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Speaker 2: That's sometimes painful Rockets game, but it was never lost
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He's a He's a C minus texture to begin with,
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you go, you get dropped the grade from like a
C minus with DMUs.
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I'm good with that.
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at sports mt Rockets. Last night a late game, one
twenty five to one zero five was the final score.
A lot of things are really excellent. Fifty eight percent
from the floor for the Rockets, forty five percent from three,
they only go to the free throw on eleven times,
they make nine of them. You get six different players
in double figures. Kevin Durant only has to score eighteen
and you win by twenty Jabari Smith with thirty one
last night, and men Thompson was perfect from the floor
eight of eight for twenty points. There's only on one
thing that kind of made you crabby. Twenty seven turnovers,
nine in the first quarter. So if you take the
nine turnovers they had in the fourth quarter of the
game against the Knicks on Saturday, add the nine that
they had in the first goal, they had eighteen turnovers
in two quarters, finished with twenty seven. That turned into
thirty four points for the Jazz last night. Now, I'll
say this, if the Rockets would not have turned it
over twenty seven times, I don't know, maybe half of
that thirteen or fourteen, they might have won the game
by thirty five points. Because the Jazz are terrible thirty
seven percent from the floor. They were eight of forty
four from three, and one of the guys doing most
of the dam whage was the guy most of you
don't even know who he is, Bryce Sens the ball
had four threes in his thirty one minutes of play.
Speaker 3: Rockets needed that one last night, neither the blowut.
Speaker 2: He hadn't had a blowout probably in amount a month
or so, not that blowouts are on regular in the NBA,
but sometimes it do happen, and last night it did
happen for the Rockets. But dang, twenty seven turnovers a
season high, and yet the Astros are the Astros. The
Rockets do in the game by twenty points. So with
that being said, I don't know how much that's going
to push the needle of our sports talk window today.
Speaker 3: It didn't help. The game was at eight thirty last night.
Speaker 2: It didn't help, but it was the Utah Jazz, and
it didn't help that the game was a blot. But
if you're a Rocket fan and like to watch everything
and breathe and live and to do everything Rocket related,
you did, generally speaking, enjoy the experience of your team
shooting nearly sixty percent from the floor. So that can
be a topic of conversation today. Also coming up today
at the NFL Combine at eleven o'clock, Nick Cassario's going
to speak now. I have attempted a cup through a
few channels to try to get some sort of live
coverage of it. I don't think that's going to happen,
but I have been told through Texans PR that maybe
there'll be an audio feed sent to us when it's
all said and done, so it as soon as that
comes down, I'll be happy to play a few cuts
throughout the course of the show about that. Honestly, ninety
nine percent of the conversation when it comes to what
Nick Casseiro should be saying at the combine in Indianapolis,
it should be about Texans needs offensive line, running back,
maybe another wide receiver, maybe it's an additional help in
the secondary. Look, it's a good football team, anybody's arguing that,
but it needs to be a great football team. Great
football teams go to AFC championship games, Great football teams
reach the Super Bowl. Great football teams don't get stopped
after the Division A round. And that's what we have
been accustomed to. You have had for a better part. Now,
there was some lean years, obviously the last handful of years.
But when CJS and CJ has been here, it's been good.
Three straight division championships. Dimiko Ryan's got the team in
the right path. But you're still good. You want to
be great. Is there anything in your life? Think about
this for a second, and this could be something that
doesn't have anything to do with sports. Is there anything
in your life that is has just been good but
never been great. That's kind of a uh, isn't that
a question John Than, a therapist would ask. I'll just say,
you got a real deep I did. I didn't mean
to get all deep on here, but that's what the
Texans are. The Rockets now, it's been thirty years, we're great.
Great for two years in a row, the Astros two
times in the last ten years. We're the greatest, the
Rockets to thirty years ago. For two straight years, we're
the greatest. If you're a Texas football fan, you know
what a national championships all about. It's been There's a
lot of things in our life. I feel like I'm
Joel Olstein here for a second. There's a lot of
things in your life that are good. What can be
done to be great?
Speaker 3: And that's what I would ask for Nick Asio.
Speaker 2: Now, what I'm a definitely afraid is if I was
to ask that question to Nick if I was in Indianapolis today,
it'd be answered being, oh, you know, we're trying to
find the best guys for the best team to do.
I mean, just a lot of that goofy ass words
salid he go through, but that should be what ninety
nine percent of the conversation should be for Casario.
Speaker 3: To the folks in Indy, there will be a seed.
There will be c J. Strod questions.
Speaker 2: Now, the question will be, how do you pose You
don't go to a general manager and you say, excuse me,
general manager, are you shopping c J. Shrownd Because even
if he was, which I believe they're not, but I
don't have firm one hundred percent assurances of that. But
even if they were to shop he was, he sure
as hell wouldn't tell you in the middle of a
media scrum at the combine. Because the best trades in sports,
typically with the exception of the Luca Dontas trade from
the Mavericks of the Lakers, are dead went behind closed
doors and you know nothing about them. My belief again,
and I've been you know, even on the Texans Insider.
I think it would be organizational suicide if you try
to trade CJ. Stroud neon trade Davis Mills. Okay, I'll
listen to that, although again I don't know if I'm
big on that either.
Speaker 3: Knowing that maybe c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud is not going to rehabilitate himself in those two
playoff games against Pittsburgh and New England. But I'll be
curious if we can get the audio that matches up
with the question to the answer of how anybody that's
in Indianapolis would phrase it to say, are you here's
what you guess what you would do as you would say,
are you one hundred percent behind CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud?
Speaker 2: And then of course his answer would be, of course
one hundred percent behind CJ. Stroud, He's our quarterback. We
wouldn't have won all the playoff games. We wouldn't want
all the games that we did and got after that
zero to three starting came back and won without the
assistance of c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud. I mean, you could do it that way.
Speaker 2: So I'd be curious see what goes on that Astros
to play the Mets today in spring training action.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: In the past, we have jumped in a little live
list to kind of see what's going on. But the
problem is when we've done that, people think the game
is on, and then I turn it off and I
pulled away, and then people get mad at because if
you're an Astro fan, you want to hear it. So
I can't even do that today. I was thinking about
this morning. When I was waking up, I was like,
should we do a live listening? But then it just
pisses people off, So we will give you any relevant details.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, i'll give you the lineup
card today for it. It's interesting.
Speaker 2: There's somebody playing in center field that we had kind
of heard that might be a possibilities.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you about that coming up on the show today.
Speaker 2: NFL Combine Rockets and I need my Cougar fans to
call me today because, frankly, as I was calling the
Rockets game last night, I didn't have a chance to
watch the game between the Cougars and the Jayhawks. I
obviously saw the highlights, and obviously I'm staring at the
box score right now, and that wasn't a pretty thing.
Speaker 3: So, yikes, did you watch anyth game?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm looking at the box score. Just said
you are, now, don't look at the box score. I
didn't know it was as bad though.
Speaker 2: It's Kansas, it's Allen Field House. I know that, Natty
I know, and Natie went up there on Saturday and
beat them like a drama.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 2: But the murderers row lineup of three games Iowa State, Arizona,
and Kansas. Unfortunately did not deem good for any of
the three games with the Cougars. But if Calvin Sampson's
feeling okay, I'm feeling okay.
Speaker 3: But it's strange.
Speaker 2: We don't lose three games very much in a season,
much less in a row, and that's exactly, unfortunately what
the Cougars did last night. So if you want to
give me your if you happen to watch the game,
I wanna give me a thought or two about what
you saw last night. Uh, you'll be at my unofficial
analysts because again, I was busy.
Speaker 3: Working with the Rockets last night against Utah.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety It
is me, myself and I Jonathan's along the way, and
Gordy's gonna come in and say hello Forrest as well
for a little bit throughout the course of the show.
So if you want to join us, you may do
so at seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety ten eighteen.
Speaker 2: Our buddy Gordy's gonna hang out with us as uh
Ross is still suppering with the flu. If I don't
like you. I'm wishing the flu on you.
Speaker 3: Thankfully. I like Gordy a lot.
Speaker 9: The was few friends I've had that like, Hey, I
got the flu shot and then a few days later
got sick.
Speaker 3: So why do we get the flu shot?
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't have the answer to that
to you, because I typically get it. But there's been
years where I've forgotten to get it and it hasn't
affected me one way or the other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just stay healthy.
Speaker 9: Each take your vitamins, say your prayers, load up on
vitamin C.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's right. Hi, great hydrate all right.
So I brought up in the first seme Gordy Rockets
win last night comfortably, despite the fact they kept turning
the ball over left and right, which is fine, it is.
Speaker 3: What it is.
Speaker 2: Could love to let big leads slip away, don't they.
Well they didn't let this thing slip too bad. But
in theory, yes, it has been. We've seen a twenty
five point league going away in New Orleans. We saw
an eighteen point lead at New York go away. The
team's not I think the team is nine and nine
this year in games that are decided by five points
or less.
Speaker 3: I think I got the number right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think there's even a metric that's the
clutch performances. I think one of the Rockets are one
of the worst records winning clutch performances, which is not
good either.
Speaker 3: But win is a win.
Speaker 2: Jabari was really good yesterday, So we'll get to a
little bit. On the course of the show, I brought
up the Cougar's laws. You watching the Cougars a canvas game?
Oh yeah, I figured they were going to lose that one,
so you checked out. I see how you are fined.
I thought they had a leader earlier. They did, but.
Speaker 9: No, I mean, that's that's one of the toughest places
to play college basketball.
Speaker 3: I just figured they would lose that one. Look does
a purtal stretch?
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 9: Dwarte tweeted first three game losing streak for the Kuks
it's January of twenty seventeen. But then again, that win's
the last time they played three Top fourteen.
Speaker 3: Teams in a row. When an American, I can tell
you that for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, all good things come to an end. This
is still a really good team. By the way, they
should win these last three Colorado, Baylor, and Okie State
take care of business against them, You'll, uh, you know,
maybe you don't win the Big Twelve this year, but
it's okay. Just you'll still be one of the top teams.
Go make some noise in the in the Big Twelve tournament,
and you'll you'll be sitting.
Speaker 3: Pretty well again.
Speaker 2: What I did, and because basically Ross told me to,
because he guilted me into doing it, I did book
a flight from I'm gonna be in Phoenix on the
day of the championship game. We fly in literally from
San Francisco, like two o'clock in the morning. I will
be on a plane at seven o'clock that morning if
I go to Indianapolis to watch a national championship game,
because I gotta be there, because he keeps telling me this.
These these opportunities don't come around a whole lot. I mean,
think about all the great programs in college basketball the
last twenty five years that are still thirston for a
Final four appair. I mean, think about Gonzaga. They go
once every four or five years. They don't know what
a championship's about. This thing is wide open, wide open.
Speaker 9: I mean, there are so many good teams's awesome, Arizona's awesome,
Michigan's awesome, Yukon's really good. I mean, Gonzaga. It's this
this tournament, and you know there's gonna be some of
those damn teams near the bottom with ten losses that
are gonna upset some of these big one and two seats.
Speaker 3: How lu doing this year?
Speaker 9: They are they are debating about so the big topic
is they are going to fire Matt McMahon, likely at
the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Nice guy, how many years have you been there? Three
or four?
Speaker 2: Okay, go get Will Wade back. That's the rumor. Now
an awesome, an awesome first joking, a bait. So you'd
have to.
Speaker 9: Pay Matt mcmhon's buyout and Will Wade's buyout and bring
him back. But there's a huge push on the booster
front that they all want him back.
Speaker 2: Let's talk and we're gonna go to the cooliers and
Josh a second, let's talk about your boosters.
Speaker 3: Who are these people?
Speaker 2: They got money, but I know that I mean clar
because they're paying out your boy, Brian Kelly. It's pertaining,
Caroline Kiffin.
Speaker 9: It's a lot of like the healthcare system, in Louisiana.
A lot of those CEOs are all big time Elshie fans,
and think of this, there's no other uh, there's no
other state school, you know, big school in the state.
So like if you grow up even there's people who
didn't even go to LSU, Like the governor Louisiana didn't
even go to LSU, but he's vested in LSU being
good because they're the state school.
Speaker 2: And he doesn't want to builds, built, roads built, He
doesn't want kids to learn all the ABC's. He wants
to make sure that lanekiffit's taken care of.
Speaker 9: Let me tell you this, Louisianians will deal with bad
roads if it means the football teams winning championships.
Speaker 2: That's just the truth. Forget free dental care for under privilege.
Let's make sure LSU wins eleven games next year.
Speaker 3: So that's the reality. All right, Let's see how y'all are.
Speaker 9: It's literally, I think Ryan Clark said it on ESPN
the other day. He was like, it is a city. Literally,
your attitude Monday morning going into work is based off
of whether LSU want or not.
Speaker 3: Like that's that across the state. Here, it's a little
bit different. Even Shreeport. They're upset if LSU.
Speaker 2: Loses, y Monroe Monroe, yep, Grambling m Yeah there yeah,
smaller community, all right.
Speaker 3: Two Lane, New Orleans.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's definitely it's different here. Like you just kept like,
because I asked people, I've had people try to tell
me Houston's a back college town. I'm like, Houston's a
great college town. It's just just so many different fan bases, right.
I mean you can go to a sports bar here
on a Saturday and there's a Clemson watch party with
thirty Clemson fans, Like, what the hell is this? But
they're all die hard and yelling and screaming.
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 2: And I don't blame people for not jumping on the
Cougar bandwagon when it comes to basketball, because, first of all,
college basketball doesn't resonate here in Texas like it does
other places. But even if you were a college basketball fan,
you're gonna root for your team. If you're an Aggie fan,
you're rooting for Aggie basketball. You can kind of glimpse,
take a glimpse and say, all right, Cougar's in the tournament.
I'll root for them, But you're not gonna watch and
keep track of a team over the course of season
because it's not your school.
Speaker 9: But you can get people to buy like we went
to the fot of four last year rooting for for
you of H. My wife bought a ticket, Like she
didn't go to uv AH, So like, did I see
you there?
Speaker 3: I think no, because you were. You were with all
the high rollers.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you were in the VIP area. Listen
the VIP future COVID sections where I was, dam you
san Antonio.
Speaker 9: But but no, I mean like, and it was the
same thing when Tom Herman was when it at U
of H. Pretty soon was Willie Fritz starts to win
at a high level, like you'll get me out the games.
That's that's the true sign of you're doing something special
where you're getting people that didn't even go to that
school buying tickets to come into the game because man,
this team's good, come support them.
Speaker 3: I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Josh online two at ten twenty five
on seven. Josh, good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, how y'all doing good?
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling good.
Speaker 7: I wanted to get into some grievances IH with a
U of H team man. Now, let me be clear, man,
this this schedule gauntlet is as bad as they come.
You're only getting this pretty much with the Big Twelve
and some parts of the ACC. It's nasty. But h
I had to say, Man, there's something about Emmanuel Sharper
kind of reminds me of Jalen Green on bad nights,
and it's just something I can't get out of my head. Now.
I know that's some past traumas man, you know, with
Jalen Green being off this rockets, but I'm getting shades
of it when Kingston Flemings doesn't get in the ball
every possession, you know, and it's it's ugly out there.
The offensive rebounding is nasty. With the team is clearly
not as good as it was last season, I don't
know where we go from here.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think last year's team was better.
You are relying heavily Josh on two freshmen. Granted they
grow up and they've been playing a lot of basketball games,
and you know, they're now, you know, twenty eight games
into their season, and Kingston's been awesome. But you know what,
it's not necessarily difficult to.
Speaker 3: Try to defend Houston. You go after Flemings.
Speaker 2: You make it as difficult as possible, and you let
Uzann and Sharp do what they can do. And you know,
if if Sharp continues to shoot one for ten or
shoots way below his season average, you're going to win
basketball games. You're gonna take your chances with Sharp. Tucker
doesn't provide anything on the offensive end. Snak was inconsistent
last night. Uzan doesn't take a whole lot of shots,
so he's and you just don't have much of production
off your bench either.
Speaker 3: So I don't mean to dumb it down, but I'm not.
I don't think I'm speaking of.
Speaker 2: Both sides here to say that if it ain't for
Kingston Flemings, this team just does not have enough offensive firepower.
Speaker 7: Completely, this team might not even crack the top fifteen
without Kingston Flemings. I mean, this true point guard coming
at of what was in New York, right, this kid
is legit. I don't I cannot see him falling out
of the top dait of this draft. I mean, this
kid is seriously carrying this load now for Emmanuel Sharp
and guys like that who I think would be more experienced.
You know that, you know guys who I think wouldn't
shoot one pretend, let's say, or you know, have bad
even defensive knights as well. Now I know that guard
playing at twelve is really really tough, especially now. I mean,
and even look at the forwards out there, obviously you
can look at the bands and plenty of other guys
like that Dan person who's kind of a stretch. You know,
this conference, man, it will eat you alive. Will I
just can't go into this. I can't go into March.
You know, it's too confident like how I was last season.
Speaker 2: No see, I would think that, I would say, but see, Josh,
I would say the opposite. I think, you know, look,
you are getting battle tested at the big twelve level.
You are not having to go through a bunch of
lollygaggers in non power leagues, and I think this will
toughen them up for a postseason turn. Because you've played
three top fifteen teams in seven days. Guess what you're
gonna do in the tournament. You'renna be playing three top
fifteen teams in seven days essentially if you get rid
of the first round opponents. So I'm going to try
to go glass half fall in this saying that how
many teams in this country would be able to go
to Iowa State and two Kansas and home for Arizona
would have any more than one victory.
Speaker 3: They didn't get that, which is obviously disappointing.
Speaker 2: But most really, you if you gave North Krolina this
three game stretch, or you gave Dukie this three game stretch,
I wouldn't say they could win two or three of
the games. They're just those are just very difficult opponents.
Speaker 7: I'll totally give it to you.
Speaker 3: You you put what how many.
Speaker 7: College basketball teams are there in the D one, you know,
two hundred and twenty. I don't think that two hundred
and seventeen of those teams could could even go two
and one. Yeah, stretch, And like I said, I'll totally
give you that. But anyway, I gotta get going. I'll
hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: But thanks, Josh, we'll figure it out. We'll see letter.
Appreciate it, tea letter. Yeah all right. So I've been
talking about this kid a little bit. And look, not
that we moved the needle on a college basketball hole out,
but Darren Peterson is a projected top five selection. In fact,
some people think he's number one. He is really the
epitome of what might be wrong with paying athletes in nil.
We'll discuss that coming back in a minute. Ten thirty
is our time. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Ross's under the weather again today our buddy Chris Cordy's
gonna hang out with this hole and you hanging out
with us too. You're going to noon prob Oh yeah,
we get Gordy till noon seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety. Good morning, Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: I'm Matt. Gordy's with me here as well.
Speaker 2: We are with you today until two o'clock this say, afternoon,
and again the Gordy's gonna hang out with us until noon,
and then later on we'll have Ryan Hollins but with
us for about a half an hour from so between
twelve thirty and one. We've got feelings at eleven thirty
and then we have believe it or not today at
one fifty as we will give away another set of
lovely prizes. Where don't we give away yesterday one prize
all together? That was for the very last caller. I
usually don't brag. I like to I like to have
winners like Ross loves to have go over. I want
to I'm a giver. I'm a I'm a lover. I
want to give things to you. But you got to
earn him, believe it or not. Today one fifty here
on Sports Talk seven and eighty, so uh and I
brought out this kid's name before, and this is the
name that will be brought up in NBA draft circles
come to draft time. This kid named Darren Peterson, super
highly recruited player, super highly talented guard. Thirty minutes last
night for them, which has gotta be among the season highest.
Speaker 3: He has missed a.
Speaker 2: Variety of games for illness, soreness, cramps, doesn't play a
whole lot. I talked to my wife this morning and
she's like, do you know this Darren Peterson? As I said, yeah,
I said, she goes he's a pretty special player. I said, yeah,
he's really special. But she says he misses time all
the time.
Speaker 3: And she told me this.
Speaker 2: And I have not done a lot of research on him,
because look, we don't break down ku basketball very oft
front of this show. But apparently the agent is doing
a lot of conversation talking to Bill's self about how
much the client should be playing. That's really dangerous. The
New world agents, would you say seventy five percent are
decent people?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no way you can put a number.
It's probably more half an half.
Speaker 2: Okay, so fifty percent are decent, good in the best interest,
and fifty member are slain balls.
Speaker 9: The who's the one that's the slime ball? Oh gosh,
she's got it's him and his brother. He's got the
slick back hair in my based out of Miami. What's
his name, Big NFL agent Odrew Rosenhouse. I remember I
was at a Saints game on the sideline stand next
to Jeremy Shocky warming up. It's like eight oh nine.
He comes up, shot, how you doing, babe? How's mom?
Speaker 6: Mom?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 3: Sis? Got good seats? Yeah? Yeah great.
Speaker 9: I mean just like total douchebag attitude and conversation.
Speaker 3: Very successful, not real, like not real.
Speaker 9: That's where I like if you're if you're an agent,
I think you gotta be a great businessman.
Speaker 3: She's gotta be real with your client. You gotta be
like that. Well, this kid is being it's good.
Speaker 2: Darreon Peterson's agent is being real with him, saying do
not play very hard all the mock dress.
Speaker 3: Still number one, number one, Aaron Peterson.
Speaker 2: I think there are red flags all over this kid,
and I'm again I'm only seeing it from a distance,
but doesn't want to play hard, takes a lot of
games off on a self imposed minutes restriction.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'd go with the Boozer kid if I'm picking
first for all Karon Boozer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but no, I mean I take Kingston Flemings
over the I mean Lee. I think at least king
said let me wants to work hard.
Speaker 9: Yeah, get some good effort, But no, I mean every
mock draft i've seen Darren Pearson still number one, number one,
is averaging close to twenty points a game.
Speaker 2: Because athletically he's the most five tool guy of the group.
If it's such thing a five tool in basketball, The
problem is the intangibles don't lean lend himself to being a.
Speaker 3: Guy you want to build a franchise around. And here's
the stupid part I heard.
Speaker 9: I think it was I don't know, one of those
washed up NBA guys making the argument on this podcast
over day they ought to let kids that we ought
to change the rule where you come out of high
school again like we got to go back to that,
And I'm like, we don't necessarily have to go back
to that. But why didn't he do what the Thompson
Twins did, like or Jalen Green go play the G League?
Speaker 3: Why'd you? No one said you had to go to
Kansas Because.
Speaker 2: There's more money in college basketball than there is in
a G league. Think about it, but think about the
crazy money that the schools are now budgeting. Remember the
schools can pay and then you have nil on top
of it, so you can double dip. Yeah, in your
one year plusing me on national television. Look how many
G League games are on TV? Then people can see
you in market. You can't get marketing if you're a
league player. If you can get marketing if you're a
Kansas kid.
Speaker 9: See, and here's what's tough is I don't think you
can put in those deals. Must play ninety percent of
the games, must effort, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Those are intangibles. Yeah, because I watch Bill self and
his press conferences. He's got to play this game, but
it looks like he's cringing during this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know how you I mean, nothing said
like you just got to do your vetting really well
and find out if this kid's a diva or not
before you sign him.
Speaker 2: And the reality is most of the kids of this
now generation. I'm not saying that the Darren there's gonna
be fifty more Darren Peterson's out there, but they're gonna
be more than there were five or ten years ago.
I mean, I don't as talent as Darren Peterson is.
He wouldn't last two days under Kelvin Sampson.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, No, Kelvin would have his ass running and
make him cry. There's only one coach that I've been
able that I've seen that has successful, have been able
to deal with the divas, and that's Jock hal Perry.
Speaker 2: He's found a way. I don't know how he does it,
but he gets into work hard for one year, Yeah,
and they wind up leaving. Yeah, pushed him out the door.
Speaker 9: But yeah, this is a very unique circumstance of you
expect all these kids what the money and want to
work hard. But what if they get the money and
don't work hard and it's you know, or it's like
or just being total diva. I'm protecting my future investment.
I can't do this. I can't do that for you. Yeah,
I just I.
Speaker 2: Really really really want to respect the new rules of
the game. But if you've already got the money in
your piggy bank, you are and you're thinking about your
pro prospects. It's like college football players, Gordy that skipped
the bowl games. I understand why they do it. I mean,
I like it, but I understand it. This guy's taking
games off during the regular season. You know, it's different.
In college basketball. You have an end goal. You can
win a national championship. You get into a tournament. Even
if you've lost seven, eight, nine times, you get in
the tournament. You've got just as good a chance as
anybody else. Football, you lose two or three games early on,
you're not You're more than likely not gonna have a
chance to play for a national championship. Now, obviously if
they if the college football playoff expands and you play
around a power for team and your team's a really
good and you get some close losses, maybe that lets
you slip in. But in basketball, there there is a prize,
there is a bracket that you can you if you
play hard and you play at your very best, you
can slide your way from round to round to round
to play for the championship. Well, no, only that, like
Kansas is in a great spot, like they're they're they're
right there in the top of the Big twelve, right
behind of Arizona.
Speaker 9: You're gonna be a top four seed. You're gonna be
in a great spot to make on a tournament run.
Like if this were last year with was it Ace
Bailey at Rutgers and they kind of sucked? Like I
could understand that, like, uh, you know, we're gonna protect
the investment. My guy's gonna take a couple of games off.
But like you're Kansas, a premier basketball school in the
midst of an incredible gear. Why would you not Why
would you add sick tonight like that just hurts your team.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can totally get it. He's saving the body
for the NBA. Doug is with It's on seven ony
high dog.
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, has it gone?
Speaker 3: Good morning? Thank you? I'm good good.
Speaker 10: I got a question, two questions about the NBA and
nil money. But first, let me propose that when Jerse
Walker came out from you of h as a freshman,
there was not really the big nil money that there
is now, so he kind of sat for two years.
In this third year now he's kind of an average player.
He's playing about eighteen minutes ten points a game. When
you look at Sanak and Flemings, those those two kids,
to me need another year in college. I don't think
they're NBA ready. So my question is twofold. Is it
worth it to an NBA GM to draft these kids
that young, knowing it's going to take them three years,
possibly four years to really develop. And second question, is
it better for a guy like Sanak and Flemmings to
not go the NBA league route, stay in school, get
that G league I'm sorry, get the NIL money and
the television exposure. So it's kind of the two question
the NBA and the NA I'll hang out and listen.
Thanks again for all you do.
Speaker 3: Thanks Doug uh Yeah for first and foremost.
Speaker 2: I do believe now with all the money that is
available to these kids in college basketball, college basketball over
G league every single time, Because again we just talked
abou a few minutes ago, You're gonna get a good
amount of money. You got a chance of further market yourself,
and you get the best of both worlds. You get
to go play high in college basketball G League. It's interesting.
You know, we're about going to class. You don't have
any sort of academic requirements, but you are playing in
small towns that Franklin. No one cares about those teams. Now,
does it get you in a better spot for future NBA?
I mean some could say yes, I mean Thompson uh
played for the uh Andsar Thompson played for that ignite
team or so. But you know, to me, if I'm
a really good high school player and I think I've
got the NBA right ahead of me, I'm gonna go
play college for one year, get that money from them,
be on nationally, showcased, and build my resume there.
Speaker 9: And this real quick, this mock draft, I'm looking at
Kingston Plumbing's fourth over Chris Sinak twelfth overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are both gone. They're both gone, especially Fleming.
Sinak's been good, but not amazing, but good. I mean,
you know, can he improve his draft stock in the
next handful of weeks.
Speaker 3: Of course you will.
Speaker 2: But I'll also have a chance to go to the
combine where these general managers will say, hey, here's what
we're thinking about you, and here' where're going I mean
he'll they'll have these agents that will say that. You know,
the agents can make the phone call. Is my guy
a high lottery pick? Is he a low lottery pick
as he and out of the lottery pick all? Is
he going to make the first round? Is he a
second round guy? So they'll have a chance to go in,
duck in and duck out if they want to. But
I would be first of all, Fleming says, in my
mind zero percent chance of staying at you of agent,
my CNC is probably in the five percent range.
Speaker 3: The h and a tournament run could certainly help your case.
Speaker 9: Like I remember, going into last year, Walter Clayton at
Florida was thought to be maybe back into the first
He ended up going eighteenth overall.
Speaker 2: Now Florida won it all, but they did not turn
I know that. Yeah, thanks, Yeah.
Speaker 9: It was really interesting and maybel Sharp had a chance
at a game winning shot.
Speaker 2: You know what, I can do the show by myself. Now,
I'm fine, why don't I ask you in here? But
but point being, I bet I bet both those if
you of As goes on a deep run, I bet.
Speaker 9: Both those guys move up, up up. No question about
Kingston Fleming's possibly top three, and we're talking about Snak
top ten.
Speaker 3: No question.
Speaker 2: All right, it is ten forty five. The Astros starting
lineup for today's game against the Mets is out. We'll
let you know how that's gonna shape up, and there'll
be somebody new in center field today. We'll discuss that
next ten forty five on Sports Talk seven ninety. It
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: Ross is off today because nutsn't feel well. I actually
flew probably sick as a dog.
Speaker 2: We got Casserio speaking at eleven o'clock, and like I said,
as soon as we get some of that audio coming
in sometimes we're in the show, we'll play some of it.
I'm gonna assume there's some contract restructuring has to go on.
Gotta say goodbye to Joe Mixon for sure. Gotta go
find yourself an art in RB one for twenty twenty six,
and we'll get to more.
Speaker 3: Of that as the date progresses.
Speaker 2: All right, As I mentioned, the Astros have a starting
lineup out today for their game of the Metropolitans in
Port Saint Lucy. Jeremy Payne is going to lead off
and play shortstop. Joey Lo Perfito is in right field today.
Camp Smith backs third in place center field. Middle three
is Cole in left, descendso DH and shay wickhamb is
at second, Alexander at first base, Allen at shortstop, and
Caesar Salazar will be the catcher for Jason Alexander who
will start today. And so that's what you got going
on there for the Astros. Camp Smith playing in center.
It feels like to me, just reading between every storyline
we have seen so far, whether you were there, whether
I was there, or the comments that have been made
in the offseason, I don't think Dana's thrilled about the outfield,
and that's something that we've been saying for weeks now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I wonder if they were they in on like some
more veteran outfielders and just kind of missed or what
because kind of is what it is, right, you built
this like you know, I mean, I think in a
more perfect world, you would have liked camp Smith to
finish last season strong and you'd feel pretty good. Okay,
we got Myers, we got him. Well, if youred on
sometimes and.
Speaker 2: Left you can live with one outfield spot. Worried about
one another's average. Now you're really worried about two Franklin
and you got no power in your center field spot.
Although I know Jake Myers has told us when we
were down there last week he'd like to get his
lug up a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, and.
Speaker 9: Honestly, if Hazu Sanchez had just been had he been
really good, he'd.
Speaker 3: Be here right now, he'd be the right fielder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you did move away from a guy that
did have major league experience, that did have some power.
I mean, he has more power than Cam Smith and
more power than a Zach Cole. So you dumped the salary,
which is I mean, Sanchez was not rich, I ra
all things considered, but he wasn't particularly good, so you
can kind of just fight. This was part a of
a bigger plan, and so far we've not seen that
second part of that plan implemented.
Speaker 9: I think that's what most people were saying was, Oh,
they did this to free up rooms. So when they
make the parades trade whoever they bring in with making money,
well you'll have room for it. But yeah, I mean
a world of low perffdo Zach Cole and Cam Smith.
That's super young, super inexperienced and yeah, I mean you
have games or you have those.
Speaker 3: Three guys less than a thousand plant appearances.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just I don't know, but I mean at
a certain point, you got to get you got to
get some kind of like I think fans I said
this when they made a trade for low Berfino. Fans
are more willing to watch Joey go out there and
struggle through his growing pains as opposed to watch wasting
at bats on Haesu Sanchez.
Speaker 3: Who you just already made your mind up, sucks, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 9: Like, I think fans are willing to give a leash
to the young guy. Okay, he's learning.
Speaker 2: Well, that's because the Haesu Sanchez sample size was so disappointing. Right,
Reus didn't do much and his coming here, Sanchez didn't
do much when he's here. That's why I said, be
careful with the whole we won the trade dead everybody
looked at him when Astros won the trade deadline.
Speaker 9: Look at those moves. They got Korea, they got this,
they got that. Like, you've gotta be careful with it
because you never know what a guy's gonna do once
he gets here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't know it will paint us if Sanchez
goes to Toronto and starts for them every couple of
days and hits big home runs and whatnot, that it'll
be painful, because that's what the outfield right now on
paper does not have. So not that I remember rooting
for ex Astros, but you shave payroll for a guy
you thought was not gonna be a guy that you
wanted to play and right field on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: You just don't want him going somewhere else to be
successful because you've.
Speaker 2: Got nothing back in return, unless and let's hol Oberfeed
all of a sudden becomes a new baseball player because
Joey was nice for a little while for the Astros,
became kind of a cult hero. But he goes to Toronto,
doesn't set the world on fire. In fact, most of
his time was spent at Triple A Syracuse. I mean,
this is a guy that not much more than a
four A player right now.
Speaker 9: That's why I think if you can move Estock Praius
can get an every day left field or right field er.
Speaker 3: You do it, But don't you think it?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 2: We're and I don't know how the intricacies of this work,
but are they kind of too late for that?
Speaker 6: Right now?
Speaker 2: They have to kind of left for the season to
kind of get underway and see what happens, because who's
not Is there somebody out there? And I'm sure the
answer to this question is yes. Is there a team
in baseball that is still dying for a middle infield
or an infielder? Is there somebody that needs a third
basement in the worst way right now, or maybe even
a first basement for that matter. I think that was
the thought with the Red Sox right when they lost Bregmant. Yeah,
they were kind of in dire need, and so has
that window passed until one of two things somebody falls
on a contention, or somebody has a player that gets hurt,
or somebody needs an extra bat to maybe DH And
that's where Praieres can come through as well. So it
almost feels like since they didn't do it before, can't
began that maybe this is gonna be a much longer
waiting process than maybe even even we thought about it
was going to be, say four or five weeks ago.
Speaker 9: I'm just looking to see what's out there on the
if they're any free agents. But I mean I guess
that that at this point for spring training, you would
have already brought in one of these guys. But Jesse Winker,
h Grandall, Gritchick, Tommy fam those are just kind of
some of the free agent outfielders that Alex Vdugo, I know,
they've his name's been thrown out there a ton, But yeah,
the fact that they haven't brought in any of those
guys on them, I don't even like, Well, because you
do what the minimum spring training invidel. Yeah, the fact
they haven't even done that with anything. They've done that
in the past few years with random guys. I'm trying
to think of some of the names, but like guys
who are past their prime but trying to hang on
for a paycheck.
Speaker 2: They've done that years past, they didn't they haven't done
that this year. I mean, if Taylor Trammell is fighting
for a roster spot, maybe that's what they viewed tremmeill as. Okay,
maybe they're Bordscenzo. I mean, you're still looking at a
bunch of guys that just don't have a lot of
plate appearances or any sort of slug.
Speaker 9: Well, I always said with the guys like the Zenzo
and and Shay Whitcombe like awesome that they're versatile. You
love the versatility, but also it's man of many trades,
what is it master of none? Like you'd rather Dozenzo
be a stud right field He is a right fielder, yeah,
but instead it's like, hey, he can play multiple positions.
Speaker 3: Well, is he great any of them?
Speaker 7: Eh?
Speaker 3: No, So I don't know.
Speaker 9: But again, I my take is, I think the fans
are more willing to go with the Joey Lopraffito, who's
a fan favorite. Fans are more willing to give him
an opportunity to show if he can.
Speaker 2: I've learned, and I think all of us know this.
Fan favorites can only last for a certain length of time.
If he comes out of the gate batting one twenty
six and plays once a week, he will not be
a fan favorite. You know, it'll be a You gotta
give him a chance to play six days a week,
or we traded this bum for Hayesu Sanchez, or at
least know he brought up the table seven one three
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Speaker 1: Ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross eleven.
Speaker 3: O'clock on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: It is Matt, it is Gordy Ross is under the
weather today and hopefully we'll get him back tomorrow. Astros
play a spring training game tonight or today. We'll have
a tapeload for you beginning at seven o'clock. We'll be
live with Astro spring training on Wednesday and on Thursday.
Rockets last night disposed of the Utah Jazz by a
score of one twenty five to one oh five. Nicky
C is gonna speak in a matter of moments at
the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, and this says we get
some audio from that. We will be eager to play
some of that for you. How much I brought this
up a little while ago before you joined us over
under a number of questions that he gets about c. J.
Stroud and whether he is the long term solution for
the Houston Texans, And you got to put it in
a very politically nice.
Speaker 9: Way, Yeah, I think he'll I think he'll get asked
once twice, but he's the master of being able to
side step questions like that, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9: If he'll go as far as like, yeah, I'm not
gonna get in all that, but he will not give
you an answer.
Speaker 2: And again, the answer should be unless there's a quarterback
out there that I cannot think of right now, the
answer should be, we're not training c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud.
Speaker 2: And I know that he is public not necessarily public
enemy number one, but people are certainly down on his performance. You,
in my mind, have to let this play out one
more year, and I'm just gonna continue to say that
over and over and over again until somebody believes me.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think a.
Speaker 9: Normal GM answer would be, yeah, CJ is our guy.
He's the face of our franchise. There's no doubt he
had a rough postseason, but we know he's gonna get better.
We don't really get healthy around him, and we're ready
to make that next run.
Speaker 3: Again. Yeah, that's the answer you give, but his will.
Speaker 9: Be something stupid about Yeah, when you look at the player,
the player is about getting better in the player, and
you know he won't he won't even say CJ's names.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it gets better, sometimes it gets worse and plays
the same something, you know, Oh oh my god. It's
and I always and I said about a year ago,
I wasn't gonna do anymore. But look, unfortunately when they
were when the general manager speaks, and it's so rare
that he does, you do have to kind of perk
your ears up and listen to it.
Speaker 3: Right, So that's what we do. Carry it.
Speaker 2: But it yeah, it's it's it's a lot about word salad.
And like I told the audience about forty five minutes ago,
and those are you just joining us? Hey, how are
you be? Where the hell you've been? See, we're glad
to have you. There are bigger fish to fry. I mean, look,
CJ is the most important component, but give him a
year of some things around him. The problem I say
when I when I bring that up is I brought
this up with Ross Ross Gordy. You can't fix the
running back corps, you can't fix the offensive line and
getting him an additional wide receiving target. That can't be
done in one season unless you have the greatest draft
and the greatest free agency in the history of sports,
And I mean, Cazera's done a pretty good job. But
that's a lot to ask of someone to get fixed
in less than nine months.
Speaker 3: Here, oh, here we go.
Speaker 9: Sixty seconds ago, Nick Cassario, amidst trade speculation regarding CJ.
Stroud quote, He's not going anywhere, so he did.
Speaker 2: We can't cousin discuss that, though, Hardy, come on, let's
go now. So he put his name on it. He's
he's straight up said not happening. What you get is good.
But I thought I thought we'd get more coded Nick
speak than no. I think I'm I'm applauding him for
saying not he he went, He got right to it,
didn't waste any time.
Speaker 3: Not go anywhere? Next question anything else?
Speaker 2: House, Joe's mixing foot, Jonathan, you can get off your
phone and focus. When I said, Joe Mix's foot, what
are you doing back there? You know the rule always
still doing that. It was too much, It never too much.
Speaker 3: It was too scared. I'll find it.
Speaker 2: Ross was scared about it. I wasn't scared about it.
Now now at the times pasted you can't se him.
But the next time I sneak it in there, you better.
I better hear that sound un effect ready for no on,
that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be some restructuring and contracts. And here's
the biggest issue that obviously will not happen this year.
But when you have two top five selections in the
same NFL draft, you've got two mega contracts you got
to take care of.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Will Anderson, I like, I don't. I wouldn't waste
any time on that one.
Speaker 9: You got a premiere, absolute stud pass rusher in the
midst of his prime. Let's get this done now, quarterback,
we can figure out big time pass rusher.
Speaker 3: Lock that guy up, CJ.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts about Will Anderson getting that big deal and
you didn't get one.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, please? What is It'll say? Well, I don't
deserve it.
Speaker 9: Eh, I mean, if he's being real, he could say, look,
I know I got to play better to earn top dollar.
He's not gonna say that, though everybody's running with this quote. No,
he's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: I believe him. Put that on a billboard. You hear
from now, you may outside if.
Speaker 2: He sucks again, if he plays like you did last postseason,
all regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, this thing's compounded.
Speaker 2: When Sam freaking Donald wins a super Bowl, you got
teams sit out there going, you know what, Kirk Cousins
is about to be cut, Go grab us a kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: He might leavest the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Did Sam Donald's re emergence after all the different teams
he's been on make you think more about other teams,
thinking maybe a change of scene, or he can help
a guy. Well not just that, but look at the
teams that when you have your quote unquote franchise quarterback
and you lock him in, how much it handcuffs you
and how much when he kind of sucks. Look at
Tool with the Dolphins, Look at Kyler Murray with the Cardinals.
I mean, I might even put Trevor Lawrence in there.
I know he had a nice.
Speaker 3: Year last year. I like and put him in there.
But I know what you're going.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, it's that whole thought of all we
got our guy come in or you know, the Seahawks said,
you know what, we think we've gotten the most out
of Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Let's gohead and pull the plug now. And somebody just
wrote a piece on this.
Speaker 9: All the trade assets they got from that Denver trade
helped lead them to the Super Bowl this year. They
took those pieces and again, you Sam Darnold is a
nice player, but nobody would confuse him as a top
ten quarts.
Speaker 2: But even if you have a quarterback and you're paying
him crazy money because that's what quarterbacks get, it, it
can hurt you because look at what the Dallas Cowboys
are going through, the amount of money they have spent
on Dak Prescott. They have let a lot of good
defensive players go the last couple of years, and now
the Dallas Cowboys are made fun of because they can't
stop a nosebleed. Yeah, I'm surprised the NFL owners, and
I don't know if it's it would be collusion or
reworking of things, have not tried to implement some sort
of quarter salary cap. And I guess you can't do that.
You can't tell somebody if you've got a bank of money,
which obviously an NFL salary cap is. The player association
is going to say you pay how you need to
pay out who you want to pay out. Theres we're
not We didn't force you, guys, meaning guys being the owners.
Speaker 3: We didn't force you to.
Speaker 2: Pay these quarterbacks as crazy money, but the but somebody
started it.
Speaker 9: Nick Casario says CJ. Straw will be the quarterback for
the Texas at twenty twenty six. He called speculation otherwise moronic.
Multiple people saying speculation moronic said will be the starring
quarterback at twenty twenty six, and who knows beyond that.
So he ain't committed to paying him yet, but he's
committed to he'll be here next year. But look, perfect
part of me does. And this is where like you'd
love to go on on like Madden and try to
simulate something because I just saw, you know, see the
Falcons reported today they're gonna let Kirk Cousins go in.
There a world where you look at maybe what if
if you could trade if you get four future first
for a CJ.
Speaker 3: Strait? Excuse me?
Speaker 2: What like or three future? Let's excuse me? Why first
there are people out there that might pay that. I
don't believe that to be Would you do that?
Speaker 9: And then like grab a Kirk Cousins and ride with him?
See if you could do replicate what the Seahawks just did.
Speaker 2: Do you really think you can get three first round
picks for c J stround.
Speaker 9: I think can get a hall still. I understand we're
living in the moment based on what he just did
in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But I think a lot of people what moment. But
what would you judge a guy on it?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 2: Why would you go trade as valuable of a trade
chip as one first round pick, much less three when
the most recent sample size in the most important games
says he cracks like an egg.
Speaker 3: He also was offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not going to those three year old numbers
in the morning bowler.
Speaker 3: He's twenty four bowlers twenty four, still very much in
his prime.
Speaker 2: Unless what I brought up a few minutes ago, Gordy,
unless you say, let's I got an established offensive line,
I've got some parts here.
Speaker 3: See, James Brown needs to change the scenery.
Speaker 2: I believe this conversation we just had ten seconds ago
is something you wait for a year for.
Speaker 3: You gotta let this play out one more year at least.
I'm with you. I'm just it's to me.
Speaker 9: The Sam Donald thing just opens up the conversation a
little bit more to go. Oh, because I've always been
I mean, look at this last hand full of Super Bowls.
It's been Jalen Hurts, franchise quarterback, Pat Mahomes, Pat Mahomes,
Matthew Stafford, h Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's mostly been. To win a Super
Bowl in recent years, you've got to have that franchise
face of your franchise quarterback. And then Sam Donald wins
one with the Seahawks, and you go, Sam Donald minke
this year was he He wasn't super rich, right, He
got paid well, but I mean he wasn't in the
fifty million dollar category like most of the elague quarterbacks are.
Speaker 3: No, he got here in a base of twelve point
three mil.
Speaker 2: Isn't it pathetic Houston that we sit here and say, oh,
that's great value. Guys making twelve million dollars?
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, so that was his base.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 9: Actually the deal he signed was a three or one
hundred million dollar contract, oh fifty five million guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so thirty three million a year fifty five So
he actually was paid pretty well. Do you know anybody
who does the richest person do you know? Don't say me,
because that's not the case.
Speaker 3: Like that I've met. I don't know about it.
Speaker 2: I really want to know what his eight when you
you know you get money out of the ATM machine,
you know it shows your balance. If you've got thirty
three million dollars in a piggy bank, does it does
it have room for eight numbers?
Speaker 9: I don't think that money's sitting in his just checking
account of Chase.
Speaker 3: I think, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So let's say I made twenty million dollars a year
here at iHeart, Uh, I got to keep probably a
half million in my checking account.
Speaker 9: Right, that's a waste of money, though you would want,
you would want that in savings accounts.
Speaker 3: How much time? How much is my checking account do I?
Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm making twenty million dollars here, do
I even even have an ATM?
Speaker 7: A card?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But like cash flow, I'd say probably, like I'd put
one hundred k in there, because what are you buying
on a daily basis that you're gonna need more than
I don't know, But twenty million dollars feel like anything
I want, I'll buy it to me.
Speaker 9: That's a waste of putting that in a check account.
You want, you want the bulk of what you have,
put it on a credit card. Think of the miles. Yeah,
oh that too. But you want that money, that cash
flow invested. You want that earning, earning money back to you.
That's what you learn when you get older. I knowed
what you got the bank accounts, what you got invested.
Speaker 3: I need.
Speaker 2: I need to win the lottery because I want to
be able to have go get forty dollars left and
say your available balance is thirty one million, four seventeen
sixty three dollars and twelve cents and then go get robbed.
That doesn't feel nice at all.
Speaker 9: Although most banks protecting now they're like the most you
could take out an ATM in a day, like.
Speaker 3: A couple of hundred.
Speaker 2: Because I'm trying to think, I mean, I look, I know,
I know a lot of rich people. I wonder if
anybody in the Fertida family has an ATM cards I
need to pull out forty dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 2: Like it's the last thing you bought with cash. I've
had a twenty I'm team cash. I've had a twenty
dollars wallet since December.
Speaker 3: I've not used that's because you never spend money anything,
so I just use the card.
Speaker 2: When you use cash only, I love cash, Well you're old.
Oh I also to get cash form my per diem
on the rocket, so I try to get rid of it.
I don't want a lot of cash sitting around. Oh
you know, I lost somebody. These guys at the church
the church basket. That's the only time that's nice of
you to do that. That's the only time you ever pull.
Speaker 3: Up cash that's.
Speaker 2: Really nice, or or a valet like yeah, you know what,
I won't taste that right now. I don't like you
guys that don't carry any cash, because when us have
to carry cash, Like if you want to tip the
person that clears your table at a restaurant, or you
want to or you want to uh, let's say you
have breakfast at a hotel and uh, you get the
free breakfast and somebody comes and clears your play, you
only two three dollars. If you want to leave tip
money for the maid. You can't put your ATM card
out there and say here's a five dollar tip for you. You
know what, starting starting, you need to carry ones with
you at all times, by ten of them.
Speaker 3: If I do valet, do I have to report my
tips somebody that away? What is wrong with you that's
actually good. You have to report that to the government.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Are
you taking tip money?
Speaker 3: Am I taking tips? I mean, are you taking tips? Sure?
My Venmo's open. Oh stop, that's Chris Gordy. Okay.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven eaties seven
one three two one two five seven eight. It's eleven fourteen.
We've got feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety. So once we get
some of that audio in from the NFL combat, we'll
see if the boys in the back then we don't
have many how many boys in the back, but we're
so lean on no, okay, so you're actually the boy
in the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pulling it right now, are you okay?
Speaker 2: We'll play some of that audio throughout the course of
the show today.
Speaker 3: What did you say about Joe Mixon again when I
asked about it? Yeah.
Speaker 9: So here's the latest on on what Nick Assario is
saying at the combine.
Speaker 3: He has said, we are not trading CJ. Love it.
Speaker 9: We're glad he's just he's our quarterback. Any trade speculation
he called moronic.
Speaker 3: I can see him saying that easily moronic. Probably said
that a lot about show topics on this show.
Speaker 2: He probably says that about a lot of people that
have YouTube pages of after fail media careers.
Speaker 3: But that's another hearinger there, Nick, Sara, you listen about
Thomas show today. It's moronic. Oh, I mean that's fine.
I can live with that.
Speaker 9: Aaron Wilson no clarity on Texans injured running back Joe
Mixon's status. GM Nick Assio said the former Pro Bowl
selection had surgery this offseason.
Speaker 3: This offseason, it was last off season. They have another surgery.
Speaker 2: Hmmm the slip, Jonathan. Maybe they're fragments on the foot
that were loose.
Speaker 3: You never know, you know.
Speaker 4: I still can't believe that it's February and this was
news in Suly and we still know what's going on.
Speaker 3: So you don't really think he shot himself in the foot.
Speaker 2: I don't know that not to be not true. You
know what exactly, we don't know their fault. Let's tell
us the truth.
Speaker 9: I believe the theory that he he went to a
non NFL approved doctor to do a procedure.
Speaker 2: I agree, yeah, but that's not as much fun as
talking about the gunshot at the foot, and then it.
Speaker 9: Becomes an insurance issue where the Texans are like, hey,
we had a contract and you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe there's a little bit of a you went
against our medical rules, thus we're not going to pay
you out, and thus we're not going to say word one.
See you know what, Gordy, that's the problem. You know that, Jonathan,
what he just said made total sense. We don't believe
in total sense on this show.
Speaker 8: But even if that happened, why wouldn't they say because
you have probably some serious legalities to worry about it.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh I I mean no, I think there's probably would
be my guests here to take it one step further.
Maybe there's litigation coming up. Maybe the Texans are this
is all just purely speculative. Maybe the Texans found out
that Joe Mixon went to somebody to get a procedure
that was not authorized by the team, and they don't
want to pay out on that contract because look, Joe
makes them make good money. Joe Maxon didn't take a
snap in twenty twenty six or twenty five, I should say,
and they shouldn't be paying for Joe Mixon going rogue
when probably he might have gone against team order, team
directed orders. You never know, Y mighta got shot in
the foot.
Speaker 3: You never know.
Speaker 9: One of those two. They definitely need. They need more
old lineman. They need to run back. In this draft,
I need a complimentary piece for.
Speaker 11: For the what Marx ma.
Speaker 3: Good back, not a feature lead back.
Speaker 2: I see when you say commentary, I think of who's
a Jamia Gibbs and David Montgomery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I think, culminary. The Texans don't even
have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, what he marks is a one down back,
a guy that fills in, but he would be clearly
a number two.
Speaker 9: I think they're good at wide receiver. I honestly the
best thing you could do. If there's a quarterback you
love in this draft in the middle rounds, I might
take that. I don't believe in Graham Mertz as the
viable future backup.
Speaker 3: Then you try to trade Davis Mills.
Speaker 9: Yeah, if there's a kid I love in the middle
rounds of this draft, let's just say, let's say third round.
Speaker 3: Garrett Nussmeyer staring at me, you know what.
Speaker 9: NFL pedigree was one of the best quarterbacks in college
two years ago, got hurt last year at LSU wasn't great,
but his dad, Doug is still a coordinator in the league.
Comes from a football family, got a big arm. I'd
take him as a developmental and then you have a
little insurance if CJA does suck this year and you decide, Okay,
maybe we're not going to give him a big, fat contract,
don't GM.
Speaker 3: We always gotta be.
Speaker 2: Thinking too so I know, I know, but I think
that's too far ahead. I need depth. I need options
at offensive line, especially because I've I've drafted so poorly.
I need a RB one, I need probably another cornerback.
And I'm telling you, if Christian kirk Leaves and Higgins
and Noel are not the guys, do you go again
for another receiver?
Speaker 9: I just saw this posted h Nick Cassario talks about
where to go. Yeah, he's very excited about the second
year for wide receiver Jalen Nole.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I mean I would hope so you drafted
him in the up in the first first two days
of the NFL draft three day of Iowa state wide receivers.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 2: What if he has said, yeat, I looked at Noel
this year, guys, I go yeah, they never do that.
It's like, you know, wouldn't it be fun if you
really really wanted to spice up these press conferences?
Speaker 3: Gordy, you put these guys on light detector.
Speaker 2: I think that would be illegal. That would not be
good business. I don't care if it's illegal. That would
add serious drama.
Speaker 9: Well, I think I think these days in sports, I'm
of the old school. I wish we had more Steve Spurriers.
Like coaches and gms. They tell you exactly how they
feel about people instead of pussy footing around.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Well that that Steve Spurrier
world is long gone. I get it.
Speaker 9: Nobody wants to say anything that could be semi controversial.
They just they want to just give you. Give you
what did they give you?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 9: Uh mean, Oat Brand, That's that's what Nikosia gives you
most brand.
Speaker 2: Huh No Raisins. You know it's crazy. I had Raisin
Brand this morning for breakfast. I'm glad you thought of that.
I don't like raisins by themselves, like I would never go, hey,
I go for bowl of raisins right now, But for
some reason, they did taste good. And Raisin Brand I
don't get it. That's my food court of the day. No,
Heyden Raizin Brand's good.
Speaker 9: So if you missed it, the headline of Nikosario's presser
here about started about twenty four minutes ago. Yeah, is CJ.
Strode is not going anywhere. He will be the Texans
quarterback in twenty twenty six. Now, I will not add
in the words and beyond because he didn't say beyond
is still to be decided, right right.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, but this way, if if we're having this
conversation a year from now because of the uncertainty of
the performance, then the Texans are going to be in
a real shaky spot. Now, you are much more of
a college football geek than I am. How is the
quarterback class at twenty twenty seven? Luck loaded? Really absolutely loaded.
This quarterback crop sucks. That's why I don't get the
Trinda Dad Chambells thing from All Miss. Why he would
be fighting in these Mississippi courtrooms to get another year
of eligibility. Well again, he's got five million sitting on
the table from Ole Miss to come back and play.
But I think he'd have been a second round pick
at the worst in this draft. Fernando Mendoz is going
number one, number one after that, This thing is wide
freaking open. Ty Simpson from Alabama thought to be probably
the second best quarterback, Dante Moore from Oregon.
Speaker 3: He went back.
Speaker 9: So next year, twenty twenty seven, you got Arch Manning
basically a lock to be number one, number one, even
if he is mediocre this year, the name Manning is
going to have him number one.
Speaker 2: And he'll probably he's the kind of guy who looks
like the media. He will be a flashy on a
named pro day.
Speaker 3: Yes, and look in too.
Speaker 9: Arch's credit, the family's done a great job of keeping
him humble. I thought he got better as the year
went along. I think he's gonna be awesome at Texas
this year. But you got Arch Manning from Texas, you
got Dante more from Oregon. You'll have Trinidad Champells from
Ole miss I bet if he has another great year
he'll improve his stock. You'll have Sam Levitt from LSU
coming over from Arizona State. I mean, the list goes
on and on and on.
Speaker 2: Then you got guys who are like what happens with
DJ Lagway now going to Baylor. If he's awesome, I
bet he you know he might come out like next
year's draft is loaded with quarterbacks. Okay, well that gives
me a little comfort. But if you're a Texans fan,
you need CJ. To get out of this rut that
he's in because if he doesn't get out of it,
you're not gonna go any further this year in the
playoffs and you're gonna be searching for a new quarterback.
And how long does it take, Gordy, I mean not
every every quarterback is building. Drake May got to the
Patriots of the Super Bowl in the second season, so
it can happen fairly quickly. But that's more the outlier
than it is the norm.
Speaker 9: Oh the other ones I forgot Julian saying at Ohio State,
Leonora sell Er, South Carolina, Jayden Mayava USC CJ.
Speaker 3: Carr Notre Dame. I saw something yesterday. They have CJ.
Speaker 9: Carr is the odds on favorite now to win the
Heisman at Notre Dame. They think he's that good. So
again it's it's gonna be nuts. So you can have
a lot of good quarterback playing college this year. We'll
see how many end up going pron twenty seven.
Speaker 2: So if you were a betting man. I'm not saying
off what you just read. If you had a chance
to bet the field or arch Manning is one dash
one would you do not only the first quarterback, but
I mean I'm saying the first pick.
Speaker 9: I still think it's gonna be a Arch no matter what. Now,
real quick with Strout, this is year four right, twenty
twenty six, he will get his fifth year option, I'm
sure picked up, so they'll have the option to pick
up the club option for twenty twenty seven. I think
that's likely. Now, I think the caveat here. He's awesome
this year as MVP type season. What's everybody gonna be yelling,
pay the man, pay the man? Do you lock him up?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 9: All right, he's showed enough, let's give him the long
term deal. Is this gonna be tough to give both
him and Will Anderson? That's what I've been saying, top dollar,
Derek Stingley's already getting top dollar.
Speaker 2: And Neil Hunter's got one year left. Yeah, he'll come
off the books. I mean, that's you know, that's a
kind of a foregone conclusion. But yeah, it's it's just
the NFL. There's a reason why there's a salary cap.
You can't sign all you can't have eight dudes all
top paid at their positions. And that's why I kind
of respect the salary cap in the NFL because it
does require general manager to watch his books, but.
Speaker 9: It also requires a GM to get creative to go, oh,
we can't pay all these guys. Let's flip this guy
for more rap future assets.
Speaker 6: HM.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's why I think the general manager's role
in football is the most difficult, because not only are
you having to evaluate fifty or sixty something players, you
got to think about the massive draft, and you also
have to manage a salary cap. And then if you
overpay somebody, you got to go and then convince him
to defer some money for the pat to the future
so you can save room for other guys.
Speaker 9: Just I mean, but can't be understated what a monster
gear this is for CJ.
Speaker 2: He has got to I think it's a monster year
for Nick Cassio.
Speaker 12: Two.
Speaker 2: I really do if ay if this if this draft
does not provide significant help in one of three cats
in one of two categories, if you don't get a
legitimate I'm talking about draft and free agency. If you
don't get a legitimate RB one or a legitimate starter
in your starting five, they can play right away. I
think you're in major, major trouble for Nick Asseio. I
really do all right. Gut feelings are up next, plus
Andrew wants to get in a little bit of CJ
talk as well. Seven one three two one two five
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Speaker 13: Yo, they got a gut peeling.
Speaker 3: This is their gut feeling. On the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Eleven thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety Let me
lay the lay, lay the land for you. Here are
friend Brad is calling in. He's got some gut feelings.
Remember Brad is a frequent contributor to the show. But
the rule is we let anybody go in front of Brad.
So if you have any gut feelings seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety So, if you've got any
gut feelings, any sports predictions, you make them, You'll get
on in front of the list, in front of Brad.
But if no one calls in, Brad eventually gets to
the phones seven one three, two one two five seven eighty.
Now Ross is off today because he's sick. We didn't
do gut feelings last Tuesday because we were in spring training.
So I think, Jonathan, our spring training or our gut
feelings are gonna be like three weeks old when we
get back.
Speaker 4: Yay, right, it's from the the tenth of the February.
Speaker 3: Do you have him murder? Does he have them? I
have them? Have them here?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: How do we do?
Speaker 13: All?
Speaker 3: Right, let's do this.
Speaker 8: So, Matt, you said, Rockets sweep the Clippers. Nope, Joss
Hater opens season on IL.
Speaker 3: I got that. I mean, don't have it, but I
think I'm gonna have it going.
Speaker 8: On all Hey, those are con cup feelings. Back off,
not your bet my bed. Rock Ross said, rocket sweep
the Clippers? Nope, Rockets finished as a top three seed.
Very well, could happen right now. They're in the three
seed in the West.
Speaker 3: How about that.
Speaker 4: Bearing injury, Reeve Shepherd will not be a full time
starter at any point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was easy. That was basically e may don't
go back that up? Would you have?
Speaker 4: And then I said, Cougars go for a seven game
win streak.
Speaker 3: Kind of wait, what did you say again?
Speaker 4: They go for a seven game win seed there right
now we hit six.
Speaker 3: And then now they are on the three losing streak. Yeah,
they got it.
Speaker 2: Tournaments here, are you sure you're not secondad, because you
can probably turn your microphone off? All right, Andrew and
Brad hanktab will get you to a couple of seconds
seven one, three, two, one two, five seventy.
Speaker 3: This is gut feelings. We got this at the top
of the hour.
Speaker 2: By the way, Ryan Holland's going to join us an
hour from now to talk some NBA for this for
a couple of segments. All right, So Gordon, you're our
guest today and we thank you for stepping stepping into line. Second, well,
what is in your gut this week? Besides probably a
lot of Cajun food and crawfish? Yeah, how about this?
Going on a limb here, I'm writing he's down. By
the way, I'm gonna say the Astros five man rotation.
We ran through it yesterday, right though, one through four
when we actually sended it to six.
Speaker 9: Okay, who do we have we Hudder Brown one, Javier
two three three, Arrogatty four who was our five.
Speaker 2: Five would is going to be oh, the new kid
from Pittsburgh Burrows, and then Arraghtty would be six.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, we we had Arrogetty in the four. In
the top five is from Brof the team. Yes, I
think you said Lance mccullors six. Yeah, that's a Connor six.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go my gut feeling. The sixth man that
makes the astro's rotation is Jason Alexander for a stretch
last year was one of your most consistent pictures pitching
to By the way, he is, I talked to him
at down in Florida's Is that because he was nice
to you?
Speaker 3: Is that's the reason why you're doing this? He was
working on a new pitch.
Speaker 9: He said, he feels good about his arsenal that that
he worked on and developed last year. So yeah, look,
it could be Ryan Weiss, it could be Nate Pearson,
Lance mccullors.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of options.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you're gonna say that, then where is
Lance mccullors from this roster?
Speaker 9: I think they almost because of what they're paying him,
they he's he's a long reliever role.
Speaker 2: Or so you're gonna say, Alexander is your six man
mccolors of the bullpen. Yes, Now again we're saying we're
assuming this is all because we're saying this is a
with health not being an issue for any of these people.
Speaker 9: Colors looks good, man, he's in great shape. Stuff look good.
I love you know.
Speaker 2: His You are such a February baseball His delivery is.
I mean, he's so good when he's on.
Speaker 9: He's on that that game last fourth of July Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: He was awesome. That's one time in five months.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going next Huh. Rockets won yesterday. See this
is the home ern in me. You' already just going
and just go and just say it. They weren't in
the next four games, next four. Yes, they are going
to beat Sacramento tomorrow, by the way, who snapped a
sixteen game losing streak last night at Memphis for them.
And they're going to sweep Orlando, Miami and Washington Sacramento
two and oh against the Rockets this year, right both
in Sacramento.
Speaker 3: There you go. So if you want to fight me
on it, go ahead, say call me Homer. That's fine.
Speaker 6: You do it.
Speaker 9: Who's our Kansas guy, the kid who's sitting out, the
guy at Kansas Peterson he uh. The mock drafts i've
seen have him going number one two Sacramento.
Speaker 3: He's going back to Kansas. Then you don't want to play
for Sacrement.
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: So I got the Rockets winning in Orlando and Miami
and Miami.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Orlando's mid, Miami's mid. But I feel like,
odds are they split those?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, I know odds are saying it, but you have
to give you a gut feeling. I'm giving you a
gut feel. Le'll be down for a South Florida split,
all right, Gordy says South Florida split.
Speaker 9: They win in Orlando, they losing Miami vice versa.
Speaker 3: Can I say the Cougars don't lose again until the tournament? Yeah?
I mean, come on, and don't even get the credit
for that.
Speaker 11: Not really right?
Speaker 2: I mean Colorado, Baylor and Oklahoma State sucks.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State used to be awesome.
Speaker 2: Hell okay, and I l you don't, Gordian, I don't
even know this. I don't know if you've ever covered
college sports before, But if you don't have cash, you
ain't winning.
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 3: I'm looking right now?
Speaker 9: You know an ESPN they listen tickets as low as
on that like secondary market site they use Next Wednesday
go of H hosting Baylor tickets as low as two
hundred and eleven dollars.
Speaker 3: Is that because it's senior Day or something?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because if it were a hot ticket
and then their season finale at Oklahoma State tickets as
low as sixteen dollars. Have you ever been a ive arena?
Gallagher Ive Arena?
Speaker 3: It's not bad? What is it?
Speaker 2: Gallagher Iva after two people? That's the name of the arena. Yeah,
IBus Henry Iva the coach, and Gallagher of some dude.
Speaker 3: I don't know who that is. Travis Ford is the
last time they were relevant?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: Eddie Sutton? Maybe? Okay, we're probably Travis Ford? Is that
Eddie Sutton? May he rest? He's dead? Okay? Drunk driving?
Oh my god? Well, I mean he got busted so
many times Amed.
Speaker 2: I just assumed, Good lord, all right, I'm not giving
the Cougars three straight wins that that's almost like that's chalk.
So I'm not even gonna bother for that one. John,
Then what are you have in your gut this week, dude, Matt,
you took mine. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: Oh I'll put you down.
Speaker 4: Okay, but me not because that was going the same way.
I think Rockets take this next floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm good for that. Brilliant mind stick a light.
Let me have your Okay, where did Joeln already have
the Kougs two seed? The two seed two seed? Do
you think this three game losing streak hurt them at all?
Speaker 8: Mmm?
Speaker 2: Not, especially if they lose any more games before the
Big twelve tournament could hurt them. They have to finish
the table with three straight wins.
Speaker 9: He's got Illinois, so he's got them in as like
the seventh overall team Illinois eight, Florida nine.
Speaker 2: See Florida's red hot right now. I don't care about Florida.
They could jump use they do nothing for me. I
really want to go gut feeling u of h falls
to a three seed, but I don't want that to happen.
I got a terrible gut feeling for you. The Cougars
are gonna be out of the South region, out of
the South like not in the South, because the South.
The Sweet sixteen is in Houston, and the playing was
for them to all belong was to be, was to
be here in town to play those I got a
sneaky suspicion the Cougars are going to find themselves in
a different regions.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong about this. I really do they
tend to put a uh out of South region? Again,
I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Most times.
Speaker 2: They try to make jig graphical sense out of them
most time, but not every time. Like if you're a
bad if you're a low seed, they will punish you
and send you out to the West Coast. But like,
I don't know, I feel like, especially their two seed,
I think they stay all right. Let me get some
people in here. We got somebody they want to call
on non Guts. We'll go to that first and we'll
say hi to Andrew on seven ninety Andrew, thanks for waiting.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 7: Love the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I was calling in because I.
Speaker 13: Had a revelation the other night about c. J. Stroud
and he is starting to remind me a lot of
another Texas Texans Legends quarterback from the twenty fifteen season,
and his stats look almost identical along with the four
interceptions in a divisional playoff game. And CJ's looking to
me like none other than Brian Hoyer out there.
Speaker 2: Are you besmirching the name of CJ. Strouder for Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 13: You're not on paper, man, The numbers don't lie in
four interceptions in a divisional round. I think mis Hoyr
was the last.
Speaker 7: One to accomp with that seat.
Speaker 13: So I just think anyone that's defending CJ and thinks
he's the answer hasn't been a Texans fan for very long.
Speaker 3: No, but I but he's not Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud has remarkable quarterback skills.
Speaker 2: He just needs people around him and he needs to
be able to kind of gain some get some confidence back,
because I think towards the end of the year his
confidence was completely shot. It may never come back, but
if there's anything to change, it's got to be better
parts around him. And that could be said for any
of the quarterbacks. But he's not Brian Hoyer. Brian Hoyer sucked.
I mean, great guy, but he really sucked.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 13: I remember it still burnt into the back of my brain.
I was having nightmares during that playoff.
Speaker 2: Game with I mean, I understand, I understand comp Sandrew
and thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: But the Brian Hoyer c J Stroud comp is not
particularly close.
Speaker 2: That's very disrespectful. I thought he was gonna say, Matt
shob that's a better comp. Shawbesk numbers, not Matt schab Oyer.
I mean the pick six is week after week after week.
That was awful fetal position when sacks and I gotta
tell you some one more thing about c J. He's well,
I I hate to even says, but I'm just gonna
say it. Is he one more concussion away from like
being too attack of a little worried about him?
Speaker 3: Well, whose fault is that?
Speaker 2: Well, it could it's frock, It's probably a little. I
mean it's combination, everybody's fault.
Speaker 3: Put a damn put a damn offensive line around him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean you can you can have the
world's greatest offensive line around him still getting cussed you.
I mean, offensive linemen do give up sacks, and sometimes
those sacks are blindsided. Sometimes the guy hits the hits
his head on the ground and look that those these
NFL turfs got the uh aren't spongy.
Speaker 3: Was so. CJ.
Speaker 2: Straw was the number two overall pick at twenty twenty three,
Drake May was the number three overall pick in twenty
twenty four, and Bryce Young number one who, by the way,
got took his team to the playoffs. Granted wasn't a
great team, but he rebounded after a subpar rookie year.
His projection, his his moving up is way faster than
c J. Strouds if you think about it. Yeah, he
was kind of reversal. He was kind of just okay
his rookie year and there was was much better in
year two. Yeah, quick time out back on the phones,
Brad and James Oo go with that seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven On our time is eleven forty six.
It's Matt Thomas Show with Ross Got feelings continue, Come
on and give us your gut next here on seven
ninety Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Virial Fine on
Sports Talk seven ninety at Thomas Show seven one three
two one two five seven on eighty last call before
we go to Brad. You know how I feel about Brad.
We love him, but you know, you getting in front
of him. I Uh, Jonathan'm adding another one on my
list of my feelings. Joe Mixon is getting released by
the Texans. Really yep, oh, Nicky s He's like, man.
Speaker 3: I I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: He's just one of our players and he's had some
surgery some sort. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't I'm in a vas you know what. He's like,
I gotta get this a whole out on my team.
So give me the like the business side of that, Like,
how does that work with the contract?
Speaker 2: Well, there's some cap money, you know, No, some moneys
are guaranteed some or not, so they're gonna free up
some cap space. Now, there's probably a little bit of
a cap hit, but that'll be something gonna be manageable.
I mean, hey, Helen didn't play for you last year.
Speaker 3: You didn't miss him. You need an R.
Speaker 2: But how does a guy come back a year removed
from whatever it is? Just saying Joe Mixon released? Say
some cap money? Gut feeling. You've heard it first seven
one three two one two five seven dotty seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero for gut feelings,
Let's talk to.
Speaker 3: James on seven ninety James, what's in your gut this week?
Speaker 14: Yeah, my gud is with the addition of Sanders and
Kirkland and Bass as a tight end, Spuck, you can
pretty well go ahead and get your Gamblers playoff tickets
now because they're Gonnas close to often.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but when he said Gambers, I hung
up on it me immediately. Davids has been trying to
talk gamele this talk for the last three.
Speaker 2: That's because James isn't order touch a woman's like these
days either. Seven one, three, two, two, five, seven ninety.
Look you here, Brad, what's your gut this week?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I'm tired of y'all talking bad about talking like you
want to trade Paraders.
Speaker 7: I'm my five stars.
Speaker 12: Paratus is not getting traded. Dana Brown has a contract
for the future. He's worried about himself too. You get
rid of Paraders. I'm gonna make another prediction. Either Pereia
or the first basement we got Christian he's gonna get
I mean, they're either gonna get hurt. I mean Walker,
I'm sorry, Christian Walker. Either gonna get hurt or they're
gonna go into a slump enough where you gotta make
a change, and so Paradis is gonna be your future
third base or first baseman in the future. This year,
you get rid of Paradis, you ain't going very far
in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you that he's.
Speaker 12: One of your best players. I don't care what anybody says,
you are not trading him. What more would do that
unless somebody like Boston will give you two or three players,
not one. They're not proven in Boston. Preadis is proven.
Speaker 11: Okay, that's my first one.
Speaker 12: And then I think your your outfield to be taken
care of. Matthews will be that player that fulfills that need.
I also think Kevin Durant is a cancer. I'm surprised
nobody brought him up for using that burner phone and
uh throwing all his players players under the bus. I mean,
I guarantee you they are not gonna win a championship
with Durant on their team.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you that.
Speaker 11: We'll see what else I got.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: I think that's it.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Brad.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you, Houston, Texas, is that how this
segment's gonna end with that? Kevin Durant is a cancer?
And Jonathan did he say he guarantees the Astros will
regret moving East Paradis or he's gonna then he guarantee
that they're going to keep estcac Paratus because oh why
I think he's keeping because he because he thinks Danner
Brown's worried about his job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a two parter. Huh that's.
Speaker 2: You get one minute, Houston, Texas. If you if that's
how the segment's gonna end. We're in a bad spot America.
Kevin Durant the cancer huh okay.
Speaker 9: Uh bill'rat you can go and put me down for
l s U repeating as College World Series champs.
Speaker 3: All right, write that down. Though you got three predictions,
here be the first first team in a long time
to win three and four.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go and make a prediction that unfortunately Louisiana
can't pay for teacher salaries.
Speaker 3: I won't write that down.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 3: I'll think it though. Sorry, link Kiff, it'll pay. He'll
buy him lunch or something.
Speaker 2: Do you why, how do you mean like we make
fun of Florida, we make fun of Louisiana too. How
does that make you feel?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: What they care about? What matters most football. They don't. Yeah,
they don't care about tea cleaning.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's Alabama. Oh okay, okay, at you you've been to Dothan, Alabama.
I have never been to doth in Alabama. I think
I want to send some people in this market to
do in the next radio show there. But that's a
different issue for a different time. Jacob on seven ninety
what is.
Speaker 3: In your gut?
Speaker 16: Well, my good feeling, even though I hate it, is
that they will trade Paradas. The Astros will trade Paradis.
Speaker 11: Everybody likes it.
Speaker 16: Brandy is a great player, but I think he said
it on the show the other day. He's gonna get
us more than what Christian Walker will get us. Christian
Walker makes too much money. He's older. So if there's
hope for the future for the Astros to build another winner,
they'll have to use a piece like Parattas to get
more players, even though it may hurt us in the
short term. I don't think the gu is worried about
his contract because short term gain. I don't believe it's
in their plans right now, so I think they'll re up.
I think his fuddle re up. They'll reload and maybe
a year or two. Nobody wants to hear that. Maybe
a year or two. But then I think he'll turn
it back around to start winning again and the tours.
The Rockets go gut feeling they're gonna be one and
done in the playoffs this year. But next year, when
point guard comes back, I think it's a different story.
Speaker 2: Thanks, yes, thank you very much for the phone call.
Last one belongs to Robert and Webster. Robert wins in
your gut this week, So guys just talk.
Speaker 17: Wanted to speak on not the last guy, but the
guy before. KD is a cancer? Come on, easy money
sniper here. I'm not the biggest kV fan, but I
mean the guy's a monster, he's not a cancer.
Speaker 6: I've got a hot take.
Speaker 18: I think we go second round playoffs. Talking about the
last guy too. I don't know if we're one and done.
I know we don't have a good point guard. But
Kv's not a cancer. Yeah he does the Twitter stuff.
Speaker 3: Was it proven?
Speaker 18: But now he's rallying those young guys.
Speaker 16: I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 15: That's my gut.
Speaker 18: I feel better about the Rockets, especially after watching last night.
Speaker 2: It was it was good. Thank you for the phone call.
Appreciate it. That was how we ended gut feelings properly.
Thank you to our last two callers for saving me.
Whow Brad as something else. We love him though in
a weird way. Gordy, thank you for hanging out with me.
I appreciate it. Sure, what are you gonna do now?
I'm gonna finish getting this caserio audio for you. All right,
We're gonna play some caserio audio maybe in about fifteen minutes,
twenty minutes. We'll do that, and we got Ryan Holland's
gonna join us at twelve thirty for some Rocket chatter
and some NBA big picture talk. The Rockets were playing
easy like Sunday morning last night a Toda Center. We'll
describe that next plus the news at noon. It is
twelve o'clock on Sports Talk seven nights is the mac
Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: No. It sounds bulling and stands an easy night.
Speaker 2: Sunday morn.
Speaker 5: Forty seven second'clock to go, Rockets back of each town
hands here in side Toota Center.
Speaker 7: They win.
Speaker 5: By a final score of one twenty five two one
o five. Thus for the nineteenth time into Sidetota Center.
Speaker 3: It's a Rockets win.
Speaker 2: And I want to be so high. Doesn't sound weird?
They do all right except turn them all over too much.
Our number three is underway on the Mount Thomas Show
with Ross. Ross is still under the weather, hopefully getting
back tomorrow, if maybe not Thursday.
Speaker 3: We're so, let's going to get our hibachi tomorrow. Oh,
we mean it's a postpone that a day or so.
Let me know. I want to know. We'll check on
our boil later on.
Speaker 2: Rockets will be a part of today's edition along with
the Cougars of the News at noon. Rockets last night
take care of the Utah Jazz by a final score
of one twenty five to one zero Five. Six different
Rockets score in double figures, led by thirty one for
Jabari Smith. He makes twelve of seventeen from the floor.
He was six of eleven from three. Rocket shot fifty
eight percent from the floor forty five percent from three.
Only negative in the twenty point victory was they turned
the ball over a season high twenty seven times, turning
into thirty four points. Rockets at thirty five and twenty
one with the win last night, are now back in
the three seed in the Western Conference College basketball yesterday
and Allen Fieldhouse a crowd of fifteen thousand on hand
to see.
Speaker 3: The Houston Cougars lose.
Speaker 2: Sixty nine to fifty six to the Kansas Jayhawks. The
Cougars for the game were twenty one of sixty six
as thirty two percent from the floor yikes, ouch twenty
one percent from three on five to twenty four. Kingston
Flemings was six of eighteen. He finishes with sixteen. Nobody
else with the Cougars in double figures. Christinak Junior was
second in scoring with nine points. The Cougars are now
twenty three and five overall in the year eleven and
four and the Big twelve, and for the first time
in many a years, the Houston Cougars have dropped three
consecutive games. We will hear from Nick Cassio coming up
in a couple of moments, but we can tell you
uh that the Houston Texans and Nick Cassario had a
media availability and he said Nick did that trade talks
of c. J. Stroud are not underway, they have not
been discussed, and they're simply moronic. As far as Joe
Mixon is concerned. He continues to be souoner per super vague,
saying there was an offseason procedure done doesn't know any
more details on it, which is ridiculous because you're his boss, Jonathan.
It just smells super super fishy. I really want to
I want this news to break out so bad. I'm
telling you, Gordy's right about this. In all seriousness, this
feels like an athlete going rogue against his team's medical
condition and wait and wishes, and I think it's a
lot deeper than just something not nefarious.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be I hate a botch.
Speaker 2: Procedure, and you went to somebody that wasn't a team
doctor and it didn't go well. And I can't say
much more because we're probably gonna sue you Nick for
or sue you Joe for get your money back as
you didn't play first this year. You didn't follow our orders.
That's the chalk pick. I wonder what the second most
likely scenario is. Jonathan may have any ideas. I don't know,
do you have any ideas. I'm waiting for it. What
else could it possibly be?
Speaker 3: I'm waiting.
Speaker 2: Don't do this to it out, don't don't don't clip
that either believe we just said that, and I'm like,
oh man, we're not gonna win for production value. I
just tell you that for sure. We tried entertainment value.
But production I know, entertainment value we're doing just fine.
Everything else has been a hot mess, all right, So
more from Nicky Seed coming up in the next segment
of the show. We got some clips from the combine
in Indianapolis. And what else is going on the national
stage right now? Oh, the Astros and Mets are about
to play a spring training game in Port Saint Lucie,
and I presenting a role event happens in that game.
We'll be happy to push that along. As the Astros
had an off day yesterday, back on the field to play.
Jeremy Paine will leave things off and play shortstop this afternoon.
And appears the Falcons are going to release Kirk Cousins
on March the eleventh, making him street free agent. My
guess is he will have an opportunity to choose from
variety teams to go play and quarterback, maybe even start
in twenty twenty six and those Oh, Chris Sale, by
the way, signing a one year contract to stay with
the Atlanta Braves one year deal worth twenty seven million
dollars that does include a club option and he will
not reach free agency. He turns thirty seven years old
on March thirtieth. He helped the Atlanta Braves get a
sign in twenty twenty four, a strong twenty twenty five.
There was a little bit of rumors a few years
ago that Chrisdale could have become a Houston Aster, but
that never came to the Mustard. But again, one year
and twenty seven million dollars, and that, my friends, is
the news.
Speaker 3: At noon.
Speaker 2: Ryan Holl's going to join us in about twenty minutes.
Looking forward to some NBA chatter with that fella, as
he was on the call yesterday for the Rockets game
against the Utah Jazz. We'll talk to him about the
Rockets in the first segment, maybe a few more big
picture things coming up in the second segment, but he'll
be with us for a full half hour here on
Sports Talk seventy. But yes, Nick Case did speak at
the combine and the clips are coming in a little bit,
so instead of us trying to paraphrase what he had
to say, we'll hear directly from the Texans general manager
just let you know, general managers and coaches typically get
to speak, They get their time in front of the
limelight where all the national folks can run over there
and talk to him. And to no surprise, there was
some conversation about c J. Strow and what the thing is.
There weren't really rumors. It was just one guy, Tom
McShay that just said, hey, don't be surprised if a
name like c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud gets brought up.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: He can't have been talking out of his aster. He
could have actually had somebody relevant tell him this. I
think the example of c J. Stroud trade rumors was
just an example of people just looking on people's podcasts
and looking at clips on Twitter and going, oh, did
Tomasha you hear something that's exactly what I think happened.
Speaker 3: So we'll hear from Nick Asario coming back.
Speaker 2: A full segment of Nikky c soundbites for eightings a
grabber seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
If you want to chime in seven one three two
one two five seven ninety, it's twelve twelve, It's the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: All right, I promise Nikki c spoke.
Speaker 2: And instead of us have paraphrasing and guessing and interpreting
what he had to say, let's go right to some
of the main things that Nick Casseira had to say. Again,
our friend Ryan Holland's gonna join us in about ten
minutes here on the program for the NBA channel, and
we'll revisit on the Knick Serro stuff and also give
you any updates we need to do on the astros
here in.
Speaker 3: A little while.
Speaker 2: But first here is Nick Caserio when point blank asked
about the future of c J.
Speaker 19: Stroud it's morono like, we're not trying to go So
he's gonna be playing quarterback for the Eastern Texas in
two thousand Jenny six.
Speaker 15: So anything beyond that again, like that's that's your world.
You guys can speak to play.
Speaker 3: We're not trading sex. It's like, why would you bother
ask me that type a question?
Speaker 2: Is that that's cause stupid rumors start by stupid people
and then you gotta kiss and discuss.
Speaker 3: We go and take the calls right now you want
to talk, you won't talk about c J drug and trade. No, no, no,
I can see it happening.
Speaker 2: I can't see it. Oh man, there are some more
people that go to talk about that for five more months.
Why isn't he talking about c D shrug and trading?
Speaker 6: Gee?
Speaker 3: Why am I? Why am I sound like a host?
Speaker 6: On?
Speaker 3: He hal?
Speaker 2: I don't know? What the hell's wrong with me? That's
the same question that that's I got problems, Jonathan. I
try to be a perfect man, but I'm not. I
got flaws. But every time I hear about Reckon's conversation
about DM Texans, we gotta I feel like I'm working
at a Beaumont grocery store or something. Jesus, what's wrong
with me?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 3: Joe Mason, Joseph Miller, I don't know his middle name.
I don't know if he's got a middle name. Here's
Cassio Joe Mixing.
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, I mean we've talked to Joe and you know,
his representatives. So honestly, it's it's day to day. So
like we had conversations trying to get a little bit
more information. You know, he's had Picky had a surgery
here his off season in some capacity, so you know,
trying to get some follow up after that. So again
it's again I've said this multiple times. I'm not trying
to be evasive. It's a moving target. So we'll kind
of see what the availability is gonna be, what the
prognosis is for the season, but then ultimately try to
figure out like what makes sense for for everybody in
the Wand when.
Speaker 15: Did y'all know about the possibility of Joe missing some time?
Speaker 19: We knew it's probably you know, last spring through the
summer is probably a chance he was gonna miss a
period of time. Honestly, later, I don't think we knew
the extent of how long it was gonna be. It
was touch and go, so you know, there was again
it was again I'm not trying to create a problem.
Speaker 15: It was a moving target.
Speaker 19: So we were just trying to figure out, all right,
where are we in the scheme of things and just
try to all right, what do we gotta do moving forward.
Speaker 2: Because there are times that when you'd like to know
clarity on is because of the contract anything.
Speaker 15: It's a martial life.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think there's a lot of things between now
and you know, start the league year, maybe right around
the league year, just try to figure out what we're
planning whatever their result is. So you know, whether it's
Joe or other players in similar category. We've got I
don't know, twenty five ish or twenty something players that
are going to be for Asians, So all those conversations
are pretty fluid.
Speaker 15: At some point, we're gonna talk to you know, this player.
Speaker 3: Man, it's so certainly still very evasive. Isn't he the boss?
Speaker 2: And I don't get I'm not. I think he's just
being overly coy and I think he's got to do that.
But if you took Casario's comments about Joe Mixon literally
for everything you just said, you'd be like, do you
not know what's going on? Because that's general managers don't
do that. General managers do know what every player on
their roster, whether they're active or hurt, are doing. Again,
my gut feeling is Joe Maxon's out and uh, they'll
have to cut him, which means you're gonna have another
spot to fill in that running back room. Speaking of
their running back room, here's Nicky see on that.
Speaker 3: Not working is working now? Well, I mean Nick's a
free agent.
Speaker 15: So when we got three guys in their contract right now.
Speaker 7: We got what are he you know, coming back?
Speaker 15: If you had to go a year as Rousters, So
that's pretty good. G Jaar Jordan's under contract Bridge under
contract ours a free agent, they shelt the free agent.
Speaker 19: So I mean that's you got three guys that are
on the team currently. We're probably gonna more than three
players on the team. So you know where did that
players come from?
Speaker 15: Great tocy be one mechanism draft and the other magaanism Thomers.
They are a trade market for somebody out there. So
that's kind of where we are for today.
Speaker 2: That's word sound uh Now, two more things to get
to that you'd actually care about. What would be about
Nicky C and his team's offensive line.
Speaker 19: You know, certainly made some improvements. You know, probably look
the better pass protection or in a run game. Run
game was a little bit up and down, so we
can improve some areas in a running game, you know,
just relative the overall offensive production and probably help us.
Speaker 3: That's a free agent.
Speaker 19: That's probably one of the key guys, I mean as
a free agents transfer free agent and had a really good.
Speaker 3: Year obviously had the best of year of his career.
So you know that's a position we're.
Speaker 19: Gonna probably have to value. We can kind of see
what our options are to have some players coming back
and they'll played pretty good football. And Arionte went in
there and you know, probably played as good as any
rookie tackle. So have some good young players, have some
veterans in there, have some guys that are free agents.
So we're kind of, you know, working through that process
right now. You know, we'll kind of see where land up.
Speaker 2: All right, John, I'm gonna do my Nika Sarun personal
if you want to. I want you to grade it out.
You know, you know, we got some good guys and
get some bad guys, and we're gonna look at you
get some young guys, I get some older guys. I
got some guys that are looking to get stronger, looking
to get faster, and we'll look at some guys we'd
like some guys, and we're gonna be looking for the
draft to maybe find some guys and maybe some guys
will be faster and stronger and leaner and faster and
better protector and then you know, run game blocking his astraints.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it'll be the past game string.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, some of it's really good when Nikky se socks,
and some of it is exhausting.
Speaker 3: That was undred, Thank you, very much. I appreciate that
very much. Thank you.
Speaker 2: One more comment before we get to our buddy, Ryan
Hollins on the Casario led to Texans offensive line.
Speaker 19: Any end, we're trying to figure out, all right, what
are options? Who are the best five guys?
Speaker 15: They might not be here, and then once we kind
of get everybody together.
Speaker 19: Which is kind of how that manifests itself this past season,
like last year, were sitting here kind of a bunch
of moving targets added some players, weren't really sure what
it was gonna look like, and then eventually it kind
of evolves into a core group, if you will. So
you're probably gonna take a bit of work to get
to a similar point. But overall, I mean that group
is certainly improved.
Speaker 15: There's a role of room for improvement.
Speaker 19: Holding a really good job and this get out coaching
that group. So you know, I'm sure we're gonna be
adding to that group peers.
Speaker 2: All right, So there's room for improvement, there's room for
getting better, there's room for getting taken a day by day,
week by week, step by step target. Moving target. Why
is it moving target? I like I like that my
targets like still right there? In front of you, doesn't move,
stiff move, does not move at all. Right there, hit
that target.
Speaker 3: You know what makes it?
Speaker 2: What makes a moving target? Jonathan Man asked, I didn't
mean to interrupt your lunch there.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't.
Speaker 4: I think I've never heard that analogy ever until he
use it today. I want something they don't know, and
they don't want to say anything. They say it's a
moving target.
Speaker 2: I think it's ever changing is when I think of somebody,
there's a moving target that you may be able to
be strength at one area of your game and you're.
Speaker 3: Not so strong of the other.
Speaker 4: Well, like God, he said, why couldn't he just be
we don't know it instead of saying all this pr stunt.
Speaker 3: I don't get that. I'm talking about Joe Mixon.
Speaker 4: Just even with the offensive line, why don't you say
we don't know the guys yet, we're gonna look here,
because could you have.
Speaker 2: To protect your players, which once you have, you don't
you don't go to the combine and going, hey, guys,
I gotta let y'all know I'm here to go grab
some guys. Because our offensive line was below way below average.
Borderline sucked and we got to fix that.
Speaker 3: But they know they know they were below average. I
have you met have you met athletes? They know how
many athletes have you met in your life and said, God,
I sucked? Oh man, I was bad. Everybody has an excuse.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying. I mean, they know they've had
that end of the year meeting. Every athlete has the
end of the year with their coach. They know they
were below average.
Speaker 3: It's no way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's true. All right, Hey, let's talk
some NBA with our friend Ryan Hollins. He is one
of my besties. He is a great guy and can
give us an analytical viewpoint of the Rockets game from
last night, plus a little big picture NBA stuff. All
for the next tower a half hour, should say, and
you can join us if you want to. I'm in
the conversation too. At seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three, two, one two five
seven ninety This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Ross's off again today, still battling the flu. I hope
he gets better. Matter of fact, I got an update
from him. He'll be back with us on Thursday, So
very much looking forward to having it on for that
time is twelve twenty eight, Ryan Hollins.
Speaker 3: Next year on seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Twelve thirty two on Sports Talk seven ninety it is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross's Under the Weather.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with us on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Hey, uh, coming up today at one point fifty, it'll
be Believing It or Not the category Thata. It will
be all things about Jabbari Smith and he was excellent
last night as the Rockets to beat the Utah Jazz
one twenty five to one oh five. In fact, Jabari
was twelve to seventeen from the floor, six eleven from
three thirty one points.
Speaker 3: In the victory.
Speaker 2: To talk about Rockets and some big picture NBA, we
got them for a couple of segments. Our buddy Ryan Hollins, Ryan,
how the hell are you today?
Speaker 7: I'm doing great, Lena, how are you?
Speaker 3: I got no complaints?
Speaker 2: Hey, So, if you turn the ball over twenty seven
times in the game and you're supposed to lose by
twenty five points, right, typically, what was that that was
so weird last night?
Speaker 6: Was it not?
Speaker 7: It was a lot of complacency at the end of
the day, and I think that there was good and bad.
Like you saw a sense of urgency, you saw a
carry over that's a frustration from a tough loss that
fourth quarter up in New York what it should look like, Matt.
But at the end of the day, I've been a
player in the locker room before, and I felt like
there's a lot of like, well, Utah is not taking
this game serious. You know, a lot of moments where
the focus definitely lacked, but the urgency in the hustle
was there. So there was a a mix of both.
And again, he may has given responsibility to essentially almost
all four to five players on the floor to handle
the basketball and make good decisions. So we'll see how
he handles that. At any time, he could strip that
those abilities from the guys and see what he does there.
But I think as a player, that's your responsibility to
take care of the basketball. And sometimes we saw a
lot of last night looking for the home run play
rather than this simple play, and a lot of those
home run plays paid off, Matt.
Speaker 3: You know, Ryan, there were a lot of good numbers.
Speaker 2: Besides the individual performances of Jabbari, a man goes eight
for eight, they also were very good on the fast
break thirteen out of fourteen shot opportunities on fast break
turn into baskets. They also were twenty seven of thirty
seven in the points in the paint. Those should be,
in fact, the easiest baskets to make. That had to
be a good sign, especially because and it may be
sounds silly for me to even say, but is running
a three on one or a three on two harder.
Speaker 3: Than it appears to be when you're watching a basketball game.
Speaker 7: No, I mean that's a simple spacing and finishing at
the end of the day. And again, I can think
sometimes it comes out of complacency. Now it's always nice.
And you know, I was in a generation where I
was told, Hey, get the ball to a guard and
go again. Houston has four guys that can push on
a break, so I think there's more responsibility of whoever
has the ball in the middle to handle the handle
the ball or take care of it. And Houston's very
unique because you could very well argue their best playmaker
is Alprin Shim Goulden. He plays majority five, probably ninety
five on the floor. So as far as putting something
on the break, again, that responsibility has been delegated to
all the guys, and that's where you're seeing some of
the mistakes happen.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're with me because there's so many
things about the nuance of basketball, and I trust and
value your opinion on Somebody asked me yesterday about why
Albie brings the ball up so much into front court.
Give me the biggest positive about that, and then also
tell me what that ultimately could be from a detrimental standpoint.
If he's not forgetting about turnovers, what hindrance has come
into play, if he is doing so much ball handling,
and what are the positives on both sides of that.
Speaker 7: I see you're you're locked in today, Matt, You're you're
with the details. First off, for Houston, sometimes there's a
group that struggles to get the ball across half court
a lot of times when we just spoke of, he's
got four or five guarding him, so he's probably more
equipped to get across half court with five man guarding him.
Who's going to struggle to pressure the basketball? Remember in
early in the season in Milwaukee, who was it was
Giannis Atkupo trying to pressure pull full court and he
got broke down and alp he went to the basket
and scored one of the more impressive buckets in the
clutch time that we saw this season. So you know
he's going to get the defender that's not going to
be all over his jersey at the end of the day.
And if you put a small guy on him, you
know he'll just run to the post. You know, you
don't like to see those mismatches ultimately, So that's why
you can argue that he's better at doing that. Now
here's a challenge. If I'm a team and I'm playing
against when you play against another team's best player, sometimes
you know your your best defense for him is your
offense or making him work. So now if Houston another team,
let's say Oklahoma City, they know Shinggoon's bringing the ball
up port, I'm gonna pressure him up port when he
gets the ball, I'm gonna double team him. When he's
on defense, I'm gonna run him into picking rolls. I'm
gonna make him have to work and move his feet.
So you know you would attack those really great guys,
you know, if it was you know, Tim Duncan, you know,
or certain guys like that, like you want to make
him work. It was Shakequille O'Neill for years. You know, hey,
pull him outside of paint, make him have the slightest feet,
see if you can tire him out.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: So again, you like to attack stars because it's extremely
hard to spot the basketball and then go on the
other side and defend.
Speaker 2: How many times in your life did you bring the
ball up with the court?
Speaker 7: I mean I might count cut on my hand, Matt,
you know what I mean. But ables always like, get
the ball to a guarden and run. And I was
the guy. I ran like a deer, so.
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 7: I would rim run and just run past people.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: That was one of my best attributes. So as far
as dribbling, I mean I could have done it, but
it probably would have taken away from my strength. Could
I have shot threes or shot more twenty footers? Yeah,
But at the end of the day, when you are
the most athletic guy on your team and possibly one
of the most one of the most in the NBA,
it's like, well, we need you catching lobs and being
by the rims, you know, playing through your strength.
Speaker 3: So no, Matt, I'm gonna say something right now.
Speaker 2: If I'm running a basketball team, I'm letting bring up
the court ball court as much as you want, because
you got great handles.
Speaker 6: You just do.
Speaker 7: Oh thanks, Matt, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the idea, but you know.
Speaker 7: What you're you're you're joking about it. But in all reality,
you look at nicolea jokicch yes, and it's so dangerous
because he initiates offense and he puts five in such
a bad predicament. You put a small guy on him,
he'd take him to the hole. And then you don't
have a lot of you don't have a lot of
point guards in today's NBA. So now Jamal Murray would
never with all due respect to Jamal, he would never
have the success if he wasn't playing alongside yell Kis
because he's a perfect fit where he's comfortable playing off ball,
getting down, he'll running pick and roll looking to score
and he understands the weapon that yell Kitsch is ultimately
at the end of the day, and it just releaves
pressure in Jamal Murray's best when he's scoring. You know,
if you get twenty assists from Jamal Murray, you're taking
him away from one of his strengths at the end
of the day. And when you get twenty assists from
Yo Kitch, he can.
Speaker 15: Do whatever you need.
Speaker 7: That's why he's so dominant.
Speaker 2: Our friend Ryan Hollins from Space City Home Network Rockets
analyst with us here on the Matt Thomas jold Ross
twelve thirty eight here on Sports Talk seven ninety The
Jazz tried to press quite a bit in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: Rockets did not handle it particularly well.
Speaker 2: Do you anticipate that happening more between now and the
in the regular season with perhaps teams that can cause
similar problems?
Speaker 7: You said, well, the Rockets press more, will.
Speaker 3: The opponents part?
Speaker 2: Like Utah tried and they were successful a little bit,
But then the Rockets are starting shooting.
Speaker 3: Well said to back off on that.
Speaker 7: You hit it right on the head, Matt like, you
have to have the personnel to do that. And those
are the teams that Houston has had the problems with.
San Antonio did it early in the season and Houston
has improved obviously because the teams are looking to do it.
Oklahoma City the very first game of the season. They're
probably one of the best in history at all five
positions to be able to pressure the basketball. So to
answer your team, it's going to be like a team
with a personnel, you know, and like our guys have
the Kings tomorrow night, and like the Kings weren't great
at it, but like they just realized just pressure as
much as we can and we you know, our group
messed around and you know, lost a very winnable game
up there in Sacramento. So you're you're gonna see teams,
like you said, like attempt to do it, but it
might not look great if they don't have the person
And for Houston, I think the challenge is like somebody
just stepping up and saying, like, get me the ball
and get like a great point guard. I was always told,
Matt if you want to, you can ask Calvin Murphy.
You can ask any point guard say what would you
do if you saw trap They just start laughing. There's
no way you trapped me. It's almost disrespectful that you
see a full court press. So I think the challenge
for Houston is seeing a guy that steps up that says,
get me the ball and just get out of the way.
And a lot of times Kevin, his to his priend,
has done as best as he can at doing that.
But again it kind of takes him out of his
natural position, and you got a group that's doing their best.
Speaker 2: Matt Ryan a lot of conversation with Ima and I
and media ask it as well about the number of
minutes of Durant and men thompsonren't playing, especially more for Kadi.
You didn't feel like there was enough of a separation
because there were so many turnovers that you could give
Durant a lot of the fourth quarter off. He those
two guys are two and three in the league in
minutes played per game. Is that just going to be
the norm and the rest of the way because the
bench is now shriveled up with no atoms, no fret
all year long and now Jayshawn's gone for a while,
or it was just a Men Thompson built because of
the way the team has built that he's gonna be
out there thirty seven thirty eight minutes night. We should
stop working about how many minutes he's playing.
Speaker 7: Well, for one, it's nice to be young. I'd be
lying to you if if I told you didn't scare
the heck out of me. And I think Kevin understands
that the schedule is a lot lighter going down the
stretch and like it's go time. You know, it's time
for him to step up. But he steps into the
season with a mindset of saying like, hey, I want
everybody else to flourish and make plays. And it's a
real case in point. Last night, Defan stepped out and
like he was going for this career high and assist
and Matt, due to my notes which I would love
to share with you, his career high sixteen assists. You know,
I was all tired of Matt. Okay, you're gonna have
to lock in, And it looked like he was going
for it last night. And he knows that anytime I
can go get his twenty. I think when he end
up with eighteen or twenty last night, he can walk
to twenty points. So Kevin's just so unique in that fashion.
But he was definitely going for this hiss, looking to
pass the ball and get guys involved. And that becomes
extremely instrumental because you're asking me, how's he gonna play
those minutes? You know how he's gonna play those minutes
because his teammates are going to step up and make plays,
and he's like Jabbari, go for thirty or forty Jabari,
like I want you to like that's what I want
to see from you. And some of his frustrations at times,
and don't quote me on this is because he's like,
I want you guys to take the next step. He
believes in these guys, and there's a reason that he
came to Houston, you know, and as great as he is,
he's willing to sacrifice some of that because he knows
there's a bigger picture. Because if I can get Jabbari
or men or Red or these guys that come around,
we're going to be paid for success. I Matt and
then by wrong, he knows he can get forty. I
don't know if I know anybody like I play with
Paul Pierce, Chris Paul, Kevin Gartnett, Dark Naviski like Dark
was probably the second closest guy, and maybe Paul that
like Nah, probably Dirk Dirk fight only got I played
with it against anybody knows that I can go get forty.
Now I'm not saying it's going to turn into a win,
but he knows he can go get forty. And Kevin
still had that type of game and.
Speaker 3: He's thirty seven years old too.
Speaker 2: I mean that's One of the thing is most incredible
is that look that slidestep to the baseline. Maybe has
taken a step back, maybe that dribble dry penetration that
he lived on early in his career. But to me, Ryan,
he might be the greatest elbow jump shooter in the
history of the NBA, and maybe even betgerter than that.
But I mean, at those elbows, it's about ninety percent accurate.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 7: He He's the greatest national scoring talent we've ever seen.
With all due respect to Michael Jordan, to Steph Curry,
to whoever you want to, he's the Michael was not
seven feet dude. And then he's got he's got the
Kobe Bryant Michael Jordan baseline package fatal. Then he's got
the dark one legger. Then he's seven feet, Then he's obsessive.
Then the guy has a chip on his shoulder like
he's just he's just trying to get under his own shoulders, okay,
and and and poke at himself. And sometimes Kevin's just
poking at himself and get himself going. And I'm sorry
it's not pretty at times, but it's part of greatness.
Speaker 17: Matt.
Speaker 7: I've seen you do that sometimes before you're broadcast to
ask yourself.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, That's exactly what it is. I have the
same prep like Kevin Durant preps for a basketball game. Right,
Some big picture NBA stuff I want to get to
with our friend Ryan Hollins coming back in just a
minute seven one three two one two five seven ninety
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Ryan Hollins from a from a Space City Home Network
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Talk Sevenatti.
Speaker 3: My great friend Ryan Hollinds, gonna hang with this another segment.
Some big picture stuff I want to get to.
Speaker 2: So Rhino, Uh, it appears that the San Antonio Spurs
never want to lose again.
Speaker 3: We gotta be worried about them. Correct, Why why Matt.
Speaker 7: Hats off to San Antonio, hats off to Oklahoma City.
Houston played them extremely well. No, they haven't won every game.
No it's not just you know, dominance in the series.
But you know, those are two of the top teams
in the NBA. And when I watched Houston play, and
I watched the matchup, I don't feel like ah Man
Houston doesn't have enough to compete with him. Houston was
up eighteen and it was one of those games you
don't want to talk about, but it was a loss
that went away. But it was very strategical. And here's
the thing, women Yama can't guard Al from Shangoon. They
had success because he was off the ball. You put
a small guy on LP and he was able to
just roam center field. So those are strategical fixes that
you can make in a playoff series. Now, don't let
me jump the gun here. Put all due respect on
what they've done here, but from a talent perspective, I'm
not shaking at my boots, Matt, I'm not you know,
I'm not losing things. If I'm Houston, you don't look
and say, you know, it's just heading and shoulders of
a difference. And those are the two top teams at
the conference right now with all the injuries to Denver.
Speaker 2: All right, So I have heard listening to like NBA
radio people and some various podcasts that look, there are
people that are down on the Rockets, and I hope
they continue to be down on them because it will
surprise the world and be fun for us in.
Speaker 3: A good championship run. I hear the phrase.
Speaker 2: Now, maybe this is a little different with Steven Adams
being up, so I've not heard this in a while,
but I've heard the Rockets are built for longer series.
Validate that for me, because I want to. I'm curious
to hear your perspective on that.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 10: I don't know if I would agree to that.
Speaker 7: Houston has talent, but it's almost like the game, you know,
right now, you'd like to just kind of Houston is
best and they can just kind of get out and
overpower people, you know, and sometimes because here's the difference.
When you have a point guard, right, this makes it
very simple. He minimizes turnovers, and what happens is the
message from the coaching staff gets shortened in a relayed
almost immediately. When you don't have a point guard. It
takes a while for the coaches message to get to
the players and relate to the floor. So the longer
that a series goes on, the more adjustments that will
come into play. So I think for Houston they about
to you know, just we're assuming right now, take care
of business early, you know, not that you can't win.
You have one of the greatest closers in the history
of basketball Kevin Durant. But but again, you don't want
to if you're at Houston, you want to just be dominant.
You don't want to play a game of adjustments right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to another couple of big picture items.
Speaker 3: Will let you run.
Speaker 2: The tanking stuff has been a huge issue. You've seen
the Utah Jazz get fined. You saw the Indiana Patriots
get fined. Look, Ryan, they have been there's been tanking
in the NBA for a long period of time. First
of all, why is it being so accelerated this year
with so much talk about it? And then two, if
I gave you the cap that said you are the commissioner,
can you fix it for me?
Speaker 6: Or is it?
Speaker 2: Or do you just let this go and say, you
know what, this is how the league is created, this
is what happens. You can try to alter the lottery numbers,
but if teams want to lose, they'll be willing to
take the fine because if you go get a top
three player, that's a game changer for you. Paying a
five hundred thousand dollars fine is pennies to worry about
because the long term teams will get better because them
losing helps them get better players.
Speaker 7: Hey, Matt, when you if you lost like a dollar
out of your wallet or five dollars, I mean you're
you're a man of principle, but you're not going to
lose your wits, you know, if you got to pay
off a five dollars bet or something. That's what it's
like to these to these organizations, And five hundred thousand
and a half a million is a joke compared it
to getting a franchise like Talent. Here's reality commissioner does
an amazing job. He's gonna have to peez the fans
and he's gonna throw out those fines and say, hey,
we caught them, and we find them. But ultimately the
teams don't give a darn And the reality moving forward
and in reality from the past. Tim Duncan got to
the San Antonio Spurs by them chanking and throwing away games.
Lebron James got to the Cleveland Cavaliers and finally came
back home and delivered a championship because of tanking. Okay,
they just absolutely just just mailed it in. This has
been through the big through through When when when when
teams figured it out that they started to do, and
it's an efficient way. Now here's the reality. You're not
gonna see a draft this deep in a very long time,
So it's not gonna be a problem every single year
in which you don't want to see is it be loud?
And you have to think the rights to the NBA
has been sold for a whole lot of money, okay,
so you want to deliver on those goods. The game
last night was on prior right or prime or Peacock right, Peacock.
And the one thing that they're saying is and we've
paid to season Utah Jazz, not you know, missing players here.
So again the NBA is gonna have to piece. The
fans are gonna say they're gonna do anything, but in
retrospect it's a slap on the wrist. And again for
fans moving forward, you're not gonna have a draft this deep.
And what the commissioner did was actually genius, Matt and
I don't know if you remember this, So everybody doesn't
really quite understand the playing tournament and what the plan
tournament is. It gives life life to seeds all the
way down to ten. So right now you had teams
that would just meil it in a majority of teams
that would melt it in after a certain point in
the season. I remember it, Matt, when you were locked
in when there was only eight teams going to the playoffs.
You'd be locked in two three weeks out of your
seating and then teams would just past. Even the winning
teams would just stay and not be competitive. But you're
seeing a competitive nature through the ten eleven twelve spot,
trying to get into the playoffs, trying to get into
a play in birth far through the end of the season.
So the competitive nature has risen by head and shoulders,
and people just don't realize that. But again, you got
to appease the people who paid a lot of money
to watch our sport. Is it smart to do yes?
Is it ugly to see for the fans? Yes? Has
the NBA done something about it?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 7: So let's all take a moment and breathe, Matt Thomas.
Speaker 2: So you don't think this is going to be a
radical announcement by the commissioner or do you think he
kind of has to because so many people are complaining.
Speaker 3: Or is it folk complaining?
Speaker 2: Is it teams that are saying these things, but in
reality are like if we're in the Utah Jazz situation
or in the Sacramento spot, we'd be doing the exact
same thing.
Speaker 7: Well, the people who really made the big stink is
Oklahoma City because they have that pick. They do what
you talk it gets pick at the end of the day.
You know, like there's a method to the madness. So
I think what you don't want to do is become
national news. And at the end of the day, for Utah,
Nurkics just went in and had a season ending procedure,
you know, litatistically fake the funk a little bit. And
here's the thing. Early early in my in the NBA
played for the Charlotte Bobcats. We were a group that
played extremely hard, competed, and at the end of the
game it was just James man. So, you know, I
think you just don't want to see a disrespectful product
on the floor. Stay competitive, compete and again, if you're
competing with your young guys out there, let them go compete.
I thought that Houston, Houston never tanked. I felt like
Houston developed man. You can hear me, you can quote
me on that if you want, you well developed their
guys and they just had young guys out there, and
they played hard, and they competed and it just didn't work.
Speaker 6: Out in some case.
Speaker 7: So you know, put some lipstick on the pic. That's
all the fans are saying that.
Speaker 2: All right, you've you've you called me down a little
bit because I don't. It's not fun to tank. But
I'll tell you this. The Rockets are playing the Kings tomorrow.
They've lost sixteen to seventeen. We need these victory as
much m King as I would love to see that
Rockets say at the number three spot in the West.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Nobody ever watches games on Prime and Peacock because you're
not on those channels. So as long as it's on
Space City, it's Ryan Hollins twenty four to seven.
Speaker 7: Can I hop on my comrades next time we do this?
Can we can I get more time on the bet
talk show?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna want me to pay for your meals,
which is a big deal, But uh, how about next time?
Speaker 6: I just want to hang out with you dude?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, how about you come to the studio
once in a while. That's what you really need to do.
Speaker 7: I would love to I didn't even know that I could.
Speaker 2: The last time, You're coming in for the studio for
two hours and we're gonna go eat a BATCHI after that?
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? I would love to man.
Speaker 3: Extra shrimp too. Thank you, friend. We'll talk with you
tomorrow night. Friend, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Of the time.
Speaker 2: That's that's our hero. Look at him, he just chuckling away.
I love him, miss some Ryan Hollins, Jonathan. He is
just and I'm just talking to you, I'm talking to
the whole audience. He's he's every bit of what you
see on television. Yeah, I mean I'm fake sometimes, but
I but that man.
Speaker 3: Is zero fake. He is authentic one hundred percent of
the time I've had.
Speaker 4: I met him one time when I got to the
Ruckers game and there was just lines of people just
so happy to see him, and he was nice to
every single person, like oh yeah, just tightening up to
anbody that want to talk to him.
Speaker 3: Just a really nice guy, just a super super guy.
All right.
Speaker 2: An Astro spring training update is coming up next and
you're not gonna like it. Twelve fifty nine Final Hour
We Got Believe it or not? All things j Borroi
Smith coming up in fifty minutes. It's a Matt Thomas
Show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: Final hour of The Matt Thomas Show for a Tuesday.
Mm hmmmm, you got the music.
Speaker 7: Cute.
Speaker 2: This is what I like to describe to you, ladies
and gentlemen as the Gordy curse me.
Speaker 3: It was John.
Speaker 2: Did you hear what he said about about Jason Alexander
when he was on with us earlier in the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, musics man. So he was working on a new
pitch and it looks good and awesome to.
Speaker 2: Make the rotation I'm supposed to in the top half
of the third. The game started fifty five minutes ago.
Top of the third, Dreams five nothing, Mets Crenger and
Jason Alexander, Friend of many kind, gentle sweet.
Speaker 3: Two thirds of.
Speaker 2: Five hits, four runs, all of which were earned, one walk,
one strikeout, two home runs.
Speaker 7: Why why.
Speaker 3: You can't do this to us? As early Astros Cordy
gave you his seal of approval, and this is what
you do, Jason.
Speaker 2: Alexander, Astros have two hits. Nick Allen, Jeremy Paine, Dack
cole Over two.
Speaker 3: Okamp Smith two.
Speaker 2: Walks, okay, okay, something new, Joy Li Braffido one at bat, strikeout,
Zach Descendi with a walk, Shait Wickham with a k.
C J Alexander the former a playing first base today?
Speaker 3: Oh for one? Is ourselves are struck out? Is there
no baseball?
Speaker 12: God?
Speaker 2: I want your phone calls right now? Astro Twitter, come on,
I'm live with you at seven one three, two, one two,
five seven ninety. Jason Alexander cannot get out of the
first inning. JP France comes in one and a third,
a hit, a run, It's earned, a walk and a strikeout. JP,
with those lovely frames of yours. How are you supposed
to be making back in the big leagues?
Speaker 3: Think I, we're not carrying this live. And I had
like six people calling and asking for it, and I
was like, who you got it?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: Who are those people? What are their names? I don't
really remember?
Speaker 2: Now you have you told them tomorrow on Thursday We're
gonna have the.
Speaker 3: Game today, but we've got it tomorrow on Thursday.
Speaker 2: I believe I can provide as much quality entertainment as
a five nothing Mets lead over the Astros in the
top of the third with two outs.
Speaker 3: Now they can come back. Man, they can come back.
Speaker 2: How distraught are you that the Astros are down top
of the third? Five nothing seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. I want to hear the sorrow
in your voice, all you Jason Alexander Truthers out there.
Speaker 20: I E.
Speaker 3: Chris Gordy disc disc disc.
Speaker 2: I mean, damn, that's not the way if you're if
you're Jason Alexander trying to make the team lode, you
can't make out of the first inning in a spring
training game. M all right, they'll rebound and they'll be
much better tomorrow and Thursday when they were live here
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ninety main headlines the day the Cougars lost to Kansas,
Uh yesterday and UH, truth be told. I told you
all this before I was was obviously calling the Rockets games.
I did not see it live, unfortunately, looked at some
of the low lights and the shooting percentages in the
box score. So if you're a Cougar fan, can I
just openly ask how you're feeling, because I'm gonna give
you one of like three or four different options. One,
I'm distraught, life is over. I don' hope that you
don't feel that way. Number two, I wish you one
would have won at least one or two of them.
I can see that being a fair assessment. Some of
you could also say that's a murderous road lineup, back
to back Big Mondays, back to back on the road
during those Big Mondays, and back to back on the
road of those Big Mondies against top twenty teams in
a power Superpower Conference Arizona game at home, lost or
hurt as well. But I ask you, of all of
the top fifteen twenty twenty five thirty teams in this country,
how many of them would have gone on three during
that stretch. I think quite a few. Would you have
liked at least one? Yes, two would have been awesome,
three and crown the national champion. I am not down
on my Cougars, might disappointed, of course, but again big
twelve to the Cougar snow favors by playing the two
big Monday games that.
Speaker 3: Have this year on the road.
Speaker 2: Also, Nick Cassario spoke today at the NFL Combine will
play a couple of those sound bites again coming back
because he does answer a couple of things about one CJ.
Stroud and two about Joe Mixon, who I believe will
be released sometime by the team, because man, there is
too much vague conversation coming out of Nick Caceiro's mouth
about the future of Joe Mixon seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five Sementini believe it or not? Today all things
about Jabari Smith after his thirty one point performance yesterday.
That'll be coming up in about forty minutes. Gary on
seven NINTI, thank you for waiting, Gary.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 10: A man?
Speaker 21: How about them mastros?
Speaker 3: No, nothing about those astros.
Speaker 10: It's to ask you a question.
Speaker 21: Let me ask you a question about him. Payin You
got a hit, right?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 21: How did Alto they do?
Speaker 3: Al two is not playing today, hasn't played yet?
Speaker 21: How to Alvarez did not play yet? How did Walker do?
Speaker 3: Did not play yet?
Speaker 21: How did the rest of the starters do today?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: Cam Smith has two walks? Zach Cole went over two
and that's it.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Cole won't be a starter of the catcher. Was
he in there the starting catcher?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: R Diaz, No it was it was Caesar's alas Art.
Speaker 21: Okay, so you need to take two or three deep breaths.
Speaker 3: No, No, let me outraged, Gary, Gary.
Speaker 2: If I'm upset about Jason Alexander giving up four runs
and over two thirds of inning, let me be mad.
Speaker 3: It's spring training.
Speaker 21: He was he wasn't going to be a starter anyway.
Speaker 2: So you don't know that, you know some Chris Cordy
said earlier. Chris Cordy puts him in the starting rotation,
and Gordy knows ball.
Speaker 21: No, he don't know, he don't.
Speaker 20: I've just got one thing to remind you about Matt.
Speaker 21: That may get you up off that ledge. And that's
my go to Matt.
Speaker 7: So so I'm good to go. Just let's just take a.
Speaker 21: Deep breath, let it out, and everything's gonna be all right.
Speaker 7: They'll be there when the season's over. So it's all good, Bubba.
Speaker 21: But I understand your frustration. Keep up the good work, brother.
Speaker 2: Gary, Gary doesn't want me to be emotional about this. Look, Astros,
Twitter is gonna lose their mind. Why can't I lose
their mind?
Speaker 3: My mind. I am allowed to, as a major market
radio host come to you and be upset about.
Speaker 2: The spring training which is gonna be condensed because the
World Baseball Classic and guy's leaving and the scramble for
who's going to be in that starting rotation to be
up so that Jays Alexander gave up as many.
Speaker 3: Run as he did.
Speaker 2: You cannot take these spring training games lightly. We about
to play a video game.
Speaker 3: Here a turn? So this is a jam?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Is this after of twenty twenty six theme music?
Speaker 3: I hope not all right? This morning, my weird rising son.
This song is a calming tool, is it not. It's
a different type of soul.
Speaker 2: Man makes you want to go to a bar in
Galveston and sit on the beach and pontificate life. Yeah,
I love Galveston, designed mister Texas. How dare Ross not
love Galveston and call himself more of a mister Texas
than me? To my list of food doesn't define a
man a city?
Speaker 6: Does?
Speaker 2: I love me some corpus? I lend me some portorantis hell?
I even appreciate McCowan all right, one fourteen Matt Thomas
showed Ross seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
one still five nothing, mets Ooh, Jeremy Payne with another air,
He's got two so far in sprint.
Speaker 3: Ah, Jeremy Payne with the second er ah.
Speaker 2: Top of the fourth. Five nothing. Now, would you like
some positive news?
Speaker 3: Kai we tang?
Speaker 2: Is that how you pronounce it? Scorelessending for the Astros? Okay,
so I escaped you positivity seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Let's go to Steve on seven
ninety online too, Steve, good afternoon, Thanks for waiting.
Speaker 21: Good afternoon, guys.
Speaker 20: You know I watched these last three Houston Cougar games,
and the three things that all that's in common with
all three of these is pressure from the inbounds full court.
These teams are pressuring, uh, the Cougars all the way down,
and it seems like it's putting them in a funk
where they can't get into their offense. Last night, they
were shooting threes from five foot behind a three point line.
It didn't seem like there was any type of continuity
or or it didn't even look like there was offensive
plays being run.
Speaker 3: It was just throw throw, throw.
Speaker 20: Pass, past pass and then you know everybody, somebody would
decide to shoot. So I'm really surprised that this is
a This doesn't look like a Calvin Sampson team during
the last three or four games. And my question to
you is, I don't think they're I don't think they're
they're gonna make it.
Speaker 11: I think they're gonna make.
Speaker 7: For the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 20: I don't think they're gon gonna go any farther. I look,
there's a complete turnaround, and I just want to get
your opinion on it.
Speaker 21: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a team that relies clearly on
kings On Jennings for sure. Snik has not been able
to provide as much scoring as I think they would
have liked. And the fact is that, you know, some
of the same issues that kind of played them last year.
Jojo Tugler is in foul trouble quite a bit. You know,
it doesn't you know, Juwan Roberts was just a guy
that was really it's really missed. Obviously he moved on.
He's had to go on and play professional overseas. Manual
Sharp Struggles was one for ten yesterday, one for six
from three. Man Zuzan doesn't do as much scoring as
maybe they thought he was going to. It's still a
really good team. Still plays very hard, still rebounds very
very well. Turnover numbers are a little higher than they're
supposed to be, but they only had eight yesterday. They
just got beat up by a really good basket team
on their home floor. And they basically and again I
I kind of did this sight unseen because I was
calling the Rockets game last night. And that's why I thought,
you guys can maybe give me a better perspective that
I can even give. Is that they made Kingston Jennings
beat them. They said, we're going to do everything we
can to make life it's difficult for you. Flemings goes up,
puts up eighteen shots, gets sixteen points, so he's only
six of eighteen. I just don't you know, there's just
there's no there's not enough offense. And Senior's gonna step
it up a little bit. Uh, you got to get
sharp out of this funk. And I got to look
at his stats. I want to look at his numbers
in terms of where he is from a season stat line. Here,
let me look at doing this live on the air. Here,
this is not the greatest thing in the world. Uh
Manuel Sharp from three still shoot thirty seven percent, that's good.
Forty one percent overall from the floor, that's okay. Uh
Ouzon is at thirty eight percent from the floor and
thirty four from three. You like better than that. The
reality is the Cougars will go as far as they're
all American freshmen will go take them, and that's Kingston Jennings.
But I think there is a little bit to it.
I think there is a you know, there is a
little bit of that low block moxie that has been
missing that the team has been able to rely on
over the last couple of years. And Socco has been
trying to do the best he can, especially when he
comes in for Tugler, who's had some foul trouble more
times than not. But he doesn't provide much offense either.
I mean, you had three guys in your lineup that
score in double figures. But Flemings has been the most
consistent in the group, even though he had to take
up and take a lot of shots yesterday to get
to his number.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I'm still behind him. And look if you would have
told me a week and a half ago that everyone
lose all three games. I would have been happy, which
I'm not happy now, but I wouldn't have been totally
surprised by it. I mean, that's three top twenty teams
in ten days. Again, I ask you, does North Carolina
does Duke? There's a Michigan does a Does anybody run
through that? I mean, look at Iowa State. They beat
the Cougars on Monday last week on their home floor.
They go to BYU and get beat by the Cougars.
Speaker 12: There.
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve is filthy, absolutely filthy. And I will say,
because my glass is half full in the Cougars, that
this will get them ready for the tournament, whether it
be the Big Twelve tournament and more importantly the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I disappointed, of course, but.
Speaker 2: They're not the overall favorite to make it to the
final four. In fact, I will tell you this right now.
The uh what did I see the latest numbers?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 3: Here it is.
Speaker 2: This is college basketball's favorites to win the tournament. Michigan
is three and a half to one to win it,
Duke is four and a half to one, Arizona's five
to one.
Speaker 3: US are eight to one.
Speaker 2: So even despite the three losses, they're still protected to
be number two seeds, and because of their experience generally
speaking about the use of the freshman they're expecting to
make a deep tournament run.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Larry in spring on seven. Larry, good, afternoon.
Speaker 6: Hey see how you doing that, good friend?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm good, I'm good. Thank you? Uh mt Now you
have to remember, what do you say doing football season,
well before the football season, in the preseason.
Speaker 3: It's just the preseason. Yes, right, exactly.
Speaker 6: Calm down, everything's going to be all right and gets
really better, man.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry. Nice here from the man. Take care
of yourself. Yeah, uh just texted back of Ross. He's
going to take one more day off tomorrow. Look, Flues,
you just can't recover in a day. It's just impossible.
So it's we've got a shorter show tomorrow, so to
just be me and Jonathan for a couple hours before
we get you to Astro spring training. And if they
don't win tomorrow, we're hitting the panic button. It's not
really four right, See, if they lose this game, don't
bring that up. Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right
one time. Oh, look at this top of the fourth,
runners at first and third. There's action going right now.
Oh you know what, let's can we can we can
you pop up the other room if for just a second,
put it up and see what's going on.
Speaker 3: Jeremy Page is at the plate. Do you want to
do that?
Speaker 2: Jonathan?
Speaker 3: You know how to put the studio in the other
room on for the astros.
Speaker 2: I guess the answer is no. Maybe possibly he's looking
and it's at the computer screen. It's frozen. No, I'm
looking at all right, because I need something positive in
my life. My partner's got illing. My rockets turned the
ball over twenty seven times. My Cougars have lost three
straight games. It's a top of the fourth in a
spring training game in late February, and my squad's down
five to nothing. All right, I guess we're not gonna
able to do it. We should learn that for thingst
time spent, something specially could be happening. Jeremy Payne, it's
a two to two count anxious people around this town.
Sports Talk seven and I will talk to a ponder.
He wants me to calm down. You want me to
calm down with my Astros down five nothing in the
spring training game.
Speaker 3: Is that what you want? We'll see if I can
do it next. Oh, it's a new day in Age town, baby.
I told you the Astros are down five nothing. They
score a run on the top of the force. Zach
Cole got hit by a pitch for the bases loaded.
That's a harderned RBI.
Speaker 2: Five to one, bottom of the fourth. There is renewed
optimism in the Age, baby. We can come back and
win this thing. We come together strong as one Astro
fan group. Thanks to and I gotta get his name right?
Is I don't want to butcher it? Kaiwei ting No,
thanks to you, Jonathan Alexander or Jays Alexander. Order for you,
Johathan Alexander for that matter. Three in the bus, I
just forgot your name.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven dotty believe
it or not. All things about Jubari Smith coming up
in about fifteen minutes here on the show.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Baketown, Texas. Ponder what's going on?
Speaker 7: Bat Yes, sir, calm down, No.
Speaker 3: I will not come down. My squad is five down,
five to one. What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Listen?
Speaker 2: Dude, I like.
Speaker 21: Look Gary's take, while Ago I loved it.
Speaker 22: But I gonna tell you that as much as as
much of an optimistic Astros fan as I am, I
like how he says, wait till the end, we're gonna
be just fine.
Speaker 6: Where were we last season?
Speaker 7: We were not fine.
Speaker 10: We were not fine. However, however, I.
Speaker 22: Need you to rest in peace on this. There is
no way of the nine different starters that are going
to be competing for probably a six man rotation, that
the one guy that looks like Mike Fires is gonna
be in that rotation.
Speaker 2: No, sir, no way you bring that up with Chris Gordy.
He's the one that told earlier that that's gonna happen.
I don't believe him, but he's someone that said it,
not me.
Speaker 6: Well, and you're and you're right.
Speaker 22: You told Gary Gordy knows ball and he does no ball.
But there's no way, there's no way to say that
he's going to start over. And I do have a
question for you, and I'll hang up and listen after
I say this. There's no way that that Lance McCullers
is going to ride the pine on the amount of
money that he's making But to Jason Alexander, I don't
think that Jason Alexander won't necessarily be I don't know
when Ayden was Netski's gonna come back any or any
other injury for that matter, but he may open up
as a six man rotational starter early in the season.
But when those guys, all nine guys are fully healthy,
assuming that all happens once, there's no way he's sniffing
this from starting rotation.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: The reality here's the reality of it, Ponter, is that
you're gonna have guys that are gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3: That's first and foremost.
Speaker 2: Secondly, there's gonna be a long stretch of games with
the Astros need to go with a six man rotations
happening more and more in baseball than ever, and you've
got to get something out of that. Lance mccutter's contract
door towards the end. I'm not overly hopeful or excited
about it, but the reality is he's gonna get that money.
You might as well try to get some value out
of him. And you already know he doesn't like the bullpen,
so let's give him every opportunity to have a great offseason,
which he's had, he hasn't wasn't hurt. He's not behind
in his throwing, he's not behind in his rehab. He's
not worried about this. I would say you got to
be as optimistic as possible, But to say that this
is gonna be the greatest comeback for a picture in
Major league history, I don't think that's going to be
a scenario under any circumstance.
Speaker 22: No, I'm just hoping he has a great first quarter
and they can trade for a six round draft pick
or something like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't trade for draft picks. But yeah, I
understand what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 22: Well, you know, I mean, you're right, you're right, but
prospect excuse me, Yeah, he makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the phone call, my question, Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 22: Yes, sir?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well look, so my question is with the with the.
Speaker 22: The Paradas, I'll two a slash uh your on issue
and this is and I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 11: Why why have we not?
Speaker 22: Because you can't put him on the dah spot at
the same time you're gonna play Paradis in the field.
Speaker 6: We've got a logjam.
Speaker 22: We're having Pena and Korea. Who's a long term shortstop
for Houston. Paradis is probably a third. What are we
doing at second? Why have we not at least looked
at the option of making Paradis a first baseman, or
make You're on a first baseman so that we can
clear the room for a DH and a person on
the field without putting them through putting them up for
an injury plague position.
Speaker 15: And I'll hang up on the same thank.
Speaker 3: You Potter for the phone call.
Speaker 2: There'll be no conversation about you're not on playing first
base that has been that has been a talking point
for US fans and for a selected media for many years.
The answer is, I don't think they think he's got
the footwork to play first base. First base when we
were growing up was oh, you put the fat guy
at first base.
Speaker 3: It's not like that anymore. I'm not saying it's.
Speaker 2: Can't be achieved, but if you're a minus defender to
begin with, there are intricacies to first base that just
sometimes can't be taught. But there has been no real,
at least public sentiment from the organization, whether it's been
Jeff Leno or as a general manager, whether it has
been James click as a general manager or Daniel Brown
that says Jordon's gonna be a first baseman. Eastock parties
can play first base. If Christian Walker super struggles out
of the gate, you will see Estoch party is playing
first base because he's a natural infielder. Now Paridi is
a second base I ain't buying, but you know what,
you never know things, Strange things can happen. Cam Smith
today's playing center field. I kind of pencil him as
your right fielder for the foreseeable future as long as
he makes the roster coming out of spring training. So
the Jordon conversation will be his career will be primarily
DH occasional left field unless he gets grumpy and says
I want to play more left field. He always wants
to play left field, but they want to keep him
up right as as much as possible, and they think
that the risk of him not playing left field would
also also help him try to stay in play longer
over the course of the year. Although most of his
injuries have occurred well on the base pass and not
anything to do with his outfield, as he even said.
But first, based on a conversation piece, Perettis could be
a first base conversation piece, and the reality is, ponder.
My guess is the Astros would rather have traded putting
up Christian Walker on the trade block. But he's got
two years off on a contract with twenty million dollars
a year, and that's going to require the Astros picking
up some of the salary, or if not most of
it for the team that is trying to acquire Christian Walker.
Easier to trade parrettis more upside, paraitis. That's really the
most simplic way I can put it to you. Let's
go to Keith on seven ninety Keith. What do you
got today?
Speaker 11: Hey man? We got me and my wife got some
great thickets from for tomorrow's game. I wanted to see
how do we come up there?
Speaker 6: To see?
Speaker 11: Where do we Where do we go?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: What section are you going to be in?
Speaker 11: We want on one? Uh each twenty eight twenty eight?
Speaker 2: Oh, look at you to tell me exactly where you're
gonna be? All right, well, I'm in the East Club.
Can you get to the East Club? Is that impossible?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I how do you get to it from there? From
where I'm at?
Speaker 3: I don't run the bill. You're you're you're on the baseline.
How about this?
Speaker 2: Why don't you I'm gonna put you on hole Keith,
get your number and I will Johnson will give me
your number and I will text you when I can
come by and say hello to you.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 7: Okay, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3: I am a full service. I will come. I will
come to your section. How about that?
Speaker 11: We don't want one?
Speaker 3: Is that your wife in the car? Let me talk
to you? Let me is your wife in the car
with you right now? Just let me talk to her?
What is your name? Man?
Speaker 4: Phyllis?
Speaker 3: Phyllis? Your husband's is nuts? Sometimes you understand this, right?
Speaker 2: I love him, I'd expect nothing, but but he's crazy,
y'all don't Yeah, but he has some crazy ass takes.
Does he ever give you some crazy ass arguments? And
y'allre having dinner at the at the house?
Speaker 7: Crazy? How long?
Speaker 3: How long have y'all been married?
Speaker 20: Three years?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 17: Huh?
Speaker 3: We knew we were really where'd y'all? Where did y'all meet?
Speaker 12: We met on one of those sites.
Speaker 3: Oh what kind of sights y'all talk about with y'all? Selacious?
Speaker 7: Not well, not no bad sight?
Speaker 17: I mean, you know, where m black people meet.
Speaker 3: Okay, so who pursued who more?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 3: Are you for him or him for you?
Speaker 7: Well, of course I'm gonna say him for me.
Speaker 13: I'm seeing to be good for you to come and
meet him so.
Speaker 11: You can see.
Speaker 12: I want to see.
Speaker 3: I want to I want to see who I kicked,
who's covered? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna put you on hold, Keith, and
I want you to talk to Jonathan and we will
get your phone umber and we'll say hello to you.
Speaker 7: Guys.
Speaker 2: It's it's a meet and greet bat Monday at the
Wednesday Rocket game.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 2: That's right, Jonathan, I mention your girl in the Rockets game.
I'm a I'm a social person. I want to come
here and meet everybody.
Speaker 3: You're very pleasant.
Speaker 2: I tell you tell her I'm a good guy. Right
generally speaking. You didn't tell her about my flaws, did you?
Speaker 3: Okay, I know you did. Let's play believe it or not.
It's all things about Jabari Smith.
Speaker 2: That's up next one if you want to play seven
one three two one two five Sevenani seven one three
two one two five Sevanani. How well do you know
the Rocket's fall forward. If you know good stuff about him,
you have a hints, win some prizes. Next here on
Sports Talk seven Nuntie.
Speaker 3: Five minutes, I can go on the show. What should
we do? We should play.
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Today's edition I Believe or Not is all things about
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Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 7: Believe it?
Speaker 2: Chris, good luck to you. Here's your first one. Jabari
is six feet nine inches tall.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 7: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No, he's six eleven. Come on, now you know man's height. Yikes.
Philip on seven Anti Philip, You're ready to play. Believe
it or not.
Speaker 2: Jabbari has his high school jersey number ten, retired in
Tyrom Georgia.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, Believe it, believe it, staying.
Speaker 2: Number two for the way, and Jabbari's distant cousin, Kwame Brown,
was the first overall pick in the two thousand and
one NBA draft.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. Thank you for playing.
Speaker 2: Josh on seven ninety Josh, what was your favorite part
of today's ten to two radio show?
Speaker 7: Oh, Brad, horrible?
Speaker 2: Take Jabari Smith's favorite food is chicken wings.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, Believe it, believe it.
Speaker 2: I want to give you the prizes for what you said,
but I can't.
Speaker 3: Here we go, statement number you know what, Matt, Statement
number two for the win.
Speaker 2: Jabbari had offers out of high school from schools like Tulane,
Southern miss and Florida Gulf Coast. His only powerfour offer
was from Auburn Believe it or Not?
Speaker 7: I to believe it?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, nine Power four offers poor Josh Andrew on
seven ninety Andrew, You're ready to play.
Speaker 7: Believe it or not? Believe it.
Speaker 2: Jabbari is an avid ping pong player and once won
a pre tournament event before the start of an NCAA
regional in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 11: Not not up?
Speaker 3: Statement number two for the win.
Speaker 2: Bari has a younger sister who currently plays volleyball as
an outside hitter at South Alabama.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not.
Speaker 6: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No, I made that up. I'm sorry. See Frost takes
a pleasure in it. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I want to give away prizes, all right, ca So
this is your one shot. You're ready to play, Believe
it or not.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna let missus Koso take it.
Speaker 3: Missus put her on the phone.
Speaker 7: She's here, she's here.
Speaker 3: What's her name? This is Mia? Mia.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Career high for Jabari Smith in a game thirty four
against the Atlanta Hawks in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, Believe it Tayso and the bride wind.
That's right, you got that right, she won. That's a believer.
That's all. That's that's that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hit the believing so they know they won two
straight days on me doing believe it or not. We
only had one winner and it came on the very
last question. All right, up next, the man who's gone
a couple of minu are and to entertain the hell
out of you for four hours. Their names are Adam
Weser and Adam Clinton. They will break down all the
problems in the Astros in their five to one current
deficit of the New York Mets. It's bity and it's
here on Sports Talk seven nighty