Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Hey on one an Age Town.
Speaker 3: Good morning, and welcome to a Wedgsday edition of The
Matt Thommas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety eight, Rocket Twin Final Score, Houston one nineteen, Chicago
one thirteen.
Speaker 4: Sports howevery I needed that. There was too much of
that game last night that made me nervous about that
street going to four. Yeah, you're celebrating more than I did.
On the post game show. I was like, ily Win,
I guess Matt's moving in here. You okay, Jonathan, we
should go out. Me and you all your friends will
go to the club. Put this song on. Everybody will
be in a massively good mood, dancing, drinking, smoking, clear
out everything. No, nobody's gonna clear it. This song comes on,
this great jam. People run to the dance floor, got
out to Chic Chic the credally underrated. Now Rogers, I
didn't know who that was. We'll see, like I said,
criminally underrated. You know why I am in such a
good mood? Why, man, the Rockets are we? He didn't
sister Sledge stuff? He did? Uh he did she he
was uh he did some of the daft punk stuff
that was big. Now Rogers, Maddy, I feel like Carr.
You know what you are, your human rolling stone mad
he did stuff with with David Bowie. Really yeah, seet
not a David Bowie fan, but okay, but they were
big hits for sure, for sure. All Right, So I'm
in a good mood a because the Rockets won. B
We've got more football to talk about on a local level, because, honestly,
if the Texans weren't playing, I mean, how much were
we gonna get into a deep dive in Buffalo, Denver?
Probably not a whole lot. But number three. I don't
know why this hit me. One of the most arrogant
things you have done in the history of this shit.
Yeah is the hibachi? Oh yeah? And I mean the
sizzle soundbye, oh my god, here, let me find it.
Let me find it for you, adding the Fried Brice
adding for the high end. But who that girl is?
She's in pigtails again today? Are you Okay's great? What
can you you? Mid sentence? Finish your sentence, Matthew? Sorry, sorry, god,
I know you've been on the road a while. I
didn't get that right. Yeah, too long, too much, my friend,
all right, scallops, flamgnon, dessert, extra, soup extra. It's sore
in middle January.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 4: The latest report is like the Mets have offered him
fifty but it was some guy from fan side, And
so I tell you that what was the offering? But
fifty million a year for how many with opt outs
for with the Mets three or four years? I think
here this is for you. Now. Now the question is
do I up the bet.
Speaker 6: I'm not up.
Speaker 4: I have to agree to it up and which we did.
By the way, we did. You agreed to drive through
for all three of us, right plus this plus this?
Oh my gosh, so it's one of your cockiest all
time bad takes with the sound effects. I mean, come on, man,
can I this This is no way? Second straight year
I'm gonna win this again on the big bet. All right, way,
we'll move on. We don't know yet. Again, he could
get eight years in mid January. Sure, that makes makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 6: It could it could.
Speaker 4: I think the Bryce Harper deal came in late in
the year. There were some other deals that came in late.
It could have sang it at right now it was
at twenty to eighty year fam oh, it was at
like ninety five to five, and now it's fifty to fifty.
I don't know if it's fifty to fifty I'm feeling
I'm still feeling like a fifty to fifty six, fifty
fifty six. We're playing one hundred and six forty four. Okay,
So you still feel confident because somebody at the Rocket
scheme yesterday, did you used to see a Kyle Tucker's
stein with Toronto. I'm like, so I went right in.
I was like, wait a minute. If Kyle I would
have signed Toronto, I would have heard about.
Speaker 6: It by now.
Speaker 4: I would have texted you all for sure, a bowl
of fried rice emoji that's right, and then say you
pay or I with like a chef hat. That's right,
that's right. All right. We're with you today until two o'clock, Bob.
So she's going to join us the voice of the
New England Patriots. We would us at eleven o'clock today
and we will get his perspective on things. The Texans
are going to hit the practice field, if not now
the next handful of minutes. I don't know what their
firm schedule is, but they start practicing. I mean they get.
They got basically not even twenty four. How many hours
do they have off? Thirty? Maybe? Okay, they probably got
back to Houston. My guess is about two three am
in the morning, slept all day, probably got some treatment
for a few of the guys. Yeah, and they're back
on the field. That's the negative of the Monday night
football game. Well again, gives you an extra day for
the wild card. It does hamper you on the back end,
especially got to jump on a plane and go somewhere else. Yeah,
I didn't like that they added it. And then I
mean you had the is it to tell the truth
or got feeling that they were gonna get feel I wish,
I wish. I hope you're right. I don't think you're
gonna be right because of the money and ESPN shelling
out all this cash for that standalone game on a Monday.
But it is whatever disadvantage it is, it's not nothing.
I don't know how significant it is. It's not moving
the line necessarily much. But the Texans lose. It's not
because they got one last day. It's just you would
like to have as much of a level playing field
as possible, or one more day to pass concussion protocol.
If your name is Nico Collins and you got your
head slammed into the turf, that's right. So yeah, it's
it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. Gonna go
on the road and try to get a victory. The
Miko Ryans and the players aren't gonna use it as
any Meanwhile, the College National Championship Game is not until
next Monday. The ratings for the playoff games the semifinals
were not good, and I don't know if it's because
they're the blue bloods are not there. Well, there's blowout,
Indiana's blowing everybody out. There's blowouts. And then I also
think from a timing perspective, you can't get any juice
for it when you were playing well. First of all,
you had like two weeks before the first round, and
then you had another week and a half before that,
and then you spread them out. You're like you're trying
to fit the slot in the calendar where you're not
going against the NFL. And if I'm college, I'm probably
doing the exact same thing. But it does not lend
itself to any sort of momentum. Like now, granted, Indiana
destroyed Oregon, So that was not much. But the Miami
game was very, very good. And now these two teams
are playing for national championship and we're still five days
away from that championship game. We will already know who
the AFC championship teams and the NFC Championship teams are
before we crown a college football national champions Wow. It's
just it's it's just disjointed. I understand why they're doing it,
and they have data. It's not like they're just picking
days out of a hat. They want to avoid the NFL.
They want to maximize calls. Yeah, they're they're dodging them
like I don't know, Hopscotch or something. It's the they
are dancing around wherever you want to play NFL, We're
gonna dance around you, and we're gonna figure it out.
And if i'm the college football Playoff gain, I'm doing
the exactly. I totally get it. That's not and I
just don't get it. That's and I get it right.
But as you said, it's tough to build momentum. The games,
I mean, some of them have been good. The Miami
ole Miss game was really good, but it was back
and forth at the end. But Rossie, if you expand
this thing to sixteen, you're gonna be doing more dodging. Yeah,
and you're gonna be doing more of that now if
you go to ultimately to twenty four. Is the big
ten that wants to go to twenty four? Somebody wants
to go to twenty four, which would then make basically
make the season the postseason as long as a regular
I think the postseason will start September eighth, yeah, every year,
So I don't know exactly where they are on that,
But the reality is not that we're a super big
college town when it doesn't mean like again, I would
expect not a single person to call in and talk
about it unless the game is incredible or something crazy
happened with the coaching decisions or catches made or violation.
But we're not a huge preview town as it is,
except for a local team like a Rockets at Astrose
of Texans. But we're not, you know, for a city
that doesn't. We live and breathe on our own teams,
and nine includes A and m in Texas. If we
don't have with Indiana and Miami, it's just a game. Hope,
that's good. We'll watch it. I'm intrigued. I mean the
ratings were hired than expected for a blowout because I
mean it seems like people are tuning in to see
Indiana just whip some ass. I mean thirty eight to
three and then fifty six to twenty two. Bama and
Oregon and Indiana will have won a national championship in
football before they have won a college basketball Championshi because
they had not won win since eighty seven. I think crazy.
It is crazy, all right? On the show today, Bob,
So she's going to join us. Voice of the Patriots
have with us. At eleven o'clock. We have shut Yo
ball mass up. Ain't nobody got time for that at
eleven thirty today, we have the news at noon. We'll
believe it or not. And frankly to me, as I
was thinking about this game a little bit. We'll talk
to Bob about this from in New England coming up
about an hour from down. It might come down to
the battle of con cushions, and I'll explain that in
just a minute seven one three, two, one two five seven.
One of your rockets last night gonna win. We'll discuss
that as well. Coming up Jabari Smith. I don't know
if he turned the corner, but first one he made
looked a little flat. Honestly, what is short of turning
the corner? Looking at the corner, approaching the corner? Yeah,
approaching it would be the corner? Yeah, sure, why not?
Kevin Durant is amazing, A mean, Thompson's been very fluid. Rockets,
hit their free throws, didn't turn them all over a
whole lot. How many more? How many athletes in the
NBA are more athletic than how many players are more
athletic than him and Thompson in the NBA. It's a
short list, if anyone. Yeah, I listened so explosive and fast? Yeah, uh,
he's so good. And if he could hit a three corner,
which he did hit one last night, right, I think
he did. He the one corner one in the fourth quarter.
It was a corner three. It's what they get. If
he could get to thirty five percent from three, which
I don't know if he'll ever reach, he might be
the best two way player in the NBA. Well, the
if he can get there, we've heard from I don't
know Westbrook, but it's such You can go down the
list in a league where three and D is so important,
and he works on it. And I'll tell you what's
given me a glimmer of hope is the free throws
have started to go down. There's over eighty. There's there's
a strong correlation NBA. Now that you're right, they're outliers,
but there are strong correlations between good shooters and good
free throw shooters. So hopefully maybe that that that What
did you say, beginning to turn the corner? He's approaching
the corner. The approaching the corner. Yeah, now I'd like
him to turn it. Yes, go full throttle. Yes, moved
up the rock. The standings in the West, brother, we're
now six in the West, almost got to five. But
the Lakers destroyed the Hawks last night. Yeah, I'm obsessed
with standing. Matter of fact, I mean they're doing They're
gonna finish top three. I goofed yesterday. So I was
looking at the San Antonio Oklahoma City game because I'm
standings watching during the game, which I shouldn't probably shouldn't
have done. Yeah, that's weird. It wouldn't that weird? Obsessive?
I was, Yeah, it's obsessive. I'll give you that. And
I come I came back and I said, yeah, the
Rockets are uh beating San Antonio by six and wex goes.
Come on, man, because you're reading this Thunder, Yeah, Thunder
finally got one lick back against the Spurs. Have they
played each other like nine times? It feels like four
in the Thunder are one and three. Now, I know
you're exaggerating, but yeah, I still feel good about the Rockets.
I hope the top three in the West. What's up?
I'm sticking with it. I ain't scared. You know what,
You've been good in your predictions lately. That's true on
your Texas predictions. Yes, sir, your Rockets. You're giving me faith?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Hi, how you feeling? I would perfect wild Card weekend
picking the games with the spread, So hashtag fade r
V this weekend. Probably lord y'all will make our predictions
on Friday. Don't listen to already, says seven one three
two one two five seven Ai seven one three two
one two five Sevenanni, it will be the battle of concussions.
Maybe Sunday in Foxborough. Matta Ross with you on this Wednesday.
It's kind of strange and I took Monday off. I
didn't want to take Monday off. But that plane getting
in from Sacramento. Time we get in whiner or ten,
you coulda came straight up here. You could have stated
that the Moomie men. You could have came straight here
and got in the morning show. I've tried that before.
It's not fun. Okay, And here's the thing. I probably
could have done the show from the house, but I
swear to go. Can I tell you the true? So
I went to Uh, I listened to you guys a
little bit. I went to go run some Aaron's run lunchtime.
When I walk up, I went to go get a
shave at my barber, and I fell asleep in the chair.
You did, yes? Were that relaxed?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Because that plus you just can't sleep on a plane.
It's just it's hard. I mean a little bit. But
I thought you get the road to yourself. I do,
but it was no, no, no, we don't have that. We
have a different plane, right, So I sleep on the
plane every time. You ought to be excited about that
unless I'm flying to like New Orleans, because you're like anxious.
Is short? Oh? I was gonna say Vegas is hard
to sleep because You're like super anxious to get there
and get on the tables, and then I'm out like
a baby, especially on the way back. All Right, you
sab in the bathroom for all the money you lost,
and then you sleep on the plane.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Two times I've been on planes that arrest have happened,
and they were both on Las Vegas Houston flo arrest.
Yeah see really yeah, just because they were intoxicated. Okay,
two times I've struck out bad with the girl next
to me in the plane, and both times it was
on the way to Vegas. Man, Okay, I'll ask one question.
What caused a strikeout?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 4: I gotta remember? And she never texted me back. I
have one of my dear friends that lives in Florida.
You may have met the mc quick. Huh. They met
another airplane together and they're married and they've been married
for twenty plus years. That sounds like a romantic comedy
starring Julia Roberts or what's the blondie? That's uh Keen Hudson, No,
the Reese Witherspoon. Yeah, and like Vince Vaughan, they've been
in a few movies together. Right, I don't know. I
like Vince Vaughan had a great character on Curby Enthusiasm.
Of course, if we were doing the show in the
early nineties, we would say Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal,
Yes we would all right, Peter rob Ryer who was
directed with that movie. All right, okay, So the Battle
of the Concussions their best corner. I didn't do a
lot of research because it's it's Wednesday, okay, but their
best corner is Christian Gonzales. Christian Gonzalez concussion, yes, best
Texans receiver Nico Collins concussion. Yes. Now, I was listening
to Cole this morning on the what do they call
that the Morning wake up Call? It's the Morning Drive,
Get your kicks with the Morning Boys, Yes, something like that.
I don't know what some kind of generic sports name
it is. We are changing the name of this show.
It is going to be called the Sport Talk Show,
the Sports Talk Show with a big THG. So apparently,
if you're in concussion protocol, one of your days has
to be as a full participant. You can't be limited limited,
don't practice and then be able to be cleared by
the NFL. Again, I don't know that the truth and
maybe COVID listen can help us out. Yeah, I don't know.
He's got a lot of hair brained ideas well. No,
I don't think he made it up. He's much more
in the minutia than I am. But point being is,
they're not going to let you out there because they
think you're better. You know what I mean, you have
to really be out there. It looks good. Nineteen seventy six,
they put him out there. Ronnie Lot's gone there a
bunch of times. Ah, he looks okay. He said his
ABC's and he got most of them. So let's put
him out there, right, you only skip seven to nine.
Point being is he's that both those guys have got
to be able to be not only cleared, but practicing
legitimately practicing for them to be in the game on Sunday.
So with one or other, well no, we'll have a
good feel at least what Cole was on today on
both those guys when they announced the Wendsley injury report,
and sources close to the show said that Christian Gonzalez
is ig. He posted a song that basically the lyrics
of the song say I'm back or I'm coming back,
or something like that. So look, probably looking good for
Christian Gonzales. So Nico Collins down Christian Gonzalez in would
be a detriment to the to the Houston. I believe
getting word Nico Collins and an Ig is all by myself.
By aren't Carmel really not great? Okay? It's brain damage
by Pink Floyd. I wasn't gonna go there. The work
great song. I'm not a Pink Floyd guy. Okay. You
know what, if you want to say that they're overrated
because some people put them like Tier one Inner Circle,
I'm okay with that. But Pink Floyd's good. Yeah, I
just not. It's not me. I mean I to say
that there's no value in them is ridiculous. Okay. For instance,
the dude from Grateful Dead passed away. I mean, wish
you were here is great. I mean, uh, if you
were here the wall is great. Wish you were here
at Chicago. Look, and you can also say that Pink
Floyd's overrated, But you can also in the same breath
you have to recognize that The Dark Side of the
Moon is one of the greatest albums ever made. All
I'm gonna say is again, we're back to sports. I'm
not a Pink Floyd guy. I don't go, oh my god,
why the hell? Now I do go, why the hell
with Bruce Springsteen. I think Bruce Springsteen sucks.
Speaker 6: Down.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this is great. He does have some songs
I do like I was looking forward to putting sandpaper
in my ear drums. But generally speaking, I think he sucks.
Going with you, all right, So Christian Gonzales. So if
he's out, well, I mean, I mean, if he's in, yeah,
he's good. I don't think of him as like you know,
Patrick's Certain. Some people put him in that category of lockdown.
He's not a Derek Stingle. He's not a Patrick's Certain,
but he is good. He is a plus player. Right,
let me ask you this and then this is again
this I'll listen to to the morning wake up call
with the boys this morning. Uh, Nico's had a good year,
and obviously, Nico, you part of what you said yesterday
makes some sense that having him on the field means
that that their best corner is gonna have to go
after him. He's had a good year, but Nico amazing
all promoments, not very many this year. Not saying it's
against him. I'm just saying that this is what that
other guy stepped up. Nole's played better, Higgins plait better.
Why I think of clutch plays? Dom Schultz has been
the safety blanket this year for s Jerry Strapp more
than Nico Collins at one hundred and twenty targets only
seventy one catches of those six touchdowns eleven hundred plus yards, Yeah,
eleven hundred plus yards and twist shounds good. He missed
a game or two, right, right, He played fifteen games.
He was a healthy and active in the last game.
So yeah, average ards per catches up from last time. No,
I want to make sure I'm very clear in saying this.
You say Nico Collins sucks, he's if he's out there.
That adds so much to the text. You saw him
out there, absolutely, But I meet him on that one. Well, frankly,
you are used to him not I shouldn't say not
being a difference maker, but just not being the He
ain't Jerry Rice. Put it that way. He's not Jerry Rice.
But I mean we were arguing a couple of years
ago that he's with like a top five wide receiver.
He's I would still put him in the top ten.
Went healthy. Yeah, let's go to the phones and talk
to Steve. We'll do that next coming back at ten
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of this. And it's a great thing is that there's
no other station town this preview in the Texans game.
So if you're looking for preview for the game, it's here.
Everybody else listen. They're talking about one Olympic stuff. It's
really strange, really yeah, a lot of winning Olympics preview.
We're talking Texans. Okay, great, we're the home of the Rockets, Yes,
home of the Astros. Yes, champions. The two teams in
this town win championships, and we only say Town talking Texans.
Everybody else is talking about Winter Olympics. I heard a
little bit about girls lacrosse, MA, that's the design WNBA draft.
I think, Yeah, a lot of other stuff going on.
You know that's not for a long time. And well, yeah,
when is it? Ross later? Nice cover seven one three
two one two five seven, Dotty, Let's talk to our
friend Steve and Katie and the Matt Thomashell Ross Steve waiting,
Good morning, Happy.
Speaker 6: New Year, guys. Happy.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you guys, you guys.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you'll agree with this, but that
was seven to six at the end of the third quarter.
We could have lost that game even though we killed them, Yes,
because of what happened. Okay, but if we do the
same thing with these other teams, say the Bills are
Denver or in this case New England, or if we
get it to Seattle, We're going to lose one of
those games if he does that. So I got a
serious I got a non serious answer, and I'm going
to give you a serious answer. Try to win, all right.
The non serious is nil it three times, punt and
wait for your defense to score the touchdowns to win
the game. Or the serious one is get behind center
like you did in high school in junior high and
that way you don't have the ball going to your
left or to your right, and then play the game
that way. I'll hang up and listen to your reply.
Thank you, Bob.
Speaker 4: All right, No, you mean you're not abandoning the shotgun.
It just gets It gives your quarterback more of an
opportunity to survey the field. Yeah, And CJ. Stroud had
fumbled twice all season long, and then he had five.
I can't personally guarantee you he's not going to turn
the ball over three times this upcoming week. But that
was the disaster game you talk about. In a playoff run,
you have to be good enough if you want to
make the super Bowl and win the Super Bowl to
overcome your favorite word, Matt, some adversity. At some point,
you have to have things go haywire and I mean
just out of whack against you and overcome. And they did.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 4: Stroud all season long, had two fumbles. He has not
thrown three picks in a game all season long, so
he had not turned the ball over three times in
a single game all year long. So that was a disaster,
and it was on the biggest stage. It was on
Monday night. Football is on the road in Pittsburgh, and
they're going on the road again. So I understand or
we can be a little wary, but I just don't.
I don't think that's gonna happen again. It's not gonna
happen again. Let me say that five fumbles is just insane. No,
And so I was listening to ESPN this morning getting ready.
I don't know which one of the analysts that it's like,
why are we flipping out about c J. Stroud? He
fumbled five times in Texans dominated performance. Now, I think
it's too flippant to say that, frankly, because I think
the talent quality between like the New England's offense can score,
Pittsburgh's offense can't score. I mean, just because they had
that one good game against Baltimore does not mean that
the Pittsburgh Steelers, ever, all of a sudden, went Wow,
we have this really complex offense. It's gonna be hard
for the Texans to discipher game. Yeah, but you're playing
against a real football team on the road. They have
what fifteen wins now this season. I mean, it's gonna
be a different ballgame. Is also to say it's true,
for as the caller said, if they do that, if
he does that, they're gonna lose. But it'd be very unlikely,
very unlikely that he's going to turn the ball over
three times again. And by the way, somebody texts me,
I can't tell this person's name, but said there is
somebody in this market and he didn't know who it was,
which is kind of weird. Said that Davis Mills should
be considered of CD shruggles this week.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 4: I would be a barring health. No barring health. I
mean I'll get granted. Yeah, it can cuss, Yes, can't
move his right leg. Sure, utterly shocked those are you
calling for Davis Mills. It's stupid, Davis Mill. I'm sorry,
it's stupid. I was going to a soft pedal throttled
I like that. I mean, look, Davis Mills should not
be starting and he should not see the field. No,
Davis Mills is a backup quarterback. You know who said that,
Mister and missus Mills when that baby came out with
its long neck, with its long neck and said we're
going to grow a boy who is going to be
a backup quarterback in the NFL and it worked. He
makes good money. Yes, he obviously was having sex on
a regular because his wife just had a kid. I
mean it's a regular Okay, Well, I guess once is enough.
That's fine. He's even saying why, Well, I'm curious the
brain that would even make that sentence come out of
their mouth. Well, he just had a talking about him
playing football. I was saying about his copulation. He's telling
a good he's living a good life. He makes good money,
he knows his name. He doesn't have to eat food
out of a blender. Yes, he's having regular relations and
he should not start this week, and he's not a
starting quarterback. And he knows that. He knows it. He's
a fine backup. And matter of factus I said on
the show yesterday, he's compensated very well of being a
backup quarterback. He spent he makes good money. He's gonna
be able to retire whenever. That is being able to
walk and talk and chew gum. At the same time.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 4: Strout is the best quarterback on this roster. It's not close.
We can argue the points of is he a franchise guy.
Should they play him six pay him sixty million? But
he is the best option this weekend, and it's it's
not questioned about it. So please, if anybody says, well
you don't give CJ shot, hit them, not like hit
him like to like concustom, but just like like a
bitch slap or something like that, or maybe like a
left hook to the ribs. No, because you could get
you could get broken ribs and you don't get medical
bills about the soft stomach area. That's that's where I
used to punch my brother. Because you're not gonna really
you can't really kill somebody from that, you know. But
did your brother go to your mom and scream that
Ross hit me. No, he beat me up. He hit
me back. So your solution doesn't work out well because
the retaliation comes into place. You gotta fight, Matt. You're
gonna get your ass kick, but you gotta fight. Okay.
I'm just saying, do not trust anybody. Younger brothers out
there know what I'm saying. It could have been part
of the boot looking media. I don't know, but you
just cannot. I thought New Year's Resolution was gonna bring
them up. Jonathan, you still call me on every time
I do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, New Year's resolution was new. It's a new year.
It's a new you. Matt.
Speaker 9: Come on, you know I want you to hold yourself accountable.
I'm glad to stop this here. Yeah, we don't need
to do He's got to teach a man to fish.
I like that from you, Johnathan. Look, he's got you noticed.
He's like, you know what, you can't hold your hand,
your whole his whole life.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, the biggest news story of the weekend
was a bootloker in Jacksonville. I mean, it's just the
reality of it. Oh wait till eleven thirty because I
got something for you guys. Oh oh, nobody got time
for that. I got two things I gotta get to
for eight. Nobody get time for that. Really, yeah, I
may have just had to racked off of the three
things you guys have combined because I'm in a pretty
good spot. My Rockets won last night. Texas is still
playing in the playoffs. At spring training. Run around the corner,
I imagine the Kuks throttled West Virginia even he destroyed them.
I didn't even look, and I can tell you I
mean West Virginia had some good teams around. Uh, what
was it when Bob Huggins was coaching. Yes, but not
an NBA factory in certainly not a team that was
considered a legitimate threat. I gave you. I'm glad you asked.
Here's a final score from last night's game. M hm
the Rockets, excuse me be the University of Houston Cougars.
I got how I got rid of it one by
like fifty No, I mean here it is. It's West
Virginia U seventy seven, forty eight, so I was not
far off. Twenty nine points mins Zusan five and nine
on three pointers. Oh baby, Joseph Tugler Jojo ten and six,
Kingston Plumbings hashtag won and done. It's good for the
Kim palm up to number seven for the Kougs. They
were number seven yesterday. I thought it was ten. Oh
maybe a You're right it was ap they were seven. Okay,
I'm not talking about that. I don't care about AP
and all that. I'm kim Pom guy. Cougar's, by the way,
are now still with no losses in the Big twelve.
Gonna run the table. And as I said, Tody you
the today, the flights are booked and big game tonight
for the Texas Longhorns hosting number ten Vanderbilt at the
mood Really, and that'll be right here on seven ninety tonight, sir.
There was a kids called the mood Yeah, it's rather
disrespectful to the people of the Moody family who paid
for that facility to be built.
Speaker 6: They paid, they been a lot of cash.
Speaker 4: They got buildings there, they got the Moody gardens, they
got all kinds of Moody stuff. Mm hmm. Their fan
bases typically Moody. I just strikes sorry, strike that one
from Hey, can you get rid of that. I'm not
at you. I'm not mad. I'm sorting myself. I agree
with you, Okay. Why do I do that to myself?
It's terrible seven one three two one two five seven night.
Let's get to a little bit on the Rockets coming back,
because they did win a game last night over the
Chicago Bowls seven to one, three two five seven ninety.
Rocket's gonna win last night against the Chicago Bulls among
our topics of conversation, but the focus obviously is on
what's happening Sunday in Foxboro, I said in Foxborough last summer.
I you know why, Uh, because we were making a
trip from Boston to Rhode Island where Carli was camp was,
and the rooms in Rhode Island were rich expensive, so
fox Boro's a little cheaper. Okay, I mean, truth be told,
I got you. It's such a glorious part of the country.
I cannot wait for the Matt Thomas o Ross the
two of us get up there for a week, because
you're gonna be like, this place is amazing. It's not
gonna be in the dead of winter, is it. No. No,
her season goes from August till November, so we're Longeah Okay,
that's that sounds great with the fall the fall foliage. Yeah,
I like that. Because I'm not a big East Coast
fan in general. You know what, I might brain off
of there and take some time off after it. There's
a National Park is up there. Yeah, there's I mean
the whole area. How far is it from New Haven? Oh?
Two hours? Maybe I've been wanting to go there. Apparently.
The pizza's legendary and the casino where our airbnb is
is about ten minutes away, which is they got Blackjack
I'm sure they got it all three to two that
I can't tell you. All right, same, I'm not sitting
if it's not three to two. Don't even argue, Just
move on. I'm not gonna argue with you. Good. I
just like to play William and Cyprus at ten point
fifty on the Mount tomashel Ross, William, thank you for waiting.
A good morning to you, Good.
Speaker 5: Morning to both of you. I wanted to comment on
it was a caller that y'all were talking about the
fumbles with c Day Shroud and.
Speaker 6: What's going on with the Texans.
Speaker 5: Hell come, you know, everybody will take an ugly win,
but it seems like when the Texans do it, you know,
everybody's on top of them. They're own, you know, on
their butt about it. But if that would have been
Canon City, the home's fundling three times, but he recover
a couple of them, they would say, is he's a
hittie player, He's great, that's what the great ones do,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Well, because the Chiefs have won, the Chiefs have won
Super Bowls, I mean there's a difference there. There is
a level of expectation and level of what they've what
you've done for me lately and what the texts have
done for us lately is about out in the second
round of the playoff year after year after year. There's
a difference. There's one team that's won it and one
team that hasn't.
Speaker 6: That's why I understand it.
Speaker 5: But they still say great things about Josh Allen when
he screws up.
Speaker 4: No LA's time I checked. They say Josh Allen is
not going to super Bowl. I mean, William, I think
you're being a little miapic on this. I the criticism
is fair to everybody. Lamar Jackson gets annihilated on the
weekly basis because his team's not gone deep in the playoffs.
Josh Allen has yet to go to the super Bowl
with all the offense he's done. Every quarterback in the NFL,
at least as I see it, and I'm getting you,
everybody's got a different set of eyes. But every quarterback
that doesn't get there gets criticized, and that would include CJ. Stropp. Yeah,
And I would also say, h William, like if we
were doing Kansas City Radio, they are if you're for
whatever reason, the local team, local league gets more criticism
and so we're here on Houston, and we are gonna
look at the things that went negative in that game.
And first of all, we've been very positive I think.
I mean, we talked about how they crushed them. I
said they were gonna steam roll them. I think they're
gonna win this weekend. I mean, how negative can I
be if I say, if I keep saying they're gonna
go to the AFC Championship, how negative is that me being?
And also another thing is this has been a pattern
of these ugly wins, and you have to continue to wonder,
like win's the luck gonna run out? You want to
see pop more positive offensive performances. So I think they're
gonna win, William, But that doesn't mean that CJ. Stroud
played great.
Speaker 6: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 5: And it goes like you said, it goes hand in
hand with any great quarterback that screws up. But it
was an ugly win.
Speaker 6: But it was a great win. You got both sides
of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was also seven to six going into
the fourth quarter. Seven to six going into the fourth
quarter is in fun for anybody.
Speaker 5: No, And I remember, of course, I can't remember what
year it was when Baltimore, you know, they had the
vaulted defense and they were winning games what like nine
to sixteen.
Speaker 4: And yes, two thousand year. Yeah, and that's we've been
bringing that up. Thank you. They can ugly win their
way to the super Bowl. Thank you for the call.
We've talked about this. They can ugly win to a
Super Bowl championship. They could, They've ugly won ten games
in a row. Yeah, it's they can do it. There
is the pattern there. The pattern is also that they
continue to win. Defense is ferocious. All it can all
that matters is the final score. Oh, I want this
to be. It already is an all time defense in
my mind. But they have to cement it. You have
to realize we're talking about this not twenty hours a week,
but nineteen of our twenty hours this week is about
the game. I just went on there and said Texans
are awesome. Texans are awesome, Texans are awesome. Defense is great.
That's not that's not conjuring up conversation. And man, I'm
not trying to start something up. We're just dealing in
every little fast of the game. And the fast of
the game is c. J. Stroud fumble the ball five
times through lost two of them. Through a terrible interception,
and you want him and you need him. I would
think to be better against a team in New England
who actually does have an offense. It has two running backs,
that has two wide receivers, an excellent hunter Henry right,
tight end Stuart and their great there Von Diggs revenge games.
I Von Diggs revenge game. As long as he behaves himself,
you can behave himself. He's fine. He hadn't missed much
time this year. Isn't he like under a house arrest
or something? I don't know? Well, I mean he hadn't
been suspended, has he no?
Speaker 6: Not yet?
Speaker 4: Point being on the field, you have to think about
playing better against better teams. Yeah, if you want pomp
palm coverage, you can find it in this town. Zero
issue with that. But we're not giving you pomp palm coverage.
We're not cheerleaders. It was a good win. The defense
is great. We have said super winning caliber defense all
I mean basically since the middle of the year. We're
talking about going into the upper echelons of all time
great defenses.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 4: Stroud can't football five times. Both statements can be true.
So let me give you this real quick before we
get to Bob sosh. If CJ puts up comp numbers,
not necessarily the fumbles, but comp completion, interception, touchdown, is
that enough to beat the Patriots? How manny touchdowns to
the defense score two but one of them, but one
of them was just as salt on wound. Yeah, you
can't continue to win throughout the playoffs with your defense
scoring more than your offen. What was his quarterback rating?
We know it was in the eighties, but the QB
Let me go, look, QBR is a made up ESPN number,
So I'm kind of like QUBR it's not in no
data point. Is into all be all, But I kinda
it'll tell you like he's only had a QBR over
seventy like three games. I'm gonna go pull this up.
You put me on the spot. It's okay, uh okay.
Quarterback rating was eighty six point seven QBR with fifty
being average was sixty two wo QBR for Aaron Rodgers fourteen. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean, Drake may can can also
throw interceptions and can fumble the ball too, He's done that. Yeah,
but the thought of Aaron Aaron, the thought of Drake
may performing comparable to Aaron Rodgers does not strike my mind.
I don't care how great the defense, and I believe
fumbling five times and losing two does not factor into QBR. Yeah,
so all right, let's go to New England. Next, we'll
talk to Bob Solshi, the voice of the Patriots ten
fifty six at Sports Talk seven Honnie and the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. If you'd like to join us,
we'd love to have you at seven to one three
two one, two five seven Honie.
Speaker 6: Seven is the Mat Thomas Show with.
Speaker 4: Ross eleven o one on Sports Talk seven, Honnie. Let's
spend ten cold a minute. So the longtime voice of
the New England Patriots, a young Bob. So, she and
I were doing college games at the University of Houston
and Rice when Bob was doing the Naval Academy. And
now he is, oh, really, yeah, you guys didn't have
like an anchorman beef. I don't think so that's good.
Let me ask Bob, Bob, we've gotten along over these years,
have we not?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Man, we have gotten along famously, and I think the
history dates back to dare I say, nineteen ninety six
ninety seven Navy at Rice in men's basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as a matter of fact, I sent you the
University of Houston athletic director check Glad Check up to
Navy to finish his career. So it was a gift
for me to you.
Speaker 1: How about that, Well, he paid me to do my
job and you know, will allow me to continue to
do it.
Speaker 6: So I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 4: And a little known fact rosh you to know this,
Bob has offered his spare bedroom when Carl's playing volleyball
next fall, So I was staying with him for I
didn't know that ultimate bus so it Hey, let me
ask you this, and you've heard this, You've heard New
England didn't play anybody. They're going to get their come
up and come playoff time. So how much of that
is now? And in my opinion is that's all The
split was a kind of a mushy argument to begin with.
But how much of that was he rased with beating
the Chargers last weekend?
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people it was, and
I'm sure Matt, for many it still hasn't been erased.
And certainly this will be the most difficult test the
Patriots offense and Drake may are going to face up against.
Speaker 6: This Houston defense, and.
Speaker 1: I think that for a lot of people who've made
the argument that Matthew Stafford is this year's MVP, they've
based it largely on the schedule the Patriots played and
the cut of defenses that Drake may went against, And
certainly he's going to have the opportunity. Obviously on this
stage won't count toward the playoffs, the MVP voting that's
already been done, but nonetheless, I think in terms of
the perception of the outside world. To me, I think
with any team in the NFL, it's just the nature
of the league, the way the schedule is formatted from
year to year. In Upstart is going to benefit from
a weaker schedule. The test of the Patriots and when
it comes to the schedule next year, will be far
more rigorous than it was this season. But the way
the team played against the Chargers, the defense dominated granted
a very porous offensive line and really a quarterback and
Justin Herbert who was beaten and battered coming in and
certainly by the end of that game was a guy
that was really defeated and I don't think had a
lot of help around him.
Speaker 6: No running game.
Speaker 1: The receivers were very unimpressive at times with the effort
in fact, so you know, I think even with Houston,
whether they have Nico Collins or not, and despite the
struggles for c J. Stroud the other night, that's going
to be a far more rigorous test for the Patriots
defensively this week, Bob.
Speaker 4: The Texans and the Patriots met last year in the
regular season, and there were some signs that Drake was
getting his first real golden opportunity and threw three touchdowns
against the Texans, but I'm not going to count that,
think where he made his biggest step up and maybe
just be playing time, maybe just reading defenses. And then
the only thing I think that gives perhaps people some
optimism here is his interception count is not high, but
there have been some throws that maybe he's made like
any other second year quarterback, that make you go, oh,
that could have been a lot worse than it eventually
turned out to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, I think first I'll answer that latter question
and then get to the first part of the question
with regards.
Speaker 6: To Mace growth and development.
Speaker 1: What we saw on Sunday against the Chargers with the
interception and a couple of fumbles. Was the early Drake
May from last year in as well the first part.
Speaker 6: Of this season.
Speaker 1: For example, against Pittsburgh, there were five turnovers by the Patriots,
and there was a fumble very much like the two
that he had against the Chargers that heavy New England's
hopes late in that game, when Drake didn't protect the
ball in the pocket. And then of course there was
the interception the other that had a tip off to
the line of scrimmage, turning the ball over to the
charge at the ten yard line.
Speaker 6: But for the most.
Speaker 1: Part, what we've seen since that Pittsburgh game in Week
three until the other night is the guy who's protected
the football in the pocket. He's had two hands on
the ball, and he's been able to maneuver in the
pocket and hasn't tried to do too much, even as
he's been able to do an awful lot in extending plays.
He's made some remarkable off platform throws, and he's certainly
hurt the Chargers significantly with a couple of long runs
on Sunday night. What I think the Patriots are looking
for in this game is for the Drake May who
was their quarterback between weeks four and the AFC Wildcard route. Now,
as far as the other part of it, there's so
much to get to when it comes to his growth
and development because the team that played the Texans last year,
outside of Drake May and a handful of other guys,
is almost completely different. Personnel around him, the offensive line,
the wide receiver room, the presence of Traveon Henderson in
the backfield, but most notably, it's the offense that he's
in and the caller who's orchestrating that offense from the
sideline in Josh McDaniels. And that, to me is the
most remarkable thing about May's continued growth and development this
season is that he's really started to master a new
offensive system that puts far more on his plate than
the West Coast offense of Alex Van Pelt from a
year ago. And Drake has been able to handle this
offense and really take command of the team. I think
his ability to exercise leadership that's been a big part
of the Mike Vrabel influence on him as a quarterback.
It's reflected by the play of the team. I think
there's around him and you know, he's been able to,
like I said, just really develop in so many different ways.
We saw glimpses of the athletic ability last year. We
saw some spectacular plays, but we saw an awful lot
of instances where he was a young guy that had
only promise and potential and certainly was far from really
being a sure thing. And I think after this season,
for sure, there's no denying that Drake May is this
team's face of the franchise and one of the elite
quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Right now, ross with you here as well, Bob, and
sticking with Drake May, but talking about more as the
matchup with the Texans defense, which, of course we know
one of the best units in all of football, but
where the Texans have struggled sometimes is quarterbacks who can
take off and run with the ball. So just if
you will your your thoughts on how mobile Drake May
can be and will need to be in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting here that there was a
play late in the game where Aaron Rodgers was dropped
by that Texans defense that really suffocated him that the
game went along, and I believe was Troy Aikman at
one point said, you know, if that was the Aaron
Rodgers of old, he would have escaped that rush. And
that's what the Patriots, I think, you know, have an
advantage in Drake May over Pittsburgh and it's certainly a
diminished Aaron Rodgers. And it goes beyond that too. I
think that, you know, for this Patriots team, they've got
to take advantage of the aggressiveness of the Texans at times.
Speaker 6: Play action has got to be a big part of,
you know, what they do.
Speaker 1: I would imagine on Sunday, and I think and I
would imagine it would be a big part of the
game plan going into Sunday's game against Houston here in
the divisional round. That's certainly a big factor that the Patriots,
you know, have that the Steelers didn't the other night
in terms of that mobility of the quarterback. But at
the same time, the Patriots offensive line, particularly the left
side with two rookies Will Campbell at left tackle and
Jared Wilson at left guard, struggled immensely with the Chargers
pass rush, and in particular have had a difficult time
all season long, going back to the preseason in fact,
with stunts and games up front, twists, tackles and ends
on the defensive line, and they have to shore that up,
certainly against this Houston team. I've said to people that
the Chargers were a good defense, but to me, this
Houston defense's visions and the speed with which they play
is really overwhelming. Good times and certainly overwhelmed the Steelers.
But at the same time, the pages has got to
take try to take advantage of that as well with
that aggressiveness.
Speaker 4: Bob Socie with us here on a Sports Talk seven
ninety and I'm curious your perspective on Mike Vrabel obviously
has come in, has won, did win with the Titans,
and what is it? If I'm correct, he does not
call the defensive plays correct.
Speaker 6: He does not know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Core is the defensive coordinator, Yes, Selfty coordinator Terrell
Williams has cancer, prostate cancer, has been dealing with suck.
Speaker 4: What is that that Mike Vrabel went as far as
a leader of men, culture, all that type of stuff.
Can you explain it kind of in more detail? Why
it's different when Mike Rabel comes in the building.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's all of it.
Speaker 1: It's the culture, it's the confidence that he's been able
to cultivate within the team. He's a guy that, for example,
with Ramonderie Stevenson early in the Arama has had a
history of fumbling issues, I think seven fumbles last year
and during the course of his careers, but recurrent problem
for him going back to his rookie season and with
Mike Rabel, he stuck by him and a lot of
people thought get rid of this guy. I mean that
was you know, the large part of what we heard
on sports talk later. But Rabel continued to stay with him,
and you know, even the other night against the Chargers,
Drake May commits the fumble, runs off the field of
Mike Rabel is there, you know, to slap him on
the butt when he gets to the sideline and reassure
him in that moment. Now, he's certainly's had a different
mes adapt to the game, obviously to be better with
ball security.
Speaker 6: But I think to.
Speaker 1: Me, the thing that stands out about Mike and his staff,
and it really extends into some of the people that
he brought into the front office, is that this is
a team that's being developed in his vision, true to
his identity as a player, resourceful player, tough player, smart player,
and a guy that I think is instilled a lot
of old school values, if you will, and the Patriots
with a new school approach. He's a player's coach in
a lot of respects. I think the players, you know,
really appreciate the way that he encourages them to celebrate.
We saw that a couple of weeks ago, guy intercepts
the ball late in the game and they run to
the sideline and Mike Abel says, no, go back out
there and celebrate. He wants them to enjoy it. And
he's invited the fans in to experience this too. I
think in you know, the social media presence the Patriots
have now and what Rabel's done, I think to try
to re energize the local fandom after some really depressing
seasons trying.
Speaker 6: On the Patriots.
Speaker 1: We've been spoiled here for a long time, but the
last couple of years, you know, especially last year was
kind of a rudderless season for the team on the field,
and I think Rabel's just had an effect on all
those different areas. And I mentioned as well, the leadership
that Drake May's exercised, I think, influenced by the head coach,
has really stood out. And on top of all of
that they've brought in players in the draft and hit
on almost all their picks. All the rookies have been
on who were drafted, have been on the roster at
one point or another in the season, and they've had
free agents come in and almost all of them, if
not all of them, have really made positive contributions, including
Milton Williams first and foremost. And I think, you know,
Rabel and his staff deserve a lot of credit for
the evaluation of those guys, but also the development of
the young guys.
Speaker 4: Bob finald question. I mentioned this a little bit ago
on the show. This could be the battle of which
concussion costs the team the most. You've got Christian Gonzales
and concussion protocol, You've got Nico Collins. And again, I
know you won't have a definitive word about Gonzalez until
later today when the injury report comes out. But it
was like the Patriots didn't happen for much of that
game over the weekend against the Chargers. How do things
change if Gonzalez is not clear for the game on Sunday, Well.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, first and foremost, he put
on a post put out a post last night on
social media that a lot of people read into It
was a cryptic post that seemed to be encouraging and
he you know, I think when we saw Nico Collins
card it off, a lot of people jump to conclusions
about him, and I don't think we should do that
about either player. If if both are available, you know,
certainly great, it's gonna be a great matchup. Now, this
Patriots team hasn't played as much man coverage over the
course of the season as we've been accustomed to seeing
Patriots defenses, particularly under Bill Balschit and the really strong
Patriots defense is the way we saw Stefan Gilmour, Durell
Reeves or some of the other better cornerbacks they had
during the two decade one ty log going back to
the first part of.
Speaker 6: The dynasty for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, so Gonzalez is a guy with that capability
of teams, but over the course of the season, Lily
hasn't been utilized in that particular way. It's been a
different kind of defense or zone coverages, some match coverages
as well. But if Nico Collins is out there and
Christian Gonzalez is out there, it's going to be a
fascinating the matchup to watch, and I think we will
see more that we did see more of it against
the Chargers with Gonzales and Carlton Davis try to tighten
things up before Christian left the game. If neither is available.
To me, and this is maybe my own bias, I
think it impacts the Texans far more than it does
to the Patriots because Collins is such a special, special player,
and I think the Patriots can do some things defensively
against the rest of that receiving corps that will allow
them to compensate for the absence of Gonzales.
Speaker 6: So that's the way I see it from a New
England point of view.
Speaker 4: All Right, Bob, thank you so much for the time.
We really appreciate it. Your insights are always valuable. And
I need you to save two tickets for a Patriots
home game in October for next year. If it's somebody good,
I won't expect it like, but if it's like Arizona
or Miami's coming in, save two for me if you
don't mind.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I've got to have court side seats in
exchange for Roady. Let's go, go, go Roady.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say you said courtside for the Rockets.
I mean I could probably do that. If you want
rody volleyball, I'll get to your home. Damn section, I don't
care about that. That's good for me. Thank you, Bob
for the time, as always, friend. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thanks Matt.
Speaker 4: We'll see a letter. Bob Soshi voice of the Patriots
with us here on the Matt Thomas shild Ross good
insights there. He thinks the advantage would be not necessarily advantage,
but the bigger disadvantage would be if Nico could not
go tell me, did you see any in again? We're
gonna We're not doctors, but there was nothing that made
me think this is a quick recovery situation. We're not doctors,
but going straight to the locker room and the short
week is what what makes me not optimistic. Yeah, I
would have to agree with you on that. All right,
more on the NFL and the Texans throughout the course
of the next couple of hours. If you would like
to be with us now, you may do so at
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Ross has
two shut your ball masses up. Jonathan has one. I
need to come up with something. My life is pretty
happy with somebody you're upset about. Oh daily, anybody got
time for shooting under thirty percent from three every game?
That's again. It happened again last night. I know that's
now six straight games or thirty days. It sploded for
twenty nine percent. Great exploded as a relative term, and
they were at twenty three percent going to the fourth.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: I was there eleven sixty on Sports Talk seven, ninety
eleven twenty one on Sports Talk seven, and he thanks
again to Bob Soshi. I will never be a Patriots
fan because I just I just can't. But I just
love that area. They Hey, don't we have angry for
Patriots fan? Where's that guy? I haven't talked to him
in years?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: You guys had a falling out after that? No, none
at all. Shall I reach out to him after the
big dust up? Humm?
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I forgot about angry Patriots fan. That's I think. I
hope he still lives in the year. I have not
talked to him in a long time. He drinks lots
of Guinness. I mean, just like like literally it's motor oil.
Does he drink a lot of motor Do people drink
a lot of motor oil? But I mean, don't you
drink Guinness. It's the thickest beer out there, right, It's
pretty thick thick beer. It doesn't have a hot abv
by the way, which people think because of its right
of its stoutness, thickness. I'm not a big porters and
stouts guys. I love I pas blonde ales, pale ales.
I've tried with ips. I can't porters and stouts. I can't. Yeah,
I know you, Matt, because you were like you like
cranberry drinks. I wish I could get Vodku. It's a
different you have to I will admit, yes, if you're
just tasting it, it's you have to think of it different.
It's kind of like people who get into wine or
cigars or whatever. You have to look for the notes
and and kind of taste what's happening. You will be
very happy with me. In one of my rocket road
trips this year, one of my great friends, Eric Castleton,
is the voice at the Memphis Grizzlies. He and I
when a bunch of other people went to dinner and
he brought several bottles of wine to the restaurant with him,
and I felt bad because there was not a lot
of wine here. You don't drink wine. Well I did
that night. Yeah, and I really enjoyed the smashed. I
didn't say smashed, but it felt good. We were drinking
red with cabernets, peanuts. We were we were having a steak.
Don't you're asking the wrong person? Point ping? Is that
perhaps I'm maulback you done? Yeah? I couldn't be, but
I mean I could keep going, but I want Was
it a Bartles and James? No? Is it a Zema?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Stop? I'm naming types of wine. I know you're naming
types of teenager drinks. I know I am all right.
Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven. I don't
get shut your ball. Mass up coming up in about
ten minutes. Right now. George is with us on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross George, Good morning.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, so hey. Quick aggression regarding Guinness. If
you've ever had a black and Tan, you know that
the Guinness floats on top of a lagger. So Guinness
is actually less dense than lagger. Even though it feels thicker,
it's actually less less mass per volume than the most
laggers are.
Speaker 4: So even though it feels thicker, west mass. Thank you George.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 10: So, what I was one of the things I'm concerned
about is the Texans continuing to have the offensive line
pre start penalties. And it's one of those things. Maybe
I feel too strongly about it, but to me, it's
kind of like the way jose L Tuvey manages to
get picked off at first base.
Speaker 6: It's one of those.
Speaker 10: Things where if you're just paying attention, it shouldn't happen.
It's one hundred percent preventable. And I'm afraid that I'm
discouraged to see that those those are still happening. And
I'm afraid that as we go into the playoffs and
you get we're up against teams that are really really
good at execution, that that that's going to cost us
something big. And I'm just wondering what your thoughts are
on why it keeps happening and what the impact might be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Trent Brown offside was bad. The couple first
naps of the game, you could tell he's like, oh God,
this is t J. Watt he got off early, and
I thought they should have called the all start start
the game. They got called one. I don't recall after that,
but there was the the illegal formations and the illegal
shifts they got to stop. Those are inexcusable. You will
even the rules, Yeah, no, the rules of football, and
I can't remember they had six penalties for forty four yards.
I'm trying to recall whatever else they had a pass interference?
Did they have more pre snat penalties though than the
false start and then the illegal shift. I can't really recall.
The game generally speaking, was pretty well played for Texans wise,
but yes, the frustration, illegal formation and illegal shifts cannot happen. Like,
read the rule book of football and then follow those
rules of the football. Pass interferences are going to happen,
then start. You could probably get holdings on every call occasional. Yeah,
the occasional false start on the road especially, you don't
want it to happen, but it does.
Speaker 6: Just do.
Speaker 4: You don't want it to layer me tonsil level. But
illegal shifts and illegal motions are inexcusable. If I've been
I think that the pressure ramps up. I think to
have to look at every single human element gets into
play on this Ross. I don't all of a sudden
see a team that has had formation and motion issues
all year long, all of a sudden behaving themselves in
January when the when the uh pressure of winning these
games and playing and performing is even a higher level.
I just don't. I think the Texans are due for
one to two per game. I again, it didn't mean
much to me this week because the Steelers offense couldn't
do anything, so I didn't didn't bite them, But I
will say it makes things more difficult for a quarterback
when it's third and three to go to third and
eight because of something said like a shift penalty shift shift,
shift penalty shift, A lot of shift issues. I don't know.
I thought generally speaking, everything's amplified. Ross though they did
a pretty good job of not causing themselves too many
mistakes except for the fumbles, and that's that is totally excusable.
To have those issues happening this time of year is
is hard to watch. Yeah, there was the shift, as
I mentioned, there was the false start and then the
the holding, but not a lot of that, not illegal
man downfields, not a lot of nursery had a fourth
quarter fall start, so to fall starts, two false starts
and one illegal shift. That's hell and Army tunsilll had
that in the first quarter most likely. That's pretty good. Yes,
that's not ideal, but that's not terrible. Two false starts
on the road, one illegal show. To me, that was
about the penalty. It was was the fumbles that were
just inexcusable. But I'll say this, and they're gonna have
that's gonna be in the back of their mind. It's like, guys,
it's like, guys at putt and you missed that four
foot putt a couple of times. You're gonna be thinking
about that four foot putt over and over and over again. Wow, Okay,
like when Tiger Woods had the yips for a little
while there. Well, it's like when second Basement have a
hard time throwing the first basin on occasion. We saw
that here a few years back. Now you can correct
that they did. But but but that was a weird sound. No,
I know, it's like like a lamb or something. It
was like one of the bud Wiser frogs. Yeah, there's
a real current reference for you. Jonathan's like, yeah, I
always feel like we got a passing through. Jonathan.
Speaker 6: I like this though. I like this.
Speaker 4: It's like a filter. The young lad, Jonathan Alan, You're
gonna be the young lad forever. Sorry.
Speaker 6: This.
Speaker 4: So, we have a new young sales associate with us
here in the office. And this morning she was singing.
She was singing a song yesterday when I saw her there,
sings it and she's like, she forgot I said, so.
Then this morning I saw her, I said, name the
oldest person you know that sings songs, and she said
John Cash. Yeah, John Cash, I said, John Cash. She goes,
she goes, Johnny. I said, that's everyone in the hallway
heard it too. Feel bad, yeh, the young kids. I
used to have a sportscaster guy that I used to
listen to watch and goes, Matt, you need to do
a better job of going back and learning about the
sixties and seventies in the NFL. You are gonna lose
credibility because you're not old enough to know the stuff
from yesteryear.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: It's frankly the opposite way. Unless you make dated references
the better. Yeah, let's get you current, Matt. I think
I did a pretty good job by a song. Yeah,
I mean, let's see when was good Times by Chic
No seventy eight songs, never gonna change, just the general
topic of converstations. Oh my music taste is never gonna change.
You can't change me on that. But like, I mean,
if you're like, if you're calling a show and you're
referring to the Texans win, is like when you watch
the Olders win eighty one against the Bengals in a
water cart, get colors like that every week? What do
you talk about? I'm just saying that this is harder
for the younger folks to kind of catch up on
that kind of thing. All right, next half hour, Oh ooh,
you're gonna tell some people to shut their bomb asses up.
And ain't nobody got time for that. You got something
on your mind. Remember, Brad calls. You get to go
in front of Brad. At this point, Brad is not
with us. I mean he's with us, with us, but
I mean he's not with us on the phone lines.
If you want to tell somebody to shut their bumb
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on seven on eighty Jonathan, I'm gonna let you go
first this week, my friend. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 9: I'm I'm talking about the Liam Cohen and Lanne Jones
turping the Jacksonville Free Press interaction. Yes, and if y'all
don't know what happened, basically went to the press conference
and she had the opportunity to ask some questions, instead
encouraged him after it felt like he was looking down,
and you know, Blase, Blase. The problem I have is
all the hate from other media and journalists that are
saying that she's fake media or so it's embarrassing that
she did this, and it's for an organization which I
have a big gripe about because reporters and journalists as
a whole get upset when it's just coach speak and
it's just they're Oh, they're not giving us answers and
not doing this because you guys don't treat them as human.
And frankly, it's less professional to get your emotions in
the way of reporting the team that you're reporting because
they lost. In your mac is out of game, went
the Liam Collins human and that's what they That's why
she got the clicks. He now, hold on, I gotta
get my thoughts together. I apologize. Now, she's the main
reporter for Jacksonville. She's her his main guy because he
she treated him just human. And that's what the problem
is the media and social media. You want the clicks,
you want this. Oh, for the people that are actually working,
it doesn't make any sense because at the end of
the day, you're recovering the team. The team lost. You
don't gripe and go on the team because the team lost.
You're not there doing it. All you're there is reporting
the news and what went down and what the coach
has to say. So for everybody that says that, and
I've seen so many tweets even locally that they think
is fake media, ships a bum mess up.
Speaker 6: Ship jo bumm mans up man.
Speaker 4: Just disgraceful. Oh disgraceful.
Speaker 2: Ha ha.
Speaker 4: I will talk, So I'll follow up. Because so it's
called a press conference because it is for the press. Now,
first of all, I understand both sides on this is
a press conference and you were supposed to be in
there covering. It's for the coach making immediate availability. This
goes back decades to where you want to get press
coverage for your games. You make the coach available. The
coach asks is ask questions about the game, what's going on,
and then they answer questions about the game. And to
get behind into this press conference, you basically need to
be credential media, which especially in years past, was getting
behind a velvet rope. You were getting access that people
don't always get to, and you're doing it in a
work capacity. People are there to work. Availabilities are short,
and you need to get your quotes, for your stories,
for your whatever. That's what it's supposed to be there for.
This reporter did did not use the press conference for
what it is supposed to be for. It is not
there to console the coach, to tell him everything's gonna
be okay, to mom him and tell him, you know,
just baby him and say it's okay, you had a
great season. That's not the purpose of the press conference.
So that's why there are many people in media who
are reporters who have gotten angry about this. Johnthan I'm
gonna have to respectfully, completely one hundred percent disagree there
was compassion there. This is a woman. I don't know her.
I've never heard of her before. She seems like a
very nice person. I've seen her in a couple of
media interviews since then. It was the wrong place and
the wrong time. There is a time and a place
to do that. First of all, she's not a beat reporter.
She works for a newspaper where she covers a variety
of things, but her main job is not to cover
Jacksonville jackson Jaguar games and foremost, secondly, the press conference
is a ten to fifteen minute opportunity for those people
that do cover the team, whether it be television, radio,
or newspaper, to ask questions directly related to the game itself.
And granted it was only twenty or so seconds. And
again that's me. It's the big thing about this is
this is not This is not the most embarrassing thing
I've ever seen in my life. I see way more
embarrassing things with the fake media in Houston, Texas and
I ever seen in Jacksonville in Florida. I'm just gonna
tell you that, point blank, it was wrong. She's sweet,
Liam Caln was awesome about it. It was just the
wrong place. It just wasn't It was just not the
right place to do it.
Speaker 9: And I agree with I agree with that point. But
to your point with Texans media and how I think
it would be ten times worse what we see now
when you're just like, oh you did a good job, coach,
d da da da da da da and just getting
on boot licking them.
Speaker 6: We have.
Speaker 4: We have boot looking media in Houston, Texas, and I
don't respect them.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 4: I can't speak to the Jacksonville people because I've never
heard of this woman. But again, I'm going for a
one particular situation. All I know is is that every
city that I've lived in Jonathan has bootlooking media. They
just do and they get the credentials. Frankly, sometimes in
most cases they don't deserve the credentials because teams are
looking for friendlier media to be nice to them, they're
gonna be a little more lenient. Now, again, if this
woman was with the beat every single day and going
every single practice and all that kind of thing, even
that wouldn't even that would even make that big of
a difference because it still is the wrong place. But
she's not a sports reporter. She's a general assignment's reporter
who happened to be given a credential for the game
because she works for a paper in the Jacksonville area
and that's where the that's where.
Speaker 6: The rub is.
Speaker 9: Twenty seconds of encouragement, not the place, you're correct, but
it should not ever get this much national attention and
hate it Yeah, the boot looking.
Speaker 4: Sometimes hate and anger is a little much. But to
say the wrong place, wrong time, it'd be like, uh,
the president is in front of us and we're all
working in the media, like hey, hey, I just wanted
to say you're doing a job, You're an awesome president,
you're amazing, you're you're you're you're just doing fantastic and
you can never do wrong. Like that's that's not the
time nor the play right And look, it's not easy
for my I don't know if this woman has a
relationship with Lamb Collen. She could have easily gone to
a PR director and said, hey, I want you to
let him know or I'd like to talk speak to
him personally. They could have easily said no, you you
just can't do it. But again, I'm not so upset.
There are so many people that get lost their minds
over it that for twenty seconds, Okay, goofy made a mistake.
Let's move on. And that is another thing why some
media members are getting so angry, because there used to
be more prestige as far as being a credentialed media member. Jonathan,
I'm interrupted, but I'm gonna finish this real quick.
Speaker 6: On you go.
Speaker 4: The credentialing for media in sports today is a joke.
Compared to where it was twenty years ago. You had
to have qualifications. You don't have to have qualifications anymore.
And that's where that's where people Jonathan are so upset,
is because every time Dick and Harry that's invaded data difference.
But it is what it is is getting in now
when they need to have some qualifications. There are people
that cover the Houston Texans And I was told this
from a very stage person and I'll keep it to
myself who told me this. If you are consider yourself
a media, you have to report to somebody. You have
to report to somebody that says your job is to
cover us. If you are your own website, you are
not a member of the media. You're just not. That's
my thought, and that's the.
Speaker 9: That's the thing with and that's what I almost say
is real quick times are changing in journalism and media
as a whole. It's no longer like that, and it
never won.
Speaker 4: But even in a million years, with all the additional
media that's out there, in a million years, it will
never be okay for her to say what she said.
Speaker 9: I'm agreeing with you on that. Okay isn't the right place.
I'm talking about the hate she's getting four doing so.
Speaker 4: No, I don't hate her. I mean I don't even
know what she does or who she does. I think
people are relating it to their own city. And here's
the thing, Jonathan, and you're a defense on your side
of this bunch of cranky media. People need to get
out of their stick, out of their asses. I mean, honestly,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So if you want to.
Speaker 4: Argue about the vitriol that she's getting. I can buy
that much more than saying what she did wasn't And
I don't think you said she said which was right.
So I'm just saying you can't do that. If you
did it again, then I think the anger would be tenfold.
But I'm again, I'm a quick move around with things
like maybe you don't sense that because maybe I don't
move get on with certain things in my life. But
in this particular case, seeing what she said while being
a mistake, I see it all the time. It's media.
The media is changing. As Jonathan said, it's not for
the better, it's just different. Yeah, but it's not like
there was a bunch of questions that needed to be asked.
Leam Cohen wasn't Cohen wasn't able to answer. It wasn't
like it took any extra time from anyone. It did
go viral, And I also do understand where people there
are people who get credentials who ask these questions to
try to go viral. They record themselves and they say,
look what I ask coach who are not necessarily media members,
and they use this, try to try it as a
platform to try to build their own brand. They're doing
it for themselves. It's self aggrandizing. And I'm not that
woman was not doing that, but you could see how
this could be a bad example to where people who
are credentialed media members who are actually working and getting
paid want to try to not have somebody just out
there in press conference is trying to go viral for
their own sake. So that's it's it's a nuanced conversation.
We didn't spend any time on it this week, and
while we wasted this whole not wasted by waste. We
spent this whole segment doing it. But we we still
have more to get to. We got to get to
your two yes, and I got one, and we got
to get to the phone seven one three two one
two five seven honey more, We're shut your bob mess up?
And anybody got time for that next? Seven one three
two two five seven ninety ross? What is the matter
with you? I can't wait for this? You have two
things usually are struggling to get one. So I went
home to my wonderful apartment on Monday, says, and I
walk in and the whole place smells like paint. I'm like,
what the Heck's going on. Then I'm walking my living
room and my shower curtain, plus the shower rod is
on the ground. What the heck's going on? I walked
to my bathroom. It's all completely sealed off with like
painter's tape and some sort of like film covering the paint,
and it's this very strong, pungent smell of paint. I
check my email, nothing from maintenance or the building. I
check my text and I see if I missed any calls. Nothing.
I call the office by the way, they don't pick up.
I walked to the office. They're out to lunch, and
eventually I had to come back to the work because
I had to go to the bathroom. By the way,
we had to come back to work. That's personal, but
both I'd be more two than one. Then go ahead,
And I finally call them and the manager's like, I'm sorry,
what room were you?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Uh? What unit are you in again? The contractor painted
the wrong battub. They were not supposed to be in
my apartment. They busted in there, threw my shower curtain
on the ground, painting my battub. I'm getting a massive
headache from paint fumes. Because they went to the wrong build.
They went to the wrong building. Ain't nobody got time
for that. I could not sleep in my apartment. They
gave me the key to a vacant place. I went
in with a blow up bed. I got horrible sleep,
all because these jack holes don't know which bed, how
to read numbers on the front of an apartment. Ain't
nobody got time for that. That was annoying, Matthew. How's
your bathtub? By the way, it looks immaculate now that
lets some gain right. I've had the windows open for
two days, blowing airfan in the house, trying to get
the fumes out. But that was annoying, Matthew. I'm sorry
to hear that. But you got a fresh tub out
of it. Yeah, it looks good. God knows. It was grimy.
It was as grimy as our West Palm Beach Hotel
bathtub a couple of years now. And that that was rust, man,
It wasn't bloodstains, it was rust, That's what they told him.
It was bullet wos bullet debris. Yeah, I think I
had a couple of kidneys cut out in there for
the black market sale. All right, what's your second thing?
Uh second one. You know, I put out a tweet
a couple of weeks ago saying the Texans were coming
to the AFC Championship game. It was just a nice,
pleasant positive It was a prediction. First guy to ever
make a prediction on the radio, on the on the internet.
According to Steelers fans who were all up in my mentions,
bookmarking my tweet, sending me gifts of Aaron Rodgers doing
his discount double check and then what happened in the game,
Nariya peepe from one he is shut yo Bama us
up Steelers fans who were crushing me on the internet
for a week and then don't say a single word
when you're wrong. And I said they were going to
steamroll your team, and they did.
Speaker 6: Suck it.
Speaker 4: Steeler Nation, get them, and now your coaches stepped down
from your toxic organization. I don't think the Steelers are
toxic fantam situation. Yeah, fans and your girl fans are
kind of big, but that's a different issue for a
different times. What they're not green Bay big, but they're bigger.
They're number two out of thirty two. Who's number one?
No green Bay? Who's the ugliest? Is Green Bay, Okay,
who has the hottest fans?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Any of the California teams. There's no Chargers fans. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
oh sorry, hey. Do you think if you've been to
it in La? I know people that live in La
John And I'm sorry, they're like third or fourth place
in La. Okay, Niners Raiders and then charge them. I'm
going to assume that Miami Dolphins girl fan is hot.
I'm gonna I'm gonna assume that ell Rams female fan
is hot. Yeah, I'm gonna go probably with a Phoenix
cardinal fan is hot. I think Miami's got to be
number one. Miami's got to be one. So let me
take out Miami story very quickly for the phones. So
Kim and I miss and we were just I don't
think we even had kids. Went to go see a
Monday nine game in Miami between the Colts and the Dolphins.
And we were sitting in a section and when a
girl would get up to get out of her chair
to go up to the bathroom or go to concession stand,
some of the dudes around us would either applaud or
stand up in applaud as they were walking up and
down and you died from ribs to the elbows that night.
Elbows to the ribs, I should say she actually said,
I get it. You get a lot of elbow drops. Well,
we were young in marriage, of okay, it wasn't a
lot of that. You know, what are you doing, Matt,
It was we were young in love. It was you
have to put your blinders on. Started at Fairfield in too.
Speaker 6: That's a that was.
Speaker 4: That was when budget. Yeah, I'm gonna guess that wasn't
on the beach. I don't think it was. I think
I think it's a Warefield on the beach. Now beach
we're saying on South beach, this rocket trip coming up.
I've never been. I've never tendentally been to South Beach before.
Oh yeah, I've been, and nice. I love my Miami
is the greatest people watching city. You see these big,
ugly gross chain wearing mosible shirt under unbuttoned with these
hot Brazilian models. Oh my god, unbelievable. Yeah, if you
want to feel fat, go to La especially, go to Miami,
or go to uptown Dallas. That make you feel fat too.
Speaker 2: Very Yeah.
Speaker 4: But they're getting LiPo section yeah, but they got the
yoga pants going, oh my god. Yeah, but at least
at least you can see my face when it smiles.
You can tell a difference. James, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 12: Yeah, When Matt, when you go on vacation, which you
truly deserved, we get the Matt Thomas Show without Matt.
When Ross goes on vacation, which she truly deserves, we
get Joan dos And do you really care? You know,
no one's got time for that. When Roster on vacation,
you need to show up because I get my women
advice from you. I get my food avice from you,
get a lot of advice from you. You don't even show.
Speaker 4: No, No, Ross and I have never taken a vacation
day on the same day ever. No, But he's saying,
but you he's talking about the Jonas. I think that
was on the day after Christmas. Yeah, maybe the day
after New Year. Yeah, yeah, that was both of us
were off. Yeah, but no, but normally it's rare. There
could be some exceptions, but normally one of us is
going to be here every day. We're into syndicate unless
it's a holiday. So that was those were company holidays.
That's why we were in syndication. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So
I'm not going to tell you to shut your bumb
mass up over that because you don't know our company holidays,
but I yeah, we would not. Yeah, when one of
us is gone, one of us is usually here. I've
been here too long in any vacations. Two weeks. We
forgot something. I got to say zippo mess up to
Ray in Miami. Oh yeah, that's fine. I don't eve
want to think I was only thinking about him.
Speaker 9: I got he's irrelevant because I know he's still listening
because he did. Thank you such a bomb mess up man.
Speaker 4: Oh get him, get him. Jonathan's all right, and that
shuts your bomb mess up. Hey, we had some good
times at Tota Center last night. We're gonna play some
of the holly. I see what you're doing there and
bring you It's a little professional radio teas Ross. You're
trying to learn here things.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: We got the news at noon coming up as well.
Speaker 11: Ross.
Speaker 4: What is today's edition to believe it or not? Coming
up at one fifty. That's only an hour and fifty
minutes away. Seven one three, two, one two five seven.
NANI is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Davidson on
the side. She was right for Durant with two with one.
Speaker 6: Down the lane, weather righthead hea.
Speaker 4: Left side angle against the coral, bounced past right side
Davison baseline right for Jabari, so let's buy his defender
pulls up fourteen feet away, right side up and in.
Maybe this can be a start of a competence builder
for Jabari. He's got now a total of thirteen one
twelve remaining. Durant three point line right flips a.
Speaker 11: Japari setting, firing and heading a huge three turn row
for Jafari.
Speaker 4: Rock gets up by seven again. Ten comes let's do
it again, Timers at six at five fall away fifteen
foot of a men short fall is loose, saved by Durant,
new fourteenth baseline jam two more two and TAM's in
the rim two and fatic dugs for Kevin Durant, He's
got twenty eight plusvich left hand rebel drive spits it
back out, so Jones a launch of a three day
and the game is up, and that is good, but
it's still going to be hey.
Speaker 11: Rocket twin final score Houston one nineteen, Chicago one thirteen, Chic.
Speaker 4: In the building, well not literally with US comedy. Members
of shak are still alive. Nile Rodgers is alive, and
I don't know any of the other members. He's got
a good tiny desk concert if you want to check
that out. Jonathan won the ten on the song this
is like a cookout classic. Everybody knows the song? Yeah,
who's a cookout classic? If I can old Jonathan Allen
cookout sometime soon, just stick out like a sore throat. Yeah,
are you saying fish out of water on that one?
We gotta get you a little more hip hop. You know,
you know every song?
Speaker 6: It isn't there.
Speaker 4: She's some Frankie Beverly in the maze. Man white guy
shows up singing rap songs at a cookout. That would
be more starling than me not knowing it, Like he's
a white I hate to know those songs? Me coming
in Like, who's the most vulgar rap artist today? Going
like if I was, if I was spinning out Kendrick
Lamar tunes at the cookout?
Speaker 9: You do like King von or something?
Speaker 4: Okay? If I if I came to your cookout with
King Vaughan, uh singing King Vaughn songs that would shock
the entire party. Yes, tell the truth. Yeah, that's why
guy's gotta stay in our lanes. Me trying to sing
King Vaughn probably isn't a good thing. I might, I
might get some respect. Should all right, let's try it.
Twelve o seven on Sports Talk seven nighty time for
us to get you the headlines of the day. With that,
we present to you the news at noon, and with
that we go to the news center where we would
like to have the Scott Van Pelt read our headlines,
and so we have Ross whoa Yeah, way out of
my league is got bad Pelt. But I'm sorry, Matt.
You take what you can get. You take me a
week in Afford. Let's put it that way. Rockets get
the win last night against the Chicago Bulls one nineteen
to one to thirteen. They were cold from three for
three quarters. They did just still shoot third excuse me,
twenty nine percent for the game, but it was enough
as they got the victory. Amend Thompson continues to play well.
He had twenty three points in the game. Jabarsmith Junior
woke back up. Kevin Durant continues to be excellent and
a much needed win for the Rockets. Hopefully they can
rest last night, rest today, and be ready for a
couple of big games coming up Thursday on Prime video.
It is an early It's an early start for you
Rockets fans, season ticket holders, anyone going to the game,
and early start against the Oklahoma City Thunder six thirty,
and then a late eight thirty start on Friday against
Minnesota Timberwolves. Rocket's currently in six in the West. So
a couple of big matchups coming up for the hometown Hoopers. Matthew, Yeah,
four home games in a row coming up, back to back,
the Oklahoma City and Minnesota potential shall I say playoff previews?
I would say so, and then San Antonio to end
the potential that well, potential playoff previews. This game on
Prime Video, then ESPN on Friday, NBC Slash Peacock on Tuesday,
New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday. You're on se GM. Don't
downgrade Craig Vanessa and Ryan I love Craig Vanessa and
Ryan I don't love you. But that's a different issuatiff. Well,
that's to be expected at this point, all right. Elsewhere
in the news, Matt, we have some NFL news going on.
Apparently the Jaguars announcing that they are still planning to
use Travis Hunter on both sides of the ball going forward.
I'd made by prediction that he wasn't going to be
a full time two way player. I was correct on that.
We'll see, but apparently they want to keep doing that.
In the NFL, we mentioned Mike Tomlin stepping down yesterday,
ending his nineteen year run as a head coach of
the Steelers. According to Art Rooney the second, he says
he talked to Mike Tomlin, and Mike Tomlin said coaching
is nowhere on his radar for one calendar year. I
actually no, it won't to be a calendar He'll be
hired next August, so believe him or not sitting ever
he wants. He wants to be with his family and
coaching his furthest thing from his mind, says Mike Tomlin.
According to Art Rooney, the second BS Okay, so you're
calling BS on that one or two years or c
he'll never coach again. I mean because Bill Cower talking
about thought all thought he was going to come back.
He was mentioned for a couple of cycles. Texans. On
numerous occasions, Mike Tomlins made a lot of money he's
spent basically his entirely. You can retire at fifty three
and just enjoy life. It TV money is really good now,
and I think guys are more apt to especially on
the player standpoint. And you brought up Bill Kauer. You
can be with the financial security that you have, not
necessarily needing to coach. You have that passion and you
you have that fire and you don't want to extinguish it.
I get it, But I still think it's one year,
two years, Max. I'll see, we'll see. We all said
the same thing for guys who did I mean Pete
Carroll continues to come back and back and back. I
mean Bill Belichick is wasting his time in North Carolina.
There are guys who just continue to hang on because
that's all they've done and they love I think if
if Mike Tomlin was sixty three, it'd be a difference.
Fifty three a lot left in that coaching tank. All right,
Moving along, Matt, did you see what happened in Milwaukee
last night with the Bucks. The Bucks eventually got crushed
as they lost last night to the Minnesota Timberwolves one
thirty nine to one oh six. Early on in the game,
the Milwaukee Bucks fans were booing the Bucks. Giannasintento Kompo
scores an and one bucket in the start of the
third quarter, and he booed the fans, giving two thumbs down.
He gone. Didn't I say he was gone? He is
so gone? Didn't I say, I think I got fixed?
I think your gut feeling he was gonna be gone.
When your star player begins to boo his own fans
and give them thumbs down after making a bucket, yeah
he's gone. Pretty funny video of him booming the fans.
And the reality is this for those Rocket fans that
are like, we need to make a change, gotta get
a point guard, this is gonna be. If there's gonna
be an active trade deadline, it's gonna be from the
top down. We're gonna see what the top players are
getting the return.
Speaker 6: I e.
Speaker 4: If John Moran gets moved from Memphis, if Giannis gets
moved from Milwaukee to wherever he happen to go. Once
those two deals go down, I think we'll see some
other deals go down. But if those two guys stick
around with their respective teams, I don't expect the trade
deadline to be overly.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 4: Bob Nightingale has been reporting on Kyle Tucker. Yes, I
love to take your time on this one by He
says that the Mets have offered a three or four
year contract that will pay him an average annual value
of fifty million dollars. That's gonna hurt so much. I
have been look, I have lost number best to you
over the years, including getting my head painted, which is
the ultimate low life of my profession's career. Is the
latest bet we had you got your head paint Texas
Texans seven and a half wins you still you owe
me a Deli lunch for that. Actually I need to
cash that in today. I'm hungry, apparently. Bob Nightingale also
saying the Blue Jays made the biggest offer to Tucker,
but now that may be spread out over more years,
which is what we're hoping for mor meaning one more
year Blue Jays. So Tucker wanting over three hundred million
dollars at the beginning of free agency. Of course, the
Mets offer would be about two hundred million dollars. I'm
just telling you. If I win, I'm so sad. It
will be the harassment life I'm blocking you from my
phone and all social media. And you may have take
a day off call sick days. I won't take a
day off. I'll take my medicine. Oh you're gonna take it.
You're gonna be going through a lot of medicine and therapy.
That's fine. I will scar you for life. I'm a
big boy. I can handle it good. Also, Matt one
of the all time great Hornets legends, getting his number
retired in a ceremony in March. Del Curry, who was
a six Man of the Year as a Charlotte Hornet
but zero time All Star Del Curry getting his number
thirty retired by the organization. Your thoughts, I have no
thoughts on anything Charlotte Hornet related. I have thoughts. It's soft.
He played there for like eight nine Okay, I guess
it was ten years. But nobody even knows what denver
Dale Curry wears, except that his son wears the same number.
So that'd probably be your first guess. Zero time All Star,
zero seasons of twenty points per game, probably a lot
of losing those years with the Charlotte Hornets as well.
This is soft. You're retiring numbers should be set for
the holiest of holy organization. But though, who's the greatest
Charlotte Hornet of all time? Larry Johnson, the new version
of the Charlotte Hornets, Larry Johnson, Gerald Wallace because he
was a Bobcat too? Does that count? No Bobcat? Who
was the kid? Chris Paul No, no, no, no, no
terror Rogier, But he's in trouble now, can't Kimber Walker.
Kimber Walker is the greatest greatest Hornet of the new
generation Hornets. I mean, let me go, I can go.
Look dude, now, did they do like a like a
Cleveland Browns and they took all their history back? And
the Pelicans or do the Pelicans have that history? I
can tell you.
Speaker 6: This is soft.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it and as the news a new
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see twelve twenty three On the Matamas Show with Ross,
we were just talking about the television numbers for the
Green Bay Chicago NFL game. Thirty one million people stream
thirty one point six so it's almost thirty two many
the most streamed game in NFL history on prime video.
I mean, classic rivalry, good back and forth game, nobody
seemed to complain too much about Al Michael's on the call. Again,
it's about the game, not about the announcer. I mean
he's sleeping. He's back also next year, No surprise on that.
I got news for you. The only thing that people
of all ages, not just the young UN's not just
the olds. It's it's more difficult to watch a game
going from a stream to a regular television channel. I
was talking to uh Adam Aman, who's the voice of
the Chicago Bulls, does Fox games, and he was in town.
You should calling the Bulls Rockets game. We were talking
about flipping back and forth. Yeah, flipping back and forth.
Get another TV, Mattie. That's what I've been telling you
this much. But not everybody can afford two televisions in
the same room. You can get TVs for cheap. Now
get them for one hundred and fifty. Bus you just
have to connect them and all that kind of thing.
I'll get in.
Speaker 6: I can. You can do it.
Speaker 4: I'll do it for you. Okay, but let's take let's
take you out of the group here, because you're I'm
not rich, I promise you, I promise. My point is
it going from direct TV or cable to your streaming.
It takes about it. You're just not flipping back and forth.
That's the biggest negative.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: The biggest positive is that you can now Like when
I was on a road this whole time, I was
watching games on Peacock on my phone. I was watching
games on Amazon Prime on my phone. It's really so
if you want to do it that way, you could
do a phone or a tablet or your computer with
your TV. But it is it's not like going from
thirteen to twenty six. It's a little more of it.
It takes a little more. But yeah, if you have
a smart TV, it's can operate like your phone. You
go from app to app. But even so when I
go from I have smart TVs in my house, even
I go from normal TV to it's still in Like
if a game is on NETFLI go to the interface,
it goes says Netflix, and this is who's playing, who's
also watching.
Speaker 9: So that's that to me.
Speaker 4: And maybe I think with technology that's going to change
because so many things are going on now that are
being streamed. I got to tell you, I think I'm
going to take a big loss on something I never
thought a streaming service wouldever carry a Super Bowl, And
I think that's going to happen. Someone is one of
these networks. Yeah, you put your name on that. Amazon's
There were two things I put my name on that
I'm really nervous about. I'm pulling the file up. One
was there would never be a Super Bowl overseas ooh,
which to me, now, I don't really care because I'm
not going to any super Bowl anytime soon, So why
would I really care where it is as long as
the game's on at five point thirty on a Sunday, right.
And then I always thought that there would never be
a streaming super Bowl. But the amount of money that
Netflix and Amazon Prime and Paramount Plus and who else
is there who not Hulu but YouTube TV, the crazy
amounts of money, there's going to be a check that
someone's gonna cash, or someone's going to write to the
NFL that they're going to say, okay, let's try it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I think so it's just gonna write. I mean, Amazon's
got unlimited money. I don't know if you can look
this up, but if you can, so, you said Amazon
had Chicago, Green Bay had what twenty one point six million?
What did the other games have because if you want
to be a Nielsen, which is an exact right, well,
both of them are inexact. I mean they're they both
use different they use different measures. I would assume that
maybe the streaming numbers are a little more accurate. I
would say, so, uh, Niners Eagles forty one min This
is ai Okay, hopefully this is relative. That's right. Forty
one million built Jaguars thirty two million, So yeah, Bill's
Jaguars on CBS almost as much as a little more
I mean, sorry, a little more. Yeah, yeah, Patriots Chargers
twenty eight point nine million. So streaming can beat over
the air, which ultimately proves my point. I think that
says if you have a great matchup, people will find
a way to watch the game. Now, well, the casuals
step aside from that maybe a little bit. But if
you're a casual football fan, you know how big last
weekend was. It was Waldcart weekend. If you watch any
football at all, you're you're looking for more football. So
you'd say, okay, you're telling me that the green Bay
Chicago game was on Prime. Soon what I did when
I got to my hotel in San Francisco this past weekend.
I put it on my phone and then I, what
do you call it?
Speaker 6: Cast?
Speaker 4: Google cast it to my TV. Now the picture wasn't
nearly as clear, but I still got the game. It
was fine, So I'm going to take two lost on that.
Speaker 6: I like the Prime.
Speaker 4: The prime picture on NFL looks great, and the Peacock
one looks good too. On my phone it looks spectacle
when I when I grow, when I google cast it
on a TV like at the hotel, wasn't nearly as good. Yeah,
the hotel wifie all right? By the way, the Texans
game is going to be on ABC and ESPN this Sunday,
the early game, Yes, which made me further think that
I know there's lesser games, but can the NFL really
afford to hear from the bitching and owning of the
two teams that play on Monday that have a quick turnaround?
I mean, you tell me hot and the big scheme
of things would one day would would one day make
a difference from Nico Collins? It looked like to me,
wouldn't in this particulation. It could be others, but for others,
for other people, a day is a lot. Yeah, what
a difference a day makes I think, I think it's
going to stay, just because of the giant checks. How
many years has it been now Monday night football Wildcard weekend?
So at least three or four? At least or four? Yeah,
ever since super Walk this is they call it super
Waldcard Weekend. They just call it now regularly. So the
first year was super wild d I'm trying to find it.
I don't know that's okay, point being is this? Yeah,
I I I don't know how big of a disadvantage
it is. Frankly ross, if I'm a team that advances
to the playoffs, I'm happy.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could play the game tomorrow night and
I wouldn't care. Yeah, but Sunday, I mean, that's it's.
It's gonna be travel. Granted they're also traveling on a
big jumbo jet. There's plenty of seats. Uh Hannah will
be in first class, the rest team will be in
an extend and uh economy plus they'll be fine. It
is a long flight, though, they they are gonna be fine.
I'm not worried about it. Why is it that long
of a fight? It's four hours up there? Really? Mm hmm.
I didn't know that. We'll think about New York's three
and a half. See you know you're gonna you're going
to further north. Hmm. Okay, all right, what else on
textan side do we have? Are there? Are they on
the field? For media portions? Have not seen Wex's update here.
He's just retweeting things he said about himself on the show.
That's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All he's putting up is Texans roster movies. Brandon Hill
signed a practice squad. Jalen Thomas released from practice squad.
That's topic gay, Okay. Jalen Thomas walked in here today
and said, Jalen, I'm mad.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 4: You say I'm mad, and you say I'm Ross. He'd
say I'm Jalen. We'd say what do you do for
a living? Jalen? It's nice to meet you. Nice to
meet you. Seem like a nice fellow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I heard you just got released on the practice squad.
That doesn't sound great. No, No, I mean imagine being
on the practice squad this late in the season and
being released. Now, that's more about just transactional stuff as
compared to he did something wrong. Probably rossa thoughts right now,
go says something ross right now. I've said it once
in a thousand times. Eating during the show is so rude,
it's terrible, said Jonathan. He came, he can't. He can't
and argue with me right now because he's got his
mouth full of food. He's still again, what are you
taking a big bite? Try trying to shove that all
in your mouth at one time. Huh out a mighty fall.
It's funny, was calling him Captain Shover. This is awesome.
I wish you, guys, I wish we were on TV
today because he just can't respond. He's still chewing. He
took about a quarter of a sandwich bite in one bite.
I've become everything I hate. Oh yeah, you are a fraud.
You are the second biggest fraud in Houston. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety starving. I know
this show sucks for that. I mean, we fully expect
y'all to eat while we're on the air. In fact,
you should be at lunch today listen to our show. Yeah,
a lot of days. I tried to wait till after two,
but I couldn't. Day two, guys, I got early. I
got her early to talk to my guy, Nick Tamara,
from Sam Houston Race Park. Were going going soon?
Speaker 6: We need to go.
Speaker 2: You want to go?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? You know this weekend or next the big weekend?
The big race weekend is next weekend. I have they
have like a big handy. Yeah see, I shut your
my mass up? Can I even say what I wanted
to say? You go ahead, You're not free, mister busy.
I have something going on every Saturday until early March. Yeah,
but when what's going on this Saturday? Rockets are off?
Got a uh women's basketball game? Or you're calling it's
one o'clock pm PM. Oh, you can come for the evening.
Come to the race Park, blossome steam, get some bets down. Okay,
I got a country band. No, no, this weekend? Is
it the it's the Eagles cover band? Is this weekend?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 4: Really? Yeah, I like the Eagles. We're going to take
it to the limit one more time. All right, back
to my point out, I got your sandwich out of
your mouth there, So let's go to the cities that
are still in the involved in the playoffs. Okay, if
for New England we passed a test, we'd beat a
good quality playoff team. The Chargers are I mean, look,
the offensive line was banged up. Justin Herbert was banged up,
but he was also banged up on their winning games,
so it wasn't like he created his new injury. They
dominated allowed only three points, but as Bob Soci pointed out,
they struggled against the Chargers pass rush, and it's gonna
get It's not gonna get any easier this weekend. Okay,
so you think Boston fan is flipping out over the
fact that Drake May coughed up the ball a couple
of times. Maybe not necessarily flipping out, but not happy
about the offensive line handling a good pass match. Let's
go to Denver. Okay, bon Nicks, that's easy, great season defense, amazing, Hey,
bo Nicks, don't screw it up? Kind of sounds familiar,
does it not? Yes? I mean, are we huge RJ
Harvey fans? I mean, is he like the goat Cortland?
Sutton's not putting the fear in people's defense exactly. But
my point is that's a that's a I think Houston
defense is better than Denver's, but Denver's having the same
kind of conversation that we're having here.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 4: So we trust the quarterback all right, Let's go to
the next one. Buffalo easy, gritty win at Jacksonville. I
just say it is, if I'm Buffalo, how are we
going to handle How is Josh Allen gonna throw against
at Denver defense? And he's fine on the road in
the cold normally. Yeah, I was gonna say weather conditions
except for the thinning or what would be the only
difference in playing in Buffalo as compared to Denver. RJ.
Harvey is their lead dog running back in Denver, but
is he going to necessarily be the difference maker even
though the Buffalo run defense is not very good? I'd say,
what of the four cities that are still left in
the ANFC, I'm gonna go ahead and say it. I
think confidence is the highest in Buffalo. See you say that,
and on its face it makes sense. But let me
phrase it this way. Definite Buffalo Bills fan. With all
the turmoil, there's no such thing. There's gotta be no
such thing as a confident Buffalo Bills fan. They always
have to have it back in their mind. The collapse
after collapse after collapse, even in the Josh Allen era. Yeah,
don't even include the Jim Kelly I'm talking about you know,
just if you're going just to Josh Allen, we have
the golden road is going to end at some point.
I know I'm gonna stick to my guns. I think
of the four cities that are the most confident about
their teams winning the AFC, I think it's in Buffalo.
I think Houston's second. I think I think Denver's third.
I think New England's fourth, New England fourth.
Speaker 6: H H.
Speaker 4: I mean you feel like I'm probably feeling pretty good.
I mean they're all feeling good. They're in the final four.
I'm saying I feel bad, but I mean they're the
biggest favorite. Mating my confidence. I said, of the four,
I think the most confident of the group is Baffles,
already going on the road once in one. But when
I say Patriots fan confident, you're gonna say yes, I'm
gonna say arrogant, yes, yes, all right? Which Yeah. On
the NFC side, you have San Francisco. What are they
complaining about this week? George kittles out, how many more
times can you take an injury and win it? At
what point does the attrition come too much? Rock Party
has been good, but not perfect. Seattle's easy, is Sam playoffs?
Sam Darnold going to show up, right, that's easy. Their
defense has been great all season long. Rams, Why are
you toying around with Carolina the way that you did? Yeah,
you could. You could feel a little bit shaky about
what happened last week? And are you afraid that Chicago
is the greatest comeback team in recent NFL history? And
if it's Chicago, we can't fall behind like we did
to Green Bay. And the Rams have had a good
defense all season. They gave up thirty one to the Panthers.
Gotta be worried about that too. So of the four
teams that are left, who's the most confident NFC team?
Of the four Seahawks? Because of home field, home field,
biggest favorites and sand and great all season, Sam Darnold
has something to prove. You're the one seed, got a
week of rest, but you everybody's got Yeah. No, there's
no perfect team. No, that's the way the NFL is
supposed to be. We said that last week, right, That's
why any of the teams that were in the playoffs,
probably in the back of their mind, said all right,
I can figure out a way for us to go
the whole thing, or I can figure out a way
to lose in the first round, can think of ways
to lose. But every team can say to themselves, why
not US, Houston Texans? Why not US? I would say,
if you were to pull ten Texans fans, seven of
them are extremely confident they can win in New England. Hmmm,
because they can. You know, if they can do they can.
You can go to a sports bar and find ten
Texans fans. You can find the seven and they can
say our defense is the best in the NFL. It'd
be right. The three that you would find that wouldn't
fel so great about it is because they keep waiting
for CJ. Straw to get out of this funk that
he's been in and that the you know, and you're
you're most gonna reflect on something that just happened. And
what you saw happen was some good throws. Yes, the
Christian Kirk, not the other kirk. Yeah, Steven I said
Sam I got his name wrong, Stephen A. Smith. The
fumbles And here's another thing for you is what he
Mark's gonna be able to do the same thing he
did last week in Pittsburgh, like he can do. I mean,
I'm not expecting to rush for over one hundred yards
of the game of the year, but that was by
far his best performance. I mean also, he was like
three yards down the field in a lot of time.
The offensive line got great push they did what. Marks
isn't going to create a whole lot of yards for you.
He can't here and there. But also if you give
him lanes to get going, yeah, he's he can run
like he did Yeah on Monday. He's a smart running back.
He just doesn't have the burst that you're looking for
in an RB one. He's not gonna break you know,
he's not your mere Gibbs. He's not gonna break a
sixty yard er on you.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Might think that's a good comp Seven out of ten
fans are really really confident. The three are are negative
mellies and thinking and they're scared to death. Yeah, close
to seven. Maybe a six does feel low. Seven feels
almost a touch high, So I don't know, it's probably
somewhere around there. Okay, feeling good? I just put a
poll on my Twitter account at sports are Texans plus three?
How are we feeling?
Speaker 6: So far?
Speaker 4: Zero votes because I just posted you know what, do
me a favor, and I know you're gonna be mad
at me for this. Okay, take the points off the
board because it doesn't because BET's because it benning doesn't
matter here. It's about advancing. But I think if you're
picking the Texans, you're picking them to win in this one.
If it was like Texans six and a half seven
and a half, I get weird. So here's what I'm
gonna doing that. I'm gonna do a pew do it
without the without the plus three on there, Okay, and
we'll see how if there's if there's a big discrepancy
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety, I say,
if you've pulled ten Texans fans seven would say their
defense is so awesome it's going to carry them no
matter what the Texans offense does. The three are scared
as hell about what mistakes cj could make. For that matter,
nik Kiley, and I'm really not trying to put c
Jenis in alone category. I'm saying the entire offense and
Nico Collins not playing potentially, are you a seven or
are you a three? Don't ask a girl that, don't
ask anybody that don't. I'm definitely a seven. How about you?
I'm a yeah, seven, I could pass for a seven.
H I know one demographic could pass for a seven.
What does that mean? I saw I met them in
the Lake Charles Casino many years ago. See you're so weird.
Number one, you weren't even there. And number two, the
stories are fabricated, terrible seven one three two one two.
Just because you're being jovial and chatting with people doesn't
mean you're hitting on them. No, they were hitting on you.
That's not true. I didn't say you're hitting on them.
They were hitting on you. Nobody was grabbing anything. The
one woman said, I wanted you to take I'm gonna
take your head and put them between my breast. I
was like, damn girl, this is hold on, this has
not happened. Now you're making stuff up. You're making me
questioned because I was drunk. You almost got me. I
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one on Sports Talk seven, Auntie, let's take a look
at the pole question, Uh, yours and mind you have
plus three? I just put who you got and I
have Texans at eighty three percent, Patriots at seventeen percent. Wow,
I have Texans at eighty nine percent even the points. Okay,
by the way, shoutouts to Chris and Wade. Listen to
the show. They said, that's exactly what I'm doing now,
eating lunch and listening to the show. Thank you very much,
Chicking Wade, thank you lunch timers. You know we had
to do we had to do a contest one day
where people just shoot pictures of them eating lunch while
they listen to show we can got surprise. Well they
get a shout out. Okay, like Wade sent me a
photo what he's eating. Let's see he's got looks like
he's got chicken, fried chicken, green beans, cream, gravy and okra.
Oh it sounds delicious. That does sound good. Really nice
job waiting on the picture there. Now, Chris, we don't
know what you had for lunch. You didn't show us
to us, but let us know. By the way, uh,
the three of us, Ross, Jonathan myself, we're gonna we've
got our j c I get together coming up next week, Yes,
or Jonathan will lose his jc I Virginity. Oh it's
the hot dog doing right. Yeah, we're going when next month,
next Tuesday, before the Rockets and Spurs game. If I'm
sick before the Spurs Rockets game, you'll know why. You
do have a bad track record with jac I certainly do.
I'm willing to give it a second to that game
with you Uh, neither one. I don't know what. I
don't know which one is one of the atoms. Yeah,
they've been boxing me out of that job for too long.
I want to do out there. I want to be
your color commentator. You're too Yeah, but I got to
like poison their food or something you are more than
welcome to. Maybe I'll do it on the road one day.
You want you how to do? Is you have to
lock the door? They lock them in not like that? No, No,
you lock yourself in here. They can't come in here
and do it. I got you. No, I mean I
just mean at the arena. Mmm. Oh, I see what
you're saying. Okay, Yeah, you know, I stick some care
about throwing to the corona spots or whatever I want
to be doing talking about the game. Oh you want
a home game? We've got four coming up. Why don't
you you know when they come in here today to
do their show. Why don't you ask when I'm they
can have a day off now, they can do all
the network stuff and I'll just sit with you. You
want them to do the heavy lifting and you do
nothing but just sit there and talking about the game.
Keep the check. You don't sit next to me during
the game if you want to keep the money. Oh,
you just want to do it just to do Yeah, okay,
I don't, I don't you know. I mean, I'll tell
you what. We have two exhibition games coming up in
the fall that I'm not going to. I believe they're
gonna be in China. Did we not say that?
Speaker 9: Remember?
Speaker 4: That was really yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 4: And Manton Merlin did it with you? And and man
sit with me. You can do it with me? Why not?
Speaker 6: Yes? Now?
Speaker 4: The only ightence was is that that was during our
time slot of our show. Yeah, that was so what
we can knock off? What's the name of the show
we that's on before us? That's uh the morning we
were on six to ten AM show. Yeah, okay, yeah,
they'll take a day off. That's fine, okay, all right
seven one three two two five seven nine zero if
you want to join us seven one three two one
two five seven hoey. We had Bob Socian earlier today.
He is the voice of New England Patriots and if
you missed that conversation, we will be playing that coming
back at one thirty this afternoon. We've got believe it
or not on at one fifty so I'm looking forward
to that. Oh but oh look at what? Can't you
just send us a photo? He's a JCI right now?
Or is it Chili's I can't what is that logo?
Is that where I don't see it?
Speaker 6: Let's sing you.
Speaker 4: That Chili is a j C. I its Chili Chilies,
that's Chilis. Maybe he's getting his baby back, baby baby.
He got a textans hat on and everything for him.
All right, Wexer chimes in Jaard Jordan is practicing. That's good,
it's fine, it's good. Eh, it's fine. Running debt, debt
is good. Woody Mars goes down once a game, minimum,
Nick Chubb goes down once a game. Yeah, I guess
you are how many running backs you're gonna carry?
Speaker 6: Six?
Speaker 4: Weax does not seen Nico Collins or Justin Watson or
Trent Brown. Trent's relaxing. He's like, I can't practice on Wednesday.
I'm too big. Maybe he's practicing snapping on time. What
has Justin Watson ever done for the Texans? Am I
missing something here? I think he's here. He's Savior, Hutchinson's backup.
W He's the best WR five in football. If Justin Watson.
If WEX walked in today and said, what do you
think about Justin Watson not being in practice? I'm like,
is he an equipment manager or what it was? He
not in charge of the team dentist. I think he'd
made a couple returns.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 4: I really don't know what Justin Watson does. I can
go deep on your on your wide receiver depth chart,
I can't go to Justin Watson. Well neither does ESPN.
They have a picture of a black guy when you
go away, look at this big ESPN I put Justin
Watson in. It's the wrong dude. That's so bad. Apparently
what happened on the broadcast on Monday night football. Somebody
sent me a message, did they put somebody on the
starting lineup for the for The textans that yeah, they
put Jimmy Ward in. Jimmy Ward, Yeah, you mean hasn't
played all year long? To Meyward? When they put Joe
Mixon into RB one, I think so, Bob the way,
no one asked this week if Joe makes them available
for this week? Oh man, that's tough. I heard you
guys in money talking about the conspiracy theories about it.
Oh yes, about the rumor that you keep proliferating. Okay,
I don't pull up for it a lot, but what
I do it's usually pretty good. I'm an insider. Okay,
isn't it crazy? It's been since the summer Matt said
he wasn't gonna come back, thank you, Johnathan. That was
in January. I just think that's nuts. Now, Jonathan, do
you think the rumor that we talked about has any
validity to it or you think it was completely made up?
Speaker 9: It's gotta be some type of truth to it.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be, got it. Something bad happened that they
don't want to announce. Something embarrassing, embarrassing and or bad
or just not football. I mean, he's only non football injury.
It is shooting yourself on the foot be kind of embarrassing. Yeah,
Like if you were I don't know, playing volleyball at
the beach and you twisted your knee, we would know
about it. Correct. I'm telling you we're gonna find out
about this. Let's go you well, let's get on it,
mister Texans insider shooting you know, I'm busy with the
Rockets right now. Oh okay, you're the Texans insider So
why don't you know because I told you I'm busy
with Rockets. Okay, you're supposed to say I know, but
I can't. I can't reveal the information at this point. Well,
I do know, but I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Yes, there you go.
Speaker 6: It's better.
Speaker 4: By the way, tomorrow Ross is gonna normally Ross hates
me a lot. He's really gonna hate me too tomorrow
because tomorrow, in the last hour of the show, Space
City Home Network's coming to film the show. Oh really, yes,
are they doing a documentary on you? They're doing a
segment for their Rockets All Access show. That's what I
was gonna sy. They're running out of material on All
Access because it's mid season.
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, they said, let's find something to boost ratings, and
they said, let's get it. Tomorrow's gonna be a day
in the life of me. That's good. They're probably like,
we've been following around Read Shepherd and like we're down
to Josha Kogi, so they're gonna follow you now. That's good. Yeah,
that's cool. They got to fill those hours on Rockets
All Access somehow, so they'll be here to chew it.
They're gonna here to watch me take a nap, which
is gonna be really kind of weird. Are they really?
I tell my take naps after shows and they said
they're gonna film you taking a nap, Well, they're gonna
film me, Probably not the whole thing.
Speaker 6: Probably.
Speaker 4: Can you go somewhere nicer and not just be on
our dingy couch. I have a pill on a blanket
to be fine. But you'll see what my day is
like from the time I finished this show, okay to
the time I call it one o'clock hour, they're gonna
be filming us. Probably they'll be here about one thirty. Okay,
So we're gonna have to I do have to be
like more demonstrative and throw my hand. We're doing serious
sports radio talk scraaw takes. Yeah, accentuate every settle unelab Okay,
so I need you to so I'll be on TV too. Yeah,
but don't take my shot?
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 4: Because it's not a rossfield RAS segment should be I
don't do anything. You should just show up here and
then go home and nap. You should be in the
after you in the back round if you want to
the last hour off tomorrow. You're probably can. Oh you
want me, you know what I can. I can step
out if you want me to step out. It's a
Matt Thomas Show, rods, Okay, we got that. We already
got the sales pitch. It's just the Matt Thomas Show.
So I didn't say that. I mentioned you yesterday. As
a matter of fact, that's what I heard.
Speaker 6: I was there.
Speaker 4: You were in the background taking a nap in my
nap in space. It's fine. Final hour of the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross is coming up. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero The Texans Man. We're
gonna we're gonna just beat this game to a like
a dead toe dead horse. Right, is that the phrase?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 4: Beat like a dead dead horse? What's the phrase you use? Yeah,
beating a dead horse. Beating a dead horse. We're gonna
previous things like nobody because again, nobody else in the marketplace.
The horse is not dead. It's Wednesday, it's the playoffs.
You cannot kill the horse. No, we're not. We got
another hour of this time. We got horse very strong,
very very strong. Twelve fifty seven ninety is.
Speaker 6: The mac Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 4: The only station town that is talking Texans football is
right here at Sports Talk seven ninety. Nobody else in
the marketplace is a lot of bowling conversation elsewhere a
lot of uh weightlifting and uh, I believe Mount West
Conference volleyball has been talked about a lot of the
other stations today. Interesting. Yeah, so we're here to talk
to Texans, but I'm more into a ten volleyball as
you should be. Thank you very much for the reference there.
UH one baseball note and our website, our Twitter out
Sports Talk seven ninety, which is always a good foddo
UH put out some Vegas odds on the MLB free
agent destinations? There are three big free agents that are
still left now that Bregman is going to be wearing
Chicago Cubs gear. They're announcing him tomorrow. He's wearing jersey
number three.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 4: Okay, did what he wear in Boston? He worked two
in Boston. I don't think so. Isn't that probably? I
just assume it's retired with these old organizations. Well, Nico
Horner has been wearing two for the Cubs for a
long time. Okay, So I don't know if you if
he asked for two in Chicago and they sit. Nico says,
such a war two with the Red Sox. Okay, so
this is the first time he's wearing three. Who cares?
People get uniform goofy on it. They get you know what,
they get too much into it. You can wear number
seventy nine. It'd be fine. Yeah, it's funny. I'm not funny.
I don't get into uniform talk too much because I
don't I remember the person at the number. Yeah, like
Kevin Durants won a couple of different numbers. Remember lebron
has worn different Yeah, those are kind of the easy ones,
but there are much more that I just like, Oh,
I don't remember. Some people get into it. Yeah, name
your top number fifty one in NFL history. We have
fifty two days to start an NFL season. We're gonna
go with the Lee Gross Cup Arkansas linebacker in the
nineteen fifties, Bronco Negersky. You almost booked him for radio
row for me. Hey, he's best. Guess I could have
ever gotten the ghost of Bronco Negersky would be a
good kid. Everybody's running around. Hey, the show used to
got Bronco Negersky's big white cloud over us. Yeah, we
will not be at Radio Row. I hope we are. Well,
you'd be going because I have rockets. I can't go.
I hope we are, because there's only one scenario where
we're going, and even then it's I know on here.
You want the guys on this truth peel the curtain back.
If there's any show that would benefit from us going
to Radio Row, would be you going, because it'd be
eight to noon Pacific time. Yeah, the morning show would
be a complete way. Interview Colleen Wolf again, is that
the verbi you're going with? Yeah, interview hmm. So you
want to go interview hots NFL reporters, You don't, I mean,
I would like a video cam. She's very sweet. You
don't know that. Yeah, she knew she could be a
major b and you want to know you can. You
can tell a little bit when you interview people on
Radio Row before, especially before and after the interviews Ryan Leif.
Oh he was grumpy. Oh my god. Now he obviously
was still under the influence because he he just wasn't
in a good spot. But I think he's in a
much better spot today. Good for him. I'm telling who
have we interviewed face to face over the year. I
tell you who was really nice. Christie Teagan, she was nice. Yeah.
I thought Charlotte Flair was just okay mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: Amanda nuniy as Ufc. She was a sweetheart, very nice.
Remember her, she was gonna kick your ass. That doesn't
surprise me at all. I mean, get a real folks
to peel the curtain back one more time before go
back to the odds were talking about this baseball When
Gordy was booking the shows, he got the best guests
for his shows, and then everybody else got a distant second.
We did well, he got you, Emmitt Smith and some
other big names. We went through the list. You just
have this thing where you can't remember when people do
good things for you. I remember, I, frankly remember more
things that have done badly for exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You remember Carl Mecklenburg. You don't remember Emmit's men. You
got Harvey Martin coming on. Oh great, you don't even
remember me getting you Maurice Jones, Drew and James Brown.
Do you remember we had a caller call and ripped
the crap out on Maurice Jones, Drew and he was
literally listening on the air. That was pretty damn good.
That's gold. The funniest moment in the history of radio
Rows is when Bobby Abart and Morten Anderson came over
did the show with him, and it's like, you weren't
even on the show. No, they literally took over and
I didn't care. I had spilled ice cream and fudge
and vanilla ice cream all over our place, Matt. It
was embarrassing. Those guys were talking, Oh wait, where is it,
Santa Clair? We might have to stand in Sacramento with
the reverse rockets. Hey tails are booked. I got commute
every morning, Santo's sack, Santa Clara, Well, I'm sure the
I'm best. I'm guessing Radio Rose in San Francisco. So
you're looking about eighty miles. I can tell you it's
eighty minutes. Get a rental unlimited miles. Now you're going
in morning drive. That could take a little longer. Well,
I'll take the Bart, Bart go up to part You
can't think you can't bart the Sacramento I can't.
Speaker 6: I was all right.
Speaker 4: So if the Taxans go to the super Bowl, there's
no guarantee that Ross will go but if if anybody's
going for the station, it's gonna be Ross and Gordy
and they'll book all the headliners. Yeah, we got you.
So really, I'll benefit from me not being there and
Gordy actually having a give a damn about our shows.
Two tall Jones still alive, asking for a friend. If
Ray Lucas is around, he'll get he'll be on our
show for damn. Sure's us get you how's fits doing
these days? We're going so inside for holding the troit
Lyons quarterback Eric Kipple joining us. I remember Raic Kipple's
Ray Lucas man, and you know, I mean, God love him,
but he's talking about his mental problems and.
Speaker 6: You're like, man, this is terrible. This is not sad.
I want. I want Ray Lucas to be okay.
Speaker 4: Every night since I left the NFL, as hell, I
don't know how I wake up every morning. All right,
that's Ray Lucas. Folks really appreciate him code on the show.
You know, it's not even radio anymore. It's more like podcasts.
All those NFL players do their podcasts, and so they'll
bring their bros on and that's legitimate. Stations get screwed
thus the Ray Lucases and Karl Meckelberger is the world
making that on the show. I'd still like to go.
I don't bear it. I'm good, all right. Quick baseball
note before we get to some of the things, uh
so Vegas odds on MLB free agentet destinations. Cody Bellinger
the favorite of the clubhouse. The new Metropolitans two to one.
Yankees are five to two, the Cubs are three to one,
coming in fourth. The Astros at twenty two to one.
Now maybe a fourth, but they're on this list. Cody
Bollinger is an Astro. You can just strike that. Although
I know that's gonna say A is not gonna care,
might be pissed. Yeah, but Alt had passed it in
a lot of those wounds of heal that was that
was eight nine years ago. Yeah, that's true, all right.
From Bervaldez. Favorites Cubs really, then Mets, then Orioles. Astros
at seven to one, fourth highest on the board. M
you know what really helps you, by the way, with
your hibachi bet. Yeah, it feels like Kyle Tucker would
be the first Domino. The fact that Bregman has signed
now makes me even further think that the that that
Domino is not going to be the first Domino. Kyle
Tucker favorite Toronto Blue Jays, then the Mets, then the Cubs,
all the way down the list of the astros. At
twenty five to one, that'd be literally throwing you want
to light money on fire, go ahead.
Speaker 6: And do that.
Speaker 4: He ain't coming to Houston. Yeah, trust me on that,
all right? One thirteen of the Matt Thomas shil with
Ross if you'd like to join us, and God knows
who need you at this point seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety I'm checking airfairs to Boston
because the Texans are playing the Patriots there. Well, they're
playing in Foxborough. And again, for those who don't know,
you can fly either to Boston or to Providence. Providence
requires a change of planes. You're probably gonna pay a
little bit more to Providence, but you're also gonn get
a cheaper hotel in Boston in Province. You're in Boston,
but it's more of the dude in Boston. All right, Rossie,
we're gonna fly. We're gonna leave on Saturday. We're gonna
come back on Monday. Airfare to Boston from Houston. It's
figuring out, it's laughing. Uh. The lowest airfare to leave
would be Saturday, seven hundred and seventy eight dollars with
a change of planes in Newark seven seventy eight, seven
seventy eight. That's a change. That's not that's not not Newark,
No to Newark, Newark to Boston. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
On the return, you would be leaving at six twenty
one pm on Monday night, so you having to kill time,
which you probably could in Boston's a good time to
do that, and getting back into Houston at twelve twelve am,
and you could pay seven hundred and seventy eight dollars
round trip. Hmm, all right, I'm good. So let's try
his tickets you want to. I'll look up tickets while
you were doing that. Yeah, and I'm gonna look up Providence.
If Providence is any cheaper, that's where that'll be. That's
be Matt Thomas Family Airport for the next four years.
Got some of my daughter's been playing volleyball in Rhode Island.
We're gonna name a wing after you. I mean, at
least Gate Eternal, maybe something like that. I don't know.
All right, so here we go. Let's do this Houston
to Providence leaving Saturday, coming back. Man, this I know
this is great radio, but we're just trying to figure
out KSM. You were thinking about making the trip up there,
thinking about it because it's really a beautiful part of
the country. The weather's gonna be own chilling cold. You
can fly to Providence for six ninety nine, so it
was a little bit cheaper. Plus your hotel's gonna be
a little bit cheaper, your drives about the same. But again,
not as much stuff to do in Providence as there
is to do in Boston. Clearly, get in priced two
hundred and eighty six bucks, and those seats are where
like get that, Like I said, get in top corner.
It don't be kind of funny if you sat Section
TIS out of the seat where the cold Play family
was the couple was that at that stadium? Yeah, it
was a Jilllott Stadium because I was there the week
before it happened. We went to take a tour of
Jilotte Stadium when we were up there for college a while.
But if you want to be like top level around
forty fifty yard line, that's gonna run your seven hundred bucks.
Oh you know what, you can get top level around
the forty yard line for three twenty six. That's not okay.
So let's put this in math. You and the girlfriend, okay, yeah,
you buy two tickets, they'll say the eight hundred bucks
a pop airfare tickets. You said how much of the football? Yeah,
but they'll say for decent enough seats, about three hundred peace, Okay,
sixty hundred plus six hundred, twenty two hundred. You're gonna
get a hotel at probably one fifty nine times two.
That's three hundred. That's another twenty that's twenty four hundred.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 4: Then you're gonna eat, drink and be merry. It's another
three or three hundred or so. So for the low
price of twenty seven hundred dollars, you can be a
traveling Texan and go to see the Texans play in
either fly into Providence or Boston. What was that total?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 4: Sorry? I was ready hundred. I was reading this Spike
email that Gordy sent you, so we have to read this.
But twenty seven hundred, twenty seven hundred dollars. Is it
about the guests of the super Bowl. He got a list,
deet him, Guardy godyet, nobody to read it. Go ahead,
he said, by the way, he corrected it. It's media
rows what it's called now, not radio row o, fair
enough media row. Past guests booked on The Matt Thomas
Show include go ahead, Dan Marino, Yes, Charlotte Flair Yes,
Hannah Storman, Andrea Kramer. That was good, Yeah, it was good.
Carson Palmer don't remember having Carson Yeah, I guess, Marsh
Shlareth don't. That's true, Mark Summers awesome. We talk game shows.
He threw Charles Haley in there. I mean that's good get.
No good, No, No, Charles Haley is not a good get.
I'm sorry, Jeff Garcia for the time. It wasn't bad. Oh,
Jermichael Finley. I took a picture with him and put
my horns up. I remember that, Ryan Leave. This list
is getting a little This list is falling off significantly.
Keep going, like reading the lineup at a festival. Gordy,
you know, like, who the hell are these guys? By
the end of it? Keep going, Uh, Nate Boyer, who, Gordy,
don't put any help your cause here? That's terrible. Bill
Romanowski worked done. Okay, not bad. I'm not even gonna
read a couple of easy but Chris Myers, Oh I
like which Chris Myers textan center or a broadcaster? Yes, okay,
there you go. That's just that's you know what? All right,
I'll tell you the one I didn't read, Don Yee.
That was Tom Brady's agent. Yes, not not terrible frankly
a heavy hitter though, But no, but I'm not gonna
put them on the same list as Dan Marine. Oh,
come about Gordy. You know what I give. I really
give Gordy a lot of agree for no reason. Yeah,
you're rude. He's out here running our station San Antonio, Dallas. Yeah,
he's got love mcdw Orleans. Ben Ruge is crashing on
the Daily industryport. That's not his funn He's not o
r T guy you should be. Is it our social
media he's our social media manager. All praise be to
Chris Gordy. Yeah, we don't want you going anywhere, Gordy.
I don't care. For the love of God, I don't
care if lock onss he wants to give you an
extra fifty bucks. So we have a big hole in
the boat. Let me just say that. All right, let's
get a call him before we hear from Bob Soshier,
the voice of the Patriots. Let's talk to kJ on Setnay, kJ,
what do you got today?
Speaker 2: My brothers from others? I got doing it?
Speaker 4: That excellent, excellent, excellent man.
Speaker 2: Just here you a man, real quick. Anybody that knows
men though, press and foremost I'm an use the sportsman
of everything with the letter age in front of it,
that's it. I have been one of the more critical,
uh individuals with in regards to CJ, earlier all of
last year, but definitely this year in regards to his
shark comings.
Speaker 6: With that.
Speaker 2: With that said, I think I probably narrowed down something
that they can do in the off season to address
CJ shortcomings. Again, we all know that physically he's as
talented as any quarterback in the league. With involved placement
is accuracy, he's so far to so on, YadA, YadA, YadA.
This issue to me, Uh, you look at some of
the younger quarterbacks, the Boroughs, the Drake Mayes. You know
what I'm saying. These guys have someone associated with that
organization that provides mentorship for CJ.
Speaker 6: Demico Ryant.
Speaker 2: As good of a coach as he is, he's not
offense heavy when it comes to the intangibles when it
comes to playing the position, CJ. I think the Texans
and the off season, if they do decide to retain
the offensive coordinator, uh, they need to get a veteran quarterback.
Not necessarily has the backup he can be the third stringer,
but a veteran quarterback who can instill in these days
the nuances of playing quarterback in the NFL, and or
an established offensive coordinator who can instill those things. SJ
has not benefited from. His backup has been Davis Mills,
and kudos, and Davis Mills is a good backup, but
Davis Mills has only been in the league but one
maybe two years while than CJ. So there's still a
lot of and he's been a backup in since I career,
which exception of one year. There needs to be a
backup quarterback who's seen it all, done it all, who's
played it all, who can show CJ's the things that
he doesn't have physically, I mean that he doesn't have
mentally in regard to the position, or get an offensive
coordinator over there who's established enough to implement certain perspectives
that SJ just hasn't been able to learn because he
hasn't had the benefit of a Zach Taylor. He hasn't
have the benefit of some of these offensive coordinators or
Sean Payton, who knows how to play football in his league.
And again, guy.
Speaker 4: Who's the backup behind Drake may that's that's teaching him
how to be a quarterback. Well, the face the backup
behind Joe Burrow, that's teaching him how to be a quarterback.
Garner Minshew backs up Pat Mahomes. That means nothing. Backup
quarterbacks don't your third year in the league. And he
had case Keenum early on, which people have talked about
that as a good man. Case Keenum was a good
veteran who c J. Stroud did have the first couple
of years of his career. I think was because Keenum
here last year he was right or no, he's hurt
all you remember definitely the first year, okay don't. Yeah,
Keenum has been in there. I mean I know that.
I'm not using that as a as any sort of
valid reason why c. J. Stroud hasn't developed the way
that you would have wont wanted. No, no from backup.
Quarterbacks don't carry that kind of weight. Great offensive coordinators
and quarterback coaches certainly, who's the backup Josh Allen has
had and the offensive group that Josh Allen had North
North Carolina quarterback Oh mister, yeah, all right? That yeah,
it was like Nathan he was. It wasn't a Nathan Peterman,
the guy who threw like five interceptions when Josh Allen
was first starting. There was the backup. Yeah, we're good. No,
backups will not make a difference. Starters do, good, quarterback
coaches do. Let's hear from Bob so to the voice
of the Patriots. He's up next. Seven ninety earlier on
the show, we were pleased to be joined by Bob Sochi,
the radio play by play voice for the New England Patriots,
here on the Matt Tom Show with Ross. So let's
go ahead and give you some of that great conversation
with Bob, and I asked him as a good segue
about whether or not people would start to respect the
Patriots normal because they actually quote unquote beat somebody in
the Chargers last week in the World Card Round.
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people it was, and
I'm sure matt for many it still hasn't been erased.
And certainly this will be the most difficult test the
Patriots offense and Drake May are going to face against
this Houston defense. And I think that for a lot
of people who've made the argument that Matthew Stafford is
this year's MVP, they've based it largely on the schedule
the Patriots played and the cut of defenses that Drake
May went against, And certainly he's going to have the opportunity.
Speaker 6: Obviously on this.
Speaker 1: Stage won't count toward the playoffs the MVP voting, that's
already been done. But nonetheless, I think in terms of
the perception of the outside world, to me, I think
with any team in the NFL, it's just the nature
of the league the way the schedule is formatted from
year to year. In Upstart is going to benefit from
a weaker schedule. The test of the Patriots and when
it comes to the schedule next year, will be far
more rigorous than it was this season. But the way
the team played against the Chargers, the defense dominated granted
a very porous offensive line and really a quarterback and
Justin Herbert who was beaten and battered coming in and
certainly by the end of that game was a guy
that was really defeated and I don't think had a
lot of help around him.
Speaker 6: No running game.
Speaker 1: The receivers were very unimpressive at times with the effort
in fact, So you know, I think even with Houston,
whether they have Nico Collins or not, and despite the
struggles for CJ. Stroud the other night, that's going to
be a far more rigorous test for the Patriots defensively
this week, Bob.
Speaker 4: The Texans and the Patriots met last year in the
regular season, and there were some signs that Drake was
getting his first real goald and opportunity and threw three
touchdowns against the Texans, but I'm not even going to
count that. Tell me where he made his biggest step up,
and maybe just be playing time, maybe just reading defenses.
And then the only thing I think that gives perhaps
people some optimism here is his interception count is not high,
but there have been some throws that maybe he's made
like any other second year quarterback, that make you go, oh,
that could have been a lot worse than it eventually
turned out to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, I think first I'll answer that latter question
and then get to the first part of the question
with regards to Mace.
Speaker 6: Growth and development.
Speaker 1: What we saw on Sunday against the Chargers, with the
interception and a couple of fumbles was the early Drake
may from last year in as well the first part
of this season. For example, against Pittsburgh, there were five
turnovers by the Patriots and there was a fumble very
much like the two that he had against the Chargers
that heavy New England's hopes late in that game when
Drake didn't protect the ball in the pocket, and then
of course there was the interception. The other had a
tip off the line of scrimmage, turning the ball over
to the Chargers.
Speaker 6: At the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, what we've seen since that
Pittsburgh game in Week three until the other night is
the guy who's protected the football in the pocket. He's
had two hands on the ball, and he's been able
to maneuver in the pocket and hasn't tried to do
too much, even as he's been able to do an
awful lot in extending plays. He's made some remarkable off
platform throws, and he certainly hurt the Chargers significantly with
a couple of long runs on Sunday Night. What I
think the Patriots are looking for in this game is
for the Drake May who was their quarterback between weeks
four and the AFC Wildcard route. Now, as far as
the other part of it, there's so much to get
to when it comes to his growth and development because
the team that played the Texans last year, outside of
Drake May and a handful of other guys, is almost
completely different. Personnel around him the offensive line, the wide
receiver room, the presence of Traveon Henderson in the backfield,
but most notably, it's the offense that he's in and
the play caller who's orchestrating that offense from the sideline
in Josh McDaniels. And that, to me, is the most
remarkable thing about May's continued growth and development this season
is that he's really started to master a new offensive
system that puts far more on his plate than the
West Coast offense of.
Speaker 6: Alex van Pelt from a year ago.
Speaker 1: And Drake has been able to handle this offense really
take command of the team.
Speaker 6: I think is.
Speaker 1: Ability to exercise leadership that's been a big part of
the Mike Vrabel influence on him as a quarterback. It's
reflected by the play of the team. I think otherre's
around him, and you know, he's been able to, like
I said, just really develop in so many different ways.
We saw glimpses of the athletic ability last year. We
saw some spectacular plays, but we saw it an awful
lot of instances where he was a young guy that
had only promise and potential and certainly was far from
really being a sure thing. And I think after this season,
for sure, there's no denying that Drake May is this
team's face of the franchise and one of the elite
quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Right now, ross with you here as well, Bob, and
sticking with Drake May, but talking about more as the
matchup with the Texans defense, which of course we know
one of the best units in all of football, but
where the Texans have struggled sometimes is quarterbacks who can
take off and run with the ball. So just if
you will your your thoughts on how mobile Drake May
can be and will need to be in this matchup.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting the other night there was
a play late in the game where Aaron Rodgers was
dropped by that Texans defense that really suffocated him as
the game went along, and I believe was Troy Aikman
at one point said, you know, if that was the Aaron.
Speaker 6: Rodgers of old, he would have escaped that rush.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Patriots, I think, you know, have
an advantage in Drake May over Pittsburgh and it's certainly
a diminished Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6: And it goes beyond that too.
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, for this Patriots team, they've
got to take advantage of the aggressiveness of the Texans
at times.
Speaker 6: Play action has got to be a big part of,
you know.
Speaker 1: What they do, I would imagine on Sunday, and I
think and it would imagine it would be a big
part of the game plan going into the Sunday's game
against Houston here in the divisional round. That's certainly a
big factor that the Patriots, you know, have that the
Steelers didn't the other night in terms or that mobility
of the quarterback. But at the same time, the Patriots
offensive line, particularly the left side with two rookies Will
Campbell at left tackle and Jared Wilson at left guard,
struggled immensely with the Chargers pass rush and in particular
have had a difficult time all season long, going back
to the preseason in fact, with stunts and games up front, twists,
tackles and ends on the defensive line, and they have
to shore that up, certainly against this Houston team. I've
said to people the Chargers were a good defense, but
to me, this Houston defense is vicious, and the speed
with which they play is really overwhelming. Good times and
certainly overwhelmed the Steelers. But at the same time, the
Patriots has got to try to take advantage of that
as well, with that aggressiveness.
Speaker 4: Bob Socchi with us here on a Sports Talk seven
ninety and I'm curious your perspective on Mike Vrabel obviously
has come in, has won, did win with the Titans?
And what is if I'm correct, he does not call
the defensive plays correct, he.
Speaker 1: Does not know core is the tons of coordinator. Yes,
self coordinator Terrell Williams has cancer, prostate cancer, has been
dealing with.
Speaker 4: So what is that that Mike Rabel went as far
as a leader of man culture, all that type of stuff.
Can you explain it kind of in more detail? Why
it's different when Mike Rabel comes in the building.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's all of it.
Speaker 1: It's the culture, it's the confidence that he's been able
to cultivate within the team. He's the guy that, for example,
with Ramaderie Stevenson early in the year, Ramonders had a
history of fumbling issues, I think seven fumbles last year
and during the course of his crisp recurrent problem for
him going back to his rookie season, and with Mike Rabel,
he stuck by him and a lot of people thought,
get rid of this guy. I mean, that was you know,
the large part of what we heard on sports talk later.
But Rabel continued to stay with him. And you know,
even the other night against the Chargers, Drake may can
if the fumble runs off the field and Mike Vrabel
is there, you know, to slap him on the butt
when he gets to the sideline and reassure him in
that moment. Now, he's certainly's had a different mesage actter
the game. Obviously to be better with ball security. But
I think to me, the thing that stands out about
Mike and his staff, and it really extends into some
of the people that he brought into the front office.
Is that this is a team that's being developed in
his vision, true to his identity as a player, resourceful player,
tough player, smart player, and a guy that I think
is instilled a lot of old school values, if you will,
and the Patriots with a new school approach. He's a
player's coach in a lot of respects. I think the players,
you know, really appreciate the way that he encourages them
to celebrate. We saw that a couple of weeks ago.
Guy intercepts the ball late in the game and they
run to the sideline and Mike Able says, no, go
back out there and celebrate. He wants to to enjoy it.
And he's invited the fans in to experience this too.
I think in you know, the social media presence the
Patriots have now and what Rabel's done, I think to
try to re energize the local fandom after some really
depressing seasons. I know, the Patriots we've been spoiled here
for a long time, but the last couple of years,
you know, especially last year was kind of a rudderless
season for the team on the field, and I think
Rabel's just had an effect on all those different areas,
and I mentioned as well, the leadership that Drake May's exercised,
I think influenced by the head coach, has really stood out.
And on top of all of that, they've brought in
players in the draft and hit on almost all their picks.
All the rookies have been on who were drafted, have
been on the roster at one point or another in
the season, and they've had free agents come in and
almost all of them, if not all of them, have
really made positive contributions, including Milton Williams first and foremost.
And I think, you know Rabel and his staff deserve
a lot of credit for the evaluation of those guys,
but also the development of the young guys.
Speaker 4: Bob finald question. I mentioned this a little bit ago
on the show. This could be the battle of which
concussion costs the team the most. You've got Christian Gonzales
and concussion protocol. You've got Nico Collins. And again, I
know you won't have a definitive word about Gonzalez until
later today when the injury report comes out. But it
was like the Patriots didn't happen for much of that game.
Over the weekend against the Chargers. How do things change
if Gonzalez is not clear for the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that, you know, first and foremost, he
put on a post, put out a post last not
on social media that a lot.
Speaker 6: Of people read into.
Speaker 1: It was a cryptic post that seemed to be encouraging,
and he you know, I think when we saw Nico
Collins card it off a lot of people jump to
conclusions about him, and I don't think we should do
that about either player. If both are available, you know,
certainly great, it's gonna be a great matchup. Now, this
Patriots team hasn't played as much man coverage over the
course of the season as we've been accustomed to seeing
Patriot's defenses, particularly under Bill Bullshit, and the really strong
Patriots defense is the way we saw Stefan Gilmour, Durell
Reeves or some of the other better cornerbacks they had
during the two decade one Thailand.
Speaker 4: And again Bob Sosh the voice of the New England
Patriots with a great perspective on things on the New
England side. Again, no Nico Collins today at Texans, at
least to the media shooting portion of the practice. But
again for him to be out there would be a
complete surprise. Pleasant surprise, but would be a complete surprise.
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