Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten on
one an Age Town.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety You.
Speaker 3: Rocket twet, all the Rockets came together.
Speaker 2: That's why this is the greatest rock band of all time.
They gave you Beatlemania in the early sixties and they
just jamed. Well then you needed to. This is such
a hot band of all time. Sure, why not? You
agree with me? Rock is a different Okay, pop, whatever
you wanna call it, that's fine. Let me hard enough
on is three. Let's go God good look, oh man,
what great songwriting come together? Ross? You need to all
can come together toe jam football. Let's just get on
acid and write down whatever comes out of our brains.
It works, else, asked Alton John two. I mean some
of the greatest songs have written the history of the world.
We're on tripping. I would probably say every single one, Yeah,
except I don't know if Beethoven was getting down. But
who's to say? All right, Jonathan, one of my favorite
things is when I say something off the wall. Johnthan
just shakes his head. He's like, I don't know, that's
where that song. Yes, no, he knows.
Speaker 4: I think it's the one with time, but I think
this time it better fits ke.
Speaker 2: He bagged production, he got Walrus gum boot, he got
on no sideboard. He won spinal cracker. That's the lyrics.
That's got feet down below his knee. Hold you in
his armchair. You can feel his disease come together. Oh
miss great, Seriously, they were all high as a kite.
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca Cola? Ady, I
know you? What's that that?
Speaker 4: They would do that and then they would just do
two takes and then be done with.
Speaker 2: The The Beatles were always known as an out group
of musicians that would not spend a lot of time
in recording studio. They would just knock it out, matter
of fact, Twist and Shout, which is one of the
most famous songs of all time. John Lennon had a
horrifically bad sore throat and he's like, let's just try
to see how it goes. And they didn't. I think
I did it in the first or second take, if
I'm not mistaken. So really, yeah, it was a cover
something made really famous by the Beatles. Though, Yeah, it's
a nice song they ripped from someone else seller Rockets
last night. Ros you know what, I'm sorry the worst.
That's okay, you're just you just were born and Conturion.
That's fine, that's good, great song. I liked it a
lot better when the iSER Brothers did it. That's fine. Uh,
it is ross. I'm Matt. Good morning, Jonathan, this as well.
We are with you today until two o'clock. By the way,
yesterday's drive took me thirty eight minutes. Today it was
an hour and seven. Ooh. So people are back out
on the road. We should get the Matt Thomas Road Report.
Oh you don't want that. I'm mf and people swearing,
people honking at them every morning, most mornings. Today I
wasn't because I know it's prepared for it. Man, you
gotta relax. I'm just gonna have too far of a drive.
Thirty seven miles too far, I understand. But the traffics
will be there. Oh it is, and it's my fault.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: One said Matt. You must live. I'm getting you on
a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers. I need you relaxed
when you come into work today. Okay, at that ten
o'clock you know, if I said if I work from
home every day, it would be nearly his cranky, just saying,
but I want to spend quality time with you. Thank you.
I appreciate you commuting like all of the rest of America,
I know, and all of the rest of Houston really
Oh yeah, a lot of suburban nights.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It is funny that I was talking about Eric Castleton,
it's the voice of the Grizzlies. And I see he says,
what's his name, Eric Castle? Time? Okay, And he's like,
how long is your commute? And he goes, I said, well, like,
how far is in Tota Center to my house? I
said about forty five minutes. He goes, Oh my god,
I'm like six million people do it? Well, it's very
common in Houston. Yeah, I mean my guest is New
York Metropolitan. People live in Connecticut and they live in
New Jersey. I mean, exclusive to the long community. I'm
not going to say you're on the short end, but
you're not on the longest end. No, there are people
live in Cyprus for an hour. Yeah, Sealey Brookshire way
out there. I mean, if you want to way out
Montgomery County. I kind of think so all right. So
Rockets last night, frankly sleptlalk for the first half. It
was Yeah, it was a little off putting. A lot
of offensive rebounding by the grizz Yeah, a lot of
gg Jackson if you will. Gigi Jackson was balling actually
sixteen shots last night. I only made six of them.
He was zero for six from three point range. He
was thrown down dunks though. Boy, the Grizzes were seven
of thirty seven from three cool if they missed ten
in a row one point in the fourth quarter or
around third to fourth quarter. I recall mister Ackerman, the
Falcons special teams coordinator, saying they missed in and row
at one point. Yeah, we didn't have that stat Oh oh,
it tells stinky Pete to get on it. We don't worry,
it'll be it'll be addressed. We're going inside. We are
so inside baseball on this. But the Rockets did come through,
played a much better second half. They outscored the Grizzlies
fifty seven to forty five in the second half, including
a thirty two twenty two fourth quarter. Rockets won oh
eight in the Grizzlies ninety nine. The most efficient game.
Maybe not percentage wise, but volume wise. For one apperin
James Shingoon fifteen of seventeen from the floor, thirty three points,
nine rebounds, six assists, and he did have five turnovers,
but four of them came in the first half, so
he was much better if handling the basketball in the
second half. Yes, and they are still getting the spatula
to get Santi Aldama off the grill. He was getting cooked.
He was It was well putting Santa Aldama. The five
is kind of al I mean, you want to say, oh,
lay defense. I felt I started to feel bad for him.
Red Sheepper's like, I see no problem with this. Was
the Grizzlies coach. Now, I found like, get him out
of there. Get him out. You know, like when a
when a hockey goalies giving up like six goals and
they're like, yeah, you gotta get this guy out of here.
That's what I felt like. This shows you there's a
category called plus minus on a score sheet where every
time you score and you're on the floor, you get
two points or one point of banging what it is,
or three and then if you give up a basket
on you individually, but if you're on the floor, you loose.
He wasn't even the lowest plus minus. He was a
minus five. You had, Cedric Coward was a minus fourteen.
Jaron Jackson was a minus ten. Uh. Jaylene Wells, who
was terrible last night, was a minus nine. Memphis is bad.
Rockets took too long to be to beat up on him,
but they did. And now the Rockets, I believe if
I heard Wexer correctly last on the post game show,
a season high twelve games above five hundred. Are your
local basketball lovely after all that? Yeah? After in six
in January? Is everybody a kid that was coming at
me saying they're an eight seed? Who was No, I'm
an ridiculous Should I go? You know what? I honestly
wrestle with this, Matt when when somebody gets in this
it gets all mad at me on Twitter and tells
me they're gonna be an eight seed and I say, hey,
don't worry, the Rockets are gonna be top four, like
stop panicking, and they call me an idiot and all.
Should I go back and find them? Or is that
two petty?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Should I spend my time on this on the an
energy finding some random person on the internet who's calling
me out or should I just move on? I guess
I should move on. I know you know what, you're
always telling me to move on. I know you know
what you're right, and I'm you're right. Move on, you
know what you're right. I'm not gonna go after that
guy who said I was an idiot in the Rockets.
We're gonna be an eight seed. They're not gonna be
an eight seed.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: Is there a jumbled mess between say one through six? Absolutely,
but they're not gonna be an eight seed. There's no chance.
Big game was San Antonio coming up tomorrow night? A
late start if you will, that's gonna be. That's a
good good and take a nap night before the game
because that's gonna be about eight forty five start. Yes,
SANTURNI went for the second time. What is it? Cleveland
and uh and Lakers before. I don't know who's before,
but I think it's clear. I think it's a Lakers
in the calves. Oh, that means we're going late. That's
that's what I'm saying. Could be a close on an
extra timeouts, a lot of challenges. Lebron James wants a challenge,
Luca donc Yeah, is Lakers Calves. Oh yeah, screwed. Yeah,
nine o three. Not that you feel sorry for me,
but it's gonna be working post But it's gonna suck
because we go to then we need to fly out
Atlanta right after the game. Well you'll be fine. Oh,
I know it'll be fine, but back to back. I'm
working post game and come back to work ten o'clock
the next morning with you in a variety of cast
of characters. Oh that's right, I got a text Scordy.
He's actually here. I mean he's putting in a full
four hours today, so he's doing great. Yeah, all right,
so the Rockets get to win. Appy was awesome. Kevin Durant,
volume night for him. He was three. Let's see where
was he? Eleven of twenty four, had a real tough
start but finished out strong. You just heard the highlights
of the last six points in a pair of three pointers,
thirty three, thirty three, seventeen and then nobody else had
more than eight. It's a okay. Sometimes it's a three
headed monster in the NBA. And tar Asen came to
play hit a bunch of threes early on. I thought
when the Rockets got up eight, nothing it was going
to be a piece of cake all the way through,
and unfortunately, those those pesky Grizzlies did not go away.
I've been kind of pushing for this on pre and
post game shows, and I don't think i've brought it
up with you. Do the Rockets have a big three? Yes,
and it's some men Thompson not Tarisani. Attendance is a
huge part of the great and he's missed a lot
of games. I think he's missed nineteen total altogether. Okay,
we think they have a big three year in Houston?
Does America think they have a big three? Unfortunately, I
couldn't tell you that ninety percent of America could name
five Rockets outside of Kevin Durant. If we went to
a sports bar and let's go Paduca, can Kentucky be back?
As reach over you mentioned, Let's go to Rejepperts, Yeah,
it's rejeb. Let's go to a University of West Virginia
bar in Morgantown, West Virginia. Okay, instead name Rockets Kevin Durant. Yes,
then we're struggling. Then we're struggling. You know what you
want to be mentioned? Okay, Honestly, I think Steven Adams
could get some mentions because he's kind of famous. He's famous,
he's not a great player. Oh, I think he's for
What he needs to do is recognition. Uh no, No,
this team does not have a name. Recognition. Okay, it's got,
it's got one of the marquees in the league. I
mean Kevin Durant automatically puts you on. I mean I look,
I look at these NBA commercials all the time, and uh,
Kevin's on there. He's picking up a moisturizer. Now he's
gonna get those ashy legs taken care of. So you're
saying all it takes is to get a moisturizer to
have ashy legs. Yeah, let's take care of it. Yeah,
like we're we're talking about like Vaseline and we're talking
about or what well I do with no free plugs?
You want to mention who he's sponsoring with, go ahead?
Why not? I think it's how do you say it?
Sarah Eve? So I don't I don't have any ash Yeah? Okay,
you don't you think I do? See for White's guys,
it's Sara Okay, Sarah V. I think I've heard of
that before. Yeah, they're they're quite popular. I don't use them,
but I'm moisturized. I do too, for different reasons. What oh,
that's what you're doing in the shower for forty five minutes.
You don't know that. By the way, I was in
a showersturizing. I was in the shower for like thirty
minutes to day. Kim's like, you got to get out.
You gotta stop. The water bill's going up, water bills up.
But man, I go in there, I hear steaming up
the whole bathroom that she's probably like trying to put
her morning makeup on her something. She can't see anything
because you've steamed up everything. That's right, that's right, yeah,
I sing. I can think about the show. I think
about I always think about what song we're going to
play you some help? What are you talking about? Who
does this thing in the shower for thirty minutes? Especially
when on the road when I'm not paying the water bill.
I mean literally, like, if I come from a camping
trip and I've been in the woods and I'm really
dirty and stinky and I need some hot water, maybe
maybe I can get to twenty minutes. Maybe, But you're
shower bearing. Yeah, I can shower bear. Yeah. Yeah, that's
first of all, you drink about half of it when
you get in, can you do it? It is a
coffee the shower. Okay too, I want to get your rulings.
You can do whatever you wanted there. I guess I
can't go. Yeah, it sounds like you're having a picnic
in tea time and crumpets and you're you're you're conducting
meetings in there. Yeah. The reality is this. You want zoo?
Are you on teams in the shower? Mate? I'm thinking
about the show. I'm also pretending I'm a game show host.
You know what? I think? Probably for you, as like
a father of three, the bathroom is always somewhere to escape, right, No,
I don't. My kids don't chase after me when you
not even really that much. No, I'm just speculat. I'm
trying to. I just love trying to help you. I
just love taking showers. Not a bath guy. Don't you
get all pruney and raise any in there? But it
takes a few minutes, I think shapes back into proper form.
What a Tuesday we're talking about? What a Tuesday rockets
with the wind? Last night and we're with you today
until two o'clock. I love this show. I'm just gonna
say it. Well, I got me a raw rocks on
a way in this morning. So that's why I'm a
little more amped up. Okay, all right, Love and thirty.
We have got feelings coming up today. We have MERI
got feelings on a Super Bowl. You want to do that? Yeah? Absolutely,
And by the way, we need to celebrates go ahead,
we need to celebrate something today that has not happened
for CJ. Stroud. There's no memes out there about them today.
Probably somewhere I usually is because they know you like
them and click them and when you when you sit,
when you quote tweet something that that's a great way
for it to end up in your algorithm. All right,
all right? Uh seven one And by the way, a
lot of folks also very cranky about my happiness over
Josel Tuva not playing in the World Baseball Classic. We'll
get to that. And to Fox NFL analyts analysts, I
should say, having a little bit of a minor beef
over the kick or non kick when the Broncos were
up seven to nothing on Sunday. We'll discuss that too
seven one three, two one two five SEVENATI. It is
a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas should Ross. This
is Sports Talk Sevenatti TED twenty two Sportstock SEVENATI. It
is the Matt Thomas showld Ross. Hi, everybody, if you're
in a good mood, traffic suck, but that's fine. Here's
spend four quality hours with you and uh open and honest.
How much preview do you we want for Patriots Seahawks?
It's gonna be massive, Maddie, Well, we'll talk to Softy
next week in Seattle. Okay, that could be bouncing off
the walls me. We could basically just call him and
he can just take the segment. I don't think the
convention center at Media Row could hold him. Yeah. I
wonder how many radio shows are going. It's it's it's
now used to be called Radio Row. Now it's called
media because everybody's podcasts a lot of podcasts. Yeah. By
the way, I talked to Fred Vamble at the hotel.
We were were we uh huh about his podcast? Yeah.
I said, man, why are you trying to take my job?
And he goes, oh, don't worry about as soon as
I get playing I'm dumping that thing, which is the
typical case for both athletes. Okay, yeah, He's like, man,
it's a lot harder, and I said, yeah, it's it's
it's a great job. It's easy because I've always had
the gift for gap. I've never been able to compete
at high level, so I've been a game. But yeah,
it's Uh. Some of these athletes that think, oh, I
just go run right into doing it and then of
course you can get jobs in ESPN to make asses
of yourself. Did you see that Stephen a trying to
get Ryan Clark a job interview with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
What is that about? What?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess the counters saying things to tap your
friend out, but jesus, what the hell is that all about? Now?
Far being for me to question his coach in credentials
because Philip Rivers had none, well she was Catholic high school.
That was more of a bit too, or is that about?
I don't know why, But let me ask you this,
If you really wanted to get a and maybe maybe
the Rooney family did not want to get a different feel,
I don't think going O G what it was the
right answer, I don't know. Mike McCarthy obviously won a
Super Bowl in Green Bay, had some but not enough
success in Dallas, and a grand of Jerry Jones, your
general manager. I was probably gonna put you behind the
eight ball to begin with, But it also feels like that. Man.
If I'm an owner of an NFL team, I'm going
for forty year old, hot fresh, burn them in one oil,
not like dude looking. Sometimes I'm going in there and
I didn't say you, but you gave me a smirk.
Well you said hot and fresh, and I just you're
talking about I'm not talking about Little Jitter's pizza here.
Hold on, First of all, don't not that it's my
fault because I know you. Okay, I was reacting to
you and your normal disposition. Okay, but I mean you
brought up Jerry Jones to sorry good boy Pinkinson. Yeah,
I think that probably that room needed a breath of
fresh air. And maybe Mike McCarthy can't And look, old
school can still win games in the NFL. It wins
at the college level. I just wouldn't have thought that
Mike McCarthy would have been down the list in terms
of the guy would have gone to, especially with all
the bright fresh minds that are running around being coordinators
are on the NFL. But maybe they didn't want that. Maybe,
you know, honestly, well, Tomlin was an established coordinator when
he left, so was Cower. I don't know what Chuck
knows back, I mean, they don't. The Steelers two their credit,
have not had to worry about making a bunch of
coaching decisions. So if there's any franchise in sports that
you're like, Matt, shut up, let us handle this. Ah yeah,
But I mean probably some of that is dumb. Luck well,
a lot of it is because sometimes you don't pull
the trigger. I mean, had there been times in the
last four or five years if people would say Mike
Tomlin's as Steelers fans, oh yeah, Steelers fans have been
climbing for him to get fired for years. Yeah, But
do you know what part of me does appreciate that?
Because there are too many coaches that don't have enough
of a leash. I kind of have to laugh laugh. Though.
We want Mike Tomlin out, we want that fresh, young coordinator.
And it's here comes to Mike McCarthy, careful what you
wish for Steelers fans. Yeah, they still have a quarterback
at this point, because I don't know a Baron Rodgers
coming from Oh gosh. Now, I wonder what McCarthy said
about that, because I was in the two worked together
in Green Bay. Mac Jones second round pick, Davis Mills available,
see de Shroud could be available. No, he's not available.
I mean, I know some of people wanted to be available,
but I don't think he's going to be available. Yeah.
I again, you and I are not in close to
the scene on that side of thing. But I wouldn't
have to say. If we did a quick Google search
about how fans are acting to Mike McCarthy being the
new Pittsburgh coach, it would not be considered a very
warm reception. Probably, mat you get all excited. Mike Tomlin's
the ding dong, the witch is dead and here comes
to Mike McCarthy. Some people think that Tomlin's going to
enjoy television so much at the money that is being
spent on these broadcasters to work at the national level
is so good that he'll be like, you know what
I'm done. I don't envision it. I think Mike Tomlin's
got one more coaching job. Left in him. I think
so he's only fifty three. Yeah, Plus he'll be able
to handpick where he wants to go for Yeah, I
would say probably because think about work. What depending on
an If ownership wants a young yeah, if you need
you need basically a Buffalo Bill situation where the team
is ready made and they just need somebody who can
be a great leader. I'll say Rams is ready. Oh really,
just out there all right, little Kansas City, Andy Reid.
He just wants to eat cheese, Tonton hang out. He's
done playing football, coaching football. Pat Mahomes still very much
the primer's career. Yes, Pat Mahomes, by the way, been
kind of for two years. And by the way, did
you see who they rehired as their offensive coordinator? Yeah,
Eric b Enemy Eric. Yes, I already was like unhirable
and then he goes on leaves and they bring him back. Well,
I guess people had said as a head coach, perhaps unhireable. Yeah.
Oh so you're saying, wait a minute, I let's go backtrack.
You think, are you saying off putting the last couple
of years or there is a start of a decline already.
I'm not saying a decline, But what are you I'm
saying situations matter because Pat Mahomes throwing forty five touchdowns
and all that stuff. Before this year twenty two touchdowns,
eleven picks. Last year twenty six touchdowns, eleven picks. You
know what year before twenty seven and fourteen. I'm not saying.
I'm just saying, if you'd only seen those three years
from him, would you be thinking he's the But we
would remember he was supposed to like the Air of Pair.
People were putting him already ahead of Tom Brady. Can
I give you an overleay simplistic view, Yes, if the
Travis Kelce didn't fall off the map like he has
fallen off Tyreek Hill traded away, I'm saying two of
his main go to guys were gone. So situations matter
for quarterbacks, is what we're saying. I'm saying, yes, So
when the situation next year presents itself better for c J.
Strawdy as an RB one and a true wide receiver two.
Sam Darnold with the crappy Jets worst quarterback ever, you
get him a great defense, Jackson Smith and Jigba in
a good offensive line, run game, They're going to the
Super Bowl, So maybe we should stop bashing quarterbacks in general.
That's it's very low hanging fruit and it's very easy. Well,
it's easy because the numbers usually match the results in quarterback.
Doesn't go thirty one of thirty four with four touchdowns
in two seventy five and lose. Every conversation is different, Yeah,
I mean, think about Geno Smith. Were the Seahawks, they
were in the playoffs last year, right in seven. What
happens when he goes to the Raiders. They have the
worst offensive line in football. They they got the number
one pick. They went from ten and seven to the
number one pick. Did all of a sudden Gino Smith
forgot how to play football? Disappointing first round pick. I
would say situation matters in many aspects, and that would
be with the offensive line, with the pass catchers, and
with the run game, and with the coaching staff and
all four of those question marks here in Houston around
the quarterback. So did the CJ's rookie Yar did he
have Joe Mixon as his running back or Damian Pierce?
It was Joe Mixon. So he's had his of the
three NFL seasons, he's had two RB ones he could
trust the other one. This past year he had nobody
to go to. Nobody. I mean, let's let's un let's
let's dumb this down. A great running back and a
great offensive line is gonna make CJ live. CJ's life
significantly more, much better. Yeah, it just is. I think
I think Jared Goff is as another name Gibbs. Oh
my god, with those guys in the back, because everybody
Jared Goff was like he was a castaway in LA
and like Sean McVay is like, I gotta get this
guy out of here. I can't win with Jared Goff.
Well the lines, they haven't won with him, they haven't
won a championship with him. But Jared Goff's been good,
He's been excellent. Can c J. Stroud be at least
Jared Goff? Oh my god, that would be You're you're
under selling how what a great distance that is between
the two. I know if you put well, let's talk
about this, then if you put Sam Donald on this
offense right now with no run game inconsistent, Oh, you're
asking him to throw for three point fifty and bad
offensive line? Is Sam Darnold doing what he did here.
Of course. No, so no, there's there's a defense to
that for CJ. Yeah, like I said, it's it's quite
frankly a conversation above our heads. We need like personnel
people and NFL gurus and films and stuff like that.
There is one thing that even a great offensive line
and a great receiving corp can't fix. For CJ. That
he's got to fix himself. And I'll tell you about
that after we talk about our friends and senter Jenny
mat and Ross Sports Talk seven ninety here on a Tuesday.
We need to correct one thing. I'll let Ross handle
the responsibility. I was wrong. You guys are right. I
don't know why I thought Joe Mixon was a rookie year,
but obviously it was Devin Singletary. I don't know why
I was thinking that. Of course, as I got reminded
by multiple youth things, multiple of you, thank you fact checkers.
That's okay, No, it's good I said it wrong, So yeah,
correct me. I'm not happy about being wrong, as you know, Matt,
if loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right,
you know. I don't like being wrong. So but I
gotta take take my medicine because I was wrong. Devin
Singletary was the rookie year running back for C. J. Stroud,
and Pierce was a part of that tis I had
like four hundred yards. Remember when Damian Piers says, oh
we got RB one now like a thousand yards in
like thirteen games. Yes, it's crazy, all right. So back
to my point. You can have a great offensive line,
you can have a great receiving cors, you can have
a pass catching tight end. You can have an RB one.
To these untrained eyes, and I promise you I speak
of the truth on this, it looks skittish. Yeah, I
think there should be no reason for such skittishness, this
long into his NBA career, which brings up to two things.
One in his NFL career to me, I think he's
nervous about getting hurt. I really do. And I and
that might take deep ofgnosis to that any see these
meditating I'm serious. I'm not kidding about that now, because
if you go on that field worrying about getting hurt
or getting sad, or taking a spill or hitting your
head on the turf, Because think about this, Some of
his closest friends Tank Dell two season ending injuries. Tough
to watch watching his number one receiver and Eco Collins
have concussion issues. And look, life in the NFL is
full of concussions. It's a sad part of it. But
that's the risk you take. It's like a Nascar you're
going to get in a crash. It's just it's inevitable
that you're going to be in a situation where you
may find yourself battling concussions, and concussions are scary, they're
life altering. So with that being said, there's got to
be something in his mind. He's got to clear to
not worry about that, to say, you know what, I
don't think get rid of the ball so quickly or
I can take off and get that five or six
yard run. I think that's a part of his game
that right now is void, and that will always hold
him back regardless, because even if you have five zero
pros ROSSI on that offensive line, you're gonna have five
four defensive linemen who maybe are just as good on
the defensive line, and maybe your offensive line misreads something
or blitz comes and you're gonna feel the heat. And
I feel like that CJ. Doesn't feel the heat as
well as he did in his first year in the NFL. Yeah,
there's no excusing the playoff performances. Throughout the season he
was solid. He had like you know, three four really
good games, a couple of mid games, couple of bad games.
Like it's just the playoffs leave such a bad taste
in them out to where it was horrible wild card week.
Then you say it can't get any worse, and then
it does, And now we have to sit here and
wonder what the heck is going on because we can
say all those things went wrong for CJ. Stroud. It
wasn't the perfect situation for him. But as you said,
and I talked about this too, like the fight or flight?
Should I throw it the split second? Fight or flight?
Should I throw the ball away? Should I extend this play?
Should I take the sack and just eat eat this?
Or what do I do? It's like he's picking the
wrong avenue far too often, and that is worrisome. And
what makes a good athlete with a nice arm and
athletic ability becoming great athlete and a great quarterback is
decision making. It's timing, it's feeling the heat, it's feeling
the pressure, staying in the pocket, knowing when to get
out of it, knowing when to get rid of the football,
knowing when to take a sack. Ross there have been
too many times, especially this past season, that he could
have taken a four or five yard sack and it
wound up being an eleven or twelve yard because he
was trying to escape it. That's another thing. It seems
like he's cognizant of sack numbers. Yeah, that's fair, and
he's just like at all caught like tossing the ball
up in the air. Just take a sack. I know
you don't want to want to. Sack numbers are going
to be high, your pressure rate and all that stuff.
I think maybe he is kind of thinking about that
stuff too. I think when quarterbacks take sacks they say, well,
it's his fault, and sometimes it is. Sometimes you stare
down receivers and you don't look for your second and
third routes. Sometimes you don't understand where the pressure is
coming from. But by a large ROSSI, when you're giving
up sacks, it's probably because your offensive line is not
adequate enough for you, esecially on Bless. Yes, I'm just
trying to think of though, like who is overcoming a
worse situation than c J. Stroud with what we talked
about with the bad run game, bad offensive line. I mean,
Nicol Collins is good. I'm just looking at like offensive
rn Like maybe the Saints because their w R one
is olave and they don't have much after that run
game was bad and they have a bad offensive line.
Tell me about Cincinnati. They've got two lead receivers. Yeah,
so that that's plus Chase Brown is a great running back,
So that's that's out the window. Tua had has a
better running game, better pass catchers. Overall, I think it's
got to be the State. Maybe the Cardinals. Yeah, I
mean look at your bottom third years. Yeah, that's what
I'm saying, Like, who had a worse situation than c J.
Stroud as a quarterback? Just situation only. And maybe it
sounds like I'm giving him excuse. There's no excuse for
his playoff performances. There's not. We got to try to
figure this out and try to We got a lot
of time to unearth this and figure out if CJ.
Shroud's the guy and how much of this is him
and how much of this is everyone else, because there's
blame for everyone. And I think, honestly, Hannah and Cal
need to ask Nick about whose fault this is? Why
did my star quarterback have two of his worst performances
in two of the most important games we played. Because
if you're thinking about extending him and thinking about making
him your long term, you better make sure that everything
is covered that if the offensive line was significantly better,
would CJ make those mistakes? If there was a better
assortment of receivers, would CJ have not stared down a
particular route, if there was a running back, would the
constant second and eighths be second in fours instead? I mean,
these are all intangible things that need to be discussed
before you sit down and have that conversation. Because I guarantee,
and I told you this before. David Mullagetti is talking
to the Texans this offseason, he absolutely is it. That's
his responsibility as an agent for a third year NFL quarterback.
And if you're gonna go, if you're gonna go into
these conversations, Nixon a smart enough guy. He's gonna have
evidence to say, hey, we have something, we have some
doubts and here's why because Mullageded is going to spin
an ass and also, don't tell CG I said this. Yeah,
it's like an arbitration hearing it is. Yeah, and Mullagad
is gonna say, well, wait a minute, get you an
RB one, get you a running back, get you a
get you a wide receiver. That's that's a good point.
Like if you're Nick and I'm David or fights for
whatever you need. We both have argued, absolutely, and that's
why if both of you have arguments and there's hesitation,
Mullagad has got it to say, Okay, I understand. I
don't like it, but I understand it. Yeah, but he's
not because he's an agent. Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I'm David Mullagedt, I'm like, look at these pressure rates,
look at your offensive line, look at these what he marks?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean if you look at all the stats from
what he more many second and third and twelves. Have
you given my quarterback hit all the time? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, who thinks of Nick Kayley
as an elite play caller in the NFL? Yeah? Bo,
you've given my offensive coordinator my quarterback two different O
season last two years. My guess is part of it.
CJ didn't like to Stroud or not Stroud Bobby Slow.
So all right, more on that coming up throughout the
course of the program. If you want to join us
at seven one three two one two, seven, ten fifty two,
it is matten Ross with you. All right, So we
have to eliminate the comment if you tweet about Josey L.
Tubay not being in the WBC, or for that matter,
any of your favorite players, I would like for all
of us to admit to delete the following comment. Well,
it could happen just as easy in a spring training
game that it kind of happened in WBC. And in
theory that is accurate, okay, because when you get on
a diamond, you are playing. But the reality there are
there are some differences. One, the intensity and the pressure
is five hundredfold over a spring training game. There couldn't
be anything more less stressful than a spring training game. Really,
in an athletic event, less stress. Yeah, right. Number two,
Your body, whether it be the arm of the pitcher
you swinging, is going to be different when you're playing
in the middle of the season on April fifteenth, May fifteenth,
June fifteenth, then it would be in late February early March,
and you can you can get yourself ready for off
season workouts, and you can go to the drills, you
can go to spring training early. You're just not going
to be a body clock adjusted to playing at your
very best or pitching at your very bad us in
a game in March. So you have pitchers who may
not be as sharp as they need to be. Case
in point, when jose got hitting the rest and you're saying, well, okay,
well that could certainly happen spring training. Two. There's also
a part, and I'm trying to think of the parallel
on this or the analogy, which you know, I'm terrible about.
If something happens wrong with your employees, at least it
happened on your watch, like an NFL player getting hurt
in practice rather than at the Pro Bowl. Very well, easily,
but there are some things about if it was on
my watch and my clock. While I'm not happy about it,
it makes better sense than if I send off jose
L two video play with Team Venezuela and we say
good luck, see in three weeks. I think the Astros
and I know Carloskrey would like to play in the WBC.
But I think the Astros are hesitant. They don't want
to have to come back, you know, because Carl's craz
is a huge part of this baseball team. He just is.
And especially if the Boys this morning we're talking about this.
If Puerto Rico puts him as a shortstop, that does
him no good. He needs to play third base. Being
in the WBC and playing shorts of I don't know
what the search up situation is, Puerto Rican. I don't
have the roster in front of me here. Let me
get the Puerto Rican roster. He needs to play third base.
Playing shortstop does mean no good to get my guy
ready for the start of the season. They still come
back in the middle of spring training, don't they They do.
I'm not going to I'm more I get more of
the injury thing than the third short stop. The human
body goes from light workout, light workout, step it up,
step it up big time WBC. Then you get back
to after playing WBC, light workout, light workout. They got
they got from Cisco Lindor. Okay, it'd be fine. Hey
put him at second. Apparently they got Nolan Aroana. Well,
Puerto Rico got a squad. Do you know what, Porto Rico,
you know what, Tell Carlos you didn't make the team,
thanks for playing, And you're never gonna be able to
shake me of this. I don't care if there's forty
thousand people at Dykin Park and everybody's channing and playing
their US and put in their international flags out there,
and I know the pomp and circumstances and pageantry is amazing.
I worry about big picture, and I worry about the
Houston Astros, and I I just will I. I just
can't change my stance, and I know that maybe a
detriment to sy I'm not telling you to change yourself. No,
I get it because, as you said, the intensity is
gonna be higher. They're gonna play more innings, probably get
more at bats in the average. I don't know what's
gonna all add up in a crew to in a
spring training But as you said, where are you more
likely to be pushing your body to the limit, like
trying to go and run to the outfield and rip
a handstring or something like that. It probably more in
a WBC game than a spring training game. And it
can happen anywhere. Absolutely, We're talking about not necessarily splitting hairs,
but percentages of it's in a smaller increase an uptick
in the WBC but the spring. But it's also not nothing.
And you don't watch and I don't watch the WC either.
I don't get into it, but many of the players do,
so that's that's kind of why it's their prerogative. Like
I don't care about I don't know the Olympic triple jumping.
That doesn't mean people don't care about the ross. There
are people. There are sporting events where the athletes care
about something and they don't think about the big picture.
I want to play in the All Star Game. I
want to get my swings in. I want to play
twenty four minutes. I want to score nineteen points, where
if you're an older player, like if Kevin Durant came
and said, you know what, I don't want to be
part of the All stringers, I need the downtime in
playing forty minutes a game, I would be all for it. Well,
did you see Wimby's comments about the All Star Game?
I did not. He said he's going to be going
all out, and he says he wants everybody to be
going out out with it with him. How his Spurs
fans feel here in that? Let me tell you, some
Spur fan, you are irate over event because where you
are today, not in the whole part by Wemby, but
when Wembley's on the floor, he makes differences. Now against
the Rockets done so much well, but by and large
he has had a fantastic season. So yeah, I'm sure,
I'm sure Spurs fans didn't like hearing that Weinby says
he wants to go all out and bring the intensity
back to the All Star Game, you know what. Honestly,
and this is a fault of mine, I don't even
know the format for the All Star Game because I'm
the USA versus the World this first year and there's
groups of five, right, Yeah, I can't see. You don't
even know for sure, not exactly as a kid, and
I hate to go to i'ms as a kid card,
But I was a kid. I loved the All Star Games.
I hell, I love the Pro Bowl because that was
cool playing in Hawaii with hot Coula girls on the side.
I knew exactly when the dunk contest was gonna start.
And now it's Matt McClung every year who never makes
an NBA roster. Yeah, I remember watching you, Kobe Bryant,
Tracey McGrady. Now I can see the Derry back in
the day. I can see the dunk contest meaning more
for me if we got recognizable players. Absolutely, But we
don't get recognizable players anymore. No, let's go to men
Thompson in there. Let's go. But generally speaking for me,
it's a cleansing get away from basketball for a while.
But the game itself, when they got the two hundred points,
it was like last year, two years ago, that was
so embarrassing. Do you feel like a Men Thompson kind
of glides a la Clydedrexer. What do you feel about
that comparison? He kind of floats, just floats up there.
Sometimes it reminds me a little bit of the Clyde
the Glide. Not bad, Okay, he's a eurostep machine though
that's true too. He's king of the Eurostep pop and
shoot because the defense is second off. They're like, you
can take the ten foot all day if you want to.
All right, rockets. When we'll get to that baseball chatter,
of course, and we had a little bit of a
disagreement with a couple of Fox analysts about the analytics
of the seven to nothing game, uh lead for Denver
that ultimately was won by New England.
Speaker 1: Ten to seven's The Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 9: Ross eleven four on seven ninety Good morning, Hello, Hello,
we got people listening.
Speaker 2: We love the ten o'clocker. Yeah, we love you. Let's
say something wrong about the running back. Yeah, they come
right at you. Nobody was made and I was wrong.
Special shout out to eleven o'clock ers. What's up eleven o'clockers? Folks?
Going on to get something to eat. Maybe Big City
Wings would be on the menu for today. We'll take
more with that a little bit, okay, but right it
is Tuesday. I gotta get home today. We're going out
tomorrow for though us. Yeah all right. Uh So the
Rockets win last night and they are now a season
high twelve games about five hundred. Doesn't feel like that.
I mean they've been playing about five hundred basketball for
a month. I think they're a what eight and six January,
So they've been on a winning run lately. Yeah, no
embarrassing losses to the Pelicans and whatnot. Let's see They've
won five of the last six. The last really tough loss,
like shaking your head with Sacramento. Oh as far as
like because of the opponent right off his playoff team,
I mean, thunder crushed him. I would have liked that
to be closer. Yeah, No, it was terrible fourth quarter.
Rockets and Spurs tomorrow. I know it's gonna be late,
but I'm kind of looking forward to it. Ready. Look,
no disrespect to Memphis, but I'm gonna disrespect Memphis. It's
just a new thing for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And everybody's hurt on the on the team. Yeah. Yeah,
it's the Spurs, it's the Iten rivalry. It's national TV
ESPN late night start yep, seven thirty Rockets launch bad
here on Sports Talk seven eighty with Yours truly kays coach.
Uh tomorrow, Okay, hmmm that pause because he just fist
bumped for us there. No, I it's a little warm
in here. I was trying to try and do what
loosen the extremities. Okay, Uh, let me ask you this
to train uh trains that trades of thought, No trains
a train of thought, train of thought. Two trains of
thought out there? One should the Rockets, go get an
extra big man, or yes, should they go kick the
tires on Jose Alvarado, who is being talked about among
possible trades, because again he dinna make a lot of money.
He fills up another back court spot and a ball handler,
feisty as all hell. I mean, he is an em
a dooka kind of guy for sure. Well I never
thought i'd say this, Matt, But what's the apron situation. Well,
he only makes four point eight million doronto and he's
got to pick up for next year at about the
same amount of money. So okay, so if you do
that feels very duable. Go get him. You could go
throw in fifteen first second round picks. I mean, now
you could get guys that get released a big men
expiring contract, get them signing for minimum deals too. That
could be a possibility as well. Does either if I
gave you, let me give you the options, multiple choice.
A Alvarado be a backup big man, see both of them,
d none of them? What would you like to see
the Rockets do? Man? I guess at the moment, let's
go eat three each of them for a backup big
seems like I know that the easy answer is point guard.
But they still have one of the best offenses of basketball.
They don't have a point guard, but you can initiate
some with We've got a handlers right right, right right.
You have a lot of guys you can initiate sets with,
and it is a need. But I think I think
this team is big time missing Steven Adams. That was
gonna be my answer. I do like Jose Alarado's moxie,
I do, but how many times are you going to
put I mean, are you gonna shift a make Jose Alvarado? Yeah,
I mean I don't know how much time if it's
worthy of making a trade, and how much what pocket
of the game is gonna be playing in lieu of
whom I guess Tarry Easton out of the starting line,
I mean, what do you are you even starting? You're
not starting, and you're you're darn and Phiney Smith should
be coming off of his minutes restriction. Tarry Easton should
be ramping up as well. I mean, is he takes
o Koge's minutes reed Shephard? I like him as a
complimentary replete piece. You're what you're doing strictly is adding
a ball handler if the ball, if you've got aggressive
guards who are attacking your bigs who have the ball
in their hands. It didn't matter last night because the Grizzlies,
I mean, they don't have any any size as far
to worry about. But I mean that Sixers game and
even in the Pistons game, it's like Clint Capella, I
love you as a third center, but as when he
has to kind of step up, it can be it
can get ugly. Clint just can't give you, first of all,
the sheer volume minutes of Steven Adams are giving you.
And second all, I just don't think he's nearly as
a refined offensive rebounder because it's not because Clint can't
play in the NBA. It's because Steven Adams been able
to carbon a Niche is one of the best offensive
rebounders in the last decade in the NBA. Yeah, and
it's not even that the I mean Clint Coppel is
not a bad player, always out of position. But Steven
Adams is such a good, smart defender, strong rebounder, as
you said, and I would say, an underrated passer. Yeah.
You can put him at the top of the key
and he can facilitate the offense. Clint's usually be one
or two dribbles and then got meid of the ball exactly,
And I would say better score, better finisher as a
shot is a better dunker. Yeah, neither want to be
considered You're not. You're not running Steven Adams on the
low block every time down there. Same thing for Clint.
So if you were going to make a minor move,
which I believe anything the Rockets do at this point
would be considered minor, I think you're going to get
an extra big man because you really you only have two.
Jeff Green doesn't play anymore, and he would be an
undersized five. Uh you go to that well a little bit,
you could go. You could move Jabbar to the five
because he's in the paint a lot. But you're gonna
have bigger guys, like like when you take altp out
of the game, does Jokic just have a good time
going against Capella? I'm thinking about some of the bigger
Yea indeed was cooking Capella Hartenstein who everyone. So it's like, yeah,
I think Steven Adam would have done. But though yeah, yeah,
if there was a wish list, I probably would say
get me in. But the problem is what's out there again?
Names that come to mind I can't think of because
you don't know who's being traded to, who could be released,
what kind of money situation. Remember, the Rockets are kind
of hamstrung by what their salary cap situation is. Yeah,
it's gonna be tough. It feels like a dance with
who you who you're playing. Now, let me tell you this,
if you're playing Wemby in a seven game series, you're
not worried about it. Really. The only centers in the
NBA you are legitimately worried about those valuable minutes would
be maybe a Denver team Hartenstein can beat you up
a little bit in the low block. Who else? Lakers?
Dander eight doesn't do anything for me, No, anybody else.
I'm thinking of Dallas really, but I think you well
by playoff time is Steven Adams is gonna be possibly back?
I don't know. I can't give an answer to that.
People we're saying about playoff time, he could be coming back,
but that's that's normal timeline. We don't know his the
extent of his injury, how bad it is. The rock
is no more than we do Yeah, so just something
to throw out there that I would think if you
really wanted to do a little I don't think it's
necessarily a bad thing that you find tune something like
that if you're looking to add depth, especially and it's
I mean, I'm going to presume that you can go
get it back up five somewhere and it may not
be a prototypical seven foot five, but could be something
like like I'll give you an example. Now, GG Jackson
shot too many shots in the primary OEt of Night,
but gg Jackson six nine, but two forty he can
go in there and scrape if you needed to. You
would you live with an understand with maybe like a
more power forward ESK type player that can go in
there and bang bang A little bit depends on matchups, yeah,
I you know, And look that's that. Alpi is a
huge get in there with the wolves and beat throw
elbows and around that kind of thing. No, he he
can hold his own for almost five you can push around.
I mean, yeah, I'm more worried about. Yeah, Alpi's defense,
like in the paint, it's pretty solid. Just when he
kind of gets out and when he gets drawn out
of the paint is when we run into issues. Yeah,
but that that doesn't solve Clint doesn't solve that either. No.
I would think if you're thinking about going to get
a center, you're looking for somebody that's gonna go above
the rim and do the tapouts and keep possessions alive,
because part of the Rockets offense, which makes them so
fun to watch, is that they are not given. They
are always given, not always, but more times not given
at least two chap opportunities to put the ball in
the basket because there are so many offensive rebounds. Yeah,
Clint's good, we can you can upgrade? Yeah, all right,
eleven twelve on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety six. So I'd like
to say friend of the show, but I can't. I
have attempted multiple times to get Mark Schlareth on this
radio show, and I have been unsuccessful. I would like
a text back to say, Hey, can't do it. Huh
B go to hell seem leave me alone. I just
get left delivered. Hmm. It's fine. He's a busy man.
You're not that busy. He's not too busy enough to
go on another national show yesterday. Okay, Maybe maybe I'm
just local. Maybe I'm not big in time enough for him.
Maybe you should lie about what show you're on. I say,
I'm with Matt Thomas, with with with Ross. We're on
Fox Sports Radio. Yeah we are. We are Fox Sports affliate,
our company.
Speaker 10: Do that.
Speaker 2: When I was a producer, I would say Fox Sports
Radio Houston. Well I like that idea. You get rid
of Houston next time, just say Fox Sports Radio. Okay.
All right. So Mark Schlareth, who is a Denver Broncos
Hall of Famer, was on the all sixty year anniversary
team of the Never Broncos Wonder Fox. He's actually really
good on game analysis. That's why I want to have
my mind. Okay. He did the textans a couple of
times this year, but again didn't return my text. And
that's fine, that's okay. Was asked about the situation that
he found himself and being a Joe fan yesterday or
a Sunday at Mile High staying whatever they call it
these days, with his Broncos up seven to nothing fourth
and one and the decision by Sean Payton to go
for it. Here is what Mark Slayirth had to say,
catch in the game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, we were all sitting, we were all
sitting and standing around in Fate Manning's suite, and it
was me and it was Stokely, and it was Mike Shanahan,
it was Peyton and we.
Speaker 2: All looked at it. Go just like this, you got
to backup quarterback.
Speaker 10: You got a chance to go ten to nothing, and
you know, and your defense is balling out of control.
Like kick the all of us were in agreement at
that point. Just kick the field goal. Just kick the
field goal. And then you know, you come out with
a little roll out pass and it was a debacle
to begin with.
Speaker 2: And plus at that point you had to run the
ball for two inches.
Speaker 10: So it's not like you feel like, hey man, they're
really gonna respect our run game, right, They're really going
to respect what we're doing here as an of offense.
So we're just gonna run the QB sneak or we're
just gonna run some power down the middle or ISO
and really smash mouth these guys. They were kicking our
ass up front. So I was I was like, kicking
field goal, take the points. Man tend uping is a
big score, especially with the weather report that you know,
it was good to get nasty in the second half.
Speaker 2: That was the weather report.
Speaker 10: That would have been you know, floated for the whole week.
Speaker 2: All right. That again. He would also go on to
say with Mark Schlareth the following quote, I hate analytics.
I hate all analytics people. I don't like nerds. You're
making that up? Did he really say that? No? I
mean it's probably layer in the audio, but I we
don't have time to look that up. So Greg Olsen,
who is his Fox teammate, they don't work on the
same games because Greg has works better games than Mark.
I mean Mark's working Commanders, Titans and Green and Greg
Olson's working Green Bay Chicago. But that's not a here, No, there,
says the irony. Here is the analytics, and he puts
it in quotes actually say kick, and you put kicking
all caps. But that's not as fun, I guess. So
let me think about Let okay, I think, and I'll
give you a thought. A wise man once told me,
just because you're given the analytics doesn't mean you have
to use them.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay. It's up to the coach to choose the stats
that he wants and the trends with a mixture of
a gut feeling and make its decision based off of
gut feeling, conditions, time of game, ballgame, the mood, the atmosphere,
the momentum shift, and so the argument again, you know
how I feel about this, upset this over and I
wouldn't change your mind. Okay, But it's funny though, he
says the analytics people, his analytics people say you should
have kicked it as well. So I guess it's depending
on what analytics group of people that you listen to
to say what you should have done in that situation.
I think you're gonna get different answers from different people.
As I mentioned Seth Walder of ESPN Analytics, he has
a model that he uses and they said it was
an easy go. There's another guy follow his name is
Ben Baldwin. He had he said it was a kick,
but it was close. So it depends on what the
Broncos analytics department was was saying and how they felt
and game feel and all that type of stuff. And
Sean Payton said, we can go out there and get
one yard. Like again, it's one yard. That's why you
can disagree with the decision. But I don't think it's
some kind of boneheaded all time error because the immediate
after effect was the Patriots punted the ball in like
six plays. They gave like twenty yards a field position back,
so you got the ball back. This was in the
second quarter. This did not cost them the game. Nope.
But I think we're seeing a trend, and we brought
this up a lot yesterday, and we won't spend too
much more time in this. We are seeing a trend
where too many teams are giving up on chank getting points.
I okay, Like I said, I think it's a situation
where we we forget when it gets them a touchdown.
We we for whatever reason, because it goes against our
years of trend. Yeah. Mark Schlareth is a sixty year
old who played in the nineties. Yeah, he's not gonna
be okay with the okay, in his fifties and played
in the nineties. Yees, yeah, okay, he said us ESPN.
So yes, all these guys in the suite who are
sixty years plus think that, oh shop to shake my
fisty the cloud. Really they're not king the point, shut pigeon.
Wait a minute, why a kid in the nineteen nineties,
we would have chicken the points they're not they're not.
I don't know why would No, I don't live an
assistant living. What do you do to those people back there?
Take your tapioca pudding and watch them go for it
on fourth down? Okay, that's just how it's gonna go.
Guess what analytics revolution in baseball already done, Basketball, already done. Football,
it's here as well. It ain't going away. It's not
gonna be all of a sudden every single coach is
gonna be like, you know what, maybe we could get
with or when probability is gonna go out? But let's
just kick it's not. It's how it's gonna go. Man,
this is called progress. It's gonna keep going forward. I'm
gonna you were already seen a massive difference from ten
years ago. I'm gonna give you a really bizarre gut
feeling about this particular topic in about five minutes from now. Okay,
remember when Bill Belichick went a win for a fourth
and two. This was like, man, when against the Colts
on the road back in the day and he got
crushed like that was crazy out of control, that that
that it wouldn't be it would still be talked about
in this day and age, but it was thought of
as the most insane idea ever and it was like
a fourth and two where if they would have got
the game ball, they would have won the game. So
this is my analogy on this. When it comes to blackjack,
Oh good, I love this. You ready go ahead? It's
the sixteen, Yes, and you're supposed to field goal versus
fourth and one. Maybe you've got sixteen and the dealer
is showing eight. Yeah, kicking the field goal is staying. See,
that's what I'm saying. Maybe I'm a little bit I've
made this analogy before. Maybe I'm a little I have
two different stances on two different feetles because you know me,
I will fall on my sword for the rest of
my adult life playing cards that you always hit the sixteen.
And I know there's some people that will just say, no, Matt.
I've been looking at the cards. I've been seeing what's
going on on the table, and I don't buy it.
Mm hmm. It's it's a failure of version because you're gonna,
you're you're gonna. The field goal in our minds is
the soft and cushy. We're all good. It's gonna go
in one of the time, and I will make the
analogy again to it's like bunt guy take the points guys,
kind of like bunt guy mad, I'm sorry, uh no,
because I do get a tangible benefit I'm going to
add to my eventual score. Bunting does not guarantee me
that that run is going to score, but doesn't always work.
Field goals don't always work. What is a field goal
percentage of thirty five yards? I think it was ninety
four percent. That's that's pretty much automatic. Not guaranteed automatic,
but that's pretty damn close. So as I said this
particular decision, like I said, I just I go to
the numbers. I'm not saying I know. I don't have
a model. I'm not running my algorithm. So I don't
know what the correct decision was. Because Seth Walder says, easygo.
This other guy I followed, Ben Baldwin says it was
an easy kick. So what did Sean Payton have? I
don't know, So I tell you one yard. I don't
know Sean Payton's background altogether except Spygate New Orleans. But
apparently Denver fan Just like there he goes again, making
another wrong. Is he had mad as a history of
making my decision? I don't know. I can't get the
field out. I mean that was the two thousand and
nine Super Bowl, was a long time ago when he
did the on side kick and you can't surprise on
sech somebody asked Mike Vrabel about that. You know, Sean Payton,
you got to be ready for him, you know, surprise
on kicks and on side kicks, and Rabel's like, I
think we're good with the surprise on side kick because
you can't do that anymore. All right, let's get a
calling before we get to gut feelings. Larry in New
Orleans at eleven twenty eight Larry, good morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Matt. I don't know is Ross here anyway?
So this has so many different layers, starting with the
fact that people love beating up on Sean Payton. He's
the smartest guy in the room most of the time.
The layers to this are the suspension of Sean anyway.
We all said it in the moment, don't you take
the points? Well, this is why this is such a
great show. Whenever I tune in, y'all are talking about
something interesting. But you can't what's the phrase, you can't
presume and and this is sliding doors. I'm going on
all over the place. Of course, this is sliding door.
You can't presume an ending from from whether they kicked
the field goal or not, or score a touchdown. And
I score a touchdown, and I might enrage the Patriots
to come back and go on this tear. And the
bottom line is that maybe maybe bot Nicks did have
a chance against one of these two teams coming out
of the NFC. Maybe they beat each other up. But anyway,
thanks for the great show, and you have to look
at it from a lot of people, especially our guy
at night, mister Rob Parker. I don't know, you may
have brought it up earlier, but he loves to beat
on Sean Payton and his By the way, the year
that he was suspended, they could have won the Super Bowl.
That year, they could have won the Super Bowl in
the game as they got screwed on the Rams game.
So you know, picking on showing Peyton is fun because
he's you know, he tends to present himself as a
smartest guy in the room, and here for one Super
Bowl game he.
Speaker 2: Was Thanks for the phone call, Ross, care to comment
and then he said, thanks for listening, Larry, Thank you, Larry.
And this is a great interesting show where we have debates. Yes,
we don't always agree, and in fact where we do,
and it's it's not forced. By the way. That was
two thousand and nine when Bill Belichick went for a
fourth and three from his own thirty seven yard line.
It was this huge talking point and analytics said it
was right, the right decision, fourth and three from his
own thirty seven. Yes, because if they get it, they
would have won the game. And peyton Man and it
was peyton Man and Colts offense. He's probably scared of
peyton Manny scoring a touchdown on which they would did
and they lost the game. All right, Casel was going
to talk about the Rockets trending for a backup center.
If you have any gut feelings, we want to hear
from you coming up, Yeah, what we do from last week?
By the way, don't we're about to find out. Open
up the to find out the gut feeling profile page
right now if you want to have a gut filling
in seven one three, two, one two, five, seven ninety up.
Wasn't that tummy You'll ma got a gut peeling. This
is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show. All right,
this is the half hour of the show we do
on a weekly basis where you get to make your
sports predictions. If you're right, you get to call back
and brag. If you're wrong, you typically hide. We can't
hide from ours because Ross writes him down most weeks
when he doesn't forget. And we're gonna find out how
we did last Tuesday with our gut feelings. Yes, Matthew,
you had the Rockets minus four and a half versus
the Spurs. I believe that's a hit. Yes, you had
stidhamund one hundred and seventy five yards passing as a
hit like thirty one to thirty three. I took the
over and then the blizzard hit. Uh. You had the
Rams in the in the Super Bowl, oops, which I
did as well. And you said Nick Cassario is gone
if the Texans don't make the AFC Championship anything less
than that, Okay, he's out. Yep, Okay, I'm staying firm
on that. Sure, why not? And you said David Mulligetta
is going to create a nasty situation with c J.
Stroud in the Texans one. Oh, come on, he's not
a win not now. No, but that's a that's a
long term forecast. I will say, it's got not gonna
be hunky. How about this, put the term in there
will not be a hunky dory situation. You said, nasty situation.
I'll go and nasty. That's fine, And I guarantee you
Mullgeta will be calling Ryan Clark, and Ryan Clark will
be talking about how great c J. Stroud is and
Steven Am that is preposter rush. Now it could happened.
We'll see how next year plays out. Now, but right
now there's no chance. Not this offseason. I should got
I would close to no chance, because I mean that
it should be public perception about CJ. Right now. Is
that probably an all time the dude? Yeah, send him
his winning Send David mulligat all these windy memes that
I'm getting sent. Hey, c J. Stroud has signed a
four year contract with door Dash. Okay, c J. Stroud
is responsible for the snow and ice throt forty states
in this country. Send those to David mulagetto that Nick
Sario should be forwarding those to him. Actually, would that
be funny? Like, hey, David, you catch this one at McNair,
at Nikki c at Teuston Texans to come. What do
you think about these? These are pretty funny? Love Hannah yike?
You know like Hannah's creating those? Do you she's making
She's on the she's on the meme generat a way
cal can do it. No, Hannah's a meme. GNA runs
NFL memes. Yes, I didn't know that. Yeah, wow, because
she's trying to create the narrave. So we're about paying
the guy in the off season, all right? Maybe not? Okay?
I had stin him over one hundred and seventy five yards.
We were looking good after the first drive. That was
a great bomb. Not so much after that. I said,
under one hundred and one point five touchdowns, which is correct.
I just had the Rams Patriot super Bowl as well? Wrong,
said the Rams went at all wrong? And I said,
oh I forgot, I tell go ahead.
Speaker 7: C J.
Speaker 2: Strout will not ascend back to being thought of as
an elite quarterback. Oh that's a gut feeling. I wish
I didn't have. God, you need to be head across
the face with that one. Oh that's so bad. Anybody
that feeling it's at anybody that tweeted out last week
CJ can't popsibly play worse against the Steelers. Well, we'll
save you for tomorrow eleven thirty. Trust me, I'm going
after you. I didn't write anything down for Jonathan Allen.
Speaker 4: Jonathan you were he was sick last week, remember, and
I was talking to Tom about the Okay, I figure thing's.
Speaker 2: Out, So I didn't write anything down. I don't know
if I missed something. No, no, Jonathan, what do you
got this week?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You get to lead off. I'll let's tell do the
Super Bowl. But I am loving how the Rockets have gone.
Right now, next time we come back, it's a six
game win street by Oh.
Speaker 2: What is it? Two right now to right now? Yeah,
So the next four would be tonight or tomorrow against
San Antonio, Thursday, Atlanta, Saturday Dallas, and I don't know who.
The fourth game would be easy peasy, that's right at
Indiana next Monday, six game win streak. Let's go baby.
By the way, I'll be going to the same restaurant
that Mark Sanchez went to before he eventually lost his
career and got arrested. Okay, you're not going to start
anything with the truck driver, I would hope not. No,
do we even find out what happened with that or is
it the latest on his stabbing and getting stabbed and whatnot? Uh,
he got definitely stabbed because the guy was afraid for
his lifekes M. I should take photos of where he
was trying to do sprints in the back in the alleyway,
is YO get hurt by the way, random? He hasn't
played yet, has he? Okay, he's okay, all right? Sorry, Yeah,
he's out. Uh. Anyways, I'm gonna go with the Seahawks
minus four four and a half. Yep, Seahawks cover lock
of a week. Seattle Seahawks. They're too good on both
sides of the ball. Great coaches, which Kubiak is over there,
Clint Clint Kobiak is gonna have the offense rolling Seahawks
by nine to ten. I'm on a recorded line. I
got inside information. I got so much inside information that
they even the Seahawks. I don't even know the inside information. Okay,
I got Seahawks on a cover. I got I got
another one for you here. You call my number one,
nine hundred nine hundred nine hundred, and you're gonna get
some super inside information. Okay, Michael McDonald, really he has
to coach the Seahawks. Not only is he an excellent
football coach inside information here, he's a great singer too.
He said this the Super Bowl? This is it? No,
that's Kenny Longins, isn't Michael McDonald on that he is
in a background. Yeah yeah, but but mikel mcdown, how's
it going? You know, keep forgiving, then be the same again,
keep forgetting too. Oh it's down to forty five and
a half. Now, no, stay away, No, that's under stay
away from the to under heard it first, So I
sed I scared. Look in a week forty five and
a half. Take the end there is. Well, you can
pilay them both if you'd like. Give us a call
one nine hundred, nine hundred. I got a nine hundred.
Or we can do this next week super Bowl MVP,
save it, write it down for next week though, right,
so we don't forget. Okay, all right, Jonathan, you want
to make a Super Bowl pick? You can wait till
next week too. Oh yeah, wait, yeah wait, I'm waiting.
Let it percolate a little bit. Yeah, all right, Let's
go to the phones and talk to some people. Let's
talk to KESO on seven ony K. So what do
you got today, Hey, guys.
Speaker 6: I was just calling y'all were talking earlier about, uh,
the Rockets trade deadline, and if they're not gonna go
out point guard, they're gonna double down on a backup censor.
So I got a couple of names and I just
wanted to throw them out kind of see what you
guys thoughts from going from a minor upgrade to like
a mediocre medium upgrade. And I even got some of
the salaries for you, So let me know or tell
me to stop if you think this was too crazy.
So I'm looking at the rosters and for a minor upgrade,
I was thinking something like a Precious Shatua or Larry
Nance junior, someone's who aren't really playing well. But if
you put him in the right system, tell them just
to go out there, box out and get rebound, maybe
they would have a serviceable tenure here for the rest
of the season. If you wanted to go a little
bit higher, nothing too crazy. I know we just had
him last year, but I mean Jack Landell, if you
wanted to go more spacing. I know he's making eight
mil this year, which is more than I thought you would,
but I mean he's having a I guess, pretty much
a breakout season for the Grizzlies. They don't really need them.
They need to tank, So maybe something like that, and
if you wanted to go a little bit higher, put
some salaries together. I'm thinking something like Pluts that got
Go Go Go Batadz the backup center for Orlando, Wendell
Carter Junior from the the Bulls, who's making eight mil.
And if you really wanted to put some salaries together,
maybe like a Robert Williams the third who's making thirteen
mil ano the Rockets, and E May has probably talked
about it before. But those are just some names I
think would would would be well, be good for the
Rockets to take a look at, looking for a minor upgrade.
I'll hang up and I'll listen. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not going through any of those names because
I like those names. We will we will lose what
maraining audience we have left. Thank you, k so, thank you.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 2: I'd like that research pressures you would make sense. I
don't even get go go, butfensive rebounder, long in the
tooth ROSSI but yeah, thirty three years old for Nance,
Larry Nance?
Speaker 1: Is that all?
Speaker 2: Now? You know you're old when Larry nanche Man comes. Yeah,
that's I don't like to hear that out loud. I
like it you he's thirty three now, Yes, where do
the years go? I know, hold him back the years.
He's simply read. I'm reeling in the years too. That
would be uh steely Dan throwing away at the time. Okay,
that's enough, all right, back on the phones, we come back. Look,
all the names the case are brought up, and I
love that he loves the backup. Yeah, those all would
be in that realm. Again, I don't expect anybody to
come in here and be a walking devil double put
it that way. Okay, but you want to get somebody
that's got at least I wouldn't say a little more.
I'm looking for the rebounding size and girth. No, I don't.
I don't look for size and girth them guys. Why not?
Step Adams has a lot? How would you know that?
You don't? You haven't seen him out there. I mean,
this is probably the strongest guy in the NBA. The girth, Yeah, girthy.
Can y'all name him girth or in a player? Seven
one three, two one two five seven on you, you
said it, not me. I don't see what the issue is.
I don't see one either. Get your heads out of
the gutter. Come on now, seven one three, two one
two five seven any more your gut feelings. Next, Ross
is looking at the latest endorsement for Kevin Durant is
obsessed with it. I mean, did you see those pictures
of his ashy ankles? No, I don't look at a
man's ashy ankles. It looked like scales. That's gross. Yeah, Jonathan,
you got ash. He's moisturized. Do you ask him so suspectful? Moisturize?
Back here? I don't know there's you moisturize you. I've
never talked about your moisturization. Come on, I've never asked
about your moisturization. I'm never going to ask about your moisturization. Yeah, yeah,
this is pretty funny there. It's like a mean tweets
type of advertisement for Kevin Durant. Did I tell you
on Monday yesterday about you know, I was court signed
in Detroit? Okay? And so I get to hear a
lot more things when I'm just compared to calling it
up in the upper levels of the of the lower level. Right,
the lower levels of the the upper levels of the
lower level. There you go, I said that, right, Okay,
he can mf and fan like nobody's business. He will
tell them to suck his blank multiple times per game.
Oh wow. And I think they caught some of the
video over the weekend of him mfing a fan that
was yelling at him, and the guy who was yelling
at him was born a Kevin Durant Jersey Really. Yes,
it wasn't a Rockets Ken. He had the over on
the props or what. I don't know, but you cannot
get side. I had Kevin on the post game show yesterday.
It's cool. You cannot blank talk Kevin Durant. He will
come at you and hurt you because he's got a
salty tongue like I do and you do, and he's
more assure than I am. Hey he's moisturized. Now to
sarahviv or whatever it's called. Point being, do not blank
talk Kevin Durant. He will own you and you'll want
to be on a video and look a like ass.
People love that though. That's what heckers want. They want
the validation, the acknowledgment. Chances are you making ejected or
have your moved a different area? And those are down there.
All right, let's go to James at eleven fifty four.
It's gut fieldings here on seven to eight. James, what
is your gut this week?
Speaker 11: Yeah, first of all, prompts to seventy ninety for the
coverage of the astro Fist. That was extremely entertainment.
Speaker 7: You on't even cruly good job on that, thank you.
Speaker 11: My gut feeling is that Seattle's going to kill New
England in the playoffs and Sam Donald will be the MVP.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I got to rethink this now. Wait a minute,
James came up with great analysis there. That's so terrible
on you part, don't. You're trying to be better in
twenty twenty six. Shut up, wilet, you chew your jumbalaya. No,
I'm done. I'm just went to crystal sauce of this
so hungry Well my shh, my god stop all right, Yeah,
you got gut feelings? All right? All right? Anyways, man,
is is everybody on my side? Yeah? That was going
to America's cover. Is America's got Seattle on this? You
know why Gus Drake May's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Eighty yards, guys, I mean sixty rushing sucked? Will it
was bad? Okay, it's holding it forty five and a half.
Some places opened up five and immediately went down to
four and a half. Some some opened it three and
a half and went to four. Yeah. I was thinking
it was going to go higher than lower. Yeah. By
the way, during the news and noon we have the
first Super Bowl sixty one odds out for twoenty twenty seven. Honestly, yes,
I'll get a fire couple bucks, you get a fire off.
I'll put a five ski on the Texans. It's got
to be like thirty five to one ish or more.
Find out during the news at noon. How about that? Okay,
we'll see what we're gonna play the guessing games. See.
I also have a lot of NFL news to get
to as well. There's been a lot of hirings going on,
so yeah, it'll be a busy news at news all right.
Any other gut feelings, I feel like I need to
get in more gut feelings. All I said was the
Seahawks and the Patriots. Can I wish a gut feeling
on Astro's rotation. I got a gut feeling. Please, Astro's
rotation not the biggest question mark, as we think, gut feeling.
Lance mccullors does not starting the rotation unless everybody's arm
falls off in West Palm, which hopefully doesn't happen, because
right now, what is it? It's hundred one em I
two burrows three, I got another four. I got another
gut feeling. Oh yes, if no trade is made for
the Astros, all right, Opening day, first basement. I knew
this was coming. Go ahead, just say it, essak Paradis,
you're gonna sick Christian Walker an opening Day? Who's the
better stick? Esca preadis? Okay? Who's a better glove? Slightly
slightly guys, mister gold glove over there? He didn't win
one last year, Yeah, but he's won three the last four.
Paratus was great at the at the hot corner. He's
gonna even better at the cold corner. Let's make a bet.
I don't want to bet, I said, gut feeling. I'm
not betting on this small there no, literally like a
bag of chips, how about how about that I got
the way underdogs. It's a gut feeling. How about a
chocolate shake? No, I'm not. I'm not telling you no chance,
no way, no how it's escoc paratus, And here's gonna be.
I got a little gut feeling, all right. Let me
have a little gut feeling by myself. Okay, I'm not
trying to bet you anything on this. Other bets we
got like ten bets in the air. Just get a
little gut feeling, all right. I want to make a
bet for a chocolate shake. A thing. We have to
go somewhere that serves them, or we're gonna we go
in the rack in the rocks right down the street, right, No,
because I need odds. It's a gut feeling, all right,
I'll throw in curly fries. Now, you're just trying to
give me attack. It's working every day, all right, the
rockets came together.
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 2: You need another gut feeling too, I'm not. Here's here
is a voice of the rockets gut feeling. Okay, rockets
jump the spurs in the west win eventually eventually. Okay,
Now do they have to stay there? Yes? Okay, it
could be four beating up, could be a four, moving
to a three. It could be a three moving to
a two. Rockets better record in the West than the Spurs.
I'm putting us a gut feeling, okay, and I'm completely biased,
and I can live with that. Only two games back
of them could make it, could make it one with
a win tomorrow night. It's good. I saw Missy the
Eltman Spurs fan this in the kitchen just a minute ago.
Where's all my friends that had the Rockets as an
eight seed. I'm sorry, I leave them alone. Moving on,
they're not listening, all right. The Rockets came together against
the Grizzlies. We've got that plus the news at noon
eleven fifty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross twelve oh six Sports Talk
seven ninety. The Rockets came together beat the Grizzlies last night,
twelve games, about five hundred. That's your rundown of that
game last night, Rocket Spurs tomorrow. But right now, let's
get to the rest of the news at noon.
Speaker 12: Yes, Matthew, And it's perfect timing for the news at
noon because we have some breaking news on the news
at noon, probably one.
Speaker 13: Carlos Correa now will not participate in the World Baseball
Classic after he failed to receive insurance on his contract.
Speaker 2: He tells the Athletic This, of course, according to Chandler
Rome meaning if you get hurt and you're not on
Astro's time, he would not be getting the Astros money.
You get hurt on Astro's time, you get the money.
Is that true? Jose Al Twovate didn't get hurt when
he didn't get money when he broke his hand on
w sting. I don't trying to figure that out. Read
that again? Interesting? Correa will not participate in the World
Baseball Classic after he failed to receive insurance on his contract.
I memorying that wrong. I don't know, because he's supposed
to make thirty one million next season, extensive history injury.
I don't know. I'd have to read this whole Chandler
room story, which Chandler, you got my click in here.
I'm scrolling up and down on it, trying to get
you the views here here, refresh five times and I'll
try to read it more as we go along. Okay,
on the news at noon, so we'll figure out the
ins and outs of that, but it's contracts up after
this year or next year, right, so maybe it's like
future insurance if he gets a major injury. I don't know,
we tech. I'll text a text Chance checks to Badler
Boom would say his name, Okay, Chandler Rome, Joe Spotted
knows his name. That's great stuff from the interview, all right,
elsewhere are the news at noon? Rockets get the victory
over the Memphis Grizzlies. Day did come together, and the
Grizzlies missed like ten three pointers at one point, shooting
seven of thirty seven from three. They were terrible. Santy
Aldamo's barbecue chicken for alprin Hinggoon. He led the way
with thirty three points on fifteen of seven seventeen shooting,
also had nine rebound, six assists, and five turnovers. Ah,
I was right. Without that coverage, Correa said he would
risk forfeiting his regular season salary if he misses any
games due to injury sustained. Is that in his That
must be in his contract or something like that. Yeah,
maybe he's got a different contract because he's had such
an injury history. Correa has an extensive injury history that
obstensively made his contract more difficult to ensure. There we go,
so we're adding all those little puzzle pieces together here, gotcha.
He does have a very big ih he does. Everybody
was upset about him wearing that back brace last year
like a heating pad. We're like, is he okay? What's
the matter with him? Wy are y'all asking about him?
Is this a back race? He plays out an one
hundred and forty four games last year, eighty six the
year before, keep an eye on, well, he's not playing,
couldn't get his insurance. So Carlos Kraay not going to
be in the WBC mentioned the Rockets with a one
oweight to ninety nine win. Also Kevin Durant with thirty
three points on twenty four shots. Very efficient from him.
And also Kevin Durant now a sponsor of a certain
moisturizer where there's a basically a mean tweets style advertisement
where he reads a bunch of mean tweets bro Ktie,
please put some lotion on your legs dog, all these
other tweets that he's reading and responding to. And he's
a good actor. He does a good job. You know
what I'm gonna I'm gonna retweet this right now at
sports RV on Twitter. That's a decent follow nothing spectacular. Yeah,
followerships are up, views are up. We had actually close
to a million views over a seven day span during
the NFL playoffs. So thanks to all of you for
the followership and the love. And you know what, I
would really appreciate a follow on my Instagram at sports RV.
All right, elsewhere on the news at noon, let's see
you have a couple of hires happening in the NFL.
Joe Brady being upgraded from offensive coordinator to head coach
in Buffalo. Matt your thoughts of going from Sean McDermott
for nine years to Joe Brady the offensive coordinator now
is the head man. Remember we talked about this last
week and how intimate Josh Allen should be in this conversation,
but I guess he did have a lot of say. He
had a lot to say. So this is my guy. Yeah,
And if you want me happy and not me talking
about how maybe I should finish my career elsewhere, you
hire magat Yes, So Joe Brady now with the Buffalo
Bills and now the Tennessee Titans honestly low key, as
the kids would say, I have a pretty good coaching staff.
Brian Dabole set to be their offensive coordinator, pending him
being hired as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach. So
he's either gonna Raiders head coach. And this is kind
of new right. This happened with Mike McDaniel. If he
didn't get a head coach job, he was gonna be
Chargers OC. Correct. Now Brian Dable, if he's not the
Raiders head coach, he's gonna be the Titans OC, yes,
which he's probably not gonna be. These things are these
are fluid transactions. Life is changing in the world of sports.
I mean, good on the Titans and Chargers for saying, yeah,
we want you as our guy, but we also understand you.
I get a head coaching it's you know why, because
the roles could be reversed down the road. So, by
the way, I'm sorry, right, listen to me. Texans fans
want to tell you this. If the Titans make it
to the AFC Championship, oh my god, the Texans do stop.
You need to end your friendship in an affiliation and
just find another team. I want a Dable? Did I
mean I would like Dable Brian Tables a good offensive coordinator.
I don't disagree with that. Not a great head football coach,
but a good offensive coordinator. I'm telling you, if they
get to the AFC Championship before the Texans, do you
need to disassociate yourself with a team if you're gonna
have a defensive head coach. This is what I wanted,
an established former head coach coach as an offensive coordinator
who's not gonna immediately get hired away. Now Dabo could
in a couple of years, but it's gonna take some
time because he had his shot with the Giants and
it didn't work out. So teams are going to be
scared of that. So that's what I wanted with Demiko
Ryans and established highly thought of play caller. But they
got new first time play callers, so it is what
it is. But honestly, Robert Solo handling the defense, Brian
Dable handling the offense. We'll see how cam Warden does.
He played better as the season went along. But this
is a good coaching staff as a good coaching stadium too,
Right are they playing there next year? I think I
don't know. I think the field of seal grass, that's true.
But Amy Crunk's trunk is to there, so'll screwed up somehow.
You we cannot tolerate the Titans being good. Ever again,
we just can't. May need to be like two and
fifteen for the rest of their lives. They have a
great defensive head coach and a great offensive head coach.
Speaker 7: Sam.
Speaker 2: He just full of just good news today and I'm sorry.
This is what happened. This is the news at noon
at noon by the way. Also, yes, we do have
some Texans news. A couple of Pro bowlers for the
Houston Texas. The ball sucks, don't watch it. You have
Kamari Lassiter who shouldn't be going. He's worthy. I mean
he didn't make it. No no, no, no, no no. I'm
not saying it doesn't deserve it shouldn't be going. Yes,
he shouldn't be going. And again, I think we need
to make this distinction. When it's all said and done,
we're talking about Hall of famers and their careers and
their resumes, Pro Bowl selection versus Pro Bowl replacement. Should
there should be some kind of distinction. Yeah, because Shedor
Sanders is a Pro Bowl replacement. I mean, come on,
So Kaylin Bullock and Kamari Lasser headed to the Pro
Bowl for the text. Good for them, hope they enjoy
their I believe they're in the beam bag competition. By
the way, I had a gut feeling there would be
three first team All pros on defense for the Texans.
It was only two Anderson and Daniel Hustingley. No, so
I thought Hunter might make it. I honestly thought Petrie
had a shot at Bullock as well, or even Lassiter,
but none of them made it. So it was all
I want to I want Jalen Petrie to wear that
helmet cover for the rest of the Guardian helmet. It's tough,
it looks great, as the kids would say. And that
was your news at noon. Thank you Ross talking full information.
Let's get back to this quay situation when we come
back here.
Speaker 1: So our.
Speaker 2: O, we're just to knock this out right now because
it's awful. Our Esteem Program director Chris Cordy comes in
and says, hey, guys, when is your shut your by
my segment? I said, it's only been on eleven thirty
and on Wednesdays for about two years now. Thanks for
listening very much. Listen. I just don't know. He was
very busy. I don't know when things are. He's like,
I got to complain about the bobblehead. I want to
hear him out because he was talking about it here
and I quite frankly his own doubt. So what uh,
what's going on with this bibblehead issue?
Speaker 5: So last night, Yeah, got in line at the Toyota Center.
Speaker 2: That was a real bobblehead. I thought that was a joke. No,
it's a real biblehead. It's Steven Adams and a reen chepper.
It's it's rodeo theme. Yeah, I in cowboy hat. Yes,
and it was one that I saw preseason. I said,
you know what, that's one I'd like to get. So
bought a ticket to the game, real ticket.
Speaker 5: Could have used my press pass or my media badge
and elbow my way around like I'm Matt Thomas and
been like I deserve things for free. I said, no,
I'm gonna buy a ticket. I mean, that'surate one. I
don't think that works.
Speaker 2: So they had a lot they have.
Speaker 5: They have a general admission line to get into this
to the arena, and it's very well organized. They did
have to move it. We were wrapped around the building
to the left. The lady said, I got to move
this line, and they did a really good job of
reorganizing and switching us over to the other side of
Toyota Center.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: But there was a second line. It was a bag line.
You're supposed to have a bag now, check now. I
think with Toyota Center policy, you're not even supposed to
bring a bag in, right, So I don't know. But
there's a bag line and it's much shorter. There was
about fifty people in that line. Well, people start getting
in that line because it's shorter. Well, security says, hey,
this is a bag line to the people in line,
and they don't get a line, and they clearly don't
have bags, but they let them in and they get
the bibblehead before the you know, everyone else in the
in the line that's wrapped around Toya Center.
Speaker 2: I just think it's a little You gotta enforce it.
Speaker 5: If you're gonna say this is a bag line, only
you gotta have a bag to be in the baglines.
Speaker 2: You're saying, ain't nobody got time, Ain't nobody got time
for bag ladies? Well, bobblehead horse not.
Speaker 5: For fifty five year old man by himself going to
the game to get a bobblehead and then go sell
it on eBay.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't believe in stereotyping on this show,
but Ross, I'm gonna let you do it here. Okay,
bobblehead horse stereotype. Bobblehead whore. Bobblehead whore has a credit
card debt. We all have credit card debt. Bubblehead hord
driving around with no insurance deal Jalen Rose, Dang, I'll
tell you they are bubblehead whore, probably behind on their
child support payments.
Speaker 5: Dang, there are full of operations though. There's a little
lady that I see at every Bubblehead She's got an
organization going where she brings in.
Speaker 2: Kids that they will pick up. They will pick up kids,
They will tell them to go to this. They can
go to the game, and then they will take the bobbleheads. Oh,
by the way, eighty percent of bobblehead whoror doesn't go
to the game. Correct nine percent. Okay, bobblehead What else
does bobblehead hohrror do Gordion, You're not a bobblehead horror.
They go when when you get a free when you
get a free jumbo jack for like the Texan scoring
two touchdowns, they go to like five different jack in
of boxes. No, I've done that before. Oh yeah, you're
you have No, no, no, no, I'm gone to one now,
the one five of them. They make you buy a
large drink that's like forty four ounces of drink for
three dollars, which is fine, but it's a lot of drink.
I get some sugar free. Get No. I'm saying, if
you got to go for a long drive, you know, stop,
I'm gonna get it like I'm going to Kingland. I
want to pee in the way there. We'll get on
sweet tea. I got on sweet A. So I we
got a forty four dollars dag to pen. That's gross.
I'm not peen in the car. I mean have. But
what I don't get is the resale market. How do
they make a profit. I don't understand. I'll look it
up right now. I have a ticket to get the
bobble head. So a ticket took let's guess twenty to
thirty bucks closest to the pen. I'll say fifty bucks,
fifty to sixty yesterday's babbo. Yeah, read Shepherd. I'll say
seventy five, read Shepherd.
Speaker 5: But even still, if you paid thirty dollars for the ticket,
you paid gas money to go down there to go
get it, that's forty and then you go home and
they put it on a bay and you got to
pay the shipping and handling to send to somebody.
Speaker 2: Sixty bucks is netting you what thirty dollars profit? There's
some being bid right now. There's eighty dollars. What'd you say,
seventy five eighty eighty eighty six, there's one listen for
sixty five. We don't snap that one out.
Speaker 5: I know why those are being a little bit higher
because the Kentucky people want it because fifty one Shepherd.
Speaker 2: One hundred dollars. Now you are married to Kentucky grad. Yeah,
did you go for her purposes?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: She hates my bibble heads. How many bubbleheads do you own?
About a hundred? We're around that. Yeah, But but I
was wrong with you. But I take them all. I
just like you let a man have a hobby. There
are ones who like, don't take it out of the box. No,
if I'm gonna own it, I'm gonna put it on
display and I have it. That's I literally have about
ten of them, and there's no rhyme or reason for him.
People give them to me put in my office. That's
one's from Astros Games. Yeah, but I don't. I don't
search one out for them.
Speaker 5: If you ever get rid of it and let me
know you want to welcome to All of them are
our sales guy robberies. He gave me some recently that
was nice, so you know, and I don't pull the
Adamklan that'll text people at Toyota Center go hey, can.
Speaker 2: You slide one for me my spot so I don't
have to go get a line. That is a very
Clinton move. My god, that reaks the clan. Clint is
catching strays right now. He doesn't listen, So it's fine.
We can do this one. I don't think. I didn't
think Waxer listens. It's funny, that's okay.
Speaker 5: I don't listen to the great partners at the Astros
and Rockets. Every time I reach out to somebody, and
I do it very rarely, I'll go, hey, you think
I might be able to get to you know, my
hands on a pair of tickets for this.
Speaker 2: Oh, Adam Clinton already called in that favor. Mm, you're
gonna hate this and then we're gonna we're gonna let
you leave. On this note. One of my best friends
in the league, Eric Hastle, time the boys of the
graz Lace could be still listening because they're still stuck
here in memph in Houston. Uh. He asked for a
bibblehead and I got him one and a half.
Speaker 11: Time.
Speaker 2: There you go. But that's helping out a friend. Yeah, so, man,
I help you out. Can I go to you for bibleheads?
And no, very busy you got one for Jeff Hasselbeck
or whatever. I see Eric four times a year. I
see you daily exactly. That's why you should prioritize me.
Shout out to Rob Fisher too, TV side again. Yeah
he is. He was there all Uh anything else unlocked
in the acc Worth discussing, Oh we got angry doah?
What do we want his opinion on We were talking
about college football or college something yesterday twenty fourteen, was that, Oh,
I think the maximum number will ever get ever at
sixteen the maximum ever?
Speaker 5: Oh no, we'll get to twenty four eventual. I don't
think It's gonna happen you soon. I'm calling Coldhill big
Tennis pushing.
Speaker 2: Do you want Cold backing you up? Oh? I forget
what I said.
Speaker 5: Twenty four sounds tweet from Melsteners said, for once, I
actually agree with Cole this morning.
Speaker 2: That poor guy. Check them out. Six to today, Am
here on Sports Talk seven morning kickoff with those boys.
Thank you very much. All right, we're gonna go to
Donald and Hobby Guy's catching strays today. It's fine, it's cold,
if it's warm're on doing this. We're all cold and miserable.
All right. Donald wants to have a good late gut
feeling for the super Bowl. We'll get to his and
we'll get to your thoughts at seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Ross with us Today's edition
to Believe or Not coming up at one fifty this afternoon.
Hell if I know it's a hell off, I know.
Edition of Believing or Not seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety Cold thirty three seven ninety Matt
and Ross. We're just thinking about our summer vacation plans,
what we want to do for fun and involves gambling
in Vegas. Oh well, I need to go at least
two national parks this year too. Yeah. Man, well, great
Basin is by Vegas. I want to go to either
there or Yosemite. I'm thinking about Mount Rainier, which is
in near Seattle. Those are the ones on my radar.
Volcanoes eventually and turning your cell phone off, right, Oh yeah,
you don't get service, so it's not a bad thing. Oh,
it's great, depending on where. Well, these days you do
get serves just about everywhere. Right. You can use a satellite,
that's what That's what Craig does. You can he has
a starlink. Yeah, or you can connect to satellites and
sendex that way. So on now all our cell phones.
For example, when I went to California, we went to
Buckhorn campground. He was up in the mountains and there
was no service. Yeah, you can connect, you have to.
And I did this in Big Bend as well. You
you connect to the satellite, but you gotta kind of
like point your phone to Tom, I said, because he
went to Palm Springs a couple of days. A couple
of years back, we had some time off at l
and I said, man, I don't mind you going by yourself.
You just gotta have. We gotta be able to get
a hold of you just in case something happens. It's fine, fun.
Are you going to do well? I mean, if you're
gonna fly to palm Springs and go save them. That's
how we were. Now I could even be starved to
death by the time get there, those big mountain lions
of crushing me. See all these anxieties, Matt, You know,
learning in our lives, we were so much anxious about
things that are never going to happen or never come
to pass. Okay, now you want to be prepared, yes,
in case of emergency, that's all we're so. You don't
want to be afraid or not do things because of
the possibly the remote possibility of an emergency. Donald on
seven ninety thanks for holding good afternoon.
Speaker 14: Okay, I have a good feeling, all right, And I
really believe that the Seahawks are going to thoroughly dominate
the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Okay, people better enjoy
people better enjoyed the commercials, because that's about that. That's
all that's really going to be going on. I believe
the final score will be thirty five Seahawks ten Patriots.
The reason why I believe Seattle will totally totally dominate
the time of possession. I believe Seattle will be able
to run on them almost it will. And I believe
Drake may Will will throw at least two or three interceptions.
I just believe. I just believe it's going to be
a total blowout.
Speaker 2: Well, Donald, we're all in agreement. We are all on
the same page. I want to say, and I didn't
say it with the final score, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it's a double digit win. I hope it's
not twenty seven seventeen. Yeah, that seems about right. And
by the way, do we have an advanced weather forecast
for San Francisco? Should be fine. Oh by the way,
speaking of sixty five and cold, No, sixty five and
cold can't be in the same sentence. Now, Winny, I
guess it would chill out win. Jill Matt all right,
did you what? I hate referring to stupid takes, but
I could tell you were going to bring something up
to major man. You gave that the exasperated sigh, you
give out the did you so what? What? What did
I Mike Mike Florio's pushing Oh god, and he is
the biggest douche I mean, we're all douchebags in some regards.
He's he's anti go for it. On fourth down two,
he was pushing the pauses and minuses of putting championship
weekends in neutral sights for the for the weather issue.
What well, honestly, that's something if okay, I would say
on its face, that's real quick, that sounds insane. Forecast
for Super Bowl Sunday would be seventy for a high
in Santa Clara low forty nine, So that should not
be an issue at all. That's actually good way for
I said sixty five, and you said I was crazy,
But you say sixty five and cold, Yeah, because it's cold,
because it's like that in the summers, and it is cool.
All right, Back at it. He has been talking, he's
been pushing that for years. If you get sponsors and
a bunch of money behind it, I am tired making
games out of stadiums. Well, that should be for home game.
I know you're tired of it. But who's always looking
for that next big revenue stream. But that's not the
point that the revenue stream is already there when you
put the game in a home facility. It's already there.
You tell that to the NFL owners who can sell these.
They can make them like semifinal games, like college football
playoff semifinals. It's the NFC championship game in the Superdome.
So you're telling you by X. So you're telling me
that the home field advantage playing for the number one
seed is good for one game. BS. Sorry, ain't buying it.
I'm not saying. I'm not saying it's gonna happen. Do
you agree with it? I want you? Are you telling
me you agree with this. I'm saying, I'm not saying
I want it to happen. Good. I'm saying. The NFL
is pushing all the envelopes for revenue streams. So he's
been doing that. We've how crazy If I'd have told
you ten years ago there would be playoff games on
streaming service? How crazy would you told me? I am crazy?
You just told me I'm insane. They're looking to expand.
They they're maxing out all these TV contracts. They're putting
all these games on streaming services. They have to continue
to push the envelope because the owners want their owners
want more and more and more and more revenues are
twelve billion this year, how do we get to fourteen billion?
There though they're fourteen how do we get them to
sixteen eighteen? Well, that's going to be one of the
potential avenues would be getting these into neutral sites and
getting them into getting sponsorships about it and calling them
semi final games. It's not crazy. You can't. You can't
tell these athletes play your hearts out for eighteen nineteen
one game at home. Screw that. Yeah, and so he
also said was is that you would play the AFC
Championship game in an NFC neutral site dome stadium, so
you would never be in a situation where you would
ever by accident accident. Yeah, have home fields where you're
controlling ticket sales, you make more ticket revenue. It's getting
shared by more teams rather than just the four teams
or two teams, two home teams. All Right, I got
news for you. Rams played Seattle, yes, neutral sight. Huh
this year it happened to be in Atlanta. You're giving
those two teams one week to go to Atlanta, gaight
for a championship game. You're gonna you expect seventy five
thousand people to be in Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Dome to
watch the Seahawks and the Rams play. I ain't buying it.
We expect it for college football. They we want. We
want the round of twelve games, and then we want
the semi finals, and then we want the finals, and
then after conference conference championship games, playoff games at home,
then playoff games on the road, and then the final
on the road. That's we're asking college football fans to
go to four. And you've seen the prices for those
games that are dropping week to week to week during
the playoffs. They're still bad. They're probably a I mean,
how are they relative to actual what's the difference between
the college football semi final cost to get in versus
Seahawks or Denver? Probably similar. Well, we don't know, because
there's no such thing at this point. I'm not saying
I could not say I want it to happen. I
could be. I could not disagree more than that, you've
got to let these teams. And again, look, I was
the other one yesterday saying the weather sucked, that I
hated the weather played a factor. Honestly, how much does
a weather play a factor in the last ten championship games.
My guess is once or twice. Now you have twenty
reasons why this should happen, should not happen? Yes, I
only have one why not saying it should either why
it would happen. I have one why it would happen,
and it's money. So that's what the NFL owners love
more than anything. Say Minnesota is playing Detroit for the
NFC Championship game, you could have easily played that game
in a dome statement one of those two places. More
stadiums are becoming dorm You're running into a spot where
it's gonna be. You're better than half to half half
fifty percent. That wouldt least one of the two tees
this year's championship game. In the NFC, the Rams were
the home wor a dome team. It sounds crazy. I
just I ten years will it sound? And I'm not
against making money, trust me, We're all in for making
money and some things make sense. And I as much
as I love the fact that it would be great
to have a second round of of CFP playoff games
on home sites, I understand the bowl the values of
the bowls, so I'm kind of used to that. I
am used to Championship Sunday in the NFC and the
ANFC going to the team that has the highest seed.
Let's left and you got to play for something. You
just do. You'll never convince me, and I'm not trying to.
You're not trying to, but it's just is terrible. I was.
I was listening on the NBC Radio network on my satellite,
was like, oh, I was on ONET to strangle them
some value in it. You would go to destination cities,
New Orleans, Miami, LA. Oh, you go to any where's
dome or domes. But most of those plays, I mean, yeah,
well you can rote to you can What if those
teams end up at home? Though? Sure? No, no, no, no, the
NFC would be played in an AFC dog stadium and
vice versus. You would never have that scenario unless it
was the Chargers, Jets and Giants. No, you're playing out,
you're playing indoors. They don't want to play that way
right now. They wouldn't do that. The only place that
would be a problem would be in Los Angeles. Yeah,
that's fine. I gotta happen, you know what. I hope not,
but get there. Trying to remember we were talking about
the year. Years ago, we were talking about never be
a super Bowl or anything in London or something. But
I've changed my mind off of that because you know
the reason why for that is because I'm not gonna
go money. People. Only seventy two thousand people out of
two hundred million go to the super Bowl. Yeah, but
why would they do it? Money? Money, Why would they
do this money? I get your score sheet out. I'm
done underestimating the greed of NFL owners and college football
playoff us under estimated. I'm putting my name on it. Okay,
well we can check. I'm not saying you're gonna be wrong.
I'm saying I'm done underestimating the greed of these owners. Now,
I did tell you we're gonna have eighteen games. I
told you that was gonna happen. I also told you
there was gonna be one international game per year for
every team. I knew that was coming. That was easy.
That was a low hanging fruit in that one. You
cannot move Championship weeken away from the home sites. You
just can't because of the I'm gonna tell you something,
if the Buccaneers were playing for the championship, it'd be
eighty one degrees. Nobody can be complaining about and not
having a championship game in Tampa, Florida. They just wouldn't.
Oh no, I'm just mad. Not that we have to
worry about that here in Houston, all right? Do I
write this down? Is no chance, no way, no how,
there will never be a championship game on a neutral site.
Let me write this down intentionally. Let's see what's today
one twenty seven. Now, if there's weather issues like I'm
staying in to damage or something, I get that. But
intentionally choosing a site to say, hey, everybody, the Ford
Field of Detroit is your home for the af Championship game.
I think ross. I think they have a difficult time
with tickets. I think they really would selling them. Well,
you you open it up to two fan bases, but
they have to get there.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna If you live in Las Vegas and the
Raiders are going to the NFC AFC Championship Game, you
have to go to Detroit. Who's gonna be right? I mean,
are twenty five thousand Raider fans gonna run to Detroit
for on short notice to go to Detroit to watch it?
And probably not ugh, this is a terrible idea twelve
forty four. I'm just looking at these lists. There's some
of the stuff I have on here. Zion Williamson will
not make it past age thirty in the NBA. Tom
Brady does not see out his Fox contract. You said
that in twenty four yep. I still don't you know
the reason why. I think he's getting the super itch
and it feels like he's getting more and more scratchy.
He loves to be involved in the Raiders. This is
the last one I wrote down. Josh Hater will never
record six outs again for the Astros. I feel great
about that. And we have the Joe mix and shot
himself in the foot. Bet so good. Jonathan stayed with
me on that. I'm still with you. I'm still with you. Nothing.
What did he say? Not nothing irrational? Nothing irresponsible was
the word, yes, and Nicki Ceril certainly soft played it.
It's funny as when he said it when sooning it
said of nothing like a skiboarding. You didn't hear bang
bang in the background. It wasn't getting There's nobody's skateboarding
with their peace. Matt, Come on, man, no you're not.
You're not strapped on the hill. He was in a
club come Due. It was on the dance floor cutting
a rug and he had a gun on his side
of his He's doing he's doing the stay in Alive
dance and he accidentally had his gun in his hand.
Speaker 1: He shot.
Speaker 2: He was doing for the remix and remakers that live
and Joe Mixon with his pol got to hit all right,
yes stop believe it or not? Coming up in an
hour from now. Seven one three two one two five
Sevenati seven one three two one two five seventy. What
do you'll want to talk about? Chill mixing in a
polyester suit with a Saturday night fever remix shot himself
on the foot and didn't play for the Texans. I
need somebody to come out there, and being a private
investigator for us, we got to really find out what happened.
We could hold Nick, We could hold Nick hostage, he
would tell us. Seven one three two one two five Sevenatti.
Doesn't take long for Las Vegas to put out odds
for the next year's Super Bowl, which would be sixty one.
You remember the first of all you watched the number
You remember franchance, My first one start to finish with
Super Bowl sixteen between San Francisco and Cincinnati at the
Silver Dome and Pontiac, Michigan. That's when I first became
a Joe Montana fan. I think it was Redskins Bills
ninety two, so I was in January of ninety two.
I was seven, okay, I was super Bowl sixteen. I
think was eighty three January of eighty three, so that
puts me at eleven. All right, an an ado there.
Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills thirty seven to twenty
four in the game. It wasn't even as close as
the score would indicate. Is that true. I don't really
recall the Bills were getting there as kicked on a
regular all right. The favorite, poor Bills to win the
Super Bowl in twenty twenty seven, ross would be I
don't know, okay, hold on the favorite, the favorite to
win it, to win it all. It's nine to one,
so it's not like it's a chief. I guess Bills,
Buffalo Bills. Okay, Bills, all right, Top five Tigers fourteen
to one Tigers. There's actually there's a multiple tie. I
thought it was very confused. There's a one, two, three,
four way tie for the number five spot. Patriots, Chiefs, Packers,
Lions are fourteen to one, so for every dollar you
get fourteen dollars back in theory. Okay, Number four the
Philadelphia Eagles at twelve to one. Number three the Seattle
Seahawks at ten to one. Number two the Los Angeles
Rams at ten to one. The Buffalo Bills nine to
one to finish as a Super World champion. So you're saying,
where are the Texans in the mix? Where are the
Texans in the mix? Matt right in the middle like
they've been in for just by all their existence. Can
I guess? Please? Twenty five to one? Twenty really? Who
else in the twenty one category? The Bears, the Broncos,
and that's it. The Bengals are right behind them at
twenty two to one. Who's in front of them? That
would be a little bit of alarming. Note the Jacksonville
Jaguars eighteen to one, so there's actually less odds for
the Jaguars to make it than it would be for
the Texans to win it. Dang the two long shots.
There are four teams that are tied for the biggest
long shots. They would be the Cardinals, the Raiders, the Dolphins,
and the Jets. Well, I guess we could be Jets fans. Cowboys,
by the way, thirty three to one. So the Texans
are twenty to one, the Cowboys are thirty three to one.
That's long odds for the All Texas Super Bowl there,
but both Seattle and New England had very long odds
preseason last year. Yeah, so you wanted two an uber
gut feeling of next year's Super Bowl team. But I
just write this just for blanking giggles here. Sure, why not?
I will go with in the Super Bowl next year.
We've picked the Bills every year they never make it.
I've also picked the Cowboys quite a bit over my time, too.
Have I get burned regular on that I'm gonna go
with Denver versus Chicago? You're going on? Yeah, You're like,
you know what, might as well go off the board. Yeah,
because the only thing I don't think a year ago
at this point we would have said, oh in New England, Seattle,
I'll go Denver Chicago, and I want to might want
a bit still on that Denver because I'm going Niners
inn FC. Oh you are okay, AFC. Did I go
my old Standby. Oh no, I'm not. I'm not letting
you pick Baltimore. I'm sorry. I just can't let you
do it. You've done it way too much. My old
stand by the Cowboys, yours of the Baltimore Ravens. Hey,
the Ravens. There were literal odds on favorites to start
the season, so it's not like I was crazy. So
now they're a long shot. I'm sticking with the Baltimore
raf near in Dina. Who cares. Nobody's gonna remember this
in a year from that, right, Well, what we remember
is I guess the question I don't know. Write it
down so we can put it down and whoever our
producer is at the time. Yeah, Jonathan, will you pass
a long information to the next producer that's with us?
What's the information? Super Bowl teams we picked for next year? Okay,
let's let's actually write yours down, Jonathan, I said, beover
Chicago twenty twenty seventh. I went to San Francisco, Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, someone says the COG already, h Okay, you
can say Chicago if you want. No, Uh, I'm gonna
go Chargers.
Speaker 2: Oh oh my god. They got Mike McDaniel. Now, thank you,
Thank you. Ross, go chaw Joe's goal and I'm gonna
go forty nine ers. Okay, so we're both on the
we're both Niners. Gang not bad at all, that's all.
California super Bowl. Yeah, we're a super Bowl next year.
We know. I don't recall. I'm gonna say New Orleans. Yeah,
I went in doubt Las Vegas. All right, final hoe
with the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, did you figure out
what you're doing for believe it or not?
Speaker 6: Today?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: When is that? It's in fifty minutes from now. No,
I thought it was something highly googable. You're gonna do
that on that? Oh? Yes, I was gonna get your
I was going to conford with you on that. Okay,
I'm here to confirm with you. Confer or confer. I
can do it in Inglewood so far, so far and
then Atlanta after that. Okay. Hey, we've got news on
Carlos Cray when you discuss When we returned twelve fifty
eight on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Nighty, He's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Quoto four on Sports Talk seven Nighty. I are partanking
in Australian Open Tapu laid coverage. What how come you live?
It's what it must have been like, twenty four hour difference? Right,
what is the time differ between here in Sydney? I'm
assuming it's Sydney. Is her name Coco graph? Is that
who this is? You don't know who Coco? Golf? Is Golf?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 2: It's six am? This tennis? Maybe this isn't live. It's
six am. Oh then apologize? Oh Caroline Wosneck and that's
Niki whatever. I like her?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 2: I like her? Alright? Weird she at Tiger Woods. Girl,
I don't Maybe, by the way, shout out to Lindsay
Vaughn making the win Olympics team at the age of
forty one. Okay, oh yeah, the live stuff comes at
eight pm. Stay, I knew I wasn't crazy. You are crazy?
But is you were right this time? That doesn't mean
you're not crazy? Alright? Uh So the word coming out
within the last hour, our friend Chandler Roman not the
rhyme because he's a friend of the show. Show Chandler
announcing that he found out that the Astros wanted to
get some insurance guidance, some clearances, yes for Carlo's Korea
to get paid during the WBC if he was to
sustain an injury, Carlos Korea could not get those injury
assurances and so thus he will not partake in the
World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico and some follow up
reporting from Chandler, he also says jose Al Tuvey's absence
from the WBC is also due to insurance issues. It
frankly to me, ross every player, why should the teams?
And again I know this is being insensitive, but this
business is business. Why should a team pay their athlete
off in money if they did not suffer the injury
on company time? That seems pretty fundamental to me. I
get it. Maybe if you wanted to build a good
relationship and take care of your players and for an
event that happens once every three years. Eh. Again, I
understand why people like it, and look, people will get
into the fear of it once it starts happening. But
there's got to be a better time. Maybe not. Maybe
maybe you know what, maybe there's not a better time.
You should get old timers in there, like Clayton Kershaw
just retired now he's pitching for USA. Do slow pitch softball.
No WBC slow pitch, but it could probably makes some
kind of it's gotta be making some kind of money. Oh,
nobody's doing anything for blanking giggles anymore. There's got to
be a financial Yeah. Again, this feels to me more
internationally driven than us driven, Like, how do you how
does the How does the Japanese Baseball League feel about
its players playing the WBC? Are they worried about it?
There's a lot of MLB players from Japan. Yeah, I
mean there's just as many there, say kakuci Otani. I
mean there's a cream and Baseball League concerned about the
number of players that could get hurt at the WBC.
I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to ask them.
We're not going to ask them. We don't speak their language. Well,
no firm interpretation to it. Ha, that's hello, and that's
go up something the guy thank you. That's all I know.
So basically, you spent two weeks there and you learn
two words. I was with native speakers. I was very blessed,
all right. I didn't have to learn anything else. Oh,
I learned the cheer gambae. That's another cheer. I learned
drinking cheers. So basically, you're down to four phrases now,
all right, that, mister Korea is what I'm making start
calling you. Uh so Korea is out, al Tuba is out,
and I'm very happy to say to the astros are
at We don't know any astros at this point, do we?
At all? Not in any list that I'm seeing. So yeah, yeah,
I'm just looking at through list of confirmed Playmob players
and I'm not saying I'm not seeing any astros that
I see, So just go to West Palm Beach. As
Joe A. Spot had told us a couple of days
ago at the fan fest, he wants his veterans to
take it easy. He does, he knows that there's no
reason to play them four five, six games. My guess
is maybe Al two gets twenty swings in a spring training.
That's about it. That's all he needs. Maybe, Okay, I
don't know. Everybody's getting longer in the two. It's gonna
be certainly something to keep an eye on. Altuve is
almost thirty six, Core is thirty one, Christian Walker is
about to be thirty five. Is this true? Jake Myers
is almost thirty Yeah, because I remember doing Astro Minor
League updates on the on Deck Show seven eight years ago,
and Jake Myer's name was in it, so I'm sure
he was raking making five star catches, got a great flow.
He doesn't realize how much you love him. Yes he does.
I don't know you're gonna get a one on one
with him because last year I had to convince you
to come over and talk to him again. You misremembered.
I was being equipment bitch, and you I was having
to set up our broadcast and you said you were
gonna wait for me, and you didn't, and then by
the time I got down there, you were mid interview.
The way you remember it is that I was scared
and I was literally upstairs setting up our equipment. I
remember last year, that's pretty funny. I was at Chas
McCormick's locker and I said, Chaskim mcgrabby for three or
four minutes, yeah, And he's like, oh, I'm gonna go
work Ivy right back, yeah, And I said I'm not
going anywhere. And I didn't go anywhere, and he didn't
come back. He big time. And the next day, same thing,
Oh I forgot, I'll be right back, didn't come back.
And gone, I got released by bitch. Yeah go have
some banana pudding. Yeah go have some BN go to Sacramon.
I don't hang out with Dusty for some pudding. He's
got a mod league deal somewhere. Jake Myers fan club
doesn't want to stomp on anybody's graves. But whereas all
the people that told me that Chas McCormick is better
than Jake Myers said? It was a big debate. You
don't remember this, No, yes, you do. When Chas McCormick
had like twenty home runs. Oh and Dusty Baker? Would
Dusty Bakers not playing chess? McCormick and he eat the
best player ever? Stop giving him puddy. He's trying to
make him fat. Why does every person cries on the
show sound eighty five years old?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 2: I didn't make them him, See, I wasn't making that up.
You make every sound older than they are. Why can't
twenty three in my pit? You know what? Change it up?
Give me twenty three year old? Sack girl? About that?
You know, sad girl? Sagirl? Twenty three has mccarmack can
is supply every day. I don't know why Dusty won't
play him. That's better. Okay, is that what you want? Jonathan?
One more? We we got a jukebox here? What what?
What serah type you want him to be?
Speaker 4: Oh m, I want to do a Southern Texan Latina girl.
Speaker 2: Oh god, good, okay, I don't know why Chess is
not out there. His ops plus is much better. All right,
let's go to break no chance, this is not stopping. No,
I'm done. I've done. Uh Baytown astro fan who's mad
that Lance mccullors is not in the starting rotation? Last
colored junior? Now he needs to be out there snap
twenty four curveballs in a row against the Yankees. I
was there. I saw my own two eyes. He's got it,
he's got fire, he's got desire, and he said bury
him into h Why isn't he out there? I can
do this for the rest of the show, like mix,
mix up stereotypes and scenarios. One more, Oh my god,
I tell you said this is allowed.
Speaker 12: Was the last?
Speaker 2: Okay, let me think about one more? Oh un till
the segment's over. This is all you got, the very
last one, and I swear you'll never do this again
until tomorrow. Okay, let's go with diehard. Female Astro fan
doesn't know the team but is mad that Joe Aspata
isn't playing her favorite player. Why won't Joe? Who are
we looking for? I don't even know to play out there?
He's not playing enough. Oh my, Mauricio Dubon is so
good and he's so sweet. I fall him on Instagram
and you see pets, all these cats, and Joe Spottle
won't play him every day. I don't understand. Maris is
so sweet and he's so nice, and he needs to
be in the lineup. Cole, last one for one, my god,
do a San Antonio? Grandpa No, only remembers the Cold
forty five? And I would say Hispanic grandfather, I don't
know any into his No, I'm done. I'll give your name,
Bob ask Ramonte, Bob Yeah, Bob aske Ramonte, sant you
can't do a san Antonio. Hispanic grandpa only remembers of
Cold forty five.
Speaker 10: Done.
Speaker 2: Cole, I tried, he won't do it, got late, got
in late. No, I'm not your performance monkey, even though
he was for the last five minutes. From astro Hole.
That's astro Hole. My niece dated Chance when we was
playing for the hooks he chia on her, suck it,
wash up. Wow, baseball player cheated on their girlfriend in
a minor league city. Stop me heard that one before
seven one three two one two five. Of course that's
Christy talent, like, Oh, it's nice and good. I bet
it's good. I bet it's el I don't want to
say this. Move along, I know where you're going. I'm
gonna fast forget what I was going to say. One
fourteen of the Matt Thomas showed Ross seven one three
two one two five seven, Natty seven one three two
one two five seven Datti. So on my four you
tab on Twitter, there is a live feet of the
Pittsburgh Steelers press conference right now where Mike McCarthy's being
introduced as the next coach. Needless to say, Steeler fan
ain't happy. Let me read you some of the comments.
First of all, Mike McCarthy's wearing a small, too small
of a suit. What Yeah, he didn't get a proper
fitting suit for the honors. His neck is rather large, okay,
and it's the collar, you know though, he went with
the eighteen inch neck and it should have been twenty
and a half nineteen in that range. Oh my god,
look at him. You see he looks like Chris Farley
and Tommy Boy. It's like there's like white paint. Oh yeah,
it's not good. Oh this is like when you try
to stuff the sleeping bag. In the second it spills out.
So let me reduce. Its not good. This is from
the hurricane ben Sell the damn team, followed up by
fire that washed up fraud. That good. Uh. Next, h
McCarthy looks like he's either going to blank his pants
or have a heart attack. Art Rooney hater says doomed.
I say doomed. Next, he looks like he will croak
within the year. This is the guy in the organization hired.
I'm sorry, I don't like I'm Brandon. Shut up, Art
Rooney hater. F art Rooney Art Rooney hater, We are
so fed Art Rooney hater hates I said f art. Rooney,
you don't say. Oh, let's see here. Oh man, this is.
Speaker 6: Boot.
Speaker 2: Oh my name is J. T. Macboo with by forty
o's oh sell the damn team. Rooney. No one likes
his higher. Oh my god, there is a gift of
an old man with a walking what do you call it?
A what it like walking a walker walker with him?
That's not great. Sell the team, worse organization in the NFL,
mister Rooney, need to sell me the team for two
dollars because how much they worth the way you're treating
this team. Oh my god, uh hold them tears, Mike shesh.
I get it, man, but come on, sell the team,
worst organization NFL and the stream nobody cares. Olmar Kannas
of Afoon didn't even make a move of the trade
deadline this year, so we can see how this goes.
Garbage franchise good. We are bleeped if he gets any
fat or they'll have the cart into the field. Oh
my god, s y b a U. We know that
one garbage moms garbage introduces trash. That's not what an
effing joke already f you, this is absolute b a
holes three terrorists. You bitches are lucky. There is noticelike
button on this app if you aren't. Oh god, I
didn't realize Steeler fan was so nuts. Wow, what a
vitriol on Steeler's Twitter. I didn't know. Well, I mean, look,
Steeler fan base that is ed as intense as it gets.
I mean, you think Texans fan wants to our Texans
football told once a year Steeler fan wants invent in
thirteenth months to bring it up. That's they're not pleased.
And I, you know, under the category if I just
don't get it, which I won't be with you on
Thursday four and Art Ronnie just said this notion of
us trying to find a young, bright mind that was
not we were looking for the he said. I just
literally heard him say, it's two minutes ago. We're looking
for If we were looking for the best canon, we
weren't worry about a particular type of person. You're telling
me Mike McCarthy was the absolute best cannonate among all
the coordinators and all the guys that are on the
hot list. Wow, he must interview. Well, I was surprised
when you get the Cowboys job. Let me ask you this.
I don't think he was terrible in Dallas. I think
Jerry Jones ruins any coach that's there. I'm done with
even trying to justify Jerry Jones as a general manager
first year six and ten, then twelve, twelve and five
for three straight years out in the Wildcard, out in division,
out in the Wildcard and then seven and ten and fired.
I think he was an excellent coach. I've actually interviewed
Mike McCarthy before at the Super Bowl many years ago
when it was in Phoenix. I will say I think
he's to the let we we've talked kind of about,
like get the players and have a coach that's good enough.
You can win. You're gonna win with you can win
with Mike McCarthy. You're not gonna win because of Mike McCarthy.
Were they saying that when the Packers won it? Yeah,
they had Aaron Rodgers and a loaded roster. Although they
had a bunch of they had, like think that they
caught fire in the by lightning in a bottle. I
should say I think they had. However many they had
like a dozen players in the IR and won the
Super Bowl. I wonder what he said, because I don't
know enough about his philosophical approach to football. He must say, look,
I know what it takes to start from scratch and
build up at prime. Aaron Rodgers and they won one
Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers honestly gonna be short changed by
history because of only having won Super Bowl. I think yeah,
for multiple time NBA for a while, he was up
there with the Peyton Mannings and the Bradys like one A,
one B, one C. And he's just not gonna he's
gonna fall short of that. Because he's gonna fall short,
what do you put him in the all time list?
That's hard. So here's the problem. I'm a Manning homer
for sure. But yeah, we have eighty years of NFL
quarterbacks to discuss. It's too hot hard to get to him.
I mean, I think it's too hard to get to
a top ten list. All right, I got sid Luckman. Okay,
stop y a tittle. Uh huh wait, here's a running mat.
We have Normann brock On in this list. He's up there.
Where is he four? Okay? So that's it. Yeah, to
your point, it's very hard to contextualize. We're always he's
top ten all the time. Easy, Okay, let's do this.
You and I are growing ass men, okay, in our
in our age group. Okay, we're gonna both gonna put
Brady one. Brady no doubt about it, Montana, no doubt
about it, Peyton Manning, no doubt about it. Okay, Then
we get Honestly, I'm ready to put Rogers on there now,
Breeze or Rogers Rogers? Whoa, whoa, I heard I heard
going you rushing in the air, Cordys in a meeting,
Roger Rogers are Brett farre Rogers, Rogers or Dan Marino Marino.
I'm putting Marino on the on them, by the way,
in the list, okay, Rogers or John Elway Rogers or
John Elway. Okay, by the way, how does the selling
There's a dog in here with an uptet stomach. I
got one for you. There's quarterbacks before our time? How
are we not putting Johnny Unitas on the all time
greatest needs to be up there? I got him in
my top five. I think, all right, you wanna put you,
You're gonna We're gonna put Rogers in there. Okay, So
my can't miss list is Brady Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino.
Here's the name we miss an active name? Which conference
a f C. Yeah, didn't say Mahomet Mahome. We have
not said Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers. Longevity wise, Rogers,
could Mahomes Supplan surpass him?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Okay, comfortably top ten, arguably top five? Okay? So
here in my list of six not debatables. Brady Montana, Manning, Rogers,
Marino United. Why can't we put John Alway in the
always in there, always in there? That's where he's in there.
Steve Young, No, no, I say no no. I mean
we're going back to like Bob Greasey. I think we're
putting bread far from the list. And Andrew Brees, far
Farv and Breeze Damn some good quarterbacks. So it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino uniteds l Way Farv.
Do you go? Dan Fouts. I don't know. I didn't
watch one far a single game of death, but that's
any of friends. For about six years was putting up
epic numbers despite the fact it was an epically passing
I actually got a fun one for you friend, targeting.
We're looking at career top wins all time. If I'm
going for just scrambling quarterback in the history of the NFL,
he's tenth and wins all time. They had a shorter season.
All right, we're stopping this list. You can't do it.
It's it hurts my head. Roethlisberger or Rogers Rogers not
even close. I'm with you, even though Roethlisberger had two
Super Bowl wins. Eli Manning just stop, hell no, get
come out of here. Shouldn't even be a Hall of Famer. Yeah,
I said it. How about Terry Bradshaw? Okay, numbers got right,
we got Rogers. How much of a list did you got? Nine? Okay,
so he's top ten, arguably top five, I think. Okay,
there you go. We just gave you a list radio.
We didn't mean to give you list.
Speaker 7: Raady.
Speaker 2: We're just trying to figure these things out too. Yeah.
A couple of bros talking some sports. Yeah, we're at
the bar, having a couple of pops on a recorded line.
What No, we're not on a recorded line yet. U alright?
One twenty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero seven one
three two one two five. Are we missing anybody in
our list of d ten? Brady, Montana, Manning, Rogers, Marino, Unitas, Lway, Farve, Breeze, Tarkington.
You said tarking in Bradshaw fouts young as you're trying
to get in like Bart's star territory. You want to
put my homes at number ten and call today. Oh yeah,
I think so Ma Thomes the top ten. We're done, okay,
Patrick Mahomes was still plenty left in the tank. Is
a top ten quarterback of all time. I'm on the
all time QB wins list, by the way, Yes, Sir
Russell Wilson twelfth, Matt Stafford thirteen, you buy, Oh, Matt
staff Matt Stafford, Matt Stafford. Or But who's the kicking
if we're if we're adding Matt Stafford to the top ten,
who he kicking out? We're not kicking out any of
those guys in that top ten list? Is hard. It
is seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety We
also got some bad news just nonsports here. By the way,
we're gonna add one more name to the list, my
buddy Wade, who's like the associate producer of this show.
If we're going for individual numbers for any thing about wins,
where's Warren Moon in this list? Not top ten? Sorry?
You think he's part part of it? Because of the
gimmicky offense, I mean it was gimmicky. Was running shoot
no tight end five or sivers we had some bad
years in there too, right, His early years eighty for
eighty five were not great, but he got better. He
was terrible then. I'm not even talking about eighty six
thirteen touchdowns, twenty six picks, a couple good years, really,
I mean, if you know, okay, now, I'm purely going
off like touchdown interceptions and stuff like that. In ninety
one twenty three touchdowns, twenty one picks, eighteen and twelve
ninety three he was twenty one and twenty one twenty
one touchdowns, twenty one picks, ninety four eighteen touchdowns, nineteen picks.
There's a different time, but it wasn't like he's in
the sixties. Let me pull up nineteen ninety four in
football touchdown leaders and picks leaders. I mean he was
throwing more picks in just owty four. There's Lway, there's Marino,
a young Farve. I want to say, yes, I think
so who else would be in the mix in terms
of big touchdown numbers nineteen ninety four wouldn't be Roethlisberger
too early? Who else would be a big ninety with
Bernie Kozar, Bernie Vinnie Testa, Verdi, those kind of people
like that. Oh Trey Aigman for sure.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 2: War Moon was thirty yards, so that's a lot. Yeah,
ninth and touchdowns Steve Young, Bret Farv, Dan Marino, Drew
bledsoe had a bad ratio. I mean it was about
par for the course, but he wasn't top five ish
for the ratio. Real quick for go back on the phones.
A sad day for those of us that like to
fly dark breast on occasion. Today is the first day
of assigned seating. Terrible, terrible private equity. Now you're flying better.
Now you're flying dark breast and I got you a seat, Simon,
Oh you did it. I did, Thank you, Matt so
I made a time or to check in on time,
I don't have to do No, it's thirty done. They're
doing the exact same thing as the rest of the airlines.
Absolutely window okay, thank god. Yeah, every of the airlines samping.
If you want to sit in a more ROOMI your
seat and closer to the front, you gotta pay. And
they're all the bait and switching you on the fares like,
oh this is the fair for basic economy. If you
don't want, if you don't want to see it, then
you can only bring on a little knapsack. This is
the fair. My poor son, his first travel trip, well,
he flew Dark Breast to Midland and then he went
to Nashville and I said, I said, what would you
guys pay? Because he paid for short I think it's
like two forty National short notes. I think, son, you're
in basic economy. So he've actually bought the better seat
to get and he get bait and switched. Yeah, all right,
let's go to uh Vince in Midtown at one thirty
seven on seven on E Vince. What's going on?
Speaker 7: Oh? Hey, how you guys doing, Thanks for taking my
collegill and he just real quick on the on the
your quarterback ratings. I think, as far as Rogers is concerned,
I think he threw the best ball ever so and
you know it just does aside from Williams touchdowns at all,
he threw the prettiest ball. Anyways. I called about an
NBA rule and I was hoping the Machi can.
Speaker 2: Kind of Oh lord, you're gonna test me. This could
go very poorly.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I won't won't. So basically, when the
guy's shooting free throws and the guy and you got
the guys waiting, you know, for the rebound on the lanes.
I see guys with their foot inside the lane, inside
the line. A lot of times. I see two or
three guys going inside the lane as before the ball
is being released. And then and then I had that
happens all the time, I think, and then all of
a sudden, the ref blows a whistle and says a
lane violation. What exactly is happening with that?
Speaker 2: Honestly, it could be called a hundred times more often
than it is today.
Speaker 7: That's my point.
Speaker 2: If you if you enter the lane at the exact
same before the ball is released, that as a lane violation.
What I think officials will tell you is you will
see multiple players doing it at one time. And I
and I don't think they can say this out loud,
but they're probably saying it can cancel each other out,
and that's the reason why. But yeah, you'd have to,
you'd have to basically slow it down to when the
ball was released comparing when that lake crosses into the lane.
It should be called more often. I'm stunned that it's not.
I understand Vince where you're coming from on that, but
I feel like if you called every literal lane violation
that took place on free throws. These basketball games would
last three hours and people do not go to NBA
games to watch free throws.
Speaker 7: And an example just the other day, I mean Tory
Easton's whole foot was inside the lane before the free
throw was shot, even before the guy was handed the ball,
and then they didn't call it. It's like, well, I
was crazy anyways, but I appreciate you answering that one. Yeah,
I see, Hey, maybe you can talk to one of
the officials one day and say, hey, can you clarify Sure, I'd.
Speaker 2: Be happy to and some guys, some of the guys
would actually want to talk to me about it. Some
would not, but most most of them would. Uh Honestly,
the easiest way for you to identify that is if
you if you find a player that has a hitch
in his free throw stand. Steven Adams is a hitch
in his free throws outbreaching gon is gathering one. He's
now leaning into those free throws. Now you see notice
that Ross That's why his percentage is dropping. I just
don't get it. It's something in their subconscious that makes
them lean into the shot where you're at the free
throw line. It is a literally a set shot. There's
no one in your way and there's no hand in
your face. There should be nothing but fluidity at the
free throw line. But you've got guys with hitches. A yannisident,
the goopo has a terrible hitch in his free throw.
It takes twenty seconds to get the free throw up. Yeah,
I mean, obviously these guys work on it, and I
mean they're among the greatest athletes in the world and
this is their job. So far be it from me
to judge, but it's it's it's crazy. It's difficult for
me to wrap my head around. So you have basically,
if you've got a rough if you've got a player
with a hitch in his free throw, it basically invites
more lame violations. But they just don't call it. No,
they don't. You agree with me, you could do a
five call it more than that. Yeah, it's crazy how
much you can call that um But yeah, I would
say maybe once a week we get a lame violation.
Maybe it's really one of those things that's I gain.
Maybe if they say simultaneously, because here's if you call
it on both the same players. You're frankly rewarding the
free throw shooters which just get another chance. Yeah, I
don't know. I like when people catch the nuances of
the sport. Yes, I means you're watching and paying attention. Yes,
And they ask peach basket mister basketball himself, Matt Thomas.
You haven't called me that in a long time, and
I've been very pleased. Why not? As I said, I
don't want you to do it. Why not peach basket?
It's no basketball.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: It gives the inference that I was back in when
the nineteen twenty you were out there with the mister
doctor James names Nate Smith, getting shots up, set shots,
shooting in Granny style. How to go just means you're
you're a wealth of basketball knowledge. Peach basket. I like it.
I don't. Okay, I've called you worse. I know you have.
Imagine the things you call me when I'm not around.
I do like we did earlier today. That was one
of the funnier things done in a while. Is me
giving you a scenario and a certain voice? Yes, so
one person has sent in one more. It's a big
diehard fan of the show. Sam or Buddy Sam on Twitter.
Oh my gosh, we got a minute here we can
kill this is what is swearing? This be the last
one of the day. Oh gosh, can Ross do an
impersonation of a little league coach phoning in for Joe
a Spot to be fired because common sense mismanaging?
Speaker 9: I e.
Speaker 2: Bunt, big bunt defender guy. All right, so, ladies, job
The final impersonation of the day is little league coach
calling in on the Tenttenning Show. I'll be the host. Okay,
hold up, let's go to or go I go to
Montgomery County and Montgomery County Rocket. You're on the Attenthank Show,
High Crocket. Hey, Matt, I appreciate you taking my call.
And now far be it for me to criticize a
major league manager. But I myself dabbled in a little
baseball as well. Me and the Cut and Shoot team
have made the regionals twice in the Little League in
the last five years. So I got a little bit
of sand in my pants when it comes to talking
about baseball. I just had to ask, now, why can't
we just move runners? Why don't why do we just
sit there and stand and let these batters flail and
fling away and strike out when somebody's starring it on
second base. Move the guy over. Now I can go
up there. I can teach him how to bunt. If
they need some help with some button and they need
someone who can do that. I got it, all right.
I got a broomstick technique. It does not fail. So
I would like to bring up there. I would like
to come up there and instruct the guy on the mud.
Do you think you could set that up for me?
Thank you Kracking for the phone call. Believe it or not,
it's up next after Ross back from his normal world
to hear you say to tell you about centergenic. All right,
listen very close. If you're gonna play believe it or not,
in just a couple of minutes, it's gonna be very quick,
very googleable. So we're not giving you much time. Either
you know it or you don't. You gotta give us
a quick answer within three seconds or we're knocking you
off the air. That seems fair, right, Ross, based on
the category of the day. Yes, all right, Oh lord,
these names, I hate you their names, and he likes
to screw with me Tomorrow on the show, will visit
with im Doka? Really yep? Wow, Rocket Spurs. What else
we got tomorrow? We got to shut you by my
ass up. On the shows, we have more intense Patriots
Seahawks breakdown, huge, huge breakdown. You're gonna go offensive lineman
by offensive lineman, I believe. I'll start at the center
and go to the guard to the tackle, will go
from the inside out. I like that, and then we'll
go to all the different tight ends, go to skill positions,
special teams, in tangibles, coaching position by position breakdown. Yeah,
we'll be like the Greg Cosel of your NFL recap,
and then a full Champions League Final matchday breakdown. All right,
and I'll let you handle that. Five minutes up to
go in the show, what should we do? We should
Playmerica's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call
it be Believe It or Not? And hear your hot
works you call seven to one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninty. Today's edition of Believe It or Not is
all things about whether or not this particular player is
playing for their national team at the WBC. If he is,
you'll say this, believe it. If he's not, you'll say
this not to believe it or not in a row
when you wanted these three prizes one a seven onety
t shirt. Two A pair of tickets to see Monster
Energy am a super Cross Chain or the thirty first
Energy Stadium. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com.
Or you weren't a pair of tickets to see Roddy
Green on March second opening Day at the Rodeo Houston
from Fullman Entertainment lineup, or to buy your tickets, go
now to Rodeo Houston dot com. Let's play Believe It
or Not? Bill on seven Bill, what is your favorite
Riley Green SONGJ Suck? I don't know if that's a song,
but that's fine. Garrett Crochet, Team USA Believe It or Not?
Believe it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Bye see it? Uh huh's everyone on the Google bole ones.
Let's talk to Gil on seven ninety. Gill, you're ready
to play Believe It or Not? Ready catch your cal
Riley Team USA Believe It or not? Believe it? Yes,
Statement number two for the way and outfielder Riley Green,
Team Ireland Believe it or not. That's right, He's not
playing Miiley Green. There is no team I heard in
the WBC. The official beat writer is Brian McTaggart. Kenneth
on Sevenintie Kenneth, your favorite part of today's ten to
two radio show?
Speaker 7: Playing violation?
Speaker 2: Billy Cook, Team Great Britain. He's a center fielder, Believe
it or not? Believe it? No, he's not. Sorry. Scott
on seven, Nintie Scott, you're ready to play Believe.
Speaker 7: It or not?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Is this lower low on this one? Brandon Lowe? Right, No,
Brandon law Brandon Lao, second baseman, Team Canada. Believe it
or not?
Speaker 6: Believe it?
Speaker 2: No, I guess neither one would be in there. It's
Nathaniel Lowe and Brandon Lowe. It's so confusing. Seven one
three two one two five seven Hot if you want
to get it in place? Seven one three two one
two five seven. Nintie Michael in Spring on seven, Auntie Michael,
you're ready to play Believe it or not? Catcher Garrett
Stubbs Team Israel. Believe it or not not? That's a
believe It's all right? We got uh four more if
you guys want to get him. We got about a
minute here. Maybe the prizes weren't great today. Maybe we
didn't promote it properly. I'll take the blame on this one. Oh,
here we go. We got people calling in. Let's go
to uh Steve it on seven Anti Stephen, you're ready
to play Believe it or not?
Speaker 13: Believe it?
Speaker 2: Steven, good luck to you. First baseman Vinnie Pascentino, Team
Italy Believe it or not? Believe it? There you go,
believe it name a number two for the way and
left handed pitcher Jose Quintana Team Colombia Believe it or not?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 2: Oh, he is playing. I'm sorry. Sam on seven Onie Sam,
your favorite part of today. He's ten to two radio
show tune.
Speaker 7: I just got in the car. I'm going to believe
it or not?
Speaker 2: All right? Thank you. Mookie Betts Team USA, Ry Fielder
Believe it or not?
Speaker 7: Believe it?
Speaker 2: No, he said, I'm out. Thanks though. Jason on seven
Ninty Jason, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Yes?
In former Ramon Urius Team Mexico Believe it or not not.
That's a believe it. People don't lose rosters. ROSSI, good
job about you. All right, that's it for the show today.
Remember Imadoka on the program tomorrow. Remember tomorrow it is
more intense coverage and maybe we may go a second
day in a row, Rossie where we do not have
a meme of c J. Stroud on those Houston Twitter streets.
Up next, the streak is that one. It's a one
day stream. Up next, Waxler Clinton Team till six here
on seven ninety