Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross and Oh What
in ahe Town? Good morning and welcome to a Tuesday
edition The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. The gang is
back together, at least for a couple of days before
we celebrate Christmas, and for any of you happy early holidays.
We will not play the Christmas music here on the
show because that's a tried and true formula of the
Matt Thomas Show. Ross, we only play it on December
twenty four, not true, played it yesterday. So when Matt's away,
the Christmas music will play. Yeah, yeah, how hard the
hell are you? I'm doing great, Matt, And I'm sorry
to say this to you this early on in the show,
but can we just do a quick refresh on the
connection with Matt. I will talk until you get back.
How does that sound all right? Fine? Okay? So Matt
Thomas is out in Los Angeles with the Houston Rockets.
They will be playing the Los Angeles Clippers tonight. Then
of course they have a big tilt with the Los
Angeles Lakers on Christmas Day. Matt Thomas will be working.
I will be doing the pre and post game show.
Of course, make sure you catch it. Right here at
Sports Talk seven ninety. I just keep talking. I guess
that's fine. How you doing, Matt? How about me?
Speaker 2: Is it better?
Speaker 1: It's better? A little hold on, I'm gonna it's errorble. Okay.
We got a real talk at teno too. It's kind
of arable, But I don't know. We should try to
figure a solution when we hit break well, I mean
I've got on the wired connection with the hotel. I
can get off of that and go the non wired Yeah,
I don't know, maybe we can do that. I'm gonna
be here out a really nice hotel. Okay, So Matt
Tom's gonna be back in two minutes now. So all right,
so we're having some technical difficulties out there in Los Angeles.
What do you think, Jonathan Aam wasn't there. I think
we need to do We might as well get out
the way now. He had to rip the band aid
off sometimes three minutes into the show, when the co
host is extremely prepared for the Matt Thomas part of
the Matt Thomas Show to be out of a connection.
But that's okay. This is how it goes when we're
on the road and when we have some technical difficulties
any who. Phone lines are open seven one three two
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eleven thirty. We can rehash the ones from last week.
I hadn't check. I actually brought up the archives earlier.
I didn't. I brought up the page, but I didn't
read what I had a couple of weeks ago. So
I was out last week on vacation. So we'll catch
up on some gut feelings come up at eleven thirty.
Of course, we have the news at noon as well.
We were going to get the Chargers side of the
Texans versus the Chargers game coming up. Now. I thought
yesterday I heard Chris Gordy say that if the Colts lost,
which they did, that the Texans would have clinched inn
AFC playoff spot. And then of course I bring up
the standings. I must have missed something, or maybe something
else happened or I heard wrong. So the Texans at
the moment have not fully clinched a playoff spot. They're
in the seventh spot and they basically just need to
win one of their last two games, or if they
have the Colts lose one of their last two games.
And oh, by the way, the Texans are playing the
Colts the last week of the season. So if the
Colts lose to the Jaguars next week, which they probably will,
then the Texans are gonna be in. Because this super
difficult AFC that we talked about all season, how it
was gonna be, Oh, it's gonna be a it's gonna
be a tight race. What's gonna happen? Well, Ravens out,
Chiefs out, Dolphins didn't do good enough. Bengals of course,
had to trot out Joe Flacco and Jake Browning for
too long, and when Joe Burrow came back, and oh,
by the way, they had a horrible defense, so they
were never good enough. So four of those teams that
we thought were gonna possibly be AFC playoff contenders they
just fell by the way side. So Texans are in
right now as the seventh seed. I don't know what
their playoff percentages are, but it's got to be like
ninety nine percent. It's probably gonna be very likely. I
think I hear some activity from Matthew how are you.
I'm doing great, Matt. This sounds better. Okay, good, Yes,
you got them out of the submarine. Yeah, high end hotel,
Internet sucks. Huh what Maddy pays for on the side works. Well,
we're great. Well, it sounds a lot better and we're
ready to go. Matt. So, Yeah, as I was just
saying the Colts losing yesterday, I thought it was going
to clench them a spot. We got to talk about
a number of things about that. We'll get the Philip
rivers in a second, but Texans basically going to clench
a playoff spot as soon as the Colts lose to
the Jaguars next week or they beat the Colts themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we have asked for Steve Kornaki,
noted NFL numbers cruncher, to help us, and we'll play
that for you the next segment of the show. Okay, great.
Do you even know who Steve Karnaky is? I don't.
Is that the a guy that does the does the
like the election coverage? Yeah, he works for NBC. He
rolls up his sleeves, he run literally on a big
screen and points to a bunch of stuff that's kind
of Yeah, frankly obvious. They're like, we got to use
this guy. We got to try this guy out more
than once every four years. Correct, we're paying him a salary.
Let's go where he basically he did a Texans can
be the number one seed bit yesterday, m hm, And
so we're gonna play that frea coming back. Here's the thing.
He can either the Texans can either make the playoffs,
not make the playoffs, or be the number one seed.
That's how crazy things are gonna be the next two weeks. Yeah,
well they're gonna make the playoffs. Okay, let's get to
big Philly Rivers by the way, man, I mean, I
give him mad props. And for those of you who
didn't see the game, which I'm gonna assume is nine
to nine percent of you, will give you a recap
the Niners Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle and brought and
rock party outstanding. I mean, there was nothing that the
Colts offense could do to stay mono a mono. They
tried to with the Niners, but it was unsuccessful. Five
touchdowns for brock Pery touchdowns, which Phil's you're waiting for
if you had Brock printing in your fantasy playoffs. Thank
you were waiting for that. Oh my wow. I had
him all season when he was hurt, and so then
I didn't make the playoffs. So thanks Brock.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: By the way, are you rooting for the Toros to
win the championship? I am rooting for the Toros to
win the championship, and they've already won in my mind,
Congratulations to the twenty and twenty five Houston Toros. I
heart Houston League champions. I am a slight dog in
the game. Slight. Oh now you're you got the better squad,
You're gonna win in my mind? Well, thank you. Okay,
So back to the game last night. So the Niners
are scoring with regularity and Philly is trying his best.
I mean, I don't know what if you how much
of the game you saw yesterday, Rossie, But the ball
does not come out with the crispness of say, I
don't know somebody half his age. Somebody said it looked
like he's tossing pizzas, and I thought that was a
really good description. He tossing up No, he's meat balls
up there. Yeah, he threw a bomb. I want to
say it was early third quarter, might have been a
hangtime to it. Yeah, and you know what, I actually
want to have a bigger philosophical discussion about this. Okay,
but by the way, the game ended on a pick six. Yeah,
seventy five yard pick six by a middle linebacker. Does
this devalue the quarterback position in your mind? Or does
this just mean Philip Rivers is just an all time
great needs a waltz into the Hall of Fame. Actually,
go ahead. What it does is it pushes the agenda
you've been trying to push on this show for about
the last month. When it concerns a number seven for
the Houston Texans. He doesn't have to be that good.
If you got something good, yeah, you have better damn
pay him. Because the discrepancy between being a good, above
average elite Hall of Fame to being a guy that
would be throwing pizzas at your local pizzeria down the
corner his significant. There's almost no level of mid It's
either you are leading a team of the playoffs or
you should be sacking groceries and delivering for door dash.
I don't know. Philip Rivers looked pretty. He came off
the street at age forty four. I think, to me,
almost it almost devalues the quarterback position. It makes me
strengthen my opinion that Jerry Rice is the greatest football
player of all time and not Tom Brady. I didn't
think of it that way. I could certainly understand how
you would. Yeah, all I would say is that Philip
Rivers is proving why he is a Hall of Fame quarterback. True,
that he was so good back when he when he
could throw the football, that he's coming back at like
forty percent and he's still throwing touchdowns. Yeah, it's it's
it's crazy, and it's it was fun to watch, and
it's been must watch TV. And he's been he's been
pretty solid. There's been worse, trust me. Oh, we've seen worse,
for sure. We've seen dani Or Lobsky throws an active
NFL player. We saw Broncos water. Hey, come on, TJ. Yates.
Brock is doing good on TV now, he's fine. Yeah,
but we've seen it. Trust me. We've seen some nastiness
out there, some nastiness. Nastiness like who is the worst
quarterback you've ever seen play in a meaningful game? Uh?
That guy for the Kansas City Chiefs show the weekend
old no, no, whoever came in after he ripped his ac.
Oh the apparently it's not a rich al but hurt
his knee. Oh, that's a good question. That's that's it's
kind of an open end of when there's probably five
million answers to it. I'm gonna say, Doshaun Watson when
he was having his downfall was up there. Oh how
about the guy Malik Willis. Yes, I knew it's you're
gonna say, but he was actually big Willis. He was
decent for the Packers when Jordan Love went down. Okay,
the crescendo of his life was decent. Chris oladokun Malik
Wallace as a Tennessee Titan. I mean, he'd have been better, sir,
throwing with his other arm. That doesn't even I've got
the answer for you, even though I don't know. Are
we keeping this NFL case McCoy. Oh, how about like
Zach Mettenberg. If his name was Kesey Douglas, he would
have been playing in the Sun Belt. If that, yeah,
I mean any LSU quarterback hey not named Joe is
Gordy even there today? Maddy Mock was pretty good. By
the way, is there anybody in the office today, Yes,
Gordy's up here because he was Gordy's filling in. He
filled in yesterday. I think he's gonna be on the
A team either today or tomorrow. My goodness. Yeah, oh
well then maybe it's today. Yeah. A team's not working tomorrow,
then now he's gonna be working the mart. Oh do
we have a show? Yes we do. We have full
four hours? Correct? And how many minutes are the A
Team on? Zero? Okay? Why uh? Merry Christmas to all
and to all a good night except us. Screw you guys.
That's fine. You know what, We're gonna be here for
you folks on Christmas Eve. We got Roto on Wednesday.
We're gonna be Christmas Eve. Roto Christmas Eve. Roto can
To be wearing a Santa hat. I don't know. That's
kind of up to him. We've never done a video
call with Roto before, you know, it's funny. I have
never met Roto in my life first face to face.
I've seen videos on his Twitter he does uh, I
watched some of his DFS content. Yeah, I've actually met
his son before his son goes to Rice what. Yeah,
he's got a genius son, correct, I mean he is
doctor Roto. That makes sense. Yeah? All right. On the
radio program today, we're going to get into I don't
know how much more we're gonna get into bigger Philly rivers,
but you know we could if you want to. It
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on the radio show, we have coming up at eleven
o'clock on Chris Heyry. You joined us from CBSLA. He
is a big time Chargers beat reporter for that TV station.
We'll talk to him about the Chargers Texans game, which
is on Saturday. By the way, is that gonna be
a great way to open up this Saturday, three point
thirty Texans versus Chargers in LA and FL network and
I think Chune eleven's going to broadcast the game locally
in town and then what's under the Rockets play? They
played at seven o'clock against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Okay, grin
at eight point fifteen. That same night we got the
Texans or got the Houston Cougar's taken on LSU. Oh
that's true. So we got a busy Saturday and we
will talk to Willie Fritz at one thirty. This chap
didon looking forward to busy with him and the Seasoning Bowl. Uh, yeah,
I'm calling it just a Texas Bowl. I think Seasoning
Bowl sounds fun. I'm going to keep with that. By
the way, is it when's a pop Tart Bowl? We've
seen it? Yeah, it's like, no, I haven't seen it.
Who those people are that marketed? That their genius? Yeah
they are, but they're running into a problem where they
can't to keep topping themselves year after year, like somebody
at some point is going to put themselves in a
toaster in front. Yeah exactly, all right, gut feelings at
eleven thirty. Today we have nfl Rewind with Ross at
one twenty, Willie Fritz at one thirty, and believe it
or not today at one fifty. Now, look, you guys
are controlling music back in Houston. So if you want
to play some Christmas music I can get I can
live with that. Okay, Well you said Christmas Eve only,
so I mean, and we also have a small conundrum
here in Los Angeles. I'll explain what's going on here
in LA that's really flipping people out. Nothing to do
with the Clippers bad performances, or the Lakers inconsistency or
the rams of the Chargers. It has to do with
mother Nature. Ten fifteen of the Matt Tom Michiel Ross.
I'm here in La Ross back in Houston on Sports
Talk seven ninety. All right, Matt and Ross with you
here on a Tuesday, on Christmas Eve Eve. At the time,
it's ten twenty three Sports Talk seven out. He's seven
one three two one two five seven Ounty. If you
want to chime in, you're right at the internet at
this hotel, and we're at a I mean ridiculously nice hotel.
Oh lord, I cannot get him buying a VPN, which
is not fun. But that's a different issue for a
different time. All right, So here's the issue we got here.
How much are the pancakes? I don't want to get
into that. Okay, you're in Beverly Hills, correct, Correct, that's
nice Beverly Hills. Matt. I like that. You know what,
you can call me mister nine O two one. Oh's
what you can call me. By the way, those who
would like to always ask how the gas prices are?
Is we got in at about two o'clock in the
morning Pacific time, a day and a half ago. I
think it's what it was. Yeah, it was five sixty
seven front leaded. Say go it five dollars and sixty
seven cents. Okay, now that's Beverly Hills. Great, my gases.
If I was to get on the four or five
or the one o one, you know the major interfers here,
they'd be it'd be in the high fours. I paid
two twenty nine on the on the way back to Dallas.
From Dallas, that's actually not bad, insane. I was very happy.
Can I tell you your little secret cause I love y'all.
Like fam Okay, you know where the cheapest gases in Houston,
Green's Point, King's Point, Kingwood, Texas. Oh, Kingwood, Texas? Is
that true? Kingwood, Texas. I'll take your word for it.
I'm oh, hell yeah. I pay about two dollars and
fifteen cents a gallon. I know where the most expensive is.
I know where it is too. They should be shot man,
Flip samfully pin six ten. Are you thinking the same one?
I am. You're right. So here's the thing. You go
to the target over there, and you're in a really
good mood. After you leave, okay, you get the blood flowing.
The blood is blowing, Oh my god, and you're like,
oh man, that was so good to see all those
hot river Oaks women at the target. Oh darn, I'm
out of gas. I bet I go get me some gas.
I fill up here. I got an electure time after
enjoying my experience at Target, and then I've gotta pay,
Like what is it now? I think I saw the
other day at three ninety nine something like that. I
don't know what it is now. I don't even read it.
I don't even go there. And you're right. They make
me physically angry. They jack up the price so much.
I want to go in there and just yell at them, saying,
you guys are greedy bastards. I mean, I understand, like
Memorial Drive when I leave the office to go to
the Totis and I take Memorial down downtown, and it's
expensive on that, but it's like two eighty nine, two ninety. Hey,
look when in Rome you have to go, you know,
get what the expensive folks can pay. But that that
Exxon right there should be ashamed and they should be
a shamed themselves for what I don't know, fifteen years
or so. Straight. Yeah, and every time I drive by it,
I want to roll my window down inscremming people. Suckers, suckers.
But my guess is the people that go to that
particular Exxon, it's either they're on a company at card
and they don't really care how much it cost, or
they can afford it and just don't care. I've I've
used it maybe once or twice, literally like down to
zero point. Zer're like about to run out of gas,
so I put like a gallon or two in there. Yeah,
so I've done that gas station. That's exactly right, all right.
So here's the here's the conundrum that Southern Californians are
going what do they call it? Los What are your from? LA?
What do you call Los Angelinos? Los Angelinos? We're coming
here one time this year, and don't ask me. I'm
not a big fan of the NBA scheduling. So we're
playing the Clippers tonight and then the Lakers on Christmas
Day and then leaving and then we're done with LA
until you know, maybe the playoffs find up for the Clippers,
but could be for the Lakers for sure. This is
one of my favorite trips of the year because I
love LA. They're expecting significant amount of rain between now
and the end of Thursday. I heard you were getting
seven inches, Matt. It has been amended. We're getting seven
point one inches. Oh wow, Elextra, just in case you
need that extra tenth of an inch. So people are
flipping the f out here. Let me ask you this, if,
and maybe because we have gotten a lot of rain
in seven inches over three days, is that gonna would
that crush us? I guess the answer would be yes,
right three days?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, in one day? Yes, But they're not no. This
is between they're saying Tuesday noon, which would be the
end of our show. Town they got to relax. That
happened to me when I told you I went to
LA for vacation a couple of months ago. Yeah, and
they were acting like it was They had the people
literally out in raincoats in the street on the local
news and it was just missing. The atmospheric river has
parked over Los Angeles. Folks. We've gotten one point five
inches of rain today and there's like puddle. They're like
zooming in on the puddles. No, they're overreacting. Okay, So
then front of the show, my buddy Aaron just texted
me and he said he got this from somebody that
lives in the LA area. LAFD, which is Los Angeles
Fire Department Evacuation warning for possible debris flow of one
am today to eleven pm Thursday. Prepare for possible evacuations
and Pacific palace ades due to a severe storm. High
risk houses will be visited by LAPD with specific evacuation orders.
All right, you know what that is true? So the
problem is they do have mud slides off the mountains
when there's rain. Yeah, so that's that is the actually
illegit problem. I'll back off my previous statements and I
think there's a lot of loose debris up there because
of the recent fires. So when, of course, when the
fires is a bunch of ash and mud and loose
trees and all kinds of debris that could be sliding
down when the rain comes after a fire. Okay, So
my question is this, then if gas is expensive here,
real estate's expensive. Yes, they have earthquakes, Yes, they have
terrible fires, they have mud slides. Huh, they have an
ounce of rain and it stops the city. Why would
anyone want to live here? It's seventy two degrees in
sunny every day for the most part, like three hundred
and fifty days a year. Okay, Acid answered, I mean
I love it too. There I do. It's Politan, there's Hollywood,
there's I mean, I'm not living the real life here.
I mean, I'm not spending. I'm not in Irvine, you
know what I mean. I'm not gonna hamp it in
and Anaheim. I mean the most hodious, totiest part of
the country here. But it's just crazy that every newscast
is like because another people are talking about you know,
people like to sometimes they like to travel on Christmas,
even Christmas, you know, like driving somewhere because they think
it's easier to get out. That's compared to like trying
to go to the airport today or tomorrow or Yeah,
they're like, if you don't leave today by noon, you're
stuck here. Expect to spend Christmas here in Los Angeles. Yeah,
but I guess this is some kind of all time storm.
I guess. But another is it it's the same storm
that was in Seattle and Portland last week. To get down,
I didn't know that. But I'll tell you why I
love visiting my friends in La cause we went I
like literally when I came to La we went to
the beach, we went to the mountains. You can go
to Joshua Tree in the desert, you can go to Indio,
like every Vegas is only three hours away. It's close
to everything. And that's one of the reasons Hollywood PLoP
down there too, is because if you need to shoot
a movie in the ocean, or a movie in the desert,
or a movie in the mountains, or a movie and wherever,
you got everything around there and the weather is great generally, yeah, generally.
And the people are pretentious. Yes, everything's expensive, but yes, yes,
if you want to really feel fat, Like when you're
on at Houston. You got a few extra pounds, You're like,
I'm doing all right, You've gotta really feel fat. Go
to La oh my god. Yeah yeah, like the Starbucks
baristas have six packs. Yeah, I mean yoga pants is
in perform here. If your team yoga pants, you love
Los Angeles second best place for yoga pants in America.
Uptown Dallas. Give me a little secret there, okay for
you the little concluder or Southern California weather Report for
the thank you. I didn't go to uptown Dallas. I
was in the Galleria and then the Bishop Arts District,
which was nice. Uptown Dallas is Rossie. I'm telling you.
I should have told you this before you left. Okay, sneaky, amazing, Okay,
I mean I didn't need to go there. Okay, good
for you. I went to the JFK Museum. That's did
you and Clinton go together? Is that how you wonder
what's going on now? I did send him a picture
of JFK, of course, obligatory, obligatory. He's infatuated with a
handful of things, and one of them is that, Yes,
he's infatuated with the serial killers and other things of
the macabre. Yeah, he's a rather simple man, but we
love Nonetheless, I'm not gonna get into a deep conversation
about philosophy with Adam Klaint. You're just not p'ally gonna
talk about jeff Jeffrey Dahmer sawing people in half. Yeah,
he likes that a lot too. Okay, I don't know
where to go from here, but that's fine. Up. Up,
We're gonna check out in Los Angeles with a TV
reporter in the covers of Chargers on a daily basis.
We'll talk with him at eleven o'clock, and we're gonna
talk with you guys seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety Did you see DK Metcalf By the way,
I know you were a team DK yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got more question, I said, pending what happened? Pending
an investigation? Pending? They they penned it all right. Yeah, lord,
he's in big trouble. We'll tell you more about that
in a minute. Ten thirty three. It's Madden Ross. I'm
here in La Ross back in Houston. If you'd like
to join us, hold on a second, Rossie, wean, yes,
we love you. We just do tens of you seven
one three, two one two five, seven ninety.
Speaker 5: One if you were sending me uh tweets about where
to find the cheap gas. Shout out to Pedros says
you can get two dollars and five cents off of
a highway two forty nine and Bammel and North Houston, Missouri.
Speaker 1: Sitting Candy says you get it for two oh three.
Good from us. Get here in Beverly Hills at five
dollars and sixty seven cents a gallon. Oh lord, oh yeah,
I think there's a lot of taxes. I think they're
trying to push people to EV's. Yeah. By would you
see the power went out at San Franisco a couple
of days ago. I did not, And all those uh
tur what do they call turtantart turos? There are they
called tourros? The what the manlisk vehicles? Oh way moos
way most way moos Yeah, turo's something different. The way
most stopped like in the middle of the street, Oh yeah,
with people in them that I don't know. But there
was there was a there were some videos of some
waymos just sitting there. Hmm. I would never take those, yeah,
I mean, what if what if Waymo's in a bad mood.
It's twofold. I mean, yeah, the the it feels like,
I mean, you can get intern accent with a regular
Uber driver. I mean it happens all the time. They're
evidence says otherwise, but I don't know if it necessarily
believe that. But also you're you're forcing them out of
the workforce as well. So I'm here to help the people, mad,
I'm a man of the people. I will be taking
real Uber driver there you go and giving them tips
and everything. Of course. Yeah, I'm still at four point
nine zero on Uber and five on lifts. I don't
know why I'm still stuck at four point nine on Uber,
but it is. M I'm trying. Gosh, that's a pretty week.
It's not weak at all. It's wonderful. Actually. I mean
if I was a four point nine and is an
Olympic champ and was out of scale, I'd be an
Olympic champion. I'm a four ninety seven. You weren't perfect, though,
you were not any company chock. I know when I
got a one star and it was my friend's fault
because he was screaming at the guy. Huh, can I
tell you very fast forward before we talk to Gail.
Go ahead, So a few years back, this is a
funny story. One of our people in our Rockets traveling
party said Hey, well, I'm gonna order you guys an uber.
And there was four of us in the car, and one
of the four people told this story about an escapade
he had in his life when he was single. It
was one of the foul stories I've ever heard of
my entire life. Okay, and I can't even discuss what
happened in the in the story because it's so grotesque,
it so funny. So the next day, this person comes
up to us and says, what happened in y'all's in
my uber? And we're like, when are you talking about? Nothing?
We got in the car and we were just talking
and we did tell a funny story. The person's uber
account she lost to half a star. Now, to lose
a half a star in on off one ride, it
means you got like a one star.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, if someone gives you an uber,
do not tell raunchy vow stories that could potentially get
a person a rating. You especially want to behave yourself
when it's not your uber. That's exactly right. Are we
already at ten forty four? Man? Yeah? You know why?
Because these we have to play those PayPal spots eighty
five times. Hey, let's go PayPal dot com. I've been
using it for years. Seriously, if y'all please support PayPal.
I mean, God knows, they're paying money with us, they're
paying your paycheck pal. That's right, those are calling myself
PayPal Thomas. I appreciate them. We love all of advertises,
especially PayPal this week. Hells yeah, they're like, you know what,
we'll buy the entire iHeart network for like twelve dollars
a spot this week, nobody's advertising anything. Appreciate them. Okay,
So here's we're gonna do. We're gonna comeack, We're gonna
hear from Steve Kornaki this dork is carved on a
nice little career for himself. That's rude. Why are you
gonna holming dork because he rolls up his sleeve. Guess
what you get to do, Steve, You can wear a
short sleeve on the set and that rolled up. Because
it's like he's not he's like he thinks he's like
grinding through these numbers. No, then he have like a
pencil in his ear normally too. Yes, I mean it's not,
it's not he's burning the midnight all in front of
a computer. He might be the NFL in every website
gives you the stats of what's going on. Hell, did
you see Adam Wexer's tweet today? He gave you this stuff.
I didn't. You don't even see wex rolling up his
sleeves and putting a pencil behind the ear whereas wex
Oh my gosh, yeah, he look at that thing. That
thing is. That thing is deep and medium. It's got
a lot to it. Steve Karinaki will run down how
the Texans can be the number one seed in the AFC.
Next here on Sports Talk seven ninety one, we're gonna
check in in Los Angeles. Actually not me, with somebody
else in here in Los Angeles. Chris Hayry from CBS
Loss Angel's gonna join us about the Chargers tech. I
thought you guys were gonna do it together from Rodeo Drive.
I mean, I guess we could. Now what I have
to buy him the coffee because the coffee is expensive
on Rodeo. Uh, they can go Dutch. That's true, all right.
So we have our Wadam Wexer giving you a complete
rundown of what the Texans can do, either making the
playoffs or not being the number one seed or just
being a Walt card. We're gonna go beyond that, and
we love wex like a second cousin. But we want
to go to Steve Kornaki of NBC, who's gonna give
us how he thinks the Texans could be the number
one seed in the AFC to.
Speaker 6: This and start fresh. To get to the most complicated
the Texans. The Texans with five losses, the best they
could do is twelve and five. But the Texans would
have a bunch of tie breakers if it ever came
to that. So you see the Texans, how do they
get every other team to five losses? They play the Chargers,
so they have a chance themselves to hand the Chargers
a fifth loss. They need the Bill to drop one
of these two. Maybe it's the Eagles, Bills would have
their fifth loss. They'd need the Jags to drop one
that you know, maybe it's the Colts, maybe it's the Titans.
They would need the Patriots to drop two of their
remaining three games, and they would need the Broncos to
lose not just to the Chargers, but also to the
Kansas City Chiefs to finish at twelve and five. And then,
and only then would the number one seed in the
AFC be with about a point two percent chance something
like that, like a snowball in Key West.
Speaker 1: Those are their chances. Oh, I couldn't, Okay, let's call
it ain't now go ahead. First of all, it ain't happen.
And secondly, he didn't. He didn't research that, No chance,
no way, no how what do you mean? Somebody did
it for him? Correct, Like a website like Google or
NFL dot com did it for him. I have a question, Matt,
why do you care? Because because like, who cares? Let
me tell you something. My job as a major market
sports cast, okay, is to call out the frauds. How
is he a fraud? He's just bringing that's good on
air content. It's talking about playoff scenarios and they, I mean,
they have to win the time. I mean we played
it here too, but he just wanted to play it here.
Does he need to roll up his sleeve, put a
pencil behind his ear, sweat from his brow? I don't
care how he wears his sleeves, because I'm if we're
doing a four hour show, and work with me a
little bit here, Okay, Ross, I got the Rockets losing
the New Orleans and you're stacking mule last week. Work
with me a little bit, Okay, Trent entertaining it here,
uh huh. It just makes me doubt whether and I
should believe this guy comes politics time. So if his
if his sleeves were down, you'd feel better. I just
I don't know. It just feels like it's it's more
theatrics undered his information. Okay, See he's in in the
entertainment midness. They gotta trot him out there or something.
He's got to he's got to earn his keep at
NBC somehow. Yeah, that's actually the only elections so often
you can only have so many runoff elections and I
don't know, Ohio or whatever. Well, yeah he's gonna have
he's got the midterms coming up, so I got something
to work on. Apparently he's been he was doing stuff
at the Westminster Dog Show too, Okay, So I mean
my then my point is well taken. Then. Now see
the labrador, the labrador has about a twelve point seven
percent chance. You look at the history. There is nobody
on the earth that can talk dogs, football and politics.
You gotta stay in your lane one way or the other. Oh,
this is gonna make you even better, just to feel
even better. Looking at this graphic, it looks like they
get their probabilities from pre pff. I'm okay with that. Oh, okay,
I told you, I'm turning the corner in ps. That's good.
The poo realize they're poon hounds. Ye, I'm okay with that. Okay, well,
song as you're okay with it, Matt. I just want
them to have bounds in their life.
Speaker 4: M m.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's funny. You know. I'll tell you
what the Thomas. We don't do politics in the House
very much, but we do like Steve Kornacki when he's
like doing the politics, like if you get this man
electoral votes in this state, couple this this, Now, that
is some serious work right there, like adding stuff. Last election,
I went to the movies. I went, I turned my
phone off and went to the movies. I was like, silence,
isn't there's no good result here? I think I delivered you.
I delivered text to you quietly? Did I No? I
believe I turned my phone completely off and my watch. Okay,
Oh that's funny. Steve Karnaki carbon and iel career based
off of stealing bits from ESPN dot com. Good for him. Well,
all right, what else I got going on? Are you
excited for rocket slippers tonight? Oh? I'm over the moon
nine got moving up a half an hour, so okay, mad.
So last time we talked, I was telling you how
there was a Oklahoma City thunder cloud over my head. Yeah.
They're a little more human now, aren't they. They are?
But so are the Rockets. They lost to the Kings
and the Pelicans in the same trip.
Speaker 4: We know.
Speaker 1: I've be on the road since like early November. That's okay.
How's your beard? You been shaving? I did actually shave yesterday,
which I normally don't do. Okay, what about I know
you like to well, I know you like to get
both done at the same time. Did you get you
get a head shaved too?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: No, I actually did it myself because I was really
go to the barber shop. You're in the hotel ooh no,
And I normally pay forty two dollars for in king
what it was one hundred and thirty five and without
m mass, without the hotel. So I said, you know what,
I'm gonna go get some. I'm gonna go the Oh,
by the way, now here's another thing. So I go
to the I go to the front desk asking for
shaving cream. You know, usually if you ask for like
a toothpaste or tooth brush at his hand to and
say have a great day. Oh, no, sir, we'll have
it delivered to your room. I got a funny well,
I guess it's not that funny of a story. But
I was at the role and rug it and I
forgot my toothbrush. Happens. I called him and they said,
are you in a sweet? I said no, I'm in
a regular room. They're like, oh, we only provide toothbrush
if you're in this sweet. Come on, tillman, that's dude.
This lady I said, I said, oh, you're gonna a room,
shame me. I was messing with her. She was laughing,
Can I tell Patrick? She's like, yes, you should, I will.
I will absolutely tell. She was like, I'm so sorry. Yeah,
I don't know. They tell me that I can only
give you a toothbrush. So I guess I should have
lied and said I was in a sweet and then
she's like, go ahead. You would have said yes, I'm
in sweet. Yeah, right, and they would have figured it out.
And then it got to your room, like we're gonna
turn around and turn around my toothbrush, and she's like, yeah,
you can go down to this store and get the
dental kit. And I was like, no, I just I
was messing with her. I was like, I'll just gargle
my toothpaste. I'll be fine, and she laughed, which is
that's what I did. I yount get my more, my
cash tillman with your five dollars Coca Cola's and five
dollars bag of Dorito's. I gotta tell Patrick that he's
gonna laugh.
Speaker 7: Dude.
Speaker 1: I was like, are you seriously, I'm getting ruth shamed
asking for a toothbrush. But I was like, come on,
I know why you want me to go back to
my room. You want to get You want a tip,
And I gave him a tip. But damn, I did
all the heavy lifted ross I went downstairs. I didn't
even do something as Booze usual by calling for it
I went down there to go get it. My fellows
fifty to fifty they would even give one. I just
wanted to see if they would offer. And then it
turned out I had a spare one from the dentist
in my car, so I couldn't. Oh that's great, let's
check on the Chargers next. It is coming up on
eleven o'clock. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Tamas Show with rossk attenues Here,
Ross back in Houston. I'm here in Los Angeles Rockets
against the Clippers tonight. We'll have it for you beginning
at eight thirty with Rockets launch Pad Network pre game
at nine, and I'll have to call here at nine
thirty from into it Dome. Right now, let's talk about
one of the other LA Sports teams, the Chargers, and
joining us right now from CBS Los Angeles. He also
does a weekly podcast about the Los Angeles Chargers. We
say hello to Chris Heyry here on the Matt Thomas
Show at Ross, Chris, It's Matt and Ross. Good morning
to you first and foremost, and I we will go
to the games itself. Tell me what it's like. And
I had to counterpart on from the Rams earlier this
year when the Texans played them. How does the Chargers
gain attention to the LA sports landscape and does this
run help them or is it still When you go
to games at so far with the Chargers there's a
large amount of other teams fans in the building.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what great to be with you, man.
I think that the the Hardball effect is certainly real.
I've been with this organization since they moved up to
Los Angeles in twenty seventeen, and I could tell you
it's grown exponentially. I'll also tell you that in Los
Angeles it is a Lakers and a Dodgers town, and
there is a slice of the pie for everybody else,
and if you win, the slice gets bigger. And I've
seen Jim Harball in just two short seasons go back
to back eleven wins with this quarterback, and you're starting
to kind of feel the buzz a little bit. And
it's pretty cool to see both the Rams and the
Chargers really being looked at its contenders in both the
AFC and NFC right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly a good time for football here in
Southern California. Chris. The Houston audience had a chance to
see the Chargers Cowboys game before the Texans last week,
and it felt like to me, and I'm so glad
you're able to join us today. Justin's got a plethora
of targets to go into that offense. I mean, I
don't know if it was a perfect game, because I
was here, I'm traveling. I didn't see the whole thing,
but it felt like to me that Herbert could throw
it to about five different people on the field at
any one point during the game.
Speaker 3: You know, we're doing our podcast today and that's that's
one of the first things we're going to talk about.
This is just the the emergence of some of these
guys that you didn't know we're gonna have a big
as big of an impact as they've had. Trey Harris,
the second round rookie comes to mind. It used to
be third in Keenan right. It was like, all right,
Keenan's getting the ball third down. Now it's third and
Keenan third and lad Trey Harris's raised his hand. The
rookie Ronde Gadsden, Quentin Johnston, who was actually hurt the
week before against the Chiefs four catches for one hundred
and four yards and a just an unbelievable one handed
touchdown catch. So you're right, they have a lot of weapons.
And just the emergence of Marion Hampton to the rookie
running back who has missed a large chunk of the
season with an ankle injury. He returned a couple of
weeks ago, and he was just like a runaway freight train,
like eighty one yards the touchdown to put him up
thirty four to seventeen. So I go back to last
year and how Justin didn't really have any weapons in
that Houston Wildcard game. It seemed like, you know, they
shut down Quinton Johnston. Lad was the only weapon who
could produce anything through the air one hundred and ninety
seven yards I think ninety It came on that one
play at the end of the game. So yeah, it's
night and day from last year in terms of the
weapons and just kind of how everybody is kind of
working in harmony.
Speaker 1: Here Chris Heyry joining us from CBS Los Angeles here
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Okay, So I'm
assuming that mister Herbert's hand is okay. I know he
was kind of grumpy about a few weeks ago, but
there was anything that you saw against the Cowboys that
alarmed you at all.
Speaker 3: Well, no, this was this was the first game this
season where he was not sacked, zero sacks allowed by
this offensive line who's been the big topic of conference.
Make no mistake, it's a it's a broken hand, right,
it's a it's a it's a broken non throwing hand.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: But he has found a way to play with it,
and you know it seemingly is getting better each week.
But to throw for three hundred yards, which is the
most passing years that he's thrown for since middle of
October against the Colts, you're starting to see that dimension
of the offense. Since the bye week, since getting blown
out by the Jags, Matt, this team has really relied
on their defense to to win them football games. And
Sunday was the first time where you know, the defense
kind of got hit in the mouth early in the
game against Dak Who's that's fantastic, But to to kind
of get hit in the mouth by that Dak Prescott
led offense, justin Herbert had to go toe for toe
with them, and then the defense settles down, doesn't allow
any points in the second half, yet Justin continues to go.
So he's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: He's one of.
Speaker 3: The toughest quarterbacks you'll ever come across. He makes a
hero type play almost every game and the defense carry
the day. But Sunday was the first time where I
was like, wow, if this passing attack can get in
rhythm in the playoffs and the Church may have something
all right.
Speaker 1: So with all that being said, and look, I've been
a Herbert guy from a distance, but last year's wild
card game he was atrocious. He has not had a
whole lot of postseason success. Tell me in your mind,
how bad does he need a couple of postseason wins
to build on his resume. I mean, first, every quarterback
needs one that goes without saying. But how much pressure
will there be when the Chargers get to the playoffs
for him to have all the success in the last
handful of weeks the Chargers had if they come up
short and in particular of Herbert struggles.
Speaker 3: We'll have these conversations on radio.
Speaker 1: We'll continue to happen.
Speaker 3: You know. It's uh. I think I think that that's
been the biggest thing is Justin has done everything during
the regular season. He's set records, he's been unbelievable. But
until you do it in the postseason, there's gonna be
a lot to talk about it. There's gonna be a
lot of talk about, Hey, can he win a playoff game?
Can he get you deep into the postseason? I have
no doubt that he can, right, It's it's just every
season is different, Every opponent you come across is different.
The the that Texas game, it was just you know,
he threw three interceptions all season, Uh, to throw four
in that game, and I get it he was he
was pressing because the Texans got momentum in that second
half and never let up. But yeah, that's gonna be
that's gonna be the topic of conversation until he does it.
But what's fascinating about the playoffs this year, Matt, And
it's it goes the Texans too. Anybody could be any seed,
you know, you know, the Texans could somehow went out
and the Jacks drop a game and they're they're winning
the South again. You know, the the Chargers went out
and they win the West, right, they control their destiny
now because they beat the Broncos early in the year.
They could be as high as the one seed of
the two seed, as low as the seventh seed. This
is a wide open AFC with no Patrick mahomes uh,
probably no Lamar Jackson, no Joe Burrow, and anybody can
win this thing. It's just about matchups and and who's
going to be the grittier team, who doesn't make any
mistakes in January.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy, Chris, seven different NFL towns all in
the AFC. I think they've got a shot to be
playing on Super Sunday, and it kind of makes it wonderful,
you know, I believe it's bad. Yeah, I just couldn't believe.
When was it de Rich Eisen said that we're all
going to miss the Chiefs in the playoffs. I'm like,
you know what, Kansas City might miss it, but nobody
else could. It gives two craps about whether or not
the Chiefs are the playoffs. And now thought it was
one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time.
But that's neither here nor there. Chris Hayry from CBS
in Los Angeles joining us. All Right, So not that
I let Vegas determine everything, but the over under on
this Chris is thirty nine and a half. That would
tend to mean even though the Chargers are a small
favorite in this game, but they're expecting this to be
a twenty one to eighteen type of football game. How
do you envision? Again, the Texans defense will be the
best the Chargers probably have seen in quite some time.
But the Chargers and again the Cowboys defense was atrocious.
You saw that last week. But let me tell me.
Can a Chargers win a low scoring, close game? Can
their defense do enough to keep this thing close? The
Texans offense has been better as of they didn't play
a lot really well last week. But what is it
going to be like for Justin to face maybe his
best defense he's seen in probably in two months?
Speaker 3: You're right, I mean, so the Broncos are a super
Bowl caliber defense. To Houston Texans are a super super
Bowl caliber defense. But you know, go back to just
the two weeks before the game against the Cowboys. You know,
I know Jalen Carter didn't playing that game, but Philly
secondary is unbelievable. They won a low scoring overtime game
twenty two to or twenty I think it was twenty
one eighteen something like that twenty two to nineteen.
Speaker 2: The next week.
Speaker 3: Sixteen thirteen over the Chiefs in fifteen degree weather. So
this defense, this defense is ready for it. And I
think that the Chargers defense is just a small rung
below those other defenses that I mentioned. They've been awesome
since getting hit in the mouth against Jacksonville. After the bye,
they have seemingly a Pro bowler, an all Pro on
every level of their defense. Derwin James named to his
fifth Pro Bowl today Tooley Towoy Polo two has been
unbelievable thirteen sacks for him, same as Daniel Hunter. And
to have to have a guy like dayon Henley who
coming on as of late, a very sticky secondary with
veterans like Tony Jefferson. I do think that the Chargers
defense is going to be the unit that carries the
day for them if they're going to make a run
in the postseason. You know, you know, I don't put
too much stock in how close that game was against
the Raiders. For the Texans. Something tells me that they
were probably looking a couple of weeks ahead, and every
every team in the NFL is going to have these
these close games against another NFL team.
Speaker 2: So CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud has looked really good this year in spots, and
I do I see I see a twenty four to
twenty one game, maybe a twenty seventeen game. Watch watch
us get their Saturday, Matt, and it's a it's a
forty two thirty five game. Who knows, but I do
think both of these defenses are going to show up
on Saturday.
Speaker 1: All right, Most important question for you, Chris, how does
the Los Angelino are going to prepare for seven inches
of rain here in California next three days?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm anchoring tonight, And I just I
have a sneaky suspicion some of our sports it's may
get killed if it's four watched twenty five because when
rain hits Los Angeles, people get upset about it and
it gets a lot of coverage. I feel bad for
you that you're here this week and we're getting rain
when we've had beautiful weather the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But that's just the way I guess.
Speaker 1: The way it goes.
Speaker 3: Who knows, though, Matt, you may be back here in
a couple of weeks for a playoff game. We don't
know what's gonna happen over here over the next few
weeks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's true. Just just lead your lead your eleven o'clock
newscast with Rockets beat Lakers or Clippers, I should say,
and I'll feel a lot better I talk it because
I need a victory in the worst way. Chris, thank
you so much for the time. John Ireland, the Lakers
Voice recommended you, and you have not disappointed. Friend. I
really appreciate you coming on my show today with you
here until two o'clock came time Zone where there's party
evacuations throughout most of the area for our tenthement Jerain
coming here to Los Angeles the next few hours. Rossie,
it's time to play. I need ross to give me
a comp oh for me? Oh, I can try, because
I've been thinking about this and I cannot come up
with a comp So I need you to come up
with a comp of the following statement. Okay, okay. So
earlier today in the NFL they announced the Pro Bowl selections.
What yeah, Now, some shows will cus and discuss everything
about the Pro Bowl because man, it's a big deal,
big deal. Brother School, let's go. Okay, I'm not We're
not gonna be that show. We've gone an hour and
twenty four before bringing up once. Mm hmmm. So congratulations
to Texans linebacker Alsi's Aushier, Will Anderson, Nico Collins, and
Derek Singler. They are all all but named the twenty
twenty six Pro Bowl. No Daniel Hunter, No, no Jalen Petrie, Nope, hmmm,
No arianta Urser, Okay, that would make sense. No Kimi Fairbaron,
none of that. Oh come on now, I mean hell,
Kymi fairbarans eighty percent on the Texans offense this year.
Jaar Jordan didn't make it. It he and sneaky he did. Okay,
stop now you're just losing your mind. So here's where
comp comes in. So what happens when you make the
twenty twenty six Pro Bowl? You get to go to
San Francisco the Tuesday before the game. You know they
usually they have it in somewhere else, Orlando or Vega
or something like that, where they're gonna do everything in
San Francisco this year, where the Super Bowl will be well,
you'll be doing radio row wants the Texans make it
this year? Can't wait? I know we're gonna budget that.
But that's a different issue for a different time. Yeah,
we'll figure it out. We'll make some cuts. So okay,
so what do you do as a reward for making
the Pro Bowl? There is no Pro Bowl game, and
there hasn't been for several years because they they judged
it to be embarrassing because nobody competed. When jj wat
is taking seven step drops throwing passes, that means you
should end your game. So they're gonna be playing a
couple of skills competitions and the main focus is playing
a seven on seven flag football game. So I need
a comp from you, Ross feeder Reale. I make the
Pro Bowl, my reward is playing in a seven on
seven flag football game. Okay me the comp Would that
be like a baseball team? Make a playing withketball? Would
that be like NBA basketball and they play three on
three or horse or horse, which they've done, but it
kind of as a side competition. All right, give me
a real life comp real life. I have sold more
radio advertising for I heard a huge and I'm gonna
be rewarded by it. What am I getting in return?
A bottles of liquor.
Speaker 3: Cats.
Speaker 1: My point is this, you're taking guys that have busted
their tails all year long. Yes, to be named a
Pro Bowler, Now it's different than all Pro there's differences,
but it still is a semi exclusive group. To be
named a Pro Bowlers prestigious. To make the Pro Bowl
after five thousand injury dropouts is not correct. So the
reward is we want you to play one more game.
We're not gonna let you. We're not gonna make you
play a real game and put pads on. We're gonna
dumb it down to a flag football game that doesn't
even involve eleven of eleven. It's seven on seven?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 1: There's there cash prize? What's the incentive? I'm sure there is.
I have not done enough research on it, but I'm
going to assume that. I mean, you're getting an all
expense pay trip to say, just go for it. I mean,
the NBA All Star Game is basically the flag football equivalent.
Nobody plays any defense. That's true, That's right. It just
comes across to me is utterly ridiculous. I mean, you
don't want anybody getting injured. It's the most violent of
the major sports. What says can can a hockey expert
explain to me? Like what's the is the is the
Hockey All Star Game intense? And it always feels like
to me the games are super high scoring, Like if
you looked at the NHL All Star Games, aren't they
like eleven to ten? Yeah? I mean I don't know.
I don't have the only peer game that is left question. Yeah, yeah,
the only peer game that's left is the Baseball All
Star Game. Yeah, they still and they don't really try. Yeah.
Baseball is the least physical and they don't. I mean,
the pitchers are trying. I guess the hitters are two,
but they're not like buzzing guys with you off the
plate and stuff like that. No, no, no, they're also
not throwing seven sliders in a row to potentially hurt
their own po you know, and groove and fast go
out there and grooves some fastballs. I just it's just
it's gonna is a gimmicky That's that's the only way
I can describe it. Is gimmicky. Google says the NHL
one is three on three. Now that's gimmicky. Yeah, but
I mean, yeah, it used to be these All Star
Games were showcases for the talent that the league possesses.
Now you don't need to showcase anything. I mean, these
these leagues are all all fine financially. Well, I'll give
you an example. And again I don't want to go
to when I was a kid, card, but when I
was a kid, I used to love watching the Pro
Bowl in Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, which no longer exists,
because I would have just as an example, I could
see Dan Fouts throwing a ball to Steve Largent, you
know what I mean, yea NFC. I could have let
me dain Joe Montana throwing a pass to Drew Pearson,
you know what I mean. I mean, just stuff like
that that was kind of cool and interesting. But for
some reason, and I know the reason, it's because they
want to make sure nobody gets hurt. It just became
an utter joke. And the thing I can't figure out,
Ross is that you those guys back in nineteen eighty four,
eighty five, eighty six could get hurt just as much
as they can in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, when the
game was still being played. Yeah, now you're you're making
more millions and millions of dollars. You want the player
safety is more important, And again, you don't have to
showcase the league. You don't have to, h you don't.
The NFL doesn't mean I mean, they need more eyeballs
and they should keep marketing and all that type of stuff.
But the Pro Bowl isn't a marketing showcase the way
that it was. So for all these years you and
I have been together, I've been saying one key phrase,
say no to the Pro Bowl. And every time I
say it, it doesn't work. The ratings go up, although
the ratings have been horrible since they got to this
kind of format. I think I don't know it just
what because I mean, look, the Texans PR staff sent
on an email and said, hey, congratulations, these dudes that
are going to the Pro BOWM like this is kind
of cool. I mean, get some recognition. And what's your reward?
You go to San Francisco the Tuesday when everybody's off
because that's a Tuesday, normal off day before the Sunday game,
and you play flag football for a couple of hours.
It just seems like a cheap way to reward guys
that bust their tail playing great football when it was
real football when the season's counted. Yea, all, I don't
think going up there and beating your head in full
pads is a reward either.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the NBA. Everybody is trying in
sports to sexy up or maintain some sort of interest
in their All Star games. The NBA is gonna do
another All Star thing that year. It's gonna fail. We
should just get rid of all All Star games. I
guess they have to be somewhat profitable as far as
ratings and sponsorships and stuff like that. Right, that's right,
that's right, all right. I just wanted to bring that
up that I just thought it was weird that all
I mean, does alsis Alshire selling a guy who wants
to not? You know, once I get involved in an
All star flag football, you can't knock somebody down to
ask him. It's a great honor. Has he been Has
he been a Pro bowler before? I don't think he's been.
He's been around, I mean close, he hasn't been finding
four weeks. That's a good sign. Right Yeah. By the way,
really quick, first Pro Bowl. Yeah we're running late for this,
so uh real quick.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler of the Golden State Warriors basically, uh, the
Warriors have been sending out social media posts saying hey,
Warrior fans, vote for Jimmy Butler to go to the
All Star Game Jimmy Butler, and Ig says the following
Sports Harvey, don't vote for me, guys. Instead, somebody create
a GoFundMe to send me to Barbados. Heart heard, Heart,
thanks in advanced Go Warriors and All Caps. That's great.
You don't know you know what I want to do now.
I want to get him to the All Star Games. Yeah,
let's let's vote in Jimmy Butter so he can't go
to Barbadoes. Okay, let's punish him. I'm getting some ideas
for the All Star Game. Will tape, but they'll come
it back in a minute. Eleven thirty two here on
Sports Talk seven eighty. Listen up, so appeal. Listen to Tommy.
Speaker 10: You'll like gott a good deal.
Speaker 1: This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we ask you for the
next half hour to come in with your sports predictions.
It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven to one three two one two five seven e
It's every Tuesday, eleven thirty here on Sports Talk seventy
quick recap of a couple things. When we get to
how we did last week, and I think, Jonathan, you
had to write this down because I just can't handle it.
Our friend Pedro Ross says that he was at the
Molden Mugget last summer and it was twenty eight dollars
for a small bottle of sunscreen. So I believe that
the struggle is real on that bottle of soda was
five bucks. Yeah, but you tip five bucks when you're
buying beers at the table, aren't you. I'd usually do
a dollar beer, maybe two if she's fast, maybe three
if she's looking good. That's fair being. Am I wrong?
I mean, no, you're not wrong. I bet you hear me.
Let me criticizing you, right, Lake, Let me tell you
something Lake Charles seven about three o'clock in the morning.
Like it's all right, eh okay, Cass says, I'm segwaying
you say thank you, You're welcome. Cash says a home
run derby with metal bats. That's actually a pretty good
cop of how you're going from making something awesome to
be utterly ridiculous to capitate one of the children in
the outfield. Don't get the metal bats out there. Jonathan,
here's one for you. How about is a comp a
track team makes their All Star game and then they
have to run a three legged race. That's actually pretty good.
He's speaking to an engineer right now. He can't. Uh oh,
when he's back, let me know, because I want to
get his comp on that. Here we go, Bob says,
make it a seven on sack seven tackle with the
scout teams to the two Super Bowl contenders, guys laying
on the line for a potential job next year. I
totally watch that. That makes a lot of sense. Okay,
Jonathan Backer, No, he's he's there. Still, he's still, he's
They've got a funny line I want to use with that. Okay, well,
you have to keep it in your back pocket. I
will keep it. And he also has the archives from
last week, so I mean, okay, so we're having a
really well on this point. Here, I can bring up
mine from two weeks ago. I think, had you sent
him to us, I think, okay, I don't think I
hadn't do so hot. I had a read Shepherd twenty
plus point game. I think he scored ten CJ strowed
three tds. That didn't happen. M three first team All
pros on Texans defense. How many Pro bowlers do they
have more than that? Okay, so maybe I got a shot?
Can I give you one before we really get going here?
Jonathan's talking to the engineer. Yes, I'm going to will
this one. Rockets beat both the Clippers and Lakers this week. Okay,
it feels good. No events a zoobots tonight, the rocket
certified Rockets killer, rocket killer. I think he was what
eleven to thirteen or something like that from the floor
of the previous time. Yes, something like that. Okay. No
prediction about Saturday's game. I can't Okay, I I it
isn't it better when I don't make a prediction? OKAYU
Cougars beat LSU by at least a touchdown in the
Texas Bowl. Oh okay, you heard me. I ain't scared.
But I think we got forty seven opt outs on
the team. I think the trainers have opt out, opted out, Yes,
id opted out. I'm gonna give you one, and you
should have put in the back of your back pocket.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: James Harden gets traded. Who wants him? He's making a
lot of money. Yeah, how about this one. Can I
let me adjust? Okay, James Harden doesn't get James Harden
does not end the season as a Los Angeles Clipper
because he could be bought out, so that would be
technically the constant things all amended a little bit. Okay,
James Harden does not finish his season as a Clipper.
I have a Los Angeles Clippers, believe it or not,
nugget for you, since you brought him up to reward
an early listener. Oh, I love that he is their
all time leader in triple doubles with eight. You know
he's gonna go down Chris Paul would be number one
in that. But yeah, well Chris is Chris is going
to be on the on the score sheet today, it's
gonna say n W T not with T. Yeah. I
like that designation. The first time I remember that was
with Carlo Anthony. There's been quite a few John Wall
out of n w TS. Uh back on the rockets
to him, all right, I'm back.
Speaker 9: Sorry.
Speaker 1: So so Jonathan, one of the people that wanted the
comp said that you were named an all star on
a track team and then you would then compete in
a three legged race. What that sounds fun. We're looking
for the comparison to them playing flag football, the Pro Bowlers,
the PROBA. Uh like track comparison. Yeah, being an all
star trackian? Is that what you call yourselves? Track and
track man? What is the what is the word tracker?
Speaker 11: I guess you'd just say track stalk. I mean, oh, track, Well,
not everybody's a star Jonathan talk. What I'm saying, uh,
movie the equivalent?
Speaker 1: I guess your track fleet track athlete, track athletes and
as your as your reward, you get to compete in
a three legged race.
Speaker 11: Nah, it's a I know in high school, if you're
like an elite, you're all star around the hit a
certain time threshold.
Speaker 1: You compete with your like you compete in your state.
Speaker 11: So say there's like four dogs out of Texas, they
compete nationwide at one big meet for Texas Louisiana.
Speaker 1: They all compete at one like a sty And see,
that's what we're looking for. We're looking for ridiculous comps
because we're talking about these all Pro Bowlers going to
compete in a flag football game, something they don't normally do.
Speaker 11: I mean, no, you wouldn't do a three leg I
guess you would like.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is going over his head here, Rocks being silly,
being serious and in your case, Jonathan, you don't need
a partner for a three legged race. Seven. I knew
you were going to do that. I knew there was
gonna be a hog nuts reference.
Speaker 12: That's right.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh lord, it's the Tuesday before Christmas.
I mean, nobody listening. I mean, honestly, hey, conversation. I'll
come back to. I'm trying to figure out the camera. Okay,
I got one for you next year. Hondy Marx is
not RB one for the Texans next year. That's good,
can I yeah, I'm not gonna jump aboard that, but
that feels pretty safe. Okay, you want something more? Texans
make the playoffs as a seed higher than seven. Okay,
I think that's good. Okay, all right, I'm gonna give
you the number one seed of the AMC. Okay, I
think Denver holds on. Okay. I haven't looked at everybody's schedule,
but that that seems I'm needy. I haven't reasonable. I
just think even though they've been falling apart a little bit. Now,
let me ask you this. I brought up something and
I were for break, but it's too bad.
Speaker 4: Ross.
Speaker 1: I brought this up you last week, and you thought
I was nuts. I was that, what is it like,
is it okay to lose a game late in the
season to kind of get your focus back on towards
going in So what if that was it? Almost losing
to the Raiders. Well, I in the engineer for the
Broncos broadcast and I are good friends and he also
does my Rockets Nuggets games. I'm in Denver, yes, And
I said, hey, how good is Jacksonville? And he's like,
you know, they that Lawrence had a great game. Blah
blah blah blah blah. And he says, honestly, I'm kind
of glad we lost to get ourselves refocused for the postseason.
I'm like, damn, I knew I wasn't only one was
thinking this. Yeah, that guy was on gummies. OK, that's
also fair too. At Denver. I get it. Maybe the
thin air cloud in his judgment in altitude sickness. You
guys can be on the same page. I mean, just
win your games. Hey, well, look how about a close
loss against the Raiders. Is that enough for a wake
up call? Yeah? I think it is don't you think,
aren't you don't you think that they're bouncing around texting,
go going, oh that was great we beat them. I
don't think they're going to get into the playoffs and
be playing for trying to get to a super Bowl.
Be like our good we won nine in a row.
Yeah that's fair. All right, calls next Emmanuel and Brian
will get to you next eleven forty seven here on
Sports Talk seven ninety all right, if you got any
gout feelings, let's hear from you right now. It's seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven to
one three two one two five seven. Auntie, let's go
to Denver, Colorado, where the Rockets beat the Nuggets on Saturday.
Manuel on seven ninty, Good morning, and Manuel.
Speaker 12: Hey Matt, Yeah, I got my first ever gun feeling.
I said it last week that the Rockets were gonna
beat the uh Nuggets. But actually I lived in California.
Speaker 2: I'm actually like two hours.
Speaker 12: Away from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, East Riverside nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh yeah, I wish I could go see you.
Speaker 12: We met each other once, so we're.
Speaker 1: Going to the mustard and catch up. Uh oh, gets right.
Uh was polite to you tell Ross, How nice I
was to you?
Speaker 2: Oh, you were amazing.
Speaker 12: We had we talked about Ross about the back.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've just up good good. What's what you
got for your gut feelings as well?
Speaker 8: This week I'm calling it.
Speaker 12: You already took a little bit of my thunder, but
I'm gonna call it Houston sweep. I'm saying they're gonna
beat the bug. It's gonna beat the Clippers and the Lakers.
And then as that says, they're gonna smash this hundreds
they I can't stand.
Speaker 2: The tudget in a block of things.
Speaker 1: I understand that.
Speaker 12: Well, me done is the Houston sweets and uh and
I get to take a flause platform electronic one for
my first ever.
Speaker 2: That's building.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 1: We will give you applause, We will give you a claim.
We will give you the honor of being a great
Houston sports talk listener, even though you don't live in Houston.
Speaker 3: Thank you, man.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna die hardst guys like every other go.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Much appreciate it. Holiday same do my friend, Thank you. Manuel.
All Right, So Ross, I'm gonna pold your feet at
the fire because you are a battle at ross Oh,
how is Saturday gonna go between the Texans and Chargers? Hello? Texans?
Was shush? All right? Fine? My gut feeling is that
Texans lose a close one. I will say, Texans, Uh,
you know what, it might not even now that in
moren I think about it, I'm gonna say, like twenty
four twenty four eighteen Chargers. I was stunned Rossy when
I was having a guest on from La earlier today
that the over under ends only thirty one and a half. Yes,
stunningly low for me. Well, how good is that Charger?
Has a Charger defense been really good? Well, it's hard
to get because look, Prescott, all he does is throw it.
By the way, I need Prescott to throw three interceptions
this week. Three Dakota's mhm, Dakota Prescott. Yeah, my my churn.
Member of Thomas Sports Enterprises too. I need to fail
for one week and one week only. They're backup running
back Kamanivin dog got hurt, but Hassan Hasks is not
that bad. And and Amarion Hampton has been coming on
and he's pretty been pretty good. They got i mean
gashed a couple of times by Ashton genty did the
Texans defense. By the way, my guy asked, what's the
deal with that? Wasn't he good this pass years?
Speaker 3: He was?
Speaker 1: You know you always talked about how great of a
talent he was. Yes, I was like, don't underestimate the
power of a brumpt Boise State running back. You know
he's not dead yet for a thousand yards. Yeah, I mean,
you know what, I'll gladly take the ellen it because
I what I did is I just I forgot about
the seventeenth game. You stereotyped stereotype Bois State right back.
You're probably right there too. What I should have said
is twelve hundred and then felt. I mean, he's only
a three point seven yards an attempt. I mean it's
not great. No, But I'll tell you what in all fairness,
because that's what we are, a fair and balance here
on the show. He's a really good receiver out of
the backfield. If they could get anybody to get a
decent quarterback there and a good offensive mine in Las Vegas,
they can use him way more than trying to carry
the ball twenty five times a game. M hm. Let's see,
he needs one hundred and seventy two yards and two
games to get to a thousand. Let's go, it's not
gonna happen. So so you have the Texans losing but
yet getting out of the seventh spot. Okay, I see
how you're going on that. I don't know what I'm doing. Well,
we're used to that, all right, listen to me. Since
we're a holiday week, Ross, I want you to handle
the news at noon in sixty seconds? Can you do
a sixty second news update? What do you mean just only?
We like to extend things, give thoughtful analysis, run through
four or five really quick headlines. I mean, like one minute.
I want to interrupt them. Okay, because we've got Brian
and Robbie and Ray and a real news report. Yeah,
you're got like you're a real scoreboard desk guy. Okay,
you're at the twenty twenty desk.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Sounds you used to have those here? Do we ever
have scoreboard readers here? Best of Believe it or Not?
By the way, because I'm off the last two days
of the I guess I can throw the best of
Believe it or Not is on Monday, the thirty first.
I'm off the thirty and thirty first, But I can
write it before that. It's best believing. I as on
Monday twenty ninth. Okay, we're doing shows thirty and thirty one, right,
I'm just not gonna be here, Yeah, thirty one, I'm
not gonna do it. I think I'm leaving earlier to
go to New York. Oh dang, wow, Wax is gonna
do two hours for me. I'm eleven to one on
thirty first. I know that for sure. Wow, isn't it
nice of him? That is very nice?
Speaker 2: I'm off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine. You know what you deserve the time?
Oh you get the vacation time. You should take this
to a vacation. Oh sir, hashtag no rollover for extra money,
I have toag refresh for twenty six Let me can
I be brutally assid one second we got here, so
I was punched drunk tire because we got We left
Sacramento super late yester the other day. H and we
had to wait for our bags for like an hour
from Lax. Once we got here from Sacramento, I don't
think my head at the pillow till about three forty
Pacific time. Hmmm. So I did nothing productive yesterday. That's
great and I feel like a million bucks. That's good.
You need to really, I've been telling you a real
extra agents. I know, I know, but and I don't
like missing time with you because it's fun when you
and I do the shows. But I needed the West
Coast kicks my ass, and so today I feel five
hundred times better. That's great. Yeah, all right, so very
fast headlines with Ross, Brian, Robbie, Ray Dave. We'll get
to all your gut feelings. We'll continue the gut feeling
movement as The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues here
on Sports Talk seven ninety's The Mac Thomas Show with
Ross four. It is our number three of the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here at Los Angeles, Ross
back in our Houston studios. I forgot to ask before
we get to the news at noon. Did you guys
read Aggie tweets from the police on Monday?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah we did. Yeah, it was a great segment. Jonathan, huh,
don't listen to Ross. Did y'all read Aggie tweets? You're
talking about the police?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I don't believe you the one of you.
Are you gonna call us liars? Right before Christmas. Wow,
that's what you're gonna do. Really, It's disappointing but not surprising. Okay,
both of you shut up for a second. If any
of you listen to the show on Monday when I
was not on, did any did you guys hear the
Aggie police tweets.
Speaker 1: Tell the truth. I'm gonna know what. I'm having bibles
sent to the offices of iHeartRadio twelve thirty three West Loops, South.
Mm hmm. Jonathan, you're gonna put your hand on the
Bible and you're going to say yes. Matt Ross red
Aggie tweets, police tweets. There were allegations that somebody from
Miami put up a barrier at the end zone.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: We can get these gus feelings down. We got like
three people in here. Yeah, no, okay, quick headline check
hit the news at noon. Oh great, all right, Matt.
So well, we have the Rockets in action against the
Clippers tonight as they take on the hated James Harden,
a former legend of the team seven and a half
point favorites in that game. Elsewhere, of course, we have
this weekend coming up, your Houston Texans taking on the
Los Angeles Chargers, a lot of playoff questions hanging in
the balance. No update yet from Damico Ryans yesterday on
the health of either Ariante Urser or Trent Brown, both
tackles did not finish the game on Sunday against the
Los Angeles Excuse me what Los Angeles Raiders Las Vegas
Raiders as we await word on an update from them.
And also, DK Metcalf suspended two games for his incident
with a fan this weekend. He plans to appeal the suspension.
Also sounds like there are rumblings, according to Pro Football Talk,
that the fan could be suing DK Metcalf for assault
and or defamation, as dk Metcalf asserted that there were
some racial slurs hurled his way causing his reaction, and
that's true news a new by the way, Apparently the
fan says he just brought up DK's full name and
he in DKA is not like being called by his
full name. Mm hmm. And there is video and there
is a clause in DK's contract that could cost him
forty plus million dollars because of this, allegedly I read
on the internet. I'm not sure how true this is
that the there was an alternate video from a fan
that was maybe the guy's brother. Okay, Okay, first of all, fans,
shut up, sit down in your seat, cheer and boo,
cheer and boo, and know your role. Secondly, DK Metcalf,
if anybody's giving you any crap, turn around, find one
of the nine million police officers work in these games
and get the guy thrown out or moved. You going
in the stands is just as stupid. Hey, that guy
was hanging over two stupid people doing stupid things. Period. Yeah,
I just don't know what was said, It doesn't even matter.
Stay away from him and fan whatever you were wearing,
you look like complete goof to begin with.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Secondly, you're not a star by going after players. Don't
be stupid. I like him getting punched in the face
for you. If he's gonna be yelling crazy stuff, if
he said something, Depending on what was said, and he
he got up and went to the railing like he
there is the video like he got up and went
to the railing to confront DK. Okay, that guy's got
on IQ of thirty seven. But DK, you were going
to lose on this. You're never gonna win the war
of unless the guy jumped over the railing with a
knife headed for your throat. You're no ware going to
win this stupid stupid on both accounts. Really stupid by
the fan and not very bright by Metcalf, who's going
to be suspended two games. I'm interested to see this
lawsuit play out, because, I mean, after the fan got hit,
if he's gonna like to talk about emotional distress or
like he what's his hands up in celebration like he's happy. No,
he's he's he's a turn. That's ridiculous. All right, let's
go the phones.
Speaker 7: We got hit.
Speaker 1: The gun feeling music? Can we get to get those
gun feelings and a lot of folks that want to
get the gut feeling. It's a it's a jam right
sports Harvey, Yeah it is. It's like a Kendrick Lamar
of a bump music in sports. Ah, well it's not
that good. Brian in Paarland. What's in your gut this week? Brian?
Speaker 10: Thank you for holding Yeah, no worries and t I
was calling to uh to gloat a little bit. I
called in last week and you gave me a little
bit of grief for it, I said, after running through
big red in Lincoln. The a N Women Volleyball would
bring back some hardware to collar station and hang a
banner from the rafters. You said, there's no way they're
making it through Pitt or the fighting missus Gordy's in Kentucky,
and they swept both of them at beat that a
dollar sign, dollars sign, bring her home.
Speaker 9: So my girls.
Speaker 10: They went to They went to Kansas City on a
business trip and took care of business raising that ben
I also did call it, and then beating Miami in
the first round.
Speaker 9: But nobody cares about that because nobody cares school.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right, Brian. You are you
are perfect, because we do want you. When people hit
their gut feelings, you're supposed to call him brag, and
you are bragging beautifully. They went to they went to
Kansas City, played six sets in one all six. Say
it ross Texas. A and M is a volleyball school.
It is good for them. It's a great national championship
A school Texas is a rowing school. A and M
volleyball school. The meaningful sports. Your football is your basketball's
right down there on Colin Boulevard. You're welcome Brian, Thank
you very much, appreciate you. Let's go. Oh do I say,
Cougar's by a touchdown over and over at least a
touchdown over LSU. You did that? All right? Get down there,
all right, let's go. Uh David humble, David's in your
gut this week?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well my gut is you of age thirty and LSU
twenty three?
Speaker 1: Love it perfect?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as far as the Texans goes, guys, I
will just relax there and ROSSI about that score, that's
that's cheesy, but it's okay.
Speaker 1: I love you, Rocky, Okay, thank you. I love you too.
What's cheesy about your pick?
Speaker 2: My score is going to be that. My score is
going to be twenty the Houston twenty four La charges seventeen.
Speaker 1: Right there you go, thank you very much. Well, I
didn't think your score would pick was cheesy, did you.
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to Texas to win. I just
don't know that they're going to. So when I say
it's not the worst in the world to lose in
week seventeen, you're okay with that? I'm not okay. I mean,
what do you mean? Okay? I mean it's not I
guess it's not the worst thing, but it's not. I
don't think they need my gummy popping buddy, and he's okay.
The Broncos lost. We're basically saying that Clinch will playoff Spot,
but the Jaguarations, my engineer is a recreational drug users
that we're saying basically, I mean, they're legal in many states.
I wonder how many people in Denver do use some
sort of gummies are under pot would be twenty percent
be too lower? Just about I don't know. I guess
I can google it. Hmmm. What do you feel that
out on a survey when you're filling out your taxes
some kind of survey A right seeing Finally, that was
that's the that's in the margin of error. I like that.
You know what they call me, mister your accuracy. Let's
go to uh Robbie on seven and Robbie, what's in
your gut?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 9: I was just wondering, Matt, are you h your girls
a big time volleyball player?
Speaker 4: You r?
Speaker 9: I and I found out a bunch of those haggy
girls that won came from Houston. There's a club or
something that your play your girl.
Speaker 1: Play with them she's familiar with some of them, she
played directly against them. But there is a club called
Skyline in Houston that is kind of an indirect pipeline
to Texas A and M because a lot of the
coaches from A and M used to work at Skyline.
So that's it's uh, that team's littered with Houston players.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I was just curious when you came back.
Speaker 1: I thought I forgot all about it. Thanks man, thank you.
We are your volleyball talk leader ross here in the
Houston area. We I mean, it's not even close. Name
the name. The second show in the marketplace it talked
as much volleyball as this one does. M the eighteen Hmmm,
I was gonna go with the what do we call
our morning show now? The Morning Drive just a we
really got we really got original with that. Anyway, he
pulled all the steps. Surprised we didn't go with Zoom
Zoom Zoom in the Morning with the Morning Crew, the
Morning Wake Up, the Morning Zoo, the Morning Zoo with
Dad and Colds going on Guys Dan and Cold in
the Morning, seven ninety.
Speaker 8: Dow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go ahead and record that. I think that
that should be their intro. I would think they would
love that. That's a production value of their show. Are
you kidding me? Entertainment? Let's go Ray in Miami, Ray,
what's in your gut? This week?
Speaker 14: I still have the saying good about night calling Game
one Western Conference Finals and OKC and my second one.
I have a good feeling that Gary from Spring is
not going to show up in the morning at nine
am Central with Cold to have the face off. So
if you're listening, Gary's nine am Central with Cold for
the face off?
Speaker 1: What is is there a beat between Gary? Oh yeah,
big b Yeah, it's knockdown, drag out. This is like
two packin Biggie still going through two shows too in
the morning and our show. This is serious? Sorry I
missed that. Is it tomorrow apparently?
Speaker 3: Or what?
Speaker 1: I don't? I guess it's they're gonna throw down on
Christmas Eve. Wait a minute, you can You cannot have
a verbal debate. It's a time for good tidings and love. Yeah,
it should be for being Crosby and David Bowie to
sing a little dummer boy. Matt, you missed it.
Speaker 11: He said that Dan is gonna let both phones go
up and let Ray and Gary discuss.
Speaker 1: The Emmanuel is gonna have to regulate that because they're
gonna talk over each other a bunch. Oh, you might
have the Lincoln Douglas is bad Boy. You're gonna have
to basically find an understation to listen to it. I
wouldn't listen to that, Matt. What it should be thrilling radio?
Tune in? Is it tomorrow at nine am? I don't know.
I haven't been home in two and a half months,
so I don't know what you're talking about. All right,
I feel like I'm doing a radio show. Going anywhere
but Houston? Is everything?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 1: At the at the house? Yeah, you ready for this? Rossie.
I got a video yesterday of my all of our gifts,
but they were wrapped, uh huh, done by a professional rapper. Okay,
I don't even want to know what we cost. What
it costs to rap gifts? Don't ask. I don't want
to ask, rapper. Yeah, I mean part of the charm
is doing it yourself and and having it look crappy.
I don't know. I think they look immaculum. You're just
gonna rip the presence to shreds anyways, all right, Well,
I'm not gonna getting my presence to the twenty six
so you know, yeah, you're still gonna rip them to shreds?
Are you gonna unfolded? And all right, I'm gonna stay
out of this. I guess you probably should. So I'm
gonna get in more trouble with your wife than I
already in normal. Yeah, she hates you. Really, that's fine.
I get it. That's that's and I get it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: Back, we we got more people calling gut my gut feelings.
You know what it is, Rossie. It's a gut feeling marathon.
Seven seven one three two one two. We're gonna keep
gut feeling until there ain't no more gut feelings anymore? Fair,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five The Longest
Gut Feelings in the History of the Matt Thomas Shoel
ross continues here on seven ninety twelve, twenty five on
the longest edition of the Gut Feelings in the history
of the show. By the way, I have done some research,
have called in some sources. You did not read Aggie
police tweets on Monday, so oh we absolutely did. Yeah,
thank you. Gordy, thank you. That's three three votes. I
don't believe either one of any of you. You know what, Jonathan,
get some audio from Monday show backing me up on this.
There was some corrupted files I heard. Yeah, we'll see
what we can do, though, we'll figure it out, all right.
So you three are liars, and that's fine. We're gonna
read them coming up because one time is really funny.
Did you you guys didn't read That's what I'm saying.
I put in the show notes. Hey do AGGI tweet? Yeah,
that's right. Here's here's the audio right here. T Amu police, Gordy,
I know m I pte neat seven fireball shooters in
pockets citation issued ejected.
Speaker 15: That is classic. I'm so glad Matt told us to
do this segment the best. Okay, I'm doing doing talented
and handsome. You know, one could argue the the play
on the field was the real joke.
Speaker 1: Oh locked on, Hayden, Aggies, that's it. Did you buy
the way you do a podcast? At A and M's
Volleyball Championship, By the way, you didn't do it, did you?
Speaker 7: Uh No?
Speaker 15: We talked about their debacle where they could not score
a touchdown at home in a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Marcel Reid did suck, didn't me. That's a shame. And
by the way, we can say it suck because they're
being compensated. So sorry, that is what it is. Billy
Luci blamed the wind. By the way, I went to
TexAgs dot com. All nineteen of their reporters had the
acut one of that game. Ironically, it's like having Gordion
unlocked an L s U. I like L s U
against everybody. No, he's picking age all week. He's picking
the kugs. Yeah, why are you in? Are you promoting
the ball? Is that what you're in for? Say hello,
I had a couple of gut feelings. I was gonna
squeeze him, knock him out. He were doing the longest
gut feeling in the history of the gut feelings. So
we're going from the record.
Speaker 15: I was gonna go with, uh, the Texas Longhorns Ross,
Oh gosh, I think they're going to land the third
leading rusher in the SEC this year.
Speaker 1: Jaden Ball will transfer from Florida to Austin. I like
that need a running back. He's reporting something he might
have some he might have the inside.
Speaker 15: Jabbar Ja Luke, the running back coach, came over from Florida.
I think he will the inside.
Speaker 1: You know what that that's that's fun verden Quist or
whatever that that dork you have on is that gave
you the information on that? No, I'm just it's because
he's got a dorky name. We hold on. You're the
biggest dork in front of a microphone around here right now,
abody it's me if I'm the dark king dork, I
can I know who my princes are? I need that
clips for sure? You are king Dork. You know your princess.
That's pretty funny. Better lines of this year, Thank you
very much. You got Gordy the other one. I think
the Houston Cougars beat l s U by ten. Hey
is Frank Wilson gonna have an all Miss cap on
while he's coaching l s U on Saturday? What's going
on with that?
Speaker 15: What's very awkward is the whole half, the whole offensive
staff one at at Ole Miss on Saturday night. Sunday morning,
they were all back in the LSU facility.
Speaker 1: That is so weird, so bizarre. All right, Texans Chargers,
what do you got Gordion and your gut feelings.
Speaker 15: Oh Chargers by seven. M okay, that will be an
NFL Network game. By the way, have you guys mentioned that?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and that means turning the sound down. It's Richien.
Dan Matthews cannot stand Richison. What Richison said last week
about what we as Americans Gordion are gonna miss the
Chiefs and the playoffs. Oh yeah, that's that's loser eight.
Speaker 15: By the way, which show washed up nineties sitcom star
Will rich Ies and have on today? Uncle Jesse from
Full House. He's a regular Dave Coolier, although you think
he's six.
Speaker 1: Who is that show for?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Is that just for him to rub elbows with l
A elite? It's hey, I'm gonna have on every NFL
executives like kiss their ass. I can keep my job.
At least cow Hurd has hot takes every day. He
doesn't believe him, but he at least he think. No,
he did, Colin doesn't believes terrible.
Speaker 15: Welcome our buddy Stu Gotts. By the way, he joins
the Fox Sports radio crew. Oh he does what show
is he doing? He's doing a solo show.
Speaker 1: Oh really, that should be good took over for gottlie
because he's giving up the college, he's giving up the
radio show to keep his focus coaching. Huge, huge upgrade
over Doug Gottlieb. I'm sorry, I'm looking at Colleen Wolf's Instagram.
You guys are talking about NFL network. Do you have
a gut feeling about Colleen Wolf? Some kind of feeling?
Can you take a picture with her? But she's gonna
do a great job beforety I interviewed her. I know
I gave you that. Yeah, I think we were. I
think we're vibing. You had meat sweats?
Speaker 7: Did you not?
Speaker 1: It was some kind of sweats. Okay, we picked the
time Matt was not available exactly.
Speaker 9: This on you.
Speaker 1: So, Gordy, if we go to how how are you
gonna get radio row credentials and on that of you
if you're not, we're not doing any of that. We're
focused on Astro spring training right now. I got fan
Fast coming up January twenty fourth.
Speaker 15: I've had several friends tell me that they applied four
credentials and they started to look at the prices and went,
we're not going it's absolutely atrocious the prices of what
they're charging for stuff in Santa Clara, California for the
super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Plus again, it doesn't help that your two hours
ear like like this show today starts at eight. I mean,
if there's any show that should go, it should be
this one. But I'll be busy with rockets. But it's
like morning drive shows. Are you kidding? Oh, we're gonna
have Emma Smith join us at four forty five Pacific time,
come on and joint you imagine Cole Thompson. You want
to talk to Cole Thompson at Hawaiian short for sure
at four am? God oh with his horrific takes and
Dann Matthew's going, hey, buddy, want to come on the
show at five twelve a am Eastern Pacific time. I
think they do well. I was shot going radio or
last year in New Orleans.
Speaker 15: How many it's like it's like almost forty percent podcast
and like Nash Front Office Sports as a whole setup,
Cam Newton and his podcast.
Speaker 1: And just like it's not even radio stations anymore. Well
it's not. So you're saying that we will not have
walla wall covered to the Texans going to the super Bowl.
Wexled Maan lose his mind? Can he fit the bill
our own Aaron Wilson will represent there we go. Okay,
you better tell WEX ahead of time, because he's not
gonna like that. I mean to pay his own way.
Speaker 7: He can go.
Speaker 1: There was there is no pay his zone with two
Will Ferrell here you can pay.
Speaker 15: I checked the kitty. There's nothing in the kitty for
Texans super Bowl this year.
Speaker 1: But so the budget rolls over. It'll be in in
January February. Have we had that in the budget since
twenty eleven to their first playoff appearance. It's been a while,
but plenty of Astro's World Series budgets. Yeah, all right, Okay,
So Gordy's voice is on here for not a particularly
to entertain the show. He's here for some of the reason.
What is it, Gordy tell the audience, Well, I.
Speaker 15: Didn't plan on it, but I'll promote the kindnut we're
not giving him.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 15: I just got my tickets. I'm excited Kenders Texas bull
dot Com for your tickets. Group opportunities, uh Greig concerts
leading up to the event, plenty of family fund We're
gonna have h They're gonna have the Big Country concert
on Friday, night the Magnolia Brothers Band downtown Avenita, Houston.
I even saw the Koogs are gonna have a pregame
at Tom's watch Bar, I think at five on Friday.
Then you can walk from Tom's Watch Bar over to
Avenida downtown Houston and see the concert. And then on
Saturday another pregame concert outside Energy Kinders Texas bull dot
com for tickets.
Speaker 1: That's a Gordy drop buy thank you all right. The feelings, yeah,
there was some gut feelings in there.
Speaker 7: So we have that.
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna read Aggie tweets because you losers
didn't do it on money.
Speaker 7: We did.
Speaker 1: We played you the audio. Well, no, what are you
talking about? Ross? I don't know. It's crazy, that's crazy,
Ryan and Caso Hank Tights. It's twelve thirty three on
Sports Talk seven ninety The longest cut feeling and gut
feeling history is going on today here in December, the
twenty third Matt here in Los Angeles. Ross back in
our Houston studios, back on the phone.
Speaker 3: So we go.
Speaker 1: If you got any gut feelings, let's go seven one
three two one two five seven NINTI seven one three
two one two five Sevenatti, KESO, what is in your
gut besides cheese here on seven ninety lots of cheese.
Speaker 9: But first of all, before I get to my gut feelings, Matt,
As we know you are mister Texas or Governor Thomas.
Speaker 1: Correct? Correct?
Speaker 9: I think I have a new name for your esteemed
colleague that sits next to you, Ross, A new nickname,
if you don't mind me airing.
Speaker 1: It on the radio. Here Ross.
Speaker 9: Okay, since you travel so much, especially outside of the
state of Texas, we should just call you mister America.
Speaker 1: How does that? How does that sound for Matt? No,
for you me, Matt travels more than I do, well,
I mean for work, but when you do, you get
to do it for fun.
Speaker 9: So I think, mister America.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that makes a lot of sense.
Matt is still not mister Texas because he for a
number of reasons we get through. But you know what,
You're right, I'm mister America. Okay. I just wanted to
make sure that was cool with you.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now to my gut.
Speaker 9: Feeling, I think either before or on the all Star break,
we will see want to read Shepherd as our starting
point guard is to the team is too good whenever
he's on the court compared to starting Josh Kogi and.
Speaker 1: The two guard role.
Speaker 9: I think we will see mister Shepherd inserted in that
lineup and we will see the Rockets fully contend with
the healthy roster. I just want to see what all
his thoughts were on that.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Thanks, okay, so for that. What do you think,
mister America. I think it will be matchup dependent. We
could we I mean reed, Sheppard did start a few games,
I think is what it started for a handful of games,
four or whatever. It is not during the regular season,
I don't think just during the preseason. I thought I
could be wrong. Check read didn't he start? I thought
he started like three or four games at one point. Well,
I've you know, I've only done every one of them.
I don't know why I wouldn't know this. Yeah, I'm
pulling it up. Four starts. Wow, was I there for
those four? I guess I was.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think you had an head injury at that time. Yeah,
probably I was concussed. Well, it was when there were
a couple of injuries. But then I think one of
the games people came back. But well, and and uh coaching.
Oka has talked about this on this show. It's a
lot of matchup. They like Josha Kogi's defense better, that's
the bottom line. And they like Reed Shepherd coming off
as a as a bench score. I mean, normally he
plays more minutes than Josha Kogi who starts, So it's
not necessarily about who starts and who comes in, when
it's about who finishes as well. Read Shepherd is on
a lot of the finishing lineups, especially when they're playing
offense for defense, laid in close games and stuff like that.
They like him scoring, and they like okoge better defensively,
So generally to set the defensive tone and to let
Red Shepherd be kind of the second the number one
score of the second unit or one of the number
one scores of the second unit, they like him coming
off the bench. You know, I don't even really know
how to answer that. I don't know you make starting
lineup changes because all of a sudden you think it's
going to change the tenor of the team. Ross the
ten of the team, they're still top three in scoring.
They're shooting in an incredible amount. Their clutch play has
been below average and poor frankly, that nothing to do
with who starts on it. I mean that's how I
see from the overly simplistic people. Yeah, I think they
like read like for example, I just pulled up the
Nuggets game. Rechepard played thirty minutes, o Kobe played twenty nine.
Then the last game against the Kings, they both played
thirty four minutes. Like they're getting around the same amount
of minutes on the floor. It's the clutch performance is
It's what it's killed this team so far this year. Yeah,
that'll be fine. They'll be fine to be out in
the second round or third round. Sorry, okay, it's great
Western Conference Finals at minimum, let's go. I okay, I'm
sticking with you know what, I'll write this down again.
I hit a gut feeling a couple of weeks ago,
and I'll stick with it. Rockets will finish top three. Okay,
I accept that. Right now they're sixth, but as we
saw last year, things can change literally game by game. Yeah,
they saw the second best point differential in basketball game
and a half from being the four seed. I mean,
the Spurs are good, the Nuggets, Lakers, it's gonna be tough.
Version was way better than I thought they would be.
They're actually way better than they should be at this point.
But the King star Man, they're looking legit, it's not good. Okay,
stop not Westbury's delaryus. I'm sad. I think I feel's
still coming off the bench. I've called two losses of
Sacramento in the and the Pelicans in the same week.
That's fine. When beat the Clips tonight, let's go, Ryan,
what's in your gut? At twelve forty five.
Speaker 10: So I'm here, I'm thinking Timy fair Baron is going
to do his job.
Speaker 3: Texans are gonna win twenty four twenty one. That's that.
I think the Rockets are gonna win one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 1: To ninety eight oh seventeen point when I'll accept that,
and uh, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna go on the over eighteen beers strength between Christmas
Eve and I go back to work on Monday.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, knowing you, that's gonna be there. You'll plably
like that out by about eleven o'clock tonight. Thank you
Ryan for the phone call. Yeah, Ross, I've called three
I've called three overtime games in the last seven days. Yeah,
you can't you get extra that? Yeah? Come on you
need to potential them except losses and Dennis Shrewder three pointers,
a lot overtime basketball, a lot of overtime basketball. Rockets
win in regulation and cover the seven and a half tonight.
What's up? Oh bless you Sports Harvey. All right, when
this program returns, you were supposed to hear it on Monday.
The frauds didn't do their job. A and M tweets
during the Saturday setback ten to Did people at least
call about the game on Monday? Rossie? Did they even know?
It's funny? We get took all these Aggie football calls
all year long, and you know, the last several weeks
this hadn't been much. No, all right, we salute you
Aggie fan. Next here at twelve forty seven on Sports
Talk seven ninety, we can congratulate A and M volleyball
for being the national champion. They went to Kansas City,
played six sets, one of all of them. Congratulates to
the Aggies volleyball school extraordinary. My son, Rossi, my Peyton
was at the airport or at A and M when
they arrived back in from Kansas City. Went to A
and m's campus. About twelve forty five in the morning.
Welcome to the girls back home. Isn't that nice? I
did get some numbers through and through mister twenty four
to seven Aggs and get some IG's. You can talk
to him about that directly. That's fine, Okay, I don't
want talk about I want to talk about my son's
personal life on the major market radio show. Okay, here
we go. You told us where he was going and
where he's doing, But I didn't bring up by gs.
You did that, all right. A and M police three
days ago at TMA t am U Police MIP coarse
light in back pocket citation issued ejected hashtag bt h
O Miami. Well that we won't be mentioning that tagas
it didn't happen. Oh, they don't bet thho. A lot
of the people they say they're gonna be thho coarse
light really hold up? What's wrong? Cours a lot light?
It's fine. I guess John doesn't think it's them cold
blue mountains. What are you talking about? It's not over
a class. I don't want to hear from I don't
want to hear from you. Cranberry Vodka guy, Hey, I
have blue moons in Sacktown. A couple of days ago,
delicious exactly how many oranges? What was the orange to
blue moon ratio? There were four? I asked for four wedges.
Whole ass orange. You trying to fight off scurvy and
you have a beer. Next m I p saw officer
and tried to hide a mango white claw. Citation issued,
holiday you. I have never had a white claw before.
Delicious Ross white calls are fine, yeah, they I mean
it's it's the new version of Mike's Hard Lemonade, which
was the new version of Zima or barrels and James
Wine crulers. It's what you drink when you don't want
to taste alcohol. It's fine. Hashtag beat I've been calling
up in my day, all right. Hashtag btho Miami. All right.
Next mip saw officer and put down strawberry rita. Citation issued.
Hashtag btho Miami. What was that a bud light strawberrita?
I don't know what that is. Those are danger in
our beverages here. Those bad boys are like eight percent
or ten eight to ten percent ABV I think. Next
red bull and twisted tea in pockets ejected. Hashtag btho Miami.
Next saw officer and dropped bush Light beer. Citation issued
hashtag BTHO Miami. Bush Latte is a nice combination of
cheap and not that bad if it's cold. Next two
corse light beers in front of overall. The only in
college station seriously in front of overalls. Ejected hashtag bt
Maybe it was that kid on the on the Game
Day show was trying to kick the field goal for
a million and a half dollars? Why did he hide
him in his patoon? Next two minor lights in pockets
citation issued, ejected hashtag bt ho Miami. Uh, keep a
tote board of which which brand of beer is getting
drank the most? I think bush Light is the favorite.
Next saw officer is m I P Saw officer and
dropped beer, then started drinking water. Citation issued hashtag bgh
o Miami. Oh the offers like, oh you're you're hydrating.
I won't give you a ticket, sorry. Next m I P.
Seven fireball shooters in pockets citation issued, ejected hashtag bt
h O Miami. H could you live through seven fire
ball shooters? Rossy. I think that means they had like
the little little shooter bottles in their pockets. I got you. Next,
MIP alcohol m IB, MIP tobacco, two Saint Arnold's lawnmowers, okay,
one michela ultra nicotine vape and a pack of Marlborough
one hundreds in pockets. Citation issued ejected hashtag btho Miami.
All right, get rid of the vacant vape and the
and the cigarettes. Come on, kids, But I do have
to tip the cap to some Saint Arnold's. Next section
three thirty four, subject throwing eggs ejected hashtag btho Miami. Okay,
here's the rule. If you're in section three thirty four,
Kyle Field, you're going to throw eggs, You're going to
hit either a fan Miami fan, a band, or one
of your own fellow lackeys. There's no positive benefit of
throwing eggs in section three. Yeah, you got a cannon
out there. Next Public intoxication. Section three point thirty one
responded to a subject who was sick, determined to be
intoxicated and arrested. Hashtag btho Miami. So he got arrested
and was sick. That can't be fun being in the
county jail with being sick. Next North level two concourse
minor attempted to buy two Cores lights using a fake
Georgia driver's lights. Ejected hashtag btho Miami. Oh Man in
our last one the old standby ROSSI public intoxication section
one twenty two two intoxicated subjects released to sober friend
ejected hashtag btho Miami. The subject throwing eggs Stwheet got
one more point two million impressions.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: The next highest on the list, uh the two Cores
light beers in front of overalls three hundred and fifty
three thousand views on that one overalls overalls. In an
aggy game, you see the kid trying to field goal.
I felt terrible for me. No, I didn't see it
at all. I want to give most of it to charity.
I want to give some of it to my buddies.
And freaking Pat mcwe's like, I'll give him, I'll give
you a million. Then he gives him a million and
a half and he misses both field goals. Yeah, I didn't.
I gotta be honest. I know people were saying Longhorn
fans or hate watching. I just wasn't watching. I'm tuned out.
I'll just check I was checking scores every now and then,
but I got you all right. Uh in twenty minutes, Ross,
we've nfl rewined from the weekend. Okay, that sounds good.
We have Willie Fritz in one half hour and we
love later. We have Believe or not? What's that one
fifty today? Believe it not? What's category? It'd be Clippers.
Remember I gave away a free question. Ooh do you
think people heard it? Many say it again? Nope, it
was pre noon. We got to take care of our
ten o'clockers and eleven o'clockers. We just do Okay. It
is twelve fifty nine, Final hour Matt Thomas Show at Ross.
I'm in Los Angeles, Ross back in Houston. We thank
you for listening to Sports Talk seven ninety is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It is one of three
Sports Talk seven ninety. Matt here with you from Los
Angeles for the start of Houston v LA this week
Rockets against the Clippers. Tonight. We'll have it for you
beginning with the launch pad at eight thirty, Network pregame
at nine, and the tip time will be at this
past nine point thirty. Then the Rockets will take on
the Lakers on Christmas Night, and then the Texans will
play the Chargers on Saturday three thirty start time in Houston.
Uh So, if you want to get in any of
those things, you want to whether it be the Clippers
Rockets tonight. You know that I was doing some research,
not research, but looking at my numbers here. James harn
has played all the games for the Clippers. Actually they've played.
They's played twenty eight games. He's played twenty six of them.
He's been the free throw line two hundred and fourteen times.
It seems kind of low. Well, what is what is
two fourteen into twenty six? It's about what eight a game?
Eight and a half somewhere in that range. And when
you get into like it feels like he was getting
ten plus a game for a while there, back in
the day, back in the day. By the way, a
quick note Jonathan Allen, I don't think I wrote down
a gut feeling for Jonathan. Did you did he say
something that I missed it? Or you didn't give anything.
I don't think i'd give anything. Okay, good, I think
we had all that marathon. I was letting they have
to shine. No, you know, you need your shine too.
How's how's Houston gonna do versus LA this week? M
feeling like one and two?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 11: Shush, hmmm, you know what, hush, I you know what,
Just to take my bias away, I believe Houston's gonna
win by one touch, like one possession.
Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot. He's we got Chargers fan here, Matt. Oh,
that's right, Jonathan. I know two Charger fans in Houston, Texas,
my buddy Ed and Jonathan.
Speaker 11: They already clinched, so I mean, and I'm only too
mad they lose. But I do think Houston right now
is the better team. Okay, but it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Close, and Justin Herbert's gonna have to have nightmares of
all the interceptioncy through last year in the plout when
the wild card game, right, Yeah, he's looking for redemption
against a rocket home crowd. Or you are looking you
are looking better, by the way, for your three thirty
Saturday wild Card start Ross, Yes, Sam, Jaguars Texans, come
on down, Texans Jaguars three. I believe it's going to
be on streaming only on the h What's what's a
randow streaming app to be? Yeah? Yikes? By the way,
did you see the Jack Jackson will beat the crap
out of Denver in Denver Ross? Are we a little
are we stop selling them a little bit?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I think they're really good. Okay, I'm scared. I'm more
scared than I ever have been of the Jaguars NFL.
Rewinding fourteen minutes, we'll get a couple of things in Also,
real quick, did you are you gonna bring up what's
going on in Kansas City where the chiefs at all
during your rewind? I don't want to stay with the
uh oh, the team moving I didn't plan on I
was gonna do on the field stuff. But you can,
I know you love those types of stories. Well, I'm
just gonna say they're moving to Kansas. Yeah, Kansas City
makes sense, Kansas. They've been in Missouri since day one. Yes,
they're going across the border, Kansas City, Kansas. I think
I believe it's significantly more sketch than in Kansas City, Missouri.
Is Oh? Is that true? I don't know. I'm just
telling you that what people have told me from there. Okay,
that's what the that's what the word is. The warn't
in the streets is okay, And we and we are
seeing a trend just just just a localize and as
we do what we like the local lives, we are
seeing teams getting out of downtown's hmmm. So I thought
they passed. I thought they the first resolution didn't pass
and then the second one did or something like that.
I don't think there ever was a second one.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: The people in Missouri think they've still got a chance.
So even though people in Kansas are celebrating, it sounds
like the governor of Missouri is like, we are not done.
This will be a governor of Missouri that will have
seen two teams. I think under his well, he's been
in charge of the state. Two teams leaving the state
of Missouri. Because remember the Rams left for Los Angeles. Ho,
it's been about ten years, right, you were take m
it feels like it feels like ten years. But when
I say ten years these days, it's probably been like fifteen.
I know, I know. Does that make you older? Young? Hush,
that's continue question. Yeah, did you celebrate your birthday? By
the way, on Friday, I contendue Happy Birthday tweet me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that was like a bit on the show.
I was like, why am I getting a text from Matt.
You must be talked about this on air. Well, we
were talking about you specifically. We're talking about that we're
gonna get you were going to get and I'm going
to get a bunch of Merry Christmas text coming up
in two days, okay, and that if you really really
weren't really wanted to wish me a merry Christmas, you
send me a card? Why, because it means you're actually
you actually thought of me. How many cards do you
send out? Zero? But I don't hold on, No, you're
a Christmas text? Why can't I say, Oh, you know what,
I'm busy, I'm a family, I'm opening presents, drinking egg nog,
and you know what, Oh you know what I thought
of man Thomas for a second.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 1: Happy Merry Christmas, Matt. I hope you're a good one.
So know this because you were you were gone on Friday. Okay.
What I'm going to do is I've got a long,
long text locked and loaded for anybody that text me
happy for Merry Christmas. What are you gonna say you
got it in your notes app?
Speaker 7: Or what?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so long, it's gonna be my notes app?
What does it say. It's just gonna recap my entire year. Okay,
I'm just telling you. It's gonna be the gift that
if you took the time to text me Merry Christmas,
I'm not gonna say thank you back at you or
give you an exclamation point or a heart. Okay, you're
gonna get a full text. It's gonna be probably in
the vicinity of five hundred words. That's very weird. Yes,
that's my point. What's the point it's coming. I don't
get it. What's the point. The point is you took
one second to send me Merry Christmas. I'm gonna give
you the text of a lifetime to let you know
that I thought about you. No, but you didn't. You're
just copying and pasting. They don't know that.
Speaker 11: Said something a couple of weeks ago. You said it
was Matt Thomas brains. That what you had said, Matt
Thomas Brain, we are donating its a science. This makes
no sense on any level. I don't care at all.
In the bag, I'm like, I'm really trying to understanding lot. Okay,
sometimes this point, but I'm just.
Speaker 1: I don't see the point at all. I don't know
I upset the point I upsets you that people want
to they're thinking of you on Christmas, I mean holiday,
the biggest holiday in the country. Yes, and they're taking
time out of their day to say Mary Christmas, taking
time of day. They're taking five seconds of their day
worth five seconds to me to text somebody, to text
a person that I know, because you know, I'm a
bad Texter Matt. To me, that's taking time out of
the day. Yeah, but you know I'm gonna I'm going
to send you on early. So why don't you. You
should be happy anybody think of you. Not you mad,
but you know, people in general, anyone I know. Okay,
I'm gonna do this right now. I want to wish
all of you a merry Christmas. And I mean that's
sincerely because if not for you, we don't operate as
a radio show or a station. That's correct. So whether
you celebrate Christmas or not, happy holidays from all of us.
It means a lot to us that you are a
part of this show, that you listen and contribute and
argue with us, sometimes make fun of us. Sometimes we
can take it. We're all big boys, we're growing ups.
We love each other and we thank you so much.
That's what I want to wish all of you personally
very merry Christmas. That reminds me. I got to respond
all these people on Facebook who sent me happy birthday
wishes again. Here's you want to use, Matt Thomas brain. No,
take your birthday. Take your birthday. After Facebook, so many
people wish you a happy birthday. Nobody I've done that before.
I see that point though, I see, okay, thank you.
Why is everybody supposed to remember your birthday? It's not no,
it's not about that. It's more about like, who really guilty?
You are guilty. Nobody says I've done that, and nobody
says happy birthday. And you know what You're like, man,
nobody cares about me. So I put it back on.
I put you. You know, I put your birthday in
my daytimer, so I know you did do it. Thank
you absolutely, and thank you for taking your time out
of your day to text me.
Speaker 2: Matt.
Speaker 1: It took me three seconds. It wasn't that much. You
still got to do it. Paul on seven Unty, Paul,
what's in your gut? Man?
Speaker 4: I got to get through the next time I heard
that guy say, put your mother love and ears on
and disgrace the memory of Christina mcviee for singing that
song like that. I'm gonna pull it thirty to fifty
seven out and go.
Speaker 8: Full eld on sports talk radio devices sitting over here
and listening to y'all on. But other than that, I'd
like to wish you all a happy New Year and
many Christmas. I'll thank you Paul over the holiday. And
it's been a pleasure listening to you for the last
what a seventeen years?
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're starting see year seventeen in January. Thank
you very much for up. No, you're not, Are you
kidding me? We should be proud of our accomplishment. We
ain't changing either. I really thought I was going to
go somewhere in my life. Well, I try to help
you for a few years and then just give up.
Thank you, Matt. I would tell them, hey, Ross, there's
a job in Jack's, Mississippi should try for And they
didn't email me back. Hey Ross, I hear to loose
a really big thriving sports market. They didn't call me
back either. All right, NFL, rewind is coming home. Yeah
it could be brief. Look, give us a Philly Rivers
report from last night. How about you can do that
at least of course right one fourteen on Sports Talk
seven ninety on twenty one Sports Talk saidati Willie Fritz
joining US suit ten minutes right now, an express edition
of how did Philip Rivers do? It's all part of
the Rosses NFL Rewind. Yes, Matthew, thank you, Proud to
be here on another rousing edition of the NFL Rewind.
And you know what, let's go start off with you boy,
Philly Rivers. It's my computer working. Should have tested this.
How's everything going with you?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Everything left free receivers going to the right side.
Speaker 15: Rivers has a free shot, throws into the zie touchdown
in the back of the zone.
Speaker 16: That's all Pierce and the play covers.
Speaker 1: Twenty yards to the house touchdown. Find why? And the
pubscard touchdown on the opening drive of the game. That
was when it felt good and you're like, Philip Rivers,
is he gonna get this done?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: He was it.
Speaker 1: Brock Perdy had five touchdowns, but Philly Rivers two hundred
and seventy seven yards a couple of touchdowns, did have
the pick six, But I mean this is one of
the all time, all time NFL crazy stories. Correct, the
guy was a Hall of Fame finalist. Yes, and he's
performing fairly well.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: Did the NFL determine whether this is going to delay
his process now because of this?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As soon as he signed to the active roster, I
think practice squad he was okay. But I think the
second he signed to the active roster, the clock resets.
I don't know if he's gonna get some kind of
special exception. I don't know that he should, but the
clock is supposed to reset. You know what he also got?
Did you see this? He gets five years of more
medical coverage in the NFL because of this. Yes, that's
People are saying that he did that on purpose, but
I saw that. But doesn't he should have full pension, right,
he played for almost fifteen years. I know in baseball
you get full pension and then you get health care
for life. I don't know about football, but he's got
enough children to bear an NBA squad, so he's got
a lot of issues when it comes to medical care.
So this is going to help out well. As long
as a couple of them are financially successful, he'll be
taken care of he's a grandfather. Yes, you think you
think Tom Bradys getting Littlejosh? No, give me really fast,
give me the next I should say this. Can you
who would be a guy that has been retired for
a while that you think would step on the field
and play. Yeah, it's got to be a quarterback, because
I mean, look, there's the reason why forty five year
olds only the oldest players ever in the NFL are
all kickers or quarterbacks, right, So I guess non kicking
guys in particular, we can't even use those guys. Would
Brady be the chalk on that? I think so? Yeahate Manning, No,
I mean his he could hardly throw at the end
of his career. His neck wasn't where he would be interesting.
I guess I was. Roethlisberger retired somewhat early relative to
the other guys. He's doing a podcast now he's forty three.
I'll go wrong with that podcast. Run. I don't know
it's still going. Everybody and their mother are doing podcast.
Just get out the way, do your little podcast for
two months until you get bored, and let the rope
radio professionals do it. We they tended to let's see
football in with with He's got one hundred and fourteen episodes.
He started in Oh, he's been doing this for a year.
Play he's been doing this? What he's been this since
twenty twenty two? Well, like like Fred van Vliet's podcasting,
I mean it is is he taking? Is he trying
to take our job? What's it called ACL rehab with
Fred van Vliet? You know what it is. It's ninety
swear words. I mean, we can't. We couldn't do it.
Speaker 7: I know I do.
Speaker 1: I would like to swear especially you. Thank you appreciate that.
What else you got elsewhere in the NFL, Matt, did
you see the wild ending of the Steelers Lions game.
I'm just trying to.
Speaker 16: Read this passing what he was saying, and I saw
him mouth O PI end of the game. So I
felt pretty confident that was what's gonna happen, But you
never know.
Speaker 1: It's more time.
Speaker 16: And like I said, I was there for the fail
Marry game. I was standing from me to U from
the replacement refs as they cave to the pressure of
uh an angry Seattle Field when that was obviously uh
not simultaneous possession. So I was glad that they ended
up like that wild game.
Speaker 1: Glad we're on top. It was clearly a pass interference though,
yeah it was a past this. I'm on Ross Saint Brown.
Then he lateraled the Jared Goff The referee says the
touchdown is good, but then it's nullified by the penalty,
and then that was the end of the game. We
had some weird things happened. How about that two point conversion?
What was it on Thursday night? And I thought was
weird with the backwards pass? It was it was deflected
and then fumbled. Crazy stuff going on in the NFL, Matthew,
So many did nuances, that's for sure. Yes, let's see.
Let's go to our whole friends to the north, the
Dallas Cowboys eliminated from a playoff contention as they lose
to the Chargers thirty four to seventeen. Jerry Jones not happy.
Speaker 13: Yes, from what we expected, what we thought. Absolutely we did.
We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in
the playoffs says that for you. But I thought we've
done some things out there that frankly, we can carry
forward to us with us.
Speaker 1: Let's always the case there you go, it's some positive
things they can carry with them man. Yeah, another non
playoff appearance, and that, my friends, is the NFL one. Ross,
thank you very much for that. You're welcome. All right, Well,
the FS next one twenty seven here on Sports Talk
seven eighty two. All that time we show with Ross.
It's our final of the season here with the man
joining us is going to help our cougars. Hope they
knock off the LSU Tigers this Saturday at the Texas Bowl.
Willie Fritz with US coach. Long time, no talk. Happy
holidays to you and the family. What a great season
it has been overall, wrapping things up with a bit
win in Baylor. Take us through what you've been doing
besides signing some great kids in the recruiting world. How
has it been in the time between the BAYTL game
and what you got coming up this Saturday?
Speaker 7: Really good? Yeah, you're right, it seems like rah have
been taught for quite some time. But it's you know,
it's been awesome. We signed a I think a great
high school class. Sign a number one player in the
nation at all positions. Keishawn Anderson from up the Road
and Legacy Sports Academy High School in Spring, Texas and
signs behind five other kids, six other kids from you know,
greater Houston area, and a couple of kids just outside
the metro and a few kids from state of Louisiana.
But you know, buying large. Everybody's you know, within driving distance,
which is our goal when we go out and recruit.
We're very fortunate that we don't have to get on
a plane. First time I get on a plane to
recruit will be the first time I've gotten on a
plane of recruit since I've been here. So great, great
freshman class. And then we've come back and started practicing.
You know, we went ahead and had five practices and
then we took the kids a week off and Thember
it came back in Sunday. We has completed practice number
two a couple of hours ago, and you know, working
hard on you know LSU and what they do, and
you know, picking up where we left off.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, Willie, you have done this before. I'm sure you've
gone against teams, whether it's bowl games or you know
current situation that you've been in yourself about what the
other side of things you've got coaching situation change. Lane's
going to take over to LSU, their interim coach is
going to be leaving to go to Ole Miss when
the game is all said and done. How much? And
I'm going to assume the answer is still plenty. But
is there anything about game film that can be deceiving
because of players that are not playing and coaching changes
at this point?
Speaker 7: No, You're right, you got to really look at it closely.
One thing is they made the change with the coaching staff.
You know, I argue with uh, maybe five games left
in the season, so you've got some games that you
can look at. You know, it was the same play caller,
you know, offensively, defensively, special teams wise. Another thing that's
always different in a bowl game is the time, you know,
between the last game and when you play the bowl game,
and you know, just like us, we're gonna have some
wrinkles in there that you know, they're not going to
be prepared for offense, defense, kicking game, and there's gonna
be some stuff they're gonna do against us. You know,
they're you know, we're not gonna be prepared for it
because they've never shown it before. But there's always a
wrinkle here and there when you're playing a bowl game,
especially when it's over the month since the last game
that's played.
Speaker 1: I know that every team goes through a few changes.
You've got kids that don't want to play in the
bowl game, You've got kids that are thinking about transfer portal.
It sounds like to me, and you don't have to
get into great detail, but it feels like you're gonna
have as full of rosters maybe anybody in the country
going to this game on Saturday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we we we we think we're gonna have everybody,
which we're really really excited about. You know, it's a
it's a big deal for us. You know, it's this Uh,
we're playing to have ten wins in a season. There's
not very many teams in the country that will have
ten plus wins, you know, so we want to be
one of them. And all the kids we've done a
good job of recruiting the right kind of guys. You know,
they're excited about representing the university and our team one
more time. Uh, so we would feel like we're going
to be you have a full squad out there, and
you know, other than the kids who got injured early
in the season, everybody's gonna is preparing right now, and
everybody's gonna part Payton Bowl.
Speaker 1: You have an environment of riches with Keishaw obviously coming
in next year. But Connor made the decision last year
to leave A and M and was looking for a place.
He chose the University of Houston, and I think you'd
be generally speaking, very pleased with his performance this year,
as with many different guys, but for Wickman in particular,
tell me about the first time he stepped on the
campus and where he has grown as far as you're
concerned about who he is as a quarterback and the
confidence that he I think he's rebuilt after lessons, sparctacular
season in College Station. The year before, well, a lot.
Speaker 7: Of issues and problem with College Station. He's banged ever,
got injured, tried to play through those injuries, and we're
very aware of that and make sure they've got him healthy.
But he's been just awesome. He's a really really nice
young man, good young man, good leader, very competitive. You know,
I think he said an excellent season four US. You know,
just you know, you want to have that quarterback, but
be that type of leader. You know, sometimes you don't
get that. I hear stories lots of guys said, I
think a little bit of a Prima Donna maybe at
that position, but Connor's you know, really is entrenched with
the offensive line, all the guys on the team these
It's an excellent leader for us and we're really really
happy that we got in at the University of Houston.
Speaker 1: Willie, I'm very curious about how the LSU is going
to prepare for this. They have been to previous Texas
Bulls and like, you've got some guys auditioning for jobs,
you've got kids that are moving on, and you've got
quarterback changes left and right. Would it be fair to
say that maybe the first quarter you'll see it in
their eyes and we'll see it as fans about how
bested they're into this game. Depending on what kind of
start you get on your side of the ball.
Speaker 7: Oh, I think those kids are going to be very,
very excited at Coach Wilson does a super job of
knowing him. He's a New Orleans guy. And how's there
two lane? For eight years we had a lot to recruiting,
you know, camps in collaboration with ls YE, especially when
coach Origeron was there, and you know, so they're they're
gonna have n't fired them ready to go. I know
a few of the coaches on their staff coach for
me before. Alex Atkins, your offensive coordinator. You know, a
really good coach. Kevin Peele's a D line coach for me.
He coached for me a bunch of places. They're gonna
have them ready to go. I gotta do a good
job and make sure our guys are ready to go.
This is you know, it's a it's a big ball
game for us. We've sold out our a lotment of tickets.
LSU has done the same. We're gonna have a really
good crowd and n rg uh. So it's exciting. I
know it's gonna be exciting for both teams and the.
Speaker 1: Love that this school has for its city. I do
like the fact you guys are making a staycation out
of it. We're getting the kids away from campus to
get that feel of being at a ballgame. But even
though you're still staying in seven one to three.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we're staying in you know, Hill in America's
town on town. We're gonna be doing a bunch of
things with them. We'll have going and doing a little
go kart racing tonight with the kids, and you know,
we want to have fun. You know, we won't have
the right kind of fun and they know that. But
the main thing is playing great Saturday night at eight twenty.
That's you know, I tell them all the time, and
all of this is for us to play great at
eight twenty. So when it's time to prepare, prepare, it's
time to have some fun. Let's have some fun. But
we're just blessed and honored to represent the University of
Houston in this bowl game.
Speaker 1: Well that's some of our last visits. So let me
ask you this. The game will end, your wife is
going to ask you to do some honey dues because
you've basically been away from that for quite a few months.
And then after that, what's the next sixty days for
you and your staff?
Speaker 7: Like here, Well, we got the portal that's going to
open up on January the second through the sixteenth, and
that's going to be take a lot of our time.
Got the National Convention in American Football Coaches Association. You know,
I'll go out to Charlotte, North Carolina for a day
or two for that and some of my coach as
well as well. And then when that finishes, you know,
we get into high school recruiting, so we'll be out
and about driving around town and seeing all the great
high school football players and coaches here in the state
of Texas. So there's always work to do. So Luckily,
I love my job, so it's labor of love.
Speaker 1: And I've said this before many times, even when you've
not been on my show. I feel like, with so
many Houston kids that this would be a And people
have their own opinions about the portals, so we'll live
at for a different time. But if you've got some
homesick children, the University of Houston could be a great
place to finish out a college football career.
Speaker 7: Well, I've mentioned it before. One of the reasons we
got Tulane turned around and did things there that nobody
we were capable of ever being able to do was
is we had a bunch of Orleans kids that went
our distances to go to school without the grass was
green or somewhere else, found out of his only green
and came back home. And uh, sooner or later that
out weighs a little bit more money in my opinion,
but uh, I just think there's going to be that
opportunity for us to grab some kids and maybe he
went someplace else. A lot of the kids we got
on our team and we got out of the portal.
We're all, you know, kids from this area for the
most part, besides two or three guys. That's one of
the main reasons why Connor Weaveman came came to the
University of Houston. He's from Houston. He's very close to
this family, and you know, he wanted to come back
home and we're fortunate enough to get him. But there's
a lot of guys that are were in a similar situation.
So you're right, we're gonna use that guardvantage.
Speaker 1: Welly, thank you for the visits each and every week
throughout the course of the year. We wish you know,
up at the very best best like Saturday against the
LSU Tigers. I worked with nothing with LSU Tiger people,
so I need you to win this one, especially badly
because I can give them so much grief. Over the
next handful of days.
Speaker 7: We'll do our best job of it. Man, I appreciate
you to go kuds.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rossie, let's get rid of that liner for next year.
What do you think why it's rude as a staple
of the Man Thomas Show, But we're nice here on
this on seven ninety between ten and two. Sometimes that's fair.
Tomorrow on the show, Doctor Roto will be with us. Uh,
what else I got?
Speaker 7: Call?
Speaker 1: We got shut your bumb ass? Are we gonna? Should
we do a shut your bumb ass up on Christmas Eve?
Maybe we should do things we're grateful or thankful for. Matt? Okay,
I want you and this is homework for both you
and Jonathan. Let's let's do the opposite to shut your
boy keep talking more. Maybe we did this before.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster. It was awful. Nobody want, nobody
called in, Nobody wants to be nice. All right, then
we're keeping it as is tomorrow, shut your bumb mess up?
But how about it has to be Christmas related? Wow,
it's not Christmas related? I got into it. You're gonna
like this. I have a story of me and an
older woman at the black jack table. Zero surprise. Am
I a hypocrite? Find out tomorrow? All right, so we're
doing shut your bomb ass up. We will try to
be a little nicer than you normally would be. How
about that? There we do both? Yeah, how about naughty
or nice.
Speaker 12: One?
Speaker 1: Naughty one nice Okay, well we got to think about that.
Five minutes up to shut your by mess Up Naughty
and Nice Edition, one of you good play America's fastest
growing sports radio game show. We simply call it be
Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll
call seven one three two one two five seven naughty
seven one three two two five seven. I just lost
my earphones. We're still on the air, Ross, Yes we are,
because I was talking to you and you weren't listening.
So no, I just like pulled my headphones off my head.
What did you say?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I said. We'll call it shut you buy us up,
Naughty and Nice Edition. Yeah, I like it. That's a wordy,
but it'll work all right. Today's edition of the show
is all things about the La Clippers. I'll read your
statement about the Clippers statements completely a utterly accurate. You'll
say this, believe it, it was same as Ronius full
of back a minute. You will say this not to
believe it or not's in or ogan and win your prize.
You're either playing for a seven ninety t shirt or
a pair of tickets to see Ever Clear live. January
the fifteenth of the House of Blues. Tickets are on
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Speaker 2: Ross.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite ever clear song? Downtime on the
Mountain Time? Hmm mine is Wake Me Up in the morning.
Let's play Believe It or Not. Let's talk to Ryan
on seven anighty. Ryan, you're ready to play Believe it
or not?
Speaker 7: Believe it?
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Clippers were founded as the Buffalo Braves
in nineteen seventy. Believe it or not.
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: That's oh come on, that's elementary, My dear bade. Sorry,
I don't even a tribute. You should really know they
were the Buffalo Braves. Kelly on Tomball, Kelly on Saturday. Kelly,
what was your favorite part of today? You send it
to radio show?
Speaker 7: Oh? You either rest?
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Clippers all time living scorer is Blake Group,
and believe it or not not, it's Randy Smith stayment
number two for the win. Not only has the Clippers
franchise never had a sixty win season, they have also
never had a fifty five win season, Believe it or not.
Speaker 8: Believe it.
Speaker 1: No, they've had three of them. You should have.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 1: That's correct, that's correct. Thank you? Rub it on seven?
Are you ready to play. Believe it or not. Believe it.
The Los Angeles Clippers have zero retired numbers of their
former players. Believe it or not?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Brian on seven onty Brian, You're ready to play? Believe
it or not? Yes. According to fanatics dot com, the
Los Angeles Clippers have had the lowest jersey sales of
any NBA franchise during the twenty twenty four season. Believe
it or not not, that's correct. Dement number two. For
the official colors, the Los Angeles Clippers are Navy blue,
Pacific Blue, Ember red, and silver. Believe it or not.
Believe it you should congratulations, have a great time with
the country. Brian on seven ninety Brian, your favorite part
of today's tend the two radio show?
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I listened the whole way back from
the dear League, but I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1: All right, makes it a memorable show though, Yeah, that's fine.
Just take your loss. James Harden has the most triple
doubles in LA Clippers history. He has eight of them.
Believe it or not?
Speaker 3: I remember that from earlier in the show.
Speaker 2: Believe it.
Speaker 1: There you go, Brian, I want you to win so
badly here. In nineteen eighty four, then Clippers owner Donald
Sterling moved the franchise to Los Angeles without approval of
the NBA, which resulted in litigation actually won by Sterling.
Believe it or not.
Speaker 7: Believe it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm so proud of you. That's rare. Probably good
you felt good. Hey listen, he heard your stat earlier today.
I'm so happy for that. Love you, ten o'clockers. Next
Wexler and friends. It's the A team. Talk to you.
Oh my is he is? He gonna claim like a
comp day because of this? He needs to Good Lord,
it's day team and it's next seven nine,