. Huh, which, Matt,
They've had footballs designated for kicking for years, correct, yes.
And then he also said his gut feeling was that
Scottie Scheffler is an alcoholic because of his recent activity
puncturing himself with a glass. He thinks he fell down
with the glass in his hand. And then that whole

(01:28:54):
incident where he was at the PGGA championship.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
That's a Rando gut.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Longhorn legend. All right, we got some more gup feelings
to get too. Oh Brad is still there? Huh? Seven
onety to hop in front of bread all right?

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Uh, Jimmy, Mike, others than Brad, and the news at
noon all starts the next hour.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
What wonderful well we got.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
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Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
All right, let's get to some more gut feelings.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
We got a lot of folks that want to get
to them, and then we will go to the news
at noon Jimmy and Tom Ball in seven ninety to
twelve o three Jimmy, the floor is yours.

Speaker 10 (01:30:47):
Hey, good afternoon, guys, Happy New Year.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
I got three gut feelings.

Speaker 10 (01:30:52):
First and foremost, if Matt has another episode rossuck you
did five or six minutes ago whatever that was, yellow,
then are we still on the air. I have a
gut feeling that this will soon be the Paul Ross
The Real Show not featuring Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Wow, I'm fine. I just I just wanted to get back.

Speaker 10 (01:31:14):
I'm glad to know you're all right. I feel better. Secondly,
I got to Texas winning. And thirdly, and I guess
secondly most important, because the Be The Real Show was
the first one.

Speaker 7 (01:31:27):
I do think that the great.

Speaker 10 (01:31:28):
People of Houston, Conroe, Cypress, Tom Ball, Willis, Baytown, whoever
else is listening in this great city and state of ours,
will effectively keep one mister Brad and Miami off the
radio today.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
It's working out so far. It's working out so far.
Thanks Jumy for the phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Let's go to Mike and Cyprus. Mike, what's in your
gut this week?

Speaker 11 (01:31:56):
A first of all, first gut feeling is fed. Brad's
gonna have got feeling that stucks and no one else
is going to agree with. A Second feeling is that
you're really you really want to look into the bluetooth
hotel keys to help you get into your room. I
found that my hotel all the time. But no feeling

(01:32:18):
on the Texans. I'm gonna givest what everybody uh is
just saying. I really think the Texans are gonna We're
gonna pull it out. I don't think it's gonna be
a blowout or anything. I'm not even gonna call Texans
field goal in overtime to win the game.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Oh the game's going overtime?

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
All right, that would be certainly a dramatic way to
start the playoffs overtime for the game.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
Very few people predict overtimes that write that down. You
know what again, I'm gonna put an attendim on mine.
He's inspired me, Keymi Fairburn game winner. Oh you mean
the guy that misses extra points. I don't know what
you're talking about, but I'm talking about Kynie Fairbird, the
greatest kicker in the land. GEO in a Taska seaa.

(01:33:07):
What'ch in your gut this week? Geo, Hey guys, a
great show.

Speaker 15 (01:33:10):
I got two quick gut feelings. First one, uh, Matt Thomas,
you're you're over under on Taylor Matthis' views today on
her page or ten and a half. I'm taking the
over on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
And by the way, so hold on, Geo before you
l go, she's at an airport. Just want to let
you pass that along to you.

Speaker 11 (01:33:31):
There we go.

Speaker 15 (01:33:31):
I already know what you're talking about anyway. Second gud
feeling is I don't think Matt Thomas is going to
be done with the Fantasy Football. I think the Toros
are going to be back next season. Matt, I think
I don't think you're doing I think you're gonna miss
the you know, camaraderie and the friendly competition. So I
think he'll be back next year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
Man jioe, you're a great friend of the show and
we love you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
But I'm done. That's all right, done. We got people
lined up good.

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
I'm glad you do. I don't have to face any
sort of pressure. Wait, Tamlor travels with a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Did you know that?

Speaker 11 (01:34:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
I didn't know that, Matt. I have her mute it
on my feed.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
She's got Bradley beal over two and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Assists don't care. Okay, what kind of deep thought in
analysis does she put into this? Does she run her algorithm?

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
She has nuggets plus six?

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Well, she's got nuggets all right, Tea Wolves.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
On money line, the Hawks on money Lion, and Georgia
Basketball on money line.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
If you're bold, she says, what does that even means?
She said, no, you know what that means. That means
if this hits, I'm taking credit. And if this doesn't,
I'm not. I have no blame. She's she's got you
in a stranglehold, Matt. Do you ever travel with the dog?

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Now, I have never traveled with a dog, And shame
on you people who are totally fine and get your
dog the emotional support dog stuff just so you can
selfishly travel with your dog. Nobody wants to hear your
little yipping dog on the plane. Save this for Thursday. Yeah,
I just don't actually know. Tomorrow is shut your bumb
mass up. You're doing it off tomorrow? Yeah, crush look

(01:35:11):
at the schedule because I want to you know me,
I don't.

Speaker 11 (01:35:14):
Like to work.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Yeah, I can tell well, I mean that Johnny Carson
schedule lately.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
No, I mean we're usually if we were traveling to
Memphis right out of the game tonight, that I would
be able to work tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
But we're traveling middle of day tomorrow, so that's fine.
And that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
I mean, I don't want to make early January days off.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
I'd like to hang out with you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
Yeah, and tells people to shut their bumb mass up.
I'm gonna I need a small segment in Thursday show
to do that because I know something's gonna happen. Let's
go to a Josh on seven pointy Josh, what's in
your gut?

Speaker 16 (01:35:45):
Old on guys, Happy New Year feelings. First one, thank
you sir. Your next Super Bowl champions are the Minnesota Vikings.
And second, gut ceiling, I just wanted to keep bread
off their sucking breast.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
All right, Well, thank you, Josh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Gosh you are the best part about Josh calls are
is it says on the screen when it says, Josh,
where you're calling from? It is this non swinger kingwood
m We do not have a large swinging fan base
in Kingwood.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
Uh huh, I can hear you winking from from Washington,
d C. That's more of the that's more standard plantation.
I mean, let's be early honest. Okay, what a noble cause.
By the way, doing your best and keeping Breton. Oh well,
that's true. You're satisfying people across the globe. Taylor's dog

(01:36:37):
looks you's pretty okay. Seriously, that guy GEO is right.
You're over ten and a half views, aren't you. No,
I wouldn't look.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
At it ten and a half times per day. But
it's it's a it's a once or twice a day gander,
just to see what's.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Going on with a sports more more of an odling
you're when you're drooling, it's not a gander. Gordy followser
that's just that's no surprise. Yeah, the people let her.
There are twing tips. I'm sure there are twenty something
people that I follow that follow her. I've got nineteen.

(01:37:13):
Oh lordy, Sean Salisbury follows her. Why are you out
adding these people, Matt, I'm not adding, but you are.
Wex follows her. Wex does. Why don't you give Wex
any grief because I'm not on a show with any
of them. I'm gonna show with you, and you bring
her up five times a show. At three o'clock today
when you see wex you gotta tell them, or two

(01:37:34):
o'clock to not saying a word, Brandon and a Taska Sita.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
What's in your gut this week?

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Brandon? I got a couple of things.

Speaker 12 (01:37:41):
First one, my gut tells me that Matt's gonna have
to take a snowmobile home from the arena.

Speaker 11 (01:37:46):
To I over.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
Good for you, good work.

Speaker 12 (01:37:51):
And secondly, I think Ross is going to be looking
for tickets in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
In a couple of weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:37:56):
Becose sex is is gonna be plah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Let's go, Brandon, thank you very much. By the way,
I've not given you my prediction. Ross, Texas bets Ohio
State in Dallas. There you go. How about that? Let's
just say it's a stay away from me. Oh look
at you all right, real quick, Texas State? Do you
want to make a prediction in the other one? Um,
I'm not a dog in that fight at all. Just

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pick a team.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Penn State, Okay, Chris, Jersey Village was in your gut Chris.

Speaker 17 (01:38:33):
Hey, guys, I think that Alex and his agent have
messed things up so bad and along with Alex's officers
off season surgery, Alex is going to say no to
everything and say yes to a one year, thirty five
million dollar contract and then come back and try to
get a long term after that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
Bye. Well, if that's the case, I would win on
that one because I do have less than six years.
I think that's the only way you win. It is
a short term deal with opt outes. I've said that
for a while. I don't know, by the way, he's
not gonna sign a five year deal anywhere we.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Need a ruling if they're the number of years on
the contract is the number of years. If there are
buyouts or options, those don't count, which really helps you out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Yeah, if it's a seven year deal, it's a seven
year deal, right, So let's just make sure we're clear
on that. Okay, all right, last be least, Brad, what's
your gut? Ah, thank you for letting me in.

Speaker 18 (01:39:38):
I'm gonna say Aaron Glenn Kyle, like Demiko Rans is
gonna get a head coaching.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Job this year.

Speaker 18 (01:39:47):
I'm gonna say Sam Darnold is not gonna get re
signed by the Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
He proved that he's good, but he's not great.

Speaker 18 (01:39:56):
And they need to sign they need to play that rookie.
And I'm gonna say Longhorns lose, the Texans lose, and
Baltimore and Detroit go to the super Bowl and that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Oh, he and I agreeing on the same super Bowl
picks Baltimore and what God, it's too much from Brad
because he likes to come back and brag on these,
so I like to write him down so we can
bring up the wrong ones. Right, What was it? Baltimore
and what Detroit? Yeah, I would say. And the Vikings
are not getting rid of Sam Darnold after one year. Sorry,
I mean no, that's not happening.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
They may not give him a long term deal, they
may franchise tag, but they're not getting rid of him.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
They're not saying thanks, but no thanks to a rookie quarterback.
And then he said, Aaron Glenn gets a head coaching job.
Nimitz the Cougar legend. He's getting a head coaching job.
That's that's a problem. He's gonna win all that. I'd
be so proud of him. He'd be great for the school.

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
All right, very last gut feeling, Roger northwest Side, What
is in your gut, Roger?

Speaker 19 (01:40:56):
What's going on?

Speaker 17 (01:40:57):
Matt?

Speaker 19 (01:40:57):
I got a gut feeling that Greggy's holding out because
there's some uh unpublicized health issues that may be lingering.
And when the Athros do find that out, they're probably
gonna sign Santander uh and go over in the fact
that double that spreshold also on on the Super Bowl
or the super Bowl run of the playoffs. I think

(01:41:18):
the choice's gonna win me in the super Bowl, and
it's not even gonna be closer. I think he's gonna
They're gonna boat race most teams, including the Super Bowl
maybe by thy points, are more opening up a five
year stretch in which all teams never won Super Bowls.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Finally get your chance to go.

Speaker 20 (01:41:32):
And that is my good feeling, Matte.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Thank you very much. I have my last gut feeling.
You're ready for the very last one. No, too bad,
You're getting it. Jimmy Butler does not get traded. Uh,
there's already been a report that teams have been instructed
to not trade for him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Now we have over a month until the trade deadline,
So I could I could lose on this. I'm going
Jimmy Butler stays in Miami because not because the Miami
Heat won him.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
It's just that there's no place for Jimmy to complain. Yeah,
but what happens. He's he's been suspended seven games for
conduct detrimental to the team. He's gonna see the per year.
He'll either sit or rest or or or or finished
up in the He's not he's not getting traded. I mean,
Miami's in a playing game right now. Yeah, all right,

(01:42:25):
The News at twelve twenty is up next.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
This is Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
Ninety lunchtimers, Lunch timers, It's a Matt Thomas show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
Hall, Liam, sit down.

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
We are precision radio show. We do everything on time,
We make no adjustments. We present to you the News
at twelve twenty. All right, Rossie, what you got?

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Okay, Matthew, As we go along here in Houston in Texas,
of course, all lies. I mean, the city is a
buzz yep as all eyes look to NRG Stadium this
weekend against the Los Angeles Chargers, Texans holding as three
to two and a half point dogs. Despite Rex Ryan

(01:43:18):
saying that it's basically a bye week for the Los
Angeles Chargers, they're gonna play the game this weekend. And
there has, of course, matt been a lot of talk
about Bobby Slowick and what is the job that he's
been able to do as the offensive coordinator for the
Houston Texans. Here's what Demiko Ryans had to say about
Slowick's ability to adjust and he thinks that he's grown

(01:43:39):
in that role. Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:43:41):
I don't know if any season it's moved right. You
have a lot of ups and downs, even you know,
when you win and kind of those things kind.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Of going to the rug.

Speaker 21 (01:43:48):
But they're ups and downs as coaches and as coaches
you have to grow and evolved. You have to do
things different and sometimes you set out to do or
you have a mindset of doing things one particular way,
and you always have to kind of tweak those things
and do what's best for the guys that you have
and what they're capable of doing. So I see where

(01:44:10):
I think Bobby has definitely grown in the area of
being able to adjust and put our guys in position
to where they can be successful.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
He's not going fighting anywhere. He's not getting fired. He's
I wouldn't, okay, that zero percent chance. I would say
that thing is zero, very probability. He's he's either a
staying or be getting hired away. He has interviewed with
the Jets. I have not heard about him getting interviewed
anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
Again, it's not because it's not it's not that I'm
this this big Bobby slogan defender.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
I'm just saying it's a bad trend to go from
the hottest team in.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
The NFL to a guy that everybody wants to go
and you're begging him to stay and to get him
raised to fireman next season.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
That's just a terrible look.

Speaker 3 (01:44:56):
It's just is and injuries have hurt offensive line, lack
of development and if it's his fault or not. But
I'm not saying slow here for the long term. I'm
not even saying slow as a guy that could be
a NFL head coach. I'm just telling you, I don't
think it's getting fired.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
Yeah, I think I'm with you, Matt. I think I'm
with you. Okay. Well, I was also going to go
around the NFL, but we were doing that next segment correct. Okay,
so I won't do too much NFL stuff. Let's move
along with the NBA. As the Houston Rockets, as you know,
matt in town to play the Washington Wizards, twelve and
a half point favorites in this one. Jalen Green questionable

(01:45:35):
now with a knee contusion. I think he sits this
one out as the Rockets can handle it. You put
Cam whitmore, maybe in the starting lineup, or at the
very least give him some more minutes. Jalen doesn't miss games, Rossy, No,
he doesn't. So it's he plays it one hundred and
thirty nine. He's played in a row or something like that.

(01:45:56):
It's something crazy he's I mean, say what you all
about some of the key.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Players in Rocket's recent history, like the Alpha Dogs, if
you want to call him, I mean, James Harden didn't
miss games, Hills he was.

Speaker 2 (01:46:06):
Super super hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
Jailing Green in oprint, don't shanngoun don't miss games unless
it was super super hurt. It would be a coin
flow to me. But if if I would say this,
if he's less than one hundred percent, I would not
play Jailing Dream. You got a big game with Thursday,
coming up with Memphis. I think you want to play him.
You want to make sure he's feeling as good as ta.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
That would be two, is it two out of three
against Memphis coming up? Yes? So Washington then Memphis, then
at Atlanta, then home for Menshis again yep, and then
on the road for Denver, Sacramento, and Portland up coming
for the Houston Rockets. Man, you're gonna be out of
town this whole month. I know I'm not looking forward

(01:46:46):
to it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
I don't I like to travel, but not as much
as worry about that. We got thirteen to seventeen coming
up here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
So we know you like the entire We know you
like the fancy Matt lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
Would you like to play Guess how much things cost?

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Game? Okay? Not right now? We're doing the news at
new Oh well it is the news. Well that's part
of the news, Matt. No, Okay, we gotta turn the
music off forget to that. Uh No, let's just get
to let's go to an off the beaten track story. Please. Uh, Matt,
do you know who the dictator of North Korea is?

Speaker 19 (01:47:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
I'm gonna go with huh. Couldn't you say? And you'll
know it. Kim jong un. All right, thank you, Kim
jung un. Apparently Matt is cracking down on a certain
tree that you rather enjoy. In North Korea, the hot dog.
North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hot dogs

(01:47:38):
as part of a crackdown on Western culture. Infiltrating North Korea, Wow,
Kim John Un declaring that serving the sausage is an
act of treason against North Korea. Amid the rising popularity
of a South Korean dish inspired by the US, people
caught selling or cooking hot dogs face the prospect of

(01:48:00):
I'm in the countries infamous labor camps, while Pyeongchang, which
is the capital, has also decreed that divorces could also
be jailed. What does that even mean people that get divorced.
Doesn't that through with hot dogs? So if you get divorced,
you can't have a hot dog either. I guess that's
I think you gotta go out of the country if
you gotta have a hot dog. Man, Okay, so I

(01:48:22):
can go ahead and take North Korea off the list
of places you're going to visit?

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
All right, real quick, perfect hot dog for you?

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Ross has what on it one line of mustard, chili
and shredded cheese, not that nasty nacho cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
Yeah, nasty nacho cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
But if I'm not going chili, if we're just going
dog dog, I would go with one line of mustard
and relish optionals. Sometimes I feel like it, sometimes I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
I could go with all the following mustard onions, chili, relish,
sour craft.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Oh this is the dish. I had this, The Korean
dish that they're trying to rail against called army stew.
I had that. It's basically drunk food. You get like
this hot spicy broth and they put ramen, hot dogs
and spend. You know, when the army was there in
the nineteen fifties, they put together everything that they anything
that they had, they just piled in a stew. And
it became known as army based stew. It's very popular

(01:49:17):
in South Korea. But at fundamentals, if I'm not going
fancy mustard onion, I'm okay with that, and then extra ketchup. Correct,
no ketchup now unless you're six years old.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
People putting mayonnaise on a hot dog a squirrels too.
I love mayonnaise too army. I love mayonnaise.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
Uh you know what I've come to liking. Actually, I'll
ofve oil mayonnaise. Hmmm. It's less fatty and more delicious
in my opinion. All right, so noted, Yeah, give it
a shot, Thank you very much. I'm here to help
Matt and that is your news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
All right, now, real quick, we're gonna play how much
the things cost you?

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
Okay, did not leave the hotel yesterday because the weather
was terrible. I had a Hamburger double smashed double sash
ali burgers out.

Speaker 4 (01:50:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
No, people love the smash burgers, man, I love it.
But I'm just saying this is even. This is the
horty torty does this? Now? Could you can you double
smash a wagu? Wag you? Yeah, wag you? Uh what
do you mean?

Speaker 11 (01:50:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
No, double smash has in two patties that are smashed.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
Yes, these are too thinly smash smash paddy, are they
wag you? I don't think they were.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Okay, but ground beef is supposed to be the intrails. Well,
I mean, I guess, wag you. Cow has intrails as well. Yeah,
they sell that it rach ree re okay. So I
had a hamburger.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
It was beautifully cooked, It had grilled onions on it,
It had production value. It had a pickle on top,
pickle on very nicely toasted sesame seed bun.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Okay. And this was at the hotel. Well, that's at
the hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:51:02):
I had an order of fries, yes, that came with
two different types of ali and fancy. And when they
said would you like water still or sparkling? Rag Rackerman said, sparkling.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
That's gonna cost you, brother, That's how they get you.
I said still. I should have said tap, yes exactly.
That's how they upsell you. You say still or they
say still are sparkling. You're supposed to say tap. Yeah,
it's not your fault. Matt Grift. So I had.

Speaker 3 (01:51:35):
I had still water, order fries with three different dipping sauces,
and a burger with tip.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
How much was my dinner last night? Okay? Burger fries,
mm hmm, still water, still water and tip. Okay, you're
a pretty cheap tipper. Not true. I'm gonna say you
get it within five dollars. Messing with you? Uh, forty
four dollars? Connor, what do you say? No? No, no,

(01:52:07):
forty six dollars. Forty six, I say fifty five seventy dollars?

Speaker 11 (01:52:13):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
M h, what do I win? Nothing? Damn my left door. Prettyum,
I'll take seventy dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
When I saw you charge for the water bottle of
the water charge with.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Tell me how much? Oh my god, I stay in
my head. I budgeted like five dollars for the still water.
I was at a a bottle?

Speaker 4 (01:52:36):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:37):
Did you get a gallon?

Speaker 19 (01:52:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
No means a gallon.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
But I never in a million years thought I'd ever
be charged for water. But now, no, to all of
y'all out there, when they say do you want still water?

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
You say no, I want tap. Yes, that's I'm with you.
That happening multiple times in New Orleans and Korea. It's
it's the new grift. Well would you like? Would you
like still water or sparkling? You should just say tap.
That's how they get you. It happened, We fell forward
a couple times, and then that was it. And that
is today's edition of How Much the Things Cost.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
NFL Rewind is up next twelve thirty on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Right after this, we have the NFL Rewind come on.

Speaker 5 (01:53:19):
Back, lunchtimers, lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
It is About Thomas Show with Ross twelve thirty four
Sports Talk seven ninety. When you hear a fifth of
Beethoven makes you think of two things. Dancing in the
seventies and Ross's NFL rewind.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
All right, Matt, normally we rewind games and happenings from
the past week. But I mean, what a slate of
crap games. So let's talk about what is going on
around the n f L right now. There are some
head coaching vacancies with the NFL, and starting with a

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number of teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New England Patriots,
the New Orleans Saints, the New York Jets, and also
well like, actually that's it? Excuse me? Is it just four?
I thought I done? Road down? Five? We got gms
get tossed to, don't we Chicago Bears? I missed all

(01:54:30):
five head coaching opens openings. It feels low. Actually from
year to year. You like windows or ales by the
way on the plane? Yeah, you know, I'm a window guy.
All right, I'm getting your window. Oh thank you. I
appreciate that unless we're talking exit row or something. No,
I you know, paying let's go you know, yeah, no, no, no, sorry.

Speaker 9 (01:54:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
A lot of talk, of course about the gerad and
Mayo firing with the New England Patriot. It's only one year.
They did go four and three. Didn't have a whole
lot of work to the team as far as a
roster to work with. Bill Belichick won four games, Sharrod
Mao won four games. Also, you had Robert Kraft calling
it the hardest decision he's ever had to make in

(01:55:16):
his life, believe him or not not. That's atrocious. Okay, Matt, Well,
let's move it along around the NFL Steelers this weekend.
Ten point underdogs in the Wildcard Round, the second straight
year they've been ten point underdogs. Last year against the

(01:55:39):
Buffalo Bills, they were ten point dogs and they lost
thirty one to seventeen. What do you want me to say? Oh,
I thought you were I don't know. I'm just listening. Okay,
I'm just gonna keep talking.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Then, I guess this is good. We have we have
a little bit of breaking news out of Austin. I
want to I want to get your initial thoughts on
out of Austin. Yeah, oh no, it's not alway.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
Is it about the president? Yeah, I saw that. I
don't know. I don't you don't care. It's good charr
If you don't care, I know, Okay, you don't care. Sorry,
this is school president. I don't know. Well, is he
not setting the right the right prices in the in
the mess holes?

Speaker 11 (01:56:22):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
I think he was the one that was putting a
lot of piggy bank money into Steve Circadian's bank. Well,
doesn't the athletic director do that? No? I thought directors
to go to the Boston so we got to get
get a pay sark all this money, yeah, he says, okay, yeah,
sign him a buddload of money. Very good, Continue on, Okay,
I mean you can break it down if you want.
What's his even name, Jim Hartzel, something Hartzel. I believe,

(01:56:44):
Steve Hartzel, Larry Curly Hertzell. I believe he's the president
of the Heart's Chicken family there and he's going to
s m U. Speaking of you talking, Oh, there's money
being spent. He knows where he's going, Southern Millionaire's University,
getting the president of the University of Texas Longhans, I
honestly don't even know what a president of the university
does exactly. So if you say they're the ones signing

(01:57:08):
off on the budgets, I thought the ad signed those contracts. Nothing.
They just have to get approved by the president. Yep.
The aighties got a boss. Always gott to have a boss,
of course. Okay, all right, what else you got? Let's
keep it moving, Matt. Apparently tyreek Hill not backing off
on his comments about not wanting to be a Miami Dolphin.

(01:57:31):
There also are reports that Mike McDaniel met with tyreek
Hill told him it is not going to be acceptable
going forward to leave games. It will not be tolerated. It's.
First of all, it's weird hearing Mike McDaniel put his
foot down on anything. Second of all, is Tyreek Hill
even going to be a Miami Dolphin next year? Can
I ask you a generic question? I ask you once

(01:57:52):
per year? Okay, win did and why have.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
Wide receivers for the last twenty five years been the
biggest divas in the NFL?

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
I don't know. I think it's you're out there on
an island and you have to get open and it's
all about you and when you catch the ball, you
make the plays. Is it the most Mimi me position?
You would think it's the quarterbacks. Those guys are divas
too now all they are, but the wide receiver diva?
I mean, Dick, We could go like Aaron Rodgers is

(01:58:27):
a diva? Correct right now? In the NFL? Yes, Tom
Brady was a diva correct? Would you say now? Of course?
Every position on an NFL field has a baseline of physicality.
It's a physical sport, right is it the least physical
besides punters and kickers, DB's and wide receivers. Just gonna

(01:58:52):
run through a list for you. Joe keil Owens, Andrea Rising,
Chad Ochosinka kill Hey, Andre Johnson was nice and quiet,
Audrey Johnson unless you cross them, Courtland Finigan, Jerry Rice
was nice and quiet. But Ernest Gibbons back in the

(01:59:12):
day for the Orders was a massive, massive diva. Des Bryant,
massive massive diva. Help me, Houston, help me, sports fans.
Why are wide receivers such massive divas? It's I don't know, Matt.

(01:59:33):
We won't have a chance answer. I don't think it
might take too long. Apparently Miami Dolphin's GM christ Agreer
and Mike McDaniel talked about the status of one Tyreek Hill.
Matt and I'm telling you, or I'm just gonna tell you,
we're talking about a wide receiver that is not happy

(01:59:55):
in his current situation. Wide receiver that is thirty years old.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
By the way, you can stop right now. Nick Casero's
very happy with the wide receiver room for the Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Oh he said that publicly. No, I'm just assuming he's
saying it. Okay, wide receiver, much maligned. Nope, wide receiver
that could get moved and stop right now, right here
in right now. Should the Houston Texas don't know it?
Per se. Don't listen to him, folks, Tyreek Hill, this

(02:00:27):
is a moot conversation. He's not going after him.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
Stefan Diggs was as brash of a move as Nick
Cassara's ever made, and then he downgraded as soon as
he got here to a down to a one year
contract for a second round pick, and then he tore
his ACL Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:00:46):
Nope, not happening, No chance, no way, no how t Higgins. Okay,
Houston Texans before Tyreek Hill into the season, stats for
Stefan Diggs eight games, four hundred and ninety six yards,
three touchdowns. Okay, not happening. Okay, they need wide receiver help,

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an aged wide receiver who's a diva wants pick cash. Yeah,
if it's exactly If that's exactly what the Texans want. Okay,
I don't think it'll happen either. All right, anything else,
That's all I got for you, Matt on the NFL rewind.
Nicely done, Thank you. You're off for an now. Now,
Oh my god, what's next? Well, yeah, Believe it or not? It?

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What's the category?

Speaker 11 (02:01:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
But best of? Ooh we have prizes today, yes, her,
Oh yes, we have prizes. I'm so happy. What are
they pour a pack of tickets and pit passes to
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Speaker 3 (02:01:56):
We're moving ahead nicely, all right, ladies and gentlemen. That
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I want to which everyone a happy New Year. Happy

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New Year, Matt, Happy New Year to you as well.
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Speaker 5 (02:02:23):
Stop that wave busting the waves. Since the strolls were
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Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
Houston. Sports Talk continues with the Matt Thomas Show. Day Up,
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Speaker 3 (02:02:45):
Sports Talk seven ninety The Matt Thomas with Ross continues
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We're gonna visit with our buddy Sam, Sam Conn in
a couple of days. Well, if you made Doka in
a couple of couple of days, Rash, you got shut
your bumb ass up tomorrow. And we have a check
in in Los Angeles on Friday for the Texans versus
the Chargers. Did you ever make your Super Bowl selections?
I have Ravens Lions going.

Speaker 2 (02:03:27):
I actually wanted to get together a fine a NFL
playoff bracket, and then I wanted to put it in
gut feelings and I forgot. So I'm glad you asked me. Okay,
give me five seconds still, all right?

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
Uh follow me on Twitter at sports empty if you're
not a pornbot or a crypto person.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
At Sports empty Ravens Lions. You said, Ravens Lions. I
feel that's a good one. I'll go Bill's Eagles. Why not? Now,
you don't have to be different. I meantimes joining me
is a matter. I've seen the history. You've jumped on
the sports empty train. Look where you are now? Oh, exactly,

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still at the Kaboos. Yeah, but you're at least you're
on You're in basic economy. But you're in Yeah. U
see them coming to check my ticket. I'm getting kicked off.
Oh man, it's a it's a round trip. I wouldn't
book you one way. Lord, I'm going. Yeah, I'm going

(02:04:30):
I' bills Bills just on the defense though, all right, fine,
I'm going to Eagles. Ravens Eagles, Ravens Final answer, final answer.
You really believe that, though, yeah, I'm gonna go. I
just don't. I think the Lions are going to find
a point, and it might not be till the Super Bowl.
I think you're exactly. I think they're gonna find a
point where a defense is going to they're not gonna
be able to keep up, and I think that could

(02:04:51):
be Gosh, Ravens Lions. With the Ravens winning sounds good too.
I'm gonna go. Yeah, I'm gonna go. Eagles Ravens, though,
why not Ravens win it all?

Speaker 3 (02:05:03):
Okay, so let's do this. It's actually more fun sometimes
to discuss what they don't do. If you're Baltimore fan
and you flounder the playoffs, meaning lose a game, What's
what's Raven talked the next day, like, we gotta get
more help for Lamar.

Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
Now obviously we don't know the end result. I don't
know how to think Lamar throw for three hundred yards
in the Ravens lose a game. Can you explain to
me how they lost five games this year, like to
the Raiders and like you didn't they have another bet? Yeah,
the Browns.

Speaker 3 (02:05:36):
Here's something about Lamar that maybe that you only get
to see, You only would make this assumption about him
if you only watch him once or.

Speaker 2 (02:05:42):
Twice a year, he is insanely accurate. Yes, on the
run too, on the run, falling away guys wrapped around him. Yeah,
he throws darts.

Speaker 3 (02:05:55):
He throws darts, and you would think a scrambling quarterback
would have issues with accuracy. To your point, I don't
know how they lost five games because Derrick Henry literally
reinvented himself in one year. Lamar is gonna is a
top three candidate for another MVP. Their defense remains ferocious.

(02:06:18):
How do they lose five games?

Speaker 2 (02:06:20):
He had forty one touchdowns and four picks and then
lost to Pittsburgh. Has one time they lost the Raiders.
Now they turned that ball. They turned the ball over
a bunch against the Raiders. I think they had like
four or five turnovers or something. But it's hard to fathom, seriously,
what it is. It's absolutely hard to fathom.

Speaker 6 (02:06:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
Okay, So.

Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
I would presume if the Ravens lose, it's because Lamar
has a bad game, correct, I guess yeah, Because if
they do lose, ross thing about this And I'm not
trying to sit in here to saying this because I
have the Ravens going to the Super Bowl? What do
you do if you continue to put up these superlative
numbers in a regular season and you win these individual

(02:07:05):
accolades and Derreck Henry has this incredible bounce back. If
you're the Ravens, what do you possibly do? Oh, gollie,
g shucks, we finished second again?

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
Yeah? Or do you make drastic changes thirty? What do
you do with your the bills and that happens? Yeah? Yeah,
you're Josh freaking Allen. What more can Josh Allen do? Now,
he's gonna have a dud game once in a while,
but the guy is as filthy with his legs and
running up I mean double digit touchdowns right rushing. Yes,

(02:07:37):
I think it was twelve or fourteen somewhere around there.
I mean, Jesus, what more can you ask these guys?
They're making fifty million dollars a year and they're worth every.

Speaker 3 (02:07:45):
Penny of it, at least from a football perspective. Now,
if the Lions don't get there, they still have time
to grow. And they could also say our defense has
been really hit hard.

Speaker 2 (02:08:00):
I think they had at one point six Week one
starters from the defense on the ir Yeah, yeah, are
on on ir it's just rossy.

Speaker 3 (02:08:10):
Someone is going to be devastated, And if you're a
Texan van you hope it's both of them. I mean,
I don't feel one bit of iota bad with Kansas
City if they don't finish this thing off.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Yeah. Oh by the way, yeah, man, I was saying,
are we se Why are we not talking about the
team that was fifteen and one in games they tried
and they're back to back Super Bowl champions and they
have a bye. It's funny that we're like, we're spending
this time talking about the Ravens and the Bills. What
about this team, the Chiefs. It's back to back super
Bowl champions and went fifteen and one.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Yep, they're gonna be the worst ones of the group
because if they win it, they're gonna be like, guess
what we did While y'all are sitting there bragging about
yourself and people are saying, oh, we barely had a chance, we.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
Barely won games.

Speaker 3 (02:08:55):
Is not even a pro bowler or Travis Kelsey's old.
The worst, the worst revenge the Chiefs could get is
against one of those two teams where Travis Kelcey catches
a twenty yard touchdown pass with a minute left.

Speaker 2 (02:09:05):
To go in the fourth Core. Man, it's gonna be fun.
You know what I want.

Speaker 3 (02:09:09):
I hate the Chiefs now. I don't want this to
happen for them because I think Bill's Mafia would be
a cool group to hang out with. They set themselves
on fire, they jump on tables, they party when it's
eleven degrees.

Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
That's fun to watch. It's not the fun to hang
out with. I'm not looking to live with them. Yeah,
I'm looking for parties where people are acting like that
and it's like, yeah, this is dangerous. The cops are
getting called.

Speaker 3 (02:09:37):
I'm out of here, Like Ross, I don't think I
want to ever tailgate at a Bills game in December,
but give me September fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
I'd be all for that.

Speaker 9 (02:09:48):
Hm me.

Speaker 2 (02:09:49):
Imagine going and sitting down and having a hot dog
with no ketchup on it, Mustard relish, a little chopped
up onion, and seeing a really hot girl jump through
a table and setting herself on fire. I mean, that
is what you want before a game. Hmm, Okay, what
not happen? Energy The Darling would set herself on fire

(02:10:12):
before a Texans game. She's not gonna self immolate before
a Texans playoff game. No, did you jump through a
table as much as you'd like? I mean with battle?

Speaker 3 (02:10:22):
Would would deep still Dan jump off of a mini
van onto three or four tables and break them in
half and try and try to elbow smash somebody.

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
No, you don't see that in Houston. You want to
go to Buffalo for that. I hasn't won them anything.

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
Now, grant now, most of the time, I think the
people that live in Buffalo, why the hell would you
live in Buffalo? It might be ross one of the
five worst weather cities in America.

Speaker 2 (02:10:46):
Yeah, those people have been through a lot because that
lake effects, no destroys their town.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
Like here in Washington, people who are flipping out over
five and six inches, They get two feet in Buffalo
and don't think twice about it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:57):
Any think twice. They've moved games even though you wanted
to play.

Speaker 3 (02:11:00):
I did want them to play.

Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
Nothing says an NFL game than standing in five inches
of deep snow before kickoff?

Speaker 3 (02:11:09):
You know, wouldn't mind it that? The NFL, they love it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
Yeah, but the road, the roads were undrivable, Matt. Nobody
cares about the roads. Uber the ubers go on the road, Matt,
did you need to take an uber chopper? Take take public,
Take public transportation. There's gotta be a great public transmition
uber Hot air balloon. You want to be in a
hot air balloon during a windstorm and snow and blowing
snow and buffalo But you stay at home and you

(02:11:32):
cancel the game. That's weak, grown ass men go out there. Okay,
I mean the women are big too. The women are
as big as the men are. Come on, you gonna
have that extra installation.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Let's they wear those buffalo Sabers hockey sweaters and they're
you know, they can put the extra pounds in.

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
Thank god Taylor doesn't wear those hockey sweaters. That'd be ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
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Speaker 2 (02:13:54):
Let's go, baby. I I haven't played poker in so long.
I'm just not very good, but I want to play
because I think it's a great bros.

Speaker 11 (02:14:01):
Game.

Speaker 2 (02:14:01):
Oh yeah, let's play. Then you're not good? No, because
every time I get a good hand, I sweat and
it's like very apparent. Okay, you start betting big hashtag
no poker face. I like that, all right. If you
get the poker faces, you just look straight, just find it,
pick a spot on the felt, stare at it, and
don't look away. How about it?

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
Wear sunglasses?

Speaker 2 (02:14:23):
Will that be better? You can do that if you like.
But mostly douches wear sunglasses. So all right, don't like
taking it way too seriously And like people with just
mustaches and no beer?

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
Yeah, Like, are there cool people running around town right
now with just mustaches on? Matt the mustaches come back,
but it doesn't mean they're not doesn't mean they're cool people.

Speaker 2 (02:14:43):
Yeah, I want you to. I want you to think
about this.

Speaker 3 (02:14:46):
Everybody driving around right now, name five people in your
life that only have mustaches.

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
How many of them are d bags? Reed? Shepherd has
a mustache. He's not a d bag. Not a d bag,
that's I said. That's one on a five. He's actually
down in the valley right now. So that's why Taylor
Scott has a mustache. He's a nice guy.

Speaker 3 (02:15:06):
MM, went great to us.

Speaker 2 (02:15:08):
I think he's cool. He was really good. He was
rude to you, which I mean that just warms my heart.
Mm and for no reason, by the way, right, I
was just being plenty, I was being nice. Maybe he
just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
All right, So about the narrowed it down to people
that you would consider your friends. Oh, I don't have friends.

(02:15:30):
I mean, I don't know fun I don't have I'm asking.

Speaker 3 (02:15:32):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:15:33):
I mean I can't five friends with mustaches. I don't
have five friends. Matt, that's true. Just everybody think about this.
Any of your friends that have mustaches that you consider friends,
are they d bags? Think about it? Okay? All right?
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Who's
the coolest person on earth? Was just a mustache? Of course?

Speaker 3 (02:15:50):
The answer would be would be Victor Newman from The
Young and the Restless Who Eric Braydon that plays Victor Newman?

Speaker 2 (02:15:58):
And I have you? You might as well be speaking
Cantonese right now. You don't realize how good that show is. Yeah,
me and the rest of America. I guess it's only
been nonsense nineteen seventy two. Okay, I'm gonna go with that.
Timothy Chalomey is the best mustache in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
Oh, did you see the movie about Bob Dylan?

Speaker 12 (02:16:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:16:21):
I did not.

Speaker 3 (02:16:22):
I have zero interest in Bob Dylan. Zero were interested
in Bob Dylan biopic, I go catch it. I mean,
I forgot what's it called? Saudi said it was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (02:16:30):
Oh he's a is he a Bob Dylan guy?

Speaker 3 (02:16:32):
I know he's a biopick guy?

Speaker 2 (02:16:34):
Okay, can that qualifies?

Speaker 11 (02:16:37):
It?

Speaker 2 (02:16:38):
Qualify? What did he have to say about Timothy Challo
May's acting job? He said it's good.

Speaker 3 (02:16:43):
But Peyton never hates any movie.

Speaker 2 (02:16:45):
Oh, okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:16:48):
Every time you'll say how is the movie paint, He'll go,
it was good, And I'm like, was it really good
or just sort of good?

Speaker 2 (02:16:52):
Then he always gives me a breakdown after he says
a good part. Okay. Oh, there's a there's a mustache somereddit.
It was like somebody says, how would your trip okay?
And then you have to say, well what went wrong?

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
And then they get into a long explanation of well
the travel was bad, at the hotel was bad, of
the car was expensive?

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
Mean yeah. The mustache subreddit has one hundred and thirty
nine thousand members.

Speaker 3 (02:17:17):
All right, so among Houston area people, is Reed Shepherd
the cool coolest guy with a mustache right now? No,
I know Tom Selick.

Speaker 2 (02:17:28):
Tom Selick's not in Houston, is he?

Speaker 11 (02:17:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:17:31):
But nor is Victor Newman either, But he's a he's
a Generos city. What is Genoa city? That sounds where?
That's where?

Speaker 3 (02:17:38):
That's whe the human is fictional, Yes, it's fictional. Okay,
all right, I will I will ask Houston. Who is
the coolest person in Houston just with a stash? Could
be your next door neighbor.

Speaker 2 (02:17:51):
I don't know. Donald Schultz sometimes just has the mustage.
Oh yeah, is that right? I think he's got the
beard going on right now, but he's hat just the
mustache before.

Speaker 3 (02:17:58):
Now, Connor, you're a brosky, so you I mean your
bros have mustaches, only like one and you like him
generally speaking.

Speaker 2 (02:18:07):
Yeah, it's not like a thick mustache though. Oh it's wispy.
Oh that's terrible, like a Larry Bird style. It's not
very flattering for him, but he keeps it. Ryan Presley
was keeping a stash for a while, wouldn't he? Do
you have the stones to tell him?

Speaker 6 (02:18:22):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:18:23):
If you asked my infinion, I'll tell him. Yea. Why
don't you let him do his thing? Why don't you
bring you don't have to bring it up to him,
you know. Let's get at Lima a good of a
Broski mustache going. He seems like the top candidate of
of people. Uh that would go with a stash, it
would be definitely Brian Lima. I think you should do it,
no chance, but here big stash, a little bit of
a soul patch and then the bald head. I think

(02:18:44):
that would look tough. As the kids say, I.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
Am, I'm very attractive with facial hair.

Speaker 2 (02:18:51):
Without facial like I said, man, we need to change.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
I'm not going with what did you call it? Down
a little bit between soul patch. Know, that's not just
a mustache. That's a mustache with the whole past.

Speaker 2 (02:19:04):
True. Yeah, but it's it's pretty good though. It's a
good combo. It's a classic. I could get rid of
that little chin here you got going. I went full
mustache when I went with when I was wearing my
my Pablo Escobar costume. That worked out. Well, Yeah, you
got a lot of d MS in your I g yeah,

(02:19:24):
no I didn't. I got a lot of comments that
I look like a registered sex offender. So I went
and grew. I grew at the beard. That seems fair.

Speaker 3 (02:19:35):
Jacob north Side at one o nine on seven on
a Jacob Good Afternoon.

Speaker 6 (02:19:38):
To you, alrighty, all right, hey, I'm with a row spot.
I got, I got, I got the Eagles and the
Ravens and Lamar. Not only is he a scrambler, he
just an accurate passer period. He broke all kinds of records,
accuracy records. He can just what it is in today's game.

(02:19:58):
Because the linemen and the linebackers are so fast, you
gotta be able to move.

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
Ain't no more standing in the pockets.

Speaker 6 (02:20:05):
Joe Montana and all the ones that y'all idolized growing up,
that's over with because they can't because the the the
linemen are so fast that they gotta be able to move.

Speaker 15 (02:20:16):
Even Kansas City, my guy in Kansas City, the.

Speaker 1 (02:20:20):
Quarterback, he moves.

Speaker 6 (02:20:22):
But I don't know whether why people never call him
a scrambling car because he moves and he throws the
ball actually on the run. Because you've gotta do it,
because in today's game, if you don't you sit in
that pocket, it's gonna collapse and you're gonna be eating
mud on the ground.

Speaker 11 (02:20:36):
It's just what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
I'm sorry, guys, the.

Speaker 6 (02:20:40):
Sitting in the guy my Tana Brady on them, that's
over with.

Speaker 2 (02:20:44):
There'll be nothing.

Speaker 6 (02:20:45):
There'll be another It'll be not another one quarterback that's
gonna be sitting in that pocket and win the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (02:20:51):
It's over with.

Speaker 3 (02:20:52):
Joe Burrow disagrees with you. He thinks I think Joe
Burrow is gonna win the super Bowl eventually.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Hello. Also a quick thing on the mustache. Phil called
it and said, we forgot cal McNair. Hmm, I said,
cool people. Oh man, he's got swag thrown up the hes.
Let me tell you anybody that throws up the hes.

Speaker 3 (02:21:15):
Like he does or more looks more like over the
age of sixty. Yeah, seriously, come on, we gotta know you,
gotta know your space.

Speaker 2 (02:21:24):
It's working for him. His approval rating has got to
be up the last year. God, he's who whatever the
PR firm is was was in charge. I think it
was probably Hannah Enterprise. I was gonna say, Hannah McNair Incorporated,
Hannah McNair an Associates. Great job by you. Isn't that
the wife's job? Though? Dress up the husband, make him
look better what my wife dresses me up? Absolutely? And

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when's the last time you bought a sliver of clothing?

Speaker 3 (02:21:50):
By the way, I'll be debuting tonight on a new
pair of little lemon dress pants that are washable, that
are the rage of Southern They were the rage of
southern California.

Speaker 2 (02:21:59):
We were out there. Okay, that's good. Note. I would
model them off for you, but that'd be kind of weird.
LA is a good spot to pick up on the latest,
not latest. I'd say it hits Paris in the New York,
then LA, and then it hits Houston about six years later.

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
And by the way, she still is mad at you
because the brokehamstocks still are very popular.

Speaker 2 (02:22:16):
She's still mad at me about your Jesus cruisers.

Speaker 3 (02:22:18):
She's mad because you don't ever give Brookhamstocks any any shine.

Speaker 2 (02:22:23):
Well, you're the one walking around looking like you're going
to the Battle of Thermopyla. It's not my fault.

Speaker 11 (02:22:27):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (02:22:27):
I don't wear those anymore. You know that, because I
got shitmed by you. It's fine, Matt, She goes, you
gotta stop listening it off. He didn't know what he's
talking about. I'm like, you know what, You're right now,
You're right.

Speaker 2 (02:22:38):
I don't do any I wear literally, I'm wearing sweatpants
and sneakers right now. Oh dirty ones, which dirty shoes
are dirty pants. Both you are dirty pants. Dirty pants?
Oh god, these are actually freshly washed, right.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
Islair? Okay, so let's just put this out there. Is
cal McNair the coolest mustache?

Speaker 2 (02:22:58):
Where thelest coolest you Estonian wearing a mustache? Cal McNair.
That seems hard to kind of digest on that, honestly,
but if it's but if it is. Look, he's a
billionaire with an attractive wife and is his uh what
do they call it?

Speaker 9 (02:23:14):
Q score?

Speaker 2 (02:23:16):
And he and he earned every bit of it's what
he did. He earned all the successes. Yes, he did,
graduate of the University of Texas, got an NBA from Rice.
You don't even believe your own sentence. He does have
an NBA. Those are all facts. I think he ever
went to class. What has it hurt that the business

(02:23:39):
was at the was it a business school meeting? The
building that is named after Roberts McNair.

Speaker 3 (02:23:45):
Large donations? Just throwing it out there, you know what?
I hope, I hope one of my all time put
my names on it are wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:23:58):
Which one go to the Super Bowl with McNair's running operations?

Speaker 3 (02:24:05):
Because I don't know who's gonna buy that I mean, look,
the McNair's are gonna keep this, the kids are gonna
the kids are gonna own the team, or or Cow's
brothers are gonna be.

Speaker 2 (02:24:12):
Like I want it. Yeah, Carry already took the l
he tried. Carrie's like, Carrie is like six billion dollars
to sell this bad boy. Yeah he would did it
done quite well.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
Hannah's like, uh, I don't get in the newspaper by
me not being being a former owner of the team.
M I don't get to ride behind Beyonce if I'm
the former owner of the Texans.

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
Of course, we are speculating and guessing about what what's happening. Yeah,
I think they're probably they're not best friends. There's no
way in the world. Carry and Cal aren't broskies. They're
little brothers. I don't I bet. I bet Hannah's driven
them some weight between the brothers. Just guessing, Just a guess,

(02:24:54):
just a guess. Yeah, that's true. Seven one three two
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Thomas Show. Ross here on Sports Talk seven eighty.

Speaker 5 (02:25:09):
Go back to Matt Thomas and Ross via real fine.
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:25:19):
Slim Thug Ross coolest guy in Houston with a mustache. Uh,
I know slim Thug has a beard. He only has
a musclebody sent us a photo said, he's just got
a stash going. Is that current? I don't know. I
don't know what slim Thugga is up to these days?

(02:25:40):
Is here we go?

Speaker 3 (02:25:44):
Is it slim Thug or slim Thugga.

Speaker 2 (02:25:47):
It's both. Matt. It's like you're Matt and you're Maddie. No, Matt,
nobody call walks around, call me Maddie. Somebody calls you Matty,
te t bone. They don't call me t bone some
t boe.

Speaker 3 (02:26:00):
They may call me t rizzle.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
What does that mean? Math? And that was going to
raise there's number one rule that you gotta stay strap
all right, I was in it. Never mind, it looks
like he's got a beard. Okay, so we're gonna we're
gonna knock him off the list. Yeah you can.

Speaker 3 (02:26:21):
If you're gonna have the coolest stash in Houston, you
cannot have any sort of any sort of chin hair
under any circumstance he's got.

Speaker 2 (02:26:27):
He did you know he's six foot six really and
stick in your Chick George Taylor n oh apparently, Okay,
this is Instagram from Oh he says too many grays
had to chop off the beard, so maybe this is recent.
I don't know. I don't follow a slim thug on Instagram.
That's my bee.

Speaker 3 (02:26:47):
What's his most famous song?

Speaker 2 (02:26:50):
Yeah, yeah, probably his famous solo song would be either
that one thug he was on Still Tipping. He's the
opening verse on Still Tipping, which was a huge, massive hit. Yea,
he had his own Yes like a boss. This is
a hit back in the day, Matthew he got signed

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to Star Trek Records. He was on with m. E.

Speaker 10 (02:27:16):
R D.

Speaker 2 (02:27:16):
What were they called? What was it? What were they called?
It was U Pharrell and that guy that he sounds like,
he did him dirtyayof you see the dirty South bou
whoa whoaeses it's censored as a Houston legend, Matt Slim

(02:27:39):
Dug north Side represent Let's get him on the show. Okay,
that's I mean. I mean he and E. S. G.
Had some songs as the Boss Hog Outlaws. Of course. Oh,
he was on that song check on it with Beyonce.
I was a number one hit. Okay, that's your slim

(02:28:07):
thung update for the show today. No oersation time. They
can give you that kind of information. And I guess
Caw McNair is the coolest guy. What's your favorite slumdug song?
Um huh, Let me look at Let me look at
my phone and see what.

Speaker 14 (02:28:24):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:28:24):
I always butcher this, Oh ditch, don't do it? Say
his name then go ahead? Oh line one, Nigel, what
if it's needel, You're just so observant man. When it's
when it's needl, it says needel next to it, and
it's as the pronunciation next to it when it's that guy,
This is Nigel.

Speaker 3 (02:28:45):
You're on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
I ain't good afternoon, good afternoon.

Speaker 9 (02:28:49):
Well it's still it's still morning here in Vancouver. But
regarding the I think mister McNair probably does have the
best mustache in Houston. But I sh'd tell you there
was a Canadian born adult movie star from the seventies
and eighties by the name of Randy North that had
a very great mustache. Of course, this Tom Selleck something

(02:29:11):
to look into. I love Lulu Lemons. I used to
live around the corner from their head office and I
just bought a new pair of Birkenstocks, and they're great.
Regarding the Texans, they're going to lose this weekend most likely.
As much as I hate to say it, I think
that for them to win, the defense is going to
have to play absolutely lights out, with Kamari Lassiter in

(02:29:33):
particular having a massive game. It would be nice if
they could find somebody else to catch the ball this
weekend and or have a stout running game, but I
don't see any of that happening. I guess we could
be in a situation like Seattle or Cincinnati where we
catch lightning in a bottle. But I fear this could
be a very short playoff season. And as always, thank

(02:29:54):
you very much for your show, guys.

Speaker 2 (02:29:55):
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (02:29:56):
Thanks to here Ninegel taking care of our Vancouver cluster
of our audience. It ross to me it would be
overly simplistic to put it on one guy. You've got
to make Justin Herbert really uncomfortable. I I we were
talking about pocket passers. He wants ross. He wants to

(02:30:17):
stay in the pocket as long as possible. He will
scramble necessary, but.

Speaker 2 (02:30:23):
Not much.

Speaker 3 (02:30:23):
His greatest progression is a seventh step drop, looking at
different options down the field, throwing to the titan if
he needs to, got a big arm, throws a great
intermediate pass.

Speaker 2 (02:30:34):
I think his biggest mistakes are when the pass rush
is intense.

Speaker 3 (02:30:37):
I mean, it's got to be Will Anderson's day, the
Neil Hunter's day, you know, Alsie Shair, it's got you know,
it's got a surprise them that.

Speaker 2 (02:30:45):
I think it's it's gonna This is a cliche, but
it starts with the run game. That's especially early on
in the season they were establishing the run. They got JK.
Dobbins back, now Gus Edwards is questionable. They sign Zeke Elliott.
It's very clear to me that they're going to try
to win with the run game. And then, oh, by
the way, as the backup, you got Justin Herbert and
Lab McConkie has been great moving all over the places

(02:31:06):
of slot. In the slot, I.

Speaker 3 (02:31:10):
Would have to say, to go along with your theme,
the more third and six is third and sevens that
the Chargers have.

Speaker 2 (02:31:16):
The better the Texans will be.

Speaker 3 (02:31:19):
Because I think watching enough Herbert that his play action
ability on third and shorts really confuses defenses.

Speaker 2 (02:31:31):
He could take a third and two go for a deep.

Speaker 3 (02:31:33):
Bomb and find a guy downfield and make some special
things happen. I think limiting the Texans, or I should
say limiting the number of third and shorts, will be
the number one thing for the team. I mean, look,
turners are always a part of the game, getting Joe
Mixon involved offensively, giving c J. Stroud time to throw

(02:31:54):
the football, those are all things that go without saying.
But the little nuances of the game would be I
think getting Herbert out of it comfort zone. I think
him facing third and longs where he will sometimes try
to throw the needle into some plays that he probably
shouldn't do.

Speaker 2 (02:32:09):
And for the Texans, just keep CJ upright? When do
you think? Ever do you think CJ? Will?

Speaker 3 (02:32:17):
I know the answer before I've been asking will he
ever say? Man, it just wasn't my ear because I
just didn't have the feet placement. I wasn't able to
throw in the lanes that I wanted to because the
pressure was It felt like double that it was last year.
It may not have been double, but it just feels
like it's been a much bigger storyline because last year,
Rosie we talked about the offensive line. Last year but

(02:32:39):
CJ was able to overcome that why this year as
the offensive deficiency, the line deficiencies cost him more troubles
this year than.

Speaker 2 (02:32:48):
It did last year. I think it was just that
much worse. And again I don't think he used as
a hunter a close to one hundred percent as he
was last year.

Speaker 3 (02:32:59):
I mean he's I mean hits and he's taken a
boatload of hits this year, right, yes, so yeah, I
you know, but I would think at this point of
the year, when you're in the playoffs and you are
have been through seventeen weeks. I mean, he looked pretty
crisp against Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (02:33:17):
Yeah, it was a nice little uh dress rehearsal. But
I mean I'm slowing down.

Speaker 3 (02:33:25):
I mean, could he have gone another series probably against Tennessee?

Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
Absolutely, I'm sure he could have. Yeah, if he needed to.
It was it went perfect, It went two script six
of six touchdown. Get him out of there? Yeah, all right?

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Speaker 3 (02:35:29):
Ninety Ross, I got a rocket email, and I think
I'm seeing two different players that Wayne and I are seeing,
says Matt. You and Ross discussed Jalen Green and his

(02:35:50):
improvement on defense earlier. How about Alprin Shingouin's regression offensively,
he has not played anywhere near the level he played
last season. Alligator arming five foot shots turned the ball
over every time he puts the ball on the floor
and the falling down every time there's contact is getting old.
I thought this kid was going to be the centerpiece
of the team's offense. Doesn't look like he did anything
in the offseason to improve his game offensively. I'm at

(02:36:11):
the point where dealing him is something I'd actually consider.
What the hell is going on with him?

Speaker 2 (02:36:20):
Hm, I don't see that. And again, maybe I've got
the different color glasses on. I get that.

Speaker 3 (02:36:29):
And while to me offense defensively, there are still gonna
be issues Withoutpe from an offensive standpoint.

Speaker 2 (02:36:37):
Uh, he wakes up in the morning with double doubles,
he said, plenty of thirty point games he has. His
scoring is down.

Speaker 3 (02:36:49):
I will say this, I'm not a fan of the
one leg it up in the air five foot shots
that he's talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:36:56):
What are you talking about, the push floater or the
fallaway floor, mingo either one. I like them both. I
want to back they look like a seventy six year
old out of the court putting up the one handed
push shot. I think that's fun. Number One, teams are
aware with the leap that he made last year, and

(02:37:18):
teams of course caught on to how important and he
was to the Rockets offense. But I think he's getting
zeroed in more on this year than he was last year,
and I think there are things that he is going
to have to figure out. I actually, you know, we
get Coachy Dooka on, but we only have so much
time with him. But he was getting doubled by the
Celtics where they were sending Kristaps Forrzingis and Luke Cornette

(02:37:39):
at him, and he was deer in headlights. He was
turning the ball over, he wasn't making good shots, and
a lot of times I think he struggles with bigger,
stouter centers Johnson Chun. Yeah, the lengthy guys like the
Wimby's and the Go Bears and the Anthony Davises. He
can get physical on those guys because he's a stronger.

Speaker 3 (02:37:59):
I thought should have been more aggressive against bam Outabayo
of the Internet. Against Miami, I felt like he spent
strong for four fourth quarter at the elbows.

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
He struggles with really strong guys and he just needs
to get stronger. He's twenty two years old. He can
maybe continue to grow into his body. And I think,
you know, I was actually talking with a Rockets fan
when I was on that trip in Asia, there was
a Rockets fan. We were talking Rockets the whole time,
and he's like, how does Shingoon get better? I think
the way that he gets better is his strength. He's
not going to get more athletic. He's not going to

(02:38:30):
get more explosive. He's not going to all of a sudden,
you know, be this high flying guy. He can dunk some,
he can get to the backet quickly some, but I
think he needs to build up his strength because I
think he does struggle against those top tier stronger guys,
and teams are more aware of him. So he's getting
more double teams. He's getting fronted. If you remember the
Golden State Warriors doing that with Draymond Green. So teams

(02:38:51):
are mixing up against him and his his his shooting
percentage are significantly down. They've gone down last three years.
He went from fifty five percent to fifty three percent.
Now he's at forty eight point nine percent. So I
don't think that to me, that's I'm not saying we're
writing him off. He's just gonna have to readjust and
to me, get stronger and more aware of how teams
are zeroing in on him. As far as defenses, which

(02:39:13):
he has a very high basketball like you, he's a smart,
intelligent player who works hard there, so I think he though.

Speaker 3 (02:39:20):
Yeah, there are some matchups ross he lives for, Like
he doesn't mind going against Victor woman Yama.

Speaker 11 (02:39:27):
He doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:39:27):
He doesn't mind going against Rudy Gobert. But by the way,
Rudy Gobert, for being All Defensive Team for all these years,
is a minus defender right now, Teams are attacking Rudy Gobert.

Speaker 2 (02:39:36):
Right Like I said, he can get into the chest
of those guys, he can be get physical with them.
But when it's other stout guys, I think he can
run into two issues.

Speaker 3 (02:39:46):
Yeah again, Yeah, the little five foot one leg fadeaways
to me, sometimes they're painful because he does he's he's
too finesse on those, some of those, I think. But
when they drop, they drop on a semi regular basis
almost like it's almost like how he does in his
first two or how he's going to be in the
next seven or eight that he takes again, there's there's
no evidence of that.

Speaker 2 (02:40:05):
But when he wants to take over a.

Speaker 3 (02:40:09):
Game, when he puts us back to the basket, he's
got the ability to score with both hands.

Speaker 2 (02:40:14):
How many centers had that? Not many. Yeah, he's extremely skilled,
extremely smart, extremely good player. His defense is much improved
from last year. To me, it's it's more cored awareness
for him. That is a lot better. Yeah, staying in
front of guys, being in the right place at the
right time, all that type of stuff. Competing. The defensive
metrics on him are better than they were this year,

(02:40:35):
this year than they have been any previous years.

Speaker 3 (02:40:37):
But I just think from a lot of expectations. To me,
Alpi is my triplet double guy. They get it from
me any single night because he is a very good passer,
he is a scorer, he falls into rebounds. The three
point shot is still on a part of his arsenal.

Speaker 2 (02:40:52):
It may never be. In fact, I think he's down
under twenty. Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:41:01):
That's why it isn'tude do him very much. He just
it's not a part of his game.

Speaker 2 (02:41:04):
It was alarming when I heard he got beat by
John Lucas in a three point shooting contest in practice
the other year this other year. What if I beat
him in a three point shooting content and then that
would be extremely alarming and he might need to retire
if that happened. That's not true. He's got a fresh contract.
Now again, Have you done your research on the poison
pill on the contract deal? No, I haven't. I don't

(02:41:26):
want to go. We need you to be the resident
capologist actually found it feels like it's a question for WEX.
You think WEX is going through the aprons. I bet you.
I feel extremely confident if we asked WEX to explain
the poison pill element of Alpi's contract, he could do it.

Speaker 3 (02:41:41):
Now again, I will.

Speaker 2 (02:41:42):
Let's let's let's summarize this very very small.

Speaker 3 (02:41:46):
The poison pill is you sign a guy like the
Rockets signed Alpi and signed Jalen, and then you try
to trade him in the same year, same year there
is a some sort of financial kicker that makes it
look bad for the for the team that's trading him. Yes,
that's all we're gonna say at this point. You know,
President Carter's being laid to rest. Is it here and

(02:42:07):
wash in right now?

Speaker 2 (02:42:08):
The live TV coverage of it, Jimmy Carter. Yeah, that's
not gonna was a week ago. I hope not. They've
had this, they haven't had all this ready to go.
I mean, we're on Pennsylvania Avenue right now. Did you
see I think it was somebody. I think I saw
it on Twitter. His his obituary had been written for
so long the person that wrote it for the New

(02:42:29):
York Times was already had been laid off by the
New York Times. Yeah, they died, That's what it was.

Speaker 3 (02:42:36):
Oh man, I can't believe President Trump on a mobile
has not called the show today.

Speaker 2 (02:42:42):
I mean, of all times for him to for them
to call in. You got the Rockets and Wizards tonight,
and he is not called in. MM. I think we're good.
I think we're good too, all right, Yeah, Jimmy Carter one,
do you want to live in a hundred ROSSI?

Speaker 11 (02:42:58):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:42:58):
Most people I asked say older that that depends.

Speaker 2 (02:43:02):
I bet you if you asked me for eighty five,
I would say yes. So if you ask me now,
I say no. Let's let's play a game called perdict.
When Ross is going to pass, I got you the
favorite in the clubhouse is you at sixty one passing away? Ironically, now,
this says if Houston wanted to trade Shingoon, his outgoing
values five million, while his incoming value would have to

(02:43:23):
be thirty one.

Speaker 3 (02:43:24):
Million hashtag poison pill.

Speaker 2 (02:43:26):
I don't know. This is confusing. Now let's talk about
aprin give me the WEX will break it down and
I think full hour breakdown in the next show.

Speaker 3 (02:43:33):
So they're gonna do poison pill talk for three to four, Yes,
two to three to.

Speaker 2 (02:43:36):
Day and actually I think it's just you know what
words coming in, Matt. It's been extended. It'll be two
to four poison pill talk two.

Speaker 3 (02:43:44):
To four and then a complete breakdown of every Los
Angeles charger. I at you both, Hey, Adam, have you
heard us President trumpet mobile calling today?

Speaker 2 (02:43:58):
Rock Wizards? Can I confirm or deny? You could confirm?

Speaker 3 (02:44:04):
Actually he's in Greenland today. I don't think you even
get cell services.

Speaker 2 (02:44:08):
Working hard to get our fifty first state intact. So Greenland,
what is it going to be? I don't know. He
needs to get rid of the two trade like three others.
Can we trade Oklahoma? Oh, they got a lot of oil.
I guess are you a Trudeau fan? Who is that? Who?

Speaker 20 (02:44:23):
The going prime minister at Canada? Yeah, the outgoing prime
minister he just resigned.

Speaker 2 (02:44:27):
Ohudge, uh, just justin Trudeau? Yes, I got it. Yeah,
a good job. I don't know his policies. I don't
know anything about him. I'm sorry. Either one of you
know who Jack Trudeau is. Uh? Yeah, that was the
host of Pyramid in the seventies. No, that was Dick Clark.

Speaker 3 (02:44:43):
This Jackrue I think wasn't he a backup quarterback for
the Colts for a long time?

Speaker 2 (02:44:47):
Is he related to Justin?

Speaker 4 (02:44:48):
Is his?

Speaker 2 (02:44:49):
He tweet? Sell? Oh? Now, how does the work in Canada?
Are you voted and you run for prime minister? Or
does the parlamentary house vote the prime minister?

Speaker 3 (02:44:57):
Yes, I don't know who you're who.

Speaker 13 (02:45:00):
Well, this is a political our political expert right here.
So he intends to resign and he will resign once
a new party leader is elected.

Speaker 2 (02:45:09):
Okay, but I don't know how the party leader is
elected in Canada. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:45:15):
Adam, are you working with me tonight?

Speaker 2 (02:45:17):
Or is that the other one?

Speaker 20 (02:45:18):
It's it's an it's somebody named Adam. So it's not you,
it's me. Okay, you got me the next two. I'll
keep you in line.

Speaker 2 (02:45:25):
I'll talk to you guys on Rockets Wrap tonight on
Sports Talk seven ninety. The other Adam has the local
pregame because it bleeds in to our show. Okay, I like.

Speaker 3 (02:45:38):
Today, what's that? How much Joey Taylor talk?

Speaker 2 (02:45:41):
Oh? What about Taylor? Mathis? You know? Thank you?

Speaker 20 (02:45:45):
First of all, thank you for not outing me for
not following her. I can't believe WEX follows her, and
I can't believe how much you talk about her, and
not in that order.

Speaker 2 (02:45:54):
I will defend Matt for one second. Write this down.
I'm not disputing somebody else brought her up the collar
did Yeah it wasn't. I'm actually super proud of Matt
for not bringing it up. There. There was your first
mistake right there, Matt.

Speaker 3 (02:46:09):
I mean she asked her to day why people aren't
following on IG and I think she got a bunch
of new follows on that.

Speaker 2 (02:46:15):
And you don't see how that's pathetic.

Speaker 5 (02:46:19):
She's just, she's just.

Speaker 2 (02:46:20):
She's with a new uh betting company. Her let her
liver life.

Speaker 20 (02:46:22):
That'd be like a radio host throwing himself a party
every time he gets a certain amount of followers on
social media.

Speaker 3 (02:46:28):
That'd be like somebody bragging about how many YouTube visitors
they have on their Twitter account or lack thereof.

Speaker 2 (02:46:34):
M all right, time for two breaks, two or six.

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Astros Buddy, you have ange grad text mex connoisseur. Well,
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Speaker 2 (02:47:09):
Roster. They announced they broadcasters for the Texans Chargers game
on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (02:47:14):
Iron Eagle will do the play by play on CBS.
Charles Davis will be on the color analyst role. Evan
Washburn the sideline report. That's the CBS number two crew.
I An Eagle, great friend of the show. Nickelodeon is
gonna have the broadcast as well. Nate Burlson will call
the play by play. His two analysts will be SpongeBob

(02:47:36):
SquarePants and Patrick Starr.

Speaker 2 (02:47:40):
Oh wow, that's a good get.

Speaker 3 (02:47:43):
On one sideline, Dylan Schefter. Don't know who that is?
The other sideline Sandy Cheeks. I don't I'm assuming is
that a mascot.

Speaker 2 (02:47:53):
Sandy is from Texas. On SpongeBob. Come on, man, I
have not watched SpongeBob in decades. And then who's Dylan Schefter?
Is he related to Alum? I mean to add them.

Speaker 3 (02:48:05):
That probably is Dylan's that's probably his son, don't you think? Yeah,
I believe you're right about that. So can we get
to Nate Borlson for just a second. Sure we believe
we're not coming up here.

Speaker 2 (02:48:19):
Nate Borlson hosts on the one of the co hosts
of the NFL Today, does a nice job, right, mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:48:24):
He's the host of one of the coasts of CBS
This Morning, which is like the Good Morning America, okay,
which I don't think. It's the lowest rated of all
and nobody watches it.

Speaker 2 (02:48:33):
But that's fine, is what it is. Okay. He's also
the host of the Hollywood Squares. Now, ooh, how does
it make you feel, Matt pissed off? They even ask you.
It's messed up.

Speaker 3 (02:48:51):
So let's run through five game shows that I can
think off at the top of my head that are
hosted by people that are they shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (02:48:56):
Be hosting game shows. Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:48:58):
The ge College Balls was hosted by Peyton manning what
didn't do to a bad job, But he was a
straight man because.

Speaker 2 (02:49:04):
His brother was on there. Cooper was trying to be
the comedian of the group. Michael Strahan butchered the pyramid.

Speaker 3 (02:49:10):
Pissed me off there. Okay, let's see what else we got.
Nate Burlson hosting the Hollywood Squares. We have Let's see, uh, oh,
we have that show? Who was the rob rob Lowe
hosting some sort of crazy show.

Speaker 2 (02:49:33):
How about a bounce back for Rob low Didn't he
have a sex tape come out and all that stuff? Yeah,
and it's always that is in his career has been
tremendous since Yeah, he's on that terrible show nine to
one to one Austin or whatever. Ross.

Speaker 3 (02:49:45):
If you ever really want to get rid of me,
I mean, legitimately, ever want to get rid of.

Speaker 2 (02:49:49):
Me, have got hold on. Let me read the notes out,
get me to host a game show. Oh no, you're
gonna try to do both.

Speaker 6 (02:49:57):
I know you.

Speaker 2 (02:49:59):
I can't do both. You're gonna try. I would try, certainly,
but not but the chances of you being successful. Here's
Matt Nea on the internet from Burbank. It's great.

Speaker 4 (02:50:12):
What if?

Speaker 2 (02:50:12):
What if the what if the announcer for the price
is right quick, I'd go for that job. I'd leave
you for that. I don't think yeah, you're you're Yeah.
You might as well say if I can get ready,
if you're gonna make you president, I don't think it's happening, Matt.
But Nate Burlson's hosting the Hollywood Squares. Nate Burlson. You
guys who Nate Parlson is right. He's a great receiver

(02:50:35):
for the Lions for all those years. Nate Burlson. Does
he have the hootspot to host the Hollywood Squares? Clearly
he does. Clearly he does. He's got the style, of
the charisma and the panache, Matt, and you have none
of those things relative to Nate.

Speaker 3 (02:50:51):
Five minutes off from the go in the show, absolutely,
let's play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We
simply called it Believe It or Not. And here's how
it works. You'll call seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. I'll read you a statement from one
of the Believe It or Not.

Speaker 2 (02:51:07):
It's earlier.

Speaker 11 (02:51:08):
This year.

Speaker 2 (02:51:08):
Statement is completely notterly acer you'll say this year, believe.

Speaker 3 (02:51:11):
It last year? Excuse me, well of the statements is
completely full of bunking, made up and made up and wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:51:16):
You'll say this not two in a row when you're
a prize. What are we playing for ball today?

Speaker 13 (02:51:21):
Connor de McGovern a four pack of tickets with pitt
passes and moster jam on Sunday, February second at Energy Stadium,
and some seven ninety t shirts.

Speaker 3 (02:51:29):
John On seven ninety ready to play.

Speaker 2 (02:51:30):
Believe It or not?

Speaker 11 (02:51:32):
Believe It.

Speaker 3 (02:51:33):
Sydney Sweeney is nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for
Worst Supporting Actress for her role as Spider Woman in
Madame Webb.

Speaker 2 (02:51:40):
Believe It or Not Not That's correct? Statement number two
for the win.

Speaker 3 (02:51:46):
Willie May has played the last five games of the
nineteen fifty four World Series with the smallest stress fracturing
his lectivia. He refused treatment until after the season was over.

Speaker 2 (02:51:55):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:51:57):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:51:58):
No, it's a lie. Sal On seven anti he ready
to play. Believe it or not? Yes, believe it. Sal
Hube Brown was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Outstanding
Analyst or Commentator three different times. He lost to John
men all three of those times. Believe It or Not?
Believe it Ross Mandetta Tyler on seven, AINTI You're ready

(02:52:23):
to play? Believe It or Not? Quincy Jones was a
music prodigy as a child.

Speaker 3 (02:52:28):
In an age ten, he played the trumpet on the
popular national radio show The Lucky Strike Program Believe It
or Not?

Speaker 11 (02:52:35):
Believe It?

Speaker 1 (02:52:36):
Nah Wow, four knots Fitness.

Speaker 2 (02:52:41):
Neil on seven?

Speaker 3 (02:52:42):
Aunty Neil, what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 10 (02:52:45):
Just listening to the Texans Talk?

Speaker 3 (02:52:47):
Toby keith As was an excellent football player. He played
defensive end in high school and briefly played for the
semi pro Oklahoma City Drillers team Believe It or Not
Believe It Believe It? Stave of number two for the
win Wall. He was the third base coach with a
braves back. In nineteen ninety three, Jimmy Williams got into
a shouting match with Ron Gant after Gant ran through
his stop sign and was thrown out.

Speaker 2 (02:53:08):
Believe It or Not Not? That's also correct? Congratulations Michael
on seven. Don't he ready to play?

Speaker 11 (02:53:16):
Believe It or Not?

Speaker 5 (02:53:18):
It?

Speaker 3 (02:53:18):
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and even castrated bulls and administered food in medicine.

Speaker 2 (02:53:25):
Believe it or not Believe it? Believe it? That is correct?

Speaker 3 (02:53:30):
Number two for the way and Richard Lewis was a
writer for Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty three to
nineteen eighty seven and came up with a church chat
sketch while watching Public TV with Dana Carvey.

Speaker 2 (02:53:39):
Believe it or not? No, that is correct? Congratulations, crouple
more quick justin on seven. He ready to play Believe
it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:53:48):
Believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:53:49):
Carl Weathers often called himself a natural acting talent, as
he claimed he never once attended an acting class or workshop.

Speaker 2 (02:53:55):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 17 (02:53:57):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:53:58):
No, Ross Mandet, Sorry, ce on seven? One ey c.

Speaker 3 (02:54:03):
You're ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:54:05):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:54:06):
Gloria gaynors I Will Survive is the first and only
song to win a Grammy Award for Best Disco Song.
The award was discontinued after disco fell out of vogue.

Speaker 2 (02:54:14):
Believe It or Not Not? That is believe it and
you better believe that.

Speaker 3 (02:54:20):
The Shell Federal Credit you don't like to give you
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They also want to give you the option of to
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