Anything Goes Friday, Rockets Take Down The Clippers! Texans Facing a Trap Game?

Anything Goes Friday, Rockets Take Down The Clippers! Texans Facing a Trap Game?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Tanto to
an h Town.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of The
Man Thomas showing Ross. That's his sports talk seven ninety
our man Yankees Keith. That sauce got too sports harvy
and be careful kind of sauce you use? You know,

(00:33):
I gotta Keith a little credit. He's kind of funny.
Keith ain' not bad. I mean some of his sports
takes are ubsurd and his absolutely horrible, and his love
for the Yankees is atrocious, but that's none the here
nor there. Yeah, and he became Texans Keith last year
for like a few weeks, and now he's off the bandwagon.
Maybe he's now Jaguar Keith, which is really odd. It
is odd. Did they even have Chins and Jaguars the

(00:54):
smallest fan based in the NFL? Yes, oh for sure,
Like even Carolina's got like the egon. Jackson's gonna split
time with Miami and Tampa Bay, although Tampa Bay fampily
not in a particularly good mood. Their coach wasn't Todd Bowles. Oh,
by all, the high highest METHA smokers per capita in
the NFL oh, Jacksonville. I have never been there before either.

(01:16):
It's one of the few metropolitan cities in this country
have never been to. You know what, I'm stereotyping. We
don't believe in stereotyping. Here on the show. We do
it daily. We do it. Actually, I may not believe
in it, but we do it.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
So.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Todd Bowles is the coach of the Buccaneers, and he
just went off in the postgame. I sent it to Ross.
We'd like to play it for you, but it's got
so many cuss words we would get probably a six
figure fined by the Federal Communications Commission. So if you can,
if you can possibly clean it up in the next
couple I'll see what I can do.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'll get right on it for you. Yeah, my guess
we'll get it on before like twelve thirty somewhere in there.
We'll see. Who knows. I'm in VAK mode. Baby, I'm
offul I need you. I'm all next week. Okay, let's
that what I'm saying. You're off all next week. You
still have to work today, and I can't hear you
at all. I'm just hearing lou albus. I'm here. I'm working.

(02:04):
What Yeah, Hi, who are you? I'm Matt Oh, Hey,
what's up. I'll be I'll be uh doing double duty
hosting the show, doing the Rockets next week. Looking forward
to that. Oh, proud of you. Speaking of the Rockets,
what an odd game last night? Oh? Odd game? Odd,
I mean ugly then nearly lost game. I was I
was calling for them to trade for Joannis in the
middle of the third quarter. I saw that. I think

(02:26):
I think the man saw that tweet. In the middle
of the game. He's like, shut yo, bum ass. And
he scored twelve or thirteen or whatever it was in
the fourth quarter. Yeah, he and he You can dish
the ball beautiful. I'll tell you. This is a great
passing team. No, it does turn the ball over way
too much, but it's a great passing team too. Yeah,
and sometimes it pass ends up in the second row.
They turn it over, but that's okay. Yeah, it is

(02:46):
what it is. Shan Gun did have one steal? Was
it against their gunslingers? They're like prime Brett Farf Yeah,
well maybe, actually they're more like prime Jamis Winston. They're
thirty for thirty. No, no crazy passes. Yeah, and a
lot of turnovers. But I'll be had a steal when
I was at Batum that just was like holding the ball,

(03:08):
just sitting there at the top. He had like three
steals in the first half. Yeah, it was good in
a dunk. Yeah, it's it. Look it was. It was
a rewarding victory. It got everybody a little more nervous,
and probably should have been because it was the Clippers.
But the Clippers do what Clippers do at the very end,
and that suck. Yes, that I think, Oh my god,
by the way, when they just completely didn't inbound the ball.
So Nick batoum, nick Batum is running the base on

(03:30):
what you're allowed to do after a made basket. Uh huh,
because nobody's coming to him. That he's running the baseline
because nobody's coming. And as soon as he did, I
was thinking, in my mind, he's going to cross the line.
I mean, Nick Batum has probably played basketball houled as
Nick in his early to bed thirty, somewhere in that range.
He's probably played basketball for twenty five, twenty six, twenty

(03:51):
seven years of his life. Yeah, in the NBA, long time,
in a nice living for himself. Yeah, punched a guy
in the nuts and the Olympics. I'd you remember that
that is an elementary literally a third day rule. You
cannot cross the line. Basically tip off is how you
started to play basketball from there. It's inbounds. It's like
rule one of basketball tip off or inbounds, or you

(04:12):
can't dubble the ball with two hands. Yes, it's one
of those Day one before even that. Yeah, James Nate
Smith was laying this out to the kids. He got
there the first thirty seconds. There is a line. Yes,
when you inbound it, you may not cross it, and
if you do, you'll be turning the ball over. So
he's running the baseline, no one is coming. I'm like,

(04:33):
and I'm thinking in the back of my mind, I'm
going to call a backcourt violation. And it exactly was
that what it was, And when the referee blew the whistle,
I knew exactly what happened. He turned his body, the
referee turned the body around and pointed out the direction
and the Rockets were able to not have to worry
about a three point defenses was Wex and I were
calling the game. We were talking about the fact that
you needed to probably foul to not allow the Clippers

(04:55):
to put up a three point shot, just get two
free throws and said it was like it was like
eight point seven seconds off or something like that. Eight
point seven what's what it was? What a brain dead?
And then there's controversy ad for the game yesterday because
apparently Tyrone lu did not speak to the media, and
now there's an argument as to well, was there any

(05:15):
media to speak too. Yes, the Clippers PR department said
that there was nobody there so they didn't do the interview.
But Kelly eco Now of Yahoo Right says, not so fast.
My friend I was there. There was a Rockets PR
person there as well, and they told us he wasn't speaking.
So there is a serious amount of somebody's lying Clippers Sorry,

(05:41):
well the Clippers, and we're seeing this and look, everything
is changing in our world, including media. Apparently the two
papers in Los Angeles that primarily cover the Clippers are
not traveling to every game, and one I think one
paper is not even traveling at all. Yeah, I mean,
so if there's nobody there around pretty quick and get
go here it's happening. It happens in Minnesota, and there's

(06:03):
a lot of teams now we play those audio and
post games and it's Vanessa Richardson getting one on ones
with the coach. Good. It's good for her, but that's
nobody's there. Yeah, it happens. Traveling media is dying. It
just just you can. You can get the report off
of a You can hire a what they call a
stringer and pay them fifty dollars who live in that town,
or a hundred bucks to write the story, cheaper than

(06:24):
a plane ticket, cheap inner plane ticket hotels. I mean everybody,
everybody again, in this world of equity, the way that's
stringer fee hadn't changed. It han't been about fifty bucks
for about twenty years.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
It's not you don't get rich off of It's like
being a substitute teacher. You would think you can get
to the go people will You're like, oh, you get
to go to the game. Yeah, But these these papers
are being owned by private equity firms and are like,
you know what, trim the fat when you can, yes,
and if you don't, and look, newspapers is a dying business.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
The Internet allows some of these things on a digital
platform to go in but you know, you're just going
to make pennies on the dollar. But that's more of
an issue for another time. But yeah, the Rockets won
the game and are now back to ten games above
five hundred, and we'll have another set of days off
before they travel to Denver on Sunday to take on
the Nuggets, and then we'll put the Monday Nuggets game

(07:12):
and then go to New Orleans on a Thursday. So
it's a long trip coming up. It's thirteen days, twelve nights,
and we'll include six road games, and I'll be celebrating
Christmas with my family via zoom. But then's the breaks again.
Nobody in my family's like, oh, all right, all right,
all right, Aaron Andrews relaxed, complain he's dead, Please don't go.

(07:34):
They're like, Dad, you get the gifts, You're fine. Wow,
we'll talk to you. Sure they miss you or somebody
is well, we're still having our Christmas in the twenty eighth.
It sucks good. Yeah, I mean yeah, Jesus wasn't more
than the twenty fifth anyways, was he twenty fourth? Twenty
sixth eleventh? I thought it was around the equinox. I
believe it was October fourteenth. I sent them acard. Yeah, no, look,

(07:55):
the gifts are purchased. They don't need me there. They
can hug me. I mean when I get home, that's fine.
But I you know, as I was telling my family
the other day, it's an honor to playing Christmas Day.
It just is that you and your or in they
would you say the seven o'clock eight o'clock Eastern times
the prime game of the day right when you say
or of course, so we're not only are you playing
on Christmas Day, but we're not. You know, we're playing

(08:16):
also the primetime game that night. So it's against the
Lakers and Lebron and company, who are very very good.
Should be an excellent day of football and basketball, and uh,
unfortunately for the NBA, they're being Austin Reeves and company.
He is bowing. You know, he doesn't wear a head
band or is he a headband guy? I don't think
he's wearing a head band that I've seen recently. Okay,

(08:38):
I just know there's a lot of white guys. You know,
he might have because he and Caruso had one on
when they played. Well, Caruso definitely does. I can't recall. Yeah,
I've never won a headband in my entire life, but really,
no Brandon. It would also require me sweating. I mean
I did because I mean I just thought it was funny.
But you I used to wearing pick. Yeah, I had

(08:59):
a well, I have a long hornhead band that I
used to wear the games. And then I have a
headband that I would wear and pickup ball just because
I thought it looked I would wear like high socks
and headbanded pick. So you basically stereotyped unathletic basketball player.
I would say, fairly unathletic, but a little bit skilled.
Do you wear elbow and EPA? No, I go that far?
You should have gone full board. I guess I could have. Yeah,

(09:20):
all right, on the show today, here's what we got
we have. I'm sorry. Is at eleven thirty. It feels
like should be that should be called the Rossville Areal sponsored.
I'm sorry because you feel like because you're probably do
five to six a week, that's not true. You always
feel like you say, oh, I'm sorry, I gotta save
it for Friday, because yeah, sometimes I say rude things
that you know, my filter isn't as good as it

(09:41):
should be sometimes. Yeah, I'm guilty of that as well.
I'm sorry. Is at eleven thirty. We'll have the news
at noon like the strippers up. Then we've got email
don't at twelve thirty today, doctor Rhoto's at one o'clock
and a non flour stories at one thirty. Plus a
helly are or not? And I have a Houston sports
cloud over my head that I can't I'm having difficulty shaking.
I need your help. All right, we'll do that coming back.

(10:02):
Plus I hate to use a word that is used
often in sports, but I think it's applicable here in
Houston for the Texans. What is that word? We'll take
you next, plus your what are you calling it? Now?
It's a cloud? It's a cloud. It's a cloud. It
is a cloud over my head, Houston Sports. Is it
foggy like today's weather was?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I could have said something, but I'll tell you I
can't say it. Okay, I'll hold mind it after you're
going first ten to fourteen Sports Talk Saturday. As you
heard a couple of minutes ago, is our Saint Jude's
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to go to your piggy bank and see if you
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(11:06):
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(11:48):
If you're ambivalent towards us, donate. Well, couldn't have said
it better myself, Thank you. All right. So there's a
cloud hanging over you, and you and I just to
be yes, Finn as I talk about it. We've not
talked abou this, so I'm going to do my chair.
What were we talking about for a segment? The sport
Houston sports wise for the most part. Okay, what do
we talk the most of? Uh? What team? The Astros

(12:11):
Houston Rockets? Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you
think the cloud is? I'm not even gonna guess. I
don't know. You've got me intrigued yet a little scared
as well. There might be some thunder coming from this cloud. Okay,
but we talked about that yesterday. I I literally was
watching them lose to the Clippers, and I'm like, they

(12:33):
can't beat the dust, Like I can't stop thinking about
the thunder no matter what the Rockets are doing. They're winning,
they're losing. I'm watching these games. I cannot It's it's
like the thunder or living rent free in my brain
every time I'm watching the Rockets. Now, it's bad. I
need help. I'm asking you for help. Okay, how do
I stop this? That's fine because they're twenty four and one.

(12:56):
They've won sixteen games in a row. They set the
all time record for point differential last year with twelve
point nine. They have a.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Seventeen point they're five points better than that.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Right now, this is not good for my mental health. Well,
because the Rockets are exciting and good. Well, I'm glad
you asked. I'm glad you asked. First and foremost, I
despise the term rent free me too. There are there
are terms in life that I hate, or words let

(13:29):
me run through. I hate the word moist disguise. I
just despise the word. Okay, I'm with you. I think
that is an overused term. It's ridiculous. You talk about
something and people say rent free. But I am using
it because it is apt. It is what is happening,
all right. I'm with you that that term sucks and
it's overused, but I had to describe it the way
that it's happening because it's true in this case. Okay,

(13:51):
So it's like what some people say, built different. Not
everybody's built different. Okay, don'ty and Phineysmith eight built different.
Here's the terms. I hate moist, I hate building free,
built different, you do you be better? I hate all those. Hmmm.
He sounds like you're hearing some of those a lot
more than others on Twitter especially. But here I'm here
to help you. Yes, they've gone twenty four in one. Oh,

(14:15):
but I'm going to give you not every one of
the twenty four victories, but I'm going to give you
quite a few of them. Okay, Okay, you're going to
strength to schedule. Houston's right when double overtime could have
just as easy lost that one. Other wins would include Indiana, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington,

(14:39):
the Kings, the Pelicans, the Clippers, the Hornets, okay, feel
the Grizzlies, the Pelicans again, the Kings again, the Jazz,
the Portland Trailblazer, Lakers by thirty. They beat the Warriors
by twenty four before that, Phoenix, which is a low end,

(15:00):
and I mean they beat Phoenix by fifty. I'm not
done though, hold on, let me go to we go
to December here where they're beating him by thirty. Though
it doesn't matter. It's a little bit, No, it matters
a little bit. Dallas, More, Utah, More, Golden State. They're
not beating him now. They're they're number one, and they

(15:22):
are the heavy, heavy, heavy favorite. So that's no wins
over the Nuggets. One went over the Rockets. Yes, coming
up post Christmas. Okay, to to San Antonio. Yes, Philadelphia's
playing better than expected. Okay in January? You have January. Yeah,

(15:44):
I'm working. Oh this is Phoenix, Charlotte, Utah, Memphis. Okay,
another San Antonio game, Okay, there is Cleveland on there
to I know, which has been a huge surprise. Minnesota,
and you have a Rockets game. So you're telling me

(16:06):
they're not going seventy five and seven. I'm saying that,
come check with you in a month. Let's talk in
thirty days. Okay, all right, you know what I can
live with that. I can let it go for thirty days.
And I was here prepare for this until until and
I will give credit where credit's due. A lot of
the a team is exhausting. But WEX brought this up yesterday.

(16:28):
Good about how they have not played a overly vicious schedule. Okay, now,
still look in the NBA, you can play down to
your competition. They are NBA players, and look the Rockets.
Two of their losses this year are to sub playoff teams,
the Dallas Mavericks and the Utah Jazz. It can happen.
You're not expected to do. You're not supposed to beat

(16:48):
everybody that's below you, nis, and you're not supposed to
play average everybody that's above you. To that end, yes,
I just checked strongest strength of schedule left in the NBA. Please,
Oklahoma City, the hardest schedule that. Yes, thank WEX. You
just made me feel so much better. I'm gravy training
all Oh my goodness. Yeah I get that, but at

(17:10):
least I admitted it. Yeah me too. You gotta listen
to peopleho are smarter than you. I listen to WEX.
Yeah WEX helped. So there you go. Thank you WEX,
Because I'll be honest with you, Rossie, I thought the
exact same thing. I'm like, yeah, are they ever going
to lose again? And then I read until I realized
that they were. They were at only plea think WEX
brought up yesterday on the show. I think they've only
played two or four games. I can't remember what it

(17:33):
was against top six or above teams. Okay, so they
have the I have even better news for you. Oh,
I love when you give me good news. Oklahoma City
toughest strength of schedule in terms of upon it win percentage,
Number two, Denver a number three San Antonio. Oh, let's
go soft ass first. Who are those teams fighting in
the Western Conference with your beloved Houston Rocke? Who are

(17:55):
twenty seventh? I'm feeling better now. This is correct, and
it took me for an hour. I got you that. Well. Actually,
what I'm gonna do is you're gonna what I'm gonna
do is you're I'm gonna charge you, and then I'm
gonna give half the money to West Okay, because he's
the one that's good the heavy lifting. All right, I'm

(18:16):
feeling a lot better right now. So not only do
we give you good news on that, but we also
gave you a bunch of terms you can't use. I
can't say moist, I can't say moist. No, why not
I love. Moist brisket not a good word. I don't
understand the problem with moist It's it's just an awful word.

(18:37):
It just means there's moisture, moisture bothered you. No, No,
it does not costures in there. That's fine, But man,
do you ever go?

Speaker 7 (18:44):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Man? This, My my wife made these brownies that were
so moist Absolutely, what's wrong with that? It's a terrible word.
He doesn't like a good moist cake? I do, but
don't have to say no, you love some moist cake, Jonathan,
How do you feel about the word moist?

Speaker 8 (18:56):
Just moist cake? You know every time and Ross says
that I creams a little bit, I can't.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
You know? What about moist brisket?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, what about moist piem? No? You're making it worse.
Do you know what? Man, I'm not problem. It's not
a good word. I don't get it. I don't get it.
I totally What do you want wet pie? No? I
don't want the word using use at all. Stay out
of that whole vernacular. How else are you? Okay? So,

(19:26):
let's your wife bakes you a cake. She spent hours
on it, and it's delicious and it's moist. You gonna
describe it? It's honey, I want you to give me
two sentences on what you like about this cake. Tasty, delicious,
That's that's it. Yeah, flavorful, flavorful. I can go on.
But what but when you make a cake you want
it to be moist. That goes out saying let's not

(19:49):
you're gonna say not dry. You're not gonna go Hey, honey,
this cake is not dry. Good job, I'm not gonna go.
I get a friend of mine. I got a friend
of mine who's known for making dry ass brisket. I
don't tell him about it. You should tell him you
need it more moist. No, that's not more moisture. I'm
never gonna go. Hey, would you please moist? If somebody

(20:10):
has given you brick brisket that you have to choke down,
that you have to lubricate with barbecue sauce to get
it down your throat, Okay, you need not bring up
lubrication and barbecue sauce. What is wrong with you today?
What do you mean? I just gave you amazing information
about Oklahoma City, and in moisture, you need lubrication. Read
a book, Matt, Come on, man, this is this is

(20:34):
one on one. So, yeah, you need some brisket lube
also known as barbecue sauce. Email text coming in, what
about astro legend moistist alu? Yeah, moistis alu? What's wrong
with that? I was ill prepared for that. M moistis alu.

(20:58):
That's that's funny. Yet try bling. I don't see what
the issue is with saying the word moist. I just
don't get it. Okay, Well, I'm gonna put a poll
question up for it. We'll see how people think. Yeah,
I mean, I could be wrong. I'm on the I'm
in the minority all the time. Yeah, all the time.
Anything goes Friday, clearly the case. Half hour in seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

(21:20):
three two one two five seven nine zero. Can we
turn this? Can out find it? Nobody smash your pass
with Sabby on a sports show right now, And first
of all, we Sabbi's delicious in small amounts. You can't
have it too much and they want to burning your
tail snort it? Have you ever snorted with Sabbi? Seven

(21:40):
one three two one two five seven ninety with a
word right now for uptown appliance repair. This is what
the first half hours already brought to you, Houston. All
I say is you're welcome. Say A great friend of mine,
I've been friends with him for twenty plus years sent
me a text. He says, maddenings your help. I just
pulled up to a Starbucks and I can't decide if
I want a really good moist piece of lemon loaf

(22:03):
or should I have coffee cake or I don't know
if coffee cake has been living run free in my head.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
The lady said, you do you and it's like, well,
but I love moist lemon loaf, but mag coffee cake
really does sound good. Can you help me with that?
And I and I'm built different and I said nope,
lose my number. So the pole do you put a
Twitter poll out? What is it?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Poll?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
The pole question? Is the word moist? A use it
all the time, B just occasionally, or see find a
different word. Seventy one percent have it just occasionally, so
it's obviously a word that it can be used. Okay,
so only only twelve percent of people are on your
side fifteen according to this one. I got twelve and

(22:47):
a half because I just voted. Oh did you? Oh,
look at you trying to alter the vote. I'm not altering.
I've voted that I voted. My answer, you're not allowed
to vote? Why not? Why am I not allowed to vote?
I don't know. I'm just kidding. This is suppression, voter suppressed.
You don't have your voters, Carter, you don't know all
I do. That's crazy. All right, So I'm gonna we're
gonna play a call from last night's game that maybe

(23:09):
single starts a single the end of one of America's
greatest sportscasters. It starts to go ahead. But my point is, yeah,
by the way, fifty six percent now just occasionally using
the word moist. All right, Uh so there's a term
in sports that you used quite often in all different sports.
ROSSI simply answered this question for me. Are the next

(23:32):
two weeks for the Texans potentially trap games? Oh dear,
you knew I was gonna go to that. You had
to have known.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
I know.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I actually thought you might go must win? Oh god it?
Oh yeah, because they're eight and five and they need
to stay up and this is such an easy game
and their big favorites so they can't see see you
can spin everything into a must win. This is why
I hate must win all right. This week is a
must win game because it's the easiest game remaining on
the schedule. You cannot afford to lose this game. You're

(24:00):
gonna put yourself on the back foot if you don't
win this one. That's why this week is a must
win game for the Texans. I'm team must win this week.
To me, it's not a must win, but I want
to also be honest. Let's put things in scenario here
for just a second. Let's say that the Texans do
lose this game. Okay, could it be so bad they

(24:23):
get bounced out? Let's go to it. Yeah, I think so. Right,
They're a seventh seed. Indianapolis is eight and five right now.
The Texans at the tiebreakers. So in theory, if Indianapolis
wins at Seattle and the Philly River. If that ain't happening,
what's the line on that game? By the way, we
don't even know if he's playing. Can we? I gave
you my lock of the week money line. The Seahawks.

(24:43):
They're gonna obliterate the Colts and the Old Man of
Philip Rivers. It's assuming he's playing literally old man rivers. Okay,
So the only way this is a must win is
if the Texans lose this game. Well, I mean I
guess it would be. Then the only way it would
be a bad weekend is that the Texans lose and
Indianapolis wins at Seattle. Seattle needs this. They're this right now.

(25:05):
They're the five seed. They're competing with the Rams for
supremacy in the NFC West. San Francisco's only they're five seed.
They're ten and three. They're ten and yeah, they're ten
and three. They lose the tip record of the Rams,
so they would be the number they'd be the number
one wild card in the NFC at this point. Oh,
they have they have a better record. Wait, is this true?
The Panthers are leading the NFC South at seven and

(25:27):
six because of what happened last night, they have a
better record than every division winner, and they'd be the
five seed. That's rough. Okay, So put it this way.
If the Texans lose this week to Arizona and Jacoby Perci, oh,
is it a must win game? Now? And here we
go Indianapolis wins at Seattle. This is not happening. They're
thirteen and a half point dogs. They're they're they're wheeling

(25:48):
out Philip Rivers in a wheelchair. Yeah, they've lost three
in a row of the Colts. They're not winning. You
have my you have my personal guarantee. Now out Baltimore.
Who's Baltimore have this week? I will pull that up.
Kansas City this week is home. It's Baltimo has the

(26:13):
Bengals on the road. Okay, Joe Burrow's back bingle has
been playing a little better. And Joe Burrow, soiunded basically
like he wanted to go into a therapy because he's
sort disappointed how things will turn out this year. He
was dark, is what I was told. Has somebody pulled
up the pressure rate for the Bengals every year he's
been there, it's been like twenty eight or more. I mean,
he's he's lucky that he doesn't have multiple fractures throughout
his body he has had. I mean, you're talking about

(26:35):
c J Start having a run for his life. He
only got one concussion. Joe Burrows had multiple injuries. Okay,
if Baltimore beat Cincinnati, that game is Instincinnati, correct, Yes, Okay,
that would and the Texans would lose, that would put
the Ravens a game behind, but the Texans would have
the tiebreaker over the Ravens. Kansas City this week is

(26:57):
home for what is home for? Tennis? See? Is that
who they're home for? Who's Kansas City home for? I
don't know the schedule for him because I'm looking to standing,
so hold on chages. Oh, they're five and a half
point favorites over the nine and four Chargers. Vegas loves
the Chiefs. You know what if Vegas loves the Chiefs
at home and they also don't have any faith in

(27:18):
the Charge and the analytics have love the Chiefs too, Yeah,
I guess they just had a bunch of bad one
game score love or something. They just make this a nice, grandiose,
easy statement. They're almost wins. Arrested year. You can't take
a week off for the Texans?

Speaker 10 (27:29):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Why not? Okay?

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Why not?

Speaker 11 (27:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
You know what, just say, Hey, they're almost wins? Why not? Uh? Yeah? Okay? Well,
I mean, if if we're gonna be totally truthful, if
you're going to end the season, let's say they have
four games left, they go three and one, this would
be the week to lose. Okay, because you would have

(27:54):
you as long as you keep being AFC teams, it's
going to help you with your tie breakers. And there
could be it could be a big old mess at
ten and seven or eleven and six. Even look, eleven
and eleven gets you in for sure. It's just or
your seeding is going to be. You know who you're
really rooting hard for? Channel get you in? I think
I think I think ten with all the time Burgers.
I think who you're really rooting for this week is

(28:16):
the Denver Broncos. Are you not? Uhcuse you need Denver
to be Jacksonville in the worst way. Yes, getting a
top four seed we would be good. But also the
five seed right now is the Bills, right so you
want to be the three seed even though I mean
hosting the Bills, you could win that game. Way, That

(28:37):
Jacksonville game is not this week, it's Thanks week. This
week you got green Bay at Denver. So here's the
I can't here's what I don't understand, or I don't
think Jacksonville's home for the Jets. Oh damn. Then they're
at the Broncos one. Yeah, then they're at the Colts
win home for the Titans. To end the season three

(28:58):
and one for them. Yeah, but you know what, they
lost some dog games early on, right. Do you want
the Texans ending the year and with a nine game
winning streak? I mean, do we have any we have
any evidence of super long winning streaks winding up hurting
teams come postseason time? I mean i'd have to No,
I don't know. No, I don't thinking. Why would it

(29:19):
hurt them? You want them to lose? I don't know. No, no, no,
I don't want that because because people would be losing
their minds if they lost, especially if it's the next
two weeks. But do you, like, for instance, if you're
New England and Denver, do you want to go into
the playoffs on a fourteen game winning streak because both
those teams have won ten straight games? Yes, I guess so,

(29:40):
I guess. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, you wouldn't say, Oh, well, well,
here's the thing. Let's say the ninety eight Broncos won
eighteen games in a row, including a Super Bowl. Okay,
and well see a lot of the longest streaks did
end in the playoffs. The Colts loss, of course, we
know the New England Patriots lost to the Giants in
the Super Bowl right after their PERF season. Yeah, you

(30:02):
would never go. Hey, well, I'll put it this way.
The easiest way to do it is to have your
playoff spot locked up by the end of week seventeen.
So a week eighteen, you're playing all your second teamers
and you don't care if you want to lose that game. Okay,
I don't know. I just it doesn't make any sense
for me to even say that, But I just wanted
to say. I mean, is there I guess the argument
with bere due for a loss? Why are you peaking

(30:23):
too early that maybe a tough December loss gets you
get you. You're gritty and you're ready to go for
that January run, saying I don't want to know, I
don't want to feel this again. We're not going to
feel this again because hell, if you're a Denver fan
or you're a New England fan, you haven't tasted a
defeat since what early October. That's a that's a hard

(30:46):
crash because somebody's not going to win the AFC. That
too good in that group. Man's wide open, though, all right?
Ten forty four on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven to one three, two, one two five seven ninety
all right, last night Ross and I were working the
Rockets game against the Clippers and various functions, and I
was enjoying listening to the postgame show coming home. It

(31:08):
was a thriller. It was a thriller. I enjoyed the
good commentary and would you rip ourtee? Yes, the insight
in the it was good. So you and I did
not watch, and maybe you know you were not at
the arena, so maybe you were watching them. I was
watching both Atlanta Tampa Bay, and the Falcons won the game,
scoring a bunch of points late. They committed like forty
one penalties I think in one game. Yes, but Atlanta

(31:32):
went to Tampa in a potential trap game because the
Falcons suck and the Buccaneers are trying to win the
NMC North. Well, maybe the Bucks just aren't very good.
They lost to the Saints last week. They did it's
a double trap at home? You hate a double trap?
Was a trap? Or they're just not very good. That's
probably the case. They lost five of their last six. Woo,

(31:53):
they're starting to get a little rotten. Five worthy. Now
they're seven and seven. You can't make a Rotten five
team out of a team that may win the division,
the Rotten mid the mid five. So the game was
on Amazon Prime last night and al Michaels, I believe
is north of eighty. I want to say that sounds right?

(32:13):
Am I right about that? He sounds north of eighty?
He's eighty one? Okay, umm, pound for pound, one of
the five best play by play callers in the history
of sports. Okay, from give me the list real quick,
all timers. Now, let me ask you this, does multi
sport gain more leverage over a guy that is known

(32:36):
for one sport? I would say yes, versatility counts. So
you're putting nance in there? All right, here's the list,
without any going in particular order. Nance, uh Buck, which one?
Joe not Jack? I love Jack, loved Jack, but I
don't think Jack had enough national cachet. And it's been

(32:57):
a long time. Michaels, you could go, you could go somewhere.
All because he did do tennis and golf, Harlan Harlan
Scully did multiple He was known for baseball. He was
known for baseball. But Scully did both for a long
time until he got dissed by CBS and or by

(33:17):
NBC and or who was a disbuy It was by CBS.
He wanted to do. He wanted to be John Mann's partner,
and they said, we're letting Pat Summerl be his partner.
And Vin's like, I'm getting the hell out of here.
Goes NBC and does a long run of World Series games.
So I mean, there there's your short list, right, Okay,
he's on it, but he's on it, from do You
Believe Your Miracles? To college football to the NFL to

(33:40):
Major League Baseball. The Earthquake series in itself was probably
one of the legendary ones. Did basketball for a long time.
He's just done everything anchored Olympic shows. Uh, but he's
eighty one years old. He sounds sleepy, and unfortunately, this
is how he calls the end of the game, which
literally ended on a field goal kick between Atlanta and

(34:01):
Tampa Bay last night.

Speaker 12 (34:04):
Donzales brad the pinion to hold it, and the kick
is just inside the left up right, and there's a
little son of Brayton going on in Charlotte, North Carolina

(34:24):
right now. This puts the Panthers in the driver's seat
for the moment, and the NFC side, all right, that's good.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Now, I don't want al Michaels to folk fake excitement.
I don't I don't need I don't think I need
Gus Johnson. But that was the kick that ended. That
was literally the last play of the game. It was
a crazy comeback too. It was fourth quarter was nuts
for the Falcons, even though they were committing penalties every
five seconds. Now, I will say I was expecting worse

(35:05):
the way it was set up, and I saw a
lot of posts on social media about it too, so
I was expecting it to be a little even more
sleepy than that. So maybe my expectations levels was low,
so low that I didn't think it was that bad. No, No,
it was. Fundamentally it was accurate. He did tie it

(35:26):
into Charlotte being happy. He did tied it into the
fact that the NFC South is a hot mess. Right now,
Twitter says, you'd think it was a preseason extra point.
Al Michaels has done. I just literally put al Michaels
into Twitter. Al Michaels leave the game before the game
leaves you. Now, the worst part would have been is

(35:51):
if he would have said the kick is no good
and it was good. That would have probably ended his career.
He didn't do that. That's good. And the number one
thing for those those of you that are young player
by I play called is when you're calling field goals,
wait for the hand signs. The hand signs ROSSI will
set you free. Al Michaels just announced the field goal
like it was thirty a thirty yard field goal with
three minutes left in the first. Now again, social media

(36:17):
can be mean, not canby. It is either he had
money on the bucks or thought there was time left.
He's soaked, insanely talented Prime al Michaels could do everything,
didn't screw up calls, was funny, conversational, interesting, let his

(36:40):
partner well called the big moments just prime. I forgot
to mention Bob Costa's neck all times, was too and
look Bob cost has lost his fastball last year. Oh
and basically retired or was told you're gonna retire. He
was doing sleepy calls too. Was he confused and thought
it was the second quarter? It just it had zero pizzazz.

(37:06):
And I think even on the final calls of any
sport in which you call, you have to have some bazazz.
So in some respects it is sad to see him
make a call like that because nineteen ninety four Ol
Michaels would have been not over the top, but he
would have called it a little more zest. He's eighty one,

(37:31):
and maybe he thought again, you know, like I said before,
the officials on the two officials that are at the
goalpost are your best friend. If you can't see it,
which could be an issue as well, wait for the
officials to put their hand signs up no good or sliding.
You know, no good either way. So that's what I
do with field goal kicks. But even if you did
site see it, and you've got nineteen television monitors, I
mean the Amazon Prime folks have TV. I mean, if

(37:53):
you ever go see a studio, they are not a
studio but a game set at the stadium. They've got
i mean, they've got every angle covered. They're gonna be
able to see it. So there's no reason why he
would not be able to see it. Was going to
sneak in sell it a little bit more. That's I
think that's what people are generally saying. It was a
big kick. I mean, Tampa Bay's playoff hopes are on
the ropes. It was a big comeback. It was not

(38:14):
Atlanta versus Tennessee. There was also a controversy because the
Atlanta was going for all these two point conversions late
and they were missing them. I mean it was it
was an intriguing game, and that it did have a
bit of a preseason game winner field. It had second
quarter three to three score. Yeah, so it's I'm sorry.

(38:36):
It's sad to me because he's one of the people
that I looked up I still look up to him.
This is making me sad, just like when Lebron scored
eight points. This is making me sad. Wait a minute,
and they're all getting older. You're putting Lebron's eight points
with eighty one year old out Michael's in the same conversation,
isn't it? Don't they You don't see the parallels. All
prates are fading. I don't think. I mean Lebron is not.

(38:56):
I wouldn't say fading. I just said that it was
a long streak that came to an end. Yeah, all
time grades are fading in front of our eyes. But
it makes me sad because it makes could Lebron score
thirty one points tomorrow night? Absolutely? Could he could? Well?
How Michael's ain't dropping forty no more. I don't know
if Al Michael's is gonna can he can he does
he have the gusto to make I mean, if it's
a siftyr, he's getting that big he's getting that big
check from Jeff Bezos. But this should be his last year. Yeah,

(39:20):
it's a lot of times like he was sleepwalking and
they were giving them dog games and okay Falcons bucks,
isn't you know correct? Prime time? No one? Yeah, it
was a good game, all right. I just want to
I just want to see what your thoughts were on
the Yeah, again, he's one of the he is one
of it is indisputable. Yeah, what kind of career he has?

(39:41):
Having Mount Rushmore? There's only four spots on there. Can
we can we find another monument we can that's got
five to it, five people on it? Like, yeah, I
don't know, Like if you were if it was the
Temptations of sports broadcast, that's what you're gonna go with.
I don't know. I'm thinking people that are in Like
the Beatles were four, the four Tops were four, See

(40:04):
the Temptations were five, Okay, led Zeppelins four. Greatest rock
band all the time. How many please? How many people
were in the in the Rolling Stones? I don't know
Keith Richards Uh, Charlie Watts Uh make Jaggert's three Jagger
of course? Yeah. And they had another guy in there

(40:24):
somewhere who Yeah, what do you what do you define
a national monument of five? Why would go earth wind
and fire? There's like seventeen people none that there's a
members are still alive. That's on the here and nor there?
All right, Final Hoe with the Matt Thomas Final lot.
We only got three more to go. Look at I'm
not even a vacation, man, I'm not taking a vacation.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
He's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Our number two of The Matt Thomas Show with us
here on a Sports Talk seven ninety rosberrya Matt Thomas
with you until two o'clock. We have a lot of
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We got Friday. I'm sorry, he's coming up at eleven thirty.

(41:17):
Doctor Roto at one o'clock. It is a jam packed
Friday edition of the program. You can also get in
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three two one two five seven ninety is the phone
number seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
So yeah, playing the al Michaels audio in that last segment,
it just it just makes me sad to watch a

(41:39):
a once proud play by play man falling by the wayside.
And no, I'm not talking about you, Matt. I'm talking
about I want to say, if you want to have
that conversation, we can have it. You're doing great, all right,
We're all proud of you. Oh, we got Indiana and
Texas playing in volleyball. We got a regional semifinal, big matchup, baby,
let's go. Did you see, by the way, the Texas

(42:00):
is building a volleyball only facility six thousand seats I
think it was sixty five hundred or six thousand, something
like that. Yeah, and they're going to try to build
some residential dorms around that area as well. So they're
asking for you to donate. And since you are a
proud text I get those emails and I delete those emails.
That's not very nice. Why you know what, I'm glad
you delete them because you're spending all your money on

(42:22):
you university wrote is on volleyball, and for that, well,
I don't know. You know, when you know, once I
become a donor, man, I'm gonna want some results and
then I'm gonna call over that coach and get fired
whoever they are. Let's go Sally. It's Ryan. Oh, let's
go Ryan. Yeah? All right. So then we got the
pressures already on Carly. You havent you graduated high school,

(42:44):
agetin and an il sponsored. Hey, you want to take
that cash, you gotta be in the pressure cooker. Let's go.
I can't stand the heat. Get out of the kitchen.
That feels fair, all right, let's get to it. Rockets
one last line over the Los Angeles Clippers by two
points in a game that was, frankly, if I'm a
Clipper fan, I am beside myself with the nineteenth time
now six and nineteen of the season, a massive disappointment.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
There.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Texans on the practice field, it's like the warm up,
not the Warman day, but it's the walk through day,
so to speak, light workout over an energy Stadiumkamari Lassiter
is on the field with the boys, which is a
good sign for Sunday. Texans depending on if you are
a better either a nine and a half or ten
point favorite, depending on where you are looking. And the Texans,

(43:24):
it is a need to win one game. No, don't
worry about me. Go ahead. No, No, No, they're all must
wins down the stretch. No, because I want to. I
want to feed into the accuracy of the term must win.
And it's not a must win game. Because here's the thing.
If the Texans lose and Indianapolis wins a Seattle, they
would be out of the playoffs. But that doesn't mean

(43:46):
the season ends. It's not week eighteen of the season.
There is time, with three more games left to go,
just to win those last three. Get yourself to ten
and seven and be good and be just fine. Okay,
it's an important game, though, it is important game, but
not of us win. I will say this, if you
and I were in a betting venue, yes, I wouldn't

(44:07):
put a lot of money on this game, period, But
if I was, i'd put it. Probably put it on
a Cardinal cover because the Cardinals, with exceptional last week,
stay competitive with most of their teams. Bressett obviously has
had some success against the Texans in a pass that
should mean anything really. Uh, and again I do believe
there is a natural letdown you have had. Think about this,

(44:28):
ROSSI and during this winning streak, you've had some emotionally
charged games against Buffalo, against Indianapolis Tennessee. I didn't say
that in Kansas City against human nature would tell you
that there is just do for a We can't treat
every game like where our backs are against the wall.
That's why I think the Texans will win the game.

(44:49):
But I wouldn't be surprised if it's closer than say
the nine and a half points. But for me, largely
it would be a stay away game. Yeah, I mean,
I think the line it's good. I remember as far
as the most important thing in the world is they win,
must win. Maybe you're one stepisode. Yeah, as Lady l

(45:09):
Davis would once tell you what else going on? Sharon
Moore is still in custody. Supposed to be a rain today. Yeah, yeah, Uh.
It feels like we're getting a little more consistency on
the storyline. Okay, And I don't want a paraphrase, but
for the sake of this being a show, we have
to paraphrase. There was initial conversations months ago about the

(45:33):
two of them having a relationship. They denied it. Then
time moves along, other people finding out and apparently the
girl was telling other people. So that's how the rumors
became more and more flu in terms of people knowing
more about it, because you know, friends tell friends, who
tells the friends. She then goes to the University of

(45:54):
Michigan says, here's the evidence of the things that you
asked us that we didn't do, that we did do
I have the evidence of it. Okay. He gets called
to the office, gets fired. Immediately, he runs over to
her house and threatens his life and threatens her life.
And that's the reason when the police were called. And
that's the reason why he stands right now still in
a local Detroit area of jail, thirty nine years old. Meanwhile,

(46:18):
we are adding a third candidate for d of the Year.
Oh that's true, Sharon Moore. Who are the other two? Well,
you know what, we're going to add maybe two the
four candidates. The three candidates, the two for sure one
is Lane Kiffin for just the way you handle the

(46:39):
entire situation. That may not win about everything. It may
not win because Lsu family come in Gordon's look at
my contract, right right right.

Speaker 8 (46:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Number two is anybody involved in Notre Dame Athletics. Okay,
Pete Bravauqua, Yeah, Peeplevaqua. In particular, Sharon Moore would be
maybe a d of the year. Three. Adam Schefter maybe
getting in the list at number four. He went out
out there and said, hey, there's two sides of this.

(47:10):
Let's let every side. Now, what you folks don't know
is that he is a huge supporter of Michigan Athletics
and not the social media is fair and balanced. But
go look up Adam Schefter in the word Michigan in
the same sentence, and it's not a kind look at
how the way he has handled his commentary. I was
just going to say, like, who is Sharon Moore's an agent? Well,

(47:33):
that's what I was curious for. Here's what I'm thinking.
And if I'm Adam Schefter, not that he would ever
listen to me as a as a mid day host
in Houston, Texas. I to handle your career. But you're
either going to be a reporter or you're going to
be a commentator. I don't think you can accurately do both.
If you're a reporter, it's just the facts man. Yeah,

(47:54):
and that's what he is.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Now.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Is he a show for agents? Yes, but that's how
he gets his news. That how today's quote unquote journalists,
whether it be in politics and business or in sports,
get there. You have to build relationships. A show for
the league too. He's a show for the league too,
show for ESPN. Remember, Oh, it's only gonna be one
minute of commercials on red Zone. Now there's eight. So
now he and again I understand waiting for the facts

(48:18):
to present itself, but that it got really fast and
really furious as to all I've known about this for months.
Oh this is no surprise. And I guess the number
one argument out there is that did Michigan hold onto
this to fire him with calls to save them some
money because they just knowe at the end of the
day that the Shirl Moore would not be the long
term solution. Now that's the case, that's a little dastardly.

(48:43):
Feels like that's what happened, and if that's the case,
more should have been fired. But you have to fire
the athletic director at you in Michigan as well. If
there's any sort of let's hold this till it's time
or it's convenient for us, like recruiting signing day. Yeah,
and that happens. Like when how many stories come out

(49:04):
about somebody or something or a coach after they get fired.
Happens all the time. It happened with Bill O'Brien. This
is socialacious, Like a bunch of stuff stories came out
about Bill O'Brien, what was going on in him to
yelling at people and players and stuff. You and I
are not intimate to this story, but I will say this,
It felt like this could have been announced two months ago,

(49:27):
that if there were enough that if this woman was
whispering enough of this that it got a hold by
members of the media, they were holding on to it.
I'll put it. Yeah, I'll put it this way. They
could have done more digging. They probably wanted it to
go away, so they Apparently the story goes that they
interviewed both of them and they are like, no, we're
not doing anything, and they're like, okay, good. And you

(49:47):
ask somebody you don't want to know that, you don't
want to know the truth. You want to do enough
for plausible deniability. You want to do enough to say, hey,
we launched an investigation. Could they have dug deeper? Absolutely,
but they had no choice. She had the goods about
phone records, emails, I'm guessing details of where they met

(50:10):
and how they did it and whatnot. And then obviously
there was again unconfirmed conversations about abortion and playing b
pills and all that kind of stuff that really don't
know about. You really got uh got by the way,
AI having a good time with this. By the way,
I imagine would you let me to send you the

(50:31):
one I got? No, please please stop sending me AI
Bob Barker and stuff. Okay, I can send you a
I shouldrun more. I mean, I'm good. Let me send
you one, all right, go ahead? Eleven thirteen? He did
you send me the one with the CEO CEO side
piece or the director of HR or whatever she was.
I got one more. Jem and Roger hank Tab We'll

(50:52):
get to you, no man in a moment seven seven on.
You know, I'm gonna say tell you this right now
in seventeen minutes, I'm sorry for sending you all the
AI videos. Okay, you should. Jim wants to talk about
the winner baseball meetings. We'll get to that. Roger wants
to get into Texas and the Rockets. But first things first,
Gordy is here to give us a complete rundown of
who got the softest SEC schedule for next year, because
that was announced yesterday.

Speaker 13 (51:13):
I think Oklahoma actually got a pretty good draw for
next year. You look at their schedule. They they got
to go to Michigan in week two or three, all right,
but after that, I think They're SEC schedule actually sets
up pretty well. I think Texas isn't bad. I think
if Texas beats Ohio State, what on the road to
LSU and A and M those are your two Missoo

(51:33):
on the road Missoo.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Was losing a bum drink, which is there. They are
usually top twenty five. Okay, if you can't beat Missoo
with arch manning, then well we'll see. Maybe dB will
be starting with.

Speaker 13 (51:45):
Who has the most difficult I mean like your Auburn's
in Florida's, those teams with new coaches that I think
may Good hires.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
But it's gonna be it's gonna be talk ole miss.

Speaker 13 (51:55):
I mean, go up Pete Goldie, lose La Giffing good luck,
Yes are to get their schedule locked out.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
They're going to carry A and M Texas on prime time.
They're gonna carry h L s U ed OL. Miss
for sure. That's gonna be the problem. That's week three.
But they better. I mean, he's gonna have that. They're
gonna have to have every security group in the world
with him out there. They like, they're fine, They're like,
but like he got ran up the road apparently.

Speaker 13 (52:19):
Yeah, there's apparently there's venomous sports.

Speaker 10 (52:23):
Height and then there's like psychotic behavior, and I think
there will.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Be that's you and the sec are psychotic, poisoning trees bomb.
I know it's how crazy they are.

Speaker 13 (52:34):
I mean, poison trees is one thing. But like I
think I'm afraid someone may try to shoot Kiffin. Nah,
they are crazy, try to shoot him. There's nothing to
do with Mississippi. Has a coach ever been shot to death?
I have been to ox for Misissippi one time.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
It's an absolutely beautiful campus's metropoles of excitement. Yeah, they
got golf courses. There's no golf course an O for Misissippi.
I'm find out to be startling.

Speaker 10 (53:02):
They have a I hear they're gonna get a movie theater.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
I hear you got seven waffle houses in Baton Rouge
Stop forty nine, raising Kine. We got the top golf.
That's rue. I've been. You have chimes and that's it.
No chimes delicious when you're number one. Spot to go
look for in terms of fun is to see Mike
the Tiger's seating instead. What is it called Tigerville, Tigertown,

(53:26):
tiger Land, tiger Land there. I like the casino there.
You get casino, you get Tiger Lane. Got concerts and
Kevin can have a good time. Concert that went through Oxford, Mississippi.
Robert O'Keane in nineteen eighty. Okay, boosey doesn't count. Okay,
come on, that always got stuff going on. It's it's
it's more a cosmopolitan Oxford. Uh yeah, but come on yeah,

(53:50):
I mean bat Rouge is the capital Louisiana and you're
from New Orleans. With all that stuff going on?

Speaker 10 (53:54):
What's what's what's the airport in Oxford?

Speaker 12 (53:57):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
You gonna drive over to Jackson.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
I did a game at Old Miss. I flew to
Memphis and drove. Wow, you can find of Jackson too
if you wanted to.

Speaker 13 (54:07):
A lot of people stay in Memphis and drive in
because there's nothing to do and nowhere to stay in Oxford.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
More Miss America's per capita at Old Miss than any
other school in the country. By the way, who cares
I do? How many they got? Like three for capital
makes the walk once around a little easier? There, student
looking up Oxford girls or Baton Rouge.

Speaker 13 (54:27):
Girls close, they actually did a thing. Teeth Oh, come on,
it's Arkansas, the only one missing teeth Georgia. Georgia per
capita has always been in the number one in terms
of best looking student body.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Really, pound for pound, the entire sec is Okay, I'll
move on. You know what would add tho congratulates to
the Aggies scheduling Citadel for a non conference game. It's
a huge matchup. It's huge they would be the Citadel.
And it's true. I heard was it Texas State?

Speaker 13 (55:02):
That's like the biggest one in the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Absolutely, Texas State. It's a big Yeah, it's a big matchup. No,
Ac Cordon, I have our own conversation. Sorry, I'm actually
paying attention to this volleyball game. Yeah, I know you
out Let's kid.

Speaker 13 (55:19):
Is this the only sport that plays their playoff games
in the middle of a Friday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
There a full crowd there. So, yeah, the Gregory Gym
is full. It's full of the greg Maybe there's the
National Championship is gonna be on ABC? What are you
talking about? Volleyball is big in Texas. Excuse me? Then
city tournament places at eleven o'clock in the morning during
the tournament, yeah, all the time. Yeah, that's the national holiday.
All take off work for that. Well, I would like
to take off to watch his volleyball, but I'm working

(55:44):
here ten to two. I mean, Ross already checked out.
He's gone next week. We already lost him. Sorry, what
else are going to bring up to you? Oh? By
the way, the Cougar sold their allotment of tickets for
L s U. I mean this is their super Bowl.
Is not really.

Speaker 10 (56:00):
Rhyme team like the L s U Tigers and.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Then everybody there because y'all a scaredy catch years ago.
I mean, this is a huge deal.

Speaker 13 (56:07):
This is an honor for your age to get the
play L s U.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
You know what, I need this weekly. I need this
three times a week because quarterback for the game. It's
probably gonna be our backup Michael van Buren. Guys, what
about that doing. What's that stiff that you guys were
selling as a heisman hopeful? What happened to him? He
is preparing for the NFL Draft to.

Speaker 12 (56:29):
Do what.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
To get a couple of camp invites as an undrafted
free agent. I'm gonna say, what, what's you mean? You
mean the CFL draft you're talking about? He was a
huge disappointment this year. The LSU offensive line was a
big disappointment. So look, Coop's got a great chance. Every
LSU quarterback not named Joe Burrow's been a disappointment.

Speaker 10 (56:46):
Oh, come on, the Jayden Daniels Ever heard of him?
What a heisman?

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
One sophomore slump and hurt all the times, like four games.
Can't help that. His offensive lines getting excuses here.

Speaker 10 (56:57):
Laromie Tunsil trying to protect his blind side.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Your guy, not mine. I told you Larry was a bum.
Larry Tussel has been one of the best pass blockers
in football.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
Kinder's Texas Bowl dot Com. By the way, if you
want to.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Get tired and get the promotion in and then we're
going to talk to Jim and Roger and then we're
gonna go do it.

Speaker 13 (57:12):
I'm sorry this Scember twenty seventh. I love this is
Saturday this year. By the way, eight fifteen kickoff. It's
a little bit of a later kickoff. Kinder's Texas Bowl
over there at RG Stadium. It's Matt's Houston Cougar's against
my LSU Tigers. We'll have to make a bet on
it and see who can win this one. Kinder's Texas
Bowl dot Com for tickets, sweets, group opportunities, and more.

(57:33):
Tickets going fast, and they got some great events going
around as well, with the concerts and all kinds of
stuff building up to the to the bowl game.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
So so I.

Speaker 13 (57:40):
Heard Willie Fritz talk yesterday. He's super excited. Make sure
you guys get your tickets. Kinder's Texas Bowl dot Com.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
What's gonna be the bet? I don't know what do
you think we should? Matt had to paint his face
like a tiger. We did a bet where I had
to put a long horn helmet on his head. That
was awesome, and then you pay you painted his head. Yeah,
we painted his head and we went to Luckies Ito
Rip Luckies and we painted at a longhorned helmet on
his head. I remember that. It was awesome. And then

(58:08):
we made him sing the fight song. Yeah, he had
to sing the fight song. He's lost a lot of
bets to me over the years, and we got some
hibachi coming for Kyle Tucker. All Right, Gordy, thank you
for that. We're gonna take quick break here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming up next. You know
you have something to apologize for.

Speaker 14 (58:39):
I'm sorry, so sorry.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
You are such a fool if you do not stop
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(59:12):
If you join the Payway app and you're one of
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(59:34):
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Thank you to Campbell and the crew at Payway for

(59:54):
dropping off lunch to us today. We certainly appreciate that.
Delicious and moist. Let's check the old moist calendar there.
How is moist looking on the big board? You mean
your pole? Yes, how is your moist pole looking? Fifty
four percent said to use the word moist just occasionally,

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twenty four percent use it all the time, and twenty
two percent find a different word. Huh. I'm surprised that
twenty four percent is so high. There you go, interesting.
I hate the word. I am afraid to say it.
I hate it. I don't see what the big deal is.
Clearly I'm the minority of this is moist all the time.

(01:00:36):
All Right, we're gonna apologize for you saying the word
moist as much as you have so far. Shortly, let's
talk to some people here, Jim and the heights. Can
you put them up online? One ROSSI my computer system
is a little bit down. Oh there we go, Jim,
you're on seven ninety. Thank you very much for waiting
in good morning two years.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:00:54):
Thanks guys for listen all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
But thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:00:57):
Hey, I want to tell you something I'm sorry for.
Every time I run into somebody like Gordy who's over
the top LSU fans, I love them straight in the
face and I look, I mean I just the straightest
face I can muster up. And I said, you know what,
I've seen that logo before, that purple that goes at LSU.
What is that? That's pretty common? And they'll say, with

(01:01:21):
complete indignity, I tell SU State University. That's Louisiana State University,
and I just stoneface, go, are you kidding me? There's
a there's a university in Louisiana out man.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
That's way to.

Speaker 15 (01:01:37):
Go, guys, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
And I do that two.

Speaker 15 (01:01:41):
Or three times a month when I see the logo,
and I'm never freaking sorry. So there's my ain't sorry, wow,
but he's not my question though, is what what I
called for is man, the winter meetings have been so silent.
Have you guys heard of anything anything about the Strokes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Yes, they're close, that's all we've heard they are.

Speaker 15 (01:02:06):
They're close close, Okay, I've been hearing that on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I know. I wish I could give you more information
about I don't have anything for you. It's probably gonna
happen during the A team, which is gonna make me mad.
But that's a differentition for a different time it happens. Yeah,
it's gonna happen. Getting close Nobody and Jim, thank you
for the phone call, Appreciate the nice words, and thank
you for listening every day, Nobody. Very few deals are
made directly at the meetings. They usually go back listen
to everything, have more texting, more phone calls, they get

(01:02:32):
with their other lieutenants within the organization, and then they
make those decisions. So I wasn't expecting it to be unbelievable,
one big movement for the other. But there's certainly there's
a lot of things to talk about. I know Jake
Myers was talked about. I'm sure Essie Predits was talked about.
I'm sure Christian Walker has talked about. Those are things
that are not any surprises, but the reality is ross.

(01:02:52):
They were talked about before they even winter meetings in
Orlando even began with so something's gonna happen. My gut
feeling is multiple trades, Yes, and I gut feeling. Did
I gut feeling an Estoc Pridus move? Yes, you did,
because you can't move Walker. I think the contract is terrible.
What are you gonna do? Just hope that he's good? Yeah,

(01:03:13):
you paid him for three years, twenty million dollars. Estock's
one of your best hitters. How's it ham me? By
the way, do we even know it's fine? He's gonna
be ready to Joe spottas that he's ready to go
for spring training full go Ian jord On and his
sore hand. Well, did he say that because he wants
to make sure that he's got trade value. Oh, he's
gonna have to pass a physical and trade that is true.

(01:03:36):
I'm just saying thrown it out there seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety kis I'm sorry that Texas
is up one set to none on Indiana sucking hoosiers.
Why are you? Why are you anti hoosiers. I'm not
anti hoosiers. I'm prolong horns. You've actually spent more time

(01:03:56):
talking about number twenty three than anybody else. And she
seems she seems very talented. There's a lot of talent
on the floor here. The ball, Yeah, you can knee it,
you can kick it. Yeah, as long as it gets
over the net, you canup it up, booty bump it. Yeah,

(01:04:17):
why not? I mean, I guess there you do. You
don't have to use your hands. Okay, I'm now. I've
called a fair number of volleyball matches and I and
I've watched thousands of matches. I've never seen a booty bump.
Just asking it's technically legal. Okay, good, that's all I'm asking.
I've seen a lot of bicycle kicks. No way about
bicycle kicks. So that's actually awesome. Yeah, it's really good.

(01:04:40):
All right, let's go to h kso on somebody, caso,
what are you sorry for this week? My friend?

Speaker 11 (01:04:47):
I want to apologize to Ross for what I'm about
to say.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
You know, just just just know that it's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
It's I'm sorry, Ross, Matt.

Speaker 11 (01:04:58):
I had a McRib and it was delicious. I didn't
feel good eating it, and I felt a little guilty.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Did you sob Afterwards?

Speaker 11 (01:05:08):
I could not I could not deny how good it was.
And uh, to Ross I apologize. I I just thought,
you know, you should know that I took Case.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
It was good. Here's the thing I forgive you, Case,
Ross should be apologizing to you. What are you talking about? Why?
Because you rip on this. You rip on it, so
you should be apologizing to your art. It's America Sandwich.
I got news for your Rossie. And I didn't want
to admit this yet, but I'm going to do it
right now. I was listening to the Rockets Wrap calling
show last night, yes, and I told my wife, I said, look,

(01:05:41):
I'm not going to bed hungry anymore. So I picked
up a make rib on the way home. Are you
listen to you McDonald's drive? Oh my god? Because I thought,
if I if I wait till I get home, the
wafting of the McRib sauce will get everybody.

Speaker 11 (01:05:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Yeah, now your car smells that rib. And then I
thought to myself, well, I can't eat the mcgrib because
the delicious sauce and the onions the followers. So I
sat in the parking line and listened to you, and
you went and got your pork gunk sandwich. Good job.
I'm proud of you. It's pork, it's pork deliciousness. It
is America saying. I apologize to your heart and your arteries.
Now that's what we got. We got better stuff here,

(01:06:18):
and now when we got the hell, we're gonna cleanse
our bodies properly. I will eat that with a smile
on my face. You maybe eat that. Mcgrib and we
did a taste test for social media. Didn't hate it.
He's still recovering. I didn't mean that, Johnathan, what are
you sorry for?

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
You know, I've been thinking about this the whole time.
I've been pretty good this week. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Oh really, I got a couple of things for apologize.
I apologize to Matt good go earlier. It was just
trying to make you mad. And when I said, Neil,
Diamond sucks, and you know what, I only said that
to incite your anger. And you know what, that's rude,
that's selfish, and it's not nice. No, Diamond, I'm sorry,

(01:06:57):
I'm sorry. Diamond does suck. But I almost said it
to make you mad. I am I sorry for that.
He is an American treasure. You know what I'm sorry for.
Forgive me. I'm sorry. To the Houston Rockets. They're having
a great season. They're one of the best teams in
the West. They are amazing to watch, fun to watch.

(01:07:19):
They got a big three. They're sixteen and six, and
when I watch their games, I can only think of
another What did I tell you earlier? I know I'm apologizing.
I'm getting better. Okay, I'm true. This is how you heal, Matt.
You gotta confront these things. You gotta confront them. You
gotta stare them in the face, and you gotta say
I'm not afraid of you anymore. I told loss that

(01:07:39):
Oklahoma City has not played anybody yet, and they have
the hardest schedule to go. And they played the Rockets
and they beat them. I'm just telling you. A favorable
said they haven't played anybody. I'm not true. I'm sorry.
So I'm gonna I'm going to embrace and enjoy what's
in front of me in the Rockets. I'm not gonna
worry about the hotter woman at the office. I'm sorry,

(01:08:02):
but she's Oklahoma. Hi, she's twenty four and one, Maddie, Yeah,
but she's but she's Oklahomah, seventeen point difference. What differential.
I know I'm gonna worry about. You know what, if
I can't be with the one I love, I'm gonna
love the one i'm with. I'm with the Houston Rocket.
The Rockets are a Texas eight and Okay in Oklahoma

(01:08:25):
City is like a Texas five. See that point differential
says otherwise I'm looking at it. Okay, So I'm apologizing
the Rockets. I'm gonna focus on how good you are.
I'm not gonna focus on how better the thunder are
at the moment, only by the standing and that rating
and point differentially. I swear to got it when you
come back next week, I don't want to hear any

(01:08:46):
of this. Yeah, I'm gonna wash it from I'm gonna
I'm gonna go ahead and relax. I'm gonna meditate on it.
I'm gonna think about it. I'mna be ready to be
all in on rockets. Red. I'm wearing rockets. They're get
right now good. I'm wearing rock right now. Yeah, you
can get that for free. I'm sure, Uh, you get
the same exact jacket that I got. I paid for this. Yeah,
but this jacket you could wear if you wanted to. Yeah,

(01:09:08):
I got it all right, let's take sure it gave me.
Actually large, I haven't been at large since eighth grade
or seventh grade. Actually, that's not my fault. I'm an
exiled boy. I'm an extra dodge. Well, you're about to
get double xif to eat this page, I can't wait,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

(01:09:30):
I want to apologize to SFA fans and SFA football.
I'm about to get the beating your life tomorrow. Montana's stay.
I'm pretty sure we're favorite in this too. Uh looks
like I see SFA plus fourteen, see as in dog.
Now you're you're on a dog plus fourteen. We don't
look at the metrics. Oh, if the line was you

(01:09:50):
look at the metrics. You so disrespectful that SFA's got
a fly spirit to Montana State with six change of planes?
Is that true? Six changes are on the right, bro,
there's playing four buses, a helicopter, maybe bus Orville and
wilbur and I believe they're also taking a wagon wheel
going and what do they call what's what's the wagon train?

(01:10:11):
Wagon trail? Y'all, y'all left yesterday. Go to that game.
In the games until Saturday night.

Speaker 8 (01:10:17):
Unless you you know, I'm sorry, because LSU's gonna whoop
the mess out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Of whatever zero you are. You are on your part,
get to the zone, you get them, get them. I
love this, I love this a lot. I'm sorry, No,
you're not sorry. Seriously. I will be posting hourly updates
on Montana State versus a hater. S f A is

(01:10:43):
the is a lovely school here in Texas, and you're
gonna root for Montana State over s f A just
because of Jonathan. It was the last independent school in
the state too. Yeah, whatever that means. The hater ration unbelievable, Matthew.

Speaker 8 (01:11:01):
It's in the UT system now, definitely got a hundred
years independent only by alumni.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
If SFA beats Montana State, I will buy a SFA
shirt to wear on the show. Oh yeah, end up
the spread and then say a Jackson, I'll do all
of that, am Jacksons, go baby ax them up. And
if Montana State wins. You have to tell the audience
that SFA's open rollment. Hmmm, fair, you know what, I'll

(01:11:29):
take the deal. Oh my god, that's how confident I
am in my boys, Like, why are you taking advantage
of poor young naives? Jonathan is gonna beat Montana's clearly
overestimates the SFA's footballing prowess week days good? Right now? Yeah,
they're fourteen point dogs. Fourteen again? You got there by

(01:11:51):
greyhound bus? Really do you really don't think they're gonna
be wrested for the game? Nacadochius to where is Montana?

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Say?

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I don't even know, but it's got to be fifty
uh Bozeman, Montana. Will they even get there in time
for the game and be late? All right, you're gonna
have to skip stretchingfully works out. It goes back for
that pregame meal at the at the the rookies buckstop
at the truck stop, Roger, what are you apologizing for? Roger?

Speaker 14 (01:12:23):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (01:12:23):
Yeah, I apologizing to the Texans. So I didn't think
c J. Shock can get up up there after treating
his starts and actually, uh the uh be a good quarterback?
I thought he would be more less here and hopefully
he gets a lot better gets the Cardinals. Uh this
Sunday and uh yeah, apologize for David Brown about what

(01:12:45):
he thought he was up a better GM than this
and hasn't done anything since. Yeah, apologize, all right, have
a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Thank you, Roger. Sorry, I can't call her in the
price segment because you've won once in the last thirty days.
I don't know. He probably got a couple aliases he
can use. Oh, I'm sure his cousins all right. Uh,
James inclined James eleven fifty three, James, what are you
apologizing for?

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
I'm kind of pulling them. Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Matt, my nephew invited me for barbecue, and I went
over there and they spent all this money on barbecue,
and they asked me if I wanted a beer. I said, sure,
you know we're watching the game. Shot I want a beer.

Speaker 11 (01:13:22):
And he has me this pumpkin spice beer.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Oh no, I said, do you have? You don't have
anything but gay beer? And don't Now that's not nice.
Come on, be nice, all right? Which beer was a
pumpkin eaterer Saint Arnold. That's good stuff. That's no Will
you stop you know what. You need to apologize right now.

(01:13:47):
Matt Thomas is scarfing food mid segment. That is a
huge radio faux pas. It's fine, I mean no, I
need to apologize right now because you know you're committing
crimes against radio. I've heard worse things on seven ninety
and go ahead, and you might want to wipe this.
The whole microphone sits up. I'm not sick, just enjoying
the great food here at Payway. Yeah it's great, but

(01:14:09):
you wait three minutes. You're doing a segment. Bring the
folks radio greatness win at some point you're gonna try
at least. Yeah, that's go say you might not, you know.
By the way, the SFA Montana game is tonight. By
the way, woo, where's the watch party? Some broom closets house,

(01:14:30):
some broom closet. Why would it be in a broom closet?
Don't you in there? You don't need that many people
for an SFA watch party. Oh but that seems uncomfortable
no matter what. All right, last call for you to
get in on if you're sorry for something. I'll be
watching Texas and Yukon. Oh I just shall spread on
that one. It's meaty. What is it? Texas is fourteen

(01:14:51):
and a half point dogs at Yukon Okay, So who
covers tonight, SFA Texas or none of you. You've got
my personal guarantee that long Horns might cover. Hopefully Essay
will cover. You know, yes, just take me out of grains, Salt.
But I think you also are both covering. Let's support
each other, Johnny.

Speaker 8 (01:15:08):
And then when you guys win, I want you to
tweet sports MT winnings that just make.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
It feel bad. Yes, go Jacks, go Jacks. Me at
some point teach and they win, that coach get hired away.
I mean, I hope you get something beyond fifth grade
elementary math. And in the programs there come on, I says,
and that's not true. That's rude. SFA is I think
provides our state with more teacher than anybody else. That

(01:15:33):
is true? Am I right about that? I appreciate all right, well,
our education is like ranked forty eighth, but that's what
we need, more universe. You're right, we need more SFA grads, sure,
Jonathan on seven on eight, What are you apologizing for?

Speaker 15 (01:15:46):
Jonathan Man, I'm sorry that I won believe it or not.
Yesterday and yikes.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
After looking at the the prize and I talked to
my wife about it, I'm gonna.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
Look to kind of scalp those tickets, uh, because that
was Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:16:04):
It's kind of a tough lineup, man, I don't know
if it's worth going.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
So you're gonna scalp free tickets? That feels dirty.

Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Yeah, I don't call in, No, don't take the tickets.

Speaker 15 (01:16:19):
Driving all the way to sugar Land, well, don't take
the tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Twenty minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:16:24):
We got nothing to give away today because of you.
Don't say I'm not gonna use the tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Don't try to profit us. You're sick, Jonathan. You make
me sick.

Speaker 15 (01:16:35):
Sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
By the way, I gotta find out what what are
you going to get value for the nineties cover nineties bands? Uh, tickets,
whatever we have, we're uncle Sam. I hope you get
taxed for that. We're actually stealing prizes from the eighteen ridiculous. Yeah,
we got no prizes left. If you don't want the prize,
don't take the prize. Yeah, okay, you know what he

(01:16:58):
called in? He did, he did all right, and he apologized.
So I accept your apology, Jonathan. I'll get over my anger. Yeah,
it's fine, it's fine, all right. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Uh. I need to get my
voice ready for the strippers. Okay, bye, Rot, Now you're
not going where you have to talk about how great sad?

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You're right?

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Is the Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Thomas Show with.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
Ross twelve O two, Nah Town, Good.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Mornage Bears. It's our number three little Man Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety Yeah. You
do not want to taste your sauce that lad when

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you heard what he said Yankees Keith still tasting that
sauce after eating it. I need a nap. Two sets
to nill. Lead for the Texas Longhorns over the Indiana
Hoosiers in the regional semifinal of the National Championship. Cannot

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wait to see how that turns out. I know volleyball
the fastest growing sport in America? Is that true? Yep,
big television deals. Ugorina is being built. It's entertaining. They're
going to refurbish Nebraska's gym that's ten thousand seats. They're
gonna try to build a volleyball only facility for the
volleyball team at ut at six thousand. You or I

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got an amazing recruit out of Houston. Yes, it's all good,
all part of the plan, all right, Emy Doka coming
up at twenty five minutes here on Sports Talk. So
really right now, we present to you the news at
noon and we will go to the Rich Eisen of
Houston Swaers journalism. It's Rossfielder. Yeah, thank you, Matt Well.

(01:19:06):
A couple of interesting things in the world of sports.
We will start with your Houston Rockets last night pulling
off the victory against the Los Angeles Clippers. Things got
a little weird at the end of the game. Things
were close, but the Clippers thankfully collapsed. Rockets able to
get the one fifteen to one thirteen victory over the
Clips to improve to sixteen and six on the season.

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How about Amen Thompson not leading the way scoring wise?
He did have twenty Oprin had twenty two, but Amen
Thompson also with nine rebounds, eight assists and only one
turnover for a men. Thompson despite the team having eighteen overall,
I think it was twenty. Actually have to look at
the other box score that I had, but anyways, five

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turnovers from Durant, four from Jabari, five from Alperain Shingoon, Matty.
This turnover problem not going away. It is a bit
of a concern. No, the reality is this, It's just
gonna be a part of who they are.

Speaker 15 (01:20:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
When you know how much did would you say? Alpern
brought the ball last night?

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Time?

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Fair amount? Yeah, this is a lot and he turned
the ball over five times. Yeah, but he also makes
these incredible whirling dervish three sixty moves he does. But
I would like if he did it with up turnovers.
I know we can't have everything. I know we can't
have our cake and our eat it and eat it too.
But it's a concern all right. Elsewhere in the sports world.

(01:20:30):
You also had last night, Hm, matt U Stall you
sh you talked for like twenty seconds. I thought I
saved this. Sorry when NFL for football last night and yeah,
I'm trying to get the piece of audio. Oh do
you see it's not working. It's not We were gonna
let you hear from the coach of the Buccaneers. But
the problem is after their loss yesterday, he went in
front of the podium and used I want to say

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eighty percent of his thirty seconds was swear. It was
a lot of f bombs for him, it was I'd
be mad too. The ant of Falcons have mailed it
in and they beat the Buccaneers in Tampa last night
twenty nine to twenty eight. Now did they win, but
the Buccaneers wearing those amazing creamsicle swashbuckling uniforms with the
bright orange. Those aren't nice. Oh my god, they're so good.

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And uh, al Michaels was asleep in the final call.
You can play that call one more time, Johnathan, Can
you do that for us? Let's get the al Michaels call.
Just start firing off when it's ready. This is how
he ended the call.

Speaker 12 (01:21:29):
Those others bring up the pinion to hold it, and
the kick is just inside the left up rights again.
And there's a little Son of Brayton going on in Charlotte,
North Carolina right now. This puts the Panthers in the

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driver's sheet, philing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
On the Thank you very much. We'll go to the
set corner with the score of three to three. Oh,
that was the final call of the game last night.
Is that yours? That's a sound effect. It's not even you?
Is it the way you move your mouth did move?
It's quite impressive. Thank you. We'll hear that next week. Yeah,

(01:22:20):
I go in and say it for next week. That's fine.
You won't be here. You're getting on the show. Oh
my gosh. Okay, here is Todd Bowles. You are you
ready for this? I didn't. I didn't actually give this
the once over after I finished it, but I think
I caught it. Here it goes. If not, we'll dump it.
What do you tell them in luck for?

Speaker 7 (01:22:37):
It's inexcusable if you don't make excuses. We you gotta
care enough where it hurts. You gotta care enough where
it hurts. It gotta mean something to you. It's more
than a job. It's your livelihood. Well do you know
your job? How well can you do your job?

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:22:54):
You can't sugarcoat that. It was unexcusable, man, there's no
answer for it. That's for no excuse for it. That's
what you tell a lot mirror.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Hmm okay, So do you appreciate his honesty? Do you say,
why are you dropping up bombs in front of us?
Where does media? Or is that the first sign to
send a message? Do you send a message with a
microphone in front of you, or do you do it
with the with the doors closed. He probably did it
with the doors closed too. He probably did so. Do
you think the today's NFL player tunes in or tunes
out of something like that? I think it depends depends

(01:23:28):
on the players and the group you have, mm hmm.
I think for well, I'll give you two two examples
of coaches who are kind of like that, or especially
here in Houston, Doak is like that, And I think
that's The players respond well to it, but it has
to be the right type of player, yes, that respects
him and knows that when em does it, it's genuine,
it's not just for the show, and you have to
respect the man as well. Emy A Dook a former player.

(01:23:50):
I think Demiico ryans he doesn't really call guys out
that much. He does it every now and then. Yeah,
but I think they he commands that respect because he
was a middle linebacker in the league for a while.
So it's a it's about the source and it's about
who's hearing it as well. Okay, go, I think they're
probably they're probably being probably being receptive. I guess, all right, elsewhere.

(01:24:11):
Sharon Moore has been arraigned and we do now have
some charges for him per the criminal complaint, felony charge
of home invasion in the third degree, also charges of
stalking and breaking and entering for sure own more or

(01:24:33):
entering without breaking. They're also saying, too, so whatever that means?
Oh really, Pete Damil says breaking and entering. I don't know.
I think it's entering without breaking. Yeah, what does that mean?
Like you weren't so they the person said you can't
come in and you still carry in without breaking anything. Yeah, okay,
I'm not a lawyer. Okay. So he goes from five
point seven million dollars to third degree felony charges. Not great,

(01:24:55):
that's I mean, Oh my god, he's like in a
padded cell in the arraiement. Yeah, because still he's like
he's under suicide watch or something, because his life just cratered.
Oh my gosh, like to for me ross the greatest

(01:25:16):
free fall from good life to a life of whatever,
I mean whatever Sharon Moore's life is right now. It's O. J. Simpson, right, yeah, actor,
TV star, celebrity football hero too, alleged double murderer. Mm
hmm that's Sharon's Moore is not there. But that's a

(01:25:39):
but that's a pretty steep drop too. I mean, let
me give you some other people, Lance Armstrong steep drop. Yes,
any of the people that got caught with steroids that
were saying no, I didn't do it, but we got
like Rawfield, PALMERO five on her homemerwn hitter, future Hall
of Famer, blah blah blah blah. I did not do
steroids and you got caught. That's a steep drop. Who

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Delante West went crazy and homeless? Yeah? I think who's
he doing? By the way, I don't think well, the
Mavericks took him in, but I think they was just Yeah,
that was Mark keeping film sorry for him, and I
think he was. That's from five point seven million to
a super high end job at Michigan to no wife,
no kids, no side piece, and a padded cell. Well,

(01:26:24):
hopefully he saved his cash and he's going to need
it for the legal team. And that's your news at dude,
Thank you very much. Plead guilty, get out here. I mean,
what would be the charges on that? I mean, I
don't know. Can you you can't get probation for a
felony charge. Correct, probably if you plead, you would be
pleading to a lesser charge. And my guess is he
doesn't have a criminal record. What you know what he

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should be? Oh uh, Tiger Woods is a drop. That's
a massive drop. Yeah, from being a world champion golfer. Hey,
he's still billionaire, that's true, but his is pretty far,
pretty far. I mean, he was the toast of everything,
and then that I would say that with the injuries,
he didn't get injured as much as he did. So
Sharon Wars drop a comp to Tiger, I would say,

(01:27:09):
sure was worse. And Tiger got arrested for pills and stuff.
I guess he did sing kind of low. But this
whole I mean in a padded cell under suicide watch. Yeah,
but you don't know how bad Tiger was off And
look at Tiger's was popping pills and driving under an
influence and nearly killing people and himself. Sad to say,

(01:27:32):
and I hate to be blunt, it remains undefeated talking
about Tiger Woods. No, he's defeated. Oh well, yeah, he
fell under the spell with a all right restaurant waitress
or several of them. Good for him. I guess not

(01:27:55):
good for him. Two consenting adults. Not my business. There
you go. Yeah, we'll say out of it, as did
most of the and that's your Yeah, that's what we get.
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All right, Texans are back working out. They're wrapping up
there Friday. You get to walk throughs whatever they're gonna do.
Uh nine and a half ten point favorite against Arizona.
I sense no buzz, It's okay. We can't. Every game
can't be a super Bowl. Every game can't be the
most important game on the schedule. We don't. We're not

(01:29:06):
NFL a locker room. So but human nature says, we've
seen it all the time that sometimes when you when
you play down in your competition, especially after the emotional
games the Texans have gone through the last handful of weeks,
you would think it'd be a natural letdown. And you can,
you can yell at them and say, don't do this,
don't be in a letdown. But every every sport goes
through this. Well, I mean, this is the nature of

(01:29:27):
how the Texans played too. I mean, if all five
of their losses are by one score, for their recent
five wins on the five game winning streak are by
one score, and that Chiefs Texans game, it was a
two score game technically, but it was close the entire time.
So that's just how they play. So if it is
a close game on Sunday, it's not going to shock me.
This this is the NFL. Anybody can win any game

(01:29:47):
of Sunday. The Titans can beat the Browns like I
want whatever I want to say. Last week that the
Cardinals got beat up pretty bad by the La Rams.
The Rams are just I mean, they're just a more
football team. They have one of the most explosive offenses
in the NFL. The Texans don't have that. The Cardinals
this year and they're three and ten. They're going with

(01:30:10):
Jacobe Brissett. Yeah, they got beat up by forty five
seventeen at home last week to the cart and to
the Rams. The week before that, they Buccaneers won by three.
The week before that, the Jaguars won in overtime over
the Cardinals, and then three weeks ago they've been beat
up a couple times in a row, forty one twenty
two by the Niners and then forty four to twenty

(01:30:30):
two to the Cardinals. They did beat the Cowboys in
Dallas on a Monday night, but the rest of the
games are closed. I mean, it's just to your point,
it's just not It's the NFL is about a touchdown game,
give or take, and so what does that mean? That
means margins is in. That means do the little things right,
no penalties, turnover, take o take care of the ball,
and that's football one on one. But I mean, are

(01:30:51):
we gonna have a lot of empty seats in the
game on Sunday? I don't know, I don't care, but
I mean, they don't do that in Pittsburgh or Green
Bay and I you're saying a six super and however,
many super Bowls for Super Bowls, Like what was the
empty I wonder what the Tampa Bay crowd was like
and how many I didn't see the game, so I
can't speak to it, but I mean with there are
a lot of empty seeds at Tampa Bay that I noticed.
But I would think this would be a great week

(01:31:14):
for people that have not been able to go to
games before to go check out the team. That's not
a sexy matchup, and that's just how we rolled. In Houston.
There were sixty four nine and seventeen at Raymond James.
I don't know what their capacity is, probably around well.
The problem is most teams annown sell off any way, right,
you know that just because I don't want to hide,
I didn't do that. Everybody does it. It's like we

(01:31:37):
could have like an auditing firm, Realintendance dot com. Oh,
this says Raymond James capacity is sixty nine thousand. Oh
they're even shorter capacity, so it probably wasn't super full.
So Atlanta, gimme win. Thursday night, Buccaneers coming off a
bad loss Saints Saints does anybody want to win that

(01:31:57):
NFC South? Does it really matter who wins NMC South?
It feels like to me Aanthers are in first the Rams.
Now the Panthers did beat the Rams in Charlotte a
few weeks back. Every team in the division has a
losing point differential in the NFC South, meaning, again for

(01:32:18):
those that don't know, the other teams score more than
you do. Terrible. All right, are you ready for an
even more difficult question? No? Well, I mean yes, I'm
gonna ask you. I'm gonna answer with these It's not
difficult at all. I'm ready. Who's having a better season
this year?

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Strouder, Bryance Young. I guess I would have to look
at the numbers now, Carolina sucked earlier in the year,
but it's how you're playing now. And there he first
Ottle was playing well, yeah, easy to hand the ball
to him. Let me look. Eighteen touchdowns and now they

(01:32:58):
both have a two to one ratio. But Bryce Young
has got eighteen touchdowns yards per attempt but four no, no,
and Andy don't played like four games for them, did he? Really? Yeah? God,
I don't I should know on my cardinal football are
my calling and panther football better. I'm sorry I said
I was going to answer this easily. My gut feeling

(01:33:19):
is Bryce Young is having a better season. Significantly higher
yards per attempt for c J. Stroud seven point one
to six point four, same ratio. Bryce is a better
running game behind him. They both have twenty two sacks
super Hubbard and with ten games for Stroud and twelve
for Young, CD Shroud's having the better year. Is that better, right?

(01:33:43):
Or is that NFL observer talking. Let's see, he's got
a higher rating, a Quigher quarterback rating, higher QBR and
higher yards per attempt and the same touchdown interception ratio.
So you tell me, well, I'll say that, Matthew. It
was so easy to say that Bryce Young was hot garbage.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
He's turned out to have a pretty nice in a career.
He's been deecent. I think CJ has had a better
NFL career. Yeah, well we're three years in. They're babies. Yeah, Rockets.
Last night knock off the Clippers twelve thirty one on
Sports Talk seven on eight is Matt Thomas Showood Ross
and we were pleased if you joined for the next
ten minutes by the head coach after winning that game

(01:34:20):
in a very bizarre ending and with many regards coach
is Matt Ross, good afternoon to you. Did that last
twenty seconds or so? Felt like it took about fifteen
minutes to play?

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
Yeah, definitely, it was obviously the reviews and looking at
play grants and offensivel defensive ful took a little bit
of time, but you guys kept their composure and pulled
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Some clutch plays were made down the stretch. You got
a little bit of help your heavy lifting. I mean,
it was a night where Kevin Durant was felt like
he was double team to eighty percent of the time.
Other guys stepped up. It had been a while since
the team had played. How much do you attribute that
to Russ? How much do you attribute that to Clippers
of some to prove coming out or bottom line is
you know, you it's a forty eight minute game and

(01:35:04):
you like to play all forty eight brilliantly, but sometimes
it's just not going to happen.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Yeah, it felt like we were in mod a little bit,
especially in the first half. You know, they're a team
that we want to play with some pace, get up
and down and then really move them, and it felt
like we were playing at their pace and a little
bit slower than we would have liked in the first half.
Credit to Read and Aaron and some of our bench
guys coming in and kind of injecting some energy and
some juice into the game, and that's what really helped

(01:35:29):
us get the lead in the third quarter.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
That was a really good quarter, and in fact, Kevin
was probably in his best in that during the game.
Is is he and you've known him for a very
long period of time, does sometimes a game come to
him and he goes, all right, I'll take what they
give me. And then sometimes you have to force a
way because it felt like to me, especially after the
way he kind of performed in the first half, that
he had a little bit of extra spice and is

(01:35:52):
going and he wanted to get things going offensive for
himself in the third quarter in particular.

Speaker 4 (01:35:57):
Yeah, definitely, I mean he's gonna, you know, dig, let
the game dictate. If teams are going after him.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
He has no.

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
Problem getting off the ball and letting other guys be
the recipients. But at the same time, you still want
to be aggressive and look to your spots and your
shots and you know, at times, if they're doubling and
we're picking them apart and e're up fifteen to twenty,
teams have to kind of relax on that and he'll
get loose. But it being a close game, their game
plan was seeming to work in the first half, so
he up to his aggression, up to his pace. I

(01:36:25):
think we set some really good screens and he got
downhill a little bit, got to his spots.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Rocket Tech coach Imodoko was here on Sports Talk seven
ninety and we mentioned at the start of the interview
about how long the end of that game took. What
is your opinion just in general about the review system,
the challenge system now to where they got rid of
the final two minute stuff, to where you want to
get the calls right, but you got to also find
the balance of the games not dragging out.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
Yeah, I mean, I think getting it right is the
main point there, and so you know they're going to
take a look at certain things. You know, the offensive
was one thing, but you know, we clearly thought he
got Jabari got fouled before that, and they didn't overturn it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
So we were kind of surprised by that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
But credit to our guys, like I said, they kept
their composure, moved on and we went from an unfortunate
play to Aaron taking the charge and playing really good
defense there. And so as the ebbs and flows of
the game, I think getting the right is the most
important thing. And although we thought.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
That it was still wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
With it, like I said, we held our composer and
got it, pulled it out well.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
I'd like to congratulate you coach. This will be about
the five hundred time you've been asked about turnovers this season,
So congratulations on that. But in terms of you know,
a lot of talk about improving the turnovers and not
playing in a crowd, and so what is that process
for you, like working with the team, how much is
that game tape or practice or talking to guys individually.
What are the are the steps that you take to
trying to improve that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
Eric's literally all the above that you just mentioned. Obviously,
we pointed out in film sessions with the with the group,
you know, especially halftime we had we had nine or
nine and half time, and I think we up to
ten in the second half. So we talked about the
reason that they're in the game is because we're gifting
them these points and then didn't get much better than
the second half. So we do that a lot of

(01:38:11):
individual work with you know, defenders and showing the crowd
and wanted to get off the ball, and then like
you said, individual meetings as well, and understanding alpre and
Kevin the attention they're going to draw, and you know,
for our guys getting to their spacing, you know, sprinting
to the outlets and kind of not just leaving these
guys on the island. And so we go to go

(01:38:31):
about a little bit differently. Obviously with Fred in the past,
our turnovers have gone down significantly with him handling.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
But we got multiple guys.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Now, Kevin's gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:38:40):
Initiate times, Alpern's going to initiate. Our men's going to
initiate and it leads to some of that. But the
balance that will bring us in the end of the
season I think will pay off.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
Does Alpi still a practice? Is bringing the ball up?
According mean? Is that a science? Is that just key
fundamentals of being a basketball player, because you do give
them quite a bit of responseiulty in doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
Yeah, you know, he starts on past break and I
think some teams that you know, we have twenty four
at fast break points. A big part of him and
a man rebounding and pushing, and you know, it's great
to have a center that can leave the bake and
get out and run and kind of find guys all
over the court and just puts then exert amount of
pressure on defenders and so something that does naturally well,

(01:39:23):
we encourage it. Of course, he's one of our best
pastors and more cerebral players, and so we want him
to do that every chance he gets.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
I'm sure you man, if we were doing Denver radio,
we would say, well, Jokic does this, But I'm worried
about the rockets, says, are you the assist combination of
a men to alpi and then vice versa. How many
combinations in the NBA can do that where each guy
works as well with each other to finish the baskets
on the outfensive side of the floor.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
Yeah, it's a uniqueness that they have booth guys can
handle or be the recipient setting the screen and rolling
and popping and all the those things so tough to guard.
You know, put people in different positions. But a man
worked so well either way, you know, handling or send
those screens getting hit unders. He was great, you know,
some hard rolls last night, and he's done that over

(01:40:13):
last year. It's not just been a ball handler, but
played in the dunker playton, you know, setting screens and
doing some different things. So he has a lot more
versatility to his game now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Yeah, May there are still James Harden fans in this town.
And you and I talked before the game about the
amount of times against the free throw line, and that
wasn't much of an issue. In fact, I think more
than half their shots last night were from three. That
seems like not nearly as prevalent as those four or
five years ago. But was that a huge part of
this kind of report is you know, what if they're
going to take those three, give them their chances and
kind of live and die by what they do permanent wise.

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
Yeah, and you know Kawhi Leonard only got three and
Harden only got five, and so you know, we know
those guys are two of the most hard, averaging nine
and Kahi about five and a half, you know, kind
of faubators, and so we wanted to be disciplined our
hands and other than one one slapped down I think
by Reid and then the foul on the three pointed
by Jabbari did a pretty pretty good job on James,

(01:41:07):
you know, making them finish shots and quiet as well.
So the three pointers we were living with certain guys,
we showed the crowd and encourage other guys to shoot.
It made a few early, but the numbers came back
to their norm, and I think that really helped us out.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Long road trip coming up. And in years past team
was a little bit younger. You talked about teaching guys
about handling themselves, taking care of themselves on the road.
Is that a little bit less of a point of
emphasis these days, or are still something you talked to
the team about.

Speaker 4 (01:41:34):
Now. I think guys that mature they understand, you know,
the routine they need to be in. You know, we're
going on a long rue thirteen days, you know, six games,
but holiday season and all that and you know family
and you know Christmas Day games, and so we still
mentioned that, you know, handling business, taking care of business
on the road. But it was good to get to
get this mini break here, play this one game.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Now you get three days before.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
Seeing Denver again, so loading up for that. I think
guys understand the task at hand, and this important time of.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
The year, by its nature, you have to have this
mini break because you don't know who the NBA Cups
are are. You got to schedule games and whatnot. Generally speaking,
I know we're all accustomed to it, but do you
like it? I mean, would you like to have had
two days in this break, maybe scattered during later on
during during the course of the year, or is it?
Look I look at account and we just play what's
in front of us.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Yeah, I kind of just played with in front of you.
You know, this was make it to Las Vegas. It's
a little bit different like we did last year, but
you take advantage of it for sure. You know, we're
coming off of five games and seven nights leading up
to this break, so it was needed with some guys
banged up and hopefully returning from injury soon and sickness
with Alfie, and so we.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Took advantage of it.

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Like I said, try to sharpen up some things and
look at what we did well and not so well
in the first twenty one games, and then you know,
rest your body up and get ready to go. So
we'll do the same thing. Take a look at Denver
the first game and be off of three days of
rest and have a good amount of energy going to Denver.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
Lastly, you were talking about Alpa the defensively, Zubats had
a great game and that's not just his solo responsibility.
But is it a good warm up for Jokic or
is jj a one of a kind type of player
that frankly, he spends just as much time outside the
arc that he does inside of it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
No, it's very he Mak's two different things. You know,
we we had Jabari on on Zubats, and you know
we're trying to take away Leonard and hard and more
often and encouraging the other guys to shoot or they plays.
You don't want somebody going thirteen for fourteen. But you know,
if he's if he's getting post ups and low post
looks at taken ways from what they're mainly trying to do.
And so we'll allow done to get the shots. We'll

(01:43:36):
allow about to get his shots. And that's very different
from Jokic strategy.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Of course, are you bringing two suitcases? I've never brought
two suitcases on NBA road trip in my entire life. Here, man,
I don't know how are you handling this long trip.
We're about to go on. Say it one more time.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
I'll definitely be packing two suitcases for sure, Okay, because I.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Mean, like, I just don't want to do it, but
I feel like it's too damn long. I wanted it
in cleaning on the road. You know that's works unless
equipment one for closing, one for pickball equipment. Oh yeah,
that's right. How was the pick a ball game? Giving up?
People weren't all the update? How are you feeling on that?

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
They had a bad day the other day? One of
the worst performances I had. But other than that, I've
been been solid.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Do you blank talk on the court like you did
as a basketball player or no? It seems like an
easy yes. Coach you said, yes, it's sorry. We got
your back, O. Judge. That's right. Thank you for the
time for I We'll see you Sunday before the trip
to Denver. Thanks for the time. It was always. Thank
you guys, all right, see you later. You may doka

(01:44:41):
joining us here on the show. The most famous pick
a ball player I know they got professional pickaball leagues now,
he asked me, he said, do you play I'm like, oh,
hell no, I don't want to. I've played now I
like it. Do you realize I was a I'm gonna
be honest, I'm a tennis nob because I'm like, you, guys,
it's half of a court, and you won't you play tennis?
Did you play real sports? And then I'm like, man,

(01:45:01):
this is pretty fun, it feels like to me and
I probably should do it. I'm not doing it with
the rockets because there they take it so intense. They
take ballrooms in hotels and then tape them up to
play fun. It feels like it's just a faster paced game. Right,
it's all on the risk matting. Well, I would do
well in that. Then that's your backhandstroke. Good, So you're

(01:45:22):
not you're not running a lot around the court. You're
basically not in a stationary position, but you're not doing
as much. The hardest thing is keeping the ball down.
You gotta keep it dipping, you gotta put that spin
on it, keep it dipped, and then you got to
flick the risk matting. It's like ping pong sort of
a little bit. Did you play now? Is it always
a couple coup plays?

Speaker 4 (01:45:39):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
That's for like seniors. The doubles. That's fine. Why didn't
you tell me? I didn't know you did this something
I knew learned about I don't know. I can need
to tell you everything I do. I think something similar like, hey,
you wouldn't believe what I did this weekend? What did
you do? I would hike? Hiking? Oh school?

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
What did you do?

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
Pick a ball? I'm a private person. Okay? Here that Jonathan,
So don't ask when he comes back what he's done
all the week because he's not gonna tell you. It's
a fairy time. If you ask, you didn't ask. You've
never asked me if I played pick a ball and
then it just came up. I think you should present
those things. We want to learn more about you, man,
intimate details. My second that Matt, we want to know

(01:46:17):
more about you. Yeah, missing that mister private person over here?
All right, Doctor Roto's going to help you out here
with your fanasy. This is either the last week of
the regular season or it's your first week if you
play in a sixteen tournament sixteen playoff. How do you

(01:46:39):
feel about sixteen play I asked kemmissioner of the iHeartRadio.
I don't like it. I like Fantasy League. We have
twelve and four get in. Yeah. Perfect, I think that's correct,
absolutely perfect, And I don't want to go any long
bigger than twelve teams and twelve is twelve is great
because you have to work a little bit on the
waiver wire for some people, Shmandham Shmanton. Who there's no

(01:47:00):
on the waivers? Study up see who's a couple of
weeks away? Who see where the buys are? You got
to you gotta read up the waiver wires or just
listen to doctor Ronto. It tell you to pick up
on the waivers. Yeah, here's the key. Don't draft a defense,
don't draft a kicker. You training, you make those, you
save them for every available wide receiver and running back
you can get, and you pick them up on the weekly.

(01:47:21):
So what I do? I have new defenses every week,
new running with new kickers. Yeah wow, I'm so proud
of you, Matt, thank you, call you streamer, Thomas, call
me playoff Thomas, well for once, and mister Blake, proud
of you. On the phones we go, Let's talk to
Larry and the Heights before we get to doctor rot. Oh, Larry,
good afternoon, do you thanks for waiting. Yes, sir, I
have a question about is Joe Mixon ever going to

(01:47:44):
come back? I like mark running back, I like him.
And the other question I have is one of my idols,
Zach Evans from Glenark, North Shore. Is he ever going
to show up on another team? He's a very exciting
running back. But I don't know. Go ahead, yes, yes,
or I'll listen. Alright, thanks. Where did Zach Evans go?
I know he committed to Texas and then he flipped

(01:48:06):
or something. Oh no, yeah, he's nowhere. He's out of
the sport. And he went to TCU, then Ole Miss
and then he was a sixth round pick and then
he's been out of football for a year. Well he
always has high school though, and as far as he was,
he was the dude. As far as Joe Mixon's concerned,

(01:48:27):
we thankfully we've stopped asking, uh the coach Damiico Ryans
when Joe Maxon is coming back, because it doesn't matter,
he's not coming back. Yeah, he was a number. He
was the number ones recruit in Texas. Five stars Zach Evans.
You see, sometimes five stars don't work out. Hilly's objective.

(01:48:48):
Five stars don't have one hundred percent hit rate. No,
they don't, especially quarterbacks from spring. Not when you bring
your coach with you. I'm just kidding now, when you
bring your wishing the Cougars all this success. Yeah, starting
with a beatdown of LSU, that'll be beat down one
of two.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
You know Gordy will be beside him, So you know what,
I honestly, I honestly don't know what to do here.
First of all, I don't want you happy. You can
stay out of it if you want to talk about
so much. But also do I need Gordy in here
talking trash to you? Can they just cancel the game?
And can't they both teams opt out? Well, you know,
the Bahamas Bowl is no more and this year is

(01:49:27):
the last year the l A Bowl. They're hitting an
l A Bowl since win. Yeah, they're they're starting to
pair it back a little bit because you know, ESPN
has been financing these bowls for the large part. Yes,
and ESPN is needs to be a little more phisically
responsible and they're gonna say, hey, two six and six
teams playing in the middle of a Wednesday at two
thirty in the afternoon, probably not going to move the
needle for us much so. Yeah, the La Bowl, which

(01:49:49):
was once the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl, it was it's bet
a variety of things, but it's no longer. I think
this is just last year. Okay, that was the Evy
one Dot Nit Bowl. Well you know that history of
that bowl has been ev one. It was a gallery
furniture bowl. Yes, and then it's been twenty This is
the twentieth year of the quote unquote Texas Bowl, which

(01:50:11):
ha had a variety of sponsors on it too. Yes,
and now it's Kinders whatever that is. I don't even
know what Kinders is. What is it? I don't know.
Gordy catlls he's busy, all right, But yeah, the bull season.
I believe it's a very vary assaulted cured meats. Oh
like the brand of meats. I made that up. I
don't know, gool look it up now, people are gonna

(01:50:33):
curry it. If we've already ruined the product of barbecue
sauce and see what's close. Wait a minute, there's a
bowl game after our barbecue sauce. Yeah, Willie Fritz is
going to be bathed than barbecue sauce. If you guys
win the game. Well, you know there's a male bowl,
That's what I'm saying. And there's a pop Tart bowl. Yes,
I want to go to pop Tart Bowl. Why because

(01:50:55):
first of all, you get endless pop tarts. Strawberry frosted
number one overall pick. Yeah, anything frosted, though I don't
like chocolate frosted. Anything frosted. Cherry cinnamon ones aren't my favorite.
Brown sugar is okay, okay, someverything goes Friday, But come on, seriously,
what do you want whether or not the Texans running

(01:51:17):
back to do anything, No, they can't do squad This
week unpopular take didn't like the cinnamon brown sugar, once
m frosted, strawberry frosted cherry and whatever. The third is
is a deep diveery blueberries. Blueberries like a knife off
the bench. You know, if you're digging at the bottom
of the box and the blueberries in there, you're like,
all right, it's fine, it's utility. Pop exactly didn't start

(01:51:39):
every day, right Some are chee o dubon and pop tarts. Now,
don't do that now because there are people that are
upset right now. Oh quit, you're whining dubas the greatest
in history. Shut up, there there are keys. Good, let
me chase them. Are you gonna do yourself the Dubon
truthers or not? You're not Dubon Truthers. Can go to Atlanta. Okay,

(01:51:59):
we don't need you here. We are gonna watch him.
I'm wishing him the best. We watched your with an
ops of five ninety. I'm wishing him the best. Is
that a hitter's friendly ballpark Atlanta? I don't think so.
I don't think so either. I think it's more picture friendly.
It's so rare to say, because most of ballparks are
very picture hitter friendly. All Right, speaking of friendly, let's

(01:52:21):
talk to doctor Rotal. He's gonna give us the fastest
thirty minutes of major market radio. Next. I'm sorry, I'm
sposed to tell seasonings as well, says Chris Cordy. It's
barbecue sauce and seasonings. You know what barbecue sauce? Oh stop,
don't you don't even phoe, mister Texas. You're gonna You're
gonna no, it's a diamond dozen. There's a difference between

(01:52:43):
good barbecue sauce and not a good barbecue sauce. There
is of course, but to sit there and go I
have the best barbecue sauce every it's homemade, it's made
from scratch, and your ribs are gonna go to a
different level. Shut up, it's barbecue sauce. Give me a
bottle of Craft or Sweet Baby Rays or me or
Walmart brand. It's just fine. Can you see, folks, I

(01:53:04):
try to save this man. He just said Craft barbecue
sauce and Sweet Baby Rays are as good as like
homemade good barbecue sauce. Yes, that's correct. That is not correct.
Sweet Baby Rais is just fine. It's fine. Yeah, but
I'm not gonna go. I can't cook unless I make
my own barbecue us or right, go to a store

(01:53:24):
and get diigh in nine dollars bottle. Shut your mom
ass up. Just get the damn craft, put on your
ribs and call it a day. Don't attack Matt Thomas
at heart. He just he's got the palette of a
I don't even know what is the Matt Thomas show
with Ross Waiver. Claims have to be made and I've

(01:54:00):
got trade proposals fly in my way.

Speaker 15 (01:54:06):
My first round.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
Pick turned out to be a big fly. I don't
know which wide receiver. I need to drive. Doctor Roto
gave me the new Who's I really don't know what
I should do. My quarterback keeps getting sacked. I've got

(01:54:30):
a bad case of fan DECEIVELU with w the fastest
thirty minutes of major market radio, we say hello to
our good friend, doctor Roto. It's a final week of
the regular season. For some sum it's playoff week number one,
Doctor Roto, let's get right to it. I love when

(01:54:51):
I go against somebody and they get a minus three
on defense. That's what the Buccaneers gave our friend Chris
Cordy here at the radio stations. I'm already up to
a zero to minus three lead in my weekly fantasy
for ball.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
An offensive explosions they're empty. But for some people, if
they played against Kyle Pitts, Kyle Pits did this week
what he's done all season, basically, and it's like it's
so tempting. You look at the guy like he's sixty six,
he runs great, Look, he was fantastic last night. Cousins
played the game of his life. Mike Evans looks sensational

(01:55:22):
in his first game back. Chris Godwin did a great job.
I mean Abuka suffered a little bit. Bucky Irving lost
that touchdown. I think a lot of people were shocked
at that, but they really like Sean Tucker by the
goal line. I think the bigger problem was a Tampa
should have won that game. If Baker throws a better
pass to a Buka there on third down, maybe a
Buka scores and this game is over.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
To this week, Rhodo, we got weather major issues, especially
in the Midwest and in the East. I think Cleveland
and Chicago might be twelve degrees a kicktime. Tell me
how that's going to affect the folks except just having
a bundle up here, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
Cole doesn't bother me. Rain doesn't bother me. Win bothers me. Right.
The more wind that's the big problem. So I mean, look,
we saw Buffalo last week. Buffalo and Cincinnati put up
a million points together in the snow. So I think
people tend to overrate weather. It's the wind. When you
see thirty miles per hour wind, that means they can't
throw the ball deep downfield. Shador Sanders is actually played

(01:56:18):
decent football. I mean it's you sit there and you
save yourself. Why do they go with Dylan Gabriel when
Sanders is obviously more pro ready than Gabriel is. If assuming,
for example, of Cleveland, if the weather's not that bad,
Sanders is in play, Jerry Judy's in play, Harold Fan
and juniors in play. DeAndre Swift's in play on the

(01:56:39):
You know, so, what I'm trying to tell everybody out
there is, don't over rate the weather. Just look at
the wind. If it's raining, it's not a problem. Cold
is not a problem. That have heaters on the sideline,
They'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
We all watched Texans Chiefs last week Kansas City. A
couple of row, bonehead and fourth down call actually one
boneheaded call, but a lot of drop passes. Kelsey looked
like disoriented. Worthy wasn't a huge factor. There were some
drops Rashid Rice. How nervous are we about using Kansasity
players knowing that we don't know what emotion they got

(01:57:12):
left in the tank between now and the rest the season.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
Yeah, no, it's a really great question. I think the
problem here is that the Chargers don't match up very
well with the Chiefs. And here's why. First of all,
Herbert is not one hundred percent. We see that Secondly,
they play a lot of The Chiefs play a lot
of zone defense, and I think where where the Chargers'
receivers excel is against man Lad McConkey, you can't stop
him man to man, He's terrific. Same thing with Quentin

(01:57:36):
Johnson's got a lot of speed. But because the Chiefs
run that zone out there, it's going to be a
little harder for them to find holes. On the other side,
the Chargers play all zone coverage, which hello, Rashid Rice
may be one of the top three guys in the
league against that. So the Chiefs backs are against the wall.
It feels like a rebound spot for them. So long
as their defense plays well, they should be.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Able to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:57):
On the other side. Once again, keep an eye on
man Ring Hampton. He looks fantastic in his first game back.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
All Right, Philadelphia and talk about a tale of two
seasons there in a free fall, But they've got Las
Vegas coming in. Tell me that if if I've got
Philadelphia players, I'm gonna get really fat and happy against
that Raider defense.

Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
MT. If you didn't use the words fat and happy,
I was going.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
To use the word I figured. I figured you still
in my bit, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
Yeah, gotta steal from the best, right. So what happens
here is nobody wants to play Jalen Hurts after what
we saw last week. That's exactly why you play Jalen Hurts.
Nobody wants to play sat Colon Barkley. That's exactly why
Barkley is gonna run one hundred and forty yards and
two touchdowns this week. You want as many Eagles as
you possibly can. The Raiders look like they've given up.

(01:58:43):
This a bad, bad spot. I could see a forty
spot here. I know Vegas has it at twenty five.
I think they're off by ten. I just don't even
see a pathway for the Raiders to be successful this week.
And this is one of those games where the Eagles
need to figure out their offense right now. Start running
the ball better, get Hurts throwing the ball a little bit,
get DeVonta Smith involved, and beat the crap out of

(01:59:04):
the out of Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
Super sexy three to twenty five game has Detroit at
the La Rams for his potent as a Lions offense
has been this year. They're on the outside looking in.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
They need this game desperately, right The problem is I
think they're playing a better team. The Rams are a
really good team. So here's you know what I've been
trying to tell everybody for weeks. It's always look at
the matchups. Okay, so what's the match up problem here?
The Lions playing man coverage. You can't cover Pooka and
you can't cover Devonte Adams. Not with that Lion secondary.

(01:59:36):
Without Brian Branch he's the best. He's the best guy
in the back there. He's out with the torn achilles.
So the only way, the only way Detroit stops the
Rams is that Aiden Hutchinson can get some pressure on him.
But if Matthew Stafford can find time, he's going to
pick apart that team all game long. Now, the other
thing is Detroit stops the run pretty well, so this

(01:59:56):
may not be a Kyron Williams week. But Blake Koram
has looked like he been shot out of a cannon,
so he's in play. DeVante Adams remember the touchdowns that
he didn't score last week, don't worry, he gets one
this week. Pucas sensational. On the other side, I love
Saint Brown. This could be one of those Saint Brown
ten catches for one hundred and twenty yards weeks that
we haven't seen in a while, and of course Jamier Gibbs,

(02:00:17):
you want to get him in. I don't love Jamison
Williams this week, but I like the other two guys.
But this is a game fifty five points. Feel feels
of Light.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Brought this up with you last week about teams that
are not going to be in the playoffs and can
we find some sneaky pickups or using of players. We
saw Tennessee win a Cleveland last week. Will they have
any sort of similar success, at least from a fantasy perspective.
In San Francisco, when cam.

Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Ward doesn't get pressured, he's actually a decent quarterback. So
to Mary DK, their young rookie wide receiver, he might
actually be decent. That's probably the guy that I'm gunner Helm.
He's a tight end who played at University of Texas,
so a lot of these guys down there might know him.
He's pretty good against zone coverage, which what San Francisco
likes to roll out. Maybe they're usable DK is interesting

(02:01:05):
because if your league gives credit for return yards, not
only is he their second receiver, he's also their punt
and kickoff returner. So if he gets a kickoff return,
you might get double the points. That's interesting to me.
But really the talk of this game is the other
side of the football. You know, San Francisco had their
bye week. They're coming back rested, They're coming back ready
to go. Block Party is going to throw at least

(02:01:26):
two touchdowns this week. George Kittle gets the matchup of
the century against Kevin Winston, who might be the worst
cover safety in all the league. He got McCaffrey, he
got Juwan Jennings. Load up on your forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
All right, let's get to the Sunday game. We have
used the term trap a couple of times. Also, Jacoby
Brissett's probably best performances ever as an NFL quarterback, as
limited as it is, this is against the Houston Texans. Now,
I don't think history can repeat itself with different football teams,
but size up for me Arizona versus Houston, with the
notion that if it does get ugly with the Texans

(02:01:59):
offensive players not be of great choice. Also, on top
of that, the fact that the Texans don't score a
whole lot of points and typically stay within one score
of most of their opponents.

Speaker 3 (02:02:09):
Everything you said is true, except Stroud is better, as
we all know when he doesn't get pressured. Arizona doesn't
get pressure on the quarterback. It's their weakness and their
number one draft pick, Walter Nolan has been out for
most of the year. So if you give CJ. Stroud
time a picky apart and Arizona plays a lot of
Cover four, which is right up Nico Collins's ali, I mean,

(02:02:32):
this doesn't get better for Stroud to Nico feeds families
this week, right, You're probably looking at two hundred and
forty two hundred and sixty yards from Stroud. Maybe one
ten to one forty goes to Nico. Definitely one touchdown,
maybe more. Right, So, now the question is will the
Cardinals play enough to keep the Texan starters on the field.
If they do, we love Nico, we love Woody. Marx

(02:02:53):
Schultz is fine. Not special to me, Jayden Higgins, this
is fine. I'm really sticking with Stroud, Collins and Marx.
On the other side, Marvin Harrison juniors out once again.
Michael Wilson is going to be out there.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:03:06):
I know the Texans have played amazing defense, but you
know what happens in the NFL MT letdown weeks. This
feels like a leftdown week. So I'm not saying the
Texans are losing. I'm not saying that at all. I'm
saying maybe they didn't do that same preparation for this
week's game, and maybe the Cardinals hang out in there.
Maybe Michael Wilson gets eighty yards, Maybe Brissett has another

(02:03:29):
two hundred and fifty. Maybe Trey McBride gets eighty yards.
Maybe the game is closer than we think, So those
Texans actually have a boom fantasy day.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
All right. With that, we go to your phones next
at seven one three, two, one two five, seven ninety.
All right, we got to go to the phones because
doctor roto our lines are overflowing, My emails are overflowing.
Twitter's overflowing, so really quick for everybody that calls Doctor Ronald,
Let's make sure you tell it, doctor Rohta, how you
doing today. I'm doing fine, thank you, I'm doing fine.

(02:04:01):
Rash is it okay? I'm a little gassie. All right,
let's go to the phones and talk to the great people.
Brian on seven hounty for doctor Roald. Don't ask how
he's doing. Go Brian, Hi, doctor Roto. I was wondering.
I got Patrick Mahomes and I got Brock Purdy, and man,
that's a tough one.

Speaker 12 (02:04:17):
I've been doing Mahomes all the time, and I just
don't know this week because it's the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
I know. Look, listen, one of my best friends made
the wrong call last night because he worried about the
name of the player, not the matchup. Purdy has the
better matchup. You play Purdy. I know Mahomes a great player,
but based on the matchup, Purdy is the better spot.

Speaker 2 (02:04:39):
All right, we continue on the phones and go to
Ray on seven Unty for doctor Ortal.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
Go ahead, Ray, pick two of these three Jalen Wattle,
DeVante Smith, Jacoby Myers. I'm gonna go Waddle and I'm
gonna go Smith. So it's not that I don't like Myers.

Speaker 4 (02:04:57):
I do.

Speaker 3 (02:04:57):
I just think that Jacksonville always want to run the
football and ETN is gonna run it down the Jeft's throats.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna fade Myers.

Speaker 2 (02:05:06):
All right, thank you for the phone call on that.
Let's continue seven to one three, two one, two five
seven ninety four Taylor for doctor Rodill. Go ahead, Taylor,
doctor Roto.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
I've got Jonathan Taylor or Travis ETN, and I'm currently
projected to win by forty. I don't know if that
makes the difference ETN this week. This one, though, was
really hard to bench Taylor. But Seattle's got such a
good defense. Philip Rivers, though, I'm worried for him. Dude,
the guy's forty four and he's not in the best shape. Ever,

(02:05:36):
Seattle's defense might score two touchdowns this week. That said,
there's cute and there's too cute. I think you got
to get get give it to Jonathan Taylor. You're gonna
win my forty anyway, might as well chesters Taylor.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
Are we staying away from all colts, receivers and tight ends?
Is that accurate?

Speaker 4 (02:05:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:05:50):
I will play two people. I will play Jonathan Taylor.
I will play Tyler Warren. I've got to think that
Rivers can get the ball to Tyler Warren. I would
not play Pittman, Do not play Pierce, do not play downs.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
All right, let's go to Willa on seven howety for
doctor rod O Willa, what's your question?

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
Oh real quick?

Speaker 15 (02:06:06):
So it's either Keenan Allen or Smith, and should I
roll with Hurt?

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
He got me h four last week? Ours?

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
Should I trying this?

Speaker 4 (02:06:16):
Bryce Young?

Speaker 3 (02:06:18):
No, No, I'm gonna go hurt some Devanta Smith. Just
go with that hook up. Hurts is gonna have a
great week this week against the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (02:06:25):
All right, thanks Willa for the phone call. You guys
are doing good. Seven one three, two one two five
seven to Aunty Hugh and Conrod for doctor Rohdal. Go ahead, Hugh, Hey,
I got.

Speaker 3 (02:06:35):
Screwed by Irving last night.

Speaker 15 (02:06:37):
So pick two out of Cuba Hunt.

Speaker 3 (02:06:42):
Neil and Kenneth Walker. So listen, I'm gonna go with
Kenneth Walker. They're gonna score, They're gonna they're gonna put
up four touchdowns. I gotta think Walker is gonna have
one of those. Cuba Hubbard and Rico down was a
big mess because it was Cuba, and then he got hurt.
Rico looked at National and then all of a sudden
he was a starter. Then all you know who played

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last week, Chuba Hubbard. I know this, I know that
Carolina wants to run the football. I don't trust Cream
Hunt as far as I can throw them.

Speaker 2 (02:07:10):
Tubin Walker So are you on Donald or I'll off
of Donna this week.

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
I don't love him this weekend. Who did you have
a better choice? I know you have him on your team.

Speaker 2 (02:07:19):
Yeah, I got an eighth hm, but he's questionable still
at this point.

Speaker 3 (02:07:24):
Well let's let's do you have Jalen right just in case.

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
I'm gonna go scoop him up. That's the rot tip
of the week right there. Thank you, doctor Rone, You're
the best. You got it Reese for doctor Rono at
one twenty three. Go ahead, Reese Racy there, go ahead
Reese and then yeah, you got a back, and we'll
put Reese on hold and try him again. Let's go

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to John and Conrad. Go ahead, John Day metrodo. I
got two questions that quarterback question?

Speaker 3 (02:07:57):
Justin Herbert or market Mariota there with Deepoo or Joe
Burrows and more of Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:08:06):
I like Mariota over Herbert and that especially if you
have Debo and who is the other one?

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:14):
I'm sorry, I I can't remember that one call back.

Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
We got a couple on bad.

Speaker 3 (02:08:20):
I mean, yeah, who do you say it was? Somebody
you said? I can't remember this time. All right, write
it down.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
Yeah, Reese's call him back. We'll get it back if
you want to get in seven one three two, one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. Let's get Reese back. Reese finished
your question again for doctor Ortal, please?

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Yes, I got uh Love or Caleb Williams, and then
I need two of the three, Harvey, Jakins or Brian Thomas. Okay,
you got it. So I like Love for sure. I
know it's a bad matchup, but I'm not worried about it.
I'm gonna play R J. Harvey. I'm gonna play Judkins
last week at Brian Thomas Junior. I don't think it
is this week.

Speaker 2 (02:09:01):
Oh are you big on this?

Speaker 5 (02:09:03):
R J?

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
Harmy? I forgot about that. He has grown as the
season's progressed. Is worthy of a play this week period,
regardless of absolutely.

Speaker 3 (02:09:11):
I mean, look, without JK. Dobbins, we would not because
of the injury. We're seeing what this guy did at UCF.
He's explosive, he can catch Sean Payton Cherry picked this guy.
He wanted him at the draft. The crazy thing was
he didn't really play him in the beginning of the year.
But this guy was the most talented running back on
this roster.

Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
All right, let's go back to John. Who's going to
finish this question? John, go ahead and finish it off,
please Joe Burrows or.

Speaker 3 (02:09:41):
All right? I don't know what the other guy was,
but you played Joe Burrow. That game is going to
be through the roof, dude, and we'll get to that
in part of the lock.

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
Of the week. All right, thank you very much for that.
You were worried about Burrow throwing a beautiful passes to
a defensive lineman. Were you last week? Were you? And
it happened? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
How good did he look? Except for two passes.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
Four touchdowns, big ones in the snow to t Higgins?

Speaker 3 (02:10:04):
My god, he looked fantastic. I fell so badly for him. Listen, listen.
This is a guy, you know how you? I mean,
I do. I feel badly for Charles Barkley. I look
at Barklay and I say, man, this is the best
basketball player never won a championship. I feel the way
about Joe Borrow. The dude is molting away in Cincinnati.
This guy, if you put him almost anywhere else, they're
winning super Bowls.

Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
I know, all right, I'm gonna go do some emails.
Nita tight End, Fannin Hockinson, Barne Berner.

Speaker 3 (02:10:31):
Or Gainsten Sannon all day. Shador loves throwing to him.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
All right, that's for you, Clifford. Let's go Travis Kelcey
or Juwan Johnson from Jason.

Speaker 3 (02:10:42):
I guess it's Kelsey. They're desperate. I don't hate Juwan Johnson,
but I hate the score in that game. It's gonna
be very low totaled. But I think Kelsey probably finds
the amazone.

Speaker 2 (02:10:50):
All right? Which three playing his PPR? Slayton Sutton Metcalf,
Thomas Junior Watson. I'll say him again, Slayton Sutton, Metcalf,
Thomas Junior Watson.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
I am going to go Watson, Sutton and DK. I
don't hate Slayton. I love the game for Jackson Dart.
We haven't talked about Jackson Dart epic game this week.
Everybody does well against Washington. Look at JJ McCarthy. But
is it going to be a Wondelle Robinson week? Is
it gonna be a Theo Johnson week? I don't know.
So that's why I gotta say its Slaton.

Speaker 2 (02:11:20):
Get a bench one of these Marks, Neil Warren or Tete.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
Neil. You definitely play McMillan.

Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
Okay, Uh, Devon Vale is that how he's pronounced it?
Or Alec Pearce Vyle excuse me, Vyle?

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
Oh, I think, Look, you can't play Alec Pierce. It's
not that I don't like Alec Pierce, but I mean
I'm worried about Philip Rivers. I'm worried about the time.
This is like the worst game to come back to.
I mean, if he came back to the Raider game,
you'd be like, oh, Philip Rivers looks good. You come
back to Seattle.

Speaker 2 (02:11:51):
It could be ugly, all right, Cuba Hubbard or Kyne Williams.

Speaker 3 (02:11:55):
Oh Man, can I tell you something. I'm worried about
Kyral and Williams. Blake Corn looks better, and I think
they're gonna run. I think they're gonna throw more than
pass this week. So I'll play chewball because you know
the Panthers want to run.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
Bow Nicks or Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
Give me bon Nicks. I think that game explodes more
than people think it will. I think it's higher scoring.

Speaker 2 (02:12:18):
All right, A couple more calls before we get to
the lock of the Week Mauricio on seven on me Mauricio,
what's your question for doctor Rodo? Do I keep the
Rams defense or do I stream either the Panthers Chiefs
or Saints Chiefs playing Tennessee next week.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
I don't think you play the Rams this week. I mean,
Jared Goff's not going to make that many mistakes. I
have no problem with the Chiefs. Justin Herbert didn't look
great last week. I mean Hurts didn't either, and especially
I think they're gonna sack him a couple of times,
might intercept him once twice. I'm okay with the Chiefs.
Chiefs always seem to play better defense. But later it
gets into the year.

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
One for seven ninety and doctor Rodoll go ahead one.

Speaker 3 (02:12:56):
Yeah, said bench Neil, right, and then I'm between Jordan
Addison Jerry Judy. Yeah, I would Benchiel out of that group. Look,
as long as the weather is not terrible in the Midwest.
I like Jerry Judy. Chicago plays a lot of man
coverage and they let up a lot of explosive plays.

(02:13:18):
The most explosive player that Cleveland has happens to be
Jerry Judy, and Sanders has found him a bunch. He's
a guy that I've been targeting in DFS this week.
So so long as it's not a monsoon there or
something crazy, you know, Blizzard, I like Jerry Judy a
lot uh.

Speaker 2 (02:13:31):
For tight end Schultz, Aer Likely.

Speaker 3 (02:13:35):
Oh Man Cincinnati lets every tight end score. I like Schultz,
but I love Likely, all.

Speaker 2 (02:13:41):
Right, and last call ray for Doctor Rodeo. Go ahead, Ray,
I got.

Speaker 3 (02:13:46):
Sultzer Gooder and Michael Pittman or a love Schultz and
definitely olav A Lobby is one of the best plays
this week.

Speaker 2 (02:13:56):
See, I'm gonna go with got It over Kelsey. Got
It was good last week against Las Vegas. Why want't
I load up on him?

Speaker 3 (02:14:04):
I'll see no problem with that one. I want every
Philadelphia scoring four or five touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (02:14:09):
May Dallas got to get at least one of them.
Ladies and gentlemen, we asked Doctor Oto once a week
to give us the knockdown Dragon one hundred percent amazing performer.
It's Dr Roto's lock of the week, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
This lock comes in the Bengals Ravens game. We mentioned
it a little bit before. T Higgins not playing Jamar
Chase playing the Ravens just can't cover him. Marlon Humphrey
can't cover Jamar Chase. It's like he was Chase. If
he played every game against the Ravens, he would be
the greatest receiver in NFL history by like ten thousand yards.

(02:14:42):
This dude is getting one hundred and twenty yards minimum,
at least one touchdown, maybe more. I think Cincinnati is
going to try one thousand percent. I think Borrow's going
to give it everything. And I love Chases. The lock
of the week.

Speaker 2 (02:14:54):
There it is. That's Dr Roto's Block of the week.
Now you're putting in er hours, doctor, because we got
some playoffs for some teams around this country of ours.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
In the next three weeks are busy, busy times in
the office, MT so get out those insurance cards so
you can find me over at doctor Roto dot com.
You can find me over at Serious XM Fantasy Sports
Radio from six to nine am Eastern tomorrow, and of
course over at Exit d R ro otl.

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
All and good doctor, look, thank you for the time.
He's always We'll visit again next Friday, my friend, have
a great week, my good luck this week, and MT ten,
thank you same to you. That's Doctor Roto. Playoffs start
for me next week. Ross He's got playoffs and I'm
sure one of his leagues, one of his nine, and
he plays in the main one theother ones. That's the
most important. He's four and ten and in dead last place.

(02:15:42):
Justice has been served up. Next. Four time champs zero
suck it? What if I'm a champion? Four time champions?

Speaker 3 (02:15:48):
Zero?

Speaker 2 (02:15:48):
Okay? Four time champ to one okay, Pittsburgh Seelers, oy,
guess who? Guess what? The Detroit Lions are coming and
the La Rams are coming here. We're gonna go one
for the thumb, baby, and you'll be twiddling yours. I
don't think of my thumb. Let's go to non Florida
stories next. It's Unclean one one on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (02:16:07):
We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of
Florida and share them with the people of us.

Speaker 2 (02:16:21):
It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 3 (02:16:29):
I'll time for no Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:16:38):
Store on coast to coast.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
We'll bring strange and wild.

Speaker 2 (02:16:46):
No alligator tails, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 5 (02:16:54):
It's time for lass from for and wild. This crazy world,
there's nowhere.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
One thir on Sports Talk seven ninety. Time now for
somebody who want a week at this time. We don't
play the fantasy five. We give you non Florida stories.
Every radio show in the marketplace and this country gives
you stories about wacky things that happen in Gainesville, Miami, Tampa,
Saint Peter, Orlando. Our rule is our wacky stories must
come from outside of the Sunshine States. Uh November twentieth,

(02:17:32):
United pres International story out Boys about a talk the
UPI still exist. I did not think it did, but
it been for them about a talking teddy bear named
Comma or Kuma k u Mma Okay. It has been
pulled from retail shelves after the AI powered toy ventured
into questionable topics. A group of researchers from the United

(02:17:55):
States and Canada held conversations with Comma and found it's
easy to get the ninety nine dollars bear to discuss
sexually explicit topics, including spanking, role playing, and bctality. What Yeah.
The researchers with this bear also said that you can

(02:18:17):
take a particular topic and the bear would quote run
with it, simultaneously escalating in graphic detail while introducing new
sexual concepts of its own. I never thought a bear
would do that, but you know what, say I. The
bear also offered advice about where to find sharp knives
in the home. The CEO of this company follow toy

(02:18:39):
name is Larry Wang said his company is quote conducting
an internal safety audit, so be careful when you buy
a ninety nine dollars ai led bear from Larry Wang.
Name Kama from Wang because he will. This bear will
give you advice about spanking and role play and where
to find sharp knives. Was in a person's home, And that,

(02:19:02):
my friends, is this week's at least in my version.
Non for the story. Thank you, you're welcome. Who's next?
Who's next? Let me go? Oh go ahead. Well last weekend, man,
I know you're a big fan of game Stop, the
a real tailor two thousand and seven video game retailer. Well,

(02:19:23):
they did a trade Anything event this past weekend where
they were taking in trade ins and they allowed anything
for you to be to be available to trade for
people to bring in. The trade in event was a
publiicity stunt, of course, from the company, designed to highlight
its trade in program that provides customers with store credit

(02:19:45):
or cash for a range of home entertainment items. Okay, Well,
some very interesting things came into the store, including taxidermied animals,
road signs. You also had artwork with people with their
pets with hair like Snoop Dogg. But also things got
really weird, including a customer bringing in a goose and

(02:20:11):
another customer bringing in a bobcat to attempt to have
it traded. And what's the value of these trades? Well,
game Stop says it paid out more than thirty thousand
dollars for a rare Pokemon cord and some other items,
but it does not say what they paid out for
a taxidermyed goose. It was the last time he wanted

(02:20:33):
to go to a game stop. When did modern Warfare
come out? The new Modern Warfare thare? I guess the
bigger question will be when will will no longer exist?
Is it will always exist? I mean we used always

(02:20:53):
think that Blockbuster videos would exist. They didn't last No,
actually no, it was before that. It's probably been ten years.
One shout out to you their game stoppers appreciate you,
and yeah you still love playing games and video games.
I miss it, yeah, but it's taking too much of
my time. The kids got we I guess them a
Wii when they were kids. They loved the Wii. The
reason amazing, you'repul we It is good. It at least

(02:21:14):
built hand eye coordination. That's true. You got some extra
took tennis. Yeah, you can get You can get a
healthy get a good frothy sweat going if you will,
down and playing twelve straight hours of modern warfare not
as good. Nope, Ertard Thumb's give you the carpal tunnel.
All right, Jonathan, you're non Flora story please? All right?

Speaker 8 (02:21:31):
Minds is out of hay or really Texas. Gavin Rivers
Wessemberg twenty one of Allen, Texas and Tenor Christopher Thomas
twenty of Argyle, Texas were indicted on November twentieth in
US District District Court for a bizarre plot to carry
out a coup on a on Gong Gave Island near Haiti.
The New York Times reported that the men hatch their
plan in twenty twenty four. Both were learning Haitian creole.

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Wessenberg joined the North Texas Fire Academy to learn and
command and control protocols. He flunked out into a February
twenty twenty five. Thomas then joined the US Air Force
and was stationed in Maryland. Both men planned to recruit
homeless people from around Washington, d C. To assist in
the coup. After selling to Coop my bad. After selling

(02:22:15):
to and gaining control of the island, Westenberg and Thomas
planned to kill all the men and make the women
and children sex slaves. They there would be conquerors could
face up to life in federal prison.

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
Great story you ever get together? Trying to stage a
military coup, mat Uh, I was junior in high school.
In my high school didn't work. I go not well,
missus Xy wouldn't allow me to happen. It's just what, excelly,
I think you said ecstasy. No, miss excellent, I thought
I think I heard that too, Rose. No, it's excellent. Okay,
all right, so you're talking about Haiti. They were trying

(02:22:48):
to do a coop in Haiti. Yeah, they were co
Texas man, Texas men doing it some country Texas men
island and our gall is really country. I don't even
know where our guy was north of Dallas. Is the
fourth word sounds? I don't want to go. No, it's
it's it's yeah, yeah, it's what is it? It's on
thirty five, isn't it. Yeah, get it's right, it's right out.
It's probably rest for worth. Yeah going if you want

(02:23:10):
to go to Midland that thank you very much for that.
I have a little bit of breaking news in a
relationship world Shore in a side piece get back Together.
That's it and probably didn't even deserving of one. Uh
play Thompson has broken up with his girlfriend Nikki, I
mean not Nikki Meghan Stallion.

Speaker 8 (02:23:32):
This is why you can't trust couples that post all
the time.

Speaker 2 (02:23:35):
Apparently I told you that they have broken up because
she was caught cheating Megan thee Stallion. No, no, no,
that's another one. That's another one. That's another one all timer.
By the way, Jonathan, Meghan Lee Stallion, the Matt Thomas Show, Ross,
we are big fans of Meghan d Stallion. You know

(02:23:55):
who else is? David Hensley? Oh, the former astro rested
his forearm on that shelf rested his forearm.

Speaker 3 (02:24:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:24:08):
Go look David Hensley and Megan THEE Stallion. You know
what I'm talking about. So we should plod him. Absolutely,
she's a probably. I'm getting a lot of tweets from
Sam and from Craig about this bear I was talking about. Oh,
I thought we were. Well what about the tweets about
your barbecue sauce? Take and you're getting crushed on that.

(02:24:29):
I don't care. I don't even care. Just give me
some of them sweet baby raise, put that on my meat.
We're good to go. Let's see. Chris says, stop giving
your culinary opinion sports empty Soup says, now the whole
McRib love makes sense. Really, Craft bruh heck, no, craft
is just fine. This one's rude. Can we get mad
tested for autism? That's nice? Well the person probably, Well,

(02:24:52):
I'm gonna say it. I don't be appreciate you listening, Sam,
Thank you for Sam.

Speaker 3 (02:24:55):
Go to hell.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
Let's see, Jimbotron sports MT can be so just respectful Sam.
And Stephanie says, good barbecue doesn't need sauce. That is
all that is true. So if you need a little sauce,
get you a little sweet baby raised so they can
have a little sauce, Get you a little.

Speaker 3 (02:25:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:25:11):
That's not what we're arguing. We're not arguing good barbecue
and not eating sauce. That Croker a nice Kroger brand.
Just do the trick. You are so wrong. It's hurts me.
I tried to stop you. I tried to stop you
from getting all this hate. I want a gold star
for trying to permit this hate that you're getting right now.

(02:25:32):
You did it to yourself. I don't care bad food opinions.
Jeremy Penion, by the ways, engaged late word on that
as well. Congratulations Megan thee stallions associated with that. But
if it is good for him for her? All right,
h hell Yeah or Not? Is all things about Texans
killer Jacoby Brissett. I'm really happy for you. Got eight
questions out of Jacoby Brissette. We'll do that next five

(02:25:54):
minutes up to go on the show What should we do? Wait?
Should play? America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We
simply called it be Believe It or Not on Monday
through Thursdays, but on Fridays we call it a Hell
Yeah or Not. And here's how it works. You'll call
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven NINTI today's edition

(02:26:17):
of Hell Ye're Not? It's all things about Jacoby Prisett.
I'll read your statement about Jacoby statement completely utterly accurate.
You'll say this hell at the statements Erroni's football comand up.
You'll say this now, Jonathan, we went into the A
team's prize vault. What are we playing for today, my friend?
We got the Trans.

Speaker 8 (02:26:32):
Siberian Orchestra tickets for the nineteenth of December this month,
and we got the fourth pack of MASSA Jam tickets.
Uh this on the February fifteenth Energy Stadium.

Speaker 2 (02:26:41):
Let's go. Let's play hell yeah or not? Frank on
seven ninety Frank, you're ready to play? Helly?

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
Are not the hell yeah man?

Speaker 2 (02:26:49):
In his true freshman year Florida, Jacoby Brissett served as
a backup quarterback to Tim Tebow. Hell yeah or not?
Not not not not, that's correct. Tebow left the year before.
Say number two for the way. Jacoby Brissett was also
a basketball star in high school, receiving scholarship offers from
Central Florida, among others. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 15 (02:27:08):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:27:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:27:09):
He never played, Thank you for playing now. He sounds
so confident too. I feel bad, John on seven anti
he ready to play?

Speaker 10 (02:27:16):
Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 3 (02:27:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:27:19):
Jacoby Brissette has beaten the Texans with three different teams
New England, Indianapolis and Miami. Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 4 (02:27:27):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:27:27):
He certainly did. Why don't you have his Wikipedia? I
thought was that giddy in there? Yeah? Kenneth on seven
Aunty Kenneth is your favorite part of today's ten to
two radio show. Listen to doctor who oh yah, doctor Tooya?
Who's doctatoya? All right? Was it's rodeo and it's been

(02:27:51):
that way for like thirteen years, But thanks for listening.
Jacoby Brissette's favorite athlete of all time, it's Peyton Manning.
Hell yeah or not? No, it is even doctor toyow
that Chris on Sevenati Ready to play? Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 3 (02:28:09):
Hell Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:28:10):
Jacoby Brissett has recorded four tackles of his own off
of interceptions in his NFL career. Two of them were
solos hell yeah or not? Hell yeah? No, Ross too,
That's a good one. You're going out with a bang, literally,
Matt on Sevenati you ready to play? Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 3 (02:28:30):
Hell Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28:30):
In twenty twenty three, Jacoby Brissett made a million dollar
pledge to renovate his high school stadium in West Palm Beach,
and the field is now named in his honor. Hell
Yeah or not?

Speaker 15 (02:28:40):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
No, Ross may that up too, and we didn't even
go the eighteen for prizes. Uh, lindsay on SEVENAUTI lindsay
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:28:53):
Well say fleet hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28:56):
I asked what your favorite part of the show was.
What was fair part of today show?

Speaker 3 (02:29:00):
Well bos this part believe it or not?

Speaker 12 (02:29:03):
Hell or not?

Speaker 2 (02:29:04):
Okay? Nice sell job there, Lenz may call you Lens.
Jacoby Brissette, he has said that his favorite meal is
his mother's homemade mac and cheese. Hell yeah or not?
Hell yeah? All right here we got statement number two
for the wind Jacoby Brissettes go to karaoke song is
chicken fry, but the Zach Brown band hell yeah or

(02:29:26):
not not it is. I'm sorry, Lenz, I like that
song that chicken fried cold par jeans fit. Just ride
with the radio on. Everybody go all right this think correct,
Go get yourself some craft barbecue sauce and put it

(02:29:49):
on some homemade mac and cheese. Mac and cheese up there,
so bad dude. Talk to you Monday from Denver.