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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Show, ten o'clock at h Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show and Ross.

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It is Sports Talk seven ninety ups. It's the crossover.

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Gets by al Dama, flips it behind Jalen Green, Sex

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fires and hits us straight on three. Shalen now with

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nine in the quarter eighteen to seventeen, Rockets have scored

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six in a row. Ring has Pippin and Junior in

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front of him, bounds passing a pick and roll to Shangoon.

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He'll turn left, spin right, those up against half south.

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The el do Man will prod off the fat woard

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in for two. Shen Goon now with fourteen ready hands

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it off the Green. Now Morant defense him.

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Speaker 3: Shot clock at four, pass out right wing, can't shoot

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mamily three nothing but that on and the Rockets laing.

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Speaker 2: One O seven one O five.

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Speaker 3: Second three per Vamiley s it off the Jalen Green.

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Speaker 2: That's time shot clock of twelve. Jalen double team comes

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Lobsi Shingo on top of the key, eurosteps turn, spins,

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nearly turned it over, gets it back alley you and

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a flush too. Then Tompson.

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Speaker 3: Outstanding passing the free throw line. Thompson was waiting for it.

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He's got seventeen one, fourteen, one ten.

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Speaker 2: Everybody on their feet inside Tota Center, Towntown Houston. Prethrow

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from Moran is on the ways back.

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Speaker 3: Iron ben crap by Tompson into the hands of friend

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Vamily with three hands seconds left and a foul.

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Speaker 2: What two point seven?

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Speaker 3: John Moran with two huge missed free throws.

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Speaker 2: Hair shoot shot is up.

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Speaker 3: It is cooked with point four to make it one

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eighteen in the hands of friend Vamily had for the

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fourth good second a game and the third time this season.

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Speaker 2: It's Rockets worst.

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Speaker 3: Final score inside ton of Center, Houston on twenty bed.

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Speaker 2: Bitch what eighteen? The Rockets look like On multiple occasions

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they were gonna get knocked down, but Jalen Green got

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them up again. Rockets were down one hundred to eighty

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seven with nine thirty left. That's not an impossible feat

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to overcome. Clearly, it's the case happened last night. It's

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not quite the Timberwolves being down fifteen with four nineteen

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to go. Nope, Nope. But it's a nice comeback. It's

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a nice comeback. Good morning, everybody, Hi, Ross, are you hey, Matt?

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Why are you saying good morning?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Because I said good morning the audience. I didn't say

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good morning to you. That's fine, Connor, good morning and

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most support. Happy New Year to you, my friend. Happy

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New Year, guys. Yeah, somebody gave me a Happy New

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Year in the hallway yesterday. Yeah. And I'm I've decided

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I'm going to continue to give Happy New Years until

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February the fifteenth. Okay. And and so it's it's forty

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five days. Okay. Well, you're going against Larry David's wishes.

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Oh yeah, Larry, and you know how I love. No,

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he's alive, Okay, I mean the last time I checked,

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he's alive. I will have taken there are days I'm

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taking off when Paul McCartney dies. I'm going to take

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a day off, take a day off. Wait, Barker croaked

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and you were fine, Yeah, but I was a weepy No,

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you're fine, okay, but he was one hundred. Ye. He's

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been on his deathbed for a while. Oh man, that's tough.

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All right. It is a Tuesday edition of the show

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as we celebrate people we're going to eventually die, which

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will include the two of us. That's everyone. Will you

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take a day off when I die? No, you'd be like, oh,

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so it's the the raw show day off of celebration.

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Oh okay, you know what that was. That was very

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sad man. I've already got a great eulogy for you. Yeah,

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and I can't wait. I've got I've had it written.

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It'sn't been in the can for a couple of years. Actually,

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you know, we're being prepared. Honestly, in the news business,

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you have to have those locked and loaded for when

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people do pass. So when something happens, you don't. You're

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not running around the you know, the last second trying

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to get something done. So Jimmy Carter outlived his his

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uh oh, the Jimmy Carter eulogy was all locked and

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loaded from all the different networks and that happened. So yeah,

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you're right, all right, we got a nice show for

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you today. We've got Gut Feelings coming up at eleven

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thirty this morning. This is where you get to call

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in and make your predictions about a variety of things

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sports related. Could be about the Texans game, could be

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about the Rockets upcoming road trip, but they will take

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on Denver, Sacramento in Portland. It could be about Alex

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Bregman's new destination. It could be about the college football

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Playoff National Championship game between Ohio State uh and Notre Dame.

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Notre Dame and Don't go to Rock and they could

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be making appearance. I forgot. We didn't mention this because

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we were obviously talking a lot about the Texans. How

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do we feel about Ryan dare Day. I mean, just

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going to the motor oil to take care of that

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beard is uh, yeah, he goes with the just from

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in and not with the just from in touch of gray.

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He goes to the full jet blood. I mean, it's

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like he went and got basic printer fluid you just cover.

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I mean, because it's more economical. Man, it's off putting actually,

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because look, I have people in my life that color

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their hair and they've told me and I don't. I mean, yeah,

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you don't, which I think is awesome. No, I don't,

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never will, and I respect that. I was thinking, like

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Father Christmas on Space City Home Network, Okay, did anybody

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see Ross on Space City last night? Between five o'clock

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and until six? So so, Colin, there was no atom,

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there was no other atom. There was no Dan Matthews

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by the end of it, and no channel the room

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who was filling it. It was just me on the

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on the A team. You could have booked some guests,

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I guess I could have. Yeah, that's okay, though next

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time I'm very vain. I just wanted to talk. Yeah, So,

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if anybody saw Ross, how does shovel? Did he look?

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Seven one three two one two five seven Nutie seven

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one three two one two five seven nuttieh Look, we

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got a lot of time to get to before the

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Saturday Texans game. But so let's get the Rockets their

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flowers a little bit. Fourth straight win last night, third

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in a row over Memphis. They've won the season series

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with them, which could ultimately play a little bit of

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it the tiebreaker. It's good for the tiebreaker. Yes, I

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was talking to one of my great friends, he's the

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voice of the Grizzes, and I said, you know, I

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don't know if it's you know, we're all kind of thinking,

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wouldn't a tooth a second round Memphis Houston matchup be

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really awesome? And I would agree with him on that

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because Memphis is very good and obviously Rockets are good.

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Something tells me that Denver ain't gonna go hiding here.

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They're they're playing a lot better as of late. They

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are I think two and a half behind the Rockets

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or three, whatever the case may be. They got a

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game coming up with the Rockets and Nuggets tomorrow. I'm

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not sleeping on Denver trying to sneak into the top

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three spots. I think it would be foolish to sleep

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onto the Denver Nuggets. Yeah. So, uh, and we'll get

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more of that email. Dokus going to join us tomorrow

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as we go to the Myleh City later on this safternoon.

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Gordon's going to come in for an hour. So really,

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now will he be here right at one o'climb? Who knows?

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Will he raise his voice to astronomical levels over something

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about college football? Ifore we bring up the SEC, Yeah,

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that's almost a given, and how weak they are, and

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these last two years prove that they're not the dominant

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conference in football, and you are the flagship school of

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that conference. I wouldn't say that, Why wouldn't you? I

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would say Alabama is well, I mean of the last

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twenty five for sure. But I'm talking about right now

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somebody the longest if you were at the Olympic ceremonies. Yes,

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and somebody said, one school from the SEC gets to

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carry the SEC flag during the opening ceremonies. It's the

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University of Texas, but it was. There was no podium

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finish though, Matt, you got a participation medal. That's good.

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Well you got the bronze. No, not even Well, they

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don't play for a third place. They probably beat Penn State,

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though I feel confident you'd beat Penn State.

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Speaker 5: Me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I mean your school. So yeah, I'm gonna

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give you that. I'm gonna give you Texas for the

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second consecutive years, the bronze medal of college football. You

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got a metal fantastic Oh please, I'm sitting here in no,

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not even going to like the Pop Tarts Bowl, So

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cut you cut me some slack on Thattars Bowls. Nice,

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the Mayo Bowl. Everybody's gotta come up with their gimmick

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to get as much shine as they can. Well that's

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how it works, because frankly, nobody cares about the game itself.

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It's about what you can do in the Pop Tarts

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Bowl this year, no idea. But I remember the video

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the guy ripping his aluminium pop tart cover off. Well,

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it's like and then the Mayo Bowl is known for

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the winning coach getting mayo dripped all over him. Which

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I would pay. I think i'd pay a thousand dollars

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for Clinton to have a large bowl of mayonnaise port.

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I thought you were gonna say for Bill Belichick. No, no, no,

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I don't care about that Bill Belichick getting covered to

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Mayo be It's gonna be curious. There are certain things

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in life that we all despise. Clinton's staste for ranch dressing.

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Anything creamy mayonnaise is first of all, ridiculous, what kind

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of childhood traumas that. Second of all, it might cause

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permanent damage to AC and I'm here for it. So

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if you were in Guantanamo Bay and we were trying

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to get some information out him, we would hold him down,

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pour Mayo down his throat to get him to talk.

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Me Like, hang, Matt, I'll give you a thousand dollars

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to walk on Armadillo one hundred yards. I would be

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permanently traumatized over that walk within one hundred yards of

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no walk, ain't walking Armada? Yeah? Can you? Alicia Dillo?

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you stay away. Excuse me? What did I say? Yeah,

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they got leprosy, Matt, stay away from Armadillo's. That's why

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I stay away fro them. Yeah, or they can give

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you leprosy. Yeah, if you're if you're like rubbing them,

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you're rubbing a dillo seven. Hello, Robert Thomas sports touch.

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I've never touched. I've never touched interest in touching it.

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I went to South Atlanto State Park and one time

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they're they're all over the place in that park. What

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parkasal Flanto State Park and remind me not to go there.

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At International Dark SkyPark, they got good skies. They get

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they have sky parties where the meteorologists comedy. The astronomers

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come with their their telescopes. So you and Frank Bensley

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are hanging out, No, well not really. Can you name

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another one of the person in this market besides now

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he's retired, actually, sir, Yeah, yeah, Matt Lanzo, friend of

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the show, friend of the show, friend of hurricane coverage

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on KTR absolute, I'm all for that, all right? Seven one, three,

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five seven. Any rockets with an impressive win if you

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listened to the game or watched it or in person,

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and you want to get little rocket shatter going, we're

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gonna do it. I'm not gonna force it down your throat,

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un force anything down your throat. We're gonna do what

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ten twelve. We're gonna do what y'all want to get into.

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Whether that's Texans Chiefs playoff, I think we're I think

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we put the game with the charges in the review mirror, right,

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I mean, you know, it's great performance. I'm still basking

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in the glow. Matt four hundred and twenty nine yards gained,

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but your uston Texans C J. Stroud comes alive using

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his legs as well over one hundred yards for Joe Mixing.

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All right, let's hold Texan so this we're gonna We're

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gonna recap the game again for four more hours. That's

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what y'all want to do. That's cool. I mean, it's

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not my show, not your show. It's it's a It's

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Houston show. Rocket like to hear in depth recap yet

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again of a game that was played several days ago. Uh,

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we have that douchebag Dalton Schultz reporting that O Jordan's

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show whatever who's Dalton the Texans. He's a very nice human.

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Yeah he's not. Please come, don't come up here and

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kick Matt Thomas. Dalton, you're a great man. Matt Thomas,

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twelve thirty three, south Loop A west Loop south by

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the Way. Dalton Schultz. Uh, somebody from another station stole

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us as a guest on our It was supposed to

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be for us. Sure we didn get sniped on that one. Yeah,

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the day. I can't be Matt mcjudgie. Okay. So oh,

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Jordan Schultz a one hundred percent douchebag who blocked me

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on Twitter. I don't know why he did, What did

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I do? What I say to him? That got? I

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must have been literally listening to the show or somebody

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tagged him or something. We were talking about how unreliable

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and bad his reporting is and he sucks and you

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shouldn't trust him, don't trust him, but he is but

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schefter did Schefter verify trust? Yeah? Schefter said that Chultz

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was the first report that Dion Sanders and the Cowboys

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are talking about it. I know we got a few

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Cowboy fans bumping around. What's your your first My first

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blush is it will not end well. I'd love to

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see it. I wanted to. It would be so bad,

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incredible drama for a team that's already filled with drama.

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It's entertainment for a team that I love to watch fail.

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So I want it to happen. So there's you know

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that wouldn't be a beaut You know what, Dallas, that

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may be just the hire you need.

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Speaker 6: Yes, do it?

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Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seven NINTI Rockets, Dion Texans,

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Alex Fragman. I hope you've saved your money. Verlander speaking

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very well about his time here in Houston, looking forward

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to pitching maybe five to six stars for the Giants

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next year coming up, and gut feelings and NFL rewind

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I am Gordy. Today. It's a busy Tuesday ED issue

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The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk

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seven ninety.

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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas ross Viel It's the Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Green tied a career high with forty two last night.

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I think he's done it. I want to say two

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or three times. Obviously he did at least twice because

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he's tied a career high. He's having a great month.

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And the number one thing I can't always hear is

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is this a stretch of six or seven games that's awesome?

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Or and he goes back to regression or he does it?

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Or is this the next step in the development, the maturity,

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the professionalism. He was always professional, but the increased efficiency

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of one Jaalen Green. The box score last night was

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very impressive. Is this the real Jalen Green? Is what

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we have to always ask ourselves. Over the last six games,

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he is shooting forty five percent from three, So I'm

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gonna say, no, this isn't the real Jaalen Green, but

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he can get close to it. Yeah, let's see. He's

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probably about my guess, I don't know the numbers writing

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from him. Probably got a thirty four percent three point

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shooter or some other range this year. He was he

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was before this stretch started, he was under thirty two.

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Now he's up to thirty four and a half already. Okay,

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so let's get him to this on a six game stretch.

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Let's get him to thirty seven. Thirty eight called a day.

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Be happy. Didn't I ask for that last year too?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Did I get close? I got close?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well he said thirty three last year. That's what

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I'm saying. We have to always temper because because he's

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very streaky. Well he's also volume two. So that's another

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thing is you don't want to you know, if he's

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going to take five to eight per game, well more

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than that probably, And sometimes he's been locked in because

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he's also shooting ninety two percent from the free throw line. Well,

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he's the only one shooting free throws, making him a man.

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Thompson missed a bunch yesterday. Well he's gonna do that.

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Alprin shing Gud missed him too, and now be with

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shooting seventy five percent from the free throw line up

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until about a week ago. Yeah, it's water tends to

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find its level for the most part, which is why

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I believe that Fred van Vliet is gonna start making threes.

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At a high clip at some point. Yeah, by the way,

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Doly took what five shots last night? I mean it's good,

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very efficient, doesn't turn the ball over, a bunch of assists,

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made a key three when necessary. So it's fun, good atmosphere.

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And again, I know that we're in January, and I

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know that the Houston sports fan is very lukewarm to

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jumping on anything, especially regular season was still half the

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campaign less. But let's be realist here. Even if the

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Texans making to the super Bowl, the NFL season's are

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within a month. We have pitch and catchers that don't

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really report until middle of February. The games don't really

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start counting to April. We might as well grab a

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hold of something here and that's gonna be I hopef

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it's the Rockets. Yeah, I think so, and I do.

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I actually have been surprised, Matt. I mean, you've been

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in the arena for every game. It feels like the

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crowds are there has been more energy, more people in

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the building. A little earlier. I wouldn't say like early Chicago,

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early Toronto, early New York, but I would say better

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than it has been a year's past for sure, and

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by the time the fourth quarter is going on. It's

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been left in the game last night. Never one in

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a person sitting down. By the way, those three cities

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you mentioned have great public transits, correct, Yes, they do.

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Interesting And I always say this to you, probably four

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or five times a year. Toronto is a hidden gem.

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cities in North America. But it's hiding in plain sight.

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But it's the only negative is and I mean ROSSI.

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The only negative is it's bone chilling cold up there

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right now. But I mean transportation. People are nice. Your

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currency transfer rate is very good right now. Canadian dollars

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going down US A US A. Well, I'll give you

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an example. And again don't this is not exact, but

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when I go to Canada, I usually spend cash. When

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I'm on the road in the United States, okay, I'm

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traveler on the NBA. I will use the credit card

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in Toronto because I don't want to get Canadian money

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and be stuck with it blah blah blah blah blah.

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So if I will go get a let's say I

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get a cheeseburger, fries and a soda. Uh there, and

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it'll be twenty three dollars, twenty four dollars. I'll come

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back and look at my and i'll charge on my

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credit card. It'll be like fifteen or sixteen dollars. That's good.

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I mean a foreign transaction fee. No, okay, good, No,

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I don't think race does that? Now? Does Dank of

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America do it? I don't race into this, Matt Well, okay, Lace,

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Oh no, you definitely want to bring lace into this.

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We can seven one three two one two five seven, Honey,

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come join us here on the radio program today. I'm

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here at one o'clock, so let's go, and then Gordon's

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gonna be in one o'clock until two. Where you what

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guys will yell at each other? Well, we'll see. That's

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the number one thing I hear about when I'm gone,

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is that? Why is Gordon Ross always yelling at you?

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That's not true. I don't believe you. Okay, you don't

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yell at each other that much. You have yell more

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when you're on because he wants he wants to troll

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and make fun of Texas. And then I don't take

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any guf from him in that losing program. Lsu. I'm

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gonna listen today between I'm gonna listen to on my

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way to Hobby Airport today, I'm I'm going to be

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I'm gonna be the ultimate consumer of this radio show.

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We'll we'll see what you guys if you all can

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behave yourselves. Tim and Katie at ten twenty four on

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seven I need Tim. Good morning to you. Thanks guys.

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Speaker 7: I was in the building last night and it was

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a great atmosphere, a really good game.

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Speaker 4: Nice to be at.

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Speaker 2: I thought of men, Thompson was awesome.

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Speaker 7: He had a few turnovers, but man, he guarded, he

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was He led the team in rebounds, and they put

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him on Jared John Morant and then they even put

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him on Jared Jackson towards the end. What do you

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guys think about a man and is he gonna stay

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in the starting lineup when Jabari comes back?

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Speaker 2: Or what do you guys think there? Thanks? Thanks Tim,

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trust me ROSSI when I tell you this, Amen, Thompson

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staying in the starting lineup, it seems like the natural fit.

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It's like, you know what it is. You just answered

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right there, it's the natural fit. It's and as I said, philosophically,

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we kind of talked about this when it first happened. Philosophically,

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you don't want that many non shooters on the floor,

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but when you have somebody amen, Thompson makes up for

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it in other ways, slashing to the basket, being in

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the right place at the right time. And it could

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come a problem depending on playoff matchups and stuff like that,

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but amend Thompson is the better. Keep it simple, he's

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the better player. Put him in the starting lineup. In

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five block shots last night, Gosh, that's pretty good. And

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there were numerous times well I just say numerous, probably

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at least two or three rossi that they didn't have

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a center on the floor. Nineteen points, thirteen rebounds, two steels,

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five blocks, four turnovers, made a three early. Yeah, he's

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hit some more free throws, yes, but is a great

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finisher at the basket, a tenacious offensive rebounder, especially for

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a guy size he's he's six sixty seven long, but

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he's not thick, you know what I mean. He's not

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a bulky player, and he's going against bulky players most

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of the time. I mean, look at the Grizzes threat

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them last night. You had Zach Edie, who's a foul machine.

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My god, is he just cannot stay out of foul trouble.

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It's too slow. And then you got Jaron Jackson Junior,

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who's a really nice athlete, does a little bit of everything.

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They were throwing them at him and the Rockets were

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hanging with him. But yeah, Zach Edy, what was he

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the back to back college basketball player of the year. Yes,

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and I think I've called three of his games. He's

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either fouled out or received five fouls in each one

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of those three games. He's from athletic sample, he's and

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you we know we don't stereotype here on the show,

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but you're going to she's just an unathletic white guy. Yeah,

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that's why I mean for a guy to go back,

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I mean thirty years ago, back to back college player

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that was such a big deal. You're going number one

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on I think something like ninth, Yes, is correct. Rockets

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went at him, Shine Good went at him. Everybody you

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could go. The green was going around. Yeah, but you know,

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a man is quickly becoming my favorite. Rocket had him

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on the show last night on the post game show.

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Just they're there and I will say this, and look,

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you can take it for what it's worth. Coming from me.

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They're just a bunch of good, really good dudes. They're young,

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they're they're the total Broski of the NBA world high dollar.

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Haven't had a lot of experience getting paid a lot

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of money. Don't think about it. But if you came

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in the basketball game and you win, you're gonna have

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a good time. They're physical, the physical edge and and

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tough and don't take nothing from nobody. I'm actually proud

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because the Rockets and Grizzes played three times and no

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one's gotten into a Pier six brawl at this point.

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That's kind of shocking. It's kind of chippy. It has

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been yes with Dylan against a lot of his old teammates,

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but nothing has happened so far. So yeah, good good

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for the Rocket's good for and I think it's good

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goo good for us. It'll give us an opportunity to

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kind of have a nice segue between the end of

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the Texan season, which I mean, I think most people

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think it's gonna end on Saturday. You know, it could

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be surprising. But yeah, in between that and started the

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baseball season, because look, the Astros could we're definite an

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adjustment period here. You've lost your two best You've lost

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two of your three best hitters. It's Christian Walker season

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and Chess McCormick season and Sneaky Snake Jags season. I

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mean you're gonna you know we can do. We need

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to do a commercial for your Jake Myers fanclub, like

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get in early, like a discount rate.

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Speaker 6: I like it.

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Speaker 2: You put up a poll question on your Twitter account yesterday.

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I did, which we talked about briefly on the show,

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and I want to talk about more when come back. Okay,

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So rarely do I ever go to your Twitter account

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and go, hey, that's good material. Sports RV. Just so

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give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram. I don't think

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you need trying to build the sports RV brand. Basically,

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it's just basically coppying off a copying off of me

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sever ever seven one three, two one two five seven ninety. Yeah,

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you know what, speaking of copying off of that, he's

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actually got some high energy. He's looking great. You want

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to copy off of that in that respect? How about

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Ten thirty four Sports Talk seven ninety Good morning to everybody.

481
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We've got gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty. We

482
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have the news at noon today and we will get

483
00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:39,440
to the I think the big national NFL story in

484
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:46,880
just a minute about Dion Jordan Schultz coach Prime. Now

485
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,839
for the record, you think you think he's gonna be

486
00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:50,799
out of football? And you said three years or is

487
00:24:50,839 --> 00:24:53,720
it morning? I said three? Yeah? I go, well that

488
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,319
was before this news broke. I know you do what

489
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,240
you're more than well, you know you can got a

490
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,279
feeling on this. Yeah, all right, But you did put

491
00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:05,400
a poll question up yesterday on Twitter, and uh again,

492
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,279
I think you stole it off the show, which is fine.

493
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,440
We discussed it on the show, and I discussed it

494
00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:13,359
on the A Team with Adam without Adam Lexer or

495
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,759
Adam Clanton. Ohay, No one's sent me photos of you

496
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,279
doing your show yesterday. Why do you need photos of you?

497
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:19,960
See me every day? What do you need photos? I

498
00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:21,799
want to say, any was watching, So basically you just

499
00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:23,599
talk to yourself for now. I mean I did at

500
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least I put some water in my hair. At least

501
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,079
I would look completely disheveled. That's funny. Okay. So your

502
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:35,160
poll question was what the poll question at sports RV.

503
00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:39,960
Is the Texans season a success in your mind? Or

504
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,359
do they need to win more? Fifty six percent of

505
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,279
the votes say no, whin more? Forty three percent say well,

506
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,039
forty four percent basically forty three point seven yes success.

507
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:55,440
Forty three percent of the people field this season is

508
00:25:55,599 --> 00:25:58,599
a success. Now, you and I. Somebody called the show

509
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:05,440
directly about this topic yesterday and my answer was, status

510
00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:12,160
quo sometimes can be successful. If the Texans lose this

511
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:15,000
Saturday to Kansas City, it is a status quo season.

512
00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:21,160
You didn't improve, you didn't regress, did you just remained

513
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,440
status quo. Now, if you work, if you're at the

514
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,640
workplace in your status quo more times than not, that's good.

515
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,079
That's good. Now. If you seed, then you're gonna get

516
00:26:31,079 --> 00:26:32,960
more money. If you regress, you may lose your job.

517
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,799
But if your status quo it generally speaking not in

518
00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:39,720
every situation, you're gonna be just fine. Right preseason, we

519
00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:42,519
wanted them to make the AFC Championship Game. I think

520
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:45,400
everybody on this station, and I would say ninety eight

521
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,880
point five percent of Houston's Texans fans are like, man, Look,

522
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,519
we went to the divisional playoff last year. We went

523
00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:55,359
and got d Neil Hunter, we went and got Stefan Diggs.

524
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,359
We have another first round picks, Joe Mixon. I mean,

525
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,039
the recipe was where the Texans are taking the next

526
00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:05,960
step forward. So if I was answering your poul question,

527
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,799
I would say that it what was your options? Again?

528
00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:14,480
There were two of them, right, Yes, a season of

529
00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:16,559
success or they need to win more, need to win.

530
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,599
I would vote in they need to win more games.

531
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,519
But a lot of people, yourself included had them winning,

532
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:22,799
losing last week and had their season over. So they're

533
00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:25,880
exceeding those expectations, right. Or their season was completely over

534
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,759
when they lost thirty one to two to the to

535
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:30,519
the Baltimore Ravens. So I think I'm going to give

536
00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:32,440
you a cop out answer and then that's okay. That's

537
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,200
it depends how do they look against the Chiefs. Is

538
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,119
it a close game, they lose by one score, do

539
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680
they get a mudhole stomped in them? And if it's

540
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,759
exactly like last year where they had the surprise win

541
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,839
in the wildcard round and then and they look nowhere

542
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,480
near the class of their divisional opponent, I am going

543
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:52,920
to feel it's going to feel more like a failure,

544
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,799
I think at that moment than it does right now

545
00:27:55,319 --> 00:27:57,599
following the surprising win. I think you can do that

546
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,960
because here's the reality. When the season started. If you

547
00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:07,160
took a list of every NFL pundit, whether it's the

548
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,279
guy at the bar that you hang out with, whether

549
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,960
it's Adam Schefter, whether it's Terry Branshaw, whether I mean,

550
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,960
anybody that has any opinion all about football. People generally

551
00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:20,480
speaking around the NFL thought this was the fourth best

552
00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:24,799
AFC team. Tell me where people. Now, maybe some people

553
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:27,920
thought they could it could top Buffalo because they lost

554
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,400
to Von Dicks. Yes, so maybe there were a few

555
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,720
that said they could sneak into the third spot. But

556
00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:35,160
if you said, let's build a chart of the top

557
00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:40,279
to bottom teams in the AFC in August, Kansas City

558
00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:44,519
would have been one, Baltimore probably would have been two. Yes,

559
00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:48,559
you probably would have had either Cincinnati could be Cincinnati

560
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,839
the mix, Buffalo in the mix. So anyway, you could

561
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,039
have a collection of people that would say, either the

562
00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:56,200
Texans the third best team in the AFC, or maybe

563
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:58,960
they're the fifth best team in the AFC. Yeah. To me,

564
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,480
certainly this season is not a failure. You're in the

565
00:29:01,559 --> 00:29:05,079
final four with Buffalo Baltimore in Kansas City. It isn't

566
00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:08,599
of the failure. There's a difference between something being successful

567
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,240
and being an all object failure. Failure would have been

568
00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:16,119
probably losing the game on Saturday badly or not making

569
00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:21,359
the playoffs at all, correct, But the team, the division

570
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:24,880
was poor. The team limped into the playoffs. We can't

571
00:29:25,039 --> 00:29:27,079
you can't. Can't call it any other way than that

572
00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:29,599
they did. But they played their one of their best game.

573
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,079
Their best game of the season was Saturday, I mean

574
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:33,039
against it. They may, they may justin Herbert, who doesn't

575
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,279
throw ionts, throw a bunch of i ts right. There

576
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:39,039
are other twenty win twenty point wins were against Drake

577
00:29:39,079 --> 00:29:41,519
May and his first start and then Cooper Rush like

578
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,000
this this was and Jacksonville that those are the only

579
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,319
twenty I don't think they had a twenty point I'm

580
00:29:46,319 --> 00:29:49,640
talking about twenty point wins. Their best offensive performance was

581
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,039
Jacksonville Week four with four hundred and thirty five yards.

582
00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:55,160
This was second against that Chargers defense with four to

583
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,559
twenty nine and they turned the ball over three times.

584
00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,680
Where did where was this team all year? Is what

585
00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:04,640
I'm asking. Yeah, because you can't hang your hat on

586
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:07,640
a bunch of really important regular season wins. The Colts

587
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,960
were a disappointment and jack war one in a very

588
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,440
weak division. Outside of the division, they went what five

589
00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:16,240
and six? Yeah, you took advantage of what was given

590
00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:21,680
to you. Yeah, so they win. Let me tell you something,

591
00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:23,559
and I told you this, I wouldn't, I will not,

592
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,839
will not become deep still Matt, Liberty Why I do

593
00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:31,559
want to be Liberty white? Why not? There's how much white?

594
00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:33,119
Insert do I need to have more in my life?

595
00:30:33,599 --> 00:30:37,039
You know, my pigment, my color, my legs, it represents purity,

596
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,319
you know what. That's what they call me, mister purarity.

597
00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:42,000
So yeah, you know what, Actually, liberty white, Matt will

598
00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:46,400
be fine, dirty dog Matt. I won't become a fan.

599
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,599
And I Am not trying to jump on the train.

600
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,640
I'm just saying that I have. I've already enough to

601
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,759
spare in my life. I'm plenty fine with what I have.

602
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,680
I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, it's why sometimes, like when

603
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,400
I'm sitting there watching uh quinn Ewers give up a

604
00:31:03,519 --> 00:31:05,960
fumble six, I'm like, why do I do this? Yeah?

605
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,640
Why do I watch this? Why do I do this

606
00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:13,640
to myself? It hurts? Yeah, it's you know, here's what Now,

607
00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:17,880
sports fandom is ninety nine percent pain. Yeah. Yeah, that's

608
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,680
what I'm saying. Very few times, very few people in

609
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:24,160
this world get to circle a team in an organization

610
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,359
to go. All they do is give me championships unless

611
00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:30,000
you were born in Boston in like nineteen ninety. Yeah.

612
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,400
I mean even Laker fan right now is kind of

613
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,400
feeling it for a team that's those championships. They went

614
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,160
ten years in between and then won the one on

615
00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:41,680
twenty twenty, the Bubble Championship. Yeah, and they got to

616
00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:43,880
ask you last night by Victor Womanyam and the San

617
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,640
Antonio Spurs frauds, who's been telling you their frauds for

618
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:52,279
two weeks. Be all start with the Rockets. So uh yeah,

619
00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:55,640
I will, I will join the fan club and I'll

620
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,599
even buy gear. But I need but I need more.

621
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,039
I need something that they are not going to that

622
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,920
they've never been predicted to do. Let's go to the

623
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,720
super Bowl. It can happen. Baby, beat Kansas City. You

624
00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:11,799
probably need Buffalo to beat Baltimore. Well, no, you're the

625
00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:15,319
easier path would be buff Buffalo, but you'd be playing

626
00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:18,839
it in Orchard Park. Yes, and my guess is late

627
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,079
January and Orchard Park isn't going to be a well.

628
00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:22,720
First of all, this weekend in Kansas City is gonna

629
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,960
be cold, af your dogs, no matter what your dog's

630
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,000
the rest of the way, no matter what. From the

631
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,839
Super Bowl and probably at least a touchdown dog in

632
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,720
each one of the games. Probably that shouldn't matter. So

633
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:35,640
you need to go on like a New York Giants

634
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,799
two thousand and seven run. That's true, that makes a

635
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,720
lot of sense. You've got a better quarterback than Eli A. Manning.

636
00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:44,519
I'll say it right now. It's a fraud of a

637
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,599
Hall of Fame. Andy got better receiver than David Tyree,

638
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,920
right absolutely. I mean they don't have a tight end

639
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,359
betteran was Jeremy Shockey on those teams. Who knows full

640
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,799
breakdown of the Oh see Giants when we come back?

641
00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:05,359
What are we doing here? On SIXTHFA N seven straight

642
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,880
to the Hall of Fame. Tom Brady can't oldies, Jack,

643
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,839
look at the results and I missed Derek Jeta miss Gita.

644
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,160
Alex Bregman can hold Derek Jeita's Jack. Let's get the phones,

645
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,119
Long Island. You're right, you're gonna talk some mile on

646
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:20,599
this hockey.

647
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Speaker 1: Let's do it.

648
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Speaker 2: Sixty six wf A seven one three anything. Let's go

649
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pick to seven nine. Let's go Maick the regular speak

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here seven one three two one two five seven ninety

651
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seven one three two one two five seven ninety The

652
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big NFL story does not revolve around Houston, Kansasity this Saturday,

653
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it's going on four hours to the north of us.

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got I'm sure there's some hockey on. Just go ahead,

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go to Big Citywings dot com. Matt Thomas, Ross Virel.

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It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross Sports Talk seven ninety.

677
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You know, we were talking about how help it is

678
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,000
to be a sports fan. Let's be let's be Vikings

679
00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:09,960
Talk seven ninety today. Two weeks ago, you go to Detroit,

680
00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:13,440
you play the last regular season game. Yeah, you win that.

681
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:17,719
To that, do you want some ludafis Matt, the nastiest fish,

682
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nastiest dish you will ever serve anybody, Darnold dossolution.

683
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Speaker 6: Matt.

684
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Speaker 2: All right, that's more note Dakota than is Minnesota. But

685
00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:30,199
I see what you're going with. Sorry there, Matt. So

686
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:32,599
you win that game, you're the number one seed in

687
00:35:32,639 --> 00:35:35,440
the NFC playoffs, you don't play until Saturday night. That's

688
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,440
if Minnesota beats the Troit Well guess what, Detroit beat Minnesota,

689
00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:42,079
rather beat them rather handily, and then you're the number

690
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,840
five seed, the top walled card. Yes, having to go

691
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,039
on the road. By the way, you thought you were

692
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:48,400
going to Los Angeles, and then you went to Phoenix

693
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,400
and said, which probably probably helps you a little bit

694
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,639
because you're not playing in front of as many RAMS fans. Yes,

695
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,480
So then you jump on a plane, go to Phoenix

696
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,000
and you lay an egg yesterday and you're out of

697
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:05,760
the playoffs. So you go from this amazing run with

698
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,719
Sam Donald running things, which we have to have a

699
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,239
conversation about that too, to losing week seventeen or week eighteen,

700
00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:17,480
to losing in the wild card round. Imagine when Viking

701
00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:24,599
talk seven hounty is right. Now, that's despair, it's the

702
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,119
system is unfair. Is you're already having the is Sam

703
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,920
do you keep Sam Donald conversation? You weren't supposed to

704
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,960
have that three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, it's like

705
00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:36,599
you got a minimum franchise. Maybe sign him long term

706
00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:39,559
and trade JJ McCarthy. It's so funny how it works

707
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:42,119
in the NFL. Literally two bad games and we're like,

708
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:44,760
I don't know, Sam Donald, the guy ors has the

709
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,480
clock struck midnight on this guy, He's turned into a

710
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:52,519
pumpkin and it's a legitimate conversation. Thirty five touchdowns, twelve picks,

711
00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:55,440
forty three hundred yards, and you're wondering if you should

712
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,119
keep the guy. At the end of the day, it's

713
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:03,119
gotta be yes, right. Well, I mean I honestly, I

714
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,360
was traveling in both particular situations. I didn't say their

715
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,159
last game against the Lions, and I certainly didn't see

716
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:12,440
Yester because I was working on the rockets. You tell me, uh,

717
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,760
twenty seven to nine is not good. Thirty one to

718
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:22,800
nine before that, the stat numbers for Sam Darnold was

719
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,559
twenty five of forty. That's not overly efficient. Forty attempts

720
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,719
two hundred and forty five yards. It's a little more

721
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,800
than six yards in attempt a touchdown on I in

722
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,159
T TJ. Hockinson was your main go to guy five

723
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:41,199
for sixty four with a touchdown? Man, you think, I

724
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:47,920
think it's absolutely a really painful offseason from Minnesota because

725
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:54,119
if you goof on this decision, you're really potentially taking

726
00:37:54,199 --> 00:37:57,320
several steps back. And here's the thing, what does Justin

727
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,079
Jefferson want?

728
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 4: Yeah?

729
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 2: And the thing is too, like the the Brian Flores

730
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,079
defense that he runs is supposed to be super effective

731
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,519
against the West Coast Sean McVay style, right, and they

732
00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:13,920
just scored it on him, like and I mean Daniel

733
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:20,000
Daniel Hunter played cashin Harrison Smith, Like, how how did

734
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,719
they give up so many points? This is they were

735
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,199
supposed Sam Donald isn't supposed to be winning them games.

736
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,000
Sam Donald isn't supposed to go out there and throw

737
00:38:28,039 --> 00:38:30,519
four hundred yards in three touchdowns every single game. His

738
00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:32,639
defense is supposed to be the backbone of it. So

739
00:38:33,199 --> 00:38:36,519
maybe even though he wasn't perfect the last couple of games, Okay,

740
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:40,039
not good the last couple of games, let me ask

741
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:42,000
you this, why don't we make it nice and simple

742
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,280
franchise tagh, he's gonna get compensated fifty is that even

743
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,760
fifty forty five millions somewhere in there? Honestly, you look

744
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,719
at the resume of Sam Donald. What does he have

745
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,280
to stand on a say I don't deserve to be

746
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,599
franchise tag? What are you doing to me? No, he's

747
00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:58,440
gonna have to. He'd have no choice but to sign it.

748
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,400
That's if I was Minnesota, and I know that it's

749
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:05,559
so weird that people just don't want to use the

750
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:10,039
franchise tag. But if this is a no better indication

751
00:39:10,199 --> 00:39:13,320
when you should use it, it's right here because you

752
00:39:13,519 --> 00:39:18,480
want to pay Sam. But it's looked very murky the

753
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:21,199
last couple of weeks, and you got and you wouldn't

754
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:23,440
spend a first round pick on JJ McCarthy, who you

755
00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:26,960
fought was your franchise quarterback. You got to get rid

756
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,559
of a guy who's never taken a snap for you.

757
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,199
That's pretty painful too, especially when you obviously had him

758
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,400
very high in your list because you drafted him in

759
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,559
the first round. JJ McCarthy is a dart on the board.

760
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:39,920
It's gonna be up to it's gonna be risk versus reward.

761
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,440
And that's anything in the NFL with evaluation in the quarterback,

762
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:44,800
Just like in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs.

763
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,039
Alex Smith was a very capable, successful quarterback for the

764
00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:51,079
Chiefs and they said, you know what, Alex, we appreciate you,

765
00:39:51,199 --> 00:39:53,639
thank you very much for your services. The guy behind you,

766
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,880
we think we've evaluated. I think they knew. It seemed

767
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,880
like Andy Reid knew. Does Kevin O'Connell. No, that's a

768
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,960
good question, and I would, I mean, I would trust

769
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:10,000
how he reads evaluation Kevin O'Connell with Kevin O'Connell's a

770
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,199
good coach. Look, I don't I don't manage the salary cap.

771
00:40:14,159 --> 00:40:17,840
But to me, if you don't know what JJ McConnell

772
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,239
McCarthy is because he's been hurt, so you're he's not

773
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,000
even Pat mahomes who's been practicing and working out and

774
00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:27,320
being I mean, you have zero indication with JJ McCarthy's

775
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,280
except what was on his college tap. Tell Sam, hey man, Sam,

776
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,599
we'd love you. We're gonna make your financial dreams come

777
00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:38,079
to next year for the one year franchise tag, and

778
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:40,079
then if you continue to bet and do what you

779
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:41,559
did for us during the course of the year, we'll

780
00:40:41,559 --> 00:40:43,480
figure out long term something and move on with JJ.

781
00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:47,079
But what I would do is if I was the

782
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:50,480
Vikings that say, Sam, look at our situation, what would

783
00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:53,679
you do on our spot? Would same would probably say, well,

784
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,039
look what I did for you this year, Give me

785
00:40:55,039 --> 00:40:56,440
a four year deal worth two and a million dollars.

786
00:40:56,519 --> 00:40:59,639
You explore what you can get for JJ McCarthy in trade.

787
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,800
You just listen to offers. I guess the bigger questions

788
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:06,920
and I don't have to answer this because I got

789
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,360
it into the game last night. It's would I better

790
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:15,119
have Sam Darnold been able to beat the Los Angeles Rams.

791
00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:18,599
I don't think so. Thirty one points a lot to

792
00:41:18,679 --> 00:41:21,559
a good not great Rams offense. Twenty seven it was

793
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:23,599
thirty thirty one was the week obvious? Sorry, the Lions

794
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:25,960
was thirty one. That was twenty seven to nine, twenty

795
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,599
seven to night. Yeah, I mean, let me look at

796
00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:36,880
the LA's offensive production here Matthew Stafford nineteen to twenty seven,

797
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:43,079
two nine, it's okay, Kyon Williams at sixteen for seventy

798
00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:46,039
six HIGBEI was the main go to guy Cooper couple

799
00:41:46,079 --> 00:41:48,000
and called one pass. Yes, what how the hell they

800
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:57,840
how did they score twenty seven turnovers? Yeah, I don't know.

801
00:41:58,039 --> 00:41:59,559
I would do a one year deal, but you know what,

802
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,760
we'll see. Let me get to a biscuit before the

803
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,519
top of the hour on seven ninety and ten fifty six. Biscuit.

804
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 4: Good morning to you, coogl mad Yes, sir, I'm with

805
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,480
you on that. With Sam Darnold, mean to say that

806
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,360
I would if they're ever a time to do a

807
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,000
franchise tag this is it, you know, I mean, he's

808
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:25,159
only proof done it one year. You gotta at least

809
00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:27,599
see him do it twice before you get you know,

810
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,159
give him extended contract, I would think, And then you

811
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:32,880
got at least let JJ get healthy before you know

812
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,159
what you got in him. So classic case of franchise tag.

813
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe you know what. But it's so funny though, Biscuit.

814
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:43,000
You know this watching NFL, these teams do not like

815
00:42:43,079 --> 00:42:44,920
using any franchise tag. I mean, hell, the text have

816
00:42:45,039 --> 00:42:47,760
used it, yeah, a couple times in their exist existence.

817
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,440
It's it's almost like taboosh. Which again, if you're Sam,

818
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,519
this has found money for you. You worked your ass off.

819
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:56,920
You deserve to get a hillacious payday for one year.

820
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,400
And let me tell you something. If you're good and

821
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:02,840
they still want to go with JJ McCarthy long term,

822
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,519
you'll go find somewhere else to play. Good quarterbacks will

823
00:43:05,519 --> 00:43:07,559
always find a place to play football. And but he'll

824
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,079
be composated. I don't think Sam Donald's like always my

825
00:43:10,199 --> 00:43:12,719
dream to be the next franchise quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings.

826
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,639
He found a place that was not New York and

827
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:18,400
did well. Good for him, Yeah, but.

828
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 4: What's the market for Sam Donald now? After these last

829
00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:24,519
two games, I don't.

830
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying that the safe is the franchise sac.

831
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 4: Yeah right, let me say this for for get up,

832
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:34,440
I think the Texans mark me down. For the Texans

833
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,639
are better than they were last year. I just think

834
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,840
the defense is vastly improved and the offense maybe took

835
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,800
a little step back, but some of that is due

836
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,119
to injuries. And the teams that they played this year

837
00:43:47,199 --> 00:43:49,639
were much tougher than the teams they played last year.

838
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,199
So I think if you're looking at the organization as

839
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,000
a whole, I think they're better off than anywhere a

840
00:43:57,079 --> 00:43:57,400
year ago.

841
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 2: Now.

842
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 4: They're not still one of the elites teams, but all

843
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:05,639
you can ask for improvement, in my opinion, if you wanted, you.

844
00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: Know, they're better than what they were.

845
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:10,679
Speaker 4: And then, lastly, Ross my boy Whitmore last night?

846
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 2: Did you see him? Ross your boy wore? What did

847
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:13,639
he do?

848
00:44:14,599 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 4: He was passing the ball, Matt, and my wrong. I

849
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:19,719
think Whitmore passed more the ball more in the first

850
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,760
quarter last night and he did in previous game.

851
00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 2: I'm glad he's finally listening to some instructions. Was this

852
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,800
stat you gave me yesterday Matt about the assist numbers.

853
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,480
He has more points in the association with fewer assists

854
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:32,719
than anybody else in the NBA.

855
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 4: He was jackting. But remember, Matt, you remember, I know

856
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,880
you remember this sequence, Martin. I think that was a

857
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,920
big sequence in the game. The end of the third

858
00:44:40,039 --> 00:44:43,119
quarter and they were down like thirteen or so. And

859
00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:45,000
then look at the games about to get away from him,

860
00:44:45,039 --> 00:44:46,960
and he had wit Moore and some of the bench

861
00:44:47,039 --> 00:44:48,679
guys in there, and they made like a nine to

862
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,880
one run because like and that last played the third

863
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,960
quarter when they the ball got tipped back out to

864
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,440
Whitmore and he was there for a three pointer and

865
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,199
low on Bhall, he didn't jacket. He took a couple

866
00:44:59,199 --> 00:45:02,039
of dribbles, kicked at the holiday in the corner, and Holliday.

867
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 2: Hit three in the quarter.

868
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:03,519
Speaker 4: Wow.

869
00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, am I right man, I mean,

870
00:45:06,119 --> 00:45:08,480
let me tell you if I can win more. He's

871
00:45:08,519 --> 00:45:10,920
got us, he's got a guy, he's got space in

872
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,639
the rotation, he's got minutes for him. Make the most

873
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:16,599
of it, my man. That's all I'm saying. Jabbar's gonna

874
00:45:16,599 --> 00:45:21,559
be another Yeah, Jabar's me another month at least, Tarry said,

875
00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:23,920
I have no idea what his return is. There's minutes

876
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,960
for him to grab every single night. Just smile, get

877
00:45:28,039 --> 00:45:29,880
out there, do things that he may want you to do,

878
00:45:30,119 --> 00:45:32,679
and you're gonna have an opportunity to play eighteen to

879
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,559
twenty minutes a game. And for this point in his

880
00:45:34,679 --> 00:45:37,159
young NBA career, he should be more than satisfied with that.

881
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, and he and last night he did it man,

882
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,079
because we didn't see Taton the fourth court like we

883
00:45:43,159 --> 00:45:44,039
did the previous game.

884
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I mean, whitmore brings much more to the

885
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,519
table now. Defensively, Tate's going to be a more professional effort.

886
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,199
But from a shooting perspective, all different spots on the floor,

887
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,400
it's cam went more over Jayshon, And I think Jayshon

888
00:45:56,519 --> 00:45:58,639
knows that second hour of The Matt Thomas Show begins

889
00:45:58,679 --> 00:46:00,760
at a matter of moments, would you please us seven

890
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,280
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

891
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,159
three two one two five seven Nighty. The Matt Thomas

892
00:46:05,199 --> 00:46:07,480
Show with Ross continues. We have gut feelings in one

893
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:10,400
half hour the News at noon and Ross's NFL rewind

894
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,199
and we got to get to Jerry Jones too and

895
00:46:14,599 --> 00:46:18,719
Prime in D eleven o'clock, seven.

896
00:46:18,639 --> 00:46:26,079
Speaker 1: Ninety lunchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show eleven o

897
00:46:26,199 --> 00:46:26,599
three on.

898
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety is a Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

899
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,679
We are with you today until two o'clock. I'll be

900
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,599
hanging with you till one and then Gordy's gonna come

901
00:46:33,639 --> 00:46:35,960
in and do the last hour with Ross. We have

902
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,320
Gut Feelings at eleven thirty, twelve o'clock, the News at noon,

903
00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:43,880
NFL rewind at twelve thirty. A lot going on today,

904
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,239
Why do you guys be a part of it? And

905
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,480
Lady's Dizzy Busy Busy Show seven one three two one

906
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:51,360
two five, seven ninety. All right, I'm not gonna mention

907
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,159
this is the last time I bring up Jordan Schultz's

908
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:56,800
name because he's just a I mean, it's a douchebag.

909
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,519
I mean, it's just really on no way to say it.

910
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,119
We're gonna ban him from the from the show like

911
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,400
mex Mayan. Oh, by the ways, before you go to that,

912
00:47:05,519 --> 00:47:08,239
I don't mean to wait a minute. That actually works

913
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:13,639
mex Mayan. There is. And I'm going to tip our

914
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,960
give ourselves a hat tip on this one. Yes, Pat,

915
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,000
don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back, Matty. Well,

916
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:21,360
we're gonna do it anyway, too bad. It's going to

917
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,159
live with this. Yesterday at nine fifty six, Ross and

918
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,599
I made it and said, why don't we not bring

919
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:35,400
up mex Mayan the whole show? Yes, and you said

920
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:36,360
that's a great idea.

921
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:37,039
Speaker 5: M hm.

922
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 2: So we didn't bring up mex Mayan at any point

923
00:47:41,559 --> 00:47:45,639
during the show yesterday. We went from ten o'clock until two, Yes,

924
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:52,760
Tall towns, breaking it down, NFL Rockets, college Football, seventy sitcoms,

925
00:47:53,039 --> 00:48:01,079
seventy sitcoms, Taylor and all these things hits, and and

926
00:48:01,199 --> 00:48:04,400
we didn't bring up mex Miyan. Connor didn't bring him up. No,

927
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,599
he didn't, And he wanted to. Did you really, Connor?

928
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 5: Were you?

929
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,159
Speaker 2: Were you like, hey, can we get into that comments? Really? Okay?

930
00:48:11,199 --> 00:48:12,719
I mean I guess, I mean Connor, you're part of

931
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,239
the show too. If you wanted to, we should have

932
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,239
done it, you know, he's kind of like our sounding board. Yes,

933
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:19,440
but we didn't do it. And we did a four

934
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,360
hour radio show and didn't do it. So I want

935
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,480
to give ourselves an applause. I was going to guess

936
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,920
the only show in the marketplace got There's no question

937
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:30,119
we were the only show in the marketplace that didn't

938
00:48:30,119 --> 00:48:30,519
bring it up.

939
00:48:30,599 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

940
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,079
Speaker 2: Now I don't listen to a lot of other shows.

941
00:48:32,119 --> 00:48:33,679
I don't listen to any other show. I hate listen

942
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,280
to a lot sadly because I'm a pathetic piece of crap.

943
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:44,440
But that's a different issue for a different time. So Ross, congratulations, Connor,

944
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:47,559
congratulations to you as well. We were able to actually

945
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,480
organically come up with four hours of material instead of

946
00:48:51,599 --> 00:48:53,280
and then not having to go to the lowest hanging

947
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,960
of fruit to go grab somebody saying that the certain

948
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,880
team is on a bye week. So we're officially done

949
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,320
with that. And by the way, if if you're the

950
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,880
Jets and you hire him, you're just you're just making

951
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,920
a stupid, stupid decision. Would well, well, you never can

952
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,719
never count out Woody Johnson doing something crazy. That's but

953
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:10,960
I would still be utterly shocked. All right. So back

954
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:16,840
to the douche uh rodent Roltz. He's now apparently works

955
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,440
for Fox, which is embarrassing, and he drifted his way

956
00:49:19,559 --> 00:49:23,800
up there. He's given out so many the first time

957
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,679
we had h him on this show, he said, sources

958
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,320
close to him, were saying that Dwight Howard was going

959
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,199
to sign with the Mavericks, and we gave him. You

960
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,440
gave him an out because Sam Ammick was talking about

961
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,639
the Rockets at that time, and and he said, no,

962
00:49:39,039 --> 00:49:42,079
I'm sticking with my sources. He's going to be a Maverick.

963
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:48,760
He's saying so much stuff wrong. So he moved on

964
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,360
to the NFL and he reports that the cop that

965
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:57,800
there have been conversations, nothing formally, but conversations between Dion

966
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:07,519
Sanders and the Dallas Cowboys. Ross Win Colorado hired prime Dion.

967
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,400
They had to know this was going to be coming up.

968
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,039
That Dion said all the right things in the interview,

969
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:17,880
how much he loved Boulder, how much he loved the

970
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,440
Pac twelve now Big twelve, how much he's ready to

971
00:50:20,639 --> 00:50:26,199
restore greatness to once a great football academy. But this

972
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,199
is going to happen for the rest of Dion Sanders'

973
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:35,920
tenure at Colorado. And honestly, Ross, while I wouldn't be

974
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:39,920
surprised by it if I was Colorado, I started to

975
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,199
get pissed. Eventually. I don't want to have to hear

976
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,960
about like I be, like if we hired you to

977
00:50:45,039 --> 00:50:49,119
go work in a radio station and say Detroit okay,

978
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,039
and all you wanted to do was talk about were

979
00:50:51,159 --> 00:50:54,039
the next place you were going. If I was Detroit's boss,

980
00:50:54,119 --> 00:50:56,679
I'd be mad, like, man, we just hired you here,

981
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,360
We're paying you well to work here. I don't want

982
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,079
to hear about your next job. And I think that's

983
00:51:03,079 --> 00:51:05,719
what Dion's bringing to the table no matter where he goes,

984
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,599
because I do believe he wants the ultimate he wants

985
00:51:10,679 --> 00:51:12,280
to be able to do it at the highest level

986
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,840
in the NFL. There's no way that Deon Sanders thought

987
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,280
in his life, I'm going to get into college coaching

988
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,400
and my ultimate goal is to go to a mid

989
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:29,199
level Big twelve school. Probably not. Now, do the Suns

990
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,239
have something to do with this? Does this? Is this

991
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:34,880
the case where he's trying to get some more money

992
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,920
for Colorado? Is this the case where he's just wanted

993
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,679
to at least kick the tires on the first time

994
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,800
he's been associated with an NFL job. Because Diana apparently,

995
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,000
and again you're only if you can only trust what

996
00:51:46,119 --> 00:51:49,440
you read or what you see, reported that Dian apparently

997
00:51:49,519 --> 00:51:51,000
wanted to put its name in the hat for the

998
00:51:51,079 --> 00:51:53,360
LAS Vegas Raiders job, and the Raiders said, like, now

999
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:58,719
we're good. And Jerry Jones is an old coot. He's

1000
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:04,199
he's old, he's basically senile. Yes, And if Dion Sanders

1001
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,280
calls him Jerry Jones ross, he's taking the phone call.

1002
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,800
I don't blame Jerry for doing it. It's one of

1003
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,519
his old guys. Yeah, he's dynamic. He would certainly move

1004
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,039
the needle even more than it already gets moved in Dallas.

1005
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:18,920
But I'm sorry, and I know that you're not the

1006
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,599
biggest Mike McCarthy fan, but Mike McCarthy. Replacing Mike McCarthy

1007
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:25,519
with Dion Sanders is frankly embarrassing. Yeah, if you replace

1008
00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:28,639
Mike McCarthy, you're going with some somebody that you think

1009
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,400
is young, up and coming, going to be the next

1010
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,639
big thing in coaching. Go get somebody off the Detroit

1011
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,440
coaching staff period. Yeah, Ben Johnson or Aaron Aaron Glynn. Yeah,

1012
00:52:38,159 --> 00:52:40,360
bring Aaron Glynn home to Texas. There's plenty of people

1013
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,480
that could, that would, that have paid their dues, that

1014
00:52:43,639 --> 00:52:47,800
know the NFL backwards and forwards. If Dion thinks being

1015
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,320
a college coach takes a lot of time, There's a

1016
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,400
reason why NFL coaches largely burn out very quickly is

1017
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,719
because they don't ever leave their house. I mean they

1018
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,760
never leave their offices. And you're gonna if you think

1019
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,920
the second guessing is bad Rossy in Denver by the

1020
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:07,199
local TV station, imagine the national pundits want to do it. Yeah,

1021
00:53:07,199 --> 00:53:10,480
if he's having beef with the local Colorado Springs reporter,

1022
00:53:10,559 --> 00:53:12,760
how's that gonna go over to the NFL media. Yeah,

1023
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:19,119
but as you said, it would be a one circus

1024
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,719
if he went to Dallas. I love it from that standpoint.

1025
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,840
I'll believe it when I see it. I will stick.

1026
00:53:25,079 --> 00:53:28,400
I don't think that is not gonna happen. I would

1027
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,000
be shocked. If do you think you'll ever be an

1028
00:53:30,079 --> 00:53:32,559
NFL head coach. I'm gonna say you're saying you're saying

1029
00:53:32,559 --> 00:53:33,800
out of coaching in three years, So that would be

1030
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,599
probably a say yeah if he go, if he if

1031
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:38,639
the Cowboys hire him, I'll up at to four years.

1032
00:53:41,519 --> 00:53:45,960
I mean, think about the Dallas Cowboys coaches. And somebody

1033
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,519
put a list on this on social the other day

1034
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:50,039
and I forgot where it was, but the number of

1035
00:53:50,119 --> 00:53:52,400
people that have been the head coach of Dallas Cowboys

1036
00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:55,480
since Sherry's taken over. I mean, one of the things.

1037
00:53:55,639 --> 00:53:57,840
And you can complain about Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh into

1038
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,840
you're blow in the face, But the Sprig Steelers have

1039
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,840
been good for a long period of time, not great,

1040
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:07,639
but very good because they don't make changes on the

1041
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,719
fly and as regular as they have, well, I think

1042
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,880
a bit of luck. Probably every franchise would like to

1043
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,800
say we've only hired three coaches in so let's get

1044
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,119
to a little more of a medium of a franchise

1045
00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:23,119
that has not done a lot of coaching changes. Maybe

1046
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:26,960
there's nobody, maybe maybe this is the norm. Yeah, I'm

1047
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:33,639
trying to think of a successful Philadelphia got away from Peterson. Yeah. Uh,

1048
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,079
well Andy Reid. I mean Andy Reid's been two spots.

1049
00:54:36,079 --> 00:54:39,000
Andy Reid was great, but they fired him. But I

1050
00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:40,719
mean he can stay in Kansasity for as long as

1051
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:47,800
he wants. M HM. Dallas has had one. I mean

1052
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,559
even when Parcells was there, you knew he wasn't gonna

1053
00:54:51,559 --> 00:54:54,079
be there for the long prime there. Yeah, that was

1054
00:54:54,119 --> 00:54:57,880
even okay, So Jason Garrett, Wade Phillips, I forgot ye,

1055
00:54:59,119 --> 00:55:03,719
Bill Parcells, Dave Campo, Chan Gaily Barry Switzer than Jimmy Johnson.

1056
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,440
It's not as much as like say, the Browns. Well,

1057
00:55:07,519 --> 00:55:10,079
but the Dallas Cowboys number never ever want to be

1058
00:55:10,119 --> 00:55:15,079
in the same conversation as Brown. Ten years. Yeah, then

1059
00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:16,559
five of it was when you're gonna fire him? And

1060
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:21,400
I was like, no, we like him. Yeah, yeah, Oh

1061
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,280
he was sure the chosen one. And my guess is

1062
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,920
it was even painful for Jason Garrett to get let

1063
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,360
go because it took it took years of non playoff

1064
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,679
victories for Jason Garrett to finally get the hook.

1065
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 6: So you know.

1066
00:55:36,119 --> 00:55:39,159
Speaker 2: Who's been the worst. Probably the Bears. Maybe Bears are brown,

1067
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,519
brown brown for a few years. Uh well you Jacksonville

1068
00:55:43,599 --> 00:55:46,079
hiring urban Meyer. That was a disa, that was one

1069
00:55:46,159 --> 00:55:55,119
and done. Yeah, Bears, eber Flus, Naggy John Fox, Mark Trustman,

1070
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:08,960
Lovey Smith, Dick Jeron since ninety nine. It's not terrible. Texans, Oh, Gomico, Cully, Lovey, Yes,

1071
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:16,119
hapers U goobiac Am I missing anybody? Bill O'Brien, Well,

1072
00:56:16,119 --> 00:56:17,400
there are a lot of teams in the NFL. It

1073
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:18,920
can't be a brag up with they're coaching highers. I

1074
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,519
mean they went on a run with three coaches and

1075
00:56:20,559 --> 00:56:22,679
three three head coaches in three years. That runs it up,

1076
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,079
That runs up the totals. Certainly the jack ran the

1077
00:56:26,159 --> 00:56:28,440
totals up, and then they wanted to go with Josh McCown.

1078
00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:30,679
So here's a shout out all of you Dallas fans

1079
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,840
that are dying for thirst for airtime on a Houston

1080
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,960
radio show. Successful one. By the way, when I say

1081
00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:41,519
coach Prime at at and T Stadium coaching the Cowboys,

1082
00:56:41,639 --> 00:56:45,280
what is your initial I'm not a gut feeling, but

1083
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,239
what is your initial feeling that about even them even

1084
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,159
talking to each other? Seven one three two one two

1085
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,840
five Sevenani seven one three two one two five Sevenani

1086
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,119
Rockets with a nice win against Memphis last night. They

1087
00:56:57,199 --> 00:57:01,960
won four consecutive games, rams out, Uhs performed the Vikings.

1088
00:57:02,079 --> 00:57:05,119
Vikings are out after a spectacular season. What do you

1089
00:57:05,159 --> 00:57:07,760
do with Sam Darnold? Texan's getting ready for the Chiefs.

1090
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,920
A lot to get to today and Alex Bragman still

1091
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:14,000
looking for a spot. Incredible eleven fourteen seven one three

1092
00:57:14,119 --> 00:57:16,519
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1093
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:19,400
one two five seven ninety go back to.

1094
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:23,719
Speaker 1: Matt Thomas and Ross via real fine fine Sports Talk

1095
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:24,760
seven ninety.

1096
00:57:33,559 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 2: Filling the curtain back on their Matt Thomas show at Ross,

1097
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:38,679
I said, Ross, what would you like to get to

1098
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:43,960
and he said the Manchester City transfer window. Yes, the

1099
00:57:44,119 --> 00:57:48,320
January transfer window window has been very fruitful for Manchester City.

1100
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,559
A couple of center backs. They signed in a striker

1101
00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:55,599
nine sounds great. Phone lines are open for that as well.

1102
00:57:55,679 --> 00:57:58,280
It's seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.

1103
00:57:59,519 --> 00:58:01,039
We've got feelings come out the bottom of the aar.

1104
00:58:01,119 --> 00:58:02,960
You got anything juicy on your gut feelings this week?

1105
00:58:03,719 --> 00:58:06,920
M no, I can we can make our predictions in

1106
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,039
the NFL games, unless you want to hold that's bad radio. Yes, Matt,

1107
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,880
I'm gonna make one of the biggest predictions in the

1108
00:58:13,159 --> 00:58:15,639
history of the segment coming up. Is it on a

1109
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:18,599
recorded line? Though? Free? Out of recorded line?

1110
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:19,119
Speaker 8: I had.

1111
00:58:19,199 --> 00:58:21,119
Speaker 2: I think my lock of a week was the Broncos

1112
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,199
When I said that. When we're making our prediction, did

1113
00:58:23,239 --> 00:58:24,440
you go back at the air check of the show

1114
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:24,840
on Friday?

1115
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: Oh?

1116
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 2: No, I forgot. You're too busy being a television star

1117
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,280
on Space City yesterday between five o'clock. True, I had

1118
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:32,960
a busy day yesterday, Matt. I was on air for

1119
00:58:33,079 --> 00:58:36,000
five hours. I should I should have dvard it. That's

1120
00:58:36,199 --> 00:58:38,480
that's a bad point on it. It's fine. I want

1121
00:58:38,519 --> 00:58:40,199
to look at your mannerisms, look at see if you

1122
00:58:40,239 --> 00:58:43,000
look like you were, if you I didn't have any

1123
00:58:43,039 --> 00:58:45,800
sort of weird facial tick or like anything like that.

1124
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,760
Did any of your friends like to send you text?

1125
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,599
May you look great on TV? Or maybe you should

1126
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:51,840
have got a shave or something like that. Nobody said anything,

1127
00:58:52,039 --> 00:58:56,079
Well than other thing, I owe that to appreciated. The

1128
00:58:56,159 --> 00:58:57,679
only text I got was one asking me if I

1129
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:58,599
was distracted, So.

1130
00:59:00,719 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 6: Were you?

1131
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:01,639
Speaker 7: No?

1132
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,159
Speaker 2: Oh god, I feel somewhat bad that no one paid

1133
00:59:06,159 --> 00:59:10,800
attention to you. I even told my mommy and daddy

1134
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,000
I was gonna be on and you know you have

1135
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:17,639
one person test. Fine, If a TV shows on in

1136
00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:19,199
the woods and no one watches it, is it really

1137
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,079
a well? Honestly, and to be fair, it's most people

1138
00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:25,760
are at five o'clock or either handling dinner or drum.

1139
00:59:26,239 --> 00:59:28,880
You really trying to help me out, man, I I

1140
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,079
feel like I've done enough crushing in the last decade. No,

1141
00:59:32,159 --> 00:59:34,679
I don't need that anything here. Don't touch me seven

1142
00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:37,679
one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven one

1143
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,920
three h two one two five seven. Hoy, So we

1144
00:59:41,039 --> 00:59:43,039
got playoffs and look, I don't want to do a

1145
00:59:43,119 --> 00:59:46,599
lot of deep analytical breakdown. We're gonna go let's do it. No,

1146
00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:48,159
I said, we're not gonna do a lot of it. Maybe,

1147
00:59:48,199 --> 00:59:50,039
well maybe later in the week. All right, you know

1148
00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:52,519
what you gotta do. Thursday should be four full hours

1149
00:59:52,559 --> 00:59:53,400
of Texans preview.

1150
00:59:54,079 --> 00:59:54,519
Speaker 4: I'm with it.

1151
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,719
Speaker 2: I will be here so you can do all four hours.

1152
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:01,320
That's gonna happen out. Yeah, leave, we'll talk some football.

1153
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:02,800
Have you got your guests on for Friday? For our

1154
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,440
show Friday? Gotta get our Casey guy on. Oh, oh,

1155
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,599
you're gonna be gone Friday. I'm here Thursday. I won't

1156
01:00:07,599 --> 01:00:10,360
be here Thursday. About here Friday. Should we get different

1157
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,679
people on every day from this from Kansas City? Yeah,

1158
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:16,280
let's give five people. Go to all the different TV affiliates,

1159
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:20,119
radio guys, you can get that area. We can get

1160
01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:23,639
the play by play guy touchdown Kansas City. What's his

1161
01:00:23,719 --> 01:00:26,559
name meaning, Mitch Holfis Okay, I've never met him before. Okay,

1162
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,920
I'm sure he's wonderful. It's an iconic call. Yeah for

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01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:33,079
local football. Oh, I think people know that for sure.

1164
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Original that's first time ever heard Kevin Harlan was when

1165
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,400
he was doing Chiefs Games. He did Chiefs Games way

1166
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,639
back in the day. I know it's not as maybe

1167
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:48,159
prestigious or it doesn't make as much money, but he

1168
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,519
was born to do NFL on the radio. He does

1169
01:00:51,639 --> 01:00:55,519
it's so good. He was born for radio television. I

1170
01:00:55,559 --> 01:01:01,719
think there's somebody that if Harlan gets any negativity, it's

1171
01:01:02,039 --> 01:01:04,199
he will probably inject more of a radio call on

1172
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,599
his TV broadcast than other people do. He can sometimes

1173
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,440
over sell, like a third and three in the second quarter.

1174
01:01:11,559 --> 01:01:13,320
It's like, all right, calm down, Canvin. It's not like

1175
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,880
they just won the Super Bowl. But that's my only

1176
01:01:16,119 --> 01:01:18,400
But he's still great. Oh no, he has too much energy.

1177
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,880
Like it's not a bad criticism. Well, it's funny because

1178
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,519
Gus Johnson gets some of that. Sometimes that's way over

1179
01:01:23,639 --> 01:01:27,920
sold too often. Yeah, we we have a really good

1180
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,920
batch of broadcasters. But I would say if there was

1181
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,039
a criticism of the of the group now that's running

1182
01:01:33,039 --> 01:01:35,559
the National Games that maybe they tend to overhype things,

1183
01:01:35,639 --> 01:01:39,119
like Tony Rumble tends to overhype things. People get a

1184
01:01:39,159 --> 01:01:41,480
lot of time, like Tony Rummel a lot I do,

1185
01:01:44,159 --> 01:01:46,400
but I would have to say pound for pound right now.

1186
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:50,239
When it comes to analysts, the probably the most highly

1187
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,440
regarded analyst is Greg Olsen from Fox Sports former Carolina

1188
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,719
ti end Tom Brady was getting crushed all weekend. Yes

1189
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,639
he was, Yeah, too rigid, just relaxed. Tom say, I

1190
01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:03,679
don't think he's bad at all. He's not bad. I agree.

1191
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,480
I mean what I've replaced him with Greg Olsen? No, yeah,

1192
01:02:07,519 --> 01:02:09,639
he's Greg Olsen is better. But Tom Brady's a Tom

1193
01:02:09,679 --> 01:02:11,480
by way bigger start. And by the way, this won't

1194
01:02:11,519 --> 01:02:13,440
be an issue in a couple of years. I'm firmly

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01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:16,320
of the belief I think you're that he is going

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01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,880
to go and be a huge First of all, if

1197
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,440
he's a huge part ROSSI of the Raiders coaching search,

1198
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:28,159
that is complete. Uh what a conflict of interest? Yeah,

1199
01:02:29,039 --> 01:02:34,280
and he's he can't do his best possible job if

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he can't go to coaches meetings, he can't. He can't

1201
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:43,000
watch practices, can't even interview players or coaches, can't criticize

1202
01:02:43,039 --> 01:02:45,840
officials or the NFL. He has a color man. Sometimes

1203
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,880
you got to say the officials got it wrong. That's

1204
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,880
just part of the job and he can't do that.

1205
01:02:54,159 --> 01:02:56,920
But I again, if there was a most improved category,

1206
01:02:57,559 --> 01:03:00,079
it'd be Tom Brady. But you don't put your you

1207
01:03:00,119 --> 01:03:02,000
don't put your most improved guy on the biggest game

1208
01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:04,400
week after week after three hundred million dollars. Who has

1209
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:12,679
the Super Bowl this year? Fox? Hmmm hm, okay, I

1210
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,760
mean he chose the right year to jump in. Yeah,

1211
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,519
I wonder if that probably wasn't an accident. Oh yeah,

1212
01:03:18,519 --> 01:03:21,000
I mean yeah, anybody that broadcasts the Super Bowl is

1213
01:03:21,039 --> 01:03:24,800
gonna get incredible coverage. So if he was trying to

1214
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:28,159
build his brand outside of out of football, he's certainly done. Man,

1215
01:03:28,199 --> 01:03:30,280
it'd be a great interview for him in the quarterback

1216
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,480
Oh never mind, he can't interview him now. His partner

1217
01:03:33,519 --> 01:03:35,559
can do all the note taking he wants, but there's

1218
01:03:35,639 --> 01:03:37,480
just gonna be a certain interaction that you'd have face

1219
01:03:37,559 --> 01:03:39,119
to face. He can't even he can't even zoom, he

1220
01:03:39,159 --> 01:03:43,039
can't do anything. He really can't even phone. He couldn't

1221
01:03:43,079 --> 01:03:46,079
dill up. He couldn't call U C. J. Stroud tomorrow

1222
01:03:46,079 --> 01:03:48,639
if you wanted to to get his thoughts. It's against rule.

1223
01:03:48,639 --> 01:03:50,239
He's a part of an NFL team. Can he send

1224
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,880
him an email questionnaire? Can he reach out on the

1225
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,760
WhatsApp app? Yeah? Why not? Nobody ever finds out what's

1226
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,920
going on WhatsApp. People love the What's app. That's how international,

1227
01:04:00,079 --> 01:04:03,480
That's how I communicated with you. Yeah, when I go international. Yeah,

1228
01:04:04,719 --> 01:04:07,559
and there's no evidence of anything you type on the WhatsApp?

1229
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,400
Is that true? Well, it's into end encryption, So what

1230
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,519
you're talking about, you can delete them you have to,

1231
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:14,760
and there'll be no record of it. That's what's apps like,

1232
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,000
it's what's apps like, Hey man, you want to keep

1233
01:04:17,039 --> 01:04:19,320
things secret and you erase it, you never can find

1234
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:22,519
it again if you're in that sort of thing. Okay,

1235
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,920
just sewn them out there. Thanks. Thanks. Matt eleven twenty

1236
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,440
six on Sports Talk seven ninety I wouldn't do that,

1237
01:04:29,039 --> 01:04:31,199
but I like to keep my text clear. I know

1238
01:04:31,719 --> 01:04:33,559
you've got like three emails in your inbox if you

1239
01:04:33,719 --> 01:04:36,320
buy me, I like, I've got like ten thousand. I

1240
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,800
have very few texts and very few emails, So people

1241
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,039
like if when I if anybody ever says, hey, Matt,

1242
01:04:44,039 --> 01:04:45,840
you have that email on mine, and I'll I'll go,

1243
01:04:46,199 --> 01:04:50,320
uh no, I accidentally erase it that's a lie one hundred.

1244
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,719
I erased it intentionally thinking that I wasn't going to

1245
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:56,239
use it again. Now, my trash in my email is abundant.

1246
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,840
There's like ten thousand there, but sometimes you don't time

1247
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:01,639
to look for that up. So yeah, thanks Matt for

1248
01:05:01,719 --> 01:05:04,079
the tips on your personal email life. Well, I'm just

1249
01:05:04,119 --> 01:05:07,880
saying that, you know, list, I'm being truthful now as

1250
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:11,880
compared to line to you earlier, the truth self shut

1251
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,880
your self, shell said you sorry, it's all that clean.

1252
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:20,800
I hope so did a lay button for you. But

1253
01:05:21,079 --> 01:05:30,480
out there all right, gut feelings time you ready? Uh yeah,

1254
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:35,519
I'm gonna make one about college basketball. Ooh okay, and

1255
01:05:35,639 --> 01:05:38,280
it's not gonna resonate, but that's okay, okay, it's about

1256
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:41,880
the Longhorns making the n it. That's your rateful spot. Hey,

1257
01:05:42,119 --> 01:05:45,599
that is not true. Please. A lot of tournament appearances,

1258
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,880
lots dozens all right? Seven one three two one two

1259
01:05:51,039 --> 01:05:53,920
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.

1260
01:05:54,039 --> 01:05:55,400
If you're new to the program, first of all, where

1261
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,400
the hell have you been? Second, we're damn glad to

1262
01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:58,960
have you. This is the segment the half hour of

1263
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,199
the show we ask you to make your predictions about

1264
01:06:01,239 --> 01:06:05,280
anything sports related. Seven one three two one two five

1265
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,599
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven. Anny,

1266
01:06:08,639 --> 01:06:10,320
we need your gut feelings. We need him now you're

1267
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:14,760
on Sports Talk seven ninety Listen up, gus a poem

1268
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,199
so appealing, wasn't that? Thomas?

1269
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: You'll they got a gut feeling.

1270
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:22,719
Speaker 2: This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.

1271
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,119
All right, eleven thirty one on seven nine eight is

1272
01:06:29,159 --> 01:06:31,199
a Matt Thomas Show at ross It's time for us

1273
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,480
to see how we did last week with our gut feelings,

1274
01:06:34,559 --> 01:06:37,000
give you some new ones, and then we hear from you,

1275
01:06:37,159 --> 01:06:39,840
the great listeners, the great sports fans, the great people

1276
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,000
of the community that we call Houston, Texas at seven

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01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:45,639
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

1278
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:49,280
three two one two five seven Nintie time. Now Rossie

1279
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:53,000
fo some gut feelings. How we do last week? Last week? Matthew, uh,

1280
01:06:53,679 --> 01:06:55,920
you're really going hot and heavy again. You had the

1281
01:06:56,119 --> 01:07:00,639
Chargers beating the Texans by a touchdown. M Texans covered

1282
01:07:00,679 --> 01:07:04,800
the plus seven got it? Laramie Tunzel called for a penalty. No,

1283
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:10,239
that's another two knows rockets minus twelve and a half

1284
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:13,159
versus the Wizards. They won twenty three. I think, thank you,

1285
01:07:14,679 --> 01:07:18,679
Texas beats Ohio State because I was team Ross. You

1286
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,440
did this on purpose? I hate no, no chance. That's

1287
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:26,360
another l. Penn State wins the other game. That's another.

1288
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,280
Oh god, this has not been a good week for me.

1289
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:29,960
Why are we announcing this that I think you're gonna

1290
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,559
win this one. Jimmy Butler stays in Miami. By the way,

1291
01:07:33,559 --> 01:07:35,559
we got an update from Shams on that after got

1292
01:07:35,639 --> 01:07:39,639
feelings we'll have that. Okay, let's see. I had the

1293
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:44,559
Texans beating the Los Angeles Chargers and advancing to the

1294
01:07:44,639 --> 01:07:49,440
divisional round of the afc ross. The consistency is very appreciative.

1295
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,679
I thought they were gonna win. I did Kimie fairbearn

1296
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,159
game winner? That was wrong. A man that Thompson has

1297
01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:01,719
the best career of the young Rockets cores Jalen my

1298
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,119
Beer on that one. Yeah, but we'll see, We'll see.

1299
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,719
It's not point shooter, which he has been this last week.

1300
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:12,519
And I said, even Eagles versus Ravens super Bowl, Ravens

1301
01:08:12,639 --> 01:08:15,119
win it all. I have Ravens and the Lions playing

1302
01:08:15,119 --> 01:08:16,760
for the super Bowl. Okay, By the way. I was

1303
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,199
not impressed with Philadelphia this weekend at all. I mean,

1304
01:08:19,239 --> 01:08:21,199
I know they beat Green Bay and it wasn't good.

1305
01:08:21,359 --> 01:08:23,600
It was really good defense, but I thought Hurts was

1306
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:27,600
rather their average. Barkley was outstanding, could have had a

1307
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:29,159
much bigger day, but give up the ball late in

1308
01:08:29,199 --> 01:08:31,399
the contest just because he was running the clock out.

1309
01:08:32,199 --> 01:08:35,640
I thought it was a very pedestrian game. The Eagles.

1310
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:37,039
I think the Eagles are gonna have a lot of

1311
01:08:37,079 --> 01:08:40,920
trouble this week. Who are they playing this time? They

1312
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:47,640
are playing the hated Detroit Lions. No, no, it's Washington's Detroit.

1313
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,720
Philadelphi Ram is playing the Rams in Philadelphia are going

1314
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,840
to have their hands. These are divisional round. This to

1315
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,079
me is the best weekend the day. It's really good.

1316
01:08:56,159 --> 01:08:57,720
It's so good. A lot of good things, all right.

1317
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:03,279
Mccona mcgovernent mix in touchdown, let's go, that's a hit.

1318
01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:07,680
He had the Texans winning. That's a hit as well,

1319
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,840
and he said the Rockets win three of their next four.

1320
01:09:12,079 --> 01:09:15,199
They've won four in a row. Wow, even better. I'm

1321
01:09:15,199 --> 01:09:18,239
still give them a win on that absolutely, So that's

1322
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:21,239
a job. Yeah, And those are the gut feelings from

1323
01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:24,640
last week. All right, boys? Uh, you want to start

1324
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,119
Texans first against you want to hold off the litter

1325
01:09:27,159 --> 01:09:28,600
in the week. It's up to you, guys. I'll do

1326
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,880
I'll do a quick one, please. I haven't I don't

1327
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,600
have a final prediction yet. But they cover the eight

1328
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:35,840
and a half is what it opened at. Are you

1329
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:37,279
gonna are you gonna give me the opening line or

1330
01:09:37,279 --> 01:09:39,159
do you want? You have to put the current right

1331
01:09:39,239 --> 01:09:41,199
this second? Ye, I would have hopped on if we

1332
01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:42,720
lived on a legal state, I would have hopped on

1333
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,359
eight and a half in a second, I promise you

1334
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:48,359
that's actually how I felt the current line right now.

1335
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,319
Seven and a half. So you're telling me a points

1336
01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:55,000
making you really think about this? Seven and a half

1337
01:09:55,039 --> 01:09:57,960
to eight and a half is big, Mattie, Texans covered

1338
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:02,840
the seven and a half. What's up Connor, Texans plus

1339
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:06,199
seven and a half or Kansas City minus seven and

1340
01:10:06,199 --> 01:10:10,439
a half. Don't let in your emotions. Don't let those

1341
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,640
nine Texans T shirts you wear weekly. I can hear

1342
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,159
the waffling. Yeah, he doesn't want He's very slow to

1343
01:10:16,199 --> 01:10:19,079
the microphone on this one. Now, the spread the first

1344
01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:21,000
the matchup a few weeks ago was three and a half.

1345
01:10:21,159 --> 01:10:23,760
But Pat Mahomes had three weeks to rest up from

1346
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,359
that bad ankle, haven't played in what twenty will be

1347
01:10:26,399 --> 01:10:29,840
twenty four days. They're gonna be rusty. I say, the

1348
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:36,479
Chiefs seven and half, I don't want to. I don't

1349
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,520
like you right now. I'm so close to being deep still, Matt.

1350
01:10:46,159 --> 01:10:48,840
Question is now, if they play like they did this

1351
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,960
past weekend, that was the best offensive performance relative to

1352
01:10:52,159 --> 01:10:54,560
the team they were playing. That's the best offensive performance

1353
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:58,920
of the year. Yes, But whose defense is better Kansas

1354
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:02,319
City's or the Charge and Get But Chargers top ten

1355
01:11:02,359 --> 01:11:05,520
defense there number one in scoring. But you're also playing

1356
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,279
in twenty five degree temperatures in front of seventy five

1357
01:11:08,359 --> 01:11:15,079
thousand lunatics. Yeah, who are gonna go get frostbite losers? Yeah,

1358
01:11:15,159 --> 01:11:19,039
I'm gonna I'm not doing I'm not going. I'm not

1359
01:11:19,119 --> 01:11:21,920
going Rex Ryan on your here. I'm gonna just look. No,

1360
01:11:22,039 --> 01:11:24,039
call it a bye week. No, I wouldn't do that.

1361
01:11:24,119 --> 01:11:26,680
That's stupid. That'd be only an idiot would do that.

1362
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:30,039
Kn't City give the seven and a half up?

1363
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 4: All right?

1364
01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:33,399
Speaker 2: Good? You know what I'm feeling. Good. You guys are doubting,

1365
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:36,239
You're doubting the Texans like they were doubted last week.

1366
01:11:36,399 --> 01:11:38,279
You know, there's a phrase call being a doubting Thomas.

1367
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,119
I know you're always a doubting Thomas. I doubt all

1368
01:11:42,159 --> 01:11:44,000
things about you. Look what you've done. You've covered the

1369
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,479
spread a few times in your life. Hey, you've also

1370
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,760
eaten a few spreads in your life too. I destroyed them,

1371
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:53,640
all right, m Rockets go two and one on the

1372
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:59,600
next road trip, three games, Denver, Sacramento, Portland back to back.

1373
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:01,960
The Denver Sacramento one is brutal. You know why it's brutal.

1374
01:12:02,359 --> 01:12:05,880
First of all, it's two. I mean Denver's excellent, Sacramento

1375
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,279
is getting better. And secondly, the NBA doesn't realize that

1376
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:12,199
Denver and Sacramento is like a two hour plus flight

1377
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,880
and the airport in Denver is far away from the city.

1378
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,600
I mean, we're not going to get there till like

1379
01:12:18,359 --> 01:12:21,760
three o'clock in the morning. When's the game the next night?

1380
01:12:22,119 --> 01:12:24,279
You're fine, That's why I'm taking the day off. I

1381
01:12:24,279 --> 01:12:27,000
gotta sleep getting there till three am, and the game's

1382
01:12:27,079 --> 01:12:31,439
not for fifteen sixteen hours in our in our private

1383
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:36,640
jets and our five diamond hotels. But I canna get

1384
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:37,840
I have to be at my rest, I need to

1385
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:39,760
be at my best. I know you gotta change your

1386
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:42,960
massage booking time, appointment time. It's fine thinking about twelve

1387
01:12:43,039 --> 01:12:46,119
thirty one o'clockish, I'll listen. I'll have the iHeart at

1388
01:12:46,199 --> 01:12:48,079
radio app on listening because you told me too. The

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free shrimp cocktail messes up my eating schedule. The shrimp

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01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:54,399
this year had been fantastic, really jumbo. The cocktail sauce

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01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,079
has been nice and spicy. O the jumbo Gulf shrimp

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for free on the private jets. Don't forget that you

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01:13:00,199 --> 01:13:08,720
have it couts more medium well to my liking on

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01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:13,600
my philam the lobster mac and cheese has been good

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01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:21,800
terrible about serious. There's lobster mac and cheese on these wait. Actually, yes,

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01:13:23,279 --> 01:13:25,479
it's really good and I'm not a huge mac and

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cheese fan, but i like it.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, rockets to and one on the trip. What else

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we got? Dion's not the couch that coach the Cowboys.

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01:13:37,319 --> 01:13:38,680
Is that a low hanging that's a lot. I know

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01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:40,800
with you though, I mean there's just no way, no how,

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01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:43,800
no way, okay, no way, know how Dion's coach the Cowboys.

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01:13:44,079 --> 01:13:47,439
Matter of fact, I think I will go with on

1405
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,600
the Cowboys coaching search. It will be an assistant coach

1406
01:13:51,279 --> 01:13:52,960
somewhere in the league. Right now. You want to make

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01:13:53,039 --> 01:13:56,239
you want to make Matt Thomas show with Ross show history.

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01:13:57,039 --> 01:13:59,279
Well please, let's both put our names on it. At

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01:13:59,319 --> 01:14:02,960
the same time. Dion Sanders will not be the head

1410
01:14:03,039 --> 01:14:06,239
coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Dion Sanders, stay with me,

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01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:11,199
will not be the head coach of the Cowboys. Putting

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01:14:11,279 --> 01:14:13,920
their names on it. Boom boom, we just did it?

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01:14:15,279 --> 01:14:19,399
Ever ever, follow sports team, don't record this if we

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01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:22,840
are wrong. Yeah, by the way, you leap to Connor.

1415
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:24,680
What you got this week? How's Missouri basketball? Don't we

1416
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:26,760
got any predictions about them coming up? They won their

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01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:29,640
first SEC game in like over a year the other day.

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01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:33,039
Mm hmm sounds nice. But other than that, I don't know.

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01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 8: Uh, But Rockets go three and one over the next

1420
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:38,520
four games, so I'll include the road trip plus the

1421
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,000
Martin Luther King Day game against the Pistons. Oh, that's

1422
01:14:41,039 --> 01:14:43,359
real nice of you. So three and one, okay, I

1423
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,479
like that, and then Notre Dame is your national champion.

1424
01:14:47,119 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I'm going to Ohio State for the championship.

1425
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:53,760
I'm I'm really not even more about the spread. I

1426
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,039
don't even care. I don't even know what the spread is.

1427
01:14:56,359 --> 01:14:57,399
You just give me a good Just give me a

1428
01:14:57,439 --> 01:14:59,840
good game. Is that fair? I'm not gonna watch. Yeah,

1429
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,159
are you're gonna You're gonna have it in the background? Right?

1430
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:08,439
I hate you for that. I know, Ohio State eight.

1431
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,800
I got one for you. Oh that's healthy. Half of

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01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,479
America is gonna love Carrie Underwood singing at the inauguration,

1433
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:17,439
and half America's inauguration and half people are gonna it's

1434
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:22,600
the twentieth Okay, so are gonna love it? Fifty percent

1435
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,319
are gonna hate it. If you're gonna hate it, why

1436
01:15:25,359 --> 01:15:29,640
would you even turn it on? Because you go run

1437
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:31,199
to your social media and tell everybody, I meant you

1438
01:15:31,239 --> 01:15:34,079
hate something. I didn't watch. I think the last inauguration

1439
01:15:34,199 --> 01:15:38,520
I watched was Obama eight. I don't remember ever watching

1440
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,439
an inauguration and I think, yeah, I think it was

1441
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:43,319
Resa Franklin was up there or something. Oh, you better think, Dan,

1442
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:45,439
she wasn't doing that. Why not think? Why are you

1443
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:49,520
trying to do to America? You better think think about

1444
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:58,520
the Jackson freedom thing Republicans and Democrats. Oh freedom. I

1445
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:02,960
like that. She just did a governmental she did a

1446
01:16:03,039 --> 01:16:07,159
government one version. Yeah, she did. You better think about

1447
01:16:07,199 --> 01:16:12,239
the judiciary coming it seeds. You better think, all right,

1448
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:16,239
Bob taking down the deficit. You better think it's talking

1449
01:16:16,239 --> 01:16:21,680
about the majority whip. All right, that's enough, all right.

1450
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:28,159
I'd like to apologize for the last That was the least.

1451
01:16:28,199 --> 01:16:29,840
That was the most political this show has gotten in

1452
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:37,239
fifteen years. Oh my god, you better think about government

1453
01:16:37,359 --> 01:16:41,000
shut down. You better think about lowering the taxes. Right now,

1454
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:45,600
I'm listening to wreath in the flight to Denver. Already

1455
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:48,920
decided that. By the way, I have downloaded two new

1456
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:52,680
shows to watch there. It's part of a series on Netflix. Okay,

1457
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:53,960
and I'm gonna give you the name of it. I'm

1458
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:55,600
I only not even let you get Okay. Well, while

1459
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,199
you're looking at it up, are you got any more

1460
01:16:57,199 --> 01:16:57,680
gut feelings?

1461
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 5: Boys?

1462
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 2: A change is gonna come Aretha from Clint's version, It'll

1463
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:02,920
change your life. It's great. Put that one on, Matt. Okay,

1464
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:07,000
highly suggested. Nice. Uh, any more gut feelings right now?

1465
01:17:08,279 --> 01:17:09,720
We're gonna have the phone calls next, So I just

1466
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,199
want to make sure we got all of our taken

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01:17:11,239 --> 01:17:15,319
care of here, Alex Bregman signs within the next two weeks,

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01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,399
I cannot do that. Although that seems like a pretty

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01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,239
even that's a nice call on your part. I'm still

1470
01:17:21,279 --> 01:17:24,920
not convinced, though. I don't believe it's gonna before spring training,

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01:17:25,159 --> 01:17:27,239
like the middle of spring training. But because if you're

1472
01:17:27,399 --> 01:17:31,720
don't you want to get get your your your your

1473
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:33,760
your bearings, you want to figure out where you're gonna

1474
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,800
live because you're gonna be in there in theory for

1475
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:40,640
a long time. Right, do you think what's the relationship?

1476
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:44,720
Like Jordan Montgomery literally fired fired him, what is that

1477
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:47,479
you can't I'm not going to try to predict that

1478
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,159
there's discord or discontent between Boris and Bregman, But do

1479
01:17:51,199 --> 01:17:53,720
you think I mean, his hardline stands so many times

1480
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,680
and it has fallen short the last couple of years.

1481
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:57,359
And you know what you and I predicted, And I

1482
01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,239
think I said this. I said Boris couldn't have had

1483
01:17:59,239 --> 01:18:01,199
a worse year. There's no way he's gonna repeat his

1484
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,159
lack of success. Well, Soto is getting take care of

1485
01:18:04,359 --> 01:18:06,720
Soto was fine, But you and I could have negotiated

1486
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:09,239
Soto's deal, right, boyds probably got a little more than

1487
01:18:09,239 --> 01:18:11,039
a week. Could that's true? By the way, the name

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01:18:11,119 --> 01:18:12,680
of the doubt of the new series I've been watching

1489
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:14,399
on Netflix, I'm gonna flight to Denver today will be

1490
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:18,439
called Jerry Springer Fights Camera Action, and there's two episodes

1491
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:20,560
already locked. It was the most Matt Thomas thing I've

1492
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:22,920
ever heard of. Good you should you'll watch it too,

1493
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,760
You'd enjoy it. I've passed over it already on Netflix.

1494
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:27,640
So next two weeks I would watch. Next two weeks.

1495
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:29,720
You say yes, next two I'll jump in on that

1496
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:34,039
as well. Okay, Connor, last thing from you. Rockets will

1497
01:18:34,079 --> 01:18:38,720
get an All Star. Whether it's outbire, Jalen gonna somebody

1498
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:42,039
did the All Star team reserve? That is very reserve

1499
01:18:42,119 --> 01:18:45,760
could have happened, Honestly. Jalen's playing towards it, but he's

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01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:47,239
got to do it for another couple of weeks and

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01:18:47,319 --> 01:18:49,239
numbers aren't there for the season though he was not

1502
01:18:49,399 --> 01:18:51,359
scoring well, boy yeah, but he's he might get Player

1503
01:18:51,359 --> 01:18:53,039
of the Month in January and he's playing that way.

1504
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:55,760
That's gonna go along towards an All Star. I also

1505
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:58,600
going about who's gon to the coaches too. He's still

1506
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:02,159
just averaging twenty one a game, thirty four percent for three.

1507
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:05,800
Did you see the Rockets last night? They're going to

1508
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:09,119
see how efficient he was last night. Yeah, he's just saying,

1509
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,960
if only he could do that every night. Hopefully Well

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to the phones next seven one three, two one two

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five seven ninety. We'll start with Garrett. We'll go to

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James the recipe. You come on and join us, give

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us your gut feelings, your predictions about the world of

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sports or for that matter, life seven one three two

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Speaker 1: The Matt Tamas Show with Ross continues so on Sports

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Talk seven ninety Roussn't that talma Yo?

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01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 2: They got a gut dealing lunchtimers.

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01:20:44,319 --> 01:20:48,000
Speaker 1: Gut Feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas Show.

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01:20:53,119 --> 01:20:55,199
Speaker 2: All right time now for your gut feelings at seven

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If you want to send us your wait we don't

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01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:05,439
want them on tweets. We want him on the phones.

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We want to hear from the great people of Houston, Texas. Yes,

1548
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:12,079
we love you, oh some more than others. Garrett and Cyprus. Garrett,

1549
01:21:12,119 --> 01:21:14,000
what's in your gut this week? At eleven fifty one.

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01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:16,119
Speaker 5: Gout?

1551
01:21:16,159 --> 01:21:19,560
Speaker 6: It's you'all talked about it earlier. It's Alex Bregman. I

1552
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:24,199
like being in the next two weeks. I don't think

1553
01:21:24,239 --> 01:21:28,159
it's gonna be he had at a shortstop, different position,

1554
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:32,159
but he's gonna make more than money. Someone's gonna see

1555
01:21:32,279 --> 01:21:37,000
that value over twenty five millions, so coming for him,

1556
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:38,840
all right.

1557
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you were glitching a lot there. I don't know

1558
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,279
what the exact prediction was. I think he said he's

1559
01:21:43,319 --> 01:21:44,600
I think he was agreeing with us it would be

1560
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:47,680
the next two weeks, I think. So now let's go

1561
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:50,399
over our bets just to make sure. Yes, six years

1562
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:55,000
we Dutch correct, seven year contract or higher. Iowan you

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01:21:55,239 --> 01:21:58,479
I buy you lunch five or less you buy me. Yes,

1564
01:21:59,279 --> 01:22:01,800
we have I believe nothing on the line on the

1565
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:05,520
dollar amount. No, I have under one seventy five. You've

1566
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:09,239
got one seventy five, zero zero one and higher. Yeah,

1567
01:22:09,319 --> 01:22:12,000
but that's your said bet. That's just that's that's just

1568
01:22:12,079 --> 01:22:14,720
bragging rights. Yes, and then we also do have a

1569
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:19,079
Kyle Tucker bet. That's all hard line seven point five.

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01:22:19,239 --> 01:22:21,840
I have the over and I have the under at

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01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:22,600
seven point five.

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01:22:25,279 --> 01:22:25,560
Speaker 6: Let's go.

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01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,239
Speaker 2: I have a good season. If he has a good season,

1574
01:22:27,279 --> 01:22:29,920
you're gonna lose. If he has any season and he's

1575
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,560
hurt again, I you're gonna win. To be brutally honest,

1576
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:36,880
I really thought after I made the original Bregman bet

1577
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,119
that I was gonna really take a big l on this.

1578
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:43,359
But you're alive. I feel like I'm momentums shifting here.

1579
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:46,359
You're I don't think you're gonna win unless you get

1580
01:22:46,399 --> 01:22:49,399
the three year opt out deal, which, man, he shouldn't

1581
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:55,000
do that at thirty years old, but isn't it? And Ken,

1582
01:22:55,119 --> 01:22:56,560
you and I don't know the inner workings of this,

1583
01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:01,840
but it's eerily quiet. Sometimes things are darkest before the

1584
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:05,199
dawn mat What book is that? I don't know who

1585
01:23:05,239 --> 01:23:07,520
said that, but it's actually nice a Bonnie Tyler song too.

1586
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:10,960
It's not even scientifically true. Things are darkest like at midnight.

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,840
It's true seven one three two one two five seven

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01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,359
ninety James in Kline James, what's in your gut? Yeah,

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01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:20,600
my gut is take the under in the Texan game

1590
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:22,840
and take the under in the National Championship game. Take

1591
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,640
the under in both games. What are the numbers on that?

1592
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,039
Do we know Texan's total is low? It's I think

1593
01:23:28,079 --> 01:23:31,560
it's forty one and a half. If I'm taking the

1594
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:35,319
under Ross, I'm also probably taking Kansas City to win

1595
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,520
the game and cover. I'm thinking if it's low, it's

1596
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:42,680
gonna be probably twenty five to ten something like that.

1597
01:23:44,159 --> 01:23:49,560
Twenty five of Randam number twenty four to ten cent four,

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01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,640
twenty four to fourteen. That's an underdu said, forty one

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01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:57,520
is over internet, right, Yeah? And what about the National

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01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:01,960
Championship game? Oh uh, I just saw it. Was it

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01:24:02,039 --> 01:24:03,920
fifty two and a half or something like that. I'll go, look,

1602
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:07,960
it's gonna take a second, stall tell tell the people

1603
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:10,720
to fall. I got forty five, forty five and a half.

1604
01:24:11,359 --> 01:24:14,079
That feels about right. Really, I don't think I'm not

1605
01:24:14,159 --> 01:24:20,439
anticipating a thirty one to seventeen game. I don't think Oh,

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01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,359
Oklahoma State, I'm excuse me, Ohio State. The other su

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01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:27,319
OSU by eight. By the way, the here's my another

1608
01:24:27,399 --> 01:24:30,920
gut feeling for you, gang, the Cougars only lose one

1609
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:36,039
conference game this entire season over, I don't want to

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01:24:36,079 --> 01:24:39,680
say you're gonna go with that. You hed Cougar's only

1611
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:41,399
lose one conference, guy, it's gonna put my name on.

1612
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,000
It's just gonna be a gut one conference game this season.

1613
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,359
Is the conference that week or you're just saying the

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01:24:47,399 --> 01:24:49,439
Cougars are that strong. I think the cougar are that strong.

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01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:52,079
And I think some of the thoroughbreads, the blue bloods

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01:24:52,079 --> 01:24:55,800
of the league are a little down. Arizona's a little down, yeah,

1617
01:24:55,920 --> 01:25:01,640
but TCU down. You always gonna have random weird loss, yeah,

1618
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,920
like West Virginia. Then they play with Tomorrow night. Yeah.

1619
01:25:05,359 --> 01:25:08,960
Here in Houston, though, I mean if they do, if

1620
01:25:09,279 --> 01:25:11,159
they do finish what they're they're going to be like

1621
01:25:11,279 --> 01:25:14,640
national championship favorites. Well, I mean, I I canticipate them

1622
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,960
being a top three seed in the four teams right

1623
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,119
now in the top twenty five. Baylor Bears, Jayhawks, Cougar's

1624
01:25:20,159 --> 01:25:22,880
and Cyclones. Number two team in the country. Oh, you know,

1625
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:29,520
I forget what. I gotta retract that. That was little yeah,

1626
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:33,560
get rid of that. That's the key thing about it too. Yeah,

1627
01:25:34,399 --> 01:25:39,399
Cougar's will have two or fewer losses in league play, Okay,

1628
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:41,279
And I don't even know if Calvin Samps would be

1629
01:25:41,279 --> 01:25:42,760
happy at that point. I'm just so proud of you

1630
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,520
for saying fewer instead of less man, it's great. Well,

1631
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:47,560
we're trying to we're trying to add the vernacular of

1632
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:52,560
the show. We're English major's favorite show. That's what we're

1633
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:58,319
trying to be. Oh god, it's like I've been telling

1634
01:25:58,399 --> 01:26:00,279
carl I said, Carling, the number one thing you have

1635
01:26:00,399 --> 01:26:02,399
to do is take as many English classes as you

1636
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,359
can if you can be any sort of writer in college.

1637
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:06,319
She's trying to be a writer. No, but I'm saying, oh,

1638
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,680
having a having a great vocabulary is one of the

1639
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:12,920
things that I think will go along one in your

1640
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:16,720
life anywhere. And she just you can always impress interviewers

1641
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,199
friends who are not impressed. But you know what I'm

1642
01:26:19,239 --> 01:26:21,439
saying that you sound smarter than your things are, like

1643
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:25,000
go web better for your or my case, you' sound dumber, odd, dumb,

1644
01:26:25,079 --> 01:26:28,279
can't read good like you're doing great. It's not like

1645
01:26:28,399 --> 01:26:37,840
ronck uh Patriot Patriots coach verbel Good. Yeah, he doesn't

1646
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:40,199
necessarily use a lot of verbs, which is hard in life.

1647
01:26:40,239 --> 01:26:43,399
I have to use verbs. He's a lovabley your head though.

1648
01:26:43,399 --> 01:26:47,000
At least he's nice. I don't know. Some people are stupid.

1649
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,159
Six guys on a set is a little much. I

1650
01:26:50,279 --> 01:26:52,920
said the exact same thing during the middle I was like,

1651
01:26:53,319 --> 01:26:55,000
do we need to pay? How much is Fox paying?

1652
01:26:55,079 --> 01:26:55,199
Speaker 5: All?

1653
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:58,600
Speaker 2: Is everybody gonna like tune out because Harry Bradshaw is

1654
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:00,560
not there. Harry Bradshaw is like gotta be in his

1655
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,840
mid seventies. He doesn't provide like the leek Corso of

1656
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,159
that show. Now have you ever sat there and be like, wow,

1657
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:09,439
oh my, what a great point by Terry Bradge. Terry

1658
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:13,760
thirty years ago had his fastball. Yeah, but everybody loses

1659
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:15,680
its fastball at some point. Oh my god. And can

1660
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:17,640
we can we just take Lee Corso out behind the

1661
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,640
barn it's too much and do what to him? How

1662
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:22,920
about when it's old the other how about how about

1663
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:24,399
we do this. We don't take him to a barn.

1664
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:27,279
We fly him back to his house in Orlando. We

1665
01:27:27,359 --> 01:27:28,760
get him a night nurse, and we call it a

1666
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:30,600
day and let him to relax. In this film, look

1667
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,960
just Look, just build a fake ESPN set at his home.

1668
01:27:34,039 --> 01:27:36,680
He won't know the difference. Oh, I think the key

1669
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:43,199
would be using ai Lea Corso's I'm I'm just like

1670
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:45,399
they're trotting him out there, and I just feel bad

1671
01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:49,119
for him. He's collecting a check. Don't feel sorry for him. Yeah,

1672
01:27:49,159 --> 01:27:51,479
you're right, all right, that's got feelings for this week.

1673
01:27:52,119 --> 01:27:54,520
We had the news at noon in a mere moments

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01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,479
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety Speaking of

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01:27:59,880 --> 01:28:02,199
Lee Corso and low energy, how's your energy?

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Speaker 4: Ben?

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01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 2: How do you feel? Look, I'm telling you right now

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even started to hit them yet. Maybe it's not your fault.

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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show twelvel three at

1699
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:08,079
h Town.

1700
01:29:08,239 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 2: What's happened to lunch timers? Good afternoon to you.

1701
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 3: This is our number three of the Matt Thomas Show

1702
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:16,960
and Raw Suns Sports Talk seven ninety.

1703
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:24,399
Speaker 2: And now we go to the anchored desk. When you

1704
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,760
think of the great most trusted men in news, you

1705
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:30,880
think of a Peter Jennings, Yes, a Tom Brokaw, a

1706
01:29:31,359 --> 01:29:37,000
Ted Copple, a Dan rather Rossville rial in the news

1707
01:29:37,039 --> 01:29:41,439
center with the News at noon, Yes, Matthew. Last night,

1708
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:46,199
it'll battle for Western Conference supremacy for teams not named

1709
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:48,600
the Oklahoma City Thunder who are going to run away

1710
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:52,680
with the West. The Rockets took on the Memphis Grizzlies

1711
01:29:52,800 --> 01:30:01,359
and didn't back down despite a fourth quarter deficit. I'm

1712
01:30:01,399 --> 01:30:04,680
trying to play. I don't know. Huh uh oh my computer?

1713
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:05,399
Is this working?

1714
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:08,039
Speaker 4: I don't know?

1715
01:30:08,079 --> 01:30:09,680
Speaker 2: All right, Well, there goes the Emmy Forez. It's not

1716
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:13,119
playing production value episodes? Can you play number twenty six orly?

1717
01:30:13,239 --> 01:30:21,600
Try this? This doesn't work at all. We're at a

1718
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:23,840
billion dollar company. Can we have equipment that works?

1719
01:30:24,239 --> 01:30:24,279
Speaker 7: Is?

1720
01:30:24,399 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 2: Since this works? We have no music, We've got no

1721
01:30:27,119 --> 01:30:28,880
production value? What are we doing here?

1722
01:30:29,239 --> 01:30:29,279
Speaker 5: It?

1723
01:30:29,359 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 2: Top three comes up left side of the floor, bam

1724
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:37,159
bleed in front of him, bounce past the jailer between

1725
01:30:37,199 --> 01:30:40,800
the rings. Thirty eight seconds.

1726
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,359
Speaker 3: Jalen gets by two defenders down the laying up and

1727
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:44,039
under the window.

1728
01:30:44,079 --> 01:30:44,560
Speaker 2: He'll score.

1729
01:30:45,079 --> 01:30:47,520
Speaker 3: He's hung up in the air and at times a

1730
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:51,840
career high with forty two rockets. Wut sixteen one fifteen

1731
01:30:52,199 --> 01:30:55,760
Moran underneath stepped out of bounds. He went against two

1732
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:58,960
rocket defenders. It's on a bounds of an inflection on

1733
01:30:59,039 --> 01:31:02,800
the baseline. Heather Rockets have the ball. What twenty seven

1734
01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:03,640
point nine.

1735
01:31:03,560 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 2: Seconds raining Rockets hang on to win one twenty to

1736
01:31:08,039 --> 01:31:13,800
one eighteen, Matt, as you told me, Actually a Desmond

1737
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:17,039
Bane three pointer at the end of the game, giving

1738
01:31:17,159 --> 01:31:21,319
the over and the cover to the Memphis Grizzlies. But

1739
01:31:21,399 --> 01:31:23,319
the Rockets get the win. Yeah, So you could have

1740
01:31:23,399 --> 01:31:25,239
had an other way. You could have had a Rocket

1741
01:31:25,319 --> 01:31:27,880
cover and an under, or you could have had a

1742
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:30,359
Memphis cover and an over, and that's what you got.

1743
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,079
That's why betting on First of all, betting on sports

1744
01:31:33,159 --> 01:31:36,880
is dangerous. Betting on basketball is especially dangerous, and Vegas

1745
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:39,720
pretty good at setting lines. Well, Matt. Now, with the

1746
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:42,920
twenty six to twelve record, number two in the NBA,

1747
01:31:43,119 --> 01:31:45,720
we continue in the Western Conference of the NBA. We

1748
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:48,920
continue to say earlier on in the year, it's early,

1749
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:52,840
it's early, it's early, it's getting laterly, almost halfway through

1750
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:55,479
the season. Now two games clear of the Grizzlies for

1751
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:59,640
that number two spot plus a tiebreaker. So am I

1752
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,600
allow to this is a this is a ruling for

1753
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:03,880
the show. Can I start talking about who the Rockets

1754
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:05,319
would want to play in the first round of the

1755
01:32:05,319 --> 01:32:12,119
playoffs if the playoffs were to start today, I would

1756
01:32:12,159 --> 01:32:15,359
take on the winner of the Lakers Minnesota seven eight

1757
01:32:15,640 --> 01:32:21,600
playing game. Huh, So they play in the winner advances

1758
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,479
and then they get another chance to lose. Right, Yeah,

1759
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:27,880
seven eight loser plays the nine to ten winner. It's

1760
01:32:28,039 --> 01:32:30,439
very consist that's not really confusing it. That's that's a

1761
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:37,800
lot of problem. No, I'm gonna make you wait till

1762
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:39,640
at least after the All Star break. I can't do it.

1763
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:43,600
I can't do Rockets playoff watching break break. Come on you,

1764
01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:46,640
all right, we're thirty We're thirty eight games into the year.

1765
01:32:47,239 --> 01:32:49,760
It's an eighty two game season on pace. Guy says

1766
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:54,960
they're gonna win fifty five games. Man, well over the

1767
01:32:55,039 --> 01:32:58,760
over is what Vegas thought. He was it forty one

1768
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:02,199
and a half. Yeah, I remember Vegas giving us a

1769
01:33:02,399 --> 01:33:04,479
positive number, and it's still not being good enough to

1770
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:06,239
be the top ten. I said forty five, and you

1771
01:33:06,279 --> 01:33:09,920
said forty eighth. Yeah, they're gonna win. There. Are they

1772
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:14,520
gonna win fifty five games? Probably not, I wouldn't.

1773
01:33:14,199 --> 01:33:14,560
Speaker 4: Bet on it.

1774
01:33:15,199 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 2: But they're gonna they're gonna reach. They're gonna be way past.

1775
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:19,159
I think they're gonna beat my. They're gonna get my

1776
01:33:19,239 --> 01:33:21,760
forty eight. At least if they go forty eight and

1777
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:24,880
thirty four, they would be twenty two and twenty two

1778
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:33,159
the rest of the way. He's I mean, I don't

1779
01:33:33,159 --> 01:33:34,720
think they're gonna play five hundred. I don't think they're

1780
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:37,239
gonna It's gonna be hard pressing to play six eighty

1781
01:33:37,279 --> 01:33:39,159
five ball the rest of the way. But I'm there

1782
01:33:39,199 --> 01:33:41,760
to watch it if they do, all right, Matt moving

1783
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:46,359
along on the news at noon Jerry Jones. Apparently according

1784
01:33:46,399 --> 01:33:48,680
to Well, first it was we should give credit when

1785
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:50,319
it's due. No, don't say I'm not gonna credit. I

1786
01:33:50,359 --> 01:33:52,199
said it first. No, I don't care. I'm not gonna

1787
01:33:52,239 --> 01:33:55,239
crown on the show credit. Nope. Jordan Schulz said it. Oh,

1788
01:33:55,359 --> 01:33:57,640
you give him credit. He's gotten a lot of things wrong.

1789
01:33:57,680 --> 01:33:59,800
He's a terrible reporter and normally not trustworthy. But he

1790
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,239
would probably a douchey human being too. Pie has very

1791
01:34:02,279 --> 01:34:04,880
few friends me and his dad makes a decent cup

1792
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:09,159
of Coffee's it's fine, As I said, decent. I wouldn't

1793
01:34:09,159 --> 01:34:16,520
saying like robust flavorful. Hm, Wow, you like robust, don't you? Yes.

1794
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:20,520
The Callas Cowboys, in the early stages of their search

1795
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:24,520
to replace Mike McCarthy, one name already known former Cowboys

1796
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:28,720
cornerback and current Colorado head coach Dion Sanders Adam Schefter

1797
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:34,159
also saying there is mutual interest between the two parties.

1798
01:34:35,319 --> 01:34:37,720
Now again, I would be shocked as you and I

1799
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:39,359
have both for the first time in the history of

1800
01:34:39,399 --> 01:34:41,439
this show put our name on it and happening. I know,

1801
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:45,000
but I kind of would love it from a theater standpoint,

1802
01:34:45,039 --> 01:34:47,079
for a friend, for a franchise I have no skin

1803
01:34:47,159 --> 01:34:49,720
in and actually actively root against, it'd be kind of funny.

1804
01:34:51,479 --> 01:34:56,560
I just can't imagine Dion and Jerry working within the

1805
01:34:56,640 --> 01:35:00,119
same walls of a building because Deon, where were you? Oh,

1806
01:35:00,239 --> 01:35:04,239
Dean's gonna want to control the Edstrom. Jerry Jones has

1807
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,119
has clashed with as the nfl GM say they want

1808
01:35:07,159 --> 01:35:10,359
control the fifty three, and I don't think Jerry's given

1809
01:35:10,399 --> 01:35:12,960
that up. We talked about Jason Garrett lasting ten years

1810
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,279
in Dallas. One of the reasons he did that because

1811
01:35:15,279 --> 01:35:17,359
he was just Jerry's yes man. He was he was

1812
01:35:17,359 --> 01:35:19,880
happy being the coach. He didn't care what players you got.

1813
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:21,479
And now, of course you'd have an input, But at

1814
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:23,199
the end of the day, Jerry Jones is I'm gonna

1815
01:35:23,199 --> 01:35:24,760
sign Zeke Elliot to a long term deal. And you're

1816
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:28,720
gonna like it. Mm hmm. And Tony Romo's my guy

1817
01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:32,439
and you're gonna like it. And we're gonna go draft

1818
01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:34,439
Dak Prescott. He's gonna be great and you're gonna like it.

1819
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:37,479
We're gonna sign Zeke Elliott to a big free age

1820
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:39,720
of contract, I mention her. Yeah, and we're gonna cut

1821
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,840
him by the end of his tenure. All right. Uh

1822
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:47,039
oh well, let's go actually mention this briefly yesterday, Matt.

1823
01:35:47,039 --> 01:35:49,279
I wanted to circle back because I know how much

1824
01:35:49,319 --> 01:35:53,439
you love nil Rick Barnes over the weekend as his

1825
01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:57,279
Tennessee Volunteers beat the Texas Longhorns at the Moody Center.

1826
01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:00,000
Is that Rick Barnes second went over his former school

1827
01:36:00,079 --> 01:36:03,960
in the last year, maybe third play all the time

1828
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:05,399
they played the tournament? Did they not? Yeah? But I

1829
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:07,239
think they played in the regular season last year too.

1830
01:36:07,359 --> 01:36:09,880
Sorry for your loss, nice whatever. He hasn't won it

1831
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:11,840
all and that's the only thing that's keeping me sete oay,

1832
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:13,560
kudos to me for not sending you sorry for your

1833
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:15,880
loss on the last two times Texas played an athletic

1834
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:18,159
come what Kudos to you for being an actual, regular

1835
01:36:18,239 --> 01:36:20,279
human being. Yeah, we're proud of you, Matt. That's fine.

1836
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:25,439
It's fine. The bar is low. Okay. Tennessee coach Rick

1837
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:29,560
Barnes giving leading score on the team Chaz Lanier a

1838
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:34,199
quick hook after eleven seconds into the second half on Saturday,

1839
01:36:34,279 --> 01:36:37,520
he benched him for peeling off the screen and hurling

1840
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:40,560
an errant pass, and then he did not re enter

1841
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:44,399
the game. Rick Barnes afterwards, quote, I took him out

1842
01:36:44,399 --> 01:36:46,119
the first play of the second half because he didn't

1843
01:36:46,119 --> 01:36:49,479
shoot the ball. The play is designed for that shot.

1844
01:36:50,039 --> 01:36:52,479
I told him, quote, if you're not going to do

1845
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,439
what you're getting paid to do, then you're going to

1846
01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:58,920
sit over there because he is getting paid to do that.

1847
01:37:01,079 --> 01:37:05,960
Can I throw an anil scenario at you? Yes, if

1848
01:37:06,039 --> 01:37:09,399
we get surly players like we had at Florida State

1849
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:12,560
last week, suing what they were allied to, right, yeah,

1850
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:15,760
by the coach, are we gonna have loose lips with

1851
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:18,680
college athletes saying you wouldn't believe what I was guaranteed

1852
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:21,840
by this person, and guaranteed by this person, and guaranteed

1853
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:25,640
by this person. Absolutely, And at some points somebody's gonna

1854
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:29,600
say you can't do that, NDA, you have to sign

1855
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:33,680
an NDA to get an offer non disclosure agreement. How

1856
01:37:33,680 --> 01:37:36,640
about this, I got paid two hundred and fifty thousand

1857
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:40,279
dollars and my father got a new house built with

1858
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:43,520
alumni money. Oh wait, I missing Reggie Bush. I'm just

1859
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:46,159
I'm just telling that as an example. Okay, could we

1860
01:37:46,359 --> 01:37:52,359
see things when when things are done illegally, sometimes people

1861
01:37:52,359 --> 01:37:57,600
will like to snitch. Are we going to see college

1862
01:37:57,720 --> 01:38:00,079
athletes snitching at an all time level coming up in

1863
01:38:00,119 --> 01:38:02,560
the next couple of years maybe because of things just

1864
01:38:02,680 --> 01:38:06,039
like that. So you're basically blackmailing these kids, and then

1865
01:38:06,039 --> 01:38:07,399
you got to make sure that you've got a blackmail

1866
01:38:07,479 --> 01:38:09,479
enough to keep them quiet. They're especially they're not happy. Well,

1867
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:11,000
I'm glad the coach is doing what he needs to

1868
01:38:11,039 --> 01:38:13,000
do and not listening to the GM whoever that is

1869
01:38:13,079 --> 01:38:15,479
of Tennessee Volunteers Basket. It's crazy there. There's a lot

1870
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:20,319
of general managers now in college sports, including Andrew Luck

1871
01:38:20,319 --> 01:38:22,600
who's in the general manager of Stanford football. He is

1872
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:25,159
really weird. Really yeah that' while you were gone. Oh,

1873
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:29,279
he's got a nice neck beard and he's the GM

1874
01:38:29,319 --> 01:38:31,760
of Stanford. Maybe he's cleaning the neck beard up little

1875
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:32,840
bit because you don'tant that. You don't want to. You

1876
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,359
don't want a great nick Beard. It's distracting. Yeah, anything else. Uh,

1877
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:39,079
And that's it for the news. Very nicely done, Thank you, Matt.

1878
01:38:39,239 --> 01:38:42,279
All right. Uh, we attempt at production value. We did,

1879
01:38:42,319 --> 01:38:42,960
we didn't get.

1880
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:43,119
Speaker 4: Much of it.

1881
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:46,279
Speaker 2: I gotta put it in a trouble ticket. That's gonna help,

1882
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:49,119
all right. Twelve thirteen on the Matt Thomas Showood ross

1883
01:38:49,199 --> 01:38:51,319
we have an NFL rewind coming up at the bottom

1884
01:38:51,359 --> 01:38:54,439
of the hour. We have the Rockets winning last night

1885
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:56,000
against the Grizzlies. If you want to get to that,

1886
01:38:56,560 --> 01:38:59,439
Diana is a cowboy coach. Rossie and I don't see it.

1887
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:03,279
We just don't. And when's our favorite X their basement

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going to find himself work? These are the things we're

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talking about today. If you want to get into any

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of those topics or anything on your own, you can

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eight eight, eight, nine thousand. Principal Office, Katie, Texas Lunchtimers.

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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports

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Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: So, Rossie, what podcast you listen too lately? Anything you

1922
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:03,000
want to mention the audience right now? I'm a big

1923
01:41:03,119 --> 01:41:05,880
Dudes on Dudes guy, I love Dudes on Dudes. It's

1924
01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:13,159
my favorite podcast. Please. Yeah, we have a we do

1925
01:41:13,239 --> 01:41:14,680
a lot of great things in our company, but man,

1926
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,880
some of the podcasts we promote are just hard to fathom.

1927
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On iHeartRadio with great new features. Matt, oh, I saw

1928
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:26,319
your I saw I retweeted your little video there yesterday. Yeah,

1929
01:41:26,319 --> 01:41:28,840
you called me clinical clinically ill on it, but I

1930
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:32,039
guess that counts I frankly, it was a retweet, so

1931
01:41:32,119 --> 01:41:34,399
you get that. I probably could have done it separately

1932
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:37,399
with him. You weren't available for the video, that's true.

1933
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:41,359
Appreciate it, UH real quick. On the NBA, I brought

1934
01:41:41,399 --> 01:41:42,800
this up a few minutes ago. We did not mention

1935
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:46,560
it the news at noon because you were having production issues. Uh,

1936
01:41:47,399 --> 01:41:49,079
we're putting in a trouble ticket. We'll get on it. Man,

1937
01:41:49,199 --> 01:41:50,720
What is it not going to say for the ninetieth

1938
01:41:50,800 --> 01:41:53,880
time we've had this issue. Yeah, it's got to keep

1939
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,560
plugging away, Matt, keep on working.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

1941
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 2: Sham Sharani an hour ago says that Jimmy Butler told

1942
01:42:00,199 --> 01:42:01,880
Riley in a face to face meeting that he wants

1943
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:03,560
it to be traded and will not sign a new

1944
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:06,680
deal in Miami. I've gotten a word from Pat Raleigh.

1945
01:42:08,560 --> 01:42:10,960
He says, don't let the door hit you in the ass.

1946
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:13,880
I think I hear I hear a shut the o

1947
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:16,239
bumb ass up in the distance. Yeah, I get the

1948
01:42:16,319 --> 01:42:21,760
hell out of here. I've heard mixed bags about who

1949
01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:24,760
Jimmy is as a person as a player. When he's

1950
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:27,079
on the floor, he's one of the best two point

1951
01:42:27,119 --> 01:42:30,000
scorers in the league. Does that make sense to you? Yeah?

1952
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:33,039
Anywhere on the inside of the our keys as good

1953
01:42:33,039 --> 01:42:36,800
as it gets in terms of finishing three point eh

1954
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:43,279
two point really good, health concern, grumpiness, all time high.

1955
01:42:45,199 --> 01:42:47,600
Here's what I don't get. And forget about this being

1956
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:52,640
basketball for just pretend it's any athlete, regardless of sport.

1957
01:42:54,640 --> 01:43:01,039
He has talked his way through his actions comments and

1958
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:09,920
lack of desire out of Chicago, Minnesota, Minnesota, Philadelpha, Philadelphia

1959
01:43:10,399 --> 01:43:15,680
and now Miami. Please walk me through why the Phoenix

1960
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:18,640
Suns all of a sudden, like we want this dude

1961
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:21,119
around us? Do they want to get it? They want

1962
01:43:21,159 --> 01:43:25,279
to get rid of Bradley Bill that badly. Aren't you trouble?

1963
01:43:25,319 --> 01:43:28,359
Aren't you taking one troubling piece for another? At least

1964
01:43:28,399 --> 01:43:32,000
Bradley Bill's playing for you right now. I think that

1965
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:37,039
it's their owner, Matdasba. He's been trying, he's like pushing.

1966
01:43:38,399 --> 01:43:40,960
He might be one of the worst owners in basketball,

1967
01:43:41,039 --> 01:43:45,520
but he's willing to spend whatever Phoenix. But go back

1968
01:43:45,560 --> 01:43:49,479
to my original point. If you have been unhappy in

1969
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:55,880
four different spots, isn't it one of those uh shame

1970
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,680
on you, shame on me kind of situation? Yeah? Yeah,

1971
01:44:00,039 --> 01:44:02,960
full him it twice. You can't get fooled again. Why

1972
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:04,760
are you talking? Sound like George Bush. That's how he

1973
01:44:05,399 --> 01:44:09,119
when he missed he misread the quote. Now they're saying

1974
01:44:09,159 --> 01:44:13,760
in Tennessee. Now they have it in Texas too. It's

1975
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:15,760
not one of your better ones, but it's it's admirable.

1976
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:17,880
I knew what it was. See you got it I

1977
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:19,840
did out of nowhere. I don't think. I don't think

1978
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:21,279
I'd use it a lot in the show. But you

1979
01:44:21,359 --> 01:44:23,520
know that's a hold it. That's literally the first time

1980
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:25,640
I ever tried it. It's better than your cow McNair.

1981
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:30,399
I think that Hannah is pretty ball woild cows of

1982
01:44:30,399 --> 01:44:32,319
the game last night with Hannah was he never sitting there?

1983
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:36,399
He told me to throw up my age. Don't get

1984
01:44:36,439 --> 01:44:40,039
me started on that. All right, back to it. Tell

1985
01:44:40,119 --> 01:44:43,359
me why a professional organization would want somebody who was

1986
01:44:43,479 --> 01:44:47,039
unhappy in four other places with four over fifteen years

1987
01:44:47,239 --> 01:44:51,239
not that bad. I don't know, especially at thirty five years,

1988
01:44:51,319 --> 01:44:54,000
or anybody else in professional sports city that has been

1989
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:58,079
generally speaking that unhappy everywhere he goes. I mean Terrell

1990
01:44:58,159 --> 01:45:04,039
Alwens was typically unhappy where he went. Yeah, I'm trying

1991
01:45:04,079 --> 01:45:07,600
to think of Russ kind of Russell Westby Rust feel's

1992
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:10,800
pretty happy in Denver. In Denver, now I think he

1993
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:14,039
was happy. He wasn't happy in Houston. James Harden wasn't

1994
01:45:14,039 --> 01:45:16,960
happy that James got grumpy in Houston. He got super cool.

1995
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:18,560
He got grumpy on Oklam Sa Beau. They wudn't get

1996
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,119
the contract. Yes, then he got grumpy in Brooklyn. Then

1997
01:45:21,159 --> 01:45:23,000
he got grumpy and philp Yeah, there's James and he's

1998
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:26,479
calling a bunch of children in China are listening to him,

1999
01:45:26,520 --> 01:45:28,640
called Darryl Morial liar. Yeah, I won't speak to him.

2000
01:45:28,640 --> 01:45:30,640
After after all the money that Darryll gave him over

2001
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:34,239
the years, dude gave you max contracts at every step

2002
01:45:34,319 --> 01:45:39,439
of the way, you should be thanking him. It just

2003
01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:43,119
to me comes across as why do you want to

2004
01:45:43,159 --> 01:45:45,359
add that to you? That's why the rockets I think

2005
01:45:45,399 --> 01:45:47,279
at the end of the day, Rossie will not get

2006
01:45:47,359 --> 01:45:51,680
into any sort of big trades because the vibe right now.

2007
01:45:53,199 --> 01:45:54,880
And look, I'm not around the guys all the time.

2008
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:58,239
I travel with them, I'm at the games and I

2009
01:45:58,399 --> 01:46:01,840
and there could be some internal things that the average

2010
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:03,800
person or form that met or me someone on the

2011
01:46:03,880 --> 01:46:06,239
insidet to see. But I don't see anything apparent that

2012
01:46:06,319 --> 01:46:09,520
makes me go ooh, this is troublesome spot here. I

2013
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:11,039
don't say it may not be a ten, but it's

2014
01:46:11,039 --> 01:46:14,800
certainly at least an eight in terms of general happiness

2015
01:46:14,840 --> 01:46:16,760
among the roster top to bottom. Now they're going to

2016
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:19,800
trust the process, and they should. They're ahead of schedule

2017
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,000
right now. It's found money. You're not supposed to be

2018
01:46:22,119 --> 01:46:24,439
championship contenders and you're number two in the West. Yeah,

2019
01:46:25,600 --> 01:46:29,840
it's just it's confusing to me. If Phoenix didn't have

2020
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:32,239
Bradley Bill they wanted to unload, would they want would

2021
01:46:32,239 --> 01:46:35,399
they have any interest in Jimmy Butler? I say no.

2022
01:46:35,479 --> 01:46:36,800
I think this is they're trying to get rid of

2023
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:39,520
one bad contract front there and hoping that the short,

2024
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:42,239
little term time that Jimmy Butler is wearing a Sun's

2025
01:46:42,319 --> 01:46:44,880
uniform that he will have a good time playing with

2026
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:48,319
Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. That's got to be it,

2027
01:46:49,279 --> 01:46:51,039
Or he wouldn't. He would go to Phoenixes not as

2028
01:46:51,119 --> 01:46:52,760
the alpha dog he would be. He would be just

2029
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:56,760
a complimentary piece. Why are the sun so terrible? Has

2030
01:46:56,800 --> 01:47:00,760
everybody been hurt? D Arant's been playing, hasn't Hey? Yeah,

2031
01:47:00,760 --> 01:47:04,840
Booker has been playing. Yeah. They can't defend anybody, and

2032
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:06,840
defensive we know here in Houston, Texas is part of

2033
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:08,319
the game. If not, if you don't know that he

2034
01:47:08,399 --> 01:47:10,159
made Duck is gonna call a time out, walk on

2035
01:47:10,279 --> 01:47:13,800
the court and pull you off by your jersey top. Oh,

2036
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:19,159
they're starting made it Mason Plumley and Tyas Jones. It's

2037
01:47:19,199 --> 01:47:23,680
Battleica Scalleander face there, Ryan Dunn, Okay, I see why

2038
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:31,840
they're losing Grayson Allen off the bench. Yeah, they suck.

2039
01:47:33,199 --> 01:47:35,439
Are they what ten seed in the West right now?

2040
01:47:35,720 --> 01:47:38,640
I think so? They're they're a squarely them in San

2041
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:40,600
Antonio are kind of battling for that last spot I

2042
01:47:40,640 --> 01:47:43,600
think in the Western Conference. Yeah, Victor wimbin Yama playing

2043
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:46,560
very well, having the Spurs in line for a play

2044
01:47:46,640 --> 01:47:52,039
in spot or they're playing there. They're a It is

2045
01:47:52,119 --> 01:47:55,960
amazing that, you know, we we try to as sports

2046
01:47:56,680 --> 01:48:00,720
talk host put these front office executive on a pedestal.

2047
01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:05,119
And this isn't all sports. Like going to grab a

2048
01:48:05,199 --> 01:48:08,239
player who's always hurt saying, well, he'll come, he'll be

2049
01:48:08,359 --> 01:48:11,079
with us, and we will realabilitate him. We will make

2050
01:48:11,119 --> 01:48:13,960
sure he's eating properly or making sure he's gonna get

2051
01:48:13,960 --> 01:48:16,239
the best sports medicine possible. And if you if you've

2052
01:48:16,239 --> 01:48:18,079
gotta if you got an IH, you gotta injury history

2053
01:48:18,079 --> 01:48:21,600
you're gonna have no matter where you go. It's almost

2054
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:25,479
like general managers try to catch lightning in a bottle.

2055
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:27,359
And I think if you if you live your life

2056
01:48:27,399 --> 01:48:31,199
of your profession. That way, you're gonna get burned. Ah,

2057
01:48:31,279 --> 01:48:33,359
but I think you do have to roll dice. You

2058
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:35,720
do have to. But Jimmy, but you've rolled the dice.

2059
01:48:36,279 --> 01:48:38,319
You know what. Ross it's like having you at the

2060
01:48:38,359 --> 01:48:42,359
crabs table with me. You're constantly rolling. You're constantly rolling sevens.

2061
01:48:42,479 --> 01:48:45,039
I don't get any payoff. That's the nature of the job.

2062
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:47,520
At the end of the year. Twenty nine teams have failed.

2063
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:50,199
Twenty nine general managers and coaches and players and rosters

2064
01:48:50,239 --> 01:48:54,399
have failed. But what does Jimmy Butler do. He's got

2065
01:48:54,439 --> 01:48:59,159
a consistency of the following scores. Twenty points a game, Yes,

2066
01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:05,319
great perimeter defense, Yes, can hit everything inside the yark. Now,

2067
01:49:05,359 --> 01:49:07,000
it's not a space on the floor that Jimmy Butler

2068
01:49:07,039 --> 01:49:09,000
can't make a show, completely take over a game. And

2069
01:49:09,119 --> 01:49:11,039
he's been shooting over thirty eight percent from three to

2070
01:49:11,039 --> 01:49:12,920
the last time, which has been better for him typically

2071
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:16,319
and probably one of the best closing scores in the NBA.

2072
01:49:16,319 --> 01:49:18,600
I've seen it first time myself. Dang, all right, you're fine.

2073
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:21,000
You convinced me Rockets need to get him, But I mean,

2074
01:49:21,199 --> 01:49:23,840
he gets so certain now I'm not saying, look, if

2075
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the Rockets get Jimmy Butler tomorrow, they're a better basketball team.

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No one's I'm not arguing about the playing ability. It's

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just what you're gonna give up and what how much

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of the vibe would change. Yeah, but in three years

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01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:36,359
they're not a better basketball team. And that's what the

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Rafelstone is looking at the long tail, as he should.

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If rafel Got ideally couldn't refuse multiple second round trafficks,

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maybe one in the mix somewhere, maybe you could do

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something like that. Yeah, but you gotta match money. They're

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already they're already over. They're gonna be over the cap

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01:49:50,359 --> 01:49:53,840
next year when especially when Sengoon kicks in and Green

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01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:57,199
kicks in their cap spent. But they have a team

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option on Fred van Vliet, right, Yes, so well that's

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forty five million of them. We'll see that. Yeah, that's

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01:50:03,399 --> 01:50:05,039
right now. Well it comes back for that or they

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rena go who knows, but yeah, they're not the Rockets

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at this point or not cash flush to even wait

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till the end of the season to go get an

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impactful free agent. They'd have to make a trade that

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01:50:16,039 --> 01:50:18,800
could certainly happen for sure, all right NFL Rewind is

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coming up next year on the program. This is where

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Ross goes and finds the antegotal things from the playoff

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weekends seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety.

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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, lunch timers, it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross

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on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: That's one ROSSI you know what it is. You want

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to give a second one? I think there is worthy

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of a second one. Yeah, let's just do it.

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Speaker 4: Just do it.

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Speaker 2: It's like a one and a half or the Texans

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waved wide receiver Deontay Johnson. That's a mile.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 2: First of all, all the fanboy YouTube hosts were like,

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this guy could make a difference to this team. But

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I can't wait to see what he does. That's why

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you don't follow YouTube fanboy host It's ridiculous. I was

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hopeful he could. He was just a guy. Yeah, I

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mean he's good. I don't know if it's his attitude

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problem or what well, he needs to retire. He or

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he's gonna be. He's gonna be retiring through no fault time. Somebody,

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somebody will give him another shows. He's about four teams

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in the last year and a half. Somebody will at

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least put him in camp. Okay, well that sounds fun.

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He could have played on a wild card team, an

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a visual playoff team in Kansas City? Did even did

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01:52:49,319 --> 01:52:51,159
he just that watch? Did he have like an achilles

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01:52:51,199 --> 01:52:54,560
injury or something that I'm not I don't recall. He

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like he is always open when he was on the Steelers.

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He's out. And here's the bigger one note of it.

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Caate Stover is going on the injured list. Mm hm

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the injured reserve.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 2: They are saying, let's make sure you get this right.

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Uh love injured reserve. Oy. They what happened to Caid?

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01:53:18,119 --> 01:53:23,640
Doesn't say? I'm just reading the release. Cad Cad Stova

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Caitland Albert Stova, rookiet from Oha State. It was an

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01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,840
enterprising young man. Yeah, well, hopefully he can produce next year.

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01:53:33,479 --> 01:53:35,600
He got better as the season went along. Happened? Did

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01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:37,279
he get hurt during the game? I don't remember. I

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01:53:37,319 --> 01:53:40,640
don't really recall that either maybe he was slicing Alvocado

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and got hurt in his kitchen yesterday. That could happen,

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01:53:43,159 --> 01:53:46,920
I heard fo Yeah, all right, so Deontay Johnson out,

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01:53:48,199 --> 01:53:53,039
Cad Stover injured. List Now I was gonna say the

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one that hurts more Stover for sure, because at least

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Over was involved in the offense. Johnson was nowhere to

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01:53:57,359 --> 01:54:01,760
be found. Yeah, I think he got one catch and

2163
01:54:01,760 --> 01:54:05,359
I don't even remember that. I'll take your word for it.

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Box score all right, and that, my friends, was your

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01:54:08,159 --> 01:54:10,840
breaking news. Now we get two our favorite part of

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every Tuesday. We're gonna do this side you think we

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01:54:12,600 --> 01:54:15,960
should do this every Tuesday during the year. I mean

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it could be a kind of oh throughout the year, yeah, cages,

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NFL news and notes. Yeah, once a week kind of

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been love it and we can move and it doesn't

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have to be guaranteed. Yeah whatever. Mike Florio manufacturers, I

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can look up that. I don't want you manufacturing anything

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for Mike Florio. Don't suck off his teet twelve thirty

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six fifty five. I'm not see I don't even want

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to be. I'm trying not to make them ontage time

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now for NFL rewarded all the mats on the show.

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All right, Matt, We're gonna start with last night's game

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on Monday Night Football in the playoffs, which still is

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a sham. How about the Los Angeles Rams taking care

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of business against the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 3: Stafford Coolest can be takes the snap lookie let comes

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off that read side on pro to nine.

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Speaker 9: To five to.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown David Allens.

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Speaker 2: Touchdown Allay Chargers win twenty seven to nine. Jared Vers

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had a fumble six as well. Defense not great for

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01:55:33,279 --> 01:55:37,520
the Minnesota Vikings. That's how they've won. Sam Donald forty attempts,

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01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:41,479
just two hundred and forty nine yards. Kevin O'Connell with

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01:55:41,680 --> 01:55:45,520
a lot on Sam Donald learning us some lessons this year.

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Speaker 5: There's just times where, no matter how much you believe

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in this scheme and how much you believe in things,

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01:55:52,359 --> 01:55:55,279
especially when you know sometimes you're calling quick game and

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if they take away your first throw, there's completions to

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01:55:58,479 --> 01:56:00,760
be had. If you've got to find a way to

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01:56:00,880 --> 01:56:03,640
check the ball down and just keep moving the ball forward.

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Completions have negative effects on defenses.

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Speaker 2: They just do.

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Speaker 5: And those moments where you're holding that ball, and your

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reaction is to try to make a play. We can't

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talk out of both sides of our mouth, because he

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sure as heck made a lot of plays doing that

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this year.

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Speaker 2: But I think that's part of the growth.

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Speaker 5: Remember this guy's twenty seven years old or whatever he is,

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and I think he has a foundation now of both

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the things you do at the quarterback position to have

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success and the things that sometimes you have to learn

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the hard way. You talk to some of the greatest

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players that ever played the game at that position, and

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they all had learning moments throughout their journey.

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Speaker 2: Well, there was a lot of words salad there. No.

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01:56:43,840 --> 01:56:47,039
I think he sounded pretty direct to me. He didn't

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01:56:47,159 --> 01:56:50,399
like the way sounds like listening to that sounds like

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Sam Darnold's out. Honestly, no franchise tag or least for

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01:56:54,159 --> 01:57:00,760
one year. Holding onto the ball. That's this This okay,

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01:57:01,119 --> 01:57:03,319
the Vikings one of the wild card. Yes, I mean

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01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:07,399
it's nice, but it's it's like fourteen and three. It's like,

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01:57:08,159 --> 01:57:09,960
can't help me out. I need an analogy on this.

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It's like you watch a great movie and then the

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last thirty minutes or trash you got invited to dinner

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01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:21,760
party when the VIPs showed up to ask you to leave,

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01:57:27,279 --> 01:57:30,439
mister analogy. Ladies and gentlemen like it. No, all right,

2223
01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:37,119
let's keep it moving on the NFL rewind. Over the weekend,

2224
01:57:37,199 --> 01:57:40,520
you also had the Pittsburgh Steelers losing as predicted to

2225
01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:45,399
the Baltimore Ravens offense. I mean, it wasn't horrible with

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01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:49,359
the points scored two hundred and seventy yards from Russell Wilson.

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01:57:49,479 --> 01:57:53,560
But George Pickens, who is always a fun quote talking

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01:57:54,279 --> 01:58:00,159
after the game about his optimism with the offense, went

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01:58:00,199 --> 01:58:02,119
to his office. Now, for three years, have you seen

2230
01:58:02,239 --> 01:58:04,319
signs with growth and how much artist.

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01:58:04,039 --> 01:58:04,960
Speaker 7: Is being started to grow?

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01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:05,199
Speaker 3: Offen?

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01:58:05,800 --> 01:58:09,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've seen signs of growth for sure, from from

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01:58:09,279 --> 01:58:10,920
the past, you know her first year I've been here,

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01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:12,960
just just way more grow for sure.

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Speaker 2: George. Does that make you optimistic going forward?

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01:58:17,239 --> 01:58:17,359
Speaker 5: Uh?

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01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:17,880
Speaker 2: Nah?

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Speaker 4: Nah.

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Speaker 2: So if it's kind of hard to hear, he's asked

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01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:24,520
about if he's seen growth from the offense, he says, yes,

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01:58:25,039 --> 01:58:26,520
Are you optimistic about the future?

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01:58:27,199 --> 01:58:27,359
Speaker 4: Nah?

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01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:35,079
Speaker 2: Wide receivers the most dominant diva position in professional sports,

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and I stand by that every single day. George Pickens,

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when look, I'm George Pickens. We have a friend of

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01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:47,359
ours that loves the Steelers, Okay much of her chagrin,

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01:58:47,520 --> 01:58:50,239
but she also loves like fourteen teams. Just keep track.

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01:58:51,319 --> 01:58:53,159
George Pickens looks like half the time he's out there,

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he don't want to be out there. So why is

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01:58:55,560 --> 01:58:59,920
he the one that's the surveyor of how the pitch

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01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:02,039
spurg Steelers offense is going? Looks like he doesn't want

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01:59:02,039 --> 01:59:03,479
to be out there half the time. He was asked

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a question if he's optimistic, and I like, I like

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the honest answer from George Pickens. Keeping with number one

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wide receivers. AJ Brown mat over the weekend, did you

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see him reading a book on the sidelines and a

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01:59:15,560 --> 01:59:17,840
lot of people talking about that. I thought it was

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01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:21,880
a great, great video of it because it was trying

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01:59:21,880 --> 01:59:23,399
to they were trying to make it a gotcha moment

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01:59:23,479 --> 01:59:25,640
and instead it made people that were asking a question

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01:59:25,760 --> 01:59:26,199
kind of got you.

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01:59:26,359 --> 01:59:26,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:59:26,560 --> 01:59:28,880
Speaker 2: It spawned a lot of memes and people were making

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01:59:29,079 --> 01:59:31,920
jokes and caption this picture type of stuff. But Aj

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Brown explaining about the book after the game, why why

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do you read during the games and what does it

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bring to you? Man?

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Speaker 9: It give me a sense of pieceness piece. That's a

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book that I bring every single game. My teammates called

2271
01:59:46,680 --> 01:59:49,199
it the recipe. You know, that's the first time I

2272
01:59:49,319 --> 01:59:52,760
heard that. Y'all got my camera. That's not a first game,

2273
01:59:52,920 --> 01:59:54,560
you know. It got a lot of points in everything.

2274
01:59:54,600 --> 01:59:56,239
It's a lot of mental games, a lot of mental

2275
01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:59,079
parts about it. You know, Chris me you know his

2276
01:59:59,159 --> 01:59:59,720
game is mental.

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Speaker 2: The book is called Inner Excellence. It's a self help

2278
02:00:04,479 --> 02:00:06,680
book and A. J. Brown goes to the passage in

2279
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between a series offensively and he uses it for inspiration.

2280
02:00:12,399 --> 02:00:15,239
All right, so let's localize it a little bit here. Okay,

2281
02:00:15,359 --> 02:00:17,039
if there was a book you'd want to read in

2282
02:00:17,079 --> 02:00:19,000
the middle of between our segments of the radio show,

2283
02:00:19,039 --> 02:00:23,439
what book would that be called? Dealing with Narcissists? A

2284
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:30,000
self help guide? No? I would go with TV guide. Okay,

2285
02:00:31,279 --> 02:00:34,079
that's good. Well, apparently that book was like five thousands

2286
02:00:34,119 --> 02:00:36,359
on the Amazon bestsellers list. It went up to number

2287
02:00:36,399 --> 02:00:38,479
one after this weekend. So whoever that author is, think

2288
02:00:38,479 --> 02:00:40,680
you should being legit. Do you think he's legit and

2289
02:00:40,760 --> 02:00:43,720
saying that he really was reading the passes or do

2290
02:00:43,760 --> 02:00:46,239
you think it was he showed the book and oh no,

2291
02:00:46,359 --> 02:00:48,479
I saw it. But I'm saying, dude, was that a

2292
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:50,279
bit or was he really being on the he's what

2293
02:00:50,319 --> 02:00:52,079
he's been doing it all year? And how did the

2294
02:00:52,119 --> 02:00:54,800
first time they caught him on? Because every game has

2295
02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:57,039
got cameras to it. Yeah, but I don't know everybody.

2296
02:00:58,880 --> 02:01:02,079
I think it's interesting. I I have zero I like it. Yeah,

2297
02:01:02,319 --> 02:01:04,800
it's good. Whatever is going to inspire you Aj Brown

2298
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:08,199
to the level of excellence that he's reached, that's cool.

2299
02:01:08,239 --> 02:01:11,199
I think it's cool. Yeah, I find nothing wrong with it. Okay,

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And last but not least, Matt, we will go with

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02:01:13,840 --> 02:01:16,960
here locally in the Houston, of course, the Texans taking

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care of business against the Los Angeles Chargers Demico Ryans. Now,

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02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:24,159
the Texans have played the Chiefs already this year, but

2304
02:01:24,239 --> 02:01:26,720
he says, this is a fresh start.

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02:01:27,479 --> 02:01:28,079
Speaker 10: Different game.

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02:01:28,479 --> 02:01:30,079
Speaker 2: I don't take much from it.

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02:01:30,199 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 10: It was a game that was that week.

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02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:31,960
Speaker 2: You know.

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02:01:32,079 --> 02:01:35,600
Speaker 10: It's different circumstances that happened in that particular week. Now

2310
02:01:36,199 --> 02:01:40,159
it's a new game for me, fresh star, new game. Right,

2311
02:01:40,920 --> 02:01:43,840
we'll attack it just like it's our first time playing

2312
02:01:43,880 --> 02:01:45,920
these guys again. So we'll go in with the fresh

2313
02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:48,640
set of oz and see the things we need to

2314
02:01:48,760 --> 02:01:51,000
do to be better, the things we need to do

2315
02:01:51,159 --> 02:01:54,680
to close out the game. And that's how you always

2316
02:01:54,720 --> 02:01:56,439
go into each game with the fresh set of oz

2317
02:01:56,680 --> 02:01:59,279
not really harping on a lot of what happened in

2318
02:01:59,319 --> 02:01:59,960
the previous game.

2319
02:02:03,520 --> 02:02:06,199
Speaker 2: I'm still perplexed by this Deontay Johnson situation. How do

2320
02:02:06,239 --> 02:02:07,960
you how do you bring him in just a couple

2321
02:02:08,000 --> 02:02:10,760
weeks ago and sell us hard on him? Who sold

2322
02:02:10,840 --> 02:02:13,600
it hard? They did? Where? Who said that we got

2323
02:02:13,640 --> 02:02:17,279
we picked up all Hall of Famers Media network? Uh okay,

2324
02:02:17,439 --> 02:02:19,680
Texans meaning Demiko Ryans didn't say he's gonna be a

2325
02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:22,000
Hall of Famers. He's gonna get a good sample size

2326
02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:26,600
against Tennessee. He was returning punts. They're trying to get

2327
02:02:26,680 --> 02:02:28,479
him involved and see it. To me, it was just

2328
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:30,479
a move they were trying to see. It cost you nothing,

2329
02:02:30,560 --> 02:02:33,720
basically a couple of weeks of a league minimum for

2330
02:02:33,800 --> 02:02:36,479
Deontay Johnson and it didn't work out. I got no

2331
02:02:36,640 --> 02:02:38,920
issue with it, and I don't think anybody from the

2332
02:02:39,159 --> 02:02:42,159
from the team side anyways. Yeah, maybe some Texans homers

2333
02:02:42,199 --> 02:02:43,720
tried to act like it was a huge pickup and

2334
02:02:43,760 --> 02:02:45,560
he was going to be a baller. But those people

2335
02:02:45,600 --> 02:02:47,800
are idiots if you thought that a guy that was

2336
02:02:47,920 --> 02:02:51,840
traded away and subsequently cut from the Ravens and you're

2337
02:02:51,880 --> 02:02:53,800
picking him up off of waivers, which means a lot

2338
02:02:53,840 --> 02:02:55,399
of teams ahead of you did not pick him up

2339
02:02:55,399 --> 02:02:57,640
off of waivers, was going to be a big cog

2340
02:02:57,760 --> 02:03:02,279
in the wheel. You were fooling yourself at ADAMJ. Wexler.

2341
02:03:02,359 --> 02:03:04,760
In the last ten months, Deontae Johnson has been on

2342
02:03:04,840 --> 02:03:08,079
four teams traded by Steelers to Panthers, traded by Panthers

2343
02:03:08,159 --> 02:03:12,680
to Ravens, way by Ravens, claimed by Texans, way by Texans. Yeah,

2344
02:03:12,960 --> 02:03:14,960
thank you, Adam. Jay. It's a lot of real estate.

2345
02:03:15,000 --> 02:03:17,920
It's out of purchase. Hmmm, you got a lot of

2346
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:19,840
lease breaking. Do you think you lived in a hotel

2347
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:21,479
in a month to month? Would you live? Could you

2348
02:03:21,520 --> 02:03:22,680
live in a hotel? They put them in to the

2349
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extended's day?

2350
02:03:23,760 --> 02:03:23,800
Speaker 1: No?

2351
02:03:26,079 --> 02:03:30,399
Speaker 2: Why not? Least going to Rilton. There's an extended stay

2352
02:03:30,479 --> 02:03:34,119
Marriott Downtown, isn't there it's a residence in Yeah, yeah,

2353
02:03:35,079 --> 02:03:37,760
not extended to day. You wouldn't sit there for months? Well,

2354
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I stayed there before they got ovens. It's true. Full kitchens,

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full kitchens, hot breakfast in the mornings. Yeah, and that

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is Ross's NFLR. Thank you, twelve forty six on Sports

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Speaker 6: Bactor Matt Thomas on Sports Talk seven ninety boom.

2378
02:04:52,239 --> 02:04:59,279
Speaker 2: We're having some fun. You're home with the Stros. As

2379
02:04:59,319 --> 02:05:04,119
I've said before, and it's just because I am so

2380
02:05:05,079 --> 02:05:08,159
much I've watched so much losing in my life, like

2381
02:05:08,239 --> 02:05:10,079
most sports fans have, that I just don't want to

2382
02:05:10,079 --> 02:05:13,680
add another layer of team. But this happening again at

2383
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:16,199
ESPN makes me want to root for the Texans to

2384
02:05:16,239 --> 02:05:18,600
win and go the AFC Championship game. Steve and A

2385
02:05:18,720 --> 02:05:21,079
Smith apparently on Twitter somebody said that he says there's

2386
02:05:21,079 --> 02:05:28,319
a zero percent chance of Texans win. And this is

2387
02:05:28,359 --> 02:05:32,239
a guy that wants to have the biggest contract in

2388
02:05:32,279 --> 02:05:35,239
sports media to day. He does. He wants more than McAfee.

2389
02:05:35,399 --> 02:05:35,680
Speaker 4: M hm.

2390
02:05:36,600 --> 02:05:39,720
Speaker 2: He wants more than Romo's and the Brady's and all

2391
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:41,359
that kind of I mean, the money that is being

2392
02:05:41,399 --> 02:05:45,720
spent on television talent is incredible. I forget about the

2393
02:05:45,800 --> 02:05:48,439
massive layoffs that ESPN has done over the years as

2394
02:05:48,479 --> 02:05:51,079
long as Steven A. Smith and Pat McAfee. And my

2395
02:05:51,159 --> 02:05:54,960
guess is Herberstreet's making a pretty coin and it wasn't

2396
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:56,920
cheap to get Bill Belichick, it wasn't cheap to get

2397
02:05:57,039 --> 02:06:00,199
Nick Saban. I mean they have decided a ESPN has

2398
02:06:00,279 --> 02:06:02,239
that they're going to spend a lot of money on

2399
02:06:02,319 --> 02:06:08,920
game coverage, and the biggest ten stars in sports media

2400
02:06:09,039 --> 02:06:12,640
and everybody else is going to get paid little dollars

2401
02:06:13,039 --> 02:06:17,720
or get released from their contracts or get laid off. Look,

2402
02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:19,800
I don't think the Texans are going to win, but

2403
02:06:20,720 --> 02:06:22,720
this is I feel like I'm repeating myself when when

2404
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:28,880
Rex said that they was a bye that was stupid. Yes,

2405
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:33,800
I understand trying to accentuate a point so you get recognized.

2406
02:06:34,880 --> 02:06:36,760
But as I've said before, ROSSI and I and I've

2407
02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:41,359
argued with this many people getting U there's no such

2408
02:06:41,439 --> 02:06:43,760
thing as was it bad publicity? I do believe is

2409
02:06:43,800 --> 02:06:47,159
bad publicity. I do believe that if Well, I saw

2410
02:06:47,199 --> 02:06:50,520
Stephen A. Smith in Las Vegas when they were playing

2411
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:52,880
the tournament. I didn't want to go up and say hello,

2412
02:06:52,960 --> 02:06:55,159
I watch the show. I went look at him and said,

2413
02:06:55,159 --> 02:06:57,159
what a sad sack. Now, Hey, granted he's making he's

2414
02:06:57,479 --> 02:07:00,439
right eight hundred million times more than I am, but

2415
02:07:00,520 --> 02:07:02,760
I didn't respect. I didn't respect them, and look, we

2416
02:07:02,840 --> 02:07:05,159
all say goofy things on shows because we're just having

2417
02:07:05,199 --> 02:07:07,239
a good time. But I would hope that people that

2418
02:07:07,640 --> 02:07:11,000
listen to the show respect us for most of what

2419
02:07:11,079 --> 02:07:14,359
we have to say. And I and I and I

2420
02:07:14,479 --> 02:07:16,319
do and I'm not trying to get all hockey here,

2421
02:07:16,399 --> 02:07:19,880
but I think respect is a is a huge part

2422
02:07:19,960 --> 02:07:23,039
of But what gives you shelf life in sports media

2423
02:07:24,359 --> 02:07:27,319
and the nick rights of the world to skip bags

2424
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:31,840
or the Rex Ryans and I have not seen this

2425
02:07:31,920 --> 02:07:33,960
as I don't watch that show, that first takes show

2426
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:35,600
unless I'm in the hotel or something to get ready

2427
02:07:35,600 --> 02:07:38,399
for our show. I don't watch it. But I'm mostly

2428
02:07:38,399 --> 02:07:40,399
because I'm not Did Steven A. Smith really say there

2429
02:07:40,479 --> 02:07:42,239
was zero percent chance that Texas are going to win?

2430
02:07:44,399 --> 02:07:48,359
Did anybody really hear that? And what are we doing?

2431
02:07:49,199 --> 02:07:51,960
It's it's just where we are, man, that's where we're going.

2432
02:07:52,479 --> 02:07:57,680
It's like many things in life. All the ESPN executives

2433
02:07:57,720 --> 02:08:04,159
has looked at is bottom line ratings short sightedness, and

2434
02:08:04,319 --> 02:08:07,000
it was like, okay, look, hey, these guys skip bay listen.

2435
02:08:07,079 --> 02:08:08,960
They started with skip bayls and Steven ain't yelling at

2436
02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:11,680
each other. This got ratings. Hey, Let's do more of this.

2437
02:08:12,119 --> 02:08:16,000
What has worked, Let's do more of that. And it's happening.

2438
02:08:16,199 --> 02:08:18,520
I think with movies. The quality of movies have gone down,

2439
02:08:18,560 --> 02:08:20,319
and it's like every movie that comes out now is

2440
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:25,680
Ice Age five, Shrek six, like Cars four, Gladiator two.

2441
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:29,359
It's all rehashed and remix because it works. Is it

2442
02:08:29,479 --> 02:08:32,960
good art? No, not necessarily or the you know, not

2443
02:08:33,119 --> 02:08:35,800
like the Marvel movies and stuff like that. But I mean,

2444
02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:39,720
it's just keep it simple, is what the executors are

2445
02:08:39,760 --> 02:08:43,520
doing with these TV shows and movies whatever. Some people

2446
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:46,399
here in radio, not on this station. Thankfully, we have

2447
02:08:46,520 --> 02:08:50,199
good management up here that likes good content. It's all

2448
02:08:50,319 --> 02:08:55,119
about sensationalizing and the being extreme as possible, and then

2449
02:08:55,159 --> 02:08:57,239
when you're wrong, you say, oh, I gotta apologize, and

2450
02:08:57,279 --> 02:08:59,119
people want to tune in for that. People want to

2451
02:08:59,199 --> 02:09:01,800
tune into here. Mex my end talk about how all

2452
02:09:01,880 --> 02:09:04,039
I called it about you know what, I'm sorry, guys,

2453
02:09:04,079 --> 02:09:05,960
I gotta say sorry on that one, and they say

2454
02:09:05,960 --> 02:09:07,680
it's the gotcha moment and then we move on and

2455
02:09:07,720 --> 02:09:11,239
we'll forget about it in two weeks. It's just because

2456
02:09:11,399 --> 02:09:13,760
it's just it's it's maybe a talkie part in Houston.

2457
02:09:13,800 --> 02:09:16,439
But do people in Missilla, Montana care that Rex Ryan

2458
02:09:16,479 --> 02:09:18,319
picked the Chargers down. No, they don't care. No, they don't,

2459
02:09:18,640 --> 02:09:24,319
they don't care. It's that My favorite sports personalities are

2460
02:09:24,359 --> 02:09:27,520
people not necessarily agree with all their sports takes, but

2461
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:32,359
are at least well thought out. Yeah, and they they

2462
02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:35,760
surround guys. I mean when JJ Reddick was on the show.

2463
02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:39,279
Now he's of course the coach of the Los Angeles Lavers,

2464
02:09:39,279 --> 02:09:40,439
but I thought he did a good job. I think

2465
02:09:40,479 --> 02:09:43,920
dan Orlowski does a good job. Mina comes has good

2466
02:09:43,920 --> 02:09:46,640
analysis at times as well. And then you have the

2467
02:09:46,720 --> 02:09:49,079
loud talking heads and then you have some it's they

2468
02:09:49,159 --> 02:09:50,640
try to mix it up a little bit. But the

2469
02:09:50,680 --> 02:09:52,119
guys who make the money, the guys who make the

2470
02:09:52,159 --> 02:09:54,560
most headlines, it's gonna be the Steven A's, the Skip

2471
02:09:54,640 --> 02:09:57,319
Bayless' is the Shannon Charps. Our friend Gray said that

2472
02:09:57,359 --> 02:10:01,880
he definitely said zero percent chance to Okay, well, are

2473
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:03,960
you putting credence in that, folks? Are you going to

2474
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:06,279
go rush to watch Stephen A. Smith and then really

2475
02:10:06,319 --> 02:10:08,399
get his analysis? Wasn't In a couple of years ago

2476
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:11,079
he was like, who it was a tight end that

2477
02:10:11,199 --> 02:10:13,720
wasn't even on the Chargers anymore. And then Derek Johnson,

2478
02:10:13,760 --> 02:10:15,600
who wasn't even on the Chiefs anymore. He's like, this

2479
02:10:15,760 --> 02:10:17,800
is a coverage matchup I'm looking at They're both not

2480
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:20,800
even on the team anymore. Then that's fun. Look, I

2481
02:10:20,800 --> 02:10:24,359
don't hate Stephen A. I look, I just look. I

2482
02:10:24,600 --> 02:10:27,000
can't hate him. He's done nothing to me personally, extremely

2483
02:10:27,119 --> 02:10:31,720
charismatic and loud and boisterous. But do you respect him

2484
02:10:31,720 --> 02:10:34,279
and be funny? I don't respect his takes. I respect

2485
02:10:34,319 --> 02:10:36,720
his career what he's done from as a as a

2486
02:10:36,720 --> 02:10:39,640
Philadelphia Inquire Beat reporter to be making ten million dollars

2487
02:10:39,680 --> 02:10:43,239
a year contract north than that, that's incredible. Good for him.

2488
02:10:43,399 --> 02:10:45,920
But no, I don't respect his takes. I don't ever

2489
02:10:45,960 --> 02:10:48,039
sit there and be like, wow, great point from Steven A.

2490
02:10:48,279 --> 02:10:50,439
A man you'll be respecting his takes is Chris Cory.

2491
02:10:50,439 --> 02:10:52,119
He's gonna come and finish the show for us today,

2492
02:10:52,279 --> 02:10:54,880
are you sure? Well? I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna do it.

2493
02:10:54,920 --> 02:10:57,279
I'm gonna do a deep dive in the final hour

2494
02:10:57,279 --> 02:10:58,920
of the shows. I had to hobby here at LSU

2495
02:10:59,079 --> 02:11:03,520
softball topic coming up? Really, no Kim Mulki talk greatest

2496
02:11:03,520 --> 02:11:07,800
woman's coach ever, that's the final at summit. Well you

2497
02:11:07,840 --> 02:11:13,399
have to argue with him about that. Okay, lunchtimers, this

2498
02:11:14,119 --> 02:11:18,399
is the Matt Thomas Show, our number four of the

2499
02:11:18,439 --> 02:11:22,239
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Now without Matt Thomas, Fancy

2500
02:11:22,399 --> 02:11:26,079
Matt is off to jet set with the Houston Rockets.

2501
02:11:26,119 --> 02:11:30,560
They will be taking on the Denver Nuggets tomorrow evening

2502
02:11:30,800 --> 02:11:33,760
after winning last night against the Memphis Grizzlies in a

2503
02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:37,800
pivotal matchup for the Western Conference standings, as the Rockets

2504
02:11:37,880 --> 02:11:41,800
stay two games ahead of the grizz in the West,

2505
02:11:41,960 --> 02:11:44,840
still six games back of the Oklahoma City Thunder. And

2506
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:47,840
we have a lot to discuss with Chris Gordy, who

2507
02:11:47,880 --> 02:11:51,159
has now hopped in for the final hour. Chris, thanks

2508
02:11:51,199 --> 02:11:53,119
for the time. Yeah, I'm just looking on Twitter.

2509
02:11:53,319 --> 02:11:55,399
Speaker 11: There there was a there was a post that ESPN

2510
02:11:55,560 --> 02:11:59,840
Radio tagged us in like ESPN National Radio. So the

2511
02:12:00,079 --> 02:12:02,520
only four teams that haven't made the conference championship rounds

2512
02:12:02,520 --> 02:12:06,920
since the Cowboys lasted in January ninety six. Brown's commanders, Dolphins,

2513
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:09,479
and Texans, and they put the year on the other

2514
02:12:09,560 --> 02:12:13,279
three teams and Texans and parentheses it says never they've

2515
02:12:13,319 --> 02:12:14,279
you know, never been one.

2516
02:12:14,520 --> 02:12:15,840
Speaker 2: But I'm like, why did they tag us?

2517
02:12:15,880 --> 02:12:18,000
Speaker 11: Well, I'm starting to see I think they meant to

2518
02:12:18,159 --> 02:12:19,960
tag seven ninety Miami.

2519
02:12:20,479 --> 02:12:23,079
Speaker 2: Oh, that happens. That's happened a lot over the year.

2520
02:12:23,079 --> 02:12:24,880
You know, we usually get calls. Sometimes we would get

2521
02:12:24,920 --> 02:12:27,800
calls from people like I can't believe that you just

2522
02:12:27,960 --> 02:12:30,159
said that about the Hurricanes.

2523
02:12:30,319 --> 02:12:30,359
Speaker 6: What?

2524
02:12:30,960 --> 02:12:35,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's the Stu Gotts his things? Like I think

2525
02:12:35,520 --> 02:12:38,399
his Twitter handle was like Stu Gotts seven ninety Oh.

2526
02:12:38,439 --> 02:12:40,640
When we would get tweet people would be like, you

2527
02:12:40,760 --> 02:12:43,399
guys have no respect for what the Dolphins are doing, Like,

2528
02:12:43,439 --> 02:12:47,079
what are you talking about? Who are you? Tony Sperano's

2529
02:12:47,159 --> 02:12:48,520
gotta get fired out there.

2530
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:50,239
Speaker 11: But it is kind of I mean, here we are

2531
02:12:50,279 --> 02:12:54,119
again on the precipice ross the Texans with a chance

2532
02:12:54,760 --> 02:12:56,479
to get somewhere they've never been.

2533
02:12:57,239 --> 02:12:59,680
Speaker 2: All they have the ANC Championship game. Everyone else has

2534
02:13:00,439 --> 02:13:06,840
upset the Kansas City Chiefs, the number one seed, which

2535
02:13:06,880 --> 02:13:09,199
we were talking about earlier on the show, and actually

2536
02:13:09,239 --> 02:13:11,119
a little bit yesterday I put a pull up on

2537
02:13:11,199 --> 02:13:15,319
my Twitter account. Mister Gordy, is the Texans season a

2538
02:13:15,479 --> 02:13:20,039
success in your mind? Or do they need to win more. Yeah.

2539
02:13:20,199 --> 02:13:24,399
Speaker 11: To me, it's to me, you you've you've gotten the

2540
02:13:24,439 --> 02:13:26,279
bare minimum, Like you got to get to exactly where

2541
02:13:26,279 --> 02:13:26,920
you were a year ago.

2542
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:29,119
Speaker 2: You're right back to when you reached quota. It's like

2543
02:13:29,239 --> 02:13:31,159
you reached quota if you're in sales now.

2544
02:13:31,159 --> 02:13:33,680
Speaker 11: I was saying last week, you cannot lose to the Chargers,

2545
02:13:33,760 --> 02:13:35,239
because that would have been a step backward.

2546
02:13:35,960 --> 02:13:37,640
Speaker 2: That would have They didn't. Yeah, and they didn't. They

2547
02:13:37,640 --> 02:13:39,079
took care of business. They stepped up.

2548
02:13:39,359 --> 02:13:41,319
Speaker 11: But I do think it's funny how everybody just changes

2549
02:13:41,439 --> 02:13:43,319
course so quickly in the course of a week. We

2550
02:13:43,439 --> 02:13:45,199
went from last week or so many people go, I

2551
02:13:45,239 --> 02:13:47,000
don't know, man, I don't. I don't think they got

2552
02:13:47,079 --> 02:13:49,600
a chance here. So now everybody's like, if they play

2553
02:13:49,760 --> 02:13:52,279
like this every week, we're going to Super Bowl.

2554
02:13:52,439 --> 02:13:54,039
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that I mean that That was their best

2555
02:13:54,079 --> 02:13:56,520
game of the year. There are other two twenty point

2556
02:13:56,560 --> 02:13:58,840
wins this season where Drake May and his very first

2557
02:13:58,920 --> 02:14:02,039
start and then Cooper with the Cowboys. Those are the

2558
02:14:02,119 --> 02:14:04,640
only other twenty point wins that they've had. This was

2559
02:14:04,760 --> 02:14:07,920
their their twenty point win in the playoffs against a

2560
02:14:07,960 --> 02:14:10,279
team that you know, we mentioned the names with Khalil

2561
02:14:10,399 --> 02:14:13,520
Mack and Joey Bosa and Justin Herbert and JK Dobbins,

2562
02:14:13,600 --> 02:14:16,359
Quinnjohn's playing well. Lad McConkie did still go off, but

2563
02:14:16,439 --> 02:14:19,199
I mean a really good Jim harball all that type

2564
02:14:19,199 --> 02:14:21,960
of stuff, and they beat him down and then four

2565
02:14:22,000 --> 02:14:24,479
and twenty nine yards their second most all season long.

2566
02:14:24,920 --> 02:14:28,600
This was the Texans team where we were you were

2567
02:14:28,680 --> 02:14:30,359
kind of you're filling in with Matt. I think sometime

2568
02:14:30,399 --> 02:14:31,920
earlier in the season we were talking about it, even

2569
02:14:31,960 --> 02:14:34,319
when they were like five and one or whatever, like, yeah,

2570
02:14:34,359 --> 02:14:36,159
they're five and one, but it is a week five

2571
02:14:36,239 --> 02:14:38,880
and one. Where's the real Texans team. Where's this team

2572
02:14:38,920 --> 02:14:42,359
we wanted to see? And we saw it on Saturday

2573
02:14:42,720 --> 02:14:46,239
for the first time all year, even without Tank Dell

2574
02:14:46,319 --> 02:14:49,600
and Stefan Diggs. Well, and that's the tough part is

2575
02:14:49,640 --> 02:14:52,439
if they had both of those guys, I'd feel really

2576
02:14:52,479 --> 02:14:54,039
good about it. I feel a lot better about this week.

2577
02:14:54,119 --> 02:14:58,119
I'd be calling for the upset. Ooh, I like that spicy,

2578
02:14:58,479 --> 02:14:59,319
just because.

2579
02:14:59,159 --> 02:15:02,000
Speaker 11: The difference they make Now John MATCHI man like it's

2580
02:15:02,039 --> 02:15:06,039
put up or shut up time. Like the drops last week,

2581
02:15:06,079 --> 02:15:09,039
he didn't make a couple of good catches, but like

2582
02:15:09,279 --> 02:15:11,399
you've got to step up when that Paul comes and

2583
02:15:11,479 --> 02:15:12,199
hit you in the hands.

2584
02:15:12,279 --> 02:15:13,960
Speaker 2: You have to make the catch, like this is what

2585
02:15:14,039 --> 02:15:17,079
they're asking, don't fumble it, john MATCHI now, especially with

2586
02:15:17,199 --> 02:15:20,520
Deontay Johnson out one catch for twelve yards over the

2587
02:15:20,560 --> 02:15:25,279
weekend now released by the Houston Texans, do you subscribe

2588
02:15:25,319 --> 02:15:28,880
it all to the rust factor for Kansas City? Not really.

2589
02:15:29,760 --> 02:15:33,119
I mean, especially Andy Reid, the Chiefs and Pat Mahome,

2590
02:15:33,159 --> 02:15:36,159
they've had buys forever. Yeah. I think they definitely rested

2591
02:15:36,159 --> 02:15:39,039
Pat Mahomes because in a lot of the stars, well,

2592
02:15:39,079 --> 02:15:40,960
one because they're old, two because it's the long season.

2593
02:15:41,199 --> 02:15:43,520
Three because Pat Mahomes had been nursing that ankle injury.

2594
02:15:43,840 --> 02:15:45,720
It's no accident that a few weeks ago when they

2595
02:15:45,760 --> 02:15:48,439
played at Arrowhead, the line was I think three and

2596
02:15:48,479 --> 02:15:50,640
a half. Now it's up to seven and a half.

2597
02:15:50,720 --> 02:15:53,000
Opened at eight and a half because should be a

2598
02:15:53,039 --> 02:15:57,680
healthier Pat Mahomes. And we'll see. I think that's one

2599
02:15:57,680 --> 02:16:00,720
of those things where if the Chiefs on their first

2600
02:16:00,760 --> 02:16:02,880
two drives, then we're not gonna talk about it. But

2601
02:16:02,920 --> 02:16:05,840
if they don't, oh, it's all rust, it's all Russ.

2602
02:16:05,920 --> 02:16:07,760
It's one of those things where we try to write

2603
02:16:07,760 --> 02:16:10,520
the narrative after the fact. In my opinion, maybe this

2604
02:16:10,640 --> 02:16:12,279
could be the year of us. What do we see

2605
02:16:12,319 --> 02:16:15,680
from all four teams in the college football playoffs? Yeah,

2606
02:16:15,680 --> 02:16:18,119
I can't believe Boise State didn't win their first round

2607
02:16:18,159 --> 02:16:21,079
after getting the bye. I can't believe Arizona State didn't

2608
02:16:21,079 --> 02:16:23,520
win their first out of the bye. Again with this,

2609
02:16:23,720 --> 02:16:26,800
this this comes up every year because there was one

2610
02:16:26,880 --> 02:16:28,560
year when they used to do two buys. We're all

2611
02:16:28,600 --> 02:16:30,159
four teams that had to buy, and everybody's like, oh,

2612
02:16:30,279 --> 02:16:31,319
rest versus russ and.

2613
02:16:31,319 --> 02:16:33,159
Speaker 11: Then literally I think the next year, so in the

2614
02:16:33,239 --> 02:16:35,840
Tony Dungee, Peyton Manning Colts, that happened to them a

2615
02:16:35,879 --> 02:16:38,639
couple of times when you gotta go.

2616
02:16:38,680 --> 02:16:42,319
Speaker 2: Back, didn't those two thousand and nine Saints that didn't

2617
02:16:42,600 --> 02:16:44,799
that beat the Colts, didn't they not play what they

2618
02:16:44,879 --> 02:16:46,760
lost like their last three games, and they rested their

2619
02:16:46,799 --> 02:16:48,920
starters and there too as well towards the end of

2620
02:16:48,959 --> 02:16:51,040
that season, only rested them in the last game. Okay,

2621
02:16:51,120 --> 02:16:53,079
so they rested them and they didn't really play well

2622
02:16:53,120 --> 02:16:54,520
the last three games and they win and won the

2623
02:16:54,600 --> 02:16:56,680
Super Bowl. I'm sure I can come up with some

2624
02:16:56,760 --> 02:17:00,200
examples I think it's overblown. We're gonna write we right

2625
02:17:00,280 --> 02:17:03,520
it afterwards. Nobody was talking about rest for the college

2626
02:17:03,600 --> 02:17:06,680
football teams before all four games were played, and by

2627
02:17:06,719 --> 02:17:09,600
the way, all four favorites won their games as well. Yeah,

2628
02:17:09,719 --> 02:17:11,360
but this is a significant layoff.

2629
02:17:11,399 --> 02:17:14,120
Speaker 11: They have not The last time the Chiefs played their

2630
02:17:14,159 --> 02:17:19,159
starters was on Christmas Day, Wednesday, December twenty fifth.

2631
02:17:20,360 --> 02:17:22,719
Speaker 2: I mean that's going on almost a month. Yeah, they're

2632
02:17:22,760 --> 02:17:24,520
going and it'll be twenty four days I think, or

2633
02:17:24,600 --> 02:17:29,360
something like that. No, it's it's I Like I said,

2634
02:17:29,360 --> 02:17:32,159
if you were any other team, i'd say it. But

2635
02:17:32,760 --> 02:17:36,280
let's see Pat Mahomes led team. Last year, the one

2636
02:17:36,319 --> 02:17:40,079
seed San Francisco they beat, they won, they went to

2637
02:17:40,120 --> 02:17:42,680
the Super Bowl. Last year, the one seed was Baltimore.

2638
02:17:43,280 --> 02:17:46,280
They won their first game. They did Baltimore look rusty

2639
02:17:46,319 --> 02:17:48,799
off the bye last week or last year against Houston

2640
02:17:48,840 --> 02:17:50,799
when they beat them thirty four to ten. No, I

2641
02:17:50,840 --> 02:17:53,120
would say, no. They did lose to Kansas City in

2642
02:17:53,120 --> 02:17:55,879
the AFC Championship. But there you go. There's last year's playoffs.

2643
02:17:56,280 --> 02:17:58,600
I can try to bring up some more from the

2644
02:17:58,680 --> 02:18:01,399
last several years, but generally you want the bye week.

2645
02:18:01,520 --> 02:18:03,520
It's an overblown thing to me. I think we look

2646
02:18:03,559 --> 02:18:06,799
at the results of sometimes teams do lose. It's the NFL.

2647
02:18:06,959 --> 02:18:11,040
Anyone can lose. And I mean clearly Vegas doesn't think

2648
02:18:11,040 --> 02:18:13,040
there's gonna be that much rest, that much rust as

2649
02:18:13,040 --> 02:18:14,760
they have him as a seven and a half point favorite.

2650
02:18:14,879 --> 02:18:18,280
Now there's the other factor. The Chiefs have played close

2651
02:18:18,360 --> 02:18:21,120
games all year. Towards the end of the season, they

2652
02:18:21,159 --> 02:18:23,040
really started to kind of flex their muscles and they

2653
02:18:23,079 --> 02:18:26,680
beat the Texans by what eight at Arrowhead? Yeah? One

2654
02:18:26,719 --> 02:18:28,520
score game, Yeah, one score game.

2655
02:18:28,600 --> 02:18:31,559
Speaker 11: Beat Cleveland by two scores, beat Pittsburgh by a couple

2656
02:18:31,639 --> 02:18:32,040
of scores.

2657
02:18:32,079 --> 02:18:35,280
Speaker 2: But outside of that, almost every other game they played

2658
02:18:35,280 --> 02:18:39,440
this year was you know, yeah, yeah. I mean I've

2659
02:18:39,600 --> 02:18:40,959
I picked the Texans to cover. I don't know if

2660
02:18:40,959 --> 02:18:43,200
they're gonna win the game, but I just think they

2661
02:18:43,319 --> 02:18:45,799
they are being a little bit underestimated, are the Texans.

2662
02:18:46,159 --> 02:18:48,360
They are nine or eight and a half. It was

2663
02:18:48,399 --> 02:18:50,120
a open at eight and a half and now it's

2664
02:18:50,120 --> 02:18:55,319
seven and a half. It's already got beat. Really yeah, okay, hm,

2665
02:18:55,600 --> 02:19:00,920
Texans plus nine, it's it's come to mostly everywhere you

2666
02:19:00,959 --> 02:19:02,719
look at that they got the ten. I would deaf,

2667
02:19:02,840 --> 02:19:05,719
I'd lock it in ten. Oh yeah, it was thirty eight.

2668
02:19:05,760 --> 02:19:08,479
Twenty eight. Well that's why got in Vin and teezer bets.

2669
02:19:08,520 --> 02:19:10,239
You can just go tease that bad boy up to ten.

2670
02:19:10,440 --> 02:19:11,000
You'll be all right.

2671
02:19:11,239 --> 02:19:13,520
Speaker 11: It is just though, like, when when are they going

2672
02:19:13,600 --> 02:19:15,639
to take that proverbial step? If we're if we're going

2673
02:19:15,680 --> 02:19:19,680
to assume that they're a tough one and oh great

2674
02:19:19,760 --> 02:19:22,840
season Texans, we come in on Monday, We're like, ah, still,

2675
02:19:22,920 --> 02:19:25,239
heck of a year to be cod Like, when are

2676
02:19:25,319 --> 02:19:26,639
they going to take that step?

2677
02:19:26,959 --> 02:19:28,079
Speaker 2: When are they going to get this? Bro?

2678
02:19:28,360 --> 02:19:28,719
Speaker 4: Relax?

2679
02:19:28,840 --> 02:19:30,239
Speaker 2: No, it's been twenty years.

2680
02:19:31,799 --> 02:19:32,520
Speaker 4: A title.

2681
02:19:32,600 --> 02:19:33,879
Speaker 2: It's going to be in the Super Bowl in the

2682
02:19:33,959 --> 02:19:34,479
second year.

2683
02:19:34,600 --> 02:19:37,680
Speaker 11: Man, years Jaguars have gotten in the FC title game.

2684
02:19:37,760 --> 02:19:40,239
The Titans have been there, yes, yes, and yes, the

2685
02:19:40,360 --> 02:19:41,799
Colts have been there numerous times.

2686
02:19:42,200 --> 02:19:44,319
Speaker 2: Can you not get there? You're in the final four

2687
02:19:44,360 --> 02:19:46,879
and the other teams are the back to back Super

2688
02:19:46,920 --> 02:19:50,000
Bowl champion Chiefs who were the one seed, and Baltimore

2689
02:19:50,040 --> 02:19:53,399
and Buffalo who are juggernauts. Even in a good spot,

2690
02:19:53,559 --> 02:19:55,840
even Rick Barnes can get the final fours. We can't.

2691
02:19:56,079 --> 02:19:58,520
Texas stop get the final fours. They're in the final

2692
02:19:58,559 --> 02:20:04,600
four of the ANFC, so I would at least I

2693
02:20:04,879 --> 02:20:07,000
think they do have a shot to win, legitimate shot

2694
02:20:07,079 --> 02:20:10,799
to win in my opinion, with this defense, Pat Mahomes

2695
02:20:11,520 --> 02:20:13,360
I was probably gonna be one hundred percent healthy, so

2696
02:20:13,440 --> 02:20:15,680
that's certainly a concern. They still don't have great weapons.

2697
02:20:15,799 --> 02:20:17,719
It's going to be a low scoring game, and in

2698
02:20:17,879 --> 02:20:20,520
a low scoring game where anything can happen, I do

2699
02:20:20,799 --> 02:20:23,200
think the Texans can can certainly surprise this weekend.

2700
02:20:23,239 --> 02:20:24,879
Speaker 11: And think of what he does for your legacy, and

2701
02:20:25,120 --> 02:20:29,600
I mean that we immediately amplify c J. Stroud and

2702
02:20:29,719 --> 02:20:33,360
his legacy. I think maybe Bobby Slowak's name gets thrown

2703
02:20:33,440 --> 02:20:35,239
back out there for some coaching interests if.

2704
02:20:35,159 --> 02:20:39,680
Speaker 2: They gets already interviewed him so and I thought he

2705
02:20:39,719 --> 02:20:41,440
did a great job play calling. We haven't talked about

2706
02:20:41,440 --> 02:20:43,200
that on Saturday as well. Like just think of.

2707
02:20:43,440 --> 02:20:45,600
Speaker 11: Because what I'm sure what the TV networks want. They

2708
02:20:45,639 --> 02:20:49,600
want Ma Homes versus Josh Allen or Russ Lamar, like

2709
02:20:49,680 --> 02:20:50,799
these are the matchups they want.

2710
02:20:50,879 --> 02:20:51,360
Speaker 2: But if CJ.

2711
02:20:51,479 --> 02:20:53,959
Speaker 11: Stroud can get there, I think they buy back in.

2712
02:20:54,079 --> 02:20:56,079
They were all aboard the CJ. Stard hop trade. Ans

2713
02:20:56,120 --> 02:20:58,079
a rookie, he kind of fell off a little bit

2714
02:20:58,120 --> 02:21:00,879
this year, but if he gets there, I think it's

2715
02:21:01,079 --> 02:21:02,280
it's immediate buybackend.

2716
02:21:02,319 --> 02:21:04,920
Speaker 2: Oh, we gotta get all over this story. Most passing

2717
02:21:05,040 --> 02:21:09,719
yards by any quarterback wild Card weekend see Jay Stroud

2718
02:21:09,799 --> 02:21:10,559
with two hundred.

2719
02:21:10,639 --> 02:21:13,319
Speaker 11: And that's occurazing because it has been a little bit

2720
02:21:13,319 --> 02:21:14,840
of a roller coaster season for it.

2721
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:17,040
Speaker 2: It did when he made that Hutch play and then

2722
02:21:17,200 --> 02:21:19,079
he looked way more locked in than he had been

2723
02:21:19,120 --> 02:21:20,520
the last several weeks. I don't know how much of

2724
02:21:20,559 --> 02:21:22,440
that is health, how much of that is mental or whatever,

2725
02:21:22,559 --> 02:21:25,399
or the offensive line holding better, but he certainly looked

2726
02:21:25,520 --> 02:21:28,319
a lot better. Do you have the Texan season as

2727
02:21:28,479 --> 02:21:31,440
a success or do they need to win this weekend?

2728
02:21:31,639 --> 02:21:34,479
Or have they just hit quota in your mind? Seven

2729
02:21:34,520 --> 02:21:37,000
one three two one two five seven ninety is the

2730
02:21:37,040 --> 02:21:39,479
phone number on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven

2731
02:21:39,479 --> 02:21:42,239
to one three two one two five seven ninety With

2732
02:21:42,360 --> 02:21:44,719
you till two o'clock and we'll return after the short break.

2733
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:49,840
Speaker 1: Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via Real Fine Fine

2734
02:21:49,920 --> 02:21:51,680
Sports Talk seven ninety.

2735
02:22:03,239 --> 02:22:11,200
Speaker 2: ESPN's Adam Schefter with more details on the Houston Texans

2736
02:22:11,399 --> 02:22:15,840
waving of Deontae Johnson as they prepare for their Divisional

2737
02:22:15,959 --> 02:22:20,159
round game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Following the Texans

2738
02:22:20,239 --> 02:22:24,360
wild card playoff victory last Sunday, Johnson was visibly upset

2739
02:22:24,479 --> 02:22:27,239
in the locker room. He was fully dressed sitting at

2740
02:22:27,319 --> 02:22:30,040
his locker staring in frustration because of a lack of

2741
02:22:30,159 --> 02:22:34,239
playing time and targets. Joe Mixon and his ease alsha

2742
02:22:34,280 --> 02:22:37,719
Here tried to comfort and encourage him. Johnson only played

2743
02:22:37,799 --> 02:22:41,280
fifteen of the seventy offensive snaps and received only one target,

2744
02:22:41,680 --> 02:22:47,479
finishing with one catch for fifteen yards. So apparently very

2745
02:22:47,680 --> 02:22:53,840
very upset, and postgame with his lack of snaps, He's like,

2746
02:22:53,879 --> 02:22:56,639
I'm not better than John Metchian Xavier Hutchinson. Come on, man,

2747
02:22:57,760 --> 02:22:59,319
I mean like they're not doing it because they don't

2748
02:22:59,399 --> 02:23:02,239
like you doing it. Playing time is earned. Don't you

2749
02:23:02,280 --> 02:23:04,040
think it's time to look in the mirror when you say,

2750
02:23:04,159 --> 02:23:07,200
let's see, the Steelers got rid of me, the Panthers

2751
02:23:07,239 --> 02:23:09,559
got rid of me, the Ravens cut me for nothing,

2752
02:23:10,040 --> 02:23:12,120
and now the Texans have gotten rid of me. When

2753
02:23:12,239 --> 02:23:13,719
is it time to look in the mirror and say,

2754
02:23:13,799 --> 02:23:17,040
maybe the problem is me, Maybe I'm the one that's

2755
02:23:17,079 --> 02:23:17,680
the issue here.

2756
02:23:18,079 --> 02:23:20,840
Speaker 11: Well, the one in hindsight, the one you look back

2757
02:23:20,920 --> 02:23:23,920
on and say, had the Texans known when they lost

2758
02:23:23,959 --> 02:23:25,799
to font Diggs, had they known they were going to

2759
02:23:25,879 --> 02:23:27,920
lose Tank Dell. The one you wish you would have

2760
02:23:28,360 --> 02:23:30,879
scooped up is a guy that the Saints picked up

2761
02:23:30,959 --> 02:23:34,760
mid season who was very productive, Mark Les gal Valdez Gampa.

2762
02:23:35,159 --> 02:23:37,000
He was good, went for four hundred yards of four

2763
02:23:37,079 --> 02:23:39,319
touchdowns on the backstretch of the season with a bad

2764
02:23:39,360 --> 02:23:39,920
Saints team.

2765
02:23:40,000 --> 02:23:42,200
Speaker 2: Like Nick Asaria said, we're good. That would have been

2766
02:23:42,280 --> 02:23:43,959
one that I would have liked to have had. Don't

2767
02:23:44,000 --> 02:23:46,879
need an offensive lineman, don't need a wide receiver, everything's

2768
02:23:46,879 --> 02:23:50,120
all good. But Dante Johnson, I don't know, like some

2769
02:23:50,280 --> 02:23:51,239
time passed him by.

2770
02:23:53,440 --> 02:23:55,879
Speaker 11: Years old, get it, But like that's what's where a

2771
02:23:55,920 --> 02:23:59,520
lot of guys career, you know, careers start to Dwindley

2772
02:23:59,559 --> 02:24:00,280
twenty eight, like.

2773
02:24:00,280 --> 02:24:02,319
Speaker 2: The new thirty three in the NFL. How did that happen?

2774
02:24:02,520 --> 02:24:05,520
Speaker 11: He's usually for running backs. His rookie season was twenty nineteen.

2775
02:24:05,639 --> 02:24:08,200
I mean, it's it's a lot of years ago. I mean,

2776
02:24:08,239 --> 02:24:10,040
I don't know, like he's only been a thousand yard

2777
02:24:10,079 --> 02:24:10,719
receiver once.

2778
02:24:11,799 --> 02:24:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean I think he was good. I

2779
02:24:13,959 --> 02:24:15,840
don't think he was great, and I was hopeful. I

2780
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:17,879
wasn't you know. There were some people running through the

2781
02:24:17,879 --> 02:24:21,239
streets talking about textions just picked up a pro bowler. Baby,

2782
02:24:21,280 --> 02:24:26,239
it's time. It's a Texan swarm with Deontay Johnson. No,

2783
02:24:26,680 --> 02:24:29,120
I was hopeful something would happen. I was hopeful he'd

2784
02:24:29,120 --> 02:24:32,639
be okay, you know, he'd be a contributor and somehow

2785
02:24:34,600 --> 02:24:37,479
have an impact on this year. But one catch for

2786
02:24:37,559 --> 02:24:40,840
twelve yards apparently visibly upset having to be I mean

2787
02:24:40,920 --> 02:24:42,440
by Joe Mixon as hease, I'll shore here. I mean

2788
02:24:42,479 --> 02:24:46,920
that's two captains of the squad. Yeah. So, but now

2789
02:24:47,000 --> 02:24:50,000
he has been released. Clearly the Textans say he's not

2790
02:24:50,079 --> 02:24:52,600
worth a headache and it's time for a little introspective look,

2791
02:24:52,639 --> 02:24:56,120
I think for Deontay Johnson and his representation and whoever else.

2792
02:24:56,440 --> 02:24:59,159
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm fine, We'll move on. I'll be at the

2793
02:24:59,479 --> 02:25:01,200
Senior in a few weeks. I'll be looking for the

2794
02:25:01,280 --> 02:25:03,200
Texans next wide receivers.

2795
02:25:03,280 --> 02:25:06,879
Speaker 2: You'll be looking for Matthew Golden. Yeah, could be the

2796
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:09,840
top wide receiver in this year's draft, and Isaiah Bond

2797
02:25:10,280 --> 02:25:12,639
the player for the draft. So to long have anybody

2798
02:25:12,760 --> 02:25:15,639
left now, No, dude, we were just talking during the break.

2799
02:25:15,680 --> 02:25:19,520
So Cam Williams the right tackle, just fall start machine

2800
02:25:19,559 --> 02:25:21,360
got destroyed against Georgia twice.

2801
02:25:21,559 --> 02:25:26,159
Speaker 11: David Benda, linebacker, just declared for the draft and starting

2802
02:25:26,200 --> 02:25:27,840
by the end of the year. But Bill Norton and

2803
02:25:27,959 --> 02:25:31,559
nose tackle, Bill Norton, gunner Helm the tight end gunner,

2804
02:25:31,680 --> 02:25:32,959
Hell Isaiah.

2805
02:25:32,680 --> 02:25:37,639
Speaker 2: Bond the ex receiver. I mean it's like Isaiah Bond.

2806
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:41,360
Calvin Banks declared on Sunday. So let's just go through it.

2807
02:25:41,760 --> 02:25:45,000
The starting tackles, both your starting tackles, starting tight end,

2808
02:25:45,079 --> 02:25:48,360
two wide receivers, and your Jake Major is the center

2809
02:25:48,520 --> 02:25:49,399
declared as well.

2810
02:25:49,280 --> 02:25:52,079
Speaker 11: Because he's out of eligibility. Left guard Hayden Connor is

2811
02:25:52,120 --> 02:25:57,559
out of eligibility. God Vernon Broughton, I think is head

2812
02:25:58,440 --> 02:26:02,760
he's done. Da Barons done alright and is done all right.

2813
02:26:02,840 --> 02:26:05,520
You're making me upset. Michael taff Retscher Jr. He could

2814
02:26:05,600 --> 02:26:08,959
come back. Let's go Michael Archie, Michael.

2815
02:26:10,000 --> 02:26:11,879
Speaker 2: That's the team. He's going to play both ways. He's

2816
02:26:11,879 --> 02:26:13,440
gonna have to go Travis Hunter on him.

2817
02:26:13,639 --> 02:26:15,920
Speaker 11: Actually, the two guys I really like that that are

2818
02:26:15,959 --> 02:26:18,680
definitely back. Colin Simmons who was a freshman. Anthony Hall

2819
02:26:18,879 --> 02:26:19,399
was a sophomore.

2820
02:26:19,559 --> 02:26:19,719
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2821
02:26:19,719 --> 02:26:22,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so they're both backed, but it's it's them two

2822
02:26:22,760 --> 02:26:25,719
Alfred Collins and the and the interior you mentioned Norton

2823
02:26:25,799 --> 02:26:29,559
and the interior both gone as well. Oh, Jayden Blue declared, Yeah,

2824
02:26:30,600 --> 02:26:33,920
Jayden Blue, he's getting like two carries a game. What's it?

2825
02:26:34,000 --> 02:26:36,440
What is it? What is his scouting report on Jayden Blue?

2826
02:26:37,319 --> 02:26:40,000
Trey Wisner was a true sophomore, I believe, right, so

2827
02:26:40,079 --> 02:26:41,760
he's got to come back. Should be should I be

2828
02:26:41,840 --> 02:26:45,879
concerned that a scandal is on the way, like everybody like, yeah,

2829
02:26:46,040 --> 02:26:48,319
this is the rats abandoning a sinking show. Well, I

2830
02:26:48,360 --> 02:26:50,639
mean there's really no cheating anymore. They got paid in

2831
02:26:50,879 --> 02:26:53,799
free cars, that's the kind of course. Even with that,

2832
02:26:53,879 --> 02:26:56,520
didn't the Tennessee volunteers or somebody didn't they still get

2833
02:26:56,520 --> 02:26:58,600
in trouble with the dinged for the nil because the

2834
02:26:58,680 --> 02:27:01,520
school was getting involved or something like that, Like is

2835
02:27:01,559 --> 02:27:03,719
sark about to get a class action lawsuit? Like the

2836
02:27:03,760 --> 02:27:07,159
Florida state coach the basketball coach, was he getting them

2837
02:27:07,239 --> 02:27:08,520
strippers or hookers? Like?

2838
02:27:08,639 --> 02:27:08,760
Speaker 4: Then?

2839
02:27:08,840 --> 02:27:12,360
Speaker 2: Okay, then maybe I don't know what was the whole

2840
02:27:12,399 --> 02:27:14,280
thing with the woman with the monkey. It was one

2841
02:27:14,319 --> 02:27:17,360
of the one of the assistant coaches was dating a

2842
02:27:17,399 --> 02:27:20,959
stripper who had a pet monkey. That's right, I've read

2843
02:27:20,959 --> 02:27:25,920
about this. Sorry well, either way, what's funny is people

2844
02:27:26,040 --> 02:27:29,520
like the media is sports media are just so dumb.

2845
02:27:29,600 --> 02:27:34,000
Speaker 11: Sometimes they're going to automatically like just because Arch Manning

2846
02:27:34,120 --> 02:27:37,639
is there, they're gonna put Texas the pribative.

2847
02:27:37,239 --> 02:27:39,680
Speaker 2: Let's go one of the favorites of the game. Let's go.

2848
02:27:40,000 --> 02:27:42,120
But like, can we can we look at supporting casts.

2849
02:27:42,159 --> 02:27:45,959
There's a lot they're replacing. By the way, Matt Thomas

2850
02:27:46,000 --> 02:27:47,799
brought up something I was thinking about over the weekend

2851
02:27:47,840 --> 02:27:52,159
as well. What was Sark's obsession with sticking with Quinn

2852
02:27:52,559 --> 02:27:55,680
under all circumstances and how much does that possibly mean

2853
02:27:55,760 --> 02:27:59,159
that Art simply is not ready? And with that the

2854
02:27:59,239 --> 02:28:02,040
writer question that if Arch is not ready after a

2855
02:28:02,120 --> 02:28:04,799
red shirt year and a red shirt freshman year, how

2856
02:28:04,840 --> 02:28:06,479
ready is he going to be in a couple more months.

2857
02:28:06,559 --> 02:28:08,239
Speaker 11: I don't think that it wasn't that it was Arch

2858
02:28:08,399 --> 02:28:11,120
wasn't ready. I think they just thought Quinn gave them

2859
02:28:11,200 --> 02:28:12,079
the best chance to win.

2860
02:28:12,760 --> 02:28:14,719
Speaker 2: But to me means Arch isn't ready. Arch is supposed

2861
02:28:14,719 --> 02:28:17,360
to be this five star all world but Quinn is good,

2862
02:28:17,399 --> 02:28:17,799
not great.

2863
02:28:17,879 --> 02:28:19,799
Speaker 11: Go back to some of these games where they said,

2864
02:28:20,399 --> 02:28:23,399
where people were channing in the second quarter, I'll get

2865
02:28:23,520 --> 02:28:26,239
Quinn out of there. Sticking with Quinn in the SEC

2866
02:28:26,360 --> 02:28:28,559
Championship was the right move. Sticking with Quinn in the

2867
02:28:28,559 --> 02:28:30,440
playoff their day was the right move. He brought you

2868
02:28:30,520 --> 02:28:33,840
down to the goal. Also, he played great. I think

2869
02:28:33,879 --> 02:28:35,840
there could have been there should have been more packages

2870
02:28:35,879 --> 02:28:38,239
for Arch because of his athleticism and his running ability.

2871
02:28:38,559 --> 02:28:40,680
We didn't see as much of that in the last

2872
02:28:40,719 --> 02:28:43,479
couple games as maybe we should have. But I think

2873
02:28:43,600 --> 02:28:46,319
sticking with Quinn was not a was not a detriment.

2874
02:28:46,680 --> 02:28:49,680
Speaker 2: I think it was fine. Now normally he doesn't go

2875
02:28:49,799 --> 02:28:51,280
and now he went out and won that game against

2876
02:28:51,319 --> 02:28:54,520
Arizona State, to his credit, but in both both games

2877
02:28:54,559 --> 02:28:56,520
against Georgia he did not do it. In the game

2878
02:28:56,559 --> 02:28:59,280
against the Washington Huskies the past year, he did not

2879
02:28:59,399 --> 02:29:01,239
do it. He had opportunities to go out and win

2880
02:29:01,319 --> 02:29:05,000
that game and he didn't do it. So if if

2881
02:29:05,200 --> 02:29:10,719
if Arch Manning is this all world, can't miss quarterback prospect,

2882
02:29:10,879 --> 02:29:15,520
hot shot surefire going to the NFL, then he should

2883
02:29:15,520 --> 02:29:17,520
have shown enough to say that he's better than Quinn

2884
02:29:17,559 --> 02:29:20,399
yours at two years into his college career in my opinion,

2885
02:29:21,200 --> 02:29:23,920
so I am a little bit worried about how good

2886
02:29:23,959 --> 02:29:26,319
he is going to be next year personally as a

2887
02:29:26,360 --> 02:29:30,559
Longhorn fan, because Quinn I like Quinn Ewers. I don't

2888
02:29:30,559 --> 02:29:32,239
hate him like a lot of Longhorn fans hate him

2889
02:29:32,280 --> 02:29:34,040
and think he should have been replaced all season long.

2890
02:29:34,440 --> 02:29:36,840
But to me, A certainly like a seven out of ten,

2891
02:29:37,520 --> 02:29:40,680
which means to me Sark either A was loyal to

2892
02:29:40,799 --> 02:29:45,000
Quinn Eewers or deferring to upper class and rewarding somebody

2893
02:29:45,040 --> 02:29:47,280
who came back to this program and helped him kind

2894
02:29:47,319 --> 02:29:50,280
of found the new era of Longhorn football. Or maybe

2895
02:29:50,399 --> 02:29:52,680
Arch wasn't ready. I don't know, And we'll see. We'll

2896
02:29:52,680 --> 02:29:55,559
see come fall. Of course, with the Longhorns, I think

2897
02:29:55,559 --> 02:29:58,559
they have a Aren't they going to Ohio State their

2898
02:29:58,600 --> 02:30:02,520
first game week? Yeah? We so can't we make He's

2899
02:30:02,520 --> 02:30:05,200
gonna the reigning national champions on the road for his

2900
02:30:05,319 --> 02:30:06,440
first real start.

2901
02:30:06,600 --> 02:30:08,920
Speaker 11: Well that's he started before. But they need to get

2902
02:30:09,000 --> 02:30:11,079
rid of these games because it doesn't help you at all.

2903
02:30:11,200 --> 02:30:12,959
They don't the committee doesn't come back at the end

2904
02:30:13,000 --> 02:30:14,719
of the year and go, well, we'll give you credit because.

2905
02:30:14,479 --> 02:30:16,399
Speaker 2: You went and lost on the road Ohio State. No,

2906
02:30:16,399 --> 02:30:19,000
they're gonna go you lost, Yeah, no credit. The long

2907
02:30:19,040 --> 02:30:20,840
Horns wouldn't have made the playoff last year if they

2908
02:30:20,879 --> 02:30:23,159
hadn't beaten Alabama on the road. True, So that's the

2909
02:30:23,319 --> 02:30:26,200
only one that it can come up in the conversation. Yeah,

2910
02:30:26,440 --> 02:30:28,840
but as long as you I think it can bolster,

2911
02:30:28,920 --> 02:30:30,200
you get a little bit of a litmus set. I

2912
02:30:30,200 --> 02:30:31,440
don't think they should do it week one. I think

2913
02:30:31,479 --> 02:30:32,959
you should be week two like it was this year

2914
02:30:33,000 --> 02:30:33,719
with Texas going on.

2915
02:30:34,079 --> 02:30:36,319
Speaker 11: Year Brian Kelly loses the opener every year. This year

2916
02:30:36,440 --> 02:30:38,520
uls she goes to Clemson in week one, I'm like,

2917
02:30:38,559 --> 02:30:39,760
stops casually.

2918
02:30:39,440 --> 02:30:41,559
Speaker 2: A stupid game. Can't they do it week two? So

2919
02:30:41,639 --> 02:30:44,799
why would they? Everybody should mutually mutually agree and not

2920
02:30:44,879 --> 02:30:46,520
do it week one. In a few years, we get

2921
02:30:46,639 --> 02:30:48,719
you of a shed at RG to open the season,

2922
02:30:48,799 --> 02:30:51,719
so that'll be a nice, be nice warm up purple

2923
02:30:51,760 --> 02:30:54,239
and gold. But no, I just I don't.

2924
02:30:54,600 --> 02:30:56,639
Speaker 11: Oh, and you know what the Ohio State fans are saying, already,

2925
02:30:56,959 --> 02:31:00,719
go beat Texas's ass twice in one year, because you know,

2926
02:31:02,479 --> 02:31:04,799
and but Michigan fans did the same thing to Alabama.

2927
02:31:04,799 --> 02:31:05,799
Speaker 2: They beat him in the bowl game.

2928
02:31:05,840 --> 02:31:08,319
Speaker 11: They said, oh, beat Baba twice in the same year,

2929
02:31:08,479 --> 02:31:10,319
because they beat him in January in the playoff, and

2930
02:31:10,360 --> 02:31:11,959
then they beat him in December of the bowl game.

2931
02:31:12,079 --> 02:31:16,840
Speaker 2: And they did they did SE supremacy. SEC supremacy is dead. Now,

2932
02:31:16,959 --> 02:31:20,520
that's stupid. As I just said, well, we got to

2933
02:31:20,600 --> 02:31:23,719
hold debate yesterday over Ohio State Big Ten Pride.

2934
02:31:23,760 --> 02:31:26,639
Speaker 11: I'm like, go, look at the crap bottom eight of

2935
02:31:26,719 --> 02:31:29,319
the Big Ten. All those teams suck. They all finished

2936
02:31:29,360 --> 02:31:32,559
sub five hundred in the conference. They're all got awful.

2937
02:31:32,639 --> 02:31:33,719
Big ten to two.

2938
02:31:33,799 --> 02:31:36,399
Speaker 2: Doesn't get to beat their chest over Bigtown. You told

2939
02:31:36,440 --> 02:31:38,200
me the SEC has a bunch of bad teams at

2940
02:31:38,200 --> 02:31:40,520
the bottom, because that's who Texas played. There was only

2941
02:31:40,639 --> 02:31:42,920
one bad team at the bottom. It was Mississippi State.

2942
02:31:43,280 --> 02:31:46,799
All right, we're gonna take care on. Yes they did,

2943
02:31:47,000 --> 02:31:50,440
and arch Manning took care of business against those Bulldogs.

2944
02:31:50,680 --> 02:31:52,639
All right, Time for a break here on the Matt

2945
02:31:52,680 --> 02:31:55,760
Thomas Show with Ross. Matt Thomas is out doing fancy

2946
02:31:55,799 --> 02:31:58,159
Matt things, getting on a jet with the Houston Rockets.

2947
02:31:58,360 --> 02:32:00,399
Chris Gordy is here. I'm here as well. Well, we're

2948
02:32:00,440 --> 02:32:04,440
talking college football NBA Rockets Texans this weekend as well.

2949
02:32:04,719 --> 02:32:06,799
Anything you want to get to seven one three two

2950
02:32:06,840 --> 02:32:09,680
one two five seven ninety is the phone number, seven

2951
02:32:09,719 --> 02:32:13,399
to one three two one two five seven ninety. Lunchtimers,

2952
02:32:13,639 --> 02:32:18,079
lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on

2953
02:32:18,280 --> 02:32:25,200
Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, will you stop telling

2954
02:32:25,280 --> 02:32:28,319
me players that are leaving Texas? We can move on

2955
02:32:29,719 --> 02:32:32,319
all break. Chris Gordy's just telling about all these Longhorns

2956
02:32:32,319 --> 02:32:34,879
who are leaving thirteen starters have already been close with

2957
02:32:34,920 --> 02:32:40,520
the draft. Long Horns thirteen. Well, you know, number one

2958
02:32:40,559 --> 02:32:43,559
recruiting class in the nation. Hopefully they can reload rather

2959
02:32:43,639 --> 02:32:44,239
than rebuilt.

2960
02:32:44,319 --> 02:32:47,120
Speaker 11: But I do these hits around all the time talking

2961
02:32:47,159 --> 02:32:49,479
to SEC football. One of the questions I always get

2962
02:32:49,479 --> 02:32:51,120
asked this time here they go, If you can only

2963
02:32:51,200 --> 02:32:53,239
go to one spring game, which would it be? You

2964
02:32:53,319 --> 02:32:55,719
know what Texas is moving on my list? Is that

2965
02:32:55,760 --> 02:32:57,120
gonna see what the hell they're gonna.

2966
02:32:56,959 --> 02:32:59,399
Speaker 2: Have on that text year. You gotta have a bunch

2967
02:32:59,440 --> 02:33:03,799
of five war star recruiting. But I got to see

2968
02:33:03,799 --> 02:33:06,280
who the hell's blocking for him, who's catching They got

2969
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:08,600
some transfer quarterback too. I can't even remember his name

2970
02:33:08,840 --> 02:33:11,920
who transferred in So yeah, it's why would you transfer

2971
02:33:12,040 --> 02:33:14,479
in behind Arch because he knew he was from some

2972
02:33:14,600 --> 02:33:19,000
crappy school I can't remember. Go look it up clipboard holders. Yeah,

2973
02:33:19,440 --> 02:33:21,879
this guy made me, got a little cash. Arts could

2974
02:33:21,920 --> 02:33:24,639
get hurt, he likes to run. Could happen. I'm not

2975
02:33:24,680 --> 02:33:26,600
saying I want him to get hurt or anything like that,

2976
02:33:26,680 --> 02:33:28,680
but anything can happen in a given season. Quinn yours

2977
02:33:28,680 --> 02:33:31,360
got to hurt multiple times in the last couple of years,

2978
02:33:32,600 --> 02:33:35,479
so we'll see what happens. I'm trying to find the

2979
02:33:35,520 --> 02:33:40,440
guy they transferred to Texas. I mean, this is wild Sarks.

2980
02:33:40,479 --> 02:33:44,000
Gotta get he's got to get in that portal he's

2981
02:33:44,040 --> 02:33:47,239
going to. They'll be fine. They've been ponying up the

2982
02:33:47,360 --> 02:33:50,559
nil money. Here we go. CJ.

2983
02:33:51,079 --> 02:33:51,520
Speaker 5: C J.

2984
02:33:52,040 --> 02:33:56,840
Speaker 2: Rodgers, whoever he is, just transferred into Texas. I'll tell

2985
02:33:56,840 --> 02:33:58,479
you that day I was at the I was at

2986
02:33:58,479 --> 02:34:00,840
the same Houston Christian I was at the stadium and

2987
02:34:00,920 --> 02:34:04,479
I was right outside the uh the entrance to the

2988
02:34:04,520 --> 02:34:09,760
athletic facility, and they were just like, what are those cars? Lambos? Yeah, lambo's.

2989
02:34:10,040 --> 02:34:10,239
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2990
02:34:10,239 --> 02:34:10,959
Speaker 2: The Lambs.

2991
02:34:11,639 --> 02:34:14,760
Speaker 11: Yeah it was, but no, they weren't like on display.

2992
02:34:14,799 --> 02:34:17,520
They were just parked there. There were players in there

2993
02:34:17,520 --> 02:34:18,000
working out.

2994
02:34:18,079 --> 02:34:19,680
Speaker 2: I think a lot of those get leased. They have

2995
02:34:19,760 --> 02:34:21,360
a deal with the they have an n IL deal

2996
02:34:21,440 --> 02:34:24,920
with the the lamberg the Lamborghini dealership. I think a

2997
02:34:25,000 --> 02:34:27,559
lot of that is least so free. So if Carson

2998
02:34:27,639 --> 02:34:31,200
Beck got a Lambeau at Georgia, what's he gonna get

2999
02:34:31,200 --> 02:34:34,840
at Miami. He's getting four million, four million to go,

3000
02:34:35,440 --> 02:34:37,319
that's what That's what he got a Georgia last year.

3001
02:34:37,440 --> 02:34:41,680
Isn't that money wasted? Carson Beck's not that good. He's fine.

3002
02:34:42,280 --> 02:34:44,559
Speaker 11: I mean, he's They were losing cam Ward and the

3003
02:34:44,680 --> 02:34:46,920
kid that was gonna be the Air Apparent. They started

3004
02:34:47,000 --> 02:34:48,319
him in the second half of the Pop Tar Bowl

3005
02:34:48,360 --> 02:34:52,000
and he sucked because remember cam Ward opted out. He's like,

3006
02:34:52,040 --> 02:34:55,319
I just wanted to hit that Secne and the kid

3007
02:34:55,399 --> 02:34:56,639
that they turned to was terrible.

3008
02:34:56,879 --> 02:34:58,680
Speaker 2: Just one half of football. You got to throw the

3009
02:34:58,719 --> 02:35:01,520
baby out with the bath water. I would trust the process, folks.

3010
02:35:01,719 --> 02:35:04,760
Carson Beck's good though, he's fine. He's not that good.

3011
02:35:04,799 --> 02:35:07,479
I'm not that impressed. I mean, it was the Longhorns defense.

3012
02:35:07,520 --> 02:35:12,479
It was kind of limiting his effectiveness. Great lost him twice.

3013
02:35:12,479 --> 02:35:15,479
They're gonna Happen're gonna lose to him. He got hurt

3014
02:35:15,479 --> 02:35:17,399
in that way. He got hurt in that second game.

3015
02:35:17,760 --> 02:35:19,319
Hen't even play in the second half. Yeah, if he

3016
02:35:19,360 --> 02:35:21,920
plays in the second half, it's Long Hard win by

3017
02:35:21,959 --> 02:35:24,760
twenty seven. By my calculations, Long Horns would have win

3018
02:35:24,840 --> 02:35:26,799
by twenty seven. It is weird though, that he's following

3019
02:35:26,879 --> 02:35:30,600
the girlfriend handed Cavender over to Uh yeah, is that

3020
02:35:30,639 --> 02:35:32,879
where the Cavender are the twins at the same spot

3021
02:35:32,959 --> 02:35:35,840
now these days that's happening. Well, I think so all right,

3022
02:35:35,879 --> 02:35:38,200
and they're terrible at basketball, correct, they're okay, And I

3023
02:35:38,239 --> 02:35:40,680
think they're out of eligibility. Now, wow, this is gonna

3024
02:35:40,680 --> 02:35:42,760
be it so trying to grow up. So she's hanging

3025
02:35:42,760 --> 02:35:46,239
around the fall when he's playing another year football. I mean,

3026
02:35:46,319 --> 02:35:48,000
that's that's what's so soon about this is he could

3027
02:35:48,040 --> 02:35:50,920
have literally went everywhere anywhere. He's got four million. Are

3028
02:35:50,959 --> 02:35:53,159
we gonna get to the point where like these quarterbacks

3029
02:35:53,159 --> 02:35:54,680
are going to make more in college than they do

3030
02:35:54,840 --> 02:35:56,120
they are going to in the NFL.

3031
02:35:56,840 --> 02:35:59,440
Speaker 11: No, that's been the joke, is that Carson Beck was

3032
02:35:59,479 --> 02:36:01,840
going to be at at best a Day two pick,

3033
02:36:02,360 --> 02:36:04,440
and they said some Scott's even had him as as

3034
02:36:04,479 --> 02:36:06,719
far down as a Day three pick. And if you're

3035
02:36:06,760 --> 02:36:09,000
falling that far, your signing bonus won't even be what

3036
02:36:09,040 --> 02:36:10,799
you're getting for one more year of college football.

3037
02:36:12,120 --> 02:36:15,719
Speaker 2: That's pretty crazy. And I mean the rumors Quinn you

3038
02:36:15,799 --> 02:36:18,239
were is possibly taking six million dollars. I still think

3039
02:36:18,440 --> 02:36:21,319
has he declared for the draft? Who quin? Yours?

3040
02:36:21,920 --> 02:36:21,959
Speaker 5: No?

3041
02:36:22,200 --> 02:36:23,719
Speaker 2: That's what's Funny's interesting one.

3042
02:36:23,959 --> 02:36:26,239
Speaker 11: I just tweeted this out about all the guys that

3043
02:36:26,360 --> 02:36:28,799
have declared, and I said, you know, Quinn still hasn't.

3044
02:36:29,680 --> 02:36:33,600
Speaker 2: But but either way, he's not back. He's not back

3045
02:36:33,639 --> 02:36:34,200
at Texas.

3046
02:36:34,319 --> 02:36:35,000
Speaker 3: The rumor was.

3047
02:36:35,120 --> 02:36:37,200
Speaker 11: Notre Dame had a six million dollar an IL deal

3048
02:36:37,280 --> 02:36:40,079
on the table for him, and that Oregon was interested

3049
02:36:40,120 --> 02:36:45,239
as well. But Notre Dame is gonna lose Riley Leonard's mill.

3050
02:36:45,479 --> 02:36:47,159
You can have them if they if they like the

3051
02:36:47,239 --> 02:36:51,440
national championship on Monday, the Notre Dame, Notre Dame, they get,

3052
02:36:51,440 --> 02:36:52,159
all that money.

3053
02:36:54,200 --> 02:36:56,520
Speaker 2: Is gonna go there. I think they can't put it

3054
02:36:56,600 --> 02:36:58,719
into a Yeah, it's not like they can put that

3055
02:36:58,760 --> 02:37:00,879
money that they get all by themselves in any kind

3056
02:37:00,879 --> 02:37:04,280
of pool or anything like that. I'm sticking with he's

3057
02:37:04,319 --> 02:37:08,760
going to go to the NFL. But if the returns

3058
02:37:08,799 --> 02:37:11,040
from I don't know. They still do that NFL committee

3059
02:37:11,120 --> 02:37:13,200
or whatever that talks to the college players and tells

3060
02:37:13,239 --> 02:37:15,799
them where where they think they would be drafted and

3061
02:37:15,840 --> 02:37:17,440
then they can decide whether or not they're going to

3062
02:37:17,479 --> 02:37:21,079
go back. Third round pick, fourth round pick. Well apparently

3063
02:37:21,159 --> 02:37:24,520
that's that's what happened. He declared. Yeah, he literally declared

3064
02:37:24,520 --> 02:37:26,760
for the draft a week ago, and they said they're

3065
02:37:26,760 --> 02:37:30,120
like good feedback he got, They're like, bro, hit the

3066
02:37:30,159 --> 02:37:30,719
portal sign.

3067
02:37:32,520 --> 02:37:34,760
Speaker 11: But that's what's crazy, is like if you're if you're

3068
02:37:34,799 --> 02:37:38,040
an average quarterback right now and you were teetering go

3069
02:37:38,200 --> 02:37:42,239
to the draft because it's it's shador, It's camp Ward,

3070
02:37:42,920 --> 02:37:43,760
Glen Milroe.

3071
02:37:44,719 --> 02:37:48,520
Speaker 2: Where are we in in five years with this nil stuff?

3072
02:37:48,840 --> 02:37:54,440
Because I think we have seen well, I mean, Carson

3073
02:37:54,479 --> 02:37:56,239
Beck's getting all that money at Miami. But remember there

3074
02:37:56,319 --> 02:37:58,280
was that guy that was having he was like a

3075
02:37:58,399 --> 02:38:00,360
gym owner or something like that, and he is giving

3076
02:38:00,440 --> 02:38:03,280
every single player three hundred thousand dollars to play for Miami.

3077
02:38:03,559 --> 02:38:05,680
He stopped doing that. He was like, this isn't worth

3078
02:38:05,719 --> 02:38:09,000
my money. The agim, Yeah, they do that number one recruiting.

3079
02:38:09,159 --> 02:38:11,239
There was an initial pop from the Aggies with that

3080
02:38:11,399 --> 02:38:13,559
nil money, and they spent all that oil money and

3081
02:38:13,559 --> 02:38:15,719
then they finished like eight and five and lost their

3082
02:38:15,760 --> 02:38:16,799
Bowl game. But here's what.

3083
02:38:16,920 --> 02:38:19,879
Speaker 11: Nobody wants to say about the reality of that. So

3084
02:38:20,200 --> 02:38:22,639
you get your collective and you raise your money. For

3085
02:38:22,760 --> 02:38:25,200
those kids, they raised the money and said we're going

3086
02:38:25,239 --> 02:38:28,399
to pay you a like one kid got a million

3087
02:38:28,440 --> 02:38:30,360
dollar an al deal. Well then when he signs on

3088
02:38:30,440 --> 02:38:32,319
the dot of lone, he realizes, oh, it's broken up.

3089
02:38:32,360 --> 02:38:35,200
It's two hundred and fifty k per year for four

3090
02:38:35,319 --> 02:38:38,200
years and it's a year to year thing. As long

3091
02:38:38,239 --> 02:38:40,799
as you stay here you will get that. So a

3092
02:38:40,840 --> 02:38:42,360
lot of those kids that signed a deal like that

3093
02:38:42,440 --> 02:38:43,639
to go to A and M part of their number

3094
02:38:43,680 --> 02:38:46,120
one recruiting class. When they left after that first year,

3095
02:38:46,559 --> 02:38:48,959
that money's not freed up to go to someone else

3096
02:38:49,399 --> 02:38:52,879
because he's not getting the remaining seven six casted.

3097
02:38:52,600 --> 02:38:54,879
Speaker 2: The two hundred and fifty thousand dollars player wasn't good

3098
02:38:55,040 --> 02:38:57,719
or or hit the transfer portal after.

3099
02:38:57,639 --> 02:39:00,600
Speaker 11: Or for Ohio State fourth quick. So I mean Quinn

3100
02:39:00,639 --> 02:39:04,319
came from there for a semester basically and didn't do anything.

3101
02:39:04,440 --> 02:39:08,120
Quinn drifted him hard. He's like, this is illegal in Texas,

3102
02:39:08,280 --> 02:39:10,920
but I can I can re what do they call

3103
02:39:10,959 --> 02:39:15,319
it redeclare or whatever for reclassify, reclassify, and I can

3104
02:39:15,399 --> 02:39:17,680
be a senior. I can go make three million or

3105
02:39:17,719 --> 02:39:20,799
whatever he's making at Ohio State for a year, then

3106
02:39:21,040 --> 02:39:25,319
just slyly trans hit the transfer.

3107
02:39:25,000 --> 02:39:26,680
Speaker 2: Portal, go back to Texas and be there.

3108
02:39:27,319 --> 02:39:27,559
Speaker 1: Wow.

3109
02:39:28,200 --> 02:39:30,200
Speaker 2: And he only played like one game I think with

3110
02:39:30,319 --> 02:39:33,280
Ohio State, didn't throw a pass. But it's just interesting

3111
02:39:33,360 --> 02:39:35,680
because you asked, where will this be? I do think

3112
02:39:35,719 --> 02:39:38,040
we're gonna get haven't talked to Greg Sanki and a

3113
02:39:38,079 --> 02:39:41,280
lot of the big power brokers. They are very much

3114
02:39:41,360 --> 02:39:45,760
pushing for legislation and Ted Cruz that's that's one of

3115
02:39:45,799 --> 02:39:47,399
the big things on his five yard line. Yeah, but

3116
02:39:47,440 --> 02:39:50,000
they do that in Texas and that's gonna hurt. I mean, well, no,

3117
02:39:50,079 --> 02:39:52,760
it won't just be Texas now pushing for national legency

3118
02:39:53,280 --> 02:39:55,239
like a salary cap. Well know what they're gonna well,

3119
02:39:55,399 --> 02:39:57,280
kind of a cap on what you can make. But

3120
02:39:57,639 --> 02:40:00,920
the real, the real key here is we're in this year.

3121
02:40:00,920 --> 02:40:04,280
Speaker 11: Into revenue sharing, where the schools now have budgets that

3122
02:40:04,399 --> 02:40:07,600
they can pay for athletes. Now, not just football, that's

3123
02:40:07,680 --> 02:40:10,639
all athletes. So if you got a really good basketball program,

3124
02:40:10,799 --> 02:40:13,000
they're taking a cut of that. That can't all be spent.

3125
02:40:13,239 --> 02:40:15,440
Money can't all be spent on football. But I think

3126
02:40:15,479 --> 02:40:17,399
they're going to try to regulate now. Is they want

3127
02:40:17,440 --> 02:40:20,559
to get away from the collectives because the collectives just

3128
02:40:20,680 --> 02:40:23,600
are unlimited money, you know, like the power broker guy

3129
02:40:23,600 --> 02:40:26,239
at Michigan just comes along and goes, yeah, we'll pay

3130
02:40:26,280 --> 02:40:27,520
ten million dollars for this recruit.

3131
02:40:28,120 --> 02:40:30,479
Speaker 2: They want to get away from that. Ted Cruz would

3132
02:40:30,479 --> 02:40:33,319
support a free market economy. Why is the government getting

3133
02:40:33,319 --> 02:40:34,680
involved with government oversight on this?

3134
02:40:35,079 --> 02:40:37,239
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's just that you have like the

3135
02:40:37,360 --> 02:40:39,360
CEO of or whole can just come up at any

3136
02:40:39,399 --> 02:40:40,600
time and write a check for a kid.

3137
02:40:40,799 --> 02:40:44,040
Speaker 2: Well, so what's good for the kid. It's good for

3138
02:40:44,040 --> 02:40:45,760
the kid, it's not good for the sport or the

3139
02:40:45,840 --> 02:40:46,319
other school.

3140
02:40:46,360 --> 02:40:46,639
Speaker 4: Why not.

3141
02:40:48,440 --> 02:40:50,840
Speaker 2: Ohio State? Ohio State didn't win a championship in like

3142
02:40:50,959 --> 02:40:53,079
fifteen years they won one. Michigan had won one since

3143
02:40:53,159 --> 02:40:56,079
ninety seven. You're getting new teams involved, so the SEC

3144
02:40:56,159 --> 02:40:59,799
doesn't have a stranglehold on everything now, Well, still the best.

3145
02:41:00,360 --> 02:41:02,760
The twelve team playoff, though, is gonna hurt them more

3146
02:41:02,799 --> 02:41:04,959
than help them. I believe, Well, you get more teams

3147
02:41:05,000 --> 02:41:09,879
in Tennessee, more teams, more opportunities to lose in early rounds. Yeah, well,

3148
02:41:10,040 --> 02:41:12,239
may get to buy win the championship. They got to

3149
02:41:12,280 --> 02:41:14,600
get rid of these automatic and as ours.

3150
02:41:14,719 --> 02:41:17,399
Speaker 11: As our host of Lockdown Sooners told us last night,

3151
02:41:17,920 --> 02:41:20,520
we really were relying on the long Horns for the

3152
02:41:20,559 --> 02:41:21,360
sake of the conference.

3153
02:41:21,399 --> 02:41:22,760
Speaker 2: I could have told you how that was gonna go.

3154
02:41:22,879 --> 02:41:25,159
Oh whatever, Yeah, no one to hear it from sooner

3155
02:41:25,239 --> 02:41:27,799
can Look, it's been a long time since the long

3156
02:41:27,840 --> 02:41:30,000
Horns have won a championship. Has been even longer for

3157
02:41:30,079 --> 02:41:32,799
the Sooners. Yeah, which Longhorn Network was still around, that

3158
02:41:32,840 --> 02:41:36,920
could keep replaying that Vince Young Championship the twentyth anniversary

3159
02:41:37,159 --> 02:41:40,120
of the on it next year, baby, that's a long

3160
02:41:40,200 --> 02:41:43,520
time twenty six baby, at least all of you. We

3161
02:41:43,600 --> 02:41:46,959
got the Joe Burrow Championship. So what you've been to

3162
02:41:47,000 --> 02:41:49,200
the final four the bat the past two years. Programs

3163
02:41:49,239 --> 02:41:54,120
are a good spot. Now we celebrate now final four operating. Yeah,

3164
02:41:54,120 --> 02:41:56,399
I'm saying the programs. You're going to tell me that's

3165
02:41:56,479 --> 02:41:58,959
it's a failure and the programs were terrible. They lost

3166
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:01,360
to a better Ohio State. They should have beat Washington,

3167
02:42:01,399 --> 02:42:03,040
but I think they would have lost to Michigan next year.

3168
02:42:03,079 --> 02:42:06,959
In anyway, they're gonna have to break through here eventually, Sarks. So, yeah,

3169
02:42:07,000 --> 02:42:09,079
but it'd been Michigan is one of the heritage programs

3170
02:42:09,120 --> 02:42:11,559
of college football. They had not won since nineteen ninety seven.

3171
02:42:12,319 --> 02:42:14,639
Ohio State also same thing. They had wins the last

3172
02:42:14,680 --> 02:42:16,479
time they won one, So five six years ago or

3173
02:42:16,520 --> 02:42:19,639
whatever it was. Cardill Jones, Cardell Jones, was that even

3174
02:42:19,719 --> 02:42:23,479
ten years ago? My god, fourteen, I think, yeah, So

3175
02:42:23,559 --> 02:42:26,000
it takes a long time. It happened there there we

3176
02:42:26,079 --> 02:42:28,680
can go through the list of there's there's twenty programs

3177
02:42:28,719 --> 02:42:30,360
who thinks they should be winning every year. This is

3178
02:42:30,479 --> 02:42:33,959
not realistic. Aggie's having one since the freaking Hitler was

3179
02:42:34,000 --> 02:42:36,920
invading Poland, and they try to fancy themselves as some

3180
02:42:37,000 --> 02:42:39,920
kind of Tier one. I remember, like, yeah, I know,

3181
02:42:41,079 --> 02:42:45,079
I was eating raccoon guts for dinner and a gallon

3182
02:42:45,159 --> 02:42:47,840
of gas with my model t Ford cost twelve cents,

3183
02:42:48,120 --> 02:42:51,239
and then I read the newspaper Extra Extra Edla has

3184
02:42:51,319 --> 02:42:52,719
invaded Potland, oh.

3185
02:42:52,639 --> 02:42:56,479
Speaker 11: My gosh, he had a different bathrooms for different races,

3186
02:42:56,559 --> 02:42:57,319
I believe at the time.

3187
02:42:57,760 --> 02:42:59,680
Speaker 2: Right, we don't have to bring that up. I'm just

3188
02:42:59,799 --> 02:43:02,680
that that's how long it's been. On that note, We're

3189
02:43:02,680 --> 02:43:05,079
going to take a break here on The Matt Thomas

3190
02:43:05,159 --> 02:43:09,680
Show with Ross and historian Chris Gordy, History major. He's

3191
02:43:09,719 --> 02:43:11,920
going to tell you more about the Jim Crow era

3192
02:43:12,040 --> 02:43:14,440
of Texas when we come back here on The Matt

3193
02:43:14,520 --> 02:43:18,040
Thomas Show with Ross. Hey, it's Jeff Blum. Oh have

3194
02:43:18,280 --> 02:43:21,959
we waited for blaming burn fact? Not only am I

3195
02:43:22,040 --> 02:43:24,879
a former player, I was also Junction Jag for a

3196
02:43:24,920 --> 02:43:28,440
few years until Matt Thomas stole my gig. The Matt

3197
02:43:28,479 --> 02:43:30,840
Thomas way of doing it. That dude looks way better

3198
02:43:30,879 --> 02:43:34,799
in Bunny Ears. Deal with it. Yep, all facts, all right,

3199
02:43:34,920 --> 02:43:44,159
Junction Matt take it away. Well, Matt's not here, He's

3200
02:43:44,200 --> 02:43:50,159
not taking anything away. Speaking of Jeff Blum, sources close

3201
02:43:50,319 --> 02:43:52,559
to the station are telling me that he will be

3202
02:43:52,719 --> 02:43:57,079
coming up co hosting with Adam mc clanton, So you

3203
02:43:57,120 --> 02:43:59,319
want to make sure you stay tuned for that.

3204
02:43:59,520 --> 02:44:00,520
Speaker 4: It will be the.

3205
02:44:02,159 --> 02:44:05,879
Speaker 2: AG team instead of the A team, as Adam Wexer

3206
02:44:06,040 --> 02:44:08,680
is outs Chandler Room was in yesterday. I also filled

3207
02:44:08,719 --> 02:44:11,799
in for an hour as well. Jeff Blum gonna be

3208
02:44:11,879 --> 02:44:14,000
on with Adam Clinton coming up at two o'clock here

3209
02:44:14,079 --> 02:44:16,639
on a Sports Talk seven ninety, so make sure you

3210
02:44:16,760 --> 02:44:19,440
stay tuned for that. Just a little bit of time

3211
02:44:19,520 --> 02:44:21,360
in the show left. We're not doing believe it or not,

3212
02:44:21,520 --> 02:44:24,559
with Matt Thomas out. He is hopping on the jet

3213
02:44:24,680 --> 02:44:29,040
with the Houston Rockets. They won last night, and I mean, okay,

3214
02:44:29,200 --> 02:44:32,760
it's not the biggest game in the history of NBA basketball,

3215
02:44:32,920 --> 02:44:36,040
but as far as a mid January game against a

3216
02:44:36,239 --> 02:44:39,959
very good opponent in the Memphis Grizzlies, who had John Moran,

3217
02:44:40,079 --> 02:44:42,440
who had Jaron Jackson Junior, and a lot of their

3218
02:44:42,479 --> 02:44:47,000
pieces that they play with. Chat Holmgren Cheholk was on Thunder.

3219
02:44:47,040 --> 02:44:49,799
Sorry I'm getting my Grizzlies and my Thunder mixed up,

3220
02:44:49,840 --> 02:44:55,440
But a lot of really good play lately from the

3221
02:44:55,479 --> 02:44:58,760
Houston Rockets taking care of the Memphis Grizzlies, sweeping them

3222
02:44:58,840 --> 02:45:01,200
three to zero. On the season, They've got the tie breaker,

3223
02:45:01,520 --> 02:45:04,959
they've got two games up on them for the number

3224
02:45:04,959 --> 02:45:07,120
two seed. I mean, can you believe we're even talking

3225
02:45:07,159 --> 02:45:10,239
about that right now? Where the Rockets are. We are

3226
02:45:10,440 --> 02:45:16,079
into January fourteenth, we are thirty eight games into the season,

3227
02:45:16,879 --> 02:45:19,520
and they're two games up from the three seed in

3228
02:45:19,600 --> 02:45:23,719
the NBA's Western Conference. It feels good. Yeah, the only

3229
02:45:23,799 --> 02:45:24,479
thing that sucks.

3230
02:45:24,639 --> 02:45:26,360
Speaker 11: I was talking to somebody about this this morning because

3231
02:45:26,360 --> 02:45:28,079
they were like, I'm trying to get into it. I'm

3232
02:45:28,120 --> 02:45:29,399
trying to come around on the Rockets.

3233
02:45:29,760 --> 02:45:32,520
Speaker 2: What what sucks? Last night was fun?

3234
02:45:32,920 --> 02:45:33,440
Speaker 4: No, it was.

3235
02:45:33,840 --> 02:45:36,000
Speaker 2: But I have a friend who didn't even know they played.

3236
02:45:36,399 --> 02:45:38,719
Speaker 11: He's like, oh, they played last night, So it's like

3237
02:45:38,920 --> 02:45:42,920
it's still not the diehards of the Diers. Yeah, but

3238
02:45:43,120 --> 02:45:46,760
for the casuals still haven't come around yet.

3239
02:45:46,799 --> 02:45:49,120
Speaker 2: Well, the Houston casuals take a while to come around,

3240
02:45:49,280 --> 02:45:49,440
ye know.

3241
02:45:49,920 --> 02:45:54,520
Speaker 11: But here's his argument. In twenty twelve, Hardin got here.

3242
02:45:55,159 --> 02:45:58,040
They instantly became a playoff contender. But he was the

3243
02:45:58,159 --> 02:46:01,159
face of the franchise. He was the are you tuned

3244
02:46:01,159 --> 02:46:03,120
in every night to see what James Harden was gonna do?

3245
02:46:03,360 --> 02:46:05,879
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of hated him though they were a

3246
02:46:05,959 --> 02:46:09,520
great team. He makes a great coach, but you don't

3247
02:46:09,559 --> 02:46:11,639
have who's that one guy? I got to tune in

3248
02:46:11,719 --> 02:46:14,520
and see who's what He's doing nice. They wanted to

3249
02:46:14,600 --> 02:46:17,079
kind of be Jalen Green. They wanted to be Jayalen Green.

3250
02:46:17,120 --> 02:46:19,479
He didn't have forty two last awesome last night. Half

3251
02:46:19,520 --> 02:46:21,680
the fan base hated James Harden anyways, even when the

3252
02:46:21,760 --> 02:46:25,040
Rockets were real good down the ruck to calls buddy.

3253
02:46:25,280 --> 02:46:27,799
Not year one, Yeah, maybe not in year one when

3254
02:46:27,840 --> 02:46:29,280
he was the prob. What do he score like forty

3255
02:46:29,319 --> 02:46:31,200
against the Pistons in his very first game in a

3256
02:46:31,239 --> 02:46:34,159
Rocket uniform or something like that. So yeah, it was

3257
02:46:34,239 --> 02:46:36,559
off to a knife start, and then people got soured

3258
02:46:36,600 --> 02:46:38,559
and then they hated James Harden and they wanted her

3259
02:46:38,719 --> 02:46:41,760
to get ship him off every single time and said

3260
02:46:41,760 --> 02:46:43,799
they could never win with he and coach Mike D'Antoni.

3261
02:46:44,239 --> 02:46:44,719
They could have.

3262
02:46:44,959 --> 02:46:47,680
Speaker 11: Winning cures all So if they keep winning that they

3263
02:46:47,760 --> 02:46:50,520
will get the attention and all that. But it is

3264
02:46:50,680 --> 02:46:52,920
kind of tough though, because again, like who is the guy?

3265
02:46:53,600 --> 02:46:54,920
Boston kind of had that when they.

3266
02:46:54,920 --> 02:46:58,639
Speaker 2: Started that run and then very quickly Jayleen or Jason

3267
02:46:58,680 --> 02:47:03,239
Tatum and Jamers as the guy. The product is good,

3268
02:47:03,319 --> 02:47:06,280
the team is good, the crowds have been better. I feel. Look,

3269
02:47:06,719 --> 02:47:09,399
I've been doing a lot of these postgame shows monologuing

3270
02:47:09,559 --> 02:47:12,399
for years. We got a lot more calls on these

3271
02:47:12,479 --> 02:47:15,319
postgame shows, and that's not that's just one data point.

3272
02:47:15,360 --> 02:47:19,399
It's not necessarily a hugely indicative of interest level being up.

3273
02:47:19,479 --> 02:47:21,319
But I do feel like more people are talking about

3274
02:47:21,319 --> 02:47:23,959
the Rockets. The crowds have been better, they've been there earlier,

3275
02:47:24,000 --> 02:47:27,040
They've been more energetic. I guess maybe the corporate partners

3276
02:47:27,040 --> 02:47:30,200
are actually taking their tickets and going to games or

3277
02:47:30,239 --> 02:47:32,799
rather than just staying in Happy hour and be like whatever,

3278
02:47:32,879 --> 02:47:34,840
we're not going to go to the game. So it's

3279
02:47:34,840 --> 02:47:38,520
gonna take time. We're thirty eight games into this of

3280
02:47:39,879 --> 02:47:42,840
hopefully a revolution of really good Rockets basketball. But I

3281
02:47:42,840 --> 02:47:46,280
would say I have certainly seen an uptiken interest for me,

3282
02:47:46,399 --> 02:47:47,079
at least.

3283
02:47:46,879 --> 02:47:51,000
Speaker 11: For the definitely, I'm just saying like, stop everything you're

3284
02:47:51,000 --> 02:47:53,719
doing and go watch the Rockets tonight. It's we haven't

3285
02:47:53,799 --> 02:47:56,479
gotten there yet for the casuals, but no.

3286
02:47:57,200 --> 02:47:59,159
Speaker 2: I don't think no the city of You're gonna have

3287
02:47:59,200 --> 02:48:02,840
to literally start getting into championship contention. So where they

3288
02:48:02,879 --> 02:48:05,600
are right now, into phase two of the rebuild is

3289
02:48:05,639 --> 02:48:07,520
what we've been calling it. They're still in a really

3290
02:48:07,559 --> 02:48:10,600
good spot. So I'm happy with where the team is there.

3291
02:48:10,600 --> 02:48:13,360
They're number two in the freaking West. Yeah, no, it's wild.

3292
02:48:13,959 --> 02:48:17,200
It's it's wild. Actually, if you haven't paid attention, you

3293
02:48:17,479 --> 02:48:21,120
absolutely need to. And Uh, as I mentioned, I always

3294
02:48:21,120 --> 02:48:23,200
look at things like point different They're third in the

3295
02:48:23,280 --> 02:48:28,239
West in point differential. They are I think fifth in basketball,

3296
02:48:28,399 --> 02:48:29,520
So we'll see what goes there.

3297
02:48:30,079 --> 02:48:30,159
Speaker 3: Uh.

3298
02:48:30,360 --> 02:48:32,520
Speaker 2: Net rating is something I always look to because because

3299
02:48:32,600 --> 02:48:35,239
like I said, I been saying the Lakers are frauds.

3300
02:48:35,319 --> 02:48:37,799
They have a negative point differential and they've been losing games.

3301
02:48:37,840 --> 02:48:39,920
They lost three in a row. I think they're going

3302
02:48:40,000 --> 02:48:41,879
to continue to tumble down the standings. They're going to

3303
02:48:41,959 --> 02:48:45,719
finish like ninth or tenth in the West. So the

3304
02:48:45,879 --> 02:48:48,200
Rockets buy those types of metrics and net raiding and

3305
02:48:48,200 --> 02:48:51,079
stuff like that. They're six best in basketball. This is real,

3306
02:48:51,360 --> 02:48:54,360
Like this is actually happening. The defense is so good.

3307
02:48:54,479 --> 02:48:56,920
And if Jalen Green can continue to come along like

3308
02:48:57,040 --> 02:49:00,600
he has over the last six games. And we've said

3309
02:49:00,639 --> 02:49:03,360
this before with Jalen Green, but that that's who would

3310
02:49:03,360 --> 02:49:05,959
be the face of the franchise as of right now.

3311
02:49:06,040 --> 02:49:08,159
I'm still I'm sticking with my gut feeling that I

3312
02:49:08,200 --> 02:49:09,840
had a week ago that amn Thompson is going to

3313
02:49:09,920 --> 02:49:14,879
have the best career of these young players. But amn

3314
02:49:14,959 --> 02:49:18,040
Thompson doesn't have the ceiling of what Jalen Green does

3315
02:49:18,159 --> 02:49:22,520
have as far as being like a do everything thirty

3316
02:49:22,639 --> 02:49:26,040
point per game wing player, and that's what he's been lately.

3317
02:49:26,360 --> 02:49:28,440
But of course, again we saw it in March last year.

3318
02:49:29,200 --> 02:49:32,040
It needs to be more consistent. Last six games, thirty

3319
02:49:32,079 --> 02:49:35,040
points per game, fifty one percent from the field, forty

3320
02:49:35,159 --> 02:49:37,559
five percent from three, which is not going to hang.

3321
02:49:37,600 --> 02:49:39,879
Speaker 11: So if I Kenny Ross and I said, we're there's

3322
02:49:39,920 --> 02:49:42,920
a marketing group has reached out to us and they

3323
02:49:42,959 --> 02:49:44,600
want to put up a sports Talk seven to ninety

3324
02:49:44,600 --> 02:49:47,280
billboard of fifty nine and I don't know whatever right

3325
02:49:47,319 --> 02:49:49,719
near downtown. Yes, And they said we can put one

3326
02:49:49,920 --> 02:49:51,760
Rockets player face on the billboard.

3327
02:49:51,760 --> 02:49:55,280
Speaker 2: Who you put auprinching gun putting shing gun? Yeah, so

3328
02:49:55,399 --> 02:49:58,239
he's the face of the franch I guess right now,

3329
02:49:58,760 --> 02:50:02,079
I'm putting game a dooka. Isn't that funny? Though? Like,

3330
02:50:02,120 --> 02:50:07,120
who's Steven Adams? He's quite handsome. Don't care about handsome?

3331
02:50:07,159 --> 02:50:11,799
Were Reid Shepherd? Who's most recognizable? Who I would say,

3332
02:50:12,000 --> 02:50:14,920
I would say with the Turkish appeal out. If you

3333
02:50:15,200 --> 02:50:17,239
walked around the street and you ask people to name

3334
02:50:17,319 --> 02:50:20,040
one Houston Rocket, it would be either Jalen Green or

3335
02:50:20,079 --> 02:50:22,600
outbrnching Good. I don't think do you think people know

3336
02:50:22,760 --> 02:50:26,399
Shingoon's name? No, do you think people I'm not saying

3337
02:50:26,399 --> 02:50:28,479
he's a household dame. I'm saying, what answer would you

3338
02:50:28,520 --> 02:50:31,399
get the most. Jalen Green's not a household name, but

3339
02:50:31,440 --> 02:50:33,840
it's either him or Outpernching Goon. I would say maybe

3340
02:50:33,879 --> 02:50:35,879
even Steven Adams, but I don't I don't think people

3341
02:50:36,000 --> 02:50:40,360
know that he necessarily they don't know he's a rocket,

3342
02:50:40,559 --> 02:50:43,840
right right, So I would say probably Outbreaching Goon if

3343
02:50:43,879 --> 02:50:47,200
you had to, if you really made me answer that question. Yeah, well,

3344
02:50:47,280 --> 02:50:49,040
we're not doing a man on the street in Turkey.

3345
02:50:49,200 --> 02:50:50,840
He's trying to he's trying to make the he's trying

3346
02:50:50,840 --> 02:50:52,879
to make the All Star team. That'll go a long way.

3347
02:50:54,040 --> 02:50:56,040
If Jalen Green keeps playing like this, he'll be in

3348
02:50:56,159 --> 02:50:58,959
consideration for an All Star team. But of course, how

3349
02:50:59,040 --> 02:51:01,600
many times have we said and said if Jalen Green

3350
02:51:01,680 --> 02:51:04,360
can keep this up, and then it doesn't keep up. Yeah,

3351
02:51:04,719 --> 02:51:07,120
happened first five games of the season, first five games

3352
02:51:07,120 --> 02:51:09,360
of the seasons, like, oh my god, is this really

3353
02:51:09,440 --> 02:51:13,840
what's gonna happen? But we'll see thirty points over a

3354
02:51:13,840 --> 02:51:16,760
six game stretch? Is it nothing he can continue? Maybe

3355
02:51:16,799 --> 02:51:19,559
he started it. Look he started it right at January first.

3356
02:51:19,719 --> 02:51:21,479
He's trying to win Player of the Month in January.

3357
02:51:21,559 --> 02:51:24,799
That's what's happening. Whateer. If he's got a contract bonus

3358
02:51:24,840 --> 02:51:27,600
for that, what does he get? And I think long term,

3359
02:51:27,719 --> 02:51:32,639
just because Jalen Green, how do I put this nicely?

3360
02:51:33,760 --> 02:51:37,840
He's not the most charismatic person on the planet. I

3361
02:51:38,000 --> 02:51:40,040
like Jalen Green, and he's nice, but he's kind of good,

3362
02:51:40,360 --> 02:51:45,040
just soft spoken and not loud and or boisterous. And

3363
02:51:46,040 --> 02:51:48,000
if you're looking for someone to develop into a star,

3364
02:51:48,600 --> 02:51:50,879
I think you might have to look elsewhere. Yeah, that's

3365
02:51:50,879 --> 02:51:52,799
the thing. I like it. It was a marketable star.

3366
02:51:53,000 --> 02:51:56,280
Lebron came out well polished, Kobe was was, you know,

3367
02:51:56,559 --> 02:51:59,799
always talkative. Shaq was kind of a quiet, but he

3368
02:52:00,120 --> 02:52:03,920
spoke his mind. Well. Doha was America's pitchman. Now, yeah,

3369
02:52:04,159 --> 02:52:08,680
he's on with the General and foot Powder and oh

3370
02:52:08,719 --> 02:52:11,879
he's on the cruises now I don't remember what cruise line.

3371
02:52:11,879 --> 02:52:15,559
It is how did how did two of America's pitchmen

3372
02:52:15,680 --> 02:52:19,440
the biggest pitchmen in America are Snoop Dog and Shack

3373
02:52:21,040 --> 02:52:23,360
When did that happen? I don't know. I mean, I'm

3374
02:52:23,399 --> 02:52:26,120
not mad at him. It's pretty crazy. That's where we

3375
02:52:26,200 --> 02:52:29,280
are right now. So the face of the Houston Rockets

3376
02:52:29,319 --> 02:52:31,719
franchise ask me in one year? Yeah, Face of the

3377
02:52:31,799 --> 02:52:34,680
Texans and then Thompson's charismatic, he's funny. Well, you know,

3378
02:52:34,760 --> 02:52:36,520
we got a lot of views on that, that YouTube

3379
02:52:36,559 --> 02:52:37,479
interview that we did with him.

3380
02:52:37,520 --> 02:52:40,079
Speaker 11: Got a while to go though, But Face of the Texans,

3381
02:52:40,120 --> 02:52:44,280
c J Face of the Astros L two, Face of

3382
02:52:44,319 --> 02:52:44,920
the Rockets.

3383
02:52:46,760 --> 02:52:49,639
Speaker 2: Okay, get a time, bro D're in the second year

3384
02:52:49,719 --> 02:52:52,319
that he made donk Era, all right, give them a

3385
02:52:52,360 --> 02:52:53,159
little bit of time.

3386
02:52:53,319 --> 02:52:55,079
Speaker 11: I just knew for years this was too much. It

3387
02:52:55,200 --> 02:52:58,120
was the beard must be feared. Yeah, Okay, who just

3388
02:52:58,120 --> 02:53:00,520
say is the voice of uh Space City Home Network?

3389
02:53:00,559 --> 02:53:01,520
I might go Jeff Blum.

3390
02:53:02,079 --> 02:53:05,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Julia Morales, okay, and then Todd Kallis,

3391
02:53:06,319 --> 02:53:10,879
then Calvin Murphy, good, then Craig Ackerman. You know it's

3392
02:53:11,000 --> 02:53:16,719
right down with Blumber fifth geez, yeah, boy, Bogus seven.

3393
02:53:16,879 --> 02:53:22,079
He's rush but Mike Stanton seven. Wow. All right, well,

3394
02:53:22,120 --> 02:53:24,440
the voice of Space City Home Network. He's going to

3395
02:53:24,520 --> 02:53:26,120
be on his own home network because he's on the

3396
02:53:26,200 --> 02:53:30,200
A team. It is Jeff Blum featuring Adam Clanton. Coming

3397
02:53:30,280 --> 02:53:32,959
up two to six here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Gordy,

3398
02:53:33,040 --> 02:53:34,440
thanks for hanging out for an hour. I know you're

3399
02:53:34,520 --> 02:53:36,319
very busy these days. Yeah, let's see how many other

3400
02:53:36,440 --> 02:53:39,440
Longhorns declared before the right. That's the thirteen is enough?

3401
02:53:39,879 --> 02:53:42,319
Quinn yours the fact that he hasn't declared, Maybe tell

3402
02:53:42,360 --> 02:53:47,120
you a little something Alabama Latest Rumblings. Full breakdown of

3403
02:53:47,239 --> 02:53:49,760
quinn Yours landing spot from Jeff Blum. Coming up next

3404
02:53:49,799 --> 02:53:51,959
here two to six on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks

3405
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:54,040
to Matt Thomas. Thanks to all of you for listening, calling,

3406
02:53:54,120 --> 02:53:56,840
Thanks to Conde McGovern. I'll talk to you folks tomorrow

3407
02:53:57,000 --> 02:53:58,799
on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross at ten am