Speaker 1: Yeah, lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show zen.
Speaker 2: No one in h town. What's happening to lunchtimers? Well
or brunch timers? Good morning to you and welcome to
a Thursday edition or is it win? It's Thursday edition
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross This is sports Shock
seven ninety A fifty nine yarder.
Speaker 3: Snap replacement sweaks the leg fair pair. It's gone clock City.
Houston gets the w twenty three to twenty the final.
They knock off the bills half the buzzer and.
Speaker 4: Carries twenty two yards before that thirty yard run and
now mixing again sweeps the left side into the in
zone for a Houston touchdown.
Speaker 5: We're you aware situational ball in these spots.
Speaker 6: The crowd rolls.
Speaker 2: To the answer, I touchdown personal batist cloud. The drum
rolls out Stroud on the run. That's calm touchdown.
Speaker 7: Dunn shuts Man needs to win and get help.
Speaker 8: There's a one pass looking for.
Speaker 2: Hill and that's a good deal. That's interceded. Stiglas did
it again. Steglias again, Rossie. We told the audience it
would take us a couple of days to kind of
get into the mood of the big playoff game Saturday
three point thirty inside the Energy Stadium. I ask you
one simple question. At ten oh four on this glorious Thursday,
can you feel it?
Speaker 4: The city is a buzz everywhere you go. People are
wearing battles red and liberty and white all week and
talk about is the Houston Texans taking on the Los
Angeles Chargers three point thirty Saturday.
Speaker 2: Or the endless rain for the next twenty hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently it's supposed to rain a lot as well,
and snow in Arlington and Dallas.
Speaker 2: Wo yikes.
Speaker 4: Ticket price is going down, Maddie. You won't, But Thomas,
I don't have to ditch you.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna ditch you.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that isn't It's fine.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't just leave this show out of nowhere in
the middle of the week. That'd be weird.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you've known for a couple of weeks about
these days off, this day off. Oh what are you
talking about? It's different. No, I'm saying I wouldn't do that.
I would That's why I said that. That's why I
sent a calendar out three weeks ago. I was the
same page.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't just leave and then talk about people
never being there and then just be gone all the time.
That'd be crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, apparently we get vacation time at seven. I mean,
thus we're going to take it. You're trying to get
my goat, and that's fine.
Speaker 4: There was a certain seven ninety member prodded me to
do that, and then I will not say, who, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, you mean the guy who's gonna work probably
I don't know, fifty to the next one hundred and
fifty days because of astro spring train start times. Oh,
I know it is. You know what he can do.
He can take his razy ranch rips and eat that
all day long as he sits at his humin releaxis.
Speaker 4: Great to have you back, Matt. You're ahead of a
huge just Saturday wild Card weekend, which, by the way,
they're not calling it Super wild Card weekend anymore. Quietly,
why is that they just took the Super off? It's
just Wildcard weekend?
Speaker 2: Is it because people? You know what it is? I
wonder if they just like the words super to be
attached to the last game of the year.
Speaker 4: I think it's just because it was kind of special
to add the extra wild card, so they started calling
it wild card, and now it's just the norm.
Speaker 9: So it's not super, it's just regular.
Speaker 2: Okay, So ladies and gentlemen, it's regular wild card weekend. Yes,
you know one I we always argue about, not you
and I, but just generally, do you have too many
teams in the playoffs? I don't know this feels about right.
I don't know if the NFL should go to any more,
but to have, you know, all these games this weekend,
it's not bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more money, more playoffs. Every league figured it out. NBA, Oh,
we're we've got to go to seven game series in
the first couple of rounds.
Speaker 9: Let's get half the league in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball has seventeen wild cards now, and NFL
did what they did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would suggest if I mean, if Adam Silver
was listening to the show, which I believe he is
on the regular, I would suggest the NBA going back
to the five game first round.
Speaker 4: College football and college basketball, by the way, adding teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long do you think we're stuck at sixty
eight for the NCAA basketball tournament?
Speaker 9: Not as long as you think.
Speaker 4: There feels like there's been strong push to continue to
add to the to the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just stupid. You know why. You know why that is?
ROSSI more money. Everybody wants more money. We're they're either
putting more money in their treasure chests or they're trying
to distribute more money. Case in point. I saw a
story today about the University of Houston Scott. I want
to say at least ten million dollars locked and loaded
for paying student athletes in the next couple of years.
I mean, legitimately cutting them checks. Well, they've got to
make up that money somehow. I mean, as cash flush
as I would like to say that Alma Mater is,
we're not. I mean the reality is, we got to
figure out other ways to do it. So if they
can get a bigger piece of an NCAA tournament that
goes from say sixty eight to what's the next level
ninety six? Is that right? Would that be?
Speaker 4: This is the on that you can just add a
couple of more and make extra plans. I don't know
exactly what they would do.
Speaker 2: I mean in the reality, Ross, how about this? Why
does college football stop at twelve games. Mean, we've worried
about college time and kids missing classroom time. I mean
they miss Friday's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is the FCS Championship? Is that thirty two
or sixteen?
Speaker 2: Know what it is, but it's they go a long
time too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and those are actually more there's more serious students
in the FCS and Division one two three BRAD two
three bracket than there are in FBS.
Speaker 2: Probably, so probably.
Speaker 4: LSU in general studies. You're not gonna take a jab
at LSU academic.
Speaker 9: Sorry, I'm just kidding, are you really?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 10: No? I didn't think so.
Speaker 2: I mean there's about Look, we talked about ten or
fifteen schools every year that are playing for a national championship,
and of those ten or fifteen, probably eleven or twelve
of them are open enrollment. And I think probably LSU
is right in that category.
Speaker 4: Looks like FCS is sixteen. Okay, I think no, that's
not accurate.
Speaker 9: I'll shut up. They get buys as well.
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, we are with you today until two o'clock.
I'm coming to you today from Memphis. I didn't I
did want to work yesterday, and look the travel schedule
just you know, I can't control some things. I would
like for the Rockets to live on my travel schedule,
but they don't like to do that, so I have
to go in the team since we got to go.
So I like to say, listen to the show yesterday,
but that would be false. That's okay.
Speaker 4: It was great the way twenty four teams into the
FCS Championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 4: Let's see, it was an hour solo than two hours
with Gordy and then an hour with Adam Clinton.
Speaker 2: Okay, And who was your favorite person to tell they
shut their bomb asses up yesterday?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Who did I go with?
Speaker 4: I don't even remember. Oh I think it was SI
dot Com. I told them they shut their bomb asses up.
Speaker 2: They can't.
Speaker 4: They put false and misleading headlines on all their articles.
Speaker 2: Now, isn't it? Everybody though?
Speaker 4: No, but this is blatant. This is more blatant. Yes,
number one, you're right, but this is blatant. Like they're
putting out their New York Mets emerge as favorites to
sign Alex Bregman, and then it's like one blurb from
Bob Nightingale saying don't rule out the Mets.
Speaker 2: So not only are they running bad headlines but they're
aggregating other people's stuff.
Speaker 4: They're aggregating and then lying on the headlines. And then
there was another one. It was like Astros Astro strong
candidate to resign Alex Bregman to one hundred and seventy five.
Remember we had that caller last week and we're like,
what are you talking about? He was talking about the
one hundred and seventy five million dollars deal for Alex Bregman.
The in the Astros that was some New Jersey writer
making his preseason predictions and he made like, you know,
thirty two things coming up in next year, and one
of them was like I predict Bregman's gonna do this.
Speaker 2: And then SI runs with the headline and they.
Speaker 4: Say, oh, Astros close to signing, Like it's what, it's.
Speaker 2: Just flat out lies. Huh.
Speaker 4: S I a Sports Illustrated used to be one of them.
Oh my god, outlets for sports news.
Speaker 2: Let me give you the SI history, Rossie. This is
in the last forty five years, excellent journalism, in depth pieces,
great covers, swim stand edition and that one swimsuit edition. Okay,
and then you fast forward to about twenty five thirty
years later, it was an occasional nice story, an occasional printing,
and of course the swimsuit issue. Now in the last
five years, it's just a swimsuit issue.
Speaker 4: Right, It's a joke. It's a joke, and it's sad,
and I need to figure out I'm trying. I literally
had been trying to figure out how to block a
website completely from my browser.
Speaker 2: You really aren't the anger towards SI. I mean, I
respect the game, I do.
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 9: There's no standards in practices.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like putting it's like being a news reporter
and putting information on Twitter. If you get it right,
you brag if you get it wrong. Oops.
Speaker 4: But these are blatant lies in headlines for clicks, like
sensationalizing and clickbaiting. Yeah, I mean it's kind of the norm.
This is just flat out lies.
Speaker 2: Yep. All right. On the radio program that they we're
going to talk at eleven o'clock with Chris Haney. He
is with KKEL nine Sports in Los Angeles. Uh and
apparently my good friend John Ireland, who's a voice of
the Los Angeles Lakers, says, this is a guy that
goes to practice every single day with the LA Chargers,
So Chris Hayry's going to join us at eleven o'clock.
And frankly, to me, it's probably as much about what's
going on in California with the fires and it is
about the Charger game. I mean, I don't. I mean,
we've had a really essy twenty twenty five, between thousands
of people losing their homes in California to what happened
in New Orleans on New Year's Day? I mean, can
we can we restart twenty twenty five? Mmm? We can't.
Speaker 4: I guess some bad news, Matt, what now? I think
it's gonna get only worse and worse. Okay, it was
the driest nine month period they said in California history,
I think on record, right.
Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a shame.
Speaker 4: That's just And then the eighty mile I wire eighty
mile an hour winds breaking out in January in California.
Speaker 2: It is crazy. And then apparently late last night before
I went to bed, there are people setting fires by
the Hollywood Hills just to do it. I mean, I
didn't really is evil infiltrated our world? I knew evil
hit Twitter. I don't know evil hit the rest of
the world.
Speaker 4: It's getting worse and worse. And yeah, I have a
friend who lives in Long Beach. They're like forty miles
away and their cars are covered in ash.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's terrible. I was telling my wife
I was talking on the phone with Hue. There's just
nowhere in the world right at least in the United
States that just is not immune to some sort of
weather issues. Mean, now I'm trying to think, wait, the
mud slides. They've got these fires that are happening. We
have hurricanes and tornadoes, and you know, you got people
in the I mean, DC got absolutely bamboozled by six
inches of snow yesterday, and now I'm here in Memphis
where they're expecting snow and ice today. That the snow
that the ice is in Dallas right now is headed
this way, and then it's going to Atlanta. We're going
after the tonight's game. So I just can't shay. Mother
nature is always winning at this point here in twenty
twenty five. All right, So we will talk to Chris
Hayry from k CAL Sports at eleven o'clock. I just
don't get it's coming up at eleven thirty. Well of
the News at noon at twelve noon. Emao A dook
is gonna be with us at one o'clock today as
the Rockets take on the Grizzlies and a matchup of
two verses three in the Western Conference. Did you anticipate
me saying that I don't know two months ago what
we are? We got the rotten five? Uh coming up
at one thirty. It's your last rotten five in the year.
Ross your thoughts, you know, I'm sad to see it go.
I don't believe it for a second. You don't have
to believe that, not for one second. And believe it
or not. Today at one fifties, we've got a lot
to get to today. It is Mattnus Ross, it's you,
It's Connordy McGovern our, producer, and it's you on the
phone lines. I'm gonna ask you a simple question. Can
you feel it? The Texans Chargers Saturday, three thirty seven
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and be a part of our radio show about a
variety of things, whether it be about the Texans Chargers
game on Saturday, any of the NFL games. We've got
a college football semi final matchup tonight down in Miami.
We've got the Longhorns tanking on Ohio State tomorrow in Dallas,
where the weather apparently is not good. And so have
you been actively looking or just kind of seeing what
the prices? I mean, I've seen a couple of tweets
here and there saying the prices are dropping.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been checking the market.
Speaker 2: It'd be simply about the weather, right, It's something about
it about the interest itself.
Speaker 4: Correct, It's I mean, look, prices dropped normally. Anyways, this
is a good draw closer to the game. And then
closer to kickoff. But uh, this has been like this,
about half the price from a week ago, although it
looks like it's bouncing back up. Get in price a
few days ago was ninety seven bucks for standing room.
Now it's back up to two hundred. So I guess
I missed my window.
Speaker 2: Can I ask a stupid question? Yes? How do people
like if I wanted to, Let's say Rosk I said, Hey,
I'm gonna take my boys up to Arlington for this
national semifinal game, not knowing when the teams were. You
just can't go to your local ticket master and buy
the tickets, can you? Or could you have done that?
You could have before they sell out? I think, But
I guess I'm not trying to. I have a hard
time connecting the dots here because if these tickets are
already in the resale market, who got a hold of them?
Speaker 4: I think they have to deal with some of these
resellers either, I don't know. This is above my head,
That's what I'm saying. And they have official partners. For example, uh,
meat Meek I believe is the official resale partner with
the Mottain Mole. Right, you can say Cotton Bowl Okay,
jump put the corporate spot with the mud deer cotton mole.
Speaker 2: There you go much better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these prices already doubled. Bottom level end zone yesterday,
literally two days ago, was four hundred bucks.
Speaker 9: Now it's back up to nine hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's because they're thinking the worst the
weather is going to be there today and yeah, it
looks like the time to buy was or maybe you
could find some joker who forgot to re raise their prices.
These are decent. Oh, this is what doub fees. I
hate this. So why is there?
Speaker 4: Why is there two hundred dollars fee on a on
a on a ticket for you to process an online transaction?
Speaker 9: Correct?
Speaker 2: Is this? Yeah? So twenty years ago, back in the day,
you had all these ticket brokers that you'd have to
go to their physical location and grab the tickets. Yes,
they would charge of the upsell. Those are all gone.
Those are long gone. Now now you just have these.
So what you have again, I'm trying to guess here
on this. You have all of these big national games
that have these deals with the secondary ticket market. So really,
when they say the face value is seventy five dollars
one hundred dollars. They were never face value to begin with.
You could not go up and say, hello, cotton Ball,
I'd like two of your seventy five dollars tickets.
Speaker 9: Correct.
Speaker 2: The only way you get that now is if you're
associated with the school, for instance of with a pen
Bate and Notre Dame Tonight. My guess is they were
each given I don't know, six thousand tickets, right, Those
probably were sold or given to the school for them
to sell back at a at fair market value. Everybody
else in the building is paying some sort of up charge, correct,
So yeah, it's funny. You know what. You never hear
of these ticket companies offering pr people to explain how
great their values are because you can't justify him. That's ridiculous,
I hope.
Speaker 4: I mean, wasn't there, isn't there an anti trust suit,
wasn't didn't wasn't the government trying to break up Ticketmaster
slashing the Live Nation.
Speaker 2: I don't know who they were trying to break up,
but what's not working whatever it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, I like our dogs at Live Nation up
here at iHeart and it helps me.
Speaker 2: So as long as it doesn't hurt you and you
get the free tickets. You're all for the company. But
if it's for anybody else that doesn't get the free tickets,
you want to admonish them.
Speaker 4: Welcome to America, Matt. If it works for me, I
love it. If it hurts me, I hate it.
Speaker 2: Okay, that seems that seems brutally us A U s
A U s A. Yeah. Well you know we ought
to do is we ought to Where's the championship this
year in Atlanta? Right? Yes, if Texas goes, I'm gonna
call I'm gonna call them already Wrens Stadium, and I'm
gonna say, guy, my name is Matt, my friend Ross
wants to go. I'd like two. It's please, all right,
let's do it. The face value, Yeah.
Speaker 9: The the rick Rolet would be open since it would
be a Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh that is true. You at least get a decent,
decent chicken sandwich at a low cost inside the stadium.
The flights are going up. Let me tell you that,
you know, you probably could drive to Atlantic pic I
make going out on that. It's twelve hours. I looked
into that too. Oh did you really? Yeah? God, I
love how you're thinking about this, because I you know,
I don't get this, you know, because I am a
graduate of the University Houston. I'm not a graduate of
the University of Texas, so I don't get to think
like this, Well, i'm not a graduate high school. You
can come with me my chance. Well, I know, it's fine,
but you're an alum. It's you weren't there for like
three for three semesters, so it sort of counts mm hmm.
But I don't. I don't get to do this. So
if I have to li vicariously through you, I'll do it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually you can find some decent seeds here.
Speaker 2: But that's why. When that's why, when you have h
went to the final four four years ago, I'm like,
I got to get there somehow, some way.
Speaker 9: I know, and you regret it.
Speaker 4: It's like when I went to and I went to
the I didn't regret it necessarily, but I went to
the Sugar Bowl last year and they got their ass beaten.
Speaker 9: It wasn't fun.
Speaker 2: Well, I regretted it because I was in Indianapolis and
it was a uh it was COVID, so you had
to separate by a bunch of seats and whatnot. And
I watched my team get their ask by bail in
the first half. Yeah, it is what it is. But yeah,
I just it's it's unfortunate that America and whatever it
is just can't call up and say, I'd like a
seat because you've only got let's say of let's say
of the Cotton what does what does the what does
at and T Stadium seat about a hundred plus thou
around there? I guess is those the number of people
in that building paying an authentic face value amount for
that ticket. It's probably what twenty percent tops?
Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, we were thinking the same number. I
was thinking twenty k. But maybe you have people who
are vendors and stuff like that, like if they're you know,
executives or friends that get good deals with Muggy your.
Speaker 2: Or you are you are a client of re restree
in you know what I'm saying. Right, That's how the
Super Bowls always been. I mean, we we we We've
a little bit accustomed to that. I mean you just
you just can't ask for a regular old Super Bowl
ticket and not expect to pay thousands of dollars. But
now it's everything. Now it's college football semifinals. M Yeah,
the feebit is the worst especially when you have a
concert like you get online and you've been waiting to
get the concert tickets of your dreams. Like when my
daughter and my wife went to go see Taylor Swift
the New Orleans stuck. She got in at the dollar
amount on face value, didn't have to go to a
secondary market, and then all of a sudden the charges
come in off of that. I mean they just make
the charges up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's completely made up. Convenience stick.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Administrating fee like what that's to
make sure the administrators make their their their their their number. Yeah,
it's tough. It's tough. It makes you, you know what,
it makes you do, Rossie, It makes you just not
you want to go to the games. I'm with you.
Makes you want to get in front of a big
screen TV and relax on your couch and eat your
food for free and get instant replays and out to
fight traffic and crowd noise.
Speaker 9: That's the thing.
Speaker 4: When I went to the AT and T Stadium Nos
for a boxing match, so that's a ring is obviously
smaller than the football field, but we were in the
two hundred second. We paid a lot for those tickets
and we watched the TV the whole time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. That is crazy, all right. Seven one
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two one two five seven ninety It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. Uh. The Texans injury report is
out from yesterday. We'll give you some of that. We
have the Rockets and the Grizzlies tonight here in Memphis,
which is a really intriguing matchup between two of the
three best teams in the Western Conference. The best team
of the West last night played the best team in
the East. Did you catch any of that? I think
I know the answer, but doesn't mean we can't at
least bring it up. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven NINTI. It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. And
this is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Matt Thomas, Ross Veriel. It's a Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Ten thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety it is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We will get to
the recent after departure in the next segment of the show.
But as advertised, the Texans practice report, or at least
from an injury perspective, was out yesterday. Shack Mason did
not partake. My guess is he will not play. Danico
Autra was out there, John Metchi was out there among those. Also,
Jeff Akuda and Christian Harris were among those that were
full participant. Pence, I'm trying to think if anybody on
the Chargers side that would be of a huge issue.
Jake K Dobbins played a little bit yesterday in practice,
so too did Gus Edwards. Meanwhile, full participation for cornerback
Eli Apple and linebacker Denzel Perryman was also a full
time participant. That kind of gives you an update of
what's happening between the Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers.
So it felt like yesterday Ross was a day that
some of the Texans players were kind of reacting at
least a day last day or two about what Rex
Ryan said that basically the Chargers have a bye this week. Now.
They were all saying the right things yesterday and the
day before practice. Do you believe them? Do you believe
that they're thinking who first ball is? Rex Ryan? Number two?
He's got a shoot toe fettige get away from me
and number three, I don't need Rex Ryan to motivate
me to try to want to play off time. That's
how I would take it.
Speaker 4: So you think Rex Ryan is going to have his
foot in his mouth after this.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would matter if the Texans won
or loss, He's still his foot in his mouth, or
he'd have somebody else's foot in his mouth. I'm sorry
I took the low hanging fruit.
Speaker 4: I like to apologize to everyone in Houston for listening.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: I don't think it matters that much.
Speaker 4: No, I think you at this level, if you need
Rex Ryan to get you up for a playoff game,
you've got problems getting motivated in the first place. So
the Texans are gonna be focused, They're gonna be locked in,
They're gonna say all the right things. For the most part,
I don't think anybody's gonna come out now after the game.
If they win, you're gonna see somebody on ig or
somebody in a post game like shout out Rex Ryan
or something like that. Definitely it would be talked about.
But I don't think they're They're putting up eight x
ten of Rex Ryan and throwing darts at him, and
then that's what's motivating. What's motivating them is going on
and trying to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeap. What's motivating them is the fact that they have
not performed up to expectations for much of the regulars
season and that the postseason is a brand new beast.
It's an opportunity for you to be in a tournament
where you have to be really good for four weeks.
I right, your best four.
Speaker 4: You gotta get lucky too, by the way, no matter
who you are, and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 9: You said, did you mention Shack Mason?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shack Mason a d n P as well, something
to keep an eye on that you might have him
out of the fold at guard. Then it would be
what Jared Patterson juice drugs, juice scrugs.
Speaker 9: And then Blake Fisher as the right side of your.
Speaker 2: Line, which I don't think is something we should have
a tremendous amount of faith. Then no, but wasn't last year.
And again I hate to keep going back to this,
but do it. We spent the last time bitching about
the last year's offensive line and CJ was able to
survive all that.
Speaker 9: Well, not to this extent. It just doesn't feel like
it was that. But good thing?
Speaker 2: Was it? Kit? I want to say good thing.
Speaker 4: It's kind of rude, but Kenyon Green was out for
the season last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 4: But also Kenyan Green isn't on this offensive line right now,
And you're absolutely right in that. I was looking at
our good friends at Pro Football Focus did their final
offensive line grades. They had the Texans at twenty ninth.
They had the Bengals at thirtieth. Matt, how is Joe
Burrow look this season? Well, you know, Joe Burrow has
been hit more than anybody else. It feels like since
he's started in his NFL career. I mean, the Bengals
have had for about ten years a wretched offensive line,
no matter who the quarterback was. And that was really
one of the comparisons that we made with how good
that CJ. Stroud was playing with bad offensive line play?
But also it helps that I mean, you got Nico
Collins here, but T Higgins and Jamar Chase also helped
help matters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I mean, Nicol's gonna have to have a
big game tomorrow on Saturday. I mean that goes without
saying right. So let me give you this. It is
do you have to have mix and and Collins have
the huge games because you just don't trust the rest
of the guys in the skill position category to make
that big of a difference.
Speaker 4: I would say mix in number one winning this game.
This game is going to be old school Dimiko Ryan's formula.
Stop the run on the other side, limit them scoring.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud makes four or five plays, and Joe Mixon controls
the game. By the way, Matt, I was doing some
fun digging for some stuff I got coming up for DraftKings.
We'll get more on that tomorrow. When the Texans, I
was pulling up some stats. When the Texans run to
the left tackle, it's seven point six yards per carry
Joe Mixon. When they run to the right tackle, it's
two point five yards per carry. And you know the
Chargers know that, yes they do. But it's just funny
how bad it's been on the right side for them
trying to run over the over there.
Speaker 2: So I guess the question I would be then asking you,
and I don't know if you have the answer to this,
is that who's been on the other side is Are
we just talking about the right side of being so
atrocious or are we saying that the better players the
Texans face and the defensive front on the left side
of the posing team's defensive line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fully contextualized. Look at man, I'm so
proud of you, Matt. You're asking for context on a number.
Speaker 9: This is great. That's a great important question.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but the but the difference is so
stark that it has to be that the right side
is just not anywhere close run blocking on the left side.
Speaker 2: So that's why Larmie Tunsil was like, hey, bro, I'm good.
I mean, I know I've been committing a few false
hoar penalties, but you know, my man, Rossville are out
just gave us a stat that made me sound good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So obviously they've been running a lot more to the
left side than to the right. Other teams know that
as well. From my game theory perspective, this is Matt
and you just run left every time. But it's not Matt,
and you got to run right a little bit. Try
to keep everybody honest.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So well, we'll see what happens. But a very interesting
how how starkly different. It is running to the left
side to the from the right for the Texans. For
this is actually Joe Mixon's numbers for Joe Mixon this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's put this in perspective. Then then honestly,
you can't play to the right because that's going to
come across as that was never going to happen to
begin with. You can play action to the left because
if there's been that kind of success on the left side,
actually have full defenders.
Speaker 4: Or you have to say, you know what, we're just
gonna have to try to earn some yards and maybe
we can catch them off guard.
Speaker 9: So you definitely have to mix it up. If you're Bobby's.
Speaker 2: Slowk, do you think Slowick? And I'm just saying this
off the top of my head, do we have a
panic button with Slowik and Demiko this year on the
offensive side that maybe we didn't have last year, that
they they just this year gave up on the run
when Joe wasn't doing his thing, that they didn't stay
true to it to try to establish it at least
deeper in games. Because that's that's kind of a sense
I got, is that some of the numbers that CJ
would put up this year was simply because he was
taking more dropbacks than they or did a year before.
Speaker 9: I think they did.
Speaker 4: They still run the ball as much as anybody else
that's on first down and throughout the game, so it's
not necessarily to me that they've been abandoning the run.
It's just the run hasn't been good and they've ended
up on like third and twelve all the time. And
then that's when when you have what you need, you
need third and four, third and five. When you are
third and twelve, guess what they know you're passing, so
guess what they're bringing pass rushers, and they're bringing different guys.
Speaker 9: They can give you different.
Speaker 4: Looks, and that's exactly what this offensive line has struggled at,
communicating who's picking up this guy, who's picking up that guy,
and then they can they can disguise their pressure, and
then you end up with free runners on third and twelve.
So it kind of all lends itself. It's complimentary football.
It's really not that difficult. If you're running the ball better,
you're better on schedule. On third down, you can't have
them bringing as much pressure, and then the offensive line
you can kind of hide the warts as it were
that they have there as well.
Speaker 2: So if the Chargers splits a lot, Rossie, that means
there's going to be nobody covering or maybe covering Dalton
Schultz in single coverage.
Speaker 9: Okay, I like that is he gonna get open?
Speaker 2: Though? So let's put the number at number of catches
for Dulton. How about this number of targets for Dalton
Schultz on Saturday afternoon? If I put the target number
at sixty like the over.
Speaker 4: Or on under, I think the real number is probably
around three and a half four. I don't know targets, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, six sounds like a good number for Tucket wise,
that's right. Seven one three two one two five seven
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We'll start our visits today with Kyle and Paarland at
ten forty on The Matt Thomas Show. With Ross it
is Kyle. Good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 10: Good on a gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I hope you are doing good.
Speaker 12: UH got a question for you.
Speaker 7: I watched some of that game last night you were
talking about with Cleveland and Oak City. Yeah, two very
good teams, two very good teams. Uh, play good defense.
They didn't show a lot of defense last night. But dad, come,
they can. Everybody on that team can score for both teams.
I don't know how Houston's gonna.
Speaker 2: Match up with them in the future.
Speaker 12: But uh, but that was fun basketball last night.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you got to watch it. I
saw a little bit of it. Uh, it was a
back and forth. He saw game for a while and then, uh,
Cleveland kind of pulled away. You know, the NBA did
its best to really try to show them out. They
probably made broadcasters on they did, you know, linky kind
of a pregame visit. They talk with the guys before.
It's gotta be smart ross in the NBA because these
two teams are spectacular. And you know, Oklahoma City had
what a fourteen or fifteen game winning streak a snap
last night in Cleveland's. Those two teams have less than
six losses between the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they said only the third time was
a the third or fourth time in NBA history two
teams with ten plus game win streaks played each other. Yeah,
it was a great game. I watched three quarters of it.
Speaker 12: Hey, man, I got.
Speaker 2: A question for you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I know, Jabari Smith got hurt.
Speaker 2: How in the hell do you get hurt on a
shoot around and break your hands? Uh?
Speaker 4: I mean you could get hurt and playing in a practice.
I mean, I don't you know, I might have dunked
and hurt his hand or something.
Speaker 2: Who knows. I don't know the extent of what it was.
But it was not considered serious when it first happened.
Then it just and it just got worse. The one
thing I can tell you is it never swole up.
So that's why I don't think there was an initial
amount of concern on it. But yeah, uh, he is
has not had surgery, and he's with us here this week. Uh,
And I don't and I think they're they're still going
through some second options as to whether or not he's
going to have that surgery. But yeah, that's Uh, it's
one of those situations that you know, he could happened
in the game. It could happen in a shooter and
shoot arounds. Again, they're like eighty percent shooting, but there
is twenty percent of a practice type atmosphere, so it
would not be completely foreign for a player to suffer
some sort of injury. Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 10: Hey, I appreciate it, buddy, you have a good good day.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Kle. Nice to hear from you. Seven one
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He's at ten forty two. It is a Matt tomasoel Ross.
We will check in Los Angeles not only to find
out what's going on with those horrific fires, but to
get a sportsman's perspective on what's going to happen for
the Chargers and the Texans this Saturday at Energy Stadium
when we also return. We're gonna uh. I'll put a
little ps on the announce of a couple of days
ago that Justin Verlander is now a San Francisco Giant.
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Speaker 1: Slash promos mattin Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 14: It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: ROSSI, I brought the house down last night. There's a
noble mass.
Speaker 9: We're all proud of you, Matt.
Speaker 2: Next, No, you're not.
Speaker 9: What do you mean you did great?
Speaker 2: You know? The one realization of singing karaoke is that
when were there were songs as a kid and as
a young adult, you could sing because of the high
I know, father time has hit me with some higher stuff.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Matt.
Speaker 4: And it never sounds as good when it's in your
car and the song is blasting, and the song is
at a ten and you're at like a two.
Speaker 9: You're like, man, that sound great.
Speaker 4: Then when you're on karaoke and it's all you yeah,
you're like, oh wait a minute, now, I don't sound.
Speaker 2: Like a del I did sound like I did sing
Sweet Caroline yesterday I thought was good. But I've just
there were just some songs we tried last night.
Speaker 4: Oh man, you're playing you were playing all the hits,
then you're playing all.
Speaker 9: The two AM jams.
Speaker 2: Sweet Caroline, Tiny Dancer was a bad example. Yeah, and
unfortunately my age and just because your boy, I mean
that happens. We you have a lot of famous people
as they get older, they can't hit the high notes.
Like Paul McCartney tries to sing. Maybe, I'm amazed. That's
not a good look for him.
Speaker 9: He just goes out there and talks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm learning to refine my karaoke game to
sing songs that are in my octave. So yeah, yet
another sign of getting old sucks.
Speaker 9: Sorry, Matt, you look great.
Speaker 2: A good time was had by all. It's Memphis, Tennessee.
What are you gonna do in this town except avoid criminals?
This is probably the worst city when it comes to
criminals that we travel to Memphis. Oh yeah, why what happened?
You got robbed? No?
Speaker 4: But all my friends get robbed here? Who got robbed? Justly?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's it's the number of break ins and vehicles,
especially in the inner city is is an at all
time high here. Not that every city doesn't have these issues,
but it just feels like it's magnifying when we come here.
But the food is good. Beale Street to me is fine.
I wouldn't say it's overrated, underrated properly, right, I would
just say it's okay, okay. There is some good jazz,
some good blues, good barbecue, people generally speaking, are nice here.
It's just you just there's no regulation of like one
street in downtown Memphis. It looks great and looks like
you feel safe, you know, when you just can't run
away from fast enough.
Speaker 9: Oh so it's like a Houston sister city.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if you wanted to say it
that way, that's true. But every one thing I learned
about last night is as we went with a bunch
of people to sing some songs, was that there's some
songs in my library and my karaoke library that I
will no longer be performing in tiny The answer with people.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you got to wheetle down the set list.
Speaker 2: You got that right, all right? Verlander one year deal
San Francisco at fifteen million dollars? Is he just going
to spend the rest of his career just catching those
one year deals? And again, he's not out of the
ordinary doing that. Teams are not gonna want to give
him multi year deals for a guy especially forty plus. Look,
fifteen million dollars, what does that get you about? A
four starter now major League Baseball, give or take. Yeah,
good for him. I mean, he you know, if there's
anybody that I would like to see get to three
hundred to be him. I think he's not going to
it now.
Speaker 4: He's gonna pay to play at least sixty and he
needed to count some of those with the Savannah bananas
or something.
Speaker 2: Right, right, But point being is that it's you know,
I knew from the day that he was saying his
farewells here that he wanted to still play. I think
last year for him was disappointing because he couldn't stay healthy.
And he said, look, remember he had kept saying all
the time that he wanted to rev up and get
himself going. He's gonna probably think to himself, I need
to get into spring training, be healthy, have a full year,
and either reinvent myself and be that forty year old
scrappy mid level starter, or my body is telling me
I need to retire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can kind of, as you know, Matt, when
you're in like an immedia scrum in the locker room,
especially at the end of the season, you can kind
of tell a direction somebody's leaning and stuff like that,
and it's like, you know, we were all standing there
like he still wants to play, He's gonna plays. You
can sell that he's still got that fire in his eye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes, and again, every athlete's built differently, but
athletes sometimes they want to get it out before it's
too late. Some will stay maybe too long. I feel
like Justin's probably going to stay about the right time. Again,
I think in his mind, whether it's accurate or not,
he's thinking last year, because of all the ailments, that
was not a real way to end it, as compared
to let's go to training camp. Let's go to spring
training with a new team, a team that doesn't have
the expectations that obviously maybe other teams would have of me,
and we'll see what I got left.
Speaker 9: He's broken and he's just breaking down the last couple
of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is incredible that a guy that has
had as many injuries as GP has had the last
couple of years can still get fifteen million dollars. So
the demise of Major League Baseball Rossie is largely exaggerated,
greatly exaggerated for sure. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. We go to Los Angeles coming up
in less than ten minutes. Right now, Roger's with us
on the Matt Thomas Old Ross, Roger, thanks for holding
good morning, Good morning, Matt.
Speaker 15: My concern right now is for Tarry Easton. Nobody seems
to be saying anything about his soreness. Is this Kyle
Tucker level type sowredness that we don't know about. He's
a big part of what we're trying to get get accomplished,
and his presence of so messed that depth this is.
Speaker 16: Doesn't look to I mean kudos to uh Dave Shaan
Tape for We'm doing a bangup job, but that I
don't know how long that's going to be sustained because
you know it's so Yeah, I just.
Speaker 15: Want to know if you know anything, I've you heard anything.
And yeah, as far as Verlin is concerned, he could
go pick are batting practice somewhere. And I re really
appreciate Everything's much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, thank you for the phone call, Roger.
You know they're trying to get him back in there.
This isn't a question of you know, in the NBA,
unfortunate Ross has a series of players over the last
ten years that have gotten these ailments that have just said,
you know, I'm gonna kind of milk this for all
that it is, Tari is very anxious to get back
out there. I don't know how much this has to
do with last year. I think it'd be fool of
something that there's gotta be some connection to it. There
was no new injury, and if they was, the Rockets
would obviously report that. So this is still going off
of what they did last year. And it's so strange that,
you know, he gets off to that really fast start, uh,
top five and steals uh. He's a good finisher at
the basket. They started to calling the him and the
men Tooms and the Terror Twins, and then all of
a sudden it has just stopped in its tracks. And
so whatever it is, you know, you're battling, you know,
working out and then waking up sore the next day,
you know, taking a day off then try I mean
they're literally going through every possible option as to what
schedule works so he doesn't wake up the next day.
I feel like you can't move, and that's a pretty
bad feeling for a young man who's you know, still
very much in his young twenties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an unfortunate reality, is you know, you always
you're projecting the season and thinking about how things are
gonna go. You always picture everyone is one hundred percent healthy,
but that's just not the way that it goes. Luckily,
the Rockets in the way this roster is built, they
do have a good amount of depth and to where
you do miss Tari, but Jayshon Tait has filled in
and he's done very good. Maybe that means you're getting
a little bit more Steven Adams. Of course some cat
whitmore and I mean Thompson doing his thing on the
starting lineup now, especially with Jabari Smith Junior out, They
dare I say they just about having skipped a beat,
but they got some tough games coming up, starting tonight
against Memphis seven o'clock.
Speaker 9: Tip here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 2: Honey Man. Yeah, and who has the losch pad don
on at six o'clock?
Speaker 9: That would be yours, truly. Can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 2: Well, can I guess it?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 2: Give me a hint. That's It's it's hard to give
you a hint. I'm just gonna tell you this.
Speaker 4: Is the most excited I've been to do a pre
and post game show in a while.
Speaker 9: I'm really excited on like a road game.
Speaker 2: So let me let me just tell the audience then, folks, look,
I am the voice of the Rockets and love it.
And I'm at the site and I'm in the game,
and I'm in the atmosphere, and I live a very,
very blessed life. My man, Ross, Tonight, it's gonna be
raining in Houston. It's gonna be cold. He's gonna be
sitting at the studio at nine point thirty at night.
Is it gonna be raining hard? And it might be
at home. Whatever, You're gonna be somewhere where you're not
gonna be watching God knows what you like to watch
when you're not watching sports. Call the man tonight, Incode
or bad. It's okay if they lose and you want
to call, and if they win, you can call. I
like that, Thank you, Matt. But Ross's life right now
is basically waiting for Gerrod to call to kill three
minutes of the show.
Speaker 4: I think we got I got Biscuit. Biscuit called too.
Last time it was Girodd and Biscuit appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Jerrod and Biscuit we massive shot outs to
you guys.
Speaker 4: Now, Luke and Pearland calls. We got some REGs actually back.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, so let's let's you know what, I'll say this,
Let's just diversify the group. We will all of our
regulars in plus the diversity mm hm. So Jimmy Fair,
just call Ross and just say, hey, man, watch the game.
Enjoyed a great experience. I wish this would have happened.
Wish this would have happened. Why did this happen? And
just make Ross feel like he's his his valuable time
is actually valuable, thank you, matt As compared to sitting
in a cold studio with probably the internet not working
and a massive delay of some sort of maybe the
phones don't work. I mean, you never know these things,
m hm. And say a small prayer for me as
I go through the snow between Memphis and Atlanta on
a fun I would fight that. I hope you make it.
That that'll be fine. You'd be great great seven one
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the Los Angeles Chargers on a regular basis, and sadly
we're gonna actually have to ask him what his life
has been like being a news reporter in sports reporter
in Los Angeles having to cover the task for that
is those terrible fires out in the Los Angeles area.
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Speaker 1: Launch Timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show eleven.
Speaker 2: O three on Sports Talk seven nine of The Matt
Thomas Show today with Ross. We are coming to you
at least I am from Memphis, Tennessee, where the night
tonight the Rockets will take on the Memphis Grizzlies. We're
going to spend more on the Rockets coming up with
them Aadoky Hill join us at two one o'clock this afternoon.
Right now, we're going to spend a few minutes with
the Chris Hayry, who is a sports anchor and reporter
for ky CAL nine in Los Angeles. He also hosts
a weekly Chargers podcast, And unfortunately, we're gonna probably spend
a little bit of time talking about life's events as
compared to the Chargers Texans game with Chris. Chris is Matt,
thank you for joining us. First of all, and again
I hate to paint with a broad brush on this,
but you have been working with a TV station and
a group there that have been doing NonStop cover to this.
How has this been for your colleagues, how's it been
as a citizen of southern California with all the fires?
And please tell us what areas are safe, what or not?
And what is your current situation if you don't mind.
Speaker 13: Well, man, I appreciate you having me on it's you know,
I think the best.
Speaker 2: Word is just surreal.
Speaker 8: It's just a surreal.
Speaker 9: Scene out here.
Speaker 13: Kissay, enough about not only my colleagues, but everybody out here,
just in the field and reporting, and people don't know
if they have homes.
Speaker 8: I mean, the.
Speaker 13: Pacific Palisades in Malibu is destroyed. Altadena, parts of Pasadena destroyed.
There was a fire in the Hollywood Hills last night.
I mean, it's it's pretty devastating. I've lived out here
for eighteen years. I've never seen anything like it, and
you know, wildfires all the time out here in California,
but this one, it's just it's a different beast right now.
Speaker 8: There are you know, me and my family are safe.
Speaker 13: We live about twenty to twenty five miles from the
Altadena fire, and you can just see the cloud of
smoke in the sky right now, and it's just just amazing.
You're twenty miles away, and you know, you go to
that scene, it looks, frankly like a war scene, a
war zone. It's it's just it's devastating, and you know,
our hearts are with everybody that's affected right now.
Speaker 2: Part of my ignorance on this, but I'm a assuming
that people that live in those areas in this area
we're speaking of is growing by the day. People are
grabbing what they can, can't be much getting in their
cars and getting out. I mean, how are roads, how
are people able to circumvent leaving neighborhoods that are you know,
on the on the precipice of these fires destroying their homes.
Speaker 13: Well, you know, I think fortunately a lot of people
did get out when they were supposed to get out
when when the evacuation warnings came.
Speaker 8: I do think people got out. But you're right, I mean,
it's you know, like the Hollywood Hills. Just imagine trying.
Speaker 13: To get out of there last night, just the gridlock
on the road because there's not many ways in and out,
so the roads obviously were were gridlock last night. And
you know, it's you just hope that this this thing
gets contained, and you know, I know that the winds
have let up a little bit, and the hope is
that we get some good news over the next couple
of days. And again, I just you know, I was
being this week. I'm just so excited to talk football,
and obviously we're going to talk football here in a
minute and get ready for this Wildcard game. But I'll
tell you it's the last couple of days puts a
lot in perspective for people.
Speaker 2: Last question about this is Metro Los Angeles of ultimate concern.
And I know, again this has been mostly to the coast,
but it's going a little bit more in the inland,
some of the valley areas, and obviously mentioned Pasadena. I
heard Chavez Ravine was in conversation a couple of days back.
How about the inter city downtown Dodgers Stadium, you know,
Beverly Hills. Are those areas of ultimate concern for the
folks there?
Speaker 13: You know what, It's a good question, and I'll be honest,
I don't even know as of this morning. I saw
a little bit of our coverage about an hour and
a half ago, and I haven't heard anything about downtown.
You know, the Palisades in Malibu, if you know, if
you've ever been to Los Angeles, it's very close to
Santa Monica. There's some some just wild images of the
fire behind the Santa Monica Pier that.
Speaker 9: I saw this warning online. Somebody somebody had.
Speaker 8: A picture from yesterday. It's just like it's just I
don't know, and there's really no words for it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what.
Speaker 13: The status is of downtown LA at this point Chavez Ravine,
as you mentioned, and I do know that there's a
Monday night footballame thats supposed to be played at so
Bike Stadium, and you know, the continguency plan is is
Arizona for that? And you know, I think it's they're
fortunate that the game's Monday and not let's say Saturday,
like the Texans and Chargers, because I don't know if
you could play that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris hayry K Cal Sports in Los Angeles joining
us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. So
let's get to some football. Now. You cover the Chargers,
you have a podcast, but you have to balance it
with other professional sports teams. Have the Chargers been able
to make inroads with Southern California sports fans because it
feels like to me, and maybe it's a generic narrative
that Charger games are largely full, but they're full of
fans of other cities.
Speaker 8: You know, it's a it's a good question.
Speaker 13: I do think that they have made tremendous inroads since
they moved here in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 8: To present day. And the thing is, you could say
the same.
Speaker 13: Exact thing about the Rams that people do about the
Chargers nationally, Like when there's a San Francisco forty nine
Ers Rams game, where you know, a Vikings Rams game,
there's gonna be a ton of opposing fans. It's just
I think that's part of Los Angeles is that, hey,
you know when the schedule comes out in April and
may you circle LA is the potential road game for
you and your buddies or you and your family. But
I'll say this, since Jim Harball was announced as head
coach of the Chargers on February first of last year,
the last eleven months I've seen probably the biggest shift
in terms of fans buy in. You have a franchise
quarterback and you have a head coach coming off a
national championship, a team that won five games last year,
that that won eleven this year, and the culture that
Jim Harball has established has really I think brought some
life to this fan base. And you know, going back
to the fans in San Diego, Jim Harball was a
San Diego Charger, so I think you're seeing a lot
of fans from San Diego and Los Angeles come together,
the fan base is energized. And you know, I worked
at the Lakers for nine years, so I always tell
people this, like the Dodgers and Lakers, they're the show
in LA, but everybody else can have a piece of
pie if you win. And right now, I think the
Chargers have that upwards trajectory of potentially having some sustained
success over the next few years with Herbert and Harball
in Ton.
Speaker 2: Now Herbert's number is first. I want to say the
quarter pole the season were probably down from years past.
It was that Harball trying to establish a running game,
a little more of a balance. And overall from start
a season to where Justin comes into today's or Saturday's game,
where has his development been as a quarterback with Hardball
running things, Well.
Speaker 13: It's been remarkable and I think you're right. I think
at the beginning of the year it was a product
of Hey, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Austin Exlo are out
the door. I have a bunch of new weapons, a
brand new offense. And then, by the way, in week
two he had a terrible high ankle sprain that that
took him out of that game in Pittsburgh in the
second half and basically was playing on one one leg
against Kansas City the following week before.
Speaker 10: The bye week.
Speaker 13: So the one thing is, I'm sure you guys have
discussed this week that that Justin's just so good at
is taking care of the football. You know, I think
he only had three interceptions this year, and he's just
he's built chemistry with these receivers who you know, I
don't think a lot of people had high hopes for
this receiving corps coming into the year, and then you
see what rookie led macaukey has done, and just a
chemistry that Justin has developed with him. Quentin Constin, who
a lot of people were down on after his rookie year,
coming off a thirteen catch, one hundred and eighty six
yard performance against the Raiders. You know, Joshua Palmer, who's
hurt at the moment, but Darius Davis, the emergence of JK. Dobbins,
who's you know, comeback Player of the Year nominee for sure.
So just a lot of different weapons that Justin has
seemed to find week in a week out. You don't
know whose week it's gonna be It could be a
Lad mccaukeey week, could be a Quintin Johnson week.
Speaker 8: Could be a Wolf Disley week.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's it's just been remarkable how Justin has
been able to trust and spread the ball around to
a bunch of different guys that at the beginning of
the year you weren't sure who was going to be
And now yeah, I just think the comfortability with his
receivers and just having that full year in greg.
Speaker 8: Rorovan's offense has really done wonders for him.
Speaker 2: All Right, lastly, we'll let you run. Actually, I'll probably
get two things in the since offensive line has been
at venturesome would be maybe the most polite way of
saying things. Tell me about joe Bosa this year is
compared the last couple of years. Denzel Perriman obviously is
starting to practice again. Uh is there enough pass rush
from the Charger front seven that's going to cause the
text and some issues on Saturday?
Speaker 13: Well, I think that's that's the key to the game,
mat is the how much pressure can the Chargers.
Speaker 8: I look at Khalil Mack.
Speaker 13: Joey Bosa, Tully, Toy, Polo too and Bud Dupree, those
are four starting caliber edge rushers that the Chargers keep
presh throughout.
Speaker 8: The course of a four quarter game. You mentioned Denzel Perriman.
Speaker 13: You know, they they certainly have missed Denzel and you
guys know him as well as anybody, just his his
hard hitting nature, his ability to stop the run. But
it's really going to come down to can can Joey
Bosa and Khalil Mack be superstars on Saturday? And Tully
toy Polo to second year guy from USC who's just
been fantastic player since he stepped onto the football field
with the Chargers. And then that veteran presidence of Bud Dupree.
Can the Chargers get after Stroud make him uncomfortable against
that offensive line? And you know, I know that Joey
has had some injuries throughout the last several years, but
I do think that that he's come on, especially the
back half of the year. And you know, Khalil has
had some pretty dominant games. But I think just keeping
those guys fresh that's been kind of their their their
go to And then Darwin James up front. You know
Darwin James's five sacks this year, him playing close to
the line of scrimmage that that's presented problems for teams
throughout the season.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 2: Lastly, and we always don't mean to put you on
the spot when it comes to predictions, but the folks
in Vegas have the Chargers about a field goal. Favorite
Rex Ryan thinks that won't not even count. This is
a bye week for the Chargers. Clearly, I don't believe
the Chargers think that, but what you have seen. And look,
one of my best friends in mine life is a
lifelong Charger fan, and he says, Matt, they always invent
ways to lose games when you think they're ahead for
ninety percent of them. So, with all that being said,
and again it's a new regime, and obviously Hardball's really
changed the feeling of what it is to be a
Los Angeles Charger fan and a team that follows him.
What's your gut feeling right now? And I'm holding you
to it completely, but your gut about what's going to
happen on Saturday and how things will play out, Well.
Speaker 13: Let me just say nobody thinks what Rex Ryan thinks here.
That's just not the case. And Texas are a very
good football team. I think that the Chargers one of
the five seed, because hey, you don't want.
Speaker 8: To go to Baltimore in January.
Speaker 13: It's breathing, you know, and be you know, if you're
the five seed, who knows if you get a divisional
playoff game, depending on how it shakes out in the
second round.
Speaker 8: I think that the Chargers right now are.
Speaker 13: Playing their best football of the season, right that the
second half that Denver game on Thursday night to present
days when they they've really hit their stride. All three
phases have played really, really well. This is not going
to be an easy game by any stretch for the Chargers.
I think if they can kind of withstand the momentum,
the early momentum of the crowd, and maybe get off
to a fast start, I think the Chargers have a
good chance to win this game.
Speaker 8: So I would give the slight edge to the Chargers.
Speaker 13: But I do think that sometimes we look at one
game of the Houston Texans season on Christmas Day and
think that that's what happened all year, and this is
not the case. You know, thirty one to two didn't happen,
you know, at the beginning of the year, where you
almost beat the Lions, and you had some dominant games
against other teams. So I give the slight edge to
the Chargers just because of the coach and the quarterback.
Speaker 8: I know Denico and c. J.
Speaker 13: Stroud are some of the brightest young stars in the
coaching ranks and quarterbacks. But I think justin right now,
the way he's playing and just having Jim Harball going
back to the scene where he won his national championship
exactly a year ago, just the slightest of edges of
the Chargers.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll leave it at that, Chris, Our thoughts
are with you, your viewers. Uh, entire Southern California. We
as I was telling the audience last hour, and there's
no part of the country that doesn't have to go
through something, whether it's hurricanes or blizzards, or earthquakes or
mudslides or tornadoes. We uh, we just can't. We have
these elements sometimes get in the way of our normal
lives and so please be safe to you and your
family and in the Citizen Southern California. Thank you for
your analysis, and we really appreciate your time on the
show today.
Speaker 8: Say man anytime. Appreciate you guys. We'll getting on a
plane here soon. So we'll see you in a bit.
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Chris Heyry joining us from cake Hel Sports
in Los Angeles. On the Charger's Beat. We take a
time out. Bottom of the hour. We've got I just
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getting ready for tonight's game with the Grizzlies. We'll have
it for you here on seven hinety with a Emai
Adoka largely drinned launch pad at six pm? Is that
close to being fair to say, what do you mean?
I think you're gonna take probably twelve minutes of it
and just run in and just take a break and
do a couple of stats and call today.
Speaker 9: We'll normally get him for a full twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then I'll make it nine minutes. Then. Yeah,
we'll see, we'll.
Speaker 4: Play a little bit of it, we'll recap the last
game against Wizards, we'll preview the game injury reports. Yeah,
it's gonna be an informative, fun entertaining Rockets launch pad
coming up at six pm.
Speaker 9: You're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna say it's fun entertaining. It's maybe informative,
but I want people are like, man, I gotta stop,
I gotta quit dinner plans. Oh yeah, Ross got the
launch pad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people are gonna forget to stir their soup. They're
gonna be so entrenched in what I'm what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. Sorry, seven one three,
two one two five seven, Unty, Rossi's the line move
bunch on this Charger game at all or seeing it
now ESPN.
Speaker 4: Bet you always go to ESPN as a default, So,
I mean, you know that's that's just one source. But
I've been seeing it flip from two and a half
to three, kind of back and forth. Yeah, at the
moment it's back to three. It was three, then two
and a half, then now it's three again. Total keeps
going a little bit lower. It was I think forty
four and a half. Now it's down to forty two
and a half. And you get a little extra juice
on there, the one fifteen instead of one to ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's uh, if we if we got any betters
out there, Ross is giving you the information you need
in a recorded line.
Speaker 9: I've hit fifth team.
Speaker 4: Polly's in a role, man, I'm taking the Houston Texans
plus the three lock it in.
Speaker 2: It's been a funny you never they never have like
Greek accents.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how does even Greek go?
Speaker 2: This is more difficult. Yeah, I think we probably stay
away from the accents period.
Speaker 9: Loisy had a baby. We had used to do Louisiana
locks on this show.
Speaker 2: Well that was the segment util we lost the producer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, he was he went back to
he went back home to Bathton Rouge. I ran into
him by the way and my my trip in New Orleans.
He drove down to New Orleans to come say hi
to me. He really did, Yes, he did, and I
appreciate him for that.
Speaker 2: Cad you buy him a drink while he was there?
Speaker 4: Uh no, he oh that s o B. He slipped
me some cash on his way out and then ran away.
I couldn't give it back to him.
Speaker 2: M I know, one of the great producers and Hall
of Fame group of producers that have once been.
Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness, we should put a rough mount
Rushmore together.
Speaker 2: Of course at the top of it, we're we're locking
in Connor. He doesn't know this, but he signed a
five year contract. Well yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: There are many facets of producing that Connor far surpasses me.
Speaker 9: Oh like paying attention, being one of.
Speaker 2: Them, showing up on time no one, Yeah, that's two.
You're for those of people.
Speaker 4: Curtain back, not huffing him puffing every time you tell
me to do something.
Speaker 2: Connor, the show used to be at noon and then
at two, and there was probably a time where he
was probably batting about seven fifty and being this.
Speaker 9: It's not accurate. This is not accurate.
Speaker 4: I was literally late like twice, and then Matt's gonna
over in ten years. And so Matt's acting like it
was every other week, Like there's like five seconds. Let's
find him.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. Yeah, get rid of text quickly. That's
funny now, But Connor's always there early now, putting in
the hours. I mean, I don't know whoever taught you,
but man, it's refreshing. Most everybody else has been much
more punctual than me. Yeah, it's fine, but you have
a certain cachet with you. I mean, I can't expect
perfection from a co hoster. I mean, Laura knows I'm
not perfect. And then clue, don't even get me started.
Speaker 9: Quick news.
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead. I was just gonna say, it's part of
your charm. Ross. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Quick
quick news item.
Speaker 4: Matthew, the Astros, and Mauricio Dubon have settled at five
million dollars.
Speaker 2: They will be avoiding arbitration. Good for them, man, today's
an arbitration. Are you gotta get that stuff done or
they're going to have to go to hearings and those
things don't ever turn out well. Ask Kyle Tucker. Kyle
Tucker asked the Chicago Cubs, Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 9: Kyle Tucker told the Astros shut their bumb ass up.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, think about it for a second. We've
all negotiated things in life, right, Yes, imagine that if
you can't get a negotiation resolved, you then have to
go to get a third party involved. So you get
that third party, this is called classic arbitration, obviously, and
you have to go in front of this arbiter or
this arbor arbitration board the team, and you have to
sell yourself. I hit, you know, two ninety five, and
I hit thirty one home runs and I had eighty
four RBIs, and guys at this level have made this
much money based off of my production. And I'm going
to be here for the long term and I'm under
team control, but I'm out performing my numbers expected for
a guy that's been the league three years or four years.
And then the other team, whether it's the Astros or
anybody else, comes in and says, yeah, you know, we
got this game against the Phillies back in April where
you wentz for four with three strikeouts and left seven
men on base. You basically have to dog cuss them
and make them feel bad, And most teams don't want
to do that because they know there is some long
not resentment but forgive but not forget kind of thing.
Jeff Luno, to his credit, Rossie, I think may have
had one arbitration case his entire time as a general manager. Now,
granted there were some years that were pretty lean here,
but he always would tell me, please, you got to
stay away from arbitration because again, there are going to
be some hurt feelings one way or the other. Yeah,
didn't even if the guys win the case, because they're like, man,
you made me waste my time with this, just paying
my damn money. Yeah, didn't end up going to arbitration
with Brendan Barnes and the gang. How did the how
did the uh, let's see Bud Norris and go for
Matt Dominguez?
Speaker 4: Giovanni Meyer says, Hello, not a link arbitration, not a
lengthy hearing.
Speaker 2: Doctor maxwellbell I think it's a dentist what Yeah, great
for him.
Speaker 4: Legendary Justin maxim Worth, a legendary astro's number number forty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who also be in the arbitration Hall of fame
for the astros.
Speaker 9: Like actual or making fun like we are now, No,
we're making fun of me.
Speaker 2: Night. We can't. We can't be. Let's move on. All right? Hey, Ross,
what don't you get your entire existence?
Speaker 4: I mean that feels rude, but I know I do
believe you were. You're doing a great job. You have
a story to here career here in Houston. You've got
my vote for the Texas Sports Radio or Texas Radio
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I have not been nominated.
Speaker 9: How do I nominate you?
Speaker 2: I don't have to pay? Do I pay the entry fees?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: I'm good. Can you spot me? I mean if I
get in, I get in, that's fine.
Speaker 9: Can you spot me?
Speaker 2: I mean you're saying you want me to pay for
your entry fee to get me nominated, So that would
be basically isn't that like illegal? Oh? It does cost money, yeah,
And I don't think it's a really super formal thing.
I think it's a very all right.
Speaker 4: It's fifty bucks to become a member, and come give
me fifty bucks and I'll vote for you.
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one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
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something in your life you just don't get. Let us
know what it is. Seven one three two one two
five seven Honey mine ROSSI is on a form of
social media? Why do husbands and wives share Facebook accounts?
I say to you both, I just don't get it.
Speaker 17: I don't get it either. I see I see couples
do that on Instagram. They have like they make a
share account. I'm like, unless you are a celebrity couple.
I don't think you should be doing that, guys. I
don't need to see double super easy answer.
Speaker 2: I think. Can I guess what you're thinking? Yes, the
other spouses and trust the other.
Speaker 4: One insecurity, watchdogging, possible history of cheating as well.
Speaker 2: WHOA. Okay, so you're saying you totally get it.
Speaker 17: Then you're saying the wife doesn't let the husband have
his own account, or the husband doesn't let the wife
have her own account. Correct, I was not thinking that.
I was thinking they had their separate accounts, but they
also went together.
Speaker 2: But at what point would you put something on your
together account that you wouldn't put on your individual account? Exactly.
That's why I don't like. I don't I don't understand it.
But he has her own friends. I have my own friends.
We do have a lot of mutual friends, so duh.
So if you want to make sure that your spouse
is a part of the conversation, you just tag them.
But sometimes you just don't need to tag because it
doesn't relate to her or her friends. But man, it's
just it's weird having a husband wife Facebook account. It's weird.
I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: That's my theory. Anyways, I don't know anything about anything.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's terrible. Ross. I gotta be honest
with you. I think it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 17: To call anybody out so the wives can make sure
their husbands aren't following like Instagram models, right, Okay, I
get it, like.
Speaker 9: Keeping an eye on each other.
Speaker 2: Through social media.
Speaker 9: Okay, and then you got to make a burner.
Speaker 2: Then what happens if somebody sneaks in the dms? What
are you supposed to do at that point?
Speaker 9: Nobody's gonna do that.
Speaker 4: When it says Jane and John Simpson, Hey, hey, Jan,
sit this one out.
Speaker 9: I want to talk to John real quick.
Speaker 2: I know somebody that has to that doesn't communicate through
Facebook because he this person thinks the spouse has the password.
Hm m hm.
Speaker 9: Be careful at their folks.
Speaker 2: Just be careful. Just behave yourself. How about this?
Speaker 9: Is that a little bit true?
Speaker 2: Behave yourself, stay true to your woman or man or man.
Do you think Emmanuel Acho and Joey Taylor share a
Facebook account?
Speaker 9: No, they're not married, Matt.
Speaker 2: Do you think Joey Taylor and the Fox Sports one
executive shares a Facebook account.
Speaker 9: But they're also not married Matt she was getting married
by his wife.
Speaker 2: Probably share a Facebook account. When is Earl Watson gonna
speak up about all that? He's like, Man, get me
out of this conversation. I want no part of it. Connor,
what don't you get?
Speaker 17: So for Christmas, I brought I bought my brother hockey
tickets to UH. He lives in near d C. So
I got in Washington Capital's tickets. He's his work schedule
change so he's no longer able to go unfortunately. So
I went on Ticketmaster make it Master to UH put
the tickets up for sale, and I saw similar tickets
in my section go for a little bit higher prices.
So I'm like, okay, I can sell them for a
little bit more than what I got, maybe make a
little bit of profit. And turns out I'm still gonna
lose money based off you know, I pay the service
fees for the tickets in the first place, but they
also take some off for the sale of the tickets.
I just don't get that. I'm selling them for more
than I bought them for, but I'm still gonna lose money.
So how much to make a profit or even break even?
How high do I got to list these tickets? Nobody's
gonna buy them.
Speaker 4: They get you twice, they get you coming and they
get you going. This is it's it's a huge grift.
Well are they gonna get me twice?
Speaker 9: I get it for money?
Speaker 2: Make itt that? So let me ask you this. Can
you you see your brothers like, man, I'll take this job.
I can't wait to be a part of this company.
But man, my brother, my bro my flesh and blood
gave me this really awesome set of caps tickets. Can
I at least have the night off of that? I mean,
is he a waiter or what kind of night? What
kind of work does he do?
Speaker 17: He's a broadcast engineer in the job that he got
in early February.
Speaker 2: You can't really deny if you don't damn. So he'll
be in New Orleans where in that game? So he's game. Yeah,
he can't say no to that. Well I didn't realize
the McGovern family was full of broadcasting people.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got offensive guards to the bills. Yeah,
I did know he had his brother had a broadcasting job.
That's got to talk to Conny matt I type of
Connor town. Just ask him prying questions about his woman.
I ask him about his life.
Speaker 2: No, I respond to his text. What did I ask you?
What did I You texted me something yesterday? Did you not? Connor?
Speaker 17: I did, yes. I asked Matt for Texas and basketball tickets.
Speaker 3: I gotta say.
Speaker 4: I asked if he had a connection life advice?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 4: You know, no got your hand out versus tickets.
Speaker 9: That's right, That's where you go to Matt Thomas for though.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm used from everbody's ticket bitch. All right,
h Ross, you mad think that you're the best.
Speaker 9: We love you.
Speaker 4: Actually, I was gonna go in the same realm now,
I guess I was looking it up. The Justice part
Department did suit Live Nation slash ticket Master to try
to break up their monopoly. But I was looking at
the tickets for the Cotton Bowl Classic and the tickets
that I mean, I just clicked on some random ones.
There's seven hundred and fifty nine dollars. Now, I guess
my answer to getting this is the same for Connor.
But the fee are two hundred and eighty three dollars,
almost three hundred dollars in fees for a ticket that
is seven fifty nine.
Speaker 2: What is happening here? A single ticket says, is this? Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so a seven hundred and fifty nine
dollars ticket becomes one thousand and eighty four dollars. I'm sorry,
one one thousand and forty two dollars?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 4: How is this allowed? I'm not gonna say what I
want to mention on this, for sure. I tell I'm
not gonna say what I want to say. I don't
want to get a watch list because it would be
a joke. But you get where I'm going. I think
like something needs to happen here. This is ridiculous. This
is for section two hundred, by the way, or like
by the by the goal line on the side.
Speaker 9: This is not premium tickets.
Speaker 2: God, that's crazy. You know what, you know it's doing this.
This is going to give you more reasons why to
stop going to sporting events. It just is.
Speaker 4: That's thirty seven percent. By the way, two hundred and
eighty of seven sixty is thirty seven. That's a thirty
seven percent feet How does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Where does no one can regulate this at this point?
Speaker 9: No, I guess people are gonna pay it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing and I don't have an answer, you know what, Rossie,
I just don't get it. I don't get you Ether.
I just don't get And.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big fan of government oversight, but like
something that somebody has to do something, somebody has to
defend the people.
Speaker 2: And then why are you something they don't win?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 2: That was really weird.
Speaker 4: Oh but Matt, the tickets to the Cotton Bolt Classic.
Speaker 2: Oh but Matt, you cannot pay the fees. That's inside
baseball and the Matt top.
Speaker 9: That is way inside. But here I got you, Matt
edder if we get Tom Brady instead of Matt show.
Speaker 2: I hood the ready and you have a you have
a bounty on me? Did you try to take out
my my? Aho? I got I'm just gonna keep coming.
Speaker 9: Humility and restraint. Now, this is the best one. I think.
Speaker 2: I was down at Texans practice and I couldn't tell
if it was a football team or a bunch of
school girls. That clip is at least ten years old,
and it's so good.
Speaker 9: But you can always use it even if the team
is fifteen and one.
Speaker 2: You could use it. That's right, That's right? Yeah? God,
Oh I love that it's a regular season award. Dylant.
Speaker 9: This has tickled you this.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, alright, Dylan, I totally get you, my man,
I miss you. I totally get it. All right. Phone
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We have an email don't at one and the Rotten
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or Not today at one point fifty. Jacob nor Side
on seven ninety. Jacob, I have one simple question for you.
What don't you get?
Speaker 11: I don't get how Rex Ryan could say that it's
gonna be a bye week for LA. I think the
criticism that the Texas are getting from CJ.
Speaker 2: And coach Ryan.
Speaker 11: Well, all the injuries, Okay, CJ's Rob receiver was injured.
There's this top receive after the third game, injured, d
is injured, the little guy injured, offensive line trash tight
ends trash, and he stn ended up winning his division
with a tennis seven record. I just don't get in
and I got one for you, Matt. How could you
keep saying that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow is the guy.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow Man is done.
Speaker 10: He's in the wrong division.
Speaker 11: He might go to the NFC because he slungs in
there with Pittsburgh in the Ravens.
Speaker 2: He is not going to be making it to the playoffs.
All right, thanks, that might be the case, But Joe
Burrow is an excellent, excellent quarterback. I could easily build
my franchise around Joe Burrow and not think twice about it.
And as far as the national disrespect, I mean, Rossie,
the Texans had two opportunities on a national stage to
prove that they were better than their ten and seven
record indicated, and losing the Kansas City on the road
is no. You know, it's not an embarrassment. But you
were embarrassed by Baltimore on Christmas Day thirty one to two.
Speaker 4: And then you roard back to beat the Tennessee Titans, Davis.
Speaker 2: Money Mills, Roardback, Damian Pierce, roardback, Hey.
Speaker 9: CD Strow got a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Then he looked good in the first series. But you
had one last opportunity to improve the ten, to show
folks that maybe you were going to be a serious
playoff contender, and you fell flat. So you shouldn't be
surprised that people are expecting you to not win this
playoff game. So I get it.
Speaker 4: No, stop, don't. You don't get it to the extent
of Rex Ryan calling it a bye.
Speaker 9: Of course not, that's absurd. I mean I get it.
Speaker 2: That's hot take at its hot take, its best, right, Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 4: How many times have we said Rex Ryan the entire
year of twenty twenty four on this.
Speaker 2: Show, Matt zero.
Speaker 9: How many times have we said it this week? Fifty? Yeah,
so yeah, I give you said.
Speaker 2: We've also said toe fetish multiple times this week.
Speaker 4: The instructions from whatever network and whatever show he was on,
not even gonna mention it right, are to to make waves.
Speaker 2: And he made a wave, and we're talking about it.
Speaker 4: And he's being in Demico, rans is being asked about
it in the media and all this type of stuff.
Speaker 2: Again, always good. Yeah, Polisy isn't always good.
Speaker 4: A former NFL coach knows that there's no such thing
in the buy as a buy in the regular season,
let alone the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're the Jets and you hear
him say that, does that make them think twice about
trying to hire the guy?
Speaker 4: Well, he said he thinks he's getting the job. Maybe
he's just delesied, Maybe he's gottte.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's guy he's been inhaling too much toe jam. Well,
he didn't really play in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Right, he's played in Oklahoma something or other A and
m right, I mean it's directional something.
Speaker 2: He's sucking off of the daddy teat may Buddy rest
Man Mike on seven Outie, Mike, What don't you get
my friend?
Speaker 6: Well, I have two of them that are real close
and they don't take long. When I was in school
in the fifties, hazing. Hazing is not as prevalent today
as it was when I was in school, but I
was traumatized by having to eat mustard out of a
dirty baby diaper. And the other one that I don't
like is shooting guns in the air. Why don't they
shoot them in the ground. I say, a human kill
a worm.
Speaker 2: That's it. Thank you. Ross. Let's go first to the
mustard and the dirty baby diaper. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 4: That, Mike, Well, yeah, that's the reason that hazing isn't
as prevalent as used to be, because people went through
a lot of trauma. I mean, when I was on
campus in ut somebody died at one of the fraternities,
and I am so sorry that you have to eat
mustard out of a used diaper. That's one of the
most disgusting things I've ever heard. Sorry for those of
you heading to lunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, in the fifties, what were they doing in
the fifties hazing? I thought I was just leaving to
beaver and let's go to the hop. God, and then
the old shotgun down up in the air.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think fireing any sort of weapons unless you
absolutely have to is probably the best thing to do.
Uh Yeah.
Speaker 4: People like to do that for whatever reason, to celebrate
New Year's and things, and it's a waste, ammost expensive man.
Maybe it's a solution that Chris Rock came up within
his stand up routine ages Ago. Make every bullet one
thousand dollars. You see a lot less needless killings.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's right, all right? That is Are we done?
I think so? Or is Mike and Clear like new
Mike Clear because who we just talked to? Okay, Mike,
thank you very much. All right, let's turn this down. ROSSI.
You know, as part of this show, and I wonder
this for the news at noon, we talk about blackjack
a lot of the show. Yes, and how I believe
I am a a player, not a plus better name.
I would consider you an a player as well. Thank
you most of the people. I don't know why that is.
In my life I get stuck with C minuses and
D pluses and sometimes borderline f's. But if you're a
five dollars table, you kind of expect the F to
be a part of the category. Yes, you're twenty five
dollars a table or higher, you should you'd have some
sort of basic rule indication of how to play the
world a blackjack. Right? Were you gambling recently?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean do I want to? Yes? But no,
I gotta tell you something. A funny little clip happened,
you know, I go through these Twitter reels and catch
me here's a comedian talking about blackjack and not how
to play it, but his own way he wanted to
play it. And by the way, Connor, what is the
what is the gentleman's name that said this.
Speaker 9: Is Hannibal Burrs? I saw this as well. Is this clean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It is clean? It is clean. Here is Hannibal Burr?
Is he funny? Generally speaking? Rossie game? Because I laughed
at this, He's kind of.
Speaker 9: Yes and no.
Speaker 4: Sometimes he makes me laugh and sometimes he kind of
does that like non comedies, straight face, dead pan comedy
that and it doesn't resonate with me. But I would
say funny, yes, but he's not my favorite.
Speaker 2: This made me chuck.
Speaker 8: You're not supposed to hit on seventeen.
Speaker 5: But if I have seventeen and the dealer is showing ten,
I'm supposed to assume that there is other cards are ten.
So I'm staying on seventeen against the twenty. I'm going
out like a bitch. That's not how I like to live.
So sometimes I hit on seventeen.
Speaker 9: Situation came a pac table.
Speaker 5: I had seventeen dealers showing ten. I was the last
one to go before the dealer port Again, I said,
hit everybody at the table gash.
Speaker 9: Oh no, this dude is on.
Speaker 2: Till he's on full, till he's out of control. Even
if Phyler said, are you sure, Yes, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: I'm hitting on seventeen, I busted out twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Turns out Dealer's other car was a five. I took
his ten.
Speaker 5: He would have busted out, which twenty five is?
Speaker 2: Ness cars? A six?
Speaker 9: He got twenty one.
Speaker 2: Everybody lost.
Speaker 9: I took everybody down with me.
Speaker 2: ROSSI. That happened to me in New Orleans, not this
previous trip.
Speaker 9: At the time before somebody hit US seventeen.
Speaker 2: Somebody hit US seventeen. He busted Was it Hannibalworth? He
was wearing an LSU cap, which I should have never
been playing cards with the LSU because they don't know
what twenty one is except maybe they're IQ levels. That's rude, Matthew.
It's not. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, but I
was not happy. It doesn't seem like you're kidding. I
think I called didn't I call you a text? You're
like you wouldn't believe what just happened. You might have
texted me, Oh god, you just got mad? You gotta
let it go. You know what I gotta start doing honestly,
which is not great because it's the odds go back
to the house even more so than they before. I
gotta put by myself. Well it's not only that, Yeah,
it's just did you play so fast? And well what
I what I'm gonna what I'm gonna do is if
I have the money, I will play by myself and
play two hands at Lisa, slow it down.
Speaker 4: When you play by so fast, You're like, man, I
just lost seven hundred dollars in six minutes.
Speaker 9: This is great.
Speaker 2: It's happened before Rossie. It has the news at noon,
starts the third hour the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
This is Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety lunchtimers.
Speaker 9: This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Here we go. It's twelve oh two on Sports Talk seven.
Hunting shout out to my friend Cajun Tiger. Yes you
are a Tier one research school, Lsu. I believe the
Tier one research is in. I believe gumbo production. Ross
is that correct?
Speaker 4: And they hand out the handout to anyone. Didn't you
of age get that designation recently too?
Speaker 2: Have it? We just just pay your fee we have
a great new medical school. We've got a great law school.
We've got an outstanding broadcasting school. Should be the Thomas
School of Communication, but the Cault the Valentin.
Speaker 9: I'm going Nance, It's fine.
Speaker 2: Whatever. Shout out to Jim Nance. By the way, I'm
gonna call this five hundred the NFL game wow this
Sunday when the Bills take on the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 9: Congratulations to him.
Speaker 2: Great job, great friend of the show.
Speaker 4: Wonderful friend of the show. It really admires your career, Matt.
Speaker 2: He said it before.
Speaker 4: Remember, yeah, he was, Yeah, I remember. He's like, Mick,
I just admired your career for so long.
Speaker 2: I think he did call me by the wrong name.
That's fine, that's okay, Matt. You're doing you. Guys that
have told me that they followed my career is Kevin
Harlan and Jim Nance. I don't know. Is that one
of those things when you become a big time networker,
anything you're going to show, you're supposed to your follow
the guy's career.
Speaker 4: No, Matt, it's because you're so great they're actually following
your career.
Speaker 9: Kevin Harland's probably listening right now.
Speaker 2: Sub keV keV. What's up, dude? Great calls per usual
on the NBA on team. Yes, hopefully you'll be doing
some games on I'm going to presume Amazon because I can't.
You can't work for NBC because you work for already
for CBS, so.
Speaker 4: H you know I should turn to the play by
play NERD on this, man. I saw an argument breaking
out on Twitter the other day Mike Breen's bang versus
Kevin Harlan's good.
Speaker 2: Can I play the fifth on this?
Speaker 4: You could say they're both equally deserving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both great because first of all, they're really
really nice people. That's the thing about the We're very
and not that you, I mean, you didn't trust me
when I tell you that Iron Eagle, who's doing the
Texans game against the Chargers on Saturday, is super nice.
I've only Jim Nance amazing, Kevin Harlan the best of
the best. I don't know, who would you like to
know if I know these people or not?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Tariko, We're gonna have to start getting
a name dropping cow for you too, now, no chance,
no chance.
Speaker 2: All right, ladies, And that's another deep in side baseball
on the battop the show of Ross. That was more
proper gentleman. Yes, that's funny, all right. Time down for
the news of dude. And with that we go the
news desk. Yes, Matthew, the Edward R Moral of journalism
not here.
Speaker 4: Instead, it's Ross. I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm filling in this week.
So the Texans getting ready for the Los Angeles Chargers.
Maligned offensive coordinator for your Houston Texans. I have a
couple of bites from him. Let's start with an easy one.
Bobby Slowick, what's going on with you and the New
York Jets.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 18: That's not even allowed this week, So that's far from
anywhere on.
Speaker 2: My radar, believe him or not.
Speaker 4: The Jets job not on Bobby Slowak's radar. Not He's like, dang,
I better call a good game this week. Try to
get that six seven million or whatever you get for
being a head coach.
Speaker 2: If I call a good game, I'm in the top
of the list if I am. If I call it
bad game, I got fanboys looking for my job.
Speaker 4: And you know that's another reason to believe in Bobby
Sloan this weekend, right right, Bobby slock this is good news,
says he has seen the defensive scheme from the LA
Chargers that he's going to face this weekend.
Speaker 2: Seen it before.
Speaker 18: You know, anytime you have similar type systems that you're
going against, you know, just familiarity with it, I think
helps breed confidence for the entire offense and not just
coaches but players just as much, maybe even more so.
And we've really faced this type of tree or system.
I feel like, I feel like five times in the
last seven weeks or so, like Tennessee's kind of from
the same fold. So I think we have a pretty
good handle on what we can expect, especially when you
get to situational football. Like I said, they're a little
different what the Chargers do in first second down and
in particular in the middle of the field and kind
of how they play that.
Speaker 2: So that's some adjustments. Will it to me.
Speaker 4: Coaching for his Jets head coach life familiar with the
scheme home game, Let's go Texans. You don't want that job,
the Jets job. Nope, it's kind of cursed, right.
Speaker 2: Let me let's go this really quick. I know what
you got other headlines to get too. Let's go to
the job. That're open. Raiders, jab you want that?
Speaker 8: Nope?
Speaker 2: Jets job? Do you want that? Nope? Jaguars job? You
want that? Nope?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 2: Who else? Gott let go of Bears? You want that job?
Maybe that seems to be I mean, the best of
the worst.
Speaker 4: Patriots Drake may Roster's horrible, by the way.
Speaker 2: And by the way, a one and done coach just
got finished there.
Speaker 9: New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2: Let's let's flip what's the most attractive of those all
those jobs we just brought up.
Speaker 4: I mean, the first thing you think of his quarterback,
I'm gonna go with the Bears. They have a good secondary,
they have some defensive pieces, and they have Caleb Williams,
who I mean his raw He has a lot of
bad numbers, but at the end of the day, what
was it like nineteen touchdowns, three picks or something, So
those numbers are good something to work with.
Speaker 9: He can get better in his second year. I'd go
with the Bears.
Speaker 2: I guess best of the worst is the Chicago Bear job.
Speaker 9: Maybe if you're the worst, would.
Speaker 2: Have to be probably Jet Raiders.
Speaker 9: The Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Raider? All right? What else happened?
Speaker 9: Saints turn good?
Speaker 4: The Saints have like a horrible, horrible cap situation, and
Derek Carr is their quarterback and.
Speaker 2: No quarterback, I mean a lot of money tied up
into him.
Speaker 9: You know what, Let's put the Saints last, just to
make Gordon band fine.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: All right, Let's keep it moving along. Let's go to
some baseball here. Mentioned this earlier on the show, Chandler
Rome of the Athletic reporting that the Astros and utility
man Mauricio Dubon have settled at five million dollars avoiding arbitration.
Astros have settled with some other players, including Luis Garcia
fromber Valdez.
Speaker 9: Chas McCormick.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, no, Luis Garcia is the only one they
have settled with at this moment. The ones that remain
unsettled fromber Chas McCormick, Jake Myers, Jeremy Pania, Brian Abrad,
you and Essik Paratus.
Speaker 14: M.
Speaker 2: I think they'll all get resolved. I don't think we
should be sitting here worried at twelve o nine that
these things would not have been resolved yet.
Speaker 9: Yes, six of them. When's the deadline? It's today?
Speaker 2: Correct? Right?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They usually come pretty fast and furious. You will see
a plethora of people tweeting it out and they of
other bunch of other people that will say I've confirmed
with other legitimate media.
Speaker 4: Have said yeah, and sticking quickly with the baseball angle.
Justin Verlander one year, fifteen million dollars. Some people wondering, Matt,
if the Astros should have been interested in a one year,
fifteen million dollar deal with Justin Verlander.
Speaker 2: This may be an unpopitar belief. I would have offered
it to him.
Speaker 4: Come good, worst season of his career, forty two years old,
been hurt last two years. Not like his injury health
is gonna get better when you're forty two, Matt, you're
injury prone.
Speaker 2: But you know what the ross I have to start
realizing that that's basically about average compensation for a mid
level starting pitcher, as crazy as that sounds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it depends on where Luis Garcia is in his rehab.
Same thing for Lance mccullor's junior JP France. But you
do have some options. Dana Brown has come out and said,
Hazen wood Zinski, the trade piece back from the Cubs
is going to be in line to start. Then you've
got from Er. You've got Hunter Brown, Renew Blanco, Spencer Raghetti.
You do have some names, not necessarily them that carry
the weight.
Speaker 2: Of justin ge JP France. He's like, Hey, I'm I don't.
Speaker 4: Say JP France, all right, So I mean I wouldn't
say it was the craziest thing ever. One year fifteen
million is you know, that's not the craziest contract ever.
But he is now a San Francisco Giant.
Speaker 2: But as you say all these things, and I told
y'all it was either a gut feeling or to tell
the truth that they tech the Astros should try to
move Farmber. You can't move now, not unless things fall
apart here before at the end of the season, where
you may make him as a trade deadline.
Speaker 4: Unless you're hunting on the season, which clearly they're not
with the signing of Christian Walker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you absolutely need a veteran innings eater, and that's
what Farmer Valdas is.
Speaker 9: All right, Matt moving along.
Speaker 4: This is kind of offbeat, but this is kind of
on beat because it is sports news. Dan Hurley, did
you see what happened to yukon as Alex Caraban, the
red Shoot, red Shirt junior on the Yukon Husky squad
missed three clutch free throws at the end of the
game as Yukon lost sixty eight to sixty six.
Speaker 9: Well, Dan Hurley, take it away.
Speaker 19: You know when you've had, you know, the incredible moments,
the fairy tale uh, you know, the fairy tale back
to back national champion coming back for a third, it's
like life. Sometimes you gotta go, uh you know, sometimes
you you got each you know, like sometimes you know
you're gonna have bad moments. Just what I told him
to do, though, is you know when you feel sad tonight,
just get off the bus and get back to campus
and do what I did after maw We just pull
your your your box and rings out and maybe just
kind of play with your back to back national championship
rings and get ready for Georgetown.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you gotta eat bleep, says Dan Hurley.
Speaker 2: Dan Hurley was thinking about going to an NBA. I
think the Lakers wanted him, did they not? Yes, Dan
Harley would have lasted forty games in the NBA. As
soft as these guys' egos are at the NBA level,
it would have never ever ever lasted by the way
they did they lose that game at home? Or was
I on the road. Don't know. I can go back
and look it up, because I want to say, I'm
gonna look this up right now. I believe the longest
division at Villanova. Yeah, let me take a look here.
I think the longest nash and longest run for consecutive
wins at home would happen to be to belong to
the University of Houston Cougars. You don't seem impressed. It's great.
Good for them, at least they're tired. Yeah, because I'm
looking at Yukon's record, I don't have lost a home
game yet.
Speaker 9: The Cougar's poised for another. They keep climbing the rankings.
Speaker 2: I assume YEP. Playing Kansas State this Saturday in Manhattan.
Hm hmm. What a day of Saturday. You got Texans,
You got Rockets in the afternoon game. You got the
Cougars at afternoon game. You got the Texans playing at
three point thirty.
Speaker 4: Oh Man Prime, napping weather sitting our friends at kN Palm.
Big believers in the University of Houston. Cougar's again got
them as the number three team in the country behind
Douala and Auburn.
Speaker 2: Love it best defense in the country right there, stifling
as the kids would say.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and actually got shooters this year.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, they do. Shooting evolved very very well. That's
what it feels like. That's what they've been missing back. Yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 8: L J.
Speaker 2: Carrs are okay for himself, wonderful.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 2: I want you to get a board. I want you
to love them. What you need your love?
Speaker 9: Yeah, get a board.
Speaker 2: No, get on on board. Oh, get a board.
Speaker 9: I got you. I'm stupid. What kind of board do
you want?
Speaker 2: Skateboard? Uh, monopoly board, snowboard? No, they were good. You
mean it's Dallas people named me meaning a snowboard. And
Matt there is your news at noon. Thank you very much.
Ross at the news desk seven one three two one
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Today at one fifty the category is ummm, you know,
it would be actually kind of funny what you do
hazing incidents. Uh, I said funny. Oh, you should do
things and we should have the people figure out if
it's if you're just talking about Jim Harbaugh or John Harbaugh,
Jim or John. I'm good. Yeah, like you'll give a
statum about somebody, you'll say it's a Jim or John.
Got a little bit, a little bit of a uh differential,
different way to do, believe it or not today. No,
I'm good. Okay, what about Josh is dad? Uh? Is
he so alive? That's a great question. I'm gonna say no,
I'm gonna say he's live. And then their sister is married. Yeah,
see their sister married Tom Crean, who used to be
a college basketball coach. I think he works for ESPN now,
I think if you don't hold me to that, all right?
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Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Twelve twenty two on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
I'm here in Memphis, Ross back in Houston, and I
forgot something Ross, and that's my fault. We have a
sports MPT theater coming up on the show today, wonderful
and it's at twelve thirty. I can'n out. Yes, Can
we give an audience of the a little hint as
to what it's gonna be about?
Speaker 4: H I would say U two Hall of Fame big men. Yes,
that you'd give it away for those who've been paying attention.
Speaker 2: Uh, real quick, before we go to the phones, I
sent you a text about something about one of your
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Since they do spend money on our radio show in
this station, You're more than welcome to read it. Okay,
Oh you sent me a text. I certainly did. I'm sorry.
You know. I focus on the show me man, I'm
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Speaker 4: In case you missed it, DraftKings and Delta announced a
partnership that will include DraftKings powered gaming options on the
back of Delta seedback screen Further details have not been released,
but federal law prohibits real money sports betting while in
the air.
Speaker 9: Then what are they doing?
Speaker 2: Well, somebody's gonna have to make a phone call to
a special interest group, right, I guess is it interesting?
How you can? I honestly think unless you get massive internet,
better Wi Fi coverage, I think it's a very slippery
slope that your your friends over there at DraftKings are
going through right now, don't you think? I mean, we've
how many time? Many times have you been? You thought
you'd something done, connected and purchased, and all of a sudden,
the Internet just goes away.
Speaker 4: WiFi is horrible, you know what I've God, this is
how they got me. I forgot to tell American Airlines
I wanted a refund on the way back from Korea.
Speaker 9: Been thirty dollars on that internet.
Speaker 2: Well you can still you can still argue it, can't you.
Speaker 4: I didn't tell somebody. It wasn't even working. It wasn't
working at all.
Speaker 2: Now, Schmid, it is using Elon musk New satellites for
their better WiFi. Okay, is that working? I don't know.
I don't know if they've done anyet but that's the plan.
So there every airline is trying to do their best,
and Elon and Musk is helping out Schmiden.
Speaker 9: So what grift is that?
Speaker 4: By the way, they keep taking more and more of
your leg room, they give you worse and worse food
they take away. I mean, they charge you more and
more for bags, they charge you for Wi Fi that
doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Right, and they're not as hot. What do you mean
they're flying attendants? Maybe? Maybe Why are you worried about that?
Because don't you want a pleasant smiling face when you're
I just.
Speaker 4: Want good service. Matt, Hey, I'm on an airplane. What
are you gonna do.
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 2: I mean maybe you're a single guy, You're like, what's up?
Speaker 6: Girl?
Speaker 9: You lay them down sweetly in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: No, you cannot mile high up anymore. That's not gonna happen.
You're so weird. I'm just bringing it up as a
conversation piece.
Speaker 4: I guess you know what I heard, by the ways,
what I wasn't able to fly on Korean air but
I heard it's like a huge thing to be like,
there are auditions to be a Korean Air flight attendant,
So maybe you should fly Korean air to.
Speaker 2: Go where you can't fly Houston to Atlanta on Korean Air, you.
Speaker 4: Could fly like Dallas to LA because the flight's going
over there from La to to Korea.
Speaker 2: Anyways, they're gonna drop me off maybe, Okay, I see
how you're working it. I'm just you know, one of
my very good friends married a flight attendant on a
flight one time.
Speaker 9: They met on a flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah. M you know there's a song called Love Is
in the Air, and it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Is that what it's about? The Mile High Club? I
didn't know that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, they didn't Mile Hyatt Bob Wai? Do
you really want to do that? Is that? Is that
one of those checklist things in your life? No? Cramped bathroom? No,
that's zero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a much more. It's much more. Weren't
there bigger bathrooms on the planes like in the sixties?
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't alive, so I can't really give you
any sort of that. Well that was around your time.
It's not around my time. No thanks though. Seven one
three two one two five seven hounty. I asked you
all in just a minute ago, a few minutes ago.
Can you feel the buzz the energy now? Naturally, it's
playoff time. You're gonna be optimistic. You're gonna say, look,
the Chargers don't have this deep playoff history. You know,
it's not like Justin Herbert has loads of experience. It's
not like the Chargers have not let an egg over
the course of the year. And the Texans typically with
exception of the Baltimore game and the Tennessee game, had
played significantly better at home than they have on the road.
There's no reason why they can't beat the Chargers. They're
going to beat the Chargers. Let's go.
Speaker 9: I believe.
Speaker 2: Okay, you heard it from sports Harvy seven one three, two,
one two five, seven eighty Robert and Katie at twelve
twenty seven on seven eighty Robert, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 20: Hey guys, I guess you were talking about love at
first flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 20: I believe that the Texans are gonna win. That's if
because we got home field advantage. So tunsl is not
gonna have illegal motion three times, you shouldn't have any
Our quarterback is going to be protected, he's going to
be throwing accurate without any indeptions, and our defense is
just going to have the turning turnover. The have turnovers
like they do always. So I'm really optimistic about our team.
Speaker 8: And last year we very made it. This year we
clinched it, and we're going to go.
Speaker 20: Further than we did last year. I'm just I'm happy
for our team once again we're in the playoffs and excited.
Speaker 10: We got a good team.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say what, Robert, if they go further than
they did last year, that means they would play for
the AMC Championship, and that would mean a significant victory
over Kansas City. That would rock the world. So you
know that man's glasses half full of Rossville Riale.
Speaker 9: Is spilling over. Maybe let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have they have they done lines on divisional playoff games?
Even though we have no we're not at the division
around here.
Speaker 4: Yes, there are perspective lines. I believe Texans would be
seven and a half point dogs.
Speaker 2: To the Chiefs. Okay, not that that's everything, but it's not.
Speaker 9: It is, But I'm glad you're asking to get a feel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's by no means
when I go off my analysis strict laugh of point spread.
But it's just a it's just a note that unfortunately
in Texas can't can't take advantage of this point until
we get legalized betting all the way through. We'll get
there someday. Don't hold your breath, You're probably right, all right.
Sports Empty Theater is up next. Now we've not done
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a while to get back to into this doing this again,
I don't think so. You think this is going to
be a masterpiece right off the top, absolutely so. I
like to hear it is twelve thirty on Sports Talk
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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas ross Viel gets the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, twelve thirty five Sports Talk seven ninety. It's
time to present to you another edition of spaltse Empty Theater.
Today we celebrate the lives of two big men in
the National Basketball Association. Playing the role of Dwight Howard
is Matt Thomas playing the role of Shaquille nil On Twitter,
Ros Reale and now, without any further ado, to present
to you Spaltsmata Matt Thomas playing the role of Dwight Howard.
That's the thing, you know, should I go with an
accent here? Let's see here? No, no, okay. That's the
thing that I hate the most is the fact that
he being Shack, always thought I was trying to be
him or be like him. But again, if I wanted
to be you or be like you, shouldn't you take
that as a compliment and to show you how great
you are as a player or a person. I ain't
never wanted to be Shack at any level. Now I've
wanted to take certain things from him his life and
implement it into my life. Hell yeah, I do that
with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Lebron James, all these people.
Speaker 21: The fact you think I care about you is funny.
But I would never bring your name up again, sensitive
big man a joke, So that can't take a joke,
Shack wrote Monday on X won't ever say your name
ever ever again. Have a great day, and now you
have been deleted. Have a great day. Hashtag I never cared.
Hashtag trust me, hashtag I don't need validation.
Speaker 13: You do.
Speaker 21: Hashtags stay off podcasts hashtag the fact you think I
care is funny. Hashtag you got to show respect to
give respect. Hashtag now you're dead to me?
Speaker 2: Hashtag sore throat shack. I know you care cause your
insecure ass has been hating and talking blank for twenty years.
You're too big to be this insecure. I hope you
didn't bring up my name up again fifty two years old,
tweeting me and still hating now. All this time you
were joking. You've always been jealous, jealous of Kobe, Penny Dwyane,
You jealous of Charles too. Go move around, big, lazy,
insecure ass. I still have that long, five paragraph you
ric message you sent me a couple of years ago
telling me that I'm not that great to hate you.
Still doing it. It's twenty twenty five. Throw the hell
up and move on, mate.
Speaker 21: Still don't care. Nice move. I see what you're doing.
Your legacy is now your podcast. That's how you be remembered.
Speaker 2: You need views. Damn.
Speaker 21: I taught you well. Great job, Hall of Fame podcaster,
but still don't care. You need to sit down. You
need my validation. I don't need yours? How will you
be remembered? Think about that podcast, boy, I have an
empire to run. Now leave me, son. I've been talking
twenty years, but you want to squabble at fifty. Well,
I decline I'm too old. Nice move, Love you, son.
Speaker 2: And that, my friends, was another roudsing rendition of balts
empty Yata. Your shack was quite impressive, by the way,
and I'm glad you chose Shack because that would hurt
my throat. Thank you. I've been working on it for
about three minutes. So how do we side on this,
this argument between these two bohemoths.
Speaker 4: Well, Dwight Howard hold the age advantage if they did fight,
as Shaq said, trying to squabble.
Speaker 2: Up with an old man, Umm, Shack do you think now?
Speaker 4: Obviously, when you're one of the all time greats, you're
sensitive in a way. Michael Jordan, Kobe bryantch Keill O'Neil.
I mean those types of guys you want to take
what's yours, You want the credit that you feel like
you're due. You have to have some kind of edge
like that to reach that level of greatness. But it
does seem like Shack just leave Dwight Howard alone, I
kind of understand where Dwight's coming from. It's like, yeah,
they called me Superman, and Shaq got all mad about it.
But Dwight Howard was like painting homage. That means he
respects Shack, as he said, and wants to implement some
of the things from his game and try to be
as great as Shaquille O'Neal, and Shaquille O'Neal took it
as disrespect the entire time.
Speaker 2: I honestly can tell you this Ross. I don't think
Dwight Howard thinks he's in the same category as Shaquille O'Neil.
And there's nobody in America that puts Shaq and Dwight
in the same category. I mean, Dwight, for a five
year run, prop probably ninety percent of his Orlando tenure,
some of his Laker tenure, and some of his Rocket tenure,
was as dominant of a big manager to find the NBA.
But there were certain things about he wasn't at d
The best of Shack versus the best of Dwight was
not even close, not even close, not even nothing about it.
I mean, because Dwight didn't shoot further back. His free
throw percentages wasn't significantly better. He just wasn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shack was just the most dominant. He called himself
the MD most dominant ever. And that's probably him or
will it as far as you know, big Man, right,
Dwight was great, but he never was really good. Yeah, Shack,
he won at least the scoring championship, maybe two. I'm
gonna go look this up, like getting Dwight Howard was
never winning a scoring championship two scoring championships.
Speaker 2: I think Shack was just barking up a tree that
you know, the wrong Treeott.
Speaker 4: Who knows twenty two year old Shaquille O'Neal won a
scoring championship?
Speaker 2: And why is shaq messing with Dwight? Why did you
just why it's not in the headline, Shack. You're on
the headlines every week because something crazy you say. On
the TNT show. Yeah, they were arguing about Jimmy Butler
the other day. Charles Barkley was like saying, this is
about money, and he's absolutely right. Jimmy Butler went to
the Miami Heat and said, I want another extension to
pay me fifty plus million dollars a year, and Pat
Riley's like, man, I shut your bom mass up. You
ain't that good anymore. The number one thing that Charles
Barkley said during this whole conversation when they were arguing
about Jimmy Butler was that the NBA player at the
megastar player, and I put Jimmy Butler in that category.
I mean, he's been doing it for a long time. Megastar,
not a mega player, but a megastar. Is that they
don't understand that there is a certain level of depreciation.
It's like a vehicle. He still thinks he is Jimmy
Butler of twenty twelve when he wants to be paid
like Jimmy Butler in twenty twenty five. And that's just
they're not the same player. Yeah, he's old, he gets hurt,
he takes games off, He has a terrible history of
being getting sideways with three different organizations while he played.
Doesn't necessarily scream fifty million dollars a year. But yet
the only team that's showing any interest right now. Again,
if you believe what the Twitter streets are saying, are
the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix Sun's like, we can give you
Bradley beal In the stim He's like, I don't want
Why do I want to shut your bubbles up? Pat
Riley's been saying a lot of that is hecause I'm
eighty years old. I'm old, but shut your ball mass up.
I can say that. M hmm. What does that tell
you that if there's only one team that's even if
you begin, if you believe the Twitter streets, there's only
one team that's showing a little bit of interest, and
as a team that's got a player that's making gazillion
dollars and he's underperformed, they're essentially trading one underperforming player
for another, with the only guarantee that Butler goes to
Phoenix at Butler would get a new contract.
Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently, Brian Brian Winhors has said no team really
wants him because Butler is basically already said he's not
going to sign an extension with anyone. Right and by
the way, quick NBA news while we're on it, uh
Sham Shawani reporting the Lakers Hornets game tonight at Crypto
Arena has been postponed.
Speaker 2: You know what, I gotta be honest with you, Ross,
that's that's that's the easiest decision. They can make Why
would you want to put any LA Police Department folks
wilayers on the street. Yeah, yeah, it's it's not smart,
not smart at all. Seven to one to three. And
by the way, would you how about this? What do
you do for Monday night? Those fires Rossier are not
gonna be done Monday night. What are they talking about?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: The LA game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Should you go to Phoenix New Just call to
day get get the.
Speaker 4: Guys's that's a good question. They're gonna have to figure
something out.
Speaker 2: Now. I know that LA has to resume life eventually,
but it feels like it's not going to be in
the next twenty four hours. Crazy all right? Uh twelve
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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas, Ross Uriel, It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
We've got emey a Dook coming up in about ten
minutes from now seven one three two one two five
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at one o'clock, The Rotten five at one thirty and
we've got believing or not? Today at one fifty this afternoon.
Did you see the story, Rossie? You and I didn't
talk since we worked together last on Tuesday. There are
NFL teams that are kicking the tires on Bill Belichick
in that he's got a pretty significant buyout pre June first,
but after June first, it's much more manageable. Do you
think he would take the job and then ultimately never
step foot at least on a coaching standpoint in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina?
Speaker 4: Dang, I forgot about that. For I just don't get it.
Why would you sign on with the North Carolina tire heels?
I mean, he did not do any vetting or talk
to anybody about how interested people would be in his
services as an NFL head coach.
Speaker 2: So crazy? How stupid?
Speaker 4: Do you feel like if you're like a recruit and
you believe in Bill Belichick, not stupid?
Speaker 9: You've got bamboozo. It's not your fault, right, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 14: Like?
Speaker 9: How foolish.
Speaker 4: If you bought into this unc Bill Belichick thing, you
transfer into the program and then Bill Belichick leaves you
for the Raiders, which is the big rumor because obviously
the obvious tie with Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: Right, And apparently Tom and Belichick have made up. I mean, whatever.
Speaker 4: Strained relationship they had when he was still playing is
long gone. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, man. And
that a celebrity rose at the forum too, don't forget that. Yeah,
they had a good time there. And I think you know,
when you work with someone every day for fifteen years.
I mean, I'm telling you, Matt, it wears on you
at the time off.
Speaker 18: I know.
Speaker 2: What was I going to tell you? Oh, I know
what we're going to do. OK. I need to put
your name on something right now. Really, I really, really
truly believe this, and I have not no inside intelligence
on this. Mm hmm. I'm going to put my name
on it that in less than three years, tom Brady's
off Fox less than three I think you you put
that as a gut feeling. Let me look, well, I'm
upgrading it to putting my name on it. Oh you
did it.
Speaker 4: November seventh, twenty four. Tom Brady does not see out
his Fox contract.
Speaker 2: Is that gut or is that uput? My name is?
This is on the notion wrongest file. So I'd put
in a dendum. I I think he is going to
get this taste of ownership life and he is going
to love it. He is going to love that. The
greater return on NFL ownership is crazy. Mark Davis has
got to be rossy, what mid seventies something like that.
So you say not with it.
Speaker 4: Within so three more years of Fox or under three
more years of Fox. I'm trying to get the facts straight.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna say with less than three years,
either one more year or two more years, but within
three years, he will tell Fox thanks but no thanks,
and he will get into a bigger whether it's responsibility wise,
or he will purchase a larger group of percentage of
that or get an investment group together to purchase a
larger group of the of the Raiders. Hmm okay, I'm
just throwing that out there. There's somebody like him.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It needs to be around the game somehow. And if
you're I guess you're a part owner, you are around
the game. I'm not saying you crazy. I could see
Charyler Brown. How long how old is Mark Davis here?
Let's see he is the owner of the Raiders. Let's
see how old he because.
Speaker 2: I mean, hell, his dad was sixty nine. He looks eighty.
Speaker 4: So you think he's going to get more of a
controlling interest. I thought he only bought like three percent
of the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying I think he's going to own. I
think the nffs are ten percent and Fox are not comfortable.
More so on the NFL side. I think there's a
lot of uncomfortableness with Tom Brady being involved in the
Raiders hiring, and yet he's supposed to be an objective
broadcaster when he's working the games.
Speaker 8: Of the week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's too much, and I'm sorry his steak is
he and a partner bought ten percent, so five percent
is Brady's.
Speaker 2: Okay. I don't even know what the net value of
Brady is, but I'm going to assume. I mean, he's
probably going up. It's certainly going up with the next
couple of years. Maybe he needs two more years to
put it to buy a bigger chunk. Mark Davis's net
value net worth two point three billion dollars. God is
that sick? Oh my god? Could you be imagined worth?
You're just not normal. I mean, he's so handsome too. Ugh,
you know, it's crazy to me they've got so many
of these people. I mean, think about the NFL owners groups.
These are kids. These are kids that are now grown
adults that are inheriting all these teams. Amy Krunk's drunk
inherited the Titans from Dad. Cal inherited the team from Jenison,
from Bob al Davis, who was you know, in his heyday,
Ross was one of the pioneers of professional football, as
a player, as a scout, as a general manager, as
a as an owner. I mean, these guys did a
lot of the heavy lifting, and now all these kids
are just bumbling around, screwing up, messing things up until
Cal did the right thing and said, Hannah, this is yours.
Let me go play my video games and leave me alone. Yeah.
I think it was that Mike Florio floated the idea.
Speaker 4: You know, when an owner wants to buy a team,
everybody he has to be approved, and would you want
the same procedures with if an owner is bequeathing their
team to to you know, then that's just going to
cause fighting, right.
Speaker 2: Do you know why they're not arguing that? It's because
these own these kids that are on and these teams
are not doing a good job. I mean, Callan Hanner
are doing great since Hannah stepped in, well since Hanna.
But had the Texans ever been a serious contender for
a Super Bowl champion? I mean they have not even
been a chance. Don't care about that.
Speaker 9: They keep printing money, Matt, I'm a care about Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Want owners in there that will not threaten your supremacy
as a great team. That's true. But but honestly though,
I mean Lamar Hunt's son runs the Chiefs did. Did
the Broncos sell Pat Bowland that he went for he
passed and he sell the team or did he give
it bequeath it to one of his kids? I don't
remember on that situation. The Rooney family has led that
has owned the Steelers forever.
Speaker 9: We know about Amy Adams Strunk Ugh, what a mess.
Speaker 2: All she does is fire coaches, general managers up to
two years.
Speaker 9: This is from last year.
Speaker 4: In February, an article says sixteen of the league's thirty
two owners inherited their teams from family.
Speaker 2: So essentially did nothing to deserve it. They're just getting it.
Speaker 9: Six in the NBA, sixteen in the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the NFL has been around longer, I guess.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you this, Ross, If you and
I own the NFL team, we give it to our kids, right,
you know, unless said we don't want it, like Drake
McClay when he sold the Astros. The kids are like, Dad, no,
I wouldn't have given it Cal.
Speaker 4: Although all the business interests went to carry controls those
That's why Cal's like, eh, maybe Robert c was like, well,
you can't mess up an NFL team. We'll give that
to Cal.
Speaker 2: You really can't.
Speaker 4: He tried to mess it up there. Still they've been printing.
No matter all this stuff and this jackieus are being
controversy blah blah blah, they continue to print money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you have to be basically doing illegal activity
to lose money. To even Shad Khan, who runs a
Jaguars crappy stadium, crappy team fan base, small fan base
is smaller than everybody else's can buy, you know, around
the end, and he's still printing money.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Mine to be lucky, lucky enough to be the kid
of a team that is, you know, owned by dad,
did all the heavy lifting and you just come on
in and inherit.
Speaker 9: Well, we're all lucky to be here.
Speaker 2: Oh how about Jim Irsay in Indianapolis is another example. Yeah,
must be rough, must be rough. All right, let's talk
to im a dook. He'll be with us next start
the final hour the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This
is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 9: Launch timers.
Speaker 2: This is the Matt Thomas Show one two on Sports
Jock seven Night seven ninety. Tonight here in Memphis, the
Rockets will take on the Grizzlies. It'll be a matchup
of two versus three in the Western Conference. And the
preview that and to recap what the Rockets have been
the last week or so. Is our friend Imaadoka, head
coach of your Houston Rockets coach. It's Matt and Ross.
Good afternoon. Uh, kind of excited about tonight. This Memphis team,
along with you guys, probably the two greatest, not surprises,
but most improved teams in the Western Conference. It's kind
of a good measuring stick against this very good team.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it's another game, but you know, due
to our position in the standings, means a lot obviously.
And then I haven't seen him since the second game
of the season when they didn't have Jan Jackson Junior.
Some guys were missing, so be a good test for us.
But yeah, more about what we're going to do anyway
and on to the next Does it.
Speaker 2: Feel like that was a situation first quarter? I think
you guys were down ten to the Wizards, he kind of.
I don't know. It was because the arena was stale,
there was not a great crowd, hard to get kind
of get motivated for them because they've gone through so
many injuries. But when you got going in the third quarter,
especially Jalen, it was nice and easy way to finish
things off against the Wizards a couple night a couple
nights back.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we definitely looked the little sluggist coming out of
the gate. You know, got downtown. They were just playing
much harder than us. We weren't moving the ball, and
then even in the second quarter to be up to
a halftime, obviously we went plus twelve in the second quarter,
and you know, third quarter was obviously a tail of
two games.
Speaker 10: We came out with the energy, went on a crazy run.
Speaker 12: Alprind and Jalen got going, and we and we guarded
the way we're capable and stretched the.
Speaker 2: Lead thirty points per game for Jalen the last three nights,
shooting forty eight percent from the floor, forty three from three,
just seeing the ball go through the hoop a little
bit more, better shot selection, And I feel like we
we kind of always ask about this, but you know,
the alpha dog is on the team, the main go
to guys always get this kind of microscope looked upon him.
But it has been a nice run for him as
of late.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean sometimes it's just made a misshots. He
had really good looks at other games that he's knocking
down now. But I do say his recognition has continued
to improve. Understanding how teams are guarding him when they're
trying to double team run.
Speaker 10: He's handled on the blitz is better.
Speaker 12: He's recognizing guys going under to ty to take away
his driving lane, and he's shooting the ball extremely well,
which opens everything up for himself and everybody else.
Speaker 2: Man Thompson is six seven and two fifteen measurable wise.
He has thirty one rebounds in his last two games.
Man the I hope America he may catches on to
how good this young man is and it feels like
he's doing something different, whether he's coming off the bench
for you. And now he's been starting because Jabari's out.
He just knows where the basketball is, knows where he
is on the floor, and I just think his on
court IQ just continues to grow and grow.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's obviously a special athlete, So if he was
six two hundred, he'd probably get the same rebounds with
that athleticism. So has a knack for the ball game
in several different ways. And obviously we know who he
is and a lot of people are getting to see
it now that he's in the starting lineup, But he
was doing that stuff off the bench for us, you know,
all season, and so he gives us a ton of
versatility with matchup wise defensively, him and Dylan out there
can kind of tag team different.
Speaker 10: Guys, and he's doing what we've seen him do pretty much.
Speaker 4: This guy here, team's been keen on alprnching good more
and more as he's gone along in his career. We've
been seeing some fronting defense, some doubling as well. What
has it been like going through those types of things
with him where sometimes he struggled and what do you
want to see from him as he goes along In
the conversations you guys are having and what you want
to see from him.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, he got to take it as on
or Obviously he's one of the best low post scorers,
one of the scoring big men, one of the best
scoring big men in the league in general from all
over the court, and so teams just paying him that respect,
going after him quite a bit, putting different smaller guys
on him, doubling with the big and so he just
has to see it quicker adjust And what he's been
doing is picking the gym part lately. So it's sometimes
just simplify it, like make the right play whatever that is.
If they don't double, you go score. If they double,
make the right read. And so he's been doing that great,
especially lately. Washington went after him a ton, and even
in the games before that, just making the right read.
He's he's a hub for us that it creates shots
for everybody else, and so we'll welcome that all the
time because we love the open shots that he creates
for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially like in double teams, you have to coach
everybody on that because when he passes out of him
and there's four on three situations and get everybody prepared
to score.
Speaker 9: In those situations.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, we understand what our spacing is and
where we want specific players on the court, but you know,
we'll feed them with the guys that we like to
initiate the action out of the kickout, and a lot
of times that's for it and our shooters, you know,
being more of a threat right there and then they
can swing it and we have numbers and advantage on
the backside. So the thing is for opping to read
it and our guys to react off of that. And
anytime we know he can create an advantage with the
double teams on the post, we've been really good when
the balls popping moving and then it loosens up for
him and he can go to work.
Speaker 2: You may and dooca with us here on sports talks
up a coach. When I run into Rocket fans, they
always ask me, how's Tarry doing? How's Tarry doing? And
I don't mean to make you a doctor on the
radio here, but to the best of your generalization, where
are we on tari I know it's got to be
frustrating for you as a coach to see a young
man who played so well for you first quarter point
of the season have to miss as much time as
he's done the last month or so.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So we're just being cautious and being smart about it.
You know, he went through obviously a surgery last year,
and so for us, we want to be smart with it.
You know, the pain is lessening day by day, and
so he's trended in the right direction and when he's.
Speaker 10: Ready to play, he'll be ready to play.
Speaker 12: And so I'm not going to make a hasty decision
or rush anything in December January. I want to be
smart about it and have them when it really counts
later in the season. And that's where our depth comes
into play. Other guys have stepped up. But obviously he'll
be a welcome sight when he comes back.
Speaker 2: Is there a threshold email that he's got a wake
up two three days in a row not feeling sore.
Is it a workout then followed by a good wake
up in the morning. What is your sports medicine team.
You got great folks that were with you. What have
they said about when it's time to push it a
little bit further into the testament to a different level
than maybe he was, say three or four days ago.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's he's going harder on non game days and
seeing how he feels on game days, and so that's
been the plan as of now, and sometimes a little
more sore than others, but they're being cautious, like I said,
with being smart about it and really ramping up his
off days, and when we have two three good days
of the paying lessening and lessening, he'll be back out there.
Speaker 10: And so that's the plan right now.
Speaker 12: He's been really good at you know, attacking the rehab,
getting after in the workout sessions, and so anticipating coming
back soon.
Speaker 2: Did you catch in the okay, see Cleveland game last night? Yes?
I did. What do you think Lee gonna do a
good job of? I mean, look, I want the Rockets
get as much publicity as possible because that's a team
we love here in this town and you guys certainly
deserve it. But it was kind of nice to not
to have you know, Lebron James and Golden State on
television for like the nineteenth consecutive night.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean, that's a good matchup with the two top
teams in the West and East right now, so you know,
with really good records and obviously talented players. So we'll
see Cleveland coming up in the next few weeks twice,
and uh, obviously I've seen, okay see a few times,
so it's good to kind of see see what they're doing,
how they're playing.
Speaker 10: And obviously shoot the aim to try to catch these guys.
And so good game back and forth.
Speaker 12: Obviously two of the top teams, and it pounded out
like you thought it would our guys on.
Speaker 2: The squad and maybe today's NBA players have they use
measuring sticks against other opponents or is it just what's
ahead of me now? And we'll just you know, keep
winning games that are right in front of us.
Speaker 12: Well, obviously, uh, you got to play consecutive games, and
you gotta play who's in front of you.
Speaker 10: So that's really how the NBA goes. You're on to
the next pretty quickly.
Speaker 12: But matchups and teams, you know, personal personnel wise, and
and teams in general are good measuring sticks all the time.
And so we've had a tough stretch of games at times,
and we had teams with tougher with lesser records, and
so for us, we want to always measure ourself against
the better teams, and regardless of who we're playing, we
want to play the same way but it's always good
to have measuring stick and and I know guys get
ramped up and amped up for certain matchups and so
that's just human nature and it's always going to be
like that.
Speaker 4: Rockets head coach Imyadoka was here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
We had you on last week talking about the comments
from Cam Whitmore. Since then, how things been with him?
What you've seen off the floor.
Speaker 5: And on.
Speaker 12: Coun's been good. He's been, you know, playing hard. You know,
I heard people mentioning body language or whatever. It seems
like people are kind of looking for something now. But
very efficient last game in Washington, eighteen points in seventeen
minutes on sixth race.
Speaker 10: Shootings continue to obviously score as natural.
Speaker 12: Like I said, I'm always harping on your little things,
the defensive things and you know, recognizing who was where
on the court and how we have to guard specific guys.
And so that's always going to be the thing with
him and the young guys is defensive coverages, just schemes
and knowing your personnel. So that's that's a big thing there.
Stop selection has improved vastly and then he's scoring it
like he always does. So I think people are making
a little bit too much out of nothing.
Speaker 2: Before I let you run reach Shepherd. I mean, my goodness,
as soon as we finished playing that game against the Wizards,
everybody on the bus was watching the highlights and Jack
Landell's giving me like, minute by minute of there's another
three pointer for Reid, He's got what are he finished
with forty nine points. I mean, I don't know if
you want to put that on the all time great
our GV Hall of Fame scoring for one night, but
obviously he got down there and got some of his
mojo back.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was good to see.
Speaker 12: We wanted to see some things from him to be aggressive,
confident and run the team and hunt his shots, you know,
guard defensively as well, and I think he did all
of the above, and so it.
Speaker 10: Kind of took and it was it was pretty natural.
It wasn't like he was for a thing.
Speaker 12: He took what they gave him, had a bunch of
walk in threes and he got to go in there
and so loved his aggressiveness, didn't miss a beat from
not playing much with us, and so obviously a good
sign one of our most talented young guys going forward
and big plans for him obviously, so with the lack
of time with us, it was good to see him
go down there and play a little bit and you're
looking forward to get him back as well.
Speaker 2: How much do you guys talk on a daily basis
about how long you think he needs to be there?
Obviously injuries could play a role up here, rotation times,
opponent's number of games in a certain days, But anything
right now or is that kind of a fluid situation.
Speaker 10: No, he looked at the three game road trip we
were on.
Speaker 12: It went perfectly with their schedule of three home games,
and so we'll reevaluate.
Speaker 2: It after that.
Speaker 12: But that was the plan of the Now, he'll be
back with us when we played Memphis at home and
go from there.
Speaker 2: Last question, where are we on Jabari? I know he
was with us. He's on with us on the trip here.
Now what have they told you in terms of I
know that you mentioned a couple of days ago the
media that there was not surgery scheduled. Is that an
option that maybe he can't avoid that or is that
ultimately going to be the plan of action?
Speaker 10: Oh, he's looking at both options. You know, one takes
a little longer than the other.
Speaker 12: But they're both available, and I think the rehab process
is different with no surgery and versus getting the pin
in there. And so he's figuring it out, looking at
some second opinion doctors and he'll make a decision soon.
Speaker 2: Sorry to get some medical on you, but you know what,
you got a couple of key guys out. So that's
what I had to be asked. Hey, thanks for the visit.
We'll'll see you tonight, and good luck against the Grizzlies.
All right, thank you, guys, We'll see that's EMAI. I
don't go with us here. On the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross, our time is one twelve. We will have
the Rotten Five, the final Rotten five of the year,
the five worst teams in the NFL. You will hear
it from the only person that absolutely can give you
the worst five teams, and that of course is Ross
Villery out up next, some astro arbitration updates. One thirteen,
Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety, lunchtimers, Lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, Ross, we're gonna send you to the g
LI We're gonna We're gonna see if you can work
on your sports talk game.
Speaker 9: Let's go maybe I'm dropping fiddy see.
Speaker 2: Let's let's wish we send you to for a couple
of hours. I'll send you to Lufkin. Let me get
you that talent.
Speaker 9: What are we talking?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 9: Is that Aggie Country? I don't even know.
Speaker 2: It's a SFA scoot sorts.
Speaker 9: What are the lumberjacks up to act?
Speaker 2: Some jacks? Baby? Yes, I don't know. By the way,
a couple of news items. General manager of the Raiders,
Tom to LESCo, has been fired after one year on
the job.
Speaker 9: One year.
Speaker 2: That's Tom Brady making that What are they doing? Wow? Wow?
Wow Wow. M Rams Vikings playoff game Monday still schedule
for Sofi Stadium. The NFL is a contingency plan at
the event the changes needed, which we'd do about before,
but as of this moment, within the last hour, they
have said it is still happening there. What else? I
saw a bet that somebody made in Vegas on the
ut game with Ohio State. I wanted to it was
on the four utab and it went away quickly. So
I don't know what I hate. What don't you hate
when that happens. Well, I mean it was something informational
that I wanted to pass along me. Let me try
to put in Texas bet and see if.
Speaker 9: It'll help out Texas plus six. You heard it here first?
Speaker 2: Oh, here it is. It worked out a better at
a certain casino. Wager ninety thousand dollars on Texas plus
one eighty five to beat Ohio State.
Speaker 9: Oh, money line, I'm not going there.
Speaker 2: Yet. Personally, a ninety thousand dollars bet would win one
sixty six y five. Nice. That's not a bad payout, right,
I'm rooting for him very hard. Well, again, you don't
believe me when I tell you this, but I believe
I'm rooting for it too. I don't believe it. Why
don't we have somebody we have a rooting interest, because again, honestly,
is Ohio State versus either Penn State or notre name
that it moved the needle for us as as Houston
sports fans. The answers, No, it's not.
Speaker 4: This is the national championship game. In my opinion, I
think whoever wins this game is gonna win it all.
Speaker 2: Now, the only issue I'm concerned about is if you
are going to be basically un unworkman. I mean, you'll
be hard to work with. Why, like, if you're were like,
I mean, could you imagine being a fan of a
team and jumping in land and wearing the gaer of
that team every single day you came to work. I
don't do that, but others at are stationed do. Oh no,
not me.
Speaker 4: I've I got my two thousand. I'll wear my twenty
nineteen n I T Championship shirt to prove it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I and folks, for those of you that
don't know, it doesn't really fit well. He still tries
to pull it off, but it's it's not a great
What do you mean. I mean it's a little snug.
Speaker 9: No, actually, that one's loose.
Speaker 4: Because the only size they had left that it was
so sold out, Matt, they only had a lot.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a lie.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you they didn't have any Xcel left. He
had to get the double X.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. All right, let me
give you some arbitrary I'm growing into it. Uh and
we're not gonna mention the dollars unless people really care. Okay,
Dubond sign arbitration deal five million dollars for this year.
Eastsek Peretti is at six point six two five million dollars.
At third Base, Chas McCormick at three point four million,
and for the members of the Jake Myers fan club,
he also avoids arbitration at two three million dollars.
Speaker 9: Jake is back, Baby.
Speaker 2: Under you avoids arbitration three point four to five million dollars.
You know what, Ross, I think we should as a
as an act to segue between our show and baseball. Rossie,
let's do an arbitration case for you. Let's say what
you're looking for me right now? Yeah? Okay? And Connor,
you play the role of the iHeart and Ross. You
play the role of Ross where you're trying to sell
us while you're worthy of more money.
Speaker 4: Uh, let's see you added another hour to my work week.
I also do spot fill in when asked, perhaps in
the A team other places. I believe it was over
eighty games I did last year, combined with the Astros
and Rockets pre and post games, so that is like
literally extra on my plate. I don't get paid extra
for those, and I think I'm a good talent.
Speaker 17: Well, we appreciate all that hard work that you do
in the passion that you have for sports TX seven
ninety and I hard being a team player.
Speaker 4: However, budgets are tight. So yeah, so you've been laid off.
Be happy with what you got, and your bonus will
be keeping this job. This is remarkably accurate. Actually, Connor's
got it nailed.
Speaker 2: I am I am the arbiter, and I've listened to
both of your arguments very closely, and I side with
my heart. You'll get nothing. I like it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna spit at your feet and tell you thanks
for having your Yeah, your reward is having a job.
Speaker 2: So as soon as you become a free agent, your
life out of here. Like I'm going, I'm Kyle Tucker
and as bad boy. I don't know if I'm getting
Kyle Tucker money, but we're gonna try.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 2: By the way, there are hundreds of arbitration cases still
to be settled today. Those expected to get super big
money would be Vlae Guerrero at twenty nine point six
million dollars mm hmm fromber Valdez at seventeen point eight
really ufta, yiesh ufta. That's a lot of money. What
is it? What is ufta? That's just a Yiddish that's Yiddish.
We are your official Yiddish sports radio.
Speaker 4: This is his last year of arbitration, so usually the
numbers go, especially for a player of his caliber, they
go up and up and out.
Speaker 2: So guess who's not going to make as much money
as Fromber Valdez and arbitration?
Speaker 8: Hmmm?
Speaker 2: Who? Chicago Cup?
Speaker 10: Great?
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 9: Their numbers were similar last year.
Speaker 2: What's his numberation number is expected to be about fifteen
point eight million dollars? Okay, so close. Who's more valuable
to their respective teams? Valdez or Tucker? Now, again, it's
two different positions.
Speaker 4: Obviously I would go with the position, the everyday position
player to me, Yeah, but you take Fromber on this
off this team?
Speaker 9: Oh, I mean a Hunter Brown was ace level for
half a season? Can he keep that up? Spencer Raghetti
was very very good for half a season? Can he
keep that up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And let's face it, this is last year for
Fromber with arbitration. He's going to be a fragent after
next year. And what's going to help you get to
that big dollar you want? Des By winning, you know,
maybe seventeen eighteen games for the Astros in twenty twenty
five contract a year, baby, let's go. Oh I'm a
huge fan of Devin guys in their contract year. Now,
sometime it doesn't work out per se Stefan Diggs. Is
it working out for Bragman right now?
Speaker 4: He had a good year, He won a gold Glove
and he got your twenty six bombs. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Do you wonder if he's texting Scott Boris
every year, every day, going man, what's going on? And
he just responds back, new phone? Who dis see in
a week? Or be patient? Or I got you? Yeah,
that's what he says, g O T C HU got you.
He's not going no new phone? Who is Huh?
Speaker 9: I don't think he's going new phone?
Speaker 2: Who dis on one of his prized clients map? Did
you have matched that?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 9: He might have done that to Jordan Montgomery?
Speaker 2: How about the one? Do you like when people send
you to automatic text replies saying sorry, I'm driving, I'll
get back with you when I can. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 8: Oh? No, you too?
Speaker 2: There may be nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying
I don't have it. I don't have an automatic text
response because me and SyRI are tight. Although Siria has
not been she just hasn't been behaving herself. What does
that mean? Well, I've been swaring a lot in my
tweg and my text tweets. Uh, text back, and she's
not catching the whole shit.
Speaker 9: She catches all my curses.
Speaker 2: Oh she does. I mean she's still bat in like
nine to twenty got you got a enunciate, Matt.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then when she when she missed, I read it
back again. And you know it's hard. When you were
swearing at somebody, you typically do it in a very
fast fashion. Mm hmm. Like if I want to call
you a certain name, Ross, I don't slow it down
and go, hey, Ross, you're a blank blank.
Speaker 9: Sometimes you got to slow it down for emphasis, well.
Speaker 2: For seriat works. But if you're in a rush trying
to respond to a bunch of people, tell him to
f off. You gotta do you really quick about that.
Let's get to a call. Before we get to the
rotten fible, say hello to Augustine in friends, would it's
sports Talk seven one eight one twenty eight Augustine, Good afternoon, Hey, listen,
guys about to think about Bregman.
Speaker 22: Do you think teams are kind of like hesitant on
them because of how Spring Air and Korea are performing?
Speaker 2: Nothing to do with it to everybody's in those cases,
nothing to do with it whatsoever. You know what it
really is to me, Augustine, I'm gonna give you the
true honest. I think Scott Morris is looking for the
two hundred million dollars contract. That's that's the sexy number.
And how many years it gets to get that number
is where I think he's waiting for. And at this point,
I don't think anybody's given him that two hundred That's
what I think is a slowing downpoint.
Speaker 22: And all the teams are just following with the astro
give them. Huh, they're not kind of much.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think I think every team has
their own interpretation. I think that Matt Chapman deal is
a pretty good sign of what third basement are worth.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you think he was worth that, then he's gonna
get more than what Matt Chapman got. I think you
look at the contracts of the last five years of
what free agent infielder's got that played multiple positions. I
think the age plays a role on it. I think
the Breggy's slow starts in the first couple of months
have played into it. And they're also thinking, yeah, you
know what, do I want to tie up somebody for
seven or eight years? And that's why Rossie and I
made the bet that I think he's gonna get a
deal of five years or less, and Rossie thinks it's
gonna be seven years or higher. So we'll see. But again,
it's all about a waiting period. And remember to this Augustine,
if somebody gets hurt, he would be an He's gonna
be an addition, no matter what team he goes to.
He's a gold glover, gold glove third basement just aren't
sitting around. He will get compensated, and he should be compensated.
But I do believe the two hundred million dollar number
has been something that has been in their heads since
day one, and I don't think at this point they've
received it.
Speaker 22: Do you think he's gonna go to like a non
contender team for the two hundred million or he's just
gonna wait and see who he can best offer.
Speaker 2: Rossie, I've not hurt anybody that's not a contender being
associated with him. No, I haven't either. So I mean,
I'm not hearing the Marlins are in on Bregmann. I'm
not hearing that the Oils are interested. I'm the teams
that are being talked about are Boston the match to
a smaller extent, the Yankees, the Tigers, the Diamondbacks, I think,
but hell, who knows. It's all speculation at this point.
Speaker 10: Allright, guys, appreciate it. Man, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean you tell me Ross, am I misreading it?
I I believe the two hundred nine million was that
was the was the magic number that made them twinkle
in their eyes.
Speaker 4: I think when one Soto got his deal, Scott Boris
said one soda reset the market, and team said not
for Alex Bregman. And that's I wonder if if that
did the Mets overpaying as much as they did for
Juan Soto slowed things down. I thought they would speed
things up for Bregman. I wonder if they slowed them down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. Real quick.
Jonathan wants a question, well answered, Hero, I'm not a
big baseball guy. What exactly is arbitration? Just nearing a
contract end, so you have to renegotiate. Why just go
straight to open market, Jonathan. To be a open market
free agent, you have to have six years of service time,
meaning six seasons. Essentially the final three years of your arbitration.
Of your years are called arbitration years, where you sign
one year contracts year after year after year for the
final three and that's where the that's where the arb arbitration.
The market sets the dollar value for these guys based
on their performance and what other guys are getting. Now,
some teams, Jonathan, I may to be pointing directly to him,
but in case you don't know, some teams will buy
out your arbitration years. The Astros bought out jord On
are Albaretz arbitration years, the Astros bought out Alex Bregman
arbitration years. They have bought out jose L Tuove, meaning
they will pay above what they normally would have paid
for arbitration in order to sign them to a longer contract.
So it's essentially three individual one year contracts the final
three years before you become a true free agent after
six seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have to agree on the terms if
the player says one number, and then the ownership says another,
and then you can't come to an agreement, and then
you go to an.
Speaker 2: Arbitration hearing, you go on opetrition hearing, and that's where again,
you don't want to do that because you have to
go in and argue why you don't think this guy
is worth the money, and it can cause some resentment,
ladies and gentlemen. It takes absolutely no ability. What's over
to you? The five best teams are in the NFL?
Who are the five worst this NFL season? You'll hear
the rotten five next on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: Lunch Timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: One. Five. On Sports Talk seven ninety Ross, the voice
of the Tennessee Titans, is leaving to become the voice
of the Tennessee Volunteers. Really, that touchdown Titans guy.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know his name, Mike Keith. He's been
there for years and years.
Speaker 2: Right, I believe since the team moved from Houston.
Speaker 4: Is there's some I'm rotten in Nashville. GM's getting moved,
coaches not liking it there. This guy's going to to
take the volunteers job. I mean, maybe it's more money,
but probably not right or comparable.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't really pocket watch other people's broadcast
just in general, though, I mean, do you think I
don't know? I mean I wish, I wish I had
some at first blush. So what Mike Keith does. He
calls the games and then he's he does what Vandermier does.
He works for the team twelve months a year and
does other things. So there's probably a a large a
salary that would be.
Speaker 10: Just for that.
Speaker 2: As a full time Titans employee, You're gonna call more
games at Tennessee. You'ren gonna do football, basketball, baseball, you
might host some coaches shows, you might do some speaking engagements.
But I would say it's probably a salary drop, honestly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's interesting. Seems like everybody's
fleeing from that organization as fast as they can or
getting fired from it, or I mean, it just seems
like a mess.
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't now this guy, Mike Keith did
go to Tennessee and it's a it's a hair broadcasting job.
A guy who's replacing him. Been there twenty six years,
so it's not like it's you know, interesting, Okay, guys
out and left. You know, I would say professional jobs
pay more than collegiate jobs. But I've always said this.
I wanted to get into play by play broadcasting because
I wanted to do as many games as possible, and
it'd be hard for me just to do the NFL all.
The NFL is awesome. You only call eighteen games a year,
nineteen games a year of plus some playoffs. I like
doing basketball because you get to do you know, eighty
five or eighty six. He do some baseball here and there,
and you you kind of get your play by play fix.
Maybe that's what he's doing, or maybe Tennessee's like, man,
we love you and we want to make your I mean,
Knoxville's got to be probably a little cheaper than living
than Nashville. I guess, I don't know who knows.
Speaker 4: It's closer to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maybe
that's what he's focused on.
Speaker 2: Tennessee underrated state generally speaking.
Speaker 4: Would you say, Okay, I've never been, so I'll take
your word for it, but I do I am planning
in Nashville Slash Great Smoky Mountains trips at some time.
Speaker 2: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, our final time of the year,
little tier. Actually we're here there in early January, but
it's our final time this season. We'll tear in the
eye as we present to you Rosses Rotten five.
Speaker 9: They've gone there, they draw flies.
Speaker 2: It's Rosses Rotting five. This don't smell quite right, Yes, Matthew.
Speaker 4: It is a bittersweet end to the twenty twenty four
regular season of the NFL with the Rotten five. Oh
my goodness, what a season for the Jacksonville Jaguars. They
started off the year with their owner Shad khansa quote,
winning now is the expectation for the Jaguars. Well, apparently
winning three games or four games wasn't exactly what he
was talking about. He has now fired head coach Doug
Peterson and inexplicably kept general manager Trent Balky.
Speaker 9: What is going on over there in Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: The Jaguars do have a promising young wide receiver in
Brian Brian Thomas Junior some other pieces, but team looking
to rebuild now with a new coach after their awful season.
As they finished twenty twenty four as the fifth worst
team in the NFL, and in honor of them being
here most of the season. Here is the entire Jaguars
Lady interview.
Speaker 14: Certainly not the first year we took it to the
limit and I was in Miami win my new beach house. Well,
it was a couple of minutes from the beach.
Speaker 2: It's been twenty years since then.
Speaker 22: We haven't been too strong in the last few years.
Speaker 14: Oh, we've been strong. We're just playing by the rules.
You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show.
Speaker 2: Oh I miss you.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna miss you in the offseason, Jaguars Lady.
Speaker 2: Any chance he's alive this moment?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 4: And you're just really I I'm not answering that question,
all right, you don't have to trying to get me
in trouble.
Speaker 2: I had a joke.
Speaker 9: I had a joke pop up in my mind.
Speaker 4: I'll tell it to you off air. Why don't you
just say, yes, Yes, she's doing great, she's in perfect health.
All right, let's move on. Man to the New England
Patriots that egg on their face. The season started with
extremely low expectations, but somehow they fell short of that,
at least on as Robert Croft is concerned, shockingly firing
at Girod Mayo after just one season as the headman
in Foxborough. Gerd very little to work with Patriots, one
of the worst rosters in all of football, a rookie
QB finding his way in an offensive line that ranked
thirty second in the league since the beginning of the season.
Disgraceful that Robert Craft would spend all that time talking
about gird Mayo's their heir apparent, only to fire him
in a bad situation. The New England Patriots were the
fourth worst team in the NFL.
Speaker 10: This whole situation is on me. I feel terrible for Girard.
Speaker 4: Yes, we were't gonna blame anybody else, Robert Okay, good God.
If things gone downhill for this seemingly well forever for
the Cleveland Browns. They started off the season with playoff aspirations,
functional defense, getting back to Sean Watson from injury. Turns
out well just about about every metric you can find.
Deshaun Watson the worst quarterback in football. Then he tour
his achilles, Then they went to Jamis Winston experience, then
they went full tank mode. With Dorian Thompson, Robinson and
Bailey Zappi. The Browns sticking with Watson don't really have
a choice with the way the cap has been They
did restructure his contract. An absolute mess of a franchise
that deserves every bit of it. The Cleveland Browns, the
third worst team in the NFL this year.
Speaker 2: You are a factory of sadness.
Speaker 4: Let's keep it moving along. The New York Football Giants
coming into the season. Bounce back year from Daniel Jones
while they straight up cut the dude in the middle
of the season. Brian Dable and Joe Shane keeping their jobs.
So the Giants going to run it back and hope
they can rebuild around some of their defensive pieces and
star rookie wide receiver Molik Neighbors. It'll be interesting to
see if they take a QB at the top of
the draft. A lot of decisions to be made. The
New York Football Giants so horrible, the second worst team
in the NFL this year.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's bad, It's real bad.
Speaker 4: Oh we come to the bottom of this list and
it's satisfying. The Tennessee Titans. How about a team that's
spent a ton in the off season, building pieces around
a Mayo loving quarterback that would get benched multiple times
throughout the season. Despite a vote of confidence in GM
Ron Carthon last year, Amy Adams was shrunk, deciding to
fire him and move on, which begs the question what's
going on in Nashville? Well, I tend to say the
fish rots from the head down. Mike Vrabel has to
be thankful he got out of that dumpster fire.
Speaker 2: And well.
Speaker 4: The Titans also ended their season decorating their stadium in
oiler's logos, wearing their uniforms, only to lose for this
checkant straight year in those cursed uniforms.
Speaker 2: To case Keenum and.
Speaker 4: Davis Mills, you know what, Tennessee, you deserve the oilers.
You can keep them because the Tennessee Titans were the
worst team in the NFL. Yes, they were number one
on this list. The Titans, you suck and Matt that's
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Speaker 9: Don't always it to be about you?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Matt Thomas show was ross.
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That's it. That's we've given you nothing information. We give
you nine reasons why people don't sleep together. We give
you a new area code. We've given you arbitration numbers.
We gave you the Rockets update, We've given you sports
empty theater. This has been a great radio show. My goodness.
Give yourself a a hawkeye on your buckeye on your helmet. There,
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It was good. Five minutes left to go in the show.
What should we do? We should play a kiss fastest
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seven one three two one two five seven ninety today's
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How about that? Why don't we have a little Mark
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today'd be a good way to have a little production value.
I'll read your statement about Memphis statements completely utterly accurate.
You'll say this, believe it if the same as your
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Do you believe it or not? In a row and
all things about the city of Memphis, Tennessee wins you
a prize. What are you playing for today, Connor?
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or not?
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twenty thousand. The city of Memphis. Believe it or not
believe it?
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Speaker 2: That's on the first line of the Wikipedia page. Scott
on Sevenintie Scott, you're ready to play Believe.
Speaker 18: It or not?
Speaker 2: I am Memphis, Tennessee is named after Memphis, Egypt. Believe
it or not? Not believe it? Oh my god, I
thought I pretty knew that. Let's go to John on seven. Nintie, John,
what was your favorite part of today's radio show?
Speaker 8: All the fact you give us Matt every day.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. The southern borter of Memphis is also
the state line between Tennessee and Mississippi. Believe it or not,
I believe it, Ben There you go. Statement number two
for the wind. Sister cities from Memphis Tennessee include Liverpool, England,
and Kolac, Senegal. Believe it or not. Believe it, believe it?
There you go. Nice thing you've done. You're going into
the monkey community there. You're proud of you. Thanks for listening.
Chris on Sevenaintie, Chris, you're ready to play.
Speaker 10: Believe it or not, nothing but nylon.
Speaker 2: The of Memphis is classified as humid subtropical, the same
as Huston or the climate of I don't know if
I did that wrong. Yeah, the climate of Memphis is
classified as humid subtropical. It's exact same as Houston. Believe
it or not? Nah, believe it? Oh, I'm so sorry.
Sat'sfires and missus oll Hi Bell happen New Year, Matt whatever.
According to trip Advisor, the number one thing to do
in Memphis is visit Bill Street. Believe it or not, Bill,
believe it not? Graceland Bell, come on now, see on
seven ninety see what was your favorite part of today's
radio show? One where the Titans are the worst team
in the NFL on Russi, all right, Memphis is home
to the world's first holiday inn. Believe it or not.
Believe it, believe it right? Stayment number two for the
wind The jersey sponsor the Memphis Grizzlies is the same
as their arena sponsor, FedEx. Believe it or not. Note
it's right, it's Robin Hood congratulated. All right, Rossie, that's
it for today. We did a great We had a
great show today. Thank you everybody for listening, spending the
next last four hours with us. We want you to
spend the next four with this radio station that we
call seven ninety because it'll be Clinton, It'll be well,
ross what do you put this on your one hit wonders?
Speaker 9: A depth far down the list, really, Marky Mark number one.
Speaker 2: Actually, by the way, word coming in the last two minutes.
Jeremy Penia arbitration settled at four point one million dollars.
That's topic A with Wexler and Clinic. They are eight.
Talk to you tonight for Rockets and Grizzlies at seventh right,
here on Sports Talk seven, Walking in at them