Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten one h Town. Good morning, and welcome to a
Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. We have got a lot
to get to for a Monday that does not feature
a game to talk about from yesterday, It does not
feature a game involving a Houston sports team at least tonight. Well,
one team will be playing, the others will be watching
two other teams play for the American League Supremacy's. It
was just a very interesting sports weekend with a lot
of coaching changes in sports, amazing NFL games. Yesterday we
had a climactic Game six of the American League Championship Series,
which now sends us to a Game seven. And finally, finally,
and I don't know why we're doing so much bitching
about it, but I am the leader of it, and
for that I apologize. The Texans are playing tonight at
nine o'clock. Everybody gets a bye week. Excuse me, everybody
gets an off week. So it's not out. We've done
this before. We've gone a Sunday without the Texans playing.
The weird part of it is, it just feels extraordinary
longer because a there was a second consecutive Sunday where
the Texans did not play. They can play on a
Monday night, but they're playing at nine o'clock local time.
So it feels like it has been forever and ever
and ever. And perhaps the biggest indication of that is
the fact that if you look at the AFC standings,
if you look at the AFC South Sand standings, the
Indianapolis Colts are six and one after disposing of the
LA Chargers, and they're horrific, horrific uniforms. Jonathan Allen is
the producer of this radio program. I know you're guy
asking this. Did you see the yellow on yellow gear
that the Chargers wore yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It action looks really horrible. I'm not gonna sit here
and try to defend it looks so bad.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you, and I love you
like a brother, younger son. You're supposed to get your
asking when you were in yellow on yellow. You just
are go ass Baylor. They know these things.
Speaker 3: I'm there for a little bit, but yeah, it was
I had to turn it off aut the that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, not only did the Colts play yesterday, and
beat the Chargers rather convincingly in Los Angeles. If my
math is right, they have a three and a half
game lead over the Texans in the AFC South. And
I'm right because Indianapolis is six and one, Houston is
two and three. If the Texans lose this game, they'll
be three and a half back. Let me make sure
this is right. Two and four, three, five, Yeah, three
and a half back. So right now they are. The
Colts have played seven, the Texans had played five, so
that are four right now. This is nuts. Point being
is this It'll be finally nice to have football back
with a team that we actually care about watching. Now,
I will say this, and I don't know how many
of you within the sound of my voice. Now, yesterday
the over the air games on the CBS game was
Las Vegas Kansas City. That was a dud. The Fox
game was Philadelphia Minnesota, and then Washington against Dallas. Now,
Philadelphia Minnesota was really good. Dallas Washington was good for
a while, but then Dallas pulled away. For the second
consecutive week, I was able to watch Red Zone Force
seven consecutive hours. Now, truth be totally told, because I
am a man of honesty on this show. I did
take I think at least one lengthsy nap during the
seven hours, and I think I snuck a mini nap
in as well. Point being, it's not bad to not
have a dog in a fight and just watch other
teams do their thing. And I will say this, I
don't know how many of you were happened to be
doing this exact same thing that I was doing. I
don't know how many of you are Giants fans or
Brocco fans, or just watching the red zone on how
that thing turned out, or happen to see what was
happening on your phone as you were watching your fantasy
football yesterday. But did you see what happened? And have
you heard since then what went on in Denver yesterday?
Now you know me if you've listened to the show
for any length of time. I am an obsessed standings watcher.
It's probably to a fault of mind, and for that
I apologize, But I am obsessed with standings, magic numbers,
division leads, seating. I'd started really last year when the
Rockets were winning games, trying to figure out who they
could potentially play and if they were going to have
a home court, and I've not stopped. I will be
one of the only sportscasters in Houston on April the
nineteenth of next year when the Astros start their season,
telling you how far they're in front or behind in
the American League West. I have a problem, folks that
I'm sorry, but I'm standings obsessed. So I'm looking around going,
you know what, who is in front of the Texans
if the Texans are going to try to make a
playoff spot, If indeed Indianapolis is gonna run away with
this AFC South, which clearly they are at six and one.
New England leads the AFC East, Denver leads the West,
Pittsburgh leads the North. Now, obviously each division has to
have a division winner, so there's guaranteed spots there. But
you kind of look the same. See how the wild
Cards are doing. Jacksonville got its ass kicked yesterday. By
the way, I tried to get up at eight thirty
to watch that for a little while. Those poor people
of London they have to watch Jacksonville once per year.
Do you think London nights are like, Oh, the Jaguars
are on our schedule to have an international game? Will
pass how in the world, ladies and gentlemen are the
Jacksonville Jaguars four and three. They're putrid. Trevor Lawrence sucks.
I'm sure he's a wonderful human being, but as a
football player, he's not very good. And you're saying, well,
you don't you know, you can't do it. Of course
I can't, But I mean, we're okay. Maybe I shouldn't
say sucks. He's just not very good. And if I
want the Trevor Lawrence right now and said, describe your play,
you'd say I'm not very good.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: It could be the weather yesterday it was raining in London.
It could be the offensive line. It could be the
fact that his team can't stop anybody. And last night
Matt Stafford yesterday morning threw a boatload of touchdown passes.
But Terror Lawrence has been a seismic disappointment as a
one dash one. I think nobody could potentially argue that.
So I was looking at Jacksonville, like, all right, Jacksonville
lost yesterday, that's good for the Texans. Chargers lost yesterday
to the Indianapolis Colts. That's a good thing. Kansas City
is winning, and they're just really good I mean they're
you know how bad I think Jacksonville is at four
and three. I think the opposite of what Kansas City is.
They're really good four and three. And then you got
Cincinnati who got a big victory late Thursday night against Pittsburgh.
They're in front of the Texans to just buy a
number of games played. They're three and four while the
Texans are two and three. So I am standings watching
and I'm thinking to myself, all right, something's got to
go right. Denver may lose, which will help, because you
don't want a team in front of you to be
taking a spot of years and then they score thirty
three points. Let me tell you something, Houston, Texas, we
have had a terrific amount of despair in our life.
It has been hard to be a Rockets on Astros
in some respects, not all respects, but in some respects,
hard to be a Rockets fan, hard to be an
Astros fan, hard to be an Oilers fan, and in
many respects hard to be a Texans fan. All these
years and the furthest have ever gone is the AFC
Divisional round on the playoff. That's hard. It's hard being
a Cougar fan to final four appearances, going down Championship
game appearances, going down to the final seconds. That's difficult.
And everything is relative, because if you're a fan of
a sports team, things are going to be hard. You're
going to have much more despair than you are going
to be joy. You're not talking about a world if
you're a Yankees fan winning nine World Series in thirteen years,
you're not talking about the Lakers and Celtics basically rotate
NBA championships for twenty years. It's hard to be a
fan of ninety eight percent of sports teams. It just is.
But I want you to imagine what your life would
be like today being a New York Giants fan. You
are on the road, you have a rookie quarterback, you
have a rookie running back who are taking over the Giants.
You are thinking, this is on our way to respectability.
You've got a lead for much of the game, I
mean up until the fourth quarter. You don't allow a
single point to the Denver Broncos. You have a what
I see, eighteen point lead with six minutes left to
go on the game, and the Broncos score thirty three
freaking points in the fourth quarter. And win the game,
in large part because the Giants had a backup kicker
who missed two extra points. Extra points matter. That happened
in college football all the time. We don't typically see
it in the NFL. We saw it yesterday. So for
me that didn't have anybody to watch because of a
local angle, putting on that red zone and watching the
fourth quarter of that Giants Denver game, that was brutal
for New York, pure ecstasy for Denver Bronco fan, and
in my opinion, totally relatable to us as a Houston fan.
So when we feel sorry for ourselves about a lot
of things, just remember how New York's feeling today. Not
that we feel overly bad for the Giants or for
any New York fan, but you get my drift. The
New York Giants were disposing of the Denver Broncos, and
the Giants defense allows thirty three points in the fourth quarter.
They were up nineteen to nothing at the end end
of the third Denver fans like I want to go
get some weed and get out of this stadium. Instead,
the Broncos score twenty more points than the Giants in
the fourth and win thirty three thirty two that my friends,
feels very Houston esque, does it not? Seven? One, three, two,
one two, five, seven nine. If you want to jump
into on a variety of topics, let me give you,
in no particular order, very quickly. I mentioned the NFL
weekend crazy. We finally have a Texans NFL game to
discuss the Seahawks. Tonight, we have a Game seven in
the American League Championship Series, Seattle playing Toronto. Now listen
to me Uri carefully as we go to break here
just a second. You know our buddy Softy, who does
the very successful afternoon drive show at KJR and Seattle.
We have him on three four times a year. We
bust each other's balls. It's good natured fun. I'm gonna
have to walk delicately with him today because uz he's
a Seattle like. He has grew up and has been
Seattle sports forever. He's like you and me, I mean
those that have lived here most of our lives. And
I've lived here. I'm like, I'm fifty three. I've lived
here forty years of my life, forty one years. Whatever
the case may be. I gotta tread lightly because I
don't want his Mariners to win. But I'm not gonna
tell him that this is rude. So we're gonna focus
on the Texan Seahawks game a little bit, but I'm
gonna have to gingerly bring in the what's the tenor
of the city today? Because the Seattle Mariners were up
to nothing winning two games in Toronto. The series is
back in Toronto. The Blue Jays won yesterday and now
they're facing Game seven. So we'll talk to Softia at
eleven o'clock. Also to Tell the Truth's coming up today
at eleven thirty. You're gonna have a chance to win
some fabulous prizes. Since Ross is off for a couple
of days, We're gonna give you a chance to play
to Tell the Truth where I'm going to tell you
a bunch of statements and the key today is are
you ready for this? You are going to have to
understand which one I'm telling a lie in which through
three are the truths. I'll be telling three truths and
one lie today here on Sports Talk seven, and if
you get it right, you have a chance to win
either tickets to see Alice Cooper and Judas Priest or
the preview college basketball exhibition between the Cougars and Mississippi
State and A and M against Arizona's. We got some
nice prizes for that. Also, speaking the Cougars, we're going
bowling baby. And if you don't appreciate good time management,
you better you better start because Willie Fritz put on
a clinic in terms of milking the clock in the
fourth quarter of that game against Arizona. Cougar's win their
six game and celebration should be abound throughout the Houston area.
Plus Aggie's with a nice win against Arkansas, and what
in the hell are the Longhorned doing playing a three
point overtime game with Kentucky plus a coaching change in
the SEC school A lot to get to today seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven to
one three two one two five seven ninety It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross a couple of
days off. I'm here with you till one o'clock. Cole
Thompson's gonna jump in for the final hour of the
show today because I'm headed off to Oklahoma City for
the Rockets against the Thunder to open up the season tomorrow.
And Kevin Durant has himself a brand new contract extension
which puts him in a Rocket uniform for at least
the next three seasons seven one three, two, one two
five seven ninety seven to one three, two, one, two
five Sevenati with Matt Thomas Show with Ross Sports Talk
seven ninety We are with you today until two. I
will be with you till one. Call our buddy Cole
Thompson's going to hang out for the final hour of
the show. Uh. Kevin Durant gets his extension yesterday, which
is I think, from what people tell me, below market value,
which is good, which means, you know, first of all,
he's making a lot of money, so it's good for him.
Second of all, he wants to save some money for teammates,
which is awesome. He is now when this new deal
is done or finished off, in terms of money, he
will have been the highest paid player in NBA history.
There is no one will have made more money in
the NBA than Kevin Durant. And he's like, I want
to go to on forty one, forty two years old. Good.
I hope this is a Rocket. I hope it's relative.
I hope he's healthy and ready to go. But it's
exciting to see that Kevin Durant in the world where
everybody's going to grab every bit of dollar they can said,
you know what, I'll help the Rockets if I got
money for other players, let's get it to them, And
that very well could be impactful where Tyresan could be
getting a deal there today. So yes, everybody, you've got
a situation where Kevin Durant will be a Rocket for
the next three seasons. It's hard for me to really
get into a deep dive on how much money a
player is worth. It's all about what you can get
and what you're you know, what you're willing to spend
and get. But I can't imagine anybody's going, oh no,
the Rockets, it's terrible. No, it's a good thing. It's
a good thing that Kevin Durant has committed to the
city Houston and it will hopefully be the place where
he never has to put on another uniform again. So yeah,
good news for the Rockets getting the extension done before
at the start of the season, Rockets against Oklahoma City
tomorrow night. That'll be a six thirty star time right
here on Sports Talk seven in Alabama. I'll be on
the call from that from okase, We've got lots to
get to, including coming up at the bottom of the hour. Uh,
we have some really mean Seattle fans out there that
weren't very nice to me over the weekend, So we're
gonna not gonna read you some of those tweets I
got from Mariner fan just to point that out. Let's
go to Ray in Miami at ten twenty three. We're
always going to South Beach for our first call to
day Ray. Good morning to you, nice and hot here,
good morning.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to talk about one issue.
Speaker 4: Show.
Speaker 6: Hey, o Tani is the perfect example of how you
play baseball as a child and as an adult. He's
a good character guy, and the performance he put on,
he's the MVP of the whole weekend. To strike out
three in the top of the first, then the bottom
of the first, hit the bomb, strike out seven more,
then hit two more bombs and the second bomb out
of the stadium. That guy's an amazing baseball player. And
I know that you know the Astros like to go Spanish,
but they wouldn't. Got y'all mean in Houston. Why can't
the Astros start looking like the Dodgers and go to Japan?
Those guys can see the ball amazingly. It's amazing how
this guy hit three home runs as the starting pitcher
of that game and struck out ten people. That's simply amazing.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt I totally agree with you on the
amazing part of it. I mean, that's you talk about
a single greatest, maybe individual game for any human being
alive in baseball. Yes, but two things with the same arm.
Speaker 6: It's not like he was switching arms to arms.
Speaker 2: But Ray Ming the Rockets Rockets won the draft. Yao
Ming didn't choose the Rockets. The Rockets chose Yao Ming.
I mean because even number one picking the draft, So
that was just luck of the draw. And as far
as why Japanese and Chinese players tend to go uh
to other cities, it's because the West Coast has an
inherent advantage for some reason, because they feel like it's
a larger segment of their culture in their population is
in those cities, which is the truth. Those cities also
tend to have a lot of extra money to spend,
like the Dodgers are spending thrifty or are very loose
with their cash, and the Giants have certainly spent money
in the past. But again, the Asian players the have
this have just naturally gravitated more towards like Seattle in
ezuro To Seattle's in the in the West coast than
they have for Middle America in the south.
Speaker 6: Oh, this one more thing, Matt, and I'll hang up. Sure,
I know it's Monday, but I know it's Monday, mad
but ta shut your bumb ass up. You called out
the team after you threw three picks until you threw
three more picks. You do in eight quarters where they
had to pull you, they have to take you out
for the rookie from Texas tour. So seven quarters, six picks,
shut your bumb ass up to it and get out
of here, all right?
Speaker 2: Well, look at that. We got our first Miami Dolphins
call the show today. So so far on the Ledger,
I have one Dolphins call and zero Texans calls. Are
we your unofficial home of Miami Dolphins football? Man? I
don't think we are, but I guess we could be,
all right. So Texans fans, you're down one nothing when
it comes to calling in about what's going on with
the with your favorite football team. Time to even it up.
Seven one, three, two, one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. If you
want to talk about durance extension, you want to tell
me how tonight's Texans Seahawks game is going to go,
I'll be willing to listen to that. If anything from
college football this weekend tickles your fancy, come on in
and do that. As we got the Cougars winning A
and M winning and Texas winning, that's all a good sign. Uh,
the NFL was crazy yesterday, and uh, what is going
through your mind today as you watch our friends from
the Pacific Northwest Seattle potentially waking out and losing the
American League Championship Series after being up to nothing in
the series. We'll get to more of that as the
afternoon progresses. Seven to one three two one two, five
seven ninety So far Dolphins calls one Dolphin, Texans call
zero seven one three two one two five seven NINTI
with Hideous The Event Thomas Show with Ross Ross Couple
lays off back with his on Wins Day. I will
be with you from Oklahoma City tomorrow for Rockets and
the Sunder Our buddy Softy from KJR is going to
join us in about a half an hour from now.
Speaker 7: And so.
Speaker 2: I was waking up on Saturday morning and just kind
of pruising the for you tab. And John Schneider, the
manager of the ball of the Toronto Blue Jays, was
not happy with the way that the Seattle fan was
booing George Springer after he got hit in the kneecap
and didn't appreciate the way that his player was treated
after an injury. So I'm watching this video of the
manager speaking to this, and so I go on Twitter
on Saturday morning. Matter of fact, I did it at
seven fifteen. What was it doing episode early on? No,
I have the Cougar's played at eleven. I had to
get up early anyway. And I said on Twitter, very
very assumingly, not trying to troll, just pointing opinion, because
you know Twitter can gave you opinions on things. I said,
try to appreciating what long time ends fan has gone
through all these years. But yikes, it wasn't a classy
look at all. Now, I didn't see it firsthand because
I was watching my daughter play volleyball, so I had
to go back and look. But there was a fair
amount of people, you know, booing that George Springer was
hurt and was suffering and delaying the game, and it
wasn't a classy look at all, fry Seattle. So I
got a fair number of likes. I got one hundred
and seventy one. I got seven bookmarks. I don't know
who did that, but shout out to you that I
got forty comments and three retweets. Well, as you guys know,
when you put the word Mariners into your tweet line,
it does tend to fire some people up. Just like
if other cities were to put the word astros into
your for you you looked at, you'd be quite upset
as well. To say, Seattle fan is or some of
them are not very happy with me. And I'll give
you a few of examples. At otter, Adrian says, try again.
I mean, that's okay, that's fine. We can agree to disagree.
Let's see Ray says, sounds like he heard what he
wanted to hear, not reality. If it was true, there
would be a video proof. Thousands of Blue Jay fans
in the audience would have posted it. Okay, trying to
defend the side it is what it is. Next here's one.
This is from rooftop Sports with a Seattle Sonics logo
in his avatar. I really hope I can convince you
to still see how much we are starving for a
world series, because I can tell you that I was
embarrassed when they were doing that. The other reason why
I was against doing what the Mariners fans did is
because it may open Pandora's box for the Blue Jays
be motivated to beat up the Mariners in Game six,
which they did last night, and possibly Game seven. I
hope you see me as a fan that does deserve
to see the Mariners winning a World series. Rooftop Sports,
I respect the hell out of you. You're gonna get
alike from that nice job. Next, let's see Jonathan Dial says,
don't fall for this. I was there. This didn't happen,
all right, Chris said, This is Chris Dijagesto says, spare
me the patronizing astro fan. Would you consider me, Houston
to be a patronizing astro fan if you do seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety where a
Houston listener responded back to Chris and said, you look
like you've been kicked out of a strip club for
being too handsy. Jonathan, That's one of the funniest boots
I've ever seen in my entire lif life. Husband of
Triple A, which I'm assuming triplets, shout out to you,
my friend. That tweet was awesome. Something called Devin Schofield. Bruh.
There were also ten thousand J's fans there, and you
can't blame an entire fan base for what could have
been ten percent of the people there doing something you
don't like. Just like any fan base, we have bad apples,
but most of us don't want to see people hurt,
even the ones we hate. You know what, Devin, I'm
gonna give that a like, because you know what, that
seems reasonable, So I'm gonna give him a like. Let's
see here, I'm gonna run three here. Here is at
CMB one six eight nine. You want us to feel
bad for a cheater? Astro fans are such hypocrites, Give
a break. Here's one from at GG string two. Change
your tampon, U f ing CP. I can't say the
other words. Instruct your goon squad to beat us back
and see what happens. You all need to stfu and
stop whining at Webee Bryce Yike's what dude does a
bruise knee? He's not fighting for his life in the hospital.
My god. Next at Miss Realist two eight four eight
seven eight. That's quite an average, that's quite an address there.
Nobody cares what some clown who shows for a cheating
organization thinks. Of all people, we don't need or want
your appreciation. Hope this helps. Oh, they came shay for
you that time. Okay, well, people, it's easy to come out.
It's easy to come right at the king.
Speaker 3: Right, this is crazy. I'm like, this is so bad.
Speaker 2: So let's take it. Let's take a look at the
old retweets. Let's see if there's anything on this an
he quotes, no, no, just three rope reposts. Okay, so
that was just a sample. So I just want to
tell all you Seattle fans who may be listening to
us on the iHeartRadio app Jonathan, I have feelings I'm
hurt by this that I was just going off of
what the manager of the Blue Jays said. Aha, he
was unhappy that thousands of people were booing George Springer.
Maybe not thousands, whatever the number, Maybe it doesn't really matter.
If it's I mean it was ten or fifteen you
you wouldn't hear it. But it was obviously enough people
to make it in a note.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, for the Coats to come on and say that, right, the.
Speaker 2: Manager to say something, it must have been something. So
Seattle fan, please be nice to me, just like my
friends at kook fans are nice to me. Be nice.
Let's not. Let's let's start loving each other more, right, Jonathan,
Let's end this hurt in the world that we have
on the social media streets.
Speaker 3: Do a love empty segment, the love empty segment.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what this was. So as I saw these
tweets coming in, I was thinking to myself, Man, he
would be awful, wouldn't it be, Jonathan? If the lost
Game six last night and they did Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I think karma's not getting them. Oh that's
that's really best.
Speaker 2: Just saying karma works in strange ways, ladies and gentlemen.
It just does. So that's why when we have Softy
on the show and coming up in twenty minutes from now,
I'm gonna have to walk the tightrope on this, because
he did. He could have said, look, man, I'm too
emotional for this. I don't want to. I don't want
to go on a show in Houston. But he's our friend.
We have the Seahawks Texans game tonight. We can get into.
We have that that you want against. That's the most
important thing down here. Look, our life is not going
to change one way the other whether the Seattle Mariners
win or the Blue Jays win tonight. We're just innocent.
We're just we're just observers. And it kind of sucks. Honestly,
I feel in my bones it'sn't been as much fun
doing the show this month as compared to like the
last seven or eight or nine October's. I get that.
So I'm gonna be respectful. Unlike some people in Seattle.
We're not respectful of me. It's time to It's time
to end the Twitter hate ladies and gentlemen. It's and
by the way, I don't use tampons, but thank you
very much whatever that well, I mean, I you never know,
you never know these things. But man, that dude went
to Twitter and told me to change my tampon. He
called me every possible heat or you could possibly put
in one hundred and forty characters.
Speaker 3: He was, Man, I'm reading it right now, like, huh,
just miserable, just miserable.
Speaker 2: I wonder if if we could figure out who that
person was, if we were to, like, if we could
geo spot where he lives, fly up to Seattle or
wherever he lives, knock on his door and say, hey,
I'm mad. Remember that tweet you sent me a few
days ago. Do you think he would back down and say, yeah,
I said what I said? Or do you think he
would shrivel up and get in the fetal position.
Speaker 3: It's probably some nerve behind his computer just going out
to anybody with the mere understanding.
Speaker 2: The poor warrior bit is strong as as strong in
twenty twenty five as it's been ever been before. It's interesting.
But yeah, again I didn't. I didn't say Seattle fan,
y'all trash. I mean, look, Jonathan, if we want to
ask talk other fan bases, we can do it pretty easy, right,
everybody can. Everybody can ask talk everybody else's fan base
for something.
Speaker 3: But I feel like you said it was pretty you know,
respectable and just you know, kind of disappointed.
Speaker 2: That's all it was. It was. I was like, yeah,
so I will lightly say at ten forty two on
this glorious Monday, Go Blue Jays. But man, I have
a This is why I'm torn because I've known Softy
for a long time, and I've been Softy, I've I've been.
There are generations of Seattle Mariner fan that doesn't know
what it's like to get to the Fall classet. They
have never been to the World Series, never ever, ever.
So if there's any fan base in America that could
probably at least empathize with them, it might be a
city that has had its share of despair. It'd be
like if Softie was calling me, if I called, if
I went on his show before the National Championship game,
and he's like, yeah, you of aged got a great
chance of beating Florida the night in San Antonio. Yeah,
I feel pretty good about it. And at the very
end he goes, hey, man, thanks for coming on the
show and and with all due respect, go Gators. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't like that, So I'm not gonna say go anything.
I promise you I will handle it with the classic
dignity that my Seattle brethren on Twitter did not do.
And what I try to do is I try to
have him follow me on sports MPT and I got
no I got no followers from Seattle for some reason.
I don't know why. You think you don't know why.
Really I know why. I'm just trying to be affable. Now,
let me ask you this, John, let me ask you
this question. If the Mariners lose tonight, every I have
receipts on every one of those people that send those
tweets to me, right, especially the ugly ones. Do I
send a sorry for your lost tweet? All day? All
day everything I thought?
Speaker 3: I feel like you missed opportunit. If you don't, you
gotta do it, you gotta do it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna put a pole question
and see how we do this. But we're not gonna
wait till we're wait till tonight because if they wind
up winning in the law, I look bad. So yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Save that for a little bit.
Ten forty four The Matt Thomas showd Ross seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine. I was talking about
University of Houston. We're going bowling Gang Texas from Seahawks tonight.
How are y'all handling this nine o'clock bit like y'all
gonna nap? What's up? What's the game plan? Then? What
you're gonna do, because if you're gonna watch this all
the way through, it's not gonna start right at nine o'clock,
I would assume. And if that first game goes runs late,
do they push that game back? I don't know. In
college they do that all the time, but in the NFL,
I don't know what they do. So we're looking at
about a midnight twelve fifteen, twelve thirty maybe ending. I'll
put that on Twitter. See what y'all are saying, How
y'all gonna handle this nine pm? Kick seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety soubs? Is what other's at
ten fifty one on seven ninety soups? What's a good
word today?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 8: So I just kind of let you know the Twitter
crowds you're dealing with it. So remember I told you
I was stationed out there from two to two thousand
and nine, And you know, I'm not trying to tie
politics into this, but when I got back from Afghanistan,
I went to launch with a couple of guys from
my unit. And this is in Tacoma, outside of Seattle.
And I kid you, not guys yelling, spitting at me,
talking crap and Sultan Bush, you know, because he was
present at the time, and I took three guys to
hold me back because I want to show your guys
nose in the concrete. But my starting is like, no,
we're gonna talk when we're going to be civilized, because
that's his right, right. And so anyway, long story short
for that part, we talked to him. We hashed it out,
and he apologized and whatnot. But what can I say,
A lot of these Seattle fans are like when they
were losing, you couldn't fit. When it was called Safeco,
you didn't fit like three thousand people on Earth. Fact,
I remember the Astros came there. I think it's like
six oh seven with the Red Jerseys are probably later
after that, and like there's more Astros fans than Mariner fans.
And so now that they have something to root for,
because you know, the Stomics are gone to somicsern Okay, see,
I'm sure they're bitter about them winning again, and the
Seahawks haven't really been relevant for a while that now
that you know they sell the ash Shros, and years
and years looking from the ground looking for them, A
bought them up, and now that they're kind of in
this position of okay, well we're the big dogs in
the division report this year. Only you know, any anything
that comes up Astros related, you know they're gonna there's
just natural hate. And you know it's not all of them,
because I'm in contact with a lot with probably like
maybe fifteen or sixteen that I've known from out there.
You know, the fifteen sixteen there's just one idiot that
no matter what, you can't tell them that, you can't
convince them that Toothy wasn't wearing a buzzer. So I'm
not gonna apologize for them, just letting you know, like
the mindset that you know, the one to fifteen or
twists and then they get on Twitter. I guarantee you
there's about thirty or forty that's listening to your show
right now. And I wouldn't be surprise of children calls
into there tomorrow for whatever the I think the area
coach like for I can't remember area code, but anyways,
and then about the texting game tonight, I'm gonna see
I can't watch because I'm not gonna lie to the stadium.
The way they have a set up for both stadiums,
you get to see Mountain Neer beautiful site outside of that.
And the fans are idiots. I'm just gonna go ahead
and say it. They get into the we're high and mighty,
but they get humble when when they're at the bottom,
you know, when they're looking up whatnot, and that's when
they're easy to talk to. And now that the mayors
are to see Alexander marriage kind of like only up
the up, you're gonna have these entitled fans on Twitter
thinking that you know, we're supposed to kids are your
fleet and whatnot, and we're we're adopted that especially you
know down here in this region that that that's not
gonna happen. Like do we appreciate good winning teams, Yeah,
but when the fan base is a bunch of privileged jerks,
we're not going to tolerate that. So astro Twitter marriage
twenty for a couple of years gon' be fun. But anyways,
in regards to Texans, I think it's gonna be close
on it. I'm scared of is this has been McDonald's defense.
Remember he was a coordinator with the Ravens Strouts first year.
Of course Esken excuse me, of course that other networks
had brought that up there, oh c j oh and two,
I'm like, okay, Well, the first was his Rickie game
and the other like nobody wins in Baltimore in the playoffs.
So I'm hoping that the I'm hoping that Mark's has
a decent game tonight, like seventy yards and Chubs getting
one TV like fifty yards, and then we just don't
need turnovers and we got to find a way to
slow some Donald downs. Donald has been on a tear
and even when he was at Minnesota last year, he
got a good of us. And so I'm expecting another
low score kind of like that Rams game. Yeah, probably
about a nineteen sixteen, and I'm hoping it's us. But
I got to be an honest man on National TV
NFC and Seattle's like twenty one and old in the
last like I think like ten years of National TV
games at home, so we got to fight that too.
All right, man, good luck what you call it with
Softie and tell him that you know Houston, Well, well
we'll watch him, but we're not gonna say anything.
Speaker 2: Right, We're gonna stay very quiet. Thanks to some funk.
I appreciate it, and you know, this always is worth.
He's saying, we shouldn't let a handful of fans in
any market to dictate how we feel about them in general,
but we just do. It's just honest. I mean, there
were forty something thousand people in uh T Mobile Park
in Seattle on whatever that was Friday night, and most
of them, mean, I would say probably what eighty percent
of them didn't say a word when George Bringer got hurt.
So we're gonna let the twenty percent be the ones
that we characterize. Yeah, we kind of do by default,
don't we. Because what happens is if you go to
your social platform and say, man, I can't believe what
that particular fan base did, well, that fan base is
gonna it's gonna find you on what you said, whether
they follow you or not, and they're gonna, you know,
and they're gonna they're gonna come after you. So basically,
what it is is that we respond to a small minority,
no matter what it is, whether it's longhorned fans, Cougar fans,
Aggie's Arkansas fans, Milwaukee Buck fans. Whatever we take with base,
and we take us very small sample size and we
basically explain that's who we think all their fans are.
It's not right, but that's what we do. People have
done it to us for years and years and years,
and we're doing it to other people. It's really no surprise.
It's it's not gonna change back. For instance, we talked
about how Laissez Fair Ranger fans are. They won the
World Series. They had a parade in at Arlington around
the Walmart. I mean, we have a parade. We have
a million people downtown Houston. They have a parade. It's
in between the Wendy's and the Golden Corral. I'm sure
people in Dallas wanted to celebrate and do all other things,
but it wasn't their decision. They put the thing in
Arlington around a bunch of pawn shops. So yeah, we
we we're guilty of it. All of us are guilty
of taking a very small group of whatever that fan
base is and embellishing it to make it sound like
the entire group. And then those people come after you
come after me asking me to change my tampon. That's
just not nice. Before the top of the hour, Willie
whether he sounds seven on? Hey hello, will he.
Speaker 9: Good morning. We were at the game Saturday and disappointed
in the attendance. It was pretty it looked pretty low.
But what an ending that was.
Speaker 10: I had to cover my.
Speaker 9: Eyes when Sanchez attempted that field goal and made it.
I do have one question. Is he back for another
year or is this his last year? Because I think
definitely he's going to go pro. He has quite a leg.
Speaker 2: Well that first still goalie had for short that willn't
he missed? So you're talking about Ethan Sanchez.
Speaker 10: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Let me look and see what he is with his classification.
Is he is a senior? This is last year he
played previously at Old Dominion.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I was looking at the CBS Sports rankings. Also, I
know that Arizona State is ranked in the top twenty five.
Now yeah, and I watched them on TV. They're not
going to be easy, but I see that the line
on the game, we have it by seven. The CBS
rankings have US twenty eight and have them twenty seven.
So God with a whim we might push ourselves up
in the top twenty five.
Speaker 10: What do you think, yep?
Speaker 2: I think absolutely. Will You're right. If the Cougars can
beat Arizona State and Sam Levitt in tempting next Saturday,
they will be a top twenty five team. Pretty far
cry from where this team was just a year ago
or two years ago. Willie Fritz should get some national
Coach of the Year recognition.
Speaker 5: Is The Matt.
Speaker 1: Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Eleven O three Sports Talk seven ninety Matt Thomas with
Ross Ross back in a couple of days. It's you
and me and we'll visit with Softy from kJ OUR
Radio in Seattle coming up in just a few minutes.
He is on a call right now and we'll be
joining us here in a matter of moments. We've got
a Game seven of the American League Championship Series tonight
and that will be at I think the game is
at seven o'clock. It's gonna be on the main Fox
channel tonight is there is nothing else going on on
that network, so yeah, it's a seven to ten first
pitch on Fox. Texans will play the Seahawks at nine o'clock.
We got to tell the truth coming up at the
bottom of the hour, will be playing for some nice prizes.
I hope that you'll be playing for the hanging out
with us for that in about twenty minutes from now.
So the question I put up on Twitter about ten
minutes ago was how are you scheduling the rest of
your day if you are staying up for all of
Texan Seahawks. Our friend Gray says she's napping from five
o'clock until eight. Greg Towey, who's the producer of the
Colin Coward Show, great friend of the program, lives in
Los Angeles. This is why we live on the West Coast.
I love the West Coast. The just do time zone thing,
big deal. Darren says, uh, I will take you four
hour nap before the game. I will work from home,
so I'll be okay. So if you want to tell
me how you're handling your day seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven to one three two,
one two five seven ninet eight, I gotta ask you
one question, and maybe there's somebody in the audience that
will do this. Are any of you just going to
watch for as long as you can hit the record
button on your DVR and then just go to bed
now the et No, I could see doing that if
you're disciplined enough not to check your phone the next day. See.
I think you have to be very methodical about this
because when I want to watch something result, you can't
go to your phone. You can't ask anybody about it.
You can't, I mean, and you also have to make
sure your TV is set properly because what you don't
want to do. This is how this is how I live.
This is how quirky my life is. If the game
is on ESPN tonight and you turn your TV on
the morning, if you don't stay up for it, you
do not want to hit power on it flips onto
ESPN and then they're talking about the game. Now. I
don't know where the Texan Seahawks game will be. By
the way, Jonathan soft decis, you can call him right now. Uh.
I don't know if it's topic A, but if it's
an incredible game, it'll be topic A. Right. But my
guess is topic A will be Buccaneers Lions. Maybe if
Mike McDaniel gets fired today in Miami, that will be
a topic Uh. Maybe there's something dramatic in the Seattle
Toronto game. Seven tonight. That'll be true dramatic as well.
I just don't know. I don't know how the planners schedule.
Plus you don't know when you're gonna wake up, So
how do you avoid turning on the TV to your eyes?
Then then you got to massage your way through this.
This is, this is These are the conundrums that a
bizarre man like myself has to live through. Now I'm
gonna be in Oklahoma City tonight calling Rockets thunder tomorrow,
so I will have to watch the game live and
I'll be up and we'll be well to talk about
it tomorrow. But this nine o'clock bit is crazy. So
if you are in that mode where you've got to
go to bed early tonight for some reason, gonna get
up work, how are you handling this? Because we don't
have these nine o'clock NFL games very often. Our next
guest is a great friend of the show. He is
one of the most influential sports personalities, not only in
Seattle but across the entire country. He's been on KJR
Radio the Sports Leader forever. He is a die hard
Washington fan, a die hard All Seattle fan, and softy
I'm gonna walk very very softly on this because we
in Houston had been through your situation. First of all,
what is your current mental.
Speaker 4: State tetrified about? Tonight? Seahawk game is not even a
fart on my radar, to be fully honest with you,
you know, I mean, this is game seven of the Alcs.
First time in their nearly fifty year history, the Mariners
have played a Game seven, and it happens to be
up against the Seahawk Texan game tonight. You mentioned nine
pm Central, seven o'clock Pacific, And on top of that,
we have a cracking broadcast that is going to interrupt
our show that we will be off the air for
at four o'clock this afternoon, So we will be off
the air and not even discussing this thing, you know,
within the first hours or the final hours of the game.
So it's an unusual situation to be in matt and
Seattle because a lot of us have kind of wondered
what whatever happen if the Mariners had a game like
this up against the Seahawk game, and we're kind of
finding out, and I think it's appropriate, it's appropriate for
people to be gravitating towards the Mariners tonight. You know,
this is again something that's never been done in Mariner history.
You know, you think about, you know, when this current
regime in Houston made that first run to the World
Series and how much it captivated your town. You know,
I'm serious where Texan fans were at with that. You know,
how many people were even paying attention to what was
happening with Texan football with the Astros made that first run,
you know, a decade ago, you know, whatever it was now.
So that's the situation that we are in today, and honestly,
ticket prices are kind of reflecting it. Like you look
up at like a ticket resaler and we like to
use you know a place, it's Benue Kings dot com.
Speaker 5: Chritslick for them.
Speaker 4: By the way, thank you seventy bucks, Matt, seventy bucks
to get in the door for Tonight's Seahawks game. I mean,
those are those are preseason prices for tonight's Monday night game.
If this game is close in the bottom of the seven,
bottom of the eighth, and the Seahawks are kicking off
at five, there's going to be a lot of people
that will either be on the concourse watching the baseball game,
or will stay at whatever sports bar they're at, you know,
before kickoff and not going to the stadium. And we
had that issue, you know, nine days ago when the
Mariners were in Game five against the Tigers, that we
were at Husky Stadium doing a freaking Rutgers broadcast. We
literally go on the air for a postgame show and
seconds later, Jore Polanco delivers the game winning RBI single
and the Mariners win. This is about forty five minutes
technically after the Washington Rutgers game had ended, but a
thousand people stayed in the stadium to watch the baseball
game didn't want to get in the car, and the Huskies,
you know, their their security staff and their ushers had
no choice but to stay at the stadium and work
overtime so people can stay there and watch the baseball game.
So this thing has really captivated the entire town. But
after the way they played last night and the way
they just didn't even show up, the lapses offensively, the
lapses defensively, the lapses on the bay has I think
a lot of people are just petrified that this is
the last thing anybody wanted anything to do with, which
is a game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every time I would watch the game and I
had some family things because I was watching football day long.
The number of double plays last night had to be
just crushing for you.
Speaker 4: Brutal three in a row, actually, and two of them
swinging at the first pitch. Kyle Rowley basses juice one out,
first pitch splitter from you, savage. Ground ball double play,
Julio Rodriguez, same thing, ground ball double play. JP Crawford
at minimum saw at least he saw three pitches and
then he grounds into a double play and the eating's over.
I mean, it's like those opportunities where you've got a
rookie on the ropes. You've got to be able to
get some runs on the board right then and there,
and then they just the defensive lapses, you know, third inning,
second inning, now, whatever it is last night, it's all
running together. Now, Julio Rodriguez can corral a base hint
in center field, goes off as glove and leads to
a Doublehano. That's a hard time. You're picking up a
ball and can't make a play at third base. Cal
Rawley with an error going down the line and Black
Guerrero scores from third base and the player that should
have stopped right there. Matta was the first freaking time
all year long that they had three errors in one game,
and it happened last night in game six of the ALCS,
So it was absolutely maddening.
Speaker 2: All Right, I want you to clear something up with
me because it has obviously been a big bonu contention
with people in your great part of the world. Will
you in the stands when George Perry got hit?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I was sitting fifteen roads right behind home play?
Speaker 2: All right? Would you describe the fan base as booing
or was it something else?
Speaker 4: Okay, So let me just explain something to you guys,
and I am I cannot believe that this is not
being talked about. What do people talk about when they
talk about how well Blue Jay fans travel, especially to Seattle?
Speaker 2: Why Seattle all places that's far?
Speaker 4: Because because Vancouver is two hours away from Seattle, Okay,
And there's a boatload of Blue Jay fans that live
in Vancouver, Canada, so they come down for the game
because Toronto is the only team Canada has, as you know,
and a lot of them are in Vancouver and they
gravitate the Seattle. There must they're probably were in that
game that you're talking about, Matt, maybe seventy five hundred
Blue Jay fans in the stands, and I'm telling you
they're not. This isn't just Mariner fans booing George Springer.
This is Blue Jay fans hammering Brian Wu for hitting
George Springer. So when John Schneider goes to the podium
after the game, the Blue Jay manager and starts ripping
on Mariner fans for booing George Springer, I'm like, how
the hell do you know that you got? You got
five thousand blue Jay fans liter minimum right there in
front of your face between first and third that are
hammering Brian Wu for hitting George Springer. He goes down
to first base, he can't even walk, He's put all
over the place. So if you tell me that there
were Mariner fans that were booing George Springer, I could
buy that. If you're also telling me that there were
Blue Jay fans that were booing Brian Wu, I could
freaking buy that too. But you know what, the George
Springer thing obviously goes back to the Astro days. You
know that, you know that nonsense that happened between Seattle
thank Houston. So a lot of that wasn't even George
Springer getting booed because he got hurt. It was George
Springer getting booed because he was an astro. Because George
Springer has been booed every at back to this series,
even before he got hurt.
Speaker 2: All Right, I got you for two more minutes here,
let me get some football in Jaguars. Huge win for
the Seahawks going across country winning last Sunday. I watched
that game before that, a knockdown, dragout offensive, firepower game
between the Hawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. First of all,
a thought or two about Sam Darnold wearing the gear.
I don't think you missed Gino Smith frankly after what
he did yesterday. Generally speaking, how confident are you about
tonight's Seattle performance against the Texans.
Speaker 4: I mean, here's the problem with Mike McDonald. Matt Pete
Carroll is known for winning games in prime time, especially
at home. Mike McDonald's four and eight at lumen Field,
and he's ten and one on the road since he
took over as the Seahawks head coach. So Mike McDonald
really has to kind of figure it out at home
because it's been kind of a disaster in these home
games for him. So that's number one, and then number two.
I mean, look, I think the Seahawks are a way
better football team with Sam Darnold than they would have
been with Geno Smith. I mean, like you said, the
numbers obviously bear that out, you know, and you give
John Schneider, who happens to be the name of the
Seahawks GM and not just the Blue Jays manager. You
give John Schnider credit because this is the second consecutive
time where he has jumped off the quarterback wagon at
the exact right time, gets rid of Russell Wilson at
the exact right time, signs that massive deal with Denver,
and then he falls apart. Now he jumps off the
Geno wagon, he signs a big deal with the Raiders,
and he's falling apart, right. So they've really played this perfectly.
I think the last couple of go rounds with this
quarterback situation, Sam Darnold, I'm telling you, man, if not
for Baker Mayfield would probably be in the MVP conversation.
He's not gonna win it. But as he topped five.
Is he tops seven? I think he is. His numbers
are marvelous. He's ridiculous right now. He's not making mistakes,
and you can argue that they're actually a fumble away
from being maybe five and one after that Niner loss
at home about a month ago. So look, man, they're
in a good spot. They got some guys coming back
tonight off the injury update. Tarik wool In their corner
should play. Devin Witherspoon should play as well. Their best
backup offensive lineman Josh Jones, and their safety Julian Love
should also play in this game tonight. But I think
this is a football game. The Steahawks hit their health,
he should win.
Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jake might have a chance be the
second greatest wide receiver ever in Seahawk history. Yes or no,
Yes he does.
Speaker 4: He does. He's got a chance to be maybe the
greatest single season Seahawk wide receiver year ever in history.
I mean there's nobody else getting the ball, right, I mean,
nobody else is getting the ball besides Jackson Smith and Jigma.
You know, Cooper Cupp is an old man, not as
old as us, but he's an old man and he's
doing what he can, but there's really no other option.
And even if they do have Cooper Cup, it's the
rookie Tory Horton from Nevada who's their third option. So
Jackson Smith and Jigma is averaging about seventeen yards of
catch right now, and he has really been the absolute
security blanket for Sam Darnold. And it's amazing to see
because every single week teams try and take him away
and they can't do it. For whatever reason, they can't
do it. And we're not just talking about, you know,
a slot receiver. We're talking about a guy who lines
up on the outside as an next receiver. It'll go downtown,
he'll be to the post. They'll run drag rounds, they'll drun,
he'll run slants. He's all over the field, this guy.
So it's amazing to me how little they have behind
him at wide receiver. This guy is able to put
up the numbers he's putting up.
Speaker 2: All right, how are you taking the edge off between
now and the first pitch? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: A bottle of Pendleton whiskey has already half way gone
and that started at five am this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels fair. We'll talk down the road.
Speaker 4: You're telling me, what do you do? Never been in
this position?
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me tell you what's going to happen. Okay,
and you don't want to hear this. The Seahawks are
going to beat the Texans. I don't even know who
the crack in our planks, I can't get to that.
I think Toronto's winning tonight. I think. I think when
you could not finish it off in Seattle, that was
the fate of complete But I could be wrong. You
want two games there before.
Speaker 4: Actually, I actually would feel worse if you told me
the Mariners are going to win the game that I
so thank you for that.
Speaker 2: And they can do for your friend, talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Go one and only Softy k j R. Seattle, our hero,
our friend, you Drick. If the Astros are playing a
game seven on the row American League Championship, are you
have are you a half bottle into whiskey? Just throwing
it out there? Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. We're gonna play to tell the truth for
some fantastic prizes coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't like the Texans come out. I just don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, even if.
Speaker 2: The building is like eighty percent interested in the Seahawk building,
it's still allowed place to go. Not the Texans have
not won road games of four. But Donald's playing well,
the defense is playing well. As Sophtie brought up a
minute ago, they're they're getting guys back. Jackson Smith and
Jigba has been I mean one of the best receivers
in the game. As he said, if not for a
couple other quarterbacks, you know, like Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold
would be going for MVP. I mean, yeesh. By the way,
we got to tell the Truth. Coming up at the
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chance to win tickets to see Alas Cooper and Judas
Priest or some college basketball doubleheader tickets with the Cougars
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giving those away today. On to Tell the Truth at
eleven thirty, I will give you four sports takes, and uh,
there will be three truths in one lie. You got
to figure out which of the four I'm lying about.
So three truths, one lie. On today's edition, up to
tell the truth. And we'll do that at the bottom
of the hour. Umm. So, Kenny, who doesn't follow me
on Twitter, and I've asked him ten times because I
always read his tweets, Come on, Kenny, let's step your
game up. The guy you just interviewed, that's our buddy.
Softy almost makes me want to root for the Mariners,
I said, almost, go Texans. Go George Springer's Jonathan. Yeah.
I thought Softy was thoughtful? Was he not? You know what?
Speaker 3: I thought this was gonna be a lot more talking
mess like it was last time. But he was rarely like,
you know, very respectful and was just telling us what
was going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he made me and he made me think
that there were some people that were anti uh you know,
there were some that were barking at George Bringer and
some that were not the problem is is that there
have been so many people that have booed George Springer,
no matter what uniform he's been in, that it's hard
to give any fan a benefit of the doubt on that, right.
But yes, I mean, here's the thing. From just dumbing
it down to a human aspect of this, we've been
in soft these shoes before, right, we know what it's
like to be on the edge of our seat for
a game seven of something.
Speaker 3: I don't blame on being down to half a bottle.
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, but it's only nine to twenty five.
I don't at all. I don't know if I could
get up and knock back some whiskey or bourbon or
something that early in the morning. I mean, you gotta
just kind of work your way. I mean, I've never
had I'll be honest with you, I've never had a
shower beer in my life.
Speaker 3: Really, you know, Damn put me on. I tried it.
It's actually very refreshing.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying see, you know what, I think, I'm
i gotta break that streak this this year because everybody
else seems to say with refreshing. I've never also had
morning beer either. I've done mo beer, like getting up
in the morning, turning on you know, Sports Center or
Today Show and going you know what, I'd go for
a cold you know whatever generic beer are we are
we I would think if you're a morning beer guy,
that means you probably have a problem. Right, shower beer
I kind of get because you're gonna go out with
your buddies. Maybe you're in a hotel, maybe you're in
Vegas something. I get the shower beer thing, but getting
up and going, hey, I gotta get to work in
the morning. I ain't gonna work out. I'm gonna have
me to cole one before I don't. That comes across
to me. It's perhaps borderline alcoholism.
Speaker 3: You're telling me if you vanted Koog's football right now, Yes,
sir was undefeated. Yeah, Let's say they're a rank seven
and they have what maybe let's say two more games
they need to win, and they're going against Georgia. Let's
say let's put out there all right, you're not gonna
be out your mind like Softy West.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd be out of my mind. I've been out
of my mind before. Do you understand my Cougar fandom?
I flew from San Francisco to San Antonio on a
red eye and did a four hour show that day
just to make sure I was there in person to
see the game. Do you understand these things?
Speaker 3: And y'all y'all weren't here to hear how sick he
was doing this.
Speaker 2: HT Then I go back to La get COVID and
missed two games. That's my fandom, so I know what
south he's going through. But if you watched any of
that game yesterday between the Mariners and the Blue Jays,
that one, they didn't look competitive. It did not look competitive.
Speaker 3: If you asked me, right, I'm kind of being underwhelming
to me and this this postseason.
Speaker 2: Who has right?
Speaker 3: Uh? The dumper? I haven't you know he's got that
one home run of yeah to cut the lead, to
tell the four. But he's been very underwhelming to me
every time I see my beat.
Speaker 2: By the way, everybody's said to be tweets about our
our podcast are in our commercials on the iHeart app
doing a Dodger Blue Dream podcast. Yeah, I'm gonna have
to I'm gonna have to probably get that removed. Yikes,
what are we doing? Thank you for listening on iHeartRadio
at By the way, two different people sent me that's
too funny. Uh, let's see. Uh, Dann Matthews just textan
two places where morning beer is perfectly acceptable. The airport
because you might have some flat anxiety. Okay, yeah, yeah,
I could see that football game day, but I would
say it has to be your team or you're at
a tailgate. So if it's an Olympic game. Yeah, you
know what, that makes sense. Yeah, you can do a
nine am beer on that, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys start to tell Tucker Early got to
be in the building a little buzz.
Speaker 2: I know, I'll get that. I get that, Okay, So
there is there is a spot for it. Uh seven
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Speaker 7: I never know why I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna tell you the truth about one thing. Uh, we
have to run these these national sports promos on the
podcast on the iHeart app, so we have no control
over that. So, I mean, if you want a Dodgers podcast,
enjoy it. I guess we didnnounce over here. But what's
not it's out of our control. We have from I
don't know if you'll notice this, but we're run by
a big media conglomerate that doesn't let us do a
lot of things we want to do. So just throw
it out there, right, Jonathan. Anyways? Anyways, never a banner?
What are you currently? All right? We're we're playing for
either Alice Cooper and Judas Priest tickets or you can
see the tickets to see the college basketball exhibition between
US Mississippi State and A and M VERSUS Arizona. Uh,
gentlemen and lady, let me we have four guys on
the line. If you want to get in to play,
we've got two more spots at seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety. If you're new to the show,
this is called to tell the Truth. I have four
sports takes, Jonathan correct four four. Yeah, I tell the
truth on three of them. I'm lying about one thing.
You have to tell me which of the four I'm
lying about. Here we go take number one. There are
too many good jobs out there for Nick Saban to
stay on television. Florida just fired their coach. My guess
is Florida State's gonna be looking for a coach. Maybe Auburn, definitely, Ucla,
definitely Florida. While he's good on television, he's better as
a coach, Nick Saban, you need to get back into
coaching for one more run to prove that, without a doubt,
you're the greatest college football coach of them all. That
is my take number one. Number two Monday night NFL
doubleheaders and staggered games. Not tonight. It's not staggered, it's
a six and a nine. These things are dumb. I
want my Monday night football to be one game and
one game only. Okay, that's take number two, completely dumb.
Take number three congratulations to our friend, my new bestie,
Kevin Durant for becoming the all time NBA salary leader.
My take is he will not have it for very long.
Lebron James wants to leave a period a long string
of legacies, all time winning scorer, maybe top to an assist,
maybe most championships. He also, I think, wants to be
the all time money salar leader. He will not retire
until he has that throne. Lebron James won't retire until
Kevin Durant is long gone, so he could become the
all time a salary leader. That's my take on that. Okay,
all right? And number four, the Texans, I still think,
need to trade for a running back before the deadline.
I know what he marks is getting some more work.
I know Nick Chubb is a responsible guy that probably
had an opportunity to feel better about his performance against Baltimore,
but it was Baltimore's defense. Let's not get ourselves. The
Texans need to get a running back before the trade deadline?
Well they I don't know, but I think they do
need one. Which one of the four am I lying about?
Retruths one line? Really quick? John? Then here we go,
Nick Day, Nick Daban needs to get back into coaching. Okay,
Monday night doubleheaders and stagger games are dumb. Lebron's not
retiring until he becomes the all time NBA salary leader
in my mind, and the Texans, in my mind, need
to get another running back before the trade deadline. Which
one of the four am I lying?
Speaker 3: And you're lying about one of them?
Speaker 2: Lying about one of them? Which one do you think?
All right? I think I'm pretty good at the very
impressed with this.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just gonna have to trust my gut. I
know you like fast game days. You know you don't
like that stuff.
Speaker 11: You don't.
Speaker 3: I think you can think they're dumb for double it's
one game for Monday night football. But saying Nick Saban
needs to go back to coaching, I'm I'm that's my
I'm trusting that. That's that's your lie. There's no way
you think that he needs to go back to prove himself.
I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: Okay. So you think I'm lying about Nick Saban going
back into coaching, I'm going one. Yeah, all right, let's
we got six people on the line. We've got lots
of prizes. We'll see what we do here in figuring
out which one of the four am I lying about?
So make sure Jonathan you write down which one's the lie?
Who whateverybody says here? All right? Ruben online too, Ruben,
which one am I lying about?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Nick Saban only because he's gonna make
more money on TV.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think I've been making more money on TV.
They're not gonna pay him like nine million dollars a year.
So do you mean does that change your opinion or
do you still want to stay stick with that?
Speaker 5: Well, I'll go ahead and stick with it since I
already picked it.
Speaker 2: All right, very good, thanks Rubin for calling in. Let's
go to Ken Ken Which one of those four am
I lying about?
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with number one?
Speaker 12: Off though?
Speaker 2: All right? You don't think Nick Savan wants to come
back one more time? Okay? Now why did you hang up?
You get a chance to win? Hung up? Yeah, Felipe,
which one am I lying about? Of course?
Speaker 4: Is number one?
Speaker 8: Nick Saban doesn't have to come back to soiliify.
Speaker 5: His legacy, in my opinion, the greatest college football coach
of all time.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks very much for that. Let's go to Scott
in Jersey Village, Scott, Which one am I lying about?
Speaker 4: Are you lying about? K? D and Lebron?
Speaker 2: All right? Do you think you think I'm lying about that?
You think that Lebron's gonna retire before that? Okay? Thank
you very much for that. A couple more here, Colby, Colby,
which one am I lying about? Which one of those four?
Speaker 5: I think it has to be number one? I don't
think there's no way Nick Saban has anything. Let's let's
approve of coaching any war.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now this is the question, is you know even
though another to prove, just to add one more little
resume builder? There anybody else? Am I going to line three? Jonathan?
Is that what I'm going with there? Yes? And that's
the last one I think, Keith, which one of those
fom I'm lying about Nick Saban? Number one? All right?
Thank you very much. So of the six people, Jonathan,
we have five people to believe I'm lying about Nick Saban.
Speaker 3: Now everybody is what he believes. Wife, Oh no, here
we go. I haven't say thoughts. Now everybody's on the
same side.
Speaker 2: Including you too. I thought I forgot about usually and
you're terrible this all right? Number one. I do believe
the Texans seem to trade for a running back before
the trade deadline. I think I've been pretty adamant about that.
I think they've got to get some additional umph there. Okay.
Number two, I do believe that Lebron is gonna think
is thinking about pocket watching everybody. I do believe that
Lebron James will not retire until he becomes the all
time salary leader. Now will he do it? I don't know,
because if if Durant plays for four or five more
years beyond this contract he's playing to like forty two,
forty three, forty four, then he'll be out of it.
But I think Lebron is thinking about that all the time.
So do believe that. Okay, okay? Then it comes down
to the little final two. Nick Saban could go coach
tomorrow and win some serious football games. He's a program builder.
He still is very relatable to the kids. He's relatable
to the boosters. He could turn around a program overnight.
But why do you want to do that. You're seventy
something years old. You're making a great salary with ESPN.
The nil transfer pooral world is for youngins. Nick Saban,
I was lying, he does not need to get back
into coaching. He needs to stay right where he is
at ESPN. Good for you, Jonathan. That makes you feel
like I didn't do a good job of trying to
lie to you.
Speaker 3: No, you did a good I think you did a job.
I think you probably have made a number one though.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just trying to mix it up. Now, let
me tell you the reason why. First of all. I
don't like stagger doubleheaders, and I certainly don't like tonight.
Why would you put an NFL game on? I don't
care who's playing, but Jonathan, this Texans Seattle game, which
is an NFL game involving two teams, right, any two games,
you're not putting that game on. It will not start
before like ten to fifteen Eastern time in the Eastern
time zone. That's ridiculous. You are literally wasting an NFL
game that time by they're doing this, I know, I
want to they do that. That's good, that's so good.
I don't get it. That's because they get in a
certain number of games, so they like to do these
little stagger double headers. This is not a stagger. This
is a full a game that's played and finished then
you play the B game. Yes, stupid, it's one hundred
percent stupid, and I hope the NFL stops doing And
that is to tell the truth. So five winners, Congratulations,
you got either two. It's coming your way to see
Alice Cooper and Judas priest Or the college basketball exhibition doubleheader.
Good for y'all. Now, I don't worry. Beau Ross may
get it really good. So I don't know if Ross
is listening or he's napping or whatever the case. When
he's back on Wednesday, we may have to stink that
in there. On that all right? Uh? Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine. We got the news at
noon coming up, and a lot of other things to
get to between now and one o'clock. My buddy Cole
Thompson's gonna fill in for the final hour as I
make my way to Oklahoma City. Time is eleven forty four. Yeah,
I'm questioning myself whether I guess they're right to tell
the truth or not.
Speaker 3: Why are you getting black on Twitter or what?
Speaker 2: No, I'm just like we have usually I do. I
like to get like one or two winners. But man,
y'all figured me out quick.
Speaker 3: Uh. By the way, Keith, callback may I apologize your
last call.
Speaker 2: I got to submit him.
Speaker 3: Man, just keep call back and I'll get you.
Speaker 2: So what are people taking judas priest of basketball team?
Speaker 3: I got one, yeah, juste, But I got one person
that's at the exhibition.
Speaker 2: All right, very good? All right, by the way, shout
out to speak of an exhibition. Thanks to the Cougars
for securing a bowl game when on Arizona on Saturday.
That was cool. So we'll be bowling somewhere fun. Hopefully
it's a really good bowl game, but you never know
these things. Texas with a win over Kentucky in overtime,
I mean, Texas is back. I get, I don't. I
don't want to do that. I don't want to poke
the bear like that because I guarantee you Texas fans
not thrilled about beating Kentucky. And A and M winning
the game in Arkansas was impressive as well. So a
lot of good things on the college front also, and
we'll get to this at the News at noon. Kevin
Durantz got himself a brain new extension beyond this year.
Remember when he was traded from Phoenix here, this was
the last year of his deal, so he's got a
two year deal extension on that. You know, I always
think about how important contract talkie is for sports radio,
and I only think it's important honestly when your when
you grab a player like you get a free agent
from somewhere else. Now, we've spent a lot of time
talking about where Alex Pregnant is going to go we
spend a lot of time Tom talking about whether Kyle
Tucker was gonna stay. We've actually been teasing with Ross
about how many years Kyle Tucker is going to get
somewhere else. That kind of contract talk is interesting to me.
But when someone gets an extension that's already with you,
that you really weren't worried about whether he was going
or not, it doesn't necessarily move the needle as far
as I'm concerned. So I don't know if Rocket fans
are going shoo, thank goodness or like, oh, that's kind
of cool. Because as soon as I woke up Sunday
morning and found out that he was getting a new deal,
I thought to myself, oh this is cool. I like it.
But then my day moved along because I didn't. I
never thought that Kevin Durant was ever gonna be a
guy that was not going to finish or at least
have more than just one season as a Houston Rocket.
And I'm just telling you, being on the inside a
little bit, the vibe is really, really, really good. He
is very chill. Now he's not very chilling and on
the social media streets, but that's you know, everybody chooses
their own avenues. But he just plays ball. He practices,
he works hard, he leads by example. He's not a
guy that's a rebel rouser. He's not a guy that's
going to try to get in your face if you're
not playing the way that he thinks she'll play. He's
not going to make sure and let the whole world see.
And he's gonna probably probably probably privately tell you that.
And uh again, the little dealings I've had with him,
and hopefully well a few more over the course of
the year, it's been nothing but very professional. Now we've
not broken bread yet. I don't even know if I
have dinner together. I don't even know if he'll ever
know my name. I don't worry about these things. Just
score points and get the Rockets to a place that
haven't been in a long time, and that's going for
an NBA championship. You know, it is interesting that you
know in this job, I always starting my tenth season
calling Rockets Radio five full time. In five I'm doing
half PA and half radio. I've been very blessed to
have a lot of guys wearing the Houston gear that
you have this perception of them as one thing when
they're not in your gear, and then another perception of
them when you're in your gear, like James Harden. Look,
James was a spectacular player for the Rockets, but James
was aloof kept to himself, kept it with very small
core people, and what you saw out on the court
is what you saw behind the scenes. Nothing really surprising there.
Chris Paul, I mean, irritant for the Rockets for the
longest time. Couldn't have been a better guy with the team,
just worked on his craft, did all the things he
had to do to be the best team made possible.
And obviously things with him and James weren't as great
as I thought they were going to be, especially in
the second year of their relationship. But obviously they've mended
fences because the two of them are now teammates in
Los Angeles with the Clippers. Russell Westbrook that's another one.
I had very little dealings with him, But to me,
Russ was for the one season he was here, he
was confined just fine by me. I'll tell you one
that really struck me funny is I was a big
Dylan Brooks guy. And if Dylan Brooks is wearing the
team's uniform, and the team that you're playing or the
team you don't like, you hate him, you despise him.
You can't believe that guy gets away with all that mess.
But boy did he fit in perfectly here. He took
on the characteristics of his coach, the vibe, the leadership,
and all by the way he played. You know, some
guys are all noise and all they do is just
bark and yell and try to instigate fights and can't
do anything offensively or defensively to help your team. That's
not the case with Dylan Brooks. He was Remember think
about this, Dylan Brooks was the best three point shooter
on this team a year ago. Now that that may
not be great, and he was a very He was
about an average above averageree point shooter. You don't want
him to be your best, but he was by far
not the worst. And I respected the hell out of him.
I liked him again, didn't break bread with him, had
no idea what my name is was is, don't care.
But he was very professional. Everywhere we went, said hello
on occasion. And I like the guy, and I think
he'll be missed, and I think it's gonna be part
of the characteristic of this year's team is where does
that come from? Whether that's Amn Thompson taking it up
a notch. No, I'm not saying trying to instigate fights,
but just that kind of moxy that I think Imoka
carries hard. No's tough, not gonna put up with anything,
and the men's got a lot of that already in
his syst him. Now, what I don't want the Rockets
to do is I don't want this to have become
such a problem that they get a lot of cheap
technical fouls called against some flagrant fowls don't get the
benef of the doubt and and gather that kind of reputation.
And that's why the on the court play will be
the most important thing. But it has been a kind
of fun for me to travel these NBA streets and
to have some of the greatest players ever in uniform
were called, you know, me calling the games for the
positive side of things, because lord knows, Kevin Durant has
been a disaster for us many times against the Rockets.
It's kind of nice now that he's rooting for playing
for the Rockets and you can actually root for his success. Yeah,
Kevin Durant two year extension, and I believe after that
it's a player option for the year after that. So
this could be. It could be at Bear, it could be.
Right now as it stands, he's got one year left
the two years, and then the extension of the option
for that could be four years at minimum, and we'll
see where he is physically and where he wants to
be in terms of how much NBA basketball he wants
to play. But if Kevin Durant can get this team
over the hump and get him to the championship level
and where we were back in the mid nineties, those
of you that don't know the mid nineties were awesome
being a basketball town for as long as we were
in the mid nineties with a team and Clyde and
Sam and Robert Oriy and Bull and Carl Herrera, Otis Thorpe,
Brownham Maxwell. Such fun times and hope we get some
more of that. By the way, John Hollinger, this dude
from the Athletic says it's going to be three Texas
teams in the playing round. He is such a Rockets hater.
I mean, I get it bringing.
Speaker 3: Him up, because that actually makes me mad back here.
Speaker 2: That's I don't mean to do that to you, but
it just pissed me off. Like I got the the
article today for the Athletic Things where we should be
some of his bold predictions for the NBA season, and
he has all three teams playing in the playing round.
I mean, I cannot wait for the for that matter,
I can't wait for the Mavericks not to be in
the playoff run. So we could tell John Hollander to
shut his bull mass up, but that the Rockets in there.
I mean, I know Fred Van Vliet's a loss, but
my god, it wasn't like Kevin Durant unless he's predicting
Kevin Durant's gonna be hurt or many multiple players. And
you can say that for anybody. I got news for you.
Luca goes down for the Lakers. They're going and Lebron
doesn't play, but more than twenty five games they're going
to they're gonna be in the plane of the lottery. Nothing,
nothing really analytical about that. So I had hit the
trash on that really quick. I just I want to
know part of that. Love it fifty nine, We've got
the News at noon coming up. We have another hour
of the show and then my buddy cole Townson's gonna
fill in for the final hour as I make my
way to Oklahoma City to call that Rockets game with
Oklahoma City coming up tomorrow night. It'll be a six
thirty start time. It'll be the very first game as
part of the new NBC eleven year broadcast deal.
Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross twelve or six.
Speaker 2: It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross back with
us on Wednesday, you and me at seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven nine zero. I'm with you till one o'clock.
My buddy is going to step in cold Tops between
one o'clock until two. Will be heading up to Oklahoma
City later this afternoon to call tomorrow night's game between
the Rockets and the Thunder. Will have it here at
six thirty right now. It is time now for the
news and dude and quite a double header for the
people in the Pacific. Northwest. Texans will take on the
hated Seattle Seahawks. Is it really hated? I don't think
so right now. Seattle's a three and a half point
favorite if you're so interested. The over Unders forty one
and a half. It's a nine o'clock start time. Texans
at two and three, find themselves three and a half
or four games out of first place because the Colts
yesterday knocked off the Chargers, and then they've played two
more games than the Texans have because the Texans at
a bye weekend still didn't play until tonight. So it's
a scuge schedule. But the Colts are six and one
on the season. Texans are two and three as again.
Indianapolis beat the Chargers yes day. Seahawks last week won
at Jacksonville. They are four and two. The Seahawks again
right now, ari three and a half point favorite. Staying
with Seattle, there is probably way. The early Monday night
game is the Buccaneers and the Lions, and that starts
at six o'clock. As far as Major League Baseball is concerned,
is Game seven of the American League Championship Series. George
Kirby will throw for the Seattle Mariners. Shane Bieber will
throw for the Blue Jays. First pitch for that is
at seven to ten. If Seattle wins, the Dodgers and
Mariners will start the World Series Friday in Los Angeles.
If the Blue Jays win. Game one between the Dodgers
and the Blue Jays will be Friday in Toronto. Right now,
the matchup predictor on ESPN, just one little goofy, there's
a stempt At stats off of a algorithm has the Blue
Jays as a sixty five percent chance of winning compared
to thirty five for Seattle. Mentioning Kevin Durant earlier today,
Kevin Durant has got himself a brand new contract for
the Rockets. Your extension worth ninety million dollars. It does
give a little bit of flexibility of the Rockets that
they want to add extension to tari Easan. Durant was
eligible to make as much as one hundred and twenty
million over two years, but because he got to choose
basically where he wanted to play, he's taking less money.
Thirty seven year old Durant has now made will have
made when this contract is done. Are you ready for this?
Hold on to your hats or hold onto your wheel
if you're driving right now. His career earnings at the
end of this contract five hundred and ninety eight point
two million dollars. That is fifteen million dollars more than
Lebron James at five hundred and eighty three point nine
million dollars. So again, the Rockets have until five o'clock
today to extend tarre East if they wanted to, or
he will become a restricted for agent at the end
of the year. And what else is going on in sports? Oh,
if you didn't catch it over the weekend, Billy Napier
was fired as coach of the Florida Gators. Florida State
at this point with Mike Norvell as our head coach,
says they will reevaluate the situation and decide at the
end of the year whether or not Norvelle comes back
at Florida State. I would not be surprised if he
is let go. And that, my friends, is and will
be the news at noon twelve nine on Sports Talk
seven ninety So the question I brought up today, and
we're gonna get to some calls here in just seconds.
To those of you online stand by, how are you
staying awake for tonight's nine o'clock kickoff? I've gotten responses
from napping from five o'clock until eight. This is why
we live on the West coast. That's Greg Twoey, not you.
And me. I will take a four hour nap. Ebo
says midday evening nap Jared, and Houston says working. Ken says,
luckily I was off today, so my day just started
eight hours left. We can do this. That's funny, that's interesting.
And then I got this one too. Not a techin fan,
but I am a football degenerate. Bonnie Joe, Well, watch
as long as I'm able to stay awake, but won't
alter my day no matter who will be playing. I
do not like these nine o'clock starts for college or
NFL prediction Seahawks twenty seven, Texans twenty one. That's how
I kind of feel too. I think, Look, if you
don't know who Jackson Smith and Jigba is, you're gonna
probably find out tonight. He's really special. He is a
guy that has been as a soft dimensioned last hour
Cooper Cup has done nothing for Seattle and it hasn't mattered.
And Jigba has been absolutely phenomenal this year as a
primary go to threat for Sam Donald Sam Darnald, we
can't sleep on him. He was good at Minnesota, surprisingly good,
getting good enough that he got a huge deal to
go to Seattle. And they moved Gino Smith from Seattle
to Las Vegas and he's been excellent since joining of
the Seahawks. Seahawks are four and two on the year.
So that's going on. And the reason why I'm kind
of lie during to tell the truth, not lie, I
told the truth about this is that you're the NFL.
If you're gonna put NFL games on, you put them
out where people can catch them. Now, eight thirty on
a Sunday morning for the London games kind of makes
sense because that's a six hour time difference at least here,
and people will get up on Sunday morning while they're tailgating,
they will watch their footballs, are getting ready to watch
their favorite teams play. It'll be on the background, or
it'll be at your tailgate nine o'clock. I mean, come on,
you're starting a game at ten o'clock Eastern time, where
at least fifty percent of the country lives in the
Eastern time zone at least, if not more. Now, the
West Coasters love this because they never get normal time
that they can go tailgate properly and have time. But
my thought is even for people on a Monday night
at seven o'clock in the Pacific time zone. That can't
be great for them because a lot of people that
work on the West Coast have to work on East
Coast time because of their jobs. Now, this is only
a w on off. They don't do this on a
regular but I think the NFL is making a big
mistake by putting this game on, and obviously I think
they'll change it for the future. But imagine if both
teams were undefeated. Imagine if both teams were legitimate Super
Bowl contenders. Now the Seahawks could very well win the NFC.
And look, the Texan season is not done, but they've
underperformed so far. A lot of things the NFL does right,
this one I think is a misstep. And to think
this game was originally supposed to be an ESPN plus
that's why they probably said, you know what, we'll put
it on the mainstream ESPN because we know that we're
going to get very few views people staring at their
phones or their computers or if they have a smart
TV at nine o'clock at night, because let's be honest,
probably seventy five percent of the country is not going
to see how this game ends. Now, I'll stay up late.
We'll talk about it tomorrow for sure, and we'll help
you out the best we can and recaping things. But yeah,
nine o'clock for anything, I don't even care if it
was west to West coast teams, if the Seahawks were
playing Niners, I wouldn't care if if it was the
Chargers against the Rams at nine o'clock. You should put
games on when people can Actually, most of America can
see him, and the reality is even the West Coast time,
it is good for them. Most of us are either
getting our kids to bed or we're going to better ourselves.
And I just think it's a lot of the situation.
But teach his own seven one three two one two
five seven niney if you want to jump into the
conversation seven to one three two one two five seven ninety,
we'll start taking phone calls. Next it is the Matt
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Speaker 2: Twenty on the Matt Thomas showed Ross rossback with his
On Wednesday, Kevin Durant just called his Rockets contract extension
quota no brainer. Yeah, of course you're geting ninety million dollars.
I called a no brainer too, ninety million dollars two
for two additional years. Oh why wasn't I have basketball player?
Oh gosh, maybe because I was six feet and out
of shape and couldn't shoot. Shy that also, uh, Emy
Duck has said the starting five for tomorrow's game will
be the Jumbo lineup, Aman Thompson point guard, forwards, Kevin Durant,
Jabbari Smith. They'll go with the double centers Alpera and
Shngoon and Steven Adams. Jumbo lineup Rockets and OKC Tomorrow night.
We'll have the game for it at six point thirty
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Let's go to our
buddy Biscuit on seven NINTI at twelve twenty one.
Speaker 5: Biscuit's good word Cougar mad cougar man hey man. A
couple of things.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: First of all, for me, nine o'clock start as perfect man,
I don't get off the eight anyway, so you're not
getting Wait, but.
Speaker 2: You're in the minority, biskey, you know better than that.
Speaker 5: I know I'm in the minority. I said, I'm in
the minority.
Speaker 4: Cool for me.
Speaker 5: Instead of checking out the second half, I get to
check out the whole game. I will say this, Matt,
being a RTV guy, I think the NFL they're doing
the way they want to do it, you know what
I mean, meaning they got the first game, that's their
real Monday night game, the Texans and Seahawks. That's just
maybe a network thing. They me and me had to
have so many prime time games you can just throw
one in, you.
Speaker 9: Know, you know.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately for Houston, and correct me if I'm wrong. I
think the first game they had two Monday night games too,
didn't it.
Speaker 2: They've done they've done a fair number of double double headers.
What they've done is they've staggered them biscuit where they'll
have one game at six a game at seven.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: They have done some double headers in the past, but
the double headers usually involved obviously a West Coast team,
but they usually take on another West Coast team, so
they're not really bothered now I remember the few years
ago the Texans opened up a year at San Diego
when the Chargers were still there, and that was a
doubleheader night. So the Texans are not foreign to this.
It's just it's not great for us, right.
Speaker 5: But it just tells you how they feel about Texas.
Speaker 2: You know, Well that's fairy. Yep.
Speaker 5: Let me let me say this, Matt, for get to
my rocket state. I can't remember the last time, man,
that we've had two good coaches over there on color
meaning football and basketball coach both being good.
Speaker 8: And it's been a minute.
Speaker 5: I think he had to go all the way back
to guy Van and Yomen.
Speaker 2: Probably that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, two good coaches. I mean, that's Frits. You can
say if you want to say, Man, Fritz is a
good coach.
Speaker 2: Man. He's not like he's a good coach. He's a
great coach. First of all, he's an awesome human being.
And there's so many bad coaches that are bad human
beings that run their operation and Willie is just the
opposite that. I'm such a fan of his. And secondly,
damn good football coach. I don't know if you saw
the end of the game the internight, but yeah, outs
effectively calling plays. I mean it was. There are so
many coaches that butcher the two minute drill. That was
an active perfection. Internight and coach.
Speaker 5: Fritz, you know, usually will be at a game and
like what the world was the coach thinking, But I
can't you You can may be able to get them
far as talent wise or this and that, but it's
not gonna be some kind of something that the coach
did that was out of whack or you thought that
was crazy. I mean, excellent coach. Man. That was a
great high great high last name Matt, And I told
you man, you Doka was showing you man, he's not
going small. You're gonna play big or you're gonna maybe
a lot.
Speaker 4: Of zone or whatever.
Speaker 5: Backing up right this and that you got your you
got your bar and Durant who can kind of move
their feet for big guys, so you know, we can
get out on the wings and cover some of the
corner shots even though we end the kind of a
zone or whatever. And I see a six game in
pool and on how many games they win last.
Speaker 2: Year, Matt, fifty two, fifty two, I'll.
Speaker 5: See six sixth game in pongland man and finals the floor.
Speaker 2: Well, man, from your mouth the basketball guy's ears, I'm
telling you, Matt mark it down all right. Fifty eight
wins in the Western Conference Finals. I'll accept that. Thanks
Biscuit for the phone call. Appreciate it. Seven one three
two one two five seven hoey, Let's go to James
at twelve twenty five.
Speaker 10: Hi, James, Hey, how you doing. You know, if all
the Saturday in college games, which do you think was
the biggest episode? Do you think LSU over I mean
Vanderbilt over LSU or Arizona State over Texas Tech.
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, Arizona State would not be an upset over Texas Tech.
I think Sam Lovett is a really good quarter back.
Arizona State was at home, Texas Tech was maybe right
for a loss. I don't know. I didn't see any
of the LSU Vanderbilt game. But isn't Vanderbilt a top
thirty team? Now? I don't, I don't, I don't know
if it's Yeah, I would characterize either one as a
massive upset. My guess would be if you had to
name one, LSU losing it to Vanderbilt would probably be
the one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm kind of about Arizona State meeting in Texas
techs give is Texas Tech played us, but it is
what it is. I guess we got to play them next,
and I haven't them ready.
Speaker 2: I hope so. I'm looking fine. I'm going to Phoenix
for the game. I'm excited about it. But I hope that.
I hope Texas Tech tired amount. That's all I'm asking for.
Speaker 10: I hope so too, because the way you they just
going then get in the top twenty five. Maybe Texas
Arizona State.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure. Yeah, they got some U of it's
got some top twenty five votes. Thanks for the phone call, James.
But they're gonna have to be. They're gonna have to
be Arizona State to get the touch nof. Not that
it matters. We're going to a bowl game. We're probably
hopefully it'll eacent bowl game, I hope.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The biggest detriment, honestly and I is we're not going
to build to travel very well because we don't have
a history of traveling well. We travel well to the
Final Four. That was cool. We travel really well for
that one. But bull games unless they're like you know,
BCS bowls in the past. I mean, you travel really
well for the Florida State game in Atlanta, but we
haven't typically drawn very well. And look our home attendants
this year, except for tex Attach wasn't great. And so,
you know, bulls do look into that kind of stuff.
It's not the end all, but part of it also
is too If the Bowl game is in a place
that you just don't want to go, man, I want
to spend a lot of extra money. I see why
people kind of you know again under the categorization of
there are too many bulls, and I know there are
some of these bulls are in just mid cities. I mean,
you know, look, I was in Birmingham last week. It's fine,
but I'm not going to go. I don't know if
I'd spend two or three thousand dollars or you know,
depending on how big my travel party was to go
watch you know, a seven and four versus a six
and six. Hopefully with us being in the Big twelve,
we get a better a better draw of games and
we don't have to play somebody that we would you know,
not want to play, and that both sides will have
full crowds and bill to sell their tickets. But the
biggest detriment right now about Houston is the fact that
we just don't uh don't do particularly well selling tickets
and our home stadium for that matter. I mean, the
unfortunately game against UH Arizona was not full, and it's
too bad because those kids, Willie Fritz and his staff
deserve it. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five Seveninty, I'm here.
We've done another half an hour, so come on in
and join me before my buddy co Cole Thompson jumps
in and finishes off the show. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Jonathan, the Arizona State versus Houston
smack talkers are begun already. A friend of ours, the
show teacher on break one, Steven went to Arizona State.
He just sent me a tweet. He said, hey, sports
him t make sure you go visit the best journalism
school in the nation while you're in Phoenix. By the way,
Sun Devil's by two touchdowns as long as Levitt is
playing forks up. So you know what I'm gonna reply,
falls force empty. No, he follows me. Good good guess
I'm typing it right now. All right, here, he goes,
I'm saying back to him, isn't Arizona State and an
open enrollment school?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 2: Do you think I'll get some Arizona State fans hating
on me?
Speaker 3: You might get a little.
Speaker 2: So if he's saying hashtag forks up, what should I say? Now,
I'm gonna leave with just that. I'm not gonna do
any I'm not gonna do any more of that.
Speaker 5: All right, here we go.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look. Let's see how the responses go.
So I got Seattle man, I got Seattle fans mad
at me for what I was for that, for the
comments that John Schroeder, the manager of the Blue Jays said,
I'm just passing that along. I got Kook fans for me,
mad at me for what happened last week. I thought
nothing to do with it. And Ross is apologetic and
not gonna have Arizona State fans coming after me. Me
cadded me first, right, talking about the best journalism school.
Best journalism school in the country's Kansas tell you the truth,
print journalism, broadcast journalism. It's probably Syracuse because all the
grads get network jobs. But you of h right there, me,
Jim nance Bill Orrell Boom seven one two one two
five seven. You see what I just did. I threw
myself and I grew I did I didn't do that.
I'm guilty. I'm guilty as charged. Let's talk to Ethan.
I'd like to on the Matt Thomas Show at twelve
thirty six with Ross Ethan. Good afternoon to you.
Speaker 13: Hey, Matt, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm great?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: So, I know you were talking about some fan base,
you know, ridiculousness earlier in the show. And I don't
know if you saw this, but Texas Tech fans last
week where not all of them, and I know Twitter
isn't real life, quite a few Tech fans on Twitter
were saying that they were too good for the Big
Twelve and that, you know, the SEC would be a
better fit for them. And I was just really puzzled
by it because one, Texas Tech has been in the
Big twelve for thirty years and have has never won
a conference championship in football.
Speaker 12: And then two.
Speaker 13: You lost Saturday to a school who last year spent
one year in the Big Twelve and won it in
the first year, and you lost to Jordan Tyson on
one leg and Sam Levitt on one foot. So that
just kind of puzzled me. And I don't know, Texas
Tech fans feel like they're bigger than the rest of
the conference when they haven't done anything in thirty Let's.
Speaker 2: Take a look at this for a second, Ethan. Okay,
let's go with a parallel. So I wouldn't say Texas
Tech has been poverty. Okay, that's too strong of a term. Okay,
but they haven't been royalty. Does that make sense to you?
Perfect sense? Seven and five, eight and four, six and six.
Always known for great offenses, defenses very much optional. They've
tried to bring great defensive coaches there, They've tried to
recruit the best defensive players. It just hasn't worked out.
So all of a sudden, Cody Campbell, the oil and
gas energy guy whatever he is, makes all this money
and says, I'm gonna put all this money into Texas Tech.
I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure that the salaries are funded.
I'm gonna make sure these kids get nil deals. We're
gonna cash infuse, We're gonna cash with everybody else so
people can come to Lubock, Texas and it's all done
above board. It's all done legally. So if you got
the cash, you got us and somebody wants to spend it,
good for them. But it's help me with a parallel
on this. Is it like? Is it like the ugly
guy in school getting the one good looking girl and
now he thinks all you can date now is supermodels?
I mean, is that a terrible parallel? I mean, if
it is, you know, I'm terrible on analogy, So help
me out with this.
Speaker 13: I think that's that's probably pretty pretty accurate in my opinion.
I will say, because you just said you're going to
Phoenix or Tenpe for the game. Yes, I spent a
couple of semesters at ASU.
Speaker 5: Great town.
Speaker 13: You ever have the chance, I mean, it's kind of
a younger crowd, but Mill Avenue. If you want something
a little more proper, head up to Scottsdale. Man, there's
plenty to do out there, great weather. And honestly, the
fan base at ASU, you know you were kind of
concerned about them coming after you. They're used to it.
They only hate one school and that's.
Speaker 2: You, of a So yeah, that's right, that's right. Not yeah,
I'm just I'm just teasing my guy here because I
was just I'm not trying to Troy Arizona State fan.
I just, you know, like my philosophy is this and
thank you for the fall call Ethan. And I've said
this before to you guys, especially to those of being
new to the show. College smack talk to me is
more than acceptable as long as you don't insult someone's integrity,
or insult a member their family or what your kids
look like, or make fun of your dog. I mean,
you know, when tex Attack and Houston were smack talking
each other a few weeks ago, I wouldn't bothered by it.
In fact, there were people that were attacking me, you know,
yeah again because you don't you can't follow everybody in
the world. You don't know what everybody's all about. But
there were people in the Lubbock that were like, oh,
here's a Cougar fan going after us, and like, you
all don't know if you listen to the show for
any length of time. I do love Texas Tech. I
want Texas Tech to be the second best team in
the Big Twelve. Every single year my oldest son went there.
I've talked about that multiple times. I love it. I
I like love I think lebb it gets a terrible rap.
If I was a college kid and I didn't chose
Houston because I was already working in the radio industry,
I would have gone. I would have loved to have
gone to Texas Tech. I don't know if they're broadcast
schools any good, but it doesn't really make a huge difference.
But it's a good college town. Now, I'll say this.
People about kids that go to Lubbock either love it
and can't never want to leave, or they get out
of there as fast as they can, just because again
homesickness and it's out in the middle of nowhere. But
I've always enjoyed the experience. But maybe maybe Texas Tech
is feeling a little bit of the bravado and maybe
that Sam Lovett, as the caller said on one Foot,
was you know, won the game because he looked battered
and beaten and frankly, if you watch any of that
Texas Tech game against Arizona State on Saturday, and I
know the Fox broadcaster has been to know of this,
there were four or five different dropped interceptions, there were
fifteen yard penalties, there were some past interference calls. There
was a variety of things that really precluded text Tech
for winning that football game, and Sam it made a
huge fourth down conversion in the game. Arizona State's good.
I mean they were in they playing the Big Twelve Championship.
They went to the College Football Playoff last year. I mean,
that's that's not a bad football program. And the callers right.
I've been to Arizona State's campus. I did a week
of shows there when Utah played Pittsburgh in the Fiesta
Bowl way back when the BCS allot one non power
five to play. I had a great time. I love Phoenix.
I still love going to Phoenix. I go to Phoenix
twice a year at least for the Rockets. And I
loved experience Scottsdale Phoenix And if y'all just go. If
y'all are going to the game this weekend, orerever ever
need to go to Arizona State. Hanging out in Tempe
is spectacular. It's a great atmosphere. It's got a little
of a collegey feel in the middle of a big city.
And let's face it, a lot of big cities that
have schools in them don't necessarily draw very particularly well.
And Phoenix is the minority on this. I mean it
looks like to me a pretty full crowd at the
game line Saturday, And I wasn't staring at the stadium crowd,
but I mean every time I saw a crowdshet look
like there's a lot of people there. So I'll have
a better feel of it this week because I'm gonna
be in Phoenix for that game on Saturday and look
very much looking forward to seeing Arizona State, who's hopefully
tired and burnt out and over exhausted for their from
their big win against Texas Tech lose to my beloved
Houston Cougar's Mat Thomas Show with Ross co attinues tomorrow.
I'll be with you from Oklahoma City. We'll have gut
feelings the news at noon and we'll get a perspective
from a couple of different folks on the Rockets home
opener or home owner Rockets road opener, it season opener
against Oklahoma City. We'll also dive into the Texans versus
the Seahawks seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
If you want to join the show, I'm with you
from there ten minutes, so come on and say hello
before I get out of here, and Cole Thompson, thank
you very much for stepping in and helping out in
the final hour of the show. As I make my
way towards Oklahoma City seven one three, two, one two
five seven, Auntie, Now, I don't know. Let's try this
for the last time before Game seven, before we go
back to the phones. I want you to utter each
of these two sentences, and then I want you to
tell me how you feel after you say them. Okay,
Number one is, go Mariners, You've been waiting a long time.
Say that first, Go Manners, you've been waiting a long time.
Or go Blue Jays M's fans, you suck.
Speaker 3: Go Blue Jays in fans, you suck. I felt good.
Speaker 2: I'm lie. Which one tell the truth?
Speaker 3: I felt good?
Speaker 2: Say go Mariners, you've been waiting a long time.
Speaker 3: M hmm, Go Blue.
Speaker 2: Jays MS fans, you suck. Hell.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now the bigger question is if the Blue Jays win tonight,
do I go to the five or ten people that
called me names from Mariner Nation? Do I say sorry
for your loss? I do?
Speaker 13: Don't?
Speaker 3: I Mmm, you can't. You could, you really could, But
do you really want to do that? That's what your
heart tells me to do. M You know my heart
is black and cold, don't you see I'm saying, but
you kinda whoever the heart wants you gotta go for it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm doing it. Listen to me very carefully. If
they if the if the Blue Jays win, I'm going
for Sorry for your loss, and I'm tagging all those people,
especially the guy that called me that told me to
get take my tampon out. Oh h gg stringers. It's
all fun and games, right. Social media is nothing but
a nice bunch of nice people just having a good
time teasing each other. Right. He called me a bun,
He called me an F and p and took my
tampon out. And he called me a C word too.
He called me all the word you can't ever ever
supposed to say to anybody, much less an affable guy
like myself. Let's go to KESO at twelve fifty one
on the Matt Thomas Shield Ross case. What you got today? Hey, Matt?
What's going on?
Speaker 10: Quickly?
Speaker 12: I was in Seattle earlier this year and I was
wearing my Astros hat and they were all just super
nice to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they were.
Speaker 12: I guess you have to separate the Twitter and the
Reddit people from actual real life people. I mean they
were just just super just. I don't know, it was
super nice and generous to me with my Ashros we
talked baseball. Uh So even with all that saying, you know,
let's go blue Jay's. My question is, well, I wanted
to see what your three I want three takeaways for
opening night tomorrow. What are you looking for for the
Rockets you specifically, and I think just recently, Danielle Lerner
just dropped the starting lineup with It's gonna be the
Jumbo Big. So let's read on the bench, yep, what
are you looking for and what are what can you
tell your your fans looking tell the Rockets fans to
look for tomorrow night. My second question is, without Tari's
inking his extension, do you expect a moody, mopey Tari
Easton this season or are we just going to get
that same high motor, high defense, off ball offense.
Speaker 2: Tari that we're so used to.
Speaker 12: And I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, thank you. Let me answer the second question first,
because I just remembered it. If Tara does not get
his extension done today. I can't imagine he'd be mopey
and depressed. I mean, I'm sure he would like to
get it done, but you should also use that as
a way to fire yourself up and play as good
as you possibly can. Because remember, he will be a
free agent at the end of the year. Now he'll
be restricted, meaning the Rockets can match any offer that
he gets. So he is, if he plays well, he's
gonna get paid. No one's going to say, well, you know,
times are tough here in the NBA, and we had
to make some cutbacks, and it's not your fault, not
the local fault, it's the corporate level. No, they don't
do that in the NBA. They like, if you are
good and we have app space, we're going to pay you.
So the market's gonna be out there for him as
long as there's a successful season. So I can't imagine
him being that quote unquote multiperson. If he is, it's
gonna cost him. The Rockets love tari. I think they're
gonna get this thing done. They've got till five o'clock today,
but I think they're gonna get it done. I think
I think they want to. They want to get this
so it's not a distraction, and hopefully it'll never be
a distraction, but if it, even if it is, that's
gonna be a distraction on Tai to get, you know,
to play as hard as he can. Again. If if
the deals come through and he gets it outrageously a
big deal, then good for him. And if the Rockets
match it, everybody wins. I'm a person I like to
deal with my contracts. Get him done before six months earlier.
They're having to wait a month too late. But again
it's got to take two to tango on that. As
far as takeaways, very early, I think you're gonna be
hearing a lot about I may talking about he wants
his defensive intensity to step up. You lose defensive work
with Fred's professionalism and great ability to be in the
right place right time. Dylan was a good defensive player
for this team. You lose some of that. Who's gonna
handle the ball handling? Does the turnover count remain relatively
low like it was last year? A lot of it
was because Fred didn't turn the ball over, Reed Shepherd.
I think it's going to be improved year to date,
but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be all
the way through to what he can be as a player,
So be patient on that. And number one thing for me,
I've been asked this so many times, where this team
takes the next super jump? Obviously, Kevin Durant being in
your team is a big help on that. But to me,
the big thing is does Alpi and amend even take
their games even a higher year to date than they
were a year ago? Because we know who Kevin Durant is,
we know what he's gonna bring to the table. It's
does a men become a more of a primeter threat.
Does the ball handling remain good? Does the defense remain
stout on both ends of the floor with so much
ball handling responsibility? And does Alpi become the guy that
hits Keith free throws down the stretch that used the
three point shot a little bit more and defense improves
those two things? To me, the Alpi amen development is
even more important to me than having Katie on the floor.
And I'll leave it at that. Cole Thompson, thank you
for filling in for the last hour of the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. I'm back with you tomorrow at
ten am. From Oklahoma City. Do not go anywhere. Cole's
gonna entertain the hell out of you, I hope.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna do an hour of textan Seahawks preview?
Will please do that for the audience?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: Come on, I want not, I want I'm in the
car driving the airport. I want nothing but textant Seahawks.
Speaker 11: We're gonna talk text and Seahawks for probably thirty minutes.
I nearly crashed my car driving here when I heard
that you were talking about Nick Saban maybe wanting to
get back into coaching. Thank god, you actually have a
brain when it comes to college football.
Speaker 8: No, thank you.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna talk about your Cougars because if I'm furious
right now at the ape pole. Seriously, you're six and one,
You've turned the corner. You have one loss to a
team that currently is at the same record, and we
can't get them ranked.
Speaker 3: What are we doing, voters?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. You know the name of
your show, It's gonna be called Pisson Vinegar with Cole Thompson. Ah,
you're two kind and it's up next year on seven
ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 11: And way we go right here on the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross and there is no Matt Thomas and
there is no Ross. It is Cole Thompson filling in
for the very last hour, getting you prepared for tonight's game,
which is going to be one the Texans half to
win seven one, three, two, two five nine. If you
want to chime on in for starters, Jonathan, who let
the producers.
Speaker 3: Take on over this network? That's what I want to
know at this standpoint.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Who let us be in charge for the next hour
and a half? Cordy, Brian, are.
Speaker 11: You really gonna trust us to handle this either way?
Speaker 3: Do we gotta put the working man? We gonna put
the work in. How was Dallas? By the way, how
was the Texas State Fair?
Speaker 9: Dude?
Speaker 3: It was fun? Uh A lot less people than was
luck a couple of years. But I know my mom
was telling me that they didn't give high school for
free tickets and it's actually a lot better experience.
Speaker 2: You can walk around and I have to bump in everybody.
Speaker 3: But what was the worst thing of the best thing
that you ate there?
Speaker 2: There has to be.
Speaker 3: Something I tried that. I don't know, dude, I didn't
really like none of that. Did you try the pickle pizza?
Speaker 2: Pickled?
Speaker 3: What pickle pizza?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: You didn't try that?
Speaker 2: Why not? You know? I did? I get it? Of course?
Speaker 3: You got a turkey leg and a stick.
Speaker 11: That's the way you have to start your morning, like
I kicked off my day when I was at Red
River nine am with the turkey leg. That's the breakfast champions.
If you don't do it, if you don't do it
in the morning, you don't do it right. That's just
my standpoint, of course, Man, get a funnel keke too. Man,
it was a good experience.
Speaker 3: Did you try the fried butter?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: But I saw that, and I saw a lot of
people get in that. I'm not did I almost get
a hard.
Speaker 11: I like my life too much to be able to
function for the rest of the day. Like if you
have a spried stick of butter, your day's over. There's
nothing else you can do with your society you have
to move on with. Basically, I got you gotta go
home at that point. That's the dessert, because it's gonna
knock you out if.
Speaker 3: You do it at like ten in the morning.
Speaker 11: You're screwed for the rest of the day. You gotta
go on ride. You gotta have fun with the cargo games.
Speaker 3: You can't do it. I saw this one thing fried,
Doctor Pepper. How do you do that? That's what I
want to know.
Speaker 11: How do you take a soda and make it fried?
Is it like chips afterwards? Is it like is it
like what you would consider pork rindes that that to
me is just so weird. At that same point, I
kind of want to try after exactly kind of so
I'm going to go back to Dallas seven one, three
ninety chime on in Texans taking on the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: By the way, Matt was one hundred percent right on
one thing that he said.
Speaker 11: I cannot stomach the fact that we have two doubleheaders
on Monday night football.
Speaker 3: And specifically the nine o'clock kick.
Speaker 11: Who are you entertaining at this standpoint, Like, if you
want to do anything, move the first game up to
five pm and then the second game come on at
seven thirty.
Speaker 3: But nine o'clock.
Speaker 11: Who is waiting around for Texans versus Seahawks outside of
the market that we see out west and the market
that we have here in Houston, because again you have
the game with baseball going on in Toronto, what six
oh eight first pitch, So it's like you're really gonna
have those two games at the same.
Speaker 3: Time in its game seven to So I mean, I'm
they can pict predict that, but we know exactly where
we're going.
Speaker 11: I will say that I think of this game is
actually a lot more un favorable of Houston than people
want to give credit to because if I do think
that there is a way to beat the Seahawks, and
it's very simple, YAsO Don, Jack Smith and Jigba. I
was listening in when we were when you guys were
talking with Softie earlier, and he brought up some good
points about Sam Darnold. Darnald has been a resurgent process
this year, seventy point eight completion percent or fifty underd
passing yards, eleven touchdowns, only been sacked seven times.
Speaker 3: Good offensive line for Seattle.
Speaker 11: They do a job of being able to open up
creases for the rushing attack to be able to make plays.
But when you look at this offense, John think, can
you tell me off the top of your head, do
you know how much the offense runs through Jack Smith
and Jigba.
Speaker 2: From the one.
Speaker 3: No, but from hearing from Softie, it's not that that's
the only threat they have.
Speaker 11: Thirty eight point two percent of all offensive production comes
through one player. So, by the process of elimination, if
you were to take out thirty eight percent of an
offense and your offense is functioning at sixty six percent.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that give you an advantage?
Speaker 11: The guy currently has six hundred and ninety six receiving yards.
He's making plays sixteen point six yards per catch. He
has seven plays of over fifty yards downfield. He has
thirteen explosive plays of twenty plus yards. He's averaging one
hundred and sixteen yards per game. Can you tell me
what the rest of the offense is averaging besides that,
I'll save you the trouble, Jonathan. It's one hundred and
fourteen total yards per yek contest in the passing game.
So if you take away the explosives of Jackspit the Jigba,
you gotta feel confident if you're the Texans.
Speaker 3: Well, and to be fair, if you look at the
Seahawk schedule, they really haven't versed the defense that was
at our caliber other than Tampa Bay and they lost
that game.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And honestly, if you look back at this matchup
for Houston, Houston probably should have won that game. But
they just get a fourth down stop against Baker Mayfield.
If it's not a fourth and nine and Henry toit's
Soah actually finishes the damn play. We're talking about the
Texans coming in at three and two. We're talking about
them beating a common opponent where they were able to
handle business. And we're talking about them at least having
a defense that knows how to handle a quarterback that
fits a proper system. Because Sam Darnold, whether or not
you want to call him a reclamation project, whether you
want to call him a resurgent player, whether you want
to call him a pro bowler, the dude's working out
in Seattle. Massive upgrade in my opinion over what you
have with genas Geno Smith is throwing duds week in
week out. Yards right, it was horrendous yesterday. I mean
forty plus yards total passing. I mean he leads the
NFL in interceptions night and day. Difference from what you're
seeing with Clint Kubiak. Run the system with Sam Darnald,
so massive, winning that standpoint. But I truly think that
this really comes down to stopping Jacksmith the Jigba. If
you find a way to lose because of Kenneth Walker
and Zach Sharbonett are averaging four point five yards a run,
if you're seeing a j Barner and Cooper Cup who
basically is a shell of himself from the offensive Player
of the Year a few seasons ago, getting open, if
they're beating you, it shows you that you're an inadequate
team and that there are so many faults that currently
on your disposal that you probably are not going to
be able to fix without making some dire changes before
the trade deadline. And that means giving up massive draft capital,
that means moving off of players that you know are
already signed to these to these long term deals. That's
making changes that are not going to be sustainable for
one season in a span of two weeks.
Speaker 3: That's just the bottom line.
Speaker 11: But if you allow Jackson Smith the Jigba to beat you,
basically you're just saying that this one dude who is
constantly being able to get on open again, he's averaging
one hundred and sixteen yards per game.
Speaker 3: The rest of the offense is averaging one hundred and twelve.
That's where we are.
Speaker 11: It comes down to stop in whatever you're seeing from
number eleven.
Speaker 3: He gets on open, you find a way to shut
him down.
Speaker 11: This is one of those games where again we don't
like talking about with the Texans defense, they like playing
a coverage standpoint where you're getting a lockdown man corner
where it's Derek Stingley playing you know, playing there and
being basically in locks up with him.
Speaker 3: It's one of the games where you have to have
it simply put.
Speaker 11: Because I can tell you what, Kamari Laster will be
able to be able to run, bump and run when
it comes with a Cooper Cup. You'll be able to
get Jalen Petrie covered, AJ Barner, You'll be able to
get Kaylin Bullock taking the top off of the defense.
When it comes to like Tory Horton, the other rookie
from Colorado State like, they'll be able to shut them down.
This is one of those games where you basically are
a follower. If you are Derek Singley junior and you
make sure that Jackson, then Jigma beats you. He beats
you on a short rounde, he beats you for a
gain of three beats you for a game of two.
That's all you need for the offensive side of things. Now,
on the other standpoint, here's where I do fear for Houston.
And tell me if I'm wrong to think this way.
Jonathan Okay Texans for playing elite offensively the last five
quarters when we saw them forty four points, forty four
points against Baltimore, twenty six points all coming in the
fourth quarter against Tennessee. And we could say bad defenses
versus what is going to be a top ten defense?
For sure, we could say that definitely as a factor.
But there's something about building confidence, having more consistency. Back
to back games where it felt like this offense finally
figured out how to run the show.
Speaker 3: Underneath Nick Kaylee.
Speaker 11: You're running the football efficiently, You're winning on third down.
Other wide receivers are getting on open x Na Nico Collins,
You're not fumbling the football inside the red.
Speaker 3: Zone, You're making plays.
Speaker 11: You're able to go ahead and be consistent when you're
inside the twenty.
Speaker 3: And then you have a bye weekend, you're off of
fifteen days.
Speaker 11: It felt like a long My fear is that those
fifteen days you can't keep that inertia. You can't keep
that identity, and then it's gonna come back and it's
gonna hurt Ship.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, and you're gonna be smack dive in Seattle.
Speaker 11: And you're playing against a team that's number two in
run defense in the NFL, so they automatically make your
offense one dimensional. You're playing against a team that is
top five in sacks, top five in pressure rates, top
five in pass rush win rate. They got a great
defensive line on the interior where Byron Murphy and Leonard Williams.
That are gonna be a challenge for Jake Andrews, be
a challenge for Jews Scrugs. Even you can say Ed Ingram,
who has been probably one of the biggest fines of
the offseason for Houston, in a really good addition to
this line.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get worked.
Speaker 11: And if they don't get work, Titus Howard and Arianta Erstrie,
they got to go up against Ernest Walker, I mean
Ernest Jones, DeMarcus Walker, boy a mafe, then get after him.
Speaker 3: My question is to you, like, now, if say we
don't say we don't win, say it's say Houston doesn't win, right,
say it's twenty seven to twenty one. Sure, do we
still feel somewhat motivate? Okay, we still have something that
we just gotta figure out last couple of pieces before
we move on to the season.
Speaker 2: Or is it like everything's over?
Speaker 11: You know what's gonna be interesting to me seeing what
this Russian attack looks like because I have been pro
let's not trade for a running back, right, you don't know,
I'm not paying a third round pick for Brees Hall
to be here for four months and us to go
ten and seven and lose in the first round of
the playoffs. Like that's the thing, is that when you
trade for a Breest Hall, you know that he's gonna
want top dollar elsewhere.
Speaker 3: And what if he ends up hitting in Houston? What
if he ends up being a godsend.
Speaker 11: He's averaging one hundred and ten yards per game, finds
the end zone seven times, He's averaging six point two
yards to carry.
Speaker 3: You know what that's doing.
Speaker 11: It's allowing his agent to go out into the open
market and say, look at what my running back can
do behind a mediocre offensive line. Imaginef you'd give him
protection up front, how much he's gonna be able to pile,
drive forward, how much we're gonna be able to see
yards after contact and making place, how versatile he can
be with a certain offense. So you're giving up a
third round pick to land a guy that's only a
rental that probably gets you to the playoffs, maybe as
a wild card team, because whether or not we want
to admit it, Indianapolis is good. Like Indianapolis is no
longer a team that we can just sit around and say, oh,
they faced off against mediocre competition.
Speaker 3: They can only win when they play at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Speaker 11: They went on the road, they took on Justin Herbert,
and they made Indiana Jones look like an MVP.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what we saw yesterday.
Speaker 11: So, whether or not you want to l by the way,
the other thing, Jonathan, their defensive line is elite. Their
offensive line can make Houston's offensive line look mediocre, I
mean defensive line look mediocre. Can So you gotta take
them in consideration. At this point, they're a legit threat.
So adding in Breese Hall, what that's gonna do for
you is at most probably gets you to ten and seven.
Speaker 3: You're not hosting a playoff game. You're on the road.
You may or may not win that game, and then
he becomes a free agent.
Speaker 11: Oh and by the way, if I didn't mention this before,
remember how you had a third round pick that you
gotta give up at Breese Hall. Do you know who
else to give up a third round pick for what
he marks? Traded into the fourth traded in two day
two day three by giving up your third round pick
next year for the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: So you have what he marks for a third round pick.
Speaker 11: So I gotta give that up. So I team, let's
not move for a running back that's a rental. And
also I'm not gonna go after Alvin Kamara like I understand,
because here's the thing. Here's the Jonathan can you tell me?
Can you tell me the year that he's rushed for
a thousand yards?
Speaker 2: It's god be since I was in high school.
Speaker 3: Man, he has a rush for a thousand yards? It
never happened.
Speaker 11: It's total yards that we got to talk about with him.
He gets most of his yards after contact as a
receiving threat. Who did you just draft that was known
as a receiving threat a Mississippi State and USC Woody marks.
So we're really gonna add in a more expensive running
back that probably is going to not fix our team
in other areas when we already have a running back
that was known for being a pass catcher and good
yards after contact. What are we doing at that standpoint?
But if the Texans show you enough offensively the night
when it comes to the passing game, if the pass
protection is good enough to keep CJ shot upright, and
we see another performance like we watched against Baltimore against Tennessee,
but the rushing attack is obsolete, it's a conversation Nick
Cassario has to have. It's a legit one because this
is a team that does feel like it's missing an
element offensively. You're watching its Jaden Higgins is growing into
a quality wide receiver. Number three, You're watching Xavier Hutchinson
stepping on up and being a capable, a complimentary piece
in Ego Collins. Nico Collins is still Nico Collins, top
ten wide receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz is who he is.
Speaker 11: He's not athletic to say the least, but he'll get
the job done at tight end. Your offensive line looks
better in pass protection, but again, the bottom you were
at the very much rock bottom last year, So the
only place to go is up.
Speaker 2: You're missing one thing.
Speaker 3: So if the Texans can.
Speaker 11: Show me tonight they can run the football at an
efficient level, even in a loss, you may feel like
there's enough here to say. Listen, we beat up on Denver,
they had to come back against the New York Giants
who gave them the game. They beat up on Matt Jones,
they find a way to beat Jacksonville. Okay, they're about
five hundred. They're right back in the hunt for at
least a wildcard spot, and we can make maybe a
conversation on adding in some depth on the offensive line.
Maybe we can go bring in a veteran receiver that
can take a little bit of pressure off a jayl
and Knowle, because if we don't know the stats of
Christian Kirk long term with the hamstring issues, we don't
know if Mixon is gonna be back this year. So
there's a lot of things that you can learn in
a loss to where the Texans can fix the things.
But bottom line, in my opinion is that if you
can have the same offensive idanity that we watched the
last five quarters that they were on the field, and
you could shut down jacksonith the jigba. I mean, the Texans,
in my opinion, should be favored in this game. I
know that's a homeer isn't pick, but still I think
the Texans, when you look at how they've looked as
of the last two games, if that's the version that
we see in Seattle, number one, it's gonna be a
high scoring affair and number two. Texans may end up
pulling this one out and it may be really promising.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Texans talk.
I just want to talk about the Cougars. I also
want to talk about tonight's game between Seattle and Toronto.
I do think that there is a reason why, regardless
of who wins, Jonathan, we have to root for the
American League to beat the Dodgers, and there's a big
factor in it.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to talk one more thing about
the Texans with you.
Speaker 2: What was up?
Speaker 3: So I agree with you with the American League gotta
win tonight.
Speaker 11: Gotta figure out a way for whoever wins this one
you gotta be pulling for.
Speaker 3: I'll explain that. Do you want to talk about the Texans.
Speaker 11: One thing that I am looking for in Tonight's game
and a tell the other things on The Matt Thomas
Show featuring Ross with no Matt Thomas or Ross right
here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety Oh boy, bad news.
Speaker 2: What time? What's on?
Speaker 3: For the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 11: According to the Texans PR team, the Texans have activated
the following players from the physically unable to perform list,
Denny go Autry, Jalen Reid. The Texans have also waived
Zion Childress. I know I set that up for probably
something that was a lot bigger. I I don't care.
It's more depth for the defense for Sam draw to
have to deal with. I'm fine with that, big I'm
content with that. You get another name in the trenches,
the paralong side of Daniel Hunter, paralong cyber Will Anderson,
takes some pressure off of what you get in Tim Settle,
Mario Edwards. It's another rotational option. It's a better fit
potentially than Darryl Taylor. It's a better name than maybe
Derek Barnett. You're adding in another safety, get some reps
away from m J.
Speaker 2: Stewart.
Speaker 11: Maybe Jalen Reed is gonna be that thumper that takes
the place to see j Gardner Johnson long term.
Speaker 3: I'll take it. I'll take whatever it.
Speaker 11: Takes to be able to get the Texans a victory
tonight in a game that should never have been scheduled
for nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm be honest, guy, I don't think I'm
watching all that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 11: See, You're lucky because I have to write about it
for Texans Wire, So I gotta stay awake for every
single snap, then postgame, then recap. Then I gets a
comeback here on like four hours of sleep and do
this whole shin dig again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a day for me.
Speaker 2: It's I am I.
Speaker 11: It is the case of the worst Mondays as possible
because of again long weekend, Texans, fifteen days off since
the last time we saw them, and we gotta wait
until nine o'clock just to be able to see them
on the field. Case in point, it's frustrating. Who is
the one player that you want to see something from tonight?
Jonathan Allen, Dude.
Speaker 3: I truly want to see that we can trust Nick
Chubb as much like yeah we had against the Ravens
defense in Tennessee. I really want to be confident enough
to be like, you know what, Okay, Nick Chubb realize
he might get a job took as RB one and
he's gonna handle business. You get what I'm saying, because
if not, what are we doing here? Like how you said,
they might be eager to get brace Hall and really
it's not smart too, but they might get desperate enough
if Nick Chubb doesn't show up for the job. You
gee what I'm saying, it's a good pick.
Speaker 11: I will not push back on that one at all,
because you know what, you brought in Nick Chubb on
a very cheap, friendly deal. And the reason why is
because of you realize he needed to go ahead.
Speaker 2: And have a home.
Speaker 11: Nobody was going after him. We'll pay two point five
million dollars. If you end up hitting five million dollars,
that's chump chains to us.
Speaker 3: And that's nothing.
Speaker 11: We get vintage version of Nick Chubb four point five
yards of play bull dozing over defensive backs into the
end zone first downs galore, y'all take that.
Speaker 3: I'll pay five million dollars for that. That's not we
need to hit desperately, and that would just be amazing
just for these be even three and three two, say
we win that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 11: Do you want to know who I'm looking at tonight?
Tell me Jalen Nole. Jalen, let me explain. So when
the Texans decided to move out of the first round
and not draft an offensive lineman, which I thought was
massive mistake to begin with, I figured, Okay, you go
bring in a wide receiver. My favorite wide receiver in
this draft class was Kyle Williams out of Washington.
Speaker 3: My number two was Jalen Nole. I love Jalen Mole's tape.
Speaker 11: If you watched him at Iowa State, the way he
was able to get in and out of small little
creases and be a security blanket for Rocko Beck in
this high tempo scoring offense for Matt Campbell, you would
have thought day one player. If he was not five
foot ten, and by the way he's and by the
way they lie, I'll tell you right now, ladies and gentlemen,
they lie on the stat sheets, they lie on the website.
Speaker 3: He's not five to ten. He's probably five nine.
Speaker 2: On a good day.
Speaker 11: But if he was six foot after what he did
last season at I was here, Yes, li lies, I'm
five foot seven, which means I'm actually probably not five
foot seven. I'm probably five foot six. That's how short
I am. We lie about our height all the time.
Speaker 3: They're lying to you. They're telling you that.
Speaker 11: But if he was six foot six foot one first
round pick, not even a second glance, incredible change in direction,
good speed, exceptional hands, did not drop any balls, special teams, galore,
super wiz at that standpoint, and he was split in
reps with the other Texans receiver, Jayden Higgins. Now, I
like Jayden Higgins and Jayden Niggins. I think is a
very good COMPLI men your receiver in today's game. I
think Jalen Nole can be a game changer. But this
season five catches for twenty two yards one touchdown. Yeah,
I was like, you haven't seen much of him.
Speaker 3: You have not seen a lick of him.
Speaker 11: And the frustrating part is that even when you didn't
have Christian Kirk out there, and you didn't have Braxton
Burrios out there, Nick Kyley in the offense said, Hey,
we're gonna turn to Justin Watson. Watson's gonna see the
field and he's going to make an impact for our team.
He's gonna play forty five percent of reps. What are
we going to learn from him? A guy who's been
in the league for seven years and is best known
for being a special teamer at most, What are we
gonna see from this guy that was, as in the
words of what Kurt Warner, oh, a reliable security blanket
as the number six receiver for Patrick Mahomes. Like, give
me a break. The dude barely saw the field last
year in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're You're a very big team on developmental like
especially with Witty Marx, like Witty Marks.
Speaker 2: You're very big on that.
Speaker 11: Jalen Knowle finished with over eleven hundred receiving yards last year.
Was should have been an All American fourteen point nine
yard to play eight touchdowns. He had seven plays of
over fifty yard soundfield and Christian Kirk is on a
one year contract. Christian Kirk is dealing with a hamstring
injury and this is not the first time that we
have seen him dealing with a lower body ailment.
Speaker 3: He may miss some time.
Speaker 11: This is your opportunity to really take over as that
future slot receiver that Chaine Mover, that guy who is
able to turn a five yard slamt pattern into a
forty five yard game. And in my opinion, I think
that Jalen Knowle from a talent perspective, just from a
talent perspective, may be the better of the two Iowa
state wide receivers.
Speaker 3: So if I get him more involved in the.
Speaker 11: Game, if I'm able to get six seven completions and
in this offensive line that we know going against one of,
if not the best NFC defensive line currently in the NFL,
the dink and dunk passes, if he's able to make
defender slip, if he's able to go ahead and turn small,
little quick passes into immediate, intermediate, twelve fifteen, seventeen yard gains.
Chain mover keeps defenses guessing. It forces you to have
to maneuver and make some switches for your defense. Right now,
Devon Witherspoon has been probably one of the better nickel
defenders in the NFL, A name that people continuously sleep
on because we don't think of the nickel defender. We
think of the outside guys. We think of Sauce Garner,
we think of Derek Singley Junior. We think of what
we're seeing with guys like even Terry and Arnold, who's.
Speaker 3: Not meeting the goals.
Speaker 11: The Nickel defender at this point has become so influential
on the status of great defensive play that if you're
able to embarrass him with Jalen Ole, I mean, you
got yourself a bona fide stud and you got yourself
somebody that you can now envision past this season having
a good repertoire with Nico Collins.
Speaker 3: And then the other thing that you're gonna have to realize.
Speaker 11: Is if you have a good slot receiver, especially in
an often that's gonna rely on tempo more than anything else,
there's an opportunity for you to then force defenses to
have to pay attention to him.
Speaker 3: Which what does that do? Jonathan opens up the outside
for Nico Collins to where you have to play one
of them.
Speaker 11: Okay, And and you're telling me at this point that
anybody is going to be able to stop a Nico
Collins one one.
Speaker 2: Just spare me.
Speaker 3: This is not a good secondary. He was ranked like
what forty five best player NFL preseason Nicol Collins, So
I mean, dude, he's gonna be fine. Nico Collins and
I think could have a day.
Speaker 11: And the reason he could have a day is because
if Jalen Knowles consistently moving the chains early on to
take pressure to where Mike McDonald's defense is going to
have to mix some switches. Here's another reason why I
think the Texas could win tonight. And Softie brought this
up on your show earlier. Okay, what's his what's Mike
McDonald's record at home? It was four and eight, rights
four and eight. He's a better road coach than he
is a home.
Speaker 3: Coach, which is give me an explanation that I actually can't.
Speaker 11: There's nothing behind it, I mean, sincerely, because last season
they went ten and seven, they were sub five. I
think they won three games at home last year Ritino Smithy.
They lost already one game this year to Baker Mayfield
and the Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: At home this season.
Speaker 11: I mean, and we are talking about again a team
that probably should be sitting at five and one right
if not for the fumble against San Francisco. They win
that game, and it's a completely different conversation that we're
having about this new version of Seattle. I mean that
it works in your favor. So I personally think that
Jalen Nole is the guy that you at the target
s night's game if he ends up, if you told
me his stat line, if I knew what he was
going to finish with receptions and receiving yards, I could
tell you if the Texans offense does enough to beat Seattle.
I personally think that because the run game is gonna
either be there early on or not, and Nick Kayley
is either gonna have to scrap that and say we're
throwing the football forty times tonight and that's the way
we're gonna win, or it's finally gonna get there, and
then teams are gonna begin to convey and load the box.
Seattle's gonna take away that he's gonna lead the passing
attack open, and you're gonna have the creases of the
five to eight to nine to ten yards downfield where
Jalen Knowle is gonna be able to turn a quick
little slant pattern into a first down, game fresh set
of downs, and maybe an explosive play. So I think
that if you told me his stat line, I would
be able to see if the Texas have enough offensively
to win this game.
Speaker 3: Personally, this is my two cents of the word got
me intrigued, man. Now, Finna, I'm gonna have to make
a little little over under for Jaylan Knowle's receptions or something.
Speaker 11: You know, I will set the over under tonight, and
if you want to listen to the nightcap later, I'll
reintroduce this at six o'clock. The over under tonight four
and a half receptions, forty five receiving yards if he
gets more than five catches and he gets over forty
five receiving yards, which would basically double his total this
year in both the receptions and receiving yards. Because I
don't think that we're gonna see much of Xavier Hodginson
in the slot, and I definitely do not think that
we're gonna see Braxon Barrio said all in this game.
I think, if anything, you will see him be the
inactive or if he plays, he is the last resort
wide receiver. If he gets five catches in forty five
yards in Texans from the football game, I will staying
on that take right now. You gotta get the football
to number fourteen. He ends up having that stat line
Texans win seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Would love to hear from you what you think is
going to be the stat line that gets the Texans
over the top, take quick time out when we come back. Jonathan,
I brought this up. I think the Blue Jays are
winning tonight. I think the Blue Jays are going to
get the victory at the Rogers Central Blue.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 11: I agree with Matt Thomas Seatta needed to close the
job done at Team Obi Park.
Speaker 3: They couldn't.
Speaker 2: So guess what.
Speaker 3: Sorry, guys, you're losing.
Speaker 11: But I want to explain why they're going to lose
and why we need to root for Toronto despite being
from Canada.
Speaker 3: Magine living in Canada.
Speaker 11: Gross, Why we have to root for them to win
the World Series and end the Dodgers' reign of being
the villains of baseball. There's a reason behind it, and
it does affect your astros. I'll explain why next right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 11: Matt is one hundred percent right about one thing, and
I can't believe like giving the man whose credible credit to.
Speaker 8: Come on, man.
Speaker 11: In Houston, we do not need to hear about a
Dodgers podcast. I don't care that it is part of iHeart.
Why in this market would anybody want to hear about
a team that constantly likes to ridicule us and say
that we cheated when clearly they have a Mickey Mouse
championship before last season, which was their first one in
four decades. I mean, do we really want to hear
about that? Does anybody really care at that standpoint.
Speaker 3: About what goes on?
Speaker 13: You know what?
Speaker 3: And that's the other thing, Jonathan, By the.
Speaker 11: Way, if you haven't figured out, this is the Matt
Thomas Show featuring Ross. Ross and Matt decided to take
the day off, so Cole Thompson is filling on in.
Jathan Allen doing a phenomenal job not only producing, but
also keep the conversation flowing.
Speaker 3: Like honestly, everyone cheats in baseball.
Speaker 11: Everyone does it if you're not cheating in some capacity,
whether it's the court or you're not trying to win,
which is why again also we have to bring up
that the Dodgers cannot win the World Series if we
want baseball in twenty twenty seven. But before we do that,
Rogers Saturday Night, Blue Jays Mariners Game seven, Jonathan, the
Bluejays are winning this baseball game.
Speaker 3: They are going to the World Series.
Speaker 2: They need to.
Speaker 3: It's not that they need to, they're going to and
I can explain why. So what was so funny is.
Speaker 11: When I filled in last week on seven ninety in
the mornings, I told Dan Matthews the Bluechers are going
to win this series, and it gave me a look.
Speaker 2: Of you could be right.
Speaker 11: Last week they were down two, You could be right.
You know, times could change. But do you know what
happened after they tied the series at two two? We
saw history be made once again. So Shane Bieber, who
is traded for the Cleveland Guardians over to the Blue
Jays at the deadline, is a former Cy Young winner,
Max Scherzer, who gave US five and two thirds and
one of the best gifts that's currently trending on Twitter
of him screaming at his manager, the hell you're taking
me out?
Speaker 2: The hell?
Speaker 11: The hell do you think that I'm believing this game.
I'm forty one. I may not get another opportunity to
pitch again.
Speaker 3: This may be my last time.
Speaker 11: You're giving me the field also Pitts to win. What
do those two have in common? They are cy Young winners.
It's the ninth time in Major League Baseball postseason history
that back to back cy Young winners have won consecutive
games in a postseason.
Speaker 3: Save on long time, Wait, repeat that, hold on?
Speaker 11: Shaane Bieber, Yeah, and Max Schurzer are cy Young winners. Yeah,
they're wins in Game three and Game four on the road.
Is the ninth time that back to back CY Young
winners have won consecutive games in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Would you like to know the last time that it happened? Well,
some crazy like forty five years ago.
Speaker 11: No, it was twenty seventeen, right here in Houston with
Dallas Kikeel and Justin Verlander who went to the World
Series that year. Jonathan, I'll save you the trouble coy.
We know who, and we know that that title is
not tarnished. It's actually very much intact. Do you know
the last time it happened? Nineteen ninety six, Greg Maddox
and Tom Glavin.
Speaker 3: Do you want to know who won the World Series
that year?
Speaker 11: Jonathan? It was the Atlanta Brace And the time before
that had happened Don Drysdale and Sandy Kofex in nineteen
sixty five, when the Los Angeles Dodgers, that cesspool of
an organization that bought itself a championship.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty also won the World Series. Well, you
could said they bought their championship last year too.
Speaker 11: So either way, you got a cy young winner on
the mountain night, and if things go south for him,
you want who's gonna come on in and replace him?
The guy who was on the game, who was out
there for Game four, back Schuzer, back to back side
young winners pitched in Game three and Game four.
Speaker 3: They won the series. They won that moment. They will
win the series because of that. I've stood on business.
Speaker 2: Because of it.
Speaker 11: I stand on business tonight. Also, the offense was dreadful
for Seattle last night. Now, I mean it was pathetic.
It was honestly laughable. And as somebody who could not
wait to see Seattle find a way to mess it
up for themselves, I was giddy. I couldn't lie. I
was having a good chuckle last night as we were
watching Randy A. Rose Arena and Cal Rawley and Josh
Naylor and Gino Suarez and everybody else from that team
that loves to make fun of Houston because for the
first time in a decade they didn't make the playoffs.
Had to walk back to the dugout as a young
kid by the name of Trey Ya Savage shut them
down and they proceeded to win six to two.
Speaker 3: Something Matt earlier watching these games compared to when the
Yankees are playing with Aaron Judge Kyle Rowley, if you
I don't think he's the MVP, because he hasn't even
rarely showed up a bad man like oftentimes trying to
swing up the first pitch, not not really swing out
of his shoes, and I just I don't know. He's
very underwhelming. When I was watching this playoffs, man, I
don't know. So he was very underwhelming in this series.
Speaker 11: But he does have arguably the biggest home run of
the season for Seattle because if he did tie the
game to make it three to two in favor of Seattle,
to go to the Rogers Center, because remember, if somehow,
some way we see Toronto actually sweep out in Seattle.
The series is over last night Toronto versus Los Angeles
for the World Series Championship, and we could see a
winner for the first time since nineteen ninety three across
the border.
Speaker 3: So big time difference.
Speaker 11: But you are right this offense as a hole, you're
not winning with the long ball, you're not really putting
the ball in playing Josh Naylor's been somewhat okay. Yeah,
Jorge Polanco came back on reality after what we saw
in game.
Speaker 2: It was very bad.
Speaker 11: You know what. I wasn't because you want know why
he was supposed to sign with the Astros and imagine
what this office would have been like if he was here.
Speaker 2: That's just me.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it. So I'm not ready to go
that far, but I won't tell you why.
Speaker 11: Regardless of who wins tonight, By the way, we have
a six to ZHO eight first pitch. Also, we will
see Shane Bieber take on George Kirby. Kirby is a
seven seven era in the playoffs. He was awesome in
Game one for s and then he decided to lay
what ten runs in his next game, So bad performance.
Regardless of who wins to night, there's a reason why
you need to root for the winner of the American
League Championship Series. Do you want baseball in twenty twenty seven?
That's it, That's what this comes down to.
Speaker 3: You think you can ruin it that bad? Do you
want baseball on twenty twenty seven?
Speaker 11: Because Jeff Passing came out with an article and he
talked about how the CBA agreement is up after twenty
twenty six, and what is something that Major League Baseball
mostly owners want when it comes to the future of baseball.
Speaker 3: They want a salary cap, Jonathan.
Speaker 11: They want to be able to say, as small market teams,
we need to be able to have a fair level
playing field with the major markets that can win because
of they have evidence of money, evidence of resources, because
of television deals, because of what they're able to afford,
because if there's no salary cap.
Speaker 3: This happened earlier in this season when Bryce Harper kick
that dude out right.
Speaker 11: And the thing is is that the Major League Baseball
Players Association is vehemently against a salary cap, because why
would you not want to be If I'm Bryce Harper
and I'm getting a fifteen year deal, I want as
much money as humanly possible. I want to be able
to guarantee that I will never have to work a
day in my life after I retire, and my children's
children will never have to work a day in my
life after I retire.
Speaker 3: And I also want to go to a pro I
want to go.
Speaker 11: To a team that has history, has ambiance, certainly has
a livelihood that can certainly be promising.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go to Colorado. Why would I
want to go to Colorado?
Speaker 11: Why would I want to go to Pittsburgh where they're
a factory of sadness and they never win anything? When
I can go to Philadelphia and get paid countless sums
of money to be a part of a team that
may or may not be good enough to win a championship,
but certainly has the resources too, So they want a
salary cap in baseball. If the Dodgers win the World
Series over Toronto or over Seattle, it will then give
owners a reason to believe that once again, after spending
countless money on Roki Sasaki, on Yamamoto, on bringing in
even guys like Tyler Glassal and signing him to a
seven year deal, rebringing back in Keky Hernandez, making sure
that you're bringing Tommy Emmon on that deal you signed
Freddy Freeman, and then there's rumors that they're going to
make a play for Kyle Tucker this offseason on a
fourteen year deal. So it's like, again, let's just build
the negative Avengers of society and ruin baseball as is.
They'll have the evidence in the ammunition to finally say, hey,
we want to make this fair. We don't want to
see another dynasty run where a team is basically built
like the Yankees of two thousand to where we're gonna
have to just consistently lose. And what's so funny about
the Yankees, is, Jonathan, is that in nineteen ninety nine
and two thousand, we saw the Yankees went back to
back World Series championships.
Speaker 3: Last time it happened, right, this would this would be
the first time it would happen since nineteen nine nine
two thousand.
Speaker 11: So what happened in Major League Baseball when the Yankees
won back to back championships in ninety nine and two thousand,
they implemented the luxury tax in baseball, so financial changes
came so that way there was a there was an
evidence that owners need to spend more money for them
to be able to get the luxury tax.
Speaker 3: So when the Yankees won.
Speaker 11: They forced ownership to finally have to start actually opening
up its wallets and spend some money.
Speaker 2: So now.
Speaker 11: Dodgers win two back to back, potentially a third in
twenty twenty six, and the CBA agreement comes for close
and they say we need to implement a sary cap
players union goes on strike. They don't want to play
it when it's a current salary cap structure, and they're
gonna try to set it out. So if you're a
fan of baseball in general, the only thing that you're
rooting for is that Seattle or Toronto march on in
to Dodger Stadium and lay waste to the most expensive
roster money can.
Speaker 3: Buy in baseball and prove that even when you have
a big.
Speaker 11: Salary, because again Toronto has a salary, they won't to
spend money like crazy.
Speaker 3: They just paid for Vladimir Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 11: They swung and miss on the Anthony Santan Daar deal,
but at least they took a shot, and you also
got throw. In Seattle, they like to go ahead and
throw out money as long as they can win. They
can put themselves in a position where you can guarantee
the salary cap will still be available and there will
not be a limit seven one three, two, one two, five,
seven to ninety. You're rooting for Seattle, or you're rooting
for Toronto, or you are not an American that loves baseball,
we will close out the Matt Thomas Show featuring Ross
right after this talking about the Cougars. Really six and one,
it's still not going to have to be in the
eightp top twenty five.
Speaker 2: What are we doing? Voters?
Speaker 3: Sincerely?
Speaker 2: What are we doing? Right here?
Speaker 3: On Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 11: One, the final segment on the Matt Thomas Show featuring
Ross without Matt Thomas or Ross, and then you get
to listen to Adam Wexler, Adam Clanton and I guess
you'res truly a little bit on the A Team seven
one three, two one.
Speaker 3: Two five seven nine.
Speaker 11: If you watch Schiman in the eight people once again
consistently proves to me and everybody with a functioning brain
that they are morons, they are nitwits, and they do
not belong in the stratosphere of college football. I apologize
if I called out anybody who is offended, but also
do your job a little bit better and maybe I
won't have to offend you if I can just be honest.
The Houston Krugers are Bowll eld and year two underneath
Willie Fritz. They got a massive win over Arizona. They
were the underdogs. Jonathan, do you know that there was
a Road favorite, and yet somehow someway Houston was able
to secure when Ethan Sanchez, congratulations, you sent Houston to
ball eligibility before we ever even reached November. You know
how challenging that is for most teams. And yet somehow
at six and one, Kruger's not ranked and.
Speaker 3: Their only loss is to rank a living tech man.
That's crazy. And Texas Tech found a way to lose
this weekend.
Speaker 11: So are we saying that because of they lost, Houston
has to be penalized because of it?
Speaker 3: That seems interesting, So I did a little bit more research. Okay, John,
Then do you know.
Speaker 11: That the Houston Cougar's currently are only giving up nineteen
points per game? You know that's better than Georgia. That's
better than Vanderbilt. That's better than Washington. That's better than
Georgia Tech, better than Louisville, better than Twulane, better than SMU,
better than Ole Miss all teams that are currently ranked
in the AP Top twenty five or at least received
votes from AP voters. You know their offense is currently
scoring an average of twenty five point six points per game.
You know that that's actually better than LSU, who currently
is ranked. You know that's actually better than Texas non.
Speaker 3: SEC through and through Laser Gentlemen, im SEC through and through.
I call it as is.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you right now, the best conference of college
football year and a year round resides in the Southeastern
region of the United States.
Speaker 3: And you could take that to the bank. But if
you want to talk.
Speaker 11: About fairness, you want to talk about opportunists. Opportunities. Houston
has one of the best scoring units inside the red
zone in college football this year. They have a running
that currently is averaging six yards after contact and five
yards per play. Connor Wigman has six rushing touchdowns to
go along with his eleven through the air. He only
has two turnovers this season. Amari Thomas is making plays
left and right and averaging eighteen point nine yards of
pass and is constantly finding ways to get on open
Tanner Kuoisal has been phenomenal inside the red zone. He
is a mismatched nightmare and currently the Kruegers are favored
in three of their next four games. The only one
that they're not Arizona.
Speaker 3: State this weekend at seven o'clock on the road, but
they're favorite everywhere else.
Speaker 11: In their next four of West Virginia u CFTCU, and
we can't get them ranked, we can't even have them
in the conversation. What Willie Fritz is done in year
two has been exceptional. And that, my friends, is why
once again, when you hear voters and they have opinions,
you don't need to listen to them, because we all
know how big a moronic Nitwitz it is, because they
only care about the big logo attached. The name Houston
was stressed up as Alabama, it'd be a top ten
team that does with the Matt Thomas Show, not with Ross.
Special thanks to Jonathan for holding down the four. I'm
pul Thompson. Next up, Adam Wexler, Adam Clinton in my
best Matt Thomas voice
Speaker 3: Right here on spoor Stocks even night