Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with rossnven o'clock takes down.
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.
Speaker 2: But that's a different issue for a different time.
Speaker 1: Rossie, We've got NFL Texans breaking news, don't Yes.
Speaker 2: We do at ten am. By the way, another.
Speaker 3: One, I think so yeah, one.
Speaker 2: More, I think so right, I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 1: For 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 2: Yes, oh okay, that was a you got it? You
got the other one? Right? What's the other one? The
other piece of breaking is we had more hit it
other one? Sure? Why not? What? Yes? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: 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 us on it says he in Rapaport, Jamiir Gibbs
one one in your fantasy drafts, David Montgomery now a
Houston Texan.
Speaker 2: 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 know.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna block for him, but he's gonna be a
good running back.
Speaker 1: Well man, we got that. Wouldn't that second part come down?
Just litterally minutes?
Speaker 3: Literally two minutes ago, he tweeted this, Oh suck at
a team?
Speaker 2: 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 1: Yeah, I gotta I gotta change that, so I'll be
yu flip that around.
Speaker 2: A little becoming huh hm.
Speaker 1: As someone that watched the Detroit Lyons last year a lot,
because I had Jamiir Gibbs in my RB one in
my fantasy league. Y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some idiot let him fall to you. I can't
remember who it was, Yeah, I don't remember who it was. Jack.
Speaker 1: 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 2: I mean, would pass, catch, would run.
Speaker 1: 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 2: He was really good, but he wasn't Jamier Gibbs good.
Speaker 1: 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
Jamia gibbson playing time. I'm gonna be this electrifying running
back that people Detroit never saw because Jamiir Gibbs took
up all the space. 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 2: 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, one during a seventeen game schedule and one
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.
Speaker 2: I mean for four point one yards per carrying his career. No, look,
he's good. Oh no, am I getting less excited about
this now? Look, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: 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 2: Yes, it's not costing much of anything to have you much.
Speaker 1: I don't know what its cap situation is because literally
this came down two bits ago. I don't have David Montgomery's.
Speaker 2: Solar numbers contract. Yeah.
Speaker 3: 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 2: I mean, we just don't know. It's just how he
was on. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He signed a two year, eight teen 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 him 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 1: 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 2: Okay, hopefully he didn't shoot himself. Well, he can shoot
himsel anywhere he wants to. Now, I don't care.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 2: You but it's a fourth and a seventh? What how's
that fifth round value? Dan? I'm confused?
Speaker 3: What update on terms? It's the Texans fourth rounder, Juice
Scrugs and a seventh rounder for David Montgomery per sources.
How does that mean fifth round value?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Seventh, that's coming back and 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?
Speaker 2: This is odd?
Speaker 3: So he words it to say it's not as bad,
so that would make sense that a seventh would be
coming back.
Speaker 2: And he got this wrong again? Did he get this
wrong twice? You know, he's probably worried.
Speaker 1: About whether he's gonna keep have a job at ESPN
now that the NFL network is in ESPN or can
hoots together.
Speaker 3: You know, 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 Juwice scrug Sorry, guys, I mean
Iams four to seven and scrugs for Montgomery. Okay, I
mean Juice Scrugs is less than just a guy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: 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 offensive alignment. Yes,
you're down to tackling dummies protecting David Montgomery. At this point,
I'm just gonna say this. Oh God, I don't want
to do this to you on a Monday. Oh God, No,
I don't want to.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna Sakay 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?
Speaker 3: Take your time? This is all happening in lifetime, Matt.
We're not gonna hold you to this, all right?
Speaker 2: Put it this way.
Speaker 1: 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 Scrugs 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.
Speaker 2: I'm going to imagine they have an idea of at
least one person they want to s correct. So do
they do it in free agency and the draft?
Speaker 1: 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 hiert.
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 2: 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 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: As our friend Adam Wexer, our Texans Report insider, our
Texans man, it goes and is not happy. They has
got to Torotown in a few years. 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 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's for people that are like, oh, Dick Serio, do
you 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.
Speaker 2: No, it's better. At least he's trying. He's at least
you tried.
Speaker 1: 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,
take you do save money when you moved Titus Howard
to Cleveland. So whatever money was on the books you're
training for a draft pick. See, 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 fail out
in high school we had capology, But I like it.
That's a general manager. 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 2: ROSSI? Yes, not much wear and tearing Detroit the last
couple of years. That's true. That's a good point. Mere
kids 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 2: Okay, what we have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: This is a nice trade, but I don't think the
long term solution for Texans running back has been solid
because of it.
Speaker 2: 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 1: 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 a left
fielders latch DH making his spring debut.
Speaker 2: Is that fair you want to.
Speaker 1: Say that because the rest of the outfielders ain't hitting
for squad so far.
Speaker 3: It's early, it's just the pre season. It's early, it's
just the spring train in Great Fruit Season.