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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tetto one and eighth, John, What's happened to lunch timers?
Good morning everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of
The Mat Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Ross.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We work for a wonderful company, correct, yes, uh, and
we travel from sea to shining sea putting on great program.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Some travel more than others with their second job. Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, we have a little bit of a communication issue.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Is there a technical snaffoos if you will, it's a
technical staffoo.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Without getting into great detail, I have a unit that
I travel with that helps me broadcast in crystal clear
uh programming, and the audio that I'm getting back from
the radio station is the Michael Berrys Show.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Michael, you know d you l like snow?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Excuse me, Ramo, do you lax snow? This is about
the snow here in Denver. Have you ever spilt your
name in the snow? How far can you get? Do
you extend your arms all the way out when you're
doing a snow angel? So, needless to say, when I
punched up KB ME on my remote unit, I'm hearing
(01:19):
Michael Berry. So Thus, as much as it would be
great to hear me in stereo. It would not be
great for me to communicate with Michael Berry because Michael
Berry first of all doesn't follow me on Twitter and
secondly is not listening to my show.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's rude.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, I feel that way.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hell are you sports?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hi, great man? Just fantastic spectacular Wednesday here in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, we're getting we getting snow back home next week?
Is that's the forecast?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I would see it's possible in the forecast, it's not
necessarily probable, you know how good? This is what happens.
The models a week out will say it's possible for snow,
and then everybody runs with it. So I haven't seen
necessarily the latest. There are people I trust, as you Actually,
as we mentioned, Matt Land's a friend of the show.
(02:05):
And what does he say. He says, no one knows
what knows if it will snow or ice next week?
No one? Is there a chance? Yes, But that's literally
all we can say about that specifically right now. That's
why I like Matt LANDSA. He's not gonna sensationalize and
promise snow and ice and get everybody will he go
on a TV station when it's like five miles an
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hour wind and throw his body all around to give
out the No.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, he's raking the elements to report for us.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Can you name three news reporters at any TV station
in our market?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I cannot?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Can you name the sports reporters in our market?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Okay? Randy McAvoy, Uh? Uh the uh.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Ari Alexander Yep, so you're so far two for two
on Channel two?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay, thank god. Will Kunkle, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
He's I think he's the guy at twenty six. There
was a guy at thirteen that was like the show
and he left.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, dude, we've been rip Van Winkle, Van Kinkle, Adam
Adam Winkle, Adam Winkle.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He's a friend of the show. Okay, yeah, Okay, that's good.
Matt muse Wholso nobody else?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Nope, he's uh in private sector now dangn.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, I'm tapped out.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So you cannot name any of a friend Channel eleven
and nobody from thirteen?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Who I don't watch the local news. I don't. I'm sorry,
I don't watch the local news. Who's on eleven? Uh?
Jason Bristol, I believe the name Jason Bristol. Yeah, I know,
Jason Bristol. You know what. That's my bad. Sorry, my
deepest apologies to Jason. It's early. I woke up late.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Did you really Okay, so you were up watching late
night West Coast basketball? I'm assuming no, I just slept in. Oh,
very good. All right, Rossell, get a very busy show today.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
By the way, I'm here in Denver where the Rockets
are gonna take on the Denver Nuggets tonight. All right,
Nuggets last night played in Dallas and absolutely annihilated the Mavericks,
so maybe they're not. They're nice entire They didn't get
hear to Denver to two o'clock in the morning, so
that's gonna be a good sign of the Rockets. We
were resting in our warm, cozy beds while they were
playing in Dallas, Texas, so that's good. Yeah, I'm happy
(04:19):
about that. We are going to go to Kansas City
and check in on the Chiefs. We're going to check
in with him today and Friday. We're gonna give you
a double dose.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
The know.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The only thing I've noticed so far as I was
hate listening radio before I left town. By way, you
and Gordi did a great job.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
He show. I was very pleased with y'all's production.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We were thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, it'saw college football.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, and did he I don't think he he did
he turn the knife into your stomach when he was
mentioning all the Texas players leaving or I.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Think another one just to clar I believe it's a
record twenty five starters somehow have declared. Now that's crazy,
kidding me. Do you have any players left? Yeah, Michael
taffis day. It's Michael Taff and it's Arch Manning.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Maybe they hate maybe they hate Arch Manning. Maybe that's
part of the bit.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I'm actually kind of wondering because guys like Jane Blue,
there's another another that wasn't coming to my mind, Like, oh,
is it Benda the linebacker? He hardly played, He wasn't
a starter by the end of the year. Maybe he's
out of eligible. Actually, I think he's out of eligibility. Yeah,
I'm like, is uh is something happening?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Do people hate Sark? Why are in the NFL? Maybe
the whispers are out there.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I like that conspiracy theory. I'm wondering if there's something
to this or this is just a bunch of guys
declaring because I mean a lot of them are ready.
Most of them are not surprised surprises, because all right,
so let's be honest. The players that you've seen the list,
most of them are just declaring for the NFL draft
right now. A lot of them are out of eligibility
or or also very very much draft ready. They could
be as many as ten long Horns drafted in the
(05:49):
upcoming draft. Yeah, we check in. That's great.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
As many years you had zero, so you're kind of
like bouncing these out.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Of the lives. But it just makes me upset that
you you're gonna have ten draftees and you didn't win
the championship.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That happens a lot. I mean, doesn't that happen a
lot with like Duke basketball when they have a bunch
of first round picks have done they don't win championships.
The greatest example that is Kentucky basketball. Yeah, it still
doesn't make me feel better.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey, So the reason why I brought this episodecause I
was thinking, if Texas is losing players to the portal,
what does that say about the whole thing that the
krim Dela creme with one of the blue bloods of
academic athletic excellence is losing players. So as long as
you're telling me most are going to the draft that
(06:37):
I would not raise a flag of concern.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think it's eight is have portaled out. The only
real marquee one was John Ta Cook, who the wide
receiver who quit on the team in the middle of
the season because he wasn't getting an He was a
five star player, and it sounds like there's already issues.
He had committed to the Washington Huskies in the portal
and now he's decommitted from the Huskies.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So yeah, well, ultimately too, you could also would be
a five star recruit. You go to Texas or go
to any one of these awesome schools and you don't
play well, all of a sudden you got, like, I
don't know, Ball States says, hey, you can be our
starting wide receiver tomorrow and we got some money for you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Come home play. I mean, you don't.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Just if you load up a school with all of
the superstars, every one of those superstars can't play, So
a lot of them would would go to a smaller
school for the opportunity to continue I think it's eight.
Last I looked eight players transferring out. They're all about
three star level for the Longhorns. But it's so you're
you're not sweating bullets on, not in a big way.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, okay, all right, we got it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We're gonna check any Kansas city coming up at the
bottom of the hour. We are going to give have
shut your bull mass up at eleven thirty, and hopefully
my equipment will be ready by then. If not, I'll
be telling iHeart Engineering to shut their bumb masses up.
But I don't think they would do that because they're
such nice people. We've got email Adoka joining us very
late in the show at one thirty, because you know,
we're in the different time zone, so everything's a little
hour pick a ball games in well, you know, it's funny.
(07:59):
And don't think I'm speaking a turn. We you know,
we got we got iced or snowed or whatever. So
we we basically didn't leave the hotel on last Friday.
So they offered us an opportunity to eat meal a
meal down in the meal room, and we get down
there and there's this, you know, obviously beffey station of
whatnot of various foods and there was a pickle ball
(08:20):
court that was taped up. They played pickleball inside. They
are pickleball halocks. That seems dangerous with food. Did you
get a pickleball in your food?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
No, there was.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Separation between the court and the and the food. M Okay,
are we on the outside on this because we you
and I are not pickleball or are we missing something here?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I think it's good healthy activity for people who just
want to move around. And you're like, man, I want
to play tennis, but I don't want to do all
that running. Let's play some pickle ball.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But I mean, Emi Delka doesn't come across to me
as a guy that would like to shortcut anything. I mean,
he's first all, he's built, the second of all, he
scares me half to and third he just I mean,
he'd be full tennis guy, I would imagine, so he'd
want to play a full ninety four feet to pick
up court and would blank talk you the entire way
up and down the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I'll play a little tennis. You want to play some matt,
You want to play your little doubles match going? You
mean you and me on the same team.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, No, that's true. You'd be frustrating me. No, you
swing left handed too right. No, I'm alright, Hams on
the guh my god. So you always swing in both ways.
It's confusing. Excuse me, what aren't you? You're left handed?
Some things in right hand to the other.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I throw left, I right right, I bat right, I
swing golf right. Yeah, swing across as much ruder than
than it is.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Not rude.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You swing in both ways, It's confusing. I normally swing
just one direction, but sometimes the other. Not much of
a swing, it's more like a maneuver, whatever you want
to call it. All right, So if we go on
to the entire show, we get the news at noon
coming up today, Yes, and what else we got.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think that's it we got.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We got a lot of time to talk to the
great people of Houston as are getting ready for the
game between the Chiefs and the Texans. Because again, I
don't know why other people in the market are not
even previewing the game and they're not even counting it.
It's like they're like giving up on the game, not
giving the Texans a chance.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh yeah, I think there was a certainty. I'm not
even gonna mention the network or the pundit it was.
They called it a practice instead of a bye, oh
no yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Not getting shot on the show, Matt, not on this show.
That person's not getting We're not even rhyming this person's name. No,
I'm not, I refuse. He used to work in Houston though, right, Matt,
no comment. I used to own him on on the
RAS and talk show.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Right right? Is that who it is?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I just want to make sure, all right, I won't
say anymore. All right?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Uh, seventh rate two two five seven out. That's how
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(11:20):
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To add to what should be an exciting rest of
the week in sports when it comes to both the
Rockets with two big games this week tonight against Denver
and the Nuggets tomorrow night in Sacramento against the Kings.
We've got the NFL playoffs, a lot of things going on,
and ROSSI real quick, the dealon rumors to Dallas aren't
going away. Are you surprised or is this just TV
(11:43):
people trying to fill multiple.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Hours of air time.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm a little surprised. I want it to happen. For
the train wreck, expect of it. Pas, I would take
being wrong on to put my name on it. For
the train wreck. Yeah, it's it's gonna be entertainment. I
I just I can't see Dion listening to a ward
that Jerry says unless Stephen, his son, said, Hey, Dion,
(12:08):
come here real quick. Dad's going to say a bunch
of crap. Don't just nod your head and say that
sounds cool to Jerry, I believe you, and then just
do your own thing.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, he's nuts too, But Dion wants. I mean, that's
the thing about college for me, for him that makes
the most sense is that he can He controls about
ninety five percent of what's happening at Colorada football. He
decides what players he wants, He decides what players get,
what money, He decides when they practice, He decides how
they travel.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He depends.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He he is the culture of the franchise. Well, you
don't have cultures in the NFL. You have salary caps
and you have drafts. And that's why the general manager
of an NFL team, or for that matter, any sports
team is huge. And I just I can't know. Is
there gonna be pressure to have his sons play there?
I mean, who, who the hell knows going on? But
you know what you're kind of right, Rossie. I'm there
(13:00):
for it. Ten fourteen Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
three two one two five, seven ninety. If you want
to join us seven one three two one two five
seven ninety, I'm here in Denver. Ross back in Houston.
We thank you very much for listening to the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Hey, Rossie, how the heck are you? I'm just doing great, Matt.
How are you amazing? Here in beautiful Denver, Colorad?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
This is a and I don't I'm not saying that
we're not a good sports town, but this is a
great sports town. I mean, they've got four major league franchises,
They have a college team that actually you know that.
You know, the state schools here in bould are not
far from here. I mean, it's a big sports town now. Granted,
(13:53):
if when the Nuggets won their championship a couple years ago,
it was, hey, congratulations the Nuggets won the championship.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
When does Broncos training camp start? Yeah? Can can you
be a great sports town if nobody cares about the
championship Nuggets? Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I would have to say in all my travels, can
you tell me, and you've done a little bit of
traveling yourself, the most balanced sports town when it comes
to loving all their teams equally, I would have to
say it would be Boston.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
That's because they all win.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But I mean, yeah, they're all storied, they all have won.
But the Red Sox have been a while, the Celtics
one obviously last year, and the Patriots are in full
rebuild I guess, or however you want to call it.
But they're pretty damn consistent. Now, it's not a great
sports college sports town. They don't really. They don't really
jump on the Boston college bandwagon for Hey, what's Bill
(14:42):
O'Brien doing over there with the Boston College. You know,
I think people should resent the fact that you consistently
go to the stereotype of what somebody sounds like based
off of the conversation of the teams we're talking about. Sorry,
you don't do that when we talk about the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I don't know what a seatle all accent is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's what I'm saying. Once you figure that out, that
really diversified your repertoire. If you know what Seattle guy
sounds like. I'll tell you what said. Hey, bro, uh,
do you wanna do you want to head to the
what was that zone called the the militarized zone?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Police are overrated? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Man, I'm going to Eugene this weekend. Got some new shroom.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
My shrooms came in m Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I would say, have all the radio shows at a
marketplace that don't stereotype. We are probably number one on
that list.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Correct three things.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We are, we're fair, we're balanced, and we do not stereotype.
Oh this c h the Chazz the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Yeah,
I was over the Chaz man thinks get pretty wild.
Picked up a couple of chicks go, well, why why
is Seattle? Why does Seattle guy sound like.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He's about to go surfing?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It's dreary today, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'll I'll be close to Seattle this week. I'll be Friday.
Show will be from Portland. I love Seattle. It is
really a beautiful place. It's a little far and the
weather is there's a reason why they have a buchs
much depressions to do. It rains all the time, not
like steady downpours, but the steady like missed gloomy.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I was lucky. I got one day of gloom and missed,
and then it was sunny rest of the time. It
was in September. Yeah, you're very lucky.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
That's what people told me. Literally, people were like, you
came in the right time. I think I told you
one time.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I did a college basketball game there in December and
it was part of twenty one straight days of rain.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It was a record at the time.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Wow, could you imagine raining twenty one days in a row? No,
and then you're knocking back coffee because now you're jittery
and depressed and sad the weather's so bad.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's Seattle for you all.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right seven one three, two one two five seven day.
We love Houston. That's why I said, Rossie, let's get
as hot as it possible. I'm looking for a seventy
five degree day soon, let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No, I like this chill in the air. It's good.
You want you want an eighty degrees and muggy like
it was on Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Damn skippy, I do you're sick now? I don't want
one hundred and fifteen in the summertime.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But I what's gonna happen? I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I just don't want the ice and snow because we
in Texas don't handle that very well. Like we basically
we tell people don't go on the roads, and yet
we still do and we have accidents all over every freeway. Yeah,
I would say it'd be nice to have the day off,
but we get bullied into coming into work.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, we've got We'll be at the Tota Center on
Monday for MLK oh crud.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I don't want to oh no, I'll be in the studio,
all right, you've the studio. I'll be at the Totus fine.
If it's icy, I'm not driving all the way down there. Okay,
I might an uber from the down from Kingwin to
come down there. Well, you better get in an uber plow.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Gonna be that battle thing. Yeah, look at we're putting
the fear of people on our weather. Remember I'm the
trusted weather source of something.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I am when hurricanes come. What did skate to
your ide? Yeah, you're there after the hurricanes hit. No,
I'm official, prepare.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No, I'm the ficial. Yeah, the rains here high. I'm Matt.
How's it going? Let me know in in Mattagorda Bay,
how the water's looking. Oh, Brian Rickson's listened to this.
You do a great job, Matt, keeping the people informed
of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, Before we go to checking in Kansas City,
I want to talk to Richard in Lake City. His
the subject line on his call says, drama of the
Texans and Rockets. I'm very curious about this. Okay, Richard,
good morning, you're on seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Hey, good morning, guys. I'm just I mean, the reason
I wanted to call is I just feel like we're
set up. So first off, on the Texans, I gave
up on him after probably the fourth game in the.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Season, I was so excited. Three and one.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Yeah, well, I don't know. They weren't convincing three and one,
and I just, I don't know, I had a lot.
I don't remember exactly where I was at, but I
was like, this is not not feeling this. And in
the last game it felt like the season started.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Over all.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The hope that I had at the season came back.
It's like new season playoffs.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
They just got to win the next one in front
of them, and that happens to be Kansas City. And
you know what, I've decided to treat this like my
super Bowl as far as I'm concerned. This is super
Bowl weekend for me, and I'm gonna have my wings
and I'm gonna have my MACHOs. If the Texans go
up there and they beat those Chiefs, it's gonna be
like we won.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
And I'm just I would feel so sad for all
of those fans like Mude kind of given up who
didn't come back to the table, because I'm not saying
the odds are we're gonna win, but if we do,
I mean, isn't this the reason we become sports fans?
In the first place, like this type of drama. And
(19:54):
while I'm on drama, two things about the Rockets. If
you left the Rocket you need to come back. Or
if you're kind of a sad sportsman in Houston right
now because the Astros and Texans, you know, they're not
as predictable or maybe moving in the right direction, you
gotta come back to the Rockets. Because man, that game
the other night against the Grizzlies, Matt, I was watching
(20:18):
it on TV.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was in home.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
I wasn't listening to you when I was. I know,
I know, But after the game, I thought, I wish
I'd heard that because I imagine, you know what, watch
when I'm in Thompson, Like when Jab pushed off, I'm
in and he just.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Like pounced back and sweat at that ball.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
I thought I needed to hear that on the radio
like that. That that was trauma. And you gotta get
on the Rockets band.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
You gotta go on the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Thank you for the phone called Richard by way Ross.
We we should take care of of Richard's needs as
soon as his interview is done with Kansas City. We
should play nothing but highlights of mine for the last
fifty minutes. We probably six of them yesterday enough, I
would say probably maybe i'd hit a limit.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Actually, no, we hit the limit.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
To get people fired up for the game tonight. Okay,
all right, I believe we're on k t H tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Is that correct? For the rockets? I think you know,
I'm gonna start pulling the Ackerman highlights. Those are so good.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh, he gets enough run on social media as it
is he does. That's enough, that's crazy. All right, let's
go to Kansas City next. We'll talk to the columnists
for the Kansas City Star, because I want to kind
of feel what's going on. Sam mcdalf from Casey Starr
joints us in just a minute seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven to one three two
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Speaker 3 (23:11):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
We say hello to Sam McDowell, who is a columnist
with a Kansas City Star with us year on Sports
Talk simm Andy, Sam, it's Matt and Ross. Thank you
for joining us. First question out of the get go,
I guess we're all trying to count the number of
days it's the last time the starters played for the Chiefs.
Are you worried about this supposed twenty four to twenty
five day layoff or is this just a storyline that
(23:32):
people are trying to figure out how to make a
time before the game coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
No, I mean it's a great question, man. I mean
I think that the at some point there is too
long of a layoff, right, I mean, you couldn't take
two months off and expect the guys to be fresh,
So there is a point where it becomes too much.
I mean, but over Andy Reid's history, and this is
what would have guided my decision had I been Andy Reid,
he performs extremely well when his guys get time off,
(23:57):
and he's even better when he's the only team with
time off. So over his career and your eed is
twenty nine to three when he's the only team operating with.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
A bye week.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Now, obviously this is two bye weeks essentially when you
give the starters week eighteen off, and then they have
the natural buy and the playoffs that they earn with
the number one seed, And so that's where the equation
potentially becomes a little different. But the Chiefs did switch
up practices a little bit. They actually played ones against ones,
which they had not done since training camps. So there's
some you know, at least attempt to try and replicate
(24:29):
what the speed of a playoff game will be like.
But yeah, I mean, I think regardless of what happens
in this game, people will use it as a sample
for whether or not it worked, even if maybe the
correlation doesn't necessarily equal the causation of the result.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Among players skill position players that we know and recognize,
who was beat up during this time off and who
is getting the most recovery.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And again, the number one.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Question would be is how is Pat feeling going to
this game. I'm sure practice has been light and they'll
starting to ramp up the last couple of days.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Yeah, I mean Patrick's ankle was obviously an issue earlier
in the season, actually, you know, kind of late in
the season.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
But he's fine.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
I mean, he looks fine at practice. The guys that
I think really benefit from this are one Chris Jones
missed the last two games now or the last game
of the season against the Texans now, against the Steelers
sorry versus, and then against the Broncos. Now part of
the reason he missed the Broncos is just because that
game didn't mean anything. I think he would have pushed
it had the Chiefs needed him. But certainly that's a
(25:30):
guy who can take advantage of a buye. The other
guy who hasn't been heard that can take advantage of
it is Travis kelce I mean, it's no secret that
Travis Kelcey is on the older side. He's thirty four
years old, and a year ago it made a statement
in the locker room when Travis Kelcey voluntarily took the
last game off to end his streak of consecutive one
thousand yard seasons. But he looked an entirely different player
(25:53):
once the postseason arrived because of that week off. So
I think you'll see a different Travis Kelcey, even if
it's more men. So then the drastic difference we saw
from him in the postseason, I think he's really the
guy that could benefit from, you know, this twenty four
day layoff that they've got.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
What about in the backfield, Sam we saw last year
Andy Reid really rely on Isaiah Pacheco to be the
bell cow. How do you think things shake out this
year as the playoffs coming along for the Chiefs?
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean I think you know, we saw a
lot of Cream Hunt in the last matchup, particularly to
try and close out that game and prevent the Texans
from getting the ball back late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
And Cream Hunt's going to be part of the game plan.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
And there's some similarities with the way they run, you know,
as far as they both don't shy away from contact.
But I think that's deceptive because I do think they
are different runners. You know, cream Hunt is the guy
that does not get explosive runs, but he does not
lose yardage. You know, he tends to fall forward when
you look at success rate and rushing in terms of
getting four yards on first down and getting you know,
(26:53):
two thirds of the way there on second down. Cream
Hunt has a very high success rate, even though his
yards per care he isn't great. Well, that's a product
of the fact that he does not lose yardage. And
I think when you're playing against a team like the
Texans that has the third best run defense in terms
of DVOA in the league, I think that's a really
important thing to have. So I anticipate the Kareem Hunt's
going to be every bit as part of this game plan,
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as Isaya pachuck Ohwill.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Sam mcdal with us here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Let's just flip to the defensive side and how it
fits against Houston as far as what do you think
you saw in the first matchup and the Texans, whose
offense has been really bad all season long, it's coming
off literally their best performance of the year.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Saw a lot of blitzing and if you know Steve Spagnola,
well the Chiefs defensive coordinator, that's not going to change,
and particularly in this matchup. I mean, as you mentioned,
the Texans offense hasn't been great this year. Well, the
primary reason hasn't been great because I haven't been able
to protect for CJ. Shroud and he's not performed well
when he faces extra rushers. And that's not all on him.
(27:56):
It's the fact that they haven't picked up blitz as well.
But I think some of that, I you know, I'm
sure the Texans coaches diagnosed it in the off season.
They're probably going to try and educate him better on
how to get his linemen better situated for blitzes and
oncoming extra rushers. But the fact is right now in
the playoffs, they haven't performed well against the blitz all season,
(28:18):
and that's a matchup that I certainly anticipate that the
Chiefs will try to exploit regularly.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Sam, I want to ask you about and we've we
had a guests down from Kansas City earlier this year
when the two teams met during the regular season. A
lot of close games, a lot of fortuitous bounces, the
field goal block, the field goal made, the call made late.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Your interpretation of that is.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Slippage or just creative veteran teams finding a different way
to win every single week. How did you see it
as the team was not putting away teams like many
folks thought are on the link they should have.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Yeah, well, I think it can be both. You know,
I don't think that this team, you know, the starters
went fifteen to one. I don't think this hurt the
quality of a fifteen one team. But I do think
that there's something to the fact that they don't blink
in the moment. And you know, you mentioned a couple
of the examples. They won six games on the final
snap of a game this year, and that does not
(29:12):
include the game that I'm sure a lot of people
watched against the Raiders on Black Friday, where it was
technically the second to last snap that the Raiders fumbled
and then they melted on the last snap. That's seven
of those fifteen wins that they've got this year. So
I think, you know, it's totally reasonable that a lot
of people are looking at this Chiefs team is more
vulnerable than they have been in the past, because they
(29:32):
have been vulnerable. Some of those games that I'm talking
about came against the Panthers, they came against the Raiders,
I mean, they came in overtime, and so they came
against a non playoff Bengals team before the Bengals had
figured it out late in the season. So yeah, I
definitely think that the Chiefs are susceptible. I mean, they've
proven that they've at least can make it a game
with anybody. And the Texans are certainly not just anybody.
(29:54):
They're a playoff team, they're division champion. There's a reason
that they're here. They've got a terrific defense. So I
know the line is what it is, the spread is
what it is, But it would not surprise me at
all if the Texans could, you know, be very competitive
with the Chiefs and make it interesting in the fourth quarter,
because I've seen that all year.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Final question, is there anybody that you have spent time
looking at this year that needs to have a better
postseason than they had during a regular season. I know
you brought up Travis and you know, Ages maybe starting
to work off him a little bit, But is there
anybody else that you're like, you know what, if this
team's really going to three peat, these players have got
to step up and maybe do more than what they did.
Maybe you saw them during the course of the seventeen
(30:31):
game schedule.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Yeah, sure, So it's kind of a TBD answer. Because
my answer is the left tackle, and I'm not exactly
sure who's going to play left tackle. I think it'll
be the matchup that the Texans saw last time they
played at Arrowhead, you know, last month, which is having
Joe Tooney, an All Pro guard, play tackle, in which
case your guard replacement for him, Mike Caliendo has got
(30:54):
to step up because he did not play well against
the Texans, and the Texans have a terrific front and
so they've got to protect Patrick Mahomes better than they
did in that first matchup. Now, the other option that
they have, and the reason I said it's uncertain who's
going to play left tackle is because they signed DJ
Humphries late in the season after he'd been recovering from
a knee injury.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
He played three quarters against the Chargers and then.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
He got hurt that he missed three weeks, and then
he played the finale against the Broncos while all the
rest of the starters set as they're trying to evaluate
him and he's not playing with Patrick Mahomes, but he's
still playing for a starting job. So Andy Reid has
been coy so far this week on who's going to
have that starting job at left tackle. But however that
shakes out, it's going to shake up the left side
(31:37):
of their offensive line. And you guys know better than
I do the way the Texans can get after the passers.
So that's absolutely going to be key, not just against
the Texans, but whoever the Chiefs play in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Sam mcdal is a columnist with the Kansas City Star.
Worthy of a read this weekend. If you want to
get an out of town perspective on this game. Are
we holding it twenty five degrees for kickoff? Does that
seem about right on Saturday?
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Yeah, it seems warm compared to last year because last
year about this time it was like negative five, So well,
we'll take the twenties.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Goodness, gracious, Thank you friend for the time. We really
appreciate it. Looking forward to reading your work over the weekend.
And stay warm. We really appreciate it. And you joining
us on the show today.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Thanks guys, enjoyed it all right.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Sam mcdalll joining us from the Kansas City Star. He
is a columnist, which is strange, ross because we're losing
columnists left and right, which is weird. It's just part
of the industry, Like the chronicle doesn't have a columnist
right now. Isn't that weird? Don't nope, won't you step
right in there, Matt? I mean I could do it. Yeah,
I'm a wardsman on the radio. It could be a
(32:40):
wardsman in front of a computer smith and awardsman too.
Don't worry about that either. I do both the proper nomenclature.
Got that right, all right, So there's a little perspective
in that. When we return, we have some breaking news
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Mattin ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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I think two's fine? All right, and give out the news.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Quinn yours has declared, Oh this isn't the one with
Matt singing.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Come on, Oh no, we don't want that. That one's
the greatest piece of audio in the history of this show.
Quinn Ewers has declared for the twenty twenty five NFL drafts.
According to his agent, he will not be transferring, although,
(35:56):
as Chris Gordy pointed out, he does have until February
seventh to pull out of the draft, but he's declaring
for the draft. Agent Ron Slavin tells ESPN twenty one
and five as a starter. Two final fours destroyed the
Sooners a couple of times, and also one at Kyle
(36:18):
Field in the resumption of the rivalry. Mm hm, so
good career, great career from Quinn Eewers.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Just could have been greater.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, I don't. I don't sense a lot of despair
in your voice.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I don't. I don't hear the raw emotions. It's fine.
The long Horns getting to look quick. Arch Manon could
be very well worse than Quinn Eewers. It's it's certainly possible,
but they could also do better. He's the Mike McCarthy
of coaches of quarterbacks? Is he the ar Ring of
the of coaches? Okay, gets the job done, but not elite.
(36:57):
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I want to think of a good comp Okay, and
let's go on the NFL because it makes more sense,
because I think more people would recognize a NFL quarterble
would be Kirk Cousins. Uh, Quinn wins more than Kirk
Cousins does, does he?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I mean twenty one and five, that's impressive. Martin. Nowa yeah,
this is also luisy manner. You will lease anam and
rose and stuff. Yeah in there, and I mean, lord
knows y'all play soft enough schedules.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
It is well, uh yeah, I mean like going to
Alabama and winning in Tuscaloosa. Quen Yours did do that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I was great and you and obviously he didn't want
to play against the University of Houston's got He left
the game because he was he was so scared of
the Cougar defense.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Did he leave that game? Oh, that's right, that's right.
The Cougars were cheap shotting Quinn youewrs No, he wanted
he wanted some time, and then they lost.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
He waived the talent and said, hey, can you put
me off the bench for the rest of the game.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Hmmm yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Right, So Kirk Cousins is a fair comp. Russell Wilson's
not a fair comp.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Correct, I'll give you a fair comp sam Ellinger. No, well,
who's better Sam Ellinger or quin yours? Quin yours by Smidge?
By Smidge, it's closer than it should be. It's closer
than it should be. Fro he was supposed to be
one of the he was you know these these recruiting services. Oh,
(38:20):
we put him out of ninety two point one oh
eighty seven. This is the second greatest quarterback recruit in
the history of football, right, so he should have been better.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
I mean made a lot of money now. So what
it makes me also think is that that report of
six million dollars waiting for him to going somewhere was
completely erroneous.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Like I told you, Oh, somebody's already put an AI
picture of him working at HGB. This is not right, I've.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Do I did put on Twitter, what was your favorite
Queen yours of the Texans quarterback moments? If you want
to put that out there and let us know, we'll
be happy.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Oh of course it's a University of Houston fan. Well,
I mean you've made.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
This obsession with UT. We don't care about you, brother,
We're not obsessed by UT. Oh we're literally Adam Wexer
told me he was at he was at the U
of h basketball game, and multiple people around him, Cougar's
fans were streaming.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
The Texas game.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I can't remember what football game they were playing, streaming
the Texas game, rooting against them because Coopers obsessed. Listen
to me, we were destroying it another opponent by forty points.
We had to find something else to watch. Okay, we
scared of.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
You were were just scared.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Nobody's scared.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Disappointed.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
We're disappointed that you failed to play us in a
lot of sports. We beat your basketball team like a
drum twice. We would have won the football game if
not for Big twelve officials that were University of Texas grads.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah, there is the more conspiracy theories. Take that l
you lost, lick in the lost column. You've never won
a championship in football ever, never won basketball. School that's
never won a basketball championship? How does that work out?
You know, we are we are very successful in a
variety of things. We don't. We don't pigeonhole.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, except for fifteen championships in the seventies in golf.
And that's it.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Loser athletic program obsessed with the Longhorns. We're not obsessed.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
We don't. We don't even care.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
This is as character such a liar, especially old guard
Kug's I think Southwest Conference cougs.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, because we beat you in seventy six for that
perfect season, Thank you very much. Uh, perfect season.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Dah.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
The Cougar's won the Southwest Conference in seventy six.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Oh, they're perfect in conference.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, because I know they didn't win
a national championship because I've.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Never done it. Well, we're getting there, though, We're on
the way. Coach Fritz, let's go. I like Coach Fritz.
You should he he's an America's coach.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
He's not America's coach. He's Yeah, he's a coach. He's
a coach. He could be your friend. He could be
a disciplinarian, he be a tactician. He's an America's coach.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
He could sell false teeth. And he takes naps in
the mid afternoon.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Who doesn't when the show gets over at one o'clock
Mountain time. Guess what I'm doing at one on one,
I'm falling asleep. Yeah, night responsibilities. Mark in humbole on
the Matt Thomas Show at ten fifty four.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
So I can punch him up here with our great
technology do and it is punching. Go ahead, Hi, Mark, Hey,
what's up? I will say this?
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (41:22):
You put Manning in there, and the Longhorns won a
national championship and as far as Quinn yours he would
be one hell of a backup for C. J. Stroud
and uh I.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Will Michael prediction.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
We will win the national championship next year.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Hook them horns?
Speaker 3 (41:45):
All right, thank you, Mark, Thank you Mark?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Uh you know what I want you to get to
your computer right now?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
It's got like three returning starters. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
We'll see, yeah, go back ten, go down ten pages
like something like way in the future. Let's do a
quick we can certainly change our opinions about it.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
But what do you think? What am I doing?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Quen you?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Weres NFL futures? What do you mean? Backup?
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Like?
Speaker 3 (42:10):
What is he? Yeah? What do you want you want
to write? Let's write it down. We'll see how close
we get. He's a backup for a few years and
then he's in coaching. We're doing whatever. I don't know.
He's made millions in NIL all right, he's gonna be
millions in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I'm gonna give you five different factors.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Is he in the NFL? Five years above? Five point
zero zero zero one years in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Where's Sam Ellinger? Is he out of the league? I
mean you look, he's the uff count. That's fine, that's
nothing wrong with that. You I still collect a good paycheck.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Oh yeah. Sam Ellnger is still in the colts apparently.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, oh, but he didn't play because what's his face?
Joe Flacko played over he he was a third quarterback
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Then had he could be knocking around the league and
in five years, I'm gonna go over five years okay,
uh okay, hold on? Where am I writing this down
on gut feelings or what is this?
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
This is like a deep gut this deep cut guns
deep in your gut. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Will he throw for four thousand NFL career yard?
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yes? Okay?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Oh no, here's no you're you're going okay? And then
here's the one that's the most immediate. What round is
a getting drafted in second or third?
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Uh? I'm gonna say third or later?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Me too, Man, we're not disagreeing to any of this
stuff that this troubles me?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Why?
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah, that's it's actually extremely troubling to me. I'm probably wrong.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
That's why I believe the nil deal of six million
dollars was complete fooey, because his pro contract's not gonna
be worth six million dollars. He can go make six
million one year to go play somewhere for one year.
A hell, and that matter if it Rossie, if it
was four million, I would have taken Tell you, Matt,
you don't your This is why I've been saying this
this whole time. You and I don't believe quinn Ewers
is going to be a good NFL quarterback. Quinn Ewers
(44:05):
and his people think he's going to be a good quarterback.
He's going to the league. This is not shocking me. Yeah, well,
he's not thinking about this, Oh, this is more than
a third round or fourth round draft pick.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
He's thinking, I'm going to go to the NFL. I'm
going to prove the doubters wrong, and I'm going to
have a good career. And he may well do it.
I just don't think he. I don't think he has
the arm strength or the poise.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
To me, it's more about the arm strength, because I
think pois will come with more maturity.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
But the problem is also he's like twenty two years old.
Now he's old. Yeah, it's true. I'm kidding. By the way,
he's twenty one. Actually he'll be twenty two in March, and.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
He's got plenty of money right now, right between Ohio Stateton, Texas.
He's done okay for himself. I would imagine he's got
some cash stashed. You're telling me somebody from u of
H sent you an emoji with or a photo of
him in an HB uniform.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
No, I was. I was searching Quinn viewers on Twitter
and somebody, some koog fan on Twitter did it. Oh,
that's very rare, Quinn. Sam Ellinger was a sixth rounder,
so Quinn's got to be better than that.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
What real quick for the top of our What is
Sam's career earnings in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Oh, god, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Talk.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
I'll plug your Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Shut We got to shut your bumb ass up. At
eleven thirty today, we have rockets and nuggets tonight with
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give you Sam Ellinger's career numbers, career earning three point
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five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, go to the NFL, Quinn, go ahead and start
your career. Yeah, I mean inflation costs it.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
You know, the quarterbacks are going up, so I would
assume he'd make at least that if not to.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
That callers point is that caller was saying Quinn art
starts as a national championship. Stezark here, he's keys and
clearly did not believe that. No, we didn't, because we didn't.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
So we should have seen a lot more of them, honestly,
because we would have seen times at Quinn struggle. Yeah,
all right, second hour, the show starts ROSSI after you
explain to the audience about how.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
They can make some money. Yeah, we've got the playoffs
coming up this week, or they were actually in the
thick of the playoffs getting into the divisional round. You
better get on it.
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Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
I don't know if one of our listeners, King of
Prussia was kidding, but he's like he texts, he says
on em Twitter, he says he's going first round.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Be better Matt, so.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
I was like, wait a minute, maybe I'm miss reading
the room. When it comes to Quinn yours a bailability
and I looked looked at two Bock drafts. Both of
them have him going late second round.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Hm hmm. Okay, so we can second round draft pick um.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I was Pittsburgh at fifty nine, Pittsburgh second round country,
okay for him?
Speaker 3 (48:16):
What Kenny Pickett, Mitchell Trubisky, Russ Wilson, Justin Fields, and
now Quinn yours enjoy Pittsburgh Steelers fans.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Hey, we have one Pittsburgh Steeler fan that she may
or may not be listening right now, but I hope
that she is. And for any of you that are
Pittsburgh Steeler fans, I want you to just I want
you to do this again. Ross, I want you to
run through that list and just say I'm nice and
slowly so everybody that would be a Pittsburgh Steeler fan can.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Just embrace what is about to head to the Steel City. Olive,
I forgot to throw Mason Rudolph in there, Kenny Pickett,
Mitchell Trubisky, Justin Fields, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Quinny's old school in there. Sure if you want Bubby Brister.
Now since Ben Roethlisberger, Mark Malone, Oh, it's been pretty bad. Wait,
Roethlisberger played in twenty one. I forgot about that. So
it's been Roethlisberger, Bradshaw and the rest of sock Tomari
was that pretty?
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Neil O'Donnell?
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Who wasn't he wasn't he?
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Donald was? Okay? Yeah, Neil?
Speaker 2 (49:19):
They made an ancer Championship game or they made a
super Bowl with him?
Speaker 5 (49:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Cordott was more of a receiver, but he would throw
the ball occasionally for them.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
How do you feel about him, Mike tom Zach Oh,
touchdown Tommy Maddox was decent?
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Touchdown Tommy Maddox.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
God.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I mean, Steelers have a legacy and they have super
Bowl rings and multiple and then, but they've done it
with some I mean, look, Roethlisberger is a Hall of Famer,
yes or no? Yeah, okay, two Supers.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
Yeah, but it actually was good, not like two super
Bowls and was terrible like Eli Manning.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah, yeah, terror he had he was He had the
same success, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Quinn viewers wearing Pittsburgh Steeler gear, Oh, that makes it
makes you feel kind of warm.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
And fuzzy inside doesn't doesn't it? Mmmm? Yes, all right,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
So Quinn yours is declaring for the draft, and again
there I would say, I'll go ahead and say it.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Put my name on.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
There's no chance, no way, no how, he's a first
round pick. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
You heard that.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I didn't start to write that down.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
I'm going to write it down. I mean, you're probably
gonna be right. But sometimes it's not like I really
went on a lim on this bad boy. Will Levis
got taken at the end of the first right or
was he scond? Okay?
Speaker 2 (50:43):
First pick of the second round? And by the way,
I can tell you this very very uh he I'm
still bully definitively or with complete certainty, you're still.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Bullish on Will Levis. All right, well, I like that.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
That's what I like. I Will Thomas Sports Enterprises will
not be hiring Quen you were as a client. Let
me write this down.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
One. You write a lot of things down. It's funny
the things you don't write down, the things I get
right down. Yeah, that's not my job right now, which
you got right, that's your job. I lose things all
the time.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
What are you talking about I started this file because
you tried to act like you were you were a prediction, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
I am predicting Jesus like.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
That's why, that's why the streets of Houston call me
Noster Thomas.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
All right, twelve thirty one, This one's will be interesting.
Ashton Genty will never rush for a thousand yards and
yet that you did.
Speaker 11 (51:42):
I got the time too, I can check the tape.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
Oh god, was I having the influence of something eleven
twenty two and I had to be am.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I wrote down the time for that one case. I
need to.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
Air check that one in case you tried to call
BS on me.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Okay, so I really said Ashton Genty never a thousand
yards and will be just a guy in the NFL.
You also said, you know.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
What I got.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
I gotta stay true to for him. You can't win
them all, ROSSI I know. Hey, this is a good one.
You got Joe al t s Perennial all pro.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Bingo, Rock Bowers ts client. Yes, Trey Lance is a bust.
Is still in the list. It's TVD, but it's looking good.
That's gonna be a win that Okay. By the way,
I got bad news for you, man. I was on
Zion Williamson's basketball reference page the other day. Yeah, it
listed seventy games played in that year.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Well, I mean it took him eighty three to play it,
So I guess if.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
He's already he's already out for seventy games this year. Yes,
I got some stuff. You got right? You want to
to make you feel better, Vlad Junior, No chance, no way,
how to be an Astro. I was with you on that.
I was her Kidi will never pitch for the Astros again.
You said that it's over he got. Yeah, he says
he got. Let go let's see. Uh, you have h
(52:57):
covers the four versus Rice. I don't know. Oh, that
was football and we did. Hm. Lebron re signs with
the Lakers. Yep. Bobby Slowan, no way, no chance as
a head coach. It wasn't no way, no chance, but
he wasn't a head coach in the last cycle.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, and I got to look for you, no way,
no chance. He gets fired by the Texans.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Okay, it was a
good he called a good game on Saturday. By the way,
nobody's really talking about it. Well, that's funny how it's
funny we crushed Bobby Sloan and the offense isn't doing
anything when they get four hundred and twenty nine yards
against a top ten defense, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
It's his crickets and Rossie. The reality is this, there's
a There is just as much chance of the Texans
losing the game by two as there is twenty four points.
I mean they Kansas City could go in there and
win the game thirty five to ten, I mean, and
it wouldn't be a shock.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
I'd be shocked.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I don't think I'd be just completely shocked.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Battle Red Ross would be shocked.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Well, battle right, but regular Ross would not. The one
who's eating his fiber would not be shocked.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
But it's not gonna But.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
I swear to God, I will out every person that
starts ripping on SLOWIK if the tax.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
Don't score enough points this week. It's about who you play.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
It's about going up, and it's about who you're playing
up in caliber, up in competition. It's a divisional playoff
game on the road in cold weather, all the against
a much better team. Kansas City is much better than
LA and it's been that way for I don't know
ten straight years. Yeah, Kansas City is the dynasty right
(54:26):
now in the NFL. Yes, so you know Slowa could
call the game of his life ROSSI and they still can't.
If the offensive line doesn't execute, the Texans are in trouble.
If John Metchi drops under pass again, it winds it
being interception, Texans are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
He had a bad drop and he had the fumble. Yeah, yeah,
I think John.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
I mean, look, major flowers for John to overcome what
he's overcome physically in.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Terms of the leukemia.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
But uh, they're gonna they need an overhaul in the
receiving corps again.
Speaker 3 (54:58):
Well two of their top two, you guys are down.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Matt, Well, let's let's deal in the realities here. Uh,
Tank's not coming back, not playing next year, probably not.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
Stefan Diggs probably.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
Isn't coming back for the Texans unless really, really really
small deal.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
I'd take him on. A small deal, was an ACL tear.
You can bounce back from.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Those Hutchinson Woods utterly just replaceable people.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
Just guys, Yeah, just guys.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
And uh, John Metchi in the limited opportunity he's had
to play major snaps has not performed very.
Speaker 3 (55:30):
Well been okay, but he's been decent. He gets open.
He didn't secure the ball.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
Not great hands, which is I think part of the
requirement of being a receivers having an quote.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Unquote good hands.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
Well Os disagrees, but Torello Owans in the Hall of
Fame though, no, you don't.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
He didn't. He was he the one that did. He
didn't go.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, he staged his own. He staged his own an
induction ceremony or something like that.
Speaker 3 (55:53):
Okay, very good of him.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
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Quinn viewers is going to declare for the NFL Draft,
and god, I wish we could play an Alex Bregmant update,
you know, with the music and everything else. But we
(56:16):
have no new there's nothing to report on him as
the early quiet Bragman reports continue to not surface. Oh
oh there was something, you know what. We have a
small smitch of an Alex Pragman update. I did an update, okay,
real quick though.
Speaker 3 (56:31):
I was looking this up, so I just wanted to
get it in the last round of the second round,
which Detroit has that pick right now? I guess okay,
it would be a sick it's a six point seven
million dollar contract. Now what am Let me ask you this.
I don't know if you can do this real quick?
Speaker 2 (56:45):
Can you what is what's the drop off of.
Speaker 3 (56:47):
The third round? After that third round? It starts at
six point four million. Bottom of the third round is
four point three million?
Speaker 2 (56:55):
Okay, So that proves to me that there was no say,
million dollar deal out there for sure, and probably four
million dollars would have been a little adventuresome to pay
you weres to go play somewhere else for one more year.
He's making the right decision because he was gonna lose
a spot at Texas. There was no way Arch was
gonna be on the back on the sideline for a
third year or even split time because Archs would have transferred.
Speaker 3 (57:18):
Right what Judish is a Arch? Oh man? Now I
gotta go back to the archives. Didn't you say Arch
was going to transfer out or not finish his career?
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Because I was doing that just a needle you that
wasn't No, Yeah, I don't believe that was a straight
up needle.
Speaker 3 (57:29):
No, I don't believe you. I injected you with Texas
hate right there and that with that needle. Oh here,
I haven't oh never arch Manning will throw a TD
pass for a college, not U T Austin.
Speaker 2 (57:41):
Well, he did throw some interceptions. He did throw a
past to somebody else July, and he didn't go with
in a pick six July fifth, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
Would I've gotten credit for that if it had been
at pick six?
Speaker 2 (57:52):
No, you know what, you don't keep that still aboard,
you will throw a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (57:56):
Pats got feeling. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hit
you too hard on a guy feeling.
Speaker 2 (57:59):
No, but here's so pick six I win that one.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Oh you doubled down. He said he's gonna transfer out
on a on November seventh and three. That was tongue
in cheek on that one. There's a gut feeling. Yeah,
I didn't put my name out, thankfully.
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Speaker 3 (59:15):
Talks seven.
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We got shut show bumb ass up coming up in
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Speaker 1 (59:33):
Nope Man Ross show.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
The bit's never going away much Distagren of sum Bruce Levine.
Speaker 2 (59:55):
He is a baseball analyst for a Chicago radio station. Oh,
he's kind of scaring me a little bit. He does
have sixty two thousand, five hundred followers. ROSSI so there
is some people that gosh, stuff, I love you. You have
to vet everything these days with this misinformation.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Yeah, it is the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
So well now Levine l E v I n E
it you can also spell Levine too.
Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
I don't know which one it is. Bruce le what's his?
Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
What's his? MLB? Bruce Levine, emil okay MLB Bruce.
Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
L E V I N E. He was on six
seventy The Score in Chicago yesterday and.
Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Said that.
Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Apparently Scott Boris has had some casual conversations with the
Chicago Cubs about Braggan going to the North side of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Hmm okay.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
But however, however it would be on a short term
deal two to three year range.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Oh that'd be a oh man, that cost me a lunch.
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Scott Boris stop screwing this up. You're gonna cost me
a lunch. Dann Scott Boris, Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Mariners,
Cubs have all kicked the tires. But we are still
looking for a new home for Alex Sprigman, who will
turn thirty one late in the month of March.
Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
He wanted at Corney to brus Levine, and he wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
To stay in Houston. But and I'm just pair now,
I'm just editorializing, scoffed at six one fifty six.
Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Well I could see that.
Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Umm, let's see Cubs. He's going off of history with
the Cubs. Then the Cubs signed outfitter Cody Bellinger to
a similar contract before the twenty twenty four season, then
traded him to the Dodgers in December after he chose
to opt into a second season of a three year deal.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Short short contract with os is a bad idea for
a thirty one year old. They're gonna have to swallow
their pride and sign whatever five six year deal they
can get to me.
Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Yeah, wow, man, what oh got it? And you know
you know men and we don't hide this were you
and I I mean especially me.
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
I'm just a huge.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Personal fan of Alex Bregman. Yes, so I want everybody
to get their back. Who's always had an ego? By
the way, me or him, that'd be both. But I
was talking about bregmant.
Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
You're thirty years old, You're coming off of a gold
glove and you hit twenty six bombs.
Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
This is I mean out of the market softened or hard,
and I guess is what it should mean. Yeah, how
did the market harden up for a guy that had that?
What are they Are they worried about the age? Are
they worried about the fact that he has been a
notoriously sold starter? Are they worried about the skills dropping off?
Because you just what you just said in that first
(01:03:00):
sentence before I started talking thirty year old go glove,
twenty five cloat with his eyes closed, home run campaign guy.
Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
That seems like you'd want to invest some dollars in
the guy, any guy like that. Oh, I'm also saying
My point is that I don't know how much better
the market's gonna get for him. And he's had some
injury problems. I mean he had the elbow issue.
Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Yeah, that was that he would be he was missing
some time in the play game taking, you know, but
I think honestly he fought through a lot of pain.
Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
And so you get credit for that.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
But man, is this oh man, we we we we
barred this phrase on the show. Did the back of
the baseball card hurt or help break men?
Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
On this one?
Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
It should be helping, It should be helping. You're really
good the ops. What was the OPS last year? Seven
sixty eight? OPS plus is one eighteen. That's pretty good.
You're twenty percent better than the rest of the fields. Yeah,
one and a gold glove the base Yeah, and you
have one stat that that backs up the fact that
he's above average, and you have another one that puts
them in.
Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Now, I remember the.
Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
OPS numbers of this year compared to the CVY went down.
Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
That's why I like OPS plus. So one eighteen is
pretty good. But you know, Kyle Tucker has won eighty
but also he played half the season.
Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
But I didn't think ROSSI that Scott Boris. Now, remember
one Soto was an outlier in this one's one was
a I don't want to say generational player, but a
generational contract is I think there's a.
Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Different generational contract.
Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Yeah, for a guy that I think will not be
worth the money that he's being spent. I mean, he's
he's a below average outfielder. I would if I'm going
to literally break the bank for a player, I needed
to be five tools of amazingness at everything he does,
and clearly the Mets think he's going to be that.
But if Boris doesn't get six one fifty six from somebody,
(01:04:57):
that's two straight years that Scott Borrows has screwed Lions
over and you're supposed to hire Scott Boris rossy to.
He is like your Jim Adler, you know, the Texas
hammer guy.
Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
I can't believe the astro slapped you in the face
with six one fifty six. We're gonna get you ay
more than that. We're talking to the Yankees and the Mets, Alex,
We're gonna We're gonna stuff these people in a locker.
Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I would never say that Scott Boris has lost his
fastball because when you signed one Soda and get him
as a client, But it would it make you think
if you weren't the super super super megastar to maybe
you think going with somebody else. Because Jordan Montgomery Rossi,
he was great for the Rangers. He reinvented himself. He
(01:05:45):
helped the Rangers win the damn World Series that nobody
cared about in Dallas. Yeah, but he was terrible last
year and then the the Diamondbacks. GM said that was
the worst mistake of the offseason. But Montgomery was so
mad at Boris he fired him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
But also, if if this were is true, which I believe,
I mean, I'm not saying, I'm not calling the guy
a liar, I would believe that Alex Bregman would scoff
at a deal that's only five million dollars more than
Matt Chapman.
Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
I don't disagree with that because he's thinking I'm better
than Matt Chapman. Yes, I I the market set with Chapman.
I'm above up Chapman player replacement level on the and
I'm worth more so now that the bar is set.
The teams that want me to know that it's going
to take more than what Matt Chapman signed it to
stay with the Giants.
Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Yeah, So how much of this is orders from Bregman,
How much of this is Scott Boris? You have to
wonder if he's that insistent on being that much more
than the Matt Chapman deal and nobody's willing to give it.
Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Here's the maybe Bregman needs to loosen up. Is how
about the fact that Boris didn't hide the fact that
that Bregman would be willing to go to a different position.
Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Yeah, that was to get more team. That's the drum
up market.
Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
But it didn't do anything. Yeah, at least at this
point it hasn't. That was just carnival stuff, all.
Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Right, Bregg's I love you, you know that, I want
you to everything you can.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
But God, remember, and I had channel come into that
one day when you were gone, Rossie. He thought six
fifty one fifty six was not a genuine offer that
there was going to be significantly more money out that was.
Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
That was more of a token offer. Yeah, it's sounded
like that. What was it, five one sixty was the
Korea offer? Yeah, Yeah, So it's kind of a it's
a I don't want to say slap in the face,
but close to a slap in the face. But it
may be the best offer he got this entire offseason.
Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
I wonder how much of it is Boris trying to
say that soda reset the market for everyone and a
team's being like no, no.
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety It is
time now for you.
Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
To just tell us what's wrong with you. We're here
for you.
Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
It's the most cathartic thirty minutes in Houston sports radio
every week. It's time for you to tell some people
to shut their bum asses up. Sit so bum ass
up man. And if you have been involved in four
meetings at your office where you could have been on
cold calls, you could have been visiting with clients, you
could have been.
Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Doing some of your paperwork. A meeting that could have
been an email, yes, a.
Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Zoom call that was basically asking about what everybody you
did for New Year's Ain't nobody got time for that?
Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Hey, nobody get time today. We're here for you.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Seven one three two one two five seven hoey Ross.
I'm gonna go first of you, do not mind I
say to any so called national media analyst in sports
if you say a team has zero chance to win,
or it's a bye week, or don't want show practice
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or a practice, I say, with complete disrespect, shut your bum.
Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Ass up, sit bum mess up.
Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
We won't take you seriously. We never will. We won't
respect you. Yeah, you make more money than we do.
Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Enjoy it. At least I have my dignity.
Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Shut your bomb ass up, national people who should be
working as a fry cook or a barista instead of
giving off terrible, terrible football opinions, Shut your buss.
Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Up, Shut you bum mess up. Man. I would also say, Matt,
that's kind of on the audiences as well, because we,
as you know, Matt, we get data on ratings, and
people push things at work and they shell things that
don't work. And unfortunately, just in twenty twenty five and increasingly,
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we have shorter attention spans, and we have well less
educated people, and just as an audience, I feel like
in general people need to be a little bit smarter,
do some critical thinking. And I would appreciate that from
everyone I know I and hosts as well. That was
very thoughtful, ROSSI. That's a that's like the anti nobody
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got time for that. I tried to fit any nobody
get time for that somewhere in there, but it didn't work.
We should do it like the anti segment of this,
where it's nice everybody's got time for that, helping out
at your local homeless shelter. I got time for that. No,
I have it a week if you wanted to, we
could flip it. That'd be funny and we'll get have
(01:11:27):
I have plenty of time for that, or please keep
talking some more.
Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
I like that, well said Kirk Bowls.
Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Oh God, Kirk Bowls.
Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Where does he didn't he didn't he retire from this Statesman?
What is he now?
Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
He's the Chronicle Texas writer.
Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Now, all right, Kirk Goals, your is your boy.
Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
I'm gonna muted for a year when he was on
the long Horn beat, I had him muted. He was.
Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
I say, yours is the most underappreciated Longhorn quarterback in
school history.
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
And it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Okay, that's not the hottest of his takes. Okay, so
we will not tell him to shut his bot mess up?
Then that's fine. Underappreciated. I guess I appreciate Quinn. You
know what, I think he does get a lot of
undue hate. People act like he's terrible, and you know
he's costing the team every single game.
Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
That's not true. He just and many times in big moments,
doesn't come through. He did against Arizona State. Credit to him.
Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
He's no James Brown put it that way.
Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
Is that a deep cut? Uh? You're talking about the
guy of famous flames fame.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Uh No, I'm talking about the quarterback of the University
of Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
You're talking about the Godfather's soul. Nope, talking about the
quarterback of Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Oh yeah, he won a conference championship. I guess Quinn
won a Big twelve championship. All right, So Ross, you
have nothing else except just being polite towards those national folks.
Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Now you covered what I was gonna say. Okay, Connor,
what's the matter with you? Connor? U?
Speaker 12 (01:13:07):
I see, contrary to a lot of people in this town,
I kind of do like the cold weather, but I
don't like it when it gets blow freezing and then
you have to go cover the plants then do all that.
I feel like I just did that, and then you
got to uncover him and then cover him back up again.
So nobody gets timed for that.
Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Nobody get time for Connor. How old are you again?
Twenty four?
Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Twenty four year old who's concerned about the plants? That's good,
that's a good young lad. You got a girl now,
But if you didn't have a girl, that right there
would melt the hearts of every female listener of our
radio show. I'm thinking, I mean I'm surprised you didn't say, hey,
(01:13:49):
let's get all of our pets inside too, and make
sure we keep the bundled.
Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
I mean you.
Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
General courtesy. Yeah, but I mean it was just he
just showed us offter side of himself.
Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Is it that soft taking care of your pets and plants? Man?
Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Are you leaving your pets outside?
Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
No? We know, are you kidding with?
Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
My dogs stay in the house nine to nine point
nine percent of the time. I take care of them
twenty four seve regardless of temperature. But how many times
we talked about plants in this show in the history
of the fifteen years of this radio it's been less
than three.
Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
Okay, I mean we talk about weed. That's a marijuana,
that's a plant. I guess, yeah, that's true. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
So that's all you guys got is you got plant
consideration and you stop adding onto my stuff. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Maybe maybe maybe we're in a counter signing this week.
Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Maybe the New year's giving us some more optimism about
how people are treating better each other better. A one
quick note about quinn Ewers Dane Brugler of the Athletic I,
who is really pretty good at at mock draft and
evaluation does not have Quinn Ewers in his first mock draft,
that has two or in his first two round mock draft. Okay,
so as long as he gets to the third round,
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he's gonna make at least what four million dollars we
figured out. But that's all not all that is guaranteed, correct,
I think it is for most of it. Yeah, I
mean for a backup quarterback, four million dollars is nothing,
especially when you're spending fifty million on starters.
Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
Yeah, save your money. He's got Jalen Milroe going thirty fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
No, I take Quinn yours or a Jalen Milroe. In
a heartbeat, Dane Brugler disagrees, Well, Dan can shut his
ball mass up?
Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Who's Matt Thomas Ordane Brugler, who's had more picks?
Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
Right me?
Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Or are Thomas Warts Enterprises or Dane Bruger Dane Brugler Okay,
maybe so seven one three, two, one two five seven
ninety Oh oh what's online too?
Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
James?
Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Hi, James, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 8 (01:15:57):
Thank you for taking my call, Governor, and that uh,
that young call checker man. He's a good young fellow man.
He's got very much Uh, a good future ahead of
him and everything in the business and everything in their life.
Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
He sounded like a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
I'm gonna get straight to my point. I keep hearing them.
Speaker 8 (01:16:13):
Talking about that PD guy, you guy over there, mister Gordy,
the LSU guy, and UH and your sidekick rather right
beside you are MT.
Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
But I'm I'm already annoyed. Man beyond belief.
Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
I wish they would stop talking about so much about that.
Eli Manning is not a first ballot Hall of Famer
because the bottom of line is, you guys have one
over here, Andre Johnson.
Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
And he was a great player too.
Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
But he didn't mount to much except that he tried
it hard as a as a player on his team.
Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
That was in the.
Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Beyond belief, Eli Manning. He still was a team player
and he produced. And if we remember when he one
of those two Super Bowls, he beat a litany of
great quarterbacks and most of them are Hall of famers.
Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Or borderline hall of famers.
Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
You, Chris Gordy and your sidekick over there, You both
of you guys, you should shut your bull ass up.
I know you guys root for the Texas Longhouns over
there and that other guy. He's an LSU proud graduate.
I got nothing agains on each organization. I'm rootal for
Archie Manning to do.
Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Well for the text.
Speaker 8 (01:17:20):
I've never readed for a college team, but I'm a
root for him black Hell because I got respect for
the Manning family.
Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
And thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Jay. I got a quick question for you, jam What
was Eli Manning's record as a starter? One's seventeen and
one seventeen?
Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
How many times did he lead the NFL interceptions three times?
How many times was anybody like, Oh my god, Eli
Manning's coming into town. How are we gonna win? Never,
shut your bumb ass up. Eli Manning is overrated.
Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
They went on two magical runs where they scored twenty
one points and seventeen points in those Super.
Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Bowls, so it ain't like he was lightening up. I
don't think he threw three hundred yards in either of those.
Eli Manning over rated and he shouldn't be in the
Hall of Fame, and shut yo bum ass up, Shut
you bum ass up man. Thank you James for being
a part of the Matt Thomas show with ross goodness.
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
You're coming it. No one feared Eli Manning. No, when
were you during his career?
Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
When was anybody like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
What was a defensive coordinator? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
The guy who's leading the league in interceptions is coming
into town.
Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
That's funny. I mean, you do have a point.
Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
I've been saying this for a decade, and I knew
people were respecting New York athletes.
Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
You better not take any shots at Karl Anthony Towns
anytime soon. Eli Manning good quarterback, not great in the
Hall of Fame, yes or no.
Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
No, But he's gonna make it. But he shouldn't. He's
gonna make it because he played in New York and
then they won two Super Bowls. And as we go along,
we've we collectively forget. We only forget the highs. We're
not gonna remember the lows. Like I said, one seventeen
and one seventeen as a starter, wins are not necessarily
a quarterback stat. But that to me, over that long
of a career, you're five hundred two magical playoff runs.
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Not a Hall of Famer in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
And what station could you hear Giants games on the
best Sports Radio sixty six wfa N your giant station.
All right, there you go, all right, last chance for
you guys to get in on some gut feelings. If
you've got something you want to get off your chest,
let it be heard right now at to seven one
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Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Eli Manning's crappy career. Oh gosh, believe it or not?
Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
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Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now Sports Talk seven.
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Ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
By the way, Ross, the tweet of the day coming
in from a listener, and it involves our friend Connor
McGovern Oh, that was that's funny Connor mcgarten line. I
mean that is that is very funny.
Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
I mean outstanding, yan easy, good, good call good, pull
in your part.
Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
That's pretty funny. Also like Jeremy's tweet, Eli Manning is
essentially Derek Carr with rings damn.
Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
I like that good not great.
Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
By the way, I did some digging Eli Manning, four
time pro bowler, two times he was an ulternate alternate replacement.
So sixteen years in the NFL, two time pro bowler,
Eli Manning. Oh, here's what I showed up on a
for you tweet.
Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Texas Longhorn fans who are arguably on the mount of
overinflated sense of self fan bases one day, one day,
really regret how many of them treated Quinn yours. I mean,
I say, good, not great with Eli, with with Quinny.
Isn't that how this whole conversation started.
Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
Maybe yeah, and it fits. It wasn't being disrespectful? Am
I wrong? There are a lot, look there. Look in
any fan base, there's gonna be a sector, some bigger
than others of it is much larger.
Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
There's idiot Longhorn fans, absolutely, absolutely, no question. There's idiot
Aggie fans yep, agreed. And there's no Uahed Cougars fans.
So I mean, no, they're all you know we are.
We are a much more refined group of people.
Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
They can barely half fill their forty k stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
I mean this is embarrassing. So we don't have to
talk about those guys, all right, seven one three two
one two five seven out ey seven one three two
one two five seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Let's go to fully bad.
Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
On seven Aunty on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Philippe.
Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Good morning to.
Speaker 5 (01:23:04):
You, Good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Uh my first one, I'm gonna golf is uh a.
Speaker 13 (01:23:08):
Man, ain't nobody got time for the weather to be
this cold winter, but man, give us a give us
a break Leans number.
Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
Two, number two.
Speaker 13 (01:23:21):
Ain't nobody got time for Longhorn fans always hating all
the u of hate cougars. Yes, get them in your
heads right, suck us shut your bum as a Longhorn fan, yes, yes,
(01:23:42):
I have never once been to any Longhorn function where
anybody has ever mentioned the cougars and told.
Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Me, oh, I because you're in silent jealousy is what
you are? Jealousy of what academics, women lesson, roof culture, friendliness,
traffic flow issues, academia. The traffic is better, I guess, yeah,
(01:24:12):
that's funny stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
I love you Cougars fans.
Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
It's all Love's all fun and love and this is
yeah for that for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
I love Felipe too, I love you, Felipe.
Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Yeah, we love Let me tell you some Felipe, you
can join the Thomas.
Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
And crushes me like every other week on up.
Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Thank god you guys. Bales is crushing me. Uh Okay,
back to what I was saying. For those of you
that don't want to watch the Rockets because all they
do is shoot threes and dunks, I mean, come on,
let's let's shake ourselves with the NBA stereotype.
Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
No, look, anybody got time for that. Each his own,
and I guess Matt, we're we're different because we both
love basketball so much. Yes, the Rockets play fun to watch.
Brandon like watching them and Thompson go up and down
the floor. Jalen Green in that game against the Grizzlies,
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I mean, my goodness, that speed that he showed that
tough bucket over Zach Dye yep, I mean or was
it no Zachy? He wasn't and they had fouled out
by them, But whoever it was the Grizzy Yeah, yeah,
Brandon Clark, I think forty two points on eighteen shots.
They don't chuck a lot of threes like some other
teams like the Celtics take over fifty a game. The
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Rockets are well under that. It's fun and they play
hard nosed basketball. A lot of what people say, oh
I wish we had physical old school basketball. That's what
the Rockets play right now as under coach Udoka. They're physical.
They don't take nothing from nobody. They start a scuffle
about every other game. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
I mean, why don't you want to go to a
basketball game with good defense, some amazing dunks, and guys
are willing to throw hands.
Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
I mean, what else could you ask for? They're number
one and rebounding their number three in defense like, they're
so physical and play sound fundamental basketball. If you're really
paying attention to their defensive possessions five six times a game,
you go, wow, look at all that. The switching, the
harmony of switching the pick and rolls and covering everything
(01:26:15):
and closing out and not letting guys get by them.
It's good basketball. I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Couldn't have said better myself.
Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
Just give it a look.
Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
I mean again, I wouldn't force you to watch something
that you thought that was bad programming, but I'm giving
you a recommendation. The Houston Rockets have the second best
record in the Western Conference, and I believe that the
fifth best record in the NBA overall, thirty six three
pointers per game, that's nineteenth in the league.
Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
They don't take a ton.
Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Hey, they're up to twenty eighth and making them.
Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
They were twenty ninth all year.
Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Now if you like good free throw shooting, we're not
having a great spell that lately. Twenty Yeah, we'll talk
to emy A Doka coming up at one point thirty
this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Sal and pair Lane. You're last up. What's the matter
with you?
Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Sal?
Speaker 14 (01:26:57):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Matt?
Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
So?
Speaker 14 (01:26:58):
I have two are both to search your bumb mass up.
The first one is gonna be the stephen A Smith
and not giving us a chance this weekend on Saturday
at the Division A round.
Speaker 15 (01:27:08):
That's gonna be my first shut up messed up man.
Second one, my second one this for you right just
from my from my Slucker fans, for all the Barcelona,
all the Barcelona fans that they said there are.
Speaker 14 (01:27:21):
That because they be Madrid this weekend or last week,
shut up, mass up. Only the last time we won
any champions league championship, it's been it's been ten it's
been about fifteen years since got one in it and
so let me know when you win at these three
in the past five years.
Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
The truth, though, isn't he.
Speaker 14 (01:27:40):
Yeah, yeah, I know he is though he is? He
hands up?
Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
All right, man up, man, you got it. Dang, Matt.
You didn't think you were gonna get super a Spanish
Super Cup of smack in the in the this segment,
did you? I mean, I gotta be brually on its.
Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
I tuned out as soon it's just start talking about it.
Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
It's a great game, Barcelona on a beating Real Madrid
five to two in the Superco bad d Espanya. You
watch all of it? I did. It was on during
one of the games on Saturday. No, it's on Saturday
or Sunday, sorry, Sunday. All right? The news at noon.
Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
It's up next eleven fifty eight on Sports Talk seven nine.
Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve oh.
Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
Two and eight down.
Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
What's happening in lunch timers. Good afternoon to you, and
welcome to the third hour of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven aunty where every day,
at this time or thereabouts, we give you the main
headlines of the day and for that, we present to
you the News at noon.
Speaker 16 (01:28:45):
All right, folks, it's the News at noon here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. You hope you're stay at a
warm out there. Make sure you buddle up and wear
your scarves. We might have a hard freeze coming in
this Monday. More on that with weather coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
Let's go and start of the Texans taking all the
Kansas City Chiefs this weekend. But one piece of the
team will not be there, Head coach Tamiko Orions cutting
Deontay Johnson. Here's what he had to say, very short
and sweet on what happened there.
Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Yeah, with Deontay.
Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
Unfortunately it didn't work out, and you know, we're all
tim the Chiefs didn't wish well, didn't say he's a
good guy. He just like man Matt editorialized something here
real quick. Yes, you get the music up right now.
Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
There were a lot of people there on Twitter that
were covered.
Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
The team has said this is no surprise.
Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Wait a minute, no one said anything about him having
a meltdown after the game on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
So when we.
Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Found out that Deontay Johnson was released, it was a surprise,
or unless you didn't want to report it because you
didn't want to get in the back races of Hannah,
help me out with that.
Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Or you know sometimes man, Man, you've seen stuff in
the in the locker room that you feel stays there
and you don't want to go and run with the
specific specifics as well. But that's not proper clearance.
Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
Then don't tell me it wasn't a surprise, like you
knew it all the way. Well, then if you knew
it all the way, then you report it. But if
you didn't know it or you didn't want to report it,
don't know the stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
That gets reported and it wasn't a surprise.
Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Come on, I don't want to say I'm not surprised
by this. There's lots stuff I know right now in
my head that I cannot.
Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Report, but I'm not gonna brag him to you.
Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Well I was surprised, but okay, man, a little bit,
a little, a little, a little fake. I told you
so's when there was no need for I told you so.
Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
That's all. Sorry, who hurt you, Matt? You are right?
Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
No, I just think that false bravado is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
I don't even know who you're talking about or but
there there was some reporting from I think DJ B
Enemy and Aaron Wilson and others about yes, Deontay Johnson
and if you look at his body language actually as well,
a lot of the times where he wasn't getting the ball,
you could just look very defeated, not looking good, hanging
(01:31:04):
his you know, just the body language not good. And
clearly Texans said it wasn't worth it. One catch for
twelve yards on Saturday for the Texans, they will be
without his services this weekend up at Arrowhead. What services?
He didn't do anything? One catch for twelve yards? Something
too right? I think it was? That was that on Saturday?
(01:31:26):
I can't remember. Yeah, well, good for him.
Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
Yeah, I mean everybody else is smoking cigars, you know
what fake it smoke a cigar.
Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
Smoking myndpac mine. Yeah, all right, Matt, let's keep it going.
But we will stick with the Houston Texans. C. J. Stroud,
also speaking to the media yesterday, said it should help
to be familiar with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 17 (01:31:51):
Yeah, you definitely got to go back and you know,
see you know things that worked, things that didn't work,
you know, and I think I definitely hope playing them
so recently, but you know, they also have that advantage
as well, so you know, we got to be able
to you know, still have a new game plan and
do things that are you know, new, And yeah, it
definitely does help to see a familiar team again and
(01:32:13):
you know, they're you know, they do a lot of
great things, and you know, we didn't really see a
whole bunch of it, I think of the exotic things,
so you know, I wouldn't be surprised if that stuff
started to show up. So yeah, but it definitely does
help that we've seen them not too not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Yeah, I mean it was it was an important game
for them. They wanted us solidify home field throughout the AFC.
Texans came in as a team that was trying to
wrap up an AFC South championship. I mean, yeah, I
do think you take some things away from that game.
Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Yeah. I also think a good point by him that
Steve Spagnolo probably has a few things in his back
pocket that he didn't bring out in that game that
he might And we talked with Sam McDowell earlier the
Kansas City Star columnists about the Chiefs game as well,
and he said what we asked him, basically, what do
you expect he said, blitzing, blitzing and a lot of blitzing,
and it's going to be exotic. That's what Steve Spagnolo
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is known for what he does. Going to try to
confuse matters at the line of scrimmage, who's coming, who's not.
So the offensive line is going to have to be
prepared for that and a loud environment in Arrowhead this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
Matt, speaking of Steve spagnol, I believe he interviewed for
the Jets job, but I correct on that today.
Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Yes, let me get your We've never really talked about this.
Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Do you get bothered by the fact that coordinators who
are still coaching talked about other jobs. You think it
takes away from them? I say no, I.
Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
Think it would probably take more away.
Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
For instance, if Andy, if I was Andy Reid's defensive
coordinator and Andy Reid's have gone for jobs and Andy Reid said, no,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
You talking to New York, that would probably bother me
more because.
Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
I'd be like, man, I want to talk to them,
or at least if you can do the zoom call,
you get out of the way and at least you
know how they feel about you and they say Hey,
when our season's over, we'll get back to you.
Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Okay, I'll throw a question at you that I don't
know if either no, the answer to is it easier
to prepare for opponents in the NFL in twenty two,
twenty four and five, because you have, like back in
the day, you'd have to go back to the tape,
you'd have to dig out of tape, you'd have to
get on the VCR like everything. I'm sure there's a
database that the Chiefs have third and three every every
(01:34:12):
Texans third and short play this year. Boom, you click it.
It's all there. So can you can you spend less
time preparing so you have more time to do things
like like job interviews.
Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
The technology and the research and the video stabs have
gone on probably three hundred percent in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Yeah, so everything's up for up to a t So
how much Let me tell you. I'll give you an
example of the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
When Rockets will play a game like we play Sacramento tomorrow,
ninety percent of the tape is cut up already for
the game.
Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Yeah, maybe even one hundred percent. I mean they're gonna
get out, we're gonna got on the plane.
Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Then I go to Sacramento, uh, and these guys will
have everything they possibly want and locked and loaded in
for preparing for the Kings, including the previous matchup and
the last time the Kings played a game. So yeah, yeah, video,
the dollars and hours spent on deal preparation, at least
for coaches, has gone on. Does it still go in
one ear and out the other for most players? I
still say yes, But at least they're fully prepared in
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this show all different angles. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
If it's not eating into Steve Spagnolo's preparation time, it's fine.
If it is, then then maybe it is a problem.
And also depends on how well prepared does he need
to be.
Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
For the Jets job. How serious of a candidate is
for the Jets job. I mean, is he making like
a you.
Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Know, three hundred page dossier for what he would do
as Jets head coach? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Well, if you're going for a head coaching job, even
if it's an introductory conversation, you've already got your coaching
bible already typed.
Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
Up and written.
Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
That's true, but you're not like, but you got to
delete Aaron Rodgers' name out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
Say that again, you got to delete Aaron Rodgers's name
out of it, But I mean you you have that
in your desk drawer.
Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Are ready to go? How do I prepare? How do
I show a team that I'm ready to be a
head coach?
Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
Oh my god? Yeah, I would say it probably doesn't
eat into his preparation time, would agree with you. Bobby
Slow still though, till after they're out of the playoffs, right,
he has not interviewed with the Jets, but he's like
on the hook.
Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Yeah, And if you're the Jets, what do you I mean,
you can wait until everybody's done. You just can't. It's
things aren't going to change. The drafts, not until April
for Range, she doesn't kick for come a couple months.
Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
You can wait, Yeah, unless you feel like the top
candidate's gonna get snapped up. Who aren't even only Vrabel's
been hired, and that was he was tailor made for
the Patriots. So yeah, especially being the next Patriot. Yeah,
all right, let's keep it moving along. Matt with the
news at noon. Your Houston Rockets taking on the Denver
Nuggets tonight. It's the joker versus Baby Joker. Denver Nuggets
(01:36:35):
eight minus one and a half point favorites in this one.
That shows a lot of respect to be for the
Houston Rockets. That means on a neutral court, the Rockets
would be favored over the Nuggets, who have been surging
with four straight wins. Yeah, Rockets have been playing better
on the road.
Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Rockets were here in town relaxing, while the Nuggets last
night wearing Dallas playing the Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
So well, look, we're all by product of back to backs.
Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
I would think tomorrow night, even though the Rockets are
a significantly better team than the Sacramento Kings, the King
is gonna be probably nicely favored because.
Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
The Rockets nambait.
Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
And I know, geography, you can't win every time, but
Denver to Sacramento is an over two hour flight. I
mean it's not like it's right around the corner, and
so you know, yeah, teams that are off of back to.
Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
Backs are automatically gonna lose some points. I think that's
what Denver's is by product of.
Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
Yeah, I'm just kind of this is a fully healthy
Denver Nuggets squad, right, They got Jokichen Murray and Michael
Porter junior Aaron Gordon Russell Westbrook's been in the starting
lineup and the Rockets only one and a half point dogs.
That's some respect from the Las Vegas and by the way,
extra juice on the Rocket side. So that's some real
respect there for the Houston Rockets tonight in Denver. One
(01:37:51):
last note.
Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Matt Justin Verlander, on his introductory press conference for the
San Francisco Giants, talked about no hard feelings he Houston,
but most importantly it was on Zoom and well somebody
had left their mic on during the Zoom meeting.
Speaker 9 (01:38:06):
And have always admired what that's the way that he
takes care of.
Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Name.
Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
If you guys can just all all the media on here,
if you can.
Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
Just meet yourselves, please, I'll change it all right, I'll
change it.
Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
M the name on that on the Zoom call, it said,
I believe it said. Kate said, yes, yeah, that's just
a humble breaks what that is.
Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
I wasn't married to a supermodel, he said.
Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
If you don't know, now you know, if you forget,
I'm here to remind you, love me, remind you. I
mean what an Ald timer life. I mean, there are
very few people I want to change lives with. I
mean I'm had with mine, but I mean, if you
had to flip a life, JV's would be it.
Speaker 5 (01:38:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
A lot of hard work did have to recover from
Tommy John. But probably I'm sure he would tell you
all worth it.
Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Hundreds of millions of dollars, yes, as one of the
sexiest women in the world as his wife. Now he's
the highest paid earning picture of all time of all
time and took a discount of late for fifteen million
dollars this year.
Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
Man, it's life.
Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
Good for him.
Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
He's doing alright.
Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
All right, So if we're hinging Verlander, let me give
you my short list.
Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
We're gonna flip spots with Derek Jeter. We've been through
this before.
Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
David Beckham justin Timberlake, Timberlake. Yeah, I think we.
Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
We literally did a fantasy five of this. I think
I picked Frank Sinatra in one of them. Oh, I
bet nineteen seventy he was doing just fine. Yeah, pre
uncurable diseases.
Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
Yeah, what are these what's what are these things that
you've given for protection?
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Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
What? What are these things?
Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
What are what's the cod.
Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
That's what the old blue eyes was saying about their day.
Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Not necessary, baby, start spreading this news. That's you know what,
that's one of your best lines of the year. I'm
gonna write that one down. That was I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
That is full applause for me, mad. That's pretty good
you So where I get a rewarded from you?
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Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Thing about what's going on in Dallas and I want
to get back to Houston. For a second.
Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Micah Parsons won on a podcast Uh Tuesday, Rossie really
uh distraught over Mike McCarthy being let go in Dallas,
which I'm stunned by. Let me just read this to
you and now it kind of makes a little bit
of sense of why Mike McCarthy probably is going to
(01:42:45):
get stay in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Listen to what he says.
Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
I'm obviously very sad because of the relationship we have
with coach McCarthy and everything he's done for our program,
three straight twelve and five seasons, playoff appearances, and obviously
an unfortunate year due to injuries.
Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
It is devastating.
Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Coach Mike is a great father, a great coach, one
of the most winningest coaches. He's always been good to
us as a unit, coaches, players. Losing a great coach
like Mike hurtz. I mean, that's a lot of praise
for a guy that you come much to that during
the course of the season at all.
Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Well, maybe maybe Mike McCarthy better than I think, Maybe
not better than what Jerry Jones thinks, though.
Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Yeah, it is Mike McCarthy the quinn Ewers of NFL coaches,
good not great.
Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
I said that earlier to uh, well, twelve, three, twelve,
and five seasons is pretty good. No, but NFC championship
games got destroyed in the wild card.
Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
Last year by Green Bay. And sometimes I like him,
I like him more than maybe you do. But I'm
not ready to put him on some sort of mean
He's no Andy Reid, No, not even a Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
Frankly, Uh okay, uh should we go through the list?
Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
All right, let's go let's let's let's not go through
thirty two.
Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Let's go to ten. Let me pull up a ranking.
Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
All right, you want Sean McVay or do you want
Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
All right, let me pull up something from Let's just
go down this list at the Pro Football Network put together.
They have Andy Reid one, Sean McVay. Just tell me
when you start disagreeing, John Harbaugh, Kyle Shanahan, Dan Campbell,
that's five, Tomlin, Jim Harbaugh, Harball's too high, Jim Okay,
(01:44:35):
Matt Leflour Green Bay or Kevin McCarthy. I mean Mike McCarthy,
Mike McCarthy, Matt Leafloura destroyed him in the playoffs on
the road. Yeah, Kevin O'Connor. I'm gonna I'll go with
(01:44:56):
old Florda. That's fine, Kevin O'Connell Vikings.
Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
By the way, there is a lot of nastiness right
now going on in Minnesota with Kevin O'Connell. Dang, where
is Mike McCarthy on this list? Oh my god, I
mean are you having to go to the second page
for that?
Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
This is they have him twenty third behind Kevin Stefanski,
Shane's behind shane'sdikan. No, this is preseason.
Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
Oh well then okay, well then this is yeah, this
is dated. Then we gotta reevaluate this. Then you know
this will be our je will help, We'll do this.
Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
A problem. Demiko Ryan's or Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
Uh, Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
It's got the skin on the wall. Super Bowl Championship,
Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bills. How about this, If we can
have this, we can have this.
Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
Demico Ryan's conversation flip in a millisecond, you get the
Texans of the Super Bowl. He supplants, McCarthy, just win, baby,
It really is about wins. It's not about how good
of a person you are. It's about how many banners
you've got in terms of division championships, in conference titles
and Super Bowl appearances and wins for that matter, and
(01:46:12):
he's got one.
Speaker 3 (01:46:13):
Dangyeah, this this list hates, This list hates Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
Who's Who's a coach you just brought up a second.
Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
Ago, Shane Steichen, Kevin Stefanna, I mean Kevin Sevanski, multiple
time Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2 (01:46:25):
Yeah, he's got Todd Bowles ahead of him.
Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
No, Jonathan Gannett of the Cardinals seven? What this poll?
Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
This, this, this, this survey is no longer valid.
Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Okay, so no love, all right? How about a CB
how about a uh oh no, oh no, did I
get a virus? Now what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
I would put him in the eleven to fifteen, maybe
maybe top maybe between ten and thirteen, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Yeah, I think that starts getting arguable. Certain there's six
to me that are inarguable. The CBS list has him seventeenth,
behind Doug Peterson at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Okay that that yeah, well, yeah, I would say Tim
Peterson has a championship two he does, he does. So
the Cowboys were how about this that the Cowboys were
completely healthy? Are they the NFC East champions? No, I
don't think they're better than the Eagles did Washington in Philadelphia?
(01:47:32):
Would they have taken steps back to what they finished
the year with to not make the playoffs and for
Dallas just to come in and take one of their
two spots? I mean they won seven games without Dak
Prescott uh Man, Dak wins da Dak plays seventeen games,
he wins you ten?
Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Is that about?
Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Probably help me out with that ten. Commanders are twelve
and five, Eagles are fourteen and three, so.
Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
They would have been battling for the last wald card spot,
which would have been what the.
Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
Swept the Cowboys. Maybe you take one of those back,
that's thirteen and four. They're probably still first place.
Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
I don't think Washington was fluky at all this year.
They played really, really good. Now, they did win a
miracle game against Chicago the very last second, so let's
take that one away from them. Maybe they sneak around Washington,
but that'd be it fell off.
Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
It was on win the division anyway, all right, just
something to throw it.
Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
You very rarely get to hear a player speak glowingly
of a coach that just got let go, and obviously
Michael Parson did that, so I was just worthy of reading.
Did get an interesting text or a tweet from a
listener and he sent it to me on DM so
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Want to get give out his name.
Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
But it goes to what we were talking about earlier
in the show ROSSI about there is no slot given
to Bobby Slowik at all in this listener and he's listening,
we love you, can we get someone from and he
mentions Rin Reid or Bonster, Bob's to do a free
resume review for Slowick so that he has a better
(01:49:06):
chance of a head coaching.
Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Job with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
And in Red or Bonster, rob bonser jobs. I think
in Reid is Bonster jobs. Well he's saying, he's saying
either one of them. Maybe that same company didn't Monster
turn into men read.
Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
He could have at least murders are happening all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
How about LinkedIn? Okay, LinkedIn? Do we want to bo?
Do we want to bolster his resume? So Bobby, I mean,
is the Bobby Slowick h just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
I guess I liked what they did and really over
the weekend in that game in Saturday. There were multiple
times where the Chargers were completely bamboozled by what the
Texans were doing after out of certain formations where they
had free runner I mean Joe Mixon had opening lanes,
open lanes where he didn't normally have them. They did
confuse the Chargers multiple times over the weekend, and and
(01:50:00):
they started off three of the first four drives they
threw on first down m Unfortunately one of them was
fumbled by John Metchi. I think the I think the
other two were first downs are close to it.
Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
Yeah all, I'm all. I'm saying this, and I feel
like I'm a broken record on this is that you
don't go from a guy that you were desperately hoping
to hold on to, praying that he doesn't take a
head coaching job, to all of a sudden doll at
the door hit you in the ass. It's the NFL
doesn't work that way, coaches don't work that way, and
I don't think organizations can work that way. You won
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the AFC South, you won a playoff game, you've had,
You've lost two incredible wide receivers. Your offensive line was
a hot mess frankless entire season because I think.
Speaker 3 (01:50:46):
It was neglected.
Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
I mean, what was he who's the greatest? I mean,
would Bill the late Bill Walsh made recipes what do
you come in here?
Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
And all of a sudden reinvented.
Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
The Texans offense to do some things that Bobby Selick
couldn't organize. No, Bobby become predictable at times. Sure, yeah,
but did also did Demiko want Bobby to get conservative
knowing that a big part of the Texans offense, especially
inside the opponent's thirty five yard line, was the fact
that he had one of the best fihical kickers from
distance bring you in guaranteed three points most times.
Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
I think Bobby Sloan is a good offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
I guess we're just not gonna get they They got
four and twenty nine yards against the Chargers, one of
the better defenses in the NFL, and where nobody's gonna
give him credit if they if they's got two hundred
and fifty yards, everybody be talking about Bobby Slowick. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I just I think it's I think it's the same
rationale of the Astros era went from three point twenty
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Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
I would agree.
Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
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Mike McCarthy, Wow, no, no, we'll come on. You don't
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We're in time for that. M Good luck with that.
I don't know.
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M Now you're off tomorrow. I'm off tomorrow because the
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We had a conversation earlier in the show today with
a member of the Kansas City Media and it was
nice to visit with Sam McDowell of the Kansasity Star.
And you think we should play some of that in
the next segment, Rossie, what do you think to kind
of give a little I don't want to paraphrase what.
Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
He said at eight. Yeah it was good stuff. Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
He knows he what he saw this year, and it
was a really good football team that lost two games.
Now the last one doesn't count because they didn't play
any starters, but still fifteen and one. When the games counted,
we're fifteen to one.
Speaker 3 (01:55:26):
Fifteen and one. They got the buy BUYE is huge.
By the way, they win one home game. They're in
the AFC Championship. Yeah, will you win one home game?
You're hosting the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
Yeah, so we're gonna play. We'll play some of that
for you coming up in the next time. It's good
to sometimes get the perspective. And we're gonna check in
with the Sore and Petro on Fridday show. That's that's
the station that calls Ross like three times a week.
Are you on their payroll yet? I wouldn't like to be,
but no, it's not that often. But I appreciate them
always having me on.
Speaker 3 (01:55:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
I mean, you are the Texans insider of Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
I can't be doing that bad of a job. But
maybe it's just because I always say yes.
Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
It's almost like you know we should do We should
actually record you someday and hear you and see how
you do and see how much stuff you make.
Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Oh no, I give more inside information on that show
than I do this one.
Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
So you save yourself for other markets.
Speaker 3 (01:56:16):
I'm just kidding. I don't have any inside information.
Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
Okay, So we're gonna play that conversation with Sam McDuffie
coming up in just a few minutes. McDowell, Sam McDowell.
Sam McDuffie was a Rice player, right, Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Oh Sam mcguffy Wait, yes, that was the running back
that played briefly at Rice in Michigan. Yeah. The Chiefs,
the Trent McDuffie is the Chief's cornerback. That's really good,
heymous Mcduffi's oh the McCall Trent's McDuffie, one of the
finest shadow corners in all of the land. They call
them the mirror it's with a mirror coverage.
Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Do you think when we have people of Irish ascent
that hear our show, they go that's a pretty good in.
Speaker 3 (01:56:57):
Person, or that they're rolling their eyes like do you
if you ever been in London before and heard.
Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
Oh thank you, thank you Cottter McGovern one of the
finest lads and from Limericky is they're always after me,
Lucky Charms. I think Steeves Bagnolo and the Chiefs defense
is really gonna give them a tough time to C. J.
Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
Stroud and those Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
The chieftains from Kansas City are gonna do quite a
fine job licking them with their shelleies.
Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
Are we Devlin sports leader? I guess so. I don't
think they play folk Irish music?
Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
Hunt do they do that? We're on Kidob, give us
a call on Kdob.
Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
I'm looking for the biggest sports in Ireland.
Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
Oh, Gaelic football and Gaelic what's Gaelic handball? Gaelic handball?
That's that's the pick of all of the fourteenth century.
Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
How was that that game you and your dorm mates
played in college? Right?
Speaker 5 (01:57:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (01:57:59):
That?
Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
By the way, I got to speaking of, don't We
were talking about playing spades the other day, had a
couple of people with the rockets game. One person said,
you can absolutely call it a possible and when you're
talking about a number of books you're gonna get and
other other persons that you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
So it's it's right.
Speaker 2 (01:58:16):
I told you it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
One of the people said, yeah, we used to call it.
We used to have a strong four or a week four,
the same thing as a possible. Yeah, exactly the same thing.
So you know, you just never know who's listening to
the show.
Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
I've heard of that rule, mat, but the possible doesn't
fly in the houses I played in. Yeah, we should
have a spades tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:58:40):
I'm good. I like a told jump shake. I haven't
played in I haven't played consistently decades. Let's say you're
a smart you're a good poker player, will take you
to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (01:58:49):
When we're around Christmas. Last time I played that, I
got picked last.
Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Oh so I was kind of remembering like your days
when you were playing pick up basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
No, that's not true. You got to be don't forget.
Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
We had to be a skin and your layers of
fat were all all over the place.
Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
Oh wait, excuse me, that was you. I was six
foot two when I was fourteen. I had a little game.
Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
The only time I didn't worry about showing my belly
was when we were I was in high school. We'd
go to McDonald we'd work at McDonald's so midnight we'd
go play, you know, midnight basketball, like at one o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
I didn't care if people didn't see me at that point.
Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
But yeah, during the daytime, I didn't want anybody to
see him, this gross body.
Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
I always had my secret weapon. I was left handed,
So the first few drives I would act like I
was right handed, and then I would bust out the
left and then that that's when I would dominate. Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
Oh, so you you uh play possible?
Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
You did? You warm up in a different way too, Like, Yeah,
I would always dribble to the right and shoot rooks
with my right hand, and then when the game started,
I'd go lefty on them. So wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
You would shoot the ball with the right hand when
you weren't making very many shots.
Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
So no wonder you were being picked last.
Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
Now that was you.
Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
I was never big glass because I was tall.
Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
If I watched you shoot right handed, you're not making
anything outside of three feet.
Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Why would I want you on my team.
Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
I don't care how tall you are because I can
rebound Matt putbacks. Baby, I can make shots with my
right Okay, It's funny. In the NBA there are still
guys in this league that can't shoot with both hands
even on lamps, like Luke Canardo the Memphis Grizzlies. Not
the get all the minuti here. But he had a
driving layup right side the lane against the Rockets a
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couple of nights ago that he would have had he
had a clear pat to the basket, but he couldn't.
I think a men Thompson came over late and he
couldn't go to the right hand. He goes left, so
he had to pass it to the baseline, went up,
turning the ball over. So went from a free layup
to a turnover because he couldn't use his right hand.
Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
James Harden makes about made about one right handed shot
a week or a month.
Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
Yeah, he goes to your requirement.
Speaker 3 (02:00:40):
He could do adds.
Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
Yeah, it just adds to your uh differ like Outbrin Shinggoon.
I mean I know that he's Yeah. Alpi does both
from about seven or eight feet both.
Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
Hands as well.
Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
By the way, Yeah, good finisher, really good finisher, all right,
seven one three, by the way, we'll talk to you
may don'ki coming up and twelve at one thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
I'm in the wrong times on here.
Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
One thirty for that and then we got to believe
it or not come up a little bit later on
one of the things. Before we get to the interview,
our friends in Dallas are wigging out. You know, these
local TV deal these networks are going a ray rossy.
Yesterday the Rangers announced a digital only package for Rangers baseball.
They don't have an over the air television partner yet, really,
and everybody is flipping the f out because I don't
be able to.
Speaker 3 (02:01:21):
Watch the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Everybody, well, like the nineteen people that care about the
Rangers that are I was gonna say six, but you know,
it does hurt us because when if you have cable
or satellite and you've got the old which is now
FanDuel Sports Southwest, you speak at every Ranger game and
we've lost the Rangers now that you want to watch them,
but if you wanted to watch a baseball game, you
(02:01:44):
you now have lost the Rangers opportunity because they're not
in that cable network anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:01:48):
Now you're doing yourself a favor. Yeah, but Dave Raymond's funny.
I like him. He's a good guy. I do like
Dave Raymond, even though Houston hates him.
Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Houston hates him, but he's got such a self deprecating
sense of humor. It's so it's really really enjoyable. And
I also like watching the Rangers give up five run
leads in the seventh inning of games too.
Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Yeah, we'll miss that all right. We did check in
with Kansas City earlier.
Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
If you did not hear that conversation, we're gonna play
it for you next because it is good stuff getting
you ready for the Chiefs and the Texans. It is
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Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk seven ninety Astros
baseball list. Sam McDowell was a guest of the Matt
Thomas Your earlier with Ross, and we visited with him.
He's a columnist for the Kansasy Star covers the Chiefs
among all the teams in the area, and I asked
him about this long layoff and how big of a factor,
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if it's even a factor, it would be for the Chiefs.
They have not played the starters have in several weeks.
Speaker 9 (02:04:16):
At some point there is too long of a layoff, right,
I mean, you couldn't take two months off and expect
the guys to be fresh. So there is a point
where it becomes too much.
Speaker 5 (02:04:23):
I mean.
Speaker 9 (02:04:24):
But over Andy Reid's history, and this is what would
have guided my decision had I been Andy Reid. He
performs extremely well when his guys get time off, and
he's even better when he's the only team with time off.
So over his career, Andy Reid is twenty nine to
three when he's the only team operating with.
Speaker 3 (02:04:42):
A bye week.
Speaker 9 (02:04:43):
Now, obviously this is two bye weeks essentially, when you
give the starters week eighteen off and then they have
the natural buy and the playoffs that they earn with
the number one seed, and so that's where the equation
potentially becomes a little different. But the Chiefs did switch
up practices a little bit. They actually played ones against ones,
which they had not hunt since training camps. So there's
some you know, at least attempt to try and replicate
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what the speed of the playoff game will be like.
But yeah, I mean, I think regardless of what happens
in this game, people will use it as a sample
for whether or not it worked, even if maybe the
correlation doesn't necessarily equal the causation of the result.
Speaker 2 (02:05:19):
Among players, skill position players that we know and recognize,
who was beat up during this time off and who's
getting the most recovery. And again a number one question
would be is how is Pat feeling going to this game.
I'm sure practice has been light now starting to ramp
up in the last couple of days.
Speaker 9 (02:05:36):
Yeah, I mean, Patrick's ankle was obviously an issue earlier
in the season, actually you know, kind of late in
the season.
Speaker 3 (02:05:41):
But he's fine.
Speaker 9 (02:05:43):
I mean, he looks fine at practice. The guys that
I think really benefit from this are one, Chris Jones
missed the last two games now, the last game of
the season against the Texans, now against the Steelers, sorry versus,
and then against the Broncos. Now, part of the reason
he missed the Broncos just be that game didn't mean anything.
I think he would have pushed it had the Chiefs
needed him. But certainly that's a guy who can take
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advantage of a buye. The other guy who hasn't been
heard that can take advantage of it is Travis kelce
I mean, it's no secret that Travis Kelcey is on
the older side. He's thirty four years old, and a
year ago it made a statement in the locker room
when Travis Kelcey voluntarily took the last game off to
end his streak of consecutive one thousand yard seasons. But
he looked an entirely different player once the postseason arrived
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because of that week off. So I think you'll see
a different Travis Kelcey, even if it's more minimally so
than the drastic difference we saw from him in the postseason.
I think he's really the guy that could benefit from
this twenty four day layoff that they've got.
Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
What about in the backfield, Sam we saw last year
Andy Reid really rely on Isaiah Pacheco to be the
bell cow. How do you think things shake out this
year as the playoffs coming along for the Chiefs.
Speaker 9 (02:06:53):
Yeah, I mean I think you know, we saw a
lot of Kremehnt in the last matchup, particularly to try
and close out that game and prevent the Textans from
getting the ball back late in the fourth quarter. And
Cream Hunt's going to be part of the game plan.
And there's some similarities with the way they run, you know,
as far as they both don't shy away from contact.
But I think that's deceptive because I do think they
are different runners. You know, Cream Hunt is a guy
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that does not get explosive runs, but he does not
lose yardage. You know, he tends to fall forward. When
you look at success rate and rushing in terms of
getting four yards on first down and getting you know,
two thirds of the way there on second down, Cream
Hunt has a very high success rate, even though his
yards per carry isn't great. Well, that's a product of
the fact that he does not lose yardage. And I
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think when you're playing against a team like the Texans
that has the third best run defense in terms of
DVOA in the league. I think that's a really important
thing to have. So I anticipate that kream Hunt's going
to be every bit as part of this game plan.
Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
As I say, I Pa check Oh Will.
Speaker 3 (02:07:50):
Sam mcdal with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
let's just flip to the defensive side and how it
fits against Houston as far as what do you think
you saw in the first matchup and the Texans, whose
offense has been really bad all season long, it's coming
off literally their best performance of the year.
Speaker 9 (02:08:08):
Saw a lot of blitzing and if you know Steve Spagnola,
well the Chiefs defensive coordinator, that's not going to change,
and particularly in this matchup. I mean, as you mentioned,
the Texans offense hasn't been great this year. Well, the
primary reason hasn't been great because I haven't been able
to protect for CJ. Stroud and he's not performed well
when he faces extra rushers. And that's not all on him.
(02:08:28):
It's the fact that they haven't picked up blitz as well.
But I think some of that I you know, I'm
sure the Texans coach is diagnosed it in the offseason.
They're probably going to try and educate him better on
how to get his linemen better situated for blitzes and
oncoming extra rushers. But the fact is right now in
the playoffs, they haven't performed well against the blitz all season,
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and that's a matchup that I certainly anticipate that the
Chiefs will try to exploit regularly.
Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
Sam, I want to ask you about and we had
a guests down from Kansas City earlier this year when
the two teams met during the regular season, a lot
of close games, a lot of fortuitous bounces, the field
goal blocked, the field goal made, the call made late.
Your interpretation of that as slippage or just creative veteran
teams finding a different way to win every single week.
Speaker 3 (02:09:17):
How did you see it.
Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
As the team was not putting away teams like many
folks thought are on the league they should have.
Speaker 9 (02:09:23):
Yeah, well, I think it can be both. You know,
I don't think that this team, you know, the starters
went fifteen and one. I don't think this was the
quality of a fifteen and one team. But I do
think that there's something to the fact that they don't
blank in the moment. And you know, you mentioned a
couple of examples. They won six games on the final
snap of the game this year, and that does not
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include the game that I'm sure a lot of people
watched against the Raiders on Black Friday, where it was
technically the second to last snap that the Raiders fumbled
and then they melted on the last snap. That's seven
of those fifteen wins that they've got this year.
Speaker 2 (02:09:56):
So I think, you.
Speaker 9 (02:09:58):
Know, it's totally reasonable that a lot of people are
looking at this Chiefs team is more vulnerable than they
have been in the past, because they have been vulnerable.
Some of those games that I'm talking about came against
the Panthers, they came against the Raiders, I mean, they
came in overtime, and so they came against a non
playoff Bengals team before the Bengals had figured it out late.
Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
In the season.
Speaker 9 (02:10:17):
So yeah, I definitely think that the Chiefs are susceptible.
I mean, they've proven that they've at least can make
it a game with anybody, and the Texans are certainly
not just anybody. They're a playoff team, they're a division champion.
There's a reason that they're here. They've got a terrific defense,
so I know, the line is what it is, the
spread is what it is. But it would not surprise
me at all if the Texans could, you know, be
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very competitive with the Chiefs and make it interesting in
the fourth quarter because I've seen that all year.
Speaker 2 (02:10:43):
Final question, is there anybody that you have spent time
looking at this year that needs to have a better
postseason than they had during a regular season. I know
you brought up Travis and you know, Ages maybe starting
to work off him a little bit, But is there
anybody else that you're like, you know what, if this
team's really going to three peat, these players have got
a step up and maybe do more than what they did.
Maybe you saw them during the course of the seventeen
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game schedule.
Speaker 5 (02:11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Sure.
Speaker 9 (02:11:06):
So it's kind of a TBD answer because my answer
is the left tackle and I'm not exactly sure who's
going to play left tackle. I think it'll be the
matchup that the Texans saw last time they played at Arrowhead,
you know, last month, which is having Joe Tooney, an
All Pro guard, play tackle, in which case your guard
replacement for him, Mike Caliendo has got to step up
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because he did not play well against the Texans and
the Texans have a terrific front and so they've got
to protect Patrick Mahomes better than they did in that
first matchup. Now the other option that they have, and
the reason I said it's uncertain who's going to play
left tackle is because they signed DJ Humphries late in
the season after he'd been you know, recovering from a
knee injury. He played three quarters against the Chargers and
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then he got hurt that he missed three weeks, and
then he played the finale against the Broncos while all
the rest of the starters set as they're trying to
evaluate him and he's not playing with Patrick Mahomes, but
he's still playing for a starting job. So Andy Reid
has been coy so far this week on who's going
to have that starting job at left tackle. But however
that shakes out, it's going to shake up the left
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side of their offensive line. And you guys know better
than I do, the way the Texans can get after
the passers. So that's absolutely gonna be key, not just
against the Texans, but whoever the Chiefs play in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (02:12:21):
Good perspective there from Kansas City Star and the Chiefs
media up there in Casey again. Temperatures expected to be
basically twenty four to twenty five degrees. Colest game I
ever been to Ross I think was a Dallas Cowboy Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (02:12:38):
Eagle playoff game.
Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
This had to have been since when the Oilers left
and before the Texan started. It's gotta be like late
nineteen ninety's. It was like fifteen degrees at kickoff.
Speaker 3 (02:12:48):
Yeah, it'd been like nineteen ninety eight or nineteenninety nine.
It was terrible. Wow. Okay, sounds terrible saying sounds, but
you know some people will live for that stuff. They
just do. Like Buffalo fan can't have it cold enough,
you know what I mean? Uh? Well, yeah, I guess
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that's what some of the cheese fans thought. And then
a bunch of them got frostbite and lost their fingers
and toes. Oh man, we didn't ask as Sam McDonald
if he had all his fingers and toes. No, hopefully
he does. Probably the warm press box HM.
Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
Arrowhead Stadium. They have some corporate name on it that
I don't even know how you pronounce. It's not even oh,
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:13:36):
It's just Arrowhead. It's always mile high stadium. I don't
care what field it is at Mile High Stadium, it's
myle High Stadium at Aarohead Stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:13:43):
That's right, all right, final hour the show will feature
Emai Doka in thirty minutes, believe it or not. In
fifty and right now, Ross is here to get you
to that final hour.
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It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on here in
Denver where the Rockets and Nuggets are going to play tonight.
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We'll have it for you.
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I think.
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Yeah, the information good for me to have.
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Whoops, well, it would be good for me. I'm calling
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Yeah, I'm on the I'm a cream post. I'd like
to What's what's happening tonight? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:15:14):
Is there Long Horn basketball?
Speaker 3 (02:15:17):
Who y'all playing?
Speaker 5 (02:15:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:15:21):
You have been rough checked out on Texas basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
I haven't checked out. It's just been everything's going on.
I still want to watch. I'm still fan. I caught
some of the game against Auburn that was bad.
Speaker 4 (02:15:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
Yeah, tonight it's UT at Oklahoma on seven ninety, which
means the Rockets go over to k t r H.
Speaker 3 (02:15:37):
That's right. You know you gotta bump, you gotta bump
that little basketball squad for them Longhorns. Maddie, Well, it's.
Speaker 2 (02:15:42):
A question of putting the rockets. Are the Longhorns on
a nice signal? Or putting on the and you want
to put the rockets in the blow church?
Speaker 3 (02:15:50):
You go, bro rockets blow torches? Which you go with
Mark Levin. Fans aren't gonna be happy?
Speaker 2 (02:15:55):
Oh no, will you be taking some of those calls?
I think I don't know, I not. I don't think
Mark Lemn's on our station anymore. I think it's Michael
Berry at night.
Speaker 3 (02:16:04):
Oh, I have no idea. Yeah, Texas at ou, I'm
at the lock in two and a half.
Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
That is correct, by way, I'm not checked. I want
to check this real quick. I've not looked at the
uh the Lions for the NFL playoff games. Oh, candasitting
owut to eight and a half long words have lost
three games in a row. Well, we're not worried about that.
That'll include our Texas basketball talk for the day. Chiefs
now eight and a half point favorites over the Texans. Rossie,
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how we feel if we wanted to go to the
air it went back up date and a half. Wit
baked that back date and a half. Yea, give me that.
Now we'll make our official predictions on Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:16:43):
Okay, now my good feeling yesterday I said two and
a half because seven and a half, because you wanted
me to have the current line. So can I switch
you back? I'm going to mend it.
Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
You can change it.
Speaker 3 (02:16:52):
Yeah, that's fine. Nice. Well I actually no, you can't
change it once you bet it.
Speaker 5 (02:16:56):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:16:59):
I would have waited till the end of the week.
It's true, Lions are up to nine and a half
point favorites over the Commanders. They just must think that
the Commanders think can't stay point for point with Detroit. No,
and I you know, well, like I said, we'll make
our final numbers. Rams are a six and a half
point underdog at Philadelphia. Baltimore a one point favorite at
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home again excuse me, Buffalo one point favorite at home
against the rate.
Speaker 3 (02:17:27):
That line went back to it opened up Buffalo minus one,
swung to the Ravens minus one. Now it's back to Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (02:17:33):
No, it's Baltimore minus one. Oh so Baltimore, okay, Baltimore
minus one. Yeah, I think I did miss miss points.
Speaker 3 (02:17:42):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
That is serious in that situation if you're gonna bet
that game, not that we do a lot of betting
and out.
Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
You just can bet money line in that one, right,
you don't need a damn point. What's the purpose?
Speaker 2 (02:17:54):
They're not gonna tie because you can get a push
yees have a chance at a push. Yeah, all right,
So we just played the conversation Sam mcdoll up in
Kansas City, Samuel, they don't and again, not that meat.
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He decides things, and that's the one thing we gotta continue.
But we have to get a perspective from him that, yeah,
you know, they're available. Because Pat Mahomes is not gonna
be on the show. I'd love to have him on him,
but it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (02:18:25):
And talk about the Texas Tech Red Raiders killing it
in the portal with his money.
Speaker 2 (02:18:30):
Yeah, Kansasity ROSSI has been there, done that. Unless there
is something different from a deficiency standpoint that they didn't
do during the regular season or didn't do in last
year's postason run, they're different today than they were a
year ago.
Speaker 5 (02:18:44):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:18:45):
Okay, So, so father Time has caught up with some guys.
He mentioned Travis Kelsey not going for a thousand yards.
He mentioned that Pat Mahomes. You know, they have had
a variety of games where they haven't looked dominant, and
I think Casey fans kept looking for a supreme down
against opponents and it just wasn't happening. But they also
got some huge road wins this year. If there is
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this a term, ain't scared about anything, it's Kansas City.
They respect. I know for a fact, they have to.
They have to respect what the Texans are doing. They
have to respect that they took Justin Herbert and he
threw more interceptions in one game than he did over
the course of the entire regular season. That says something
about what the Texans did beyond the fact that Herbert
(02:19:29):
had a bad day throwing.
Speaker 3 (02:19:31):
You have to respect Joe Mixon.
Speaker 2 (02:19:33):
You know who is going to be the one in
single coverage against Nico Collins who covers a tight end,
because I think Jolton Schultz, in my opinion, Ross has
to be the second favorite target to go to. I'm
not putting a lot of eggs in the Zamier Hutchinson
basket or Robert Woods or anybody else who may or
might not be playing I just to me or John
Metchi for that matter, this team's If the team's gonna
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pull off the upsite, it's gonna have to be because
Nico Collins gets passed the vendors a couple of times,
the Texans get to pick six force an out of turnovers.
The turnover battle, to me, is everything because from an
offensive standpoint, not only can rossiy Kin Kansas City score
with the best of them, but they can also go
on twelve play seven minute drives and keep your offense
off the field, limiting your opportunities to score, which then
(02:20:18):
puts a lot more pressure on the Texans to score
every time they step on the field. Yeah, I mean
in Kate's Dover.
Speaker 3 (02:20:26):
I know some people is kind of a running joke
with Kate Stover, but he was a good safety valve
for CJ Stress. The game look good.
Speaker 2 (02:20:31):
Yeah, I mean, it's gonna have two tin as you
want to go to. And he's out, he's done. Yeah,
he broke his clavigal so he is out for the year.
And I mean, so you're down.
Speaker 3 (02:20:42):
Okay. Kate Stover certainly not the level of impact of
Digs or Dell, But so yesterday, here's how yesterday worked out?
Speaker 2 (02:20:47):
Practice was I know, report they'll report injuries coming up
in a minute. Alziz Al Scheer did not practice yesterday.
Great Jack Mason didn't but he didn't play in the
last game.
Speaker 3 (02:20:56):
No, but j.
Speaker 2 (02:20:56):
Scruggs is a bad ankle. Robert Woods is a bad hip.
Those are four guys that did not even participate in
practice at the end of the day. Uh. Limited was
the Nico Autry. Uh they rested Nico Collins and Dalton
Schultz is battling a little bit of a shoulder issue.
Speaker 3 (02:21:10):
He was limited in participation.
Speaker 2 (02:21:14):
Hmm. I mean there's some pretty decent players you're kind
of counting on now. I remember it's also midweek, so
it's not the end of the world, but today is
really today and tomorrow are the main practice days because
Friday are traveling. Actually tomorrow is really kind of a
lighter work out day. Yeah, tomorrow will be the real
(02:21:34):
full DNP limited to kind of kind of keep eye
on ye So, uh, you know, look, and we've we've
kind of exhausted this question a little bit the last
few days on the show.
Speaker 3 (02:21:49):
What is the terms of a success?
Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
I mean, Kansas City was the favorite going in Kansas City. Yeah,
didn't look sexy at times, but ROSSI when games matter,
they played seven. They played sixteen of their seventeen games.
Speaker 3 (02:22:05):
That they gave a damn about. They went fifteen in
one of those games, and they're back to back Super
Bowl champs.
Speaker 2 (02:22:11):
I mean, I don't want to create a well, we're
Houston and the Texans did so well. I don't want
to create a narrative. Now, what I will tell you
is this again, if your foolish national media saying the
Texans have no chance, that's ridiculous because the Chiefs look
more look human. And I know we mentioned this earlier
this week that I thought we were all crazy, but honestly,
(02:22:33):
I'd rather play the Chiefs and play the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (02:22:36):
Or the Bills. Well maybe not the Bills Ravens certainly.
Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
But the Ravens are a road family in a playoff game.
That means, that means that people around America and people
that watch football respect the hell out of them, and
all by the way, the Texans were embarrassed by them,
you know, less than a month ago.
Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
I still I think the Ravens are winning the Super Bowl.
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (02:22:57):
I have Ravens and Lions, and I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:22:58):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (02:22:59):
I don't think I predict the winner. I just think
the narrative is too strong. I just can't imagine what
Lamar Jackson's life.
Speaker 3 (02:23:09):
Is going to be like.
Speaker 2 (02:23:09):
If he throw, if he can, if he's if he
has a dead playoff game, I think he's he is
super laser focused on willing his team to victor whether
he has to run the ball fifteen times himself. Mm hmm,
because man, I and I don't know. And look, we
watch a fair number of Ravens games. But his zero
to sixty when he takes off, especially against the Texans,
which is a good defense. We saw that case in
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point last week. It was like he was in he
was sprinting ross and everybody else was in slow motion.
Speaker 3 (02:23:38):
He's different, but good too.
Speaker 5 (02:23:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:23:41):
Mahomes great thing.
Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
Is his escapability and his ability to complete a pass
when there is you think no one's around, or you
think he's about to fall down, or he's got to
turn his body twisted and contort it, or he's got
to throw a sidearm pitch like it's a submarine baseball pitcher.
He has the insane knack of getting to the receivers
when there was nothing open. And you know what, Rossie
(02:24:04):
CJ's got a little bit of that too. He does.
Speaker 3 (02:24:06):
He was running a little bit on Saturday. He talked
about it.
Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
And then when that shotgun snap failed in the ball
bounce and he had to go run around and chase
after before throwing the ball up in the air to
get a forty five yard completion or whatever it was.
I mean, that's that's that's Tier one unbelievable. I got
that guy on my team. I'm gonna win type quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:24:28):
Yeah. And Xavier Hutchinson found the right spot in the
field too. You got to give him some credit. Yeah,
Welljay Stroud gave yeah. He I mean, he could have
thrown the ball away, he could have crumbled, he could
have fallen on the ball. He picked the ball up
luckily it had bounced back into his hands. Yeah, made
that huge play. He also had that huge scramble and
then he ran a few more times in that game.
He had six carries for forty two yards. That was
(02:24:50):
an element of the game. He looked good running too.
Speaker 2 (02:24:53):
And I'll give credit to the Texans offensive line. Those
are types of plays when they break down like that.
That lineman tend to go up field to go block yea,
because they think their quarterback's gonna run. You could have
very easily had an ineligible receiver downfield play yeah, but
they also had I didn't think looking back on it,
the offensive line wasn't great. Bobby slock did a good
(02:25:14):
job with some quick hit pass stuff to where the
pressure was gonna get there, but they didn't. They didn't
have the time because of the scheming and because of
the run game too.
Speaker 3 (02:25:23):
I need you to apologize.
Speaker 2 (02:25:24):
You said something nice about Bobby slogan and Houston wants
no part of that.
Speaker 3 (02:25:27):
Bobby slug did a good job this past weekend for
the Houston Texans. You deal with it, Houston, one point fifteen.
Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
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Speaker 6 (02:27:01):
Viial It's the Mat Thomas Show with Ross on Sports
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Speaker 3 (02:27:09):
A couple of quick.
Speaker 2 (02:27:10):
Texas notes from practice today as he's alsha here wordens
he is back today, Juice Scrugs back, Shack Mason back,
Robert Woods and attendance doesn't mean if he'd necessarily practice.
But this is from Jonathan Alexander of the Chronicle about
five minutes from now.
Speaker 4 (02:27:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:27:27):
Main football story today, obviously, besides getting ready for the
Texans game against Jeeves, is that uh, Ross's favorite longhorn
of all time, quin Yours has declared for the NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (02:27:39):
Uh No, let's see where would I put him? No, yes,
he has. He has declared. He's not my favorite quarterback
of an of course, that's Vincent Paul Young Jr. Over
Major apples White what It's not even close.
Speaker 2 (02:27:52):
I'm just kidding major second major radial appearances with US.
Speaker 3 (02:27:58):
I don't know, Huh, I'll go with Vince Major cult.
Speaker 2 (02:28:12):
Drod heard James Brown, Tyrone swoops James Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:28:16):
Uh, David ash Sam Ellinger and then Quinn Yours.
Speaker 2 (02:28:21):
No, James Brown. No, I was like twelve and he
was doing that.
Speaker 3 (02:28:24):
I wasn't. Now, uh what else? What Texas Todd what
was it? Todd high school coach Todd? Uh drop drawing
a blank? Texas quarterback.
Speaker 2 (02:28:39):
Todd Dodge. No, no, not on your list?
Speaker 5 (02:28:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:28:43):
Okay, Uh well you know what I'd be were remiss
if I didn't mention Woodland's legend Chance Mock as well.
Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Chance Mock. Yeah, Chance is out there too. He's on
those Twitter streets loving his horns.
Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (02:28:58):
This is a case in point where once again Twitter
again giving you stuff to put out there just so
people can get clicks.
Speaker 3 (02:29:06):
There.
Speaker 2 (02:29:06):
Obviously was no six million dollar offer. I thought you
were talking about Chris Gordy. Oh god, wow, where did
that come from.
Speaker 3 (02:29:14):
He's still holding onto the quinn yours is going to
come back? Let it go, gordyde Yeah, he's.
Speaker 2 (02:29:21):
Got an agent, his name is.
Speaker 3 (02:29:22):
He's not gonna come back. And Pete Damils mentioned his agent,
Ron Slavin.
Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
Yeah, he's not coming back. So Gordy, we get you know.
I thought he was our it was our college football guru.
I'm tweeting Gordy right now, sign a NFL agent.
Speaker 3 (02:29:38):
You're done. You can't, you can't, You're done. Well, Gordy's
trying to I'm trying to see if it's an I
L agent or if it's in his NFL agent. Maybe
Gordy's got sources. Yeah he might, but I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:29:50):
Okay, So if it's ANFL agent, he's done. So the
NIL stuff was out there was erroneous. Uh and oh
look I'm getting Chance Mock tweets, multiple Chance Mock tweets.
Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
Now one's from his brother. That's expected. I mentioned it
before I even saw your tweet.
Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
Is there internal fighting with you, ut brethren? No, that's fine.
Trevor Mack, friend of the show, Chance Mack's brother.
Speaker 3 (02:30:18):
Yeah. We we love the mox.
Speaker 2 (02:30:20):
We we I mean, can't get enough of the mox
or Mock Radio seven nineties, Mock for Life, Mock for life. Okay,
he's gonna get My guest is unless he has the
most amazing combining, which he very well could. I mean,
he's gonna go get some professional quarterback coaching. He's gonna
have a personal workout. Guy, he's going to he's gonna
work on us forty times. He's you know, obviously he's
(02:30:42):
a smart guy. And but there are just gonna be
some things that are limited to him. But I think
he's gonna find himself. He should be thinking how Coult
McCoy felt when he was leaving the University of Texas. Right,
if you you carve your way into an NFL camp,
make a couple of throws, make a couple of starts
here and there, you can you can create a nice
seven or eight nine year career. Being his backup quarterback
(02:31:03):
makes seven million dollars. Call today, it's time wishing him
the best. I mean, my philosophy was it was he
was either going to transfer again or he was goi