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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten O one.

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Speaker 2: In age toown What's happening Houston. Hello, and welcome in the.

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Speaker 3: To a Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross momentarily without Matt Thomas, eventually with Chris Gordy, and

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I believe eventually with Matt.

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Speaker 4: Thomas here on a Sports Talk seven ninety. I know

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you're as confused as I am. So if you heard

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the show yesterday and you heard the Rockets broadcast yesterday,

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unfortunately Matthew Thomas came down with a little bit of

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the laryngitis. He doesn't really feel bad, he just doesn't

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sound great. So he's got a sore throat. He's got

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to be on for the hours of this show plus

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the broadcast for the Houston Rockets, so it's a lot

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of wear and tear on the throat for full throw Thomas.

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So he is going to take a little bit of

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time off today. Chris Gordy will be joining at some point,

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but he has a meeting right now. And then it's

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me and it's Jonathan seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety is the phone number if you would

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like to get into that way. Seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety. You could also send tweets

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to at sports RV. You can also follow me on

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Instagram at sports RV if you would like to interact

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that way, I really would appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: So we do still have some stuff going on.

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Speaker 4: Day two of David Montgomery is a Houston, Texan fallout

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with the trades being made yesterday, Titus Howard out, you

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have David Montgomery in, we can talk about that. You

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have some NBA stuff to get to World Baseball Classic.

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Is anybody really getting ramped up for that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not super excited about it.

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Speaker 4: I guess I'm curious to see how it goes, and

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I'll try to put some World Baseball Classic on, but

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not sure how much I'm gonna be watching that. And then,

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of course you have the Rockets continuing to be in action.

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They played last night against the Washington Wizards, and I

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know it's not gonna be a hot buzzing topic for

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the city of Houston a Rockets win over the Washington

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Wizards won twenty three to one eighteen last night. But

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I think there's a couple of interesting things that came

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out of the game last night. Most importantly, Reed Shepherd

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starting playing forty two minutes and having a really good game.

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He had nineteen points to assist, only turned the ball

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over a couple of times. He had six steals and

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two blocks. Now, one thing that's important when you're following basketball,

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and those of you who've been watching basketball for years

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you know this. Just because you went out there and

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got six steals doesn't mean you were playing lockdown defense

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the entire game. But it is important that Reed Shepherd

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contributes on that end of the floor because that's been

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as big as negative. We had Ima Adoka on the

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show last week, and we have him every single week

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here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross thanks to

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the Coach, And one of the things we asked him

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was what is it going to take for Reed Shepperd

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to be more enclosing lineups? And the first word that

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came out of his mouth was defense. Because if you

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watch both ends of the floor, which I know it's

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not sexy to watch defense and watch rotations and watch

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pick and roll coverages. If you're watching the Houston Rockets,

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Ree Shepperd gets attacked a lot, and he was getting

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attacked last night as well, and they go after him

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with bigger guys, they go after him with faster guys.

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He needs to continue to grow and get better, which

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he has. But last night six deals for Reed Shepherd

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and a couple of blocks. That's great, that's what you want.

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You want him to contribute. He's not going to be

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Amn Thompson out there. He's not going to be Tarry

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Easton out there. There's a reason why those guys are

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starting for email Dooke defensive minded head coach and Ree

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Shepperd was also only in the starting lineup because Jabari

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He is expected back for the Rockets on Thursday, but

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now we'll see what happens with him. Thompson he turned

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his ankle at the end of the game yesterday and

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Reacheperd played really well. He had his first tennis sist

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game in his career. He had nineteen points. He was

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four or eleven shooting. Since the All Star Break, he

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has been shooting over forty five percent from three, which

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is I mean, that's that's an extremely dangerous weapon and

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much needed by this Rockets offense. So I know a

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lott of you've been read Shepherd truthers and wanting them

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to be in the starting lineup and wanting him to

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be out there as much as possible, and I know

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you've been frustrated by him not being in some of

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the closing lineups. But that was a great game from

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Alprin shingun also leading the way with thirty two points.

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As for whatever reason, the Washington Wizard I can't remember

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the name of their coach, it doesn't matter. Their coach

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was like, man, we're not going to double Apprin Shingoon

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at any point, and then Alprin Shingunen said, Okay, I'm

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gonna get thirty two points on you in twenty shots,

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which he did. He also had thirteen rebounds, a couple

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of assists. Did turn the ball over eight times, and

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Kevin Durant turned the ball over six times. The Rockets

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were playing a good team last night. They would have lost.

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twenty one times. They give up thirty nine points off

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of those twenty one turnovers, and they also gave up

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fifty four percent shooting from three, So thankfully, the Washington

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going off for three against the Rockets, because if they

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Rockets would have easily lost that game. But they turned

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the ball over too much and lackadaisical defense too much

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in the first and fourth quarters where they were giving

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up wide open looks for three and the Washington Wizards

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were obliging and making them. Rockets next in action against

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the Golden State Warriors on Thursday seven three two point

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Speaker 2: So you want to talk some Rockets, we can do that.

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Speaker 4: Of course, I mentioned it's day two of fallout for

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the David Montgomery trade, and I'm still trying to figure

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out exactly how to feel about this, because there's a

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couple of ways that we can go. David Montgomery, as

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we know, is going to be twenty nine years old

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when the season starts, and he is a running back. Lately,

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in this day and age, when you were twenty nine

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years old and you're a running back. You're washed. That's

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just how it goes. You're not very effective and you're

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usually have too much tread on the tire to be

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very good. But there are counter arguments to that. David

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Montgomery in the last two years has been okay, we'll

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just call it knuckles to the sonic of Jamiir Gibbs.

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That means he's been the backup. That means he's been

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under two hundred carries the last couple of years. That

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means he should have less tread in US tire and

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he's a veteran guy. But also on the flip side,

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David Montgomery's not a one to a running back. David

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Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna be like, all right, guys, we.

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Speaker 4: Got the Texans this week, David Montgomery, what do we do.

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Let's batten down the hatches, let's figure out a game plan. No,

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David Montgomery, he's not gonna be just a guy. But

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he's also not going to be some crazy dynamic element

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that you have to figure out a defense for and

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that the oh no, they're gonna run the ball twenty

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times with David Montgomery. We got to figure out a

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game plan. No, not necessarily. So he's gonna be good.

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Speaker 2: Shroud.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna be a guy who's gonna keep them on

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schedule on first down, and he's gonna be a good

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red zone running back because that was a big problem

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with the Texans offense basically the entire season. And really

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it feels like almost there in their entire history. When

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has the Texans offense been great in the red zone

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or you say, oh my goodness, I can't get enough

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of this red zone offense from the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: Probably never.

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Speaker 4: So he does shore up a need, a big need

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for this team to where everything fell apart for CJ.

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Speaker 2: Shroud at the.

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Speaker 4: End of last year, there was you had Nico Collins

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heard at the end Alton Schultz got hurt by the

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end of that playoff game as well, and so you

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had very limited pass catchers, you had no offensive line,

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Speaker 2: Other than that, everything was great for first CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud as far as this situation around him, if you

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want him to succeed, if you want him to be

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your franchise quarterback. If you want him to be the guy,

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then you have to figure out a way to put

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a better situation around him and see what you got.

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go somewhere else where he's in a right situation and

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he would thrive. We can mention the names that we

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continue to mention. Sam Donald just won the Super Bowl.

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Sam Donald was supposed to be not good enough for

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the Panthers, and even Kevin O'Connell was sick of him

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by the end of his tenure with the Vikings, and

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they shipp him and said, now we're good with JJ McCarthy.

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a run game, you get him the best receiver in

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the game, you get him a good play caller, and

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of course a great defense and their Super Bowl champions.

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to have the right situation around him. David Montgomery not

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the perfect plan, but I think it helps. And a

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good pair with Woody Marks as that they're down back.

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I think that's a good running back tandem. Will they

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still try to add somebody in the draft. Maybe free

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agency feels unlikely with David Montgomery making the nine million dollars,

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so we'll see what happens there. The bottom line is

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the Texans got better. They gave up a fourth round

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pick and that's a lot. Also a seventh round pick,

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two scrugs. Who cares even if he's built from granted,

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like Tom Pelosaro says, but at the end of the day,

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your running game got better, even though it would have

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that are gonna be available coming up soon here. So

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initial shock you gave.

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Speaker 2: Up too much?

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Speaker 4: Not excited about David Montgomery or feeling good about the

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running back situation for your Houston Texans. As I mentioned,

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the Houston Rockets. We can talk about that also, anything

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with Ross. As I mentioned, Matt will be joining later on.

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He is resting up his voice. He's got a sore throat.

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Chris Gordy will be joining at some point. Jonathan Allen

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Speaker 2: Okay? Everything?

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Speaker 4: I know they're keeping you busy back there. That's okay.

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Speaker 2: I will news at noon. That's gonna be at noon.

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the phone number if you want to get in. Seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety. Thanks to

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Mark for correcting me via Instagram, where you can find

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me at Sports RV. I guess I said tred. He's

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gonna have tred off the tire. It's more tred on

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the tire for David Montgomery. So that's good. Last two years,

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one hundred and eighty five carries, h fifty eight carries.

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to do a whole lot there, so uh, you're hoping

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there's more tread on the tire than there would be

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if he were a number one, number one and twenty

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nine years old. So, on its face, trading a fourth

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rounder for a twenty nine year old running back got

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David Johnson vibes, but maybe you say he hasn't been

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used as much the last couple of years, so it's

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gonna be okay, all right? Seven one three two one

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to get in seven one three two one two five

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seven nine. You can send messages at sports RV on

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whatever social media platform.

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Speaker 2: You would like.

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Speaker 4: Robert in Cyprus has been holding along as here on

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the phones. Robert, go ahead, The floor is yours.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just had a question about.

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Speaker 5: Do you think we're gonna keep Jack Andrews as a

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center or just keep him as a maybe draft the

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center he can work with that center to bring him

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up like the left tackle that we got at the

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rookie or and also that right guard. We're gonna keep

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that right guard with currenty half or giving him and

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just draft.

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Speaker 2: Him another guard?

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Speaker 5: Ed Ingram you're talking about, yeah, Ingram, Yeah, we're gonna

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keep him because he's gonna want more money. I presume, uh,

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we could find a good guard I would think in

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the draft, but Sue he has he has to be trained,

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I think, like virtually and also, uh, what would be

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the you got to clean the whole line up and

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he got draft the whole line he got. Yeah, that

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Oregon Oregon left left guard man, that guy's Dyning Mike Man.

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Speaker 6: I really love that guy.

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Speaker 5: Uh from Oregon and then Auburn center. But anyway, I'll

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go to disconnect man and uh see what you guys

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think on what should we do for this because there's

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a lot of gaps now since we got rid of

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Titus Howard and you know Shrug wasn't the starter. But

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so anyway, yeah, I'll take back and listen to say.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Robert, I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean you're

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trading away offensive lineman. You've had one of the worst

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offensive lines in football in the last two years. You

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trained a your best offensive lineman, which Laramie Tonsel was,

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and then he was a top ten tackle in football

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last year according to some metrics that you look at,

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and then this year Titus Howard.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he was your best. Your best

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offensive lineman was probably at Ingram overall, but Titus Howard

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was your most consistent in terms of like someone you

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could plug and play anywhere.

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Speaker 4: He played right tackle, left guard, right guard. I don't

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think he played any left tackle. That was probably Cam

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Robinson early in the season when they were flipping arianti

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ursery everywhere. But Titus Howard had been a big part.

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He's a good offensive lineman. He was gonna want more money,

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which he did get with the Cleveland Browns and get

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traded away basically making twenty million dollars a year. Titus

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Howard's not a twenty million dollars a year lineman. He's good,

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but I just don't think he's that good. So the

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Texans felt like they could get some value. They got

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a fifth round pick, traded him away, and you got

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a little bit of cap savings somewhere around three four million,

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not a whole lot. So I understand from the business

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of football in a vacuum, if I just say they

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traded away a lineman to have some cap space, the

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linemen wanted more money, They're not gonna be able to

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pay him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be like, all right, you know what, I

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get it.

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Speaker 4: But Titus Howard is an important piece of this line

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last year, and you can ill afford to lose linemen.

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Speaker 2: So that hurts, And.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got you gotta figure something out. You got

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a lot of question marks. I hope this means that

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Ed Ingram is basically locked in. I guess, and they

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have a number and they're gonna figure something out and

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get and get him done and have him be a

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Houston Texan or they're close. Because if you lose ed

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Ingram and he gets signed away too, I don't know,

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You're you're gonna be searching for a lot of answers.

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I'd have to go through the whole list of I

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know there are some interior alignment that are some of

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the top free agents in football, but you're also not

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having a whole lot of cap space. You're gonna need

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to still continue to do some further restructuring of some

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guy's contracts in order to open up some cap space

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and sign guys. And then when you draft, that sounds

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great in theory two, and a lot of people are

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saying that, yeah, I just draft draft a bunch of

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offensive linemen. What's Nickissarrio's track record drafting offensive lineman?

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Speaker 2: It's not good.

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Speaker 4: You just traded away Drew Scruggs. Kenyon Green was a

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flat out as big as a bus as you can

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have on the interior line. Taken in the top twenty.

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Arianti Urser. He didn't like the world on fire last year,

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and who else Jarrett Patterson at Blake Fisher. I mean,

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it's a lot of question marks with the offensive line.

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I think Jake Andrews needs to answer the first question

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from Robert. Jake Andrews needs replacing. He's not good. He's

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just a guy. He gets pushed around the interior and

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I mean he basically starts two yards into the backfield

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every single play.

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Speaker 2: It's not good.

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Speaker 4: And Texans haven't had great center play since basically like

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Chris Myers was here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why, but that's just the way that

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it's been.

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Speaker 4: So I would like to see ed Ingram, like Trent

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Brown Arianta Ersery is going to continue to develop. How

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much are you buying in on a possible resurgence of

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Blake Fisher. He was better last year, but he was

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normally out there as a third tackle in a jumbo

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running package. And and you're not asking him to do

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a whole lot. It's not like he's on islands taking

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on Miles Garrett. You know, he's more of a help guy.

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Speaker 2: He's out there to block and get downfield and hit

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some linebackers in a jumbo run game. So yeah, he

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did good in that role.

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Speaker 4: But what happens when you bring him up to to

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a better role, to a starter's role, Maybe they feel

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confident that he can be he can be better in

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year three. Wouldn't be the first time ever that it

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took a third year for an offensive lineman to develop

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and be effective. So I don't know how much of

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a plan Blake Fisher is. How much growth are they

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actually put putting into the potential of growth for Arianta Ersery?

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How much stock are they putting into that growth? I

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don't know, because I liked Arianta Ursery, but it's not

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like he was some lockdown guy and he's got to

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get better. So you need to draft guys, you need

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to sign guys, You need to do something. You need

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to reconfigure because your best pieces keep going away although

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an already bad offensive line. So I don't know exactly

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what's gonna happen, but certainly it needs to be addressed,

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and I am waiting with baited breath. They have to

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have some kind of plan. Nick Casario, for all his faults,

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he's not stupid. He knows they need an offensive line.

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He knows they need a better situation with CJ. Shroud,

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and that starts up front. He's been trying to address it,

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as I said, where people are like, hey, well wait now,

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why doesn't he care about the offensive line?

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Speaker 2: Are you drafted all those players that I mentioned he signed,

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He did, sign ed Ingram and Laken Tomlinson and Cam

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Robinson and Trent Brown, And just get some bodies and

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throw a bunch of guys up against the wall and

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then a couple of guys will stick, which happened with

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Trent Brown and Ed Ingram last year. So if you

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can do that approach, get some bodies into camp, sign

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some guy, maybe get one frontline guy to sign, one

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or two guys to draft and figure it out and

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improve and get better.

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Speaker 4: That's the way it's got to go. Because you're just

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in a bad cap situation. You can't pay a bunch

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of people. Will Anderson's gonna be due money. Danil Hunter

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is making big money. You paid Jalen Petrie, you paid

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Derek Stingley, Kamari Lassiter is gonna need to get paid.

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Speaker 2: CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud will see what happens. But you just got a

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bad cap situation with a bunch of dead money, and

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you got holes. That's why the NFL is the greatest

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league in major American sports. You have the hard cap

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and you gotta figure it out. You get a piece,

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you drafted Will Anderson and you smash, You hit a smash.

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You don't get to keep him forever unless you want

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to pay him big, and then CJ. Shroud will see

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what happens. You gotta figure stuff out as it goes

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with the salary cap, and sometimes you gotta take the

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hits and you gotta let guys go, and you just

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can't be strong everywhere. They're just not super teams, not

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for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Anyways.

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Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, Eagles had the best roster

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in football. They had to pay everybody, and they weren't

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as good in this last year because they well, they

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had some injuries on the offensive line and other stuff too.

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Speaker 2: But that's just how it goes. That's the nature of football.

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Speaker 4: Windows are short, and that's where the window is right

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now with the Houston Texans, and that's what hurts, and

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that's what we needn think about. The window with this

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defense was super Bowl caliber. The offense not so much so.

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If you can just balance it out a little bit more,

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get an offensive line going, get a good run game,

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and oh, by the way, get CJ. Stroud playing better

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and maybe you can make some hay in the playoffs

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rather than just being a national punchline and a joke

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to where when anything happens with anybody in sports, they

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become mean to CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud.

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Speaker 4: Right now, the Texans are a laughing stock nationally and

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that needs to improve, and it needs to improve fast.

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And it does start with the offensive line, especially now

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that you have David mcgomery in the fold, and the

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run game should be better, all right. Seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety is the phone number

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if you want to get in.

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

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Speaker 4: We're talking Texans there, if you want to get in

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on that mentioned the Rockets with the win over the

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Washington Wizards with Reed Sheppard playing well on.

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Speaker 2: Both ends of the floor.

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Speaker 4: Of course, we have the Houston Astros continuing to be

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an action yard on Alvarez in his first spring training

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action yesterday as the Astros tied the Washington Nationals three

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to three. Anything you guys want to get to you

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can seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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is the phone number. Seven one three, two one two

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five seven ninety. We got gut feelings coming up at

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eleven thirty here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross

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without Matt Thomas. All right, continuing along with The Matt

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Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas.

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Speaker 2: He is resting a full throat. Thomas is resting his voice,

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so he'll be joining us, I believe at noon, as

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he did get in late last night traveling with the

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Houston Rockets.

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Speaker 4: They got the win over the Washington Wizards. Well, the

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Astros were playing the Washington Nationals and Chris Gordy is

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here hanging out. Cordy, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: That thing got a little hairy, eh.

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Speaker 4: At the end, it wasn't really that close. I mean,

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they just started making a bunch of threes. The Rockets

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were never in danger. They never seeded the lead at

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the end. But if you had the Washington Wizards plus

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the fifteen and a half, you were happy with the

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way that game closed out.

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Speaker 7: As a Tree Young who has not played a game

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yet for the Wizards, yes, ejected.

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Speaker 4: He got ejected. Tarry Easton got a couple of technical fouls.

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Stop me if you've heard that before. Yeah, there was

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a bit of a dust up in the second half

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of that one. But all's well, that ends well, Rockets

477
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were able to win. And what happened last night, I

478
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,160
know the Denver Nuggets were locking horns.

479
00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:02,839
Speaker 2: With uh yeah the Jazz. Oh, the Nuggets came back

480
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,119
and won that game. That's a shame.

481
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 4: Look, it's gonna be the Spurs in the two seed,

482
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,480
Rockets hopefully in that three seed, and then we'll see

483
00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:13,519
what happens in the playoffs. Rockets and Spurs seem like

484
00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:15,680
they're on a collision course for a second round series

485
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,720
with the winner going on to play the Oklahoma City

486
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,880
Thunder in the Western Finals.

487
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 2: That's just the way it's kind of shaping up at

488
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,839
this point. That's what it feels like.

489
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's uh and it's gonna be undressed.

490
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,720
I heard Clinton talking yesterday. He's like dead said, I

491
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,480
want the lak I want the Rockets in the three seed.

492
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,039
I want the Lakers in the sixth seat. I'm like,

493
00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:32,880
you know, it's not gonna stay that way though. This

494
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,920
thing's gonna it's gonna be ebbs and flows. Lakers could falter.

495
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, the way it sets up now is pretty good,

496
00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:42,799
three six Lakers and then two three would be the Spurs,

497
00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:44,720
and then you'd go and try to slay the dragon

498
00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:46,240
that is the Thunder to make it to the finals.

499
00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:48,119
That'd be a pretty sweet playoff run.

500
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Speaker 7: I am not emotionally ready for a second round playoff

501
00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:53,440
series against the San Antonio Spurs.

502
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,599
Speaker 2: Well, I have something uncomfortable to say. I guess that's

503
00:23:56,599 --> 00:23:59,160
better than getting the Thunder. The Spurs would be favored

504
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,960
in that series. Sure, I mean, I'm just saying. I

505
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,359
know we're in Houston, we hate the Spurs, and Whimby's

506
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,359
the worst and all that stuff, But the Spurs would

507
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,680
be rightfully favored in that study.

508
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,319
Speaker 7: If you were unaware of who the biggest Wembin Yama

509
00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:14,079
hater in the world is, it's Adam Clinton nine I know,

510
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,680
but he would go on rage.

511
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 4: Fits if if that's serious, stuff will get broken in

512
00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:23,240
the Clinton household if Wimby drops like forty in a

513
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,319
playoff game. But well, we'll cross those bridges when we

514
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,160
come to them, all right. Seven one three two one

515
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,319
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you

516
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,319
want to get in seven one three two one two

517
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,519
five seven ninety. Chris Gordy hanging out so Gordy because

518
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,720
you don't have a regular everyday show. I guess I'm

519
00:24:39,759 --> 00:24:42,960
curious your perspective on the whole David Montgomery thing. We

520
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,640
were talking in the last segment about, I'm your initial

521
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,480
reaction because there's always a pop. It was a surprising

522
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,480
story when it first came out. David Montgomery is a

523
00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:53,160
Houston Texan? What is going on here? Your head spinning

524
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,759
a little bit. You're trying to get your ground, you

525
00:24:54,839 --> 00:24:56,960
get your footing on how to feel about this and

526
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:57,880
all the angles.

527
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Speaker 2: Where were you when you first heard it?

528
00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 4: Where are are you as we come now a day

529
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,599
later with the David Montgomery as a Houston Texan trade?

530
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:06,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was.

531
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Speaker 7: I don't know, I kind of there was all the

532
00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:13,559
talk of remember they were trying to get was that

533
00:25:13,559 --> 00:25:15,680
two years ago they were trying to get Saquon Barkley

534
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,559
and they were this close to getting him, and then

535
00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:20,240
you know they end up with Joe Mixon. That whole thing,

536
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,920
you know, was great the first year, and then it

537
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,319
all kind of went downhill with the injury and all that.

538
00:25:24,599 --> 00:25:26,559
Then they really shot themselves in the foot. Yeah, the

539
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,000
Nick Chubb thing was ridiculous. You know, I never got

540
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,519
excited for that ads. But you know, there was all

541
00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:35,519
this buzz this offseason, but they're going to try to

542
00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:37,279
make a run at one of these big name guys

543
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,640
like Kenneth Walker or whoever.

544
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 2: And by the way, I don't think Walker's leaving Seattle

545
00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:43,119
like that's he just won a super Bowl there. Why

546
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,480
in the world would you leave there? I think they

547
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,319
they'd be dumb to let him go. But but it

548
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:49,559
was just.

549
00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:50,839
Speaker 7: Kind of you know, there were all these big names

550
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,839
getting thrown out there and then okay, they trade for

551
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:53,759
David Montgomery.

552
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Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know my thought.

553
00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,279
Speaker 7: I've always thought of him, and I know he was

554
00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:00,880
really good his first couple of years in Chicago, but

555
00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:02,839
I just I've always thought of him as a two,

556
00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:05,839
as a complimentary to like Jamiir Gibbs was the first

557
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,599
round pick, Like I thought, you know, he's he's a

558
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,920
nice too. And so when you had Woody Marks kind

559
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,480
of emerged last year, most people that kind of consensus was, yeah,

560
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,400
it's nice back, but he's kind of more of a two.

561
00:26:18,079 --> 00:26:21,920
So I look at as you've got two two's now again,

562
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,079
the numbers don't lie. I mean, it's you know, twenty

563
00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:28,200
twenty three it's a thousand yard rusher in Detroit. Now,

564
00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:33,640
we'll say caveat here. Always talking about guys stats and stuff.

565
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,799
We're talking about seventeen game seasons, but he only played

566
00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:39,279
fourteen games that year, so that's that's really strong. And

567
00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:42,640
double digit touchdowns his first year. Two years in Detroit.

568
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,319
You know, numbers came down a little bit last year.

569
00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:48,519
Seven hundred rushing yards, eight rushing touchdowns, but still a

570
00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,319
very good back. I mean, but I back it up

571
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,559
to go. Okay, but if you don't fix these the

572
00:26:55,599 --> 00:27:00,440
offensive line ross, if that doesn't dramatically improve, it doesn't

573
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,960
marry it better. If Barry Sanders is back there, like

574
00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:05,559
you've got to do those things up front.

575
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: But again, like as far as adding.

576
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,839
Speaker 7: Him, it's it's fine, Like I'm not I'm not down

577
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,079
on I think it's good, but I'm not ready to

578
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,960
say the combination of what he marks and uh, Dave

579
00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:19,160
Montgomery Texans are going to lead the league at rushing.

580
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,079
Speaker 2: I mean yeah.

581
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,039
Speaker 4: I think another angle of this too is that he

582
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,279
is coming from a situation where he was the one

583
00:27:24,319 --> 00:27:26,200
and he was still only averaging like four and a

584
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,119
half years. I'm not I want to say only four

585
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,400
and a half yards carry is decent. It's good, it's

586
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,839
not terrible, but it's also he was in a situation

587
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,640
with a better offensive line. Now, the Lion's offensive line

588
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,319
isn't what it was the last couple of years, but

589
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,000
you still got Pine Suel, you still got some good

590
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,599
players on that line to where they they were much

591
00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:44,240
better than say what the Houston Texans were here. So

592
00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:47,720
whatever the situation is going to be with David Montgomery,

593
00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:50,880
he's still gonna need at at the age of twenty nine,

594
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,200
basically when the season is going to start, he's going

595
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,839
to have to have a pretty pretty good offensive line

596
00:27:56,839 --> 00:27:59,079
in front of him. Yeah, he'll he'll turn twenty nine

597
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,720
in June seventh. So you're talking about you just gave

598
00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:03,599
up a fourth round pick for a twenty nine year

599
00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:04,319
old running back.

600
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,279
Speaker 7: By the way, his uh four and a half yards

601
00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:09,759
per Carrie would rank him twenty second.

602
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, well, I mean that's top thirty, top thirty.

603
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:22,000
You're considering he's he's sharing. Yeah, but you gave up

604
00:28:22,039 --> 00:28:23,960
a fourth round pick for him and he's twenty nine.

605
00:28:24,599 --> 00:28:26,759
I would like a little bit more. I'll tell you this.

606
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,799
David Montgomery averaged war yards per carry than Breis Hall. Okay,

607
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,440
that's good.

608
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 4: Travis ATM or Sean White, yes, uh, he probably had

609
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,920
better offensive lines than all of them. Saquon Barkley only

610
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,119
average four point had a big time leipa took a

611
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:44,559
big time leap back higher than camp Scatibo. Okay, yeah,

612
00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:45,839
well Camp's cataboy is not good.

613
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He's good. Okay, he's got Jacobs.

614
00:28:48,759 --> 00:28:50,599
Speaker 4: The yards per carry you just mentioned what was camp

615
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,359
Scattabo's for one, Okay, I thought it was actually less

616
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,079
than that. He scored a lot of touchdowns and then

617
00:28:57,119 --> 00:28:59,920
he ripped his ankle on half and and they're looking

618
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:01,039
for other options.

619
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Speaker 2: McCaffrey average three point nine yards to carry this year.

620
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,160
Oh you know, he wasn't very good either running, so

621
00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:08,440
but he got got a volume. I mean he's top

622
00:29:08,559 --> 00:29:11,799
top twenty five in yards per carry. But it's uh again,

623
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,119
it's it's hard to put a ton of stock into

624
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:17,279
the numbers. Because Jamiir Gibbs was a what number seventh

625
00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:19,279
in rushing yards this year, I mean he was.

626
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 4: Awesome Jamier Gibbs, Yeah, he was. So he's working with

627
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,799
a softened up defense. I don't know, it's fine. David

628
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:26,680
Montgomery's gonna be fine. You just get you give me

629
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,640
five yards on first down rather than negative two, which

630
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,240
is what Nick Chubb and what he marks were doing

631
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:31,920
every single time.

632
00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:34,799
Speaker 2: Like the question is did you upgrade the backfield? Yes,

633
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:35,559
yes you did.

634
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 7: But again it unless this old line drastically improves. I

635
00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:43,160
don't you know, does it matter when he gets When

636
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,920
he gets the ball as soon as it touches his

637
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,279
hands and he's got a defender already in his face,

638
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,400
what can he do?

639
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:54,319
Speaker 2: Who's the Texans best offensive lineman at this moment? Uh

640
00:29:54,440 --> 00:30:00,720
urse three? Coming off a rookie season. All right, it

641
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,079
is wid you need. You need to tackle two guards

642
00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:05,160
in a center as much.

643
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 7: As we want a poop poo on Bill O'Brien and all.

644
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,480
At the end of the day, I think the Tunsil

645
00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:11,640
trade was actually a good one. I know they gave

646
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:12,680
up a trade for him.

647
00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they got it, and they gave an over

648
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,440
sticker price they did. Was it two first rounders?

649
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 7: With the fact for several years there you didn't have

650
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,440
to worry about it. He was your lockdown.

651
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,359
Speaker 2: You could set and forget.

652
00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 4: There's there's something to be said about setting and forgetting absolutely, but.

653
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's got.

654
00:30:31,519 --> 00:30:34,359
Speaker 7: Like I think the whole narrative going into this offseason was, Yeah,

655
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,519
Jake Andrews was decent at center, but we could definitely

656
00:30:36,599 --> 00:30:39,640
upgrade there. Jared Patterson was what part of the twenty

657
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,599
three draft class we're going into twenty twenty six, Like,

658
00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:48,559
he's fine, you could certainly upgrade there. Ed Ingram was awesome,

659
00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:50,079
but he's a free agent now, and by the way,

660
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,519
I've heard a ton of teams won in on him exactly.

661
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 2: So I don't know.

662
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,559
Speaker 4: Maybe this Howard trade makes me think maybe they're they're

663
00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:58,160
gonna be fine on the Ingram front, and they know

664
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:58,880
something we don't.

665
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,039
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you got it.

666
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 4: I would say, like, sign two guys, draft two guys,

667
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,359
and then at least I'm talking about guys that you're

668
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,720
planning on hopefully being in the rotation, rather than.

669
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, I almost think like you have to like because

670
00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:14,559
Pencil and Patterson Andrews, I think they're starting.

671
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 4: For you, because Yeah, Ingram wasn't on anybody's radar last year,

672
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,680
and he was very good. Trent Brown wasn't on anybody's

673
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:21,400
radar last year, and he was pretty good as well.

674
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,559
So I mean you you can hopefully find somebody who

675
00:31:24,559 --> 00:31:25,400
can contribute.

676
00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 2: And then I have.

677
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 4: The crazy idea, what if Nick Cassario hits on an

678
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:30,960
offensive line draft pick.

679
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be cool? It's possible. I feel like it's possible. Well,

680
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,559
Blake Fisher was a second round pick from two years ago.

681
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,160
Like he needs to got a little bit better, but

682
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:44,519
that like, the reality is he has to be playing

683
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,720
for you, Like you can't keep missing on all these

684
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,039
old linemen. Uh number fifty seven has reported as eligible.

685
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,319
That's him. He's the extra tight end, the extra tackle

686
00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:57,720
in the jumbo run package. That's fine in that role. Yeah,

687
00:31:57,759 --> 00:31:59,880
you gotta man. All right, it's got it.

688
00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:02,079
Speaker 4: We're gonna take a break here on to the Matt

689
00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:05,200
Thomas Show with Ross. Matt is sitting out for a

690
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,519
couple of hours with the sore throat. He'll be coming up,

691
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,000
I believe at noon. I need some confirmation on that.

692
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,359
We got gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty. We

693
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,200
got anything you guys want to get two phone lines.

694
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,960
We've been talking some Texans, We're talking some astros, rockets.

695
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,720
Anything you want to get to seven one three two

696
00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:22,400
one two five, seven ninety is the phone number seven

697
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,400
one three two one two five seven ninety and a

698
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,160
Matt Thomas show with Ross continues here on Sports Talk

699
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,160
seven ninety Ross Viyrio Chris Cordy with you. Matt Thomas

700
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,720
will be joining, I believe at noon. Maybe he'll give

701
00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:42,480
us the news at noon with his sore throat. He

702
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:44,799
was calling the Rockets last night, got in late, so

703
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,279
he's gonna take a couple of hours off. He's uh,

704
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,559
I think he's feeling fine. Just the voice maybe isn't

705
00:32:49,599 --> 00:32:52,160
always there all the way there. So he'll be joining

706
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,680
us later on. Got some gut feelings coming up at

707
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,039
eleven to thirty. We got you at seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety and also at sports

709
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RV on Twitter at Chris Cordy. You can find him

710
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on Twitter as well.

711
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've I've realized over the years that I've never

712
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:11,160
pushed the Twitter account like you and Matt did, and

713
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:13,759
you should. I've kind of been stuck on seven grand

714
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:14,759
for a while.

715
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Speaker 4: Let's get let's get give them. You're gonna have to

716
00:33:18,559 --> 00:33:20,960
break some news or something like that. Yeah, and I

717
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,839
could probably do that. It just doesn't you know, you

718
00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:26,200
don't want to burn bridges. Well, it's I just I

719
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:26,759
don't like.

720
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Speaker 8: Uh.

721
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:29,559
Speaker 7: I've done that a couple of times and have gotten

722
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,599
very nervous when I put it out there because it's

723
00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:33,680
like I've gotten something from somebody. I'm like, you know,

724
00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:36,279
I'm gonna run with this, Like, uh, what was it?

725
00:33:36,319 --> 00:33:38,319
The the Trinidad Champbells thing a few weeks ago? They

726
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:40,359
were in the middle of the trial, and I heard

727
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,160
from a pretty credible sources said, dude, so dude, this

728
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is done, done deal. They are granted Trinidad the extra year.

729
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,359
So I tweeted it out m M and I got

730
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,559
a couple of tweets from people this isn't done yet.

731
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:53,039
This isn't good for I'm like, all right, well put

732
00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:56,759
myself out there, and of course it happened, but that's good.

733
00:33:56,799 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 2: You don't want to be wrong.

734
00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:01,079
Speaker 7: Did you see what uh of college sports? Did you

735
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:03,200
see what Matt Norlander tweeted out yesterday?

736
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:05,559
Speaker 4: I did not see what Matt nor Lander tweeed out

737
00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:08,440
yesterday from CBS. I said, we're getting full Mark Stoop's talk.

738
00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 7: Well from CBS Sports, Matt Norlander, this is pretty big.

739
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: You know what month we're in right, We're in March.

740
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,159
Woman's March mattness. Okay uh, he sent out news.

741
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Speaker 7: The NCAA sent out a memo last week to all

742
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schools to give them notice to a potential major logistical

743
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:36,039
issue later this month airline travel for both NCAA basketball

744
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:40,480
tournaments starting on Selection Sundays. According to the NCAA, nationwide,

745
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,920
significantly fewer charter aircrafts are available due to several factors

746
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,519
outside of the NCAA's control. The logistical challenge of moving

747
00:34:48,559 --> 00:34:51,800
almost all participating teams for both tournaments within a twelve

748
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,400
to seventy two hour window beginning Selection Sunday night is

749
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,400
compounded by one the busy spring break travel season that

750
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,960
happens every here, to the national shortage of charter aircraft nationwide.

751
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,519
I don't know why we have a national shortage on

752
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,920
charter flights. And three the potential TSA impact of the

753
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,159
partial government shut down. While the NCAA is short, there's

754
00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:16,159
a partial government shutdown, they're they're in a they're in

755
00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:19,039
a temporary one that will like we'll go into another

756
00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:22,480
one likely later this month. Anyway, while the NCAA is

757
00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:24,760
shured all participating teams they will get to where they

758
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,400
need to go safely. The NCA also advised all teams

759
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that extreme flexibility will be necessary. Basically, they're telling you,

760
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,679
and this is where somebody told me that the selection committee,

761
00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:39,000
they're sending a message to them basically, Hey, any chance

762
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:41,440
you can keep this more regional, that would be great.

763
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,119
Like in other words, don't send Kentucky to Oregon, like,

764
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,840
you know, try to keep teams closer to home base

765
00:35:48,199 --> 00:35:50,159
as well as you could, because we might have to

766
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:52,880
throw them on buses if we can't get them on planes.

767
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,039
So so it's okay, it's just it's an interesting thing,

768
00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:59,079
he said again. It was an ncaa big memo to

769
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:03,119
all division one tis about updated protocols and warnings over

770
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:04,800
potential flight issues.

771
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: But I don't know why we're having a shortage of

772
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:10,719
charter flights. What's going on with the charters. Let's go

773
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,760
Taylor swift buying them all up, or what them on

774
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,000
a delta flight? I mean, put them fly commercial.

775
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 4: I guess you're gonna have to make extra special flights

776
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,920
or they I figure they got to figure something out, right,

777
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:23,599
I don't know.

778
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 7: This is kind of crazy, it's just kind of it's

779
00:36:25,519 --> 00:36:27,639
it's just interesting but but think of how often they

780
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,639
do that. They're like, Miami is in the San Diego region, Like,

781
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:33,599
why are you sitting Miami ally out to the west coast?

782
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,480
Keep them somewhat closer to home.

783
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 4: So the NCAA pays for private aircraft for all NCAA

784
00:36:41,039 --> 00:36:44,039
tournament games for teams more than four miles away from

785
00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:45,400
their first weekend sights.

786
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 2: I just like that they said, how much.

787
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 4: Money are they making in this tournament? They're paying for

788
00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:51,519
aircraft for every team.

789
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,519
Speaker 7: All and then somebody responded, yeah, and we want to

790
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expand this to ninety sixteams.

791
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Speaker 2: Money. It's all about the money, get more money.

792
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 7: Still, like the first four is the dumbest thing. It's like, hey,

793
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:07,000
you kind of made the tournament. You have a chance

794
00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:09,000
to play yourself into the sixty four field.

795
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:10,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.

796
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess Vcu and Shaka Smart and the

797
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,840
boys back in the day made it out of a

798
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,360
top final four out of there.

799
00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: Those first four last year.

800
00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:19,119
Speaker 7: I think they were all like buzzer beaters over time,

801
00:37:19,159 --> 00:37:19,880
Like they were all.

802
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: Very good and they get they get ratings and they

803
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,239
get revenue. So that that's why they do it, and

804
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,119
that's why they're gonna want to expand it even more.

805
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,480
But those first games are on Tuesday and Wednesday.

806
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Speaker 9: Think of that.

807
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Speaker 7: Like selection Sunday happens what at like five o'clock on

808
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,679
us on Sunday, you better fly out. I mean you've

809
00:37:34,679 --> 00:37:36,559
got to have your bags packed and ready to go.

810
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 4: You know when they go to like the schools and

811
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,039
they're all like cheering, they'll show up grabbing their bags.

812
00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:44,440
You show them going to the getting on the bus. Yeah,

813
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,559
that's what it's gonna have to happen.

814
00:37:45,639 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: Guys. We've got a bus to Spokane. We'll be there

815
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,559
in three days. Jonathan probably had to do that at

816
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:53,239
Western Kentucky.

817
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 4: Oh, don't even get me started. Do you guys get

818
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,320
on buses or what? Where's the furthest you went on

819
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:57,760
a bus?

820
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:58,119
Speaker 2: We went.

821
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 10: We went from Bowling Green, Kentucky, down to Oxford, Mississippi,

822
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,039
and then uh, then we went to South South Carolina.

823
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:10,679
Where where's the USC? Uh Bawling Green, Columbia, Columbia. Yeah

824
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:13,400
it's Columbia. That was like a ten hour drive, dude,

825
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:14,519
scenic scenic ride.

826
00:38:14,679 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah it's fine.

827
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the apples.

828
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,079
Speaker 2: You can't feel figure legs your chargers can't work. At

829
00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:24,679
least you're not on the track team. No, I need

830
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:26,559
to feel your legs. When I was in school, they

831
00:38:26,559 --> 00:38:29,039
had the the old buses with the TVs and they

832
00:38:29,039 --> 00:38:31,639
would pop in an old VHS tape. Did they do that? Still?

833
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:32,559
Speaker 9: No?

834
00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 2: You get?

835
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, like watching Carl Sagan's New Universe from nineteen eighty

836
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:39,800
you got you might get some local news that just buffers.

837
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 2: Did I go?

838
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,159
Speaker 9: All right?

839
00:38:42,159 --> 00:38:45,199
Speaker 2: Guys? Got a VHS copy of Rudya? There we go? Yeah,

840
00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:46,280
they inspire the guys.

841
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:46,679
Speaker 9: I like that.

842
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 2: Who's yours?

843
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,199
Speaker 4: And when it ends, we're just gonna watch it again?

844
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,679
Oh man, Well, the NCAA will figure out. I guess, yeah,

845
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,000
I just it's it's just an interesting I guess that

846
00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:03,920
makes sense that there's like a swell of charter planes

847
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,320
during the NCAA tournament.

848
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 2: I believe. Isn't Houston's one of the sites? Right? Yes,

849
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:11,639
so hey.

850
00:39:11,559 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 7: Don't give me no crap about sending you of h

851
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,679
halfway across the country to be fine, better be right

852
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:16,320
here in Houston.

853
00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 4: Tell me I'll figure something out. Matt'll cut the check.

854
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,159
I figure out, They'll they'll figure something out. All right,

855
00:39:23,159 --> 00:39:24,800
We're gonna take a quick top of the hour break

856
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,239
here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

857
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: You guys want to get in, you can.

858
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,519
Speaker 4: Phone lines are open seven one three two one two

859
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:34,679
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

860
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,280
seven niney send tweets at sports RV at Chris Cordy.

861
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,239
You can find me on Instagram as well at sports

862
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,800
r V. We've had got feelings coming up at eleven thirty.

863
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,599
We've got your calls and anything you guys want to

864
00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:48,960
get to. Our Number two of that Thomas Show with

865
00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:52,880
Ross is next. After this short break is the Matt

866
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,360
Thomas Show with.

867
00:39:54,480 --> 00:40:07,679
Speaker 11: Ross eleven am here on Sports Talk seven ninety in

868
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,159
Beautiful Houston, Texas.

869
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,519
Speaker 4: Hour number two of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross

870
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:14,760
without Matt Thomas. He will be joining in about an hour.

871
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,360
We've got gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty. We've

872
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:19,960
got you on the phone lines if you want to

873
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,719
get in. Seven one three two one two five seven

874
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,320
ninety is the phone number seven one three two one

875
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,599
two five seven ninety as. You have some rockets in

876
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,159
action last night against the Washington Wizard. We've been talking

877
00:40:34,159 --> 00:40:36,360
about that. Of course, the Texans and their trade with

878
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:37,360
David Montgomery.

879
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 2: How many pieces to the offensive line will they add

880
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:41,840
in this offseason?

881
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 4: We can talk about that. And of course your Houston

882
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,679
Ashtros yesterday in action? Is it true today? So I

883
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,559
was looking at ESPN on the schedule, mister Gordy, they're

884
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:52,760
playing up Venezuela.

885
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,159
Speaker 7: That is correct. It is a game, that is uh.

886
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,079
I guess they could serve exhibition games. Okay, they're not

887
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,199
really on the MLB website. What side is jose Al

888
00:41:02,199 --> 00:41:04,960
Tuve playing on? I believe they said a couple of

889
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,239
days ago he wasn't gonna play.

890
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 2: He was he's he's upstaining. Yeah, he was like that,

891
00:41:09,519 --> 00:41:12,159
this is too close to Caucaside. Now it's funny. You

892
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:15,360
got some other games. Panama is playing the Yankees today,

893
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,960
The Netherlands will play the Orioles. Columbia will play the Pirates.

894
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,559
How about this one? Columbia Canada will play the Blue Jays.

895
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 7: I really need George Springer to show up in his

896
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,760
team USA Hockey jersey again. That'd be funny because he

897
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:32,360
did that apparently pissed off a lot of Canadian Yeah fans,

898
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,920
so they can shove it.

899
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? Not cheer? For George Springer.

900
00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:39,880
I also know he's representing in his country where. Well,

901
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:42,199
have you ever been to Toronto or seen it?

902
00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 4: I've seen it on map. It's very like like Northeastern

903
00:41:46,119 --> 00:41:49,639
it's basically America. Like the border like juts down a

904
00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:54,079
little bit around Toronto. I'm like, that's basically north in America.

905
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 2: If you go east here in America, it's upstate New York,

906
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,039
it's Toronto.

907
00:41:57,159 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 7: Okay, So Canadians back off, but that will be an

908
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,079
interesting one to see.

909
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,039
Speaker 2: Cuba will play the Royals, Italy will play the Cubs.

910
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:11,280
But your Astros isn't Israel playing the Mets a? Yeah? Probably? Okay.

911
00:42:12,119 --> 00:42:16,039
Speaker 4: Puerto Rico will play the White the Red Sox. Where's

912
00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:18,960
that Puerto Rico? Oh, Puerto Rico versus the White Sox.

913
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,679
Where's al Cora native?

914
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,119
Speaker 2: I think he's Puerto Rican? Puerto Rican?

915
00:42:24,159 --> 00:42:27,679
Speaker 7: Yeah there, so they must have tried to make some

916
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:28,960
connections with whichever.

917
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, perhaps, I don't know. So the Astros are playing

918
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,559
Venezuela today. That should be I mean, that's gonna be

919
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:38,440
a thriller. Yesterday they played the Washington Nationals. It was

920
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,239
a three to three game. First action for Jordan Alvarez.

921
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,639
He went zero for three with a couple of strikeouts.

922
00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:49,480
Jose al tuve one for three with a strikeout.

923
00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 2: And the first one was a dinky single. But does

924
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,400
other bats ross?

925
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 7: He kept coming up with men on base, he did

926
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,800
make good contact, one of them like lined out. But

927
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,360
it's like, I mean, I've seen some people on Twitter

928
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,199
like overreacting.

929
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 2: Like Korea over Walker over.

930
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 7: But did you see what he also did when he

931
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,679
got on base. I think somebody I think Jordan hit

932
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,079
one to the track. It was an out and Jose,

933
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,280
I guess, thought it was gonna be gone, so he

934
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,960
went just past second and they got him out at first.

935
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,639
Speaker 2: So everybody jumped on season four. Yes he is let's

936
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:27,480
go baby. I like that.

937
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 7: But I will say ross, how many how many weeks

938
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,239
are we into spring training so far?

939
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks. The Astros are one in, one,

940
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:36,159
six and three.

941
00:43:36,599 --> 00:43:38,599
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you he's like a soccer line

942
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,320
cared to guess where they rank in batting average in

943
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,679
the Grapefruit League, No, just overall in all Major League,

944
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,039
all of Major League Baseball, twenty ninth thirtieth dead last?

945
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:52,360
Is that good? Dead last? Let me give you some

946
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,079
of the bad batting averages this spring. All right, go ahead.

947
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Speaker 7: Tampa Bay raysor batting two twenty eight. They're twenty sixth.

948
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The Saint Louis Carls are bad. Cardinals are batting two

949
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twenty six. They're twenty seventh. The Miami Marlins are batting

950
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two twenty As a team, they are twenty eighth. The

951
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Washington Nationals right twenty ninth, patting one ninety and your

952
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Houston Astros ross on the spring training season are batting

953
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one seventy four as a team. Now that includes all

954
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these guys like Jack's Biggers.

955
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Speaker 2: Getting in the eighth inning. Hey, don't coming up with

956
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base hits. Don't hate on Jack's Biggers.

957
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Speaker 7: I shudder to wonder what that average would be if

958
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they didn't have the scrubs all getting hits.

959
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Speaker 2: Late in games. I mean, this team would be back

960
00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:37,840
in like one hundred.

961
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Speaker 4: Don't you think if you were watching a baseball movie

962
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and they're like, eh, here comes Jacks Biggers, You're like

963
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,280
that they should have came up with a better name.

964
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Speaker 2: That sounds too made up. I mean they are below

965
00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:48,920
the Mendoza line. Ross what and at one seventy four

966
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,320
they're gonna have to go on a heater to get

967
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above the Mendoza. It's fine. You don't have to worry

968
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,639
about the Mendoza line. It's just spring training. It's okay. Yeah,

969
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:00,320
I guess you can tell yourself. Okay.

970
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Speaker 4: So look, well, Carlos Kray is gonna be fine damage control,

971
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Jordan Alvarez is gonna be fine.

972
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Speaker 2: Josel Tuve.

973
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Speaker 4: The fact of the matter is he has declined for

974
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two straight years in terms of his ops. He was

975
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still like seven to seventy one last year.

976
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Speaker 2: That's decent. You would take that if he if he

977
00:45:18,679 --> 00:45:19,880
could give you that this year.

978
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Speaker 4: Then we start to get concerned with the guys like

979
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the Cam Smith, the Jake Myers of the world says,

980
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,480
our Salazar is never gonna hit.

981
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Speaker 2: So, I mean that is what it is. It's okay.

982
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,960
Where you're how much How concerned are you about the lineup.

983
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:35,840
I'm pretty concerned.

984
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 7: Look, where are what ten games in the spring training? Yes,

985
00:45:41,199 --> 00:45:43,239
this team, the Astros is a team. If hit four

986
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,239
home runs, they have come from they have come from

987
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:53,360
Esac Paratus, great Taylor Tremmel okay, and Jack Winkler and

988
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,400
Anthony Huezo Lo.

989
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:59,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, like do you do you remember what the Yankees

990
00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:01,440
did in their first spring trading game. No, it doesn't matter,

991
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,679
twenty two run with their torpedo bats. That was like,

992
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,599
it's fine. They told Aaron Judge would like had like

993
00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:09,880
three hits and they wayeh, go sit down, Aaron, You're good.

994
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,559
Like they were just absolutely erupting. And again I'm not.

995
00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:15,880
This isn't like a one or two game sample size.

996
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,519
Now we are almost two weeks into this thing.

997
00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:21,519
Speaker 4: All right, I'm pulling up this. I'm pulling up the

998
00:46:21,519 --> 00:46:26,519
stats from last year. Let's spring training batting. Yeah, let's see. Okay,

999
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:29,000
Jake Myers hitting nine thirty five ops. I remember that

1000
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:30,599
Cooper Hummel was good.

1001
00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:33,679
Speaker 2: These are the best, the best astros in spring training

1002
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,400
last year, the Colorado Rockies have nineteen home runs in

1003
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:42,280
spring hit four s five. You have four, Saysar sal Look.

1004
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 4: Saesar Salazar had an ops of eleven hundred last year

1005
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,679
in spring chaining. Ooh, your best hitters were Cam Smith,

1006
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,119
Jeremy Penia, Zack Dezenzo.

1007
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:56,119
Speaker 2: Jake Myers. Actually guys that were actually good during the season. Okay,

1008
00:46:56,159 --> 00:46:58,800
maybe I should be concerned. Oh my gosh, you're number

1009
00:46:58,800 --> 00:46:59,719
two in strikeouts.

1010
00:46:59,719 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 9: Too.

1011
00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:03,599
Speaker 7: You've you've struck out one hundred and twelve times in

1012
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,119
spring training. One hundred and twelve strikeouts.

1013
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 2: Dude, God, so it canna be fine.

1014
00:47:09,639 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 4: Look, this is this is not gonna be one of

1015
00:47:11,039 --> 00:47:13,320
the best lineups in baseball. Now, that's never gonna happen.

1016
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,840
Now here's the thing. They leave all of spring training

1017
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,639
and walk See with seventy one? Yeah, what's the on base?

1018
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,840
Where base? They've been walking everything on base? They are

1019
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:25,280
walking in.

1020
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,159
Speaker 2: Like they're talking and they're ready to go. Baby, they're

1021
00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:30,480
twentieth and on base because you're not gonna get doing

1022
00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:33,679
anything else that's good. That only way that's better than

1023
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,199
thirtieth and uh in average. They are also number one

1024
00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:40,199
is stolen bases at twenty one. So they walk and

1025
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:46,000
then they steal a base. Three guys strikeout, strike outs. Runs.

1026
00:47:46,159 --> 00:47:51,880
They can't score run manufacturing. They're setting their table setting.

1027
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,079
They're gonna be fivest dead lasted run scored. Its fine

1028
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,719
in spring trating thirty two runs scored. Guess what the

1029
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,159
Bankes have seventy nine runs? Who cares about the Yankees.

1030
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 4: That's more than double Yeah, okay, where they had pitching,

1031
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,599
they got to be pretty good, right, I think they've

1032
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:12,159
been it's been terrible. Hunter Brown game up a run yesterday,

1033
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:16,559
but mostly he's been good. Bennett SUSA giving up runs.

1034
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,360
Your guy JP Franz had two scoreless yesterday.

1035
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 7: Oh, they're not striking out very money, They're they're fifth

1036
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,039
to last in strikeouts this SMRT.

1037
00:48:24,079 --> 00:48:26,079
Speaker 4: Right, you know what I'm sick of you in your

1038
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:27,000
spring training stats.

1039
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 2: Let's look up the R they're nine in the R see.

1040
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, but ross, you're telling me they're gonna lose

1041
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:34,199
every game two to one.

1042
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 4: Haven't you ever heard pitching, pitching, pitching, and more pitching. Okay, great,

1043
00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:41,400
you had like five now with Tommy John So you're

1044
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:42,559
just gonna pitch, pitch and pitch.

1045
00:48:42,639 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 7: You know what fans would rather see, though, they'd rather

1046
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,159
see you lose eleven to ten.

1047
00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:48,119
Speaker 2: And shoot, I don't care what. They'd rather see two

1048
00:48:48,199 --> 00:48:50,800
to one games that are boring where you get no hits.

1049
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,199
Speaker 4: Pitching wins championships, all right, So that's gonna be the formula.

1050
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:57,760
Four to two wins for the Astros. You're scratching enough

1051
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:58,280
across the.

1052
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:03,119
Speaker 2: Plate, and you do not have good luckdowns spring training.

1053
00:49:03,639 --> 00:49:07,679
It's the freaking Grape Brude League. Dude, it's fine. I'm

1054
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,480
not worried yet. You were dead last in almost every

1055
00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:14,239
offensive category. I mean, it's this is insane. It's it's

1056
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,719
just spring training. I'm not going to overreact to this.

1057
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,480
We'll see how Jose L two Ve looks. Jord On

1058
00:49:19,519 --> 00:49:22,880
Alvarez literally just first got in games. He's your best hitter,

1059
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,480
and you're hoping that he's gonna play I don't know,

1060
00:49:25,519 --> 00:49:27,360
like one hundred and forty five hundred fifty games for

1061
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,280
you this upcoming year. Carlos Carey is gonna be fine,

1062
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,599
he said, Paratus will figure it out. Ten teams have

1063
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,440
over one hundred hits. You have fifty two. All Right,

1064
00:49:36,679 --> 00:49:42,199
it's fine. I'm sorry you're facing Greg Maddox every Yeah, dude,

1065
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:46,599
come on man, John Joe Sah, Joe Saga, Gray was

1066
00:49:46,679 --> 00:49:47,920
dealing yesterday. All right.

1067
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,079
Speaker 4: Maybe they're gonna light up Venezuela today, Okay, and then

1068
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,559
we can stop worrying. They'll score eleven runs against Venezuela.

1069
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:55,880
We could stop worrying.

1070
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 7: This is bad, Like I knew it was bad and

1071
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,159
I was joking about it a we can, But now

1072
00:50:01,199 --> 00:50:03,199
we're almost two weeks in this is atrocious.

1073
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: Not worried.

1074
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 7: Uh, can we call who's the hitting coaches? Can we

1075
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:06,880
call those guys?

1076
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hold on, we can't hold on. We can't

1077
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,840
go after the hitting coaches already. And I think, well,

1078
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,719
you know what if it's if it ain't broken, that's

1079
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,599
pretty like you're making me want to tweet something.

1080
00:50:18,639 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 4: Now, let's bring back the guys we get rid of.

1081
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:24,440
And you know now I want to make a hitting

1082
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:28,440
coach tweet just because of you. This is great stuff.

1083
00:50:29,559 --> 00:50:32,559
Speaker 2: How are we feeling about the new Astros hitting coaches?

1084
00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:36,960
Guys their thirtieth and batting average suck? Bring back Centron

1085
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:41,239
and snicker. Sorry, guys, we've made a mistake. Oh my god.

1086
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,719
I thought y'all suck, but turns out it could be

1087
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:49,960
worse than. These new guys are even worse. Don't overreact.

1088
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:54,440
It's just the preseason, guys, it's just March third. It's fine. Yeah.

1089
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,039
Speaker 7: I guess what Texans offensive line sucked in the preseason.

1090
00:50:57,079 --> 00:50:59,079
Speaker 2: It sucked in the record. I'm not worried. That's different.

1091
00:50:59,119 --> 00:50:59,960
Football is different.

1092
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,199
Speaker 4: They're gonna be for they're they're they're getting their footing

1093
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,519
underneath them. There's been a lot of sun it's been

1094
00:51:05,519 --> 00:51:07,480
a lot of blinding sun in the Grapefruit League at

1095
00:51:07,519 --> 00:51:10,119
the floor at the Cacti Park of the bald people

1096
00:51:10,119 --> 00:51:11,719
on the beach or whatever. They don't have their footing.

1097
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,960
It's they've been slipping a lot in the Yeah, exactly, exactly.

1098
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:15,800
They can be fine.

1099
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a break on that note.

1100
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:21,199
How worried are you about the Houston Astros bats? Seven

1101
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,920
one three two one two five seven ninety. The phone

1102
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,760
number if you want to get in seven one three,

1103
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,599
two one two five seven ninety. You can send tweets

1104
00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:32,440
to at sports RV at Chris Gordy as well. We

1105
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:35,199
got gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty Matt Thomas

1106
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:36,239
and the News at noon.

1107
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,079
Speaker 4: Coming up at noon as well. You're on Sports Talk

1108
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:41,280
seven ninety in the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1109
00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 2: Baldo. Deliverers.

1110
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 12: First pick, swinging ground ball, hit sharply right at the shortstop.

1111
00:51:49,639 --> 00:51:51,599
Speaker 2: He'll go the short way to second for the fourth

1112
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,920
and that's the third out of the inning. The astro

1113
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,440
strand the base is loaded for the fourth time in

1114
00:51:56,519 --> 00:52:02,159
this game. Up the guys on base. They got what

1115
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,800
come on? Did you see how they scored? Did he

1116
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,920
say fourth time they stranded the bases loaded? Did you

1117
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:08,519
hear they had?

1118
00:52:08,559 --> 00:52:08,679
Speaker 13: Uh?

1119
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 2: Is that true?

1120
00:52:10,159 --> 00:52:14,559
Speaker 7: They had possible for much of the game today. One

1121
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:16,119
run roster. You know how it was scored?

1122
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,679
Speaker 2: How was it scored? Gordon is loaded, hit by a

1123
00:52:18,679 --> 00:52:23,360
pitch sounding for the team. That's called RBI's pal let's go.

1124
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:29,079
It was one r guy. That's called driving in runs

1125
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,639
and getting it done. They tied the game, all right,

1126
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,880
it was three to three. They've got three draws so

1127
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:41,119
far in spring training. I'm not worried. You're not gonna

1128
00:52:41,159 --> 00:52:42,119
make me worry yet.

1129
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 7: At this point yet, I'm I'm not just worried about

1130
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,920
the Astros bats. I'm worried about the Sugarland Space Cowboys

1131
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,159
bats because even those.

1132
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,519
Speaker 4: Guys, they're gonna have a bunch of twenty eight year

1133
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:54,440
old mashed Unless Jackson out there, you know what the

1134
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,199
Space Cowboys are gonna be. They're gonna be like a

1135
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:01,119
Little League team where everybody was born like basically right

1136
00:53:01,199 --> 00:53:03,400
before the cutoff date. They're all like a basically a

1137
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,280
year older than everyone else, and they're gonna mash. I

1138
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,239
want to find a Sugarland Space Cowboys win total because

1139
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,880
that bad boy's going over. You're gonna have like a

1140
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,920
bunch of great starting pitchers who are fringe major leaguers.

1141
00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:17,440
Your boy JP France is gonna be down there dealing.

1142
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,400
Jason Alexander might be down there. I mean, whether or

1143
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,679
not it's I don't know, Ryan Weiss or whoever. Space

1144
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,280
Cowboys gonna be carving it up all rightybe. I'm feeling

1145
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,960
good about the Space Cowboys this year. Houston Astros, I

1146
00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:33,079
don't know, but the Space Cowboys are gonna be are

1147
00:53:33,119 --> 00:53:35,960
gonna be pretty stout, There's no doubt in my mind.

1148
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,559
Speaker 7: I'm trying to pull up some some numbers here for

1149
00:53:38,639 --> 00:53:40,079
you to just kind of give an update on how

1150
00:53:40,119 --> 00:53:40,880
everybody's doing.

1151
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: Says Okay Salazar.

1152
00:53:45,599 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, is not good, dude, These numbers are not good.

1153
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,559
Speaker 4: Is that one of the underreported storylines of this offseason?

1154
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,360
Saysar Salazar is your backup catcher. That's a huge downgrade

1155
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,599
from Victor Caratini, assive downgrade from even what we've had

1156
00:54:02,639 --> 00:54:08,079
in the past. I don't know, Robinson Chirinos, Christian Vasquez,

1157
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,960
like Saesar Salzar as your backup catcher is kind of problematic.

1158
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,440
If that's gonna be what it is for the whole season, and.

1159
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 7: Let's just say yan dis goes down for an extended

1160
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:18,320
period of time.

1161
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 4: Oh, don't say that. Well, why would you say that,

1162
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:22,599
it happens. I don't want you to say that. Why

1163
00:54:22,599 --> 00:54:23,360
would you say that?

1164
00:54:23,599 --> 00:54:26,639
Speaker 2: Like you're gonna lean on Sally to play every night?

1165
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:28,239
And then what do you do? How do you go

1166
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,159
to the fullest spot on us? You just dropped a Sally.

1167
00:54:33,159 --> 00:54:35,480
How do you give him a day off? I don't know.

1168
00:54:36,079 --> 00:54:38,239
You can't. It's bad.

1169
00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:42,079
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe they think Walter Yannick is close he needs

1170
00:54:42,119 --> 00:54:43,559
to be, but he didn't get higher than high a

1171
00:54:43,599 --> 00:54:47,039
ball last year he played. He's like twenty three years

1172
00:54:47,039 --> 00:54:49,360
old and he hadn't played above a ball.

1173
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,599
Speaker 2: So it's a little worrisome. All right, let me give

1174
00:54:52,599 --> 00:54:57,360
you some first of good news on hitting. Okay, Nick

1175
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,079
Allen is four for twelve. Okay, hey, well so he

1176
00:55:01,159 --> 00:55:04,440
is batting. Uh he's batting three thirty three the spring.

1177
00:55:04,559 --> 00:55:06,159
He's not going to do that for the season, but

1178
00:55:06,199 --> 00:55:06,840
that's okay.

1179
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:07,639
Speaker 9: Uh.

1180
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 2: He's saying, Mauricio Dubon, who I am? Uh? I am

1181
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:11,559
your new guy?

1182
00:55:11,679 --> 00:55:12,079
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1183
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 7: Uh, Then you got a bunch of guys that are

1184
00:55:16,199 --> 00:55:19,559
hitless Zach Cole is oh for nine.

1185
00:55:19,639 --> 00:55:21,679
Speaker 2: That's fine, he's saving it for the season. Remember though,

1186
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,760
when we were like, oh, he has a red hot spring,

1187
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:26,960
he's gonna be opening Day.

1188
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 4: We wanted camp Smith to have a red hot spring

1189
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,920
like he did last year, and we wanted Zach Cole

1190
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,079
to have a red hot spring, and well, nobody's having

1191
00:55:34,119 --> 00:55:35,480
a red hot spring, so.

1192
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,639
Speaker 7: Okay, uh, then you got a bunch of guys that

1193
00:55:38,679 --> 00:55:42,559
are hitless. Okay, you've got Zach, Well, you got Zach

1194
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:46,880
Cole's over nine, Zach Decenzo's oh for eleven, Carlos Kreyzo

1195
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,920
for six, Jake Myers.

1196
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 4: Is I think he has what's the XBA, what's the

1197
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:53,159
average exit velo?

1198
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 2: He's work for seven. I'm not worried about this. Rys

1199
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,639
Christian Walker is oh for seven. You're not getting me

1200
00:55:58,639 --> 00:56:02,280
worried about spring training batting averag You're not Alvarezzo for three.

1201
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:04,840
And then you got the One Hit Club. Jake Myers

1202
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,400
is in the One Hit Club. Joey Love Ferfinos in

1203
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,800
the One Hit Club. The guys aren't meeting before the game.

1204
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:10,559
In the One Hit Club.

1205
00:56:10,639 --> 00:56:13,199
Speaker 7: Jan Er Diaz is one for eight. Oh my god,

1206
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,239
east O parad Is one for four, terrible. And then

1207
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,800
you got some two hit club guys. You got Sally

1208
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:24,760
is two for nine, Salak Jose two has got two hits,

1209
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,400
he's two for eight, and then camp Smith is two

1210
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,400
for eleven, and Jemmy pay is two for two for

1211
00:56:29,599 --> 00:56:31,480
or two for ten and Jerry Pays two for eleven.

1212
00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: So you got a couple of guys that have two hits.

1213
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:36,159
It's gonna be fine again.

1214
00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 7: I just want to I just want to remind you

1215
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,400
when we're talking about the spring training the New York

1216
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,440
Yankees have.

1217
00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 2: No, we're not talking about the game. Who cares like

1218
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,760
a hundred don't care hits. I don't care. The Chicago

1219
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,199
White Sox they have one hundred and eighteen hits. No,

1220
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:53,239
I'm not worried about it. One hundred and eighteen hits.

1221
00:56:53,679 --> 00:56:58,000
Then are they in? The says one? Zach Cole has none,

1222
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,239
Korea has none.

1223
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 4: He's they're all They're all due Roger, what's up?

1224
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:03,639
Speaker 2: Roger?

1225
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 14: Yeah? I called last week, uh and the spressmarket turn

1226
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:14,199
for Yana Dia uh and his uh his backup and

1227
00:57:14,639 --> 00:57:17,320
it's going to be a disaster. And you know, even

1228
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,079
if they turn it around and they and they get

1229
00:57:20,079 --> 00:57:22,079
more hits than what they're doing. Now, it's not gonna

1230
00:57:22,079 --> 00:57:24,280
be that much of a turnaround to Williston's gonna be

1231
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,519
bottom bottom of the barrel, uh in the league. So yeah,

1232
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:30,719
I kind of figured this would be. But why why

1233
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,000
do all this and go through all this charade when

1234
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,480
you could just blow it up? Because eventually that's what's

1235
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,239
gonna happen. People are gonna get fired and the guys

1236
00:57:38,239 --> 00:57:41,079
are going to get traded, and probably that we start

1237
00:57:41,119 --> 00:57:43,800
this whole thing all over again. But why wait for

1238
00:57:43,519 --> 00:57:44,840
a for a whole year and just.

1239
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,199
Speaker 2: You wants to blow everything up right now?

1240
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 14: I mean, well, look, look because the.

1241
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,719
Speaker 2: Spring training numbers Roger.

1242
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,599
Speaker 14: But what if they do for the offensive end of

1243
00:57:57,639 --> 00:58:00,559
the They were already that's why they didn't make playoffs.

1244
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they had like nineteen guys on the eyel

1245
00:58:05,519 --> 00:58:07,920
at once and they missed the playoffs by one name.

1246
00:58:09,199 --> 00:58:11,599
Speaker 14: Okay, so with these with these spring trading numbers, they

1247
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:12,559
probably don't mean much.

1248
00:58:12,639 --> 00:58:13,639
Speaker 2: But no they don't.

1249
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 14: Like I said, but what if that what if that is?

1250
00:58:17,639 --> 00:58:18,440
What if that is?

1251
00:58:18,639 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 2: What if it's not? See these guys?

1252
00:58:20,599 --> 00:58:23,159
Speaker 14: I don't see these guys have a breakout seasons I mean,

1253
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:27,679
I'm going Cam Smith, I mean, you got you're really

1254
00:58:27,679 --> 00:58:29,840
good to depend on guys like Walker and.

1255
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 4: Dis Christian Walker had about a second half of the

1256
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:36,119
season d as well. We'll see ord and Alvarez needs

1257
00:58:36,159 --> 00:58:38,320
to carry a lot of the weight. You're probably gonna

1258
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,840
at some point trade Esk Praatus and get an outfielder

1259
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,320
who who's going to have a good stick. That's what

1260
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:43,800
you're hoping.

1261
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,639
Speaker 14: That's just it. When I don't know question to be answered.

1262
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,519
Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions. You're right concerned. All right,

1263
00:58:50,599 --> 00:58:54,119
thank you, Roger. See what you're doing, Gordy, see what

1264
00:58:54,159 --> 00:58:54,599
you've done.

1265
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 4: You're you're stoking discontent in the city of Houston over

1266
00:58:59,039 --> 00:58:59,920
a couple of weeks of spring.

1267
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,039
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm just telling you, Alex Bregman eight walking through

1268
00:59:03,079 --> 00:59:06,199
that door, walking through that door. No, they're not gonna

1269
00:59:06,199 --> 00:59:07,559
be the twenty nineteen Astros.

1270
00:59:07,559 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 9: They're just not.

1271
00:59:08,119 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 2: Well I'm just.

1272
00:59:10,639 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: Four.

1273
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:17,719
Speaker 7: Just two years ago, Victor Kartini eate walking through that door. Well,

1274
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,880
one of the better hitting catchers. It'd be nice if

1275
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:20,280
you would.

1276
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,639
Speaker 2: Well, fortunately he's in Minnesota, twin.

1277
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 7: But that's the thing is, like you look at last

1278
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,599
year Ross, they were they still hit well last year.

1279
00:59:29,639 --> 00:59:31,800
They were twelve in batting average last year as a team,

1280
00:59:32,199 --> 00:59:34,320
but you were twenty first in run score.

1281
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 2: That's a significant time.

1282
00:59:36,519 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 4: That's because all the risk was because of the hitting coaches,

1283
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,360
and they got new hitting coaches and everything's gonna be fixed.

1284
00:59:41,679 --> 00:59:44,679
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, now they're just only working walks and nobody's

1285
00:59:44,679 --> 00:59:45,119
getting hit.

1286
00:59:46,039 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 4: Fine, they just need to be That's what they were

1287
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,239
last year. Team ops. Last year they were fifteenth. You

1288
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:52,760
go to like the WRC.

1289
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,239
Speaker 2: Plus and all that other stuff, like they were around

1290
00:59:54,239 --> 00:59:55,159
OPS plus.

1291
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,079
Speaker 7: They're around the middle of the pack. You don't think

1292
00:59:57,079 --> 00:59:58,960
that's maybe a trend though, like.

1293
00:59:59,199 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 2: A downward trend.

1294
01:00:00,159 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, ord On Alvarez only played like thirty eight

1295
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:08,039
games last year, so just from that alone, your offensive

1296
01:00:08,079 --> 01:00:10,599
numbers should be going up. You get a whole season

1297
01:00:10,599 --> 01:00:14,039
of Carlos Korea, who, yes he was not great in Minnesota,

1298
01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:16,199
but he was pretty good in the Houston Astros uniform.

1299
01:00:16,199 --> 01:00:18,679
Hopefully he can get that going is he's got single

1300
01:00:19,199 --> 01:00:21,719
his heat, his heated back brace is good. He's gonna

1301
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,199
be fine. He's gonna be good to go. He's like

1302
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,880
Michael Brandley on his career. Michael Brentley would be great,

1303
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,920
actually single. Christian Walker was great in the second half

1304
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,480
of the season last year. He he talked about how

1305
01:00:33,519 --> 01:00:36,199
the oblique injury slowed him down, so he's gonna be

1306
01:00:36,239 --> 01:00:40,519
ready to go. Jeremy Panna had a breakout year. He's

1307
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:44,280
gonna keep that going. We'll see what happens at the

1308
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,159
back end of the line. Jake Myers, Jack Myers. Honestly,

1309
01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:49,480
if you look at okay, if you want to be real,

1310
01:00:49,559 --> 01:00:51,719
if we want to be real, true honest people here,

1311
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:54,760
Jake Myers and Jeremy Peni are regression candidates because their

1312
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,320
batting averages and balls and play was much higher than

1313
01:00:57,719 --> 01:01:01,519
their career averages, meaning bad ball luck. You can put

1314
01:01:01,519 --> 01:01:04,599
the ball in play a thousand times and sometimes you're

1315
01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:06,960
gonna have better luck than others with bloops and with

1316
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,840
uh guys out of position and not getting there and

1317
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,960
that type of stuff. Generally, year after year it averages out.

1318
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:16,519
And Jeremy Panna and Jake Myers were well above average

1319
01:01:16,599 --> 01:01:18,639
last year with their batting average and balls in play.

1320
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,800
So yes, it is possible that there's a world where

1321
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,880
both of those guys regress. Camp Smith isn't the real deal.

1322
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,840
Zach Cole was false promises. From September. You have Yaner

1323
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,079
Diez continues to not be good and this offense is bad. Yes,

1324
01:01:33,199 --> 01:01:35,920
that is possible. Correa goes over the hill. Jose al

1325
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,239
Tuve continues to regress, and not even regress, but just

1326
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,239
decline as he has the last couple of years. It's possible.

1327
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,679
It's possible. I've never seen numbers. It's like, all right,

1328
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:47,559
none was that. I've never seen like you've been looking

1329
01:01:47,559 --> 01:01:49,360
at spring training numbers your entire life.

1330
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:53,519
Speaker 7: Like the Giants they have thirty three walks, but seventy

1331
01:01:53,559 --> 01:01:54,639
two runs bat it inn't.

1332
01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 2: The Astros are the opposite. They have seventy one walks.

1333
01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:59,599
They're on the cusp thirty one runs back.

1334
01:01:59,639 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 4: Didn't you hear the highlight? They loaded the bases like

1335
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,199
four times. Okay, they're ready to explode. They're gonna score

1336
01:02:05,239 --> 01:02:06,559
ten runs today and.

1337
01:02:06,519 --> 01:02:09,679
Speaker 2: You're gonna have egg over your face. Right, you can

1338
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,480
load the bases every inning, but if no one drives

1339
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:16,400
them in, they're gonna they're they're on the cusp. It's

1340
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,880
not even like they're gonna get ready. They're ready to expel.

1341
01:02:19,039 --> 01:02:22,280
The exact step one of scoring runs is getting guys

1342
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,400
on base Step two is driving them home. They're just

1343
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,199
getting in. They're on step one. They're gonna get to

1344
01:02:26,199 --> 01:02:29,480
step two. And losing games is the shut up the plate,

1345
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:31,960
shut up, gotta score spring trip.

1346
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 4: It's a Grapefruit League, dude, it's gonna be fine. You

1347
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,320
always over the worst.

1348
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:41,199
Speaker 2: Team in baseball and scoring runs currently okay in spring training? Okay,

1349
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:45,480
I mean you think they're gonna you have my twelve runs.

1350
01:02:45,559 --> 01:02:48,159
Speaker 4: You have my personal guarantee. They will not be the

1351
01:02:48,159 --> 01:02:49,679
worst offense in baseball this year.

1352
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 2: Christa Walker is gonna go up money. But for the cycle. Yeah,

1353
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,000
it's been hot, man, it's human over there. You haven't

1354
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,639
even hit for the cycle. As a team, they need

1355
01:03:00,679 --> 01:03:03,840
that wonderful dake it air conditioning triple. As a team,

1356
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:07,280
they need a triple who cares to say, like the

1357
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:08,199
canket hits.

1358
01:03:08,239 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 4: They're gonna be fine. They're gonna be fine to some degree.

1359
01:03:12,119 --> 01:03:14,760
All Right, we're gonna take a break. Chris Cordy is

1360
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,800
about the gut feeling that they're gonna be the worst offense.

1361
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,360
You know what, I'm gonna pull up the archives. I'm

1362
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,119
curious what your latest gut feelings are. Do you have

1363
01:03:20,159 --> 01:03:23,039
a gut feeling about the Astros offense. I think it's

1364
01:03:23,039 --> 01:03:25,360
gonna be fine. You have a gut feeling about anything

1365
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,000
about the Texans offensive line? How about the Houston Rockets

1366
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:30,639
and the playoffs? Do you want to make a prediction?

1367
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:34,320
Seven to one three two one two five seven ninety

1368
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,320
is the phone number seven one three two one two

1369
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:49,639
five seven ninety one? Helps If I turned my microphone on,

1370
01:03:50,039 --> 01:03:52,639
I thought I hit the button, but I guess show

1371
01:03:52,719 --> 01:03:54,480
I misclicked. Yeah it was good stuff, man, was that

1372
01:03:54,519 --> 01:03:55,280
was some of my best work.

1373
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 2: Actually it was probably the smartest thing you've ever yea, yeah, yeah,

1374
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,440
Well that's a low bar. Eleven thirty or in the

1375
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,119
am here on Sports.

1376
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:05,719
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety the Matt Thomas Show with Ross As.

1377
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:07,199
Speaker 2: Matt Thomas will be joining us at noon.

1378
01:04:07,239 --> 01:04:10,519
Speaker 4: He's got a sore throat, so uh sore throat Thomas

1379
01:04:10,519 --> 01:04:12,400
coming up at noon along with the news at noon.

1380
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:13,159
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that.

1381
01:04:13,239 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 4: Chris Cordy gracious enough to be hanging out with his busy,

1382
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:16,920
biggest busy schedule.

1383
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 2: We appreciate him. You guys can get in on the

1384
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:20,960
phone lines with some gut feelings at seven one three

1385
01:04:21,119 --> 01:04:24,199
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1386
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:26,400
one two five seven ninety I'm just realizing we've.

1387
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 4: Been putting you to work, Gordy. You had some gut

1388
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,719
feelings last week, so we can run those back. But

1389
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,440
I'm gonna go from mine from two weeks ago. I

1390
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:35,880
said the Rockets would sweep the Clippers to end the season.

1391
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 2: That did not happen.

1392
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,159
Speaker 4: I said the Rockets will finish as a top three

1393
01:04:39,159 --> 01:04:41,880
seed in the West. As of this moment, they are third,

1394
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,000
and that's where they're gonna have to finish because they're

1395
01:04:44,079 --> 01:04:48,559
like five games behind the San Antonio Spurs. I also said,

1396
01:04:48,599 --> 01:04:51,840
and this one is gonna get interesting. Maybe, barring injury,

1397
01:04:52,519 --> 01:04:56,559
Reed Shephard will not be a full time starter at

1398
01:04:56,559 --> 01:05:00,400
any point this season for the Houston Rockets.

1399
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 7: I mean that's kind of he's been. He's been playing

1400
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:08,760
more and more minutes. Right, Yes, he's almost playing start because.

1401
01:05:08,559 --> 01:05:11,239
Speaker 2: People there have been people like Reed Shepherd needs to start.

1402
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,440
Red Shepherd's got to be in the starting lineup. Look

1403
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:15,320
at this, Look at Raig Shepherd. He's the greatest of

1404
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,599
all time. Like Reed Sheppard was good nineteen points.

1405
01:05:17,639 --> 01:05:20,679
Speaker 4: Tennis says last night six steals, a couple of blocks.

1406
01:05:21,199 --> 01:05:23,760
But I like him in a six man role where

1407
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,639
he can be in closing lineups. But also you need

1408
01:05:25,679 --> 01:05:27,440
some bench scoring because Clin Capella is now getting the

1409
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:30,440
bench scoring done. Guys like you got you gotta figure

1410
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:30,920
something out.

1411
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 2: Okay, you want you know, to know where I want

1412
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,840
to go with a comp there for Reed Shepherd. What

1413
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,039
was James Harden doing his first few years? And oh, okay,

1414
01:05:41,159 --> 01:05:45,320
hold on coming off the bench? Shop this, guys, stop,

1415
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:50,679
don't go with Reed Shepherd and James James Harden.

1416
01:05:50,679 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 7: He didn't even start a game his first year at

1417
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:54,719
Okay see played in seventy six games off the bench,

1418
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,159
was averaging about twenty two minutes a game.

1419
01:05:57,679 --> 01:05:59,559
Speaker 2: How many points was he averaging as a rookie?

1420
01:05:59,599 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 7: The next year he nine? Okay, the next year he

1421
01:06:03,039 --> 01:06:06,360
average twelve. Still only started five games year two eighty

1422
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:06,840
two games.

1423
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:11,039
Speaker 2: You've heard it here first, folks. I'm just trying to

1424
01:06:11,039 --> 01:06:14,880
go back. Let's remember Arden wasn't hardened until he got here.

1425
01:06:16,599 --> 01:06:19,199
I understand. It's three full seasons in Oklahoma City.

1426
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 7: Harden only started seven games, Okay, So it was a

1427
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,039
little bit of a cop there, right, Red started a

1428
01:06:24,039 --> 01:06:24,760
couple there.

1429
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:27,199
Speaker 4: There is a little bit of a comp but James

1430
01:06:27,239 --> 01:06:29,719
Harden is also one of the greatest six man stories

1431
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:31,280
blossoming in the Superstar ever.

1432
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 2: But if not number one.

1433
01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 7: His his progressive scoring was nine as a rookie twelve

1434
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,559
and year two and sixteen and year three.

1435
01:06:39,159 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 2: You're going with Harden. Now, first three years Harden was

1436
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:43,519
not this reed.

1437
01:06:43,599 --> 01:06:47,199
Speaker 4: Shepherd is not winning an NBA MVP. Okay, why why

1438
01:06:47,239 --> 01:06:47,880
do you say that?

1439
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:51,599
Speaker 2: Oh second, are you saying he is? Write it down?

1440
01:06:52,039 --> 01:06:54,800
Say it right now. I got feeling one years old.

1441
01:06:54,880 --> 01:07:00,559
Stop he stops on his whole career at Cordy, Cordy, Please,

1442
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,639
your brain has been infected by your Kentucky Wildcat wife.

1443
01:07:06,079 --> 01:07:08,400
I like read Shepherd. Look at the numbers.

1444
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,199
Speaker 4: I would like maybe read Shepherd will blossom into a starter.

1445
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,880
I don't think it's gonna happen this year, but you

1446
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:14,880
you gotta relax.

1447
01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:19,199
Speaker 7: Year two of Harden and OKC he averaged twelve points

1448
01:07:19,199 --> 01:07:21,800
a game. Read Shepherd at year two in Houston is

1449
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:23,360
averaging thirteen points a game.

1450
01:07:24,639 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 2: Okay. Now Harden shot thirty four reach Shepherd shooting thirty.

1451
01:07:29,159 --> 01:07:32,079
Speaker 4: Is also again one of the biggest exceptions in basketball

1452
01:07:32,159 --> 01:07:34,280
history in terms of a six man who blossom into

1453
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,679
a full blown superstar top ten scorer of all time.

1454
01:07:37,679 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 7: Year two and okay, see Harden to assists a game,

1455
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:41,960
reach Shepherd three point two assists per game.

1456
01:07:42,039 --> 01:07:44,199
Speaker 2: Hey, you're right. You know what, Read Shepherd is better

1457
01:07:44,199 --> 01:07:47,320
than James Harden. No, I'm just saying trajectory. No, is

1458
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:51,400
that trajectory James had Nobody's trading for Reed Shepherd and

1459
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,719
making the centerpiece of their team. But that wasn't until

1460
01:07:53,719 --> 01:07:57,039
after the year three. Let's see what Read is next year. Okay,

1461
01:07:57,079 --> 01:07:59,320
you know what, I'm writing it down. I'm putting it.

1462
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,400
I'm putting my name on it. Okay, not even a

1463
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:06,000
gut feeling. Reed Shephard will never win an NBA MVP,

1464
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:07,360
I mean, come on.

1465
01:08:07,639 --> 01:08:10,239
Speaker 7: Okay, but putting it in all caps, can he become

1466
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,559
one of the best players in the league in five years?

1467
01:08:12,599 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 2: Maybe? Probably not. Well, that's just a hater, I don't know.

1468
01:08:20,119 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 4: Oh my god, because now he went from four points

1469
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,119
at thirteen, he's been great.

1470
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 2: I like Read check and it was.

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01:08:27,199 --> 01:08:30,359
Speaker 7: A comparable jump Harden made from year.

1472
01:08:30,239 --> 01:08:32,199
Speaker 2: One or two. You know what, he's young. You're right.

1473
01:08:32,239 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 4: Today we'll say he's not going to blossom into an

1474
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,600
all star is perhaps premature.

1475
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 7: How old was Harden? How many you only played the

1476
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:44,840
one year at Arizona State? God, Okay, I'm just saying

1477
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:46,239
the numbers are very comparable too.

1478
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:49,159
Speaker 4: I imagine Jabari Smith Junior scoring numbers in his third

1479
01:08:49,239 --> 01:08:51,840
year are better than James Harden's scoring numbers in his

1480
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:52,399
third year.

1481
01:08:54,119 --> 01:08:57,399
Speaker 7: But I'm saying like he's he's got the vision, the

1482
01:08:58,039 --> 01:09:02,119
passing ability for the fort.

1483
01:09:01,039 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 2: Totals, he's got tennisists one time. Yeah, what do you

1484
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,520
have last night? Ten? Yeah? That was the one time? Great? Okay,

1485
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:11,760
yeah he was great. I mention he's twenty one, Yes,

1486
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,680
he's young. You know what you're.

1487
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,239
Speaker 7: If this we're buying stock, I'd be buying stock and

1488
01:09:20,239 --> 01:09:21,399
read Shepherds And yeah you can.

1489
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 4: You can buy some stock and read shepherd He's gonna

1490
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,840
go up. He's gonna get better, You're right, I.

1491
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 2: Mean, can he be like a fifteen to twenty point

1492
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:28,159
per game score?

1493
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:30,159
Speaker 7: Like what's hilarious about this is we could probably go

1494
01:09:30,279 --> 01:09:32,760
back and find tape of like year two of SGA

1495
01:09:33,079 --> 01:09:34,720
with the Clippers and be like, I.

1496
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:36,640
Speaker 2: Think SGA one day is gonna be awesome. You'd be like,

1497
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:38,000
you're kidding me that guy.

1498
01:09:38,199 --> 01:09:41,079
Speaker 4: He's a scrumb so okay, so he's nothing. We're going

1499
01:09:41,119 --> 01:09:43,920
with MVP again. I'm just shake Gill, just alexand this

1500
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,159
guy starts somewhere.

1501
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,399
Speaker 7: That's true, and you gotta see you see the glimpses

1502
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:48,960
of brilliance.

1503
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:55,520
Speaker 4: Okay, is ray Reid Shepherd MVP seven one three, two,

1504
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,319
one two, five seven nine.

1505
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 2: In the next decade win one. No, it's possible.

1506
01:10:00,039 --> 01:10:02,079
Speaker 4: I will bet you right now, whatever amount you want

1507
01:10:02,079 --> 01:10:06,439
to bet, I'm gonna track you down.

1508
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:07,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna track you down.

1509
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,119
Speaker 4: And the Gordy and if and when any little Gordys come,

1510
01:10:11,279 --> 01:10:12,439
I'm coming for all of y'all.

1511
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 2: As a rookie, you would have been like, that's Anthony

1512
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,520
Edwards is never gonna win the MVP. I might no,

1513
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,119
Anthony Edwards, absolutely.

1514
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,680
Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, did Anthony Edwards average four points per game?

1515
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 7: And as a rookie, I'm just trying to find guys that,

1516
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:29,039
like when they first it took him.

1517
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 4: A few years, has not won an MVP, right, But

1518
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,159
it's how hard. But he certainly is in the running.

1519
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:37,399
Red Sheepherd's not winning MVP. Stop all right, Moving along here,

1520
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:40,800
Let's let's go to the other gut feeling, Matt Thomas's

1521
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:44,600
gut feeling. Rockets win their next four, which they lost

1522
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,800
to Miami. Right, so that's an l Cougar's out of

1523
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:50,520
the South region, Okay, And they don't lose until the

1524
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,760
NCA attorney has and he has them winning the Big

1525
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:56,239
Twelve Championship, I guess. And he said Joe Mixon is

1526
01:10:56,239 --> 01:10:57,680
gonna get released. Which is gonna happen?

1527
01:10:58,239 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 2: Jonathan, you had the Rockets winning their next four? Yeah?

1528
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:06,560
Speaker 4: L Gordy, you had Jason Alexander. You like some Jason Alexander. See,

1529
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:09,479
I'm okay with the Jason Alexander love. He's kind of sneaky,

1530
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:10,760
are you after that game?

1531
01:11:11,119 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 2: He was better in the second start.

1532
01:11:14,079 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 4: Lance mccullors on the bench, We'll see L s u wins.

1533
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:22,079
Speaker 2: What's c w L the College World Series? Car College

1534
01:11:22,119 --> 01:11:26,960
World Ladies? And that that Eastern last night.

1535
01:11:27,119 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 4: Northeastern's got a squad apparently all right undefeated on the weekends.

1536
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,520
Speaker 2: Sorry, Chris Gordy, give me a gut feeling.

1537
01:11:35,239 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 7: Uh, I want to I want to go with some Oh,

1538
01:11:40,119 --> 01:11:43,000
here's one for you. For the second consecutive year, the

1539
01:11:43,039 --> 01:11:44,159
Astros will not win.

1540
01:11:44,039 --> 01:11:51,359
Speaker 2: The Al West. Oh, come on, man. Sorry, Yeah, I mean, by.

1541
01:11:51,399 --> 01:11:55,359
Speaker 7: The way I found our blog post pre season last year,

1542
01:11:55,359 --> 01:11:58,119
of all of our predictions, literally every one of us

1543
01:11:58,119 --> 01:12:00,079
took the Asters to win the division, and almost all

1544
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:01,760
of us had the Astros in the World Series.

1545
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think I wanted, didn't I have

1546
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:08,039
the Blue Jays in the World Series. I have to

1547
01:12:08,039 --> 01:12:08,520
look that up.

1548
01:12:09,199 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 4: Maybe that was two years ago I had the Blue Jays,

1549
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:12,520
like maybe, like maybe maybe I was a year early.

1550
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,560
Speaker 2: I'm never wrong, I'm just early. By the way, I

1551
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,359
really went out on a limb and I was correct.

1552
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:19,760
Had the Dodgers winning at all. Oh wow, great job, John.

1553
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:21,239
Then you got a gut feeling for this week?

1554
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,039
Speaker 10: Uh, you know what, I'm gonna play a safe Rockets

1555
01:12:24,039 --> 01:12:24,720
go to one.

1556
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:27,560
Speaker 2: This is get to go to and one in their

1557
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:28,439
next three games.

1558
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,239
Speaker 7: You know what you can, babe, just go ahead, put

1559
01:12:30,239 --> 01:12:32,079
me down down. Dodgers win the World Series.

1560
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:37,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's fine. Might even go Thunder win

1561
01:12:37,159 --> 01:12:38,000
the NBA Finals.

1562
01:12:38,039 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 4: Two Astros bats explode sometime in the next week, just

1563
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:45,239
for you.

1564
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 2: Okay, what's explode? I'm talking ten plus runs?

1565
01:12:49,159 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 7: Ten plus runs? Ah, who's Thatezuela throw tonight? Maybe maybe tonight.

1566
01:12:56,119 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 2: Oh that's what I'm hoping for. Venezuela would be a

1567
01:12:59,039 --> 01:13:02,800
nice Omar Lopez, let's go, Omar Lopez goes. Guys, we

1568
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:06,119
got to get the astro's confidence up. All right, I'm

1569
01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:07,880
the guy with the twenty five. Al Right, all right,

1570
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:09,640
both y, all on, hold, we see you. We're gonna

1571
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:10,000
get to you.

1572
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 4: We we got to take a quick break because Cordy

1573
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,399
and I were arguing too much about Reed Shepherd, the

1574
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:19,600
greatest basketball player of all times, future future All NBA

1575
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:20,840
player Read Shepherd.

1576
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:23,359
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that coming up.

1577
01:13:23,399 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 4: You guys, got some gut feelings you want to get

1578
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:26,680
in Scott Gille, We'll get to you next. Seven one

1579
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,199
three two one two five seven ninety is the phone number.

1580
01:13:29,399 --> 01:13:37,720
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. All right, um,

1581
01:13:39,199 --> 01:13:41,000
welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with the Ross

1582
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:45,159
with Chris Cordy. Let's see Taylor cres Hays Gordy getting

1583
01:13:45,159 --> 01:13:47,079
worked up over guys that'll be in a double A

1584
01:13:47,199 --> 01:13:51,640
next next week, next month, like who I don't know,

1585
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:52,479
Jack's Biggers.

1586
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 7: Our starters will be in triple A or double A

1587
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,119
if they don't pick it up.

1588
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 4: This guy six thirty sixty nine thirty one. The crawfish

1589
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:02,000
has got into Gordy's head. It is crawfish season. I've

1590
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:06,239
only had one one batch, okay, enough, they get bigger

1591
01:14:06,359 --> 01:14:07,119
later into the season.

1592
01:14:07,119 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, they're very tidy when I had them. Okay.

1593
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 7: That's the thing, is like, because people always get on

1594
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:17,079
me about poundage, and it's like, three pounds is good

1595
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:22,520
if they're decent size. Three pounds and they're all tiny, tiny.

1596
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:24,199
Speaker 2: And you're paying for mushrooms and potatoes and corn.

1597
01:14:24,319 --> 01:14:27,119
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I like the sides, but like, to me,

1598
01:14:27,239 --> 01:14:29,560
five pounds is a good it's a good size.

1599
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:30,079
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1600
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 4: All right, more crawfish talk coming up. I don't know

1601
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:38,680
later on at point. All right, seven one three seven

1602
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:42,199
ninety is the phone number. Seven one three two five

1603
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,279
seven ninety. Scott in Jersey Village has been holding patiently.

1604
01:14:45,319 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Scott.

1605
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:49,079
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, sir, think you take my call off?

1606
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:50,479
Speaker 14: No problem?

1607
01:14:51,359 --> 01:14:52,359
Speaker 9: Yes, okay.

1608
01:14:52,399 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 14: Unfortunately, in my gut when I when I play this

1609
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:02,399
take forward, I feel like the Astros finish it's all.

1610
01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 15: Under five hundred.

1611
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:07,279
Speaker 6: I thought they were in seventy nine games, you know, I.

1612
01:15:07,279 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 15: Know, I just I feel like they have the arms

1613
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,960
they have some arms, and there there will always be

1614
01:15:13,039 --> 01:15:15,439
somebody that that will perform well but you didn't expect.

1615
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,399
Speaker 6: But there's always going to be somebody that doesn't perform

1616
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:17,880
so well.

1617
01:15:18,359 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 9: I just don't see them having the offense.

1618
01:15:22,359 --> 01:15:25,039
Speaker 13: In all honesty, I was really with the.

1619
01:15:25,279 --> 01:15:27,600
Speaker 15: The Carline career move last year because it was exactly

1620
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:29,840
what you needed a for sixty games or whatever. We

1621
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,680
had left a short shot in the arm. I don't

1622
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,920
want Carlos Korea for one hundred and sixty two games.

1623
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:37,560
Speaker 9: You don't want College Carret for hundred.

1624
01:15:37,359 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 13: Toy two games.

1625
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 15: The Twins don't want him for hundreds these two games.

1626
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:43,039
He's only going to play ninety anyway, and that's fine.

1627
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,159
You know al two days. You know, he's not what

1628
01:15:48,239 --> 01:15:50,159
he used to be. And it's been a long time,

1629
01:15:50,239 --> 01:15:54,479
honestly since I seen Alvarez be good. Let's see what

1630
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,479
Walker's gonna do. We're trying to trade away our second

1631
01:15:57,560 --> 01:15:58,920
best player, you.

1632
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:00,600
Speaker 2: Know, so let's just see.

1633
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,399
Speaker 15: I don't see them winning ninety games, So what are

1634
01:16:03,399 --> 01:16:06,079
we going to say eighty five? Okay, well, I see

1635
01:16:06,079 --> 01:16:08,479
them losing a lot of these three to two games

1636
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:08,920
where we.

1637
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,920
Speaker 2: Just couldn't score eighty six and a half was the

1638
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:15,239
win is the Vegas win total? I'm going over the

1639
01:16:15,279 --> 01:16:21,720
win total, Scott, shut jobmass up, surprise, surprise, Roth, anything else, Scott.

1640
01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:25,039
That's it having a right, Thank you appreciate it.

1641
01:16:25,279 --> 01:16:27,279
Speaker 4: Look, they won eighty seven games last year and they

1642
01:16:27,399 --> 01:16:30,159
had five thousand injuries, and so.

1643
01:16:30,119 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 2: I think they can win one more game than last year.

1644
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:33,920
I'm not saying they're gonna win the American League West.

1645
01:16:34,119 --> 01:16:35,920
I'm not saying they're going to light the world on fire.

1646
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:39,359
I do feel confident that the bats will be at

1647
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,800
least okay enough, and I feel confident that the starting

1648
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:44,920
pitching is going to be consistent enough that they can

1649
01:16:45,119 --> 01:16:46,920
I'll go over eighty six and a half win. Where

1650
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,119
did he have them that like seventy five wins? He said?

1651
01:16:49,239 --> 01:16:53,119
He said seventy nine. Okay, that would be an eight.

1652
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 4: That would be that would be Dana Brown and Joe

1653
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:56,880
Spot to see you later.

1654
01:16:57,039 --> 01:16:57,399
Speaker 2: Stuff.

1655
01:16:57,399 --> 01:17:01,560
Speaker 4: For the Astros, they're below five hundred even even I

1656
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,000
would say, even if there's a rash of injuries, they're

1657
01:17:04,039 --> 01:17:04,800
below five hundred.

1658
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:08,039
Speaker 2: Both of those guys are gone, I would probably agree.

1659
01:17:08,119 --> 01:17:10,319
Speaker 7: And then and then Jim Crane's statement about you know,

1660
01:17:10,359 --> 01:17:12,640
the window will never close as far as you know.

1661
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like that was foolish, Winny set, But

1662
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:15,479
I would.

1663
01:17:15,239 --> 01:17:17,560
Speaker 7: Feel like the window is closed if they missed the

1664
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,520
postseason for a second straight year and they got a

1665
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,279
clean house and all your big star players have all

1666
01:17:23,319 --> 01:17:25,359
moved on, Like that's weird.

1667
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,560
Speaker 4: It'd be depending because, yeah, the farm system is not great.

1668
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,920
You don't have a lot of tradable assets. Anyways, I

1669
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:32,199
don't even know what you would do at that point.

1670
01:17:32,199 --> 01:17:34,479
I don't even want to think about that themism. Now

1671
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:35,920
I'm upset. We're gonna make the playoffs.

1672
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, thanks, Thanks Cordy GeOH what's up?

1673
01:17:42,119 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 13: Good to have you on.

1674
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 16: Quick question before I start this, are you guys.

1675
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 13: On air tomorrow or is the Astros going to be on?

1676
01:17:49,159 --> 01:17:51,760
Speaker 2: It'll be the Astro Store. Both. We're on till noon

1677
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:53,279
and the Astros come on at noon tomorrow.

1678
01:17:54,279 --> 01:17:56,560
Speaker 16: Okay, So in that case, I don't think we're doing.

1679
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,079
Speaker 2: At eleven thirty. Okay, Well, are you trying to get

1680
01:18:01,079 --> 01:18:02,399
God today, aren't you?

1681
01:18:02,399 --> 01:18:02,560
Speaker 17: Oh?

1682
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:06,239
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, you know, I gotta okay, So so well,

1683
01:18:06,279 --> 01:18:08,000
my gut feeling, I'm gonna start off with that one.

1684
01:18:08,039 --> 01:18:10,279
My gut feeling today is Gordy, I think you're pissing

1685
01:18:10,279 --> 01:18:12,640
a lot of us off today. That's my gut feeling

1686
01:18:13,279 --> 01:18:15,960
and uh my chut your bum mass up goes to Gordy.

1687
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:16,319
Speaker 1: Gordy.

1688
01:18:16,359 --> 01:18:18,520
Speaker 16: Look, I'm not saying the Ashtoors are gonna win the

1689
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,439
World Series, man, but god Lee, Man, with the way

1690
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,439
you're talking, we might as well just call it the season.

1691
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 2: And you know you must not like facts. I was

1692
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,960
just giving you facts on what the offensive numbers are

1693
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:28,399
so far.

1694
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 16: Hey, hey man, we're talking with in the words of Ai.

1695
01:18:32,319 --> 01:18:34,239
Speaker 13: We're talking about spring training.

1696
01:18:34,279 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 1: Man.

1697
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,680
Speaker 16: Okay, right, we're talking about spring training and to say

1698
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:40,640
to go further, to say that cocaine curry. All right,

1699
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:42,560
my boy, read Shepard is going to be an Envy

1700
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:43,920
team the next ten seasons.

1701
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 7: Gordy smoking his first two years. Look at Harden's first

1702
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:52,119
two years and okay.

1703
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 16: See about James Harden and Reed check.

1704
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,079
Speaker 2: You're talking about thirty six year old James Harden. I'm

1705
01:18:59,119 --> 01:19:01,840
talking about back when Harden came out of Arizona State.

1706
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:04,960
Numbers are comparable. Numbers are comparable.

1707
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:10,159
Speaker 16: Look, Groria, I love you, all.

1708
01:19:10,119 --> 01:19:12,560
Speaker 2: Right, We'll see let's go. I mean we're gonna have

1709
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:14,319
to wait. You have to wait about a decade for

1710
01:19:14,359 --> 01:19:17,640
this to pay off. Yeah, I like Read Shepherd. That's

1711
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,680
around one. I'll circle back with you, guys, don't make

1712
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:22,560
me hate read sherefer, I don't hate Read Shepherd. I

1713
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:23,439
like Read Shepherd a lot.

1714
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 4: I want him to be so successful, but yeah, I

1715
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:29,159
don't think he's on a Jeames hardenesque trajectory. Be nice,

1716
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,319
it'd be great, And you know what, I would just

1717
01:19:32,359 --> 01:19:34,800
I would crown you the smartest man on the planet

1718
01:19:35,239 --> 01:19:36,359
if that did happen.

1719
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:38,520
Speaker 2: But I mean, what if he's just like a really

1720
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,920
good player, that'd be good. You know he's he's because

1721
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,520
he's made a huge leap. Who is my guy in

1722
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,840
an Indy? That's hurt Tyrese Haliburton took him several years. Yeah, exactly,

1723
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,760
Like I'm just saying, like, on that level, the guys

1724
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,680
that were not late bloomers but just took.

1725
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,600
Speaker 4: A few years to really settle in, it can happen.

1726
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,560
You mentioned Sego Jess Alexander. I mean you're mentioning James Harden,

1727
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,000
But I think I can point to dozens of guys

1728
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,279
guys who never ended up painting out, who made leaps

1729
01:20:03,319 --> 01:20:05,680
and who I mean, for example, Jalen Green. Jalen Green

1730
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,920
had a better start to his career than Read Shepherd

1731
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:12,079
did numbers wise, is Jalen Green going to be NBA MVP. No,

1732
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,840
So it's just very difficult, and we can go through

1733
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,720
any number of guys who we can point to.

1734
01:20:19,039 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 2: I don't know even guys on this team.

1735
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:23,079
Speaker 4: I'm and Thompson Read Shepherd like they're scoring more points

1736
01:20:23,119 --> 01:20:25,880
per game than Read Shepherd is right now, and they're

1737
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,000
not going to be NBA MVP. So I like Read Shepherd.

1738
01:20:29,039 --> 01:20:30,840
And the shooting is good, and it's been consistent. It's

1739
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:34,920
been better, especially since the All Star break, where it

1740
01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:36,199
felt like going into the All.

1741
01:20:36,119 --> 01:20:37,600
Speaker 2: Star Break his legs were a little bit tired.

1742
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 4: His shooting went down the last month, and he's been

1743
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,760
over forty five percent since then, So that's good.

1744
01:20:43,079 --> 01:20:44,119
Speaker 2: I like Read Shepherd.

1745
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,319
Speaker 4: I just don't know that he's got star written all

1746
01:20:46,319 --> 01:20:48,239
over him.

1747
01:20:48,359 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 2: I mean not right now. It's early. It is early.

1748
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:53,960
He is young, he can get older, he can get bossoming.

1749
01:20:54,039 --> 01:20:55,520
You know what if he wins an MVP with the

1750
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:58,039
Houston Rockets uniform, I'm going to be all on board

1751
01:20:58,560 --> 01:20:58,880
for that.

1752
01:20:59,079 --> 01:21:01,199
Speaker 7: What if I told you six years from now, the

1753
01:21:01,279 --> 01:21:04,079
Rockets two best players are on Men Thompson and Ree Sheppard.

1754
01:21:06,119 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 2: Okay, three years from now. Uh that that's possible. Is

1755
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:15,079
of the franchise. It's possible. Eighties retired.

1756
01:21:15,279 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 4: Katie's gonna retire on in three years he might still

1757
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:21,319
be putting up twenty five per game. Hanging on, all right,

1758
01:21:21,359 --> 01:21:23,359
We're gonna take a break here, Gordy. Thanks for hanging

1759
01:21:23,399 --> 01:21:26,720
out all right, appreciate you. Matt Thomas is going to

1760
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,000
join with the news at noon. I'm gonna give him

1761
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:30,840
the news at noon, I suppose, and then he's just

1762
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,319
gonna sit there with his sore throat and be here

1763
01:21:33,319 --> 01:21:36,319
for the last two hours. How bad will Matt sound?

1764
01:21:36,319 --> 01:21:39,319
I'm sorry, I mean how great will Matt sound? Find

1765
01:21:39,359 --> 01:21:41,800
out next on hour number three of The Matt Thomas

1766
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:49,640
Show with Ross is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross

1767
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:52,680
twelve O two.

1768
01:21:53,079 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, Hi, Rossie, this is fantastic. What's up Matt?

1769
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,880
Oh Ross? Hey, Matt. I'm just going to power through

1770
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:08,800
to get a shot. How's it going? I mean, I

1771
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:15,800
don't I look right, I don't feel bad. That's that's

1772
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:22,960
good news. The Story Show featuring me a couple of minutes. Yeah,

1773
01:22:23,199 --> 01:22:25,479
let's bring back those hot takes for Gordy.

1774
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:28,159
Speaker 18: You know what if if Wexler and Clant want to

1775
01:22:28,199 --> 01:22:29,560
come in for the last hour because I have a

1776
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,239
short show, it wouldn't be the worst thing.

1777
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:35,600
Speaker 2: Okay, I will I will text, I'll text them them.

1778
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,039
Speaker 18: You know, it's funny because I was saying very minimal

1779
01:22:38,079 --> 01:22:41,279
things this morning and hopes that, you know, the couple of.

1780
01:22:41,319 --> 01:22:44,600
Speaker 2: Extra hours, you've been in a vow of silence. I

1781
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:46,920
you know what, My wife's actually liked it a little bit.

1782
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,199
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, but what about the shower singing?

1783
01:22:49,199 --> 01:22:50,960
Though I know you didn't want to cut.

1784
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 18: That out, you god, you know me too well. I

1785
01:22:56,479 --> 01:22:58,680
was doing part game show and part singing, like you

1786
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:02,239
know what, I need to get my voice revenant, Oh okay,

1787
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,199
And then I put the earphones on and I'm like,

1788
01:23:04,319 --> 01:23:05,439
holy crap, I sound like.

1789
01:23:05,359 --> 01:23:09,319
Speaker 2: Hell uh well that's okay. Let's hear uh Well, are

1790
01:23:09,319 --> 01:23:10,840
we gonna get to the news at noon at some point?

1791
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:12,359
I can do that. Let's do that.

1792
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,079
Speaker 18: Let's let's figure out less of me and more you

1793
01:23:15,239 --> 01:23:19,039
the great city Houston, ladies and gentlemen.

1794
01:23:19,079 --> 01:23:21,119
Speaker 2: Here he's wrong. Sid the dudes and nude. Yeah, so

1795
01:23:21,159 --> 01:23:22,319
I'm gonna talk at link.

1796
01:23:22,399 --> 01:23:25,159
Speaker 4: It is the news at Noon's the cool soliloquy here

1797
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:28,840
on a sports Talk seven ninety. Well, let's go ahead

1798
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:33,199
and start with what has Matt late into town and

1799
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:36,159
joining us at noon. That would be your Houston Rockets

1800
01:23:36,239 --> 01:23:38,800
with the victory over the Washington Wizards one twenty three

1801
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:41,239
to one eighteen. Sounds closer than it was. It did

1802
01:23:41,319 --> 01:23:43,079
get close to late, but the Rockets were never in

1803
01:23:43,199 --> 01:23:44,720
danger of losing that game.

1804
01:23:45,279 --> 01:23:45,399
Speaker 13: Uh.

1805
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm actually curious to hear what it

1806
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:49,399
sounded like on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1807
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:53,560
Speaker 18: Shepherd being harassed hard by Bud Carrington, gets by Carrington

1808
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,720
middle of the paint, pulls up to ten feet front iron,

1809
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,520
miss offensive rebob butt.

1810
01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:02,399
Speaker 2: Back one no, butting back two yees, cleaning off the

1811
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:07,159
backboard again. O print shit good at one six. Now

1812
01:24:07,199 --> 01:24:09,439
that sounds all right, that's all right, right, that's not bad.

1813
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:12,119
That's a lot less than this. Uh, sandpaper to the

1814
01:24:12,159 --> 01:24:14,880
throat I'm hearing right now. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Ross,

1815
01:24:15,319 --> 01:24:20,479
I'm so sorry. It's okay, Matt, No, it's not You

1816
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:22,720
know what I do, and honestly, I blame the NBA.

1817
01:24:23,199 --> 01:24:26,039
You blame the NBA. Really, why in the world would

1818
01:24:26,079 --> 01:24:27,520
you send me to the East Coast.

1819
01:24:28,279 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 4: They have to play eighty two games, Matt and they

1820
01:24:31,039 --> 01:24:33,560
have to go they have to play the Eastern Conference schedule.

1821
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:35,920
Speaker 2: I have to play Orlando in Miami when it's seventies.

1822
01:24:36,199 --> 01:24:39,439
You didn't play anybody go to thirty one in snow

1823
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:40,840
yesterday in Washington.

1824
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: D C.

1825
01:24:41,359 --> 01:24:43,279
Speaker 2: I don't know me. Maybe you need to we need

1826
01:24:43,359 --> 01:24:46,119
to get you on some immunotherapies or something. Well, I'm

1827
01:24:46,159 --> 01:24:47,960
going to give me some steroids in about it. That's

1828
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,000
good an hour or whenever it is. It feels like

1829
01:24:50,119 --> 01:24:52,319
this happens once a year. It does now far be

1830
01:24:52,399 --> 01:24:53,720
it from me? I mean I was out last week

1831
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,319
with the flu. I get I get my fair amount

1832
01:24:55,359 --> 01:24:58,119
of sickness as well. But the reality is this.

1833
01:24:58,239 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 18: I'm not trying to criticize. No, no, no, we are

1834
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:03,439
not a deep roster here on the seven to ninety staffs.

1835
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:07,520
So I we all get vacations. Time should be biggrudge

1836
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,720
that you and I try collectively not to take time

1837
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:12,079
off for sick Can I try not too?

1838
01:25:12,199 --> 01:25:12,359
Speaker 9: Yes?

1839
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:16,199
Speaker 2: And try I think if I can, if I can

1840
01:25:16,239 --> 01:25:17,720
lower my voice what I think, Yeah, maybe you.

1841
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 4: Just talk a little bit to uh, you know what, man,

1842
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:21,000
Let me go ahead and run through the box score

1843
01:25:21,039 --> 01:25:23,159
here for a little bit. Yeah, tr Rockets get the

1844
01:25:23,199 --> 01:25:26,079
one twenty three to one eighteen Victor Reed Shepherd leading

1845
01:25:26,079 --> 01:25:28,239
the way with forty two minutes. He had a career

1846
01:25:28,319 --> 01:25:31,880
high ten assists, nineteen points. He was four of eleven

1847
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:35,159
from three. He was doing it all. Alpryn ching Goon

1848
01:25:35,279 --> 01:25:37,239
was doing damage in the middle as the Rockets had

1849
01:25:37,239 --> 01:25:38,840
I think it was like sixty eight points in the

1850
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:42,840
paint thirty two from him. As the Washington Wizard just said, yeah,

1851
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:44,960
we're not going to double ouprin ching Goon really the

1852
01:25:45,159 --> 01:25:47,239
entire game and see what kind of damage he can do.

1853
01:25:47,399 --> 01:25:50,159
Speaker 2: Well, aprinching Goon said, I like that mighty.

1854
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:53,319
Speaker 4: Fine, as he had thirty two points, thirteen rebounds, couple

1855
01:25:53,319 --> 01:25:53,800
of assists.

1856
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:57,680
Speaker 2: He did turn the ball over eight times, and Kevin Durant.

1857
01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 4: Turned the ball over six times, but who's counting well,

1858
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:03,399
twenty one turnovers, thirty nine points off of that fifty

1859
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:06,079
four from three. The Washington Wizards shot Matt if they

1860
01:26:06,079 --> 01:26:07,920
were playing an actual good team, they would have lost

1861
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:09,920
that game last night. But thankfully they were not playing

1862
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,359
an actual good team. It was the Washington Wizards. No,

1863
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:14,159
it was not a good team at all and a

1864
01:26:14,239 --> 01:26:17,239
scrappy but played nightmare. First of all, I didn't know

1865
01:26:17,239 --> 01:26:19,039
who half the players were, and.

1866
01:26:19,119 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 2: As after spending a day of studying them and blal

1867
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:25,640
Kooli BALI was going off. Yeah, and Bob Carrington, if

1868
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,760
you will, Yeah, Bob Carrington. What a great name that

1869
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:29,720
is Bob Carrington.

1870
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,079
Speaker 18: Now, Bub Carrington sounds like the guy that works at

1871
01:26:32,119 --> 01:26:33,560
your hardware store down the street.

1872
01:26:33,399 --> 01:26:35,680
Speaker 2: Right, Bub Carrington. Or he's like the doorman at the

1873
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:37,239
at the blues bar.

1874
01:26:39,119 --> 01:26:44,319
Speaker 4: Oh, that's not bad either, And Bob Carrington was contacted

1875
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:46,399
after a brawl outside the bar.

1876
01:26:47,079 --> 01:26:50,560
Speaker 2: Or actually Bob Carrington is on the bass guitar. Yeah,

1877
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:54,359
or yeah, that works too. Longhorn legend Trey Johnson was

1878
01:26:54,399 --> 01:26:54,880
two of ten.

1879
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,560
Speaker 4: You're gonna break down. He's having a good season. Hey,

1880
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,840
he's averaging twelve points per game. He's the next James Harden.

1881
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:07,000
I heard you guys talking about that. Yeah he's Gordy Okay,

1882
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:16,640
I mean but his wife is a huge Kentucky Wildcat fan.

1883
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:18,600
And can I tell you something, So he's probably been

1884
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:21,079
getting wildcat propaganda at home for months.

1885
01:27:21,399 --> 01:27:24,319
Speaker 2: I am a big fan of Reed Shepherd.

1886
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 18: He too a great game at a tennis this game yesterday,

1887
01:27:27,239 --> 01:27:30,119
six steals, which ties his career high or a season

1888
01:27:30,199 --> 01:27:32,520
high for the Rockets. I mean, there's a lot of

1889
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:34,319
good things about what he's doing. He's playing the most

1890
01:27:34,359 --> 01:27:36,239
basketball in his career, remembering you in the in the

1891
01:27:36,279 --> 01:27:38,359
college and game. He's playing thirty five games a year.

1892
01:27:39,279 --> 01:27:40,840
He didn't play much last year, and.

1893
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:45,279
Speaker 2: He's doing whatever he can to be the legitimate six man.

1894
01:27:45,399 --> 01:27:47,039
Speaker 18: I want him back on the bench, not because I

1895
01:27:47,039 --> 01:27:48,760
don't think he can play starters minutes, but I like

1896
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,239
the bench scoring and at this point and.

1897
01:27:52,279 --> 01:27:54,239
Speaker 2: It'll get your Barie back at linked is right now

1898
01:27:54,279 --> 01:27:55,479
the Rockets bench is kind of lean.

1899
01:27:56,399 --> 01:27:59,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean read Shepherd playing well. We're not

1900
01:27:59,159 --> 01:28:02,359
gonna call him the name the next James Harden just yet.

1901
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 2: Here in a Sports Talk seven anywhere, we continue the

1902
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:10,640
news at noon where Matthew Jerkson Profar of the Braves

1903
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:15,520
Gettler ready to learn Mauricio Dubon Atlanta one sixty two

1904
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:19,600
Modern sixty two game ban for Jerkson Profar his second

1905
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:24,479
ped violation in the last year at thirty three years old.

1906
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,119
He is the sixth player ever.

1907
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:28,399
Speaker 4: To receive a one hundred and sixty two game ban

1908
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:31,439
for PEDU since Major League Baseball increased the penalty for

1909
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:35,279
two time offenders to a full season in twenty fourteen.

1910
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:40,600
He is also forfeiting the entirety of his fifteen.

1911
01:28:40,319 --> 01:28:46,079
Speaker 2: Million dollar salary this year, ineligible for the postseason, ineligible

1912
01:28:46,119 --> 01:28:48,279
for the upcoming World Baseball Classic, where he was going

1913
01:28:48,359 --> 01:28:56,840
to represent the Netherlands. I mean, you do he think

1914
01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:59,000
he could evaded? I mean, I don't know the stupidity

1915
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,159
of this the second time of Yeah, I just whatever,

1916
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:02,880
who knows.

1917
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 4: I'm sure he's going to release a statement that it

1918
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,159
was some kind of tainted supplement and he would never cheat, and.

1919
01:29:07,199 --> 01:29:09,279
Speaker 2: He's going to do all this and blah blah blah.

1920
01:29:09,399 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 4: But man, how about fifteen MILLI cost by your ped suspension?

1921
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 2: If you're Jerkson profar.

1922
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 18: Good luck with that. By the way, I want to

1923
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:21,079
do the next segment. I want to get to some

1924
01:29:21,199 --> 01:29:23,439
more on the Texans. Yesterday I've had Okay, chance, that's

1925
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:24,279
deep thoughts about it?

1926
01:29:24,399 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 4: Okay, deep David Montgomery thoughts, thoughts from Matt Thomas coming up?

1927
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:30,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that a little precursor to the next segment.

1928
01:29:30,319 --> 01:29:32,720
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Jerkson profar did. He was one of the

1929
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:34,840
top prospects in baseball early in his career when he

1930
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,119
was with the Rangers. Then he was hurt, didn't play well,

1931
01:29:37,159 --> 01:29:39,199
and then kind of having a later late career resurgence.

1932
01:29:39,279 --> 01:29:44,640
Perhaps that ties in to his ped YEP suspensions.

1933
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 2: All right.

1934
01:29:46,079 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 4: Elsewhere in the NFL news, maybe good that the Texans

1935
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:53,239
made the David Montgomery move yesterday. The Jets have placed

1936
01:29:53,279 --> 01:29:56,760
the franchise tag on star running back Brice Hall. The

1937
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:00,439
non exclusive tag is a fourteen point two nine to

1938
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:04,720
three million dollar contract. He can negotiate with other teams

1939
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,640
and sign an offer sheet. The Jets have the right

1940
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,439
of first refusal and it would also receive two first

1941
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:13,079
round picks his compensation if they declined the match. So

1942
01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:14,680
Brece Hall is going to be a New York Jet

1943
01:30:15,079 --> 01:30:17,520
this upcoming season. But that is a name off the

1944
01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:21,800
list in terms of possible free agent target running back targets.

1945
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:24,159
Speaker 2: I should do you think that nickyse knew that going

1946
01:30:24,239 --> 01:30:26,119
in and that that's why he went with Plan B.

1947
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:28,560
Speaker 4: I think he had a feeling that the Kenneth Walker

1948
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,880
market was going to be high. Same thing for Brice Hall,

1949
01:30:31,199 --> 01:30:35,479
and the David Montgomery move is a shoring up of that,

1950
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:37,359
or just I don't want to call it a Plan

1951
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:38,560
B contingency plan.

1952
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:41,119
Speaker 2: Let's call it that, all right, Rossie, I'm gonna let

1953
01:30:41,119 --> 01:30:43,199
you finish the news at noon, I'm gonna belong and

1954
01:30:43,279 --> 01:30:45,279
then I'll be back with my great David Montgomery. Take

1955
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,680
get some hot tea, come on, sick of tea?

1956
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:48,039
Speaker 9: All right?

1957
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,119
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'm sorry you hear me. I'm

1958
01:30:51,159 --> 01:30:53,680
just trying to help you know. You're such a good friend. Yeah, yeah,

1959
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:54,399
some of the best.

1960
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,279
Speaker 4: All right, So Matt Thomas is kind of sick. Maybe

1961
01:30:57,319 --> 01:30:59,359
one of the Adams will be joining us at one o'clock.

1962
01:30:59,399 --> 01:31:02,760
He's gonna get us, is David Montgomery? Take coming up

1963
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:06,279
here in uh in a little bit, as we just

1964
01:31:06,399 --> 01:31:08,479
brought you the news at noon here on the Matt

1965
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:11,880
Thomas Show with Ross Stunt, I see you on old week.

1966
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:13,319
Speaker 2: We can get you to you in a little bit.

1967
01:31:13,359 --> 01:31:15,159
Anything you guys want to get to we can talk

1968
01:31:15,199 --> 01:31:17,840
about on the phone lines seven one three, two one

1969
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:20,600
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you'd

1970
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,319
like to get in seven one three two one two, five,

1971
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:26,000
seven ninety You can also follow a tweet us at

1972
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:27,640
Sports RV and at sports MT.

1973
01:31:28,119 --> 01:31:30,199
Speaker 4: And you know what Matt Thomas sounds like? Hell, why

1974
01:31:30,199 --> 01:31:34,640
don't you follow him on Instagram at sports MT and

1975
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:38,079
you can follow me on Instagram at Sports RV as well.

1976
01:31:38,079 --> 01:31:40,880
All right, quick break Matt's thoughts on David Montgomery day

1977
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,960
number two. How are you feeling about the move? Anything

1978
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:45,840
you guys want to get to seven one three two

1979
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,960
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

1980
01:31:49,079 --> 01:31:50,560
two five seven ninety.

1981
01:31:52,279 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 2: Twelve seventeen.

1982
01:31:55,159 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 18: Added Ross By the way, some of you are very

1983
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,880
rude sat at Ross is doing the show with RFK Junior.

1984
01:32:01,199 --> 01:32:01,319
Speaker 13: Uh.

1985
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see a couple of tweets. I can't believe

1986
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:09,600
you got RFK to do.

1987
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,520
Speaker 4: Did you show today, Well that RFK JR RFK was

1988
01:32:12,560 --> 01:32:15,560
assassinated the original RFK Junior And that's right, he is alive.

1989
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:18,000
I wish Sports and T was here to see it.

1990
01:32:18,039 --> 01:32:20,239
That's pretty funny stuff from Ryan, and then I also

1991
01:32:20,319 --> 01:32:21,439
got another one from Pedro.

1992
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,399
Speaker 2: This interview with Doc Rivers is great. Oh my god,

1993
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:30,359
that's too funny. It's too funny. Thanks Doc. So if

1994
01:32:30,399 --> 01:32:33,600
there's ever an opportunity to hear less of me, it

1995
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:34,319
would be today.

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01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:40,079
Speaker 18: Yes, seven five, seven ninety, that's right, seven one three

1997
01:32:40,159 --> 01:32:42,479
two two. If you ever want to argue with me

1998
01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:46,640
about any of my takes. Oh and how like if

1999
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,159
you want to argue about why I'm not mister Texas,

2000
01:32:49,159 --> 01:32:52,640
which would be a complete false, then there's that nice

2001
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:57,079
of mountains of evidence for that. Okay, this is the

2002
01:32:57,159 --> 01:32:58,680
day to do it, all right, So I've had a

2003
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:02,359
chance of chewing this Montgomery. Okay, Now I am a

2004
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:07,399
Texans observer, not a fan. Yes, my initial gut feeling

2005
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:08,800
because you guys had cut feelings.

2006
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:12,039
Speaker 2: Lost ar, I'm assuming. Yeah, you want to write this down? Yeah,

2007
01:33:12,159 --> 01:33:17,279
go ahead? Why not? Okay, this isn't gonna end?

2008
01:33:17,319 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 19: Well?

2009
01:33:18,279 --> 01:33:22,119
Speaker 2: What why is it not going to end? Well? What

2010
01:33:22,159 --> 01:33:23,439
do you mean explain it? Well?

2011
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:24,039
Speaker 18: What?

2012
01:33:24,279 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 2: Let me put it this way. He's not going to

2013
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:31,359
rush for eight hundred yards? Ummmm, okay.

2014
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:34,399
Speaker 18: That's and you're training a fourth round pick for a

2015
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:36,680
guy that's supposed to be your RB one. It should

2016
01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:38,079
be a thousand yards minimum.

2017
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:39,279
Speaker 2: Yes, you would hope.

2018
01:33:39,319 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 4: So eight hundred yards is probably about a good line

2019
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:46,760
because he's gonna spee splitting time with Woody Marks.

2020
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:48,399
Speaker 2: You might have been a good thing, though. Did you

2021
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:51,000
not want an RB one here? You wanted an RB

2022
01:33:51,079 --> 01:33:53,399
one in here? But Breiste Hall just got tagged. Kenneth

2023
01:33:53,399 --> 01:33:55,760
Walker is gonna cost you way too much. Maybe you

2024
01:33:56,319 --> 01:33:58,319
don't really want to spend a lot of draft capital

2025
01:33:58,359 --> 01:34:00,319
on a running back, and you still could raft of

2026
01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:02,239
running back in a third round or something like that

2027
01:34:02,399 --> 01:34:04,960
if you find the right situation. It's supposed to be

2028
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,600
a pretty good running back draft as well, because David Montgomery,

2029
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,600
as I said, could be the contingency plan. But I

2030
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:12,520
know it sucks that a continuency plan costs you a

2031
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:15,359
fourth round pick. But the reports from everybody around or

2032
01:34:15,399 --> 01:34:17,039
that there was going to be a fifth round pick,

2033
01:34:17,119 --> 01:34:18,920
but other teams got involved, so the Texan had to

2034
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,960
up their offer. All I say is this he does

2035
01:34:23,079 --> 01:34:24,920
come with There hasn't been a lot of wear and

2036
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:27,159
tear in his body because obviously Jamier Gibbs done someone

2037
01:34:27,199 --> 01:34:27,359
to the.

2038
01:34:27,359 --> 01:34:31,520
Speaker 18: Heavy lifting Detroit. But Harvey twenty nine is still twenty nine.

2039
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,079
There's just going to be explosive that's not there that

2040
01:34:34,159 --> 01:34:36,479
he was when he was you know, originally League six

2041
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:37,279
or seven years ago.

2042
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred and fifty eight carries seven or and

2043
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:43,720
sixteen yards four and a half a carry. I mean

2044
01:34:44,119 --> 01:34:47,439
that's you're already still upgraded from from last year where

2045
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:49,920
you did. Basically, Nick Chubb was taking over for half

2046
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:51,319
the season and then the rest of the season.

2047
01:34:51,359 --> 01:34:52,319
Speaker 2: What he marks was just a.

2048
01:34:52,319 --> 01:34:56,119
Speaker 4: Guy took over, even if with it hopefully hopefully hopefully

2049
01:34:56,199 --> 01:34:58,720
an improved offensive line. I think I think that David

2050
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:00,800
Montgomery said is gonna come here and run for fifteen

2051
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:02,239
hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns?

2052
01:35:02,359 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 2: No, oh my god, if he did.

2053
01:35:04,039 --> 01:35:11,119
Speaker 4: Oh but yeah, I'm feeling good, not great about it basically, Okay,

2054
01:35:11,239 --> 01:35:12,880
So I don't want to say disappointment. I mean, let

2055
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,520
me rephrase, I'll put the bar to eight. He's not

2056
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:17,359
going to reach eight hundred yards, okay.

2057
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:18,560
Speaker 2: Which again that's.

2058
01:35:18,439 --> 01:35:23,119
Speaker 18: The question is what are the expectations of fans as

2059
01:35:23,159 --> 01:35:25,119
compared to what's expectations of the team.

2060
01:35:26,159 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 2: If they really think that Woody Marx can take the

2061
01:35:28,079 --> 01:35:29,840
next step in his NFL.

2062
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 4: Progression Woody marks now, okay, just the guy, that's true,

2063
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:39,840
but he also guys can get better, Rookies can give

2064
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,600
improve from their rookie season, right, but also running backs

2065
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:45,840
generally is a position where even as a rookie you

2066
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:47,239
can perform up the par.

2067
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:50,039
Speaker 2: Hey remember how much we love Damian Peerson for that

2068
01:35:50,159 --> 01:35:52,439
first year. Yeah, he was terrible. So that's a reverse.

2069
01:35:53,279 --> 01:35:54,760
Can do the other side of things on that too.

2070
01:35:55,239 --> 01:36:01,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're David Montgomery is upgrading situation, but he's downgrading

2071
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:06,319
an offensive line. Can Woody Marx, I don't know, add

2072
01:36:06,439 --> 01:36:08,520
some bulk and get stronger and get better and break

2073
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:11,239
some more tackles. Yeah, he's not going to really get faster.

2074
01:36:11,359 --> 01:36:13,840
He's not explosive. He didn't have a lot of explosive runs.

2075
01:36:14,359 --> 01:36:17,920
That's what you're worried about with Woody Marx. And can

2076
01:36:18,039 --> 01:36:21,960
he just be a one B to a David Montgomery

2077
01:36:22,039 --> 01:36:23,479
who has been a two but is gonna be your

2078
01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:23,760
one A?

2079
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:29,760
Speaker 18: See my philosophy is this is that if you're at

2080
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,359
number two somewhere and you're twenty three, twenty four years old,

2081
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:33,840
it's like, man, give me a shot.

2082
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:39,039
Speaker 2: I can go do this. Dave Montgomery's been in the NFL,

2083
01:36:39,119 --> 01:36:43,039
He's rushed for over a thousand yards. He became RB

2084
01:36:43,119 --> 01:36:44,800
two because Jamier Gibbs jumped him.

2085
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:48,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, just Jamiir Gibbs. It's just one of the five

2086
01:36:48,319 --> 01:36:51,680
most dynamic running backs at football. Yeah, and David Montgomery

2087
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:52,079
is not that.

2088
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,119
Speaker 18: Now, the question would be, if Jamiir Gibbs, let's say,

2089
01:36:55,279 --> 01:36:58,479
was hurt for three or four game stretch, how much

2090
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:01,399
of the Detroit offense would be focused about I mean,

2091
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,399
you gave David Montgomery the same responsible you gave Jamir Gibbs,

2092
01:37:04,680 --> 01:37:07,479
would this team be significant? Would be on the same pace?

2093
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:08,600
I don't know the answer to that.

2094
01:37:09,079 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 4: No, Jamia Gibbs is better than David Montgomery. That's why

2095
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:15,279
David Montgomery's here. But you also are better than last

2096
01:37:15,359 --> 01:37:17,840
year it was Nick Chubb and Woody Marks. This is

2097
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:21,279
an upgrade. This is a significant upgrade, oh, compared to

2098
01:37:21,279 --> 01:37:24,039
where it was last year. Absolutely, and no disrespect to

2099
01:37:24,119 --> 01:37:27,560
Nick Chubb and his resurgent season. According to Ian Rappaport.

2100
01:37:27,319 --> 01:37:29,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny.

2101
01:37:29,680 --> 01:37:32,039
Speaker 18: Yesterday I put that tweet out and it was like, Man,

2102
01:37:32,119 --> 01:37:33,760
don't you realize they worked for the agents?

2103
01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:33,960
Speaker 11: No?

2104
01:37:34,159 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 2: Duh? Please? Is that my first rodeo? Not even your

2105
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:44,239
second rodeo? Matt, No, a lot of rodeos. Were you

2106
01:37:44,279 --> 01:37:45,720
going to see the rodeo this year? By the way,

2107
01:37:46,359 --> 01:37:48,800
I don't have any plans to see anybody that's in

2108
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:51,920
at the Houston Rodeo. And I didn't go to the cookoff.

2109
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:52,800
Speaker 1: Wow?

2110
01:37:53,119 --> 01:37:56,520
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, Cuff usually got your name all over it.

2111
01:37:57,399 --> 01:37:59,439
I know I'm just not cool enough. I'm too old

2112
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:00,000
for the Cookoff.

2113
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:00,600
Speaker 9: I guess.

2114
01:38:02,079 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 2: The hoochie wearing outfits were amazing year. By the way,

2115
01:38:05,159 --> 01:38:09,000
the hoochies are every every year at the Cochies. I mean, lord,

2116
01:38:10,199 --> 01:38:12,760
we have friends that are hoochies anywhere, Hoochie here.

2117
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,319
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm good to have you back, man. I don't

2118
01:38:19,359 --> 01:38:21,119
have any friends that are Huci's. Matt no, oh, I

2119
01:38:21,159 --> 01:38:26,479
got hoochie friends, okay, and I love the Houcci friends.

2120
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:28,479
I don't have any hoochie friends personally.

2121
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 2: Well, good, that's good for you. Let's go to the

2122
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:32,720
phone talk to some people.

2123
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:34,359
Speaker 18: By the way, I got a story about what happened

2124
01:38:34,359 --> 01:38:36,359
to me in Miami last week that I need a ruling.

2125
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:38,359
Speaker 2: Can you write it down and then like Jonathan can

2126
01:38:38,399 --> 01:38:47,479
read it. Oh that sounds fine. I can't laugh. You're

2127
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:52,880
the worst. I'm the worst. What did I do? You're

2128
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:53,600
making me laugh?

2129
01:38:54,119 --> 01:38:54,359
Speaker 13: Cough?

2130
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,199
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry. I'm David and Humble on seven

2131
01:38:57,279 --> 01:38:58,319
ninety Hello David.

2132
01:39:00,239 --> 01:39:00,439
Speaker 9: MT.

2133
01:39:01,319 --> 01:39:05,520
Speaker 6: What what what's wrong you? You asked them your voice?

2134
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:06,399
Speaker 5: What happened?

2135
01:39:07,239 --> 01:39:08,039
Speaker 2: I mean, what happened?

2136
01:39:08,079 --> 01:39:10,760
Speaker 18: Life happens, People get sick. I mean, I'm not really sick,

2137
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,439
but I just I've got terrible laryngitis. So I'm hoping

2138
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:16,560
and get fixed about depends what time the boys commit.

2139
01:39:17,079 --> 01:39:17,880
Speaker 13: Uh mt.

2140
01:39:18,039 --> 01:39:20,640
Speaker 6: I love you like a brother. Thank you very I'm

2141
01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:22,000
just I'm just concerning my brother.

2142
01:39:22,079 --> 01:39:22,960
Speaker 2: Thank you. Don't be worried.

2143
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:26,399
Speaker 18: I'm actually I look fantastic and my wife wanted to

2144
01:39:26,479 --> 01:39:28,680
kiss me all over, but she said, now I can't

2145
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:29,119
get sick.

2146
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:30,800
Speaker 2: You're not gonna happen.

2147
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:33,920
Speaker 6: Well, you're not gonna make your wife sick?

2148
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:34,199
Speaker 19: Are you?

2149
01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:36,159
Speaker 2: No chance of going to the doctor as soon as

2150
01:39:36,199 --> 01:39:37,640
the show's over? So don't worry.

2151
01:39:39,119 --> 01:39:44,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, David Montgomery is soon an upgrade. But but

2152
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:49,840
that you know, it's it's not a significant upgrade in

2153
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,479
my opinion. But the text's got a lot of work

2154
01:39:52,560 --> 01:39:56,680
to do. But the Cougars, Man, I love the Cougars.

2155
01:39:57,439 --> 01:39:59,359
What do you what do you think about them? U

2156
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,520
go on to the fine of four.

2157
01:40:03,520 --> 01:40:06,600
Speaker 18: Well, selfishly, I hope they do, because I've already booked

2158
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:09,960
a ticket to Indianapolis for the championship game, and hopefully

2159
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:14,840
that happens. The problem is, and that's not a problem,

2160
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,239
it's just it is what it is. It feels like

2161
01:40:17,359 --> 01:40:20,159
this year the tournament to get to it all the

2162
01:40:20,199 --> 01:40:22,960
way is going to be even more difficult because the

2163
01:40:23,079 --> 01:40:25,560
teams are so heavy at the top. I mean, Arizona

2164
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:29,119
just finished off winning the Big twelve Duke is amazing.

2165
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:32,840
Michigan's lost twice, you got Yukon Florida. I mean, you

2166
01:40:32,920 --> 01:40:36,199
got legitimately five or six teams that think they've got

2167
01:40:36,239 --> 01:40:39,039
a legitimate chance at the national championship. And I don't

2168
01:40:39,039 --> 01:40:40,720
know if I felt that way a year ago, but

2169
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:45,439
it feels like the net over potential title contenders is

2170
01:40:45,479 --> 01:40:47,359
a lot bigger than it was last season.

2171
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 6: Well, as long as the Houston has Kevin Sampson, they're

2172
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:57,840
going to be okay. Kevin Sampson is an amazing backhead

2173
01:40:57,840 --> 01:40:58,640
that bball coach.

2174
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:01,520
Speaker 2: I would agree with you on that.

2175
01:41:02,159 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 18: He's he's a great coach. He's got two talented freshmen,

2176
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:06,960
got a couple of veteran guards.

2177
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 9: You know.

2178
01:41:08,239 --> 01:41:10,199
Speaker 18: The low post play has been a little bit of working,

2179
01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:13,479
still a work in progress, because the fact that the

2180
01:41:13,560 --> 01:41:16,039
big man, especially Jojo Tuckler gets in a foul trouble

2181
01:41:16,119 --> 01:41:17,279
so much and that's not great.

2182
01:41:17,319 --> 01:41:19,199
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call, David. We appreciate it.

2183
01:41:20,039 --> 01:41:22,920
Speaker 18: And that's what scares me Ross is that Jojo is

2184
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:24,760
such a huge part of this team in a low block,

2185
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,880
but he's picking up fouls at a really high clip

2186
01:41:28,159 --> 01:41:30,359
very early on. And in the college game, you get

2187
01:41:30,399 --> 01:41:32,439
a second foul in the first half, you're basically dooing

2188
01:41:32,479 --> 01:41:33,520
for about fifteen minutes.

2189
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:38,399
Speaker 4: That comes with the territory, with the physical style of play,

2190
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:41,439
kind of like Houston Rockets, like Eymandoka likes to play

2191
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:44,479
physical and you kind of let theere the force of

2192
01:41:44,479 --> 01:41:45,439
the referees.

2193
01:41:45,039 --> 01:41:47,920
Speaker 2: To not make those calls, and Cougars do the same thing. Yeah,

2194
01:41:48,079 --> 01:41:48,920
that's exactly right.

2195
01:41:49,039 --> 01:41:51,880
Speaker 18: So we look forward to it. We'll be talking a

2196
01:41:51,920 --> 01:41:53,760
lot of Cougar basketball. The tournament coming up in a

2197
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,680
few weeks. Do our longrrns have a chance for that

2198
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:57,479
large bit sports.

2199
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:01,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, Long Horns are going to make the tournament. Beat

2200
01:42:01,119 --> 01:42:03,960
the Aggies over the weekend. They I think they're ten

2201
01:42:04,039 --> 01:42:08,319
and seven in sec plays something like that, so they'll

2202
01:42:08,319 --> 01:42:09,760
probably get in as like an eight nine is what

2203
01:42:09,800 --> 01:42:11,199
it's feeling like right now. Oh, you feel like a

2204
01:42:11,239 --> 01:42:17,279
trip to Dayton's and play, then it's possible, but uh yeah,

2205
01:42:17,319 --> 01:42:18,039
it's a tough game.

2206
01:42:18,079 --> 01:42:19,880
Speaker 4: They have an ark I think it's Arkansas, and then

2207
01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:24,199
they yeah, Arkansas tomorrow and then they'll be taking on

2208
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:28,399
the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday to end league play. Right now,

2209
01:42:28,399 --> 01:42:31,479
they're nine and seven SEC play. They should be in

2210
01:42:31,560 --> 01:42:33,800
as like a Hopefully if they can win a couple

2211
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:36,039
of games and win some games in the SEC tournament,

2212
01:42:36,039 --> 01:42:37,640
they could get up to the seven seed or something

2213
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:40,439
like that to try to avoid having to be in

2214
01:42:40,479 --> 01:42:41,960
an eight nine. And then of course that means you're

2215
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:43,159
playing a one in the second round.

2216
01:42:43,239 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 18: So I'm gonna say, honestly, I'm rooting for the Long

2217
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:46,399
Hours to get in. It's I think it's fuhe your

2218
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:47,600
buddies have teams in the tournament.

2219
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is fun. So I can just get disappointed again.

2220
01:42:50,079 --> 01:42:51,680
I'm ready to get hurt again with the Long Horns

2221
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:53,960
and the tournament happens. I can't wait it happened. It

2222
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:55,399
happens all of our sports teams.

2223
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 2: Life is paid. Let's get Texans when the.

2224
01:42:59,039 --> 01:43:01,760
Speaker 18: FC South of the year and they just you know,

2225
01:43:02,239 --> 01:43:07,640
come AFC Divisional Playoff weekend. They're done Astros. I mean

2226
01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:09,840
we've had two World Series. That's a good run. Yes,

2227
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,399
Rockets are back of the playoff track. Hopefully we'll get

2228
01:43:12,399 --> 01:43:13,680
passed for the first round this year.

2229
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be nice. Sports are built for disappointment sports.

2230
01:43:17,399 --> 01:43:21,520
You know, he'd be looming in the second round Santonino Spurs.

2231
01:43:22,399 --> 01:43:24,600
So I'm a little scared about that. Are you gonna

2232
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,199
run with me on that tribute and come down a sandway?

2233
01:43:26,199 --> 01:43:29,119
I'll come down to San Antonio. Yeah you're invited. Yeah,

2234
01:43:29,159 --> 01:43:31,079
I'll take the Greyhound. Can you pick me up? No,

2235
01:43:31,239 --> 01:43:34,119
we'll drive together. Okay, great, Oh we're gonna try let's

2236
01:43:34,199 --> 01:43:36,840
go road road trip, road trip.

2237
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:37,399
Speaker 19: I like this.

2238
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:39,840
Speaker 18: Now I'll be giving up the plane for you, but

2239
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:41,439
that's worth it because you're a good, good friend of Oh.

2240
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: I like that.

2241
01:43:42,239 --> 01:43:43,079
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Matt.

2242
01:43:43,279 --> 01:43:44,680
Speaker 18: All right, we got Dave to get to and then

2243
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:46,600
I got a tap about what happened to me this morning.

2244
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:48,479
I got a video of me and Miami. I didn't

2245
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:52,600
realize I was being videotaped. Oh really, m hmm, what

2246
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:53,319
were you stealing?

2247
01:43:53,399 --> 01:43:55,439
Speaker 2: What are you doing? That's what you're gonna have to

2248
01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:59,159
listen for. It's called a radio tape. Radio shot me

2249
01:43:59,199 --> 01:44:02,520
for once? Maybe for once. I mean, I know what

2250
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:04,520
it's all gonna do it. But that was Dan Matthews

2251
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:05,960
is teasing. I do better tea than that.

2252
01:44:06,159 --> 01:44:06,359
Speaker 19: Whoa?

2253
01:44:06,560 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 2: What does that mean that something is wrong with you?

2254
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:13,720
It's something wrong with me? I love Dan.

2255
01:44:14,239 --> 01:44:18,560
Speaker 18: I just tease him literally, see teasing. We got some

2256
01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:20,119
more calls to get to, but I gotta get a

2257
01:44:20,119 --> 01:44:23,479
story out real, real quick. So one of our sales

2258
01:44:23,840 --> 01:44:27,439
reps at seven ninety. Her name is Courtney. Her husband

2259
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:29,159
Rich is a big listens to show. Shout out to

2260
01:44:29,199 --> 01:44:31,640
the entire family. They're beautiful young child they just had

2261
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:32,319
about a year ago.

2262
01:44:34,079 --> 01:44:36,399
Speaker 2: Courtney says, Rich wanted me to let you see this,

2263
01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:40,399
so he shoots he should sends me an Instagram video.

2264
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:44,640
Ross's okay, that's truth. What's what's Bob Barker doing in

2265
01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:47,840
this video? No, it's me in the video. Oh it's

2266
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:50,159
an AI video of you. No, it's a real video.

2267
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:54,960
Oh really? So after the show last week, I went

2268
01:44:55,039 --> 01:44:55,960
to go get something to eat.

2269
01:44:56,119 --> 01:44:58,760
Speaker 18: This man been on Friday show, okay, And I went

2270
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:01,800
to like one of those peta places you know in Miami. Okay,

2271
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:06,640
you can stuff them with lamb or beef sirloin. It

2272
01:45:06,760 --> 01:45:09,479
was schwarma basically.

2273
01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:09,680
Speaker 17: Yeah.

2274
01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:11,000
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was exactly that.

2275
01:45:12,359 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 18: And I, you know, because Ross is always challenging me

2276
01:45:14,600 --> 01:45:16,760
to challenge my palettes. I always to try something different

2277
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:20,279
because something you can only get in Miami. And I

2278
01:45:20,399 --> 01:45:23,920
had this rabbi kind of peta thing was delicious. It

2279
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:27,199
had some spiced peppers and it had some pickles that

2280
01:45:27,239 --> 01:45:29,880
had some rend on and it was really delicious. And

2281
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:32,960
the owner of the place was like walking me through

2282
01:45:33,039 --> 01:45:36,399
the menu. He's like, we've got great hummus here, we

2283
01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:38,920
got this iid hummus and he goes, okay, he says,

2284
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:40,439
what do you want to get? So he's like pointing

2285
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:42,319
me to his menu and he's telling me what to

2286
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:44,399
order and what's a drink and if I want to

2287
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:44,960
side with it?

2288
01:45:45,039 --> 01:45:47,239
Speaker 2: I thought, this isn't it, you know, young business command.

2289
01:45:47,279 --> 01:45:51,039
He's trying to learn his craft. Come to find out,

2290
01:45:52,199 --> 01:45:54,760
he was shooting video of me ordering at his place.

2291
01:45:56,760 --> 01:46:00,840
Instagram video of me ordering. You didn't yell at him

2292
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:01,359
or anything, did you?

2293
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:01,720
Speaker 12: No?

2294
01:46:03,199 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, let me ask you this. How did

2295
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:09,760
he do that? He didn't have a phone in his hand.

2296
01:46:09,840 --> 01:46:14,000
He wasn't shooting. Was he video? Does he videotape his restaurant?

2297
01:46:14,359 --> 01:46:16,600
Speaker 4: Did he have glasses? What was the what was the

2298
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:19,159
point of view? Was it for people have like metaglasses

2299
01:46:19,199 --> 01:46:21,640
and they record their metaglasses. It hadn't been that because

2300
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:24,600
he was literally it was looking talking to him and

2301
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:26,880
he looks right in front of him. Correct, So he's

2302
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:29,000
recording on your metaglasses and he didn't. There was no

2303
01:46:29,159 --> 01:46:31,119
sign on the door you may be recorded or anything.

2304
01:46:31,119 --> 01:46:32,760
I didn't see anything, not though I would pay intention

2305
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:33,439
to say, well you.

2306
01:46:33,479 --> 01:46:34,199
Speaker 2: Can see that guy.

2307
01:46:34,239 --> 01:46:36,159
Speaker 4: I think I think you're supposed to have consent of

2308
01:46:36,199 --> 01:46:39,920
people posting your stuff, especially for promotional materials.

2309
01:46:40,199 --> 01:46:44,199
Speaker 2: Now, the food was excellent and it's got like three

2310
01:46:44,279 --> 01:46:45,560
thousand views on Instagram.

2311
01:46:45,600 --> 01:46:46,960
Speaker 18: I'm must send it to you for the show because

2312
01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:49,880
it's kind of weird, okay, But the number one thing

2313
01:46:50,079 --> 01:46:52,560
was the comments were will you let the man live

2314
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:54,640
his life? Because he was running through everything for me

2315
01:46:55,399 --> 01:46:57,319
and everybody thought this guy was being way too.

2316
01:46:57,279 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 2: Pushy to me. Oh really yeah hmm, but it was

2317
01:47:02,039 --> 01:47:06,119
weird that and then Courtney and her husband Rich who

2318
01:47:06,199 --> 01:47:09,520
listens to show, how did he see it? He was

2319
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,479
just some random thing that popped it. There's the guy

2320
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:13,359
doesn't know my name.

2321
01:47:14,279 --> 01:47:14,520
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2322
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 18: Now I've got a Houston shirt on that says rockets.

2323
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:21,199
But that's that's as far as it goes. Interesting. How

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01:47:21,239 --> 01:47:23,119
do you feel being filmed without your consent?

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01:47:23,239 --> 01:47:23,399
Speaker 9: Man?

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01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:27,520
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I've been filmed before without your consent.

2327
01:47:29,079 --> 01:47:32,439
Sometimes depends on what's going what else going on in

2328
01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:36,359
our lives. But it was just weird. I'm at this

2329
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:41,960
random small business what's it called. I don't even know. Okay,

2330
01:47:43,319 --> 01:47:44,960
I'm gonna send it to you and then during I

2331
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:46,800
want you to look at Okay, thank you. I will

2332
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:48,479
react If I should sue this guy.

2333
01:47:49,079 --> 01:47:51,239
Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna get much money, but but

2334
01:47:51,359 --> 01:47:53,239
I mean they need to They need to tell you

2335
01:47:53,319 --> 01:47:54,920
you're being filmed if they're going to be posting on

2336
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:56,119
their social put it this way.

2337
01:47:56,279 --> 01:47:58,439
Speaker 18: If if he's going to use me as a way

2338
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:00,319
to sell his product, at least he could do caught

2339
01:48:00,359 --> 01:48:00,720
my lunch.

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01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:02,560
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Like, you need to be taken

2341
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:07,439
care of and compensated. Yeah, the name of the Instagram

2342
01:48:07,560 --> 01:48:07,800
is like.

2343
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:10,439
Speaker 2: I went to a Burt Being Company barbecue and saying

2344
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:12,800
in Sagene and there they asked me to be filmed,

2345
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:15,399
and I said, no, likely cut the check.

2346
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:15,560
Speaker 14: Bro.

2347
01:48:16,239 --> 01:48:17,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you're doing.

2348
01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:19,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not here to promote because because you know

2349
01:48:19,399 --> 01:48:21,039
what they did the people behind me, and they had

2350
01:48:21,079 --> 01:48:23,279
them order like ten times and stuff like it's like

2351
01:48:23,319 --> 01:48:25,079
a job. It's like, no, I'm just trying to get

2352
01:48:25,079 --> 01:48:26,520
a barbecue and get out of here. I'm not trying

2353
01:48:26,520 --> 01:48:28,000
to sell your product for free.

2354
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:28,760
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2355
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:32,039
Speaker 18: He put it on YouTube and the caption says he

2356
01:48:32,199 --> 01:48:33,960
left saying I'm happy like a baby.

2357
01:48:35,119 --> 01:48:37,119
Speaker 2: You did say that? Fat and happy is what I said.

2358
01:48:38,680 --> 01:48:41,880
He left saying I'm happy like a baby. Yeah. I

2359
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:44,600
just sent to you guys in the show group text. Wow,

2360
01:48:45,520 --> 01:48:47,960
this is weird. Isn't that weird? Yeah, you should be

2361
01:48:48,039 --> 01:48:51,079
feeling you should feel uncomfortable. I just don't want to

2362
01:48:51,079 --> 01:48:52,720
be filmed. If we're gon' to have a restaurant, I mean,

2363
01:48:53,039 --> 01:48:56,000
let me be Oh yeah he has he has like

2364
01:48:56,079 --> 01:49:01,279
metaglasses on or something. Okay. Oh this has got thirty

2365
01:49:01,319 --> 01:49:04,560
two hundred likes, Yeah, and sixty four comments.

2366
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:06,479
Speaker 18: The comments are leave the guy alone, he wants to

2367
01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:13,359
have some lunch. Listen really read the comments. Yeah, you

2368
01:49:13,399 --> 01:49:16,359
know what I'll do, I'll put this on my on

2369
01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:19,359
my Twitter account. You'll see that too. It's just weird.

2370
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:21,680
Speaker 4: Oh look, these people are being nice. I love customers

2371
01:49:21,800 --> 01:49:28,560
like this. Very good service reeled him in. This man

2372
01:49:28,680 --> 01:49:32,479
is very good at talking. Yep, central bro.

2373
01:49:33,079 --> 01:49:35,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. They took about the guy who was like the

2374
01:49:35,640 --> 01:49:44,880
entire free Palestine going there. Matt you have one hundred

2375
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:48,560
and ten thousand views. Okay, no, you need to charge

2376
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:53,000
this guy. Yeah, how do I do this?

2377
01:49:54,079 --> 01:49:54,319
Speaker 1: Does that?

2378
01:49:54,399 --> 01:49:55,640
Speaker 2: Only going to Miami once a year?

2379
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:56,840
Speaker 19: Yeah?

2380
01:49:56,920 --> 01:49:59,560
Speaker 4: All these other videos, look you're blowing up, Maddie. Okay,

2381
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:01,720
most these are like sixty kvos. Oh, this one's two

2382
01:50:01,800 --> 01:50:03,319
hundred and twenty. It's kind of pussy by the way.

2383
01:50:03,600 --> 01:50:05,039
This one is five hundred thousand.

2384
01:50:05,239 --> 01:50:08,600
Speaker 2: You saw Jonathan. Yeah, he said a little bit.

2385
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:10,319
Speaker 4: Like, oh wow, this this has six point You don't

2386
01:50:10,319 --> 01:50:12,760
know you're being filmed either, though, I know that's exactly right.

2387
01:50:13,119 --> 01:50:15,720
Six point six point eight million views. Dang, let's get

2388
01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:16,600
these numbers up, Maddie.

2389
01:50:16,640 --> 01:50:18,239
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying, I mean, I'm glad he kind

2390
01:50:18,279 --> 01:50:19,680
of tell me what I wanted didn't want, and he's

2391
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:23,399
trying to push the hummus. I don't like hummos, so Uh, yeah,

2392
01:50:23,560 --> 01:50:27,319
you this is Oh, this is this on YouTube? What

2393
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,119
is this on Instagram? On YouTube? He's got one hundred

2394
01:50:30,119 --> 01:50:34,479
and ten thousand views on YouTube. No, this isn't right. Honestly, you.

2395
01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:38,039
Speaker 4: Should be you should consent to be filmed if he's

2396
01:50:38,239 --> 01:50:40,319
he's making money off this. Quite frankly, how.

2397
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:42,239
Speaker 2: Should I go to the comments section and say you

2398
01:50:42,279 --> 01:50:43,359
didn't tell me you're filming me?

2399
01:50:45,199 --> 01:50:48,079
Speaker 4: One hundred thousand views he's making money on YouTube? That

2400
01:50:48,239 --> 01:50:50,479
makes money. I don't know how much money. Chris Gordy

2401
01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:52,079
locked on SEC can tell us more?

2402
01:50:52,319 --> 01:50:52,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2403
01:50:52,800 --> 01:50:55,640
Speaker 4: Or Cole Thompson, like one hundred thousand views on YouTube,

2404
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:57,640
that's making a little bit of a chunk of change.

2405
01:50:58,000 --> 01:50:58,760
Speaker 2: I bet you though.

2406
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:01,279
Speaker 4: He's gonna say there's a signed somewhere in the restaurant.

2407
01:51:01,319 --> 01:51:03,359
There's you have to see it out there because he

2408
01:51:03,439 --> 01:51:04,359
got you on the sidewalk.

2409
01:51:04,800 --> 01:51:07,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah there. Maybe there's a little sign that says

2410
01:51:07,279 --> 01:51:09,000
you can sent to be being filmed or something like that.

2411
01:51:09,119 --> 01:51:11,439
I mean, he wasn't being mom like this. I don't

2412
01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:13,039
like it. I don't like it.

2413
01:51:13,159 --> 01:51:15,119
Speaker 4: You're making money off of me. I need a chump

2414
01:51:16,039 --> 01:51:17,800
that video is, he'd make it. You're the only one

2415
01:51:17,840 --> 01:51:20,520
in that video. That's correct, he's making money.

2416
01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:24,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, not right. That's why I got you as my friends.

2417
01:51:25,399 --> 01:51:28,199
Let's talk to Willie on seven ninty.

2418
01:51:28,239 --> 01:51:35,720
Speaker 17: Hello, WILLI Hi, good afternoon. I hope you get better soon.

2419
01:51:36,399 --> 01:51:38,960
And I understand that your course and you can't talk

2420
01:51:39,119 --> 01:51:42,159
very loud. I've been that way after a few few

2421
01:51:42,279 --> 01:51:46,960
Cougar games. Couldn't talk next day. Yeah, we watched Rockets

2422
01:51:47,039 --> 01:51:49,720
last night and I do think Breech Epperd is the

2423
01:51:49,800 --> 01:51:53,359
most improved player on the team. He's come from me

2424
01:51:53,840 --> 01:51:57,640
thinkings come really from nowhere, and uh, it's a lot

2425
01:51:57,680 --> 01:52:00,600
of fun to watch. After that, we went to the

2426
01:52:00,680 --> 01:52:04,039
Arizona game to see what was going on there and

2427
01:52:04,159 --> 01:52:08,159
I looked up the roster of the Arizona team. The

2428
01:52:08,359 --> 01:52:11,680
majority of these players come from outside of a country.

2429
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:16,920
They might have three players that come from the United States.

2430
01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:20,880
How are they doing that? I just think that that

2431
01:52:21,079 --> 01:52:24,000
is so un American to do that, to call this

2432
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:27,159
a team in the United States when they're coming from

2433
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:34,279
all over the world, Netherlands to dan France, England, all

2434
01:52:34,479 --> 01:52:35,319
all these places.

2435
01:52:36,039 --> 01:52:39,199
Speaker 18: And WILL ask you this, Willy, are are people from

2436
01:52:39,239 --> 01:52:41,600
other countries allowed to go to schools in the United States.

2437
01:52:43,199 --> 01:52:46,399
Speaker 17: Yes, but certainly they do. They are and some of

2438
01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:49,079
them are. A minute really anyways.

2439
01:52:49,079 --> 01:52:51,399
Speaker 2: Will did you have a problem with Hachem Olajuwan coming

2440
01:52:51,439 --> 01:52:53,840
from Nigeria to play with the University of Houston Cougars.

2441
01:52:55,479 --> 01:52:57,720
Speaker 17: No, but the majority of the team didn't come from

2442
01:52:57,760 --> 01:53:01,399
out of the doesn't matter how many people are doing it. Well,

2443
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:04,079
it's just to me, you're a little irritating because I

2444
01:53:04,159 --> 01:53:07,079
think that we should have more prospects coming out of

2445
01:53:07,119 --> 01:53:08,960
our high school to our junior college.

2446
01:53:09,039 --> 01:53:11,680
Speaker 2: Well, that's not the college coach's fault. That's the that's

2447
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,640
the that's the American talent, that's the problem.

2448
01:53:15,239 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 19: Yeah.

2449
01:53:15,720 --> 01:53:18,359
Speaker 17: Well I didn't understand it, but you know, after they won,

2450
01:53:18,479 --> 01:53:22,359
I was they took the conference championship, so congratulations.

2451
01:53:22,479 --> 01:53:23,159
Speaker 2: Let me take you something.

2452
01:53:23,199 --> 01:53:26,279
Speaker 18: If the University Houston has fourteen kids that don't that

2453
01:53:26,359 --> 01:53:28,399
are all from fourteen different countries, as long as they

2454
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:31,960
can stay eligible to compete and can go to class,

2455
01:53:32,079 --> 01:53:33,159
I don't care where they're from.

2456
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:37,279
Speaker 17: Well, I'm just a little irritated with it.

2457
01:53:37,439 --> 01:53:37,760
Speaker 19: I just.

2458
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:40,960
Speaker 2: Gotta watch out for the Dutch.

2459
01:53:41,960 --> 01:53:46,560
Speaker 17: Yeah, watch out for the Dutch. Huh Yeah, all right,

2460
01:53:46,720 --> 01:53:47,439
thank you so much.

2461
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:53,600
Speaker 2: You got it. That was a take I wasn't expecting

2462
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:55,640
so far today. You know, you know a kick ackem

2463
01:53:55,640 --> 01:54:01,800
Olage one from Nigeria outside of America. Uh, that's an

2464
01:54:01,840 --> 01:54:08,119
American people people coming from foreign countries to live in America.

2465
01:54:08,239 --> 01:54:14,039
Speaker 4: That's very Unamerican. M or maybe everyonce from a foreign country.

2466
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:19,479
I don't know whatever. Oh, by the way, that's the take.

2467
01:54:20,279 --> 01:54:21,239
Courtney just texted me.

2468
01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:24,199
Speaker 2: Rich is listening. Okay, shout out to you, Rich.

2469
01:54:25,199 --> 01:54:27,119
Speaker 18: Let me take something Rich, if you're an attorney, you

2470
01:54:27,119 --> 01:54:28,960
can give me some money off this YouTube clip.

2471
01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:33,399
Speaker 2: Oh they got they do actually have some Uh. This

2472
01:54:33,520 --> 01:54:40,520
guy's from France, Senegal, Germany, Lithuania, Motius Crevas su Dan. Well,

2473
01:54:40,560 --> 01:54:44,439
this is great. Yeah, there's been a lot of international

2474
01:54:44,479 --> 01:54:46,560
players who come and play college basket. People come from

2475
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:48,600
other places and try to get a better opportunity.

2476
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:51,119
Speaker 18: It's crazy, Buddy Healed, When Toklhomi is from the Bahamas,

2477
01:54:51,439 --> 01:54:54,119
you say about that, I don't know.

2478
01:54:54,279 --> 01:54:57,079
Speaker 2: I mean Yodis Alexander came from Canada. Willie's got a

2479
01:54:57,119 --> 01:55:00,960
problem with it. Yeah, un American. Here's a college athletics.

2480
01:55:01,039 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 4: It's un American for people to come here and try

2481
01:55:03,800 --> 01:55:07,479
to improve their lives and their education, and they're standing

2482
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:08,239
and try to make the.

2483
01:55:08,319 --> 01:55:10,760
Speaker 18: NBA as long I mean, and I'm assuming they're all

2484
01:55:10,840 --> 01:55:13,000
legally a lot to be in our country. Now, be

2485
01:55:13,119 --> 01:55:15,439
follow the rules to make it happen. Now if you

2486
01:55:15,479 --> 01:55:16,000
have be legal.

2487
01:55:16,079 --> 01:55:20,840
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna hunger, but I'm going to pursuent

2488
01:55:20,920 --> 01:55:22,760
these young men. They are eighteen, eighteen years old or

2489
01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:30,640
legally in our country. All right, God, God, let's do

2490
01:55:30,760 --> 01:55:36,199
today's edition of How the astros ops is. No, it's

2491
01:55:36,439 --> 01:55:38,960
just it's just a spring training. It's just spring training.

2492
01:55:39,039 --> 01:55:41,039
But it's not great twelve forty six.

2493
01:55:41,199 --> 01:55:44,279
Speaker 18: It's Matt Thomas Shold Ross seven one three two one

2494
01:55:44,359 --> 01:55:47,880
two five seven hoety by the way, Wexer's and Tom Ball.

2495
01:55:48,039 --> 01:55:50,279
Speaker 2: So you're gonna be with you. I'm gonna be with

2496
01:55:50,319 --> 01:55:52,399
you for a few more Minutes's he in Bridgeland? I

2497
01:55:52,399 --> 01:55:53,600
don't know what the helly? Do you know what he's

2498
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:54,399
probably got an apartment?

2499
01:55:54,439 --> 01:55:54,479
Speaker 19: Is?

2500
01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:55,159
Speaker 17: Say?

2501
01:55:55,319 --> 01:55:57,239
Speaker 2: Is the leasing places out there in Bridgeland.

2502
01:55:58,640 --> 01:56:01,359
Speaker 18: I'm Oudam Wexer. I'm the tech reporter for seven ninety.

2503
01:56:01,399 --> 01:56:03,680
I like to go to every practice and I need

2504
01:56:03,920 --> 01:56:06,319
to be close to Toro.

2505
01:56:06,199 --> 01:56:10,479
Speaker 4: Town, Greg and Htown has gotten us down to the

2506
01:56:10,479 --> 01:56:12,880
bottom of the walls in Florida, which are apparently very loose.

2507
01:56:13,439 --> 01:56:14,439
Speaker 2: Go ahead, what is you say?

2508
01:56:15,039 --> 01:56:17,159
Speaker 4: You can be recorded in Florida without consent in a

2509
01:56:17,199 --> 01:56:19,239
public place, but if they want to use it commercially,

2510
01:56:19,279 --> 01:56:21,760
they need your consent. Yeah, this is for his restaurant,

2511
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:24,520
and then this is getting views on YouTube, it's getting

2512
01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:28,279
his this is marketing for his restaurant, and he's probably

2513
01:56:28,319 --> 01:56:30,640
making YouTube revenue.

2514
01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 2: I would say that's being used commercially. Cut me a

2515
01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:37,840
damn okay, so let me ask you this. Do I

2516
01:56:37,960 --> 01:56:40,239
then go to that page and say, hey, you didn't

2517
01:56:40,239 --> 01:56:43,159
tell me I was doing this. I don't know, man,

2518
01:56:43,199 --> 01:56:45,680
you may get a seasoned assist. I mean, I'm not

2519
01:56:45,800 --> 01:56:47,119
turning to be an a hole about it. So this

2520
01:56:47,279 --> 01:56:50,319
is weird. I know. I'm just saying. I mean, he's

2521
01:56:50,359 --> 01:56:52,760
just making content off you and making money. That's fine.

2522
01:56:53,279 --> 01:56:55,800
Speaker 18: Twelve fifty four on the Matt Thomas showed with Ross

2523
01:56:57,920 --> 01:57:00,039
and No, I'm not doing an RFK. Junior person, you

2524
01:57:00,039 --> 01:57:01,760
should thanks everybody again for putting that out there.

2525
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:07,840
Speaker 2: Rude. Well, you sound better than you did the first segment. Yeah,

2526
01:57:07,880 --> 01:57:10,239
I mean, it's just because I'm warming up it's great

2527
01:57:11,279 --> 01:57:18,640
doing great. It's not great, it's fine. Have you seen

2528
01:57:18,680 --> 01:57:20,960
all this Luke Cornett stuff coming about the Strip club

2529
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:23,439
in Atlanta? And what's going on with Luke Cornett? Lou

2530
01:57:23,520 --> 01:57:28,199
Cornett wrote, here's that Magic City? What's that? Oh he's upset, Yeah,

2531
01:57:28,199 --> 01:57:31,079
he's upset. Okay, he thinks it's tender greeting women and

2532
01:57:31,159 --> 01:57:34,359
it's a bad idea. Here's the real. Yeah, that's probably

2533
01:57:34,439 --> 01:57:36,560
not it's not a good idea. And he's making second

2534
01:57:36,600 --> 01:57:38,520
a point. It's trying to make a a franchise that

2535
01:57:38,560 --> 01:57:40,840
has no relevance. He's somewhat relevant. It's just it is

2536
01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:45,239
what it is. It's a cheap it's a cheap marketing plug.

2537
01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:50,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're trying to be cool and fun and Magic

2538
01:57:50,479 --> 01:57:56,279
City it's funny, but also, I mean, Luke Cornett, I

2539
01:57:56,359 --> 01:57:58,439
don't know. Are more people going to go because they

2540
01:57:58,520 --> 01:57:59,560
have Magic City Night?

2541
01:58:00,840 --> 01:58:01,079
Speaker 9: Yes?

2542
01:58:01,399 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 2: The answer so far as yes. Is it a step back?

2543
01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:05,880
Speaker 4: Well, apparently no people are going to the the arena right,

2544
01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:07,520
Apparently it's hard to come by.

2545
01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:11,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's not for me to say,

2546
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:15,880
is this is this setting back women? Well? You did

2547
01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:17,560
to ask women, and I think you know, the answer

2548
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:21,239
that question. No, I actually don't. I may not. Everybody's

2549
01:58:21,239 --> 01:58:23,199
gonna give the same answer, so correct, But.

2550
01:58:23,279 --> 01:58:27,119
Speaker 18: I would think probably the majority of people, majority of women,

2551
01:58:27,159 --> 01:58:29,359
would say this is not what you should be marketing.

2552
01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 2: But those women make those choices that are on too.

2553
01:58:31,680 --> 01:58:40,079
So okay, d NBA probably shouldn't be doing this anyways.

2554
01:58:40,199 --> 01:58:41,520
But but I mean, I think it's fine.

2555
01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 18: And what else are you gonna talk about? Hey, we're

2556
01:58:42,880 --> 01:58:44,920
gonna win thirty seven games again, come see us.

2557
01:58:45,560 --> 01:58:48,319
Speaker 2: Atlanta is known for Magic City. Apparently the Wings are fantastic.

2558
01:58:50,039 --> 01:58:51,880
Speaker 18: I'm not a big Lemon Pepper guy, but the guy,

2559
01:58:52,039 --> 01:58:54,680
but people I know swear they're like Lemon Pepper wings.

2560
01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:59,880
Speaker 2: I do now changed my mind. Okay, good Firehouse, Lemon Pepper,

2561
01:59:00,039 --> 01:59:02,199
Big City Wings. We'll up Big City Wings. Let's go.

2562
01:59:03,239 --> 01:59:04,760
Speaker 18: We should Big City Wings. And at the end the

2563
01:59:04,840 --> 01:59:07,039
Rockets game, I don't get people in the building, That's true.

2564
01:59:07,319 --> 01:59:10,640
Get there early, ols. Thursday's game is six thirty. You

2565
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:12,159
don't need to be ready for that little bit.

2566
01:59:12,239 --> 01:59:13,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, hold my breath on that.

2567
01:59:14,359 --> 01:59:17,199
Speaker 4: Hey, well, the the stuff, the people in the Steph

2568
01:59:17,279 --> 01:59:18,840
Curry jerseys will be in their seats.

2569
01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:19,840
Speaker 2: And he won't be there. To play.

2570
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 18: No, no, that's true. You know what's funny is it crazy?

2571
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:28,399
Is how the Rocket season has gone. There's still number

2572
01:59:28,439 --> 01:59:29,119
three in the West.

2573
01:59:29,840 --> 01:59:33,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the bad games, the King's losses, Pelicans loss Utah,

2574
01:59:34,399 --> 01:59:37,640
New York, the fourth quarter lead. Yeah, they're they're still

2575
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:41,760
pretty good. NBA is hard. Everybody's a he made Doka

2576
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:43,920
is the worst coach ever, and he needs to play

2577
01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:45,680
Rechepper forty minutes every game.

2578
01:59:46,119 --> 01:59:50,399
Speaker 4: And he can't coach offense. He's playing Dorian Phinney Smith

2579
01:59:50,479 --> 01:59:53,920
too much. They're the three seed, three and better. Oh

2580
01:59:53,960 --> 01:59:57,359
the better record they had last year. Yes, let's go

2581
01:59:57,439 --> 02:00:02,000
to the phones. Talk to uh Christian. Mark Christian, you're.

2582
02:00:01,840 --> 02:00:03,119
Speaker 2: A seven ninety. Good afternoon.

2583
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:07,640
Speaker 13: First of all, I would be bombastic in my greeting,

2584
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:10,000
but because Mac is sick, I don't want to add

2585
02:00:10,079 --> 02:00:14,479
on to the headache. Good afternoon, Matt Thomas and Rob Perley. Yeah,

2586
02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:15,760
I hope you're feeling better.

2587
02:00:15,840 --> 02:00:16,079
Speaker 9: Matt.

2588
02:00:16,399 --> 02:00:18,600
Speaker 2: I actually feel just fine. I look great too. Thanks

2589
02:00:18,640 --> 02:00:19,079
for asking.

2590
02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:23,760
Speaker 13: I'm pretty sure you look better than you did back

2591
02:00:23,800 --> 02:00:24,439
in the nineties.

2592
02:00:24,479 --> 02:00:26,239
Speaker 2: But to be honest, that's enough from you. What do

2593
02:00:26,319 --> 02:00:26,880
you want.

2594
02:00:29,119 --> 02:00:30,119
Speaker 17: My apologies?

2595
02:00:30,239 --> 02:00:32,960
Speaker 13: Matt, I'm just saying, first of all, when it comes

2596
02:00:33,039 --> 02:00:35,319
down to the woman complaining that there are too many

2597
02:00:35,399 --> 02:00:38,720
international players in the NBA right now, I'll just say

2598
02:00:38,760 --> 02:00:41,680
this respectfully, I think she needs to shut her bomb

2599
02:00:41,800 --> 02:00:45,920
ass up because there has been this season alone, there

2600
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:48,279
are over one hundred and thirty players from forty different

2601
02:00:48,319 --> 02:00:49,479
countries in the NBA.

2602
02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:51,439
Speaker 2: She was talking about college basketball.

2603
02:00:51,439 --> 02:00:54,880
Speaker 13: She wasn't talking about the pros I understand, But the

2604
02:00:55,079 --> 02:00:58,319
point of the matter is that basketball is a global sport.

2605
02:00:58,359 --> 02:01:01,000
If she doesn't like that, she should go watch something else.

2606
02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:05,119
I mean, I think that if you're basically complaining about that,

2607
02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:09,439
you are watching the wrong sports now, as far as

2608
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:11,720
I mean, the second question I want to talk about

2609
02:01:11,800 --> 02:01:14,520
is when it comes down to the video that you

2610
02:01:14,640 --> 02:01:17,880
were in, which I haven't seen anything about it yet,

2611
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:22,000
but still though, have you thought about getting royalties off

2612
02:01:22,039 --> 02:01:22,199
of that?

2613
02:01:22,840 --> 02:01:28,079
Speaker 18: Just no, Christian, My greatest mistake of all time was

2614
02:01:28,159 --> 02:01:31,199
not trademarking Crush City. I've taken a loss on that.

2615
02:01:31,279 --> 02:01:33,840
I'm not going to take the guy's money. Just weird,

2616
02:01:34,359 --> 02:01:34,720
that's all.

2617
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:39,279
Speaker 13: I mean. You've been on just about everything, like Jimmy

2618
02:01:39,359 --> 02:01:42,000
Kimmel Live the Olympics in ninety six.

2619
02:01:42,199 --> 02:01:43,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, just about everything.

2620
02:01:43,840 --> 02:01:46,039
Speaker 2: I forget about Dave Letterman. I was on Dave Letterman two,

2621
02:01:47,359 --> 02:01:47,680
I know.

2622
02:01:47,880 --> 02:01:50,119
Speaker 13: With the two guys from Bangladesh back in the day.

2623
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:55,199
Speaker 18: Shout out to those guys. Yeah, let me tell about Christian.

2624
02:01:55,239 --> 02:01:59,000
Let me tell about Christian Ross. This Christian is my life,

2625
02:01:59,039 --> 02:01:59,880
out of my own life.

2626
02:02:01,680 --> 02:02:03,600
Speaker 13: But you need to I mean, but I think it

2627
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:05,439
would be best to just act that place.

2628
02:02:05,520 --> 02:02:08,199
Speaker 6: Hey, you know, can he me a thousand dollars for.

2629
02:02:08,399 --> 02:02:09,960
Speaker 13: Using my name, image and likeness.

2630
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:11,159
Speaker 1: I'm a pretty big name.

2631
02:02:11,880 --> 02:02:14,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have a pretty big deal. Yeah you need

2632
02:02:14,119 --> 02:02:16,399
an nil payment, Matt. I think that's a great idea,

2633
02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:18,319
Christian that maybe this may be your best call ever.

2634
02:02:18,399 --> 02:02:20,119
Speaker 18: You don't call first. We even called it a helicopter

2635
02:02:20,199 --> 02:02:22,520
phone in a long time. That's true, you'll try to

2636
02:02:22,520 --> 02:02:23,159
give me some money.

2637
02:02:23,239 --> 02:02:23,640
Speaker 9: I like that.

2638
02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:27,760
Speaker 13: Well, thank you, mister Thomas. Other than that, I'm about

2639
02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:29,640
to get off and let you enjoy the rest of

2640
02:02:29,680 --> 02:02:31,760
the show and I'll talk to you on social media.

2641
02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:33,800
Speaker 2: Get better, dude, Thank you very much.

2642
02:02:35,479 --> 02:02:37,279
Speaker 18: By the way, Chris just sent me up d and

2643
02:02:37,359 --> 02:02:39,359
me says, I think I sound like Marty funkauser from

2644
02:02:39,359 --> 02:02:40,359
the Kirby Enthusiasm.

2645
02:02:40,399 --> 02:02:47,399
Speaker 2: That's a good one too. Nobody's called you bobcat goldtwaight yet,

2646
02:02:47,399 --> 02:02:48,319
haven't they excuse me?

2647
02:02:48,439 --> 02:02:48,479
Speaker 1: What?

2648
02:02:50,600 --> 02:02:51,880
Speaker 2: I never want to say that name because I feel

2649
02:02:51,880 --> 02:02:53,880
like I'm gonna butcher the back end of that. That's fine,

2650
02:02:54,279 --> 02:02:55,119
don't worry about.

2651
02:02:54,920 --> 02:02:56,760
Speaker 18: It, all right, we're moving on. We got an hour

2652
02:02:56,840 --> 02:03:01,439
left to go. Apparently Adam and Adam are too busy

2653
02:03:01,479 --> 02:03:02,439
to come in and help you out.

2654
02:03:02,479 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: Help that.

2655
02:03:03,239 --> 02:03:06,319
Speaker 2: That's fine, I mean, I can do it. No, I'm sticking.

2656
02:03:06,479 --> 02:03:10,079
I'm staying with you. Okay, we'll let you talk some more.

2657
02:03:10,159 --> 02:03:14,000
It's great, it's Toronto. Blue Jay's up. Sickness six nothing

2658
02:03:14,039 --> 02:03:17,319
on Canada by the way, Oh good by. Would you

2659
02:03:17,399 --> 02:03:20,560
hear Aaron Judge's speech to t USA yesterday?

2660
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:24,279
Speaker 4: You know what, I'll tell you something funny. People said

2661
02:03:24,319 --> 02:03:26,399
it was so bad and cringey that I didn't want

2662
02:03:26,439 --> 02:03:28,159
to click it, like if it's that?

2663
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:30,960
Speaker 2: Was it that bad? Jonathan? Would you? Would you guys

2664
02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,279
find it and let's play it coming back? Oh gosh,

2665
02:03:33,600 --> 02:03:36,680
I don't like to crow. I don't like cringe stuff.

2666
02:03:36,760 --> 02:03:39,680
I don't remember it's either my voice or his. Okay,

2667
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:43,439
let's listen to Aaron Judge. Let's play it on a loop. Actually,

2668
02:03:43,840 --> 02:03:45,279
I'm on board seven.

2669
02:03:45,319 --> 02:03:47,840
Speaker 18: What we're gonna hear from Aaron Judge getting tbus a

2670
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:52,039
motivated in Arizona Yesterday seven one three two one two

2671
02:03:52,319 --> 02:03:53,119
five seven.

2672
02:03:52,960 --> 02:04:01,720
Speaker 20: Ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one oh

2673
02:04:01,880 --> 02:04:06,399
six on Sports Talk seven ninety changing my voice a

2674
02:04:06,399 --> 02:04:08,199
little bit there, Ross, sound a little bit better?

2675
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:13,600
Speaker 18: Good job, seven one three two one two fine, It's

2676
02:04:13,600 --> 02:04:17,640
like I'm doing a PA announcing seven one three two

2677
02:04:17,680 --> 02:04:20,119
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

2678
02:04:20,239 --> 02:04:23,039
two five seven ninety. Matt at Ross with you. We've

2679
02:04:23,079 --> 02:04:26,920
got Astro spring training baseball. They're playing Venezuela today sports.

2680
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:30,199
Are you excited about that huge matchup? Huge is a

2681
02:04:30,239 --> 02:04:35,479
relative term. You got to get the Venezuelan boys ready

2682
02:04:35,520 --> 02:04:37,960
for the for the WBC.

2683
02:04:38,399 --> 02:04:38,760
Speaker 9: All right?

2684
02:04:39,720 --> 02:04:42,920
Speaker 2: Really? Uh, jose L Twove has recused himself from this matchup.

2685
02:04:43,279 --> 02:04:44,199
Why do you think he'd done that?

2686
02:04:44,479 --> 02:04:44,600
Speaker 8: Is this?

2687
02:04:44,800 --> 02:04:45,680
Speaker 2: Is he just pissed or what?

2688
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 4: No, he doesn't want to know. I don't think so.

2689
02:04:47,960 --> 02:04:49,439
You don't want to beat up on your own guys.

2690
02:04:52,399 --> 02:04:55,399
Hmmm to stay away makes sense to me.

2691
02:04:56,520 --> 02:04:58,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am not overly concerned about it.

2692
02:04:58,359 --> 02:04:58,680
Speaker 9: All right.

2693
02:04:59,399 --> 02:05:02,199
Speaker 2: Aaron je is going to be. He's the captain. You know,

2694
02:05:02,279 --> 02:05:04,359
he and Derreteet are the two captains for the Yankees

2695
02:05:04,399 --> 02:05:05,399
the last twelve five years.

2696
02:05:05,479 --> 02:05:12,439
Speaker 18: Right, So he was in charge of getting the boys

2697
02:05:12,520 --> 02:05:16,720
revved up for the Team USA at the World Baseball Classic.

2698
02:05:16,920 --> 02:05:20,479
And you've not heard this, correct, I have not? All right,

2699
02:05:21,560 --> 02:05:23,840
I heard about how bad it was, but you don't.

2700
02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:25,560
Speaker 2: It could be a lot better than you think. Yeah,

2701
02:05:25,600 --> 02:05:28,520
maybe it's not gonna be so bad. I want y'all

2702
02:05:28,560 --> 02:05:30,720
to sit back and listen to the audio that we've

2703
02:05:30,880 --> 02:05:32,039
heard of. It is not great.

2704
02:05:32,079 --> 02:05:36,720
Speaker 18: It's a little faint looking like a microphone directly on him. So, ladies,

2705
02:05:36,800 --> 02:05:39,520
jem with any further ado, here is the captain of

2706
02:05:39,600 --> 02:05:42,600
your World Baseball Classic Team USA team getting his boys

2707
02:05:42,640 --> 02:05:43,079
fired up.

2708
02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:48,680
Speaker 20: Sacrifice for your family, your sacrifice for your country, and

2709
02:05:49,159 --> 02:05:52,359
you're sacrifice for the brothers in the treasure.

2710
02:05:52,119 --> 02:05:54,399
Speaker 2: With hers in the day. That's what thing I want

2711
02:05:54,479 --> 02:05:57,079
us to do. Now, where down beat up a little bit?

2712
02:05:57,199 --> 02:05:57,359
Speaker 3: Man?

2713
02:05:57,760 --> 02:06:01,600
Speaker 2: You know, we're a line if we do that.

2714
02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:04,039
Speaker 17: Telling you.

2715
02:06:09,439 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 2: That's it, it's not that bad.

2716
02:06:13,800 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 4: I mean, this isn't This isn't any given Sunday, This

2717
02:06:18,199 --> 02:06:20,800
isn't a movie. He's not gonna go in there and

2718
02:06:20,880 --> 02:06:24,760
start like screaming and yelling and flipping tables and throwing

2719
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:28,079
chairs at the window and stuff like that. I don't

2720
02:06:28,119 --> 02:06:29,920
know what people are expecting, and maybe they just want

2721
02:06:29,960 --> 02:06:31,439
to dump on Aaron Judge. And I'm pulling up the

2722
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:33,479
video and it looks like he's laughing in the middle

2723
02:06:33,520 --> 02:06:37,479
of it, so he couldn't keep his concentration. I don't

2724
02:06:37,479 --> 02:06:40,399
have a problem with this. Who cares. It's freaking baseball.

2725
02:06:40,960 --> 02:06:42,600
Go out there and nobody's inspired.

2726
02:06:42,640 --> 02:06:44,359
Speaker 2: Nobody's that. They're not even playing a game today, are

2727
02:06:44,439 --> 02:06:46,880
they or are they tomorrow?

2728
02:06:47,079 --> 02:06:47,239
Speaker 1: Are?

2729
02:06:47,239 --> 02:06:49,840
Speaker 4: I mean this is from yesterday, right, Nobody's gonna go

2730
02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:51,800
and walk out of it. They're not gonna run out

2731
02:06:51,800 --> 02:06:54,039
of the tunnel and get pumped up and stuff like that.

2732
02:06:54,319 --> 02:06:56,880
Speaker 2: I don't care. This is fine. This is people just

2733
02:06:56,920 --> 02:06:58,800
wanting to make fun of Aaron Judge and hate on them.

2734
02:06:59,279 --> 02:07:01,319
Well that that's done quite a bit.

2735
02:07:01,439 --> 02:07:05,479
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, baseball doesn't work that way where you

2736
02:07:05,680 --> 02:07:07,760
just go, yeah, let's go get him, go a hit somebody,

2737
02:07:07,800 --> 02:07:08,000
you know what.

2738
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:11,359
Speaker 4: I mean, You're gonna go Rockney speech and like it's

2739
02:07:11,439 --> 02:07:12,600
just that's just not how it's gonna go.

2740
02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:15,760
Speaker 18: It was just for a guy that carries himself with

2741
02:07:16,079 --> 02:07:19,479
you know, playing for the most organizable sports team in

2742
02:07:19,640 --> 02:07:23,399
baseball or one of them, and for him being a

2743
02:07:23,479 --> 02:07:24,840
star and being the captain.

2744
02:07:26,159 --> 02:07:27,840
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's not going to make you

2745
02:07:27,960 --> 02:07:30,600
just run through a wall for somebody. But baseball doesn't

2746
02:07:30,640 --> 02:07:33,319
run that way. He's not cutting a WWE promo like

2747
02:07:34,359 --> 02:07:35,680
this is not that big of a deal.

2748
02:07:37,199 --> 02:07:39,880
Speaker 4: I saw a tweet yesterday like I'm ready to run

2749
02:07:39,920 --> 02:07:43,000
through a paper bag for Aaron Joe Nice.

2750
02:07:44,199 --> 02:07:46,439
Speaker 2: It was pretty bad. Have you noticed people are rude

2751
02:07:46,479 --> 02:07:49,560
on top? Yeah, that happens, Yes they are. And everything's

2752
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:50,000
tearing down.

2753
02:07:50,039 --> 02:07:51,600
Speaker 4: Like we were talking about earlier, the Rockets, Like, if

2754
02:07:51,640 --> 02:07:53,720
you followed Rockets Twitter, you would think there were thirty

2755
02:07:53,760 --> 02:07:54,760
games under five hundred.

2756
02:07:55,800 --> 02:07:57,800
Speaker 2: I got news for you, Rockets. Twitter is making a

2757
02:07:57,880 --> 02:08:02,119
chase towards astros. I've been telling you. I've been telling you.

2758
02:08:03,199 --> 02:08:08,079
Speaker 18: Yet, but it's getting closer. Well, you know, the reason

2759
02:08:08,119 --> 02:08:10,159
why Rocket Twitter is not number one is because there's

2760
02:08:10,199 --> 02:08:12,680
just isn't as many astros Twitter. There's just a great

2761
02:08:12,800 --> 02:08:13,399
number of people.

2762
02:08:14,279 --> 02:08:14,680
Speaker 2: I don't know.

2763
02:08:15,319 --> 02:08:17,960
Speaker 4: It feels like, I swear to God, it expands countries.

2764
02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:19,800
You get Turkish people are in Turkey.

2765
02:08:20,880 --> 02:08:23,800
Speaker 18: Every time I see a douchebag who wants Emy Adoka fire,

2766
02:08:24,720 --> 02:08:27,199
you lose any credibility.

2767
02:08:27,800 --> 02:08:30,479
Speaker 2: I May has lost this team. Ima doesn't know what

2768
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:32,319
he's talking about. There are some.

2769
02:08:32,600 --> 02:08:36,399
Speaker 18: Nimrods who call themselves rocket analysts. Yes, there's a bunch

2770
02:08:36,439 --> 02:08:39,600
of chumps out there that follow those bros. They don't

2771
02:08:39,600 --> 02:08:40,600
know they're a head from their ass.

2772
02:08:41,560 --> 02:08:45,199
Speaker 2: That is correct. I May Adoka is a top five

2773
02:08:45,319 --> 02:08:51,039
coach in the NBA period, not according to Rockets Twitter.

2774
02:08:51,680 --> 02:08:55,600
Speaker 18: That's why when I May had his transgressions, it was

2775
02:08:55,680 --> 02:09:03,439
let go. There were about nine teams that wanted him. Sorry, Bra, Sorry,

2776
02:09:03,720 --> 02:09:07,239
YouTube wanna be bro. Sorry, I want to be an inside,

2777
02:09:07,319 --> 02:09:12,119
but you're really not. I'm a damn insider. That's what

2778
02:09:12,239 --> 02:09:17,560
they call me, the Rockets insider. Emai Doka is widely respected.

2779
02:09:18,479 --> 02:09:23,239
Speaker 2: Yes, stop it. If any of you see that E

2780
02:09:23,359 --> 02:09:26,800
May's losing this team. E May doesn't know what he's doing.

2781
02:09:27,479 --> 02:09:30,079
E Mays should be fired. They should have a real

2782
02:09:30,880 --> 02:09:32,119
sit down me at the end of the year to

2783
02:09:32,199 --> 02:09:37,119
see where this franchise is going. Tell them go follow

2784
02:09:37,159 --> 02:09:42,319
another team, Go follow the Washington Wizards, because that's the

2785
02:09:42,399 --> 02:09:48,960
acumen you have for NBA Basketball. Trust me when I

2786
02:09:49,159 --> 02:09:49,439
tell you.

2787
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:53,399
Speaker 18: The Rockets will be a free agent destination for a

2788
02:09:53,479 --> 02:09:57,119
lot of teams because while our weather is good, our

2789
02:09:57,199 --> 02:10:02,239
strip clubs are nice, world class money is gonna be

2790
02:10:02,319 --> 02:10:06,159
good here too. Yes, well, it's a freaking Adoka. I

2791
02:10:06,199 --> 02:10:07,479
came out all of everything he does.

2792
02:10:07,720 --> 02:10:08,119
Speaker 2: I get it.

2793
02:10:09,479 --> 02:10:12,520
Speaker 18: You may be, you know, throwing your body against a

2794
02:10:12,560 --> 02:10:14,439
wall because Reid wasn't out there in the final second

2795
02:10:14,479 --> 02:10:15,039
of a key game.

2796
02:10:15,119 --> 02:10:17,640
Speaker 2: I get that. But no coach is perfect. He may

2797
02:10:17,680 --> 02:10:22,720
be the first. I tell you that. I'm not trying

2798
02:10:22,760 --> 02:10:24,479
to blow smoke up Emae's ass. I'm just telling you

2799
02:10:24,479 --> 02:10:28,199
the truth, the absolute truth. Players in this league want

2800
02:10:28,279 --> 02:10:30,920
to play for em Adoka not named Lebron James. Other

2801
02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:37,000
than that, yes, yeah, Dave and Stunner will get to

2802
02:10:37,039 --> 02:10:39,760
you in a minute one thirteen of the Matt Thomas shild.

2803
02:10:39,600 --> 02:10:48,159
Speaker 18: Ross cross Work go back the phones. Yes, if you

2804
02:10:48,199 --> 02:10:51,079
feel sorry for me, follow me on Instagram.

2805
02:10:50,800 --> 02:10:53,199
Speaker 2: And ask, oh my God, is this the only reason

2806
02:10:53,279 --> 02:10:57,159
you're on air today? You want pity follows, you follow

2807
02:10:57,239 --> 02:10:59,560
the man in sport. It's important. Let me just say

2808
02:10:59,560 --> 02:11:00,840
a point, good God.

2809
02:11:01,159 --> 02:11:06,319
Speaker 18: If you feel sorry for me at sports empty, if

2810
02:11:06,399 --> 02:11:09,399
you want me to heal up eventually at sports empty.

2811
02:11:11,479 --> 02:11:15,600
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. I didn't look. Just follow the man, please,

2812
02:11:16,159 --> 02:11:17,039
I don't know you hear what.

2813
02:11:17,079 --> 02:11:17,439
Speaker 13: Do you hear?

2814
02:11:17,560 --> 02:11:21,279
Speaker 2: Ross says he's speaking of the cound. God, you're already

2815
02:11:21,279 --> 02:11:24,560
getting called RFK. Now you got called John McClain. Yeah,

2816
02:11:24,600 --> 02:11:28,119
what is it? Someone's a match from beauty Shop. I

2817
02:11:28,159 --> 02:11:31,840
don't know. I don't know what that is. That's a

2818
02:11:31,920 --> 02:11:37,239
deep cut madge from beauty shop. What is beauty shop? Madge?

2819
02:11:37,359 --> 02:11:37,399
Speaker 18: Was?

2820
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:42,760
Speaker 2: It was a commercial from palm Alive, like you that

2821
02:11:42,880 --> 02:11:48,199
dish washing liquid and you would put your hands in it. Yeah,

2822
02:11:48,560 --> 02:11:51,560
it's it's Beauty Shop was a two thousand and five

2823
02:11:51,840 --> 02:11:55,560
film starring Queen Latifa.

2824
02:11:56,000 --> 02:11:58,239
Speaker 18: Oh okay, I was thinking about the match commercials in

2825
02:11:58,279 --> 02:12:02,039
the seventies. Oh come, oh, it's from this okay commercials,

2826
02:12:02,199 --> 02:12:03,960
I think Matt, I think it's sweets. I'm about the

2827
02:12:04,399 --> 02:12:05,159
beauty shop.

2828
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:10,600
Speaker 2: Paulm. Mollis plain ad. You can see if it sounds

2829
02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:13,239
like me, see nineteen fifty two. No, well, she was

2830
02:12:13,239 --> 02:12:16,399
around for a long time. Let's move on. Let's go

2831
02:12:16,439 --> 02:12:20,439
to the phone. Let's talk to people less of hey, remember,

2832
02:12:20,720 --> 02:12:23,119
if you want less of me, please call in people.

2833
02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:25,720
If you want less of me, call in and following

2834
02:12:25,760 --> 02:12:27,800
it on Instagrams, I can look at mind my new followers.

2835
02:12:27,960 --> 02:12:31,239
Oh my god, that don't keep me quiet. Dave on

2836
02:12:31,399 --> 02:12:32,960
seven ninety good afternoon.

2837
02:12:32,680 --> 02:12:37,079
Speaker 19: Dave, good afternoon, Matt, good afternoon. Ros say, I hope

2838
02:12:37,119 --> 02:12:40,319
to start feeling better. Matt. Thank you to off for

2839
02:12:40,479 --> 02:12:43,560
you guys, A huge thank you, and you'll understand why

2840
02:12:43,640 --> 02:12:45,560
in a minute. A couple of weeks ago, I called

2841
02:12:45,600 --> 02:12:49,199
in on Believe It or Not and one tickets to

2842
02:12:49,279 --> 02:12:52,600
the rodeo, and the tickets were for last night. So

2843
02:12:53,039 --> 02:12:54,760
went to the rodeo last night with my wife and

2844
02:12:54,800 --> 02:12:57,279
the rodeo is great. I mean it's it's really well done,

2845
02:12:57,359 --> 02:12:59,760
always a good time. I didn't know who the performer

2846
02:12:59,880 --> 02:13:01,439
was going to be, never heard of the guy, guy

2847
02:13:01,520 --> 02:13:04,279
named Riley Green, but my wife knew who he was,

2848
02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:07,239
and telling you, all the women who were there last

2849
02:13:07,319 --> 02:13:10,199
night knew who he was. So anyway, it turns out

2850
02:13:10,279 --> 02:13:15,159
this guy's just this real rugged, handsome cowboy singer. Okay,

2851
02:13:15,720 --> 02:13:18,720
and so at the end of the night we get

2852
02:13:18,800 --> 02:13:21,399
home after listening to this guy for fifty minutes or whatever,

2853
02:13:22,000 --> 02:13:26,720
my wife was raring to go okay, and so the

2854
02:13:26,840 --> 02:13:28,039
festivities continued.

2855
02:13:28,079 --> 02:13:28,760
Speaker 9: Once we got home.

2856
02:13:28,840 --> 02:13:30,720
Speaker 19: She was so repped up. I barely had time for

2857
02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:34,479
that blue pill to even work. Now. She did make

2858
02:13:34,520 --> 02:13:37,039
me wear a cowboy hat, and she did call me

2859
02:13:37,159 --> 02:13:40,520
Riley a couple of times, but overall, a great night.

2860
02:13:40,720 --> 02:13:54,720
Speaker 9: I want to thank you guys for it. Hello, thank you, Dave.

2861
02:14:00,520 --> 02:14:07,119
Speaker 2: He's saying, thank us. Oh, he's thinking us, Jonathan, how

2862
02:14:07,159 --> 02:14:08,359
much role playing to you and your girl?

2863
02:14:08,439 --> 02:14:09,119
Speaker 17: Do what.

2864
02:14:12,359 --> 02:14:17,319
Speaker 2: You'd the experienced one? You tell me, did you make

2865
02:14:17,359 --> 02:14:19,079
your girl wear a way? Occasionally? Just make sure it

2866
02:14:19,119 --> 02:14:25,000
look like somebody else. I'll take that as a no.

2867
02:14:27,840 --> 02:14:33,720
Riley Green, Riley Green had missus. What was his name, Dave? Dave?

2868
02:14:33,840 --> 02:14:38,119
This is Dave riled up. I think he's embellishing a

2869
02:14:38,159 --> 02:14:42,279
little bit that didn't seem like it. His bones jumped.

2870
02:14:42,640 --> 02:14:45,359
How do you go see a hot country guy and

2871
02:14:45,399 --> 02:14:46,960
then go, you know what, let's get on. Well, let's

2872
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:52,359
get it onto our own radio. The ovens already preheated. Matt, Hmmm,

2873
02:14:53,399 --> 02:14:54,359
maybe I should try that.

2874
02:14:56,079 --> 02:14:56,319
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2875
02:14:57,199 --> 02:15:00,760
Speaker 2: You know what gets my wife going is duke basketball. Yeah,

2876
02:15:00,760 --> 02:15:02,720
that's probably worked for you in the years past. It

2877
02:15:02,920 --> 02:15:05,680
has When Duke wins, I win when Duke lose. I sit,

2878
02:15:05,760 --> 02:15:09,840
I sleep in the backyard. Yeah, you got like a

2879
02:15:10,039 --> 02:15:11,239
like a Bobby Hurley jersey.

2880
02:15:11,720 --> 02:15:14,239
Speaker 18: I'm deathly afraid that she's gonna root for Duke over

2881
02:15:14,279 --> 02:15:17,000
Houston in a tournament because she's so excited about it.

2882
02:15:17,039 --> 02:15:20,960
Speaker 2: Definitely afraid. You already know. Yeah, but she she hit

2883
02:15:21,000 --> 02:15:23,399
it pretty well. When Houston beat isn't isn't Duke number

2884
02:15:23,399 --> 02:15:28,720
one in the UH, in the country one or two? Yeah? Oh,

2885
02:15:28,840 --> 02:15:32,840
number one in kim Pom Duke basketball. How the Cougar's

2886
02:15:32,840 --> 02:15:35,640
and kemp palm number six. That's good. That's bad. I'm

2887
02:15:35,680 --> 02:15:38,199
not bad. Yeah, it's good, it's great. I'm very pleased

2888
02:15:38,239 --> 02:15:43,800
with that. You should be Texas Longhorns twenty ninth. Let's

2889
02:15:43,880 --> 02:15:47,359
go at large. They're on the CUSP. No, they're in baby,

2890
02:15:47,680 --> 02:15:48,199
are you sure?

2891
02:15:48,479 --> 02:15:48,720
Speaker 1: Yes?

2892
02:15:52,159 --> 02:15:53,199
Speaker 2: By the way, I got one for you.

2893
02:15:53,680 --> 02:15:56,479
Speaker 18: Well, unlets's theay collapse. So I was listening to a

2894
02:15:56,600 --> 02:15:58,880
national show on the way home from the report last night.

2895
02:15:59,239 --> 02:16:04,159
Speaker 2: That's a mistake. What if my you know, Miami of

2896
02:16:04,199 --> 02:16:05,039
Ohio is twenty.

2897
02:16:04,920 --> 02:16:08,520
Speaker 18: Nine and oh right, yes, the mac is probably gonna

2898
02:16:08,520 --> 02:16:10,840
be a one big league, one bid league.

2899
02:16:11,960 --> 02:16:14,119
Speaker 2: Yes, if they don't win their tournament. Can they get

2900
02:16:14,159 --> 02:16:15,000
in that large spot?

2901
02:16:15,319 --> 02:16:17,600
Speaker 4: I would say if they're undefeated up until the tournament final,

2902
02:16:17,640 --> 02:16:19,439
they should they they probably will get it.

2903
02:16:19,600 --> 02:16:25,479
Speaker 2: What's their ken? Paulm Miami of Ohio eighty sixth? I're

2904
02:16:25,640 --> 02:16:30,479
twenty nine and oh and you're eighty sixth? All right,

2905
02:16:30,560 --> 02:16:31,840
maybe I'm wrong? Who knows?

2906
02:16:33,120 --> 02:16:36,159
Speaker 18: So let me ask you this because Bruce Pearl has

2907
02:16:36,239 --> 02:16:38,280
been railing against Miami Ohio getting it.

2908
02:16:38,440 --> 02:16:39,520
Speaker 2: He hates Miami Ohio.

2909
02:16:41,559 --> 02:16:45,440
Speaker 18: He's basically saying, is it the sixty eight most competitive

2910
02:16:45,479 --> 02:16:48,760
teams or the sixty eight best teams?

2911
02:16:50,799 --> 02:16:52,159
Speaker 4: I think if you have an if you have a

2912
02:16:52,239 --> 02:16:55,000
one loss Miami of Ohio, they pro probably should get it.

2913
02:16:55,040 --> 02:16:58,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I'm not following their roster.

2914
02:16:58,879 --> 02:17:01,879
We'll put in there's the question, would would normally a

2915
02:17:02,079 --> 02:17:04,120
max and I don't know how the max basketball is

2916
02:17:04,239 --> 02:17:07,319
this year? Honestly, it's probably terrible. Typically they're a one

2917
02:17:07,399 --> 02:17:07,959
Bay league.

2918
02:17:12,159 --> 02:17:14,319
Speaker 18: If somebody else sneaks in and gets that spot, are

2919
02:17:14,360 --> 02:17:17,159
you going to give an at large team Miami an

2920
02:17:17,159 --> 02:17:17,879
at large spot?

2921
02:17:20,520 --> 02:17:20,719
Speaker 9: Yes?

2922
02:17:21,319 --> 02:17:24,200
Speaker 2: To knock out a team like Texas? Maybe? Sure? What

2923
02:17:24,399 --> 02:17:26,840
that's not gonna knock out Texas? And I was throwing

2924
02:17:26,879 --> 02:17:27,639
example out there.

2925
02:17:29,639 --> 02:17:31,680
Speaker 4: I guess if they lost, you look, if they're undefeated,

2926
02:17:31,680 --> 02:17:33,399
they're in, so it doesn't matter. And if they have

2927
02:17:33,520 --> 02:17:35,319
one loss, I mean, I don't.

2928
02:17:35,360 --> 02:17:37,719
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's for the committee to decide. I'm

2929
02:17:37,760 --> 02:17:39,799
gonna be honest, I'm not educated on this enough. I'm

2930
02:17:39,840 --> 02:17:44,040
going to presume that. Frankly, Miami le schedules not great.

2931
02:17:44,879 --> 02:17:47,719
Speaker 4: It's not I don't even see anybody good at anybody notable,

2932
02:17:47,760 --> 02:17:52,799
I should say, in their non conference air force Nope.

2933
02:17:52,600 --> 02:17:54,360
Speaker 2: Their air force isn't won a game in the Mountain

2934
02:17:54,399 --> 02:18:02,200
West Arkansas, Pine Bluff nope, Old Dominion no mean no

2935
02:18:03,079 --> 02:18:04,520
unc Asheville overtime.

2936
02:18:08,000 --> 02:18:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2937
02:18:10,239 --> 02:18:11,239
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting.

2938
02:18:11,879 --> 02:18:13,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say the counter argument would just be

2939
02:18:14,000 --> 02:18:15,440
schedule a better or non conference.

2940
02:18:16,079 --> 02:18:19,600
Speaker 2: They beat mercy Hurst, what blessed mercy Hurst?

2941
02:18:19,760 --> 02:18:20,079
Speaker 9: Bless you?

2942
02:18:21,040 --> 02:18:24,799
Speaker 2: They beat Trinity Christian Ross. Their schedule sucks. Yeah, Okay,

2943
02:18:24,799 --> 02:18:26,280
if they don't make it, they don't make it. Who cares?

2944
02:18:26,520 --> 02:18:29,200
That's right, that's not some great to our friend's stunner. Yeah,

2945
02:18:29,360 --> 02:18:31,440
let's do that, stunner. What's going on?

2946
02:18:33,120 --> 02:18:34,239
Speaker 13: What's going on? Man?

2947
02:18:34,520 --> 02:18:34,799
Speaker 19: Rosse?

2948
02:18:35,040 --> 02:18:40,000
Speaker 8: Hey man, you gonna need a your voice duplicated because

2949
02:18:40,440 --> 02:18:43,120
you gotta way the scribbles up at ten o'clock. There's

2950
02:18:43,200 --> 02:18:46,760
no excuse you having a sore throat. You gotta be

2951
02:18:46,840 --> 02:18:50,559
on point with That was on Johnson Leanstip deal his

2952
02:18:50,799 --> 02:18:54,280
job with you down, back you up? And number two,

2953
02:18:54,520 --> 02:18:58,079
hey man, that means separate. He was drafted number.

2954
02:18:57,879 --> 02:19:01,479
Speaker 9: Three, Yes.

2955
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:05,280
Speaker 10: He was.

2956
02:19:07,360 --> 02:19:09,879
Speaker 8: No, I'll tell you on my mind, I know that

2957
02:19:10,040 --> 02:19:11,760
wasn't the best thing on the blood for him.

2958
02:19:11,799 --> 02:19:13,680
Speaker 9: The goal three was.

2959
02:19:18,200 --> 02:19:20,280
Speaker 2: I mean it was not a great draft. Remember that

2960
02:19:20,399 --> 02:19:23,120
was the draft that what does Zacharychoche went one ross?

2961
02:19:24,879 --> 02:19:27,719
Speaker 4: Yes, r went two to the Washington Stefan Castle has

2962
02:19:27,719 --> 02:19:30,200
been a better player, taking one spot after Reid.

2963
02:19:30,159 --> 02:19:36,559
Speaker 2: Right after at four. But I mean, I don't know

2964
02:19:36,680 --> 02:19:40,520
to say, look, rates played better. I don't think there's

2965
02:19:40,520 --> 02:19:44,799
any argument to it. He's outside shot, he's a ross.

2966
02:19:44,840 --> 02:19:46,920
He's a forty three point shoot right now. It's good.

2967
02:19:47,040 --> 02:19:47,479
We'll take it.

2968
02:19:48,799 --> 02:19:52,680
Speaker 18: Yes, I would say still probably a minus defender, although

2969
02:19:52,719 --> 02:19:55,600
he had six steel steals yesterday.

2970
02:19:55,680 --> 02:20:03,200
Speaker 2: Shoe blocks. Yeah, he's got good. I mean, let me

2971
02:20:03,280 --> 02:20:04,680
tell you and thank you for the phone call, honey.

2972
02:20:06,479 --> 02:20:09,159
Speaker 18: Physically, he's gonna have some liabilities defensively, but he kind

2973
02:20:09,200 --> 02:20:09,959
of knows where to go.

2974
02:20:10,120 --> 02:20:11,959
Speaker 2: It's just gonna get there in times that make sense

2975
02:20:12,000 --> 02:20:15,559
to you. Yeah, he just he just gets this stronger.

2976
02:20:15,600 --> 02:20:17,559
Speaker 4: He gets pushed around by bigger guys, and I mean

2977
02:20:17,639 --> 02:20:20,120
he can rip some steals, he can get some guys

2978
02:20:20,159 --> 02:20:20,959
can dribble past.

2979
02:20:20,879 --> 02:20:23,399
Speaker 2: Him, and he can take the ball. But he's not

2980
02:20:23,479 --> 02:20:25,040
gonna be a first team All defense He's not.

2981
02:20:25,559 --> 02:20:29,079
Speaker 18: No, but it's gonna be a future NBA MVP, according

2982
02:20:29,120 --> 02:20:35,440
to Chris Gordy. I mean, if that's the case, God

2983
02:20:35,559 --> 02:20:35,920
love him.

2984
02:20:35,920 --> 02:20:40,760
Speaker 2: I hope he does. Oh, thank god. Adam Wexler's here.

2985
02:20:41,159 --> 02:20:42,159
Oh wex is here.

2986
02:20:44,840 --> 02:20:45,200
Speaker 1: All right.

2987
02:20:45,239 --> 02:20:47,239
Speaker 4: A couple of seconds left of the Matt Thomas Show

2988
02:20:47,319 --> 02:20:51,719
with Ross, which started off without Matt Thomas, then it

2989
02:20:51,799 --> 02:20:54,040
had a Chris Gordy, then it had a Matt Thomas,

2990
02:20:54,440 --> 02:20:57,440
and now it has an Adam Wexler. Hey man, Hey

2991
02:20:57,520 --> 02:21:00,879
wex thanks for showing up and pinch hitting for Matt Thomas,

2992
02:21:00,959 --> 02:21:03,120
who I think is going straight to the clinic to

2993
02:21:03,360 --> 02:21:06,079
get some sort of steroidal injection and hopefully he can

2994
02:21:07,000 --> 02:21:10,200
be close to a full throated tomorrow.

2995
02:21:10,399 --> 02:21:12,319
Speaker 2: Ten Am. Who knows how that's gonna go.

2996
02:21:12,799 --> 02:21:16,200
Speaker 12: We'll have to wait and see our on our pins

2997
02:21:16,239 --> 02:21:18,319
and needles to see how things will work out for tomorrow.

2998
02:21:18,680 --> 02:21:21,319
It's called the radio manage to be on the air

2999
02:21:21,440 --> 02:21:25,159
till eleven forty nine tomorrow. We will find out tomorrow

3000
02:21:25,440 --> 02:21:28,200
ten am Sports Talk seven ninety. Make sure you stay tuned.

3001
02:21:28,239 --> 02:21:29,799
Speaker 4: Of course, Adam, what's a part of the A team

3002
02:21:29,840 --> 02:21:31,879
coming up at two o'clock here on a Sports Talk

3003
02:21:31,920 --> 02:21:34,760
seven ninety. We've been talking a number of different things here.

3004
02:21:34,879 --> 02:21:37,079
Of course, we had the Rockets in action last night

3005
02:21:37,120 --> 02:21:41,559
against the Washington Wizards. Reed Shepherd has been a storyline

3006
02:21:41,639 --> 02:21:44,200
for basically throughout the entire season. A lot of people

3007
02:21:44,239 --> 02:21:47,840
wanting him in the starting lineup in closing lineups, which

3008
02:21:47,840 --> 02:21:49,639
he has been popping up more in closing lineups.

3009
02:21:49,639 --> 02:21:49,920
Speaker 14: Of course.

3010
02:21:50,000 --> 02:21:52,959
Speaker 4: Jabari Smith Junior missing a time with the ankle injury,

3011
02:21:53,000 --> 02:21:56,120
should be back on Thursday. Still waiting to see what

3012
02:21:56,280 --> 02:21:57,840
happened with him and Thompson at the end of the

3013
02:21:57,920 --> 02:22:02,559
game last night. But over Read Shepherd pretty good game.

3014
02:22:02,840 --> 02:22:05,879
Nineteen points, ten assists, a career high. Also had six

3015
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:09,159
deals and a couple of blocks. So I ask you

3016
02:22:09,760 --> 02:22:13,159
how much more can Read Shepherd contribute, especially down the

3017
02:22:13,159 --> 02:22:15,319
stretch and in closing lineups for the Houston Rockets. As

3018
02:22:15,360 --> 02:22:18,799
the season continues here into March.

3019
02:22:19,040 --> 02:22:21,120
Speaker 12: Let me ask you one question about last night before

3020
02:22:21,120 --> 02:22:22,799
I give you an answer to the question you asked me.

3021
02:22:23,040 --> 02:22:25,319
Do you think that was the best game Read Shepherd

3022
02:22:25,399 --> 02:22:28,600
had played? And I present it in this way, that

3023
02:22:28,879 --> 02:22:31,680
was not an elite shooting night for Reed Shepherd. He

3024
02:22:31,760 --> 02:22:33,559
wasn't an blow you away. They got to get out on.

3025
02:22:33,719 --> 02:22:37,000
He had a good offensive night, scored nineteen points. He

3026
02:22:37,079 --> 02:22:39,200
played forty two minutes at a little less than half

3027
02:22:39,239 --> 02:22:41,559
of his shots, so it wasn't one of those oh my,

3028
02:22:41,719 --> 02:22:44,000
he's just hot. He was five of nine from deep.

3029
02:22:44,079 --> 02:22:46,879
He scored twenty seven points on thirteen he was He

3030
02:22:47,040 --> 02:22:52,159
was fine, His percentage was okay. But the basketball that

3031
02:22:52,239 --> 02:22:55,719
he played, he played the passing lanes. He defended his

3032
02:22:56,000 --> 02:22:59,000
play his individual assignment because the Rockets weren't I don't

3033
02:22:59,000 --> 02:23:00,920
think helping him much with double teams, nor do they

3034
02:23:01,000 --> 02:23:05,159
normally played his assignment very well. Obviously was into the

3035
02:23:05,239 --> 02:23:07,479
game like you need him to be on both sides.

3036
02:23:07,799 --> 02:23:10,639
Looked for his while also looking for teammates. I don't

3037
02:23:10,639 --> 02:23:12,360
know how you have seven rebounds in one half and

3038
02:23:12,440 --> 02:23:14,120
zero in the other, but he managed to do that

3039
02:23:14,280 --> 02:23:17,600
despite playing all but forty five seconds of the second half.

3040
02:23:17,680 --> 02:23:20,040
So that is my question. First, do you think that

3041
02:23:20,200 --> 02:23:24,200
was the best basketball he's played? And then I'll temper

3042
02:23:24,280 --> 02:23:26,959
it and give you an answer. Okay, yeah, I think

3043
02:23:27,000 --> 02:23:29,440
it was arguably the best basketball he played. And was

3044
02:23:29,440 --> 02:23:31,159
it the temper it is the Washington Wizards.

3045
02:23:31,239 --> 02:23:31,799
Speaker 2: Is that part of it?

3046
02:23:31,959 --> 02:23:34,479
Speaker 12: And that's where here and saying look at Read's numbers

3047
02:23:34,520 --> 02:23:37,879
when he starts, look at whose Reader has had the

3048
02:23:37,959 --> 02:23:40,719
good fortune of starting against. It has something to do

3049
02:23:40,840 --> 02:23:42,719
with it, and it's not all of it, but either

3050
02:23:42,760 --> 02:23:44,879
way you do it. He started nine times, that's already

3051
02:23:44,959 --> 02:23:47,399
a tiny sample size. How many of those nine games

3052
02:23:47,440 --> 02:23:50,799
were against incompetent teams and no offense? Because if you

3053
02:23:50,920 --> 02:23:53,520
heard what em said about them, he's being a realist.

3054
02:23:53,639 --> 02:23:56,079
I hope everybody likes that about e May. I mean,

3055
02:23:56,360 --> 02:23:58,360
he's not trying to sugar they stink. They're not a

3056
02:23:58,399 --> 02:24:02,680
good basketball team. They're in it's a fact. It's okay

3057
02:24:02,760 --> 02:24:03,639
to say it out loud.

3058
02:24:03,719 --> 02:24:04,159
Speaker 2: They know it.

3059
02:24:04,440 --> 02:24:07,840
Speaker 12: They're the team that Washington has that might not be inferior.

3060
02:24:08,319 --> 02:24:11,280
They were all right there in street clothes watching other

3061
02:24:11,360 --> 02:24:13,680
than Anthony Davis, but Alex sars on the bench and

3062
02:24:13,719 --> 02:24:15,799
Trey Young's all their good players are sitting there, so

3063
02:24:16,040 --> 02:24:20,399
that is an inferior team. Reed Shepherd brings something this

3064
02:24:20,760 --> 02:24:23,319
team needs, and that's why he should be on the

3065
02:24:23,360 --> 02:24:27,120
floor more. I'm not necessarily saying closing lineups if they

3066
02:24:27,239 --> 02:24:30,840
need a shift in how they play offensive basketball, and

3067
02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:32,840
that's where I think everybody should be on board.

3068
02:24:33,079 --> 02:24:34,239
Speaker 2: They should they should want that.

3069
02:24:34,680 --> 02:24:36,799
Speaker 12: This is where the NBA is now, and I was

3070
02:24:36,840 --> 02:24:38,760
appreciative of them being near the top of the league

3071
02:24:38,760 --> 02:24:40,600
in three point shooting as a team for about the

3072
02:24:40,680 --> 02:24:43,799
first six to eight weeks of the season, but they're

3073
02:24:44,040 --> 02:24:45,719
one of the biggest reasons why they stayed there is

3074
02:24:45,719 --> 02:24:48,079
because they were a low volume team. They were literally

3075
02:24:48,239 --> 02:24:51,120
only taking the shots that they thought they could make,

3076
02:24:51,200 --> 02:24:53,520
and Tar Easton obviously, he was on a several month

3077
02:24:53,600 --> 02:24:57,040
long heater. Now that they're a higher volume team, which

3078
02:24:57,120 --> 02:24:59,600
they better continue to be because I think almost every

3079
02:24:59,600 --> 02:25:02,000
good team in the NBA will be that they need

3080
02:25:02,079 --> 02:25:04,239
the best players shooting them and they need to do

3081
02:25:04,319 --> 02:25:07,159
a much better job of getting those players open. And

3082
02:25:07,280 --> 02:25:10,000
by Reid being on the court a obviously he's one

3083
02:25:10,040 --> 02:25:12,159
of those players and I think he helps all of

3084
02:25:12,200 --> 02:25:15,399
the other players, Jabari Smith Junior, who they're obviously playing without,

3085
02:25:15,719 --> 02:25:18,680
Kevin Durant clearly, and Tari Eason. If you're gonna be

3086
02:25:18,799 --> 02:25:21,879
a thirty five to forty five three point shots per

3087
02:25:21,959 --> 02:25:24,600
game team, which is probably what they should be, those

3088
02:25:24,719 --> 02:25:29,280
four guys should be taking ninety percent of those shots,

3089
02:25:29,360 --> 02:25:31,600
eighty five percent of those shots, and you'll see what

3090
02:25:31,719 --> 02:25:34,440
a difference it makes. He's part of that. He does

3091
02:25:34,680 --> 02:25:38,159
matter specifically to this group. He just simply does things

3092
02:25:38,200 --> 02:25:40,000
they don't. He's the best at it. I mean, who's

3093
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:42,159
the best three point shooter on the team. I don't

3094
02:25:42,159 --> 02:25:44,719
think anybody's debating it, even with Kevin Durant shooting forty

3095
02:25:44,719 --> 02:25:48,799
percent Vin Durant, it's Reed Shepherd. It's unquestionably read Shepherd

3096
02:25:48,879 --> 02:25:51,680
now and you need it. And I do think they've

3097
02:25:51,680 --> 02:25:56,639
figured out better and better ways to make their team defense. Okay,

3098
02:25:56,760 --> 02:25:59,760
while he's out there, but he's not the only reason

3099
02:25:59,760 --> 02:26:03,120
they struggle with team defense. It's because they still have

3100
02:26:03,399 --> 02:26:09,079
too many lapses defensively. Washington got to expose all of them.

3101
02:26:09,239 --> 02:26:11,239
I know they wanted the Wizards to shoot threes because

3102
02:26:11,239 --> 02:26:13,159
they're terrible at it, and last night they just happened

3103
02:26:13,200 --> 02:26:16,600
to not be. But the amount of clear, obvious, defensive

3104
02:26:16,879 --> 02:26:21,440
switching communication mistakes that were made by players whose last

3105
02:26:21,520 --> 02:26:23,920
name isn't Shepherd, it's still too high.

3106
02:26:24,079 --> 02:26:27,200
Speaker 2: It's just way too high. They make too many mistakes. Yeah,

3107
02:26:27,520 --> 02:26:29,520
I mean, there's a lot to cover there.

3108
02:26:30,000 --> 02:26:32,200
Speaker 4: I will just say with yeah, Read Shepherd, I'll still

3109
02:26:32,200 --> 02:26:34,120
go with Kevin Durant is the best shooter on the Rockets,

3110
02:26:34,159 --> 02:26:38,319
but the three three point shooter on the Rockets as well.

3111
02:26:39,440 --> 02:26:42,200
But Reads bounced back as well. He started the season,

3112
02:26:42,280 --> 02:26:44,319
it looked like maybe the legs were getting under maybe

3113
02:26:44,319 --> 02:26:46,280
he was just you know, all the minutes played that

3114
02:26:46,360 --> 02:26:48,879
he accrued or whatever all Star breaks. Since then, he's

3115
02:26:48,920 --> 02:26:50,799
been like at forty five percent and he's looked great.

3116
02:26:50,840 --> 02:26:52,920
And he The thing too, is that not only that

3117
02:26:53,600 --> 02:26:56,559
he's knocking them down, he can knock them down under

3118
02:26:56,559 --> 02:26:58,239
the rest, he can get up the shots quick.

3119
02:26:58,360 --> 02:26:59,639
Speaker 2: He's got a very quick release.

3120
02:26:59,760 --> 02:27:02,840
Speaker 4: He's knocking down shots from deep into into three like

3121
02:27:03,120 --> 02:27:05,079
he's knocking him down from all over the place. So

3122
02:27:05,200 --> 02:27:07,399
that's the beautiful thing with what Reed Shepherds showing with

3123
02:27:07,479 --> 02:27:09,680
his shooting, which just wasn't up to par for whatever

3124
02:27:09,760 --> 02:27:12,719
reason last year, and he's made the huge leite this year,

3125
02:27:13,159 --> 02:27:16,200
so that is certainly an element of stretching the floor

3126
02:27:16,399 --> 02:27:18,799
that this team needs. Every team could use a forty

3127
02:27:19,159 --> 02:27:21,719
three point shooter, but especially this team with the Men

3128
02:27:21,799 --> 02:27:24,799
Thompson and an alprinching gun on the floor at the

3129
02:27:24,799 --> 02:27:25,559
same time a lot.

3130
02:27:25,719 --> 02:27:29,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, alpron was better last night in that he could

3131
02:27:29,040 --> 02:27:30,879
have probably taken five or six threes.

3132
02:27:31,239 --> 02:27:33,040
Speaker 2: He's got to stop and last night he did.

3133
02:27:33,159 --> 02:27:35,159
Speaker 12: You know, you're going to get a better shot than

3134
02:27:35,200 --> 02:27:37,600
that on almost every single possession, and they need to

3135
02:27:37,639 --> 02:27:39,399
take their time to go find it. You know, Men

3136
02:27:39,479 --> 02:27:42,079
Thompson is super selective with when he does it, and

3137
02:27:42,200 --> 02:27:44,040
usually the other team has kind of set him up

3138
02:27:44,040 --> 02:27:45,840
for it. He took a shot last night in the

3139
02:27:45,879 --> 02:27:48,319
corner and he made it. Everybody else of those four,

3140
02:27:48,760 --> 02:27:50,159
they're going to be open a lot and they're gonna

3141
02:27:50,159 --> 02:27:51,639
find a way to put it down. He brought up

3142
02:27:52,000 --> 02:27:54,079
some of the it's again small samples, so I post

3143
02:27:54,159 --> 02:27:57,200
All Star Break numbers. You know, Jabari was absolutely cooking

3144
02:27:57,319 --> 02:27:59,319
for about the last three weeks. His post All Star

3145
02:27:59,440 --> 02:28:02,000
Break threes, he's hit in forty eight percent reads at

3146
02:28:02,040 --> 02:28:04,479
forty four point four percent a Kobe's at forty two

3147
02:28:04,520 --> 02:28:07,600
percent and almost one hundred percent of those are corner threes,

3148
02:28:08,040 --> 02:28:11,520
and Katie's at thirty nine percent post all starbrek. These

3149
02:28:11,559 --> 02:28:13,239
are the kind of numbers you want to see more

3150
02:28:13,600 --> 02:28:16,680
of continuing. And I don't see hopefully if Jabari's back

3151
02:28:16,760 --> 02:28:20,559
later this week, that they won't. And I'm curious what

3152
02:28:20,719 --> 02:28:23,639
they will really do with both Amen Thompson and Jabari

3153
02:28:23,680 --> 02:28:26,280
Smith Junior. There's twenty two games left in the season.

3154
02:28:26,399 --> 02:28:29,399
You sell multiple back to backs left, including this Thursday, Friday,

3155
02:28:29,440 --> 02:28:30,920
a bunch of three and four nights, all that kind

3156
02:28:30,920 --> 02:28:35,639
of stuff. You're trying to get to the April sixteenth

3157
02:28:35,760 --> 02:28:37,760
weekend as healthy as possible.

3158
02:28:38,280 --> 02:28:39,079
Speaker 2: Is it a must that.

3159
02:28:39,319 --> 02:28:42,520
Speaker 12: Jabaris Smith Junior comes back Thursday and Amn Thompson comes

3160
02:28:42,600 --> 02:28:43,239
back Thursday?

3161
02:28:43,360 --> 02:28:45,920
Speaker 2: Is it? Can we still put it off even if

3162
02:28:45,959 --> 02:28:49,159
it costs to a win? They got to be healthy.

3163
02:28:49,559 --> 02:28:54,680
Speaker 4: I think it seems like just from the philosophies we've seen,

3164
02:28:54,760 --> 02:28:57,440
I mean, Alprin Shinun came back early from an ankle injury,

3165
02:28:57,520 --> 02:28:59,959
Guys try to play through things, which I mean Tom's

3166
02:29:00,040 --> 02:29:02,520
and has all season. It does seem like I don't

3167
02:29:02,559 --> 02:29:04,799
know if it's from Udoka or the training staff or whatever.

3168
02:29:04,959 --> 02:29:06,920
It just seems like this team does push in the

3169
02:29:06,959 --> 02:29:10,920
regular season and they do prioritize that because at least

3170
02:29:10,959 --> 02:29:13,200
now with the playing games, what you play Sunday and

3171
02:29:13,200 --> 02:29:15,600
then you don wouldn't play until Friday or Saturday after that,

3172
02:29:16,120 --> 02:29:18,360
if you can just get to the finish line. Plus,

3173
02:29:18,440 --> 02:29:20,680
we know how tight things are in the West after

3174
02:29:20,760 --> 02:29:22,639
the three spot. You're only a half game ahead of

3175
02:29:23,159 --> 02:29:25,680
the Timberwolves, You're only a game ahead of the Denver Nuggets.

3176
02:29:26,200 --> 02:29:29,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, the playing probably are going to be there is huge.

3177
02:29:29,079 --> 02:29:31,600
If just to again lay it out, last game of

3178
02:29:31,639 --> 02:29:34,239
the season is Sunday, that's April twelfth. If you stay

3179
02:29:34,239 --> 02:29:37,600
out of the playing tournament, you're off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

3180
02:29:37,680 --> 02:29:42,280
and if you are hosting the opening game. The Rockets

3181
02:29:42,319 --> 02:29:45,920
get back home on after they play Phoenix on April seventh,

3182
02:29:46,319 --> 02:29:49,079
their last three games are all at home and presumably

3183
02:29:49,120 --> 02:29:51,639
they finished top four. So now you're not only going

3184
02:29:51,680 --> 02:29:54,639
to not have to travel in between your last game

3185
02:29:54,680 --> 02:29:57,000
of the regular season and your first playoff game, you're

3186
02:29:57,040 --> 02:29:59,079
going to have been home for almost two full weeks,

3187
02:29:59,159 --> 02:30:01,959
with five days for game one or six. If they're

3188
02:30:01,959 --> 02:30:04,479
a Sunday game to get as healthy as possible, and

3189
02:30:04,559 --> 02:30:06,000
that I mean, I don't know if you consider that

3190
02:30:06,079 --> 02:30:08,440
a month out, which is about where we are, but

3191
02:30:08,760 --> 02:30:11,680
something to to just keep in mind. And again it's

3192
02:30:11,799 --> 02:30:14,319
back to back today, Thursday and Friday. Then they play

3193
02:30:14,360 --> 02:30:16,959
San Antonio on Sunday, followed by a back to back

3194
02:30:17,000 --> 02:30:19,600
on Tuesday and Wednesday. So when you get to Thursday,

3195
02:30:19,639 --> 02:30:22,280
you got five games and seven nights. It's or five

3196
02:30:22,360 --> 02:30:25,399
games and eight nights, both guys nursing.

3197
02:30:25,520 --> 02:30:27,639
Speaker 2: Something. Just get further past it.

3198
02:30:27,879 --> 02:30:30,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that philosophy, but he just he just

3199
02:30:30,440 --> 02:30:32,360
feels like the rocket. Maybe it's just the players too.

3200
02:30:32,360 --> 02:30:33,719
I mean, a man wants to be out there. Jabari

3201
02:30:33,760 --> 02:30:35,479
wants to be out there. I'll punch you. Like I said,

3202
02:30:35,520 --> 02:30:36,760
he came back. It was supposed to be like a

3203
02:30:36,799 --> 02:30:38,520
two week ankle injury. He came back in like five

3204
02:30:38,600 --> 02:30:40,680
days or whatever it was. But also he was slowed

3205
02:30:40,719 --> 02:30:41,239
for like a month.

3206
02:30:41,360 --> 02:30:44,479
Speaker 12: Right, it looked great amateur doctors like we are watching

3207
02:30:44,559 --> 02:30:47,319
Jabari Smith Junior leave the game where he twisted his ankle,

3208
02:30:47,360 --> 02:30:49,680
and then last night with about eight minutes ago, watching

3209
02:30:49,719 --> 02:30:53,159
a men leave it did not look anything above whatever.

3210
02:30:53,239 --> 02:30:57,159
Speaker 2: The lowest grade tweak twist is what it looked like.

3211
02:30:57,680 --> 02:30:57,840
Speaker 1: Came.

3212
02:30:58,280 --> 02:31:01,760
Speaker 4: Let's stick with that, not a great three like Steven Adams.

3213
02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:04,120
All right, we're gonna take quick break. Doctor Wexler is

3214
02:31:04,159 --> 02:31:06,200
on the case here on Sports Talk seven ninety. We're

3215
02:31:06,239 --> 02:31:08,360
with you until two o'clock. You want to guys, want

3216
02:31:08,399 --> 02:31:10,600
to get in quick you can seven one three, two

3217
02:31:10,719 --> 02:31:13,879
one two five, seven ninety The Matt Thomas Show with

3218
02:31:14,239 --> 02:31:18,159
Ross without Matt Thomas, who's got the laryngitis and hopefully

3219
02:31:18,239 --> 02:31:20,280
is hitting the doctor right now with you for one

3220
02:31:20,319 --> 02:31:27,200
more second final segment of The Matt Thomas Show with

3221
02:31:27,319 --> 02:31:28,319
Ross without Matt Thomas.

3222
02:31:30,879 --> 02:31:31,799
Speaker 2: He is out sick.

3223
02:31:32,280 --> 02:31:34,680
Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow. I think we'll see how he sounds.

3224
02:31:34,799 --> 02:31:37,360
Ten am here on Sports Talk seven iinty coming up

3225
02:31:37,360 --> 02:31:39,680
at two o'clock. You got Adam Wexler and Adam Clinton.

3226
02:31:39,719 --> 02:31:42,600
Wex was gracious to hang out with Matt Thomas ducking

3227
02:31:42,719 --> 02:31:45,799
out earlier. Well, we got a lot of different stuff

3228
02:31:45,879 --> 02:31:47,920
we can get to and I have been getting to

3229
02:31:48,040 --> 02:31:49,680
on the show. And then of course we'll continue two

3230
02:31:49,799 --> 02:31:52,120
to six here on Sports Talk seven ninety. But let's

3231
02:31:52,120 --> 02:31:54,200
go with the the David Montgomery thing. What was your

3232
02:31:54,239 --> 02:31:58,760
initial reaction wex of the David Montgomery trade. Now we

3233
02:31:59,079 --> 02:32:02,600
have the news today Breeze Hall was franchised tagged. Don't

3234
02:32:02,639 --> 02:32:04,760
know if Nick Cassaria knew directly that that was coming,

3235
02:32:04,840 --> 02:32:07,760
but probably figured it was going to be a shortage

3236
02:32:07,760 --> 02:32:09,280
of options in the free agent market.

3237
02:32:09,479 --> 02:32:13,360
Speaker 2: And now I mean as your RB one or one

3238
02:32:13,520 --> 02:32:15,479
A with Woody marks as your one B.

3239
02:32:15,559 --> 02:32:17,920
Speaker 4: I don't know how we're gonna say this, David Montgomery

3240
02:32:18,000 --> 02:32:21,000
and Woody Marx and your thoughts on also the potential

3241
02:32:21,079 --> 02:32:23,079
of possibly even adding one in the draft.

3242
02:32:23,879 --> 02:32:25,559
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would be looking to add

3243
02:32:25,680 --> 02:32:28,159
one of the draft. I would not be. I'll say

3244
02:32:28,200 --> 02:32:28,639
it that way.

3245
02:32:28,799 --> 02:32:30,719
Speaker 12: I don't think it's crazy to think that they will

3246
02:32:30,760 --> 02:32:33,360
draft one, but I certainly hope they don't have to,

3247
02:32:33,479 --> 02:32:35,239
because oh, we love this guy and he's still on

3248
02:32:35,280 --> 02:32:35,600
the board.

3249
02:32:35,639 --> 02:32:37,319
Speaker 2: We have to take him here. Again.

3250
02:32:37,440 --> 02:32:39,399
Speaker 12: A lot of people are only the only view of

3251
02:32:39,520 --> 02:32:42,239
Montgomery and Marx and draft, like, oh, they need him,

3252
02:32:42,280 --> 02:32:44,239
they got to have this. This is not a one

3253
02:32:44,319 --> 02:32:47,239
year situation. Do they need a good running back? Do

3254
02:32:47,280 --> 02:32:50,559
they need a number one? A real one? Honestly, don't

3255
02:32:50,559 --> 02:32:52,920
you want somebody better than Joe Mixon. Like, it's been

3256
02:32:53,159 --> 02:32:55,559
a long time since they've had somebody better than Joe Mixon.

3257
02:32:56,280 --> 02:32:58,159
This is nobody seems to think that way.

3258
02:32:58,239 --> 02:32:58,799
Speaker 2: I think this is.

3259
02:32:58,879 --> 02:33:01,000
Speaker 12: I wish they would think that way, both fans and

3260
02:33:01,159 --> 02:33:03,440
the team. So I'm all for finding a better player

3261
02:33:03,559 --> 02:33:06,000
and a player better than David Montgomery, because I don't

3262
02:33:06,000 --> 02:33:08,399
think Montgomery's better than Joe Mixon. He's just better than

3263
02:33:08,440 --> 02:33:10,479
what they have. And that's what they've been doing with

3264
02:33:10,559 --> 02:33:13,680
their offense in perpetuity since Nick Cassaria has been here. Well,

3265
02:33:13,680 --> 02:33:15,879
he's better than what we have. How about aiming a

3266
02:33:15,959 --> 02:33:19,120
little higher at any position you'd like? Nico Collins and

3267
02:33:19,200 --> 02:33:21,719
c J. Stroud are kind of the only standouts there.

3268
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:24,040
You know, you brought in Dalton Schultz several years ago

3269
02:33:24,079 --> 02:33:26,600
in free agency. He was an elite tight end. Yeah,

3270
02:33:26,680 --> 02:33:28,440
but he's better than what we have. He was and

3271
02:33:28,559 --> 02:33:30,399
all the offensive linemen that have come through as a

3272
02:33:30,479 --> 02:33:33,440
revolving door. Yeah, he's better than what we have. Who's

3273
02:33:33,440 --> 02:33:35,559
the best offensive lineman they've ever brought in. I'm not

3274
02:33:35,680 --> 02:33:37,879
asking you because you don't need to answer. It's rhetorical.

3275
02:33:37,959 --> 02:33:41,600
There isn't anybody. There's no such thing. So David Montgomery

3276
02:33:41,680 --> 02:33:45,440
being here is great because it's how Nick likes to operate.

3277
02:33:45,600 --> 02:33:47,760
So I think he's happy and he can continue on

3278
02:33:47,840 --> 02:33:50,120
his plan. He doesn't want to go bidding for players.

3279
02:33:50,200 --> 02:33:51,879
He doesn't want to bid for Kenneth Walker Junior.

3280
02:33:51,959 --> 02:33:53,719
Speaker 2: He does the third. He didn't want to bid for

3281
02:33:53,799 --> 02:33:54,280
Breese Hall.

3282
02:33:54,799 --> 02:33:56,799
Speaker 12: I think if Breese Hall want if he wanted Breese

3283
02:33:56,799 --> 02:33:59,079
Hall here, Brees Hall would have already played his first

3284
02:33:59,120 --> 02:34:00,520
game as a Texan and it would have been in

3285
02:34:00,559 --> 02:34:03,239
twenty twenty five, and they would have been able to

3286
02:34:03,319 --> 02:34:05,360
negotiate with him while he was a Texan and they

3287
02:34:05,399 --> 02:34:06,840
would have been the team that traded for him from

3288
02:34:06,840 --> 02:34:07,159
the Jets.

3289
02:34:07,200 --> 02:34:07,799
Speaker 2: But they didn't do that.

3290
02:34:08,319 --> 02:34:10,440
Speaker 12: And I think what you've seen him do is I

3291
02:34:10,799 --> 02:34:14,280
like to have information. What is David Montgomery make next year?

3292
02:34:14,879 --> 02:34:18,360
Speaker 2: Figure X? What does my running back make next year?

3293
02:34:18,479 --> 02:34:20,479
Speaker 12: If I go into free agency and have to find one,

3294
02:34:21,200 --> 02:34:24,719
it's probably X plus four million or I don't even know.

3295
02:34:24,879 --> 02:34:27,959
Speaker 2: He has clear information on where.

3296
02:34:27,840 --> 02:34:30,040
Speaker 12: Things stand with his running back position now, and I

3297
02:34:30,079 --> 02:34:32,120
think that's just the way he likes it, trading for

3298
02:34:32,239 --> 02:34:35,360
a player, And yes, I think it was too costly

3299
02:34:35,440 --> 02:34:38,120
for the caliber of player. Not so costly that they

3300
02:34:38,159 --> 02:34:40,280
can't overcome it. That's why Nick does what he does.

3301
02:34:40,399 --> 02:34:42,920
They don't go into any draft with five picks anymore,

3302
02:34:43,319 --> 02:34:46,079
or six or seven, but he goes in with eight

3303
02:34:46,200 --> 02:34:48,000
or nine, and so now he can wheel and deal

3304
02:34:48,040 --> 02:34:50,239
all he wants. He got one in yesterday, he sent

3305
02:34:50,319 --> 02:34:52,040
one out yesterday, and then he sent another one out

3306
02:34:52,079 --> 02:34:53,000
for twenty twenty seven.

3307
02:34:53,440 --> 02:34:55,920
Speaker 2: That's what he likes to how he likes to operate.

3308
02:34:56,559 --> 02:35:00,200
Speaker 12: But they, again, they have a pretty moderately height bar

3309
02:35:00,840 --> 02:35:02,959
for their offense, and at some point, if they ever

3310
02:35:03,000 --> 02:35:05,040
want to have a good offense, which they've shown no

3311
02:35:05,159 --> 02:35:07,559
signs of wanting to do, they have to aim higher

3312
02:35:07,600 --> 02:35:09,520
than that. I aim higher than David Montgomery.

3313
02:35:09,639 --> 02:35:11,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Harriobod is not programmed to swing for the

3314
02:35:11,959 --> 02:35:13,239
fences for the most part.

3315
02:35:13,680 --> 02:35:15,559
Speaker 12: And I think he got I don't want to say

3316
02:35:15,559 --> 02:35:17,840
he got scared of it, but he definitely swung for

3317
02:35:17,920 --> 02:35:21,000
the fences with Saquon Barkley and he struck out.

3318
02:35:21,399 --> 02:35:23,319
Speaker 2: He swung for the fences with c. J. Stroud and

3319
02:35:23,360 --> 02:35:26,600
Will Anderson and well, but that's in the draft, that's true.

3320
02:35:27,000 --> 02:35:31,159
I mean, and you have clear figure. I know what CJ.

3321
02:35:31,280 --> 02:35:32,959
Stroud's making for the next five years.

3322
02:35:33,000 --> 02:35:35,000
Speaker 12: If I want, I know what Will Anderson's making for

3323
02:35:35,040 --> 02:35:37,319
the next five years, and there's no negotiation.

3324
02:35:37,840 --> 02:35:39,879
Speaker 2: Here's what he's getting whoever I draft there.

3325
02:35:40,239 --> 02:35:40,840
Speaker 9: He likes that.

3326
02:35:41,040 --> 02:35:43,639
Speaker 12: That that's how he likes to do things. And again,

3327
02:35:43,760 --> 02:35:45,479
no good or bad, but that's just how he likes

3328
02:35:45,559 --> 02:35:48,639
to do it. Getting David Montgomery was something that probably

3329
02:35:48,719 --> 02:35:51,000
made too much sense for them, so they did it,

3330
02:35:51,040 --> 02:35:53,719
and it's one less worry, and they did the opposite

3331
02:35:53,799 --> 02:35:55,799
with the offensive line. Now they have one more worry.

3332
02:35:55,959 --> 02:35:57,879
Speaker 4: You know what I feel like. I feel like you

3333
02:35:58,000 --> 02:36:00,319
drafted in your fantasy league. You got like two good

3334
02:36:00,399 --> 02:36:02,440
running backs and there are ones I got an ankle injury,

3335
02:36:02,479 --> 02:36:04,200
ones on a buy, and you gotta start David Montgomery.

3336
02:36:04,200 --> 02:36:06,440
Speaker 2: You're like, all right, maybe you can get me ten

3337
02:36:06,479 --> 02:36:08,639
points this week. I'm not feeling that. I just don't

3338
02:36:08,719 --> 02:36:11,280
feel like I feel okay about it.

3339
02:36:11,559 --> 02:36:13,719
Speaker 12: I'm not sure if it was great our league or

3340
02:36:13,719 --> 02:36:16,200
a different league, but I had David Montgomery and that

3341
02:36:16,319 --> 02:36:19,479
is exactly how He's gonna get me up for ten

3342
02:36:19,600 --> 02:36:20,200
yards today.

3343
02:36:20,399 --> 02:36:23,040
Speaker 2: But he's gonna score twice. Yeah, he might score.

3344
02:36:23,200 --> 02:36:25,000
Speaker 4: So you need help on first down, You need help

3345
02:36:25,040 --> 02:36:26,680
on the red zone and David Montgomery can do that.

3346
02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:28,760
All right, Wax, thanks for hanging out, you got it.

3347
02:36:28,840 --> 02:36:32,120
Appreciate you. Matt Thomas should be back tomorrow, I don't know.

3348
02:36:32,639 --> 02:36:35,239
Thanks to Chris Gordy for hanging out. Thanks Adam Weaxfan

3349
02:36:35,319 --> 02:36:38,239
for hanging out. Thanks to Jonathan Allen for being here throughout.

3350
02:36:38,639 --> 02:36:40,840
I will talk to you folks tomorrow at ten am.

3351
02:36:40,959 --> 02:36:42,799
It'll be the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. But don't

3352
02:36:42,840 --> 02:36:46,000
go anywhere. It's Adam Wexler and Adam Klaymon on the

3353
02:36:46,079 --> 02:36:48,399
A Team next year on Sports Talks, Have an Night