Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Black, Nhtown.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross from Detroit. This is Sports
Talk seven ninety. Yes, letting you said, gentlemen, I take
long showers. Lots of things get accomplish in there, I sing,
I think about the show, think about the rockets, and
that should do it in terms of things I think
about in the shower. Hi everybody, Hi Ross, the hell
are you? I'm great?
Speaker 3: I do have an even better if you'd never mentioned
yourself in the shower ever.
Speaker 2: Again, that feels fair, Hey man, hi Ross. Happy Friday, Yeah, real,
Happy Friday. Happy freeze coming Friday. Oh my god, it's
it's nineteen degrees here in Detroit. I got the pre freeze.
Oh you already got that arctic wind. It's already there.
Oh yeah. So we land in Detroit and I'm gonna
take you something. And all of us have done this
before at some point in our life. When that wind
hits you and that cold hits you. Oh I'm sorry,
it's not nineteen degrees. It's two degrees right now. Oh
my god, it's like somebody strikes you across the face. Now,
it won't get that cold in Houston this weekend, but yeah,
we're getting some freeze. But yeah, it's currently two degrees,
twelve percent chance of snow and it says zero inches expected.
Imagine that feels like a'm minus seventeen here.
Speaker 3: Well feels well. The wind is whipping you all right,
you got your scarf.
Speaker 2: You know what I needed a scarf, and I should
have taken a scarf from you. I should have borrowed
one from you. I'm you're a real man, Matt. Come on,
real men don't wear scarves. But I mean the problem
is a one scarf being going to solve two degrees?
It's just not. It's not gonna hurt good, keep you warm, Yeah,
it's gonna be Look like, was that a weirdo with
a scarf on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't see anybody wearing a scarf, any male
or female.
Speaker 2: Not in the rocket strip. Kevin Durant not wearing a
scar like Capella not wearing a scarf. Actually, the NBA
player is very fashioned forward. So I feel like somebody
I was at the International Players Clapella shinguon. They're all
scarf wearers. That's us, regular guys, we don't wear scarves.
But you know what, I'm gonna do it next time,
next time I head out to the east or somewhere cold,
I'm gonna borrow sports Harvey. I'm gonna assume it's going
to be a some sort of soccer scarf. Would that
be the case? I'm not giving you my soccer scarves? No,
what if? What if I dry clean it? No?
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna get that Birdberry cashmere one.
Speaker 2: I'm trying. I'm trying. So now, not only did we lose,
but the game went to overtime, and it's cold, and
this hotel we're in has the thinnest walls I have
ever been in my entire life. You're saying, how then
are they? I knew you were saying that.
Speaker 4: M Hm.
Speaker 2: I can hear the room next to me. You know,
we have a shower curtain. You can hear the shower
curtain moving, opening and closing. I can hear the shower curtain.
Huh what else? Is no way the person in the
room next to me is not going to hear this
entire show that at least from my perspective.
Speaker 3: Well, you should thank them. They should be or they
should thank you. I should say, yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna give them midday entertainment here in
the Detroit metropolitan area, and they should pay for your lunch.
They should. And how about this when I wake the
strippers up in a couple of hours. Oh hell hmmm,
all right, Ross, all right, mattet Let's get to what
was the what was last night in Philadelphia where the
city was not giving any brotherly love out.
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about the game. I'm
not that worried about it. It obviously hurts and it stings,
but the Sixers are a good team.
Speaker 2: Tyree's Maxy's really good. Joel Embiid, even though he moves
like he's sixty five, he's still really good and skilled.
Triple double last night. I think he had my thirty
point triple double. Rockets shoot twelve of twenty four from
the free throw line. Let me try, let me try
to remember how things went on the postgame show. I
named if any one of these things went in the
Rockets favor that didn't. Twelve to twenty four from the
free throw line, one of ten from three from Jabari
Smith Junior, only twenty two of forty five in the paint.
How many bunnies were missed last night, Matt, I mean
it felt like a lot of many. I was throwing
pens and hitting people in my area where I was
calling the game. Albrn Shingun went five of fourteen. I
am way more emotional this year than I ever have
been before. That's because they're actually expectations. I think. I
think you're right. I mean I wasn't a now. Look
when the Rockets were winning sixty games year with Chris
Paul and James Hard it was an emotional yeah, but
you were for some reason. I am just I'm I'm
losing my you know what with every call, And I
guess that's good because it gives me fire and passion
for the game. But bunnies, free throws, turnovers are part
of the game. Rockets got to ball overlap that just saw.
That's not gonna change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's not our money, Brooks and Bruno Fernando
out there, So you got a little extra juice on
the call, Matt.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't know. Uh, okay, what was I
doing going with oh, twenty four points?
Speaker 3: Let me make sure this is correct, Yeah, twenty four points?
Giving up off the turnovers that can't happen, bad turnovers,
and overtime offensive foul from Kevin Durant and overtime too
many points in the paint for the Philadelphia seventy six
ers as well. Like any of those things, you turn
around just literally a scoche because they went twelve to
twenty four from the free throw line in regulation, they
didn't shoot a free throw in overtime.
Speaker 2: Make one of those, Make to of them two I'll
take too. Yeah, I you know, it's funny. You can't
teach free throws. I mean what it was im doing.
Go in there and say make it to the line
and start bouncing it this way or start forming. I mean, wow,
this it's these guys have been shooting free throws for fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen years of their life. You've got to have some
level of concentration, focus, form, consistency. And now again I'm
not watching every outprea and hingoon free throw. But my
question is I guess I am literally watching every one
of them. Is he is there a hitch in it?
Is there something that's inconsistent. I'm gonna have to pay
more attention that tonight here in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on or what's going on
with his form, but it's just been consistently up and
down his entire life, and.
Speaker 2: It's it's maddening. But it's all. It wasn't just him.
I mean Clink Appelado too, that's not shocking. I love you, Jabari,
You're such a we love Jabari.
Speaker 3: I've defending him on social media. It's not going so
hot right now. I understand defending mad Well. I'm not
even really defending he made doka, but a Doka is
getting crushed on the rockets Twitter right now too.
Speaker 2: For what not using reading the overtime. I guess correct,
Read Shepherd the greatest rocket of all time. He made
Doka needs to be fired for not putting reach. There
are literally people calling for I.
Speaker 3: May the Doka to be fired because he didn't use
a backup in overtime when generally you go with all
five starters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I understand why people are upset the hot hand. Yeah,
I really enjoy watching Read when he gets on these
rolls where he puts up three four baskets in a
short period of time. He did that again last night
with a pair of threes. I mean, you know by
the was a huge part of the reason why the
Rockets were able to get out to that nine pointly
in the fourth quarter. There's just some defensive issues. And
gotta tell you, folks and I know that we don't
spend a lot of time breaking down the opponents. Terry SMAXI,
I don't know what his success rate was from the
top of the key to the lane, but I'm gonna
put it last night about ninety nine percent, because once
the ball got in his hand at the top of
the key, no matter what guard was on him, he
went to the left hand, he went to the backboard,
he went and laid it up like there was nobody
in his way. And I thought last night, to me,
the defensive breakdowns were as big as the misfree throws were,
as we're as big as the turnovers were.
Speaker 3: And I think was also exposed last night is that
you don't have an elite for brim protector to somebody
that can come and shore that up. When your guys
are getting broken down on the perimeter, which doesn't happen
a lot. You know, you got him in and you
got a Kogie's good and Durank can hold his own.
Tarry Easton, et cetera. But when it does happen, there's
just not a lot of rim protection behind them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh yeah, a tough loss last night. And
think the Dery Pistons are excellent. I mean they're really, really,
really good. They're what thirty two to ten on the
ear and they got guys that can beat you up. Now,
Kate Cunningham is questionable for tonight's game, which would be
a good science one of the elite guards in the league.
So he didn't play the night against New Orleans. I
don't know if he's gonna play tonight. But they still
have got a lot of different folks that helped the cause.
Jalen Duran's a big presence and he can bang a
little bit. And yeah, the Rockets. I mean, the reality
is this, I don't know what Steven Adams' future is
the rest of the season. I'm not saying there's there's
not a lot of sunshine and rainbows when the name
is brought up, But they're gonna do something. They're gonna
do something because the low block game and the rebounds
are still there. I mean that Amen Thompson tapouts, the
Jabari Smith. It just feels like to me that when
when the Rockets are not playing at their best. And look,
we're just talking about a one game sample size from
last night. I and they have one. They did win
four to five at home. But even the mid range stuff,
it's it's just not leaving the hands off some of
these guys particularly easy. And I'm you know, I'm not
trying to point out Jabar individually, but it's just he
can get into a rut where he's trying to shoot
himself back into a game, and unfortunately, it takes these
slumps for him to endure before he finally comes through
and comes through a game like he had, you know,
maybe earlier in the week against some of their teams
of the Rockets sad when they were at home.
Speaker 3: And yeah, as he's been struggling, teams have been helping
off of him, They have been daring him to shoot.
So he needs to hit not only to put points
up on the board, he needs to hit to help
the health, the overall health of the offense. When he
hits those, it's gonna help those drivers. They're not going
to be helping off of Alprynshan Goon or Kevin Durant
and doubling those guys, and because it goes twofold, you
hurt the effectiveness of Kevin Durant and Alpryn Shangon because
they're getting double teamed and then you're missing. So it
just compounds and makes things worse. It really is strange
to say this.
Speaker 2: Jabbari Smith's efficiency makes Kevin Durant and Al Branton's indefinitely
better because I think a man's gonna get his shots
no matter what I mean. He's he's going to penetrate
the line. He's going to eurostep his way, he's going
to the dunker spot, he's going to get offensive rebounds,
he's going to be a part of a fast break.
It's Jabbari is kind of the the Walt Cart in
this whole thing. Yeah, so's he's got to be better,
all right. On the radio show today, we will have
I'm Sorry. He's coming up at eleven thirty. We have
a ex professional football player going to say sorry to
a Houston Texan. Okay about that. We have the news
at noon, we have em dok Is going to join
us at one o'clock today Here on the radio show,
we've got Florida stories, and we have hell yeah or not.
We've got some news on the college football playoff that
just came down within the last hour. We'll talk about that,
and we're going to get into Rossie. When are the CJ.
Stroud photoshops going to end? Oh my god, please stop
sitting right to me now. It's ugly. He's getting crushed
and I'm trying to put a comp on it for
a recent Houston athlete and I'm not finding one. We'll
get to all that, somebody. Oh will we come back?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I like the cup seven one three two one two
five seven. Nintie seven one three two one two five seven. Auntie,
it isn't anything goes Friday. Anything you want to talk about,
we'll discuss it here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. Nainty. I'm supposed
to make this song. Damn it, Matt, I'm supposed to
I'm supposed to despise this song.
Speaker 5: But it's so freaking catchy, so good.
Speaker 2: This song's gotta be fifty years old, right, Rossie is
some where that range. I'm gonna guess turn this out thing.
Speaker 6: I mean, listen to this stuff gets some people going.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is like Ringo star rope pass. Oh wow,
And I can say that because I'm a big Ringo star.
But I know here's the greatest lyricist top I want
to live in. The ultipus is golden. Don't even starting.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, okay, so this is song. This is like
hearing Sweet Caroline in a Red Sox games, like they
only want to win and.
Speaker 2: It's a jam. You know what I need. We need
Jonathan's perspective. Turn it up little bit more than Johnathan.
Give it another listener. Oh it's a funny breakdown too. Yeah,
it mean I like this we go.
Speaker 7: It's almost given that that Albert type of like intro
yes minus to Bill Cosby allegations.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like a bunch of guys outside in Philadelphia
on a snowy, rainy day. There the woman up of
fire and they're around the trash can. It's on fire
and they're singing this song.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, this made me think of how the
Rockets used tops to drop mat of course your favorite
fat Pat song.
Speaker 2: When they win they do yes.
Speaker 3: And then it also made me think, now we called
out the spurs when they were ripping off the light
the beam thing. Yeah, but now we have something here
in Houston.
Speaker 2: What is it called? By the way, I don't even
I don't even pay attention because I'm always interviewing my
interview of the winds.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if like I launched the rocket.
So now after the games, Yeah, now.
Speaker 2: What do they do in the Uh? What is the
one in the Spurs when they hit the button that's
disinfect the riverwalk It's served mid Mexican food.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think that's it. By the way, when I was
a kid, I thought San Antonio the best Mexican food.
Speaker 9: Ever.
Speaker 2: It's garbage.
Speaker 3: It's a well GOVI interjections for all the everyone in the.
Speaker 2: Arena, ooh, you're that Spurs women Ernie.
Speaker 3: Uh so what do they do now? I forget, No,
what do the Spurs do? They bang the drum?
Speaker 2: Do they not? Oh?
Speaker 3: They bang the drum. That's what it is. Because they
started like the beams in the with the kings.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 3: Spurs are banging the drum and now the rockets are
like launching the rocket or something like that. They with
the button and then all the the exhaust comes out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been use that exhaust for like a year now.
They've been trying to figure out a way to effectively
use it to they're trying this. Yeah, it's it's cool.
I mean, it's fine. It's it's a rip off. How
are we feeling about it? I would say this, It
doesn't bother me because I'm not paying attention to it. Uh,
but it probably needs to be done a little faster,
like they you know, Vanessa talks to the player of
the game, and that goes for about two minutes, two
and a half minutes, and then they have to set
it up. I mean it feels like you got to
do it almost like right away. Yeah, well, it does
take time because everybody leaves, right Yeah. I did the
hug at hugs and all that kind of thing. Yeah yeah,
and then the interview and then they they I don't know,
the light, the ignition or whatever. I don't know if
you at all. I mean, so many people that go
to the games go, oh my god, I can't believe
they're doing what's in Sacramento. Who knows, I don't know.
I'm just saying it's game experience. By the way, it
does feel elevated, yeah, because I mean I was like
we were talking to Gretchen Cheer before the Rockets president
of business business thank you right right, And I was like, yeah,
in game experience or she was talking about all these
bells and whistles, and I don't know, it's I guess
I would liken it too. Like when you're living in
a bachelor pad and then the girlfriend comes over and
like puts up these nice towels in the bathroom. You're like, oh,
you don't need all this, but then afterwards you're like,
you know what, this is kind of nice. Well, I think, yeah,
in the last thirty years of the NBA, you just
can't put the game out there. Yeah. You gotta have
the free throw shooter. You gotta have the mascot, you
gotta have the hot dancers, you gotta have the half
court heat, which, by the way, I think the Rockets
again like giving away twenty five thousand dollars like every
other game. We gotta we've got some good shooters in
this town. We can hit some half court hoops. Yeah,
you know, yeah, you have to have everything. Everything has
to happen in a timeout. You the average person, what
they want you to do is they want you to
keep your eyes in the court and as soon as
as a timeout you get nothing going on, I guess
what we'll do. They put their heads down and go
right to their phones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to stay president at these things. Matt
put the put the phone away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But you you're different because you're a working member
of the media. You have a computer in front of you,
you're around the lad When to go as a fan,
yeah I haven't. I've gone as a fan.
Speaker 3: Trying not to get on Twitter fights in the middle
of the game.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're doing? Who are you fighting with?
First fight with anybody?
Speaker 3: But the Udoka haters are out like people are acting
like he is a completely incompetent coach.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. It's the Internet. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
gonna let a Rocket fan oh, oh tell me or
whatever you know. I don't even know if it exist
or not, but I will say like I will roundly
dismiss Davis Mills needs to be out there. I'm not
gonna roundly dismiss that. Reed Shepherd should get some looks
in overtime because I mean, he's the best shooter. He's
the best shooter on the Rockets not named Kevin Durant. Right. Yeah,
eight turnovers last night for Katie not happy with his
performance at thirty six points on twenty one shots. I mean,
they're not anywhere close to that game. If he is
not going off with what you did. No again, I
can get upset, I can get frustrated. This team is
just gonna turn to bowl over a lot. It is
for all the amazing things this team does. Where Kevin
Durant is his efficient as shooters for any thirty seven
year old of my lot, I mean he's he's everybody's
a fishing as Bond was at thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Right as from scoring for sure, if not even mon
Lefron hasn't even been a good defender for.
Speaker 2: Like five six years. Yeah, so all right, we're gonna
go to the phones as we come back. It is
anything goes Friday Ross explaining the essence of this great
ten o'clock on it. By the way, I love when
you ten o'clockers tell me you guys are ten o'clockers.
It means it means so much. Does it warm? It
warms my heart? The cockles of your heart?
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not you ever hear tho the ventricle cockle?
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear anything about any cockles all right,
let's move on.
Speaker 2: Don't go stop anything goes Friday. Seven one three two
one two. We have the power to shut you off, Matt.
That's true. Yeah, seven one three five seven nine.
Speaker 3: Anything you want to get to Uh do real men
wear scarves is seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. You got the freeze coming in? Uh, Matt,
I know you you know how to tell people how
to wrap their pipes, right, I know my wife did it?
Oh your your so your wife wraps your pipes. You've
done it for almost thirty years. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Take care of your pets,
two folks. Uh, we got the freeze coming in. You
got the Rockets losing last night to the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. How incompetent is emai a dooka? Seven one
five seven ninety. Matt mentioned some big college football news
we need to get to as well.
Speaker 2: And when will the CJ. Stroud memes stop? Seven one
three You have a comp by the way you said
on me, we were supposed to get to that. Yeah,
we got a payoff on our probably got three and
a half hours we got first. We'll don't get to
it all right, we'll go on the phones next seven
one three, two, one two five, seven ninety Matt here
in Detroit, Rossbeck in Houston, and we thank you so
much for being a ten o'clocker here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I think, Rossie, when I travel on the league,
we need to play music in the city. I'm mad
because in my hotel when you get off on the
second floor, there's a portrait of Aretha Franklin. Oh really, yes,
the Queen of Soul. I will I'll put it. I
took a photo of it. I'll put it on Twitter
in a second. Oh you should you put it on
put it on your Instagram? Maddy, Come on, you think so?
Am I getting rid of the X going to the
to the IG? I mean now you can do both,
all right? Uh yeah, it's it's She's awesome and I'm
I mean one of the greatest of all time and
not technically under Motown artists I believe, correct, she.
Speaker 3: Was I believe Atlantic Records. Yeah, don't make me look
this up, but correct, not a Motown Records artist. But
Detroit is Motown and she was from Detroit. Yeah, all right,
at least, I mean maybe not from Detroit. But I
think came up out it Detroit. What did she have
to do with Detroit? This says he's from Memphis.
Speaker 2: Madonna was here from here, Bob seekers from here. I
mean this is I mean great music to eminem kid
rock and we'll play matter of fact, we'll play some
eminem coming on the next break. Are you ready for that? Okay?
Rock we got I don't know their songs, but oh yeah, Atlantic,
Atlantic and Columbia Records. Of course we all knew that.
So I'm prepping for tonight's game. I got to do
devil duty here because again we got here at two
o'clock in the morning, so I'm kind of having to sleep,
wake up, work with you, and do this. Get ready
for the game tonight. Get the old box score of
the Rockets Pistons game. This is the second game of
the year. The Rockets got a technical foul for too
many players on the court. You don't hit it very often.
Oh when did that happen game? Oh you mean back
earlier in the year. Yeah, in October? Yeah, too many?
I got you.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't really remember that. I thought you were
saying it happened last night. I was like, I don't
remember that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, I could have used
the six player. By the way, one more thing we
go to the phones. The NBA is going to have
to do something about the goaltending because Kevin Durant did goaltend.
It was you had Durant and Thompson at the rim
and I thought I called it as Thompson, but it
was actually Durant that was the one that pinned against
the backboard. You are a low to block a shot
that hits a backboard, but the ball hits a backboard first,
then you cannot block it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's a goaltend. And that was a miss.
But also there's a lot of NBA riders this game
should be over. Well, no, it would have been rockets
ball with three seconds left. It wouldn't have been over necessarily.
It was a big miss. Number one there. Number two,
what was I going to say, Oh, we were talking
about lack of rim protection Steven Adams. I thought was
sorely missed last night, and I think that's going to
be the case for the next couple of months. And
then number three, what it was we were supposed to
pay off on? Oh, the comp.
Speaker 2: Talking about c J. Stroud is getting annihilated on social media.
Like yesterday, Oh my god, there was a c. J.
Stroud Jabari Smith comp and it was terrible, just terrible.
I saw that too. Not good. Come on, gang, we
gotta be nicer.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The last Houston sports figure I can remember being a
national punchline like this would be James Harden.
Speaker 2: Oh about him being at the Strip Club. James Harden, Yeah,
in the fat suit and the fat of the eye.
It was yeah yeah. And then before that maybe Matt
Shop and his pick sixes. I don't know, I got
news for you, see damn, maybe wearing this for a
while like till like the playoffs next year.
Speaker 3: He's gonna That's what it's gonna take to prove it.
I mean everybody, that's what's gonna happen. He could throw
fifty touchdowns in the regular season and there'll be people saying, oh,
showed me in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yep. Let's go to our buddy at kso here on
Sports Talk seven, I think at ten thirty seven, CA, So,
good morning, what's going on?
Speaker 11: Good morning guys, proud ten o'clocker here? Whoa you call
in and getting started on anything news Friday. But last night,
I think was pretty apparent about how bad refereeing in
the NBA can be. I think you guys just mentioned it.
I think there should have been two not shot clock's
goaltendings in the game, and actually hearing Ross say that
there have been three seconds on the clock probably would
have worked out in Houston's favor compared to going to
overtime and all that other stuff that ended up costing
them the game. But what I wanted to talk about
or bring up in a point is I've noticed that
this team without Steven, without Fred, they they they either
succeed or they don't succeed in a game depending on
two players that have that have it or don't have
it that day, and it's either Jabbari or Reed Shepherd.
And the games where we see Reid go off in
the fourth quarter, Rockets are usually in that game or
they're going.
Speaker 12: To win it.
Speaker 11: And I've noticed this pattern where you know, Ema is
not going to start read anytime soon for all the
reasons you guys listed, but he's kind of using him
as a closer, like almost like they put him in
the fourth quarter and he just kind of goes off.
I think last night he had fourteen points. Nine of
those came in the fourth quarter. So I mean I
kind of like this, this, this this identity that he's
going to be, you know, given this year, is we
need obviously some shooting and this whole you know, break
the defense, off the dribble and get to your actions
quick type of guy in the fourth quarter. You know,
I really like that. I really wish we would see
more of that. I understand he wasn't in the ot
for obvious reasons, but I kind of like this fourth
quarter read we're seeing because I mean, he's just going off,
and my jabbar thing is he's just he's probably one
of my favorite players on the team. I always feel
so bad for the guy, for the kid whenever things
aren't going in his lay. You know, I really really
want him to succeed, and I think to his detriment,
you know, the Rockets will probably look at moving maybe
Tary easton this this before the deadline, are striking up
the sign and trade deal. Because when I see Tari
on the court, when he's in the game, he is
so he is ready to go. He wants to play,
he wants to start. When I see him not playing,
I can kind of see you know a little bit
of attitude. And I really like Tari too, but I
feel like he might be a casualty of a trade
for this season with not having any point guard help
or rent protection or anything like that. But I just
wanted to chime that in and thank you guys. I
have a great weekend. Stay warm.
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate it. If they stay warm, whether you're
here in Detroit or back home. Look, and I would something.
I can tell you some things I can't, but I
can tell you I don't feel the trade wins for
the Rockets rossing, and I don't know if that's a
good thing or a bad thing. I think the Rockets
are leveraged in their in their draft situation, not drafted
in their salary situation. Tari can be a restricted free
agent the end of the year, which means if he
was to get moved, any team could obviously resign him,
but he can also test the waters and then that
team would have a chance to match the contract. I mean,
the Rocket's trying to lock him up before the start
of the season, and he thought the money wasn't good enough.
So I don't know. I don't know if Tari's injury
history is going to play a lot of that. I'm
not saying that Tari's out there. I'm not saying I mean,
I have not heard anything significant. And look, I combed
the rumor streets. I'm a big rumor bonger when it
comes to trades, and I don't I don't hear much
buzz at all about anybody on the Rockets side.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't think that's very likely. I don't know
that they want to move on from Tari Easton. Even
Adoka I think, I mean, he played them all five
minutes in overtime. I think he loves Tarry Easton and
what he brings the traction on the defensive side. So
I think they like Tari. I don't know if they'd
move him, to move on from him. How much money
is he even making that he could even get you
something significant back in the trade. I mean, I have
to pull up the Rockets payroll, but it just doesn't
seem like that would be that attractive, and he's a
key piece.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: It feels like they're gonna have to dance with who
they brought because of, as you mentioned, the cap situation
and a lack of wiggle room unless you can find
somebody that wants a Fred van Vliet. Tarr Eastan's only
making five point six million dollars right now.
Speaker 2: Makes it easy to trade, But what are you going
to get back in return that would be significantly better
than what Tarry's giving him. Tarry gives you multiple play positions,
he defends very well. Three point shot has following him
for a little bit, but it's still above average compared
to where he was last year. Yeah, you can't during
and Phinney Smith. You don't know about whether the ankle's
gonna hold up. I don't think if you're the Rockets
and you want to win, Tari moving Tarr Easton's going
to necessarily mean a better thing for what are you
looking for?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. You're gonna have to find
somebody with like a tanking team with a piece.
Speaker 2: That today it was a room or out there. Chris
Haynes had the Rockets interested in Jose Alvarado doesn't make
a lot of money. It's guaranteed for next year. That'd
be nice, but but that has I guess that's been
quashed instead originally came out again. Okay, I'd love for
Rafel to tell me. But Rafel's not gonna tell anybody.
I mean, I wouldn't tell anybody. I think trades are
supposed to be secret for a reason. You know, you
don't want to be because again, if you if you,
if you throw a name out there and the player
finds out. I mean, Tari, you know, is an emotional kid.
And I'm sure and I'm not I'm talking about any
of these guys. If they hear their names out, that's
that's not gonna build what the Rockets are trying to
create here at this point. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll see, but I get I've been shocked before. Yeah,
but just I'm not gonna say shocked. But it's gonna
be very, very difficult for them to make an impact
type of trade for this team. And I think they
they love Tari Eastan's defense, and as you saw with
him being on the floor an overtime overreed, Shepherd, you
have a defensive minded head coach who prioritizes defense.
Speaker 2: The reality is, and I'm gonna look, I am growing
with affinity for Reid every time you play, especially with
this little offensive firepower He's coming off on the bench,
laying games. I mean he scored I think in the
last two games, Rossie, I want to say, twenty twenty
one points in the fourth quarter of the last two games.
I mean instant offense, especially in tight games, you'll take.
And he was a huge part of the reason why
the Rockets came back and beat the Spurs internight. But
defense does matter and Tyrese Maxi I'm not saying it
was Reid's fault exclusively, but Tyrese Maxey, and he's a
hard enough guy to stop to begin with. You've got
to put your best defensive group out there to try
to at least contain him. Problem was, it wasn't just
Tyrese Maxey. You had Joel Embiid. And I know there's
people saying as a fallbator, Well that's what Joe embid
has been since he's been the NBA. That just is
what it is. But Paul George hitting some key, clutch
three pointers. That's an old team that got the message,
taken their vitam eds or something before the game, because
they had tremendous energy in the fourth quarter of that
game last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you, as you mentioned, it was their five
starters against your five starters plus Easton and Reechepard can cook.
Speaker 2: And he does well. But usually I mean those are.
Speaker 3: In bench minutes against backups and a lot of times
and people are pointing out his plus minus and stuff
like that. Well, yeah, at the end of the games,
Udoka also plays him offense and defense, so to where
he's on an offensive possessions and if he can help it,
have him off on defense possessions.
Speaker 2: That's a great way to help your plus minus, Matt.
If you never give up, you're never on the court
on defense, your plus minus is gonna be pretty good. Yeah.
All right, Matt and Ross with you here on Sports
Talk seventy. Thank you ten o'clockers for being a part
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friends with.
Speaker 13: The Monster the sun minn get on with the voices,
you said, mind you try and say nasabone your breath,
then you think him crazy. You think him crazy.
Speaker 2: I wanted to faint, but not to cover a new
speak Pope.
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Speaker 2: This song online iPhone sports Irvy no compleated, went up Lucy,
but it was confusing because Matt Ross with you here
in Detroit, really crazy? Go back to phone in this
a second. You know, Charles Barkley is probably I would
I mean, I know that you can't compare apples and
oranges here, but his career as a broadcaster entertainer is
everybody as good as he was as a player, right.
That's I think it is, uh.
Speaker 3: The greatest TV pundit of all time.
Speaker 2: Because he was the greatest six to four rebounder in
the history of the NBA. And now there's a lot
of six four rebounders, but there there are round mound
of rebound a large distinguished career points rebounds, technical fouls,
throwing MVP windows in Orlando. I mean you you went,
and I believe just about every MVP, ever is in
the Hall of Fame pending Derrick Rose. Yeah, but he's
so exceptional as a television Pundititgy would say, but he's
a contradiction on the daily. So he signs the deal
to stay with Inside the NBA's was ESPN, and the
first thing he says is, I'm not going to work
all the time. I'm not going to do this. I'm
not going to go on Sports Center. I am not
going to get on Get Up, I'm not going to
go on First Take. I'm just going to just do
it when i want to do it because I'm getting
older and i want to not do as much television.
So the Inside the NBA has only been on a
few times since the start of the NBA season a ESPN,
and yesterday he's out complaining about that they've not been
on as much as they wanted to be. He thirsts
for the microphone as as often and as much as
a fans thirst for him to be on the microphone. Quote,
we've complained we've only been on ESPN four times in
three months. I don't know, he's just a contradiction. I mean,
he's a guy that he's like a boxing he's like
a sugar letter. Retire like five or six times.
Speaker 3: Well, say anybody complain about our jobs, Like, man, they
have me working too much and then when you have nothing.
Speaker 2: Well you know what, I go there and I got
nothing to do correct or Man, they don't call me
on these things. Yeah, it's a great show. It's still
got its fastball. It doesn't really it hasn't changed it
all in my mind for me when it went from TNTDESPN.
But it's just curious that I'm going to retire me.
He's only retired from television three or four times, and
he comes back because the money's excellent. They love him,
they treat him on they give him a schedul he wants,
and then the schedule he wants, he's not not happy
with it. Thought it was interesting that he's he's a
contradiction when it comes to because he misses it, He'll
always miss it. That's why Charles is never going to
retire from television. He likes to have his name out there.
He just does. And I'm here for it. I enjoy it. Yeah,
I haven't. I don't even know how much I've watched
Inside the NBA. Well, the problem is because you know
why you even watch this because it's been so inconsistent.
I mean, I don't know. That's the one thing about
this new television deal now again it's literally it's it's
it's the pockets of thirty really ridiculously rich people. Right.
But the byproduct of it is it's harder to find games.
You have some on Amazon, someone Peacock, you got some
on NBC, you got some of ESPN. And the schedule
is like every Thursday, ROSSI, you and I have grown
up for thirty years, Thursday Night's TNT doubleheader, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: You get your routine. I don't know who's playing, but
I'm gonna flip it on TNT.
Speaker 2: And see who's playing, correct, right, because now Gerald gonna
be a big game. Yeah. So yeah, it's hard to
find it. But they need to be on more now.
They don't need to be on every week, but people
enjoy that show. It's it's always clever. Now I'm not
going there for my analysis, but it's always clever, generally
funny and entertaining. Yeah. Yeah, we just don't have enough
clever television and shack. You can't understand a word, he says,
And that's fine. Uh, but the camaraderie those those four
gentlemen have on there is It's television gold and it's
been you know, I would probably put it in front
of College Game Day as the best all time pre
half in post show in television history. Yeah, I just
got I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm still getting a handle on what days is what
as Mondays as Peacock and Tuesdays as NBC years.
Speaker 2: Now that the calendar has turned and college football has
gone away and the NFL is running out of it,
they're not adding games, okay, like Prime has had games
this week and at a triple header on Friday. Your side,
it's inconsistent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to do go to your just to
get into a routine.
Speaker 2: Right, you can't. It's not possible. It's not possible. All
let's go to our friend Yankees Keith on seven fifty seven,
y K, good morning. Do you.
Speaker 12: Well? I just got another tradiction correct. The wise old
black man Paul jesse Mintter as the Ravens new coach
two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Uh, Matt, that is correct. I have it in my document.
Speaker 3: On January sixth, he said jesse Mentor will be the
Baltimore Ravens next head coach.
Speaker 2: All right, since that is accurate, YK, why is old
black Man? What would you like to tell us here?
In the final minute of this first hour of the
Matt Thomas Show at.
Speaker 12: Ross Kay, I got by three more predictions. Matt Stafford,
MVP bike Vable, Coach of the Year, Rams beat the
Patriots in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Is Stafford I believe is the odds on favorite. Yeah,
you're not getting credit for Stafford and you're not getting
get credit for Orble either. Sorry.
Speaker 12: Okay, how about Rams beat the Patriots in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I will give you props on that if it happens.
Speaker 3: And yeah, Rabel's the minus two eighty five favorite for
coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: I got one for you. Why, Keith, It's gonna be
really cold this weekend in Houston. There's gonna be some
ice issues, probably just north of us.
Speaker 12: Okay, wait a minute, wait, no, hold on.
Speaker 3: Hold on, Well I got two more because I wrote
these down from Keith. You said Katie is going on
I R and the Rockets will not make the playoffs.
Speaker 12: I didn't say that. Yes, I know, I said if
he does go on.
Speaker 2: I know you said he is going on R. Oh no, no, no,
make us pull up the tape.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, well then I'll stick by that.
Speaker 2: Okay. You also said the Rockets two Rockets will make
the All Star Team Katie and Amn Thompson. That's TVD right.
Speaker 12: That's also correct. That's also correct. Now yet I asked
a question.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So all right, now, I know that that
that somebody's gonna get traded from the Rockets between now
and the trade trade dead lives.
Speaker 12: If i'm if I'm guessing, if i'm prognosticating, I'm gonna
say it's Jabbari Smith.
Speaker 9: I don't know who they're.
Speaker 12: Gonna get for him, but I think he's the first
person that I think would be traded. Or they're going
to package Jabari Smith and Tari for somebody really good.
Speaker 9: I don't know who.
Speaker 12: I have no idea, but that's my prediction.
Speaker 2: You're saying Jabari and Tari are traded.
Speaker 12: For really good, but I don't know who.
Speaker 2: Let me write all this down. This is great. Yeah,
you go ahead and put that in because that that's
he can't back off of that when it doesn't happen.
This Keith, I don't think you're right, but you did
give us the new head coach. Of the Baltimore Ravens.
So I will give you prompts on that.
Speaker 12: I think it was about five in a row Man,
he's got.
Speaker 3: A track, No, because the Yankees winning the World Series
was in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: Ooh about that. Sorry, Yeah, there's always next year. Thank you.
Keith Second Hour, The Matt Thomas Show. If you're asking
me by the Dodgers again, Oh yeah, yeah, the Dodgers
are going the next seven World Series, right Row, I
mean right, I mean they could.
Speaker 3: They did in twenty two. They were, they were the
probably the best team in baseball in twenty two. You
can lose a five game series in baseball. And I'm
just holding out hope Toronto went to seven with the Dodgers.
It's anybody's series, even if you're stacking up salaries left
and right with Ross on Matt Second Hour, Matt Thomas
Show with Ross begins at a matter of moments.
Speaker 1: The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: I'm in the Ross back in Houston, as an nything
goes Friday seven one three two one two five seven
ninety is signing to reach the show today seven to
one three two one two five seven ninety. A couple of
College Notes for you. Our Cougar update brought brought to
you by our friends the Joint Chiropractic, the official chiropractor
of University of Houston Athletics. The Cougar's game tomorrow has
been moved to one o'clock in Lubbock. Game day is
going to be there, but it feels like to me
every college game in America is being shifted. So, uh,
you're a fan of a particular team, and I know
University of Texas playing probably ut RGV tomorrow, ross it's Georgia,
Top twenty five, Georgia, Georgia. But uh, the Cougar game
tomorrow got moved to one o'clock in Lubbock. So everybody's
worrying about the weather, and that's smart. Nobody's doen moving
things around. So are y'all favorite tomorrow at home for Georgia.
I don't see a line. Probably not. George is in
the top twenty five, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, SEC is tough, best basketball conference in the land.
Speaker 2: Now, as tough as Big twelve. But that's I'm just saying,
all right. A couple other things. Staying on college CFP
is going to stay at twelve teams for next year. Yes,
thank god, I'm really happy about that. I don't think
it's going to stay that way. I think there's probably
too much bickering between the SEC and the Big ten
about what they're going to do ultimately in that. If
there is anything I would change for next year having
the second round at home sites too. They're not going
to do it, but it's if the college football playoff
world could realize what tremendous buzz there is having those
top four teams have a home game. It's incredible to me.
I just the first round had great energy to it.
Why don't get one more round of that? Money? Forget it?
Check money, money, money, money, money money, because you gotta
incorporate the bulls us so because those bulls those are
the big money spending bowls. They need good teams there.
You can't bring Western Michigan to the Cotton Bowl. Just
can't cut that.
Speaker 3: Chick said that Chick fil a Peach Bowl didn't pay
for itself.
Speaker 2: No, I mean you can only give so many nuggets away.
And then one other thing. Uh, there is a head
coaching spot open in Buffalo right because Sean McDermot got
fired early yes applying for the job and being interviewed
today is Philip Rivers. There's got to be no way.
I mean, I could say no way, but this is like,
this is like Josh McCown getting interviewed in Houston. Right,
he's only been isn't it a high school? His only experience? Yes? Yes,
it makes me feel less bad. Now.
Speaker 3: The Texans become in a national punchline when they interviewed
Josh McCown.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Colts were a punchline when Jeff Saturday
replaced whoever they heat fired at least season? Who is
who do you replace? I forgot? Uh, it was that guy,
Chuck Chuck Eric MANGIONI. No, there's somebody more famous than that,
more recent than that. It wasn't Chuck Mangioni. It was
not Chuck man Joni on the saxophone, the flugelhorn. Matt
all right, yeah, Saturday, I can't remember. I'm gonna look
it up. Ross. What else going on? Let's be mention
our Instagram accounts? Yeah at sports r V Frank Reich,
there you go. I knew it was somebody before mcgonno.
Did we get to make call? It wanted Chuck mamcgonno
to come to work for the Texans or who we
had somebody? No, it was a guy wanted Bruce Arians,
Bruce Arians. I knew it was somebody will be hey, yeah,
it's not gonna work, not gonna work at all.
Speaker 3: All right, set Bobby Slow interviewed for the offensive coordinator
job for the Eagles, and Mike McDaniel's are looking for
head coaching jobs still.
Speaker 2: At this point interviewing with the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, man
living in Mike McDaniel goes from Miami warking with those
capri pants to go into Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Are is he sure he wants to do that? He
can wear the caprice for one month. You might want
to wear a couple of layers of thermals underneath.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. Seven one three two one two
five seven, Auntie, we have I'm sorry is coming up
at the bottom of the hour. I'm here in Detroit
when the Rockets are hopefully going to make the Pistons
sorry tonight. The Pistons are thirty two and ten, eighteen
and four at home. But would you like some silver lining? Yes?
If I'm reading it right, the Rockets have won here
in five consecutive years in a row.
Speaker 3: Oh, that doesn't help me. But they are only four
and a half point dogs.
Speaker 2: I don't think about these things in a handicapping aspect. Okay,
well I do well, I should be. That's all. Intelligendings
don't matter to me in there. When when it's the
line spread, should be a close one.
Speaker 3: Last night it was one and a half rockets and
they went overtime, so it was a close one. Should
be a close one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two two five seven Andy, let's go
to our buddy Soubs at eleven ten on seventy soups
was a good word.
Speaker 8: Hey guys, Happy New year. Ross Man. You can't do that,
matt Man. Next thing, you know, you're gonna have the
media treat him like show hey Toney thinking.
Speaker 2: You're doing his best, So don't do it.
Speaker 12: Stop stop.
Speaker 8: I love you, though, But the reason why I'm Paul
And give me like a few seconds on this. Let
me take a deep breath. Know this is anything else Friday,
and I promise.
Speaker 9: My here to crash the show.
Speaker 8: But Yankee Keith, shut shoe bomb ass up? How are
you gonna talk about trading tari And are what are
you smoking. You must be smoking at Mike McDaniel or
whatever that coach was in Miami. You must be smoking
that dust because you are crazy in hell unless I
don't even want to talk about it. Just I'm driving
on fifty nine. I was all called. I love listening
to your guys show. It gets me in my you know,
my my sports safe space, because let's face it, you
know the Texans have did a number on us this week,
you know, our pizza potential super Bowl season, but nck
some on, dude. I mean, do you just go in
the bathroom and roll dice. It's like, okay, let me
call with the dumbest takes ever and then an obvious take.
So I'm gonna fade my dumb take with my dumb
gut feeling with Oh Philip are mess out for? Is
gonna win? MVP?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 12: Bro?
Speaker 8: Water is wet in Houston's scarecter hold Like, come on, bro, Like,
I'm gonna stay on your own if you keep calling
with those sakes, Hey be warming Detroit. Get you some
little Caesar pizza up there if you can. At Ross,
feel free to drop me a basketball parlay that I
need to lay on a on a draft stations we
can and I'll talk to you all later.
Speaker 2: Man, be safe. Thanks subs. By the way, I am
not a little Caesars guy under any The crazy bread
is crack. The pizza is below me. Sorry, Actually, man,
when's the last time you had it within the last
two years?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really? Now I understand they have a pretzel crust around
the pizza that is getting some decent reviews. I'm just
gonna say, like when I was younger and it was
all the five dollars hot and readies, and it was like, oh,
this is a struggle meal. This is terrible. Right, It's
actually gotten a lot.
Speaker 3: I don't know if everyone else has gotten worse or
if they've gotten better.
Speaker 2: It's actually not that bad. Like the the stuff crust,
solid pretzel crust as you mentioned, pretty good. The Detroit
style one not bad. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Ever since they became sponsors of the NFL, maybe they
up their their ingredients game or something like that. It's
not as bad as it used to taste like cardboard,
like it was terrible and you'd only eat it because
it was five dollars for a whole pizza.
Speaker 2: And it was long, too big, long, pizzas. Oh the Bigfoot,
I remember that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was
just not good pizza. But actually it's not that bad.
I'm just saying, I'll take your word for it. I
have you don't have the I mean, you got a
thousand other options that are better. There are two things
in my life as I've gotten older, but I've become
snobbed for Alsa and Mexican food. Hm hmm. Like I
used to go back in the day when I was
young and broke, we'd go to Rancho's and be just fine.
I'm never stepping into Roncho's ever again. Well you and
all of Houston. I think there's like one left. Uh. I.
We used to have a little Caesars next to the
Randalls in my neighborhood when I was growing up in Katie,
and we would we we would attack. I mean, look,
if you look at some photos of mine in high school,
I attacked the little Sezars quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I can get a Hot and Ready and
then just eat the whole largs for dinner.
Speaker 2: Hot and Ready and a two liter of coke. Oh
my god, yeah, easy peasy on that one. The crazy
bread to me? If if Ross if I am in
going to prison, you know you can. Rachel o'mill used
used to be able to Little Caesars. Crazy bread is
my appetizer that in the chicken wraps from from Payway
slash PF changs. But the I just can't. I can't
do it. It doesn't look good. And how long? How
long do they sit in the ovens like you have
to press a button the pizza fus flies out? No, no,
the pizza's not flying out. Okay, I'm telling you it's
better now. The Little Caesars Arena is where the game
is tonight, and they do give us a holatiously big
media spread. I mean, what do they got? Uh? Let
me just give you the rundown? Okay, pizza, Little Caesars wings,
cheesy bread, breadsticks, salad, bar, carving station, what soup? Two
or three other hot entrees, chicken fingers or tenders if
you will, tends, potato wedges, Oh wow, yogurt? All right,
you stop, I'm getting hungry. Yeah, I'm skipping. I'm not
having hitting to eat all day today and I'm not.
I don't think I'm gonna eat until the until I
get to the arena. It's that good it's the second
best media spread in the NBA, behind the Utah Jazz.
Hmm okay, of course the Rockets are third. Delicious. I
have no context for that. It's a hit or miss,
but it's been hitting more lately. It's you know, it's
it's it's a it's a quality hit her. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You get some shoe leather brisket every now and then,
but usually it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: You still got a carbon station once in a while
with the big games. Oh, I know, I come down
there in halftime. Oh yeah, eat a lot of I
don't even get halftime snacks. You get halftime snacks, And
why don't you could? It's too far for a walk.
I can get them too far. Oh that's true. You're
on the other side. Thank you. All right, so let's
go back to it. We got I'm sorry, it's coming
up at the bottom of the hour. C J Streem
memes are out there, and that's gotta stop. But it's
not gonna stop. Is enough. And here's the thing. It's
not just Houston fans doing it or Houston haters. It's
America doing it.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 3: He's a national punchline. This is the biggest since James Harden,
I think that's problem.
Speaker 2: Did you see the ratings of the game. We're hilaciously big. Yeah,
you're gonna be a story. Thirty million people saw throw
four interceptions and a half. It's not good. Yeah all
right seven one three two one two five seven. Nintie,
I'm here in Detroit. Ross is back in Houston. Seven
one three two one two five seven, NINTI.
Speaker 10: Is this the.
Speaker 2: Detroit song too, Rossie? Yeah, all right, this is the
Detroit Boys, the Detroit Boys. Excuse and bless a little
sneeze there. It's yeah, this is gonna be This is
called darn.
Speaker 3: It feels good to be a law abiding citizen by
the Detroit Boys.
Speaker 2: Really, three degrees here in Detroit feels like minus sixteen.
What does minus sixteen feel like? That means that my
face is gonna crumble right and crack. I'm a little
worried about you getting frostbitten. I'm not gonna be up
there for half an hour. I'm gonna like walk to
the bus into the arena and get in the room
and shut the door. Okay, yeah, you'll be all right.
Eat some crazy bread. All right. So we mentioned the
CFP is at twelve. We okay with that. I mean
it's a great one more year this right. Basically, I
think twelve is where it should stay, because again you
can get mad at me. I don't mind a group
of five automatic injury. I don't mind it. You gotta
play for something, but you can't do it at twelve.
I have, I have the James Madison Tulane dreams and
hopes of representing the little guys was completely ruined with
two completely non competitive games.
Speaker 3: Yeah if they if you get in the top twelve,
you make it. Even if you're a nonpower, a group
of five or whatever the hell they're calling it these days.
The Boise State would have made it. If you're good enough,
UCF back in the day or whatever would have made.
Speaker 2: It, and get your shot. You shouldn't be jumping tough
from from twenty five or even out of the rankings. Yeah,
jumping people who are in the rankings. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah.
And again it wasn't like necessarily I was rooting for
James Madison inlian I was just hoping, you know what,
show up, and they did go up and the reality
and so if I'm representing G five, I'm like, well,
you guys won't play us. We're in a league. How
can we improve on ourselves if you won't play us?
Like if James Madison called Notre Dame tomorrow, would James
would Notre Dame pick up the game and play. I
don't know, I don't know, but that's their biggest argument
is you you can't. You can't get into that level
unless the team's on that level will face you. James
Madison played Louisville. They lost twenty eight to fourteen. Okay,
well there's a Louisville, but Louisville's not gonna be considered
any sort of you know I'm talking about, Like and
maybe James Madison wouldn't go to Alabama and play, but
they're you know, like, we can't you know, we're not
gonna be a sacrificial lamb. And you also can't figure
out if your team is good and effort. Now now, granted,
my assumption is now that James Madison has been completely
depleted because those portal guys are all left and whatnot.
So it may be James Madison this past year. It
could be I don't know, the Colorado State. In twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Two, Lane played Northwestern, Duke and ole Miss. They beat
Northwest Northwestern twenty three to three into two lane. Come on,
they beat Duke and then they got crushed by Ole
Miss forty five to ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just do this. Let's go to six Let's
give one G five guarantee. Although I feel like it's
gonna be two, which maybe that's a stretch. I think
when it goes to sixteen, yeah, it should. It should
be one guaranteed and then the other one makes it in.
If you're top sixteen, do you like this guaranteed offence?
I think we're gonna get conference guarantees.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't be any of that. But I understand why
it's happening. I get it, but it shouldn't be. It
should just be the top sixteen teams. Let's move on.
Speaker 2: Yep. And by the way, ratings for everything college football.
I mean, maybe it's because I'm following these pr of
these leagues and these sports networks, but you ever, you
never hear oh our ratings crap. Here here's the numbers.
The numbers continue to go up. I think it was
the second highest CFP final ever. I want to say, really,
so all of us bitching and moaning about, well there
was too much time in between games and whatnot. We
as a sports fandom, we found the game. We wanted
to find it. I had it on Yeah, I did too.
And that's all they care about. They don't care if
you're if you're studying and running down on game notes,
they're carrying it. If the television is tuned on or not. Yeah,
if you streamed it for any portion of the time,
they've got record of it. They know it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they have the numbers. And then the numbers
have been inflated. The last couple not inflated, but I
get maybe even there's more true, So you're gonna see
records for a little while. Or this is top one
of all time or top two of all time, or
like they said, the was Texans and Texans and the Patriots,
the most compelling divisional game ever. No, but apparently the
most watched ESPN event ever because the numbers are inflated
right now.
Speaker 2: So in a couple of years we'll see where we are.
Here's what they did, and it's very smart on the
ESPN ABC side. First of ally're putting these games on ABC.
Remember that was too shay for a while. That was
not too shaved. That was taboo for a while, and
then they realized that putting games on over the air
tannels are still going to draw numbers. I think ninety
percent of the audience watched Texans Patriots on it on
the ABC has compared to ESPN. But they also did
like a three hour pregame show. If you put on
ABC for any length of time, you got this immense
rundown of all the NFL games. It kind of like, Okay,
here comes the here's all the appetities. Lets let's get
the main course. And I thought that to ESPN's credit,
they heavily pregamed it. They spent a lot of money
in the production, They put lots of interviews in, they
were on site, they got the fans involved. And sometimes
these pregame shows do have a payoff, and I think
people turned it on and didn't turn it off. That's
also divisional weekend too. I mean, you could be a
be a fool. I realized what was going on Saturday
and Sunday last weekend, and.
Speaker 3: We all love car Wreck and that's what you were
seeing in that first half too.
Speaker 2: So we have not made our predictions yet. You want
to do it really quick about how we liked this game,
these games I think we did. On gut feelings, we did.
What does your gut tell you how Jared Sidham is
gonna do on Sunday?
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be He's not gonna I
don't even Okay, it popped in my head.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it out loud. Can't be worse than
c j'stroud. Wait a minute, all right, did y'all hear that? Houston?
I'm sorry, I want you true hold on, I want
you all to repeat that again. Jonathan, would you please
record this week's back on Monday? Under four interceptions? First?
Didham under five, four, three, two one go?
Speaker 3: He can't be worse than c j' stroud was in
that first half when he threw four interceptions, and.
Speaker 2: He wasn't great the whole game. Honestly, No, he wasn't
good after that.
Speaker 3: He at least didn't throw a pick, but he was
like with ten to twenty something for whatever, like seven
or four yards in attempt.
Speaker 2: It was five and a half. Now it's down to
four and a half. I will say, honestly, he was
feeling little Broncos action at four and five and a
half four and a half. I don't know. I will
say this, Sean Payton's got a wonderful offensive mind. He
may be the biggest a hole in sports today that
we don't know about because we don't talk a lot
about Sean Payton generally speaking. But if there's anybody that
could get a quarterback in the right spot, I mean,
the playbook is not the same for Bonix, clearly, but
let's let's be brutally honest. Is bow Nicks a long term,
ten year NFL four thousand yard passer? Doesn't feel like it?
And look what they've gotten with him. He's been you
know what, Bnix has been described this year as a
great fourth quarter quarterback, a bunch of comebacks. Yeah, and
he's been overall, I mean, above average. But you so
you're just needing Jared Sidim to be average and not
a disaster like some quarterbacks have been these playoffs. Like
when you had Andy Lindahl on from Altitude Sports this week,
he wasn't heaping a lot of praise at Bonix. He's like,
this guy is just a guy. Mm hm. So you
have you have a just a guy who's taking you
the AFC Championship. Now, Jared Sidham hasn't thrown a pass
since uh, you know, COVID probably, but you know he's
going to keep it simple right.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: The difference is is that New England knows that's going
to come too. I mean, just because you simplify the
game plan doesn't necessarily mean that New England doesn't realize
that there's not gonna be a bunch of seven step
drops in double flea flickers, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, oh, our friend Andy Lindall did say though
that Jared Sidham does turn it loose, which can be
very good or very bad. So that could that could
be interesting.
Speaker 2: What is the weather in Denver? Do you have any
idea I can find it? Like I was saying, it
would make a fat difference because both teams would be
you know, are used to that kind of thing. Yeah,
I would imagine weather on Sunday will be high of
twenty two, low of seven with a fifty chance of
snow in Denver fall around one inch around one inch.
So you're talking about for Seattle Denver? Oh, this is okay.
Speaker 3: The one I'm looking at says game time attempts in
the twenties wins light and no precipitation expected.
Speaker 2: Well this is this weather channel app is this good
or bad? Or you you go somewhere else?
Speaker 3: Well, I go to Uh there's a as I said,
his name is Kevin Roth. He's a he's like a
fantasy meteorologist.
Speaker 2: So it gives you the impact of Yeah, really fantasy football,
you're not paying attention to weather. This is why he
can't win the championship. Let's go. I've got some I've
got some fancy meteorology things I'd like to ask in myself.
So it he he will talk about weather as it's
going to impact a football game, which is what we're
looking for. Seattle is supposed to be no problems, and
he has like a green green green for Seattle, yellow
for Denver, so there could be some precipitation. I guess
I got a question for you. To really irritate people
in Houston. You need one game to win Jared's did
him or c J Stroud? C J Stroud say it proudly?
Speaker 14: C J.
Speaker 2: Stroud, I can't even do it. Yah Stock as low
as has ever been.
Speaker 14: He was.
Speaker 2: He was a complete disaster for two straight playoff games.
So why I want to tell this guy's the franchise
quarterback for life. We're comparing a quarterbacks and thrown a
pass in three yes to a starting quarterback. Well, and
I took CJ stroud. I didn't hesitate teams, trout, ladies
and gentlemen. That's our guy. Seven one three two one
two five seven seven one three two one two five SEVENINTI.
If you're ready to apologize, the next half hour is yours.
Come say you're sorries. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. This is the most cathartic thirty minutes
of your week. No other radio show the Marketplace is
gonna give it to you. We're gonna ask you to
call in and say these sperry simple words.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 2: Yep, you were foolish this week. It's time to apologize.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. Any
apologies you want to make for the things you've said
to your wife, your neighbor, your co host, your boss,
the people that work under you. This is the cathartic
opportunity you have. It's seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Before we get to what Jonathan apologizes
for or Ross or myself. Danelovsky makes an appearance here
the first time ever on I'm Sorry, and he said
sorry to see j Stroud.
Speaker 16: I mean, if you're Houston, you win that game with
thirty one other quarterbacks. That's the and it's unfortunately Charish
did him and any other quarterback. I mean, it's unfortunate
that we don't get this defense not only the AFC
title game, but then more than likely in the Super.
Speaker 2: Bowl if they win that game yesterday.
Speaker 16: Bad quarterback play wins that game. Bad quarterback play, the
pick six and the fumble.
Speaker 2: That's ten points right there now. Credit New England.
Speaker 16: New England made some crucial plays in crucial moments. Drake
May's touchdown to the fourth down to Douglas, a touchdown
to steph with the ball.
Speaker 2: Placement, the booty play, no question. But if you're.
Speaker 16: Houston, I think Houston and Buffalo walk away from this
weekend sick to their stomach because they look at all
the self inflicted wounds and Houston just is just going
to sit there and go If ten turnovers by c
J are five picks, five fumbles and two games in
the playoffs, yes, and I think.
Speaker 2: Now if you're Houston.
Speaker 16: You're gonna sit there and go what do we do
at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: In the future. Well, he went to Twitter Rossie and
he said I should have been better. So sorry, that's good.
I guess David will get it reach out. Uh, yeah,
we'll have got us. Sent a text to Ryan Clark
and said, give me Danielofski's phone number. Police. He's probably
got it. Oh, I'm sure he does. My shirt and
I guess Dan, we'll have got to have a lot
of television network analyst numbers, hashtag create the narrative. What
was the apology? You just say I'm sorry. I thought
you could get it on camera. I thought that that's
what I sent Jonathan, But I guess I was wrong. Okay,
I'm looking at his Twitter. It said I should have
been better. It's got one point two million views on
four hundred likes, six hundred ninety retweets at nine one
hundred likes, forteen hundred comments. By the way, also, he's
the fumble. The fumble was by Woody Marx. Yeah, that
was all huge and ill timed. I mean, ugh, so bad,
so bad. I don't want to think about this anymore.
You're gonna have to all summer long. No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Oh sure you are gonna focus. The past can't haunt
me unless I let it.
Speaker 2: Matt, Well, that's gonna the pass is gonna haunt you
ten to two weekdays on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm gonna talk it out. We're gonna process this,
we're gonna work through it, and we're gonna move forward.
Speaker 2: All right. I like the attitude, Rossie. What do you
gotta apologize for this week? A couple things. Well, I
want to apologize to all my battle red brethren, as
I had people getting on the bandwagon with me and
saying that the Texans were gonna make the AFC Championship Game. No,
I didn't let you down. C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud did, But I'm sorry for getting some of you
whipped up into a frenzy and getting all excited about
the Texans and they fell short.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, really short. Sorry, not really short, really short.
So they're one game short, two scores short. Yeah, over
and over again. I'm gonna take something right now. I'm
gonna the opposite. I'm not sorry. I'm not a Texans fan.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you think I should be
a Texans fan. Texans Matt, I'm not. I'm Texans realist,
the insider. I told you about Joe Mix for a
long time ago. Well okay, well let's see if he
shot himself in the foot. You know what I'm gonna
I'm gonna add that to the addendum. Not only will
I pay for your coffee if he shot himself in
the foot, I will call you the Texans Insider. I'm
sorry for how long one show. That's fair because I'll
do it the rest of the time. Yeah, you can
handle that. I'll get to I'm sorry about but Jonathan,
you gotta think on your chest. You want to tell
the world about.
Speaker 7: No, but I got someone that needs to say sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh we do. We got us another celebrity in the
studio today. I hate you. I hat It's Cole Thompson.
He is one half of the wake Up Call here
on Sports Talk seven ninety fantastic name, by the way,
find it. I think of that. Yep.
Speaker 17: So no, I saw listening to this, So guess what
I get to go away with that. I am sorry
to her for uh dragging me on a fight that
does not need to exist past a twenty four hour limit.
Speaker 2: Slept in the.
Speaker 17: Guest room last night, because if I just decided to
go ahead to continue down the pathway of let's just
continue to dig the hole until you're basically reaching China. So, honey,
I apologize for so want to fight with you over
something that was so simple.
Speaker 2: But also you could.
Speaker 17: Sometimes be really, really, really mean and say the most
hostile things that I said that I guess grow.
Speaker 2: Up and understand that that's what I'm married into. No,
you guys need to communicate on this. If she's being hurtful. Cole,
you can stand up for yourself.
Speaker 17: I did, and that led to be sleeping on the
couch and then the guests you.
Speaker 2: Could explain what you're arguing about or no, sure.
Speaker 17: So you know how the freeze is coming into town?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 17: Well, she decided to start planning on Tuesday after we
left the Rockets game.
Speaker 2: By the way, great seeing you, Matt, and.
Speaker 17: I apparently did not react the way that I'm supposed
to as the man of the house by getting it
ready by Wednesday. So she decided to question I'm sorry
who I am.
Speaker 2: As an individual. She said, You're not a man.
Speaker 14: Oh, yes she did.
Speaker 2: She said, you're not a real man.
Speaker 17: She said that exactly yeah, and I said some things
I'm not allowed to say on the FCC if I
want to keep my job correct And so that led
to a five desk going off for forty eight hours.
At the worst part is that I went and I
actually cleaned up the house. I got anything prepared yesterday
by going to Low's. You don't doing the thing that
I'm supposed to do. Yeah, going to shows, making sure
that I get the you know, the pipes and everything.
Speaker 2: To cover the housing market.
Speaker 17: And she's still instead of just saying all right, I
probably overreacted mention that if I would have done it
on Tuesday, I wouldn't have had a problem on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: To deal with it now, I want to Actually, we
need to talk through this, Matt, because I have questions
and only married men can answer my questions.
Speaker 2: By the way, she just texted me, I know she did.
I can't believe you gave her your number.
Speaker 3: By the way, really, Oh no, you don't want Matt
texting your wife.
Speaker 2: She said, I'm so mad at Cole. I'm now a
lot and sec guy. Oh wow, well that's great. Wow.
Speaker 17: I can't believe that Gordy her are going to have
a great relationship moving forward.
Speaker 2: It's getting fantastic. Go uh okay.
Speaker 3: So now on the one hand, first of all, you
are being a real man because you're procrastinating exactly.
Speaker 2: That's what real men do. That's what I said number two.
Though she might have a point, Matt. Now, you guys,
you could the homeowners help me out of this. Now
stuff can sell out as far as like pipe wrapping stuff,
I think she would be validated in being wary of
things selling out before the forecast gets a clearer picture.
So here's the way that I described it.
Speaker 17: If by Friday morning, I had not gotten the materials
and I went to look, I went to shows or
to the domb depot.
Speaker 2: The domb depot, and I went to one of those
places and they.
Speaker 17: Were already sold out, which, by the way, they are
on a Thursday. Because I went back last night to
go pick up something else. I had to order it
from Shamazon. But anyways, if that happened on a Friday,
complain all you want and I'll shut.
Speaker 2: My butt mass up. And I'm totally cool with that.
But it's a Tuesday. You're reacting on a Tuesday. I
don't know. I need I need some guidance from you,
mister Thomas. She wants you to get it done on Tuesday.
You get it done on Tuesdays. Side nor no, no, no, no, no,
no no. I just know that when I'm given a
job assignment, I don't want this to linger because to
have to hear about have you done it yet? When
you're gonna do it? I don't need that in my
life then. So, honestly, I hate to call you out, Cole,
because the show is doing great, but you're off at
ten o'clock. I mean, what the hell are you? Honestly,
I like Jonathan. I'll take him out for three. I'm
not sorry.
Speaker 3: That's a great point on your part, Matt. He's he's
done for the day at ten am.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm you're not working at Conico, you know,
the twelve hours shift at the overnight security guard twelve
hour shift. I mean, you're not a fair point. Sorry
that you're freezing up in Detroit.
Speaker 3: It's a fair point, really, okay, I'm not sorry that
to hang out with you tomorrow now, she definitely shouldn't
be calling you not a real man.
Speaker 2: That's hurtful. That hurt By the way, are you enjoying
that not being in the same room with her, or
are you trying to get back in there? And then
how long is the longer? Wait? Is the guys?
Speaker 3: The question if you take care of the pipes, how
long till your pipes are taken care of.
Speaker 17: Because you think you took care of the pipes twenty
four hours ago and I'm swishing in the room with
you or no, no, no freezing and your pipes are
still cold.
Speaker 2: It's now twenty four hours later and they're still freezing. Okay,
here's what you need to get back in that bedroom tonight,
and you're not going to have any You're not gonna eat.
Your pipes will not be.
Speaker 17: Ta tonight, and I'm gonna I'm gonna have finally go
ahead and call.
Speaker 2: Out, Oh you gotta get some winterry mixed cuddle time. Though,
the reality is if you don't get your pipes taken
care of him by Tuesday, she's never gonna take care
of your pipes. Fantastic. Okay, I have one more stupid question, firewife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, why can't now again, I'm not a homeowner.
Why can't you just always leave the pipes wrapped? You
could in theory typic.
Speaker 17: You could, all right, and honestly and honestly knowing me
because of you know, I am a man, and I'm lazy,
and I'm gonna procrastinate taking.
Speaker 2: All the stuff off. They're gonna be on for probably
like two months. I leave it on there. That's that's
the plan. Leave it on at least till March. Why
would I.
Speaker 17: Take it off to them put it back on if
there's a second first that comes through in a week.
Speaker 2: But they have they have they feed they have these
pipe like it would be like a pipe condoms. You
just put them on top of your popet. No, that's
why I ordered literally a pipe condom. Yeah, that's we have.
We have to have. We have pipe condoms all right
on the phones. Next, you always want to make sure
you're you're protected, that's what she said. Yeah, you don't
need to be worrying about protection for a few days. Apparently,
all right, more I'm sorries up. Next it is the
Matt Thomas Sholder Ross seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Let's get to the phones. You got
a lot of people need to apologize, and that's why
we're the This is the most cathartic half hour in
major market Houston Sports Radio seven to one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven Nini. We'll start with Josh on seven day. Josh,
what are you sorry for?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Mine, similar to Coole's. So my wife is doing this
ketto diet thing, and I cooked the dinners and she
wanted this ground turkey crust pizza thing and I accidentally
used ground chicken, and so I just wanted to tell her,
I'm sorry that you didn't get that one to two
grams of protein extra in the chicken. So yeah, and
it was a huge fight. So yeah, I'm sorry for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Hope. She listens ground chicken for a
pizza crust. That sounds gross. Yeah, these people are there,
these protein people are getting crazy with it. And by
the way, I've tried the califlower crust. I can't do it.
I'm just going to go without. It's not that bad.
It's not that good. It's not that good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing's gonna be like what's bad for you, Matt
with the high fat.
Speaker 2: Like, well, I'm not gonna go to Little Caesars and
get crazy cauliflower bready I know.
Speaker 3: Oh we also, by the way, we got Joan offering
all these high Yeah. Okay, if I want to spend
fifty dollars on pizza, then I will go to a
nicer place.
Speaker 2: But also, if you just want a little something from
Biddle Beezers to tide you over, that's gonna be eight
to ten dollars. It's different. But you almost go to
Pizza Butt two. Yeah, that's fine. I'm just saying, like,
don't go to this fit.
Speaker 3: That's like saying, don't go to McDonald's when you can
go to very a nicer burger place that we won't name.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, sometimes you want. Sometimes I crazy, sometimes I
crave Rickronalds. I do too. Do they put krack in there?
Let me tell you about, let me tell you about,
let me tell you what y'all stop doing. Stop shaming
us that are pro Rick Ronalds. Okay, I'm we're not
going there for a five diamond meal. But if we
want a QP with cheese and large fries with heavy salt,
We're gonna get it, and we're gonna enjoy it, and
I'm not gonna be shamed. I don't ever want to
hear who kids the Rick Reynolds anymore. I don't know
four billion people do Yeah, stop shaming me that I
like Rick Ronald's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let us in our fellow Type two diabetics, get
our Yes, get our Rick Ronalds on.
Speaker 2: We're watching our sugar count Eventually. I'm sorry it won't
be in the drive through we order the twenty piece.
I'm I'm done with being shamed by loving Rick Ronalds.
You do do it well. You should be shamed for
liking the McRib. Oh that is so good. Aw, I
cannot believe you just made that sound.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh my god, you just made the same sound.
And when you're looking at your Sidney Sweeney videos, she's.
Speaker 2: The McRib of women. Oh that's not true. Tangy, delicious, sweet?
What all right? I'm uncomfortable. I'm turning my mic off
on seven auty. What are you sorry for? Philipe?
Speaker 19: Well, first off, Brasid doesn't need to apologize for the
Big Crib. It is delicious.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry it sucks, Felipe, it's good man for what
it is, it's good.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 19: But I don't know if I need to apologize, But
I think I need an apology from Texans fans this week,
they're saying that they were gonna crush the Patriots, that
they were gonna swarm them, destroy them. I need an apology.
Speaker 2: Who said they were gonna crush.
Speaker 12: Huh?
Speaker 19: All over social media? I've seen all over social media.
Everybody was saying they gonna crush They're gonna kill him.
It's Texans game. That was the case. I knew CEO
was at Peel, So I think I need an apology from
all Texans.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: All right. By the way, I think traveling Texans need
to apologize to us. Those dorks went up there New
England wearing all their playing Go Texans, Go hey, Greg Bailey,
come take a photo with me. You got your ass kick.
Say you're sorry. Tech traveling Texans should they apologize because
they were stupid for going up there. They wanted to
support their team and watch them play in a playoff
game and try to get to their first ever AFC
Championship game. Why does that make you a form That's
the risk you take, Just like when sometimes you go
to San Antonio for the Final Four and your team loses,
like you have to a terrible call of fishing in
the second hand. You want to you want to well
in a terrible choke when the ball is just there,
bat of fishing, lots of I think that everybody's still
staring at that ball on the floor. Oh my god, you.
Speaker 7: Were on air saying how expensive the trip will be
up there to Boston.
Speaker 2: Go do it.
Speaker 3: You should give these people their kudos spending all their
money supporting their team.
Speaker 2: They wanted to watch their going to the city Council
sign in Boston and saying we're going to beat the Patriots.
Thanks traveling Texans. They just wanted to support their team.
Hater MH. Texan's a realist and most importantly Texans insider.
Let's go to Alex and conro at eleven fifty seven? Alex,
what are you sorry for?
Speaker 20: All right?
Speaker 11: So I'm sorry to.
Speaker 10: Cole.
Speaker 21: Honestly, I just feel really bad for him right now,
this whole predicament that he's in. And it's funny because
you know, the whole thing is about wrapping and insulating
the pipes. And the funny thing is that pipe game
is directly correlated to how far you can get away
with whatever you want to do.
Speaker 18: You can you know, how Spice do you want to.
Speaker 8: Talk to her?
Speaker 11: All those things are directly correlated.
Speaker 2: Cole, So put in some work, brother, put in some work,
then you can be a procrastinator.
Speaker 11: And and if that doesn't work, then just get a
side piece.
Speaker 4: Bro cheers.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and I guarantee you Cole's listening to that
right now a thousand percent.
Speaker 3: He was in here defending myself himself at the start
of the segment.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, last one, Roger, what are you sorry for?
Speaker 20: I'm sorry that the city of Houston people, these panicstricking
people don't still don't know any better about when a
couple of days of bad weather hits that they have
to unleash their panic strick sales, all of those that
if Houston and ravage the grocery stores and a clutter
up the parking lots and the gas pomps and everything
else they find them. They don't get there because they
found out there's gonna be two book two days of
bad weather.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but get over it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Sorry, there it is.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had to make a regular grocery store trip yesterday.
It wasn't a panty like I just needed regular groceries. Oh,
the parking lot was a mess. The lines were long,
they were out of like a couple of things that
I needed.
Speaker 2: Well, all I gotta do tonight is when I get
home from Detroit and I gotta get get some gas
in the car. I'm coming downtown tomorrow. So if you're
at a gas station two o'clock in the morning, let
me have my space. You'll be fine. I just need
a dollar for bus fare. I'm not taking a bus
downtown on Saturdays. Never mind, Ross. I can apologize to
the rooms to the left and right of me, because
I'm gonna wake the strippers up next here on Sports Talk,
So you know, did you know you're kind of you're
calling the game. You're you're doing the show a little
bit like you're calling a golf match. Hold on, well,
it's honest, because I don't want championship Sunday. Here on
Sports Talk seven ninety tonight from Detroit, it's game two
of a tough East Coast road trip between the Rockets
and the Pistons and the action ease next. Well, I
don't want to be too loud. You and I have
not argued about anything today. I can't be that loud.
We got time to get two hours left. E may
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And what is today's edition of helly air or not
today's edition of hell yeah or not? All things Caid Cunningham.
Really no, how about how about Detroit Detroit? From here?
Is this artist from Detroit? Or now that's nice, that's
an easy that's a layup drill. Today Arch Manning's foot surgeon,
believe it or not?
Speaker 22: C J.
Speaker 2: Stroud's psychiatrist. Right here on Sports Talks is.
Speaker 1: The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Twelve five in h.
Speaker 23: Town, Good Mornage Bars and Tower three.
Speaker 2: Love about Thomas Show with Ross? This is Sports Talk seveny. No,
my mom did not walk in the bathroom when I
was in the shower shop. I'm cleaning myself. What are
you doing in the shower.
Speaker 3: It doesn't take thirty minutes to clean yourself, Matt.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a thirty minute shower on the show.
Speaker 3: So certainly not. You are not not an outdoors type.
You don't know that I got fancy Matthew know you
know you're not you.
Speaker 2: You know you're not going hikes with Craig Ackerman. He's
always inviting me. That's for sure. You should go. I'll go.
Speaker 3: You guys, you get, you get the opportunity to get
with your job, to take into all these wonderful places.
You should take advantage and see what's around, rather than
just ordering room service and saying in your five diamond hotel.
Speaker 2: The reality is I have to do a four I'm
doing a four hour radio show. I'm sure of doing it.
And Craig doesn't have to do that. No, Craig doesn't
do that. Craig Craig works ninety days a year. Tops.
That's nice. So do not try to compare my life
in his. I'm trying to entertain Houston for four hours,
and I'm not trying to entertain Houston for two and
a half tonight when the Rockets take on the Pistons
here in Detroit. Okay, Matthew, Uncle Floyd from Hehaw died
today seventy four years Oh my god. Oh no, that
shows sudden. Uncle Floyd from here Haw Yeah now he
haw honeys wasn't bad? All right?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: It is twelve ten on Sports Talk seven hunty. We
have Emai Doaka in fifty minutes. Let's get to the
news at noon. But I think it's frozen. How could
be frozen? It's not in Detroit. Thank Jonathan looks alert?
Jonathan Okay, Jonathan Hillen, it's up to three degrees here
by the way. News it noon? New? Is it noon?
Hit up?
Speaker 14: Where there we go?
Speaker 2: I'm bat it, No worry. Tom was just in there.
We'll give him a give him an excuse me? What
is Tom doing in there? Is he trying to fix
our stuff? It's broken all the time? Imagine that. Let
me tell you the safest job in America is Tom
Klein at iHeartRadio, always be fixing something. Uh no comment?
All right, Matt, Well, let's leave the loose at dude.
Speaker 3: With the Houston Rockets unfortunately falling to the Philadelphia seventy
six ers in overtime last night, they got a gift
as with about three seconds to go. It was a
Tyrese Maxi shot was blocked by Kevin Durant, but who
actually hit the backboard? Should have been a goaltend with
the taking a two point lead with about three seconds
to go, didn't happen. Went to overtime where the Rockets
were turning the ball over, couldn't make any shots, and
they lost one twenty eight to one twenty two. Big numbers,
from the game that really turned it against the Rockets
twelve of twenty four from the free throw line. They
didn't take one in overtime, so that was all in regulation.
Twelve miss free throws in a game that was tied.
They also got twenty four points off of their seventeen turnovers.
Javarius Smith Junior only shot one of ten from three
Reed Shepard was hot during the game in the fourth quarter,
but did not play in overtime. Those the big criticisms
from Rockets Twitter that Reid didn't play in overtime and
that Javaris Smith Junior was allowed to continue playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the number. I'm actually starting to look at some
of the numbers from last night. So Philadelphia had a
sixty six forty four points in a paint category. Yes,
that's a huge significfference. Here's the biggest problem up at
all ross They only had one more shot in the
paint than Rockets did. The Rockets were twenty two forty
five from in the paint. Philly was thirty three of
forty six.
Speaker 3: Yes, we discussed on the Rockets rap program last night,
Man and Man how many missed bunnies two or three?
Speaker 2: Did Girod call yes, he did. You know, gidd if
you're listening, we'd love you. But the man's got I mean,
he runs four minutes on the regular.
Speaker 3: I told him to tighten it up a couple of
games ago, and he was a little tighter. It wasn't
four minutes last time. So I appreciate that from Gerd.
We love your perspective.
Speaker 2: As somebody whose hosts shows with no calls, I appreciate
Girod calling, but four minutes is a little much, A
little much, all right, what else you got?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, we mentioned all the reasons why the Rockets lost,
but there will be an action again tonight in the
Detroit against the Pistons.
Speaker 2: Where you are right now, Matthew.
Speaker 3: That will be a six o'clock tip on Prime Video,
and of course here on Sports Talk seven ninety Rockets
four and a half point dogs tonight at Detroit to
take on the number one seed in the Eastern Conference. Elsewhere,
you have.
Speaker 2: The Bills continuing interviews for their head coaching job, including
the latest Philip Rivers. According to Adam Schefter, Philip Rivers,
who has never coached at the collegiate or professional level,
is going to interview with the Bills on Friday, his
previous coaching experience at the Saint Michael Catholic High School
in Fair Hope, Alabama. This can't happen. There's no way.
Why not A Yeah, I'm put my name on it.
Speaker 3: Philip Rivers will not be the head coach of the
Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: That feels fair. But I mean we're seeing we're seeing
broadcasters getting jobs, We're seeing players fresh off the field
NFL head coaching jobs. It feels like that's a lot
of work. He had to build a program, meet You
got to build a staff. When you're coaching in private
high school, you probably have three assistant coaches. At the NFL,
you've got fifteen of them. And you know he's gonna
miss a time because he gotta watch all of his
kids do something. You have ten kids. You gotta go
to PTA meetings, a choir, theater, sports. He's never gonna
be in the building. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm writing this down in the No Starongest file. See,
I'm putting myself accountable to.
Speaker 2: Are you really? Yeah, No, he's not getting the job, don't.
You're right about You're gonna win on that? My last
one I made that. I put my name on it.
If the Cougars are going to the championship game, you're going.
Speaker 3: So you're saying there's a chance they are from number
up to number four and can palm.
Speaker 2: I already booked the flight. Now I'll have a hotel yet,
so if y'all can give me a room in Indianapolis,
I'll be there. Other things I put my name on. CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud will always be better than Anthony Richardson's good one
there anyways, all right, moving along in the news at noon,
Matt speaking of what we were talking about Jeff Saturday
as a player who became coach and wasn't wasn't qualified
for the job.
Speaker 2: Jim Mersey was his.
Speaker 3: Buddy, and now apparently the FBI is investigating his May
twenty twenty five death. According to the Washington Post, there
was a federal grand jury subpoena issued earlier this month.
The FBI is seeking information in records related to Ersa's death.
He could have possibly been given drugs that he wasn't
supposed to, including pills and ketamine from a doctor.
Speaker 2: In California. Hmm Okay, a California.
Speaker 3: Based addiction specialist who reportedly provided him with prescription pain
pills and ketamine during the final months of his life.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to comment except I help, that's
not the case.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know he'd struggled with drug and alcohol addiction,
but I mean we're seeing that's fresh off of the
Matthew Perry stuff. Certain possibility. Yeah, there's breaking news. There's
bad doctors out there. I mean, yeah, it's it's unfortunate.
And if these doctors are contributing to death, absolutely they
need to be punished.
Speaker 2: Yep. So there you go with that. Also elsewhere, Matt,
there has been some bickering among NFL media types. First,
let me give you the report from Diana Rossini.
Speaker 3: Okay, Buffalo is making sure they're best player and team
leader in face of the franchise. Josh Allen is part
of the hiring process. You will have a significant say
on the next coach of the Buffalo Bills. That's a
report from Rassinia, quoted from Adam Schefter as he should
quoted from Ryan Fitzpatrick. I strongly disagree. So, Matt, how
much input do you think Josh Allen should have the
next head coach? Diana Rossini reporting significant on the next.
Speaker 2: Coach of the Buffalo bills. You and I have not
discussed this yet now and we'll discuss it when we come.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 3: I like to look at this and it's like you're
a radio pro with thirty years in the biz.
Speaker 2: Thank you. By way, CFP is going to stay at
twelve teams. We're gonna mention that too. Yeah, but we
should have not caught that, So all right, should a
player be involved in the head coaching search? Ross and
I'll have our answers next if you want to chime
in with that as well. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety He made Oak is going to join
us at the top of the hour at one o'clock
four stories at one thirty. Helly are not one fifty
Shout out to the umble ID. They've already sent out
a note that school is canceled. So if you have
a child in the umble I SD district, your kids
are not going to school on Monday. So nice, the
sooner the better. And then they're building these snow days
ice stays for stuff like that. So I don't think
I think we screwed up. Okay, you know what, I
can't make it Monday you got it. I mean, I'm
gonna I'm gonna try to get in. If not, I mean,
i'll do the show from the Kingwick Studios. But I'll
be I'm trying. Hm hm cay you woman, you you
you brack about your eight minute drive. Yeah, I told
you I gotta go over that icy bridge. I'm gonna
try to spin out come to work. I mean, I
wouldn't want you get in an accident, and if you did,
I don't want you said, this is two days in
a row. I'm getting a little concern about what you're
wishing me to get in an accident. No, I said,
I like, if you get in one, I don't want
you to be.
Speaker 3: Hurt back, all right, not like I voted against you
in the Fantasy five Relax.
Speaker 9: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: That's what I do with people that mean to me
on Twitter. I say, look, I don't want you to announce.
If you do, don't hurt yourself, all right, and check
your text? All right? Anyways, Oh, what's the matter.
Speaker 4: Let me see.
Speaker 2: I'll try to get you here on Monday. Oh, I see,
I see what you're doing there, okay?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three, two, one two five seven nine zero. All right.
So the question we brought up and by this is
anything goes Friday. Uh should Josh Allen, the Buffalo Bills quarterback,
have a say about whether or not he should be
involved in the coaching search of the Buffalo Bills. My
answer is yes, I would. This is uh, what what
is the The Ravens owner put it perfectly that Lamar
joy Steve Bescotti, Yeah, great, he said that Lamar Jackson
should have input but no power.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the perfect way to put it.
I think he should have some input but no power.
What Diana Rassini is reporting is significant. Say, if I'm
building my team around my most expensive player, this may
not be right, Ross, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2: You gotta get him involved. And I and maybe that's
the wrong answer to give you, but I got to
make sure my sixty million dollar guy is on board
with this cat, whoever it may be. You'd like him
to be on board. You know, you don't want to
get somebody he hates.
Speaker 3: Like I said, you want his opinion, but I think
you should hire the best guy, regardless of I mean,
if it's between a couple of candidates, and Josh Allen
likes one guy and he loves the other.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: But for the most for the most part, I mean
we might just be arguing over splitting hairs here. I
want him to have some say, but I don't want
him to have power.
Speaker 2: I don't want him having significance.
Speaker 3: Say, I don't want any sort of certainly not a
final decision coming from Josh Allen at all. Yeah, I
mean I I the problem is there's been so many
different athletes in sports, really more in basketball than perhaps
baseball and football. But because you have to worry about
fifty three man roster, you gotta worry about a twenty
six man team. But I'll say this, if the Astros
were to fire Joe a spot after next season, you
don't think that Jim Crane would have a phone called
it Carlos Karean and Joseel Tube and say who do
you want for a manager?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think, who do you want? Or who do you like?
Or who do you want? But I mean you also
don't need to hire somebody. This is gonna be everybody's friend.
And that's the problem. Makes if Josh Allen or Josel
Tuve or Carlos Carey or whatever are going to be
objective and try to find the best man for the job.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: That can be different because a lot of these players
are gonna want guys who were either a their buddy
buddy with or have some history with, or you know,
some people who are your friends that you're going to
be biased for. I mean, how many times in any
other job you feel like somebody got promoted just for
being somebody's friend and they're not capable of doing the job.
Speaker 2: I think that the job is too big ross honestly
to say that's gonn Like, for instance, if Philip Rivers
gets the Buffalo job, that would be an all timer. Yeah,
I mean, I can't imagine that team that has had
that much postseason. Put it this way, the owner of
the Bills just a couple of days ago said we
were getting what was the term like stagnant with all
these playoff games. You're telling me a coach that has
never coached a game in college or pro football or
even been an assistant is the difference between what the
Bills did this past year in what Sean McDermott did
and to what you're gonna eventually get with this new coach. No,
I think when you throw that label out, you have
to get somebody that's got skins on the wall.
Speaker 3: Well, I just think players can be biased. For I'll
give you an example. Remember when Antonio Peers took over
as the interim coach and the Raiders and maybe they
won a couple of games or whatever, and all the.
Speaker 2: Players coach Pierce. Coach Pierce is the best. He's the
right man for the job. We need Coach Pierce. He's
our guy. He he the Raiders have to keep Coach Pierce.
And then they kept him and he was a bad
coach and he was fired within a year. You know
what's happened to Romeo Crenell. Happened to him. Romeo Crenell.
Romeo Crenell, great guy, fun guy, players guy. But that's
all that stuff. But players can can get their minds
clouded about who is the actual best coach to be,
you know, to take the franchise in the right direction.
So yes, he can have them say, but players are
just unreliable to me. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Josh Allen does not come across the guy that would
they would treat this as a cavalier opportunity here. Now
the question is, is Josh Allen going to say I
need an offensive mining coach or would we need a
defensive mining coach.
Speaker 3: I like, you know, it's an interesting argument because I've
argued for years that you want the offensive innovator because
this is an offensive league.
Speaker 2: But the counter argument, what if you have Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to say any Tom, Dick and
Harry can have a good offense with Josh Allen, but
anybody of a certain level of competence can have a
good offense with Josh Allen. So maybe you want the
defensive specialist, kind of maybe what's happening in Baltimore where
they're going with Jesse Mintter the defensive wizard, because look,
Lamar Jackson, we can roll the ball out. We're gonna
be good with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Basically, maybe Lamar's going, you know what, you can leave
me alone. I got this field. So it's an interesting argument. Okay, well,
there it is. I would generally say, though, if a
player wants activity in it and wants to say, if
it's Josh Allen, I'm giving it to him.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the Brady Belichick. Example, Belichick a defensive guy.
You've got Tom Brady. Look how many different offensive coordinators
they have right over Josh McDaniels and hire him a
bunch of times. Josh mcdowan's off on Bill O'Brien whoever else,
Like they went through a bunch of offensive coordinators.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 14: You have.
Speaker 2: You have Tom freaking Brady. Yeah, all right? Seven one
three two, one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We take this program until
two o'clock today. Email Donka in one half hour here
on Sports Talk seven ninety twelve thirty six, Matt and
Ross with you here Sports Talk seven ninety. It is
a show that comes from Detroit and from Houston. Again,
you'all be super careful really starting a guest tomorrow night.
Ross and I will be down to Astro fan Fest tomorrow.
We're gonna be on the air on unlock It until four,
but Ross and I will host one thirty to four
tomorrow and then uh hunkering down and and we'll we'll
we don't know what's going to happen for uh Sunday
and Monday. We know Sunday to stay at home for
the most part, and we'll figure out Monday after that.
Uh okay seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
A lot of the astro stars will be there. We'll
have lots of guests. If not, you know, I'll just
make fun of each other. I haven't seen you in
a few days. And so hopefully we'll be celebrating astro
positivity and a rocket positivity tonight. So yeah, we'll have
some good guests. You have the lists looking good. Yeah,
it looks real good. So we brought this up earlier
on the show today it's worthy repeating, especially for you
twelve thirty years Uh, let me ask you, so hot,
does CJ have to just stay out of mine, out
of out of pocket, just kind of not not be
seen for a while.
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that how you get rid of the Meah, maybe
don't go on podcasts from Germany with Michael Parsons And
he's kept the loco that was this was like the
supposed to be his his lock in off. He's in
last year and he did improve by some metrics, and
then the playoffs were a disaster, but he talked about
that after his rookie year, he was the toast of
the town. He's putting himself as the third best quarterback
on podcast. He's doing this stuff with Michael Parsons in
Tokyo or whatever. And he was going to keep a
low profile. So yeah, I don't expect him on I
don't know Hollywood Squares or anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the reality is this ross. He's holloed as
CJ twenty three somewhere he's four. How do twenty four
year olds turn social media off in twenty twenty six? Uh,
delete the app. It's very easy. I don't think so.
I think this is going to be a very interesting
offseason for anybody that is in his camp, meeting his family,
his close friends, his teammates, his agent. It is impossible
for a twenty four year old. Now, you can filter
the hell out of it. You can mute a lot
of accounts, you can follow very few. The question will
be and I don't think CJ is on Twitter, but
cj's' I guarantee you is on Instagram. I guarantee you snapchatting.
I'm guarantee you. He's tiktoking because he's normally. I don't
care if he's a multi millionaire. Now he's twenty four
years old. I'm doing that. Can somebody be that disciplined
to say, you know what, it's probably in my best
interest to stay off social media for a while.
Speaker 3: I imagine he's gonna have he's gonna have to shut
out He's been shutting out noise since he's been here, yes,
since for his first year.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna have to do that. And this is
the beauty of it. He either is or he isn't.
He's gonna mentally recover this from this or he's not.
So we're gonna see franchise quarterbacks have to go through
these things. Yeah, And honestly, and I'll give you a
little bit of defense on why he might might have
the stones to be able to do this is because
when you're a professional athlete, you're twenty four years old,
guess what you have to do? Ross You have to
get your rest, You have to eat right. That takes discipline, correct, Hm,
he is eating low car and not eating a lot
of cookies and not drinking a lot of pop and
cokes and you know, drinking a lot of strange amounts
of beverages and doing other recreational things. There's discipline with that.
Why can't he have discipline to social media? And look,
social media is cruel. Social media can also boost your ego.
And that's why I think he's active because two years ago,
when he was a toast of town, he couldn't get
enough podcasts fast enough. He couldn't be taking enough photos
of his international voyages.
Speaker 3: He needs to go on a high. He needs to
go on a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: That I don't want him to do because did Aaron
Rodgers Retreats have not paid off for Aaron Rodgers. Now,
he's kept his career live, but he's forty two years old.
He wasn't bad for a forty two year old. Honestly, Yeah,
it's he's going to be disciplined. I just don't know
if twenty four year olds can do it, whether they're
worth melts of million dollars or not. I'm just telling
you the truth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm not concerned as far as I mean, yeah,
either he's gonna do it or he's not. He's gonna
let this and he's gonna be mentally ruined and not
be able to ever throw a football without getting PTSD
and getting the shakes or is he just going to.
Speaker 2: Power through this and be fine and then turn turn
his career around, Because let's think about this, next year
could ultimately cost him two hundred million dollars in salary.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of money on the line, A lot,
a lot. I mean, he's already quite frankly, he's already
lit a bunch of money on fire. If he'd had
two great playoff games and then they lost a tough
one in Denver or something, well, you know, or made
the super Bowl right right right, he'd be getting probably
paid this offseason, because that's.
Speaker 2: What happens these for those that don't know. Usually year three,
h he's done anything, you're going to be able to
go to the negotiating table and be able to show
your resume, and they're gonna like, all right, we'll write
to the check. That's why I think Will Anderson will
be very interesting to see what you do on that,
because he's the same draft class, and Will has done
everything and then some to prove that he's worthy of
getting a new extension. First team All Pro, pay me,
pay me Nick. But yes, that's Kyler Murray got paid
after his third year.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some other examples we can find where
guys have got paid after their third year, but that
didn't work out for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2: But anyways, that's a promise that I saw this just Yes,
it's strange you brought up Kyler Murray's name. That wasn't
a tweet. Now twet shouldn't be everything, and shame on
me for even thinking. But it's human reaction. Is that
Are you going to find yourself in the Pat Mahome
situation where you've built this amazing quarterback and given him
a lot of money and he's given you sustained excellence
or are you staring at Kyler Murray or is there
a mid is Trevor Lawrence at this point worthy of
the money that the Jaguars have paid no playoff wins
since the big contract? Right, because even when he was
doing all that, when he won the champions went to
the Championship, that wasn't in the big contract. He's got
it since then? Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the Detexans, by the way, played paid Deshaun Watson
after his third year.
Speaker 2: It's not atypical remember when to Shaun Watson had that
press conference and everybody was justin Verliner jumped on the
zoom call and JJ Watt, oh man, we're so happy.
And then Easterby happened, and then cal happened, and then
the massap Parlors happened.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, ugh, we don't. I don't want to. What
a curse with franchise quarterbacks? Dark dark time for this franchise.
That's why.
Speaker 2: And I'll say this until I'm blue in the face.
As a Texans observer, you have to for your own
mental health and for most importantly CJ's meantal health, you
have to give him a pass for what happened. And
you have to say, twenty twenty six is gonna be
a bounced back here because this hangs with him and
he has an apprehension you're gonna go south. You're gonna
be stuck with a quarterback that you're probably gonna have
to if you're gonna keep him franchise tag him, or
you're gonna let him go free and clear, which means
you gotta start from scratch, which means you have to
go get a rookie NFL quarterback and watch him grow
and develop and go through the same old process. Meanwhile,
ross the other side of the football is gonna get
a little longer in the tooth. It's gonna be probably
full of a couple of injuries, and ultimately you're gonna
be paying some people or trying to pay them, and
you don't have money to pay them.
Speaker 3: That was a big, big opportunity missed this season because
everybody was healthy, everybody's playing well. Everybody's paid as much
as who needs to be paid is paid with Stingley
and Petrie and Daniel lasted be paid eventually soon exactly
if you want money, well, Anderson gonna want money. Daniel
Anderson's getting older. He's got one year left on the nil.
Speaker 2: Hunter, Yeah a deal, Hunter, I'm sorry, Yeah, all right,
I'm gonna go throw up. You do go to break?
All right, we'll go to break. Let's talk about the
shell Federal critit you and I can do that for you.
By the way, Emai dok is gonna join us in
fifteen minutes here on the program. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven NINTI. Another great Detroit artist, the legendary
Bob Seger. I'm classic hits seven ninety can Petos, Sorry Ross. Yeah,
isn't it the it pump faked you, Bob Seger properly rated? Yes, hmmm.
If you can't, if you can't give an intelligent answer,
I'm okay with I think so okay. I think some
people overrate him, like act like he's an all time grade,
not an all time great. But it's good. He has
some good hits. That's good Night Moves great. Turn the
Page is an amazing song. Yeah. I have been to
one hundred conference in my life. The lottest concert ever
been to in my entire life with a Bob Singer
concert at the Compact Zone. Hmm, okay, quietest concert you
and me at Paul Simon. Right, that's that's fair, probably fair. Yeah,
we have not planning Madonna yet. Sun's Destroit. Oh I
forgot about her? Yeah, how's she doing?
Speaker 8: She's old?
Speaker 2: She still looks like your gargoyle. Yeah, I think she's.
When you're a multi millionaire, don't you have like the
best of plastic surgeons out there, not the worst of ones. Yeah,
it's unfortunate. Uh seven one three two one two five.
I was in a group chat with a bunch of
NBA broadcasters and I sent them the song of the
Philadelphia seventy six Ers fight song, and they're like, we
love that too. Okay, good out the minority on this.
It's so catchy and I don't want to ever hear
it again because that means the Sixers beat the Rockets.
I'm low key obsessed with that song. It's a jam, Jonathan,
find it again for the Sorry we didn't play in
this ha in a while, but there's something wrong with us.
Speaker 3: No, there's nothing wrong with us. Yeah, Jonthan said it's
a jam. Jonathan called it a jam. It's cross generational.
Your broadcasters are calling it a jam.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They love it. They absolutely love it. It's like it
would be on Soultran nineteen seventy one, wouldn't I? Oh,
I could see it? Bell bottoms. Should we call those
shirts with those big collars?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: My buddy Todd, the Voice of the Pelicans, just said,
best song ever collar. I want something clever and catchy
for Rocket Wins. Hell, we're winning a bunch at home Ross.
They only have had three losses at home this year. Right,
you've got tops drop maybe fat Pat, let's go. How
does that go trunks, keep popping, tops keep dropping down
in Houston. Okay, not as good as this song. Top
drops better than this, Seriously, somebody went nineteen. I don't
even know when this song was mad, but I'm gonna
assume it's like nineteen seventy three. Win in a room
and said, let's make a song about counting down from one,
update going from one to seven, and then going from
six down to zero. Let's make a song and then
we'll clap our hand, then we'll put some little bit
of a disco beat two, and we'll call it a
day on Top Drop's good. It's twenty twenty six and
they play this damn song. Still, Yeah, the Rockets need song.
This is nice. I'm trying to figure out what year
this song was made. Are you trying to find it?
It's the name of the group. It's called Fresh Air.
I R okay, Yeah, I'm trying to figure out where
it is, where it comes, where it started. It's the
General Sporting News says it was a song in the seventies. Well, dug,
couldn't figure that out. A song has humble beginnings. Nineteen
seventy five, Temple University Graduate ranking Childrens was doing odd jobs,
including dressing up as a turkey at a game before
Thanksgiving for five hundred dollars. Children's recruited bandmates Terry Rocap
and Joe Sherwood, part of a group called Fresh Air,
to help him throw together a track. One day, he
was watching Sesame Street with his seven year old daughter
when he had epiphant. When he had an epiphany, he
came up with the now famous chorus one, two, three,
four five six ers. That was true? I was telling
the truth? Does it count? Yeah? All right? That was terrible.
I never should have done that either, a lot of
regretable moments on this show today. You know why because
I'm sleeping price nineteen seventy five. Okay, that is a
nineteen take it ross. I swear to god, you and
I would do quite well in nineteen seventy five. Think so, Yes,
we could go on American Bandstand. We could go on
Soul Train.
Speaker 3: I don't know what those moves matter. I don't know
if you're passing the audition. We can go on the
midnight Special. I can maybe have a chance to host
a game show.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, because I'm not a celebrity at this point, it'd
be just a ragular home game show. Dude, you know
in the seventies, before going bald, you just get a rug. Oh,
I would let me tell you something, I'd have a hairpiece.
There is one hundred percent chance that'd be awesome. Get
you with the seventies hairpiece. I would do it. And
those mutton chop sideburns. I like that all right. Now,
do you think Emai Donca went for a walk this
morning to kind of clear his head a little bit?
I don't know. It's a little too chilly for that, right.
Did you say negative seventeen three? You said that feels
like it was like negative seventeen or something. Yeah, it's
I mean, they're not a clow in the sky here.
It's beautiful here. I see the casino from my room,
which makes me sad. Why does it make you sad?
Because I can't have time to get over there As
soon as I get off the show, I'm taking my
thirty five minutes shower and then going to the game.
That's weird. What's your water bill?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't you for wasting water? About it? It's
a sense of oh, oh, seriously, thank god Kim's in Austin,
because she would be like, yeah, Matt, what is our
water bill? Hmm? Thanks? Ross, I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm just curious. Yeah,
I'm on her side for this one. I bet you are.
Sometimes I'm on your side, but not Florida story In
thirty five minutes, Emai Doka to start the final hour
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Matt Thomas Show with Ross one O two
on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with rawesome here in cold ass Detroit. We got
the Rockets and Pistons coming up tonight, and we'll spend
now ten minutes with the head coach of your Houston Rockets.
He made oka with us here on the show. Coach,
thanks for the time. He's always on this weekly visit.
So how much are you? I've never really asked you this.
How much do you stare at that stat seat? And
what bothered you the most of them last night? There
were obviously the three point numbers did not go down
for you late, the free throws points and a paint.
What what got your grumpy about the performance last night?
Speaker 10: I think you know the turnovers always stand out when
you give up seven enough of seventeen turnovers you know,
close game twenty one three those hurts as well, only
twelve for twenty four That that.
Speaker 2: Matt, he's late.
Speaker 10: You know, making eighteen for a game at is a
good Yeah. Even though we missed, scoring wasn't the problem.
It was some of the defensive things that we have
number to win it.
Speaker 2: You may dooga with us here on the show. I
don't know if it sounds scratchy you guys a little bit.
We may. You may need to try to connect it
again and a ross. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've tried a second line already. We can try again.
I think we should because you know, we'll try. We've
been having some phone issues the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: All right, So well we'll put email holden. We'll finish
the conversation in just a little bit. So I again,
Rockets against the Pistons tonight. We'll have it for you
beginning with the launch pad at five five thirty Network
pregame show and six o'clock as the Rockets, despite the
loss last night, still holding on the four seed in
the Western Conference. Detroit is certainly a very talented basketball team,
and we look forward to hopefully seeing the Rockets put
this trip before getting home Monday to take on the
Memphis Grizzlies. This Rocket team is so really good at home,
only three losses been Unfortunately, find themselves under five hundred
on the road with still a lot of home games
up before the end of the season, so pretty much
looking forward to that. Let's see what else. Yeah, it
was a combination of things. We're gonna get. We got
email back here, hopefully on a better line. You know,
a lot of folks have asked Ross on the post
game show last night about Red Shepherd about the way
he kept you out in the fourth quarter, did not
play in the overtime. It felt like to me when
you were answered in the post game, was that there
were some defensive things that were a part of the
entire package. Would that be the best one to explain
why you went with say, Jabbar and Tari in the
extra time?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we have we have some coverage things
that we wanted to do with embad and and different
guys and Max d of course, and you know, part
of the game they were really hurting us with their
pick and roll downhill, you know, not being one of
our better defenders. But it's it's a balance. You have
to figure out what you need to do, whether you
want to try to get stop sir, try to outscore
Someboddy and went with a bigger lineup with the more
size out there.
Speaker 2: You know, Look, you and Joel are very tight, and
he had a triple double yesterday. I know he's been
battling injuries the last couple of years. Is it little
not necessarily bizarre and you look, you've got friends, are
all in the league. But for his guy that you
developed a relationship with, you want him personally have success.
You just don't want Hi to have it at the
expense of the team that you're coaching.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're happy to see him back out there and
you'll be able to start playing through through some of
the things he's gone through. But at the same time,
you know the ways to try to mitigate some of
the success. And I don't think we did that for
the most part last night. You know, reaching and fouling
months too much. He's averages nine three throws the game.
I think we reached him four times to give him eight,
and then just not taking up enough of the space.
Some of what we did to whom and Yama. You
want to take up the space, be aggressive there and
make him put it on the floor, and I think
we get him too many comfortable shots multiple times.
Speaker 2: But it has been nice and I think every team
dreams of this emay that you have a guy that
has can be that microwave like Bennie Johnson was back
in the day in terms of coming off the bench
and providing points. And it has been a second straight
game that reach jump shot has certainly helped you guys
get back into ball games.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, definitely, he's becoming more consistent across the board.
We understand what he does when he's when he's scoring
at that clip and how it elevates our team. I
think it gives us a totally different look from my
men and Kevin and some of those guys that I
pick and roll. And it's great to see him continue
to grow as far as that trying to help him
be more well rounded in general, but love the progress
that he's showing.
Speaker 3: Rocket Ted coach Imi Adoka was here on a Sports
Talk seven ninety and just kind of earlier to the
read thing in the lineups that you choose, What is
that like for you as a coach as far as
the process of you know, guys can be cold all game,
but then in clutch time they can start hitting shots
and vice versa. What are the things that you're you're
looking for when it comes to clutch time lineups and
then overtime lineups.
Speaker 10: Regardless of any point of the game. It's really consistency,
you know. We we understand what certain guys is going
to give up good of us, their strengths and weaknesses,
and try to help them develop as far as their weaknesses,
and so across the board. We want guys really well rounded,
understanding other guys. Some guys have more of a skill
fit than others, but we want other guys to grow
in those areas as well.
Speaker 18: And so.
Speaker 10: Got a good deep team, a lot of versatility as
far as that, and when one guy is not making
shots or not defending at the level we feel we
can know its multiple different lineups. Once we get Tari,
Dorian and those guys off of a minute restrictions, will
be a little bit easier to not have to miss
mix and mets much. But I think that will bode
well for us going forward with all the different people
we can get out there and play.
Speaker 3: Obviously, free throws were part of the issue last night
as well as I mean, what if anything can be
done throughout the season or long term. And we've seen
him in Thompson make a big leap in his free
throw shooting, and we've seen some guys just be up
and down.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, this.
Speaker 10: Really comes down to confidence and repetition. You know, it
feels early in the season we were shooting them very well.
Lately it haven't been as well, but you have to
stick with your routine. And you know, we signed tacks
with guys to get up a certain number per day
and we have to stick with that. And I think
you've seen direct results from that throughout training camping early
in the season with the numbers we were shooting, the
percentages that we were shooting it. So for us, it's
it's continue with your reps, you know, and then stay
confident through that. If you're a guy that handles the
ball or gets a bunch of touches, you're gonna get
the free throw line more and you got to knock
those down and convert at a higher level.
Speaker 2: Could you help me out with what happened last night?
Obviously the ball with the Durant block, and then there's
a loose possession. I thought, if you grabbed it you
called the time out, there was going to be time
for you to have a shot. Did you any clarity
about why the clock was at point one before the
game ultimately went to overtime.
Speaker 10: I think they said Tari didn't have full possession of it,
which I saw him dribbling up, so tried to call
a time out and you know, get us the last
shot there. But I guess they went back and looked
or you know, consulted with each other and said he
didn't have full possession, like he was still in the
process of grabbing it. So that's the definition I got.
Speaker 2: And you're not satisfied with that, are you.
Speaker 10: He'd like to get the last shot and you know,
give yourself a chance there. But still a great defensive play,
and we had our chances in overtime as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I may doka with us for a
few more minutes here on the program. Kevin last night
thirty six points, seven rebounds and like a true pro.
The one number that he looked at when he was
talking to the media after the game last night and
felt off he was the turnover numbers. Kevin's never been
a low turnover guy, but when he's so fluid on
the offensive side, that's just part of the game. Have
you noticed that he does spend a little bit of
time talking about the negatives when he was just such
a huge part of this team's offense last night.
Speaker 10: I think Gasti's mindset and mentality is, you know, trying
to be perfect out there, and you're scoring that much
in like I said, you do any more points off
of turnovers in a tight game like that, you're going
to look at yourself and see that eight is too many.
And so whether it's just being not predetermining what you
want to do or being strong with the ball understanding
use the focal point, teams are going to go after
him and he has to be stronger with it. But
the other guys have to sprint for spacing and get
your outlets as well. And so I always say we
should have might double teams and have those numbers and
pick it apart. And the first part is getting the
pass out of there, and let's give them such a
chance to do that.
Speaker 3: Big matchup just from record wise and measuring stick wise
with the Detroit Piston side and going into the game,
you know that it's going to be physical. You know
that these two teams have you know, had some tension
before in the in the season, Is that anything any
special messages like everybody keep their cool out there or
I know, we know you like this type of knockdown,
drag out game that it could be tonight.
Speaker 10: No, just be who you are, and you know we
both I think both teams welcome that. But you know,
understand what their strengths are. They have a really good
player in Cunningham and they are second in offense rebound
behind us. So since it's gonna be a battle as
far as that, you know, one of our guys being
down with Steve and other guys have to step up
and make up that difference. And yeah, with two physical
teams that enjoy that side of the ball, and so yeah,
you always say keep you cool or whatever, but I
think beating you are and two teams will be ready
to battle out as.
Speaker 2: Far as that last thing for you may we just
passed the forty two game marks, so we're a little
bit past the halfway point of the season. What did
you love in the first forty one and what do
you want to see differently in the next forty one, you.
Speaker 10: Know overall, you know, when you look at the standings
and you know we're in fourth place in the West
right now and haven't played our best basketball buydings any
means lately. That's that's a good sign for us because
we know we could take it to another level. Numbers
overall being the fourth defense, our third in defense and
the fifth in offense, you're hitting some of those bench marks,
and then then I think we're third and overall net rating,
So numbers don't always coincide with our closing of games.
I think that's the biggest thing with us. We've been
really good at times and even games we haven't shot
that well or played that well defensively, we're still in
those games. It's just a matter of closing now, and
we're gonna have to zero in on that second half
of the season to really get to where we want
to be.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the time, as always, friend, We appreciate it.
We'll see at the arena later on the night, and
stay warm. Did you go for a walk today by
any chance? Not it all. I haven't left the hotel
me either. Thanks for the time, We appreciate it. Thank
you all right, Emay Douga joining us here on the show.
It is a balmy three degrees here in Detroit. And
thanks again to Emay for joining us for a few minutes.
Bottom of the hour. Non Florida stories. Then we have
hellyar ou at one fifty. What is today's edition of Helly?
Are not all about? ROSSI what I gave you some
topics earlier? I forgot what were they?
Speaker 9: You want?
Speaker 2: Detroit persons? Is this person from Detroit?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Believe or not? From Detroit? Yeah, that's easy.
Speaker 3: Or lived in Detroit because like Aresa Franklin was born
in Memphis, but she lived and died in retort Detroit.
Speaker 2: I would have to say Detroit, Bourne. We'll see. You
can also put me as one of them. I'm just
believe it or not. Oh that's a good one. Believe it.
It's a hell yeah or not? That's right, that's true,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninetie seven one three two one two five seven Nini
non Florida story is coming up in about fifteen minutes
here on the show. After fun fact, Ross, this is
my favorite Madonna song. I don't even tell Ross, I
didn't even tell nothing to play it. I knew that
you did. Yes, you know me. Also, well, the song
is so bad, it's good. Oh it's a jam. Why
do you think it's bad? I don't know, It's just
eighties geese. I mean didn't you make a life living
off of that? Yes? By the way, I've been going
to Smoking Gun for my non Florida stories, and ninety
percent of the Smoking Gun stories are about things that
are happening in Florida. Florida just remains undefeated. You ever
notice that? I did notice that.
Speaker 3: I mean every week I'm not almost and almost every
week I'm finding a story and I'm like, oh, it's
in Florida.
Speaker 2: I mean, I cannot wait for us to get to
spring training because what that happens. That means the rule
is if anybody, any one of us is in Florida
that week, we get to use Florida stories. Yeah. Madonna,
I'd go see her in concert. I mean I'm not
a super big Madonna fan, but there's enough hits I
would go listen to it, all right? If you if
I go for free, I guess, let me tell you.
If I got us really good seats, you'd pay? No,
I wouldn't you money? Huh money, and you're talking about
use your bitcoin fun that you have. I'm good. That's
a way. We're holding that. We're holding that till I'm
sixty five. Okay, so you're gonna retire with that? Is that?
Speaker 9: What it is?
Speaker 2: Okay? I got you. It's a is a little rainy
day emergency fine from when I get laid off. Damn Seriously,
this smoking gun is another Florida store I'm running. I'm
running out of idea. Yeah, I won't take you very long.
Oh my gosh. All right seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. If you want to join us here,
it is the rainy moments of anything goes Friday. Thanks
again to Emyadoka for joining us. If you are a coach,
what would drive you nuts? More turnovers or miss free throws? Ooh,
I'm going miss free throws? They drive me insane. Oh,
it's so frustrating. The Rockets made fifty percent of their
free throws yesterday, five zero twelve missed and they were
all in regulation and they tied at the end of regulation. Ough.
And now we at the Detroit Pistons who are rested.
They slept in their beds last night. We'll see what
happens to kid Cunningham. He's now I think he's gonna
play to night, don't. He's listed as probable. I don't
know if he's delisted, but I was reading the paper
this morning online in that it sounds like that he's
going to try to give it a go. Fine, I
think he should take the night off. I don't disagree.
Speaker 3: I wanted Joel ANDMB to take the night off, and
he played gun triple double man. He moves so slow,
he's so skilled and strong.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to real quick before we
get to our nonfolder stories. We have Cunningham's probable. Damn hey,
do we make our final predictions on the score of
the games? I know we did it on Tuesday.
Speaker 8: Let me go.
Speaker 2: Look, okay, I don't think we did. I think we've
just picked our winners. But go ahead. But let me
ask you this. If the Broncos win the game, is
that the greatest coaching job a single individual coach would
have getting a backup quarterback ready in less than a week.
I'm not I don't know I'm gonna go that far.
We're going to Hosteller and the super Bowl was an
extra week or what?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 2: What happened with the Hosteler situation? That's I should know that,
But that was so long ago. I can't give you
a good answer to that. But he I think he
played the whole playoffs. Didn't Hosteller play the whole playoffs
or something like that. I don't remember anybody getting their
first start in a championship game. Yeah, it was such
a freak accident. Well well, actually Andy Lyndall told us
it wasn't on the kneel down, because that was right. Yeah, Okay,
I think New England wins it, and I think they're
playing had I had the Rams going the whole way?
Did I not? So I got a kind of stick
with the Rams. Yeah, it's a quant thought. They got
a so fired up yesterday. He made me believe in
the Seahawks. Yeah. And by the way, did you he
when I brought up Sam Darnold having playoff failures? He
Matt happy with me about that. Yeah, Matt said, he said,
turn those bozos off on ESPN. Oh, yeah, here we
go for our NFL predictions. Oh, here we go, let's
go for it. Go. I'm gonna go with I actually
do want to go with the Broncos upset. I just
you can't do it, can't you. I'm gonna go this way.
Broncos cover against all odds. Sean Payton has the lads ready.
Low scoring game, twenty to seventeen Patriots. I'm on a
recorded line. Patriots cove okay, I think it's seven point
game could happen.
Speaker 20: Now.
Speaker 2: LA's offense is better than San Francisco's, but damn Seattle
is a new football team or different team. When they're
playing in their home building, defense is incredible and it's raucous,
and that defense is incredible. I know I picked the
Rams to win the NFC, which, by the way, mister head,
I get my flowers. Dr That's fine, mister head, your bets.
I'm gonna say sorry South if you're listening Sam Donald
the playoff. Sam Donald shows up a second time. He
doesn't want to hear it. I'm just sending this audio. No,
you're not you don't you know, you don't know. No,
don't don't go to the company file. Don't do it.
Speaker 3: The two matchups this year, we're twenty one to nineteen
and thirty eight to thirty seven.
Speaker 2: I can see it. I think the what's the over
ender in this one? I just had it. I'll take
forty five and a half or something. I'll take thirty
one twenty four rams, forty six and a half, thirty
one twenty four rams to be over in the rams.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven twenty four Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're both taking them. Okay, Yeah, that's not good
for us. Look at the production value that Jonathan's putting
in over the music. I like it. Yeah, all right,
Let's go to Scott before we get the non Florida
Scories stories.
Speaker 9: Hi, Scott, Matt Ross's going on?
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 9: First off, I had a question for you, Matt about
the Rockets. I wanted to ask yesterday. Well, I was
calling away yesterday. I know you guys are just talking
about him, that guy y'all had on from Seattle yesterday.
That was one of the more entertaining interviews I have
ever listened to. If we if you guys can get
him on whenever, like pre when we play the Mariners
or post when we play the Mariners throughout the season,
that was that.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you have you listened to our show for
any length of time, any length of time quite a bit.
I have Softie's been on probably twenty times in the
last five years.
Speaker 9: That was the first time I've heard him. I'm pretty
sure is he normally on when you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: We We like to fight with him when the Astros
and Mariners play because he hates the Astros and we
hate the Mariners.
Speaker 9: Well, I'll I'll be paying even more attention than I
know I'm to do the Mariners.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: But I had I had a random question, kind of
off the wall when y'all were talking about the Rockets
a little bit. What do you think Matt traveling? You know,
obviously you're with the team every game in your expert opinion,
being around just the NBA in general, what do you
think the main difference is between playing on at home
versus on the road? Is it the crowd momentum? Is
it the travel schedule? Like all things granted, I mean,
obviously some teams have, you know, great records on the road,
and we have before. Obviously it's not happening this year,
But in general, there is an inherent advantage to playing
at home. So what specifically is it do you think
that makes playing on the road more difficult?
Speaker 2: I will give you three quick answers to that, and
thank you for the phone call, Scott, and we appreciate
your long listening to the show. Number one in the
NBA Referee Associations, I gonna want to hear this. I
think whistles are a little friendlier to the home team
in general. By the way, Scott Foster's a fishing tonight's
game as our Curchie ROSSI And if you need it
or not, okay, I mean whatever.
Speaker 20: One.
Speaker 2: I think the home whistle is a little friendlier than
the road whistle. Number two. I do believe there is
a familiarity knowing the building, shooting in the building, and oh,
by the way, sixteen seven in eighteen nineteen thousand of
your closest friends rooting you on. I do think there's
a value in that. And number three, and Ross likes
to tease me about this. Even though you're traveling in
the five diamond hotels and you are flying on the
charter planes, and you're staying in the nice places, it's
still logistically a pain of the ass. And I do
believe that when you're at home, you don't have that.
You go from your workout facility to your arena to
your house, it's regimented. And if there's anything I've learned
about being around sports all my life, at least covering
pro and college teams, is people like regiment Last night
we play the Philadelphia seventy six ers. We jump on
a plane in the middle of the night and flo
to Detroit, where we land in its seven degrees, getting
on a bus, getting to the hotel, waiting for our
bags or going to get our bags strange hours. I
do think there's a you know, I think back to
backs are tough for anybody in sports, especially in the NBA,
and I do believe that there's little value nets. So
you take all those three factors, and that's why winning percentages.
I don't know what the difference is and how what
percentage winning teams are in the NBA, but I think
it does matter. I think largely the most important thing
is familiar building fans behind you, and I think a
friendlier whistle towards the home team in general. Am I
missing anything wrong or that I knocked out? I don't
think I have any disagreements for that. Yeah, although the
Philadelphia fans did not think there was a very friendly
home whistle and the Kevin Durant call they did not.
Calls are missed all the time, and you think the
NBA the referee should just call goltending every time because
you cannot review a non goaltending call. You can only
review a goaltending call and overturn it.
Speaker 3: I mean, if they didn't think it happened. I didn't
think it happened in real time. I was like, and
then I saw the refa, I was like, oh, oh yeah,
I mean it was we get the super slow motion.
We're like, look, how obviously this is. These guys are
flying up ten twelve feet in the air and so fast,
and it's so hard to tell what the naked eye
what's going on?
Speaker 2: Yep. And even Adam Klint yesterday said that the Rocket's
got a benefit of wow sharing colle for him. That's
so rare for him to say that. I mean, you
don't know how rare that is, folks. No further comment. Oh,
come on, he loves us, We love him back back.
Non Florida stories are up next one thirty one on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Florida and share them with the people of Huston.
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No alligator sales.
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Speaker 14: This time for last from far in In this crazy world,
there's no.
Speaker 2: All Right, Ladies and gentlemen sometimes bringant minds think alike.
And I want to give a shout out to a
Twitter follower of ours, and it is I'm at dave
at Texas. Thank you, davi ad Texas. You've got the
one that I was going to go with on the
nine floor to three this week? Which Rossie, We're gonna
go to Louisiana? Are you ready for Louisiana? Always something
crazy going on? There always something going crazy in Louisiana.
There is a woman by the name of Aaron Sutton.
Her middle name is Elizabeth. You're saying, well, how do
you know that, because anytime a police report comes out,
we always found out their middle name. She's forty one
years old, wrong, and she was arrested in Union Parish.
I don't even know where you in Paris. Lord, you
don't better now?
Speaker 14: Man?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: The Union pair of Sheriff's office got a nine one
one call for finding out that Miss Sutton allegedly trespassed
on a property in Lynnville. Oh I know, Okay, Lynnville's
words out. Okay, Lynnvill, Luisiana, lynn Ville, Louisiana talk about
Lynnvill High School football wads of cajohn. That property has
a substantial pond, but it belongs to her neighbor, who
called the police for help. Okay. The caller told dispatchers
that Sutton had been swimming nude in their pond and
refused to leave the water despite repeated request. Okay. As
officers were arriving at the caller's home, they learned that
Sutton had allegedly started screaming when she was asked to
leave the water. The caller said this was not the
first time that Sutton had availed herself with the pond,
and that she repeated past warnings to stay out of
the water they had been ignored. Deputies allegedly tried reasoning
with Sutton, who allegedly refused at first to get out
because quote, as Sutton told the police, she was trying
to be a mermaid. The officers eventually coaxed the sea nymph.
That's what the story says. I didn't write that the
officers will eventually coax the sea nymph want to be
out of the pond, and called ems to evaluate Sutton.
As that was happening, Sutton moved into a try to
move into an unspecified home, where she started to charge
at one of the deputies. Sutton was then tased again.
She's still naked during this, but Cobb said the electrical
jolt had zero effect and she continued towards the officer.
It's alleged that when Sutton reached the officer, she kicked
and punched a deputy. The statement notes that Sutton was
finally restrained and taken to a hospital, allegedly threatening to
kill the deputies and the paramedics the whole time and
the whole way they were there.
Speaker 14: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Sutton has been charged with three counts of resisting an officer,
with four worse for violence, two counts of public intimidation,
two counts of battery with the police officer, one count
of deserving the peace, and one count of criminal trespassing. Wow,
forty one years old naked in a neighbor's pond and
had to get tayed that it didn't affect with the
first time around. That my friends is Joe Louisiana Linville,
Non Florida story sounds like she's got schizophrenia. She needs help.
I'm looking at her mugshot. Okay, it's fine. Okay, she
looks cold. I mean year, she looks cold. January. The
weather camp, the pond can't be warm. Right, it's Louisiana.
It's probably probably about seven seventy five mac minimum. All right,
I got you. What do you got for your non
Florida story?
Speaker 3: Yes, Matt, I know this story popped up on this
show before, but I wanted to reiterate because it continues
to make headlines. A federal class action suit levied against
McDonald's Oh No, Don't Know, No Stop It, claiming that
millions of people have been misled by the McRib being
sold as real pork rib meat and how that quote
distorts the facts. The forty five page complaint in the
US Distric's Courts for the Northern District of Illinois takes
issues with the product's name and presentation, notably the term
quote McRib and its rib shaped patty, which they say
would lead a reasonable consumer to believe the sandwich includes
real rib meat when there is none. According to the complaint,
the McRib is actually made of restructured pork, which combines shoulder, heart,
tripe scalded stomach, none of which which qualify would qualify
as rib meat. The lawsuit and assert sixteen claims of fraud,
breach of warranty, breach of contract, and violations of state
consumer protections laws.
Speaker 2: Well, guess who is not suing McDonald's this guy. In fact,
I must assume McDonald's if they don't serve the McRib
more often than three times a year. Hmmm, sorry, I'm
just reading more about this lawsuit. Is that you had
a McRib with me and you were not You were
not disdained by you.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that bad. But I'm not gonna go out
of my way to have one. And I'm also not
gonna call it America sandwich. If you give it, you
put a big mac or a quarter pounder, or even
a double cheeseberg and a McRib in front of me.
A thousand times of a thousand, I'm choosing.
Speaker 2: The burger file a fish. The fly fish was see
what's wrong with you? It tasted like fish dicks. It
was not goodish. I thought it was in third grade
eating Gordon's fish dicks. Yeah, it's delicious. Yeah for third graders. Yeah,
but you know what, you know what, I'm not arguing
food with you right now. All right, Jonan, what's your
nine fourth story this week? All right, mine's coming from Australia.
Speaker 7: This comes from the musical duo Bootleg Rascal out of Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 2: They were having a concert.
Speaker 7: Carlos Lera said their manager had informed them that someone
wanted to propose on stage.
Speaker 2: During their third song.
Speaker 9: Mm hm.
Speaker 7: Third song came up, a man climbed up on the
set the microphone. He called his.
Speaker 2: Partner Jamie to the stage. You can see how this
is gone.
Speaker 7: Tell the crowd that they have seen the band last
two years before and it was their favorite band together.
And he said, I thought today, why not? Maybe today
is the time? Down on one knee on stage and
the suddenly Jamie started shaking her head trying to pull
him back up, then ran off stage.
Speaker 2: M mm hm.
Speaker 7: The musical duo even said, I don't think I've ever
felt this awkward sage of my life. The strong boyfriend
stayed on one knee until someone in a Scooby Doo
costume ran up to help him get on his feet.
Speaker 2: And hug him.
Speaker 1: Lad.
Speaker 7: The artists said they checked up him afterwards, and he
said he.
Speaker 2: Was looking for a couple of beers.
Speaker 7: They gave him some free merch so he wouldn't go
completely unempty handed.
Speaker 2: So he went he went for an engagement and got
some free T shirts instead. Yeah, let me both ask
you a question to wrap thish up. If you either
one of you dressed up like a h a cartoon
character when going to a concert, not at a concert,
but for Halloween. But I mean, you're not gonna go
see like one of your favorite bands at Rockefellers and
you're dressed up as Scooby Doo. Correct. I don't think so.
Maybe if it is Scooby Doo. No, when I go,
when I go see John Cougar Mellencamp in August at
Cynthia Woods, I will dress up as a cartoon character.
Oh you know he was just a ass?
Speaker 8: Who is that?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: No, you know you know Master dressed up as mister
clean perfect God. Wait, just a ma, that's I just
it just sprung on my head and I feel like
that's just that's the gold, Like you have to do that.
Speaker 2: You just need a white T shirt. Mister Texas, mister clean.
Wait doesn't he have an ear ring too?
Speaker 8: Though?
Speaker 2: A little clip on?
Speaker 8: Yet?
Speaker 2: Hey, that's you know what you just describe, rod Ryan?
What's up? What's up?
Speaker 8: Us up?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It works? Actually, oh wow, he's just dropped a mister
clean up. Yeah, it's fine. Jonathan's sick. You can't which
one it is, but it's definitely one of them. All right,
The hell yeah or not is up next? One forty
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Sports Talk said, if you want to play seven one
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seven ninety all right, Rockets tonight six o'clock Rockets playing
Monday against Memphis Grizzlies. Somebody sent me a message and
said it is. The game is going to be played.
As far as I know, everything is on schedule. Astros
Fast is still on schedule for tomorrow, which Ross and
I will be there from one thirty until four. And
I don't know about Monday, but it depends on how
bad Sunday gets. Honestly, Uh, you know, Memphis will have
to try to fly in. I don't know that's going
to be impact. They play a game on Sunday afternoon
and they fly in right after that, So I don't
know exactly what's gonna happen. But the NBA games try
to play as much as they can because this is
a very tight schedule with events happening all over the place,
and so the last thing you wanted to try to
reschedule something, but you know what, whether it's gonna ultimately uh,
you know, play whether or not Memphis and get in.
I know that the Cougar scand tomorrow has been moved
up earlier than love it because they're worried about the
weather there too. So just keep it here on seven
ninety for all your sports updates and you'll be safe
this weekend doing anything crazy in Rossa. We'll be praying
for you. If you're eight minute drive between the office
and your per it's.
Speaker 3: Usually four, but yeah, I could take six to seven minutes.
I mean, we'll see how icy that bridge is.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's hey, all it takes is one icy
bridge and I make it in matt and we would
miss you. Yeah, you'll be fine. I'll call in I'll
call in every hour. Really, I can actually get up
real early and walk. That would be good. Get your
blood flown a little bit. What a great idea. Five
minutes up to go on the show. What should we do?
We should play a Mettchus fastest growing sports radio game
show Monday through Thursday. We called it Beat, leave it
up on Fridays, we call it a hell Year Out.
And here's how it works. You call seven one three
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Yeah or Not? Kyle on seven ninety Kyle, You're ready
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Speaker 18: Yes?
Speaker 2: Kyle. Stevie Wonder was signed to a recording contract by
Motown Records at the age of seven, which is still
the record for youngest to ever do. So hell Yeah
or not.
Speaker 16: Not?
Speaker 2: That is correct. He was age eleven and others have
done at five years old, etcetera, etcetera. Stay at number
two for the win. In the nineteen sixties, Smokey Robinson
had an extramarital affair with Diana Ross. Hell Yeah or not?
Hell Yeah? And they did congrat direction. All right, Let's
go to John in Downtown John on seven onty? What
was your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show?
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 9: Listening to you, Matt.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and eight, Rolling Stone Magazine named Aretha
Franklin the greatest singer of all time. They readed the
list back in twenty twenty three. Aretha was still tops
in the list. Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 16: Not?
Speaker 2: That is a correct antam. I'm sorry, Thank you for
playing them, Hike John seven ninety Ike, you ready to play?
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah? Yea. In the nineteen seventies,
Madonna worked in New York as as an elevator operator,
but she was fixed fired. Excuse me, she was fired
when it was discovered she was having sex with a
waiter in the elevator. Hell yeah or not? Not that yeah, Ross,
We're going to find that. It was at Terrace in
the Park in New York, which is kind of a
famous place. All Right, Mike and Katy on SEVENINTI ready
to play hell yeah or not?
Speaker 8: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: Eminem finished second in the nineteen ninety seven Rap Olympics,
which got him noticed by record executives. Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 20: Hell yeah?
Speaker 14: Hell ya story.
Speaker 2: Thank you for playing Ross' very impressive. You've put a
lot of research on this. That was a come on.
That's Matt and Katy on seven dot He Matt, your
favorite part of today's ten to two radio show.
Speaker 19: I always liked the Florida stories.
Speaker 9: Those are nice.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Bomb Seeker began his music career recording and
covering the blues and incited Muddy Waters and Howdy Wolf,
Howland Wolf, excuse me as his biggest influencers. Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 20: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: No, he didn't play the blues he liked to Richards, however, though,
thank you for playing Elvis, Kevin and Parentland on seven Kevin,
You're ready to play?
Speaker 9: Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 12: Hell yeah.
Speaker 2: Marvin Gaye was first noticed by blues legend Bo Diddley,
who pushed record companies to sign a singing group, The
Marquise hell yeah or not, Hell yeah, that's right? Number
two for the Kid Rock has been nominated for seven
Grammy Awards, winning Best Rock Performance for All Summer Long
and Best Hard Rock Performance for What Is That?
Speaker 11: But?
Speaker 16: What?
Speaker 2: What is that song? Ross?
Speaker 14: By what the ba?
Speaker 12: BA?
Speaker 2: What the bae? Hell yeah or not? Oh man, hell yeah? No,
He's never won. I was trying to get me on
the bye with the ba whatever that? Hell that means?
By what the bae? That good song?
Speaker 9: Ross?
Speaker 2: I definitely did that a purpose? Is this it here?
Yes on your phone? Let them fight with the paw
up with the next the eighteen by with the PA.
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 18: Pos