Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross leven o'clock takes down.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Coming to you today from
our nation's capital, Washington, d C. Where tonight the Rockets
will be taking on the Washington Wizards. I know that
will not degenerate I think much interest, because frankly, I'm
trying to figure out who the hell the Wizards are.
But that's a different issue for a different time, Rossie.
We've got NFL Texans breaking news, don't Yes.
Speaker 3: We do at ten am.
Speaker 1: By the way, another.
Speaker 3: One, I think so yeah, one more, I think so right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 2: On the Houston Texans have traded Titus Howard to the
Cleveland Browns four a fifth round pick. Then the Cleveland
Browns signed Titus Howard to a three year extension worth
I believe sixty three million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh okay, that was a you got it? You
got the other one?
Speaker 1: Right? What's the other one?
Speaker 3: The other piece of breaking is we had more.
Speaker 1: Hit it other one? Sure? Why not? What? Yes?
Speaker 3: Go ahead from I gotta like double check because this
this is twenty twenty six yeah, the Lions are trading
stand out running back David Montgomery to the Houston Texans.
Per Ian Rappaport, a fifth round pick goes back to
Detroit as Knuckles leaves a sonic, says Ian Rapaport, Jamiir
Gibbs one one in your fantasy drafts, David Montgomery now
a Houston Texan?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, what do you mean? Oh? In a good way?
You No, you would say, uh oh, like you know, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 3: Know who's gonna block for him, but he's gonna be
a good running back.
Speaker 2: Well, man, we got that. Wouldn't that second part come down?
Just litterally minutes?
Speaker 3: Literally two minutes ago, he tweeted this, ah suck at
a team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh well there goes to tell the truth today.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you're gonna say something about the Texas getting
a running back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta I gotta change that. So I'll be
flipping that around.
Speaker 1: A little bit coming. Huh hmm.
Speaker 2: As someone that watched the Detroit Lyons last year a lot,
because I had Jamiir Gibbs in my RB one in
my fantasy league.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, some idiot let him fall to you. I
can't remember who it.
Speaker 1: Was, Yeah, I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 4: Jack.
Speaker 2: So that's why Rossie, I'll always be a fantasy football
player because it does gives me a feel of what's
going on around the NFL. So when Jamier Gibbs was
doing his thing, he was the most dominant running back
in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, would pass, catch, would run.
Speaker 2: You could give the ball to him thirty five times
and he would get you, you know, five six yards
to carry. He was multiple two hundred yard, multiple all purpose.
Talking about Jamier Gibbs, when David Montgomery would come in,
I was almost like depressed because he was he wasn't
getting any points.
Speaker 1: He was really good, but he wasn't Jamier Gibbs good.
Speaker 2: The question is going to be, Rossie, does David Montgomery
now spread his wings and say, Hey, I'm RB one,
I'm a Houston Texan. I don't have to fight for
Jamiir Gibson playing time. I'm gonna be this electrifying running
back that people Detroit never saw because Jamiir Gibbs took
up all the space.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My initial reaction because this just went down is kind
of similar to yours, is that I like David Montgomery.
David Montgomery is a good running back, but it's not
like he is some electric playmaker and almost feels very
Demko's Demico ryan Zy, Like David Montgomery's not gonna go
out there and bust you a bunch of fifty sixty
yard runs, but he's gonna keep you on schedule on
first down. And he's a good red zone running back.
And I guess if you want to pair that with
Woody Marks as the third down guy, change of pace,
pass catcher and stuff like that, it makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 1: All right, this who He's been a league a long time.
By the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's twenty eight, which is I mean, you don't
want to call it, say, ancient for running back, but
it's older.
Speaker 1: He has two one thousand yard rushing years to his credit.
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Wond a seventeen game schedule and won during a sixteen
game schedule.
Speaker 3: Yeah he play yeah, well well yeah, one when he
had played fifteen games and another when he played fourteen games.
So two thousand yard rushes I mean four four point
one yards per carrying his career.
Speaker 1: No, look, he's good. Oh no, am I getting less
excited about this now? Look, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be RESPONSI with me either, but
I'll say this, you're only treating him for a fifth
round pick.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's not costing much of anything to have you much.
Speaker 2: I don't know what its cap situation is because literally
this came down two bits ago. I don't have David
Montgomery's solar numbers contract.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he was doing some decent money, I think,
and they were just I mean, it's just going to
be Jamior Goods Arby one season in Detroit. Yeah, and
who knows if they're going to try to restructure or
anything like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just don't know. It's just how he
was on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he signed a two year, eighteen and a half
million dollar contract in October of twenty twenty four, so
he's making around. I'll bet he was an extension. So
it's supposed to run a next next year basically average
annual value of nine point nine million, So he making
nine yeah, nine million from David Montgomery's good.
Speaker 2: That's good. It's not gonna break the bank. You automatically here,
Let's go to the glass half bull first. Okay, you
automatically got better. There's no way fans or butts about
absolutely number two Joe Mixon or rip his contract and
hopefully his foot is.
Speaker 3: Okay, hopefully he didn't shoot himself. Well, he can shoot
himsel anywhere wants to now, I don't care. Okay, that's
a by the way, Rappaport has got the the the
uh trade wrong. It's a fourth rounder and Juice Scrugs
and they get back a well, I'm sorry, and a
seventh rounder, so fifth round value. Even rapp Report said, So,
I guess somebody texted the agent or somebody in the
Lions or Taxans texted him fifth round value. But to
fourth and a seventh? What how's that fifth round value?
Speaker 1: I'm confused?
Speaker 3: What update on terms? It's the Texans fourth rounder Juice
Scruggs and a seventh rounder for David Montgomery per sources.
How does that mean fifth round value?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Seventh, that's coming back, not a giving up a fourth
and the seventh. That's what That's what Ian Rapport says.
But then he says, that's fifth round value. How's a
fourth and seventh? Fifth round value? That's more than this
fourth plus round value? This is odd, So he words
it to say it's not as bad. So that would
make sense that a seventh would be coming back, and
he got this wrong again?
Speaker 1: Did he get this wrong twice?
Speaker 2: You know, he's probably worried about whether he's even keep
have a job at ESPN now that the NFL network
is in ESPN or cahoots together.
Speaker 3: You want paid millions of dollars a shifter and millions
of dollars in round port. You know, those guys have
always had kind of like a quiet rivalry. So you see,
you see the tweet just made us now the woman
in one. Yeah, but now it says they are giving
trade David Montgomery giving up a fourth, a seventh and
Juice Scrugs. So that doesn't make any sense the fifth
round value. Okay, let's go with giving up a fourth
and a seventh and Jewice scrug Sorry, guys, I mean
iiams four to seven and Scrugs for Montgomery. Okay, I
mean Juice Scrugs is less than just a guy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Wow, so you had not that Jewice Scrugs is a
guy that you're building around. But that's an early drought
round drive pick up the Cassario era. That was offensive alignment. Yes,
you're down to tackling dummies protecting David Montgomery At this point, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just gonna say this. Oh God, I don't want to
do this to you on Monday. Oh god, No, I
don't want to. No, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. Okay, good,
don't panic. You know what I'm thinking. What They're gonna
take five offensive linemen in the draft? You can't this?
How do I how do I phrase this? Take your time?
This is all happening in lifetime, Matt. We're not gonna
hold you to this, all right? Put it this way.
Speaker 3: How in the world do you completely reshape an offensive
line in one draft slash free agency? I mean, I
guess you're gonna figure out what to do it. In
the last two years, Juwe Scruggs gone, mid Laramie Tunsil
good but a pain in the ass, and then Titus Howard.
How does a team who had a below average offensive
line to begin with continue to ship bodies out. I'm
going to imagine they have an idea of at least
one person they.
Speaker 1: Want to sign. Correct, So do they do it in
free agency and the draft? I would have both? Yeah,
is there somebody out there that we don't know about?
That's going to me to be the splashy higher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean ed Ingram wasn't on anybody's
radar last year. Trent Brown wasn't on anybody's radar last year.
And those were two solid linemen for them. And they're
going to try to probably draft at least one guy,
maybe two, whether it be interior or tackle or whatever.
Speaker 1: You need help everywhere at this point.
Speaker 3: And yeah, this, as Aaron Wilson tweeted earlier, the Texans
are expected to utilize heavy combination of free agency and
draft for offensive line reinforcements. They're expected to make a
large commitment trying to upgrade the position. So yeah, they
know that this offensive line as is as as comprised
at this moment, is just it's not good.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: As our friend Adam Wexer, our Texans Report Insider, our
Texans man, it goes and is not happy.
Speaker 1: They has got into uh Torotown in a few years.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two first round pick, twenty twenty three, second
round pick, twenty twenty four, second round pick, twenty twenty five,
second round pick. Four picks all pre sixty two or higher,
focusing on the offensive line. Only one of those players
will still be on the off will be a Houston Texan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for people that like, oh Dick Serio do
he never drafts offensive line, He never does anything. He
never addresses the offensive line. He tries to address the
offensive line. He just swings and misses. Okay, which is
maybe worse. No, it's better. At least he's trying. He's
at least you tried. I mean, Nick's not dumb. He's
obviously got a game plan. He is now, he's just
he's figuring out the pieces of the puzzle. First and foremost,
you're gonna release Mixing. So the money that's going to
go that was going to mix And is going to
go to Montgomery. Now, okay, that kind of cancel each
other out. I think, yes, give or take.
Speaker 2: You do save money when you moved Titus Howard to Cleveland.
So whatever money was on the books you're training for
a draft pixel there's gotta be significant cap savings on that.
So whether that is trying to open up more money
for Will Anderson to get a redone deal, or if
it's more money to go take the Titus Howard money
and then turn that into whoever you're gonna pay for
replace Titus Howard Ooh, capology. That's a long, difficult subject
to get to. I've failed in high school we had capology.
Speaker 1: But I like it. That's a general manager.
Speaker 2: Do they manage their roster and they also have to
manage how much money they're going to pay? David Montgomery,
I'm happy? Am I over excited? You said twenty eight
years old?
Speaker 1: ROSSI? Yes, not much wear and tearing Detroit the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, mere kids. I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, that's a good counterpoint. He doesn't
have a whole lot of tread on the tire. He's
been under two hundred years carries the last two years.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have to wait and see.
Speaker 2: This is a nice trade, but I don't think the
long term solution for Texans running back has been solid
because of this.
Speaker 1: Can I say that and be fair? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I will say fourth and a seventh hurts more
than the initial report of a fifth.
Speaker 2: In my mind, fourth rounds hurt they do for sure.
All right, that's what the Texans are doing. So a
busy day for them on the free age in front.
We will get to some of that we will get
to the Astros lineup today, which will feature.
Speaker 1: A left fielders latch DH making his spring debut. Is
that fair?
Speaker 2: You want to say that because the rest of the
outfielders ain't hitting for squad so far.
Speaker 1: It's early, it's just the preseason, all right. So Ian
Rappaport is a shill for nicki'na say that because and
I commented on this is the exact same moment we
saw it.
Speaker 3: The phrase I was gonna use. Is I understand Ian
Rappaport has to play the shill game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a shill.
Speaker 3: He was first on the scene for this trade. Probably
he got it from the Texans, so he has to shill.
But go ahead, Matthew with what did Ian Rappaport say
eleven minutes ago?
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport two years ago, Texans GM Nick Cassio traded
for Joe Mixon, a powerback who started for them. It
was productive, that's fair, until allegedly he got in some trouble.
We don't know what it was. By the wait, Jonathan
is so off his game. We've mentioned makes his name
multiple times today.
Speaker 1: I'm here nothing no shot, no gunshots, no gunshots. What
is going on back.
Speaker 3: He's busy. It's a short show. He's checked out.
Speaker 1: I'm fighting through. I got a little horse voice here.
You okay, I'm fine. I just I wasn't gonna say
anything till you did. No. But I mean the reality is, uh,
temperature changes happened to my body all the time.
Speaker 2: So okay, so just step up. If I'm here with
the horseboys, at least you can do is.
Speaker 3: What that scares me every time? Turn that down? Here
comes the show part. Last year it was Nick Chubb
who had a resurgency. What this year it's David Montgomery.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to be fair when it came to
the Nick Chubb and resurgent season. You had one hundred
and twenty two carries for five hundred and six yards.
Speaker 3: I mean it's resurgent.
Speaker 2: I guess he had a four point one per yard carry,
which isn't bad.
Speaker 1: Good. It's not a lead, but it's not bad. It's
better than the three. It's not good. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: If you have five hundred and six yards in rushing,
that's not a resurgence, that's a well, we're happy to
have you here for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your service.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I guess it's a resurgence in uh,
I mean relative to his knee completely falling apart and
only getting three hundred yards the year before. But it's yeah,
I mean he's shilling for Nick Cassario because Nick Cassaria
gives him. You gotta grease the wheels. That's just how
it goes.
Speaker 2: And I think we are now seeing a trend ROSSI
that the Texans do not want to invest in young
running backs because everybody they've grabbed in the last what
three years or so, have been in the downturn of
their NFL career, not down well but old for running backs.
Speaker 3: I mean the woo he marks on a fourth is
it's not nothing. But it's not like they've spent big
draft capital and but and also their plan would have
been for Joe Mixon to be healthy last year. That
was plan A. Nick Chubb was playing f.
Speaker 2: But just think about it in the last handful of years,
Joe Mixon, Nick Chubb and now David Money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean David Montgomery fits the bill fourth and
a seventh. It's not nothing, no, because also you're paying
him nine million dollars and oh, by the way, I
think he he'll probably want to get some more money
from you. He might yeah, you know, and nick will say,
if the player wants to get do good, we'll give
him some money.
Speaker 1: The players I want to do good, we'll think about it.
Speaker 2: Don't ask Nicky say about this because it'll be a
forty five minute words salary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we wanted to look.
Speaker 3: We're always looking for avenues to improve the team, and
obviously run game is something that wasn't up to par
to our standards last year and something that can can
really help a coach. To Demico Ryans, we've talked about
a lot.
Speaker 1: We want to run the ball.
Speaker 3: We want to be effective running the ball, and Dave
Montgomery is something that's done that in the NFL.
Speaker 2: You know, on first down, if he gets four yards,
it'd be second and six. If you get three yards
in first down of his second, for second and seven.
If he gets five yards on first down of his third,
every second and five and then he gets ten yards
and then we take the first time we go too.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's exhausting.
Speaker 3: He's been a productive back in this league. He's got
a lot experience in this league him he doesn't have
a lot of tread on the tire for someone at
his age.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's some tread I mean seven years.
Speaker 3: But he's been a light workload the last couple of
years just because he wasn't better than Jimier Gibbs.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody has to lose playing time if he
is better than men.
Speaker 3: We got me, all right, come on over, Bride's man.
Speaker 1: You know what that's ross that that's what the T
shirt should be. We got B. Yeah, well last year
we got D but oh no, no, you.
Speaker 3: Didn't get the ten in the group, but you got
the eight.
Speaker 1: Oh are you good? Are you right? Referencing it to
going out with your burros on a date night? Yeah,
somebody went home with the uh with the Miss Texas
and somebody went home with the Miss Beaumont. Okay, that's
was still timed trying to make up for it. That's good.
He just keep you know what, I'll give you credit, Jureth.
You should at least just fire just to play it,
because they're like, I owe you one to these. Oh
my god.
Speaker 3: Now now Tom Pallisarro's on the shilling on the Lions side.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Tampa Strows for pointing this out. Dan Campbell
wants the Lions to get back to playing their brand
of football, and that starts with re establishing a dominant
O line. From the nfl dot Com pre draft scouting
report on Jewe Scrugs quote, he plays like a block
of granite. That fits. They're pumping up juice.
Speaker 1: Scrugs seriously, thank you, Tampa Strows. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: I understand you got a shill, I understand, but I
mean you're going to block a granite card for juice?
Speaker 1: Scrugs. Can I can I quote tweet this one too?
Go ahead?
Speaker 3: A block of granite? As then he doesn't move plotting
feet all right, I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give
you the quote. I'm gonna do it right now, and
I want you to judge my it's your quote.
Speaker 2: Tweet my quote to it more like I'm swinging it
right now than I want an initial great from both
of you. Oh, I you know what, I got to
figure out how to spell a one word. Hold on,
let's take a time out. We'll talk to Scott and
we'll talk to James. You gotta talk about centergenics and
I'm gonna come back with it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: I want you to read my tweet when I come back,
and I want you to grade my tweet.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, I hate my tweet. I'm gonna
get rid. I'm gonna race it's me.
Speaker 3: Okay, what'd you say?
Speaker 1: Were people?
Speaker 3: Did anybody comment or like it or anything?
Speaker 1: Already? Oh I got a lot of likes. Oh oh,
what does it say? I said?
Speaker 2: From it says from the NFL dot com pre draftskin
a report of juice scrugs. He plays like a block
of granite that fits, and that's what pel Sero says.
I respond, more like a block of alvito.
Speaker 1: That is rude. I'm getting rid of it. Here goes.
I'm it is deleted. It is not nice. I'm not
doing it. Block of elvita.
Speaker 3: I love alvida cheese, by the way, Yeah that makes
that tracks. But I mean I wouldn't like, go, hey,
let's come over the house and make belvido. Yeah, you remember,
you invite you you serve alvida pops. I remember when
it came over.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you that's a struggle me right there,
Lvida and tortilla chips.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is so there you go. Oh, so I
was rude, and I you know, I don't want to
be rude because I want people think. You know, I
don't want that guy calling me a block of LB
down calling radio games or whatever. So I'm not gonna
do I'm gonna pot.
Speaker 3: That's good, Matt.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: I don't need to be insulting. It's not nice. It
has I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: So there it is. It's gone. We're like a block
of alvida. That's rude. It is. That's why I got
rid of it.
Speaker 3: It's terrible. It must mean a bad mood from this cold.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't have to call. It's just you know, you
the change of temperature. Sometimes it's kind of messes with
your throat.
Speaker 1: God here, okay, so you're having throat issues.
Speaker 3: Well I'm a horse, yeah, but youah a horse throat.
Speaker 2: Excuse me you got horse throat. I've had a lot
of horse things in my life. I bet you have
seven one three two one two five seven, Auntie. I
gotta work on to tell the truth, and you're messing
with me, right.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. Scott it Riverer oaks on seven
Ati Hello.
Speaker 5: Scott Matt Ross was going on, guys, is what a
what an interesting trade? I'm driving around and get this
breaking news is pretty cool, and something like that pops
up when you're in the car. My first though on
and I know you guys don't seem when you're driving
around and there's breaking news.
Speaker 1: And something pops up when you're in the car. Scott's
up in your car. I was a little worried about
you there for a second.
Speaker 5: No, no, we're safe and sound.
Speaker 1: Don't don't worry.
Speaker 5: But my first thought, I know you guys didn't seem
overly enthused about the trade.
Speaker 1: But we know.
Speaker 5: What I imagine Dimiko is saying to himself is, you know,
we cannot have the issues in the red zone that
we had any longer. Watching us try to run the
ball at the goal line, not only is it insufferable,
I think it cost us the Denver game this year
when in the first half we couldn't pune. We tried
to punch balling from the one four times and we
couldn't do it Seattle. Even though we got killed in
that game, you know we would have had a chance
to come back. We could have punched the ball in
in the red zone. So I think at least David
Montgomery addresses that is That is the hypothetical thought that
they have, and I think there's no reason that it shouldn't.
He might not be an explosive back, but he can
keep us on schedule and really help address some of
the red zone issues. I mean, ultimately, as many problems
as our offense has. I don't think we're terrible at
moving the ball in between the twenties, but getting down
into the red zone is absolutely putrid, and I think
Montgomery aka Knuckles can help with that. On a side note,
Jamiir Gibbs is one of my favorite players in the NFL,
so I'm excited to watch him fully takeover in Detroit.
But thanks, guys will end up listening.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That makes Jamiir Gibbs. You're number one picking
their fantasy draft next year.
Speaker 1: Right easy?
Speaker 3: I would say, yes, yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: They're working in my room next to my room. No,
I don't hear anything good. That's good.
Speaker 3: There was construction they were doing in West Palm too.
Speaker 1: Everything. Oh, I have construction next to every hotel room
I'm in. It's ridiculous. I don't know, Matt. Sorry, Well,
they realize the value of me doing a live radio
shore from their glorious five star hotel.
Speaker 3: They're trying to there. Yeah, probably be Jean Robinson or
Jamira Gibbs. That's what people are saying. That's what the
fantasy streets are saying.
Speaker 2: Yep, Okay this now wex our Texans report not inside
because I'm the insider. Wex seems to think it does
not provide any clarity that Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: I think it does provide clarity. Wait a second, you
didn't break this trade, mister insider. I'm I'm with the Rockets.
I can't break everything on a nut in town.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I wasn't used that I had really so.
Adam Wexer thinks this means Joe Mixon could stay. No,
they're not gonna pay No, he's they're not gonna pay
David Montgomery nine million dollars.
Speaker 1: No, stays wrong.
Speaker 2: They've got to get rid of Mixon's money, especially he
hasn't touched a football.
Speaker 1: In a year.
Speaker 3: Uh, where are you seeing this from?
Speaker 1: Wex?
Speaker 3: Then Texans trade from Montgomery is another non evasive statement
by Nicossario and Joe Mixon's future. I think that he's
saying no, he's saying Joe Mixon's gone. Non evasive statement,
as in, it's a direct statement that Joe Mixon's gone,
Oh okay, ma misorid of that, thank you, thank.
Speaker 1: You, you're a misquoting Adam Wexler, our Texans insider. Well,
I mean he's probably in tears right now. Would you
leave him a littlettle wise in tears? Because he he
loves Juice Scruggs. Juice Scrugs guy, No, he's not. Yeah.
A matter of fact, Juice Scrugs spent Thanksgiving with the
Wexer family. That's not true. I didn't want to tell
anybody until just he's not.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a Scrugs jersey.
Speaker 2: Who if you if you would have an offensive lineman's
jersey in the history of the Texans organization, who would
have gone with?
Speaker 1: You? Go? Daine Brown, Tony Bi No, you don't want
to people had jerseys, remember they did? Yeah? See, but
I'm talking about right now, in twenty twenty, Right now,
it have to be I guess No, nobody's buying Ursery
jersey except the Ursery family. I know.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Who else are you gonna go with? That's why about
you go? Dwayne Brown? Right? Who? Twaine Brown the greatest
offensive linement in technans history. Oh you mean in history. Well,
I say you said right now, Well that's true, but
just put this away. If I said let's go to
the Texan Shop, I'm gonna don't have They don't have
any lineman Jersey of the Textan Shop. You gotta get
this custom it we can.
Speaker 3: We can actually fit one to you. I don't have
a triple X. Jake Andrews. Jersey's not available.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, Jake, bake up. By the way, Jake Andrews
is still your starting center right now, He's got to be.
You know, it's not no week one. Jake Andrews will
not be your starting center. I feel confident in saying that.
Speaker 2: I did text uh c J. Stroud just minutes ago
because you did. And I said, what do you think
about all these changes? And he says new phone?
Speaker 1: Who is?
Speaker 3: It's a new haircut?
Speaker 1: Who this? Yeah? He says, I'm busy hanging out with
Bryce Young? Yeah, why can't he hang out with Bryce?
I didn't say he couldn't. I just said he was
hanging out with him. This is Broski, Bryce Young or c. J.
Stroud twenty twenty six. Who do you want? C J.
Stroud with zero hesitation, with minimal hesitation. There you go.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if you had zero, then you're
just you're just being a Texans minimal hesitation. I'm still
sticking with Stroud. Can we have this exact same conversation
a year for now? Yes, Okay, let's go. I was
scared as well. I'm buying C. J. Stroud stock only
because it's the lowest it's ever been.
Speaker 1: It's like Bitcoin. After a rough month of February, Bitcoin
got crushed. What are we looking at right now? I
told you to sell it. Yeah you're wrong. I'm still up, okay,
but I just want you to make as much money
as you don't. You don't even know what you're talking about.
That is accurate.
Speaker 2: I have no idea how the bitcome in game works,
and I don't will never find out.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 3: I just look at my four olin kne It's all
over the place, and it went from one hundred. It
was one hundred and twenty thousand. Now it's down to
seventy thousand. But when you told me it was crashing
for good, it was at thirty. So it's still up
from there. I'm one for two on my great analysis.
I did tell you that Pokemon would be no longer
a big bit.
Speaker 1: People love POKEMONO. Still, you're wrong.
Speaker 3: I know people who's I know multiple people who still
play Pokemon Go.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like it was ten years ago.
Speaker 3: No, it didn't have the initial pop. Yeah, and you know,
and guess what, the Beatles aren't selling fifteen million records
this year. Stuff goes down for fifty years.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, I guess what I watched yesterday,
Band on the Run, the new documentary on Prime on
the way to Washington, DC yesterday. That's great. I guarantee
you fifty years now. I ain't doing no documentary on
Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 3: You're okay, the only Peo nerve. Sorry, Oh they're shreaking nerve.
You're just ignorant. You want to continue to show your
ass on this. That's fine. He's a twenty seven times
Grammy winner and a Pulitzer Prize winner and like he's
got like three albums in Rolling Stones Top five hundred
of all time.
Speaker 1: It's right, Yeah, I'm missing the bone on this one. Yeah,
it's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you keep you This is more about you revealing
yourself than anything.
Speaker 1: Else, there won't be known again. Damn Kenner, Lamar Channel
and Serious XM in twenty seventy five, there might not
be And that's okay.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Buffett got a channel, So what Jimmy Buffett sucks?
Speaker 1: Oh, get a pairentheads, get him, get him. He's notly
overrated though. All right, that's how we close out a
segment right here. Now, can I go work? I'm to
tell the truth. Please, Yes, it's terrible. All right. We're
with you till eleven fifty today. So if you got
to get to get in here, do it, because let
me tell you something. You get Astros base.
Speaker 2: But if you're looking for sports talk, you're gonna be
in a bad spot for the next few hours. You've
been getting in with us right now while the sports
talk is good. Seven one three two two five seven
one three two one two five Sevenatti, Matt here in
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five Sabnatti ten forty eight Here on sports Stock Sevenati
Man and Ross with you Rockets taking on the Wizards tonight,
real quick. Ross the expected starting lineup with the Wizards.
Stay with me on this you ready. Bob Carrington, Keishawn George,
Tristan Vushevich, Tri Johnson and b.
Speaker 3: Long kolibally love me Somel No Tree Young, No Anthony Davis. Okay,
there's some more on the the Andrew list. No Cam Wentmore,
No D'Angelo Russelling not with the team. And uh, this
name kind of weird?
Speaker 1: Boys. Uh?
Speaker 2: No, Leaky Black he is out with the left ankle spring.
What was missus Black thinking naming his her son leaky?
Speaker 1: That's probably a nickname. L E. A. K Win.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so, I don't remember. Oh yeah,
his name is for Shawn Maleek leak like leaky. Oh
thank god. That would have been difficult to explain that
to your family.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Doug is
with us on the Matt Thomas should Ross Doug, good
morning to you.
Speaker 4: Come onrning guys, how y'all doing this morning?
Speaker 1: Good good?
Speaker 4: He you know at the end of the year in
that playoff series, you know, I called him and said, man,
the Texans got with Trade Strouds to the Jets for
the first and second, and of course that after time
went by, I understood their logic and you hope they
know what they're doing. It made sense. This morning, I
get the text on the phone that they traded Titus
Howard and it said for a draft pick. And initially
I'm thinking, well, if it's a second round pick, that's
pretty good, but it's a fifth round pick. And then
I said, well, they must be clearing a lot of
cap space. And in the National Football leagu they're clearing
four point two million dollars, which to you and me
is a lot of money, but in cap space it's
almost nothing. I'm just curious if you guys can explain
that move. The second trade with with Juice scrugs, I
don't understand either. But the tightest Howard to me is
really a head scratch. He was the one guy that
could play all positions and started. I'll hang up and
listen again. Enjoy your guys show. I hope you can
maybe shed some why why they did that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks, thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2: To me Ross, it's tightest Howard under his last year
in his contract, and they have no ambitions of trying
to extend him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he won an extension. He got paid
twenty He's going to make twenty million dollars a year
for three years with Cleveland. They didn't want to pay
that probably was going to be a possible holdout today situation,
so they got out and got a fifth rounder. So,
I mean, as far as I know, it's eighteen million
dollars in cash savings but a twenty three Uh this
is from this guy, you know, the the cap all
of the the amateur capologists on Twitter, Texans cap eighteen
million dollars in cash savings but a twenty four million
dollars dead money hit.
Speaker 1: So I don't know exactly that all awest how that works.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, folks, and Ross and aronan a capologist,
it's very confusing to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three million in net cap savings, so it's not
a lot of money saved.
Speaker 2: It was going to say that's that that you and
I can comprehend that. Okay, that's not much at all,
but it was more done for we don't we don't
want to lame Duck on our team knowing that we're
not going to spend a lot of money on him.
Because here's the reality, Titus Howard's been really good for
the team. It's also been hurt a lot. And if
you're going to try and invest in a guy that's
been around as long as he has and give him
twenty plus Mainamie, it's.
Speaker 1: Pretty elementary what the Techans do. They're willing to rotate
lineman in and out of here, and once they get
to a certain age and a certain level, they're not
going to extend. And that's exactly what Laramie Tunzel want.
Laramie Tunseel is doe for an extension. I'm here in
Washington where he plays here for the Commanders. One of
the stories coming out of the combine for the Commanders
was when are they gonna start talking to Laramie Tunsil?
Speaker 2: And you know how fun that is? That guy's he
negotiated for himself. He doesn't have he doesn't have a
soft landing spot like an agent who can kind of
soothe things.
Speaker 1: You have to go right to him.
Speaker 3: And he had a really good season last year as well.
That he did for a team that didn't make the playoffs,
but he was really good for them. It's funny, maybe
Ross we are learning about Nick's tendencies he likes older
running backs and he doesn't like older offensive alignement. Although
at Ingram's not to bring chicken either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think he's got any hard and fast rules on that.
Probably they need to do something with the running back.
And I would say even this, David Montgomery could just
be an insurance policy. You could there could be a
situation where they're not done at the running back position.
Speaker 2: I wonder how David Montgomery feels if he's coming here.
In the first thing, he asked Nikosia, is he gonna
extend me? And Nick's like, you know, well, we could
extend you, but we could also non extend you. And
if you're a good player, will extend you. But if
you're not a good player, we may not extend you.
And then David Montgomery's falling asleep midway through the conversation.
Did you give me an answer or not?
Speaker 1: When I think of David Montgomery, I think of a
perfect number two back, because that combination last year. And
that's the thing about De Droit.
Speaker 2: Is maybe that when when you have two great running backs,
or at least a super awesome number one and a
really good competent two, that that number two is thinking
I need to get paid, like I'm a code.
Speaker 1: Number one and there's no way in the world. And
David Montgomery's gonna get paid any close outre Mer Gibbs
are gonna get it.
Speaker 3: I mean, fourth rounders is a lot to give up
for a backup running back. So we'll see it's a
contingency plan for it's the day Montgomery and Wood he marks.
I think that's kind of like the if we if
nothing falls our way in the draft, or if we
don't see anything we like in free agency, We're okay
with this as our plan.
Speaker 1: So who was I mean, does this mean the Kenneth
Walker conversation ends? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Kennan Walker probably was gonna cost you.
I think this is this is maybe even a reaction
to whatever they thought. Can they think Kenneth Walker's gonna
cost you?
Speaker 1: All right? James is with It's on seven on eight, James,
what he got? Russ?
Speaker 4: What happened to the running backs of Oh, like Tony
dor said, Barry Sanders and even Arian Foster? Where are
those guys?
Speaker 1: They're not in the draft anymore?
Speaker 4: Is it because.
Speaker 5: Now there's not a two back system?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: I know they were retired, but I mean, where are
the new guys.
Speaker 4: That they're going to take their places like that?
Speaker 5: I think it's because they don't use a two back
system anymore and they use guy's benefit from that.
Speaker 4: Now, I feel like the Contectants are going to have
a cessful running back. The two back system che thing
on that.
Speaker 1: Well in recent years.
Speaker 3: But Jon Robinson was drafted high, Ashton Genty was drafted
high last year. Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame is
supposed to be drafted high this year as well. I
mean there's some of them.
Speaker 2: I think the wear and tear on guys where it
puts a lot of wear and tear on Texas on
saturary caps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a position where you can more
than others. You can find guys and as you mentioned, man,
it's there's wear and tear because you're in a collision
basically every snap, you're either blocking or running the ball
when you're out there, and they just don't You don't
normally have the old school bellcout running backs, and we're
now seeing a trend where we're seeing first round picks
being selected with running backs. There was a stretch Ross
Wonder about four or five years where you weren't seeing
as running back to the second round. Yeah, maybe there's
a subtle change in that, but the reality is running
backs gang once they hit twenty eight twenty nine, they
don't carry much mustard at all. Offensive lineman at twenty
eight twenty nine peak of their careers twenty eight twenty
nine year old linebackers just fine. Cornerbacks, running backs, Let's
go find somebody cheaper. Yeah, and it's a passing league now,
so I mean he used to be a running league
in a power running game, and now it's a it's
a passing league.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, We have another fifty minutes left to go
on today's edition of The Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 1: Ross if you guys want to get in.
Speaker 2: Seven to one three, two one, two five seven ninety
is The Matt Thomas Show with Rosski. Congratulations to a
friend of the show, Jeff Passion is getting a new
multi year extension with ESPN.
Speaker 1: Now hopefully when he gets his extension, he can actually
get a suit that fits him.
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna say he's gonna buy a
new booster seat to take to the restaurants. Hmm, yep.
Your line is better than mine. One of the greatest
air guitar players in the sports media, drums giant.
Speaker 1: I don't pick. So it was their drums, big big
rage against the machine guy, rage against the machine. Can
I name one of their songs? Or no? Uh? Probably not? Okay,
all right? One of the all time great mans? Is it? Yeah? Okay?
David Montgomery?
Speaker 2: How many carries is he gonna get next year for
the Houston Texans? Is he a twenty carry a game guy?
Speaker 1: He can't?
Speaker 3: I think I think the Texans probably think he's gonna
He's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Now, the question is gonna be he's got no guaranteed
money for twenty twenty seven? Do you think he comes
down here? Apparently he's a swell fellow and he's very
polite and very nice and gets some extra money. You're
gonna pay a thirty year old some serious guaranteed money
next year in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess. I don't know, just the flat guess
would be a restructure. I mean, I mean, a an
extension is happening because while he's under contract this year
and next, maybe.
Speaker 2: Not fourth round picks ROSSI those are steep. That's a
steep price.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not nothing. The more I kind of think
about that, the more maybe he is just plan a
which means no.
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker and Joe Mixon, who had a terrific one
year of the Texans or do you have two?
Speaker 1: I cannot forget mixing had I guess one good year?
Was it? He costs you seventh? Right? Yeah? And then
last year we didn't know where he was. Yeah, it
was one one good year with Houston and then last
year who knows what happened to Jonathan Jonathan Texans girls,
That what it is.
Speaker 3: It's just I'm trying to get this passed you guys
with Thank you Jonathan. You're doing great, You're working hard.
You got a lot of jobs back there. I'm wishing
you the best. Thank you, Jonathan, Thank you Jonathan. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Albert Breer tweets.
Speaker 2: The Texans had nine offensive linemen and their roster for
their final playoffs. For their final game in twenty twenty four,
which was the Divisional playoff game against Kansas City. Seven
of those nine are gone fourteen months later. Only Blake
Fisher and Jared Patterson remain.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, the Bedrocks the offensive line, how did Blake.
Speaker 3: Fisher and Jared Patterson? How did Nick walk in to
Hannah's office and not just want to hide?
Speaker 1: He says, look at my defense.
Speaker 3: You know what, maybe Tororo town is is putting her
attention towards other things. He says, Look at Kamari Lassiter,
look at Kayln Bullock, look at Jalen Peatree, look at
well and Will Anderson was kind of toy if you will. Yeah, sure,
why not? I mean as he's all share was a
nice signing that Derek Stingley guy. A lot of people
crushed that pick. Nobody crushed Derek Stingley and.
Speaker 1: Were worried about his least thronk injury taking him as high,
taking him as high as he was after his his Absolutely,
people questioned the pick, Well, Sauce Gardner wasn't sauce Gardener available?
Did SOTS go before? Uh? Yes, sauce was available. I
think he would. Uh Stingley went three and then what
sauce went four or five? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Thomas Sports Enterprises continues to be very proud of the
accomplishments of Sauce Gardner.
Speaker 3: Well, he tore his achilles, so.
Speaker 1: Even he was in Indianapolis. Now we had root against him.
Speaker 3: Didn't Was it an Achilles tar for Sauce Cardner? It
was some kind of bad injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't finish out the year for the Cult.
I don't think did he.
Speaker 3: Oh Sis has serious left calf strain. That's not achilles
never mind, I'm wrong the difference. It was a non
contact calf injury. But isn't it weird though, ross to
you that all these linemen have been moved for a
team that does not have strengthen line. Yeah, they've been trying,
they've been shuffling around. That's good.
Speaker 2: I never taken a NFL roster construction class in my life.
But how do you fix this? How do you think
c J. Stroud feels about this right exact moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I wish Larry Larrman Tons could have stayed, honestly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he was under contract. He wasn't like he
was I mean, he was looking for more money.
Speaker 1: He might have probably well see, he is all about it,
you know, but he was also a part of it
the because on the inside I told you he was
a bad dude in the locker room, and I was
right about that. Because the insider knows these things.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're you were getting stripped of your title. Oh yeah,
unless this unless this.
Speaker 1: On Diggs was an It was a Texans team captain.
He must have been so important. The team that came gone.
Laramie Tunsil team captain. Yeah, Laramie Tunciel didn't show up
for Ota. Stephan Diggs was fine. That's real good leader.
I mean CJ. Gardner. Johnson wasn't fine, but Stefan Diggs
was fine. Yeah, CJ. Gardner. How many teams did you
played for last year? Three? I think it was six. Yeah,
it's crazy, all right? Uh seven one three, two one
two five, seven nine If you want to join our
conversation today seven one three two one two five seveninety
I'm sorry, I'm batting a little bit of a laryngitis here,
So if I take pauses, and not because I don't
want to talk to you, love on you, but it's
just I got a cough so and coughing on the
radio is not a lot of fun. Ross as you know. No, man,
please don't, but that's okay. What else going on the
world of sports? Oh, we've Astros line up today against them.
It's oh, the Nationals today I think right. Oh really,
I mean, just guess if if it is the Nationals, Hey,
I got it right, Good job, Matthew. I feel like
I get the Astros.
Speaker 2: I get the Nationals, the Mets and the Marlins and
the Cardinals, and you get the rest of the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna win.
Speaker 2: Although they are going to Sarasota this week to take
on the Orioles one time.
Speaker 3: Wow, huge, huge matchup.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, for those of you that are maybe
going down to see an Astros play a road game,
they have bypassed the rule where the teams get fined
if they don't bring starters with them the road games.
Because of the World Baseball Classes, they have a lot
that did not happen this year.
Speaker 1: When's the WBC get fired up?
Speaker 3: I know you're ready for it.
Speaker 1: I'm completely indifferent to it. Oh, I think this Friday,
March sixth, This guys coming up, heart mister WBC Jonathan,
there is a friend of the show. His name is Cameron.
He's my oldest son. Dad. You got any hookups for
tickets something? Yeah, Ticketmaster, go for it, knock it out.
Oh wow, that's rude. My children always looking for free
tickets for me, what are they? What's because you provide
them normally, they're used to it. Yes, a good loving father.
How about time for responsibility? How about getting out that
atm card and let's go.
Speaker 2: By the way Astros against the Nationals Al two base,
second base, Albarez d hing Cardl's career, third w.
Speaker 1: Cam Smith and Wright, Jake Myers and center. By the way.
He had got pulled for backspasm a couple of days
ago and is back in the line. So that's good.
Speaker 3: I guess something called Spence is in the left field today.
Something called Spence. Well, I don't know his first name.
Lucas am I.
Speaker 1: Supposed to know who Lucas Spence is? Yeah, Matt Hot prospect,
how hot give me a run down.
Speaker 3: It's got a it's got a plus bet tool.
Speaker 1: And then your buddy shortstop today run roll.
Speaker 3: Righting a roll let's shot stop.
Speaker 1: Now. Now we don't even know what's from New Orleans?
Do we is? Oh? I thought he was like, I
thought you were just making that up? Why why would
I just make that up?
Speaker 6: That was my fault, Hi, Jospota, I'm sitting here on
my phone almost blow in my hand. And that was
the scariest moment in this studio. I literally just did
that on an accident. I have never done this.
Speaker 1: Are you going Medory High School? Or are you from
Rodney Street? So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is this born in New Orleans? Will figure out what
high school he went to. I'm trying anyone. I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's gotta be He's gotta his jersey retired by some
high school. Aren't usually professional players getting our jersey retired
at some point, I guess? And then Saint our Salazar
is gonna behind the dish today, four hundred brown making
a second start.
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 2: All right, So there you go. That is the lineup
you're gonna want to listen to. I will have an
astro's lineup take during to tell the truth coming up there?
Speaker 1: Really from now? Wow, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I would hope not seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seventy By the way, Uh, even Rappaport's getting destroyed for
the Nick Chubb or a resurgent last year take.
Speaker 1: It's not going well for him. Yeah, he doesn't care
what you do? You think?
Speaker 3: What is your gut feeling? Do you think he'll he'll
stay with ESPN and they'll double dip and pay shifty
millions and pay Rappaport millions. Doesn't it doesn't that seem
I mean if you're ESPN and you're mister layoffs.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it feels if.
Speaker 2: They were doing that and Big Ronalds merged. Yeah, you're
only keeping one CEO. You're only keeping one CEO and
the Big Max stays and a wapper goes right? Oh wow,
you keep both?
Speaker 3: No, why do you to get rid of the Whopper?
Because you'd be acquiring urging to keep the Whopper. This
is a bad analogy, Matt. I'm sorry. I don't think
it's terrible. No, it's horrible. It's worse. Okay, you've had worse,
but it's still bad.
Speaker 1: No wait no, no, no, no no no no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes no. You're not comparing Burger Kings to employees. If
Burger King and McDonald's merged, what stays on the menu?
Here we go, Big Max days. Do you guess the whopper?
You take the Whopper and put that over the quarter
pine of with cheese.
Speaker 3: No, you keep both.
Speaker 1: Why would you get rid of one? In the why
was you.
Speaker 3: Can have a bigger menu. Have you seen cheesecake factory?
All right, this is a bad analogy. Stop days whose
days just hit each keeping around? Okay, now you probably
wouldn't keep fries.
Speaker 1: Do you bring onion rings on? You might bring on
onion rings? All right? Just he just hit the eject
on this analogy. Okay, folks, I tried, I tried.
Speaker 3: You did, just like you had Rappidport tried to show
for the Texans.
Speaker 1: That's now, let's go back to the core. Stop shilling.
It makes you look stupid. I mean, need to wrap
it for it. Why would he say resurgence for Nick Chubb?
He was a jag lovely fella and a jag.
Speaker 3: Resurgence that was comical. To tell the truth, that's coming
jub what Nick Chubb was not resurgent? No, he was
just a normal chub Ouch. Chubb's agent told him he
has to use the word resurgent.
Speaker 1: Hey, I saw your tweet and I need you to
add resurgence. So other team's gonna want to go grab
him at that point, don't you think they should just
get like a commission off of every news deal he
gets done. No, he's just gonna keep getting news and
raising his profile. Yeah, all right, eleven thirteen to tell
the truth.
Speaker 2: Coming up at the bottom of the hour here on
Sports Talk seven eighty t Browns for a fifth round pick,
David Montgomery comes to the Texans from Detroit for a
fourth and a seventh.
Speaker 1: And Juice Scrugs.
Speaker 3: David Montgomery f for Juice Scrugs, who was built from Granted,
I've heard that's what one NFL insiders said, Tom Pellisera's
not that tweet was not properly put together because that
was a pre draft conversation. But if you read it initially,
it comes across as that's what the Lions think he is, right,
it be soft putty more.
Speaker 1: Than he is. Bokay, come on, man, that's not nice either.
Speaker 3: I got apologize that built like velveto. That's that's rude. Yeah,
you know what, write that one down.
Speaker 1: I got two.
Speaker 3: You need to apologize to Frederick Henry Scruggs. Frederick Henry
Scruggs three years in the Yeah.
Speaker 1: Us. So it's not that social media tells everything, but
the reality is it's not an excitable date for the Texans.
It's more of a hunh day. Is that fair? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean yes, yes, Titus.
Speaker 1: Oh, they just traded away their most consistent offensive lineman
from last year. Huh okay, that's right. You just you
just ended it with they just dared their huh.
Speaker 3: And then they traded a what for a twenty running
back that's going to be start the season twenty nine
years old? A fourth and a fourth and a fourth
and a seventh and.
Speaker 1: Juice crugs, huh hey, okay, uh does this sound deliberate?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is not desperate. These are
things are not desperate moves.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. And as somebody was pointing out,
they love Iowa State players. Dave Montgomery, Iowa State alum.
Speaker 1: Oh stop it. If there was a college to go to,
Iowas date would not be on my top twenty list.
Speaker 3: Nick disagrees.
Speaker 1: I would go John Carroll one. Everybody else too.
Speaker 3: That's true, Nick, as if you went to John Carroll
Iowas Date, you're gonna be a Texan.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: By the way, we had a tweeter it' said if
we're buying a Texans all time jersey, we're buying John Weeks, right.
Speaker 3: Lineman, Yeah, long snapper, best lineman in Texans history.
Speaker 1: Is Dwayne Brown. I think so. I don't think it's
even close.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be in the Hall of Honor.
Speaker 1: I mean, Eric Winston probably is in that short list
a Ring of Honor.
Speaker 3: I should say, sure, Eric Winston, and I'm tapped out
Larry Tunsel.
Speaker 1: I guess how long was he here?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: Long?
Speaker 1: The greatest lineman? Yeah, that's fine, long enough.
Speaker 3: Let's see five years in Houston, six six.
Speaker 2: So let's do this in perspective when the Texans went
and got Joe Joe Mixon a couple of years ago.
I think we were really excited, were we not? Yes,
we were there being a pretty decent buzz for that.
Speaker 3: We were, and it didn't It only costs you. You're
gonna have to pay him, But I think it only
costs you a seventh rounder.
Speaker 1: That's right. Now.
Speaker 3: You're worried about his extra cricketer activities, Like me, he
had been productive. They were people worried about him in
an inside zone system. He had bad running stats in
an inside zone system. But I mean with with Bobby Slowock,
but that was like a concern, but he was fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that was a pretty like,
what it's been the most exciting trade that Casarro was
made that it Yeah, I guess yeah. Did Joe Mixon one?
Are we due for him? And how about this one?
Unless you count a C. J.
Speaker 3: Stroud trade, I trade to get CJ. Stroud and Will Anders.
Speaker 1: Oh the second, the second, the top three pick, that's
what was excited. Do you count that as a trader?
Us the draft trades different and I consider that a trade, Yeah,
for sure. Okay, but that was because Hannah told him
to do that.
Speaker 2: Hannah said, look, I know you like this Will Anderson junior,
Kiddi's really good.
Speaker 3: You're getting me a quarterback. And Cal's like whatever Hannah said,
goes absolutely well, get her a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Nick.
Speaker 2: There was no way the Texans could go into that
rookie year, that first year three years ago without grabbing
a quarterbackup of some note, and they did, and they
did so good for Nick to be able to pull
that off. Now, the argument now is, and it's it's
it's it's a it's an environment of riches, is that
you have to have two picks in the top five
who are gonna cost you big time money, now obviously
at different positions, but they have to get paid at
the same time, or at least in theory they were
going to because you were thinking they were going to
both be in the same trajectory northward and they would
both be willing to be paid here for long term extensions.
Will Anderson deserves extension at this point right now, c J.
Stroud does not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna try to extend both. Well, no, you're
gonna try to pick up the fifth year option then
try to extend Will Anderson. So we have until May
firth on those extensions may believe, So, yeah, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Oh, I both get him for sure. And if you're CJ.
And Will gets his extension this year and you don't,
you might be publicly, I mean so you may be
privately stewing over this, but publicly you have to love
every bit of it.
Speaker 1: No, yes, no, come on, everybody knows c J. Stroud thinking, Hey,
does he think he had a great playoffs? There's no way, Well,
what he's going to make changes? He cut off his hair, he.
Speaker 2: Knows what is what if DA have Mullagata is feeding
him information like you know what you deserve more, You
deserve a bit of the money.
Speaker 1: You should be getting. I'm sure he's got a team
pumping him up, but how can you how can you
you four interceptions? If maybe if he threw like for
two fifty and two bad picks and two touchdowns, we
could do something. Yeah, but there's.
Speaker 3: No way, there's no sugar coating that that those playoff performances,
there's no way to sugarcoat.
Speaker 2: Those, And I think it'll look in a really bizarre way.
The cutting of the hair was that's the old me. Yes,
maybe it is.
Speaker 3: It's like, uh, you know, yeah, you get you get
a divorce, and you start dressing a little better, and
you get to change your hair cut up a little bit.
Speaker 1: And you start working out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then the ex wife comes over and says, why
weren't you doing that when we were married?
Speaker 1: You were all flabby and stuff. It's got complacent.
Speaker 2: Same thing for men when they lose their wives. The
wives getting work done and they get way and they
way better.
Speaker 1: Haircutor and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's uh, yeah, that's exactly what CJ. Stride is
trying to do a makeover.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I don't think I mean, does anybody think
that because he cut the hair all of a sudden
is a different human being.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. You just mean it was maybe
it was obviously media manufactured. It's a different mindset. Got
a huge runout of and he's ready. He's ready, Matt.
It's a different mindset. It's gonna be run Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Coming up in about twenty five.
Speaker 2: Minutes from now, we have the Rockets tonight ROSSI against
the Wizard. Do you like the rockets chances after maybe
a disappointing loss to in Miami on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3: That was disappointing. It just you could just you just
feel it wasn't there night, nothing was going their way. Yeah,
but they're gonna bounce back. Yes, Fifteen and a half
point favorites tonight on the road. On the road, and
you're supposed to do in the NBA game, what do
you what suposed to get four points depends right, So
in theory, if the Rockets don't win this by at
least nineteen, they'll be considered a disappointment. No, if any win,
I'll take any victory.
Speaker 1: I'll take a one point victory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I one like it, but I'll take it.
Speaker 2: And again, here's the thing I was on Sports Sunday
last night. If you lose two games or win two games,
that is a massive fluctuation in the Western Conference right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's looking like three seed is the play not
gonna get a two.
Speaker 2: No, although san Antonio finally loss of the first time,
it feels like two months.
Speaker 1: Yes, and shake Gilles Alexander's back for the Thunder and
they've lost, they've won, excuse me, a couple of games
in a row. And did you see what Doris Burke said?
What did Doris Burke say? Doris I did say, Actually,
she get other teams don't get fouls that SGA gets
when he's the one committing them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a foubator and he's the best. He's
the best vaubator in the league right now.
Speaker 1: Right would you say it's almost like you don't you know.
Speaker 2: Look, we had the same issue with the Rockets and
years ago people would just destroy the rockets because James
James was going to the free throw line ten eleven
times a game.
Speaker 3: Guess who're doing that now? It's shake Yildess Alexander. Yep,
it's efficient. It works.
Speaker 2: You would think if you're going to the free throw
line ten to eleven times, you need ice bass because
you're getting so beat up. There ain't even a scar
on any of SGA's injuries.
Speaker 3: He just came back from an ap injury. It was
from a hard foul.
Speaker 2: You're just making that up. I have pull out eperturee.
It's a made up thing. Let's play to tell the.
Speaker 3: Truth, Rossie, I have four sports takes, really, I believe
three of them.
Speaker 1: That means, Jonathan, how many lies am I going to
tell you? Oh? No, ross what how many lies? A one?
There you go? O way.
Speaker 2: Jonathan got my to tell the truth last week when
you were gone. So he's now taking the team lead
for truth two to Torossa, four to two.
Speaker 1: This is made up. I got four.
Speaker 3: You can't get a win over me if I'm not here.
Speaker 1: Well, he attendants a part of the category. You know,
if you want to be all in, if you want
to be all to tell the truth, you gotta be here,
just like the sixty five game.
Speaker 3: Were Okay, I gotta win when he was gone.
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Speaker 3: All right, listen, we made a late decision here. We
only have one Believe it or Not this week. That's
tomorrow because I have short shows the rest of the
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And if you win today, not only will you get
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Speaker 1: I never know.
Speaker 2: I do know how to tell the truth in fact
right now and to tell the truth, I'm going to give.
Speaker 1: You three truths and one line.
Speaker 2: It will be up to you, Houston, and up to
Ross and to Jonathan to detect what I'm lying about.
We're gonna let Jonathan get those calls put on the screen,
line them up. They're there, all right. Here we go,
three truths, one line. Thus, one of the things.
Speaker 1: I'm lying. The rest of the three, I'm telling the truth.
Ross You ready to go, can't wait? Here we go.
Speaker 2: I believe these are sports takes, not opinions or predictions.
But in my opinion, my opinion, I think the Textans
should trade out of twenty eight to get an extra
pick to further develop their offensive line, because now they've
lost two more players. Strengthen numbers. Get an extra draft
pick you've already got. You lost your fourth round.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight to me is a nice number, but you
can get you can you find somebody that will trade
you twenty eight for maybe an extra second or an
extra third round pick.
Speaker 3: You never know who's gonna be. My opinion, the Texans
should trade at twenty eight, all right.
Speaker 1: Number two. I think Joe A Spotted Boys is gonna
have to change his mind. I think an opening day,
I don't think we're gonna see it a lot. We're
gonna see it more than I thought we were going to.
Speaker 2: If Es sac prett Is is still a part of
this Astros baseball team on opening Day, we're gonna see
more yord and Alvarez in left field and more escac
prette is DH and the reason for that is, I
don't think the outfield offense is gonna bring training to
convince Joe to go with the original Plan A. He's
going to Plan B. Boys, he's gonna play on an
overrez more in left field that.
Speaker 1: He wants to. Not because you're not gonna play left field.
It's because they don't want you. Suck predy that don't
line up.
Speaker 2: Number three, those of you that are hockey fans, and
I know we had some last week for one day,
my opinion is the earliest that hockey will ever come
to Houston will be twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a while. And number four, we briefly
talked about this on Fargy Hockey thing.
Speaker 3: Why why twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1: Because I'm just throwing a year out. It's gonna be years.
Speaker 3: It's just I guess the general point is it's gonna
be years. It's not gonna be anything too distant future.
I'm gonna say, I'll say distant future. I can even
get at of twenty thirty two if you want to. Okay,
it's gonna be multiple years before we get.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this last this College Sports Commission
that President Trump is putting together with a bunch of
old ads and coaches and whatnot and players.
Speaker 1: Hear about it, I'm gonna go worrd about it.
Speaker 2: If the President Trump is going to have a college
sports commission, it's gonna develop. It's gonna involve Nick Saban,
It's gonna involve Conna Lisa Rice.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, it's it's quite a it's quite a beaute.
Is Tommy Tubberville going to be involved.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think he's busy running Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Okay, this College Sports Commission is ultimately the next year
gonna come out and say we need a salary cap
in in football.
Speaker 1: And basketball within five years.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say this College Sports Commission is going
to ignite a fury that's going to give us a
salary cap in those sports within five years, because I
think that they're thinking that this is out of control
and somebody has step in, and it's going to step
into be the government. H Okay, Okay, So let's recap
the four takes. These are opinions, not what I think.
Here we go, three I believe one I don't. Okay,
the Texans should trade out of the first round is one.
Speaker 1: Number two.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see way more yarn and Alvarez
in left field to start the year, provided that E's
like Praide, it's still an astro. Number three not anytime
soon when we see hockey in Houston. And number four,
we're gonna see a salary cap in college athletics within
five years. Which one is a lie? Which one I'm
not telling the truth?
Speaker 1: One he's saying trade out of the first round. Yep,
he's said the Texans should trade out. Yep. I'm going
with one.
Speaker 3: So you're saying it's not your opinion that Praide should
h it's gonna be Joe a Spot of opinion. The
praidse is gonna deal.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to change his mind. Hum man, this
is hard.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm going this is the College Sports Commission
is going to recommend a salary cap or they're going
to institute a salary cap.
Speaker 1: Either way, both ways? Both ways. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're gonna see the term salary cap in college
athletics being talked about.
Speaker 1: That's never happening.
Speaker 3: But also, I don't think Joe A Spot is going
to just all of a sudden change his mind. He's
been saying all off season he's doing everything in his
power to keep order on out.
Speaker 1: A left field hockey. I mean, I guess that's just
kind of okay whatever, if that's your opinion this week before,
are crazy our morning hot like we've got to get
hooky to use.
Speaker 3: To Well, that's because, yeah, Cole loves hockey.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a while. Friend. Where is he from me?
Speaker 3: From like Memorial City or something? What's he love hockey for?
Speaker 1: I don't know? All right, hurry up, hurry up. Why
we got time? We have the callers gotta get their
answers into.
Speaker 3: Uh fine, I will go with.
Speaker 1: Two. You think I'm lying about Joe Spot I have now.
I think you're gonna be wrong about that if you
believe it, So okay, let's go with that, all right, Jonathan?
What do you say? One? Okay? All right? These are
strictly opinions of mine.
Speaker 3: Let's go Eddie on line five, Eddie, which one am
I lying about?
Speaker 1: They're going to talk about a salary cap or there's
are you saying that?
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna hear the word salary cap within
the next five years of college do you know what
I'm changing to that one? Yeah, I'm going to four.
I'm changing to four. Okay, Yeah, our phones are blipping,
so it's great Eddie. I think Eddie said four. Eddie
said four.
Speaker 1: Michael in Spring, which one am I lying about? Definitely
going with two.
Speaker 5: I wasn't completely sold until Ross Ross just changed.
Speaker 3: So yeah, good job, Michael. I've been bad this year.
Speaker 1: Scott. Which one am I lying about? I'm horrible at
this at the time.
Speaker 4: I always get them wrong, but I'm thinking lying about
the Texas the first one.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's number one, Thank you very much. Let's let's
go to uh Mark on seven. Ony Mark? Which one
am I lying about?
Speaker 4: Gotta be number four? They're not gonna They're not going
to do.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, thank you very much. Let's go to John
online too. John. Which one am I lying about?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: I had to go with two because you all right?
Speaker 4: Then no more being out built?
Speaker 1: Okay, I think he's thinking that. I don't think Albert
is more left field. Mike and Katie? Which one am
I lying about? Number four?
Speaker 4: Man College or the salary cup thing?
Speaker 1: Kay? There you go, thank you very much. All right,
here we go boys.
Speaker 3: Number one I do believe the Texans should trade out
of the first round. You've gotten rid of two more
offensive linemen. You need strengthen numbers.
Speaker 1: Because the reality is Nick Sarah's done a terrible drive
in drafting them, but we have no pigs. We're gonna
they want more.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna argue
with this.
Speaker 1: Good. That's good.
Speaker 2: Number two hockey ain't coming anytime soon, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 2: And I'm taking the league, not necessarily from the two
different families here in town that have expressed some interest
in it, but Gary Bettman's did in no hurry for it.
Speaker 1: If we were gonna see expansion, and we would see
it in the next two to three.
Speaker 3: Years with new television deals coming into play, we're hearing
nothing about any of this stuff. So for those of
you that the nine of you that love hockey, that
tell us about this every single day about how hockey
would just beat some dominating in Houston, guess what, we
haven't heard word one about it since I don't know,
years ago, and the and the hockey team winning the
gold medal is not going to change that no time
anytime soon. Hockey appears in Houston, Texas. Coming down to
the last two, gentlemen, if Cam Smith and friends cannot hit,
you're not gonna let East like Pritts sit.
Speaker 1: The bench an opening day. I think Jordan Alvarez is
gonna play left field. Wow, Ross, I can't believe you
twitch your answer.
Speaker 3: I switched to the correct one.
Speaker 1: Ross wins. He got it right. There is no way
in the world. Yeah, that's right. I lied about that
number two. Yeah, yeah, Jonathan, l Jonathan, get back texting
your girl. You know what we need picks, Matt. I
want you to understand that picks. Yes, that's the reason
why we're training him. You're Yeah, it's gonna be a
different time.
Speaker 3: I don't think a spot is backing. I think you're
gonna well, I mean, because we nothing's changed except the guys.
Zach Cole's not hitting and Cam Spen's not hitting. It's
spring training. It's just the spring training season.
Speaker 1: So anybody that picked number four, I don't believe it
will be a satary cap and base.
Speaker 3: In in college athletics. So yeah, that one was wacky.
I think too, We'll see. I think you're gonna be wrong,
but I'm not gonna say you're crazy.
Speaker 1: I know, I know I could be wrong on that one,
but I do believe.
Speaker 3: That you could be wrong on one. But I'm not
gonna call you crazy.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna let ease. Pretty is
not being the line a coron opening day? It just
doesn't make any sense. You can be wrong.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've been saying that all season. How do he's
the top three stick.
Speaker 1: In your lineup? How do you know I'm coming to
your side? Sports RP.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense. All right, we gotta get
out of here. Let me do it real quick. Oh yeah,
what am I talking for here? Get out of here?
Speaker 1: Uh uh we'll start, but oh uptown here? What's that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be wrong, but go ahead. You
murmuring again? Are we done?
Speaker 4: Done?
Speaker 1: We're done?
Speaker 3: Oh bye