Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten O one.
Speaker 2: In age toown What's happening Houston. Hello, and welcome in the.
Speaker 3: To a Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross momentarily without Matt Thomas, eventually with Chris Gordy, and
I believe eventually with Matt.
Speaker 4: Thomas here on a Sports Talk seven ninety. I know
you're as confused as I am. So if you heard
the show yesterday and you heard the Rockets broadcast yesterday,
unfortunately Matthew Thomas came down with a little bit of
the laryngitis. He doesn't really feel bad, he just doesn't
sound great. So he's got a sore throat. He's got
to be on for the hours of this show plus
the broadcast for the Houston Rockets, so it's a lot
of wear and tear on the throat for full throw Thomas.
So he is going to take a little bit of
time off today. Chris Gordy will be joining at some point,
but he has a meeting right now. And then it's
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Speaker 2: So we do still have some stuff going on.
Speaker 4: Day two of David Montgomery is a Houston, Texan fallout
with the trades being made yesterday, Titus Howard out, you
have David Montgomery in, we can talk about that. You
have some NBA stuff to get to World Baseball Classic.
Is anybody really getting ramped up for that?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not super excited about it.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm curious to see how it goes, and
I'll try to put some World Baseball Classic on, but
not sure how much I'm gonna be watching that. And then,
of course you have the Rockets continuing to be in action.
They played last night against the Washington Wizards, and I
know it's not gonna be a hot buzzing topic for
the city of Houston a Rockets win over the Washington
Wizards won twenty three to one eighteen last night. But
I think there's a couple of interesting things that came
out of the game last night. Most importantly, Reed Shepherd
starting playing forty two minutes and having a really good game.
He had nineteen points to assist, only turned the ball
over a couple of times. He had six steals and
two blocks. Now, one thing that's important when you're following basketball,
and those of you who've been watching basketball for years
you know this. Just because you went out there and
got six steals doesn't mean you were playing lockdown defense
the entire game. But it is important that Reed Shepherd
contributes on that end of the floor because that's been
as big as negative. We had Ima Adoka on the
show last week, and we have him every single week
here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross thanks to
the Coach, And one of the things we asked him
was what is it going to take for Reed Shepperd
to be more enclosing lineups? And the first word that
came out of his mouth was defense. Because if you
watch both ends of the floor, which I know it's
not sexy to watch defense and watch rotations and watch
pick and roll coverages. If you're watching the Houston Rockets,
Ree Shepperd gets attacked a lot, and he was getting
attacked last night as well, and they go after him
with bigger guys, they go after him with faster guys.
He has some limitations on that end of the floor.
He needs to continue to grow and get better, which
he has. But last night six deals for Reed Shepherd
and a couple of blocks. That's great, that's what you want.
You want him to contribute. He's not going to be
Amn Thompson out there. He's not going to be Tarry
Easton out there. There's a reason why those guys are
starting for email Dooke defensive minded head coach and Ree
Shepperd was also only in the starting lineup because Jabari
Smith Junior continues to be out with an ankle injury.
He is expected back for the Rockets on Thursday, but
now we'll see what happens with him. Thompson he turned
his ankle at the end of the game yesterday and
Reacheperd played really well. He had his first tennis sist
game in his career. He had nineteen points. He was
four or eleven shooting. Since the All Star Break, he
has been shooting over forty five percent from three, which
is I mean, that's that's an extremely dangerous weapon and
much needed by this Rockets offense. So I know a
lott of you've been read Shepherd truthers and wanting them
to be in the starting lineup and wanting him to
be out there as much as possible, and I know
you've been frustrated by him not being in some of
the closing lineups. But that was a great game from
Reed Shepherd last night, and it was good to see
Alprin shingun also leading the way with thirty two points.
As for whatever reason, the Washington Wizard I can't remember
the name of their coach, it doesn't matter. Their coach
was like, man, we're not going to double Apprin Shingoon
at any point, and then Alprin Shingunen said, Okay, I'm
gonna get thirty two points on you in twenty shots,
which he did. He also had thirteen rebounds, a couple
of assists. Did turn the ball over eight times, and
Kevin Durant turned the ball over six times. The Rockets
were playing a good team last night. They would have lost.
They only won by five. They turned the ball over
twenty one times. They give up thirty nine points off
of those twenty one turnovers, and they also gave up
fifty four percent shooting from three, So thankfully, the Washington
Wizards are terrible, and it was like ballaw Coolie Bally
going off for three against the Rockets, because if they
were an actual good team that could play some actual defense,
Rockets would have easily lost that game. But they turned
the ball over too much and lackadaisical defense too much
in the first and fourth quarters where they were giving
up wide open looks for three and the Washington Wizards
were obliging and making them. Rockets next in action against
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Speaker 2: So you want to talk some Rockets, we can do that.
Speaker 4: Of course, I mentioned it's day two of fallout for
the David Montgomery trade, and I'm still trying to figure
out exactly how to feel about this, because there's a
couple of ways that we can go. David Montgomery, as
we know, is going to be twenty nine years old
when the season starts, and he is a running back. Lately,
in this day and age, when you were twenty nine
years old and you're a running back. You're washed. That's
just how it goes. You're not very effective and you're
usually have too much tread on the tire to be
very good. But there are counter arguments to that. David
Montgomery in the last two years has been okay, we'll
just call it knuckles to the sonic of Jamiir Gibbs.
That means he's been the backup. That means he's been
under two hundred carries the last couple of years. That
means he should have less tread in US tire and
he's a veteran guy. But also on the flip side,
David Montgomery's not a one to a running back. David
Montgomery is not going to be striking fear into opposing
defensive coordinators.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna be like, all right, guys, we.
Speaker 4: Got the Texans this week, David Montgomery, what do we do.
Let's batten down the hatches, let's figure out a game plan. No,
David Montgomery, he's not gonna be just a guy. But
he's also not going to be some crazy dynamic element
that you have to figure out a defense for and
that the oh no, they're gonna run the ball twenty
times with David Montgomery. We got to figure out a
game plan. No, not necessarily. So he's gonna be good.
He's gonna be with the Texans need with CJ.
Speaker 2: Shroud.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be a guy who's gonna keep them on
schedule on first down, and he's gonna be a good
red zone running back because that was a big problem
with the Texans offense basically the entire season. And really
it feels like almost there in their entire history. When
has the Texans offense been great in the red zone
or you say, oh my goodness, I can't get enough
of this red zone offense from the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2: Probably never.
Speaker 4: So he does shore up a need, a big need
for this team to where everything fell apart for CJ.
Speaker 2: Shroud at the.
Speaker 4: End of last year, there was you had Nico Collins
heard at the end Alton Schultz got hurt by the
end of that playoff game as well, and so you
had very limited pass catchers, you had no offensive line,
and you had no run game.
Speaker 2: Other than that, everything was great for first CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud as far as this situation around him, if you
want him to succeed, if you want him to be
your franchise quarterback. If you want him to be the guy,
then you have to figure out a way to put
a better situation around him and see what you got.
Because I could almost guarantee you that CJ. Stroud would
go somewhere else where he's in a right situation and
he would thrive. We can mention the names that we
continue to mention. Sam Donald just won the Super Bowl.
Sam Donald was supposed to be not good enough for
the Panthers, and even Kevin O'Connell was sick of him
by the end of his tenure with the Vikings, and
they shipp him and said, now we're good with JJ McCarthy.
But you get him an offensive line, you get him
a run game, you get him the best receiver in
the game, you get him a good play caller, and
of course a great defense and their Super Bowl champions.
So you can win with c J. Stroud. You have
to have the right situation around him. David Montgomery not
the perfect plan, but I think it helps. And a
good pair with Woody Marks as that they're down back.
You're not asking Woody Marks to be everything. You can
put him in certain looks. It's gonna be one a
David Montgomery. It's gonna be one beat Woody Marx and
I think that's a good running back tandem. Will they
still try to add somebody in the draft. Maybe free
agency feels unlikely with David Montgomery making the nine million dollars,
so we'll see what happens there. The bottom line is
the Texans got better. They gave up a fourth round
pick and that's a lot. Also a seventh round pick,
two scrugs. Who cares even if he's built from granted,
like Tom Pelosaro says, but at the end of the day,
your running game got better, even though it would have
been nice to swing for the fences for Kenneth Walker
or any one of the other free agent running backs
that are gonna be available coming up soon here. So
da Montgomery a Houston Texan Day two? How we feeling
initial shock you gave.
Speaker 2: Up too much?
Speaker 4: Not excited about David Montgomery or feeling good about the
running back situation for your Houston Texans. As I mentioned,
of course, Reed Shepherd shining in a starring role for
the Houston Rockets. We can talk about that also, anything
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Speaker 4: He is perferve, he is preserving the golden pipes as
he's been having a little bit of laryngitis.
Speaker 2: Voice has been sore.
Speaker 4: Of course, he had to do the Rockets game last
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Mark for correcting me via Instagram, where you can find
me at Sports RV. I guess I said tred. He's
gonna have tred off the tire. It's more tred on
the tire for David Montgomery. So that's good. Last two years,
one hundred and eighty five carries, h fifty eight carries.
He's not a great receiving back. You're not asking him
to do a whole lot there, so uh, you're hoping
there's more tread on the tire than there would be
if he were a number one, number one and twenty
nine years old. So, on its face, trading a fourth
rounder for a twenty nine year old running back got
David Johnson vibes, but maybe you say he hasn't been
used as much the last couple of years, so it's
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Speaker 2: You would like.
Speaker 4: Robert in Cyprus has been holding along as here on
the phones. Robert, go ahead, The floor is yours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just had a question about.
Speaker 5: Do you think we're gonna keep Jack Andrews as a
center or just keep him as a maybe draft the
center he can work with that center to bring him
up like the left tackle that we got at the
rookie or and also that right guard. We're gonna keep
that right guard with currenty half or giving him and
just draft.
Speaker 2: Him another guard?
Speaker 5: Ed Ingram you're talking about, yeah, Ingram, Yeah, we're gonna
keep him because he's gonna want more money. I presume, uh,
we could find a good guard I would think in
the draft, but Sue he has he has to be trained,
I think, like virtually and also, uh, what would be
the you got to clean the whole line up and
he got draft the whole line he got. Yeah, that
Oregon Oregon left left guard man, that guy's Dyning Mike Man.
Speaker 6: I really love that guy.
Speaker 5: Uh from Oregon and then Auburn center. But anyway, I'll
go to disconnect man and uh see what you guys
think on what should we do for this because there's
a lot of gaps now since we got rid of
Titus Howard and you know Shrug wasn't the starter. But
so anyway, yeah, I'll take back and listen to say.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Robert, I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean you're
trading away offensive lineman. You've had one of the worst
offensive lines in football in the last two years. You
trained a your best offensive lineman, which Laramie Tonsel was,
and then he was a top ten tackle in football
last year according to some metrics that you look at,
and then this year Titus Howard.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was your best. Your best
offensive lineman was probably at Ingram overall, but Titus Howard
was your most consistent in terms of like someone you
could plug and play anywhere.
Speaker 4: He played right tackle, left guard, right guard. I don't
think he played any left tackle. That was probably Cam
Robinson early in the season when they were flipping arianti
ursery everywhere. But Titus Howard had been a big part.
He's a good offensive lineman. He was gonna want more money,
which he did get with the Cleveland Browns and get
traded away basically making twenty million dollars a year. Titus
Howard's not a twenty million dollars a year lineman. He's good,
but I just don't think he's that good. So the
Texans felt like they could get some value. They got
a fifth round pick, traded him away, and you got
a little bit of cap savings somewhere around three four million,
not a whole lot. So I understand from the business
of football in a vacuum, if I just say they
traded away a lineman to have some cap space, the
linemen wanted more money, They're not gonna be able to
pay him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be like, all right, you know what, I
get it.
Speaker 4: But Titus Howard is an important piece of this line
last year, and you can ill afford to lose linemen.
Speaker 2: So that hurts, And.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got you gotta figure something out. You got
a lot of question marks. I hope this means that
Ed Ingram is basically locked in. I guess, and they
have a number and they're gonna figure something out and
get and get him done and have him be a
Houston Texan or they're close. Because if you lose ed
Ingram and he gets signed away too, I don't know,
You're you're gonna be searching for a lot of answers.
I'd have to go through the whole list of I
know there are some interior alignment that are some of
the top free agents in football, but you're also not
having a whole lot of cap space. You're gonna need
to still continue to do some further restructuring of some
guy's contracts in order to open up some cap space
and sign guys. And then when you draft, that sounds
great in theory two, and a lot of people are
saying that, yeah, I just draft draft a bunch of
offensive linemen. What's Nickissarrio's track record drafting offensive lineman?
Speaker 2: It's not good.
Speaker 4: You just traded away Drew Scruggs. Kenyon Green was a
flat out as big as a bus as you can
have on the interior line. Taken in the top twenty.
Arianti Urser. He didn't like the world on fire last year,
and who else Jarrett Patterson at Blake Fisher. I mean,
it's a lot of question marks with the offensive line.
I think Jake Andrews needs to answer the first question
from Robert. Jake Andrews needs replacing. He's not good. He's
just a guy. He gets pushed around the interior and
I mean he basically starts two yards into the backfield
every single play.
Speaker 2: It's not good.
Speaker 4: And Texans haven't had great center play since basically like
Chris Myers was here.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but that's just the way that
it's been.
Speaker 4: So I would like to see ed Ingram, like Trent
Brown Arianta Ersery is going to continue to develop. How
much are you buying in on a possible resurgence of
Blake Fisher. He was better last year, but he was
normally out there as a third tackle in a jumbo
running package. And and you're not asking him to do
a whole lot. It's not like he's on islands taking
on Miles Garrett. You know, he's more of a help guy.
Speaker 2: He's out there to block and get downfield and hit
some linebackers in a jumbo run game. So yeah, he
did good in that role.
Speaker 4: But what happens when you bring him up to to
a better role, to a starter's role, Maybe they feel
confident that he can be he can be better in
year three. Wouldn't be the first time ever that it
took a third year for an offensive lineman to develop
and be effective. So I don't know how much of
a plan Blake Fisher is. How much growth are they
actually put putting into the potential of growth for Arianta Ersery?
How much stock are they putting into that growth? I
don't know, because I liked Arianta Ursery, but it's not
like he was some lockdown guy and he's got to
get better. So you need to draft guys, you need
to sign guys, You need to do something. You need
to reconfigure because your best pieces keep going away although
an already bad offensive line. So I don't know exactly
what's gonna happen, but certainly it needs to be addressed,
and I am waiting with baited breath. They have to
have some kind of plan. Nick Casario, for all his faults,
he's not stupid. He knows they need an offensive line.
He knows they need a better situation with CJ. Shroud,
and that starts up front. He's been trying to address it,
as I said, where people are like, hey, well wait now,
why doesn't he care about the offensive line?
Speaker 2: Are you drafted all those players that I mentioned he signed,
He did, sign ed Ingram and Laken Tomlinson and Cam
Robinson and Trent Brown, And just get some bodies and
throw a bunch of guys up against the wall and
then a couple of guys will stick, which happened with
Trent Brown and Ed Ingram last year. So if you
can do that approach, get some bodies into camp, sign
some guy, maybe get one frontline guy to sign, one
or two guys to draft and figure it out and
improve and get better.
Speaker 4: That's the way it's got to go. Because you're just
in a bad cap situation. You can't pay a bunch
of people. Will Anderson's gonna be due money. Danil Hunter
is making big money. You paid Jalen Petrie, you paid
Derek Stingley, Kamari Lassiter is gonna need to get paid.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud will see what happens. But you just got a
bad cap situation with a bunch of dead money, and
you got holes. That's why the NFL is the greatest
league in major American sports. You have the hard cap
and you gotta figure it out. You get a piece,
you drafted Will Anderson and you smash, You hit a smash.
You don't get to keep him forever unless you want
to pay him big, and then CJ. Shroud will see
what happens. You gotta figure stuff out as it goes
with the salary cap, and sometimes you gotta take the
hits and you gotta let guys go, and you just
can't be strong everywhere. They're just not super teams, not
for a long time.
Speaker 2: Anyways.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, Eagles had the best roster
in football. They had to pay everybody, and they weren't
as good in this last year because they well, they
had some injuries on the offensive line and other stuff too.
Speaker 2: But that's just how it goes. That's the nature of football.
Speaker 4: Windows are short, and that's where the window is right
now with the Houston Texans, and that's what hurts, and
that's what we needn think about. The window with this
defense was super Bowl caliber. The offense not so much so.
If you can just balance it out a little bit more,
get an offensive line going, get a good run game,
and oh, by the way, get CJ. Stroud playing better
and maybe you can make some hay in the playoffs
rather than just being a national punchline and a joke
to where when anything happens with anybody in sports, they
become mean to CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 4: Right now, the Texans are a laughing stock nationally and
that needs to improve, and it needs to improve fast.
And it does start with the offensive line, especially now
that you have David mcgomery in the fold, and the
run game should be better, all right. Seven one three
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Speaker 4: We're talking Texans there, if you want to get in
on that mentioned the Rockets with the win over the
Washington Wizards with Reed Sheppard playing well on.
Speaker 2: Both ends of the floor.
Speaker 4: Of course, we have the Houston Astros continuing to be
an action yard on Alvarez in his first spring training
action yesterday as the Astros tied the Washington Nationals three
to three. Anything you guys want to get to you
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Speaker 2: He is resting a full throat. Thomas is resting his voice,
so he'll be joining us, I believe at noon, as
he did get in late last night traveling with the
Houston Rockets.
Speaker 4: They got the win over the Washington Wizards. Well, the
Astros were playing the Washington Nationals and Chris Gordy is
here hanging out. Cordy, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: That thing got a little hairy, eh.
Speaker 4: At the end, it wasn't really that close. I mean,
they just started making a bunch of threes. The Rockets
were never in danger. They never seeded the lead at
the end. But if you had the Washington Wizards plus
the fifteen and a half, you were happy with the
way that game closed out.
Speaker 7: As a Tree Young who has not played a game
yet for the Wizards, yes, ejected.
Speaker 4: He got ejected. Tarry Easton got a couple of technical fouls.
Stop me if you've heard that before. Yeah, there was
a bit of a dust up in the second half
of that one. But all's well, that ends well, Rockets
were able to win. And what happened last night, I
know the Denver Nuggets were locking horns.
Speaker 2: With uh yeah the Jazz. Oh, the Nuggets came back
and won that game. That's a shame.
Speaker 4: Look, it's gonna be the Spurs in the two seed,
Rockets hopefully in that three seed, and then we'll see
what happens in the playoffs. Rockets and Spurs seem like
they're on a collision course for a second round series
with the winner going on to play the Oklahoma City
Thunder in the Western Finals.
Speaker 2: That's just the way it's kind of shaping up at
this point. That's what it feels like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's uh and it's gonna be undressed.
I heard Clinton talking yesterday. He's like dead said, I
want the lak I want the Rockets in the three seed.
I want the Lakers in the sixth seat. I'm like,
you know, it's not gonna stay that way though. This
thing's gonna it's gonna be ebbs and flows. Lakers could falter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the way it sets up now is pretty good,
three six Lakers and then two three would be the Spurs,
and then you'd go and try to slay the dragon
that is the Thunder to make it to the finals.
That'd be a pretty sweet playoff run.
Speaker 7: I am not emotionally ready for a second round playoff
series against the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 2: Well, I have something uncomfortable to say. I guess that's
better than getting the Thunder. The Spurs would be favored
in that series. Sure, I mean, I'm just saying. I
know we're in Houston, we hate the Spurs, and Whimby's
the worst and all that stuff, But the Spurs would
be rightfully favored in that study.
Speaker 7: If you were unaware of who the biggest Wembin Yama
hater in the world is, it's Adam Clinton nine I know,
but he would go on rage.
Speaker 4: Fits if if that's serious, stuff will get broken in
the Clinton household if Wimby drops like forty in a
playoff game. But well, we'll cross those bridges when we
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you don't have a regular everyday show. I guess I'm
curious your perspective on the whole David Montgomery thing. We
were talking in the last segment about, I'm your initial
reaction because there's always a pop. It was a surprising
story when it first came out. David Montgomery is a
Houston Texan? What is going on here? Your head spinning
a little bit. You're trying to get your ground, you
get your footing on how to feel about this and
all the angles.
Speaker 2: Where were you when you first heard it?
Speaker 4: Where are are you as we come now a day
later with the David Montgomery as a Houston Texan trade?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I kind of there was all the
talk of remember they were trying to get was that
two years ago they were trying to get Saquon Barkley
and they were this close to getting him, and then
you know they end up with Joe Mixon. That whole thing,
you know, was great the first year, and then it
all kind of went downhill with the injury and all that.
Then they really shot themselves in the foot. Yeah, the
Nick Chubb thing was ridiculous. You know, I never got
excited for that ads. But you know, there was all
this buzz this offseason, but they're going to try to
make a run at one of these big name guys
like Kenneth Walker or whoever.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I don't think Walker's leaving Seattle
like that's he just won a super Bowl there. Why
in the world would you leave there? I think they
they'd be dumb to let him go. But but it
was just.
Speaker 7: Kind of you know, there were all these big names
getting thrown out there and then okay, they trade for
David Montgomery.
Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know my thought.
Speaker 7: I've always thought of him, and I know he was
really good his first couple of years in Chicago, but
I just I've always thought of him as a two,
as a complimentary to like Jamiir Gibbs was the first
round pick, Like I thought, you know, he's he's a
nice too. And so when you had Woody Marks kind
of emerged last year, most people that kind of consensus was, yeah,
it's nice back, but he's kind of more of a two.
So I look at as you've got two two's now again,
the numbers don't lie. I mean, it's you know, twenty
twenty three it's a thousand yard rusher in Detroit. Now,
we'll say caveat here. Always talking about guys stats and stuff.
We're talking about seventeen game seasons, but he only played
fourteen games that year, so that's that's really strong. And
double digit touchdowns his first year. Two years in Detroit.
You know, numbers came down a little bit last year.
Seven hundred rushing yards, eight rushing touchdowns, but still a
very good back. I mean, but I back it up
to go. Okay, but if you don't fix these the
offensive line ross, if that doesn't dramatically improve, it doesn't
marry it better. If Barry Sanders is back there, like
you've got to do those things up front.
Speaker 2: But again, like as far as adding.
Speaker 7: Him, it's it's fine, Like I'm not I'm not down
on I think it's good, but I'm not ready to
say the combination of what he marks and uh, Dave
Montgomery Texans are going to lead the league at rushing.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah.
Speaker 4: I think another angle of this too is that he
is coming from a situation where he was the one
and he was still only averaging like four and a
half years. I'm not I want to say only four
and a half yards carry is decent. It's good, it's
not terrible, but it's also he was in a situation
with a better offensive line. Now, the Lion's offensive line
isn't what it was the last couple of years, but
you still got Pine Suel, you still got some good
players on that line to where they they were much
better than say what the Houston Texans were here. So
whatever the situation is going to be with David Montgomery,
he's still gonna need at at the age of twenty nine,
basically when the season is going to start, he's going
to have to have a pretty pretty good offensive line
in front of him. Yeah, he'll he'll turn twenty nine
in June seventh. So you're talking about you just gave
up a fourth round pick for a twenty nine year
old running back.
Speaker 7: By the way, his uh four and a half yards
per Carrie would rank him twenty second.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, well, I mean that's top thirty, top thirty.
You're considering he's he's sharing. Yeah, but you gave up
a fourth round pick for him and he's twenty nine.
I would like a little bit more. I'll tell you this.
David Montgomery averaged war yards per carry than Breis Hall. Okay,
that's good.
Speaker 4: Travis ATM or Sean White, yes, uh, he probably had
better offensive lines than all of them. Saquon Barkley only
average four point had a big time leipa took a
big time leap back higher than camp Scatibo. Okay, yeah,
well Camp's cataboy is not good.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He's good. Okay, he's got Jacobs.
Speaker 4: The yards per carry you just mentioned what was camp
Scattabo's for one, Okay, I thought it was actually less
than that. He scored a lot of touchdowns and then
he ripped his ankle on half and and they're looking
for other options.
Speaker 2: McCaffrey average three point nine yards to carry this year.
Oh you know, he wasn't very good either running, so
but he got got a volume. I mean he's top
top twenty five in yards per carry. But it's uh again,
it's it's hard to put a ton of stock into
the numbers. Because Jamiir Gibbs was a what number seventh
in rushing yards this year, I mean he was.
Speaker 4: Awesome Jamier Gibbs, Yeah, he was. So he's working with
a softened up defense. I don't know, it's fine. David
Montgomery's gonna be fine. You just get you give me
five yards on first down rather than negative two, which
is what Nick Chubb and what he marks were doing
every single time.
Speaker 2: Like the question is did you upgrade the backfield? Yes,
yes you did.
Speaker 7: But again it unless this old line drastically improves. I
don't you know, does it matter when he gets When
he gets the ball as soon as it touches his
hands and he's got a defender already in his face,
what can he do?
Speaker 2: Who's the Texans best offensive lineman at this moment? Uh
urse three? Coming off a rookie season. All right, it
is wid you need. You need to tackle two guards
in a center as much.
Speaker 7: As we want a poop poo on Bill O'Brien and all.
At the end of the day, I think the Tunsil
trade was actually a good one. I know they gave
up a trade for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they got it, and they gave an over
sticker price they did. Was it two first rounders?
Speaker 7: With the fact for several years there you didn't have
to worry about it. He was your lockdown.
Speaker 2: You could set and forget.
Speaker 4: There's there's something to be said about setting and forgetting absolutely, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's got.
Speaker 7: Like I think the whole narrative going into this offseason was, Yeah,
Jake Andrews was decent at center, but we could definitely
upgrade there. Jared Patterson was what part of the twenty
three draft class we're going into twenty twenty six, Like,
he's fine, you could certainly upgrade there. Ed Ingram was awesome,
but he's a free agent now, and by the way,
I've heard a ton of teams won in on him exactly.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe this Howard trade makes me think maybe they're they're
gonna be fine on the Ingram front, and they know
something we don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you got it.
Speaker 4: I would say, like, sign two guys, draft two guys,
and then at least I'm talking about guys that you're
planning on hopefully being in the rotation, rather than.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I almost think like you have to like because
Pencil and Patterson Andrews, I think they're starting.
Speaker 4: For you, because Yeah, Ingram wasn't on anybody's radar last year,
and he was very good. Trent Brown wasn't on anybody's
radar last year, and he was pretty good as well.
So I mean you you can hopefully find somebody who
can contribute.
Speaker 2: And then I have.
Speaker 4: The crazy idea, what if Nick Cassario hits on an
offensive line draft pick.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be cool? It's possible. I feel like it's possible. Well,
Blake Fisher was a second round pick from two years ago.
Like he needs to got a little bit better, but
that like, the reality is he has to be playing
for you, Like you can't keep missing on all these
old linemen. Uh number fifty seven has reported as eligible.
That's him. He's the extra tight end, the extra tackle
in the jumbo run package. That's fine in that role. Yeah,
you gotta man. All right, it's got it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna take a break here on to the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. Matt is sitting out for a
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I believe at noon. I need some confirmation on that.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've I've realized over the years that I've never
pushed the Twitter account like you and Matt did, and
you should. I've kind of been stuck on seven grand
for a while.
Speaker 4: Let's get let's get give them. You're gonna have to
break some news or something like that. Yeah, and I
could probably do that. It just doesn't you know, you
don't want to burn bridges. Well, it's I just I
don't like.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: I've done that a couple of times and have gotten
very nervous when I put it out there because it's
like I've gotten something from somebody. I'm like, you know,
I'm gonna run with this, Like, uh, what was it?
The the Trinidad Champbells thing a few weeks ago? They
were in the middle of the trial, and I heard
from a pretty credible sources said, dude, so dude, this
is done, done deal. They are granted Trinidad the extra year.
So I tweeted it out m M and I got
a couple of tweets from people this isn't done yet.
This isn't good for I'm like, all right, well put
myself out there, and of course it happened, but that's good.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be wrong.
Speaker 7: Did you see what uh of college sports? Did you
see what Matt Norlander tweeted out yesterday?
Speaker 4: I did not see what Matt nor Lander tweeed out
yesterday from CBS. I said, we're getting full Mark Stoop's talk.
Speaker 7: Well from CBS Sports, Matt Norlander, this is pretty big.
Speaker 2: You know what month we're in right, We're in March.
Woman's March mattness. Okay uh, he sent out news.
Speaker 7: The NCAA sent out a memo last week to all
schools to give them notice to a potential major logistical
issue later this month airline travel for both NCAA basketball
tournaments starting on Selection Sundays. According to the NCAA, nationwide,
significantly fewer charter aircrafts are available due to several factors
outside of the NCAA's control. The logistical challenge of moving
almost all participating teams for both tournaments within a twelve
to seventy two hour window beginning Selection Sunday night is
compounded by one the busy spring break travel season that
happens every here, to the national shortage of charter aircraft nationwide.
I don't know why we have a national shortage on
charter flights. And three the potential TSA impact of the
partial government shut down. While the NCAA is short, there's
a partial government shutdown, they're they're in a they're in
a temporary one that will like we'll go into another
one likely later this month. Anyway, while the NCAA is
shured all participating teams they will get to where they
need to go safely. The NCA also advised all teams
that extreme flexibility will be necessary. Basically, they're telling you,
and this is where somebody told me that the selection committee,
they're sending a message to them basically, Hey, any chance
you can keep this more regional, that would be great.
Like in other words, don't send Kentucky to Oregon, like,
you know, try to keep teams closer to home base
as well as you could, because we might have to
throw them on buses if we can't get them on planes.
So so it's okay, it's just it's an interesting thing,
he said again. It was an ncaa big memo to
all division one tis about updated protocols and warnings over
potential flight issues.
Speaker 2: But I don't know why we're having a shortage of
charter flights. What's going on with the charters. Let's go
Taylor swift buying them all up, or what them on
a delta flight? I mean, put them fly commercial.
Speaker 4: I guess you're gonna have to make extra special flights
or they I figure they got to figure something out, right,
I don't know.
Speaker 7: This is kind of crazy, it's just kind of it's
it's just interesting but but think of how often they
do that. They're like, Miami is in the San Diego region, Like,
why are you sitting Miami ally out to the west coast?
Keep them somewhat closer to home.
Speaker 4: So the NCAA pays for private aircraft for all NCAA
tournament games for teams more than four miles away from
their first weekend sights.
Speaker 2: I just like that they said, how much.
Speaker 4: Money are they making in this tournament? They're paying for
aircraft for every team.
Speaker 7: All and then somebody responded, yeah, and we want to
expand this to ninety sixteams.
Speaker 2: Money. It's all about the money, get more money.
Speaker 7: Still, like the first four is the dumbest thing. It's like, hey,
you kind of made the tournament. You have a chance
to play yourself into the sixty four field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess Vcu and Shaka Smart and the
boys back in the day made it out of a
top final four out of there.
Speaker 2: Those first four last year.
Speaker 7: I think they were all like buzzer beaters over time,
Like they were all.
Speaker 2: Very good and they get they get ratings and they
get revenue. So that that's why they do it, and
that's why they're gonna want to expand it even more.
But those first games are on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 9: Think of that.
Speaker 7: Like selection Sunday happens what at like five o'clock on
us on Sunday, you better fly out. I mean you've
got to have your bags packed and ready to go.
Speaker 4: You know when they go to like the schools and
they're all like cheering, they'll show up grabbing their bags.
You show them going to the getting on the bus. Yeah,
that's what it's gonna have to happen.
Speaker 2: Guys. We've got a bus to Spokane. We'll be there
in three days. Jonathan probably had to do that at
Western Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't even get me started. Do you guys get
on buses or what? Where's the furthest you went on
a bus?
Speaker 2: We went.
Speaker 10: We went from Bowling Green, Kentucky, down to Oxford, Mississippi,
and then uh, then we went to South South Carolina.
Where where's the USC? Uh Bawling Green, Columbia, Columbia. Yeah
it's Columbia. That was like a ten hour drive, dude,
scenic scenic ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the apples.
Speaker 2: You can't feel figure legs your chargers can't work. At
least you're not on the track team. No, I need
to feel your legs. When I was in school, they
had the the old buses with the TVs and they
would pop in an old VHS tape. Did they do that? Still?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: You get?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like watching Carl Sagan's New Universe from nineteen eighty
you got you might get some local news that just buffers.
Speaker 2: Did I go?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Guys? Got a VHS copy of Rudya? There we go? Yeah,
they inspire the guys.
Speaker 9: I like that.
Speaker 2: Who's yours?
Speaker 4: And when it ends, we're just gonna watch it again?
Oh man, Well, the NCAA will figure out. I guess, yeah,
I just it's it's just an interesting I guess that
makes sense that there's like a swell of charter planes
during the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: I believe. Isn't Houston's one of the sites? Right? Yes,
so hey.
Speaker 7: Don't give me no crap about sending you of h
halfway across the country to be fine, better be right
here in Houston.
Speaker 4: Tell me I'll figure something out. Matt'll cut the check.
I figure out, They'll they'll figure something out. All right,
We're gonna take a quick top of the hour break
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action last night against the Washington Wizard. We've been talking
about that. Of course, the Texans and their trade with
David Montgomery.
Speaker 2: How many pieces to the offensive line will they add
in this offseason?
Speaker 4: We can talk about that. And of course your Houston
Ashtros yesterday in action? Is it true today? So I
was looking at ESPN on the schedule, mister Gordy, they're
playing up Venezuela.
Speaker 7: That is correct. It is a game, that is uh.
I guess they could serve exhibition games. Okay, they're not
really on the MLB website. What side is jose Al
Tuve playing on? I believe they said a couple of
days ago he wasn't gonna play.
Speaker 2: He was he's he's upstaining. Yeah, he was like that,
this is too close to Caucaside. Now it's funny. You
got some other games. Panama is playing the Yankees today,
The Netherlands will play the Orioles. Columbia will play the Pirates.
How about this one? Columbia Canada will play the Blue Jays.
Speaker 7: I really need George Springer to show up in his
team USA Hockey jersey again. That'd be funny because he
did that apparently pissed off a lot of Canadian Yeah fans,
so they can shove it.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? Not cheer? For George Springer.
I also know he's representing in his country where. Well,
have you ever been to Toronto or seen it?
Speaker 4: I've seen it on map. It's very like like Northeastern
it's basically America. Like the border like juts down a
little bit around Toronto. I'm like, that's basically north in America.
Speaker 2: If you go east here in America, it's upstate New York,
it's Toronto.
Speaker 7: Okay, So Canadians back off, but that will be an
interesting one to see.
Speaker 2: Cuba will play the Royals, Italy will play the Cubs.
But your Astros isn't Israel playing the Mets a? Yeah? Probably? Okay.
Speaker 4: Puerto Rico will play the White the Red Sox. Where's
that Puerto Rico? Oh, Puerto Rico versus the White Sox.
Where's al Cora native?
Speaker 2: I think he's Puerto Rican? Puerto Rican?
Speaker 7: Yeah there, so they must have tried to make some
connections with whichever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, perhaps, I don't know. So the Astros are playing
Venezuela today. That should be I mean, that's gonna be
a thriller. Yesterday they played the Washington Nationals. It was
a three to three game. First action for Jordan Alvarez.
He went zero for three with a couple of strikeouts.
Jose al tuve one for three with a strikeout.
Speaker 2: And the first one was a dinky single. But does
other bats ross?
Speaker 7: He kept coming up with men on base, he did
make good contact, one of them like lined out. But
it's like, I mean, I've seen some people on Twitter
like overreacting.
Speaker 2: Like Korea over Walker over.
Speaker 7: But did you see what he also did when he
got on base. I think somebody I think Jordan hit
one to the track. It was an out and Jose,
I guess, thought it was gonna be gone, so he
went just past second and they got him out at first.
Speaker 2: So everybody jumped on season four. Yes he is let's
go baby. I like that.
Speaker 7: But I will say ross, how many how many weeks
are we into spring training so far?
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks. The Astros are one in, one,
six and three.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you he's like a soccer line
cared to guess where they rank in batting average in
the Grapefruit League, No, just overall in all Major League,
all of Major League Baseball, twenty ninth thirtieth dead last?
Is that good? Dead last? Let me give you some
of the bad batting averages this spring. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Tampa Bay raysor batting two twenty eight. They're twenty sixth.
The Saint Louis Carls are bad. Cardinals are batting two
twenty six. They're twenty seventh. The Miami Marlins are batting
two twenty As a team, they are twenty eighth. The
Washington Nationals right twenty ninth, patting one ninety and your
Houston Astros ross on the spring training season are batting
one seventy four as a team. Now that includes all
these guys like Jack's Biggers.
Speaker 2: Getting in the eighth inning. Hey, don't coming up with
base hits. Don't hate on Jack's Biggers.
Speaker 7: I shudder to wonder what that average would be if
they didn't have the scrubs all getting hits.
Speaker 2: Late in games. I mean, this team would be back
in like one hundred.
Speaker 4: Don't you think if you were watching a baseball movie
and they're like, eh, here comes Jacks Biggers, You're like
that they should have came up with a better name.
Speaker 2: That sounds too made up. I mean they are below
the Mendoza line. Ross what and at one seventy four
they're gonna have to go on a heater to get
above the Mendoza. It's fine. You don't have to worry
about the Mendoza line. It's just spring training. It's okay. Yeah,
I guess you can tell yourself. Okay.
Speaker 4: So look, well, Carlos Kray is gonna be fine damage control,
Jordan Alvarez is gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Josel Tuve.
Speaker 4: The fact of the matter is he has declined for
two straight years in terms of his ops. He was
still like seven to seventy one last year.
Speaker 2: That's decent. You would take that if he if he
could give you that this year.
Speaker 4: Then we start to get concerned with the guys like
the Cam Smith, the Jake Myers of the world says,
our Salazar is never gonna hit.
Speaker 2: So, I mean that is what it is. It's okay.
Where you're how much How concerned are you about the lineup.
I'm pretty concerned.
Speaker 7: Look, where are what ten games in the spring training? Yes,
this team, the Astros is a team. If hit four
home runs, they have come from they have come from
Esac Paratus, great Taylor Tremmel okay, and Jack Winkler and
Anthony Huezo Lo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like do you do you remember what the Yankees
did in their first spring trading game. No, it doesn't matter,
twenty two run with their torpedo bats. That was like,
it's fine. They told Aaron Judge would like had like
three hits and they wayeh, go sit down, Aaron, You're good.
Like they were just absolutely erupting. And again I'm not.
This isn't like a one or two game sample size.
Now we are almost two weeks into this thing.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm pulling up this. I'm pulling up the
stats from last year. Let's spring training batting. Yeah, let's see. Okay,
Jake Myers hitting nine thirty five ops. I remember that
Cooper Hummel was good.
Speaker 2: These are the best, the best astros in spring training
last year, the Colorado Rockies have nineteen home runs in
spring hit four s five. You have four, Saysar sal Look.
Speaker 4: Saesar Salazar had an ops of eleven hundred last year
in spring chaining. Ooh, your best hitters were Cam Smith,
Jeremy Penia, Zack Dezenzo.
Speaker 2: Jake Myers. Actually guys that were actually good during the season. Okay,
maybe I should be concerned. Oh my gosh, you're number
two in strikeouts.
Speaker 9: Too.
Speaker 7: You've you've struck out one hundred and twelve times in
spring training. One hundred and twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Dude, God, so it canna be fine.
Speaker 4: Look, this is this is not gonna be one of
the best lineups in baseball. Now, that's never gonna happen.
Now here's the thing. They leave all of spring training
and walk See with seventy one? Yeah, what's the on base?
Where base? They've been walking everything on base? They are
walking in.
Speaker 2: Like they're talking and they're ready to go. Baby, they're
twentieth and on base because you're not gonna get doing
anything else that's good. That only way that's better than
thirtieth and uh in average. They are also number one
is stolen bases at twenty one. So they walk and
then they steal a base. Three guys strikeout, strike outs. Runs.
They can't score run manufacturing. They're setting their table setting.
They're gonna be fivest dead lasted run scored. Its fine
in spring trating thirty two runs scored. Guess what the
Bankes have seventy nine runs? Who cares about the Yankees.
Speaker 4: That's more than double Yeah, okay, where they had pitching,
they got to be pretty good, right, I think they've
been it's been terrible. Hunter Brown game up a run yesterday,
but mostly he's been good. Bennett SUSA giving up runs.
Your guy JP Franz had two scoreless yesterday.
Speaker 7: Oh, they're not striking out very money, They're they're fifth
to last in strikeouts this SMRT.
Speaker 4: Right, you know what I'm sick of you in your
spring training stats.
Speaker 2: Let's look up the R they're nine in the R see.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, but ross, you're telling me they're gonna lose
every game two to one.
Speaker 4: Haven't you ever heard pitching, pitching, pitching, and more pitching. Okay, great,
you had like five now with Tommy John So you're
just gonna pitch, pitch and pitch.
Speaker 7: You know what fans would rather see, though, they'd rather
see you lose eleven to ten.
Speaker 2: And shoot, I don't care what. They'd rather see two
to one games that are boring where you get no hits.
Speaker 4: Pitching wins championships, all right, So that's gonna be the formula.
Four to two wins for the Astros. You're scratching enough
across the.
Speaker 2: Plate, and you do not have good luckdowns spring training.
It's the freaking Grape Brude League. Dude, it's fine. I'm
not worried yet. You were dead last in almost every
offensive category. I mean, it's this is insane. It's it's
just spring training. I'm not going to overreact to this.
We'll see how Jose L two Ve looks. Jord On
Alvarez literally just first got in games. He's your best hitter,
and you're hoping that he's gonna play I don't know,
like one hundred and forty five hundred fifty games for
you this upcoming year. Carlos Carey is gonna be fine,
he said, Paratus will figure it out. Ten teams have
over one hundred hits. You have fifty two. All Right,
it's fine. I'm sorry you're facing Greg Maddox every Yeah, dude,
come on man, John Joe Sah, Joe Saga, Gray was
dealing yesterday. All right.
Speaker 4: Maybe they're gonna light up Venezuela today, Okay, and then
we can stop worrying. They'll score eleven runs against Venezuela.
We could stop worrying.
Speaker 7: This is bad, Like I knew it was bad and
I was joking about it a we can, But now
we're almost two weeks in this is atrocious.
Speaker 2: Not worried.
Speaker 7: Uh, can we call who's the hitting coaches? Can we
call those guys?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hold on, we can't hold on. We can't
go after the hitting coaches already. And I think, well,
you know what if it's if it ain't broken, that's
pretty like you're making me want to tweet something.
Speaker 4: Now, let's bring back the guys we get rid of.
And you know now I want to make a hitting
coach tweet just because of you. This is great stuff.
Speaker 2: How are we feeling about the new Astros hitting coaches?
Guys their thirtieth and batting average suck? Bring back Centron
and snicker. Sorry, guys, we've made a mistake. Oh my god.
I thought y'all suck, but turns out it could be
worse than. These new guys are even worse. Don't overreact.
It's just the preseason, guys, it's just March third. It's fine. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I guess what Texans offensive line sucked in the preseason.
Speaker 2: It sucked in the record. I'm not worried. That's different.
Football is different.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be for they're they're they're getting their footing
underneath them. There's been a lot of sun it's been
a lot of blinding sun in the Grapefruit League at
the floor at the Cacti Park of the bald people
on the beach or whatever. They don't have their footing.
It's they've been slipping a lot in the Yeah, exactly, exactly.
They can be fine.
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a break on that note.
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Speaker 2: Baldo. Deliverers.
Speaker 12: First pick, swinging ground ball, hit sharply right at the shortstop.
Speaker 2: He'll go the short way to second for the fourth
and that's the third out of the inning. The astro
strand the base is loaded for the fourth time in
this game. Up the guys on base. They got what
come on? Did you see how they scored? Did he
say fourth time they stranded the bases loaded? Did you
hear they had?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 7: They had possible for much of the game today. One
run roster. You know how it was scored?
Speaker 2: How was it scored? Gordon is loaded, hit by a
pitch sounding for the team. That's called RBI's pal let's go.
It was one r guy. That's called driving in runs
and getting it done. They tied the game, all right,
it was three to three. They've got three draws so
far in spring training. I'm not worried. You're not gonna
make me worry yet.
Speaker 7: At this point yet, I'm I'm not just worried about
the Astros bats. I'm worried about the Sugarland Space Cowboys
bats because even those.
Speaker 4: Guys, they're gonna have a bunch of twenty eight year
old mashed Unless Jackson out there, you know what the
Space Cowboys are gonna be. They're gonna be like a
Little League team where everybody was born like basically right
before the cutoff date. They're all like a basically a
year older than everyone else, and they're gonna mash. I
want to find a Sugarland Space Cowboys win total because
that bad boy's going over. You're gonna have like a
bunch of great starting pitchers who are fringe major leaguers.
Your boy JP France is gonna be down there dealing.
Jason Alexander might be down there. I mean, whether or
not it's I don't know, Ryan Weiss or whoever. Space
Cowboys gonna be carving it up all rightybe. I'm feeling
good about the Space Cowboys this year. Houston Astros, I
don't know, but the Space Cowboys are gonna be are
gonna be pretty stout, There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to pull up some some numbers here for
you to just kind of give an update on how
everybody's doing.
Speaker 2: Says Okay Salazar.
Speaker 7: Yeah, is not good, dude, These numbers are not good.
Speaker 4: Is that one of the underreported storylines of this offseason?
Saysar Salazar is your backup catcher. That's a huge downgrade
from Victor Caratini, assive downgrade from even what we've had
in the past. I don't know, Robinson Chirinos, Christian Vasquez,
like Saesar Salzar as your backup catcher is kind of problematic.
If that's gonna be what it is for the whole season, and.
Speaker 7: Let's just say yan dis goes down for an extended
period of time.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't say that. Well, why would you say that,
it happens. I don't want you to say that. Why
would you say that?
Speaker 2: Like you're gonna lean on Sally to play every night?
And then what do you do? How do you go
to the fullest spot on us? You just dropped a Sally.
How do you give him a day off? I don't know.
You can't. It's bad.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe they think Walter Yannick is close he needs
to be, but he didn't get higher than high a
ball last year he played. He's like twenty three years
old and he hadn't played above a ball.
Speaker 2: So it's a little worrisome. All right, let me give
you some first of good news on hitting. Okay, Nick
Allen is four for twelve. Okay, hey, well so he
is batting. Uh he's batting three thirty three the spring.
He's not going to do that for the season, but
that's okay.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's saying, Mauricio Dubon, who I am? Uh? I am
your new guy?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, Then you got a bunch of guys that are
hitless Zach Cole is oh for nine.
Speaker 2: That's fine, he's saving it for the season. Remember though,
when we were like, oh, he has a red hot spring,
he's gonna be opening Day.
Speaker 4: We wanted camp Smith to have a red hot spring
like he did last year, and we wanted Zach Cole
to have a red hot spring, and well, nobody's having
a red hot spring, so.
Speaker 7: Okay, uh, then you got a bunch of guys that
are hitless. Okay, you've got Zach, Well, you got Zach
Cole's over nine, Zach Decenzo's oh for eleven, Carlos Kreyzo
for six, Jake Myers.
Speaker 4: Is I think he has what's the XBA, what's the
average exit velo?
Speaker 2: He's work for seven. I'm not worried about this. Rys
Christian Walker is oh for seven. You're not getting me
worried about spring training batting averag You're not Alvarezzo for three.
And then you got the One Hit Club. Jake Myers
is in the One Hit Club. Joey Love Ferfinos in
the One Hit Club. The guys aren't meeting before the game.
In the One Hit Club.
Speaker 7: Jan Er Diaz is one for eight. Oh my god,
east O parad Is one for four, terrible. And then
you got some two hit club guys. You got Sally
is two for nine, Salak Jose two has got two hits,
he's two for eight, and then camp Smith is two
for eleven, and Jemmy pay is two for two for
or two for ten and Jerry Pays two for eleven.
Speaker 2: So you got a couple of guys that have two hits.
It's gonna be fine again.
Speaker 7: I just want to I just want to remind you
when we're talking about the spring training the New York
Yankees have.
Speaker 2: No, we're not talking about the game. Who cares like
a hundred don't care hits. I don't care. The Chicago
White Sox they have one hundred and eighteen hits. No,
I'm not worried about it. One hundred and eighteen hits.
Then are they in? The says one? Zach Cole has none,
Korea has none.
Speaker 4: He's they're all They're all due Roger, what's up?
Speaker 2: Roger?
Speaker 14: Yeah? I called last week, uh and the spressmarket turn
for Yana Dia uh and his uh his backup and
it's going to be a disaster. And you know, even
if they turn it around and they and they get
more hits than what they're doing. Now, it's not gonna
be that much of a turnaround to Williston's gonna be
bottom bottom of the barrel, uh in the league. So yeah,
I kind of figured this would be. But why why
do all this and go through all this charade when
you could just blow it up? Because eventually that's what's
gonna happen. People are gonna get fired and the guys
are going to get traded, and probably that we start
this whole thing all over again. But why wait for
a for a whole year and just.
Speaker 2: You wants to blow everything up right now?
Speaker 14: I mean, well, look, look because the.
Speaker 2: Spring training numbers Roger.
Speaker 14: But what if they do for the offensive end of
the They were already that's why they didn't make playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they had like nineteen guys on the eyel
at once and they missed the playoffs by one name.
Speaker 14: Okay, so with these with these spring trading numbers, they
probably don't mean much.
Speaker 2: But no they don't.
Speaker 14: Like I said, but what if that what if that is?
What if that is?
Speaker 2: What if it's not? See these guys?
Speaker 14: I don't see these guys have a breakout seasons I mean,
I'm going Cam Smith, I mean, you got you're really
good to depend on guys like Walker and.
Speaker 4: Dis Christian Walker had about a second half of the
season d as well. We'll see ord and Alvarez needs
to carry a lot of the weight. You're probably gonna
at some point trade Esk Praatus and get an outfielder
who who's going to have a good stick. That's what
you're hoping.
Speaker 14: That's just it. When I don't know question to be answered.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions. You're right concerned. All right,
thank you, Roger. See what you're doing, Gordy, see what
you've done.
Speaker 4: You're you're stoking discontent in the city of Houston over
a couple of weeks of spring.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm just telling you, Alex Bregman eight walking through
that door, walking through that door. No, they're not gonna
be the twenty nineteen Astros.
Speaker 9: They're just not.
Speaker 2: Well I'm just.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 7: Just two years ago, Victor Kartini eate walking through that door. Well,
one of the better hitting catchers. It'd be nice if
you would.
Speaker 2: Well, fortunately he's in Minnesota, twin.
Speaker 7: But that's the thing is, like you look at last
year Ross, they were they still hit well last year.
They were twelve in batting average last year as a team,
but you were twenty first in run score.
Speaker 2: That's a significant time.
Speaker 4: That's because all the risk was because of the hitting coaches,
and they got new hitting coaches and everything's gonna be fixed.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, now they're just only working walks and nobody's
getting hit.
Speaker 4: Fine, they just need to be That's what they were
last year. Team ops. Last year they were fifteenth. You
go to like the WRC.
Speaker 2: Plus and all that other stuff, like they were around
OPS plus.
Speaker 7: They're around the middle of the pack. You don't think
that's maybe a trend though, like.
Speaker 2: A downward trend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, ord On Alvarez only played like thirty eight
games last year, so just from that alone, your offensive
numbers should be going up. You get a whole season
of Carlos Korea, who, yes he was not great in Minnesota,
but he was pretty good in the Houston Astros uniform.
Hopefully he can get that going is he's got single
his heat, his heated back brace is good. He's gonna
be fine. He's gonna be good to go. He's like
Michael Brandley on his career. Michael Brentley would be great,
actually single. Christian Walker was great in the second half
of the season last year. He he talked about how
the oblique injury slowed him down, so he's gonna be
ready to go. Jeremy Panna had a breakout year. He's
gonna keep that going. We'll see what happens at the
back end of the line. Jake Myers, Jack Myers. Honestly,
if you look at okay, if you want to be real,
if we want to be real, true honest people here,
Jake Myers and Jeremy Peni are regression candidates because their
batting averages and balls and play was much higher than
their career averages, meaning bad ball luck. You can put
the ball in play a thousand times and sometimes you're
gonna have better luck than others with bloops and with
uh guys out of position and not getting there and
that type of stuff. Generally, year after year it averages out.
And Jeremy Panna and Jake Myers were well above average
last year with their batting average and balls in play.
So yes, it is possible that there's a world where
both of those guys regress. Camp Smith isn't the real deal.
Zach Cole was false promises. From September. You have Yaner
Diez continues to not be good and this offense is bad. Yes,
that is possible. Correa goes over the hill. Jose al
Tuve continues to regress, and not even regress, but just
decline as he has the last couple of years. It's possible.
It's possible. I've never seen numbers. It's like, all right,
none was that. I've never seen like you've been looking
at spring training numbers your entire life.
Speaker 7: Like the Giants they have thirty three walks, but seventy
two runs bat it inn't.
Speaker 2: The Astros are the opposite. They have seventy one walks.
They're on the cusp thirty one runs back.
Speaker 4: Didn't you hear the highlight? They loaded the bases like
four times. Okay, they're ready to explode. They're gonna score
ten runs today and.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have egg over your face. Right, you can
load the bases every inning, but if no one drives
them in, they're gonna they're they're on the cusp. It's
not even like they're gonna get ready. They're ready to expel.
The exact step one of scoring runs is getting guys
on base Step two is driving them home. They're just
getting in. They're on step one. They're gonna get to
step two. And losing games is the shut up the plate,
shut up, gotta score spring trip.
Speaker 4: It's a Grapefruit League, dude, it's gonna be fine. You
always over the worst.
Speaker 2: Team in baseball and scoring runs currently okay in spring training? Okay,
I mean you think they're gonna you have my twelve runs.
Speaker 4: You have my personal guarantee. They will not be the
worst offense in baseball this year.
Speaker 2: Christa Walker is gonna go up money. But for the cycle. Yeah,
it's been hot, man, it's human over there. You haven't
even hit for the cycle. As a team, they need
that wonderful dake it air conditioning triple. As a team,
they need a triple who cares to say, like the
canket hits.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be fine. They're gonna be fine to some degree.
All Right, we're gonna take a break. Chris Cordy is
about the gut feeling that they're gonna be the worst offense.
You know what, I'm gonna pull up the archives. I'm
curious what your latest gut feelings are. Do you have
a gut feeling about the Astros offense. I think it's
gonna be fine. You have a gut feeling about anything
about the Texans offensive line? How about the Houston Rockets
and the playoffs? Do you want to make a prediction?
Seven to one three two one two five seven ninety
is the phone number seven one three two one two
five seven ninety one? Helps If I turned my microphone on,
I thought I hit the button, but I guess show
I misclicked. Yeah it was good stuff, man, was that
was some of my best work.
Speaker 2: Actually it was probably the smartest thing you've ever yea, yeah, yeah,
Well that's a low bar. Eleven thirty or in the
am here on Sports.
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety the Matt Thomas Show with Ross As.
Speaker 2: Matt Thomas will be joining us at noon.
Speaker 4: He's got a sore throat, so uh sore throat Thomas
coming up at noon along with the news at noon.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: Chris Cordy gracious enough to be hanging out with his busy,
biggest busy schedule.
Speaker 2: We appreciate him. You guys can get in on the
phone lines with some gut feelings at seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety I'm just realizing we've.
Speaker 4: Been putting you to work, Gordy. You had some gut
feelings last week, so we can run those back. But
I'm gonna go from mine from two weeks ago. I
said the Rockets would sweep the Clippers to end the season.
Speaker 2: That did not happen.
Speaker 4: I said the Rockets will finish as a top three
seed in the West. As of this moment, they are third,
and that's where they're gonna have to finish because they're
like five games behind the San Antonio Spurs. I also said,
and this one is gonna get interesting. Maybe, barring injury,
Reed Shephard will not be a full time starter at
any point this season for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 7: I mean that's kind of he's been. He's been playing
more and more minutes. Right, Yes, he's almost playing start because.
Speaker 2: People there have been people like Reed Shepherd needs to start.
Red Shepherd's got to be in the starting lineup. Look
at this, Look at Raig Shepherd. He's the greatest of
all time. Like Reed Sheppard was good nineteen points.
Speaker 4: Tennis says last night six steals, a couple of blocks.
But I like him in a six man role where
he can be in closing lineups. But also you need
some bench scoring because Clin Capella is now getting the
bench scoring done. Guys like you got you gotta figure
something out.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want you know, to know where I want
to go with a comp there for Reed Shepherd. What
was James Harden doing his first few years? And oh, okay,
hold on coming off the bench? Shop this, guys, stop,
don't go with Reed Shepherd and James James Harden.
Speaker 7: He didn't even start a game his first year at
Okay see played in seventy six games off the bench,
was averaging about twenty two minutes a game.
Speaker 2: How many points was he averaging as a rookie?
Speaker 7: The next year he nine? Okay, the next year he
average twelve. Still only started five games year two eighty
two games.
Speaker 2: You've heard it here first, folks. I'm just trying to
go back. Let's remember Arden wasn't hardened until he got here.
I understand. It's three full seasons in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 7: Harden only started seven games, Okay, So it was a
little bit of a cop there, right, Red started a
couple there.
Speaker 4: There is a little bit of a comp but James
Harden is also one of the greatest six man stories
blossoming in the Superstar ever.
Speaker 2: But if not number one.
Speaker 7: His his progressive scoring was nine as a rookie twelve
and year two and sixteen and year three.
Speaker 2: You're going with Harden. Now, first three years Harden was
not this reed.
Speaker 4: Shepherd is not winning an NBA MVP. Okay, why why
do you say that?
Speaker 2: Oh second, are you saying he is? Write it down?
Say it right now. I got feeling one years old.
Stop he stops on his whole career at Cordy, Cordy, Please,
your brain has been infected by your Kentucky Wildcat wife.
I like read Shepherd. Look at the numbers.
Speaker 4: I would like maybe read Shepherd will blossom into a starter.
I don't think it's gonna happen this year, but you
you gotta relax.
Speaker 7: Year two of Harden and OKC he averaged twelve points
a game. Read Shepherd at year two in Houston is
averaging thirteen points a game.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now Harden shot thirty four reach Shepherd shooting thirty.
Speaker 4: Is also again one of the biggest exceptions in basketball
history in terms of a six man who blossom into
a full blown superstar top ten scorer of all time.
Speaker 7: Year two and okay, see Harden to assists a game,
reach Shepherd three point two assists per game.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're right. You know what, Read Shepherd is better
than James Harden. No, I'm just saying trajectory. No, is
that trajectory James had Nobody's trading for Reed Shepherd and
making the centerpiece of their team. But that wasn't until
after the year three. Let's see what Read is next year. Okay,
you know what, I'm writing it down. I'm putting it.
I'm putting my name on it. Okay, not even a
gut feeling. Reed Shephard will never win an NBA MVP,
I mean, come on.
Speaker 7: Okay, but putting it in all caps, can he become
one of the best players in the league in five years?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Probably not. Well, that's just a hater, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, because now he went from four points
at thirteen, he's been great.
Speaker 2: I like Read check and it was.
Speaker 7: A comparable jump Harden made from year.
Speaker 2: One or two. You know what, he's young. You're right.
Speaker 4: Today we'll say he's not going to blossom into an
all star is perhaps premature.
Speaker 7: How old was Harden? How many you only played the
one year at Arizona State? God, Okay, I'm just saying
the numbers are very comparable too.
Speaker 4: I imagine Jabari Smith Junior scoring numbers in his third
year are better than James Harden's scoring numbers in his
third year.
Speaker 7: But I'm saying like he's he's got the vision, the
passing ability for the fort.
Speaker 2: Totals, he's got tennisists one time. Yeah, what do you
have last night? Ten? Yeah? That was the one time? Great? Okay,
yeah he was great. I mention he's twenty one, Yes,
he's young. You know what you're.
Speaker 7: If this we're buying stock, I'd be buying stock and
read Shepherds And yeah you can.
Speaker 4: You can buy some stock and read shepherd He's gonna
go up. He's gonna get better, You're right, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, can he be like a fifteen to twenty point
per game score?
Speaker 7: Like what's hilarious about this is we could probably go
back and find tape of like year two of SGA
with the Clippers and be like, I.
Speaker 2: Think SGA one day is gonna be awesome. You'd be like,
you're kidding me that guy.
Speaker 4: He's a scrumb so okay, so he's nothing. We're going
with MVP again. I'm just shake Gill, just alexand this
guy starts somewhere.
Speaker 7: That's true, and you gotta see you see the glimpses
of brilliance.
Speaker 4: Okay, is ray Reid Shepherd MVP seven one three, two,
one two, five seven nine.
Speaker 2: In the next decade win one. No, it's possible.
Speaker 4: I will bet you right now, whatever amount you want
to bet, I'm gonna track you down.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna track you down.
Speaker 4: And the Gordy and if and when any little Gordys come,
I'm coming for all of y'all.
Speaker 2: As a rookie, you would have been like, that's Anthony
Edwards is never gonna win the MVP. I might no,
Anthony Edwards, absolutely.
Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, did Anthony Edwards average four points per game?
Speaker 7: And as a rookie, I'm just trying to find guys that,
like when they first it took him.
Speaker 4: A few years, has not won an MVP, right, But
it's how hard. But he certainly is in the running.
Red Sheepherd's not winning MVP. Stop all right, Moving along here,
Let's let's go to the other gut feeling, Matt Thomas's
gut feeling. Rockets win their next four, which they lost
to Miami. Right, so that's an l Cougar's out of
the South region, Okay, And they don't lose until the
NCA attorney has and he has them winning the Big
Twelve Championship, I guess. And he said Joe Mixon is
gonna get released. Which is gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Jonathan, you had the Rockets winning their next four? Yeah?
Speaker 4: L Gordy, you had Jason Alexander. You like some Jason Alexander. See,
I'm okay with the Jason Alexander love. He's kind of sneaky,
are you after that game?
Speaker 2: He was better in the second start.
Speaker 4: Lance mccullors on the bench, We'll see L s u wins.
Speaker 2: What's c w L the College World Series? Car College
World Ladies? And that that Eastern last night.
Speaker 4: Northeastern's got a squad apparently all right undefeated on the weekends.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Chris Gordy, give me a gut feeling.
Speaker 7: Uh, I want to I want to go with some Oh,
here's one for you. For the second consecutive year, the
Astros will not win.
Speaker 2: The Al West. Oh, come on, man. Sorry, Yeah, I mean, by.
Speaker 7: The way I found our blog post pre season last year,
of all of our predictions, literally every one of us
took the Asters to win the division, and almost all
of us had the Astros in the World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think I wanted, didn't I have
the Blue Jays in the World Series. I have to
look that up.
Speaker 4: Maybe that was two years ago I had the Blue Jays,
like maybe, like maybe maybe I was a year early.
Speaker 2: I'm never wrong, I'm just early. By the way, I
really went out on a limb and I was correct.
Had the Dodgers winning at all. Oh wow, great job, John.
Then you got a gut feeling for this week?
Speaker 10: Uh, you know what, I'm gonna play a safe Rockets
go to one.
Speaker 2: This is get to go to and one in their
next three games.
Speaker 7: You know what you can, babe, just go ahead, put
me down down. Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's fine. Might even go Thunder win
the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4: Two Astros bats explode sometime in the next week, just
for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's explode? I'm talking ten plus runs?
Speaker 7: Ten plus runs? Ah, who's Thatezuela throw tonight? Maybe maybe tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh that's what I'm hoping for. Venezuela would be a
nice Omar Lopez, let's go, Omar Lopez goes. Guys, we
got to get the astro's confidence up. All right, I'm
the guy with the twenty five. Al Right, all right,
both y, all on, hold, we see you. We're gonna
get to you.
Speaker 4: We we got to take a quick break because Cordy
and I were arguing too much about Reed Shepherd, the
greatest basketball player of all times, future future All NBA
player Read Shepherd.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 4: You guys, got some gut feelings you want to get
in Scott Gille, We'll get to you next. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety is the phone number.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. All right, um,
welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with the Ross
with Chris Cordy. Let's see Taylor cres Hays Gordy getting
worked up over guys that'll be in a double A
next next week, next month, like who I don't know,
Jack's Biggers.
Speaker 7: Our starters will be in triple A or double A
if they don't pick it up.
Speaker 4: This guy six thirty sixty nine thirty one. The crawfish
has got into Gordy's head. It is crawfish season. I've
only had one one batch, okay, enough, they get bigger
later into the season.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, they're very tidy when I had them. Okay.
Speaker 7: That's the thing, is like, because people always get on
me about poundage, and it's like, three pounds is good
if they're decent size. Three pounds and they're all tiny, tiny.
Speaker 2: And you're paying for mushrooms and potatoes and corn.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I like the sides, but like, to me,
five pounds is a good it's a good size.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All right, more crawfish talk coming up. I don't know
later on at point. All right, seven one three seven
ninety is the phone number. Seven one three two five
seven ninety. Scott in Jersey Village has been holding patiently.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, sir, think you take my call off?
Speaker 14: No problem?
Speaker 9: Yes, okay.
Speaker 14: Unfortunately, in my gut when I when I play this
take forward, I feel like the Astros finish it's all.
Speaker 15: Under five hundred.
Speaker 6: I thought they were in seventy nine games, you know, I.
Speaker 15: Know, I just I feel like they have the arms
they have some arms, and there there will always be
somebody that that will perform well but you didn't expect.
Speaker 6: But there's always going to be somebody that doesn't perform
so well.
Speaker 9: I just don't see them having the offense.
Speaker 13: In all honesty, I was really with the.
Speaker 15: The Carline career move last year because it was exactly
what you needed a for sixty games or whatever. We
had left a short shot in the arm. I don't
want Carlos Korea for one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 9: You don't want College Carret for hundred.
Speaker 13: Toy two games.
Speaker 15: The Twins don't want him for hundreds these two games.
He's only going to play ninety anyway, and that's fine.
You know al two days. You know, he's not what
he used to be. And it's been a long time,
honestly since I seen Alvarez be good. Let's see what
Walker's gonna do. We're trying to trade away our second
best player, you.
Speaker 2: Know, so let's just see.
Speaker 15: I don't see them winning ninety games, So what are
we going to say eighty five? Okay, well, I see
them losing a lot of these three to two games
where we.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't score eighty six and a half was the
win is the Vegas win total? I'm going over the
win total, Scott, shut jobmass up, surprise, surprise, Roth, anything else, Scott.
That's it having a right, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Look, they won eighty seven games last year and they
had five thousand injuries, and so.
Speaker 2: I think they can win one more game than last year.
I'm not saying they're gonna win the American League West.
I'm not saying they're going to light the world on fire.
I do feel confident that the bats will be at
least okay enough, and I feel confident that the starting
pitching is going to be consistent enough that they can
I'll go over eighty six and a half win. Where
did he have them that like seventy five wins? He said?
He said seventy nine. Okay, that would be an eight.
Speaker 4: That would be that would be Dana Brown and Joe
Spot to see you later.
Speaker 2: Stuff.
Speaker 4: For the Astros, they're below five hundred even even I
would say, even if there's a rash of injuries, they're
below five hundred.
Speaker 2: Both of those guys are gone, I would probably agree.
Speaker 7: And then and then Jim Crane's statement about you know,
the window will never close as far as you know.
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like that was foolish, Winny set, But
I would.
Speaker 7: Feel like the window is closed if they missed the
postseason for a second straight year and they got a
clean house and all your big star players have all
moved on, Like that's weird.
Speaker 4: It'd be depending because, yeah, the farm system is not great.
You don't have a lot of tradable assets. Anyways, I
don't even know what you would do at that point.
I don't even want to think about that themism. Now
I'm upset. We're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, thanks, Thanks Cordy GeOH what's up?
Speaker 13: Good to have you on.
Speaker 16: Quick question before I start this, are you guys.
Speaker 13: On air tomorrow or is the Astros going to be on?
Speaker 2: It'll be the Astro Store. Both. We're on till noon
and the Astros come on at noon tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Okay, So in that case, I don't think we're doing.
Speaker 2: At eleven thirty. Okay, Well, are you trying to get
God today, aren't you?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, you know, I gotta okay, So so well,
my gut feeling, I'm gonna start off with that one.
My gut feeling today is Gordy, I think you're pissing
a lot of us off today. That's my gut feeling
and uh my chut your bum mass up goes to Gordy.
Speaker 1: Gordy.
Speaker 16: Look, I'm not saying the Ashtoors are gonna win the
World Series, man, but god Lee, Man, with the way
you're talking, we might as well just call it the season.
Speaker 2: And you know you must not like facts. I was
just giving you facts on what the offensive numbers are
so far.
Speaker 16: Hey, hey man, we're talking with in the words of Ai.
Speaker 13: We're talking about spring training.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 16: Okay, right, we're talking about spring training and to say
to go further, to say that cocaine curry. All right,
my boy, read Shepard is going to be an Envy
team the next ten seasons.
Speaker 7: Gordy smoking his first two years. Look at Harden's first
two years and okay.
Speaker 16: See about James Harden and Reed check.
Speaker 2: You're talking about thirty six year old James Harden. I'm
talking about back when Harden came out of Arizona State.
Numbers are comparable. Numbers are comparable.
Speaker 16: Look, Groria, I love you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, We'll see let's go. I mean we're gonna have
to wait. You have to wait about a decade for
this to pay off. Yeah, I like Read Shepherd. That's
around one. I'll circle back with you, guys, don't make
me hate read sherefer, I don't hate Read Shepherd. I
like Read Shepherd a lot.
Speaker 4: I want him to be so successful, but yeah, I
don't think he's on a Jeames hardenesque trajectory. Be nice,
it'd be great, And you know what, I would just
I would crown you the smartest man on the planet
if that did happen.
Speaker 2: But I mean, what if he's just like a really
good player, that'd be good. You know he's he's because
he's made a huge leap. Who is my guy in
an Indy? That's hurt Tyrese Haliburton took him several years. Yeah, exactly,
Like I'm just saying, like, on that level, the guys
that were not late bloomers but just took.
Speaker 4: A few years to really settle in, it can happen.
You mentioned Sego Jess Alexander. I mean you're mentioning James Harden,
But I think I can point to dozens of guys
guys who never ended up painting out, who made leaps
and who I mean, for example, Jalen Green. Jalen Green
had a better start to his career than Read Shepherd
did numbers wise, is Jalen Green going to be NBA MVP. No,
So it's just very difficult, and we can go through
any number of guys who we can point to.
Speaker 2: I don't know even guys on this team.
Speaker 4: I'm and Thompson Read Shepherd like they're scoring more points
per game than Read Shepherd is right now, and they're
not going to be NBA MVP. So I like Read Shepherd.
And the shooting is good, and it's been consistent. It's
been better, especially since the All Star break, where it
felt like going into the All.
Speaker 2: Star Break his legs were a little bit tired.
Speaker 4: His shooting went down the last month, and he's been
over forty five percent since then, So that's good.
Speaker 2: I like Read Shepherd.
Speaker 4: I just don't know that he's got star written all
over him.
Speaker 2: I mean not right now. It's early. It is early.
He is young, he can get older, he can get bossoming.
You know what if he wins an MVP with the
Houston Rockets uniform, I'm going to be all on board
for that.
Speaker 7: What if I told you six years from now, the
Rockets two best players are on Men Thompson and Ree Sheppard.
Speaker 2: Okay, three years from now. Uh that that's possible. Is
of the franchise. It's possible. Eighties retired.
Speaker 4: Katie's gonna retire on in three years he might still
be putting up twenty five per game. Hanging on, all right,
We're gonna take a break here, Gordy. Thanks for hanging
out all right, appreciate you. Matt Thomas is going to
join with the news at noon. I'm gonna give him
the news at noon, I suppose, and then he's just
gonna sit there with his sore throat and be here
for the last two hours. How bad will Matt sound?
I'm sorry, I mean how great will Matt sound? Find
out next on hour number three of The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross
twelve O two.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, Hi, Rossie, this is fantastic. What's up Matt?
Oh Ross? Hey, Matt. I'm just going to power through
to get a shot. How's it going? I mean, I
don't I look right, I don't feel bad. That's that's
good news. The Story Show featuring me a couple of minutes. Yeah,
let's bring back those hot takes for Gordy.
Speaker 18: You know what if if Wexler and Clant want to
come in for the last hour because I have a
short show, it wouldn't be the worst thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will I will text, I'll text them them.
Speaker 18: You know, it's funny because I was saying very minimal
things this morning and hopes that, you know, the couple of.
Speaker 2: Extra hours, you've been in a vow of silence. I
you know what, My wife's actually liked it a little bit.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, but what about the shower singing?
Though I know you didn't want to cut.
Speaker 18: That out, you god, you know me too well. I
was doing part game show and part singing, like you
know what, I need to get my voice revenant, Oh okay,
And then I put the earphones on and I'm like,
holy crap, I sound like.
Speaker 2: Hell uh well that's okay. Let's hear uh Well, are
we gonna get to the news at noon at some point?
I can do that. Let's do that.
Speaker 18: Let's let's figure out less of me and more you
the great city Houston, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Here he's wrong. Sid the dudes and nude. Yeah, so
I'm gonna talk at link.
Speaker 4: It is the news at Noon's the cool soliloquy here
on a sports Talk seven ninety. Well, let's go ahead
and start with what has Matt late into town and
joining us at noon. That would be your Houston Rockets
with the victory over the Washington Wizards one twenty three
to one eighteen. Sounds closer than it was. It did
get close to late, but the Rockets were never in
danger of losing that game.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm actually curious to hear what it
sounded like on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 18: Shepherd being harassed hard by Bud Carrington, gets by Carrington
middle of the paint, pulls up to ten feet front iron,
miss offensive rebob butt.
Speaker 2: Back one no, butting back two yees, cleaning off the
backboard again. O print shit good at one six. Now
that sounds all right, that's all right, right, that's not bad.
That's a lot less than this. Uh, sandpaper to the
throat I'm hearing right now. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Ross,
I'm so sorry. It's okay, Matt, No, it's not You
know what I do, and honestly, I blame the NBA.
You blame the NBA. Really, why in the world would
you send me to the East Coast.
Speaker 4: They have to play eighty two games, Matt and they
have to go they have to play the Eastern Conference schedule.
Speaker 2: I have to play Orlando in Miami when it's seventies.
You didn't play anybody go to thirty one in snow
yesterday in Washington.
Speaker 1: D C.
Speaker 2: I don't know me. Maybe you need to we need
to get you on some immunotherapies or something. Well, I'm
going to give me some steroids in about it. That's
good an hour or whenever it is. It feels like
this happens once a year. It does now far be
it from me? I mean I was out last week
with the flu. I get I get my fair amount
of sickness as well. But the reality is this.
Speaker 18: I'm not trying to criticize. No, no, no, we are
not a deep roster here on the seven to ninety staffs.
So I we all get vacations. Time should be biggrudge
that you and I try collectively not to take time
off for sick Can I try not too?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: And try I think if I can, if I can
lower my voice what I think, Yeah, maybe you.
Speaker 4: Just talk a little bit to uh, you know what, man,
Let me go ahead and run through the box score
here for a little bit. Yeah, tr Rockets get the
one twenty three to one eighteen Victor Reed Shepherd leading
the way with forty two minutes. He had a career
high ten assists, nineteen points. He was four of eleven
from three. He was doing it all. Alpryn ching Goon
was doing damage in the middle as the Rockets had
I think it was like sixty eight points in the
paint thirty two from him. As the Washington Wizard just said, yeah,
we're not going to double ouprin ching Goon really the
entire game and see what kind of damage he can do.
Speaker 2: Well, aprinching Goon said, I like that mighty.
Speaker 4: Fine, as he had thirty two points, thirteen rebounds, couple
of assists.
Speaker 2: He did turn the ball over eight times, and Kevin Durant.
Speaker 4: Turned the ball over six times, but who's counting well,
twenty one turnovers, thirty nine points off of that fifty
four from three. The Washington Wizards shot Matt if they
were playing an actual good team, they would have lost
that game last night. But thankfully they were not playing
an actual good team. It was the Washington Wizards. No,
it was not a good team at all and a
scrappy but played nightmare. First of all, I didn't know
who half the players were, and.
Speaker 2: As after spending a day of studying them and blal
Kooli BALI was going off. Yeah, and Bob Carrington, if
you will, Yeah, Bob Carrington. What a great name that
is Bob Carrington.
Speaker 18: Now, Bub Carrington sounds like the guy that works at
your hardware store down the street.
Speaker 2: Right, Bub Carrington. Or he's like the doorman at the
at the blues bar.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's not bad either, And Bob Carrington was contacted
after a brawl outside the bar.
Speaker 2: Or actually Bob Carrington is on the bass guitar. Yeah,
or yeah, that works too. Longhorn legend Trey Johnson was
two of ten.
Speaker 4: You're gonna break down. He's having a good season. Hey,
he's averaging twelve points per game. He's the next James Harden.
I heard you guys talking about that. Yeah he's Gordy Okay,
I mean but his wife is a huge Kentucky Wildcat fan.
And can I tell you something, So he's probably been
getting wildcat propaganda at home for months.
Speaker 2: I am a big fan of Reed Shepherd.
Speaker 18: He too a great game at a tennis this game yesterday,
six steals, which ties his career high or a season
high for the Rockets. I mean, there's a lot of
good things about what he's doing. He's playing the most
basketball in his career, remembering you in the in the
college and game. He's playing thirty five games a year.
He didn't play much last year, and.
Speaker 2: He's doing whatever he can to be the legitimate six man.
Speaker 18: I want him back on the bench, not because I
don't think he can play starters minutes, but I like
the bench scoring and at this point and.
Speaker 2: It'll get your Barie back at linked is right now
the Rockets bench is kind of lean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean read Shepherd playing well. We're not
gonna call him the name the next James Harden just yet.
Speaker 2: Here in a Sports Talk seven anywhere, we continue the
news at noon where Matthew Jerkson Profar of the Braves
Gettler ready to learn Mauricio Dubon Atlanta one sixty two
Modern sixty two game ban for Jerkson Profar his second
ped violation in the last year at thirty three years old.
He is the sixth player ever.
Speaker 4: To receive a one hundred and sixty two game ban
for PEDU since Major League Baseball increased the penalty for
two time offenders to a full season in twenty fourteen.
He is also forfeiting the entirety of his fifteen.
Speaker 2: Million dollar salary this year, ineligible for the postseason, ineligible
for the upcoming World Baseball Classic, where he was going
to represent the Netherlands. I mean, you do he think
he could evaded? I mean, I don't know the stupidity
of this the second time of Yeah, I just whatever,
who knows.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he's going to release a statement that it
was some kind of tainted supplement and he would never cheat, and.
Speaker 2: He's going to do all this and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But man, how about fifteen MILLI cost by your ped suspension?
Speaker 2: If you're Jerkson profar.
Speaker 18: Good luck with that. By the way, I want to
do the next segment. I want to get to some
more on the Texans. Yesterday I've had Okay, chance, that's
deep thoughts about it?
Speaker 4: Okay, deep David Montgomery thoughts, thoughts from Matt Thomas coming up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that a little precursor to the next segment.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Jerkson profar did. He was one of the
top prospects in baseball early in his career when he
was with the Rangers. Then he was hurt, didn't play well,
and then kind of having a later late career resurgence.
Perhaps that ties in to his ped YEP suspensions.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Elsewhere in the NFL news, maybe good that the Texans
made the David Montgomery move yesterday. The Jets have placed
the franchise tag on star running back Brice Hall. The
non exclusive tag is a fourteen point two nine to
three million dollar contract. He can negotiate with other teams
and sign an offer sheet. The Jets have the right
of first refusal and it would also receive two first
round picks his compensation if they declined the match. So
Brece Hall is going to be a New York Jet
this upcoming season. But that is a name off the
list in terms of possible free agent target running back targets.
Speaker 2: I should do you think that nickyse knew that going
in and that that's why he went with Plan B.
Speaker 4: I think he had a feeling that the Kenneth Walker
market was going to be high. Same thing for Brice Hall,
and the David Montgomery move is a shoring up of that,
or just I don't want to call it a Plan
B contingency plan.
Speaker 2: Let's call it that, all right, Rossie, I'm gonna let
you finish the news at noon, I'm gonna belong and
then I'll be back with my great David Montgomery. Take
get some hot tea, come on, sick of tea?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'm sorry you hear me. I'm
just trying to help you know. You're such a good friend. Yeah, yeah,
some of the best.
Speaker 4: All right, So Matt Thomas is kind of sick. Maybe
one of the Adams will be joining us at one o'clock.
He's gonna get us, is David Montgomery? Take coming up
here in uh in a little bit, as we just
brought you the news at noon here on the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross Stunt, I see you on old week.
Speaker 2: We can get you to you in a little bit.
Anything you guys want to get to we can talk
about on the phone lines seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you'd
like to get in seven one three two one two, five,
seven ninety You can also follow a tweet us at
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Speaker 4: And you know what Matt Thomas sounds like? Hell, why
don't you follow him on Instagram at sports MT and
you can follow me on Instagram at Sports RV as well.
All right, quick break Matt's thoughts on David Montgomery day
number two. How are you feeling about the move? Anything
you guys want to get to seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Twelve seventeen.
Speaker 18: Added Ross By the way, some of you are very
rude sat at Ross is doing the show with RFK Junior.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see a couple of tweets. I can't believe
you got RFK to do.
Speaker 4: Did you show today, Well that RFK JR RFK was
assassinated the original RFK Junior And that's right, he is alive.
I wish Sports and T was here to see it.
That's pretty funny stuff from Ryan, and then I also
got another one from Pedro.
Speaker 2: This interview with Doc Rivers is great. Oh my god,
that's too funny. It's too funny. Thanks Doc. So if
there's ever an opportunity to hear less of me, it
would be today.
Speaker 18: Yes, seven five, seven ninety, that's right, seven one three
two two. If you ever want to argue with me
about any of my takes. Oh and how like if
you want to argue about why I'm not mister Texas,
which would be a complete false, then there's that nice
of mountains of evidence for that. Okay, this is the
day to do it, all right, So I've had a
chance of chewing this Montgomery. Okay, Now I am a
Texans observer, not a fan. Yes, my initial gut feeling
because you guys had cut feelings.
Speaker 2: Lost ar, I'm assuming. Yeah, you want to write this down? Yeah,
go ahead? Why not? Okay, this isn't gonna end?
Speaker 19: Well?
Speaker 2: What why is it not going to end? Well? What
do you mean explain it? Well?
Speaker 18: What?
Speaker 2: Let me put it this way. He's not going to
rush for eight hundred yards? Ummmm, okay.
Speaker 18: That's and you're training a fourth round pick for a
guy that's supposed to be your RB one. It should
be a thousand yards minimum.
Speaker 2: Yes, you would hope.
Speaker 4: So eight hundred yards is probably about a good line
because he's gonna spee splitting time with Woody Marks.
Speaker 2: You might have been a good thing, though. Did you
not want an RB one here? You wanted an RB
one in here? But Breiste Hall just got tagged. Kenneth
Walker is gonna cost you way too much. Maybe you
don't really want to spend a lot of draft capital
on a running back, and you still could raft of
running back in a third round or something like that
if you find the right situation. It's supposed to be
a pretty good running back draft as well, because David Montgomery,
as I said, could be the contingency plan. But I
know it sucks that a continuency plan costs you a
fourth round pick. But the reports from everybody around or
that there was going to be a fifth round pick,
but other teams got involved, so the Texan had to
up their offer. All I say is this he does
come with There hasn't been a lot of wear and
tear in his body because obviously Jamier Gibbs done someone
to the.
Speaker 18: Heavy lifting Detroit. But Harvey twenty nine is still twenty nine.
There's just going to be explosive that's not there that
he was when he was you know, originally League six
or seven years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred and fifty eight carries seven or and
sixteen yards four and a half a carry. I mean
that's you're already still upgraded from from last year where
you did. Basically, Nick Chubb was taking over for half
the season and then the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: What he marks was just a.
Speaker 4: Guy took over, even if with it hopefully hopefully hopefully
an improved offensive line. I think I think that David
Montgomery said is gonna come here and run for fifteen
hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns?
Speaker 2: No, oh my god, if he did.
Speaker 4: Oh but yeah, I'm feeling good, not great about it basically, Okay,
So I don't want to say disappointment. I mean, let
me rephrase, I'll put the bar to eight. He's not
going to reach eight hundred yards, okay.
Speaker 2: Which again that's.
Speaker 18: The question is what are the expectations of fans as
compared to what's expectations of the team.
Speaker 2: If they really think that Woody Marx can take the
next step in his NFL.
Speaker 4: Progression Woody marks now, okay, just the guy, that's true,
but he also guys can get better, Rookies can give
improve from their rookie season, right, but also running backs
generally is a position where even as a rookie you
can perform up the par.
Speaker 2: Hey remember how much we love Damian Peerson for that
first year. Yeah, he was terrible. So that's a reverse.
Can do the other side of things on that too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're David Montgomery is upgrading situation, but he's downgrading
an offensive line. Can Woody Marx, I don't know, add
some bulk and get stronger and get better and break
some more tackles. Yeah, he's not going to really get faster.
He's not explosive. He didn't have a lot of explosive runs.
That's what you're worried about with Woody Marx. And can
he just be a one B to a David Montgomery
who has been a two but is gonna be your
one A?
Speaker 18: See my philosophy is this is that if you're at
number two somewhere and you're twenty three, twenty four years old,
it's like, man, give me a shot.
Speaker 2: I can go do this. Dave Montgomery's been in the NFL,
He's rushed for over a thousand yards. He became RB
two because Jamier Gibbs jumped him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just Jamiir Gibbs. It's just one of the five
most dynamic running backs at football. Yeah, and David Montgomery
is not that.
Speaker 18: Now, the question would be, if Jamiir Gibbs, let's say,
was hurt for three or four game stretch, how much
of the Detroit offense would be focused about I mean,
you gave David Montgomery the same responsible you gave Jamir Gibbs,
would this team be significant? Would be on the same pace?
I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4: No, Jamia Gibbs is better than David Montgomery. That's why
David Montgomery's here. But you also are better than last
year it was Nick Chubb and Woody Marks. This is
an upgrade. This is a significant upgrade, oh, compared to
where it was last year. Absolutely, and no disrespect to
Nick Chubb and his resurgent season. According to Ian Rappaport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 18: Yesterday I put that tweet out and it was like, Man,
don't you realize they worked for the agents?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: Duh? Please? Is that my first rodeo? Not even your
second rodeo? Matt, No, a lot of rodeos. Were you
going to see the rodeo this year? By the way,
I don't have any plans to see anybody that's in
at the Houston Rodeo. And I didn't go to the cookoff.
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, Cuff usually got your name all over it.
I know I'm just not cool enough. I'm too old
for the Cookoff.
Speaker 9: I guess.
Speaker 2: The hoochie wearing outfits were amazing year. By the way,
the hoochies are every every year at the Cochies. I mean, lord,
we have friends that are hoochies anywhere, Hoochie here.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm good to have you back, man. I don't
have any friends that are Huci's. Matt no, oh, I
got hoochie friends, okay, and I love the Houcci friends.
I don't have any hoochie friends personally.
Speaker 2: Well, good, that's good for you. Let's go to the
phone talk to some people.
Speaker 18: By the way, I got a story about what happened
to me in Miami last week that I need a ruling.
Speaker 2: Can you write it down and then like Jonathan can
read it. Oh that sounds fine. I can't laugh. You're
the worst. I'm the worst. What did I do? You're
making me laugh?
Speaker 13: Cough?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry. I'm David and Humble on seven
ninety Hello David.
Speaker 9: MT.
Speaker 6: What what what's wrong you? You asked them your voice?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 2: I mean, what happened?
Speaker 18: Life happens, People get sick. I mean, I'm not really sick,
but I just I've got terrible laryngitis. So I'm hoping
and get fixed about depends what time the boys commit.
Speaker 13: Uh mt.
Speaker 6: I love you like a brother. Thank you very I'm
just I'm just concerning my brother.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Don't be worried.
Speaker 18: I'm actually I look fantastic and my wife wanted to
kiss me all over, but she said, now I can't
get sick.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna happen.
Speaker 6: Well, you're not gonna make your wife sick?
Speaker 19: Are you?
Speaker 2: No chance of going to the doctor as soon as
the show's over? So don't worry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, David Montgomery is soon an upgrade. But but
that you know, it's it's not a significant upgrade in
my opinion. But the text's got a lot of work
to do. But the Cougars, Man, I love the Cougars.
What do you what do you think about them? U
go on to the fine of four.
Speaker 18: Well, selfishly, I hope they do, because I've already booked
a ticket to Indianapolis for the championship game, and hopefully
that happens. The problem is, and that's not a problem,
it's just it is what it is. It feels like
this year the tournament to get to it all the
way is going to be even more difficult because the
teams are so heavy at the top. I mean, Arizona
just finished off winning the Big twelve Duke is amazing.
Michigan's lost twice, you got Yukon Florida. I mean, you
got legitimately five or six teams that think they've got
a legitimate chance at the national championship. And I don't
know if I felt that way a year ago, but
it feels like the net over potential title contenders is
a lot bigger than it was last season.
Speaker 6: Well, as long as the Houston has Kevin Sampson, they're
going to be okay. Kevin Sampson is an amazing backhead
that bball coach.
Speaker 2: I would agree with you on that.
Speaker 18: He's he's a great coach. He's got two talented freshmen,
got a couple of veteran guards.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 18: The low post play has been a little bit of working,
still a work in progress, because the fact that the
big man, especially Jojo Tuckler gets in a foul trouble
so much and that's not great.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call, David. We appreciate it.
Speaker 18: And that's what scares me Ross is that Jojo is
such a huge part of this team in a low block,
but he's picking up fouls at a really high clip
very early on. And in the college game, you get
a second foul in the first half, you're basically dooing
for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4: That comes with the territory, with the physical style of play,
kind of like Houston Rockets, like Eymandoka likes to play
physical and you kind of let theere the force of
the referees.
Speaker 2: To not make those calls, and Cougars do the same thing. Yeah,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 18: So we look forward to it. We'll be talking a
lot of Cougar basketball. The tournament coming up in a
few weeks. Do our longrrns have a chance for that
large bit sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Long Horns are going to make the tournament. Beat
the Aggies over the weekend. They I think they're ten
and seven in sec plays something like that, so they'll
probably get in as like an eight nine is what
it's feeling like right now. Oh, you feel like a
trip to Dayton's and play, then it's possible, but uh yeah,
it's a tough game.
Speaker 4: They have an ark I think it's Arkansas, and then
they yeah, Arkansas tomorrow and then they'll be taking on
the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday to end league play. Right now,
they're nine and seven SEC play. They should be in
as like a Hopefully if they can win a couple
of games and win some games in the SEC tournament,
they could get up to the seven seed or something
like that to try to avoid having to be in
an eight nine. And then of course that means you're
playing a one in the second round.
Speaker 18: So I'm gonna say, honestly, I'm rooting for the Long
Hours to get in. It's I think it's fuhe your
buddies have teams in the tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is fun. So I can just get disappointed again.
I'm ready to get hurt again with the Long Horns
and the tournament happens. I can't wait it happened. It
happens all of our sports teams.
Speaker 2: Life is paid. Let's get Texans when the.
Speaker 18: FC South of the year and they just you know,
come AFC Divisional Playoff weekend. They're done Astros. I mean
we've had two World Series. That's a good run. Yes,
Rockets are back of the playoff track. Hopefully we'll get
passed for the first round this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be nice. Sports are built for disappointment sports.
You know, he'd be looming in the second round Santonino Spurs.
So I'm a little scared about that. Are you gonna
run with me on that tribute and come down a sandway?
I'll come down to San Antonio. Yeah you're invited. Yeah,
I'll take the Greyhound. Can you pick me up? No,
we'll drive together. Okay, great, Oh we're gonna try let's
go road road trip, road trip.
Speaker 19: I like this.
Speaker 18: Now I'll be giving up the plane for you, but
that's worth it because you're a good, good friend of Oh.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Matt.
Speaker 18: All right, we got Dave to get to and then
I got a tap about what happened to me this morning.
I got a video of me and Miami. I didn't
realize I was being videotaped. Oh really, m hmm, what
were you stealing?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? That's what you're gonna have to
listen for. It's called a radio tape. Radio shot me
for once? Maybe for once. I mean, I know what
it's all gonna do it. But that was Dan Matthews
is teasing. I do better tea than that.
Speaker 19: Whoa?
Speaker 2: What does that mean that something is wrong with you?
It's something wrong with me? I love Dan.
Speaker 18: I just tease him literally, see teasing. We got some
more calls to get to, but I gotta get a
story out real, real quick. So one of our sales
reps at seven ninety. Her name is Courtney. Her husband
Rich is a big listens to show. Shout out to
the entire family. They're beautiful young child they just had
about a year ago.
Speaker 2: Courtney says, Rich wanted me to let you see this,
so he shoots he should sends me an Instagram video.
Ross's okay, that's truth. What's what's Bob Barker doing in
this video? No, it's me in the video. Oh it's
an AI video of you. No, it's a real video.
Oh really? So after the show last week, I went
to go get something to eat.
Speaker 18: This man been on Friday show, okay, And I went
to like one of those peta places you know in Miami. Okay,
you can stuff them with lamb or beef sirloin. It
was schwarma basically.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was exactly that.
Speaker 18: And I, you know, because Ross is always challenging me
to challenge my palettes. I always to try something different
because something you can only get in Miami. And I
had this rabbi kind of peta thing was delicious. It
had some spiced peppers and it had some pickles that
had some rend on and it was really delicious. And
the owner of the place was like walking me through
the menu. He's like, we've got great hummus here, we
got this iid hummus and he goes, okay, he says,
what do you want to get? So he's like pointing
me to his menu and he's telling me what to
order and what's a drink and if I want to
side with it?
Speaker 2: I thought, this isn't it, you know, young business command.
He's trying to learn his craft. Come to find out,
he was shooting video of me ordering at his place.
Instagram video of me ordering. You didn't yell at him
or anything, did you?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, let me ask you this. How did
he do that? He didn't have a phone in his hand.
He wasn't shooting. Was he video? Does he videotape his restaurant?
Speaker 4: Did he have glasses? What was the what was the
point of view? Was it for people have like metaglasses
and they record their metaglasses. It hadn't been that because
he was literally it was looking talking to him and
he looks right in front of him. Correct, So he's
recording on your metaglasses and he didn't. There was no
sign on the door you may be recorded or anything.
I didn't see anything, not though I would pay intention
to say, well you.
Speaker 2: Can see that guy.
Speaker 4: I think I think you're supposed to have consent of
people posting your stuff, especially for promotional materials.
Speaker 2: Now, the food was excellent and it's got like three
thousand views on Instagram.
Speaker 18: I'm must send it to you for the show because
it's kind of weird, okay, But the number one thing
was the comments were will you let the man live
his life? Because he was running through everything for me
and everybody thought this guy was being way too.
Speaker 2: Pushy to me. Oh really yeah hmm, but it was
weird that and then Courtney and her husband Rich who
listens to show, how did he see it? He was
just some random thing that popped it. There's the guy
doesn't know my name.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Now I've got a Houston shirt on that says rockets.
But that's that's as far as it goes. Interesting. How
do you feel being filmed without your consent?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I've been filmed before without your consent.
Sometimes depends on what's going what else going on in
our lives. But it was just weird. I'm at this
random small business what's it called. I don't even know. Okay,
I'm gonna send it to you and then during I
want you to look at Okay, thank you. I will
react If I should sue this guy.
Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna get much money, but but
I mean they need to They need to tell you
you're being filmed if they're going to be posting on
their social put it this way.
Speaker 18: If if he's going to use me as a way
to sell his product, at least he could do caught
my lunch.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Like, you need to be taken
care of and compensated. Yeah, the name of the Instagram
is like.
Speaker 2: I went to a Burt Being Company barbecue and saying
in Sagene and there they asked me to be filmed,
and I said, no, likely cut the check.
Speaker 14: Bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not here to promote because because you know
what they did the people behind me, and they had
them order like ten times and stuff like it's like
a job. It's like, no, I'm just trying to get
a barbecue and get out of here. I'm not trying
to sell your product for free.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 18: He put it on YouTube and the caption says he
left saying I'm happy like a baby.
Speaker 2: You did say that? Fat and happy is what I said.
He left saying I'm happy like a baby. Yeah. I
just sent to you guys in the show group text. Wow,
this is weird. Isn't that weird? Yeah, you should be
feeling you should feel uncomfortable. I just don't want to
be filmed. If we're gon' to have a restaurant, I mean,
let me be Oh yeah he has he has like
metaglasses on or something. Okay. Oh this has got thirty
two hundred likes, Yeah, and sixty four comments.
Speaker 18: The comments are leave the guy alone, he wants to
have some lunch. Listen really read the comments. Yeah, you
know what I'll do, I'll put this on my on
my Twitter account. You'll see that too. It's just weird.
Speaker 4: Oh look, these people are being nice. I love customers
like this. Very good service reeled him in. This man
is very good at talking. Yep, central bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They took about the guy who was like the
entire free Palestine going there. Matt you have one hundred
and ten thousand views. Okay, no, you need to charge
this guy. Yeah, how do I do this?
Speaker 1: Does that?
Speaker 2: Only going to Miami once a year?
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 4: All these other videos, look you're blowing up, Maddie. Okay,
most these are like sixty kvos. Oh, this one's two
hundred and twenty. It's kind of pussy by the way.
This one is five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: You saw Jonathan. Yeah, he said a little bit.
Speaker 4: Like, oh wow, this this has six point You don't
know you're being filmed either, though, I know that's exactly right.
Six point six point eight million views. Dang, let's get
these numbers up, Maddie.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying, I mean, I'm glad he kind
of tell me what I wanted didn't want, and he's
trying to push the hummus. I don't like hummos, so Uh, yeah,
you this is Oh, this is this on YouTube? What
is this on Instagram? On YouTube? He's got one hundred
and ten thousand views on YouTube. No, this isn't right. Honestly, you.
Speaker 4: Should be you should consent to be filmed if he's
he's making money off this. Quite frankly, how.
Speaker 2: Should I go to the comments section and say you
didn't tell me you're filming me?
Speaker 4: One hundred thousand views he's making money on YouTube? That
makes money. I don't know how much money. Chris Gordy
locked on SEC can tell us more?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Or Cole Thompson, like one hundred thousand views on YouTube,
that's making a little bit of a chunk of change.
Speaker 2: I bet you though.
Speaker 4: He's gonna say there's a signed somewhere in the restaurant.
There's you have to see it out there because he
got you on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah there. Maybe there's a little sign that says
you can sent to be being filmed or something like that.
I mean, he wasn't being mom like this. I don't
like it. I don't like it.
Speaker 4: You're making money off of me. I need a chump
that video is, he'd make it. You're the only one
in that video. That's correct, he's making money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not right. That's why I got you as my friends.
Let's talk to Willie on seven ninty.
Speaker 17: Hello, WILLI Hi, good afternoon. I hope you get better soon.
And I understand that your course and you can't talk
very loud. I've been that way after a few few
Cougar games. Couldn't talk next day. Yeah, we watched Rockets
last night and I do think Breech Epperd is the
most improved player on the team. He's come from me
thinkings come really from nowhere, and uh, it's a lot
of fun to watch. After that, we went to the
Arizona game to see what was going on there and
I looked up the roster of the Arizona team. The
majority of these players come from outside of a country.
They might have three players that come from the United States.
How are they doing that? I just think that that
is so un American to do that, to call this
a team in the United States when they're coming from
all over the world, Netherlands to dan France, England, all
all these places.
Speaker 18: And WILL ask you this, Willy, are are people from
other countries allowed to go to schools in the United States.
Speaker 17: Yes, but certainly they do. They are and some of
them are. A minute really anyways.
Speaker 2: Will did you have a problem with Hachem Olajuwan coming
from Nigeria to play with the University of Houston Cougars.
Speaker 17: No, but the majority of the team didn't come from
out of the doesn't matter how many people are doing it. Well,
it's just to me, you're a little irritating because I
think that we should have more prospects coming out of
our high school to our junior college.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not the college coach's fault. That's the that's
the that's the American talent, that's the problem.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Well I didn't understand it, but you know, after they won,
I was they took the conference championship, so congratulations.
Speaker 2: Let me take you something.
Speaker 18: If the University Houston has fourteen kids that don't that
are all from fourteen different countries, as long as they
can stay eligible to compete and can go to class,
I don't care where they're from.
Speaker 17: Well, I'm just a little irritated with it.
Speaker 19: I just.
Speaker 2: Gotta watch out for the Dutch.
Speaker 17: Yeah, watch out for the Dutch. Huh Yeah, all right,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You got it. That was a take I wasn't expecting
so far today. You know, you know a kick ackem
Olage one from Nigeria outside of America. Uh, that's an
American people people coming from foreign countries to live in America.
Speaker 4: That's very Unamerican. M or maybe everyonce from a foreign country.
I don't know whatever. Oh, by the way, that's the take.
Courtney just texted me.
Speaker 2: Rich is listening. Okay, shout out to you, Rich.
Speaker 18: Let me take something Rich, if you're an attorney, you
can give me some money off this YouTube clip.
Speaker 2: Oh they got they do actually have some Uh. This
guy's from France, Senegal, Germany, Lithuania, Motius Crevas su Dan. Well,
this is great. Yeah, there's been a lot of international
players who come and play college basket. People come from
other places and try to get a better opportunity.
Speaker 18: It's crazy, Buddy Healed, When Toklhomi is from the Bahamas,
you say about that, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean Yodis Alexander came from Canada. Willie's got a
problem with it. Yeah, un American. Here's a college athletics.
Speaker 4: It's un American for people to come here and try
to improve their lives and their education, and they're standing
and try to make the.
Speaker 18: NBA as long I mean, and I'm assuming they're all
legally a lot to be in our country. Now, be
follow the rules to make it happen. Now if you
have be legal.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna hunger, but I'm going to pursuent
these young men. They are eighteen, eighteen years old or
legally in our country. All right, God, God, let's do
today's edition of How the astros ops is. No, it's
just it's just a spring training. It's just spring training.
But it's not great twelve forty six.
Speaker 18: It's Matt Thomas Shold Ross seven one three two one
two five seven hoety by the way, Wexer's and Tom Ball.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna be with you. I'm gonna be with
you for a few more Minutes's he in Bridgeland? I
don't know what the helly? Do you know what he's
probably got an apartment?
Speaker 19: Is?
Speaker 17: Say?
Speaker 2: Is the leasing places out there in Bridgeland.
Speaker 18: I'm Oudam Wexer. I'm the tech reporter for seven ninety.
I like to go to every practice and I need
to be close to Toro.
Speaker 4: Town, Greg and Htown has gotten us down to the
bottom of the walls in Florida, which are apparently very loose.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, what is you say?
Speaker 4: You can be recorded in Florida without consent in a
public place, but if they want to use it commercially,
they need your consent. Yeah, this is for his restaurant,
and then this is getting views on YouTube, it's getting
his this is marketing for his restaurant, and he's probably
making YouTube revenue.
Speaker 2: I would say that's being used commercially. Cut me a
damn okay, so let me ask you this. Do I
then go to that page and say, hey, you didn't
tell me I was doing this. I don't know, man,
you may get a seasoned assist. I mean, I'm not
turning to be an a hole about it. So this
is weird. I know. I'm just saying. I mean, he's
just making content off you and making money. That's fine.
Speaker 18: Twelve fifty four on the Matt Thomas showed with Ross
and No, I'm not doing an RFK. Junior person, you
should thanks everybody again for putting that out there.
Speaker 2: Rude. Well, you sound better than you did the first segment. Yeah,
I mean, it's just because I'm warming up it's great
doing great. It's not great, it's fine. Have you seen
all this Luke Cornett stuff coming about the Strip club
in Atlanta? And what's going on with Luke Cornett? Lou
Cornett wrote, here's that Magic City? What's that? Oh he's upset, Yeah,
he's upset. Okay, he thinks it's tender greeting women and
it's a bad idea. Here's the real. Yeah, that's probably
not it's not a good idea. And he's making second
a point. It's trying to make a a franchise that
has no relevance. He's somewhat relevant. It's just it is
what it is. It's a cheap it's a cheap marketing plug.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're trying to be cool and fun and Magic
City it's funny, but also, I mean, Luke Cornett, I
don't know. Are more people going to go because they
have Magic City Night?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: The answer so far as yes. Is it a step back?
Speaker 4: Well, apparently no people are going to the the arena right,
Apparently it's hard to come by.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's not for me to say,
is this is this setting back women? Well? You did
to ask women, and I think you know, the answer
that question. No, I actually don't. I may not. Everybody's
gonna give the same answer, so correct, But.
Speaker 18: I would think probably the majority of people, majority of women,
would say this is not what you should be marketing.
Speaker 2: But those women make those choices that are on too.
So okay, d NBA probably shouldn't be doing this anyways.
But but I mean, I think it's fine.
Speaker 18: And what else are you gonna talk about? Hey, we're
gonna win thirty seven games again, come see us.
Speaker 2: Atlanta is known for Magic City. Apparently the Wings are fantastic.
Speaker 18: I'm not a big Lemon Pepper guy, but the guy,
but people I know swear they're like Lemon Pepper wings.
Speaker 2: I do now changed my mind. Okay, good Firehouse, Lemon Pepper,
Big City Wings. We'll up Big City Wings. Let's go.
Speaker 18: We should Big City Wings. And at the end the
Rockets game, I don't get people in the building, That's true.
Get there early, ols. Thursday's game is six thirty. You
don't need to be ready for that little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hold my breath on that.
Speaker 4: Hey, well, the the stuff, the people in the Steph
Curry jerseys will be in their seats.
Speaker 2: And he won't be there. To play.
Speaker 18: No, no, that's true. You know what's funny is it crazy?
Is how the Rocket season has gone. There's still number
three in the West.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the bad games, the King's losses, Pelicans loss Utah,
New York, the fourth quarter lead. Yeah, they're they're still
pretty good. NBA is hard. Everybody's a he made Doka
is the worst coach ever, and he needs to play
Rechepper forty minutes every game.
Speaker 4: And he can't coach offense. He's playing Dorian Phinney Smith
too much. They're the three seed, three and better. Oh
the better record they had last year. Yes, let's go
to the phones. Talk to uh Christian. Mark Christian, you're.
Speaker 2: A seven ninety. Good afternoon.
Speaker 13: First of all, I would be bombastic in my greeting,
but because Mac is sick, I don't want to add
on to the headache. Good afternoon, Matt Thomas and Rob Perley. Yeah,
I hope you're feeling better.
Speaker 9: Matt.
Speaker 2: I actually feel just fine. I look great too. Thanks
for asking.
Speaker 13: I'm pretty sure you look better than you did back
in the nineties.
Speaker 2: But to be honest, that's enough from you. What do
you want.
Speaker 17: My apologies?
Speaker 13: Matt, I'm just saying, first of all, when it comes
down to the woman complaining that there are too many
international players in the NBA right now, I'll just say
this respectfully, I think she needs to shut her bomb
ass up because there has been this season alone, there
are over one hundred and thirty players from forty different
countries in the NBA.
Speaker 2: She was talking about college basketball.
Speaker 13: She wasn't talking about the pros I understand, But the
point of the matter is that basketball is a global sport.
If she doesn't like that, she should go watch something else.
I mean, I think that if you're basically complaining about that,
you are watching the wrong sports now, as far as
I mean, the second question I want to talk about
is when it comes down to the video that you
were in, which I haven't seen anything about it yet,
but still though, have you thought about getting royalties off
of that?
Speaker 18: Just no, Christian, My greatest mistake of all time was
not trademarking Crush City. I've taken a loss on that.
I'm not going to take the guy's money. Just weird,
that's all.
Speaker 13: I mean. You've been on just about everything, like Jimmy
Kimmel Live the Olympics in ninety six.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just about everything.
Speaker 2: I forget about Dave Letterman. I was on Dave Letterman two,
I know.
Speaker 13: With the two guys from Bangladesh back in the day.
Speaker 18: Shout out to those guys. Yeah, let me tell about Christian.
Let me tell about Christian Ross. This Christian is my life,
out of my own life.
Speaker 13: But you need to I mean, but I think it
would be best to just act that place.
Speaker 6: Hey, you know, can he me a thousand dollars for.
Speaker 13: Using my name, image and likeness.
Speaker 1: I'm a pretty big name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have a pretty big deal. Yeah you need
an nil payment, Matt. I think that's a great idea,
Christian that maybe this may be your best call ever.
Speaker 18: You don't call first. We even called it a helicopter
phone in a long time. That's true, you'll try to
give me some money.
Speaker 9: I like that.
Speaker 13: Well, thank you, mister Thomas. Other than that, I'm about
to get off and let you enjoy the rest of
the show and I'll talk to you on social media.
Speaker 2: Get better, dude, Thank you very much.
Speaker 18: By the way, Chris just sent me up d and
me says, I think I sound like Marty funkauser from
the Kirby Enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: That's a good one too. Nobody's called you bobcat goldtwaight yet,
haven't they excuse me?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: I never want to say that name because I feel
like I'm gonna butcher the back end of that. That's fine,
don't worry about.
Speaker 18: It, all right, we're moving on. We got an hour
left to go. Apparently Adam and Adam are too busy
to come in and help you out.
Speaker 1: Help that.
Speaker 2: That's fine, I mean, I can do it. No, I'm sticking.
I'm staying with you. Okay, we'll let you talk some more.
It's great, it's Toronto. Blue Jay's up. Sickness six nothing
on Canada by the way, Oh good by. Would you
hear Aaron Judge's speech to t USA yesterday?
Speaker 4: You know what, I'll tell you something funny. People said
it was so bad and cringey that I didn't want
to click it, like if it's that?
Speaker 2: Was it that bad? Jonathan? Would you? Would you guys
find it and let's play it coming back? Oh gosh,
I don't like to crow. I don't like cringe stuff.
I don't remember it's either my voice or his. Okay,
let's listen to Aaron Judge. Let's play it on a loop. Actually,
I'm on board seven.
Speaker 18: What we're gonna hear from Aaron Judge getting tbus a
motivated in Arizona Yesterday seven one three two one two
five seven.
Speaker 20: Ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one oh
six on Sports Talk seven ninety changing my voice a
little bit there, Ross, sound a little bit better?
Speaker 18: Good job, seven one three two one two fine, It's
like I'm doing a PA announcing seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Matt at Ross with you. We've
got Astro spring training baseball. They're playing Venezuela today sports.
Are you excited about that huge matchup? Huge is a
relative term. You got to get the Venezuelan boys ready
for the for the WBC.
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Really? Uh, jose L Twove has recused himself from this matchup.
Why do you think he'd done that?
Speaker 8: Is this?
Speaker 2: Is he just pissed or what?
Speaker 4: No, he doesn't want to know. I don't think so.
You don't want to beat up on your own guys.
Hmmm to stay away makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am not overly concerned about it.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 2: Aaron je is going to be. He's the captain. You know,
he and Derreteet are the two captains for the Yankees
the last twelve five years.
Speaker 18: Right, So he was in charge of getting the boys
revved up for the Team USA at the World Baseball Classic.
And you've not heard this, correct, I have not? All right,
I heard about how bad it was, but you don't.
Speaker 2: It could be a lot better than you think. Yeah,
maybe it's not gonna be so bad. I want y'all
to sit back and listen to the audio that we've
heard of. It is not great.
Speaker 18: It's a little faint looking like a microphone directly on him. So, ladies,
jem with any further ado, here is the captain of
your World Baseball Classic Team USA team getting his boys
fired up.
Speaker 20: Sacrifice for your family, your sacrifice for your country, and
you're sacrifice for the brothers in the treasure.
Speaker 2: With hers in the day. That's what thing I want
us to do. Now, where down beat up a little bit?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: You know, we're a line if we do that.
Speaker 17: Telling you.
Speaker 2: That's it, it's not that bad.
Speaker 4: I mean, this isn't This isn't any given Sunday, This
isn't a movie. He's not gonna go in there and
start like screaming and yelling and flipping tables and throwing
chairs at the window and stuff like that. I don't
know what people are expecting, and maybe they just want
to dump on Aaron Judge. And I'm pulling up the
video and it looks like he's laughing in the middle
of it, so he couldn't keep his concentration. I don't
have a problem with this. Who cares. It's freaking baseball.
Go out there and nobody's inspired.
Speaker 2: Nobody's that. They're not even playing a game today, are
they or are they tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Are?
Speaker 4: I mean this is from yesterday, right, Nobody's gonna go
and walk out of it. They're not gonna run out
of the tunnel and get pumped up and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I don't care. This is fine. This is people just
wanting to make fun of Aaron Judge and hate on them.
Well that that's done quite a bit.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, baseball doesn't work that way where you
just go, yeah, let's go get him, go a hit somebody,
you know what.
Speaker 4: I mean, You're gonna go Rockney speech and like it's
just that's just not how it's gonna go.
Speaker 18: It was just for a guy that carries himself with
you know, playing for the most organizable sports team in
baseball or one of them, and for him being a
star and being the captain.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's not going to make you
just run through a wall for somebody. But baseball doesn't
run that way. He's not cutting a WWE promo like
this is not that big of a deal.
Speaker 4: I saw a tweet yesterday like I'm ready to run
through a paper bag for Aaron Joe Nice.
Speaker 2: It was pretty bad. Have you noticed people are rude
on top? Yeah, that happens, Yes they are. And everything's
tearing down.
Speaker 4: Like we were talking about earlier, the Rockets, Like, if
you followed Rockets Twitter, you would think there were thirty
games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: I got news for you, Rockets. Twitter is making a
chase towards astros. I've been telling you. I've been telling you.
Speaker 18: Yet, but it's getting closer. Well, you know, the reason
why Rocket Twitter is not number one is because there's
just isn't as many astros Twitter. There's just a great
number of people.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It feels like, I swear to God, it expands countries.
You get Turkish people are in Turkey.
Speaker 18: Every time I see a douchebag who wants Emy Adoka fire,
you lose any credibility.
Speaker 2: I May has lost this team. Ima doesn't know what
he's talking about. There are some.
Speaker 18: Nimrods who call themselves rocket analysts. Yes, there's a bunch
of chumps out there that follow those bros. They don't
know they're a head from their ass.
Speaker 2: That is correct. I May Adoka is a top five
coach in the NBA period, not according to Rockets Twitter.
Speaker 18: That's why when I May had his transgressions, it was
let go. There were about nine teams that wanted him. Sorry, Bra, Sorry,
YouTube wanna be bro. Sorry, I want to be an inside,
but you're really not. I'm a damn insider. That's what
they call me, the Rockets insider. Emai Doka is widely respected.
Speaker 2: Yes, stop it. If any of you see that E
May's losing this team. E May doesn't know what he's doing.
E Mays should be fired. They should have a real
sit down me at the end of the year to
see where this franchise is going. Tell them go follow
another team, Go follow the Washington Wizards, because that's the
acumen you have for NBA Basketball. Trust me when I
tell you.
Speaker 18: The Rockets will be a free agent destination for a
lot of teams because while our weather is good, our
strip clubs are nice, world class money is gonna be
good here too. Yes, well, it's a freaking Adoka. I
came out all of everything he does.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 18: You may be, you know, throwing your body against a
wall because Reid wasn't out there in the final second
of a key game.
Speaker 2: I get that. But no coach is perfect. He may
be the first. I tell you that. I'm not trying
to blow smoke up Emae's ass. I'm just telling you
the truth, the absolute truth. Players in this league want
to play for em Adoka not named Lebron James. Other
than that, yes, yeah, Dave and Stunner will get to
you in a minute one thirteen of the Matt Thomas shild.
Speaker 18: Ross cross Work go back the phones. Yes, if you
feel sorry for me, follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 2: And ask, oh my God, is this the only reason
you're on air today? You want pity follows, you follow
the man in sport. It's important. Let me just say
a point, good God.
Speaker 18: If you feel sorry for me at sports empty, if
you want me to heal up eventually at sports empty.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. I didn't look. Just follow the man, please,
I don't know you hear what.
Speaker 13: Do you hear?
Speaker 2: Ross says he's speaking of the cound. God, you're already
getting called RFK. Now you got called John McClain. Yeah,
what is it? Someone's a match from beauty Shop. I
don't know. I don't know what that is. That's a
deep cut madge from beauty shop. What is beauty shop? Madge?
Speaker 18: Was?
Speaker 2: It was a commercial from palm Alive, like you that
dish washing liquid and you would put your hands in it. Yeah,
it's it's Beauty Shop was a two thousand and five
film starring Queen Latifa.
Speaker 18: Oh okay, I was thinking about the match commercials in
the seventies. Oh come, oh, it's from this okay commercials,
I think Matt, I think it's sweets. I'm about the
beauty shop.
Speaker 2: Paulm. Mollis plain ad. You can see if it sounds
like me, see nineteen fifty two. No, well, she was
around for a long time. Let's move on. Let's go
to the phone. Let's talk to people less of hey, remember,
if you want less of me, please call in people.
If you want less of me, call in and following
it on Instagrams, I can look at mind my new followers.
Oh my god, that don't keep me quiet. Dave on
seven ninety good afternoon.
Speaker 19: Dave, good afternoon, Matt, good afternoon. Ros say, I hope
to start feeling better. Matt. Thank you to off for
you guys, A huge thank you, and you'll understand why
in a minute. A couple of weeks ago, I called
in on Believe It or Not and one tickets to
the rodeo, and the tickets were for last night. So
went to the rodeo last night with my wife and
the rodeo is great. I mean it's it's really well done,
always a good time. I didn't know who the performer
was going to be, never heard of the guy, guy
named Riley Green, but my wife knew who he was,
and telling you, all the women who were there last
night knew who he was. So anyway, it turns out
this guy's just this real rugged, handsome cowboy singer. Okay,
and so at the end of the night we get
home after listening to this guy for fifty minutes or whatever,
my wife was raring to go okay, and so the
festivities continued.
Speaker 9: Once we got home.
Speaker 19: She was so repped up. I barely had time for
that blue pill to even work. Now. She did make
me wear a cowboy hat, and she did call me
Riley a couple of times, but overall, a great night.
Speaker 9: I want to thank you guys for it. Hello, thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2: He's saying, thank us. Oh, he's thinking us, Jonathan, how
much role playing to you and your girl?
Speaker 17: Do what.
Speaker 2: You'd the experienced one? You tell me, did you make
your girl wear a way? Occasionally? Just make sure it
look like somebody else. I'll take that as a no.
Riley Green, Riley Green had missus. What was his name, Dave? Dave?
This is Dave riled up. I think he's embellishing a
little bit that didn't seem like it. His bones jumped.
How do you go see a hot country guy and
then go, you know what, let's get on. Well, let's
get it onto our own radio. The ovens already preheated. Matt, Hmmm,
maybe I should try that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what gets my wife going is duke basketball. Yeah,
that's probably worked for you in the years past. It
has When Duke wins, I win when Duke lose. I sit,
I sleep in the backyard. Yeah, you got like a
like a Bobby Hurley jersey.
Speaker 18: I'm deathly afraid that she's gonna root for Duke over
Houston in a tournament because she's so excited about it.
Speaker 2: Definitely afraid. You already know. Yeah, but she she hit
it pretty well. When Houston beat isn't isn't Duke number
one in the UH, in the country one or two? Yeah? Oh,
number one in kim Pom Duke basketball. How the Cougar's
and kemp palm number six. That's good. That's bad. I'm
not bad. Yeah, it's good, it's great. I'm very pleased
with that. You should be Texas Longhorns twenty ninth. Let's
go at large. They're on the CUSP. No, they're in baby,
are you sure?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: By the way, I got one for you.
Speaker 18: Well, unlets's theay collapse. So I was listening to a
national show on the way home from the report last night.
Speaker 2: That's a mistake. What if my you know, Miami of
Ohio is twenty.
Speaker 18: Nine and oh right, yes, the mac is probably gonna
be a one big league, one bid league.
Speaker 2: Yes, if they don't win their tournament. Can they get
in that large spot?
Speaker 4: I would say if they're undefeated up until the tournament final,
they should they they probably will get it.
Speaker 2: What's their ken? Paulm Miami of Ohio eighty sixth? I're
twenty nine and oh and you're eighty sixth? All right,
maybe I'm wrong? Who knows?
Speaker 18: So let me ask you this because Bruce Pearl has
been railing against Miami Ohio getting it.
Speaker 2: He hates Miami Ohio.
Speaker 18: He's basically saying, is it the sixty eight most competitive
teams or the sixty eight best teams?
Speaker 4: I think if you have an if you have a
one loss Miami of Ohio, they pro probably should get it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I'm not following their roster.
We'll put in there's the question, would would normally a
max and I don't know how the max basketball is
this year? Honestly, it's probably terrible. Typically they're a one
Bay league.
Speaker 18: If somebody else sneaks in and gets that spot, are
you going to give an at large team Miami an
at large spot?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: To knock out a team like Texas? Maybe? Sure? What
that's not gonna knock out Texas? And I was throwing
example out there.
Speaker 4: I guess if they lost, you look, if they're undefeated,
they're in, so it doesn't matter. And if they have
one loss, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's for the committee to decide. I'm
gonna be honest, I'm not educated on this enough. I'm
going to presume that. Frankly, Miami le schedules not great.
Speaker 4: It's not I don't even see anybody good at anybody notable,
I should say, in their non conference air force Nope.
Speaker 2: Their air force isn't won a game in the Mountain
West Arkansas, Pine Bluff nope, Old Dominion no mean no
unc Asheville overtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say the counter argument would just be
schedule a better or non conference.
Speaker 2: They beat mercy Hurst, what blessed mercy Hurst?
Speaker 9: Bless you?
Speaker 2: They beat Trinity Christian Ross. Their schedule sucks. Yeah, Okay,
if they don't make it, they don't make it. Who cares?
That's right, that's not some great to our friend's stunner. Yeah,
let's do that, stunner. What's going on?
Speaker 13: What's going on? Man?
Speaker 19: Rosse?
Speaker 8: Hey man, you gonna need a your voice duplicated because
you gotta way the scribbles up at ten o'clock. There's
no excuse you having a sore throat. You gotta be
on point with That was on Johnson Leanstip deal his
job with you down, back you up? And number two,
hey man, that means separate. He was drafted number.
Speaker 9: Three, Yes.
Speaker 10: He was.
Speaker 8: No, I'll tell you on my mind, I know that
wasn't the best thing on the blood for him.
Speaker 9: The goal three was.
Speaker 2: I mean it was not a great draft. Remember that
was the draft that what does Zacharychoche went one ross?
Speaker 4: Yes, r went two to the Washington Stefan Castle has
been a better player, taking one spot after Reid.
Speaker 2: Right after at four. But I mean, I don't know
to say, look, rates played better. I don't think there's
any argument to it. He's outside shot, he's a ross.
He's a forty three point shoot right now. It's good.
We'll take it.
Speaker 18: Yes, I would say still probably a minus defender, although
he had six steel steals yesterday.
Speaker 2: Shoe blocks. Yeah, he's got good. I mean, let me
tell you and thank you for the phone call, honey.
Speaker 18: Physically, he's gonna have some liabilities defensively, but he kind
of knows where to go.
Speaker 2: It's just gonna get there in times that make sense
to you. Yeah, he just he just gets this stronger.
Speaker 4: He gets pushed around by bigger guys, and I mean
he can rip some steals, he can get some guys
can dribble past.
Speaker 2: Him, and he can take the ball. But he's not
gonna be a first team All defense He's not.
Speaker 18: No, but it's gonna be a future NBA MVP, according
to Chris Gordy. I mean, if that's the case, God
love him.
Speaker 2: I hope he does. Oh, thank god. Adam Wexler's here.
Oh wex is here.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: A couple of seconds left of the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross, which started off without Matt Thomas, then it
had a Chris Gordy, then it had a Matt Thomas,
and now it has an Adam Wexler. Hey man, Hey
wex thanks for showing up and pinch hitting for Matt Thomas,
who I think is going straight to the clinic to
get some sort of steroidal injection and hopefully he can
be close to a full throated tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Ten Am. Who knows how that's gonna go.
Speaker 12: We'll have to wait and see our on our pins
and needles to see how things will work out for tomorrow.
It's called the radio manage to be on the air
till eleven forty nine tomorrow. We will find out tomorrow
ten am Sports Talk seven ninety. Make sure you stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Of course, Adam, what's a part of the A team
coming up at two o'clock here on a Sports Talk
seven ninety. We've been talking a number of different things here.
Of course, we had the Rockets in action last night
against the Washington Wizards. Reed Shepherd has been a storyline
for basically throughout the entire season. A lot of people
wanting him in the starting lineup in closing lineups, which
he has been popping up more in closing lineups.
Speaker 14: Of course.
Speaker 4: Jabari Smith Junior missing a time with the ankle injury,
should be back on Thursday. Still waiting to see what
happened with him and Thompson at the end of the
game last night. But over Read Shepherd pretty good game.
Nineteen points, ten assists, a career high. Also had six
deals and a couple of blocks. So I ask you
how much more can Read Shepherd contribute, especially down the
stretch and in closing lineups for the Houston Rockets. As
the season continues here into March.
Speaker 12: Let me ask you one question about last night before
I give you an answer to the question you asked me.
Do you think that was the best game Read Shepherd
had played? And I present it in this way, that
was not an elite shooting night for Reed Shepherd. He
wasn't an blow you away. They got to get out on.
He had a good offensive night, scored nineteen points. He
played forty two minutes at a little less than half
of his shots, so it wasn't one of those oh my,
he's just hot. He was five of nine from deep.
He scored twenty seven points on thirteen he was He
was fine, His percentage was okay. But the basketball that
he played, he played the passing lanes. He defended his
play his individual assignment because the Rockets weren't I don't
think helping him much with double teams, nor do they
normally played his assignment very well. Obviously was into the
game like you need him to be on both sides.
Looked for his while also looking for teammates. I don't
know how you have seven rebounds in one half and
zero in the other, but he managed to do that
despite playing all but forty five seconds of the second half.
So that is my question. First, do you think that
was the best basketball he's played? And then I'll temper
it and give you an answer. Okay, yeah, I think
it was arguably the best basketball he played. And was
it the temper it is the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2: Is that part of it?
Speaker 12: And that's where here and saying look at Read's numbers
when he starts, look at whose Reader has had the
good fortune of starting against. It has something to do
with it, and it's not all of it, but either
way you do it. He started nine times, that's already
a tiny sample size. How many of those nine games
were against incompetent teams and no offense? Because if you
heard what em said about them, he's being a realist.
I hope everybody likes that about e May. I mean,
he's not trying to sugar they stink. They're not a
good basketball team. They're in it's a fact. It's okay
to say it out loud.
Speaker 2: They know it.
Speaker 12: They're the team that Washington has that might not be inferior.
They were all right there in street clothes watching other
than Anthony Davis, but Alex sars on the bench and
Trey Young's all their good players are sitting there, so
that is an inferior team. Reed Shepherd brings something this
team needs, and that's why he should be on the
floor more. I'm not necessarily saying closing lineups if they
need a shift in how they play offensive basketball, and
that's where I think everybody should be on board.
Speaker 2: They should they should want that.
Speaker 12: This is where the NBA is now, and I was
appreciative of them being near the top of the league
in three point shooting as a team for about the
first six to eight weeks of the season, but they're
one of the biggest reasons why they stayed there is
because they were a low volume team. They were literally
only taking the shots that they thought they could make,
and Tar Easton obviously, he was on a several month
long heater. Now that they're a higher volume team, which
they better continue to be because I think almost every
good team in the NBA will be that they need
the best players shooting them and they need to do
a much better job of getting those players open. And
by Reid being on the court a obviously he's one
of those players and I think he helps all of
the other players, Jabari Smith Junior, who they're obviously playing without,
Kevin Durant clearly, and Tari Eason. If you're gonna be
a thirty five to forty five three point shots per
game team, which is probably what they should be, those
four guys should be taking ninety percent of those shots,
eighty five percent of those shots, and you'll see what
a difference it makes. He's part of that. He does
matter specifically to this group. He just simply does things
they don't. He's the best at it. I mean, who's
the best three point shooter on the team. I don't
think anybody's debating it, even with Kevin Durant shooting forty
percent Vin Durant, it's Reed Shepherd. It's unquestionably read Shepherd
now and you need it. And I do think they've
figured out better and better ways to make their team defense. Okay,
while he's out there, but he's not the only reason
they struggle with team defense. It's because they still have
too many lapses defensively. Washington got to expose all of them.
I know they wanted the Wizards to shoot threes because
they're terrible at it, and last night they just happened
to not be. But the amount of clear, obvious, defensive
switching communication mistakes that were made by players whose last
name isn't Shepherd, it's still too high.
Speaker 2: It's just way too high. They make too many mistakes. Yeah,
I mean, there's a lot to cover there.
Speaker 4: I will just say with yeah, Read Shepherd, I'll still
go with Kevin Durant is the best shooter on the Rockets,
but the three three point shooter on the Rockets as well.
But Reads bounced back as well. He started the season,
it looked like maybe the legs were getting under maybe
he was just you know, all the minutes played that
he accrued or whatever all Star breaks. Since then, he's
been like at forty five percent and he's looked great.
And he The thing too, is that not only that
he's knocking them down, he can knock them down under
the rest, he can get up the shots quick.
Speaker 2: He's got a very quick release.
Speaker 4: He's knocking down shots from deep into into three like
he's knocking him down from all over the place. So
that's the beautiful thing with what Reed Shepherds showing with
his shooting, which just wasn't up to par for whatever
reason last year, and he's made the huge leite this year,
so that is certainly an element of stretching the floor
that this team needs. Every team could use a forty
three point shooter, but especially this team with the Men
Thompson and an alprinching gun on the floor at the
same time a lot.
Speaker 12: Yeah, alpron was better last night in that he could
have probably taken five or six threes.
Speaker 2: He's got to stop and last night he did.
Speaker 12: You know, you're going to get a better shot than
that on almost every single possession, and they need to
take their time to go find it. You know, Men
Thompson is super selective with when he does it, and
usually the other team has kind of set him up
for it. He took a shot last night in the
corner and he made it. Everybody else of those four,
they're going to be open a lot and they're gonna
find a way to put it down. He brought up
some of the it's again small samples, so I post
All Star Break numbers. You know, Jabari was absolutely cooking
for about the last three weeks. His post All Star
Break threes, he's hit in forty eight percent reads at
forty four point four percent a Kobe's at forty two
percent and almost one hundred percent of those are corner threes,
and Katie's at thirty nine percent post all starbrek. These
are the kind of numbers you want to see more
of continuing. And I don't see hopefully if Jabari's back
later this week, that they won't. And I'm curious what
they will really do with both Amen Thompson and Jabari
Smith Junior. There's twenty two games left in the season.
You sell multiple back to backs left, including this Thursday, Friday,
a bunch of three and four nights, all that kind
of stuff. You're trying to get to the April sixteenth
weekend as healthy as possible.
Speaker 2: Is it a must that.
Speaker 12: Jabaris Smith Junior comes back Thursday and Amn Thompson comes
back Thursday?
Speaker 2: Is it? Can we still put it off even if
it costs to a win? They got to be healthy.
Speaker 4: I think it seems like just from the philosophies we've seen,
I mean, Alprin Shinun came back early from an ankle injury,
Guys try to play through things, which I mean Tom's
and has all season. It does seem like I don't
know if it's from Udoka or the training staff or whatever.
It just seems like this team does push in the
regular season and they do prioritize that because at least
now with the playing games, what you play Sunday and
then you don wouldn't play until Friday or Saturday after that,
if you can just get to the finish line. Plus,
we know how tight things are in the West after
the three spot. You're only a half game ahead of
the Timberwolves, You're only a game ahead of the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the playing probably are going to be there is huge.
If just to again lay it out, last game of
the season is Sunday, that's April twelfth. If you stay
out of the playing tournament, you're off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and if you are hosting the opening game. The Rockets
get back home on after they play Phoenix on April seventh,
their last three games are all at home and presumably
they finished top four. So now you're not only going
to not have to travel in between your last game
of the regular season and your first playoff game, you're
going to have been home for almost two full weeks,
with five days for game one or six. If they're
a Sunday game to get as healthy as possible, and
that I mean, I don't know if you consider that
a month out, which is about where we are, but
something to to just keep in mind. And again it's
back to back today, Thursday and Friday. Then they play
San Antonio on Sunday, followed by a back to back
on Tuesday and Wednesday. So when you get to Thursday,
you got five games and seven nights. It's or five
games and eight nights, both guys nursing.
Speaker 2: Something. Just get further past it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that philosophy, but he just he just
feels like the rocket. Maybe it's just the players too.
I mean, a man wants to be out there. Jabari
wants to be out there. I'll punch you. Like I said,
he came back. It was supposed to be like a
two week ankle injury. He came back in like five
days or whatever it was. But also he was slowed
for like a month.
Speaker 12: Right, it looked great amateur doctors like we are watching
Jabari Smith Junior leave the game where he twisted his ankle,
and then last night with about eight minutes ago, watching
a men leave it did not look anything above whatever.
Speaker 2: The lowest grade tweak twist is what it looked like.
Speaker 1: Came.
Speaker 4: Let's stick with that, not a great three like Steven Adams.
All right, we're gonna take quick break. Doctor Wexler is
on the case here on Sports Talk seven ninety. We're
with you until two o'clock. You want to guys, want
to get in quick you can seven one three, two
one two five, seven ninety The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross without Matt Thomas, who's got the laryngitis and hopefully
is hitting the doctor right now with you for one
more second final segment of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross without Matt Thomas.
Speaker 2: He is out sick.
Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow. I think we'll see how he sounds.
Ten am here on Sports Talk seven iinty coming up
at two o'clock. You got Adam Wexler and Adam Clinton.
Wex was gracious to hang out with Matt Thomas ducking
out earlier. Well, we got a lot of different stuff
we can get to and I have been getting to
on the show. And then of course we'll continue two
to six here on Sports Talk seven ninety. But let's
go with the the David Montgomery thing. What was your
initial reaction wex of the David Montgomery trade. Now we
have the news today Breeze Hall was franchised tagged. Don't
know if Nick Cassaria knew directly that that was coming,
but probably figured it was going to be a shortage
of options in the free agent market.
Speaker 2: And now I mean as your RB one or one
A with Woody marks as your one B.
Speaker 4: I don't know how we're gonna say this, David Montgomery
and Woody Marx and your thoughts on also the potential
of possibly even adding one in the draft.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would be looking to add
one of the draft. I would not be. I'll say
it that way.
Speaker 12: I don't think it's crazy to think that they will
draft one, but I certainly hope they don't have to,
because oh, we love this guy and he's still on
the board.
Speaker 2: We have to take him here. Again.
Speaker 12: A lot of people are only the only view of
Montgomery and Marx and draft, like, oh, they need him,
they got to have this. This is not a one
year situation. Do they need a good running back? Do
they need a number one? A real one? Honestly, don't
you want somebody better than Joe Mixon. Like, it's been
a long time since they've had somebody better than Joe Mixon.
This is nobody seems to think that way.
Speaker 2: I think this is.
Speaker 12: I wish they would think that way, both fans and
the team. So I'm all for finding a better player
and a player better than David Montgomery, because I don't
think Montgomery's better than Joe Mixon. He's just better than
what they have. And that's what they've been doing with
their offense in perpetuity since Nick Cassaria has been here. Well,
he's better than what we have. How about aiming a
little higher at any position you'd like? Nico Collins and
c J. Stroud are kind of the only standouts there.
You know, you brought in Dalton Schultz several years ago
in free agency. He was an elite tight end. Yeah,
but he's better than what we have. He was and
all the offensive linemen that have come through as a
revolving door. Yeah, he's better than what we have. Who's
the best offensive lineman they've ever brought in. I'm not
asking you because you don't need to answer. It's rhetorical.
There isn't anybody. There's no such thing. So David Montgomery
being here is great because it's how Nick likes to operate.
So I think he's happy and he can continue on
his plan. He doesn't want to go bidding for players.
He doesn't want to bid for Kenneth Walker Junior.
Speaker 2: He does the third. He didn't want to bid for
Breese Hall.
Speaker 12: I think if Breese Hall want if he wanted Breese
Hall here, Brees Hall would have already played his first
game as a Texan and it would have been in
twenty twenty five, and they would have been able to
negotiate with him while he was a Texan and they
would have been the team that traded for him from
the Jets.
Speaker 2: But they didn't do that.
Speaker 12: And I think what you've seen him do is I
like to have information. What is David Montgomery make next year?
Speaker 2: Figure X? What does my running back make next year?
Speaker 12: If I go into free agency and have to find one,
it's probably X plus four million or I don't even know.
Speaker 2: He has clear information on where.
Speaker 12: Things stand with his running back position now, and I
think that's just the way he likes it, trading for
a player, And yes, I think it was too costly
for the caliber of player. Not so costly that they
can't overcome it. That's why Nick does what he does.
They don't go into any draft with five picks anymore,
or six or seven, but he goes in with eight
or nine, and so now he can wheel and deal
all he wants. He got one in yesterday, he sent
one out yesterday, and then he sent another one out
for twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: That's what he likes to how he likes to operate.
Speaker 12: But they, again, they have a pretty moderately height bar
for their offense, and at some point, if they ever
want to have a good offense, which they've shown no
signs of wanting to do, they have to aim higher
than that. I aim higher than David Montgomery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Harriobod is not programmed to swing for the
fences for the most part.
Speaker 12: And I think he got I don't want to say
he got scared of it, but he definitely swung for
the fences with Saquon Barkley and he struck out.
Speaker 2: He swung for the fences with c. J. Stroud and
Will Anderson and well, but that's in the draft, that's true.
I mean, and you have clear figure. I know what CJ.
Stroud's making for the next five years.
Speaker 12: If I want, I know what Will Anderson's making for
the next five years, and there's no negotiation.
Speaker 2: Here's what he's getting whoever I draft there.
Speaker 9: He likes that.
Speaker 12: That that's how he likes to do things. And again,
no good or bad, but that's just how he likes
to do it. Getting David Montgomery was something that probably
made too much sense for them, so they did it,
and it's one less worry, and they did the opposite
with the offensive line. Now they have one more worry.
Speaker 4: You know what I feel like. I feel like you
drafted in your fantasy league. You got like two good
running backs and there are ones I got an ankle injury,
ones on a buy, and you gotta start David Montgomery.
Speaker 2: You're like, all right, maybe you can get me ten
points this week. I'm not feeling that. I just don't
feel like I feel okay about it.
Speaker 12: I'm not sure if it was great our league or
a different league, but I had David Montgomery and that
is exactly how He's gonna get me up for ten
yards today.
Speaker 2: But he's gonna score twice. Yeah, he might score.
Speaker 4: So you need help on first down, You need help
on the red zone and David Montgomery can do that.
All right, Wax, thanks for hanging out, you got it.
Appreciate you. Matt Thomas should be back tomorrow, I don't know.
Thanks to Chris Gordy for hanging out. Thanks Adam Weaxfan
for hanging out. Thanks to Jonathan Allen for being here throughout.
I will talk to you folks tomorrow at ten am.
It'll be the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. But don't
go anywhere. It's Adam Wexler and Adam Klaymon on the
A Team next year on Sports Talks, Have an Night