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Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go right to Nick Cassio NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 3: I just say, you know, really proud of this team,

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really proud of what we accomplished, Really proud of what

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we've done organizationally. A lot of work that's gone into this,

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A lot of people are involved in that process. But

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you know, we've had the best three year stretch in

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the history of the franchise. I mean, certainly, we don't

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take that likely lightly. You know, we understand there's still

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some work in front of us, and that's a challenge

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that lies ahead. The reality is, the more we're playing

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games in January, I mean, that's where we want to be.

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You like to be playing a few more games in

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January and February and ultimately, like that's the goal, that's

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what we're all striving for in this league, and ultimately,

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like we feel like we're more than capable of being

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able to do that. You know, now we're kind of

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flipping the page here a little bit and focus on

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the twenty six team build. In that process, it'll be

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very fluid, as you all know, there's a lot of

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different things that take place. But you know, I think

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it's important for everybody, and Demiko mentioned it the other day,

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just I think from where we started the resolve the

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leadership that he displayed. I mean, I think this franchise

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in this city is lucky to have the head coach

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that we have. I wouldn't want to work with any

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other coach, be a partner in what we're.

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Speaker 2: Doing, and he makes me better.

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Speaker 3: I mean I probably don't make him better, but I

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think we've got a great relationship.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of respect for one another.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot of the same philosophical beliefs and

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what we're trying to do and what we're trying to accomplish,

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and we understand there's work to be done. And that's

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what kind of this offseason is about, just kind of

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looking at everything that we're doing, figuring out ways this

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is something we can improve, whether it's individually, whether it's collectively,

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whether it's schematically, whether it's personnel wized. But I mean

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what the players accomplished this season, I mean some of

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the historical relative to the franchise, relative to the league.

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I mean, we'll like the second team in the history

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of the NFL to start owing three and make the

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Divisional round. I mean that says a lot right there. Now,

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that doesn't mean that we're satisfied with being there. You know,

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there's more work in front of us. But I mean,

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I think we're all proud. I'm certainly proud to be

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associated with this organization, and you know, we got a

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great program. I'm proud of our program. I said this

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before the season started. You know, when we met in

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the tenth there in August, we felt we had a

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good team.

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Speaker 2: We had a good team. We have a good team.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of good players coming back, excited

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about what's in front of us, excited to get started

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on twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Just a couple of injury things. Just because I'm I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: I'll be asked about him, and I think the Meek

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we got asked about yesterday, so as it pertains a Joe.

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So here's what I would say. It was a very

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unique situation. I don't think anybody really had any clarity. Honestly,

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from the start of the year until now. I'd say

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Joe worked very, very hard to try to get himself

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ready to play football. It just never manifests itself and

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came to fruition. So probably have an opportunity to kind

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of see where he is in the off season relative.

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Speaker 2: To next year.

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Speaker 3: But again, it was very it was as unique a

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situation an injury as I've been associated with. And it's

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just I don't want to call it a freak thing,

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but it's just kind of a freak thing. And Joe

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worked really hard, you know, gave it, put his best

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foot forward. It just it didn't work out. And then Tank,

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other day. I mean, Tank's doing awesome. He's been in

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the building every day. I mean a matter of fact,

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he's here today. He's got a great attitude. We would

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anticipate him being ready for the start of the offseason program.

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So he's great spirits, got a great attitude, good player.

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Speaker 2: So you know, I'm sure he's excited. He can't wait

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to get started.

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Speaker 3: Sew him yesterday and he had a big smile on

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his face, like basically like all right, you know now

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it's time, you know now because we're focused on twenty

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twenty six. So just I mean, I'm sure I was

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gonna get asked about him, so I figured I would

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just you know, address those couple.

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Speaker 2: I would say injury. You know, situations? All right, go.

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Speaker 4: Ahead, Why is there uncertainty requiring this situation?

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Speaker 2: And do you bring that is there for? As far

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as what regarding his situation? Who were talking about him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we haven't seen Joanes a little bit, so I

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think at some point we'll see him and then we'll

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be able to evaluate kind of where he is and

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then based on information, we'll kind of see what the

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status is moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Want to bring him, have him back in the canon?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's under contract, so we'll evaluate the

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situation and then you know, we'll see where it goes

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Speaker 5: We're talking with him and he's obviously.

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Speaker 6: Amber contrite about the game. He feels bad. As an organization,

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what can you do to help him get to where

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you hope.

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Speaker 5: For what you believe that he can be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think every player of the off season is

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about improvement and what are some of the things that

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you can do better?

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Speaker 2: CJ had a really good season.

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Speaker 3: He's done a lot of great Things's done a lot

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of great things for his team, a lot of great

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things for this organization. Anytime that you passed John Elway

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in terms of you know, what you've accomplished in a

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short period of time. I mean like you talk about

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like Hall of Fame quarterbacks. So CJ played good football

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this year. Honestly, it wasn't our best day as a team.

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When you go back really and look at the game

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from Sunday, KAA turn the ball over and you look

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at the divisional round the teams that turn the ball over,

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they lost the game.

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Speaker 2: Buffalo turn it all over how many times? Four times?

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Speaker 3: Rock Purdy the Niners turned it over three times, Caleb

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through three interceptions. So in the end, like the most

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important and then our ball security. I think this is

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a franchise record for at least amount of turnovers. So

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we've shown that we can take care of the football.

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We did a poor job of it in the game

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the other day and ended up costing us. It's still

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an opportunity to win the game despite how poorly we'd played,

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which I'd say that game was emblematic of kind of

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maybe the first three games. When you go back and

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look at those first three games of the season, that's

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what happened. So I think the reality is is what

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can we do better? Individually? And as a player, you

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got to look at what are some of the things

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you can work on and what are some of the

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things that you know you can do to improve your performance.

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So again, I think taking care of football for a

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quarterback like you're you're and we talked about this, Miko

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period under story every single play. And if you do that,

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you're gonna give your team a pretty good opportunity to win.

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Speaker 2: If you don't do that, it's probably gonna be a

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little bit harder.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Drake put it on the ground the other

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day a couple of times, but unfortunately we put it

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on a ground more and that's why the result was

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the result.

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Speaker 7: The last three season.

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Speaker 8: Over the last three seasons, you all have done a

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lot to build this defensive definished with a number one

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overall defense this year. How can you duplicate that type

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of success on the offensive side of the ball And

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how much of an emphasis will that be in this offseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're focused on building a good team. I mean,

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that's what we do every year. So we got a

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lot of good players on offense, so I mean we'll

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try to put the best team together we can for

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the twenty sixth season and go out there and try

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to play, you know, winning football. So any end, it's

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not about offense or defense or special teams. It's all

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three phases. Everybody's involved. We got a lot of good

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players really throughout the building. So in the end, it's

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about how do you execute with the opportunities that we

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have on each Sunday or Monday whenever we play, and

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that's what the focus will be.

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Speaker 2: Don to go back to Joe Mixon for a minute,

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with what you know now about the situation, would you

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expect that he'd be able to.

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Speaker 9: Play next season?

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Speaker 3: It's honestly hard to answer that right now because we

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haven't really seen him in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: So it's on point.

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Speaker 3: We'll see him, we'll probably get a better idea, maybe

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do some follow up you know, examinations and get more information.

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able to make a better assessment. So what you haven't

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seen him so much, all the other injured players were

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around the decision. Actually that's not correct. We've had some

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players that we're here, we had some players that weren't here.

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point we'll have an opportunity to visit with all of

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our players and before the twenty six offseason starts, at

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some point we'll have an idea where everybody stands go ahead.

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Speaker 10: Later one from obvious slowly last year and went to

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Speaker 9: Do you feel validated in that decision?

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Speaker 3: And is Nick Kyley or are you comfortable and saying

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he's gonna be cal him plays in twenty twenty six. Yeah,

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I would anticipate Nick being here next year. You know,

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I think Nick learned a lot, you know, first opportunities

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to play caller. I'd say offensively probably the last two

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to three months of the year played pretty good football

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and did a lot of good things. So there was

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growth and improvement. There's always areas that we can improve

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and get better. And that's what I mean. Demiko mentioned

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the other day this first next couple of weeks right

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after the season is kind of looking at everything, go

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through you know, the coaching staff, go through other aspects

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Speaker 2: Is there anything that we have to do? All right?

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Speaker 3: Then we'll look at some things schematically, start to go

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through the self scout, try to figure out, all right,

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what are some of the things that we did well.

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the other side of the ball basically goes through and

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watches their respective side. So like the defensive coaches will

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basically go through and watch an entire offensive season. Offensive

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coach will watch the defense, and it's basically just for observations. Hey,

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through that lens, what do you see, Hey, what are

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some of the things that we did well? What are

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some of the things that cause problems?

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Speaker 2: What are some of the things you know?

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Speaker 3: What you know, it's maybe a little bit less of this,

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whether it's schematically, whether it's personnel wise, and there's good communication.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great exercise.

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Speaker 3: We actually we didn't do anything like that in New England,

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but I think there's some teams that do that. So

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what we're trying to do is say, hey, we know

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kind of where we are as a team. And I

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think sometimes when you're working on one side of the ball,

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you maybe see it through one lens. Sometimes when you're

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on the opposite side of the ball, you see you

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through a different lens. And I'd say the rapport amongst

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the staff is really good, so we can communicate honestly

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and openly with each other. So it says a lot

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and honestly it speaks to who Demiko is. So that's

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what we're going through right now. So yeah, i' to

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anticipate Nick being here you know, next year, and all

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of us are just trying to improve and do we

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can to make the team and the organization better.

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Speaker 11: Do you think that you guys are doing everything you

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Speaker 9: Shape his development?

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Speaker 11: Because I know with with young players, that's that's the key,

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it's the key time in there right in their career.

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help him to continue to develop?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, in the end, we're trying to

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do what's best for the team. Like, this program's not

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about one individual, so we're not building a team based

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on one person, one facet of anything. We're trying to

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look at the big picture. Yeah, it doesn't affect I

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mean how we look at the team. So what do

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we need to do to build the best team possible?

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Put the best team together and then give ourselves the

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opportunity to compete on a weekly basis, which we've certainly

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done that. You know, we put ourselves in a good position.

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In the end, I'd say our shortcomings come down to execution.

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game the other day. Can't sing the ball over five times?

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We control that. I'd say the three touchdowns that New

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England scored, we didn't play the coverage or the technique

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the right way on the calls that we've done countless times.

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So in the end, like, we've proven that we could

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do it. But in games of that magnitude, the margins

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are as small as any and you either make the

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play and do the right thing or you don't. So

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any end like, and the players know that too. Talking

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to some of the players on Monday, they know it,

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and when they're articulating it, that's what you want to

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see and that's what you want to hear and which

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tells you you're on the right track.

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Speaker 2: So in the end, it's about the team.

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Speaker 3: Let's build a good team and in the end, but

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get the best fifty three guys. And like we've talked about,

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we talked about in October, we talked about it for

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the season. Whoever comes in this building, at some point

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they're probably gonna have to play. So and that's where

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we try to build as much as depth throughout the

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roster because at some point we're gonna need everybody. So

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this program's not about one person. It's not about one individual.

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It's can we put the best team out there? Because

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any end, the team that wins the Super Bowl is

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the best team.

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Speaker 2: That's the truth.

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Speaker 12: The contract extension with CJ a goal of your front

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office set all the summer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd say, like contractually, you know, we haven't really

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talked publicly about anybody's contract. I would say every situation

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with any player is kind of case by case, So

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we'll handle business how we handle business. So you know,

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everybody's in kind of some different categories, so we'll kind

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of take a case by case and kind of deal with,

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you know, one player at a time.

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Speaker 6: What about Will Anderson's junior He expressed a desire to

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be here for his entire career.

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Speaker 5: On Monday, his body of work. What do you think

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about Will?

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Speaker 6: Just the hope to obviously keep a good football player

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like that as long as you can't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, similar answer. I mean we'll kind of take it

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case by case. I mean Will is a good player.

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I mean we drafted him because he thought he was

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a good player, and he's been a good player, and

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he's improved each year. So again, I mean, there's never

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a linear path on any of this. So you know,

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I'm sure you guys would be calling the agents all

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the time asking what the hell is going on? But

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you know, we'll kind of take it one day at

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a time and try to figure out, you know, what

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makes the most sense for you for the organization.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, yeah.

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Speaker 9: Go from a standpoint of just knowing that you don't

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have to get a contract extension of with them, or

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would you at least consider looking at their VID your

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options to pick up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's some things just business wise I'm

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sure we'll look at and discuss. So that's kind of

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the off season about so, I mean there's a timing

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element that's involved in some of that. So kind of

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work through it here, you know, I'm sure throughout the

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course of the spring.

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Speaker 4: On the first time we.

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Speaker 13: Say it earlier off in the side, you guys, you know,

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MAT made a lot of changes, some works from data

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commune perspective. How do you feel so overall about the

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personnel change?

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Speaker 2: Just the first part of the question, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 13: From offensive person else stand for you that's made a

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lot of change in the last office to miss office,

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say this season, some works of getting film here was

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start helping you overall analyze how some of the moves

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that you made over the offensive line for several role

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kind of unfolded black the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we feel kind of we got contributions from everybody.

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Speaker 3: Probably the big wholesale change or overhaul, you know, was

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the offensive line. We talked about that, you know at

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different points. We talked about in October as well, you know,

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because it kind of coincided with the you know, the

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Cam trade and that. But I mean, in going back

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to the spring, I mean, Dimiico and I both felt

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we would have a pretty competitive group. We felt that

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it would be improved. You know, in any end, we

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end up with like one player that started who had

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I know, Titus played multiple positions, but Titus was really

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the only player. The rest of the offensive line was

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a number of new players are changing spots. I mean, overall,

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I'd say that group certainly improved. I think Cole did

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a phenomenal job with that group, him and coach Unzer,

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and we ended up kind of like we talked about

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that are using everybody, you know, and eventually it kind

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of settled down once Tate was able to kind of

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settle in the left tackle.

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Speaker 2: Tate played really good football.

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Speaker 3: I'd say he made some young football player mistakes and

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there's some things technique wise that he can certainly improve.

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would go out there and play pretty good football, and

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he did. And I'd say, you know, Jake Andrews gave

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us a good level of play. You know, he probably

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played honestly hurt, probably played on one leg for about

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half a year. Just kind of speaks to his toughness.

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And Ed, I mean, Ed had a good year. He

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probably had his best year. He's a free agent, you know,

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kind of to see how that goes. So, I mean, overall,

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certainly improved. There's always things that we can do better,

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but we got contributions from everybody. You know, Blake had

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to go out there and start against the Chargers, played

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pretty good football. Me and j Patt, we've always kind

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of viewed him as a swing guy, kind of inside,

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sort of that sixth seventh offensive lineman. That's kind of

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the role that he had. So we have some players

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who will be free's in that group. We have some

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players under contract for next year, so you know, I'm

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sure there'll be some different players in that group next year.

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But we also have some guys that you know under

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contract that are coming back, so you know, looking forward

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to kind of putting that group together. But I mean, overall,

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like they were improved. I think the past protection was improved,

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certainly was improved relative to last season. So it's always

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a combination of factors involved. There's personnelity, scheme, there's a

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lot of different things. It's not one particular thing, but

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overall that that group played you know, pretty competitive football,

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you know, from kind of start to finish.

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Speaker 4: Then when to just clarify something you said earlier, because

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I'm not sure to you said you anticipate Nick Caley

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coming back, has a decision to be made, because Miko said

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he take your week to decide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working through it right now. I mean no,

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that's I mean to me when.

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Speaker 3: I talk every day, So I don't think I'm like

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speaking out of school here. So I mean if I am,

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then you know someone will beat my ass.

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Speaker 6: So I think with a football injury, as a nation,

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can you dispose what happened to Joe is it something

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that you guys don't want to disclose it to a

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reason why we can't just have what happened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I would say he didn't do anything off

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the field. It wasn't like he was riding like a

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snowmobile or anything like that. I'd say it was just

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more of a medical condition or situation that just we

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never it really didn't improve, maybe as much as everybody

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would have hoped. I mean, I'm not trying to like

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evade the question. I think that's the reality of the situation.

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So like, he didn't jump off a building, like he

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wasn't cliff diving or anything like that. He wasn't doing

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anything irresponsible. It was just it was a freak thing. Honestly,

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I've never seen it. You know, it's just the condition

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help that.

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Speaker 2: Situation will improve before next time we'll see.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'll believe me, I'm not smart enough to

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be a doctor, so I mean, I'll leave that up

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to the medical experts. And you know, once we going

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back to some of their questions, we get a little

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bit more clarity, more information, then we'll kind of see

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where we are moving forward.

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Speaker 11: Earlier, and that you anticipate him in Ringing Cross all

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of that. You guys have a superb, you know, performance program.

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Do you have any indication that you expects you to

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be able to read.

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Speaker 2: At a high level?

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Speaker 11: I mean, I know you don't know the answers all over,

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but what do you know about that?

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Speaker 3: It's a good question, TVD. He's worked very hard, you know.

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I think our performance group, I mean they do. I mean,

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they do a really good job, and I think the

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players feel that. So we have the resources available, and

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each player is a little bit different, So what's required

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for one player might be different for Tank and like

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his situation, but I mean I would anticipate him being

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available for the off season and then really April May

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and you know, June probably better idea. Once you get

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on the field, you probably have a better visual representation

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of what that looks like. And then if you clear

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that hurdle, then training camp is more of like, okay,

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what does this actually look like? So knowing Tank, I mean,

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Tank's probably cautiously optimistic that he's going to be able

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to go out there and you know, be tankd L.

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You know, I think everybody's hoping that's the case, but

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you never know. I mean, injuries are like, none of

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us control injuries and kind of what happens. So but

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I mean, everybody's rooting for a tank and he's worked

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very hard, he's had a great attitude. So excited to

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kind of see him out there moving around. I think

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nobody's more excited than he is. So it'd be good

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once we actually start moving and getting on a field,

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getting on grass and see what that looks like.

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Speaker 14: What goes into your process of evaluating a player and

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maybe some projection as to what that player can do,

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and then how that affects Hey, we have the guy

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in the building, maybe we want to go outside the building.

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How do you kind of go about that?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 14: Obviously everybody hopes their guy gets better. Sure do you

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build in sort of all the different factors of the projection?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one hundred million dollar question, But no, it's

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you have to go off of what you've seen to

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this point. And I'd say with younger players there certainly

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is a projection element, but if they have a body

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of work that you've seen, then you have to project

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a certain level of improvement and growth that you hope

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takes place. It doesn't guarantee anything, so then you look

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at your team, what the expectation is you think for

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the role. And as we begin to free agency, all right,

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supply and demand, what's available? What are our options? Do

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we have an option already in place that's comparable to

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what else is on the market.

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Speaker 2: There's an opportunity to upgrade that. The draft is kind

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of its own entity.

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Speaker 3: I think our philosophy on the draft is just good,

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good football players in here with the right mentality and

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the right mindset, regardless of the position that they play.

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That's how you know, we approach it philosophically, That's what

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de Miko and I believe in, and that's kind of

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how we'll go about it. But yeah, you have to

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take inventory of what do you have, who's played, who's

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under contract?

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Speaker 2: All right? What does that look like moving forward?

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Speaker 3: I would say, as we say, I think we have

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right now fifty five fifty six ish players under contract

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for twenty six. It doesn't mean all those players are

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going to be here. But if we had to line

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up and go play a game tomorrow with those fifty five,

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what does that look like? How do we feel about that?

476
00:20:08,519 --> 00:20:12,160
I say, certain positions just from a volume standpoint, excuse

477
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,799
me feel pretty good. Other positions, we just don't have

478
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,799
a lot of supply, So all right, whereas that supply exists,

479
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,960
so where do we go find it? So it's a

480
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,720
good question, but that's kind of a balance, and that's

481
00:20:24,759 --> 00:20:29,160
kind of what we work through here, understanding even whatever

482
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,799
we think it is, and we go to training camp,

483
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,160
something changes, something happens, and there's a player that's gonna

484
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,400
end up on his team in November and December that

485
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,720
we're not even thinking about our talking about. That's part

486
00:20:39,759 --> 00:20:41,839
of the calculus. Like JaMarcus Anger this year, d Moon

487
00:20:41,839 --> 00:20:44,319
and Clark like players like that. And I would say

488
00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:46,440
those are a little bit more need based, like, hey,

489
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,839
we lost a player with our options, you know, in

490
00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:52,319
the spring. It's a little bit more of like there's

491
00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:56,279
a vast array of people available, all right, free agencies

492
00:20:56,319 --> 00:20:57,079
kind of step one.

493
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Speaker 2: All right, what does that look like? All Right? The draft?

494
00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:02,559
Speaker 3: That's step two, all right, and go from there. I mean,

495
00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:05,240
we've got what eight, call it eight picks. I'm sure

496
00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:07,839
that number will change, but let's call it eight draft picks.

497
00:21:08,599 --> 00:21:11,039
You know, how many players we have in a contract

498
00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:14,519
undrafted free agents? So the players can kind of come

499
00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:17,400
from everywhere. So that's kind of how we'll go about it.

500
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,119
I hopefully that I answers your question a little bit.

501
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 8: But you talk about you talked about the success that

502
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,400
the team has had over the last three years, and

503
00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:27,200
you ought to have been able to do that because

504
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,599
of some of the contracts that you have right now.

505
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,200
But you know, coming up, you're gonna have to just

506
00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:34,400
organization's gonna have to spend a lot of money to.

507
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 2: Keep some of the talent that it has.

508
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 8: At what point do you feel like the window of

509
00:21:39,319 --> 00:21:41,039
success is going to start to close.

510
00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:45,079
Speaker 3: It's always open in our book. So I mean, you

511
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,240
can build a team to marry the different ways. So

512
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,880
contracts or contracts, you can fit them. However you need

513
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,880
to fit them. So how do you keep good players?

514
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,559
What does that look like? There's a little bit of

515
00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:57,960
a balance and okay, how are they structured?

516
00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 2: You got to stagger them. I mean look around the league.

517
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 3: I mean there's plenty of teams that have highly paid players,

518
00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:06,039
like eight to ten of them. I mean the Lions,

519
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,880
like they got a good team. They had a down

520
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,079
year this year, but I mean I got some of

521
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,759
the best players in the league. You know, they found

522
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:12,519
a way. So there's always a way, Like you got

523
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,279
to be creative, you try to think a little bit ahead.

524
00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:19,200
I mean we've sat here, we've talked how we kind

525
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,440
of look at the team building in two year increment.

526
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,400
It's not like, well, here's the window. It's more of

527
00:22:23,519 --> 00:22:26,519
like just the contracts. What do those look like? Okay,

528
00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:29,039
some contracts are gonna run off, some are gonna come on.

529
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,160
All right, how do you balance that off? So, I mean,

530
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,799
in our book, the window is always open. So we're

531
00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:35,880
gonna try to put together the most competitive team possible

532
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,079
every year. However we do that, you know, we'll fit

533
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,880
the contracts whatever those look like, and you know.

534
00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 2: And go from there. So that's kind of how we

535
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:45,519
view it.

536
00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:47,839
Speaker 3: Again, I can't speak to other teams in their philosophy,

537
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,279
but you know, our goal is to have a good

538
00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:53,359
team every year, and you know, we'll figure out a way.

539
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 2: And whoever plays, we didn't really care.

540
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,039
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Tommy Togy I wasn't like a figment

541
00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:02,119
of anybody's imagine, and like two years ago, now he's

542
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,599
one of our best defensive players. So I mean he

543
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,920
got here in the middle of like last year in

544
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,640
October on a practice squad. I mean the guy like

545
00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:13,200
played as well as any defensive tack in the league.

546
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,720
So I mean there's players out there everywhere, Like our

547
00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:17,920
job is to find them, and the contracts are the

548
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,119
contract So I mean that's kind of its own entity,

549
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,720
and you know we'll deal with that accordingly difficult thing.

550
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 2: You look at the Higgins and doll in the development

551
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,680
they had this season. What y'all most about that? Where

552
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,480
where would you like to miss step forward next season? Yeah?

553
00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 3: I mean two really good players excited about their future.

554
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,240
I mean, I think Higgs showed he's got a chance

555
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,000
to be a really good player. You know, he's as

556
00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:41,960
productive as any of our you know, offensive skilled players.

557
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,759
Over the last kind of you know, month or two

558
00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:47,759
of the season. It on j Nole, you know, show

559
00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:49,880
where we can do in a return game. Probably gets

560
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,319
more opportunities here offensively. But I mean two good football players.

561
00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:58,000
I mean that receiver room. I mean, if you didn't

562
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,559
do anything, which you know, I'm not saying like we

563
00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:01,960
will or won't, but if you don't.

564
00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: Do anything, it's pretty good room. Hig Nole, Nico Hutch.

565
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,519
Speaker 3: Nobody talks about Hutch, but nobody's improved more from the

566
00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:11,319
time he was drafted to where he is now, he's

567
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,799
become one of our most dependable players. Talked about Tank

568
00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:15,720
here a little bit. I mean, Justin Watson's in their

569
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,599
contract made, Kirk's a free agent. We'll see how that goes.

570
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,359
Barrios is a free agent. But I mean it's a

571
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,759
pretty good room. So I feel like, you know, we

572
00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:25,680
can go out there and play good football with that group.

573
00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:31,599
So but great kids, great attitude, good teammates, selfless, no ego,

574
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:32,559
just go.

575
00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:33,799
Speaker 2: Out there and work and do their job.

576
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,319
Speaker 3: And I think j Nole kind of showed his kind

577
00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:39,839
of versatility, you know, punt returner, you know, kickoff returner.

578
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,039
So and when he played offensively, you know, he made

579
00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:45,279
he made a lot of plays.

580
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 2: So I'm sure we're gonna see more Jane Old next year.

581
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:55,359
Up for a requests for the Pokers in their gamble ahead. Yes, sorry,

582
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:55,960
what do you think.

583
00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:57,039
Speaker 5: About James and JOBB?

584
00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 6: He's done and just him getting that kind of attention.

585
00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 3: Have a lot of respect for James, knowing him a

586
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,319
long time, probably known him as long as anybody in

587
00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:07,480
this building. We hired him as a scouting assistant coming out.

588
00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:11,240
He finished his career at Georgia Tech, hadn't been involved

589
00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:14,599
in scouting, probably didn't have much of an NFL career

590
00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:15,319
ahead of him.

591
00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:16,839
Speaker 2: He knew that, but you.

592
00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:18,319
Speaker 3: Want to get involved in football. So I heard him

593
00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:21,839
a scouting assistant and he's grown. It's done a great job,

594
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,880
great person, great family. You know, works really hard, rely

595
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,160
on him for a lot. He's earned this opportunity, you know,

596
00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:32,400
So I mean credit to him.

597
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 2: Whatever the Falcons decided to do.

598
00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 3: I mean, hopefully he's here helping the Texans, but he's

599
00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:38,640
fortunate enough to have the opportunity.

600
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 7: You know.

601
00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:40,839
Speaker 3: I'm sure he'll do a good job with it. But

602
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,559
you know, I think we're pretty fortunate. We feel like

603
00:25:43,559 --> 00:25:44,839
we got a lot of really good people in this

604
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:50,480
building across departments, scouting, sports performance, coaching, and I think

605
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,799
that's uh Demiquo and I believe, and just bringing in

606
00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:56,079
good people, you know, teaching them, develop them. Our responsibility

607
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,119
to everybody in the building and our roles to try

608
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,960
to help him as much as possible, let them grow,

609
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,480
you know, that's our kind of fiduciary responsibility to each other.

610
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 2: So but happy for James.

611
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,319
Speaker 3: Got some other folks that I think are going to

612
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,960
get some opportunities some different looks.

613
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:11,839
Speaker 2: That's what this time of the year is about.

614
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 3: I mean, you guys look around the league. I mean

615
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,319
the amount of movement that takes places. I mean, it's

616
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,039
it's mind numbing, honestly. But everybody gets an opportunity. You know,

617
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,039
we all got an opportunity, all got an opportunity in

618
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:23,880
this room. I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity

619
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,039
back in the day. And then it's really what you

620
00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:28,880
do with it. So you know, happy for James and

621
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:29,839
we'll kind of see how it goes.

622
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 15: Feel like, if you feel like you.

623
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,519
Speaker 4: All did enough from a personal wise to.

624
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 16: Help the offense grow in a way it needed to grow,

625
00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:41,680
or do you think probably some of the unexpected injuries

626
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,400
like Joe makes an injury probably stalled that.

627
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not really sure the question.

628
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,319
Speaker 3: I'd say we had one of the best teams in

629
00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:49,920
the league, so I mean we went out there and

630
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,799
competed with every team in the league that we played,

631
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,160
So I mean, I don't I'm I'm not sure what

632
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,839
the what the question is, you know.

633
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,759
Speaker 16: The offense or in to their statistics, I didn't take

634
00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:03,880
it whose jump offensively, and I'm wondering.

635
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: The most important statistic is winning games. So if we

636
00:27:06,519 --> 00:27:07,359
want that's worth.

637
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,079
Speaker 16: But you lost in the division round game, you ultimately

638
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,000
want to get farther. Do you feel like you could

639
00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:16,240
have done more to get to that point or where

640
00:27:16,279 --> 00:27:18,440
there are circumstances that you felt were out of control.

641
00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: We had a good enough team to win any game

642
00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:23,039
we played. In the end, we didn't execute well enough.

643
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,200
You can't turner ball over five times in the divisional

644
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,880
playoff round. I mean, taking care of the football is

645
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,440
this single most important stat correlated to winning.

646
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 2: I mean, look it up. It's the truth.

647
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 3: If you don't turn the ball over, you enhance your

648
00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:40,720
chances of winning. It's eighty five to ninety. I mean,

649
00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:45,599
so that's the most important stat turnovers, taking care of

650
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,200
the football. Like look around the league. So in the end,

651
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,000
we had a good enough team to beat anybody we

652
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:53,400
played with every team in the league.

653
00:27:54,079 --> 00:27:55,559
Speaker 2: There's more room in front of.

654
00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: Us, and in the end, if we execute better, we'll

655
00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:00,759
still be playing. I mean, I'm not trying to oversimplified,

656
00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:02,119
but that's the truth.

657
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 5: Going back to.

658
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,279
Speaker 2: Sorry just talking about the contracts.

659
00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 10: When a quarterback's on his rookie deal, we talk about

660
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,359
it's it's probably easier to put a team around him.

661
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,400
How critical is next year not just for CJ to

662
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,119
prove that he can be that guy, but for the

663
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,920
organization to believe that he can be that guy and

664
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,440
not turn the ball over in the divisional round.

665
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 3: I mean, every year you kind of start from scratch,

666
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,640
so and everybody is focused on individual improvement. So CJ's

667
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,480
played a lot of good football, won a lot of games,

668
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:33,599
done a lot of great things for this organization, and

669
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,559
I think all of us are excited about the opportunity

670
00:28:35,599 --> 00:28:37,279
in front of us for the twenty six season.

671
00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:40,119
Speaker 2: It's a year to year league. I mean that's where folks.

672
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 3: So we're focused on a twenty twenty six season, trying

673
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,599
to put the best team together and hopefully put ourselves

674
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:46,920
in a position that we can go out there and

675
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,839
play pretty good football and you know, win a bunch

676
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,200
of games.

677
00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:51,559
Speaker 2: So that's what the focus. That's where our focus.

678
00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 9: Is from a standpoint, maybe more from you look at

679
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,880
Revajordan a few years ago, you said an extension that

680
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,880
way you could get him in a medical redshirt. You're

681
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,440
basically what he was utter an entry tank could be

682
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,440
up for an extension next year is that that could

683
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,119
be in the works just to happen for one year

684
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,960
to where you missed the season, but you have it

685
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:07,519
for four years.

686
00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

687
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 3: Again, it's kind of case by case, so you kind

688
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,079
of look at everything, try to figure out, all right,

689
00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:16,640
what makes the most sense for the organization. The players

690
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,240
are part of it, but it's kind of like piece

691
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:21,799
of the puzzle. You got all these puzzle pieces, how

692
00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:23,640
do you fit them all together? Coming back to kind

693
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,559
of Starge's earlier question. So we'll look at everything and

694
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:28,720
just try to figure out, like how do we line

695
00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:31,640
the deck chairs, and then we'll be prepared. I think

696
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,400
the one thing that we've shown is our ability to

697
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,720
kind of pivot and adjust and kind of handle and adapt.

698
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,880
I think that's one of the hallmarks of you know,

699
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,319
this organization, you know, Demiko and.

700
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:43,039
Speaker 2: I like philosophically, like that's how we view things, so.

701
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 3: You never get too caught up and doing one thing

702
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,319
is a particular way, you know. I think the more

703
00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:52,319
you're open minded and kind of maintain some level of flexibility, you.

704
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:54,519
Speaker 2: Know, it just gives you more optionality.

705
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: So you know, again, we'll look at everything and it's

706
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,039
always case by case and ultimately we'll feel what we do,

707
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,319
you know, make the most sense by everybody involved.

708
00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:02,519
Speaker 2: That investment in Joe.

709
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 17: Let's stepine and do you think I guess it was

710
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,039
more fact break with what you got for that investment in.

711
00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 2: Are there any lessons I guess you take hooping forward

712
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:09,720
from that.

713
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 5: Uh.

714
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 3: Look, good players helped our team, I'd say, and I've

715
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,559
said this. You know, every decision, every player you bring

716
00:30:16,599 --> 00:30:19,720
in maybe doesn't go the way that you think or

717
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:20,440
hope it's going to go.

718
00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: Some of it's in your control, some of it's not.

719
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,839
Speaker 3: So all we can do is look at it, okay,

720
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,759
deal with the reality and just press forward. So trying

721
00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:31,039
not to get too caught up in one particular thing.

722
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,160
I think Demiko and I kind of look at things

723
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,559
that way. So that's probably why we get along so well.

724
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 9: How do you think CJ handled all the hurdles this

725
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:42,440
year slow start, his own concussion.

726
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 3: The close season, Yeah, I think, and he said this,

727
00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:46,160
I mean it was hard, you know, and I think

728
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,799
anytime that you deal with difficult situations adversity, it's just

729
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,640
in the end, you're the only one that can handle

730
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,559
and respond to it. And you know, our jobs and

731
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,519
organizations to support our players and give them a resources

732
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:00,440
that they need and feel like they have a good

733
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,720
environment to come to work. Look, I'd say players are

734
00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:05,480
come in this building, love being here. They know we're about,

735
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,240
they know what Tomiko is about, they know what I'm about.

736
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,359
So I mean, in the end, we're just trying to

737
00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:12,119
win football games with the right people. And you know,

738
00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:15,319
understand this league's hard. I mean it's really hard. I

739
00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:17,599
mean we're all gonna have to deal with stuff. It's

740
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:21,039
not easy. But you know, honestly, that's where you kind

741
00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:22,960
of get the joy at least I do, is just

742
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,119
in the fight, you know, and just nothing's easy, everything's earned.

743
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:29,759
So I mean that's the beauty of everybody's got the

744
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:33,079
same opportunity. I mean all thirty two teams once whenever

745
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:35,599
Super Bowl's played, the gonna have the same opportunity.

746
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: They are.

747
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: Division I mean has become a really competitive division. I

748
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,319
mean I think you know I've said this. You know,

749
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,480
Jacksonville think he's done an awesome job. I mean, Tony,

750
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,839
you know, James, Liam did a great job this year.

751
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 2: They showed it.

752
00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:49,119
Speaker 3: I Mean, I think Tennessee is gonna be much improved.

753
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,400
I think coach styles the hell of a coach, you know,

754
00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:53,680
Coach Psyching and the Colts. I mean they've shown a

755
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,519
year in a year out they can compete with anybody.

756
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:56,960
So I mean we're gonna have a work cut out

757
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,200
for us in the division. But that's why this league,

758
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,720
when you go one through the thirty two, the gap

759
00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:03,880
between one and thirty two, it's not as big as

760
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,799
the numbers suggest.

761
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: So I mean, all of us, you gotta embrace it.

762
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,079
Speaker 3: You know, you gotta embrace it, and it's okay to fail,

763
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,599
but you know, I gotta pick yourself back up and you.

764
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 2: Know, try to come up with some answers and solutions.

765
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,240
So that's how we approach it.

766
00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:19,079
Speaker 11: Execution that how that's kind of the key, right yep.

767
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,839
As a term shake, how do you help? I mean

768
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,400
you collectively, it's before there weren't live that all the players,

769
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,519
How do you get to where the execution is is stated?

770
00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:32,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just making sure I think we do because again,

771
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,400
we turn the ball over at least amount of franchise history.

772
00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:39,960
So it's just every detail, every practice, every day, every meeting,

773
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,960
it's all important. So and I think as a player,

774
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,680
any end, it's a player's game, right, and the players

775
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,160
take ownership and you just have to have you have

776
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,240
to have a heightened awareness that any little small thing

777
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,680
like playing the wrong technique. Okay, you're leverage on this

778
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,000
play supposed to be inside leverage. Okay, you've done it

779
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,599
ninety times. Why the ninety first time do you play

780
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,680
with the wrong leverage?

781
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: Right?

782
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 3: It's just this league is about discipline, it's about consistency,

783
00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:09,000
and it's about doing it every single snap, every single play.

784
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,839
And I would say our responsibility is to make sure

785
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,240
that we bring the players in that A understand and

786
00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:17,640
B have the mental fortitude to do it because it's

787
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,160
not easy. Going back to the earlier question, it's not easy,

788
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,759
but it takes work and it takes communication, and that's

789
00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:28,599
any end what makes a team good.

790
00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: So everybody's got good players.

791
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:34,119
Speaker 3: Those I would say, small details, those finer things, those

792
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,480
are the things if you do them right. I mean, look,

793
00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:38,680
there's a reason we won ten games over three months

794
00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:40,519
or whatever it was because we were doing more of

795
00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:45,480
those things. When there's gaps against good teams, the gat

796
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,640
the margins are smaller, So we're trying to make the

797
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,599
improvements on the margins and just make sure like every

798
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,319
single day. And again, I mean like we'll probably be

799
00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:57,279
playing like four hundred games here at some point, So

800
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,160
it's got the long season. Every week matters, Every practice matters,

801
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:04,759
every meeting matters, every walkthrough matters. And Dimiko talks to

802
00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,680
the team about this all the time, and I'd say

803
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,559
the majority of the time we do a really damn

804
00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:11,679
good job of that, right, But when there's gaps, then

805
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,199
you got to go back and look and say, all right,

806
00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:15,719
did I really do what I was supposed to do

807
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:18,079
or did I kind of you know? And in the end,

808
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,480
that's player accountability and ownership.

809
00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:24,519
Speaker 14: If you're assessing a player, how do you reconcile body

810
00:34:24,559 --> 00:34:26,440
of work? Maybe success from a couple of years ago

811
00:34:26,559 --> 00:34:30,559
versus now? Is does recent performance matter more than some

812
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:32,239
of the previous performances.

813
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be careful of taking just like a

814
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:37,320
snapshot of like, well, here's what it is. You got

815
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,320
to look at the entire body of workups I would say, like,

816
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,400
because this actually get into the draft little bit, okay,

817
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,239
lokod player's body of work. Players started forty five fifty games.

818
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,599
You're looking at their body of work as opposed to

819
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,440
well they did this in this game, they did this

820
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:53,719
in that game, Okay, over the totality of it, what

821
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,639
does it look like? And then you got to be

822
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,199
able to say, here's what we think it's going to be.

823
00:34:57,639 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 18: Right.

824
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 3: And with NFL players, some players have more body of

825
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,440
work than others, right, so you're looking at the whole

826
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,519
body of work, and if they've shown the ability to

827
00:35:06,639 --> 00:35:09,320
do things at a certain level, then it means it's

828
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,639
in there, right, and then it's like, all right, what

829
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,519
else can you do? And and every year you're starting

830
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:18,079
from scratch, right, So I think each player looks at

831
00:35:18,119 --> 00:35:19,199
and hey, I'm gonna focus on this.

832
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 2: This is off season.

833
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 3: Whatever your list is, right, and we're gonna have kind

834
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,039
of a checklist for the players and they come to building,

835
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:26,079
Hey these three or four things, here's what we're looking

836
00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:28,440
for relative to improvement. And then you can look at

837
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,599
the end of the year, all right, did they improve that?

838
00:35:30,679 --> 00:35:31,039
Speaker 2: Did they not?

839
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: So it's ongoing, it's very fluid. So again you look,

840
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,639
you have to look at everything. You just can't look

841
00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:41,400
at one particular play, one particular game, one particular situation.

842
00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:45,679
Speaker 2: Thoughts arch Gutsar, like.

843
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,039
Speaker 8: Can you just talk about the job that Demko did

844
00:35:48,119 --> 00:35:50,199
this year, overcoming that ball and three starting, and even

845
00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:52,280
at a point it was three and five to be

846
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,960
able to coach this team into you know, another divisional

847
00:35:55,079 --> 00:35:55,480
round game.

848
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was phenomenal. I mean, like he

849
00:35:59,119 --> 00:35:59,719
was incredible.

850
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,119
Speaker 3: I mean I would say his just consistency, how steadfast

851
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:09,000
he was, and being able to get the issues fixed

852
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,840
and addressed and honestly not really losing sleep or losing

853
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,519
his mind. Here's what I would say too. Dimiko is

854
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:18,320
one of the best human beings I've ever been around

855
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,079
in my life. He's also one of the most competitive

856
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:25,000
individuals that I've been around, and which is why I

857
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:28,079
think like we resonate with one another, because I think

858
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:33,840
we're both like very competitive, you know. I think he's

859
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,519
so genuine, so sincere. He treats everybody the right way.

860
00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:42,639
I mean, I mean I'm fortunate to be around him

861
00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:43,960
on a day to day basis. I think the way

862
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,760
he handled the team was incredible. I think he did

863
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,559
as good as his coaching job as any coach in

864
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:49,519
the league this year. I mean, he's not gonna win

865
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,920
Coach of the Year, but I mean you could make

866
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,000
a very coaching argument that he should be the coach

867
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,679
of the year based on what we did with his

868
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,039
team from where we started to how he finished. And

869
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:02,000
everything starts with everything starts to the head coach. And

870
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:04,920
I think he's grown. You mean you can, he can,

871
00:37:05,119 --> 00:37:07,440
you can ask him. But he's grown from the time

872
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,519
that he started on now you know he obviously the

873
00:37:10,599 --> 00:37:13,039
play calling passed that off to coach Burke. I mean,

874
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:15,800
there's no ego with him at all, Like he just

875
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,000
wants what's best for the team and what's best for

876
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:22,480
this organization period in the story. And I can't say

877
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:24,639
enough great things about him, the job that he's done.

878
00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:27,280
Grateful for the opportunity to work with an on a

879
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,239
day to day basis and looking forward to working with him.

880
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 2: I'm building the twenty sixteen Jonathan sam Louis. That's like

881
00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:37,360
six last last questions.

882
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:41,079
Speaker 5: But this this may be where Coldy was gone.

883
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: But you know, obviously CJ.

884
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 16: Stroud had an improved year up until that last couple

885
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,440
of games. You don't take and this is me going

886
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,159
on he answer, you don't take just what happened in

887
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,840
the biggest games and use that and how you might

888
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:03,280
approach you know, negotiates the extensions later on down the line.

889
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 2: Or is that's all a part of it?

890
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:05,159
Speaker 5: Yeah.

891
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 2: Look, if we want to go a game by game,

892
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,280
like we don't win a Kansas City game without c J. Stroud.

893
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:13,320
I mean so again, like that's one game. All right. Look,

894
00:38:13,599 --> 00:38:15,519
he'll be the first to tell you he didn't play

895
00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:18,079
well on Sunday. All right. I'm not gonna sit here

896
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:19,920
and tell you you play well either, Like he knows that.

897
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,280
So in the end, all right, you got to learn

898
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,039
from it. What can we do better? All right?

899
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,199
Speaker 3: And then we're moving forward, all right. I mean, see

900
00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:29,199
you look at his body of work. This guy's been

901
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,800
a damn good quarterback in this league for three years.

902
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: I mean it's the truth.

903
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 3: So again, you wanted to look at everything in totality,

904
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,000
and then every player will look at their situation and

905
00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:41,199
it's always case by case.

906
00:38:41,519 --> 00:38:45,039
Speaker 9: So with the tight end physician, I was wondering if

907
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,000
I can have the days on have Dalton Nick Kate

908
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:50,039
are doing from Saturday? And also kind of how you

909
00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:52,960
evaluated that position looking for partable with Dallen going into

910
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:53,440
his last.

911
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,079
Speaker 2: Years let the past.

912
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, both of those guys. I mean, Dalton's gonna

913
00:38:56,559 --> 00:38:58,159
be okay. I mean it was just kind of a calf.

914
00:38:58,199 --> 00:38:59,719
I mean, I don't think it's anything major.

915
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:00,519
Speaker 19: Kate.

916
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 3: I think he avoided serious injury. Think he's gonna be okay.

917
00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:07,360
So I mean, probably gonna be ready for the offseason.

918
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,480
Programs probably were not as bad as it looked. It

919
00:39:10,519 --> 00:39:14,239
looked pretty bad, right, I think he's gonna be okay. Overall,

920
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,599
got pretty good production from that group. I mean, Dalton

921
00:39:18,039 --> 00:39:20,079
had a really good season. I mean he broke the

922
00:39:20,119 --> 00:39:23,480
franchise record for career receptions by a tight end. I mean,

923
00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:25,760
the guy who record he broke was a damn good player.

924
00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:28,480
Like you guys know him very well. I mean we

925
00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:31,239
played against od multiple times when I was in New England.

926
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,320
So min Dalton had a really good year. He was healthy,

927
00:39:34,679 --> 00:39:37,559
you know, he why Franklin wentn't healthy last year. You know,

928
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,639
he's but got really good production from them. You know,

929
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,519
I think we were playing on Brevin kind of being

930
00:39:43,519 --> 00:39:45,320
a big part of it, you know, unfortunately, like he

931
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,880
went down there a little bit. But you know, Kate

932
00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:51,280
kind of showed his versatility, you know, Harrison were able

933
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,880
to kind of give us some snaps there a little bit.

934
00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:55,760
So overall it's a pretty solid group. So I mean,

935
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,480
if there's an opportunity for us to improve it. You know,

936
00:39:57,679 --> 00:39:59,800
certainly look at it, you know, relative to what are

937
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,679
op are. But overall it's a good group, works hard,

938
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,679
very professional. You know, Adulton had a really good year

939
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,639
and you know, very dependable, very instinctive, very smart player.

940
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,559
Speaker 13: The actual last question, they're kind of follow up on

941
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,760
Kim's and John's questioning about the execution and vision around

942
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,320
We know that you know, every guy execute them the better.

943
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 2: What could you guys do look a little bit better

944
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,039
to I.

945
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 5: Guess add more?

946
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 20: You guys just have more overall five parts about because

947
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,760
so far since MECO, you guys have the fun's been here.

948
00:40:30,199 --> 00:40:32,039
There's round you got an average refer years, I have

949
00:40:32,119 --> 00:40:33,920
the points of office and that's just I just kind

950
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,559
of too in those rounds. What can you guys to

951
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,920
improve just the overall talent that is on offense to.

952
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,119
Speaker 2: Windows in those bounds.

953
00:40:44,079 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the goal is the same, try to

954
00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:47,800
put together a good team and get players in the

955
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,559
building that if even go out there and play winning

956
00:40:49,559 --> 00:40:51,000
football with you.

957
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:53,559
Speaker 2: Know, it's a combination of things. You know, make sure

958
00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:54,400
we got enough players.

959
00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:56,559
Speaker 3: You know, we're doing some things schematically or there's some

960
00:40:56,639 --> 00:40:58,760
things that have popped up in those games. So again,

961
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,360
you look at those games, you look at all their

962
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,440
games as well. Look around the league. What are some

963
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:05,079
teams doing, What are some things you might be able

964
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:08,719
to incorporate. So again, I mean, offense has really never

965
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,400
been I mean, Tamiko and I've never sat in her

966
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,639
office and said, like, well, offense is a concern, Like

967
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,000
what do we got to do? Like, you know, you

968
00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:15,519
got to play better. There's some things that we can

969
00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:17,440
do better. So try to build a good team. Try

970
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,280
to get good players in here with the right mentality,

971
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,159
in the right mindset. I mean, like, I guess Nicole

972
00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:24,199
Collins isn't good enough player, So I mean, maybe we

973
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,840
can find a player better Nicle Collins.

974
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 5: You know, I don't know.

975
00:41:26,639 --> 00:41:28,159
Speaker 2: So well, try to do the best we can.

976
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 3: Try to bring good players in this building, you know,

977
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,639
and try to put together a good team that gives

978
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,039
us a chance to compete, you know, on a neat Sunday.

979
00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 12: All right, thanks, Wow, that's good stuff, actually good stuff,

980
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:42,199
A lot to chew all.

981
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm mad he's Ross.

982
00:41:43,639 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 15: It is.

983
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 12: It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That might

984
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,920
have been our best forty minutes of radio programming all week,

985
00:41:51,559 --> 00:41:56,840
a lot to Frankly chew on right, Joe Mixon, Nick Kayley,

986
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:58,079
c J.

987
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 2: Stroud. Those are kind of the real heavy points of it.

988
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 12: And we'll get to all that plus the rockets of

989
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,159
the comfort behind win Big twelve schedules out. We got

990
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:11,679
a lot to get to today. We want you to

991
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,000
be a part of the show. Ross, I will be

992
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:15,719
a part of the show and we're gonna check it

993
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:20,159
in Denver letter today too. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, but we're

994
00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:22,039
gonna address Joe makes we come back and whether or

995
00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:25,639
not I owe you coffee and a lemon loaf ten

996
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,599
forty three on Sports Talk seven UTI.

997
00:42:29,599 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 2: It is Matt Ross and we.

998
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 12: Haven't said much because that press converce. And I'll I'll

999
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,679
give Nick credit because we have to give credit where

1000
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:41,480
credits due. Every question answered asked, maybe did not get

1001
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:48,199
as much information as you want on some things initial

1002
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:56,280
thoughts very much a Nick Hayley guy, very much a c. J.

1003
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,599
Stroud guy, and I wouldn't expect him to throw him

1004
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:02,639
under the bus, but he he was is effusive, Is

1005
00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:02,920
that right?

1006
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:04,679
Speaker 2: In his praise and praise?

1007
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 18: Sure?

1008
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:05,199
Speaker 2: Why not?

1009
00:43:06,159 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 12: And almost almost got away with not telling the world

1010
00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:15,639
what happened to Nick to a Joe Mixon, although he

1011
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:19,239
didn't provide any specifics, thedn't okay, So you want to

1012
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,000
know what it really sounds like to me now that

1013
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,559
he said he didn't talk about it wasn't going on

1014
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,440
some cliff diving, cliff diving or something like that, anything irresponsible. Now,

1015
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,239
if there's a police report that eventually comes out that

1016
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,400
says otherwise, and we'll just call Nick the greatest liar

1017
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,880
of all time. I mean, I might be the greatest

1018
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,800
liar right now, but Nick would take us about Nick.

1019
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:37,679
Nick would surpass you.

1020
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 2: Okay. So after hearing that.

1021
00:43:41,679 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 12: A botched surgery is in somebody, I think Paedro on

1022
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,679
Twitter said the exact same thing, that you have to

1023
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:55,280
be very careful ross in public talking about malpractice, and

1024
00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:00,840
that sounded very malpracticing. If it's just such a term practicing, sure,

1025
00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:05,519
I'm going with it. Okay, that so I'm probably gonna

1026
00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:09,840
wind up own you a loaf. I'm not gonna I

1027
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,119
was gonna go with an omend class song. Okay, Fine,

1028
00:44:13,639 --> 00:44:16,079
I think we're gonna need to make a decision. Probably

1029
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,599
by the time the Super Bowl is over, Okay, how

1030
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:25,119
about this if okay, we can do that or we

1031
00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:27,719
can't even wait, I don't care. Yeah, it's only about

1032
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,239
ten bucks. And then if you exactly is a very

1033
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,079
small coffee back, right, and then if I win or

1034
00:44:33,119 --> 00:44:36,239
if you pay and then it comes out that you

1035
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,480
were right, I'll pay double. So I'll pay back to

1036
00:44:38,519 --> 00:44:40,280
get us even and I'll pay you one. That seems fair.

1037
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,360
That sounds fair to the Super Bowl. Yes, that's why

1038
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:42,599
all the.

1039
00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 2: Media gets there.

1040
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,199
Speaker 12: And sometimes it'll be some TMZ stories that will come

1041
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,039
out and and if you got there's lose lips, TMZ

1042
00:44:48,159 --> 00:44:48,719
will find them.

1043
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: That's true.

1044
00:44:49,519 --> 00:44:51,639
Speaker 12: TMZ Sports should be on top of this already. Yeah,

1045
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,440
I could be shot myself in the foot. I feel

1046
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,239
like we would have heard about it now, doesn't once

1047
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,480
the seasons right right, right right.

1048
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 2: But again, if you're trying to.

1049
00:45:01,159 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 12: You know, there was a class I took in college

1050
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,119
called oral interpretation, okay, and if you're trying to interpret it,

1051
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,039
it was I've got to try to give you a

1052
00:45:09,119 --> 00:45:11,360
little bit of an information, but I need to probably

1053
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,239
protect and a hip is the word I would use

1054
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,119
at the laws. But hip, all right, dusty, Okay, I know,

1055
00:45:17,199 --> 00:45:20,519
I know I was going with that. It's again now

1056
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:23,159
my money, the favorite on the board is a botch

1057
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:24,159
medical procedure.

1058
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 2: Okay, it could be both.

1059
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1060
00:45:29,159 --> 00:45:31,599
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was just a simple flesh wound to the

1061
00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:34,639
foot and then all of a sudden they removed two

1062
00:45:34,679 --> 00:45:36,800
of his toes. Yeah, he's done to three toes. But

1063
00:45:37,079 --> 00:45:39,119
I'll say this, he didn't sound like he was confirmed

1064
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,519
coming back. It also sounds like it was confirmed coming

1065
00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:44,079
back to Tank Dell wasn't gonna be one hundred percent ready.

1066
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,400
And I've told you this before. The best Tank Dell

1067
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,239
you ever saw was it was already in the field.

1068
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,320
You're not getting anything close to that coming back. And

1069
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,039
I like Tank Dell University of Houston.

1070
00:45:54,079 --> 00:45:54,639
Speaker 2: Guy, I love him.

1071
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 12: But I'm not an orthopedist. But that seems like a

1072
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,840
fair assumption. Yeah, it's it was just too much injuries

1073
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,960
and touch a short period of time. Yeah, when it

1074
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,960
takes five minutes to list all the ligaments you tore

1075
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,760
on your knee, that's not a good sign. Yeah, anything

1076
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,280
else that you caught you, uh, it tickled your fancy

1077
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,280
if you will, No, I don't. I mean he was

1078
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,679
backing Nick Kayley, as you said, But he didn't like confirm.

1079
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,719
It was interesting when he said we're still evaluating, like

1080
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,920
didn't say that he was going to be back. I

1081
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,119
took it as well. First of all, Mike McDaniel's now

1082
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:29,880
here's the here's stranging. If you didn't see this, DGEs,

1083
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,480
he's now the Chargers, but he is still open for

1084
00:46:32,559 --> 00:46:35,679
a couple of head coaching jobs. So at the worst,

1085
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:41,440
the new offensive coordinator will be Mike McDaniel in Los Angeles. Hmmm,

1086
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,639
where's Joe Brady could be resigned by Buffalo? Two great tackles,

1087
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:54,360
Justin Herbert de Good receiver receivers and Omarion Hampton.

1088
00:46:56,559 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 2: Hmm. But I'll say this, Yeah, they're going to be

1089
00:46:59,519 --> 00:46:59,960
in a good spot.

1090
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,559
Speaker 12: I do have one criticism of Nick, and it's kind

1091
00:47:03,599 --> 00:47:07,719
of of the position if we took the you know

1092
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,360
what a temple is when you have like a blank

1093
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,199
page and you fill in this particular is based on

1094
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,760
what you're doing. If there is a template for what

1095
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,679
Nick has done the last three years and these end

1096
00:47:15,679 --> 00:47:19,000
of season press conferences is you know, we won some games,

1097
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:21,760
we want to get better, we need to do some things.

1098
00:47:22,199 --> 00:47:24,360
I feel like I've heard some of the same rhetoric

1099
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,000
after they lost last year in the divisional playoff in

1100
00:47:28,079 --> 00:47:32,880
Kansas City. The rhetoric hasn't changed too much. We are good,

1101
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:35,079
We've won a bunch of games in the last three years.

1102
00:47:35,599 --> 00:47:39,519
I don't think Texans fans wanted to hear that they

1103
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:41,920
did win a lot of games. They have won two

1104
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:44,840
AFC's and they've won a wild card spot. They did

1105
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,119
win a road playoff game, So there was some tangible

1106
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,440
changes from year to year to year. But the end

1107
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,519
result is you're still looking at a franchise that has

1108
00:47:52,559 --> 00:47:54,119
been around since two thousand and two that has never

1109
00:47:54,199 --> 00:47:57,079
tasted an AFC Championship game, and I think that bugs

1110
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,800
a large mart up portion of the Houston Textan fan base.

1111
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,800
So you to go to the we're gonna go in

1112
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,800
there and start prepping for twenty six to get past it.

1113
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,840
I don't know if he could gone in and say

1114
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,480
we are we are in a sense of urgency. We've

1115
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:14,599
got to get past this. Necessarily doing this for a

1116
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,760
political thing, but just to show that complacency isn't a

1117
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,800
part of what's going on right now in energy. Yeah,

1118
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,559
I mean, I guess if you want to be pounding

1119
00:48:23,599 --> 00:48:25,360
the table and saying this is unacceptable.

1120
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 2: Job is online.

1121
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 12: I think you could have gone with and again, this

1122
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,079
is easy for us to do because we we analyze things.

1123
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,639
You could have easily said, look, we got to the

1124
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,880
Visional playoffs, we've got to go further.

1125
00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 2: We and again it's it's captain.

1126
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:42,079
Speaker 12: Obvious on that, but it's also sometimes you have sometimes

1127
00:48:42,119 --> 00:48:44,440
the fan base has to hear that. But his statement

1128
00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:47,400
was true. We could they could have beaten anyone. But

1129
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,239
when you turn the ball over five times, you're not

1130
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,199
gonna you're not gonna beat You're not even gonna beat

1131
00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:53,599
the Raiders. If you turn the ball over five times,

1132
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,800
you just can't do doubt. Yeah, So overall I thought

1133
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,199
it was for I mean, for word salad, not as

1134
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:02,159
bad as it usually is.

1135
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he can get you in the words. So

1136
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,480
he can get you in a caesar, he gets you.

1137
00:49:06,639 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 12: He can get you in a like a apple salad

1138
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,000
with with walnuts and really yeah, okay, with a wedge

1139
00:49:12,039 --> 00:49:15,239
with blue cheese, sheese crumbles, red onion of vinigrette.

1140
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,639
Speaker 2: You'll keep you all that stuff. Well, that was good.

1141
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:18,639
I'm glad we carried it.

1142
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,159
Speaker 12: I was really starting to get irritated that we're gonna

1143
00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:23,760
get some more clarity in the joe mix and stuff.

1144
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,800
Was asked about it a little bit more. So, who

1145
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:32,480
do you owe lunch to? It's probably Aaron Wilson. So, Aaron,

1146
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,519
if you're listening in the car right now, we I

1147
00:49:35,599 --> 00:49:38,039
owe you Big City Wings. Okay, because he saw that

1148
00:49:38,159 --> 00:49:40,679
on Twitter earlier today, I said that, Hey, the person

1149
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,400
that gets the most details out of the joe mixing situation,

1150
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,280
I'm buying them lunch. So congratulations Aaron Wilson, You win,

1151
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,960
all right. Second hour The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues. Yes,

1152
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,079
in one half hour, we're gonna tells people to shut

1153
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:53,000
their ball masses up.

1154
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:54,639
Speaker 2: You ready for that?

1155
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 12: Yes, we're gonna have a live in studio guest during

1156
00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:59,360
shut your ball mass up.

1157
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:00,519
Speaker 2: We are, yes, we are.

1158
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 12: Oh, they're coming after me? Nope, we're going after them.

1159
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000
Ooh okay, but first, a word for cynogenic is.

1160
00:50:10,079 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 2: The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1161
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 12: Eleven o three on Sports Talk seven. Honty Man in

1162
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,079
Ross with you today until two o'clock. We have a

1163
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,760
shut your bab mass up at eleven thirty today. Nobody

1164
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,559
got time for that. Well, have a live version of

1165
00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:30,159
that today if the person that comes in studio remembers

1166
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:34,440
to do so. Uh, I'm intrigued. You really don't know

1167
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:35,880
who it is our clue.

1168
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:36,199
Speaker 15: I like that.

1169
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: I'm glad you look at my Twitter account. Okay, you

1170
00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:38,800
probably haven't muted.

1171
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,039
Speaker 12: What's your name? Don't look at it? Okay, now, don't

1172
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,519
look see you're welcome. I'm trying to help the show.

1173
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:45,199
Speaker 2: I put in.

1174
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 12: I put that the person coming in eleven thirty today,

1175
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,000
it's going to be getting to shut you mess up?

1176
00:50:50,199 --> 00:50:50,519
Speaker 2: Okay?

1177
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:51,079
Speaker 5: All right?

1178
00:50:51,559 --> 00:50:54,519
Speaker 12: Uh seven one three two seven ninety seven one three

1179
00:50:54,599 --> 00:50:58,480
two one two five seven nine zero headlines the day

1180
00:50:58,519 --> 00:51:00,519
really quick? You just said the nic Cassera pres Comerenson. Well,

1181
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:02,639
I'm sure we'll mix in some of the clips throughout

1182
00:51:02,639 --> 00:51:06,480
the course of the show. And we've got that. We've

1183
00:51:06,519 --> 00:51:10,079
got the rockets last night, babe, what a game. Nice

1184
00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:14,800
comeback win over the hated I ten rivals. By the way,

1185
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,800
I noted hated Victor women, Yama fan Adam Clinton wanting

1186
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,559
his flowers today. Victor last night five of twenty one,

1187
00:51:22,639 --> 00:51:26,800
he had fourteen points, ten rebounds, did not block a shot,

1188
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,880
which is stunning. Is that's why it wakes into one

1189
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,320
of those Rockets were down sixteen. It was what was

1190
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,719
the biggest deficit? Do you remember I'm talking about like

1191
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,920
the score and where it was the exact score, I

1192
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:41,159
don't remember. Rockets came back and put together a twenty

1193
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,719
nine spot in the fourth quarter. The Spurs only scored fourteen.

1194
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,760
The Rockets win the game, won eleven to one o

1195
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,559
six and we won the game despite a twenty two

1196
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:53,119
minute delay for a rim being broken by next to Fancastle.

1197
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,400
What next, They're gonna be squirrels loose on of the court? Now,

1198
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,519
that was nobody's fault. Last well, it was the Fun's fault.

1199
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:03,239
It was Steffon Castle. Apparently Wimby was throwing down dunks

1200
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,079
and I think they were saying somebody else was thrown

1201
00:52:05,119 --> 00:52:07,400
down a bunch of crazy dunks played Dreamy So he's

1202
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,719
a weirdo too, Yeah, he was true. Did you see

1203
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,840
Sohn try to climb up the ladder to help fix

1204
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,119
them up? The fact he was playing one on one

1205
00:52:14,559 --> 00:52:17,199
drills with Jayshon Tan on the other side of the floor. Yeah,

1206
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,679
good win for that. We have the Big twelve schedules announced.

1207
00:52:21,679 --> 00:52:25,239
The University of Houston already participated finishing a perfect twelve

1208
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,480
to zero in the season. Very excited about that. Okay,

1209
00:52:27,559 --> 00:52:30,840
So they were picked thirteenth last year. Yes, they exceeded

1210
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,199
those expectations, so that's good. Yes, Oh where did they

1211
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,760
picked this year? We have a tougher schedule this year. Okay,

1212
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,159
So you actually got a place and you can't play

1213
00:52:38,159 --> 00:52:40,119
a bunch of slappies like last year. I don't know

1214
00:52:40,119 --> 00:52:42,800
if it's slappies, but the road schedule is much more

1215
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,159
difficult than this year. So you're going to Lubbock to

1216
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:46,960
go get batteries in your orbital bone.

1217
00:52:47,079 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 2: Oh look at you doing that? Oh, come on, nice,

1218
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:51,440
not nice at all.

1219
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 12: Going to West Virginia Mountain Mama, going to Utah, going

1220
00:52:54,960 --> 00:53:01,079
to Colorado, a lot of travel. M at Georgia Southern

1221
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:04,159
for some reason, that was scheduled before anybody. College football

1222
00:53:04,159 --> 00:53:06,360
win totals out yet at whatever it is.

1223
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 2: Take the over.

1224
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, you say that every year. That's true. That is

1225
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,880
fair on them. You're right about half the time. We

1226
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,719
have NFL owner basically guaranteeing an eighteen game schedule coming up.

1227
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: We'll discuss that as well.

1228
00:53:18,039 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 12: Okay, And I gotta find out if there was something

1229
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,440
that Cole Thompson said this morning.

1230
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:24,039
Speaker 5: It was true.

1231
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 12: Now, sometimes you get information on your show and you

1232
00:53:29,119 --> 00:53:31,599
trust the social media streets out there, and sometimes they

1233
00:53:31,639 --> 00:53:33,719
are really good, and sometimes they let you down. Yes,

1234
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,159
he had a wacky story today that Fernando Mendoza, who

1235
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,960
is the perceived number one overall selection of the coming draft,

1236
00:53:41,679 --> 00:53:44,119
is going to skip the combine because he's an internship

1237
00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:46,320
at a bit at a big time fortune five hundred company.

1238
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:51,679
Speaker 2: Okay, I just thought that was very peculiar.

1239
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,119
Speaker 12: Now, whether that's a true story or not, those you know,

1240
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,159
well quarterbacks do skip the combine, at least they don't

1241
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,440
throw right for the most part. He's gotta be uber

1242
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:05,400
confident that he's the number one pick. Yeah, hey, shut

1243
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,519
your bum messes up. Any other way, well, it's again

1244
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:10,239
it's vague, but number two is the Jets, So it's

1245
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,599
like you're kind of screwed either way. I mean, again,

1246
00:54:14,679 --> 00:54:16,440
you're the best player in the college draft. You're probably

1247
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,440
gonna go to one of the worst places. You're normally

1248
00:54:18,519 --> 00:54:21,480
not ending up with the Patriots. Yeah, he's not setting

1249
00:54:21,519 --> 00:54:23,559
up his Green Bay gear. So we gotta find out

1250
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,440
if it's a true story not. And again, I I

1251
00:54:25,559 --> 00:54:27,079
was listening because I like to listen to the First

1252
00:54:27,119 --> 00:54:28,920
and Tent show. Okay, good, it's good, so I want

1253
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:29,159
to do it.

1254
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:31,519
Speaker 2: Catch it. You don't catch any of the show.

1255
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,639
Speaker 12: I mean, my commute is like literally four minutes to

1256
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:37,320
listen to a team Yesterday and the way home. No,

1257
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:42,360
I because I don't normally listen to sports radio when

1258
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,800
I'm not on it. I want to keep a fresh mind. Matt,

1259
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,719
you know, I want to borrow and steal from anyone.

1260
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,719
I want to use my own takes. I don't want

1261
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,599
anything else to seep into my brain, certainly not from

1262
00:54:53,639 --> 00:54:56,239
Adam Clinton, well Cole Thompson. I do hate listen. I

1263
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,960
don't hate listen our shows. Okay, good, but I do

1264
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,079
do so fair amount of okay, all right? Anything else

1265
00:55:02,119 --> 00:55:03,679
you wanted to take away before gets the phones on

1266
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,599
the Nick Cassero stuff, I don't think so a great

1267
00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:09,960
three year run. Didn't then talk about a fifth year

1268
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,719
ex option yet Dick speak very glowingly of will Anderson

1269
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,960
because he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to negotiations

1270
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,719
for the quotes to show up that he's the best.

1271
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,719
If he didn't want to go, he's I think that

1272
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,360
was smart and calculated. Actually, I think if he goes

1273
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,000
out in this press conference, he said, yeah, we think

1274
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,559
he's the best edge rusher in the league.

1275
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,039
Speaker 2: That's gonna show up from his Agent's gonna clip that

1276
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:33,440
and say, oh, remember when you said this, He's gonna

1277
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,320
and Will Anderson's gonna have a shoot. It's gonna say

1278
00:55:35,639 --> 00:55:38,679
uh Nick, Right.

1279
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,079
Speaker 12: So my first reaction was like, oh, he just calls

1280
00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:43,599
me a good player, and he's a good player, and

1281
00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:45,400
we drafted a good player, so he is a good player.

1282
00:55:45,639 --> 00:55:48,920
Like I think maybe he's kind of making sure keep

1283
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,239
it a little low key because they do use the

1284
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,519
GMS and ownership's words against them. It's funny because when

1285
00:55:54,559 --> 00:55:57,360
iHeartRadio talks about me, they go, yeah, he's he's on

1286
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:57,800
our air.

1287
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 5: He's fine.

1288
00:56:00,039 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 12: That's so those are internal documents. Man, Oh damn, you

1289
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:10,960
don't want to be in the ieart radio intern you're

1290
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:19,800
saying stay off the radar, all right, Biscuit, Cameron and

1291
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,920
Roger are all there. Rogier feels like he's being blacklisted

1292
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:28,760
from what he feels blacklisted or is somebody else black.

1293
00:56:28,599 --> 00:56:29,599
Speaker 2: No, I don't know.

1294
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 12: I think he thinks we don't take his call. We're

1295
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,199
gonna take this call right this second right now, Roger. Roger,

1296
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,320
first of all, you you would never be blacklisted, but

1297
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,000
we hear you on every show all week long. You're

1298
00:56:40,039 --> 00:56:40,800
not blacklisted.

1299
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,079
Speaker 2: You know this right, Well, it's good.

1300
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:45,639
Speaker 21: But I thought I was brad listed.

1301
00:56:45,639 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: I say blacklist, brad listed.

1302
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 12: Oh brad No, you're not brad listed or blacklisted for

1303
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,199
that many You're neither one. What's on your mind, Roger?

1304
00:56:53,559 --> 00:56:57,599
I thought we were, Hey McRib for life. It is

1305
00:56:57,639 --> 00:57:00,199
America Sandwich, sit up, back off the media.

1306
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,519
Speaker 21: That's my nice stattue if I get one. Okay, So

1307
00:57:05,159 --> 00:57:08,079
on yesterday's game, I think I have a way to

1308
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,960
uh to at least ease the pain whenever the the

1309
00:57:12,079 --> 00:57:13,719
Rockets right and his teeth lose.

1310
00:57:14,559 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 19: I think I have a way to prevent that.

1311
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,679
Speaker 21: So I didn't do it for the Texans because I

1312
00:57:18,679 --> 00:57:20,239
thought we really had a real chance to win that

1313
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,320
game at the start of the beginning the Rockets gam

1314
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,320
I just I just feel like we have no chances

1315
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,519
to them and the okay, see thunder, I just I

1316
00:57:26,679 --> 00:57:29,039
just feel that way because of obviously we had one

1317
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:32,480
and it just doesn't look good. Uh So yesterday we

1318
00:57:32,559 --> 00:57:34,440
got my group texts, my boys, and we're you know,

1319
00:57:34,559 --> 00:57:36,320
we're texting away, and you know, I'm like, here we

1320
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,920
go them duncan Era all over again. Get ready for it,

1321
00:57:40,159 --> 00:57:43,159
you know. And I was like, you know, just to

1322
00:57:43,239 --> 00:57:44,719
Skips gonna be the same thing over and over. We

1323
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,000
had a great team, but we've got a you know,

1324
00:57:47,039 --> 00:57:49,760
we got a window opportunity with Kevin Durant, same way

1325
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,280
the Texans have a defense. You know that been rasing

1326
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,000
for me two three years. We gotta do something about it.

1327
00:57:54,039 --> 00:57:56,079
I'm hoping you're bitching in the plating and wanting the moaning.

1328
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,760
Then it comes the fourth quarter and the chipperd goes off.

1329
00:57:59,519 --> 00:58:02,000
I'm like, oh my god, I gotta start doing this.

1330
00:58:02,119 --> 00:58:03,480
But the thing is, I have to do it with

1331
00:58:03,639 --> 00:58:06,400
like compassion that's got to really mean it. If I

1332
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,519
do it against like a team that where I'm just

1333
00:58:08,599 --> 00:58:11,280
trying to do it, it's not gonna work. So the

1334
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,480
words and the words of Paul Wood, like you know,

1335
00:58:13,719 --> 00:58:16,679
it works sixty percent of the time or whatever. So yeah,

1336
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,199
I was just that was just an awesome game. Read

1337
00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:23,000
Shepherd to really, maybe Odoka is using them all. Maybe

1338
00:58:23,039 --> 00:58:25,760
he just use him as a shooter and and and

1339
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,000
and a two guard instead of just using him try

1340
00:58:29,039 --> 00:58:31,360
to even to the point guards we get that noise

1341
00:58:32,119 --> 00:58:33,840
and that's all I got. Man, it was a great game.

1342
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 2: Great calls usually thank you friend, I appreciate you ver much.

1343
00:58:36,519 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 5: Thank you.

1344
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 12: You know, it's funny because you took a Reed Shepherd

1345
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,119
hate call on the Calling show last night.

1346
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:45,599
Speaker 2: He scored twenty one points save They're Bacon in the

1347
00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:48,119
fourth and the first call out of the gates was like, yeah,

1348
00:58:48,199 --> 00:58:49,920
I don't know about this Red Shepherd guy.

1349
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 12: Is a little peculiar. That was odd, uh, reach, folks.

1350
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,159
Reed Shepherd has gone from four points a game to

1351
00:58:58,239 --> 00:59:04,199
like thirteen. He's making a massive and quite frankly unexpected leap.

1352
00:59:05,639 --> 00:59:08,880
He went from shooting thirty four percent from three to

1353
00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:13,719
forty one percent from three. He's doing great if we're

1354
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,599
expecting him to all of a sudden, he's went from

1355
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:17,440
one us it's a three now. Of course, his minutes

1356
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,000
are way up. But your percentages you would think would

1357
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,679
be either stabilized or go down the more volume you get,

1358
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,719
and it's been it's gone way up. Confidence is up,

1359
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,960
he's playing better. He does have some different defensive issues.

1360
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,320
He's not the greatest playmaker on the planet, but he

1361
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,400
can do some playmaking, and he's playing. He's playing very well.

1362
00:59:36,039 --> 00:59:38,840
I guess the ball a lot. I don't know why,

1363
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:40,760
Why why are we trying to pencil him into a

1364
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:42,559
point guard or shooting guard situation. He had to do

1365
00:59:42,599 --> 00:59:44,119
a lot of drilling last night. Yeah, he brings the

1366
00:59:44,159 --> 00:59:46,119
ball up some. I mean, and when he's on the floor.

1367
00:59:46,159 --> 00:59:47,559
He had to play it a little bit with him

1368
00:59:47,599 --> 00:59:50,400
in Thompson last night, albring shing Goun brings the ball up.

1369
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant brings the ball up.

1370
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,079
Speaker 5: I mean, it's.

1371
00:59:55,199 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's not.

1372
00:59:56,239 --> 00:59:58,719
Speaker 12: It's not the nineteen sixties with Bob Coosey and the boys,

1373
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,559
and he's just gonna sit at the there be the

1374
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,239
floor general, right right. I thought it was really good.

1375
01:00:04,639 --> 01:00:08,199
He was he and Tari and well, well actually he

1376
01:00:08,239 --> 01:00:09,960
and Jabbari a little bit of Tari. But the reasons

1377
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,119
why the Rockets came back and won that basketball game, period, Yes,

1378
01:00:13,639 --> 01:00:16,280
I mean Kevin was good, but Kevin didn't take over

1379
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,880
the game last night. Was it five to eighteen seven

1380
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,159
or twelve? Okay, that must been the night before or something.

1381
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 18: What it was?

1382
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:22,119
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1383
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 12: That a men, I mean, there was it was collectively

1384
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,559
anybody to play I mean, they played nine players and

1385
01:00:26,639 --> 01:00:28,800
Reid was one of the big guys down the stretch,

1386
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,440
Reed Shepherd, holped you win a game when you were

1387
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,719
down sixteen. Yeah, sorry, five of eighteen was Sunday. Yeah,

1388
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:37,599
it seemed disputable. So yeah, that that was I thought

1389
01:00:37,639 --> 01:00:39,800
that was a beautiful team win because they locked down

1390
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,280
on defense, and you just mentioned it was it was

1391
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,880
a peppering of everyone, a little Durant, a little jabbari Is,

1392
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,920
some Alpi, some Amen, and then some some Reed Shepherd.

1393
01:00:48,599 --> 01:00:51,239
You had five different players with fifteen plus points. I

1394
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,559
think the Spurs were eleven of twenty five in the

1395
01:00:54,599 --> 01:00:56,199
first half from three. I think they were three to

1396
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:59,159
twenty five from three in the second half. And by

1397
01:00:59,199 --> 01:01:04,320
the way, Julian Champagne was going off way too much

1398
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,079
in the first quarter of that game last night.

1399
01:01:06,159 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1400
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,719
Speaker 12: And also by the way, I'm sad that Steven Adams

1401
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,599
is going to be missing extended time because look, Clint Capella,

1402
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,400
I love him, Yeah, I know, but he's the he's

1403
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,960
the backup to the backup centers, and that's what he is.

1404
01:01:19,199 --> 01:01:21,239
Speaker 2: That's honestly what he is. At the stage there is

1405
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,400
an elite, elite.

1406
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 12: Backup center and you're gonna miss that reboutting for sure.

1407
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,679
Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk seven. Nine

1408
01:01:33,719 --> 01:01:35,800
of our time is eleven twenty one. Let's go back

1409
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,480
on the phone, so we gotta shut your ball maxed up.

1410
01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:39,320
Coming up being about ten minutes, We're going to play

1411
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,360
little highlights of the Rockets win against the Spurs at

1412
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,960
noon with a song that is one of your all

1413
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:44,639
time favorites.

1414
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,559
Speaker 2: It is not on my iPhone, so that should help

1415
01:01:49,559 --> 01:01:50,199
you out a little bit.

1416
01:01:50,679 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 12: Hmmm.

1417
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:52,239
Speaker 18: I don't know.

1418
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 12: It may not be one of your all time ferds,

1419
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:56,760
but it's a song that you got me too that

1420
01:01:57,039 --> 01:02:00,440
it fits what happened last night. Okay with that for

1421
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,760
a little tease, uh, Andy Lindahl, friend of the show,

1422
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,840
is going to join us from Denver at one. I'm

1423
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,960
gonna bug out to get to Philadelphia with the Rockets,

1424
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:08,800
and you're gonna talk to him.

1425
01:02:09,519 --> 01:02:10,239
Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think?

1426
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:11,559
Speaker 12: Real quick before go the phones? What do you think

1427
01:02:11,599 --> 01:02:14,480
Denver's thinking this week? And that's why I'm very curious.

1428
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,159
I'll be listening to what you and you and I

1429
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:22,920
found money great disappointment, I mean obviously disappointment. I mean,

1430
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:28,559
if there's any offensive mind in sports that can give

1431
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:34,159
jareded sent him a very small page of notes an

1432
01:02:34,199 --> 01:02:38,199
implementation of practice. It would be Garrett Sean Paiger. Are

1433
01:02:38,239 --> 01:02:42,360
they thinking Jeff Hostetler? Is that what they're thinking? Are

1434
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:48,559
they thinking of Frank Reich? What are their backups made?

1435
01:02:48,599 --> 01:02:49,360
Playoff runs?

1436
01:02:49,679 --> 01:02:50,559
Speaker 2: Oh, Mick Foles?

1437
01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 12: Are they thinking Nick Foles? But is but this is

1438
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,039
Isn't this like an all timer Alzheimer? This is going

1439
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,400
This guy, Jared Siam is gonna make his first start

1440
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,039
in the NFL in years and it's for the AFC Championship.

1441
01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:05,199
Speaker 2: Well, maybe he's ready. You get ready. You don't have to.

1442
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:06,599
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

1443
01:03:06,599 --> 01:03:06,719
Speaker 15: Man.

1444
01:03:06,719 --> 01:03:09,559
Speaker 12: I think Earl Morrale back town. Oh wow, we're going

1445
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:13,800
with Greasy back in the early seven days. Didn't Johnny

1446
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,039
Unitas back up Earl Morrol back in the day or something?

1447
01:03:16,119 --> 01:03:17,800
He came in and he was he was backing up.

1448
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:18,639
You're mixing him up.

1449
01:03:18,679 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 5: We don't know.

1450
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 12: Some of our ogis would know the answer. We get

1451
01:03:21,519 --> 01:03:24,039
Charlie Palilo on the horn. Yeah, he's yeah, you would know,

1452
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,760
he would he would he he would absolutely know. And

1453
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:28,360
I don't know, And I feel like I'm a much

1454
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,079
smaller human being because of that. Let's talk to a

1455
01:03:31,199 --> 01:03:33,360
Cameron online too. That's a great name. Cameron on seven

1456
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:34,280
one eleven, twenty three.

1457
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 2: High Cam. What's going on? Hey, good evening, gentlemen, our

1458
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,039
good morning, right having to you, Yes, it's evening.

1459
01:03:40,239 --> 01:03:40,599
Speaker 18: All right.

1460
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,559
Speaker 19: I'm being gasoled by Nick Cassario. That press conference would

1461
01:03:45,599 --> 01:03:50,320
have flown in twenty eleven, in twenty twelve, even twenty nineteen,

1462
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,960
twenty twenty. There is no I got no emotion, no

1463
01:03:54,119 --> 01:03:57,320
anger out of it. We had no Mahomes, we had

1464
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:00,920
no Allen. In the playoffs, Bo Nicks cracked his ankle.

1465
01:04:01,199 --> 01:04:04,440
We literally just had to beat the Patriots, and we're

1466
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,920
in the AFC Championship game with a diminished Denver Broncos.

1467
01:04:09,079 --> 01:04:11,320
There's all I hear is X. You know we need

1468
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,239
to execute better. We need to execute better.

1469
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 2: We'll look how many games we want.

1470
01:04:15,639 --> 01:04:18,639
Speaker 19: I don't give a bleep about the regular season. We're

1471
01:04:18,719 --> 01:04:22,719
out again in the divisional playoffs. It's just I don't know, man.

1472
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,519
Speaker 12: I Well, that's why I said, and again I'm not.

1473
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,480
We weren't expecting him to come in and you know,

1474
01:04:28,679 --> 01:04:33,039
pound the table. But there was a lot of rhetoric

1475
01:04:33,199 --> 01:04:35,360
that you could have stolen from the last two end

1476
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,239
of season Nick Cassario press converences. And I think sometimes

1477
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,000
you got it at least for public perception, not that

1478
01:04:41,079 --> 01:04:42,800
it means anything when you go back in the walls

1479
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,559
of Energy Stadium, but from public perception to say, hey,

1480
01:04:46,199 --> 01:04:50,280
getting where we are, winning just the playoff spot, winning

1481
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,960
just a playoff game, getting just a division round, We're

1482
01:04:54,039 --> 01:04:54,480
mad as hell.

1483
01:04:54,519 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 2: We're not gonna take anymore.

1484
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,679
Speaker 12: Again, it could be for purposes, just like you're talking about,

1485
01:04:59,239 --> 01:05:01,440
because he has to know that he's not only answering

1486
01:05:01,519 --> 01:05:03,760
questions for the media, he's also answering for the fans

1487
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:05,360
like yourself. That's where the way we carry the press

1488
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,199
conferences because you guys need to hear his competitor to

1489
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:12,159
us talking about it. So I again, I I don't

1490
01:05:12,199 --> 01:05:15,079
need him to be an Academy Award winning actor, but

1491
01:05:15,199 --> 01:05:18,559
I thought some of the material was were repeated from

1492
01:05:18,599 --> 01:05:20,000
previous years would be my point.

1493
01:05:21,239 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 19: And yeah, a lack of emotion like show some anger

1494
01:05:24,079 --> 01:05:27,559
like yeah we dropped the damn ball like pick That's

1495
01:05:27,559 --> 01:05:30,079
all I wanted out of it. But I will be

1496
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:31,639
calling back in ten minutes to tell him to shut

1497
01:05:31,679 --> 01:05:32,320
his bomb ass.

1498
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 2: All right, camera? Should we let him do that?

1499
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:35,599
Speaker 22: Sure?

1500
01:05:36,679 --> 01:05:39,639
Speaker 12: Fan, Look, if you're expecting from emotion from from Nick Cassario,

1501
01:05:39,679 --> 01:05:41,840
you're gonna be waiting around a long time. And and

1502
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,519
Nick Casaria was right, and I understand. Look, fans get

1503
01:05:44,639 --> 01:05:47,920
passionate and get angry and get emotional over it. Nick

1504
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,480
Cassio can't be like that. He's not supposed to be

1505
01:05:50,599 --> 01:05:53,679
overreactionary and emotional. He's not supposed to run this team

1506
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,880
like a fan. He's not supposed to. Otherwise everybody would

1507
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,199
have benched c J. Stroud if you if you went

1508
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,679
by fan and fan controlled league, it would be a

1509
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,599
completely different run franchise and frankly, it would be run

1510
01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:07,519
poorly well. So for him to come out in there

1511
01:06:07,519 --> 01:06:09,960
and scream and say, yeah, we we screwed this up.

1512
01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:12,039
We had an opportunity to make the super Bowl. He's

1513
01:06:12,079 --> 01:06:14,519
not gonna do that, nor should he really. Can I

1514
01:06:14,599 --> 01:06:19,840
give you an analogy, Okay, here we go. Please be

1515
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:24,199
open minded this. I'm always open minded, Matt. When you

1516
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:29,880
go to a political rally and the Canada gets in

1517
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:32,079
front of on the pulpit, right, and he gets in

1518
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:33,679
front of the podium.

1519
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:39,119
Speaker 2: And there's thousands of people there. I'm going to lower

1520
01:06:39,159 --> 01:06:43,760
your taxes. I'm going to keep the roads free and clear.

1521
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,039
I'm going to educate your kids. I'm gonna make sure

1522
01:06:46,039 --> 01:06:47,440
the costs of eggs are down.

1523
01:06:49,039 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 5: Up right?

1524
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,119
Speaker 12: What is that ross false promises? Well that may be

1525
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:56,599
very well true, but it's things that the audience wants

1526
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,599
to hear. And I'm not asking for Nick Casseio to

1527
01:06:59,639 --> 01:07:02,199
give me sixty minutes of a political speech. I'm just

1528
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:04,800
saying there were bits and pieces of if you took

1529
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:09,320
the transcript, it matched the last two years. And I

1530
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,320
think people some people Cameron is an example. I mean,

1531
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,480
I'm making this up. Cameron just called and said, Okay,

1532
01:07:14,519 --> 01:07:17,760
well I'm sorry, Cameron. I just disagree with him. I

1533
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,199
I I again, I will give Nick a B plus

1534
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:23,000
on the press conference.

1535
01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:23,599
Speaker 2: I do, I will do.

1536
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 12: I just say that there was a few things that

1537
01:07:26,599 --> 01:07:29,679
sounded like, well, we got to the championship game, we

1538
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,039
turned it over, and we're gonna go back to the

1539
01:07:31,119 --> 01:07:33,679
drawing board again, don't I think there's a little bit

1540
01:07:33,719 --> 01:07:36,400
of people want to hear we're gonna do whatever it takes,

1541
01:07:36,519 --> 01:07:38,440
and how was he They're going to do that? But

1542
01:07:38,559 --> 01:07:41,159
we're gonna make sure that we do everything in our

1543
01:07:41,199 --> 01:07:43,239
power to change the course of what we have been

1544
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,320
and that is a habitual pattern of going to the

1545
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,800
playoffs year after year after year and not advancing any further. Yeah,

1546
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,559
it's not his job to be charismatic. It wasn't a

1547
01:07:51,719 --> 01:07:55,280
open it wasn't a rally. It's not an open appeal

1548
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:57,719
for votes. He's not running for office. It's a press

1549
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,079
conference with media members as running him. What happened to

1550
01:08:00,199 --> 01:08:02,239
Joe Mixon's He's running for public approval.

1551
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:03,039
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he is.

1552
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,159
Speaker 12: If the if the organization, if you're down on your

1553
01:08:06,199 --> 01:08:07,840
general manager and you don't buy into it, people are

1554
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:09,239
not going to buy him to the organization. He can

1555
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:10,840
be a deaf mute as long as they win, it

1556
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,800
doesn't matter. But he's not winning, so he can't be

1557
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:14,599
a deaf muti. They are winning. They won twelve games

1558
01:08:14,639 --> 01:08:17,479
and then they're round. But Texans fans are done with

1559
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:18,439
divisional playoffs.

1560
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 3: They are.

1561
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,039
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're done to that because that's the standard that

1562
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:23,439
was set because of what Knikissaria was able to do.

1563
01:08:24,039 --> 01:08:26,760
This team was winning four games a year, and why

1564
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,319
are we would we be upset three years ago with

1565
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:32,279
a divisional run. No, now we are because that's been

1566
01:08:32,319 --> 01:08:35,159
where they are. Also, the reality is is they were

1567
01:08:35,239 --> 01:08:37,039
never gonna beat the what was it the Ravens that

1568
01:08:37,039 --> 01:08:39,439
they got destroyed by in the in the division round

1569
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:42,399
the first time. They didn't have any shot against the Chiefs.

1570
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,800
They had a shot this year and they blew it.

1571
01:08:45,119 --> 01:08:47,399
So every year is different. Even though the results have

1572
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:49,600
been the same, every year in the construction of the

1573
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:52,920
team has been different. Man, if you had rookie ces

1574
01:08:53,039 --> 01:08:55,079
Shroud on this team, they're going to the super Bowl.

1575
01:08:56,159 --> 01:09:00,800
You have a generation, you have a generational defense, maybe

1576
01:09:01,239 --> 01:09:03,199
the best ever, and it might be just as good

1577
01:09:03,279 --> 01:09:03,600
next year.

1578
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:06,199
Speaker 2: We don't know, but the chances are it's not.

1579
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 12: And the Blay blew it. And I think Cameron may not,

1580
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,960
you know, maybe sticking for the entire fan base. Again,

1581
01:09:14,039 --> 01:09:15,399
he's not running for pitical office.

1582
01:09:15,399 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 5: I get that.

1583
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 12: But sometimes you want you put these media available abilities

1584
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:22,359
out there, not because you want to get answered Aaron

1585
01:09:22,359 --> 01:09:25,720
Wilson's questions. You are trying to sell him message because

1586
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,279
the media does present the message to its fans. And

1587
01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:30,920
I think to some, not to me because I don't

1588
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,439
have a dog in a fight, but to some it's like, man,

1589
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,039
give me some fresher material.

1590
01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:38,119
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. Okay, it wasn't terrible.

1591
01:09:38,279 --> 01:09:40,560
Speaker 12: I'm trying to remember when rafel Stone got all upset

1592
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,199
after the seven game loss to the Golden State Warriors.

1593
01:09:43,319 --> 01:09:46,720
I'm trying to remember, like when Dana Brown he's always

1594
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,199
super positive and people don't like the way that he speaks. Well,

1595
01:09:49,239 --> 01:09:52,680
here's the reality is that general managers don't typically get Wow.

1596
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:54,359
Speaker 2: I was blown away by that, man. I'm fired up.

1597
01:09:55,079 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's in the same category as other folks, and

1598
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,199
Nick Caseario is gonna be as milk toasted women. We

1599
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:03,880
just we call him GM speak. It's just it's Nick speak.

1600
01:10:05,039 --> 01:10:07,880
He's a robot, Casario bot. I've been calling him Cassario

1601
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,560
bot for years because he's a robot. ROSSI, it's just raw.

1602
01:10:11,159 --> 01:10:13,640
If you expect a robot to show emotion at this point,

1603
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:17,279
that's on you. That's why you want to worry about

1604
01:10:17,279 --> 01:10:18,279
this a year from now. If they don't make the

1605
01:10:18,319 --> 01:10:20,600
championship game, yeah, we'll sink.

1606
01:10:21,159 --> 01:10:23,039
Speaker 2: All right. You already to tell some people to shut

1607
01:10:23,039 --> 01:10:23,840
their bumb asses up.

1608
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,640
Speaker 12: Yes, Cameron, you want to come in here, tell Ross

1609
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:28,439
shut his bum ass up, tell me, Yeah, that's fine.

1610
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,760
Battle Red Ross is like, I love Nick Cassio. He's

1611
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,560
the greatest thing in the world. If you're expecting Nick, no, sie,

1612
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,920
I didn't say that. If you're expecting Nick Cassario to

1613
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,079
show a bunch of emotion and start like flipping tables,

1614
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:41,520
you're gonna be waiting a long time. That'd be awesome.

1615
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:47,039
That would be amazing, CJ. You had it on a

1616
01:10:47,159 --> 01:10:52,000
silver platter. Just throw passes to open receivers and don't

1617
01:10:52,119 --> 01:10:54,439
turn the ball over. We would be in Denver.

1618
01:10:55,079 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 2: We blew it.

1619
01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 12: That would have been awesome. I mean he kind of

1620
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,000
said that. He said, we can't win the game turn

1621
01:11:02,079 --> 01:11:04,159
the ball over five times, but he loves some CJ.

1622
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,960
Shut jobamass up. Ain't nobody got time for that. After

1623
01:11:08,159 --> 01:11:12,560
a word for the amazing people at Affordable Tree service,

1624
01:11:13,079 --> 01:11:15,840
her again at your body.

1625
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,399
Speaker 2: Again, tamp it, get damp.

1626
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 18: It, get damp it again.

1627
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 23: Ta get time herebody get damp it all.

1628
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 12: Right, it's our needless to say, ROSSI our favorite thirty

1629
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:33,119
minutes of the week. Somebody irritates this, Somebody brings us

1630
01:11:33,199 --> 01:11:36,600
down some at the office. Toss talks had naunts him

1631
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:38,880
about his golf game and what they serve in the

1632
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:40,560
crock pot for thirty minutes when you're trying to get

1633
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,079
wake up, heat up your food.

1634
01:11:42,159 --> 01:11:44,319
Speaker 2: It's just ridiculous. Anybody got time for that?

1635
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 12: Hey, nobody get tam for it now before we get

1636
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,039
to our special celebrity guest on, shut your bomb mess up.

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01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:52,319
Jonathan has been fighting the cold. Do you want to

1638
01:11:52,319 --> 01:11:53,760
tell your cold? Anybody got time for that?

1639
01:11:54,079 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 5: Is he doing?

1640
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 2: Okay?

1641
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,560
Speaker 7: Now, I'm doing good, But everybody Houston and rains a lot.

1642
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,159
If retires a balled get out the left lane.

1643
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:05,319
Speaker 2: That's my guy right there.

1644
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:07,359
Speaker 12: Oh wait, you should not be in the far left

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01:12:07,399 --> 01:12:09,600
lane unless you're passing or going to ninety five miles

1646
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:10,359
an hour one of the two.

1647
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 2: Okay, what you got this week's sports are?

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01:12:13,199 --> 01:12:13,319
Speaker 3: Hey?

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01:12:14,279 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 2: You know what this happened? Because I was tweeting about CJ.

1650
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 12: Stroud, as was everyone, and I put out one where

1651
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:23,199
I had some polls about whether or not he was

1652
01:12:23,199 --> 01:12:25,439
a franchise quarterback, and most people are saying he's not.

1653
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:28,560
Speaker 12: I didn't know this, Matt, because we were talking about

1655
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:31,359
this on Monday. We thought only the Stroud family and

1656
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:32,920
David Mulligetta were backing CJ.

1657
01:12:33,039 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 2: Stroud.

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01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 12: Apparently there are Stroud Truthers out there and they are

1659
01:12:38,159 --> 01:12:42,000
very angry. How can you watch your quarterback turn the

1660
01:12:42,079 --> 01:12:45,119
ball over three times in the wild card and then

1661
01:12:45,359 --> 01:12:48,520
four times in the divisional round and say that they

1662
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,680
and defend him and talk about how Grady is Now.

1663
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:52,640
If you want to say that Texas can still need

1664
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,199
to give him another year and their situation is not good.

1665
01:12:55,119 --> 01:12:55,560
Speaker 2: That's great.

1666
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 12: But if you want to act like he's like balling

1667
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,760
out of control and top five and getting all angry,

1668
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:03,800
and I mentioned shut Joe bumass up Stroud up man.

1669
01:13:04,039 --> 01:13:06,720
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, get your head out of the sand.

1670
01:13:07,119 --> 01:13:09,560
Did you not do we all watch that game that

1671
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,560
was indefensible, yet it's getting defended. I can't believe it.

1672
01:13:14,279 --> 01:13:19,199
Speaker 12: Ryan Clark ESPN shuts Jo bumass up, mate up man.

1673
01:13:19,239 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 2: Big Struth Trouther, Troud Truther. Yeah, how could you watch?

1674
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 12: Okay, one of the picks was off Hutchinson's hand, it

1675
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:27,600
was still a high throw.

1676
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:28,119
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1677
01:13:28,359 --> 01:13:32,359
Speaker 12: I think the other three picks were terrible. Yeah, now

1678
01:13:32,399 --> 01:13:33,920
it's my turn. I don't understand.

1679
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:34,279
Speaker 2: Go ahead.

1680
01:13:34,319 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 12: So friend of our shows decided to shoot a photo

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01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,520
of her in the hallway at the Tota Center last night. Okay,

1682
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,439
with the Spurs warming up in the background in the hallway.

1683
01:13:47,279 --> 01:13:56,199
First of all, they're wearing those Fiesta powder uniforms, which

1684
01:13:56,239 --> 01:13:59,720
are not the uniforms but the warm ups. It's bad luck.

1685
01:14:00,279 --> 01:14:04,479
Spurs are black and silver, not this multiple colored crap

1686
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:06,359
i like the old Fiesta colors.

1687
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 2: No, thank you, Okay, then she is. No, it's what

1688
01:14:11,079 --> 01:14:12,199
the Spurs are all about.

1689
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,079
Speaker 12: It's the icemane, It's Johnny Moore, it's Tim Duncan dribbling

1690
01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:20,439
seventeen times at the elbow and throwing up a shot

1691
01:14:21,079 --> 01:14:24,319
in the seeing is just for men running down his forehead.

1692
01:14:26,239 --> 01:14:31,640
Then sixteen point lead m m. Then Spurs nation was

1693
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:33,079
going ballistic inside Tota.

1694
01:14:33,119 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 2: Say they were loud. Then Reed Shepherd happened.

1695
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 12: So our live guest in studio, Missy, the Ultiman Spurs fan. Missy,

1696
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:46,199
we love you. We've been coworkers for sixteen years. I

1697
01:14:46,359 --> 01:14:51,479
say this with warmth and charm and with great passion.

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01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:52,119
Speaker 2: Shit.

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01:14:52,279 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 12: Jo, bumass up, girl, Shit, Jo bum ass up man,

1700
01:14:56,520 --> 01:15:02,359
your spurs Aha. Your coach Mitch Johnson said, we didn't

1701
01:15:02,359 --> 01:15:04,880
show any grit, we didn't show any fight. We couldn't

1702
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:08,399
shoot the three when Binyama was overrated last night. Adam

1703
01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:10,880
Clanton loves on that big time. What do you say

1704
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,479
for yourself, your Spurs giving up that sixteen point lead?

1705
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:16,079
That one's working. Are you going talking to that one?

1706
01:15:16,159 --> 01:15:16,319
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1707
01:15:16,399 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 2: Sure, why not? It's a limp.

1708
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:19,159
Speaker 23: It's a limp.

1709
01:15:19,359 --> 01:15:22,359
Speaker 2: It's a limp one. Oh God Jesus, staying away from

1710
01:15:22,399 --> 01:15:29,600
all this stuff. Hi, Maddie, Hello, missy. How are things going?

1711
01:15:30,079 --> 01:15:31,399
Speaker 23: Things are going great?

1712
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,520
Speaker 12: Oh, you're doing better than Wimby five to twenty one.

1713
01:15:34,119 --> 01:15:38,199
Speaker 24: Wimby locked up not not not the best, not the

1714
01:15:38,319 --> 01:15:41,560
best game. But who would have thought Reed Shepherd was

1715
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:42,680
going to be the Rocket's leadings?

1716
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,119
Speaker 2: Everybody did? Everybody?

1717
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:49,640
Speaker 25: The Shepherd family, Wildcats fans and the Stroud Truthers probably

1718
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:50,920
thought that Reed Shepherd.

1719
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 23: There's probably some Shepherd troops.

1720
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:53,039
Speaker 2: Uh.

1721
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:54,199
Speaker 23: No, great.

1722
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,319
Speaker 24: It was great to see the boys in the building yesterday.

1723
01:15:57,479 --> 01:15:59,600
I had a great time. There was a, like you said,

1724
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:00,720
a lot of Spurs fans.

1725
01:16:01,199 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 5: I too.

1726
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:04,399
Speaker 23: Maddie. Am a traditionalist. Black silver.

1727
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:06,079
Speaker 2: That's that's what she's wearing today.

1728
01:16:06,279 --> 01:16:08,520
Speaker 24: There should be uh, the color of your uniform, the

1729
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,479
color of your vehicles. Everything should just be black and silver.

1730
01:16:12,319 --> 01:16:17,520
I do not the Fiesta la spurs Era. I thought

1731
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,359
we would never have to see it again. But now

1732
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:23,319
the kids these days, they like this retro nonsense. I

1733
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:29,520
do not like the the bluey green aqua warm ups.

1734
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 2: Not thank you, but it's cool.

1735
01:16:34,159 --> 01:16:37,159
Speaker 23: That's our little though. You tell the Raiders that they're

1736
01:16:37,199 --> 01:16:37,840
boring and bland.

1737
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:39,560
Speaker 12: Hey tell Penn stay down and makes a color I

1738
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:41,239
mean like shut your bow, masses up, man.

1739
01:16:41,319 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, they went back because I have have a little fun,

1740
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:47,159
have a little zest, a little team non zest de vive.

1741
01:16:47,399 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 23: We do in our city connects. That's let's just connect and.

1742
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 12: Move on, like we don't need to be c Gray's

1743
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,239
not bad. I like that, but it's black, silver and gray.

1744
01:16:54,279 --> 01:16:54,880
That's the Spurs.

1745
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,600
Speaker 23: I do like how on on one of.

1746
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,399
Speaker 24: Our uniforms we've gone back to where it says San

1747
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,079
Antonio on the front, like in the olden days, your

1748
01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:06,359
road uniforms used to say your city. Home uniforms said

1749
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:09,960
your team name like Spurs. Okay, so they have gone

1750
01:17:10,079 --> 01:17:12,279
back to that occasionally, and I am a fan of that.

1751
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:15,680
But uh, I'm gonna give you your flowers, Maddie. I

1752
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:19,000
know you did say that the Spurs would win in

1753
01:17:19,119 --> 01:17:21,319
a series in a seven like a seven game series,

1754
01:17:21,359 --> 01:17:23,000
if the Spurs and the Rockets were to meet, the

1755
01:17:23,039 --> 01:17:24,960
Spurs would probably sweep the Rockets.

1756
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,319
Speaker 12: We're gonna have a We're gonna have a big bet. No,

1757
01:17:27,359 --> 01:17:31,159
I did not say that big bet. What's the big bet?

1758
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,239
They gotta play each other first in a series. Oh,

1759
01:17:34,359 --> 01:17:38,159
I just to stay away from me. I can't stay away.

1760
01:17:38,159 --> 01:17:40,079
And the mores of the Rockets, I can't stay do

1761
01:17:40,199 --> 01:17:42,920
body up Wimby? They do stuff them into the locker.

1762
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:44,920
He needs to get a little bit more tough.

1763
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: He.

1764
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 23: I could see it because I was at the game.

1765
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,680
Speaker 12: You was a Spurs fan. Cannot like Luke Cornett. Louke

1766
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:56,239
Cornett was balling. Actually hear the reverse dunk lass due.

1767
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:59,239
I was like, Louke Cornett was balling. That's crazy.

1768
01:18:00,039 --> 01:18:02,039
Speaker 24: Ask it where I was sitting. It was gorgeous last night.

1769
01:18:02,079 --> 01:18:05,439
But I will say this, Wimby did not have a

1770
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,279
great game. And teams are figuring out like I guess

1771
01:18:08,319 --> 01:18:11,039
they saw it after we we because I'm the backup

1772
01:18:11,039 --> 01:18:11,439
point guard.

1773
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,680
Speaker 23: Yes about Thomas's line, Yes, uh.

1774
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 24: He after we beat Oklahoma City the three times we

1775
01:18:21,039 --> 01:18:21,560
beat them.

1776
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:25,560
Speaker 25: They figured out. Okay, if we just elbow. Wimby, he

1777
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,720
gets a little flustered, and he did. You could see

1778
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,479
it last night. He got very frustrated. He uh, their

1779
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:32,239
very team.

1780
01:18:32,359 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 24: They they don't point fingers and shoot blame at their

1781
01:18:36,319 --> 01:18:40,119
their players when they're down there. But Wimby was frustrated.

1782
01:18:40,399 --> 01:18:42,119
And I will say, because I'm not going to get

1783
01:18:42,119 --> 01:18:45,560
fined by the NBA. The referees on both ends were

1784
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,159
really sketched last night. They really they were wonderful.

1785
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 2: It was awesome.

1786
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:51,680
Speaker 23: They swallowed the whistle.

1787
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:53,600
Speaker 24: It's like they were trying to make up for the

1788
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,520
delay we had from the goal problem in the shop.

1789
01:18:58,159 --> 01:18:59,560
Speaker 23: Well, you know what, he likes to jump.

1790
01:18:59,560 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1791
01:19:00,359 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 24: I heard you guys had a problem like three days

1792
01:19:02,039 --> 01:19:04,520
ago with the shot clock on the I don't know.

1793
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:06,479
Maybe you guys should pay a little bit more to

1794
01:19:07,039 --> 01:19:08,000
get that stuff done.

1795
01:19:08,119 --> 01:19:12,239
Speaker 12: You know what, we we have super technologies. Sometimes technology.

1796
01:19:12,239 --> 01:19:14,600
Speaker 23: I will say, I love the upgrades and the tech.

1797
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:15,439
It's really cool.

1798
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 25: I like the green lines on the Coaches Challenge that

1799
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,399
go all around the stadium, and that is very cool.

1800
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,079
Speaker 23: I will say it's very cool to the scoreboard.

1801
01:19:23,159 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 24: But the under the thing screens, that's the first time

1802
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,159
I've seen those, all right, so that was really cool.

1803
01:19:28,199 --> 01:19:31,119
Speaker 25: But let's get a rocket series going and we'll make

1804
01:19:31,199 --> 01:19:32,920
a bet for a large amount of food, and you

1805
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,079
and I can just drive back and forth for all

1806
01:19:35,119 --> 01:19:38,680
the games. I'm gonna fly Rossie and I will drive back.

1807
01:19:40,039 --> 01:19:45,000
I'll get us a sponsor. Yes, Rossie and I will

1808
01:19:45,079 --> 01:19:48,439
drive back and forth. Will do podcast the whole way,

1809
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,000
the whole way, from the from the from the BUCkies.

1810
01:19:52,319 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 24: No, we're gonna stop at Bill Miller's and get some

1811
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,279
fried chicken. Okay, I was gonna say, don't get the barbecue.

1812
01:19:56,279 --> 01:19:58,199
Speaker 23: No chicken and tea.

1813
01:19:58,880 --> 01:19:59,640
Speaker 2: That is a Bill Miller.

1814
01:20:00,279 --> 01:20:02,159
Speaker 23: We'll go to Chris Madrid's and get some burgers.

1815
01:20:02,239 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 2: Okay, that sound okay?

1816
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:09,199
Speaker 25: Well there's I have a million places swimming in the walk. No,

1817
01:20:09,399 --> 01:20:12,000
I'll bring my has Matt suit, not my swimsuit, don't know,

1818
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:15,680
depending on Yeah, yeah, I mean so guess what.

1819
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:18,399
Speaker 12: We have another matchup one week from to the tomorrow.

1820
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,039
One week from tomorrow, thirty start time. It's kind of

1821
01:20:21,079 --> 01:20:23,439
late for you, are very late for me because you

1822
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:27,960
know I'm up here early. Yes, you are grinding, yes, grinding. Hey,

1823
01:20:28,399 --> 01:20:30,760
let me tell you something. If you want your business

1824
01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:34,000
to grow. First of all, this is the showed sponsor,

1825
01:20:34,119 --> 01:20:37,840
of course, but Missy is the rep that will give

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01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:40,720
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Speaker 2: Huh. I don't know what that is.

1828
01:20:42,279 --> 01:20:42,600
Speaker 3: No, we do.

1829
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,039
Speaker 23: We've got some great rockets and astros.

1830
01:20:45,239 --> 01:20:47,039
Speaker 2: Oh ass coming up.

1831
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 23: After spring training sponsors of that. That's a great program.

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01:20:51,079 --> 01:20:53,359
Speaker 12: Let's get the business going. Let's get Missy's business going.

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01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,600
Let's get our business goal. Let's get your business thriving

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Speaker 23: That's right, Yes, we'll all go to lunch together.

1836
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:01,039
Speaker 2: To the show.

1837
01:21:01,119 --> 01:21:04,079
Speaker 23: Yeah, yeah, like two thirty line.

1838
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:08,119
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely, miss makes your enough. Okay, let's do it.

1839
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 12: Okay, let's go a show sponsor seven one three two

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Speaker 24: Yeah, or you can just actually call I think what's

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my numbers? Seven three two one two eight four five

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Speaker 2: Five It's easy to remember.

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Speaker 12: So one three eight two one two eight four five

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01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,439
another Spurs loss one week from tomorrow.

1851
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:42,079
Speaker 24: One day we will have like Wimby Wednesdays or Spurs

1852
01:21:42,199 --> 01:21:45,159
updates or something that's going to love you guys so much.

1853
01:21:45,239 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 23: Thanks for thanks for listening. I look forward to listening

1854
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,399
to all of the listeners. Now call in and tell me.

1855
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,359
Speaker 12: To shut my bumm. No, they would never do that, Hey, Houston,

1856
01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:57,720
would you tell the Spurs fan to shut their bumb

1857
01:21:57,760 --> 01:21:59,199
ass up on this show? I don't think that's going

1858
01:21:59,279 --> 01:21:59,760
to be the case.

1859
01:22:00,079 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 23: Fans last night did so they did?

1860
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:02,159
Speaker 2: They did?

1861
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 12: All right, that's miss miss the Elephants first fan making

1862
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:06,840
an appearance here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Moore.

1863
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:08,680
We shut you by myself. Oh we've got a bran,

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new fresh collar Cameron in the line. Ross, And if

1865
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,319
you heard from him or not, never you'll be talking

1866
01:22:14,399 --> 01:22:16,439
to Cameron next here on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross

1867
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:18,680
eleven fifty.

1868
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 2: Four Sports Talk seven hounty. You guys and ladies, by way,

1869
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:24,720
are always welcome to call in and tell somebody to

1870
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:26,399
shut there by myself. Anybody got time for that?

1871
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 12: Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero

1872
01:22:30,039 --> 01:22:33,479
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Ross,

1873
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:35,359
let's go to the phone. See you was out there today.

1874
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:37,680
You know I love the name Cameron. Didjent you love

1875
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:38,560
the name Cameron Ross.

1876
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:40,239
Speaker 2: It's fine.

1877
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,199
Speaker 12: My oldest son's name. His mother calls him Cameron. I

1878
01:22:44,319 --> 01:22:48,039
call him cam. His brothers and sisters call him Cammy.

1879
01:22:49,079 --> 01:22:51,720
Let's talk to Cameron on seven, aunty Cameron. What's the

1880
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:52,159
matter with you?

1881
01:22:52,239 --> 01:22:52,560
Speaker 2: Cameron?

1882
01:22:53,920 --> 01:23:00,279
Speaker 19: Gentlemen Ross? Hello, Hello, Yeah, nick a Sario only that

1883
01:23:00,359 --> 01:23:03,239
press conference was shut your bumb ass up. You're gas

1884
01:23:03,359 --> 01:23:03,800
lighting us.

1885
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:04,640
Speaker 5: Okay, we're not.

1886
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:08,880
Speaker 19: We're not happy with the divisional divisional exit again. Sorry,

1887
01:23:09,399 --> 01:23:11,840
and okay, maybe not show a lot of emotion, but

1888
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,439
don't gaslight me into thinking, well, look how many games

1889
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,359
we won in the regular season. You're one of the

1890
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:18,560
leaders of the team. You set the tone, especially since

1891
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:22,600
you addressed the press. Sorry.

1892
01:23:23,479 --> 01:23:25,399
Speaker 2: Oh he's doing a sorry on top of that too.

1893
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 19: Ass up?

1894
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,279
Speaker 2: Man, appreciate you came like him to shut his bomb

1895
01:23:29,319 --> 01:23:29,720
ass up.

1896
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1897
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 2: Like I say, we're gonna play some more cuts throughout

1898
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,520
the course of the show today. But my feeling is.

1899
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 12: I had no expectations for Nicky to be very honest,

1900
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:41,399
and I thought it was most part pretty forthcoming. Yeah,

1901
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:44,439
since he's been GM. They were four and thirteen, three

1902
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:49,840
thirteen and one, ten and seven Divisional, ten and seven Divisional,

1903
01:23:50,039 --> 01:23:52,159
twelve and five Divisional.

1904
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 2: And the one thing to.

1905
01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:00,159
Speaker 12: Give Casario the benefit on this is that he's not

1906
01:24:00,159 --> 01:24:02,079
gonna give you every the company, all the company secrets

1907
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:04,800
you'd like to, you'd like more, You're not gonna get

1908
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,920
any who does most teams do that. I mean, let

1909
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:09,000
me tell you something. I want to know what the

1910
01:24:09,039 --> 01:24:12,920
heck Joe Mixon did. Okay, so we need Jonathan. We

1911
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:14,600
needed a ruling on this because I'm the one that

1912
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,439
kind of persuaded you towards the gunshot.

1913
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:17,199
Speaker 5: We can wait.

1914
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,560
Speaker 12: What is your I have now switched. I'm still betting

1915
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:23,239
on the gunshot wound. Okay, but I'm still now I

1916
01:24:23,279 --> 01:24:25,000
think the new leader in the clubhouse is a botch

1917
01:24:25,079 --> 01:24:28,520
medical procedure or both. Or it could be a botch

1918
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:32,479
medical procedure after he shot himself on the foot. When

1919
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:35,199
he says nothing irresponsible, that gives me confidence that I

1920
01:24:35,239 --> 01:24:37,880
could win the bet. And we're playing for a almond

1921
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:40,640
croissant and a cup of coffee. Yes you like Colebrew though,

1922
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,680
so we'll probably have more of a Venti flavor size.

1923
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:45,119
Uh well, it depends if I go the nitro. You

1924
01:24:45,159 --> 01:24:47,640
see a grande. That's bad boys, Okay, three hundred milligrams

1925
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:50,760
of coffee caffeine. I got you all right where you

1926
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,760
signed Jonathan on this? Are you going bodg medical procedure?

1927
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,560
Speaker 2: Are you gonna? Are you gonna fall with me? On

1928
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:57,680
the gunshot wound to the foot? Can we go to

1929
01:24:58,199 --> 01:25:01,079
Badutin or Mom? And you won't go away? And I

1930
01:25:01,159 --> 01:25:02,520
just don't like bar Bucks? That's fine.

1931
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 7: It does sound like malpractice if I'm being completely released.

1932
01:25:06,119 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 12: No, I know I was looking for Maybe I'm still

1933
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:10,600
holding out home. But it's a gunshot wound. Okay, So

1934
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,720
when does this expire? And like I said, if if

1935
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,159
I lose, no, we have to have If we don't

1936
01:25:15,199 --> 01:25:16,920
have any if we don't have any further information by

1937
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,560
the end of the super Bowl, meaning the Monday after

1938
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,279
the super Bowl, then you win the bed.

1939
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 2: Okay.

1940
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 12: If it comes and finds out that I was right

1941
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:25,560
after all, it's a doubles you do, then owe me

1942
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,279
two croissants and two cups of coffee.

1943
01:25:28,319 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 2: Okay.

1944
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 12: I want to go to Mom and Mond and I'll

1945
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:36,239
get a cold brew and a Kuna Mond. It's delicious.

1946
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:40,319
Let her In fact, when ross I went to Lake Charles.

1947
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,319
What was it when we go in a while, I

1948
01:25:42,359 --> 01:25:45,439
should say baseball season or was it like early football?

1949
01:25:46,199 --> 01:25:48,159
When we went to that play that coffee shop? Yeah,

1950
01:25:48,199 --> 01:25:51,479
we found a nice little coffee player. They're gone next

1951
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:52,039
to Meryl's.

1952
01:25:53,159 --> 01:25:56,000
Speaker 2: Is it really gone? They moved? Did they really? How

1953
01:25:56,039 --> 01:25:57,920
did you know that? You and I went to I

1954
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,199
went to Lake Charles recently?

1955
01:25:59,560 --> 01:25:59,680
Speaker 18: Oh?

1956
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:02,239
Speaker 2: You did? That's right? Quite well? So where where is

1957
01:26:02,279 --> 01:26:02,800
the place now?

1958
01:26:03,319 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 5: I don't know?

1959
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:05,920
Speaker 12: She went over there going mad? Don't get me A

1960
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,560
nice was gone. I was like, I need a caffeine

1961
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,359
for these blackjack tables. We spent money with them and

1962
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:13,039
us trade or anything because I went and got the

1963
01:26:13,119 --> 01:26:15,520
large ooh, and you were why wouldn't they get the

1964
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:16,800
large Darrel special.

1965
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 2: I needed some caffeine. It was gonna put me to sleep,

1966
01:26:19,159 --> 01:26:19,479
all right?

1967
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,399
Speaker 12: Last call seven one three two two five seven. That's

1968
01:26:22,399 --> 01:26:24,600
what those sandwiches do it? Seven one three two one

1969
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:25,439
two five seven.

1970
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:26,359
Speaker 2: Anything else going on?

1971
01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 19: Oh?

1972
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,560
Speaker 12: I'm want to Lena doggo to shut her bumb ass up.

1973
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:31,239
That that was a ridiculous setting out that.

1974
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 2: Well, we should be really proud of our guys.

1975
01:26:33,079 --> 01:26:33,520
Speaker 5: Resilient.

1976
01:26:34,119 --> 01:26:37,520
Speaker 12: That sucked. Shut your bum mass up. Lena, we're about

1977
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:42,760
our county roads. I'm all about government people staying in government. Uh, well,

1978
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:44,640
they are pr people, so they have to try to

1979
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:47,840
make pr for themselves. We want to keep getting voted in.

1980
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:50,359
I don't think he's running f I was gonna say,

1981
01:26:50,359 --> 01:26:52,119
are they just done? Are there term limits on that?

1982
01:26:52,279 --> 01:26:54,319
I think she decided nothing. Can we get term limits

1983
01:26:54,359 --> 01:26:57,760
on everything? By the way, except radio host? We should

1984
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,680
be here for it. We're not voted in, Man, that's true.

1985
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,720
We'll probably be voted out by ratings at revenue. Are

1986
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,760
doing well, We're good. We're gonna keep our job. That's

1987
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:08,359
why you got to call Missy. Yes, indeed, all right, Uh,

1988
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,760
let's get to the news at noon. Hey, Ross, they

1989
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:14,199
got a quick question for you. Yes, what did you

1990
01:27:14,239 --> 01:27:17,600
see last night? I wouldn't call it a comeback. They've

1991
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:20,680
been here for years. I wouldn't call it a comeback.

1992
01:27:21,279 --> 01:27:23,920
That's all I'm saying. Okay, are you ready for some lunch?

1993
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:24,840
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1994
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:28,359
Speaker 12: I'm starving. Actually, Big City Wings. Hello, My window to

1995
01:27:28,359 --> 01:27:31,239
eat starts in one minute. Pleaase come feed our guy

1996
01:27:31,399 --> 01:27:32,960
Ross a. Big City Wings.

1997
01:27:35,279 --> 01:27:42,560
Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Come on, Man,

1998
01:27:43,359 --> 01:27:48,920
I went to TBC News the comeback, Morris.

1999
01:27:51,159 --> 01:27:57,560
Speaker 12: Don't call it a comeback, say knock you out? Yeah,

2000
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:02,439
read Shepherd baby the first call on the rocket Trap

2001
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:09,520
last night, Harry, Guys, he's been disappointing. I stand like

2002
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:10,960
I'm a deputy Dung.

2003
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:16,640
Speaker 2: Is that who it was? Drooping? Droopy? Dung complained being

2004
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:20,800
he just scored twenty one points? What was it ten

2005
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:22,239
or twelve in the fourth Yeah.

2006
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:24,279
Speaker 12: By the way, a lot of you have been sending

2007
01:28:24,319 --> 01:28:26,359
me emails and tweets about this, and thank you. I

2008
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:27,119
should have said it.

2009
01:28:27,119 --> 01:28:27,520
Speaker 2: I knew this.

2010
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:28,039
Speaker 15: Uh.

2011
01:28:28,279 --> 01:28:30,640
Speaker 12: The reason why Ryan Clark is a c. J. Stroud

2012
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:33,600
truther is because a Ryan Clark's agent is David Mullagetta.

2013
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:34,640
Speaker 2: Oh is that true? Uh?

2014
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:35,199
Speaker 15: C J.

2015
01:28:35,319 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 2: Stroud's agent is David Yeah, Okay, David Mulla gonna get

2016
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:44,399
you some money. David Mulla gonna ruin this city here.

2017
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:47,039
If his mega client isn't getting mega money, he's.

2018
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:50,159
Speaker 12: Not holding out now would he hold out going into

2019
01:28:50,239 --> 01:28:53,119
a fifth year depending on how this season goes?

2020
01:28:56,159 --> 01:28:59,039
Speaker 2: No, this is okay. Next year is year four.

2021
01:29:00,359 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 12: Next year the New York that would be year five

2022
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:03,239
where the team m have to pick up the option

2023
01:29:03,399 --> 01:29:04,319
and then you can in theory.

2024
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:06,039
Speaker 2: I think was it three year.

2025
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:08,359
Speaker 12: Franchise for a couple of years, Yeah, not that they

2026
01:29:08,359 --> 01:29:11,159
would not they're gonna get he might if he gets franchise.

2027
01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:12,520
Speaker 2: He's holding out. I would imagine.

2028
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:16,279
Speaker 12: And when I say ugly, I mean David Mullagetta is

2029
01:29:16,319 --> 01:29:18,479
going to go to all of his media mouthpieces and

2030
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:21,520
it's going to try to sway the conversation of the Texans.

2031
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:24,079
Speaker 2: Don't know what they're doing. Nic Cassiro's hard to negotiate

2032
01:29:24,159 --> 01:29:25,399
with blah blah blah blah blah blah.

2033
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:25,880
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2034
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 12: I don't think I think that's a I don't think

2035
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:33,960
that's gonna happen. I think there's evidence that proves otherwise.

2036
01:29:34,199 --> 01:29:36,840
I think Mullagetta can play the medium card very very well.

2037
01:29:37,239 --> 01:29:39,640
When did somebody not get paid? I'm just talking about here.

2038
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:43,720
I guess Hen Watson wanted to be Sean was There's

2039
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:44,199
another one?

2040
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:44,600
Speaker 5: Was it?

2041
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,840
Speaker 2: It was it Lamar too? Or Am I making that up?

2042
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:50,079
Is he Lamar Jackson's agent?

2043
01:29:51,319 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 12: Lamar Jackson was going to get franchise and then they

2044
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,640
were talking about trading him, and then eventually they signed

2045
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:58,479
him to a big deal, but it got contankerous for

2046
01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:04,399
a while yeah, let me see David, I know his mom?

2047
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:08,960
What yeah, oh yeah, Lamar Jackson's Is that still true?

2048
01:30:09,199 --> 01:30:10,760
I thought it was like when he came out, is

2049
01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:14,159
it GPT says that, Well, sometimes they're wrong. Did he

2050
01:30:14,199 --> 01:30:15,079
eventually get an agent?

2051
01:30:15,119 --> 01:30:15,399
Speaker 2: I thought?

2052
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:17,880
Speaker 12: Or maybe it's still is it's still his mom. I'm

2053
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:19,680
looking at I'm gonna look up right now. David mullan,

2054
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:20,399
get a client, you.

2055
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:23,279
Speaker 2: Need to pay my baby? Is that what happened?

2056
01:30:23,600 --> 01:30:24,079
Speaker 5: I don't know.

2057
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 2: I don't think it went that way.

2058
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:29,720
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, I'm not gonna making him some chunky soup,

2059
01:30:30,239 --> 01:30:31,079
David mulla Goeta.

2060
01:30:31,119 --> 01:30:33,640
Speaker 2: Clients would include uh C J. Strow.

2061
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:37,079
Speaker 12: We mentioned uh Caln Bullock. By the way of the Texans,

2062
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:43,119
Deshaun Watson you brought up, well, he did quite well

2063
01:30:43,159 --> 01:30:46,039
for himself justin fields, but that wasn't.

2064
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:49,199
Speaker 2: MICHAEH. Parson, Oh, Mike up.

2065
01:30:49,199 --> 01:30:52,560
Speaker 12: Thousands in Dallas was very very Yeah, he got traded,

2066
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:54,960
but frankly that was more because Jerry Jones, an idiot.

2067
01:30:55,039 --> 01:30:56,640
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones didn't want to pay him. Yeah.

2068
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:03,640
Speaker 12: I if we're in a scenario where he has a season,

2069
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:06,560
he's not gonna have a season like this where he's

2070
01:31:07,119 --> 01:31:09,279
kind of decent and then has a playoff disaster. There's

2071
01:31:10,039 --> 01:31:12,560
if he gets two more playoff disasters like this, he's

2072
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:14,560
not gonna be on the team anymore. Correct he can

2073
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,880
regress and or he can progress. We're gonna see he's

2074
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:17,640
gonna play games.

2075
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:18,279
Speaker 2: You have time.

2076
01:31:18,359 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 12: This is not decision time right now. This is it's

2077
01:31:20,840 --> 01:31:23,880
not gonna I don't I don't foresee it could get ugly. Yes,

2078
01:31:24,359 --> 01:31:26,960
David Mulagatta likes to draw a hard line in the sane,

2079
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:30,079
and he's gonna want his guys to get paid. It's possible, right,

2080
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,680
but I feel like we're probably gonna end up unless

2081
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:35,600
we're gonna be in limbo to where it's like, eh,

2082
01:31:36,279 --> 01:31:37,920
you're gonna have more of a sample size.

2083
01:31:38,119 --> 01:31:38,600
Speaker 23: You're gonna have.

2084
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:42,039
Speaker 12: Four, impossibly five years to figure out what it is

2085
01:31:42,279 --> 01:31:44,199
with CJ. Shroud. If you want to make him your

2086
01:31:44,239 --> 01:31:48,560
franchise guy, or you can win with him the way

2087
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:50,680
the roster is, you can to an extent. They won

2088
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:52,880
twelve games and made the Divisional round. But if he

2089
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:56,640
wasn't a complete disaster, and here's the reality, they're in

2090
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,600
the ANFC Championship Game and going to the Super Bowl.

2091
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:01,520
Quite Frank Ross and I mainly met. We got to

2092
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:03,000
do a better job of trying to get away from

2093
01:32:03,039 --> 01:32:05,920
the contract conversation, because this really shouldn't be a conversation

2094
01:32:06,039 --> 01:32:10,159
piece unless the Texans spread the word through Ian Rappaport

2095
01:32:10,279 --> 01:32:12,119
and some other folks that they are trying to negotiate

2096
01:32:12,239 --> 01:32:14,800
something other than that. It's really not even a It's

2097
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:17,439
not even a talking point. The talking point for twenty

2098
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:19,840
twenty six is going to be will ce j Strout

2099
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,239
be a better quarterback to next year and get this

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01:32:22,319 --> 01:32:24,399
team to a different level than he has in his

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01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:26,359
previous three years. To the News at noon, we go

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at twelve minute, ten minutes past the hour, ten o'clock,

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01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:31,439
twelve o'clock, he said, easily prosteds.

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01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 2: What's going on the world of news.

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01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 12: Yes, Matthew, what we mentioned the Houston Rockets defeating the

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01:32:36,079 --> 01:32:41,319
San Antonio Spurs one eleven to one oh six last

2107
01:32:41,399 --> 01:32:43,479
night at the Toyota Center. But we also got the

2108
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:48,359
unfortunate news in the pregame media availability. Matt that read

2109
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:54,439
Rockets head coach Imiadoka saying a Grade three ankle sprain

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01:32:55,199 --> 01:32:58,439
for Steven Adams. That means that there has been a

2111
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:02,159
ligament tear, if not multiple. So we're talking not a

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01:33:02,239 --> 01:33:05,079
matter of weeks, but a matter of months for Steven

2113
01:33:05,159 --> 01:33:09,640
Adams missing time with your Houston Rockets and going to

2114
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,640
be sorely missed. I mean, I like Clint Capella, but

2115
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:16,279
he ain't Steven Adams. So a couple of months at least,

2116
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:20,840
So could you go get reinforcement as a just a

2117
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:25,039
guy backup center where I don't know? I mean, there's

2118
01:33:25,199 --> 01:33:27,840
that's Ryan Hollins in good shape. You can play Ey

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01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:30,439
eight minutes. The fact is, though that's not a topic

2120
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:33,279
of conversation that regular fans have, that's does deep in

2121
01:33:33,319 --> 01:33:36,119
the weeds among general managers in front office folks. I

2122
01:33:36,199 --> 01:33:38,720
think people are gonna miss Steven Adams. No, no, I

2123
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:41,640
don't disagree with that. I'm just saying that who the

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01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:42,439
options are?

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01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:42,680
Speaker 19: Right?

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01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:43,079
Speaker 2: I got you?

2127
01:33:43,199 --> 01:33:45,479
Speaker 12: So Rockets have won three in a row. Now they

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01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:48,760
are in the number four spot in the West. All

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01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:50,239
you people, you know what, I should have shut your

2130
01:33:50,239 --> 01:33:52,119
bum dass up like that guy was arguing with it.

2131
01:33:52,239 --> 01:33:54,199
This is this team is going to completely fall apart

2132
01:33:54,239 --> 01:33:56,279
and they're going to be an eight seed Max. That

2133
01:33:56,359 --> 01:33:58,279
guy can shut his bumb ass up. Where are you people?

2134
01:33:58,319 --> 01:34:01,399
At even though the Rockets are only three games from

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01:34:01,399 --> 01:34:03,039
being the eighth seed. By the way, the Rockets had

2136
01:34:03,159 --> 01:34:06,199
nine block shots last night. How many didn't win? We

2137
01:34:06,279 --> 01:34:09,880
have he had zero? Second Wim Harrison Barnes old ass.

2138
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:12,119
Harrison Barnes had a block before.

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01:34:14,239 --> 01:34:18,960
Speaker 2: Man the NBA champion. I'm I'm the epitome of the

2140
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,600
old ass. I mean, that's what it is. That feels

2141
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:25,520
like that's that's a good clip, all right.

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01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:28,520
Speaker 12: Well, Also, Matt, elsewhere in the news, did you see

2143
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:35,119
is it Pegula or Pagula Bill's owner Terry Pegula. I

2144
01:34:35,239 --> 01:34:40,640
mean he was going scorched earth on Sean McDermott defending

2145
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:43,680
Brandon Bean, saying it was Sean McDermott and one of

2146
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:48,479
the wide receiver Keon Coleman. Keon Coleman's still on the roster,

2147
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:51,520
by the way, was an active part of the game

2148
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:56,039
on the over the weekend. You have the owner calling

2149
01:34:56,159 --> 01:34:59,960
you out and saying, Brandon Bean, the GM went along

2150
01:35:00,199 --> 01:35:02,439
and was a team player and got you Coleman, who

2151
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:04,960
was selected by the Buffalo Bills with the thirty third

2152
01:35:05,079 --> 01:35:11,640
overall pick in twenty twenty four. And I mean, I

2153
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:13,880
don't know what the heck's going on there in Buffalo

2154
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:16,359
and who is going to be the head coach? Brian Dable,

2155
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:20,079
I think is the is the chalk pick. But how

2156
01:35:20,119 --> 01:35:22,880
about the owner going out and calling out a current player.

2157
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:23,319
Speaker 5: On the roster.

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01:35:24,199 --> 01:35:26,039
Speaker 12: Ah, that's probably a guy that had no idea. Who

2159
01:35:26,119 --> 01:35:29,560
keyon Coleman was well not pre draft?

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01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:30,640
Speaker 2: No, all right.

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01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 12: One of the NFL note, yes on the owner, Robert

2162
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:38,279
Kraft of the New England Patriots, was on a podcast

2163
01:35:38,359 --> 01:35:39,399
or radio shown on what it was?

2164
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:41,319
Speaker 2: But it was something I bessages in you No it

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01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,239
was not. Oh it's not orchids and friends.

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01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:45,119
Speaker 3: Uh.

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01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 12: He says that the conversation in the NFL circles this

2168
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:50,239
is no surprise, but really, you don't hear an owner

2169
01:35:50,279 --> 01:35:57,359
say this at least publicly. Eighteen game schedule, two games preseason,

2170
01:35:58,039 --> 01:35:59,680
and a gut feeling that I'm going to hit on

2171
01:36:01,159 --> 01:36:04,479
every but team has to play an international game. Nick okay, future,

2172
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:08,199
So I think I got that one on that one.

2173
01:36:08,279 --> 01:36:11,720
More NFL note. Did you see Baker Mayfield's tweet?

2174
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:12,399
Speaker 5: I did not.

2175
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 12: De Orlando ledbetter friend of the show he's been on

2176
01:36:16,079 --> 01:36:17,840
with us before. Not a great interview, but it's okay.

2177
01:36:19,359 --> 01:36:21,399
Voices a little off, but we wish him the best.

2178
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:23,760
And then he stopped responding to my text but that's okay.

2179
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:29,439
Put out a tweet talking about Kevin Stefanski in Atlanta,

2180
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:34,000
saying Kevin Stefanski had a dumpster fire at quarterback in Cleveland.

2181
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:39,239
Baker Mayfield and Deshaun Watson failed, which started a chain

2182
01:36:39,319 --> 01:36:43,680
reaction to eleven other starters. Baker Mayfield tweeting, not so

2183
01:36:43,920 --> 01:36:48,760
fast my friend quote failed is quite the reach pal.

2184
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:50,159
Speaker 2: Still waiting on.

2185
01:36:50,199 --> 01:36:52,399
Speaker 12: A text call from him after I got shipped off

2186
01:36:52,479 --> 01:36:55,600
like a piece of garbage. Can't wait to see you

2187
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:59,079
twice a year coach in the same division.

2188
01:37:00,199 --> 01:37:01,439
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield v.

2189
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:05,800
Speaker 12: Kevin Stefanski gonna be a nice AFC South matchup to

2190
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:07,479
keep an eye on coming up in the next season.

2191
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:08,359
Speaker 2: Love it all right?

2192
01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:10,319
Speaker 12: More phone calls plus a couple of cuts from Nick

2193
01:37:10,399 --> 01:37:12,119
Asario coming up in the next thing of the show.

2194
01:37:12,159 --> 01:37:12,319
Speaker 15: It is.

2195
01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 2: A right back of the phones. We go with Ross.

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01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:20,960
I'm Matt. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

2197
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 12: It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one

2198
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:25,520
three two one two five seven nine zero seven one

2199
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:28,800
three two one two five seven ninety. Let's talk to

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01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:36,760
Alex and Conroe on seven NINTI, Alex, Uh, that's rights again, Alex,

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01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:37,439
thanks for waiting.

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01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:38,039
Speaker 2: Good afternoon.

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01:37:39,279 --> 01:37:40,039
Speaker 5: What's going on, Matt?

2204
01:37:40,319 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 1: Hi?

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01:37:41,279 --> 01:37:43,399
Speaker 26: So I work a weird shift. I just got to

2206
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:45,319
work at noon and I get off at nine point thirty.

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01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:49,119
So I listened to a full spectrum of sports radio

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01:37:49,159 --> 01:37:49,720
throughout the day.

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01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:52,600
Speaker 2: For any further, before you any further, what do you

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01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:53,800
do for a living, I'm very curious.

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01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,359
Speaker 12: I'm a welder, okay, you know what. I will say this,

2212
01:37:57,960 --> 01:37:59,399
and I think Ross would back me up on this.

2213
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:01,840
For you to your phone call, I could do a

2214
01:38:01,920 --> 01:38:02,479
noon to nine.

2215
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:05,119
Speaker 22: It's great, honestly, it's not.

2216
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:09,159
Speaker 26: It sucks whenever you want to go to something, you know,

2217
01:38:09,359 --> 01:38:13,239
during the day during the evening, but overall, man, I'd

2218
01:38:13,359 --> 01:38:15,960
rather get up at ten then get up at six,

2219
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:18,520
So it's it's not a complete loss, as if I

2220
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:19,960
get an extra dollar for working later.

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01:38:20,079 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for telling us that.

2222
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:22,920
Speaker 12: And again, now you said you were listening to a

2223
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:24,800
lot of sports radio, hopefully listen to us quite a bit,

2224
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:25,520
and for that we thank you.

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01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:30,039
Speaker 26: So I just basically stay on seven to ninety from

2226
01:38:30,399 --> 01:38:33,840
noon to seven o'clock, you know, and then in the evening,

2227
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:35,399
I get a little busy with other stuff. Whenever I

2228
01:38:35,479 --> 01:38:37,720
get home, take a shower, I'm listening to some other

2229
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:42,479
more national brands, right okay, And I guess this is

2230
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,119
where I'm at. If if you come up and you

2231
01:38:45,239 --> 01:38:47,279
want to talk sports with me, you know, just chop

2232
01:38:47,359 --> 01:38:49,079
it up as a as a you know, guy to guy,

2233
01:38:49,479 --> 01:38:52,479
and all you do is listen to national sports guys.

2234
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,680
If you get your takes from Colin Cowherd, shut you'll

2235
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,560
bum up. I do not want to talk to you.

2236
01:38:59,079 --> 01:39:01,600
I have nothing to say to you. You are not

2237
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:04,720
intelligent enough to have a conversation with because you you're

2238
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:07,600
just regurgitating the same crap that you've been told over

2239
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:11,079
and over again and then going on on these uh,

2240
01:39:11,199 --> 01:39:12,119
these national guys.

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01:39:12,239 --> 01:39:12,359
Speaker 5: Uh.

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01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 26: Ben Mallard, dude, Ben Mallord, I just I want to

2243
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:19,119
throw a rock at him so bad, man. I just

2244
01:39:19,239 --> 01:39:24,760
want to this whole, this whole perpetuation of of encouraging

2245
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:26,600
people to just stick their heads in the in the

2246
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:30,439
sand when it comes to the cheating scandal, it's you're

2247
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:33,960
you're bright enough, and you are clearly talented enough, and

2248
01:39:34,039 --> 01:39:36,319
you have the mental aptitude to have that job. To

2249
01:39:36,399 --> 01:39:39,520
be put in that place where you are, you know,

2250
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:42,640
talking to so many people at one time, because apparently

2251
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:45,479
you are smart, but you're not smart enough to use

2252
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:49,359
your brain to figure out how something could be connected

2253
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:53,319
even though there's no there's no uh, you know, black

2254
01:39:53,359 --> 01:39:55,960
and white thing that says, Okay, Carlos Beltron brought the

2255
01:39:56,159 --> 01:39:59,399
system from New York. You're you're clever enough to figure out,

2256
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:03,119
you know, whether or not this kid, this kid from

2257
01:40:03,159 --> 01:40:05,159
Duke is gonna go to Miami or not. You're you're

2258
01:40:05,399 --> 01:40:07,560
you're clever enough to figure that one out because you know,

2259
01:40:07,680 --> 01:40:09,760
you can tell that he's going for the money. That

2260
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:13,319
makes sense to you. But understanding that a cheating system

2261
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:16,640
could have come from somewhere else and traveled, that's that's

2262
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:17,840
beyond your comprehension.

2263
01:40:18,279 --> 01:40:18,920
Speaker 5: I'm tired of.

2264
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:19,560
Speaker 2: These guys, man.

2265
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 26: I just don't have the energy to argue with them anymore.

2266
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:23,840
Speaker 15: They'll just just just shut your bum ass up.

2267
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:24,640
Speaker 5: Man, I got it.

2268
01:40:25,199 --> 01:40:25,640
Speaker 2: That's fair.

2269
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 12: They're doing it. They're doing it to agitate you. Thank you,

2270
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:31,399
Alex with the phone call. They're they're they're winning the battle. Shit,

2271
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:34,760
So bum ass up, man, I mean, the only way

2272
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:36,159
you can win the battle back with them is just

2273
01:40:36,239 --> 01:40:44,079
not listen to it. Yes, don't feed the trolls. Yeah,

2274
01:40:47,039 --> 01:40:51,119
every you know, look, every show is some people love that,

2275
01:40:51,279 --> 01:40:53,520
some people hate that. Mean, same could be for this show,

2276
01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:57,680
for any show. I've never heard of a radio show,

2277
01:40:57,880 --> 01:40:59,800
well for that matter of TV program it is universal,

2278
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:04,840
but by every single person. No, I mean that maybe

2279
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:07,159
mister Rogers neighborhood. Yeah, I was gonna say, if you

2280
01:41:07,199 --> 01:41:09,039
don't like mister Rogers, something's wrong with you. But I

2281
01:41:09,119 --> 01:41:11,800
mean like in radio, Paul Harvey would do a fifteen

2282
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:15,760
minute newscast every day, and he did it for five

2283
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,760
or six decades, but he wasn't always universally loved because

2284
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:20,600
there was always the thought that he was a more

2285
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:22,840
of a conservative news reader than he was as a

2286
01:41:23,319 --> 01:41:26,119
straight down the middle Okay, I wasn't a Paul Harvey guy.

2287
01:41:26,159 --> 01:41:27,520
Speaker 2: I liked his rest of the stories those are kind

2288
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:27,960
of interesting to me.

2289
01:41:28,079 --> 01:41:31,039
Speaker 12: The rest of the story. I screwed one of those

2290
01:41:31,119 --> 01:41:32,880
up on Kate t H one of my first shifts.

2291
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:33,479
Speaker 2: Did you really?

2292
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:33,760
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2293
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:35,079
Speaker 2: Sorry about that?

2294
01:41:35,239 --> 01:41:38,159
Speaker 12: Yeah, thanks for bringing it up. I mean to, but yeah,

2295
01:41:39,439 --> 01:41:41,720
everybody's going to know their strengths and weaknesses. Everybody's going

2296
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:44,199
to know that Ben, and I've met Ben a couple

2297
01:41:44,239 --> 01:41:46,399
of times over the ear. You have, Yeah, in Los Angeles.

2298
01:41:49,079 --> 01:41:49,720
Speaker 2: I guess he can.

2299
01:41:49,840 --> 01:41:50,119
Speaker 5: I don't know.

2300
01:41:50,319 --> 01:41:53,199
Speaker 2: I don't know him that much, but he.

2301
01:41:53,319 --> 01:41:55,560
Speaker 12: Knows he's poking the bear because he knows one of

2302
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:56,840
his biggest markets is Houston.

2303
01:41:56,960 --> 01:41:57,159
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2304
01:41:59,399 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 12: So, and in as far as Colin's concerned, Colin speaks

2305
01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:05,960
so national audience. You have to kind of talk in generalities.

2306
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:07,439
You don't have to know the specifics of things and

2307
01:42:07,600 --> 01:42:09,000
get stuff wrong. You get stuff wrong.

2308
01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:10,079
Speaker 5: You just are.

2309
01:42:10,199 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 2: You don't know every fifty three men or every fifteen.

2310
01:42:12,680 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 12: Men, or the history or the vibe. Yeah, that's why

2311
01:42:15,960 --> 01:42:17,920
I would never I've told you this hundreds of times.

2312
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:22,840
I would never. I mean, look the granted, if somebody said, Matt,

2313
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:24,600
we're gonna triple your salary, I'd figure out way to

2314
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:24,760
do it.

2315
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:26,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wouldn't.

2316
01:42:26,279 --> 01:42:29,840
Speaker 12: I would never choose a path towards doing national radio

2317
01:42:30,239 --> 01:42:32,359
because you don't have any passion for anything.

2318
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:35,520
Speaker 2: You have to kind of just speak in generalities.

2319
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:39,159
Speaker 12: You can't like, for instance, when CJ screwed the pooch

2320
01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:41,680
on this Weekend, you and I came in with fire

2321
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:43,800
and brimstone because we were passionate about a local team.

2322
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:46,920
We covered You can be mad about CJ for about

2323
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:48,560
a minute a half on the national radio show, and

2324
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:49,840
then you gotta move on to what's going on with

2325
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:53,199
the Cowboys? Yeah, or Lebron the Packers, you know what

2326
01:42:53,239 --> 01:42:57,560
I mean. Yeah, it's just not it's not as fun now.

2327
01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,560
There were some people like for instance, Nick Wright, who

2328
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:02,159
used to be work here in town. His goal was

2329
01:43:02,199 --> 01:43:04,039
to be the national irritator.

2330
01:43:04,479 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 2: And he's done.

2331
01:43:05,199 --> 01:43:08,159
Speaker 12: He's done quite well for him, says he has. But

2332
01:43:08,399 --> 01:43:11,560
he that was his path, and Colin's path was I

2333
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:14,199
want to do a national show. And if you have

2334
01:43:14,359 --> 01:43:16,359
that path and you are and somebody thinks you're good

2335
01:43:16,399 --> 01:43:18,720
enough to doing it, you're gonna make significantly more money

2336
01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:22,439
than the local guy will. And but you're also gonna

2337
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:24,640
have is You're gonna have a much broader audience, but

2338
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:26,239
you have a much group, greater group of people that

2339
01:43:26,239 --> 01:43:30,800
are gonna hate and despise your guts. And that's that's

2340
01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:32,600
the choice you have to make too in this business.

2341
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:34,840
Is if you if you do want to sensationalize things

2342
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:36,479
and if you do want to be fake, I'm just

2343
01:43:36,479 --> 01:43:39,079
gonna say, if you want to be fake to climb

2344
01:43:39,119 --> 01:43:40,479
your way to the top. The national way is the

2345
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:44,439
easy way to go. Yeah, because if you're doing a

2346
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:46,760
national show. And I'm not trying to indict the national folks,

2347
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:48,960
although I kind of am. You don't some of them

2348
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:51,039
are nice. I'm sure no there. I mean, Look, I've

2349
01:43:51,079 --> 01:43:54,159
met Colin Coward. My son, my oldest son, loves I

2350
01:43:54,159 --> 01:43:55,439
don't know if he still loves anymore. It was when

2351
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:56,680
he was in high school. But we went and saw

2352
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,840
Colin Coward. We went to California many years ago, and

2353
01:44:00,039 --> 01:44:02,720
Colin was very nice to us, very inquisitive and actually,

2354
01:44:02,760 --> 01:44:05,079
frankly knew the Houston landscape much more than.

2355
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:09,399
Speaker 2: I thought he would. But I've always liked about Collins show.

2356
01:44:10,279 --> 01:44:13,880
I've liked that how do I put this?

2357
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 12: It's fast paced, he has these I think he does

2358
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,399
a much better job of analogies than I do. Oh

2359
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,239
that's good, which I think a low bar for that.

2360
01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:29,199
But he gets a lot of things wrong and he

2361
01:44:29,319 --> 01:44:30,279
doubles down on it.

2362
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 2: And that's to me, Like I.

2363
01:44:33,319 --> 01:44:35,960
Speaker 12: I learned that if you're going to do this job,

2364
01:44:36,079 --> 01:44:37,720
you're not going to bat a thousand when it comes

2365
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:39,279
to every one of your sports takes every one of

2366
01:44:39,279 --> 01:44:41,600
your opinions or for that matter, one of your facts.

2367
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:45,640
Now there are some facts like hey, who caught the

2368
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:47,840
Brett fav touchdown on the Super Bowl. If you messed

2369
01:44:47,880 --> 01:44:50,960
that up, okay, no big deal. But if you don't

2370
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:54,039
know the basic stuff and have a basic history of

2371
01:44:54,159 --> 01:44:56,239
your sports town, or a basic knowledge of how a

2372
01:44:56,319 --> 01:44:58,960
team was can put together, or knowing the players the team,

2373
01:44:59,039 --> 01:45:02,079
then that's a problem. In Collin's case, I'm not trying

2374
01:45:02,119 --> 01:45:04,479
about Concut in General'm talking about all the Nationals. They

2375
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:05,960
just all they have to do is just know a

2376
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:08,079
little bit about a couple of players. Well, yeah, in

2377
01:45:08,199 --> 01:45:11,680
some listen to the Matt Thomas Show podcast with Rosspiel

2378
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:14,760
podcasts instead of the national guys. I don't listen to

2379
01:45:14,840 --> 01:45:17,920
Ben mallor look, I know it's on our station. He's

2380
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:19,239
just trolling. You don't listen to it.

2381
01:45:19,560 --> 01:45:20,079
Speaker 2: He's a troll.

2382
01:45:20,199 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 12: He's trolling. He's trying to get your reaction. Do not

2383
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:24,800
feed the troll.

2384
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 2: Just ignore it.

2385
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:28,720
Speaker 12: And the easiest way to ignore it is to go

2386
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:32,600
to sleep, yeah, or put the podcast on the podcast

2387
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:34,399
let me tell you, putting us on at midnight.

2388
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:37,079
Speaker 2: That could get some feelings going the ladies love us

2389
01:45:37,119 --> 01:45:37,560
at midnight?

2390
01:45:37,760 --> 01:45:38,239
Speaker 5: Is that true?

2391
01:45:38,479 --> 01:45:39,800
Speaker 2: I've heard many a story.

2392
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:46,079
Speaker 12: Really, Yes, our sultry voice around has how romances between

2393
01:45:46,199 --> 01:45:50,479
I've heard it's put people to sleep. That's a different show. Okay,

2394
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:53,560
So it's a Teddy Pendergrass play mix. And then you

2395
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:54,640
put our show on?

2396
01:45:55,279 --> 01:45:56,720
Speaker 2: Yes? Did you see that?

2397
01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:59,520
Speaker 12: Somebody on instagram sparks fly and I'm not trying to

2398
01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:02,279
toutor on gonna do any you ready for this?

2399
01:46:02,520 --> 01:46:02,560
Speaker 1: No?

2400
01:46:03,159 --> 01:46:06,520
Speaker 12: A young lady listened to our show was running the

2401
01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:09,800
marathon last week. Yes, and was listening to our show

2402
01:46:10,079 --> 01:46:12,680
as she was running, shout out, Sarah, is that who

2403
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:12,920
it is?

2404
01:46:13,079 --> 01:46:13,279
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2405
01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:17,479
Speaker 12: Sarah, we love you. She's running on empty until this show.

2406
01:46:17,520 --> 01:46:21,079
She's not Jackson browning it. Okay, she's running on full.

2407
01:46:21,199 --> 01:46:24,000
She's got the Matt Thomas show'd Ross podcast going. It

2408
01:46:24,119 --> 01:46:28,359
really passed the time. So I made a decision, once

2409
01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:31,840
the basketball season's ever with, I'm gonna do a game

2410
01:46:31,840 --> 01:46:35,199
show podcast. Yes, no wrestling, just game shows.

2411
01:46:35,319 --> 01:46:35,520
Speaker 22: Yeah.

2412
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:37,119
Speaker 12: Are you gonna you're gonna do it solo? Are you

2413
01:46:37,119 --> 01:46:38,159
gonna partner with iHeart?

2414
01:46:38,199 --> 01:46:38,840
Speaker 2: What are you doing with that?

2415
01:46:39,079 --> 01:46:41,479
Speaker 12: I don't do negotiations, but what I wanted is I

2416
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:42,960
want to have a live guest one every week, and

2417
01:46:42,960 --> 01:46:44,199
I want us a video but I don't know how

2418
01:46:44,199 --> 01:46:46,199
to do any of that stuff. Okay, I want it.

2419
01:46:46,319 --> 01:46:48,560
Just gonna do a podcast too. With how much game

2420
01:46:48,600 --> 01:46:54,920
shows suck you hear that, folks, I'm just kidding, so

2421
01:46:55,199 --> 01:46:57,079
mean you are. You have to be one of the

2422
01:46:57,119 --> 01:47:00,600
foremost pre eminent experts on game show. So I'm gonna do.

2423
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:01,960
I'm gonna do it in America. I'm gonna do a

2424
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:04,600
half hour show a week. I'm gonna commit to it.

2425
01:47:04,800 --> 01:47:08,640
Name me every host of the match game Jean Rayburn,

2426
01:47:09,039 --> 01:47:12,199
Bert Convey on the pilot match Game Hollywood Squares Hour

2427
01:47:12,279 --> 01:47:17,720
was Jean Rayburn and John Bauman match Game with Alec Baldwin.

2428
01:47:18,239 --> 01:47:19,000
Speaker 2: Match Game with.

2429
01:47:21,279 --> 01:47:26,199
Speaker 12: You're like freaking rain Man, do a game show podcast?

2430
01:47:27,279 --> 01:47:31,439
And then the guy robbed that did it too, rob Shape? Oh,

2431
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,560
Ross Shaffer did one too, Yeah he did. Probably he didn't.

2432
01:47:35,159 --> 01:47:35,399
Speaker 5: Wow.

2433
01:47:36,279 --> 01:47:37,640
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna assume that's correct.

2434
01:47:38,159 --> 01:47:38,399
Speaker 5: I'm not.

2435
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:41,560
Speaker 12: I'm gonna tell you the truth, all right. Up next,

2436
01:47:41,640 --> 01:47:44,239
Vince went on Short to It Martin, she's current host.

2437
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:46,399
He does a terrible job of it too, I mean,

2438
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:49,760
just wretched. I heard he was an unfunny guy. Yeah,

2439
01:47:50,279 --> 01:47:52,800
the unfunniest guy in America. So the funny thing is,

2440
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:56,079
though he was kind of funny and arrested, development never

2441
01:47:56,159 --> 01:47:56,640
saw the show.

2442
01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a great show. I wouldn't recommend it to you.

2443
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:03,439
Speaker 12: All Right, Vince on some of the rockets, and we're

2444
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:07,279
gonna hear nicky Ce talk about the Texans wonderful and

2445
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:09,439
coming up at one twenty, you're gonna go to Denver

2446
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:10,680
colorackets areobot.

2447
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:13,560
Speaker 2: We'll talk next. He was better than that, right, We

2448
01:48:13,680 --> 01:48:16,199
gotta be fair, We have to do better.

2449
01:48:16,439 --> 01:48:20,000
Speaker 12: We are building the team to win. We will do

2450
01:48:20,159 --> 01:48:20,840
what it takes.

2451
01:48:21,800 --> 01:48:23,960
Speaker 2: See, your boy Cameron's got a point, doesn't he.

2452
01:48:25,359 --> 01:48:26,399
Speaker 12: He's not gonna show emotion.

2453
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying emotion. I want emotion. I want something.

2454
01:48:32,720 --> 01:48:34,680
I want a pulse. That's what he's asking for. What's

2455
01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:37,560
a pulse? Don't crush the kid wants a pulse. See

2456
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:40,159
a little passion again. We're gonna go to the relationship card, Matt.

2457
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:42,079
Speaker 12: You know, I'd like to see a little more emotion,

2458
01:48:42,159 --> 01:48:44,239
a little more passion for your therapists to say that.

2459
01:48:44,279 --> 01:48:45,000
Speaker 5: What do you say?

2460
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:54,159
Speaker 2: No, I promised to turn down the passion to forty

2461
01:48:54,239 --> 01:48:55,439
Sports Talks seven ninety.

2462
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:57,359
Speaker 12: Vince is with us on the Matt Thomas showld Ross

2463
01:48:57,359 --> 01:48:59,159
We're gonna hear from Nicky c after that high Vince.

2464
01:49:00,319 --> 01:49:02,640
Speaker 15: Hey, guys had one to the game yesterday and a

2465
01:49:02,680 --> 01:49:08,479
couple of things. I really loved the recognition the crowd

2466
01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:10,359
gave out too big when they introduced him. I don't

2467
01:49:10,359 --> 01:49:11,479
know if you noticed that or I did.

2468
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:13,159
Speaker 2: Yes, it was quite rocket.

2469
01:49:14,399 --> 01:49:17,439
Speaker 15: Yeah, very racous. Number two. A lot of San Antonio

2470
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,520
fans there. There was one guy that was really really obnoxious,

2471
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:25,199
sitting close to me and kept saying I can't.

2472
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:28,760
Speaker 21: Hear you, I can hear you, and does real basketball is.

2473
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 15: Played at the end of game. I let him have it,

2474
01:49:32,079 --> 01:49:32,479
by the way.

2475
01:49:33,199 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 2: Good But I love the rivalry.

2476
01:49:36,039 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 15: I think it's a renewed rivalry between San Antonio and Houston.

2477
01:49:39,640 --> 01:49:42,720
I think that's a great thing. But one thing I

2478
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:45,119
did want to kind of ask you about, do you

2479
01:49:45,319 --> 01:49:50,720
notice a rift or something happening between Sengoon and Durant

2480
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:54,479
because I noticed that they kind of were miscommunicating or something,

2481
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:57,439
and they seemed both seemed very perturbed at each other.

2482
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:00,720
Is that something that we should do very about or

2483
01:50:01,079 --> 01:50:03,159
just the normal courts of the things.

2484
01:50:03,760 --> 01:50:04,640
Speaker 2: I would chalk that up.

2485
01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:08,000
Speaker 12: Vincent, thank you for the phone call to two guys

2486
01:50:08,119 --> 01:50:13,600
competitive trying to play win a game down double digits,

2487
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:17,319
tired to turn the ball over. I actually I'm trying

2488
01:50:17,359 --> 01:50:19,039
to go back to my game notes I wrote about

2489
01:50:19,039 --> 01:50:20,039
when that happened.

2490
01:50:21,279 --> 01:50:23,039
Speaker 2: Look at you prepper like about it, I know, just

2491
01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:24,479
put your notes on Twitter.

2492
01:50:24,680 --> 01:50:27,039
Speaker 12: Third quarter was that? Oh third quarter? Eight oh six?

2493
01:50:27,199 --> 01:50:29,479
After you doka time out. They were all arguing, but

2494
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:32,039
it was like construct They weren't like going at each

2495
01:50:32,039 --> 01:50:34,920
other's throats. It was constructive. Because I wrote that down

2496
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,760
in case somebody brought it up in the postgame. Actually, yeah,

2497
01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:40,880
it was in the third quarter, Chingooon and Durant were

2498
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:43,720
kind of arguing about defensive coverage or something like that.

2499
01:50:44,039 --> 01:50:45,760
Jamar Smith Junior was on the bench and he was

2500
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:47,960
kind of between them and they were all disagreeing, and

2501
01:50:48,039 --> 01:50:50,520
then Shinoon I think one of the assistants came to

2502
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:53,520
him and told him he was wrong. That was basketball stuff.

2503
01:50:53,560 --> 01:50:55,479
To me, that was coaching. That's not a riff. That

2504
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:57,960
is these guys are going to argue all the time.

2505
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:00,800
It's it's like your brother or something, and you're gonna argue,

2506
01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:03,079
it's gonna be okay, they're going to disagree you missed

2507
01:51:03,119 --> 01:51:04,960
the assignment. No, you missed the assignment, and then they

2508
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:06,800
figure out, oh I was supposed to do this or whatever,

2509
01:51:07,159 --> 01:51:08,159
this basketball stuff.

2510
01:51:08,279 --> 01:51:09,960
Speaker 2: I didn't think anything of it other than that.

2511
01:51:10,039 --> 01:51:11,359
Speaker 12: I mean, like I said, I did write it down

2512
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:15,119
just in case somebody brought it up, but I literally

2513
01:51:15,199 --> 01:51:18,640
wrote not bad or contentious or anything. Yes, I would

2514
01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:20,880
tell you if there was a problem, we'd find out

2515
01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:23,359
about it. And they're just not They're just I mean, look,

2516
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:28,479
Katie is going to hold you accountable. Younger players not

2517
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:31,439
nearly as boisterous players may not say something, but Katie

2518
01:51:31,479 --> 01:51:35,000
doesn't hide his emotions. And I think albrunshing Gun sometimes

2519
01:51:35,079 --> 01:51:37,399
does miss defensive assignments and he gets a little defensive

2520
01:51:37,399 --> 01:51:42,840
about it. Just just me thinking saying out loud, just

2521
01:51:43,119 --> 01:51:43,720
an observation.

2522
01:51:43,760 --> 01:51:44,399
Speaker 2: I could be way off.

2523
01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:50,239
Speaker 12: Yes, look, that's a highly charged game that this is

2524
01:51:50,319 --> 01:51:52,359
the time of the year where the Western Conference seatings

2525
01:51:52,359 --> 01:51:54,439
are moving around almost on a day to day basis.

2526
01:51:55,199 --> 01:51:58,199
Speaker 2: All yeah, you need you needed to win that game yesterday.

2527
01:51:58,279 --> 01:52:00,600
Speaker 12: You did not need to lose and be behind by

2528
01:52:00,680 --> 01:52:03,079
sixteen points or whatever the number was when that happened.

2529
01:52:03,239 --> 01:52:06,119
You're a half game from the seven seed Wolves. Well,

2530
01:52:06,159 --> 01:52:07,920
there's three team five to sixty seven or all half

2531
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:10,600
game behind you and tied, and then you're two and

2532
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:16,319
a half behind Spurs in the two spot. Crazy. This

2533
01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:19,000
is exactly like it was a year ago. I know,

2534
01:52:19,119 --> 01:52:21,399
it's like it's been every year for like twenty years.

2535
01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:22,520
Speaker 2: Are you on pace?

2536
01:52:22,560 --> 01:52:22,720
Speaker 15: Guy?

2537
01:52:24,119 --> 01:52:24,279
Speaker 19: Sure?

2538
01:52:24,319 --> 01:52:24,560
Speaker 2: Why not?

2539
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:26,600
Speaker 12: What are they on pace for? Fifty fifty two wins?

2540
01:52:26,640 --> 01:52:28,439
Fifty two wins? You know when they got that last year?

2541
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:35,399
Fifty two fifty two wins. Okay, it'll be different because

2542
01:52:35,399 --> 01:52:37,279
remember those last three games they didn't even care about

2543
01:52:37,279 --> 01:52:40,239
because they put players in there for him. Yeah, Rockets

2544
01:52:40,279 --> 01:52:41,640
to the four seed. They are a game and a

2545
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:44,800
half out of the three. They're half out of the

2546
01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:48,079
five where they had the tiberak against the Lakers. Uh,

2547
01:52:48,199 --> 01:52:50,039
they have the timebreak against Phoenix. It would have to

2548
01:52:50,119 --> 01:52:52,600
take the Lakers and Phoenix to have at least a

2549
01:52:52,640 --> 01:52:54,520
one game lead on those two two before the Rockets

2550
01:52:54,600 --> 01:52:57,600
to fall down to six. Every game gonna matter in

2551
01:52:57,600 --> 01:52:59,439
minnesot They got a tiberager for Minnesota too, the all

2552
01:52:59,439 --> 01:53:01,560
the time breaker and they tiebreaker for Golden State.

2553
01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:02,039
Speaker 2: That's good.

2554
01:53:03,079 --> 01:53:05,840
Speaker 12: They do not have the tiebreaker over the Sacramento Kings.

2555
01:53:07,760 --> 01:53:10,640
But actually that shouldn't matter. That hurt a little bit there. Yeah,

2556
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:12,359
all right, little nickey Sey, we come back.

2557
01:53:12,439 --> 01:53:12,880
Speaker 5: Okay, good.

2558
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 12: Plus we got a you just also on the one

2559
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:17,039
o'clock hor we've not talked about that Baseball Hall of

2560
01:53:17,079 --> 01:53:19,079
Fame att a two members. Yes, I meant to mention

2561
01:53:19,159 --> 01:53:20,520
that in the news at noon, but we were just,

2562
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:23,319
you know, got so much we're chock full.

2563
01:53:23,399 --> 01:53:25,319
Speaker 2: We'll save it for the one o'clock hour. No, actually,

2564
01:53:25,359 --> 01:53:27,039
but I want your opinion on those guys. We'll do

2565
01:53:27,039 --> 01:53:29,000
it real quick. One come back, Okay, we'll save Nikki

2566
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:30,720
se I swared gout one o'clock. Yes they are.

2567
01:53:32,600 --> 01:53:35,239
Speaker 12: And angeln Dall ninety two point five Altitude Sports gonna

2568
01:53:35,279 --> 01:53:37,479
join ROSSI at one twenty to give us a perspective

2569
01:53:37,520 --> 01:53:39,560
what's going on with Denver and whether or not Jared

2570
01:53:39,640 --> 01:53:42,840
Stinham could lead the Patriots or the Broncos to the

2571
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:46,600
a FC championship. Ross all right, two new memories of

2572
01:53:46,680 --> 01:53:49,119
Baseball's Hall of Fame are in We all have a

2573
01:53:49,560 --> 01:53:52,039
also a signing today by the New York Yankee Spending

2574
01:53:52,079 --> 01:53:52,680
some money today.

2575
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:52,960
Speaker 2: Huh.

2576
01:53:53,479 --> 01:53:58,920
Speaker 12: Cody Bellinger, according to Jeff Passing, douche with the New

2577
01:53:59,039 --> 01:54:01,840
York Yankees for five years and one hundred and sixty

2578
01:54:01,880 --> 01:54:05,079
two and a half million dollars. Sources tell ESPN opt

2579
01:54:05,119 --> 01:54:08,039
outs after the second and third season, a twenty million

2580
01:54:08,239 --> 01:54:14,000
dollars signing bonus and full no trade clause codes. Cody

2581
01:54:14,079 --> 01:54:16,039
Bellinger is a New York Cody.

2582
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:19,239
Speaker 2: Good for them.

2583
01:54:19,399 --> 01:54:22,039
Speaker 12: I mean, I was hoping that all the stars ago

2584
01:54:22,079 --> 01:54:23,439
to the National League, but we had to keep one

2585
01:54:23,479 --> 01:54:24,239
in the American League.

2586
01:54:24,279 --> 01:54:25,000
Speaker 2: So there you go.

2587
01:54:25,880 --> 01:54:29,680
Speaker 12: Hall of Famers, yes, announced yesterday Carlos Beltron Andrew Jones

2588
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:33,479
into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I think Beltron was

2589
01:54:33,560 --> 01:54:37,159
probably more of a given than Jones was, but both

2590
01:54:37,199 --> 01:54:39,640
got in. Yeah, Jones had been climbing up the list.

2591
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:44,279
Where do you come up? Where do you come down?

2592
01:54:44,359 --> 01:54:48,239
On both of them? Let's start with Beltran. Okay, Beltron,

2593
01:54:48,399 --> 01:54:52,600
the cheater, cheeter. Jose al Tuova is like, this is

2594
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:56,880
great news. Yeah, they didn't seem to carry the nude.

2595
01:54:56,960 --> 01:54:57,880
Was the mastermind?

2596
01:54:58,079 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 2: Yep? Hello?

2597
01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:04,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, nine time All Star, three time Gold Glover, Rookie

2598
01:55:04,880 --> 01:55:12,840
of the Year, two time Silver Slugger, four and thirty

2599
01:55:12,880 --> 01:55:16,319
five home runs, career ops eight thirty seven.

2600
01:55:18,199 --> 01:55:20,119
Speaker 2: It's getting easier to get in. It just is.

2601
01:55:22,520 --> 01:55:23,079
Speaker 5: It just is.

2602
01:55:25,479 --> 01:55:29,079
Speaker 12: Feeling hall of very very very good.

2603
01:55:31,439 --> 01:55:34,000
Speaker 2: Feels like a not I'm not calling it a fringe case.

2604
01:55:34,039 --> 01:55:34,920
Speaker 26: And it is like a.

2605
01:55:36,520 --> 01:55:38,600
Speaker 12: Eighty four point two percent of the vote up from

2606
01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:39,760
seventy percent lash.

2607
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:41,279
Speaker 2: Does a New York tie have a lot to do

2608
01:55:41,359 --> 01:55:43,960
with it or something to do with it? I would

2609
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:44,439
say yes.

2610
01:55:45,479 --> 01:55:47,720
Speaker 12: Probably doesn't hurt that he was with the Mets and

2611
01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:51,439
then the Yankees as he masterminded their cheating scandal broad

2612
01:55:51,479 --> 01:55:53,600
to Houston, as he was on that team in twenty

2613
01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:56,279
fifteen and sixteen where they got the That was the

2614
01:55:56,439 --> 01:56:04,039
the Yankees letter from the commissioner. Briefly, of course, he

2615
01:56:04,239 --> 01:56:06,560
is he going in as the Houston Astro? Uh No,

2616
01:56:06,720 --> 01:56:09,000
I think he's going in, he said as a Met. Okay,

2617
01:56:09,479 --> 01:56:12,720
I covered his very first astrosk game. He was in

2618
01:56:12,800 --> 01:56:16,119
Kansas City, got traded to UH Houston and the Astros

2619
01:56:16,159 --> 01:56:18,680
were playing in Arlington, and my boss at the time said,

2620
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:19,760
get in the car and go up there and cover

2621
01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:20,079
the game.

2622
01:56:20,159 --> 01:56:20,479
Speaker 21: So I did.

2623
01:56:21,039 --> 01:56:23,479
Speaker 2: I thought that was big news when he was traded,

2624
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:27,199
Huge news, huge, huge, huge news. Do you recall any

2625
01:56:27,199 --> 01:56:29,520
of the pieces that went out for the for the Astros.

2626
01:56:31,039 --> 01:56:33,319
I didn't. I just looked it up, though. Can you

2627
01:56:33,359 --> 01:56:33,880
tell me the names?

2628
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 12: And I go, I remember that. I mean, I take

2629
01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:37,359
the hotel, went to the A's. It was a three

2630
01:56:37,399 --> 01:56:40,880
team trade. Okay, John bucked and cashed the Royals. Sock

2631
01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:45,399
was a catcher and that's it. Okay, didn't hurt short

2632
01:56:45,479 --> 01:56:48,640
term deal though. Okay, Andrew Jones, Now you gotta give

2633
01:56:48,680 --> 01:56:50,399
me the number one here. You give me his career numbers.

2634
01:56:50,520 --> 01:56:55,840
Five time All Star, good, ten time gold Glover. That's

2635
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:57,840
really really that's you know it. To me, that's more

2636
01:56:57,840 --> 01:57:02,039
impressive than a five time All Star, eight twenty three ohps,

2637
01:57:02,439 --> 01:57:03,119
really really good.

2638
01:57:05,800 --> 01:57:08,439
Speaker 2: It's good, and four and thirty four homers.

2639
01:57:08,479 --> 01:57:10,119
Speaker 12: Do you it sounds like, I mean, you want a

2640
01:57:10,159 --> 01:57:12,439
guy with an ops of like eight seventy five or higher.

2641
01:57:12,680 --> 01:57:13,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think with.

2642
01:57:13,840 --> 01:57:17,359
Speaker 12: The ten gold gloves even though I mean he was

2643
01:57:17,439 --> 01:57:20,560
basically done. He was basically done when he was like

2644
01:57:21,439 --> 01:57:24,119
thirty two and by the way, part of a dominant

2645
01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:26,479
decade of Atlanta Breay baseball.

2646
01:57:26,560 --> 01:57:28,079
Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, okay, I.

2647
01:57:28,079 --> 01:57:30,239
Speaker 12: Would say Andrew Jones, I would put in before beltran

2648
01:57:31,439 --> 01:57:35,000
I would have gone the opposite, but I will to

2649
01:57:35,079 --> 01:57:38,640
the bigger picture. If he's getting in, that means there

2650
01:57:38,680 --> 01:57:41,680
will not be any issues with jose Al Twove getting

2651
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:46,680
into Baseball's Hall of Fame. I wouldn't think so. First ballot, Yes, woo,

2652
01:57:48,239 --> 01:57:48,520
you know what.

2653
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 2: I want you to be right? Put my name on it.

2654
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:52,279
Speaker 23: Oh God, I like it.

2655
01:57:53,840 --> 01:57:56,800
Speaker 12: He's gonna because again, this is not the court of

2656
01:57:56,840 --> 01:57:59,600
public opinion. It's the court of I could help establish

2657
01:57:59,680 --> 01:58:03,960
baseball with at least some common sense. I want you

2658
01:58:04,119 --> 01:58:06,920
to be right. I really want you to be right.

2659
01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:10,199
Hopefully many of the old fogies have died off by

2660
01:58:10,239 --> 01:58:11,560
the time that he he comes up.

2661
01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:12,039
Speaker 2: For a vote.

2662
01:58:12,359 --> 01:58:16,760
Speaker 12: George Springer, Yes or no. Ultimately, he just had a

2663
01:58:16,840 --> 01:58:19,520
great I mean the book is still written. I would

2664
01:58:19,600 --> 01:58:22,680
have said probably not before that great season. He just

2665
01:58:22,960 --> 01:58:26,439
he needs two more seasons of excellence. He's like thirty

2666
01:58:26,520 --> 01:58:32,399
five or something. Yeah, I Korea, Kreya No, Nope, Fragman,

2667
01:58:32,439 --> 01:58:39,439
George Springer, Bregman TVD. But probably not four time All Star, No,

2668
01:58:39,760 --> 01:58:41,840
No one, George. I guess again, it's not an indictment

2669
01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:43,680
against how good the twenty seventeen was.

2670
01:58:44,239 --> 01:58:46,119
Speaker 2: But you're gonna get one. Hall of Famer.

2671
01:58:46,319 --> 01:58:48,119
Speaker 12: George is looking like a No, he's got a better

2672
01:58:48,199 --> 01:58:53,880
ops plus than both Andrew Jones and Carlos Springer needs

2673
01:58:53,880 --> 01:58:57,199
a couple more years. It's only two hundred and ninety

2674
01:58:57,199 --> 01:58:59,159
three home runs. And he also got started very late too,

2675
01:58:59,359 --> 01:59:04,239
as we know he yeah, yeah, the Astros didn't call

2676
01:59:04,319 --> 01:59:08,119
him up until he was thirty six. Actually, I almost

2677
01:59:08,159 --> 01:59:10,760
believe you for a second. I believe he came in

2678
01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:13,119
when his first at bat wearing walking with a cane

2679
01:59:15,720 --> 01:59:21,680
super two hit a back brace one. All right, uh, Caserio, Yes,

2680
01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:22,840
checking in on Denver?

2681
01:59:24,880 --> 01:59:25,479
Speaker 2: Checking in?

2682
01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:27,479
Speaker 12: Yeah, anything else going on in the final hour of

2683
01:59:27,479 --> 01:59:28,640
the show, We'll figure it out, all.

2684
01:59:28,600 --> 01:59:32,119
Speaker 2: Right, all of your calls, Let's let's fold the phone

2685
01:59:32,159 --> 01:59:38,159
lines up. Seven is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

2686
01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:48,640
Speaker 12: One four pm here on Sports Talk seven ie of

2687
01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:53,199
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas.

2688
01:59:53,319 --> 01:59:54,720
Speaker 2: For the rest of this hour.

2689
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:58,800
Speaker 12: He is out traveling with the Houston Rockets as they

2690
01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:02,199
have the day off today, but they are flying out

2691
02:00:02,439 --> 02:00:06,560
eastward to take on the Philadelphia seventy six ers tomorrow,

2692
02:00:06,880 --> 02:00:09,319
and then it'll be a back to back in Detroit

2693
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:11,159
and then Matt will be back, and by the way,

2694
02:00:11,680 --> 02:00:13,359
I haven't mentioned this, and we should have on the

2695
02:00:13,399 --> 02:00:17,359
show earlier. Matt will be back in time for Astros

2696
02:00:17,439 --> 02:00:20,399
fan Fest. I mean penning some crazy weather, which it

2697
02:00:20,439 --> 02:00:23,880
shouldn't be by Saturday, at least by the latest weather

2698
02:00:23,960 --> 02:00:26,760
projections that I've seen. We're gonna be out at Astros

2699
02:00:26,800 --> 02:00:29,560
fan Fest coming up this Saturday. It starts at eleven

2700
02:00:29,640 --> 02:00:34,319
am with Adam Wexler and Dan Matthews, and then myself

2701
02:00:34,359 --> 02:00:37,479
and Matt Thomas will be joining the broadcast at one

2702
02:00:37,479 --> 02:00:39,640
point thirty. We're gonna be on until four o'clock. So

2703
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:42,000
if you're gonna go out to FanFest, make sure you

2704
02:00:42,119 --> 02:00:44,600
come by and say hi. And if you just want

2705
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:47,479
to listen, we always have great player interviews. We normally

2706
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:50,520
get on Jo Aspada and or Dana Brown. Don't have

2707
02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:52,560
the schedule in front of me right now, but normally

2708
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:55,640
get some players as well. And people who know those

2709
02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:58,159
are the listeners out there, you know that one of

2710
02:00:58,199 --> 02:01:01,920
the best places to come by and be close and

2711
02:01:02,079 --> 02:01:05,520
see the players, get a glimpse of the guys, potentially

2712
02:01:05,560 --> 02:01:07,800
even get a picture here and there. Depending I'm not

2713
02:01:07,840 --> 02:01:10,199
going to promise that, but if if you want to

2714
02:01:10,319 --> 02:01:13,479
see up close and personal a lot of the Astros players, coaches,

2715
02:01:13,560 --> 02:01:15,479
managers and all that type of stuff. Make sure you

2716
02:01:15,560 --> 02:01:18,800
come by see us of the Astros fan Fest. Uh

2717
02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:23,079
normally in the left field concourse area by the escalators.

2718
02:01:23,439 --> 02:01:26,159
So make sure you come by Astros FanFest. Say hello,

2719
02:01:26,199 --> 02:01:29,239
we're gonna be there eleven am to four pm here

2720
02:01:29,439 --> 02:01:32,159
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I want to say, this

2721
02:01:32,319 --> 02:01:34,800
is like my seventh or eighth year doing this, so

2722
02:01:35,600 --> 02:01:37,720
excited for Astros fan Fest. Always one of the better

2723
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:41,039
times of the year. So make sure you check that out.

2724
02:01:41,079 --> 02:01:43,159
All right, we're here with you. We'll have Andy Lindahl

2725
02:01:43,239 --> 02:01:46,319
in a minute coming up here Altitude Sports talking about

2726
02:01:46,319 --> 02:01:49,359
the Denver Broncos and the AFC Championship game. In the meantime,

2727
02:01:49,399 --> 02:01:51,680
you guys can get in seven to one three two

2728
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:54,439
one two five seven ninety is the phone number to

2729
02:01:54,479 --> 02:01:57,079
get in seven to one three two one two five

2730
02:01:57,359 --> 02:02:01,439
seven ninety, as promised Nick Case earlier today if you missed.

2731
02:02:01,479 --> 02:02:05,199
At ten am, he had his press conference at the

2732
02:02:05,439 --> 02:02:07,199
end of the season. A lot of things to cover,

2733
02:02:07,359 --> 02:02:09,960
of course, not the season that the Houston Texans wanted,

2734
02:02:10,119 --> 02:02:12,960
and a lot of question marks right now with what's

2735
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:15,039
going to happen with the offensive line, what is going

2736
02:02:15,119 --> 02:02:18,399
on with Joe Mix and Nick Cayley is he possibly

2737
02:02:18,479 --> 02:02:20,000
going to be coming back? So we're going to cover

2738
02:02:20,079 --> 02:02:22,800
a number of those topics right here. Let's go ahead

2739
02:02:22,800 --> 02:02:25,520
and start with Uh, this was the interesting one that

2740
02:02:25,600 --> 02:02:28,600
Now I have a bet and I'm gonna want to

2741
02:02:28,600 --> 02:02:30,399
play this. I'm gonna want to hear from you, Jonathan,

2742
02:02:30,720 --> 02:02:33,159
because Matt and I have a bet. I have the

2743
02:02:33,279 --> 02:02:36,800
field he has. Joe Mixon shot himself in the foot.

2744
02:02:37,399 --> 02:02:41,520
Here's Nick Cassario asked about what really happened with Joe Mixon.

2745
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:44,800
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything off the field.

2746
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:47,159
Speaker 3: It wasn't like he was riding like a snowmobile or

2747
02:02:47,159 --> 02:02:48,880
anything like that. I'd say it was just more of

2748
02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:53,039
a medical condition or situation that just we never It

2749
02:02:53,399 --> 02:02:56,920
really didn't improve, maybe as much as everybody would have hoped.

2750
02:02:57,000 --> 02:02:58,960
I mean, I'm not trying to like evade the question.

2751
02:02:59,119 --> 02:03:01,000
I think that's the reality the situation. So like he

2752
02:03:01,039 --> 02:03:03,319
didn't jump off a building, Like he wasn't cliff diving

2753
02:03:03,439 --> 02:03:07,000
or anything like that. He wasn't doing anything irresponsible. It

2754
02:03:07,119 --> 02:03:09,119
was just it was a freak thing. Honestly, I've never

2755
02:03:09,159 --> 02:03:11,079
seen it. You know, it's just the condition.

2756
02:03:12,119 --> 02:03:13,079
Speaker 2: It's a freak thing.

2757
02:03:13,800 --> 02:03:16,880
Speaker 12: Honestly, I've never seen it the condition, but also says

2758
02:03:16,920 --> 02:03:19,880
he didn't do anything irresponsible. So should I should I

2759
02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:22,039
be feeling confident that I'm gonna be able to win

2760
02:03:22,119 --> 02:03:24,279
the bet that he did Joe Mixon did not, in

2761
02:03:24,359 --> 02:03:30,119
fact shoot himself in the foot with a firearm. Yeah,

2762
02:03:30,199 --> 02:03:32,319
I mean, I yeah, I think you're gonna win. You

2763
02:03:32,359 --> 02:03:35,159
give me your honest feelings, Jonathan. I'm gonna make Matt

2764
02:03:35,279 --> 02:03:36,520
buy you some coffee too if I lose.

2765
02:03:36,560 --> 02:03:39,000
Speaker 7: To be honest, it seems I'm you might be right,

2766
02:03:39,039 --> 02:03:41,600
because it just seems like he's avoiding the hippolaws and

2767
02:03:41,640 --> 02:03:43,479
all this stuff, and he probably doesn't listen something more

2768
02:03:43,479 --> 02:03:45,560
about the saple thing, and he can't say anything. He's

2769
02:03:45,560 --> 02:03:48,479
gonna be some kind of medical malpractice lawsuit or something

2770
02:03:48,560 --> 02:03:52,279
like that, something that's very like that's the only thing

2771
02:03:52,319 --> 02:03:54,479
you can think of what's personal that you can't report

2772
02:03:54,520 --> 02:03:57,399
to the media. They dropped a bag of screws in

2773
02:03:57,439 --> 02:03:59,239
his foot, and so did it back up. They didn't

2774
02:03:59,239 --> 02:04:02,399
put him in correct, they left a scalpel in there.

2775
02:04:02,439 --> 02:04:04,039
I don't know what's going on with Joe Mixon. This

2776
02:04:04,159 --> 02:04:06,000
is such a weird, dodgy situation.

2777
02:04:06,239 --> 02:04:09,239
Speaker 12: But okay, I'm feeling more confident after those comments from

2778
02:04:09,359 --> 02:04:11,800
Nick Cassario. So we'll see what happens between the bet

2779
02:04:12,439 --> 02:04:14,600
myself and Map, But more pressing matters to get to

2780
02:04:14,760 --> 02:04:17,680
as well. I mean, one of the things we talked

2781
02:04:17,680 --> 02:04:20,079
about running game has been bad. We talked about Woody

2782
02:04:20,159 --> 02:04:21,880
Marks and kind of just being a guy. That's something

2783
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:23,520
that they're going to have to address at some point,

2784
02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:25,720
whether it be being bringing Joe Mixon back, which I

2785
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:31,039
would highly doubt, drafting, somebody signing something, somebody trading, doing

2786
02:04:31,119 --> 02:04:33,359
anything to improve the run game because your running back

2787
02:04:33,399 --> 02:04:36,800
room is not very good right now. It's Nick Chubb

2788
02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:40,399
who's had multiple horrible knee injuries, Woody Marks who can

2789
02:04:40,520 --> 02:04:43,079
improve and get better. But to me, you're just not

2790
02:04:43,199 --> 02:04:45,399
seeing a whole lot of explosiveness. If you're looking at

2791
02:04:45,520 --> 02:04:48,520
a position where oftentimes guys can hit the ground running

2792
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:51,159
and thrive in their rookie years. Running back is one

2793
02:04:51,199 --> 02:04:54,840
of those and you haven't seen it with with Arianti Ersi,

2794
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:56,920
it's ready. We can kind of see and hopefully he

2795
02:04:56,960 --> 02:04:59,720
can grow and improve gets stronger with quarterbacks, of course

2796
02:05:00,159 --> 02:05:02,600
that could be a multi year deal normally not the

2797
02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:06,720
case with running backs, although there can be some fluctuations.

2798
02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:09,319
But I'm just not super high on the ceiling of

2799
02:05:09,399 --> 02:05:14,079
Woody Marx. But as far as Nick Cayley, the offensive coordinator,

2800
02:05:14,439 --> 02:05:16,520
much beligned by many of the fan base, I think

2801
02:05:16,560 --> 02:05:19,000
he got better as the season got along. I thought

2802
02:05:19,039 --> 02:05:21,199
that a lot of the play calls were much better.

2803
02:05:21,319 --> 02:05:24,840
I like the integration of the the Cad Stover push

2804
02:05:24,960 --> 02:05:27,960
push stuff in short yardage situations where you were struggling,

2805
02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:31,920
they found a good solution there. Sometimes, Okay, oftentimes the

2806
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:34,680
red zone offense wasn't exactly where you wanted it to be.

2807
02:05:35,319 --> 02:05:38,399
But I think for the most part, execution and with CJ.

2808
02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:41,960
Stroud throwing the ball up in the air and protections

2809
02:05:42,000 --> 02:05:45,319
breaking down, that was the bigger problem, especially later in

2810
02:05:45,359 --> 02:05:47,800
the season, rather than the play calling. Here's what Nick

2811
02:05:47,840 --> 02:05:49,319
Cassario had to say about Nick Cayley.

2812
02:05:49,920 --> 02:05:50,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.

2813
02:05:50,399 --> 02:05:53,319
Speaker 3: Anticipate Nick be in here next year. Nick learned a lot,

2814
02:05:53,680 --> 02:05:56,359
you know, first opportunities to play caller. I'd say offensively,

2815
02:05:56,880 --> 02:05:59,199
probably the last two to three months of the year,

2816
02:06:00,319 --> 02:06:02,560
played pretty good football and did a lot of good things.

2817
02:06:03,359 --> 02:06:05,920
So there was growth and improvement. There's always areas that

2818
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:07,840
we can improve and get better.

2819
02:06:08,039 --> 02:06:10,359
Speaker 2: And that's what I mean. Deniko mentioned the other day.

2820
02:06:10,359 --> 02:06:13,239
Speaker 3: This first next couple of weeks right after the season

2821
02:06:13,359 --> 02:06:15,680
is kind of looking at everything, go through, you know,

2822
02:06:15,720 --> 02:06:18,279
the coaching staff, go through other aspects of the staff.

2823
02:06:18,560 --> 02:06:19,600
Speaker 2: Is there anything that we have to do?

2824
02:06:19,800 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 3: All right, then we'll look at some things schematically, start

2825
02:06:22,039 --> 02:06:23,680
to go through the self scout, try to figure out,

2826
02:06:23,720 --> 02:06:25,600
all right, what are some of the things that we

2827
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:26,079
did well?

2828
02:06:27,239 --> 02:06:27,840
Speaker 2: All right, there you go.

2829
02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:32,239
Speaker 12: So basically the headliner there what he said at the beginning,

2830
02:06:32,399 --> 02:06:37,479
I would anticipate Nick Cayley being back. He didn't say

2831
02:06:37,560 --> 02:06:40,199
for sure. Wasn't a massive vote of confidence. Who knows

2832
02:06:40,199 --> 02:06:42,079
that they're talking to any of the other candidates out

2833
02:06:42,079 --> 02:06:45,560
there trying to figure something out. But Nick Cayley probably

2834
02:06:45,640 --> 02:06:48,039
going to be back, And that's what I would expect.

2835
02:06:48,560 --> 02:06:49,039
Speaker 2: Honestly.

2836
02:06:49,720 --> 02:06:51,319
Speaker 12: I know you wanted to go big game hunting with

2837
02:06:51,359 --> 02:06:56,279
a Mike McDaniel or somebody else, But Nick Cayley, you

2838
02:06:56,319 --> 02:06:58,119
can be better. You get them some good players. That's

2839
02:06:58,159 --> 02:07:00,359
what it comes down to me the bottom line, get

2840
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:03,439
good enough players. You could probably win with Nick Kayley

2841
02:07:03,800 --> 02:07:06,439
as your offensive coordinator. Okay, a couple of other things

2842
02:07:06,479 --> 02:07:08,319
to get to, but Biscuit has rung in. We didn't

2843
02:07:08,319 --> 02:07:10,479
get Biscuit. Biscuit, you're on hold earlier. We didn't get

2844
02:07:10,520 --> 02:07:13,960
to you, did we No, sir, Okay, just making sure

2845
02:07:13,960 --> 02:07:17,760
go ahead, Biscuit and and Ross, you could.

2846
02:07:17,640 --> 02:07:20,159
Speaker 5: Help me with this man because and that was by

2847
02:07:20,159 --> 02:07:21,560
the way, that was great radio.

2848
02:07:21,399 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 21: Man that press conference.

2849
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:23,439
Speaker 15: He had to do that.

2850
02:07:23,560 --> 02:07:26,159
Speaker 5: Then it was good to hear you know, the whole

2851
02:07:26,439 --> 02:07:27,520
you know conference.

2852
02:07:27,560 --> 02:07:29,399
Speaker 22: You don't get sound bites, you can get all the

2853
02:07:29,479 --> 02:07:33,920
context and everything and my takeaway from it, Ross, and

2854
02:07:34,039 --> 02:07:37,119
you can correct me if I'm wrong, But it seemed

2855
02:07:37,279 --> 02:07:43,039
like he was blaming everything on execution and not much

2856
02:07:43,119 --> 02:07:43,880
on personnel.

2857
02:07:44,760 --> 02:07:48,199
Speaker 12: Yeah, and well the personnel has to execute, I guess,

2858
02:07:48,239 --> 02:07:49,720
so one can lend itself to the other.

2859
02:07:50,800 --> 02:07:51,319
Speaker 5: Right, But.

2860
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:55,399
Speaker 22: I was at the conference, I would ask, oh, so

2861
02:07:55,479 --> 02:08:01,680
what do you stand on the person versus execution? Dude,

2862
02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:03,960
which one do you think you need to improve the

2863
02:08:04,079 --> 02:08:06,840
most in? That's what I would ask, because it seemed

2864
02:08:06,880 --> 02:08:11,960
like he's saying this execution but for me, let me

2865
02:08:12,039 --> 02:08:14,479
just say this Ross. For me, the thing that made

2866
02:08:14,520 --> 02:08:17,000
me raise my eyebrows. Is when he talked about the

2867
02:08:17,119 --> 02:08:19,439
wide receiver room right now, you can look it up.

2868
02:08:20,199 --> 02:08:22,079
He seemed to act like they got one of the

2869
02:08:22,159 --> 02:08:24,079
top ten wide receiver rooms.

2870
02:08:23,840 --> 02:08:24,319
Speaker 5: In the league.

2871
02:08:24,319 --> 02:08:28,239
Speaker 22: And I'm like, no, no, that's not the case. Man, y'all,

2872
02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:32,600
what where is the We know Nico's number one, the

2873
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:33,640
number two receiver.

2874
02:08:33,920 --> 02:08:36,399
Speaker 15: How many receptions did they get this year? Uh?

2875
02:08:36,680 --> 02:08:39,119
Speaker 12: Jaden Higgins, I don't think he had a bunch, but

2876
02:08:39,199 --> 02:08:41,800
he started to factor in a lot more as the

2877
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:46,159
as the season went along. I mean, you're you're talking

2878
02:08:46,199 --> 02:08:50,600
about somebody who was a second round pick, a high

2879
02:08:50,680 --> 02:08:52,880
second round pick, So I mean with a wide receiver,

2880
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:55,560
you're not always going to get an instant, immediate impact.

2881
02:08:55,640 --> 02:08:57,600
It took a couple of years for Nico Collins really

2882
02:08:57,640 --> 02:09:00,319
to get better. He was a third round pick. Forty

2883
02:09:00,319 --> 02:09:03,399
one catches, five hundred and twenty five yards, six touchdowns.

2884
02:09:04,359 --> 02:09:05,199
Speaker 22: That's not good enough.

2885
02:09:05,439 --> 02:09:06,159
Speaker 2: It's not bad.

2886
02:09:06,520 --> 02:09:08,439
Speaker 12: It's not horrible for a guy who started to come

2887
02:09:08,479 --> 02:09:11,560
along as this as the season went along and wasn't

2888
02:09:11,600 --> 02:09:13,159
doing much early on in the season.

2889
02:09:13,399 --> 02:09:16,159
Speaker 22: If that's your one b you know what I mean?

2890
02:09:16,279 --> 02:09:19,319
Were looking at teams that got t Higgins.

2891
02:09:19,000 --> 02:09:21,119
Speaker 12: And this, and yeah you're Jamar chan It's not gonna

2892
02:09:21,119 --> 02:09:23,279
be Jamar Chase and T Higgins situation. I mean maybe

2893
02:09:23,279 --> 02:09:25,399
it can be uh Collins in Higgins situation, but you

2894
02:09:25,439 --> 02:09:28,960
also had Dalton Schultz Jalen Noile doesn't really provide you much.

2895
02:09:29,079 --> 02:09:31,520
I mean, Hutchinson is is like he's the best. I

2896
02:09:31,560 --> 02:09:34,279
always keep jokingly saying he's the best WR four in

2897
02:09:34,359 --> 02:09:38,680
the league. But Christian Kirk is decent. It's not terrible,

2898
02:09:39,399 --> 02:09:41,319
but it could be better. And you're hoping for the

2899
02:09:41,520 --> 02:09:44,000
the uh, I don't know what the what kind of

2900
02:09:44,079 --> 02:09:46,199
rankings are you looking for exactly? Because I mean the

2901
02:09:46,239 --> 02:09:48,840
passing yards weren't there with C. J. Stroud and Davis Mills.

2902
02:09:49,840 --> 02:09:52,159
Speaker 22: Okay, but do they they don't. Do they rank the

2903
02:09:52,319 --> 02:09:55,279
receiving group. They don't rank them like that in a

2904
02:09:55,600 --> 02:09:56,720
pro football.

2905
02:09:56,640 --> 02:09:58,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, weakly.

2906
02:10:03,000 --> 02:10:05,199
Speaker 2: Preseason rankings. I don't know if they did that as

2907
02:10:05,279 --> 02:10:06,960
the season went along. I can look.

2908
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:11,680
Speaker 22: My point I'm trying to make ross is you can't

2909
02:10:12,600 --> 02:10:14,560
if you think it's if you go into this off

2910
02:10:14,640 --> 02:10:16,880
season thinking, man, we're good at this and good at that.

2911
02:10:17,239 --> 02:10:19,560
We just need to play a little better and not

2912
02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:22,720
turn the ball over. Man, you're fooling yourself. Man, them

2913
02:10:22,800 --> 02:10:27,640
receivers is not They're not scaring nobody right other than

2914
02:10:27,760 --> 02:10:31,079
Nico and shows to a certain extent, you've got to

2915
02:10:31,119 --> 02:10:33,319
get better to receiving corps. You got to get better

2916
02:10:33,399 --> 02:10:37,079
the O line in the guarden center positions. That's, to me,

2917
02:10:37,279 --> 02:10:38,920
is where it's at. If you gonna get better in

2918
02:10:39,000 --> 02:10:41,960
those areas, you I mean, you're going to smoke up

2919
02:10:42,000 --> 02:10:43,960
in that the defense covered over a lot of stuff.

2920
02:10:44,479 --> 02:10:47,800
You're going you know, I don't think you can think

2921
02:10:47,880 --> 02:10:50,760
you can advance far in the playoffs with those position

2922
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:52,199
groups not being better.

2923
02:10:52,520 --> 02:10:56,439
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I gotta get to a break, biscuit. I

2924
02:10:56,479 --> 02:10:59,319
appreciate you, and yeah, we know that I brought this up.

2925
02:10:59,760 --> 02:11:02,680
This again will go to Pro Football Focus. It's one

2926
02:11:02,760 --> 02:11:05,359
data point. It's not end all, be all, but I

2927
02:11:05,520 --> 02:11:07,600
was bringing this up. If you looked at the teams

2928
02:11:07,680 --> 02:11:12,039
that made the Divisional round, right that's eight teams. This

2929
02:11:12,199 --> 02:11:19,319
is where their offensive lines were ranked. Broncos first, Bears, third, Rams, fourth,

2930
02:11:20,239 --> 02:11:24,520
San Francisco forty nine, Ers fifth, Buffalo Bill's sixth. That's

2931
02:11:24,600 --> 02:11:26,960
five of the top six right there. In the Divisional round.

2932
02:11:27,880 --> 02:11:32,439
New England eleventh, Seattle fifteenth. Seven out of the eight

2933
02:11:32,560 --> 02:11:37,680
teams were in the top fifteen. The Texans were twenty seventh,

2934
02:11:38,520 --> 02:11:42,760
and Trent Brown didn't play in the divisional round. Offensive

2935
02:11:42,800 --> 02:11:49,800
line just by this one stat directly correlates with team success.

2936
02:11:51,279 --> 02:11:55,720
It's not rocket science there. Texans offensive line needs to

2937
02:11:55,880 --> 02:11:58,239
be better. Nick Cassario spoke about that. We'll get to

2938
02:11:58,279 --> 02:11:59,520
that later on in the show, but right now we

2939
02:11:59,600 --> 02:12:01,720
got to take break. When we come back, Andy Lindall

2940
02:12:01,840 --> 02:12:05,119
of Altitude Sports in Denver talking about those Broncos what

2941
02:12:05,279 --> 02:12:07,399
kind of shot do they have against the Patriots and

2942
02:12:07,439 --> 02:12:09,119
the AFC Championship game.

2943
02:12:09,359 --> 02:12:11,239
Speaker 2: We'll get to that next here on the Matt Thomas

2944
02:12:11,239 --> 02:12:11,840
Show with Ross.

2945
02:12:12,399 --> 02:12:14,039
Speaker 12: The Big Boys man is correct.

2946
02:12:15,520 --> 02:12:18,079
Speaker 2: It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

2947
02:12:18,079 --> 02:12:20,560
Speaker 12: Here on Sports Talk seven to ninety Matt Thomas ducking

2948
02:12:20,640 --> 02:12:25,000
out early traveling with the Houston Rockets, and right now

2949
02:12:25,159 --> 02:12:27,920
we are pleased to be joined by Andy Lindall of

2950
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:33,079
Altitude Sports in Denver, where we're gonna do some Broncos talk,

2951
02:12:33,239 --> 02:12:36,960
not necessarily some Nuggets talk after what happened last night, Andy,

2952
02:12:37,039 --> 02:12:39,600
so for forgive me for not talking some Nuggets, but

2953
02:12:39,720 --> 02:12:41,960
the Denver Broncos team a lot of questions, a lot

2954
02:12:42,000 --> 02:12:44,439
of different angles to go to. But before we, of

2955
02:12:44,520 --> 02:12:46,720
course get to the elephant in the room and Jared's

2956
02:12:46,720 --> 02:12:49,640
did him, I just wanted to start talking about the

2957
02:12:49,800 --> 02:12:54,720
Broncos and especially in this Sean Payton era. How do

2958
02:12:55,000 --> 02:12:57,720
you feel the feeling in Denver from where you started

2959
02:12:57,800 --> 02:13:01,079
with the Russell Wilson era to right now the perception

2960
02:13:01,159 --> 02:13:03,680
of him as a coach at the AFC Championship game.

2961
02:13:05,319 --> 02:13:07,520
Speaker 5: Oh well, I mean, look, it's been a wild ride.

2962
02:13:08,239 --> 02:13:10,079
Speaker 17: I thought they were crazy for doing what they did

2963
02:13:10,159 --> 02:13:12,479
with Russell Wilson, observing that kind of cap hit with

2964
02:13:12,600 --> 02:13:14,239
what we thought this roster needed.

2965
02:13:14,319 --> 02:13:16,479
Speaker 5: But look it's worked out.

2966
02:13:16,760 --> 02:13:16,880
Speaker 15: Uh.

2967
02:13:17,000 --> 02:13:19,159
Speaker 17: And I would never have predicted we were kind of

2968
02:13:19,199 --> 02:13:21,439
talking about this yesterday, I would never have predicted they'd

2969
02:13:21,479 --> 02:13:23,359
have been here after that, you know, two years after

2970
02:13:23,399 --> 02:13:26,039
the Russell Wilson cut an email that eighty four million

2971
02:13:26,119 --> 02:13:29,079
of dead money b I never thought Dance Joseph would

2972
02:13:29,079 --> 02:13:31,079
be in the middle of this, especially as a guy

2973
02:13:31,159 --> 02:13:34,319
that was the team's head coach during the disastrous ten

2974
02:13:34,399 --> 02:13:38,199
years between these playoff appearances and wins, or that he

2975
02:13:38,199 --> 02:13:40,760
would have come back as a defensive coordinator that Garrett

2976
02:13:40,760 --> 02:13:42,319
Bowles would have turned into the player that he was,

2977
02:13:42,359 --> 02:13:44,439
because that was a guy that the left tackle was

2978
02:13:44,479 --> 02:13:46,439
a guy we wanted to run out of town quite honestly,

2979
02:13:46,439 --> 02:13:48,920
all the way up to about twenty twenty one, because

2980
02:13:48,960 --> 02:13:51,359
he just could not quit holding people and just didn't

2981
02:13:51,359 --> 02:13:52,920
seem like he was ever going to figure it out.

2982
02:13:53,039 --> 02:13:55,920
So a lot of great stories. The fans liked Sean

2983
02:13:56,000 --> 02:13:58,000
a lot well. For the most part, Day Sean, as

2984
02:13:58,000 --> 02:14:00,520
you've probably seen and had a viral clip last week

2985
02:14:00,520 --> 02:14:02,239
where he was giving a young reporter from the Denver

2986
02:14:02,359 --> 02:14:05,000
Post gruff at least that's who he was talking to,

2987
02:14:05,079 --> 02:14:06,960
and he said, what do you know about getting downhill?

2988
02:14:07,039 --> 02:14:07,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't.

2989
02:14:09,119 --> 02:14:10,760
Speaker 17: He still comes off as a bit of a bully.

2990
02:14:10,800 --> 02:14:12,640
He's definitely an old school coach. I know you've had

2991
02:14:12,640 --> 02:14:15,560
a few of them there in Houston. But look, he's winning,

2992
02:14:15,600 --> 02:14:17,840
and you know, fans love winning, and that's all that matters.

2993
02:14:18,119 --> 02:14:20,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, as long as you're winning, you can talk about

2994
02:14:21,319 --> 02:14:23,159
just about anyone you want. But that's also one thing

2995
02:14:23,199 --> 02:14:25,439
that can kind of wear thin on people because once

2996
02:14:25,479 --> 02:14:27,800
the winning stops, you don't have a leg to stand on.

2997
02:14:29,479 --> 02:14:32,000
Speaker 17: No, you're right, I trust me. There's some fans that

2998
02:14:32,079 --> 02:14:34,600
really don't like when he talks to people that way.

2999
02:14:36,239 --> 02:14:39,119
You know, I was a sideline reporter for the last

3000
02:14:39,199 --> 02:14:40,960
Super Bowl that they did. I did that job for

3001
02:14:41,720 --> 02:14:43,960
twelve years and got to know quite a few people

3002
02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:45,600
in the building. Now, with the Penners coming in and

3003
02:14:45,680 --> 02:14:47,760
taking over and re establishing, a lot of the bulling

3004
02:14:47,800 --> 02:14:50,279
people that I knew have since moved on. Sean can

3005
02:14:50,359 --> 02:14:52,159
be a bit of a bully even behind the scenes,

3006
02:14:52,199 --> 02:14:56,239
and so don't always love that. But whatever, Again, they're

3007
02:14:56,279 --> 02:14:57,840
winning right now, and as you said, as long as

3008
02:14:57,880 --> 02:14:59,319
they're winning, people are willing to put up.

3009
02:14:59,279 --> 02:14:59,600
Speaker 2: With a lot.

3010
02:15:00,479 --> 02:15:03,000
Speaker 12: Andy Lindall with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

3011
02:15:03,000 --> 02:15:05,640
of the Altitude Sports in Denver. So we know that

3012
02:15:05,720 --> 02:15:08,199
they are winning, Tell me why are they winning? What

3013
02:15:08,359 --> 02:15:10,319
is the I mean, we know the offensive line is great,

3014
02:15:10,359 --> 02:15:12,479
we know the defense has been pretty good. What do

3015
02:15:12,560 --> 02:15:15,319
you think in your mind the Denver Broncos as the

3016
02:15:15,399 --> 02:15:19,760
number one seed, What is the biggest reason that they

3017
02:15:19,880 --> 02:15:21,000
have been winning the way they have?

3018
02:15:22,199 --> 02:15:24,720
Speaker 17: Well, I'd say through on a few Houston Texans games,

3019
02:15:24,720 --> 02:15:27,960
and you'll know the reason. It's defense, right, Their defense

3020
02:15:28,039 --> 02:15:31,439
gets after people. It's an uncomfortable environment when you're playing them.

3021
02:15:31,560 --> 02:15:33,800
Quite honestly, my prediction was we would be doing an

3022
02:15:33,800 --> 02:15:37,359
AFC Champion preview with you guys, you know this week,

3023
02:15:37,399 --> 02:15:40,640
because I really thought Houston's defense was gonna be the

3024
02:15:40,720 --> 02:15:43,319
reason why you moved on and not the Patriots, because

3025
02:15:43,319 --> 02:15:46,279
I just especially after being up close for the twenty

3026
02:15:46,319 --> 02:15:48,199
fifteen for the Denver Broncos and it was at the

3027
02:15:48,239 --> 02:15:50,640
Super Bowl where the Legion of Boom took apart the

3028
02:15:50,680 --> 02:15:53,800
greatest offense statistically we've seen in history. I believe in

3029
02:15:53,880 --> 02:15:57,720
defense in the playoffs. So their defense has been the reason.

3030
02:15:57,760 --> 02:15:59,520
You know, Josh Allen and the Bills have not turned

3031
02:15:59,520 --> 02:16:03,880
the ball over in like two years in their playoff games.

3032
02:16:03,920 --> 02:16:06,239
It was like twenty twenty two where I think it

3033
02:16:06,279 --> 02:16:08,119
was early twenty three the last time they had and

3034
02:16:08,159 --> 02:16:10,279
then they had the four or five turnovers. Yet you know,

3035
02:16:10,439 --> 02:16:13,399
this past weekend and Josh just made some really weird,

3036
02:16:13,560 --> 02:16:16,840
stupid decisions and you know, that's what a pass rush does.

3037
02:16:16,920 --> 02:16:18,720
And I know Houston got a lot of turnovers in

3038
02:16:18,800 --> 02:16:21,560
their game this past weekend up in New England. So

3039
02:16:22,680 --> 02:16:24,920
it's really about the defense. And I will say this,

3040
02:16:25,199 --> 02:16:28,520
when you watch bone Knicks for the balance of a game,

3041
02:16:28,640 --> 02:16:30,319
you're probably not really impressed with him.

3042
02:16:30,359 --> 02:16:33,760
Speaker 5: But the one thing that bon Nicks does really really well.

3043
02:16:34,840 --> 02:16:38,040
Speaker 17: He may be one of the top five clutch end

3044
02:16:38,120 --> 02:16:43,440
of game quarterbacks playing right now. That kid so many times,

3045
02:16:44,360 --> 02:16:46,760
you know, whether it was the improbable Giants comeback where

3046
02:16:46,799 --> 02:16:48,760
he just went nuts in the fourth quarter or what

3047
02:16:48,840 --> 02:16:51,760
they did on the national game against Philly coming back

3048
02:16:51,799 --> 02:16:54,760
from seventeen down to win that one, you know, he

3049
02:16:55,000 --> 02:16:57,719
went and how to drive. He played a terrible second half,

3050
02:16:58,319 --> 02:17:02,799
terrible second half, hoping at receivers feet and overthrowing people

3051
02:17:02,840 --> 02:17:04,559
and looking genuinely uncomfortable.

3052
02:17:04,600 --> 02:17:07,440
Speaker 5: But Buffalo left the door open. All they needed was

3053
02:17:07,479 --> 02:17:09,360
a couple of plays to go get a touchdown eventually

3054
02:17:09,360 --> 02:17:12,000
a field goal. And that's what Bo does. And I

3055
02:17:12,079 --> 02:17:13,879
can't explain it. I don't know what happens.

3056
02:17:13,959 --> 02:17:16,719
Speaker 17: I think it's in partant because Shawn's got to, you know,

3057
02:17:16,879 --> 02:17:19,399
shrink down the play sheet, and defenses don't play for

3058
02:17:19,520 --> 02:17:22,319
whatever reason, no matter what history teaches them, they don't

3059
02:17:22,360 --> 02:17:24,280
play the same way the last two minutes a game

3060
02:17:24,319 --> 02:17:26,159
that they typically do during the rest of the game.

3061
02:17:26,760 --> 02:17:28,959
Speaker 5: And when you do that to Bo, Bonick's gonna use.

3062
02:17:28,920 --> 02:17:31,200
Speaker 17: His feet and gets a lot of comfortable looks and

3063
02:17:31,319 --> 02:17:32,840
he just finds a way to get the points he

3064
02:17:32,920 --> 02:17:33,399
needs to win.

3065
02:17:33,520 --> 02:17:35,079
Speaker 5: And it's been kind of amazing to watch.

3066
02:17:35,479 --> 02:17:37,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, unfortunately getting hurt at the end of the game.

3067
02:17:37,719 --> 02:17:41,399
Has there been any hindsight talking Denver about him not

3068
02:17:41,559 --> 02:17:43,680
even being on the field to kneel it down, which

3069
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:46,520
some teams I guess it can go to a backup

3070
02:17:46,600 --> 02:17:48,719
quarterback situation. There has that been talked about it all?

3071
02:17:50,760 --> 02:17:53,959
Speaker 17: Not really because he did, you know, so Sean, I don't.

3072
02:17:53,959 --> 02:17:57,559
I think Sean Sean kind of misspoke when he talked

3073
02:17:57,559 --> 02:18:00,399
about it. The play they finally revealed was the one

3074
02:18:00,399 --> 02:18:02,760
where he tried to run. I don't know how locked

3075
02:18:02,760 --> 02:18:05,399
anybody in there was, but he got tackled and the

3076
02:18:05,479 --> 02:18:07,799
foot got yanked and that's where it happened. So he

3077
02:18:08,040 --> 02:18:12,200
actually threw the ball that caused the controversial and buffalo

3078
02:18:12,239 --> 02:18:16,239
anyway passing Interfarans call that moved him into field goal position.

3079
02:18:16,440 --> 02:18:18,760
Speaker 5: He did that throw on the broken ankle.

3080
02:18:19,239 --> 02:18:21,760
Speaker 17: Believe it okay, So I'm not even sure the coaching

3081
02:18:21,840 --> 02:18:25,520
staff was fully aware how much discomfort he was in

3082
02:18:25,680 --> 02:18:28,040
because of the play where he actually got hurt. He

3083
02:18:28,159 --> 02:18:29,959
hops up and runs back to the huddle, and I

3084
02:18:30,000 --> 02:18:32,760
guess in the huddle, as people told the story, is

3085
02:18:32,799 --> 02:18:35,159
where he started to realize something doesn't feel right in

3086
02:18:35,280 --> 02:18:38,200
my ankle. And then after the throw that drew the PI,

3087
02:18:38,920 --> 02:18:40,719
that's when he really knew there was an issue. And

3088
02:18:40,760 --> 02:18:43,719
then by the time he limps off after the kneel down,

3089
02:18:43,760 --> 02:18:45,920
because honestly, I thought he got stepped on on the

3090
02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:49,120
kneel down the way Sean described it, because he ran

3091
02:18:49,200 --> 02:18:50,719
to the middle of the field and just like you

3092
02:18:50,959 --> 02:18:52,840
kind of described it there, he had a bit of

3093
02:18:52,879 --> 02:18:55,079
a funky kneel down that did not look like your

3094
02:18:55,159 --> 02:18:57,600
typical kneel down as they think. He tried to get

3095
02:18:57,639 --> 02:19:00,239
the hurt leg out of the way, okay, and then

3096
02:19:00,280 --> 02:19:02,000
he lips off. And then the crazy thing is he

3097
02:19:02,040 --> 02:19:04,079
stood there with Tracy Wolfson and did the interview and

3098
02:19:04,120 --> 02:19:05,639
I didn't realize he was hurt.

3099
02:19:06,079 --> 02:19:08,200
Speaker 2: So got the adrenaline going.

3100
02:19:08,280 --> 02:19:11,360
Speaker 12: That's it's a powerful drug, there, Andy Andy Lindall with

3101
02:19:11,479 --> 02:19:13,760
us here on Sports Talk seven ninety altitude Sports. So

3102
02:19:14,280 --> 02:19:18,760
obviously going to Jared'stnham, expectations from you and and of

3103
02:19:18,879 --> 02:19:21,520
course importantly how much help can he get from his

3104
02:19:21,719 --> 02:19:25,440
friends from the receiving corps and from RJ.

3105
02:19:25,639 --> 02:19:26,840
Speaker 2: Harvey in the run game.

3106
02:19:28,440 --> 02:19:32,040
Speaker 5: Well, you just sit on the major question there. You know.

3107
02:19:32,159 --> 02:19:34,840
Speaker 17: Look, bone Nicks, even on his good days, bone Nicks

3108
02:19:34,959 --> 02:19:38,280
is more of a system guy than a Josh Allen type,

3109
02:19:38,319 --> 02:19:41,680
right that's going to run around and make incredible things happen.

3110
02:19:41,959 --> 02:19:44,959
Speaker 5: You know, Look in that game last week, he had

3111
02:19:45,079 --> 02:19:45,920
receivers drop.

3112
02:19:45,840 --> 02:19:47,639
Speaker 17: A couple of passes they shouldn't and I thought that

3113
02:19:47,799 --> 02:19:50,120
might ultimately be the reason why they lost instead of one.

3114
02:19:50,879 --> 02:19:52,120
Speaker 5: So these guys, you know.

3115
02:19:52,280 --> 02:19:55,200
Speaker 17: Now, one of the guys that we were really starting

3116
02:19:55,200 --> 02:19:57,079
to get excited about was Pat Bryant, the rookie that

3117
02:19:57,159 --> 02:19:59,840
did three early catches in that game the other day,

3118
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:01,079
and they went out with a concussion.

3119
02:20:01,120 --> 02:20:03,120
Speaker 5: And now that that's like two concussions in a month.

3120
02:20:03,600 --> 02:20:04,840
Speaker 17: So I don't know if a lot of us are

3121
02:20:04,840 --> 02:20:07,600
feeling terribly confident he'll be back out there, but they're

3122
02:20:07,639 --> 02:20:08,719
definitely gonna have to help him.

3123
02:20:09,120 --> 02:20:09,360
Speaker 5: JK.

3124
02:20:09,520 --> 02:20:11,959
Speaker 17: Dobbins, you know they're calling it a mid foot spring.

3125
02:20:12,040 --> 02:20:14,319
If you've been around football long enough, that's also French.

3126
02:20:14,360 --> 02:20:18,239
For Liz Frank, that's basically what he's dealing with. And

3127
02:20:18,319 --> 02:20:20,120
I know a lot of people that are very very

3128
02:20:20,920 --> 02:20:24,319
skeptical that JK. Dobbins, despite some positive reports and maybe

3129
02:20:24,319 --> 02:20:27,040
even him dressing, is gonna be anywhere near close to

3130
02:20:27,159 --> 02:20:29,959
himself now if he were in the game, if he

3131
02:20:30,000 --> 02:20:31,879
could have been what he's been in the middle of

3132
02:20:31,959 --> 02:20:33,600
the season, he was kind of their closer.

3133
02:20:33,680 --> 02:20:35,200
Speaker 5: He was the real force on offense.

3134
02:20:35,280 --> 02:20:37,719
Speaker 17: He was the untalked about element, and then he got

3135
02:20:37,799 --> 02:20:40,799
that game hurt against the Chargers and or got the

3136
02:20:40,840 --> 02:20:42,719
foot hurt against I think it was the Chargers, maybe

3137
02:20:42,719 --> 02:20:45,600
it was a Raiders, whatever it was, they just haven't

3138
02:20:45,639 --> 02:20:47,920
been the same offense because Shawn doesn't like to run

3139
02:20:47,959 --> 02:20:51,200
the football, and you've got to let him trust you to.

3140
02:20:51,399 --> 02:20:52,239
Speaker 5: Run the football.

3141
02:20:52,399 --> 02:20:56,239
Speaker 17: And both the backs McLoughlin and Dobbin or Barvey had

3142
02:20:56,319 --> 02:21:01,600
fumbles last week, so that always gets Shawn's mistrust up. Look,

3143
02:21:01,639 --> 02:21:04,399
they're gonna have to run the football. They're gonna have

3144
02:21:04,520 --> 02:21:06,600
to find a way to not let the Patriots just

3145
02:21:06,680 --> 02:21:08,879
tee off on Stidham. Stidham has not played a game

3146
02:21:09,040 --> 02:21:11,120
or thrown a pass in two years. He's been in

3147
02:21:11,200 --> 02:21:12,639
there to kneel the ball down at the end of

3148
02:21:12,680 --> 02:21:12,959
a half.

3149
02:21:13,040 --> 02:21:13,319
Speaker 5: That's it.

3150
02:21:13,840 --> 02:21:16,159
Speaker 17: He's not had to dissect the defense in two years.

3151
02:21:16,879 --> 02:21:18,559
I do think it can be done again. I would

3152
02:21:18,559 --> 02:21:20,959
point to a Davis Mills that led to some surprising

3153
02:21:21,040 --> 02:21:24,760
victories for you guys. But again, we're talking about the

3154
02:21:24,799 --> 02:21:27,719
AFC Championship. We're talking about a defense. And I know

3155
02:21:27,799 --> 02:21:29,719
there was some tape out there after the Houston game

3156
02:21:29,760 --> 02:21:32,239
where some of the Houston guys admitted they probably didn't

3157
02:21:32,239 --> 02:21:34,079
know what they were looking at and some of the coverages,

3158
02:21:34,120 --> 02:21:38,120
and then Rabel and his DC really really fooled the

3159
02:21:38,159 --> 02:21:41,239
young guy there at times Stroud and so I don't

3160
02:21:41,280 --> 02:21:43,239
have any doubts he can do it to Jerry Stindham

3161
02:21:43,239 --> 02:21:43,600
as well.

3162
02:21:44,959 --> 02:21:45,879
Speaker 5: This defense is.

3163
02:21:46,040 --> 02:21:49,360
Speaker 17: Probably gonna have to cause a turnover and maybe even

3164
02:21:49,399 --> 02:21:52,040
score their own points if this thing is gonna get done.

3165
02:21:52,600 --> 02:21:54,600
I think it can get done because they're in Denver.

3166
02:21:56,079 --> 02:21:58,159
But I'm not so sure I'd be putting money down

3167
02:21:58,239 --> 02:21:59,920
on it if it does feel like a tall ten

3168
02:22:00,120 --> 02:22:02,799
ask you know when you're talking about the afcg cash.

3169
02:22:02,680 --> 02:22:05,040
Speaker 12: But I imagine you're I mean, there are name I

3170
02:22:05,040 --> 02:22:07,040
mean we can point to examples. You can have been

3171
02:22:07,079 --> 02:22:10,639
a lot of Nick Foles and Jim Plunkett and Jeff

3172
02:22:10,680 --> 02:22:12,280
Hostetler talking Denver this week.

3173
02:22:13,760 --> 02:22:15,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, we broke it out.

3174
02:22:15,840 --> 02:22:18,040
Speaker 17: My buddy name that I do, the guy do the

3175
02:22:18,120 --> 02:22:20,040
radio show with, is really good about going in and

3176
02:22:20,120 --> 02:22:22,399
looking at the history. Here's the name we probably all

3177
02:22:22,440 --> 02:22:24,319
should be quoting. And you probably remember this from a

3178
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:26,600
couple of years ago. It's Taylor Heineke for the Commanders,

3179
02:22:26,680 --> 02:22:28,639
or maybe even then they might have still been football team.

3180
02:22:29,200 --> 02:22:31,280
But he actually came in, had a day through for

3181
02:22:31,319 --> 02:22:34,760
three hundred yards. Blah blah blah. Scott Zolac, we had

3182
02:22:34,840 --> 02:22:37,319
him on the show yesterday backup quarterback in New England

3183
02:22:37,360 --> 02:22:38,840
and he had to go into a playoff game and

3184
02:22:39,280 --> 02:22:40,959
he told us he got on a heater when he

3185
02:22:41,079 --> 02:22:43,760
entered the game. But see the problem is, I can't

3186
02:22:43,799 --> 02:22:46,319
remember about Heineke for sure, but I know Zolac got

3187
02:22:46,440 --> 02:22:49,799
to go in cold. The Patriots are, you know, preparing

3188
02:22:50,159 --> 02:22:53,319
for Stidham, right, and they know Stidham very well, so

3189
02:22:53,440 --> 02:22:54,799
it's not like you just get to go in there

3190
02:22:54,840 --> 02:22:56,879
in surprise. Now I will say this, I think Sean

3191
02:22:56,920 --> 02:22:59,920
will probably get himself a half because Stidham does like

3192
02:23:00,159 --> 02:23:02,600
we saw this in camp. Stidham is gonna test to

3193
02:23:02,760 --> 02:23:04,920
test the deeper thirds of the field more than Bo

3194
02:23:05,079 --> 02:23:06,600
will and will work out.

3195
02:23:06,719 --> 02:23:07,079
Speaker 2: I don't know.

3196
02:23:07,719 --> 02:23:10,120
Speaker 17: But the Patriots can't just go off of their six

3197
02:23:10,360 --> 02:23:12,399
you know, their six weeks of game tape or whatever

3198
02:23:12,440 --> 02:23:14,559
they like to go back to to look at this

3199
02:23:14,680 --> 02:23:18,360
offense because Stidham will run it differently. The problem is,

3200
02:23:18,399 --> 02:23:20,559
the last time I watched Jared Stidham playing a regular

3201
02:23:20,639 --> 02:23:23,159
season game, at the end of that famous Russell Wilson season,

3202
02:23:23,559 --> 02:23:26,040
he had a lot of trouble hitting guys in strides.

3203
02:23:26,079 --> 02:23:28,600
Speaker 5: So is that solved? I don't know. Man, He's had

3204
02:23:28,680 --> 02:23:30,040
accuracy issues. It's one of the.

3205
02:23:30,040 --> 02:23:32,959
Speaker 17: Reasons why despite the beautiful mind to be a starter,

3206
02:23:33,639 --> 02:23:36,000
the physical ability isn't always there. And again, you know

3207
02:23:36,399 --> 02:23:38,280
the reality and we keep trying to keep reality and

3208
02:23:38,399 --> 02:23:40,920
check here in Denver. Yes, I think Stidham can do it,

3209
02:23:41,000 --> 02:23:42,959
but we're also talking about a guy that Sean Payton

3210
02:23:43,040 --> 02:23:45,239
looks he overdrafted Bo Nicks, even though as good as

3211
02:23:45,360 --> 02:23:47,680
Nicks has been, they took him went to twelfth pick.

3212
02:23:48,520 --> 02:23:50,719
I don't know that he's totally been twelve pick worthy

3213
02:23:50,799 --> 02:23:52,479
because there's a lot of games where you're just like,

3214
02:23:52,559 --> 02:23:54,360
my gosh, is this offense ever gonna get out of

3215
02:23:54,399 --> 02:23:58,000
the mud. But that's how much Sean wanted another option

3216
02:23:58,200 --> 02:24:02,520
other than just Jared Stidham that year. So look, it

3217
02:24:02,600 --> 02:24:04,639
is gonna be what it's gonna be, right, and hopefully

3218
02:24:05,040 --> 02:24:07,639
the Denver defense shows up and confuses Drake May the

3219
02:24:07,680 --> 02:24:09,719
way the Houston defense did. I don't have to tell you,

3220
02:24:09,760 --> 02:24:12,200
guys the value of a team that can both rush

3221
02:24:12,280 --> 02:24:15,799
the passer and cover. You've got Stingley, We've got Sertan.

3222
02:24:17,120 --> 02:24:20,440
You know, you hopefully will be able to put those

3223
02:24:20,479 --> 02:24:23,840
guys to work and it leads to something good. But again,

3224
02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:26,520
I just think Denver fans did also wake up to

3225
02:24:26,600 --> 02:24:29,040
realize that that we're asking a lot of a backup

3226
02:24:29,120 --> 02:24:32,799
quarterback to come in and win the AFC Championship. Now,

3227
02:24:32,840 --> 02:24:35,559
when they went in twenty fifteen with Peyton Manning again

3228
02:24:36,159 --> 02:24:38,479
there for that game that Broncos came out, they.

3229
02:24:38,479 --> 02:24:39,680
Speaker 5: Got a couple of touchdowns.

3230
02:24:39,799 --> 02:24:42,959
Speaker 17: Owen Daniel, the old Houston Texan tight end, was the

3231
02:24:43,040 --> 02:24:45,079
guy that caught a couple from Peyton. They got up

3232
02:24:45,120 --> 02:24:47,319
and then they held on in the second half. If

3233
02:24:47,399 --> 02:24:50,520
you can fool the Patriots with whatever new wrinkles you're

3234
02:24:50,520 --> 02:24:52,319
gonna put in for them for at least a half

3235
02:24:52,360 --> 02:24:54,360
and get a lead, hopefully.

3236
02:24:54,040 --> 02:24:55,920
Speaker 5: The noise and the defense can take over and that's

3237
02:24:55,959 --> 02:24:56,680
how they get it done.

3238
02:24:56,799 --> 02:24:58,399
Speaker 12: All right, Andy, you know, before we get you out,

3239
02:24:58,399 --> 02:25:01,120
I will just ask you a feeling of how it

3240
02:25:01,159 --> 02:25:01,639
plays out.

3241
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:09,040
Speaker 17: You know, Look, I've grown up here, so the homer

3242
02:25:09,120 --> 02:25:11,200
in me wants to believe the ghosts of my eyes.

3243
02:25:11,360 --> 02:25:14,600
Speaker 2: Well, it's all right, it's we're in Houston. We're not

3244
02:25:14,639 --> 02:25:15,399
gonna call you on it.

3245
02:25:16,520 --> 02:25:16,719
Speaker 15: Nah.

3246
02:25:16,799 --> 02:25:18,920
Speaker 5: You know, look again, I've been doing this job for

3247
02:25:19,000 --> 02:25:19,719
twenty five years.

3248
02:25:19,719 --> 02:25:20,120
Speaker 21: You know it is.

3249
02:25:20,159 --> 02:25:22,600
Speaker 17: You gotta divorce yourself from the fandom. Listen to Patriots

3250
02:25:22,639 --> 02:25:24,479
and the number two seed for a reason. If it

3251
02:25:24,600 --> 02:25:26,719
wasn't for a stupid early loss to the Raiders of

3252
02:25:26,799 --> 02:25:28,719
all things the beginning of the year. That was the

3253
02:25:28,760 --> 02:25:31,479
tiebreaker that swung the Broncos to get this as the

3254
02:25:31,559 --> 02:25:32,079
home game.

3255
02:25:32,440 --> 02:25:35,280
Speaker 5: Drake May is playing like an MVP. Honestly.

3256
02:25:35,360 --> 02:25:37,639
Speaker 17: The Denver defense has been good, but not quite to

3257
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:40,559
the elite level it was when Houston played them because

3258
02:25:40,559 --> 02:25:44,520
they're missing safety Brandon Jones. If they had JK. Dobbins,

3259
02:25:44,600 --> 02:25:47,559
I would say this is all still possible. But my

3260
02:25:47,639 --> 02:25:49,879
gut tells me the Patriots are probably gonna be too

3261
02:25:49,959 --> 02:25:52,200
much on Sunday and that they'll be the ones moving on.

3262
02:25:52,559 --> 02:25:56,600
Speaker 12: All right, there you go, Andy Lindall, Altitude Sports in Denver.

3263
02:25:56,719 --> 02:25:59,159
Appreciate the time, and we'll talk to you down the road.

3264
02:26:00,159 --> 02:26:02,040
Speaker 17: You guys, take care of Maybe we'll talk some NBA

3265
02:26:02,079 --> 02:26:03,000
playoffs here in a come.

3266
02:26:03,239 --> 02:26:06,399
Speaker 12: Absolutely it could be some big matchups coming up, Rockets

3267
02:26:06,440 --> 02:26:07,040
and Nuggets.

3268
02:26:07,280 --> 02:26:07,719
Speaker 21: I like that.

3269
02:26:07,920 --> 02:26:08,680
Speaker 5: I like very well.

3270
02:26:08,760 --> 02:26:13,040
Speaker 12: Could be all right, appreciate it, Andy, take all right,

3271
02:26:13,079 --> 02:26:15,840
There we go, Andy Lindall, Altitude Sports here on Sports

3272
02:26:15,879 --> 02:26:16,239
Talk seven.

3273
02:26:16,280 --> 02:26:17,600
Speaker 2: I all right, way over for a break.

3274
02:26:17,639 --> 02:26:19,680
Speaker 12: But that was some good stuff on the Denver Broncos

3275
02:26:19,760 --> 02:26:22,719
and the matchup against the Patriots and the AFC Championship game.

3276
02:26:23,000 --> 02:26:25,040
Quick break here on Sports Talk seven ninety The Matt

3277
02:26:25,079 --> 02:26:26,840
Thomas Show with Ross. When we come back, more from

3278
02:26:26,920 --> 02:26:29,920
Nick Cassario. What did he have to say about addressing

3279
02:26:30,000 --> 02:26:35,760
the offensive line? You'll hear that next. That's right, we're

3280
02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:40,840
guaranteed humans, none of that AI stuff. Are you a human?

3281
02:26:40,920 --> 02:26:44,600
Speaker 2: Jonathan? What do you think? Baby? I don't know.

3282
02:26:44,680 --> 02:26:44,959
Speaker 3: I don't know.

3283
02:26:45,040 --> 02:26:46,200
Speaker 2: Are you AI? I don't know.

3284
02:26:46,440 --> 02:26:50,680
Speaker 12: I'm confused a little bit scared. Welcome back to The

3285
02:26:50,719 --> 02:26:53,440
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Fold Lines open at seven

3286
02:26:53,440 --> 02:26:55,360
to one three, two, one, two, five seven. All right,

3287
02:26:55,399 --> 02:26:57,799
short segment here we did go long with Andy Lindall

3288
02:26:57,840 --> 02:27:03,200
of Altitude Sports talking about some Denver Bronco's action. But

3289
02:27:03,319 --> 02:27:04,959
I do want to get to you guys real quick,

3290
02:27:05,000 --> 02:27:07,040
so let's go ahead and do it. Appreciate you getting

3291
02:27:07,120 --> 02:27:08,520
on the line. Kenny in downtown.

3292
02:27:08,600 --> 02:27:11,680
Speaker 2: What's up, Hey, Ross?

3293
02:27:11,799 --> 02:27:12,799
Speaker 18: Is Matt already gone?

3294
02:27:13,159 --> 02:27:13,360
Speaker 5: Yeah?

3295
02:27:13,399 --> 02:27:13,799
Speaker 2: He left?

3296
02:27:14,920 --> 02:27:15,079
Speaker 19: Hey?

3297
02:27:16,200 --> 02:27:18,159
Speaker 18: So you know I'm a long time listen I've listened

3298
02:27:18,200 --> 02:27:20,479
since the exception. I want to talk about two things.

3299
02:27:20,639 --> 02:27:22,680
You know, I'm always a day behind because I always

3300
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:24,879
listen on the iHeart.

3301
02:27:25,040 --> 02:27:25,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgive you.

3302
02:27:26,799 --> 02:27:29,280
Speaker 18: I haven't even listened today's show. So last night when

3303
02:27:29,280 --> 02:27:33,600
I was driving home from work, you were talking about

3304
02:27:33,639 --> 02:27:38,959
Indiana and you know, you mentioned about their nil and

3305
02:27:39,079 --> 02:27:44,239
I'm like, well, Texas spent twice as much. Am spent

3306
02:27:44,559 --> 02:27:48,319
more than twice as much, huh, and they did nothing,

3307
02:27:48,639 --> 02:27:51,559
ain't done, got blown out. Texas did him make the playoffs.

3308
02:27:52,440 --> 02:27:55,159
And I think the difference is, and you're not gonna

3309
02:27:55,239 --> 02:27:58,239
like it, but it's the players. The players and the coaches.

3310
02:27:58,600 --> 02:28:01,360
They picked the right players, they had the right coaches

3311
02:28:01,440 --> 02:28:04,000
and the right culture. Texas hasn't had that in twenty

3312
02:28:04,079 --> 02:28:07,280
years playing and simple, I'm sorry, they get all these

3313
02:28:07,319 --> 02:28:10,120
five stars and they turn into one stars after a year.

3314
02:28:12,639 --> 02:28:15,280
Speaker 12: That's not nas that's not true. They made the semifinals

3315
02:28:15,319 --> 02:28:17,200
for a couple of years. They were nine to three

3316
02:28:17,399 --> 02:28:20,120
with the Florida loss was bad, but the other losses

3317
02:28:20,200 --> 02:28:24,680
were to what Georgia and Ohio State, So I mean,

3318
02:28:24,760 --> 02:28:26,520
it's not like they had a bad season. They've had

3319
02:28:26,559 --> 02:28:28,479
a lot of players coming up in the last couple

3320
02:28:28,559 --> 02:28:31,239
of drafts. That to me is the biggest How is

3321
02:28:31,280 --> 02:28:33,440
your program doing? Are you getting a lot of draft picks?

3322
02:28:33,479 --> 02:28:36,639
And for years, for the last decade plus, there were

3323
02:28:36,719 --> 02:28:38,639
hard There were times that there are hardly any draft

3324
02:28:38,680 --> 02:28:41,600
picks for the Houston for the Texas long Horns. But

3325
02:28:41,600 --> 02:28:43,319
now they're getting a lot of more draft picks. That

3326
02:28:43,440 --> 02:28:46,399
shows me that they are developing players and getting the respect.

3327
02:28:46,479 --> 02:28:49,239
They have not gotten over the hump yet with Steve Sarkisian,

3328
02:28:49,280 --> 02:28:51,520
but they've made the semifinals twice. And I don't think

3329
02:28:51,639 --> 02:28:54,920
there is some kind of culture issue right there with

3330
02:28:55,040 --> 02:28:55,879
the program right now.

3331
02:28:57,319 --> 02:28:59,360
Speaker 18: I listen to you every day and I don't think

3332
02:28:59,440 --> 02:29:01,920
you're a big so Kean fan. Am I right or wrong?

3333
02:29:02,159 --> 02:29:04,719
Speaker 12: I think he's I think you can win with Steve Sarkisian.

3334
02:29:04,760 --> 02:29:06,680
I don't think he's the greatest coach of all time,

3335
02:29:07,159 --> 02:29:09,360
but I think if you get him enough players, he's

3336
02:29:09,399 --> 02:29:11,719
a good play caller and you can win with him.

3337
02:29:12,399 --> 02:29:16,079
I don't think he's some footballing genius so, and I

3338
02:29:16,159 --> 02:29:18,920
think that goes for a lot of these coaches. I

3339
02:29:19,040 --> 02:29:21,479
keep on bringing up Ryan Day with Ohio State, like

3340
02:29:21,760 --> 02:29:24,639
if they didn't have a twelve team playoff, he might

3341
02:29:24,680 --> 02:29:27,799
have gotten let go before winning the championship last year

3342
02:29:27,799 --> 02:29:29,879
because they were a six seed and they lost to

3343
02:29:29,959 --> 02:29:32,639
Michigan again. Joey McGuire I bring up.

3344
02:29:32,600 --> 02:29:35,440
Speaker 2: With Texas Tech. Was Joey McGuire some footballing genius or

3345
02:29:35,799 --> 02:29:37,600
you know his first year at Texas Tech. No, they

3346
02:29:37,600 --> 02:29:38,959
got him a bunch of players and they won.

3347
02:29:39,319 --> 02:29:42,600
Speaker 12: So can you win with the right roster with Steve Sarkizan,

3348
02:29:42,639 --> 02:29:44,000
who I think is a good coach?

3349
02:29:44,399 --> 02:29:44,600
Speaker 2: Yes.

3350
02:29:44,799 --> 02:29:47,040
Speaker 12: Do I think he's an elite best coach in the

3351
02:29:47,120 --> 02:29:49,680
country or anything like that, No, but I think he's

3352
02:29:49,719 --> 02:29:53,680
at least a top ten to fifteen coach in football,

3353
02:29:53,680 --> 02:29:55,840
And if you get him enough players, which they have

3354
02:29:56,040 --> 02:29:58,840
now with Arch Manning and they're hitting the portal hard.

3355
02:29:59,319 --> 02:30:01,959
This is going to be an interesting upcoming season because

3356
02:30:02,000 --> 02:30:04,520
they are pushing all their chips in right.

3357
02:30:04,719 --> 02:30:07,159
Speaker 18: And I became a UTI fan this year just because

3358
02:30:07,159 --> 02:30:09,079
of Arch. You know, I'll probably go back to Route

3359
02:30:09,079 --> 02:30:11,479
and get them when Arch leaves. But I became a

3360
02:30:11,520 --> 02:30:13,399
fan because, you know, I like them. I like the mannings.

3361
02:30:13,959 --> 02:30:14,079
Speaker 17: Uh.

3362
02:30:15,280 --> 02:30:17,159
Speaker 18: I like how they make him stay there and go

3363
02:30:17,239 --> 02:30:19,000
into portal, you know, even though he rode the pond

3364
02:30:19,040 --> 02:30:22,079
for two years. I just like that top attitude.

3365
02:30:22,239 --> 02:30:22,360
Speaker 5: You know.

3366
02:30:22,399 --> 02:30:25,120
Speaker 18: I hate these three or four you know schools, you

3367
02:30:25,200 --> 02:30:27,879
know that you got to go to because you're unhappy somewhere. Hey,

3368
02:30:27,959 --> 02:30:29,760
the second thing, I want to talk to you real quick.

3369
02:30:30,280 --> 02:30:30,440
Speaker 1: Uh.

3370
02:30:31,399 --> 02:30:32,680
Speaker 19: There's this thing you will.

3371
02:30:32,559 --> 02:30:37,040
Speaker 18: Always do and Matt sometimes picks up, but it's funny

3372
02:30:37,079 --> 02:30:40,760
when he does it. Yesterday he was like, Hey, it's

3373
02:30:40,760 --> 02:30:43,440
gonna be two degrees in Detroit and uh, I'm going

3374
02:30:43,559 --> 02:30:45,840
to uh pick up a gloves and a hat. And

3375
02:30:45,920 --> 02:30:48,520
then you chime in without missing a beat, and you

3376
02:30:48,600 --> 02:30:53,760
go and Scarf Shah goes no, no, you know he

3377
02:30:53,879 --> 02:30:55,959
doesn't catch I mean, well, he doesn't catch it.

3378
02:30:56,319 --> 02:30:57,879
Speaker 12: I do that to my older brothers all the time

3379
02:30:57,959 --> 02:31:01,319
when I say little quips and and Matt's not paying attention.

3380
02:31:02,319 --> 02:31:03,120
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what.

3381
02:31:03,280 --> 02:31:05,680
Speaker 18: That's the funniest. It's the funniest thing.

3382
02:31:05,879 --> 02:31:09,159
Speaker 2: It's the funniest you know good, It is so funny.

3383
02:31:10,079 --> 02:31:12,200
Speaker 18: And like I said, you can do to day one

3384
02:31:12,680 --> 02:31:15,840
and sometimes he catches it. But when he doesn't catch it,

3385
02:31:16,000 --> 02:31:16,840
it is hilarious.

3386
02:31:17,360 --> 02:31:18,520
Speaker 22: But you have the look.

3387
02:31:19,200 --> 02:31:21,639
Speaker 12: I'm with you, Kenny, just between you and me. What

3388
02:31:22,040 --> 02:31:24,920
one of my favorite things on this show, because look,

3389
02:31:24,959 --> 02:31:27,559
you got to keep yourself entertained, especially if you know

3390
02:31:27,959 --> 02:31:29,719
you I work with Matt. We have a great working

3391
02:31:29,760 --> 02:31:33,239
relationship on with them, four hours a day, twenty hours

3392
02:31:33,280 --> 02:31:35,719
a week. We've been working together for now sixteen. This

3393
02:31:35,840 --> 02:31:39,360
is our seventeenth year working together. You got to entertain yourself,

3394
02:31:39,639 --> 02:31:41,399
and that is one of the things that I do.

3395
02:31:41,719 --> 02:31:45,639
I make these little quips or like movie references or

3396
02:31:45,719 --> 02:31:48,719
song references that I know he's not gonna get. But

3397
02:31:48,879 --> 02:31:52,559
it's like I mean, it just makes myself laugh or yeah,

3398
02:31:52,719 --> 02:31:55,159
saying a little thing or addendems to whatever, which he

3399
02:31:55,479 --> 02:31:57,200
catches all the time, stuff that I say or that

3400
02:31:57,200 --> 02:31:59,079
I do, but sometimes he does it. I'm with you, Kitty,

3401
02:31:59,719 --> 02:32:02,319
I'd rather rather than get the laugh.

3402
02:32:02,799 --> 02:32:03,120
Speaker 2: I don't know.

3403
02:32:03,239 --> 02:32:05,879
Speaker 12: Outwardly it makes it. It's more entertaining sometimes for me

3404
02:32:05,959 --> 02:32:06,840
to make myself laugh.

3405
02:32:07,079 --> 02:32:07,879
Speaker 2: So thank you, Kitty.

3406
02:32:07,879 --> 02:32:11,719
Speaker 12: I'm glad. I'm glad you noticed. I appreciate that. All Right,

3407
02:32:11,799 --> 02:32:14,719
quick break here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross It.

3408
02:32:14,840 --> 02:32:17,079
We will get to you next, I promise, because there

3409
02:32:17,159 --> 02:32:19,440
is no believe it or not today with Matt Thomas out.

3410
02:32:19,799 --> 02:32:22,159
But we're late again for a break, So quick break here,

3411
02:32:22,479 --> 02:32:24,399
final segment next ahead of the A team here on

3412
02:32:24,479 --> 02:32:35,040
Sports Talk seven nights. All Right, one quick note, what

3413
02:32:35,200 --> 02:32:36,719
did somebody do in the bathroom up here?

3414
02:32:38,159 --> 02:32:38,840
Speaker 2: Did you a wex?

3415
02:32:39,920 --> 02:32:42,159
Speaker 12: The lady's been cleaning the bathroom for like fifteen minutes

3416
02:32:42,159 --> 02:32:43,600
the past two breaks. I've tried to go to the

3417
02:32:43,639 --> 02:32:46,760
bathroom and it's been I've been trying to relieve myself

3418
02:32:46,799 --> 02:32:48,000
and it's just been closed off.

3419
02:32:48,239 --> 02:32:50,680
Speaker 2: John, Then, what are you okay? Did you do anything

3420
02:32:50,719 --> 02:32:53,120
over there? What's going on? Guys?

3421
02:32:53,159 --> 02:32:55,440
Speaker 7: I told them earlier I went to the restroom. I

3422
02:32:55,479 --> 02:32:58,959
going on twelve, and we got some some corporate guys

3423
02:32:58,959 --> 02:33:01,799
in the building and they'll come in waves, like huge waves.

3424
02:33:02,799 --> 02:33:06,399
And I went to the restaurroom. The backstall was messed up.

3425
02:33:06,479 --> 02:33:09,360
The automatically are going on, and then I looked down

3426
02:33:09,440 --> 02:33:13,120
the floor. Guys, it was liquid all on the I

3427
02:33:13,159 --> 02:33:14,879
don't know what happened. I know if someone fell into

3428
02:33:14,920 --> 02:33:17,120
the urine and came out with the first out. I'm

3429
02:33:17,200 --> 02:33:18,840
just trying to go take a pee and I can't.

3430
02:33:18,920 --> 02:33:21,399
That's been She's been cleaning there for like fifteen minutes.

3431
02:33:21,879 --> 02:33:24,120
Ain't nobody got time for y all making big messages

3432
02:33:24,120 --> 02:33:25,079
in his bathroom.

3433
02:33:24,760 --> 02:33:25,520
Speaker 2: Up here this building.

3434
02:33:25,680 --> 02:33:26,879
Speaker 23: Ain't nobody got time for that?

3435
02:33:27,520 --> 02:33:27,920
Speaker 5: All right?

3436
02:33:29,120 --> 02:33:31,040
Speaker 2: Sorry, I had to get that out. What's going on?

3437
02:33:33,479 --> 02:33:35,239
Speaker 10: Heyyah, I's it going going?

3438
02:33:35,239 --> 02:33:35,799
Speaker 2: I'm doing great?

3439
02:33:35,840 --> 02:33:36,200
Speaker 21: What you got?

3440
02:33:37,719 --> 02:33:40,840
Speaker 27: I mean, listen so earlier guy wanted Kyle Deen and

3441
02:33:40,920 --> 02:33:45,200
Ive heard this before. They want to criticize detetions receivers,

3442
02:33:45,959 --> 02:33:48,600
but they obviously are not watching the same game that

3443
02:33:48,680 --> 02:33:52,280
I'm watching, because I see receivers open. I see c

3444
02:33:52,479 --> 02:33:56,680
Jen missing them, overthrowing them, underthrowing them, throwing the ball

3445
02:33:56,760 --> 02:33:59,680
behind them, two far in front of boy just playing

3446
02:33:59,719 --> 02:34:02,680
no now, not even seeing them. They throwing the ball

3447
02:34:02,840 --> 02:34:07,280
somewhere else or taking the sack for no reason. Like,

3448
02:34:08,319 --> 02:34:12,440
you can't criticize the receivers when the person in charge

3449
02:34:12,559 --> 02:34:15,879
of getting them. The ball is absolutely witting to be

3450
02:34:17,079 --> 02:34:22,479
playing it simple, people, stop looking at stat sheets.

3451
02:34:22,479 --> 02:34:24,000
Speaker 22: And watch the game.

3452
02:34:24,840 --> 02:34:25,520
Speaker 15: Watch the game.

3453
02:34:25,840 --> 02:34:31,000
Speaker 27: The receiving courts fine, the receiving cords good enough to win. However,

3454
02:34:31,799 --> 02:34:35,799
we aren't gonna win anything if CJ doesn't get his

3455
02:34:35,920 --> 02:34:39,680
act together. So the CZ needs to get it together

3456
02:34:40,959 --> 02:34:43,799
or the team needs to move on. But please stop

3457
02:34:43,879 --> 02:34:44,920
blaming receivers.

3458
02:34:45,959 --> 02:34:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a lot, lafail.

3459
02:34:47,280 --> 02:34:49,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, somebody was arguing with me about like yards per

3460
02:34:49,280 --> 02:34:51,239
game and stuff like, Well, the Texans didn't throw for

3461
02:34:51,280 --> 02:34:53,959
a whole lot of pass yards per game. It's not like,

3462
02:34:54,520 --> 02:34:56,280
you know, Jaydon Higgins was out there making a bunch

3463
02:34:56,319 --> 02:35:01,360
of drops. It's I think with Higgins, I mean, we'll

3464
02:35:01,360 --> 02:35:02,879
see you. I think Kirk is a free agent. I

3465
02:35:03,000 --> 02:35:07,239
think Noel they get. They probably could use another pass

3466
02:35:07,319 --> 02:35:10,120
catcher for sure, But it's not a terrible it's it's

3467
02:35:10,200 --> 02:35:13,280
not a terrible wide receiver corps at all for the

3468
02:35:13,319 --> 02:35:15,040
Houston Texans. All right, that's gonna do it for the

3469
02:35:15,040 --> 02:35:18,760
Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

3470
02:35:20,159 --> 02:35:22,399
Thanks to all of you for listening to the show,

3471
02:35:22,559 --> 02:35:25,079
especially those who called and tweeted and got involved in

3472
02:35:25,159 --> 02:35:28,159
the show directly. I appreciate you. Thanks to Andy Lindall

3473
02:35:28,239 --> 02:35:30,319
joining us from Altitude Sports. Thanks to Matt Thomas for

3474
02:35:30,399 --> 02:35:32,440
actually being here for the first three hours of the show.

3475
02:35:32,479 --> 02:35:34,399
Thanks to Jonathan Allen for being for all four hours.

3476
02:35:34,639 --> 02:35:36,520
I'll talk to your folks next Tomorrow. Ten am is

3477
02:35:36,559 --> 02:35:38,520
part of the show Matt Thomas Show with Ross Right now,

3478
02:35:38,559 --> 02:35:40,959
it's the A Team, A couple of Adams don't go anywhere.