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Speaker 1: Launch Timers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.

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Speaker 2: Ten oh two in hats down, What's happening brunch Timers, Hello,

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and welcome into a Friday edition of The Matt Thomas

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Show with Ross.

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Speaker 3: We hated Frins because he showed his package. We hated

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justin Timberlake. We've hate we hate them all.

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Speaker 2: We took it out. Well, I mean it was he

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took it out.

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Speaker 3: I think I think that's what old members do to say, Hey,

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you just can't cut jump in here and jump and

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get and grab our pie. Ross, you care to deduct

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the genesis of that call?

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Speaker 2: Did Michael blue Blaze sleep with his wife in the

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green room? Keith, go ahead and talk while Dan swallows?

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I like to lean in the moist. You gonna sneeze?

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Here comes one two now. He talked about it in

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What Away. Oh that's good. It helped. No, sometimes you

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gotta get it out. Man. Wait, who doesn't like the

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lean and the moist? And sometimes you do have to

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get it out? Oh the friend, I'm not gonna say

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what you said for me? A staple, Well, Dan Swallows,

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A staple of The Matt Thomas Show now on Fridays.

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Definitely put together by one Connor McGovern. Thank you to him,

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and thank you for listening to The Matt Shamas Show

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with Ross on a Friday. No, it is not the

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Matt Thomas Show. It is the Matt Thomas Show here

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on Sports Talk seven. Th could kind of make it

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math Thomas. That's actually that's what we call him. Indish translation,

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I believe is what it is. All Right, Welcome into

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Matt Thomas is out.

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I don't know. He very sweety. He came in wait

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with the walcket, so he needs some sweep play. Whoa

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wow woo wa. What nerves this guy has to tied

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his analyst last night on the game call, Adam Clanton,

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not only at the beginning of the game, but also

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two his parting words leaving the arena last night. And

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then he takes the day off. That is correct. That

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is Bill Belichick. This guy is not. There are days

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off from Matt Thomas. The beauty of the hypocrisy. Yeah see,

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I believe he was crushing the eighteen yesterday and talking

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to Adam Klank question he is off today, That's fine,

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He's in Houston. He just doesn't want to work and

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that's okay. I as somebody who takes every last drop

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of vacation I have afforded to me, I take it,

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so I'm not gonna crush matt but he is out today.

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If you hear the voice of Dan Matthews and you

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say that's Dan, you are correct. That is Dan. He

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is here. I am ros Viriel. You can get it

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as well. A lot of stuff to get to here.

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On a Friday at seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety seven one three two, one two five

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seven ninety is the phone number we have. The Rockets

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winning last night against New Orleans Pelicans one twenty eight

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to one eleven. Don't look now, Dan, your Houston Rockets

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have won four in a row. They are okay, not

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firmly planted in the two seed, but they're firmly planted

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in the playoffs. Earlier on in the season, I was like, okay,

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sure they're the two seed, but they're three and a

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half games of like the ten seed. Well, there's six

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games from being out of the playoffs, and there's still

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a comfy four games of being in the playoffs. For real,

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if you're not aware of the top six in the

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Western Conference, make the playoffs. You are in seven through ten,

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you have to go to the play in tournament. So

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the Rockets a four game cushion of being in the playoffs.

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I mean, with all the heavy hitters that we thought,

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the Thunder is a one seed Grizzlies, Mavericks, Nuggets, Lakers,

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that's your top six in the Western Conference. And cushion's

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a good word too, because you're about to face the

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tougher part of your schedule. You're gonna find out just

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how good this Rockets team is over the next five

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games because you're facing five playoff teams both in the

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West and in the East. So being able to beat

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up on the bad team like they've been able to

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do aside from losing the Hornets earlier in the season

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as well as the Spurs, but the Spurs are still

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kind of in this thing too as well. So I

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mean that's the beauty of being able to do that.

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And now that you've been able to get some of

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these wins before you have to play Oklahoma City again,

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before you have to finally play against Denver, before you

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have to finally play against Memphis with John Morant, who's

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just a different basketball team. It's been fun to watch.

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I mean, it's it's definitely been a welcome change from

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what we've seen the last few years. Yeah, as you mentioned,

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the tough five game homestand coming up starting with a

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back to back last night in New Orleans, tonight in

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Houston against the Minnesota Timberwolves here on Sports Talk seven

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ninety with a seven o'clock tip, and then it'll be

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Miami Dallas, the Boston Celtics, and the Los Angeles Lakers.

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So we're gonna find out a little bit more now.

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We do have a thirty game sample, and the thirty

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game sample says there's the second best team in the West.

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So it's not like it's nothing. It's not like it's

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super early in the season and we were creeping closer

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and closer to the halfway mark. But we're gonna find

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out a lot more about those Houston Rockets as we

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go on, and well, the last two weeks, Dan, we've

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been finding out a lot about the Houston Texans. Speaking

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of pointing to spots in the schedule, which we're doing

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right now with the Rockets, we did this all year

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long with the Texans. We said, Okay, they start off,

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they're gonna roll they're gonna win four or five of

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their first six, some even predicting they were gonna sweep

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their first six games. And then that's when it was

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going to get a little bit tougher. You were gonna

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have to go on the road against the Packers. We

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thought the Jets game was gonna be a little bit tougher.

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We thought the Cowboys game was going to be tougher

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because we thought Dak Prescott was gonna be healthy. And

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then we pointed to this stretch with the Dolphins, who

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did turn it around. Weren't necessarily as strong as you thought,

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but they still turned it around. They're still a good team.

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They've been winning a lot of games, so that still

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counts in the win column as a good win in

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my opinion. But then back to back games, you lost

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the thread a little bit against the chief To me

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that it wasn't like a complete outclassing, but you clearly

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were not as good as the Chiefs and up to

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their level. And then on Christmas Day we all know

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what happened against the Ravens. Just coming in the ratings,

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twenty five million average viewers for Netflix, a smash hit

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for them, going up to twenty seven million. When Beyonce

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hits this. I was going to say the Beyonce Bowl

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is when it really pepped up and you got a

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lot of people watching, But no, you know, it's funny.

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I've made comparisons to this year's Texans team all throughout

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the last few months, to this year's Astros team and

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just kind of these similar frustrations that you could have.

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But I was thinking about it last night. How weird

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is it that the Rockets I think are doing what

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we thought the Texans maybe could do this year. Like

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the Rockets I think are probably even exceeding our expectations.

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If I was told they're fifty seven win pace, there

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you go. So I mean, I mean the exceeding expectation.

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It's very much exceeding expectations because I think people's expectations

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for them was play in round at the least, maybe

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you could be this, you know, the five or the six.

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That's what I was targeting. And right now, I mean,

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it looks like if they continue to just play capable

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good basketball the rest of the way, maybe they're not

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going to reach fifty seven wins, but they could be

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at worst middle of the Western Conference. Yeah, pretty crazy.

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So we'll see and we'll know a lot more about

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this team with this stretch coming up. We know a

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lot about the Texans, and they have one game left

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against the Titans, which in my opinion, should be treated

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as basically a preseason game, to where you see the

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starters for a couple of series max, and then you

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sit everybody because I think this team that's ailing as

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much as it has, you can ill afford any further

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injury if you want to make any sort of noise

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in the playoffs, which I don't think they're gonna do now.

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I mean, I was listening to you and Matt yesterday

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and I agree. I mean, this team's cooked. I mean,

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they might win the wild card game. I mean, I

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actually do feel pretty decent about them if they play

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against Pittsburgh, because Pittsburgh is, like you, they're slumping, going

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the wrong direction. I don't really necessarily trust Denver just yet,

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but bo Nix seems like he's crazy enough to be

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able to pull off a win and then La same deal.

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I mean justin Herbert, nice story, good quarterback, all of

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those things. Lad mcconkeye. But I mean, I think they

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can win the wild card game they go to Kansas

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City after that, I have zero faith that they can

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win that game. All right, Well, there you go. That

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is Dan Matthews. We'll keep looking at the scenarios and

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talking about the Houston Texans. How are you feeling about

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them right now? One day later? Are you still fire

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in Brimstone? This is the worst team ever and they

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are just absolute garbage? Or you feel a little bit better?

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I mean, it's hard to feel any better after this.

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I mean, you're gonna need to get this taste out

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of your mouth with a playoff win, because a win

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over the Titans with Davis Mills playing probably not going

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to do it. So we are gonna be waiting a

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while before growing any confidence in what happened? Is what

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is happening with the Houston Texans. How are you feeling

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about Squad seven one three, two point two five seven ninety?

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How about them Rockets? Do we have to get an

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obligatory Rockets call? I am taking more and more on

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these postgame shows, So you guys want to get in

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and talk some rockets. What did you have last night?

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Like four or five? Yeah, bit people were getting in.

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We were I don't know people rockets fever? Are you

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catching it seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety.

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We also, of course have uh college games to get

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to NFL stuff all around the league, NBA. You want

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to still talk some hot stove, the Alex Bregman holding pattern,

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It's and anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas Show.

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If you also want to talk about how great the

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week is in between Christmas and New Year's where everybody's

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just kind of hanging out and doing whatever they want

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to do. That's fun too, are terrible weather? Anything goes

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Friday seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety,

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will have Non Florida's stories coming up. We'll have the

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Speaker 1: Day.

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Speaker 2: We'll just take listen.

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Speaker 5: You know, just making throws and at the same time,

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you know, I gotta find a way to stand in

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there stronger and make those throws. You know, just some

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miscommunication with me and some of the receivers, but ultimately

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throw when guys are open. So, yeah, where are we

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Speaker 2: Stroud still believe in them. It's an interesting conversation because,

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beginning of the season, myself and Matthew Thomas. As we're

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am Ross Virrial Dan Matthews with us as well. You

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can get in if you'd like. It's seven to one

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such as a quarterback, a young quarterback hitting the scene

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precedent for that, and there was precedent for what CJ.

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Stroud did. He was great, He had a great season.

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He's offensive Rookie of the Year. The Texans and myself

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included anointing him as the franchise quarterback. He looked so good,

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so calm under pressure, so smart, doing all the right

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things as far as I mean from A to Z,

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from footwork to reading defenses to leadership. Everything you want,

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every box you want in a quarterback, he checked it.

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rookie as well. And then but you have to that

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comes in and they look extremely polished as a rookie,

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that still begs the question how much more can they

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grow and how much ceiling is there? From that point

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from if you took just what CJ. Stroud gave us

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in his rookie year and said this is going to

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grow and grow and grow, you're talking about literally probably

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the best quarterback of all time. So you have to

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ask yourself, is CJ. Stroud the best quarterback of all time?

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And right now in the second year, what we're seeing

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is that he is, at least right now, I mean

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regressed from last year and he was extremely close to

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his ceiling where he was last year. And I will

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also throw in I think the interception numbers are misleading

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because felt like he had a few that should have

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been picked last year, and then this year it feels

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like a lot of them have come on third and

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longs to where they're effectively punts. I mean, that's it's

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a two part answer to that. Umber One, he's lost

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his confidence. I mean, there's zero doubt about that. He

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can continue to say he trusts his guys up front,

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he doesn't. He can continue to say he trusts his

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offensive coordinator. Same answer there. So that's the first part

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of it all. And you mentioned Matt Ryan there. I mean,

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take a look at what Atlanta did though, to help

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him kind of take that next step in his career.

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It was the front office there saying, hey, Tony Gonzalez,

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he's coming to the end there in Kansas City, Let's

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make a trade. Let's get him here. Hey on draft night,

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let's make a massive trade. And along with a guy

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named Roddy White, let's go out a guy named Julio

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Jones and add him to this offense and see what

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it's able to become. And he eventually became an MVP.

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He eventually became an NFC champion. I mean, he eventually

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was able to become one of the better quarterbacks in

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the league. Despite what some people might say the numbers

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will tell you he was really good, so he can

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get to that. I just think that it kind of

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becomes a question of the confidence of the people making

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the decisions that could get him back to that point.

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With Bobby Slowly, I think there's a belief in that

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building right now just from people. You know, I've heard

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talk about what's gonna happen with him and what's gonna

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happen with his coaching staff going forward. We had Aaron

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Wilson on when I was in with Lilma yesterday. It

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didn't seem like Bobby Sloke's going anywhere, But it did

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seem like that Chris Strausser, the offensive line coach, at

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least if nothing else, is going to conveniently retire. Yeah,

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and we can get to the Bobby Slowack stuff. To me,

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it's funny how he was the hottest coaching offensive mind

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or one of the hottest coach coaching offensive minds last

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year cycle in this cyle, I wonder if he's even

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gonna get an interview. But on the on the CJ.

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Stroud stuff. His first year twenty three touchdowns, five interceptions.

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Dak Prescott's first year twenty three touchdowns, four interceptions, and

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also I mean different situations. They had the one of

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the greatest offensive lines of all time in that era

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with the Dallas Cowboys. But talking about trying to help CJ. Stroud,

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Nico Sario did. Nick Casario did go out and get

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Joe Mixon, did go with the run game, helping out

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c J. Stroud and the team as a whole. And

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then of course the Stefan Diggs move was the was

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the swing for the fences. And unfortunately, I mean the

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way that he did trading him over here, give him

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a one year deal, you gave the second round pick.

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I mean that was a This has to bear the

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fruit of like an AFC championship game or Super Bowl

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or this was a bad move. Unfortunately he tore his ACL.

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Nick Casserio can't control that. So I do think Nick

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Casserio did try to go all in on CJ. Stroud

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in his second year and try to give him every opportunity.

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Where they have fallen short, of course, has been the

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offensive line to where preseason it was okay. Maybe Kenyon

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Green can be good. He was a first round pick.

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Maybe he can bounce back from the injury. Laramie Tunsel.

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Speaker 6: We know what he is.

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Speaker 2: We didn't know he's gonna get you know, he's always

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been a penalty prone but this is up to I

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mean insane level. But obviously, I mean, this is no

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breaking news. The offensive line has fallen short of everyone's expectations,

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including Nick Cassario. And by the way, you've been beset

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by injury basically the entire year, shuffling everything around and

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not allowing guys to get on the same page. I

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applaud the efforts. I mean for the first point that

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you brought up there about Diggs and also bringing over Mixon.

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But with Diggs, what you were getting out of him

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was not going to make this offense a lead. He

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was being a good addition for you. He was not

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great for mixing. I just think that he's underutilized. What

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did we hear about all last offseason. Oh, this guy's

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fantastic catching the ball at the backfield. Look at him

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pass protect He's great. And I mean it's not so

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much about the second part of that, but at least

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the first part. I mean, what do we hear, you know,

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Bobby Slowick lamenting every single week, Oh, we didn't run

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the ball very well. We didn't run the ball very well.

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We had targeted him three times in the passing game.

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So if you're not running the ball very well and

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you're so averse to it's not a verse, but you're

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such a huge fan of using this screen game, why

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isn't he being used in that more? If that's the case,

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your offensive coordinators all the time talk about, oh, playmakers

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in space, well then get them in space. Find a way. Man.

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I heard you and Matt talking about this yesterday too

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as well, that you're giving the same looks that you

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gave early on in the season that you're giving them now.

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So you probably have defensive coaches on the other sideline

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watching you, saying they're really trying this again, like they

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think we haven't seen this. There does there's no motion,

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there's no check with me, there's there's just there is

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no creativity. And I talked about, you know, CJ's confidence

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being lost. Bobby Slowick has lost confidence this year. That

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guy is swimming on game day when he's looking at

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that play sheet. I think, now it's it's funny because

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they do do they do do a lot of screens,

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and they do some with Joe Mix and they do

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it a lot with the wide receivers, and it's kind

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of like when when the wide receiver screen works, which

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it was early on in the season, it's great, it's genius.

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It's it's a great way to move the chains, get CJ.

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Stroud in rhythm. And then when they're not working, when

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they do get blown up, when somebody's not holding their block,

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when it's getting blown up by a linebacker or something

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like that, then it's one of those things that we

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look at and if it works, it's genius, and if

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it doesn't, it doesn't. So as far as the screen game,

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I'm okay with it. They just as Bobby Slowak has said,

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as c J. Stroud has said, they need to execute

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veteran Maybe they just need to throw some more wrinkles

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in there. But because clearly it's not nearly as effective

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as it was earlier on in the year, this doesn't

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have to be a one size fits all offense. And

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you just saw it last week with Lamar Jackson in

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that Baltimore Ravens offense. Well, having Lamar Jackson and Derrek

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Henry and that offensive line and Mark Andrews, I mean,

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and Isaiah Likely, it's kind of a different I understand

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some of the parts is different, but where I'm different.

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But where I'm going with this is how Todd Munkin

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uses his guys that touchdown run by Lamar Jackson. You've

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got Isaiah Likely and you've got Mark Andrews in the backfield.

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They went wing Tea. But you're not gonna go wing Tea.

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I'm not saying to wing Tea. I'm just saying, move

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your guys around, man, Like they don't have to just

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be Hey, it's a tight end. So he's got to

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be on the right side of the offensive line. You know. Here,

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here's this formation, so you know you're gonna have Nico

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Collins over there on the left side. Oh, we think

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we have them one on one. You don't have them

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on one. I've had Stover and Schultz in the back

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backfield of fair Mounta in my opinion. But like, do

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it more is what I'm saying, Like, like, switch up

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the looks, man. There's fifty two cards in a card deck, right,

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they don't all have to be in the same order

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every single time you shuffle them for a reason. Yeah,

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but you're you're playing with a five two when you've

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got Blake Fisher and Kendrick Green on the right side

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of the line as well. You got we have to

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keep that in mind. All Right, we're gonna take a

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two five seven ninety. We're talking some Texans ball and

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I am asking you the question. I don't think we've

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seen c. Dur Surroud's ceiling, but how close have we

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gotten to c J. Stroud's ceiling, how much are we

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worried about this regression? And him going forward to where

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as I mentioned, uh, I mean similar stats to a

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Dak Prescott at least in terms of touchdown to interception

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ratio in their first full seasons, to where you have

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to ask the question, all right, well, maybe the situation

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was more ideal there. Maybe we need to look more

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into how many turnover worthy throws there were at that moment.

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And then I say, all right, is have we seen

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I don't say, like I said, I don't think we've

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seen the best of CJ. Shroud, But I'm gonna say

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I'm worried because there just have been a significant drop

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in just about every metric you can think of, with

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the interceptions way up and really just on the field,

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as you know, as Dan is saying about his confidence,

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he just doesn't look the same and he's not making

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the same throws. He also has mentioned it was a

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bite you guys played on the A team. I'm not

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exactly sure where it is, but he mentioned being banged up,

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banged up, and that's another thing, and that's something that

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we will not know and they will not divulge. And

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I mean, normally you're not gonna hear as an excuse,

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but the fact that he kind of let that out

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and we heard about it is as far back as

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the Jets game with Kirk Kirbstreet on Amazon Prime talking

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about it as well, he's not one hundred percent to

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what extent. We don't know how hurt is he. We

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don't know he's out there. He does not look like

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he's moving as well as he was early in the season.

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And you add all that up with the offensive line

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issues with no Stefan Diggs and now no Tank Dell.

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I mean, performance is suffering and we have to just

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wonder where we're gonna go from here. Well, it's also

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if you're out on the field, then you're expected to play,

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and you're expecting to play a performer. That's I mean,

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you can say that, and he even admitted as much

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the other day when he said he was banged up.

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That's sign excuse because he knows if he's out there,

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he needs to be making plays. And yes, he's not

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making plays, but it's also it's part of why he's

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not making plays exactly. That's all I'm saying. I'm not

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saying give him a pass and c J. Stroud is

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great because he's hurt right now. Because I don't know

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how hurt he is. But I will say, if you're

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asking me why is CJ. Stroud regressing in his second year,

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I will bring up that I don't believe he's a

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one hundred percent healthy. I think last year when he

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threw these three interceptions, I think against the Arizona Cardinals,

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I thought he was concussed. Like I think a lot

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of times we say why why why, And especially in

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the NFL more than any other you know, sometimes it

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happens in baseball, basketball, guy needs surgery. You know, Alex

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Bregman playing with his elbow, hert what was it? A

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few years ago Martin Moldonodo had a sports hernia and

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he had a broken hand. Like it'll come out after

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the fact. But I'm saying, if we're searching for the why,

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I'm saying that's perhaps where we can go, where we

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can look to. I'm not giving necessarily an excuse and

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saying because I don't know how hurt he is, but

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if we're point looking for the why, I think that

473
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could be part of it. It's physically, it is part

474
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of it. It's physical and it's mental because I mean

475
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the physical part is exactly what you just laid out.

476
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The mental part is his offensive line. He can say

477
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everything he wants. He doesn't believe in that group, his

478
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,960
receiver group, aside from Nico Collins. He doesn't really trust

479
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any of those guys, and that those guys I mean,

480
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and that's you know. I mean, John Metchi shows some

481
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good things the other day, but you're not going to

482
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win a lot of football games because John Metchi has

483
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a good game or two. You need somebody that can

484
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be more consistent and be able to get more separation

485
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in their routes. Then you're getting right now. So I mean,

486
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I think that all kind of comes to a head

487
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where he might go through his reads, he might go

488
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through all, you know, everything that he needs to go

489
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through on the football field, but it's pretty much been

490
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proven if number twelve isn't an option for him, then

491
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things start to get a little bit shaky. And they've

492
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gotten even shaky yer this year because he's got less

493
00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:28,839
time to be able to try to make something happen

494
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out of really nothing. Yeah, where we are is to

495
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where to me, it feels like we're last year.

496
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Speaker 6: CJ.

497
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Speaker 2: Shroud was raising the level of the Texans. This year,

498
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he's kind of sinking with the team rather than keeping

499
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them afloat as much as he could. All right, seven

500
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one three two one two five, seven ninety The phone

501
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number Marcus in Cyprus has gotten in here on the

502
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Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

503
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Speaker 7: What's up, Marcus, Hey man, I just wanted to time

504
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in on the sophomore slump he's going through. I'm actually

505
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,880
I listen to you guys a lot on my lunch break.

506
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I'm actually a Cowboys fan, and like y'all were mentioning

507
00:25:01,319 --> 00:25:06,000
with Dak Prescott, he went through something similar and in

508
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twenty seventeen his sophomore year that we.

509
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Speaker 6: Played it, we played Atlanta in Atlanta.

510
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 7: And a guy named Adrian Clayborne sacked them six times

511
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and he never was the same for the rest of

512
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that season. So I think something similar is going on

513
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with CJ. Just all the pressure he's getting, that internal

514
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,400
clock is all jacked up. If you look at his

515
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,920
season last year, he was real successful downfield with the

516
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deep ball. A lot of teams have seen the shell

517
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that off and they're making him, you know, take the

518
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underneath stuff. And I just think that your hope in

519
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him is his rookie season. If he was able to

520
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go in as a rookie and process all of that,

521
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that tells you everything you need to know the guy.

522
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He has it upstairs. It's just a failure up front.

523
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And you know that that's where it starts and ends

524
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in football is upfront, and that is these guys are

525
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I mean, look at Dak Prescott for an example. He

526
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had an all Pro season last year. His old line.

527
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Speaker 6: Was terrible this year.

528
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Speaker 7: And and that's that's that's what happens when you have

529
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a bad run. These these guys that get happy.

530
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Speaker 8: Feet, and once they get that happy feet, that's it.

531
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Speaker 7: It all starts with their legs, and that's that's I'm

532
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a I'm a firm believer in that if a quarterback

533
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can't plan his feet and throw the ball consistently with

534
00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:31,720
his feet set, they're they're done. Unless you're Patrick Mahomes.

535
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And there's only one of those. I love to tell

536
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Cowboys fans that I'm sorry, but there's only one Patrick Mahomes.

537
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,079
You ain't getting one of him. But hey man, y'all, y'all,

538
00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:43,039
keep y'all's head up. Y'all are having a good season,

539
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,599
even though it may not be the season you want.

540
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But just look at that rookie year. CJ's got all

541
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the tools. They're gonna bounce back into off season.

542
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Speaker 6: It's his turn to make the adjustment.

543
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Speaker 2: Then, all right, oh thank you, Mark Marcus. We're we're

544
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,759
up against a break. Appreciate you getting in. This is

545
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where we are now with Texans fans. We're getting consoled

546
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,759
by Cowboys fans. This is not good, Dan. I don't know.

547
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,720
I think I take it the opposite direction. I take

548
00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:10,920
it as okay, hey, maybe the world is healing a

549
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,359
little bit and we don't have to have so much

550
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,680
animosity towards each other. They're they're actually rooting for us,

551
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,480
which I appreciate that market thinks you're so bad for

552
00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:22,839
the Texans. Cowboys fans are feeling sorry for CJ. Stroud.

553
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,799
Let's talk about this. Seven one three, two one two five,

554
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,640
seven nine. What's next? You know, Texas fans are gonna

555
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,960
get A and M's traditions and be like, oh god,

556
00:27:31,079 --> 00:27:33,440
you know what they're Okay, I get them. We're not

557
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:36,799
bearing good at the stadium. I'm good. All right, We're

558
00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:38,920
going to take a quick break here on the Matt

559
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,160
Thomas Show with Ross. CJ's going to be okay. CJ's

560
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,200
going to be okay. CJ's going to be okay. There's

561
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,359
an awesome He'll be fine. Go to CJ. It's not

562
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,240
your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault.

563
00:27:56,279 --> 00:28:00,279
We we don't we don't need to bring back Robin Williams.

564
00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:02,319
He'll be okay, not your fault. All right, We're gonna

565
00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:04,839
take a quick break here on The Matt Thomas Show

566
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,480
with Ross, but without Matt Thomas, with Dan Matthews. You

567
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,680
guys want to get in. We're talking Stroud, We're talking Texans.

568
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,799
We also got Rockets on a four game winning streak.

569
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Anything you want to get to it is and anything

570
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,599
goes Friday. It's seven one three two one two five

571
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seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

572
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Speaker 4: Dan More, Matt Thomas Show with Ross now Sports Talk

573
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seven ninety.

574
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Speaker 2: Ten, forty eight in the am. Here on Sports Talk

575
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seven ninety ros Viria with you Dan Matthews as well.

576
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,519
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, without Matt Thomas,

577
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:57,480
with Dan Matthews and Connor McGovern seven one three two

578
00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:00,240
one two five, seven ninety. Is your phone numbers seven

579
00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:04,279
one three two one two five seven ninety if you're

580
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,359
just joining us. Things have gotten so bad for the Texans.

581
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,000
We were getting consoled by a Cowboys fan in the

582
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:13,119
last segment. So that's where we are right now with

583
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,640
the Texans. See, I mean, sometimes the enemy of your

584
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,279
enemy is your best friend, and in this case right here,

585
00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:20,799
I mean, we for years have been chiding Cowboy fans

586
00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:24,160
and you know, it's been a little bit of a

587
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:27,319
turn the other cheek, so appreciate that. I'd love more

588
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:29,920
of that energy from those in the Metroplex. It would

589
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,960
be nice if you are a Cowboy fan. And very

590
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,640
clearly now Mike McCarthy is saving his job. You think

591
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,599
you're a little party who's upset watching that Mike McCarthy

592
00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:41,880
would have lost. They've won four of their last five.

593
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,960
Mike Fisher, who covers the Cowboys and has covered him

594
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,160
for a long time, Apparently there's a rumor that if

595
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,039
the Cowboys come to McCarthy with a contract, he's gonna say, no,

596
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,640
it's been real, I'm out here. Really Yeah, what's he

597
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,000
gonna do? Either just go to another opening either that,

598
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,960
or just step away? From coaching. But god, I understand,

599
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,160
I understand one years old. I understand the lack of

600
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,839
playoff success there, but I mean it's also too twelve

601
00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:09,440
plus wins a season for the last few years, and

602
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,200
I mean, this year, notwithstanding, has not gone incredibly well.

603
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,480
And I think he kind of is just looking at

604
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,079
it as, Oh, what I was doing was not good

605
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,640
enough for you guys. Okay, watch this and see how

606
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,039
good you are after I'm not here. Yeah, that leverage

607
00:30:22,079 --> 00:30:23,480
could go out of the window. Though. They got the

608
00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:25,920
Eagles and the Commanders the final two weeks of the season,

609
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so we'll see where they are at the end. I

610
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,039
think they're better than people thought they would be here, certainly,

611
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:34,559
certainly especially with Dak Prescott going down. All Right, seven one, three,

612
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:37,440
two two five, seven ninety is the phone number Art

613
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,960
in Lamark has gotten in here. What's up Art?

614
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 6: Good morning?

615
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Speaker 2: How y'all doing very well? How are you all right?

616
00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:45,559
Speaker 9: Well?

617
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Speaker 10: I hadn't college all the while, but anyway, Uh, you know,

618
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,599
that's that's a great thing, you know, like they're a

619
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:54,839
lot of slow at the soap poplars, you know, get

620
00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:58,039
a head coaching job. It's that there's two pigs last year.

621
00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:01,359
With CJ's first year, you did rather well and they

622
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,720
gave credit both ways. But here's the second year and

623
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,160
the road might be regressing. But ahead, the coordinator should

624
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,119
make him grow, help him grow.

625
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 6: Yes, it doesn't.

626
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 10: It hurts when you don't have a line.

627
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:18,759
Speaker 6: That hurts.

628
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Speaker 10: I don't want to go Tussel's name. It hurts when

629
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you lose receivers. But I mean, you know, and then

630
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,519
sometimes we listen to too much what we read and

631
00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:31,839
too much what they say. During the earlier season, maybe

632
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,079
we weren't what they what they said where we were

633
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:37,680
going to be. But again, you have to have a line,

634
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,160
and you have to be able to adapt, and you

635
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,799
have to be able to change on the run. And

636
00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,359
it's like when you run it, when you run the

637
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,640
ball the first two plays, throw the third down was

638
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,960
the deepest thing to do all the time, over and

639
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:53,640
over and over again.

640
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Speaker 11: And we're talking professional football. We're not talking to high

641
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,920
school where they even can adapt after halftime. Sorry word

642
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,119
fellas go rockets. And I'm as soon as you are

643
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,240
not to say you take care.

644
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:13,119
Speaker 2: I appreciate our thanks, buddy. Yeah, they need to adapt. Well,

645
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,640
I mean that's thirty one other teams in the NFL

646
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,279
that have to do the same thing. I mean, I

647
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:20,279
get what he's saying. And you know, one thing that's

648
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:22,400
gonna be interesting to ask Tomiko O Ryons after this

649
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,400
season is do you kind of feel like there's shades

650
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,720
of twenty ten? And I've gone to that example before.

651
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:32,200
I remember two thousand and nine season, you're you're knocking

652
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,880
on the door, God, if Cincinnati can beat the Jets,

653
00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:37,440
this Texans team is a playoff team, and then the

654
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,319
following year it was got everybody back, We're good, it's

655
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:44,440
gonna be great. It was an awful season. Like, if

656
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,680
you think this is bad, try going when you played

657
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,680
sixteen games, going six and ten. You have one of

658
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,839
your best pass rushers have his ankle turned sideways, you

659
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,480
have Demiko Ryans rupture his achilles, and you had a

660
00:32:57,519 --> 00:32:59,759
team that just could not get out of their own

661
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:03,160
way and win ball games. And this team's at least

662
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,839
a playoff team. The team's a division already won nine games,

663
00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:08,359
they've won the divisions. But it's also too there's not

664
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,240
a single person in that building that's going to say, hey,

665
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:14,200
it was a great season. Everybody there is going to

666
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,440
feel like what could have been You know what, could

667
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,160
this team have done better to have been in even

668
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:24,000
better position to maybe make a run in the AFC. Yeah,

669
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:29,079
I need to know when Shack Mason and Juwe Scruggs

670
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,359
if they're coming back, because yeah, if this is going

671
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to be the offensive line, if it's going to be

672
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Titus excuse me, learym Tonsol, Titus Howard, Jared Patterson, Kendrick Green,

673
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and Blake Fisher. That's four out of five spots not

674
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playing where you planned. People who are in that spot

675
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are not who you plan to be in that spot.

676
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If this stays, yeah, I'm gonna agree that this season

677
00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:56,400
is completely cooked and they're not even gonna win a

678
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,160
wildcard game as far as I'm concerned. You have three

679
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,920
starters on the offensive line you have to replace because

680
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,920
Laramie Tunsel he's not going anywhere. Neither is the rest

681
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,559
of this scene. And it doesn't matter. You know where

682
00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:10,000
you have Titus Howard on the offensive line. He's going

683
00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:12,760
to be here next season. So it's going to be

684
00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:15,559
do you feel good about Jarrett Patterson at center? All right?

685
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,599
At least you answered that question. The guards. In my opinion,

686
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,320
that's completely up for grabs. You will absolutely have free

687
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,119
agent trade options, even a draft pick or two. And

688
00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,840
it's also too we hadn't even mentioned Blake Fisher in

689
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,639
all of this. I mean, I think that we've seen

690
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,519
him look like a rookie at times this season, but again,

691
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,039
you're only going to know if you play him. And

692
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I'm glad that at least these last few weeks they've said, hey,

693
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:43,519
we know what we have in Kenyan Green. It's not good.

694
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So let's see what we have in this guy and

695
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,840
figure out at least if he's a capable option. Yeah,

696
00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:51,280
you have to take the training wheels off at some point,

697
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,119
and it's been mixed at best. To meet with Blake

698
00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:57,519
Fisher and what he's done in this offensive line, and

699
00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:02,840
that to me has been is going to be. It's

700
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,639
been the biggest storyline and it is going to be

701
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,079
the biggest storyline in this upcoming offseason. I mean, sure

702
00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:10,760
is who knows if Stefan Diggs wants to come back

703
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,400
on a one year deal or whatever. Like I'm not

704
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,039
even necessarily worried about that. You can you can hopefully

705
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:17,559
find somebody in free agency when it comes to wide receiver,

706
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:20,920
maybe even draft somebody whatever, you got Nico Collins wrapped up.

707
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,079
I'm worried about what is happening with the offensive line,

708
00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:26,519
and as you mentioned, the interior needs to be addressed

709
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,000
because whatever plan that Nick Cassario had envisioned as far

710
00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:31,840
as his guys and how well they were going to play,

711
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:34,480
you had Jack Jack Mason, even before he got hurt,

712
00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:36,599
he was taking a step back. He wasn't very good,

713
00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:41,320
and you've just got issues everywhere up there. Well, Priority

714
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,360
number one for me on the offensive line is center,

715
00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:46,280
because that guy is the extension of the quarterback. I mean,

716
00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:48,960
look at what we saw for years out of Peyton

717
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,800
Manning and with Jeff Saturday. I mean just how good

718
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:56,440
that group was and how much control they had of

719
00:35:56,559 --> 00:35:59,519
both the offense in general and just the line in general.

720
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:02,519
Because the center is the guy that has to be

721
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:06,400
the one who knows everybody's role on that offensive line.

722
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,760
They have to control that room. I mean you go

723
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,559
to usually teams will you know, have position groups. They're

724
00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:15,239
lockers right next to each other, and the guy who's

725
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,079
usually holding court for the offensive lineman is the center.

726
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,440
That's the guy that's the captain, that's the guy that

727
00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:23,239
makes everything go with that group. So you've got to

728
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,840
find that. And I mean you mentioned Jared Patterson. I

729
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,960
mean that's what you need to, you know, go back

730
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,000
and evaluate after this season. Is he a guy that

731
00:36:30,039 --> 00:36:32,360
can control that group? Is he a guy that can

732
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,400
be really the alpha of them? And I mean if

733
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,280
you don't feel like you have that, and you don't

734
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,440
feel like you have the continuity between he and c. J. Stroud,

735
00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:43,360
well then you got to find that. And I don't

736
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,519
think that's a draft pick, but at least somebody out there.

737
00:36:46,519 --> 00:36:49,360
There's a reason why everybody looks at tackles and they

738
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,360
lock them up. But you know who also gets their

739
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,039
money and gets to stick around. It's the center. All Right,

740
00:36:54,039 --> 00:36:56,679
We're gonna take a quick break here on the Matt

741
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,760
Thomas Show with Ross. We'll have a special treat for

742
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,239
you coming up at noon. Did you want to stay

743
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,760
tuned for. We're also gonna continue talking about the Texans.

744
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,760
Where is c J. Stroud relative to his ceiling? What

745
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,760
is going on with this Texans offensive line? How cooked

746
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,519
are they for the rest of the season. We're also

747
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:17,320
talking about the Rockets. They've won four in a row

748
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,960
and are in the second seed in the Western Conference.

749
00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:23,800
Are you catching Rockets fever. Seven one three two one

750
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,280
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you'd

751
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,920
like to get in. Seven one three two one two

752
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,519
five seven ninety. Will take a quick break and be

753
00:37:31,639 --> 00:37:33,679
back for our number two of the Matt Thomas Show

754
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:34,519
with Ross.

755
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:41,079
Speaker 1: Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

756
00:37:41,199 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: Eleven a m straight up. Our number two of the

757
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,559
Matt Thomas Show with Ross is here on Anything Goes

758
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,239
Friday at seven one three two one two five seven

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00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,559
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

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00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 6: Uh.

761
00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: I just got a tweet from Ivan who says Correa

762
00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:04,559
is coming back to Houston. Book it. This is my

763
00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,199
nephew with him in camp. Oh then he said, man,

764
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,400
if only never mind, all right, that was fake news.

765
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,039
You are fake news. Yeah, you just you just got

766
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,599
you just got deeped. I just got duped. That's fine,

767
00:38:17,639 --> 00:38:20,199
it happens. Uh, send me more tweets at sports r

768
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,119
VT if you love when when Twitter, you know, for

769
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,440
whatever team Astros Rockets Texans will go full message board mode.

770
00:38:27,559 --> 00:38:31,519
Hey man, hey, hey, you know my buddy is Carlos

771
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:36,440
Cares Barber, and he he has told the Astros everybody

772
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,719
come get them you know, he wants to come back

773
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,039
to Houston. He wants to be traded for Come on, man,

774
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:44,199
I this is ironclad. This is coming directly from the source,

775
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,199
like Bert Steele. Hold on, Bert, you don't know Bert Steele.

776
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,480
I don't know Bert Steele. Bert Steele was What was

777
00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:53,760
the first thing that Bert Steele was trying to break?

778
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,119
It was a bunch of fake news about the Rockets

779
00:38:56,119 --> 00:38:59,360
over the years. Maybe it was Chandlin of Parsons. Was

780
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,679
it a James hard and trade? Somebody tweet me what

781
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,719
was the first big thing Bert Steele? The story that

782
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,960
he was telling and people thought he might be actually

783
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,679
breaking some news because he had put on his Twitter,

784
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,079
like formally worked at ESPN and stuff like that. I'm

785
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:15,400
trying to pull I pull it up his tweets right now. Yeah,

786
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,719
I'm not completely familiar with Bert Steele's work, but I mean, look,

787
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,280
every fan base and all throughout Twitter's got him. I

788
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:26,239
mean Carlos Beltron's niece, remember Carlos Beltron's niece of you know,

789
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,280
spreading the rumor about the buzzers, and then of course,

790
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,400
you know you had you know, people's favorite Steel. I'm

791
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,000
hearing rumblings that the Rockets are all in on DeMarcus Cousins.

792
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,960
If Morey could pull this off, the Hooker's Cigarth and

793
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,199
Scotch are on me. I was in twenty fifteen, so

794
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,199
it's been a while since Bert's contributed to the sports

795
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:47,679
media landscape. Yes, I think it has been a while. Oh,

796
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:50,039
here we go. Inside sources have told me that Mellow

797
00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:52,599
will one be a rocket by Tuesday. You heard it

798
00:39:52,639 --> 00:39:54,880
here first. They got a thousand retweets, So maybe he

799
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,480
was first. Maybe it was the Mellow deal that he

800
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:02,199
was first in anyways, but yeah, it is. You know,

801
00:40:02,559 --> 00:40:04,800
you got to keep an eye on these folks because

802
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,440
sometimes they're right. Not even you could call from the

803
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,079
inside information. I remember it was happening here. People were

804
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,280
calling us and saying that they saw Lebron James at

805
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,400
like some private school and that he he and he

806
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:17,559
was going to be coming to the Rockets. Oh that's yeah,

807
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:19,599
that's always that. I mean, I mean, there was that

808
00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:22,079
with Chris Paul and turned out to be correct, because

809
00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:25,079
I mean I guess he was really looking at schools

810
00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:28,480
and seeing where he wanted the young kids to go. Yeah,

811
00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:30,639
all right, seven one three two point two five seven

812
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,039
ninety is the phone number. We've been talking a number

813
00:40:33,079 --> 00:40:36,679
of things, mostly Texans here as we are now a

814
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:42,440
two days removed from the debacle the Christmas Nightmare. I

815
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,119
don't even know. We got to come up with a

816
00:40:44,199 --> 00:40:46,719
name for that to reference it years down the road

817
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,199
because it was just an absolute nightmare. The ratings were good, though,

818
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:55,719
Netflix averaging twenty five million viewers for that Sunday night

819
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,639
Football this year is having one of its best years

820
00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:00,280
in like almost ten years. It's averaging twenty two million.

821
00:41:00,639 --> 00:41:02,639
You got a twenty five million average and it bumped

822
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:06,480
up to twenty seven million during Beyonce. Yeah, sorry, Lebron James.

823
00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:09,960
The NBA, it's no longer your day. Dare I even

824
00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:13,119
look up the Lakers and Warriors ratings? I think that

825
00:41:13,199 --> 00:41:16,960
I read this morning that the NFL numbers were five

826
00:41:17,079 --> 00:41:22,000
times what the NBA's was. I mean, look, aside from

827
00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:24,639
a couple of players in the league right now, people

828
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,519
don't care unless you have a direct rooting interest in

829
00:41:27,559 --> 00:41:29,880
the NBA right now, it's just as good. Seven point

830
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:36,599
seven six million viewers for Warriors and Lakers for it

831
00:41:36,639 --> 00:41:40,199
is actually close to twenty five million on Netflix, mind

832
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,679
you on a streaming service and it was on ABC.

833
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,320
I believe an ESPN was Lakers Warriors. But that's at

834
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,880
least the step in the right direction for the NBA ratings,

835
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,119
which have been tanking hard this year. And it was

836
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:54,360
actually a good game too. I mean, that was the

837
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,559
only of all of the five on NBA Christmas Day

838
00:41:57,599 --> 00:42:01,239
that I watched, and both the stars showed up. That's

839
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,159
another good point the ratings up there where it was

840
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,000
good games all day. I think every game was within

841
00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:10,480
single digits for the NBA all day long. Both NFL

842
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:13,079
games were duds. Like if those were good games, if

843
00:42:13,079 --> 00:42:16,039
those were close games, if somehow the we lived in

844
00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:18,480
a one of the multiverses where the Texans were keeping

845
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,840
close to the Ravens that they wouldn't even it would

846
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,840
have been even further of a gulf in between the

847
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,480
two now, because I mean, it'd be interesting to see

848
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,920
the third and fourth quarter numbers. I mean, especially after

849
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,320
Beyonce performed, where it's all right, what is there really

850
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,400
to watch now, because there was a steep rise and

851
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,280
then Beyonce left, and then there was a planes make

852
00:42:37,519 --> 00:42:40,679
slower dis sense into airports than than what you saw

853
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:45,840
right there. It was a complete it was leading to that.

854
00:42:46,119 --> 00:42:50,840
It was the noseedive before the flashed state. All right, anyway,

855
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,840
seven to one three as that's my phone. I did

856
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,320
that seven one three two win two. I walked into it.

857
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,480
I played I know what the room so I no

858
00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:00,440
want to blame but myself on that, and I'm gonna

859
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,960
look in the mirror. I'm gonna try to get better,

860
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,559
and you know we're gonna come back and next man

861
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:07,280
up and next segment up. The precedent has been said.

862
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,000
You know who you are, you know what the show

863
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:11,519
is from ten to two every single day. It's just

864
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:13,360
maybe every once in a while a different voice in

865
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,119
the room. That's all it is. Dad jokes and double entendres.

866
00:43:16,159 --> 00:43:19,679
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross tending to two. I

867
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,559
hear on Sports Talk seven ninety last night on the

868
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:23,159
Rockets Rap. I was like, be on with you guys

869
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:25,280
tomorrow at noon. Oh wait, no, at ten to two

870
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:27,559
here on sports Tell your friends, Tell your neighbors. We're

871
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:30,000
on ten to two here on a Sports Talk seven ninety.

872
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,280
Matt Thomas is out. We're talking a number of things

873
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,800
going on. But I was also as we were talking

874
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,199
about the offensive line, It's funny because I kind of

875
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,039
see this a lot. Dan people are like, just tell

876
00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:43,320
Nick Cassario, you just got a drafted offensive line in

877
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,880
every single round of the draft. Just do it just

878
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,920
like Nick, do it. Well. The problem with that is

879
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,320
Nick Cassario drafted Kenyon Green in the first round of

880
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,559
the twenty twenty two draft. Nick Cassario drafted Juice Scruggs

881
00:43:57,639 --> 00:44:00,719
and Blake Fisher in the second round. So there has

882
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:06,039
been draft capital spent on the offensive line. They're doing

883
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:09,960
the right thing that way, they're just not finding their guys.

884
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,599
If you take a center in the second round, he's

885
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:15,360
supposed to be really good. If you take a guard

886
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,599
in the first round, where that was it? What was

887
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:21,800
Kenyon Green? Was he fifteen twenty is somewhere to somewhere

888
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,320
in that neighborhood. Yeah, it sounds about right. So I mean,

889
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,000
if you take somebody that early in the first round

890
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:29,599
at guard, it needs to be a can't miss. So

891
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,920
clearly is what I'm saying is a lot of the

892
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,599
blame needs to lie on Nick Cassario in these draft

893
00:44:35,599 --> 00:44:38,639
picks that have been spent high draft picks. Blake Fisher TVD,

894
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,320
We're not going to say that he's a buster or

895
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,360
anything like that. He's coming along. He's at least playing

896
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,159
better than he was early in the season. He needs

897
00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:46,840
a green gain some strength. We'll see what he can

898
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,400
do as far as attack of going forward. I think

899
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,039
that was a good pick. But right now, those three

900
00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:54,039
guys that I just mentioned, in the last three years,

901
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,440
you've taken those guys in the second or first round.

902
00:44:57,519 --> 00:45:00,280
So draft capital is being spent on the offensive line.

903
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,440
It's just not bearing fruit. That's why I think the

904
00:45:02,519 --> 00:45:06,400
concern is valid. I mean, certain gms do have a

905
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,440
blind spot to certain positions. I mean I brought up

906
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,119
the quarterback example before. There's a reason why teams and

907
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,760
certain gms have not been able to find a quarterback.

908
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:19,400
They just might not know how to evaluate a quarterback

909
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,480
as well as other positions. Nicko Sario has shown you

910
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:26,400
he can evaluate linebackers, for example, he can evaluate defensive backs.

911
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,119
We've seen that this year. The defensive backs he brought

912
00:45:29,119 --> 00:45:32,719
in with this draft class been fantastic, and Lasseter and

913
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,559
Kaylen Bullock. I mean, probably even the second guy is exceeded,

914
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:42,400
far exceeded expectations, and he might just not necessarily be

915
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,519
as a depth at being able to evaluate good offensive

916
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:49,400
line play. It's a difference between seeing what the guy

917
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,760
is able to do in college because sometimes it translates,

918
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,719
sometimes it doesn't. But clearly, you know, I don't know

919
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,679
if he needs to get another set of eyes as

920
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,719
part of his support group in there and you know,

921
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,679
with scouts and you know, assistant gms or anybody else

922
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,880
to kind of help them out with that. But maybe

923
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,599
that's one of his shortcomings. Yeah. I mean, in theory,

924
00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:14,719
this offensive line coming into this season was one of

925
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,280
the highest paid tackles in the league at left tackle,

926
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,800
it was a first round pick at left guard, is

927
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:24,039
a second round pick at center, and it's two fairly

928
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,920
higher priced free agents on the right side. So in

929
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,239
a vacuum saying all that without any of their names,

930
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:31,639
you're like, Okay, we got a first round pick, a

931
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:34,320
second round pick, and three highly paid free agents. This

932
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,920
should be a really good offensive line. It just has

933
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,239
not materialized at all. Well, and that's the thing as well,

934
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,280
is I mean you're bringing up the draft example of oh,

935
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,119
go draft this guy, to go go draft that guy,

936
00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:45,800
you know, go do all of that. Well, you have

937
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,719
to get him right exactly. I mean, that's that's really

938
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,159
the heart of it all is getting the you know,

939
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,400
the individual player is not a hard thing to do.

940
00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:57,559
It's about making sure that that individual player is the

941
00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:01,280
right guy. And clearly, for the examples that you gave out,

942
00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:03,760
he's not had a very good batting average when it

943
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,039
comes to being able to identify that guy. Yeah, so

944
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,599
he's due. He's due. Maybe Blake Fisher will turn out

945
00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:12,199
to be a stud and then he can get somebody

946
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,000
in this upcoming draft that's gonna be really good and

947
00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:16,760
you'll be set. I still maintain that the majority of

948
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,760
the offensive line changes you're going to have this offseason

949
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,239
will be either through draft or draft, through free agency

950
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:28,920
or trade. Yeah, it's there's just no easy way to

951
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,280
do it because all thirty two teams, it's every thirty Look,

952
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,480
if you reach general manager of the NFL, obviously they're

953
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,079
gonna be guys who are gonna be boneheaded, make bonheaded moves,

954
00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:38,760
and some I'm gonna be better than others. But if

955
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,960
you ask thirty two general managers how important is offensive line,

956
00:47:44,039 --> 00:47:46,440
they're gonna tell you it's up the utmost importance. Well,

957
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,079
I mean, and that's what you heard the head coach

958
00:47:48,119 --> 00:47:50,239
saying last year. But he was more talking about the

959
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,800
defensive line just because of how badly they got physically

960
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,679
just crushed, dominated by the Ravens in the second half

961
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,840
of that playoff game. And I remember that Monday where

962
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,159
he talked about, we have to call the line of scrimmage.

963
00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:04,639
I will do that on Wednesday. I would probably guarantee

964
00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:07,639
you that when that final press conference of the season comes,

965
00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:10,360
which it will come sooner rather than later, you're gonna

966
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,000
have him talking about that on the offensive line this year. Yeah,

967
00:48:13,039 --> 00:48:15,320
you have limited resources. And it's the beauty of the

968
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,559
NFL is that it is a hard capped league. That's

969
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:19,880
why to me it has the most parody. To me,

970
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:23,119
it is the most interesting year to year because of

971
00:48:23,159 --> 00:48:26,400
that hard cap. So uh, but that's those are the

972
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,480
rules you play by. You can't sign everybody, you can't

973
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:31,199
draft everybody, you can't keep everybody. Nick Cassario has got

974
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,639
to figure this out, and offensive line is priority number

975
00:48:34,639 --> 00:48:37,199
one in the offseason. Well, you better make sure you

976
00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,800
get it right this next year because after this, all

977
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,559
of the fun things you just talked about they go

978
00:48:41,639 --> 00:48:44,400
away because you got to sign the quarterback, yes you,

979
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,159
and if you signed the quarterback, that terrible again, then

980
00:48:47,199 --> 00:48:49,079
you can think about it. She's going to be signed

981
00:48:49,079 --> 00:48:51,119
to a long term extension. I know he'll be better.

982
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:51,840
I mean, he.

983
00:48:53,519 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 12: You.

984
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,559
Speaker 2: You don't let a guy like c. J. Stroud go.

985
00:48:56,639 --> 00:48:58,920
He's not hitting free agency. I'm one hundred percent with you.

986
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,599
I get you. So we'll see what happens with this

987
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,559
offensive line as a continue to try to build it.

988
00:49:05,519 --> 00:49:08,199
I mean, and that's really the only choice that you have.

989
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,719
I mean, you know you wanted to be able to

990
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,920
go into this next offseason by being able to add

991
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,400
more toys, either at the receiver position, maybe you go

992
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,880
get a really good tight end out there. Dalton Schultz,

993
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,400
You've been fine, but I'm not going to get where

994
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,920
I want to go because of Dalton Schultz. Now he

995
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,440
could be part of it, but he's not gonna be

996
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,119
the reason that I'm there. There's improvements to be made

997
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:33,039
at the skill positions. There's zero doubt about that. Yeah,

998
00:49:33,079 --> 00:49:35,519
but it feels almost like we're simulatory arr last year

999
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:37,639
first and foremost. I mean, there's people who get their

1000
00:49:37,679 --> 00:49:41,039
foundation of their house reworked on for a reason, you've

1001
00:49:41,039 --> 00:49:43,159
got to rebuild the foundation, and the foundation is the

1002
00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:44,960
offensive line, all Right, We're gonna take a quick break

1003
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,280
here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. You want

1004
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,000
to get in, we're talking some textans seven to one

1005
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:53,400
three two one two five, seven ninety, has your trust

1006
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,800
in CJ Stroud Wavered Where are we out? On Nick

1007
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,440
Casario as well as I bring that up all those

1008
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,480
picks on offensive Lineman and none of them have been

1009
00:50:01,519 --> 00:50:04,239
smash hits at this point. And Kenny Green to me,

1010
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:05,320
I mean he's a bust right now.

1011
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:05,639
Speaker 7: He is.

1012
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,079
Speaker 2: It is what it is and to be determined on

1013
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,360
Blake Fisher seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.

1014
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,280
The phone number if you want to get in seven

1015
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,079
one three two one two five is seven ninety News

1016
00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:20,920
at noon and a special treat for all of your

1017
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,079
ears coming up at noon as well here on Sports

1018
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,199
Talk seven ninety and The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

1019
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 4: More Matt Thomas Show with Ross now on Sports Talk

1020
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:41,599
seven ninety, Gee, Jerry.

1021
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 7: Let's just put it in live middles in my ride thistle.

1022
00:50:49,199 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 2: Continuing along here on Sports Talk seven ninety, The Matt

1023
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,280
Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas, with Dan Matthews

1024
00:50:57,559 --> 00:51:02,559
and with Connor mcgovin as well producing playing the ones

1025
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:04,440
and twos. I like you when you go the Irish.

1026
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:09,320
Connor McGovern more, Oh, Connor McGovern he's a fine lad

1027
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,960
from Limerick. He's one of the final from Liricks. Okay,

1028
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:14,760
I always thought he was from bell Frong. Is an

1029
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:19,320
old oaken bucket, although the you know Belfast, Belfast, isn't

1030
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:20,440
that those northern Irish?

1031
00:51:20,599 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 9: Oh?

1032
00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:23,559
Speaker 2: Is he from Dublin? Night old? No, all right, welcome

1033
00:51:23,599 --> 00:51:25,320
back here on the show. Didn't want to show for

1034
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,239
those northern ross of the Riale here as well. We'll

1035
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,360
go into the Spanish accent and we're with you until

1036
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,599
two o'clock. We've got news at noon coming up and

1037
00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:37,880
a special treat for you as well. In the meantime

1038
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,719
you can get in seven one three two one two

1039
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:43,199
five seven ninety. Is the phone number, seven one three

1040
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:48,559
two one two five seven ninety. Quick shout out. Jonathan Fagin, Yes,

1041
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,599
been covering the rockets for what thirty years at this

1042
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,119
point for the Houston Chronicle, has announced his retirement. I'm

1043
00:51:57,159 --> 00:52:00,280
going back to look for the official statement. Yeah, today

1044
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,000
is his last day at the Houston Chronicle. He is

1045
00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:07,199
hanging them up and Jonathan Fagan shout out to him.

1046
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,760
I mean, as far as you wanted Rockets news from

1047
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,840
a reliable source, you turned to Jonathan Fagan. I mean

1048
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,320
I used to read him in the newspaper back in

1049
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,559
the day and wishing him the best in retirement. He's

1050
00:52:17,599 --> 00:52:19,880
been great, same as you. I mean, I remember, you know,

1051
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,960
trying to rip away the sports page whenever it would

1052
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,239
come to the house in the morning. And I mean, yeah,

1053
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,159
he was a constant and you know, I remember the

1054
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:29,719
first time got to meet him when I started doing

1055
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,800
this work back in two thousand and nine. And professional

1056
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,039
in every sense of the word. I mean it's a

1057
00:52:35,079 --> 00:52:38,360
massive loss for not only the readers but also too,

1058
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,360
I mean just the fans in general, because you knew

1059
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,960
that if you're getting the story from him, it was

1060
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,599
well vetted, it was well sourced, and it's going to

1061
00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:50,960
be a little bit different seeing somebody else on that byline.

1062
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1063
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 2: And as somebody who you two have as well, Dan,

1064
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,880
you've been in media scrums and then there's people Sometimes

1065
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,639
you get eye rollers. You're like, what is this person doing?

1066
00:53:00,679 --> 00:53:04,960
They're asking questions just to ask Jonathan Fagan a professional

1067
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,679
in all of the press availabilities. He asked good questions.

1068
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,960
He asked the right questions. He asked the questions that

1069
00:53:11,159 --> 00:53:14,639
us as fans and readers and listeners want to know,

1070
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,559
need to know. He is always like, he's got one

1071
00:53:18,599 --> 00:53:21,800
hundred percent hit rate with questions where he's talking to

1072
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,159
the coach, talking to the players or whatever. That is

1073
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,119
an underrated skill in this day and age. But something

1074
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,679
that he is he is so good at. Well, it's

1075
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:33,960
it's doing the job the way it's supposed to be done.

1076
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,679
You do the job, you don't look for extra commendation,

1077
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,320
you don't look for any sort of notoriety because oh

1078
00:53:40,639 --> 00:53:44,039
you asked you know the question. I mean, you're exactly right.

1079
00:53:44,119 --> 00:53:47,559
He's there to do his job and really not concerned

1080
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:50,320
with anything else. And you're right. I mean a lot

1081
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,719
of times in a scrum, less is more you don't

1082
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,360
have to ask a question. It's already been asked. Then

1083
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,360
it's fine. I mean, you know, I don't need to

1084
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,679
know why Bobby Slowick was not wearing a hat on

1085
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,599
the sidelines. What does that do for me? What does

1086
00:54:02,639 --> 00:54:05,800
that do for anybody? You think the fans care about that? No,

1087
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,159
I don't need that question exactly. So Jonathan Fagan, now

1088
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:13,960
retiring from the Houston Chronicle, wishing him well in retirement

1089
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,360
and a great career. It has been here in the

1090
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,360
city of Houston. Seven two one two five seven ninety

1091
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,079
is the phone number Chris in Jersey Village has been holding.

1092
00:54:23,119 --> 00:54:27,199
Speaker 12: What's up, Chris, Hey, Ross, Good afternoon, guys. A couple

1093
00:54:27,199 --> 00:54:28,039
of points, uh.

1094
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 13: First, Earlier this week, I posed the question what are

1095
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,000
the Texans had to play for on Christmas Day?

1096
00:54:35,159 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 12: And I couldn't agree more with what Dan said.

1097
00:54:38,039 --> 00:54:41,559
Speaker 13: Dan said everything made it sound like our season was

1098
00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:43,719
on the line and we had to play this game

1099
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,039
like it was a win or lose.

1100
00:54:45,079 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 12: That's way it sounded.

1101
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 8: Dan.

1102
00:54:47,639 --> 00:54:52,199
Speaker 13: But I have to say playing Pittsburgh with losing the

1103
00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:54,320
Baltimore is probably the best thing we could have done.

1104
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,320
So I totally disagree with our decision to play CJ

1105
00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:01,519
the entire game and play some of our cornerstone players

1106
00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:03,960
the entire game. I think they needed a mental break,

1107
00:55:04,519 --> 00:55:08,599
especially playing so many games in eleven twelve days whatever

1108
00:55:08,639 --> 00:55:09,039
it was.

1109
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 12: And I just felt like that was a mistake there.

1110
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 13: And you guys are talking about the offensive line and

1111
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:20,519
all the high draft picks, you know, but maybe these

1112
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:24,000
guys were drafted before Bobby Slovak and this zone scheme

1113
00:55:24,079 --> 00:55:28,360
blocking that we're doing. Maybe these guys that were drafted

1114
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:33,320
before Bobby got here were better suited for other schemes.

1115
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,679
Speaker 12: And I think that's what a lot of us.

1116
00:55:35,679 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 13: Are saying right now with Bobby Slovak, is yes, we

1117
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,039
have hurt players, so you have to adapt and play

1118
00:55:42,079 --> 00:55:44,400
to your player strenks, you know.

1119
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,159
Speaker 12: I think that's what happened in Baltimore for.

1120
00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 13: The first couple of years when the quarterback was there,

1121
00:55:51,199 --> 00:55:54,960
they they didn't play to his strings. They changed offensive coordinators,

1122
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,719
and now they do a different scheme.

1123
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 12: So maybe that's part of it.

1124
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,559
Speaker 13: Theseus were drafted before Bobby got here, and there we're

1125
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:05,800
trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

1126
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 2: Good show, guys, I appreciate it. I mean I was

1127
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,199
more coming at it from the standpoint of you're not

1128
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,119
going to beat Baltimore. Twice. You said to rest your

1129
00:56:14,159 --> 00:56:18,159
start the starters. I didn't say no Iday to clarify

1130
00:56:18,199 --> 00:56:19,800
that I was saying. I was saying it from the

1131
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,159
standpoint of, if you can get to the three seed,

1132
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,280
I think you feel better about your chances of being

1133
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,320
able to advance in the playoffs. If you have to

1134
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,280
play Baltimore again. Maybe you would have beat them the

1135
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,119
other day, which obviously you lost by twenty nine points,

1136
00:56:32,159 --> 00:56:35,800
so that's out the window. But the point is you

1137
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,719
aren't going to beat them twice. You're not good enough

1138
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,000
to beat them twice. That's a really good coaching staff,

1139
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,840
that's a really good team. And even though it would

1140
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,199
be back at your place again, it's a blessing in

1141
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,079
disguise that you don't have to play them again more

1142
00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:53,280
than likely until you maybe get to the AFC Championship game.

1143
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,480
I think you get to the AFC Championship game, everything

1144
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:00,159
else of this season is forgotten about because it's hey,

1145
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:03,519
this group got there. Now, you really are seeing progress.

1146
00:57:03,679 --> 00:57:06,639
Now we can truly believe that next year is a

1147
00:57:06,679 --> 00:57:08,960
massive step forward season. Yeah, that's what I'm going on.

1148
00:57:09,079 --> 00:57:11,960
It would take winning a home game against the Steelers possible,

1149
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:15,440
and then going on the road and upsetting I mean,

1150
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:18,760
depending on who it's going to be. As of right now,

1151
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,440
it would be the Kansas City Chiefs in but on

1152
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,280
the sid unless you get an upset lower in the

1153
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,519
playoffs where because thankfully the NFL is smart and they

1154
00:57:27,599 --> 00:57:30,159
reseed the playoffs. Here's the thing, though, I mean, do

1155
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:33,840
you necessarily believe that the Texans came out of that

1156
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,880
game against Kansas City feeling like we were overmatched. We

1157
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,920
can't beat these guys, we can't play with these guys.

1158
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,239
I don't. That's another thing. I know. It's a hard

1159
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,280
sell for me to say that we're overreacting to a

1160
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,480
thirty one to two game. It was an absolute abject

1161
00:57:45,519 --> 00:57:47,960
failure in all three phases of the game. It was embarrassing.

1162
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,599
It was on national television. Twenty five million people tuned

1163
00:57:50,599 --> 00:57:54,400
in to watch the Texans get eviscerated. But the week before,

1164
00:57:54,519 --> 00:57:57,679
as you just said, they played pretty close with the

1165
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,400
Kansas City Chiefs. They led that game ten to seven. Now,

1166
00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:02,800
clearly the Chiefs were better in that game, but I

1167
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:05,559
didn't come away from that game saying the Texans aren't

1168
00:58:05,599 --> 00:58:09,320
anywhere in the Kansas City Chiefs league. So this being

1169
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,559
a week two week league, and I know, again a

1170
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:14,159
hard sell because this was the absolute this is the

1171
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:16,760
worst game the Texans have played in what years and

1172
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,880
years it feels like, and the stage that it happened,

1173
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,840
and not looking anywhere close to the Baltimore Ravens. But

1174
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,239
if you get ten days of rest, you played your

1175
00:58:25,239 --> 00:58:28,000
starters just a smattering against the Titans, you get back

1176
00:58:28,039 --> 00:58:30,159
in rhythm, You get a little bit more rest that way,

1177
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:35,679
in that you've afforded yourself the luxury of winning the division.

1178
00:58:36,199 --> 00:58:38,679
And this is being class half full to where you

1179
00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:41,119
get all this rest, you don't really really play your

1180
00:58:41,119 --> 00:58:42,960
starters in the Titans, and you're fresh and ready to

1181
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,400
go in a couple of weeks for a home game

1182
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,840
hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's not the worst situation in

1183
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,960
the world as long as you get your guys back

1184
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,199
on the offensive. Long See, here's the class half full

1185
00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:55,079
scenario exactly the way that it played out. Because let's

1186
00:58:55,079 --> 00:58:57,360
just say that the results with both games you lost.

1187
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,719
So some people might say it doesn't matter. But if

1188
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,719
you went to Kansas City and you lost the way

1189
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,119
that you just did on Christmas Day, you're probably saying, man,

1190
00:59:05,239 --> 00:59:07,360
maybe there is something about this place having magic for

1191
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,800
them here, you know, maybe maybe maybe it is mental

1192
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,960
when you when you face these guys. I don't think

1193
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,960
that that's the case. I think the fact that you

1194
00:59:14,039 --> 00:59:16,920
went there you had a catastrophic injury to one of

1195
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,559
the guys that was really having a really good, really

1196
00:59:19,559 --> 00:59:21,599
good game and I think for the most part, people

1197
00:59:21,599 --> 00:59:23,719
were looking at Tank Dell and looking at Bobby Slowik

1198
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,280
and saying, dude, where was this? Like why why why

1199
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,800
wasn't this considered more? Why why wasn't this part of

1200
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:32,440
the game plan more? And once that happened, the air

1201
00:59:32,559 --> 00:59:35,159
completely came out of the balloon for that one. Yeah,

1202
00:59:35,199 --> 00:59:37,039
and I mean I know that you're not as not

1203
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:40,280
coming back. No, it's not. It's not going next year,

1204
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,719
So your offense is going to look different if indeed

1205
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:46,159
you do get that opportunity a second time. But it's

1206
00:59:46,199 --> 00:59:48,880
also too as well, kind of back to the lesson

1207
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,480
that I said that c J. Stroud would learn, it's

1208
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,519
you are never out of the fight. I mean, don't

1209
00:59:54,559 --> 00:59:56,920
don't ever take yourself out of the fight. And some

1210
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,400
people believe with you know, the way he reacted after

1211
01:00:00,159 --> 01:00:02,840
after Tank got hurt, he took himself out of the fight.

1212
01:00:03,719 --> 01:00:07,119
So what's a better way to, you know, try to

1213
01:00:07,159 --> 01:00:10,119
regain someone's confidence, give him another chance, and if he

1214
01:00:10,159 --> 01:00:12,480
gets that chance again, you'd love to see if c J.

1215
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:14,519
Stroud can maybe say, hey, you know what, I'm still

1216
01:00:14,519 --> 01:00:16,960
that guy. I can still do this. I just think,

1217
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:20,119
I mean, especially if the run game is being bottled up.

1218
01:00:20,239 --> 01:00:23,360
You're it's Nicocollins and a whole lot of in the

1219
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,440
passing game. So that's gonna be tough. It's gonna be

1220
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,159
really tough. But I mean, that's that's that's one of

1221
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:30,079
the best examples. I think. You know, we played some

1222
01:00:30,119 --> 01:00:32,960
audio from Chris Simms yesterday and he was talking about, Yeah,

1223
01:00:33,039 --> 01:00:35,639
Joe Mixon's had a great season, but he's also been

1224
01:00:35,679 --> 01:00:38,000
able to run against bad teams. When you face a

1225
01:00:38,039 --> 01:00:40,039
good team, he's not been able to do that. So

1226
01:00:40,159 --> 01:00:42,800
then Bobby Slowik, let me talk directly to you again.

1227
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,760
How do you fix that? You get him involved in

1228
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,679
the passing game. Yeah. And also, I think speaking of

1229
01:00:49,679 --> 01:00:52,199
people being banged up, I mean's multiple ankle injuries this

1230
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,039
year for Joe Mixon. I think the these ten days

1231
01:00:55,079 --> 01:00:59,360
off plus very light work if any against the Titans

1232
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,480
is gonna him well and have him ready to go

1233
01:01:01,519 --> 01:01:05,199
for the playoffs. So I'm starting to convince myself that

1234
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:10,320
at least there is they are a complete disasters is

1235
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:14,320
back Baby Baby, you are Frank Costanza where you regain

1236
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,320
the love of cooking again. Third Baby thirty one to two.

1237
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:20,960
I never even saw it all right, We're gonna take

1238
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,559
quick breakway Man Thomas Show, Focks with Ross coming up.

1239
01:01:25,559 --> 01:01:27,320
We got the news at noon, a special treat for

1240
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:28,920
you at noon as well. You want to get in

1241
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,960
Thank you. I was waiting for that. Connor seven one

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,840
three two one two five seven ninety the phone number

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01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,000
seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

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01:01:36,159 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: Nothing can stop me. I'm all the way.

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01:01:38,239 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 4: Up, all away.

1246
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 2: Eleven thirty three in the am here on Sports Talk

1247
01:01:51,199 --> 01:01:55,119
seven ninety ros Viria with you on the Matt Thomas

1248
01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:59,400
Show with Ross without Matt Thomas with Dan Matthews and

1249
01:01:59,599 --> 01:02:02,360
Connor McGovern will have the news at noon coming up

1250
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,199
and also a special treat for you. There is this

1251
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:09,599
the Armed Forces Bowl getting well in the middle of

1252
01:02:09,639 --> 01:02:12,760
the first quarter as oh, you up fourteen to nothing

1253
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,079
on Navy. What's the opt in rate on this ball?

1254
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:19,639
I think they're o you if I'm not mistaken. Did

1255
01:02:19,639 --> 01:02:22,039
I hear AC say this yesterday or somebody said it

1256
01:02:22,079 --> 01:02:25,280
that thirty percent of their roster was in the portal,

1257
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,599
So I mean this might be he don't know what

1258
01:02:29,679 --> 01:02:33,440
they can Those who stay will be Armed Forces Bowl champions.

1259
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,239
Game for OUs, so good for them. I think you

1260
01:02:37,239 --> 01:02:39,400
know Danny Stutsman and some of those guys are playing.

1261
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,519
But yeah, such as bowl season, now, that's that's what

1262
01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:45,440
we get, is everybody in the portal. Although I believe

1263
01:02:45,559 --> 01:02:48,039
Coach Prime has a lot of the Colorado Buffaloes playing

1264
01:02:48,039 --> 01:02:51,239
the game. Correct, Yeah, I mean, as far as I know,

1265
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,199
I think you are still going to see Travis Hunter

1266
01:02:53,239 --> 01:02:54,800
and some of the guys. There's been a lot of

1267
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:58,480
hype for them there in San Antonio. The it's the storied,

1268
01:02:58,599 --> 01:03:01,639
hallowed Alamobile. A Texas Longhorn fan, I can tell you

1269
01:03:01,639 --> 01:03:03,639
the Alamobile one of the best in the biz. And

1270
01:03:03,719 --> 01:03:07,360
the new age college football, that is two conference teams

1271
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,480
playing against each other to the Big twelve right there,

1272
01:03:10,519 --> 01:03:13,559
I think that what was it? Jake Rutsloff, the quarterback

1273
01:03:13,599 --> 01:03:17,199
for BYU, called it the peoples this Big twelve Championship,

1274
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:21,320
the People's Big twelve championship game. So whatever that twelve

1275
01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:24,960
supremacy on the line. That's that's how I called the

1276
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:29,800
twenty nineteen Longhorns N Championship the People's Championship. Side the

1277
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:33,119
office building that they call a stadium there, the Alamobile.

1278
01:03:33,239 --> 01:03:36,519
You're not playing for anything that really matters. You're playing

1279
01:03:36,519 --> 01:03:39,840
for Pride. It's the pay Pals Championship at the Alamo Bowl.

1280
01:03:40,159 --> 01:03:41,800
We always joke on this show because I've been to

1281
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:45,920
like three Alamobiles as a Longhorns fan, that they Matt

1282
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:47,960
always says that there is a seat for me save

1283
01:03:48,039 --> 01:03:49,880
with my name on it, and that's not true at

1284
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:53,360
the Alamobile. But have I taken an old Greyhound bus

1285
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,800
back and forth from San Antonio and with an Alomobile

1286
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,760
trip in between? Maybe I have? You don't concern yourself

1287
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:02,679
with the Alamobile anymore? On the well might be, we'll see.

1288
01:04:03,079 --> 01:04:06,519
The standards are much higher now where I mean, it's

1289
01:04:06,519 --> 01:04:08,159
even getting to the point where I guess there's not

1290
01:04:08,199 --> 01:04:10,440
really New Year six Bowl games anymore because they've been

1291
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,360
absorbed into the twelve team playoff. But that would have

1292
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:16,079
been where finally, you know, you know you're in a

1293
01:04:16,119 --> 01:04:18,840
good place as a fan base, where you finally say

1294
01:04:19,199 --> 01:04:21,519
we're playing in the Sugar Bowl, not for the whole thing.

1295
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:23,280
Yeah no, thanks, I'm not going.

1296
01:04:23,599 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1297
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 2: Well, with the twelve team playoff, the expectation would be

1298
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,360
to get in every year, if you but that's also

1299
01:04:29,639 --> 01:04:31,880
there's thirty programs who were saying we should be in

1300
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:35,480
the playoff every year, So Alabama says that they're not in.

1301
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,360
Blaine Kiffin and Ole Miss probably says that they're not in.

1302
01:04:39,519 --> 01:04:41,000
It's going to be a year to year things, So

1303
01:04:41,159 --> 01:04:42,880
I mean, maybe it's kind of a case by case

1304
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,360
basis too, where if you're playing in the pop Tarts Bowl,

1305
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,199
then yeah, you want to go, and you want to

1306
01:04:47,199 --> 01:04:48,719
you want to get your pop tart. Gonna go crush

1307
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,840
some pop tarts. Yeah, that'd be great. Miami another team

1308
01:04:52,119 --> 01:04:55,280
I guess Clemson is or was they are actually in

1309
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,440
the pop Tarts Bowl. Miami is. Okay, good for them. Yeah,

1310
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:02,280
they're playing against Iowa States. Wishing them the best. All right,

1311
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,239
we are rolling along here on the Matt Thomas Show

1312
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,880
with Ross Christian and Lamark has got in. So let's

1313
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,679
go ahead and clear the floor for Christian. Go ahead,

1314
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:18,239
and you are on the show morning, Ross Villa Ringo,

1315
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:24,519
Damn Matthews, Van comm Govern, Hey, Hi Christian, how are you?

1316
01:05:24,639 --> 01:05:25,800
How is your Christmas? Christian?

1317
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:31,039
Speaker 8: My Christmas was all right, average and boring because of

1318
01:05:31,079 --> 01:05:33,400
the fact that the Texan's laws thirty one to two.

1319
01:05:33,519 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 2: But all scrooge it you do you do you have

1320
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,639
nepheis Christian? Or do you steal somebody's passwords.

1321
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 8: No, I was watching it on you know the station that.

1322
01:05:45,559 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 2: Chael eleven CBS. Does he hate them?

1323
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:52,239
Speaker 8: Yes, he hated them back when Tate was having their

1324
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:53,599
issues with Direct TV.

1325
01:05:54,719 --> 01:05:56,719
Speaker 2: Remember right, that's right, I remember what you're talking about.

1326
01:05:56,719 --> 01:05:59,320
I'm sorry, go ahead, Christian, Yeah, but.

1327
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:00,159
Speaker 6: Steal bro if.

1328
01:06:00,199 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 8: I just basically wanted to ask these two questions. First

1329
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,559
of all, even though Houston hasn't really been in the

1330
01:06:06,719 --> 01:06:11,840
sports spotlight outside of the Astros of course losing to Detroit,

1331
01:06:12,679 --> 01:06:16,000
I just wanted to basically ask what was your favorite

1332
01:06:16,079 --> 01:06:20,320
Houston related sports moment of twenty twenty four? And second

1333
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,119
of all, with Johnson Fagan retired, They're not seen and

1334
01:06:23,239 --> 01:06:27,159
read the post earlier this morning about it. What do you,

1335
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,880
I mean, what were your favorite memories about Johnson Fagan

1336
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:33,639
covering the Rockets for the Houston Chronicle.

1337
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,159
Speaker 2: Favorite moments. I don't have any specific moments necessarily, but

1338
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:40,119
just the fact that he was always there. He was

1339
01:06:40,159 --> 01:06:43,679
a great writer, He always told the story. He was

1340
01:06:44,039 --> 01:06:48,599
extremely reliable on the beat. I mean, the quintessential beat

1341
01:06:48,599 --> 01:06:51,880
writer is somebody who's gonna write postgame articles, They're gonna

1342
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,719
write features throughout the year, they're gonna be at press conferences,

1343
01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:57,679
they're gonna ask good questions, they're gonna I just be

1344
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:01,599
there for everything you need, cover every facet of a team,

1345
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,000
and on top of that, breaking news here and there.

1346
01:07:04,039 --> 01:07:05,559
You know, it's not like he's to the level of

1347
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:09,079
Woj or Shams or anything like that, but oftentimes throughout

1348
01:07:09,119 --> 01:07:11,719
the years he would he would break some stories. So

1349
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:15,519
basically checking every single box of what a beat reporter is,

1350
01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:17,920
which is becoming a lost art. And you know, as

1351
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,320
as it goes along with these newspapers making cuts, which

1352
01:07:21,519 --> 01:07:24,480
I hope it wasn't the suffering of a cut for

1353
01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:27,920
Jonathan Fagan and his retirement, but if I had to guess,

1354
01:07:28,119 --> 01:07:30,360
maybe it's something like that with the Houston Chronicle. I

1355
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:35,280
don't know, but just checking every box, that's what Jonathan

1356
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:37,800
Fagan did for as a beat reporter for an NBA team.

1357
01:07:38,519 --> 01:07:40,320
It's the same for me. I mean, you know, as

1358
01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:42,519
I mentioned in the last segment, he did the job.

1359
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,199
I mean, and that's something that I think is a

1360
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,639
lost art in this business is it's people who want

1361
01:07:48,719 --> 01:07:51,440
to make a name for themselves. You know, they have

1362
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:55,039
ulterior motives for why they're doing the job, and he

1363
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,679
did exactly that. He showed up, he worked, and he was,

1364
01:07:59,119 --> 01:08:01,840
you know, able to outstanding content in return.

1365
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 8: Oh, understood. And just to ask question number two, what

1366
01:08:09,559 --> 01:08:12,559
was your favorite Houston sports moment of the year that

1367
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:13,760
was actually good?

1368
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 2: For one, I'll go the wild Card game last year.

1369
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,720
That was beating up on the on Joe Flacco and

1370
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:24,399
the Cleveland Browns. That was fun. Yeah, and then we

1371
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,079
don't have to talk about what happened the next week.

1372
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 8: Understood, understood, but definitely for certain I agree with y'all

1373
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:36,239
that Browns Texans moment was definitely worth it, mostly because

1374
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:39,680
everybody was mad that Joe Flacco who got off his

1375
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,920
lazy rear end just to come back and took an

1376
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:48,439
awar from Hambling, I mean just to I mean basically,

1377
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,760
he wanted to come back a war for nothing and

1378
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,960
he literally got whooped just because he wanted to come

1379
01:08:55,079 --> 01:08:58,920
back for Deshaun Watson. But still, though point of the

1380
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,760
matter of his I agree with y'all, Browns Texans was

1381
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:05,560
definitely the top notch moment of Houston sports this year.

1382
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,600
And hopefully we'll have more than twenty twenty five to.

1383
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 2: Look out there. Yeah, hopefully some better ones.

1384
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 8: Other than that sports RV. It's been fun talking with you.

1385
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,279
I didn't even notice that y'all moved up two hours,

1386
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:21,880
yea four extra hours of this show. It sucks that

1387
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,319
the other guy, Northfleet ain't on here anymore, but hey,

1388
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,199
hopefully I'll listen to y'all more often and I'll talk

1389
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:29,960
to you on social media until then.

1390
01:09:30,119 --> 01:09:33,359
Speaker 2: Ross, it's been fun. Yes, thank you, Christian. Yes stand

1391
01:09:33,399 --> 01:09:36,560
Northfleet speaking of Jonathan Fagan and cuts it newspapers and

1392
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,800
stuff like that. It happens in the radio business as well.

1393
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,920
An unfortunate casualty of the business. We have chosen Dan.

1394
01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:47,479
But yeah, we are on tended to here on Sports

1395
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,720
Talk seven ninety Tell your friends, Tell your neighbors, the

1396
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,159
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Matt out today. I think

1397
01:09:52,239 --> 01:09:55,560
he's back Monday, and we'll be with you. I mean

1398
01:09:56,079 --> 01:09:59,159
starting next year, making New Year's resolution to listen to

1399
01:09:59,199 --> 01:10:01,319
all four hours here on Sports Talk seven and plus.

1400
01:10:01,359 --> 01:10:03,359
Next week we get D of the Year. Correct, Oh,

1401
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,000
that is right, we are going to get D of

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01:10:05,039 --> 01:10:06,600
the Year. And as far as I mean, I'm trying

1403
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,560
to come up with great sports moments from this year.

1404
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,680
Maybe renewe Blanco is no hitter. Okay, yeah, no, absolutely,

1405
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:15,359
that's up there for sure. I mean Jalen Green's March.

1406
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,039
The entire month of March, he was incredible, and that's

1407
01:10:18,079 --> 01:10:19,560
when I was like, oh my god, he's unlocking his

1408
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:21,560
full potential. He's going to be a star shooting guard.

1409
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,880
And well that hasn't happened. But he did have thirty

1410
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:25,600
points for the Rockets, leading the way in a win

1411
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,760
over the over the Pelicans. So at least we have

1412
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:32,600
that Astros in Mexico City maybe because fun that's the

1413
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:34,800
one that kind of turned the season around at that point.

1414
01:10:35,159 --> 01:10:37,640
And did fromer get a no hitter this year? Was

1415
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,319
that last year? You got another one this year?

1416
01:10:41,399 --> 01:10:41,520
Speaker 6: Right?

1417
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 2: He was close? Close, that's right, because it was against

1418
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,520
the Rangers, and didn't you give up like a two

1419
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:50,960
guardians was last year? Yeah, he got close, that's right,

1420
01:10:51,039 --> 01:10:53,640
one out shy, That's what it was. Earlier this year

1421
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:55,680
as I pull it up to run homeer to Corey

1422
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,399
seeger I remember now, thank you for jogging my memory

1423
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,880
on that. But yeah, the Renault Blanco hitter, I don't know.

1424
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,680
Jalen Green's March, the win over the the wild card

1425
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:08,039
win back when we really really believe these Texans were

1426
01:11:08,079 --> 01:11:12,319
going to be something Dan many many moons ago. The

1427
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,199
calendar now turns to twenty twenty five. I mean, that's

1428
01:11:15,279 --> 01:11:17,439
the thing, is all. From the beginning of this season,

1429
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:19,680
it kind of was a little bit of huh, is

1430
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,279
this a harbinger of what's to come? I mean the

1431
01:11:22,319 --> 01:11:24,680
Minnesota game we thought was an anomaly, and then after

1432
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,840
that we were like, oh mekee cern Then with all

1433
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,399
the pressures that were giving up this team is, we

1434
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,720
kept waiting and waiting and waiting for them to saying

1435
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:33,880
they're look, they're not playing their best ball. Maybe they'll

1436
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,760
really start improving and getting better. Kind of what the

1437
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:37,279
Chiefs did?

1438
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 6: You know?

1439
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:39,560
Speaker 2: They're back to back Super Bowl champions, So a different

1440
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,039
team we're talking about. But Chiefs were winning close games,

1441
01:11:42,119 --> 01:11:44,359
not looking their best, but they've really rounded into form

1442
01:11:44,359 --> 01:11:46,359
in the last four weeks, looking like a strong contender.

1443
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:48,920
Was hoping something like that it would happen with the Texans.

1444
01:11:49,159 --> 01:11:52,439
Unfortunately that has not come to pass. Seven one three,

1445
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,600
two point two five, seven ninety is the phone numer

1446
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,159
We're going to take another quick break here on Sports

1447
01:11:57,199 --> 01:11:58,920
Talk seven ninety. Coming up at noon, we will have

1448
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,000
the news at noon as we reset all the news

1449
01:12:01,079 --> 01:12:03,920
topics of the day. We also will have a special

1450
01:12:04,039 --> 01:12:06,039
treat for you coming up at noon. I think you

1451
01:12:06,159 --> 01:12:09,560
know what it'll be. We also will have the special

1452
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,119
Friday intro. My my goodness, were gonna have to push

1453
01:12:12,199 --> 01:12:13,520
the news at noon back. We'll have to see what

1454
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,880
goes on here. But we're gonna be with you until

1455
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:18,640
two o'clock. You shouldn't go anywhere. As I said, yes,

1456
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:20,800
the Matt Thomas Show is ten to two here on

1457
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:23,239
Sports Talk seven ninety at seven one, three, two, one

1458
01:12:23,319 --> 01:12:25,720
two five, seven ninety more Matt.

1459
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:30,560
Speaker 4: Thomas Show with Ross now by Sports Talk seven ninety.

1460
01:12:46,079 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 2: Welcome in to the final segment of the second hour

1461
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:56,119
of the Matt Thomas Show four hours. Yes, Christian, just hearing.

1462
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,880
For those of you not aware, we are the Matt

1463
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:02,439
Thomas Show with for from ten to two, although Matt's

1464
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,640
not here, you know. But there was a little bit

1465
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:08,000
of an adjustment for some of the callers because at

1466
01:13:08,079 --> 01:13:12,880
two forty five some days I would get, yeah, it

1467
01:13:13,119 --> 01:13:15,399
is a prize, it's tailed off. It's tailed off for

1468
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:18,000
the last month, but yeah, I'm calling to play believe

1469
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,920
it or not. You know what I need to start doing.

1470
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,720
If I do get any of those today, I need

1471
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,840
to hang them on what was your favorite part of

1472
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:27,680
the show today. That's what Matt Thomas would do. The

1473
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,960
prize horse clocks have not adjusted completely. We are on

1474
01:13:31,119 --> 01:13:34,319
ten to two. There's that. So the Believe It or

1475
01:13:34,319 --> 01:13:37,479
Not segment, which is not on today, normally at one

1476
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,359
forty five. So there you go an hour earlier, so

1477
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,680
adjust your times accordingly. But it's that or it's also

1478
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,600
to the way that we give away our prizes on

1479
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,600
the A team is we ask a question so then

1480
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:50,640
you know, of course people will call. I'll usually time

1481
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,760
it out, you know, countdown from twenty and then know, okay,

1482
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:55,800
you know they heard the question. So let's see if

1483
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:59,079
we get an answer. Oh man, what was the question? Click?

1484
01:13:59,359 --> 01:14:02,760
So yeah, I don't do it. I don't do it. Okay,

1485
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:05,119
I'll do it, Thank you, Dan. But one standing ovation

1486
01:14:05,239 --> 01:14:07,279
I will give today. You noticed that I was here

1487
01:14:07,359 --> 01:14:09,880
with plenty of time to spare before the show, you know,

1488
01:14:10,119 --> 01:14:13,479
standing ovation for the drivers out there in Houston today. Oh,

1489
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:17,880
because they weren't there because you did holiday traffic right,

1490
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,279
There wasn't fifty five mile an hour drivers in the

1491
01:14:21,319 --> 01:14:25,600
middle lanes clogging things up for everybody else. There wasn't

1492
01:14:26,039 --> 01:14:30,560
useless breaking at any times. You did it well. Congratul

1493
01:14:31,039 --> 01:14:33,199
I know that I complain a lot about the drivers

1494
01:14:33,279 --> 01:14:35,720
of this city, but today a plus work. I feel

1495
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,800
like Demko after a win in the locker room. I'm

1496
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:40,359
giving out game balls. You guys did a great job.

1497
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:42,399
Game ball for all of you out there today. Helmet

1498
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,600
stickers to follow. Yeah, we're all proud of you. All right.

1499
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:47,239
Seven one three, two two five seven ninety is the

1500
01:14:47,319 --> 01:14:49,680
phone number. Dan Matthews is here. I am here, ros

1501
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:54,600
Viria that Thomas on vacation. He will be back on Monday.

1502
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:58,960
Larry in industry has called in here on the show. Larry,

1503
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:02,920
go ahead, everybody, how wrong how you doing today? I'm

1504
01:15:03,039 --> 01:15:05,840
doing great, that's great.

1505
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 9: Hey, how come your voice goes up like a little

1506
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,000
girl every once in a while.

1507
01:15:11,319 --> 01:15:15,640
Speaker 2: That's your problem, man, My voice says. I'm more of

1508
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,119
a cackler when it comes to laughing. But I mean

1509
01:15:18,199 --> 01:15:20,000
that's who I am, and I'm always gonna be who

1510
01:15:20,039 --> 01:15:21,800
I am. I'm sorry if you have a problem with Hilarry.

1511
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,159
Speaker 12: You gotta be who you are, buddy, and I will

1512
01:15:25,199 --> 01:15:25,600
be Larry.

1513
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 9: You want to know how to name that game. It's

1514
01:15:29,039 --> 01:15:32,079
a grint game because the grint stole Chris and he

1515
01:15:32,239 --> 01:15:33,880
told a bunch of money out of my wallet.

1516
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 2: Y Larry, how come you tell terrible jokes on air?

1517
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 6: Oh no, how can?

1518
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:42,640
Speaker 2: I I said? How come.

1519
01:15:45,319 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 6: I lost you?

1520
01:15:46,159 --> 01:15:47,720
Speaker 2: I know your very lost, Larry?

1521
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 8: Go ahead?

1522
01:15:48,279 --> 01:15:49,760
Speaker 2: Do you want to make a point about the Texans?

1523
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 9: Well, and I just hope they reffed everybody. Get the

1524
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,760
backup quarterback in there, get him from rev and uh

1525
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:03,319
let let uh let our quarterback just take it day

1526
01:16:03,359 --> 01:16:05,479
off and get in mine right for the next game,

1527
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:09,119
and we'll hope for the best. You know, Yeah, you

1528
01:16:09,239 --> 01:16:11,359
mind if I asked you a baseball.

1529
01:16:11,039 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 2: Question, sure, go ahead, anything goes.

1530
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,159
Speaker 9: I know we're talking footballs either. But you know we

1531
01:16:16,279 --> 01:16:19,399
got paraded at third now, so we got Walker at first.

1532
01:16:20,079 --> 01:16:23,279
We still got to have a right fielder. You cannot

1533
01:16:23,359 --> 01:16:27,520
go in the season with you know, McCormick and Mars

1534
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:28,359
and Dumont.

1535
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 2: There's no way that works.

1536
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:33,079
Speaker 6: Do you agree? Uh? I?

1537
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 2: I think I agree. I don't know if Jim Crane

1538
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:39,199
in his pocketbook and Dana Brown agree, well.

1539
01:16:39,159 --> 01:16:41,119
Speaker 9: They need to they need to get that pocket book

1540
01:16:41,159 --> 01:16:45,279
out and then do something with it. But yeah, anyway,

1541
01:16:45,319 --> 01:16:47,479
I'll let y'all talk in the Happy New Year, y'all.

1542
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:47,680
Speaker 6: All.

1543
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:50,279
Speaker 9: I love talking y'all this year.

1544
01:16:50,319 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 6: It was great.

1545
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry, appreciate you getting in. Yeah. As far

1546
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:58,399
as and we do have some baseball news coming up

1547
01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:02,840
at the News at noon as well, it's gonna have

1548
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:05,399
to be cheat Like is Jason Hayward gonna come back?

1549
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,760
I mean, Alex Verdugo has been a name that's been floated.

1550
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:09,760
They're not gonna be big game hunting as far as

1551
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:11,680
the outfield, it's gonna be a warm body and it's

1552
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:14,359
not gonna be anybody that's gonna really really get the

1553
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:16,960
juices fawn and get you excited for this Astros offseason.

1554
01:17:17,039 --> 01:17:19,119
I mean, for Dugo, I think would actually be a

1555
01:17:19,159 --> 01:17:21,479
little bit more than I would expect. I would think

1556
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,159
it was terrible last year. Travis Jankowski is out there.

1557
01:17:24,319 --> 01:17:26,199
He's somebody that had a pretty good season a couple

1558
01:17:26,239 --> 01:17:29,119
of years ago. Another one that I would possibly keep

1559
01:17:29,399 --> 01:17:32,000
an eye on is there's history between Dana and him

1560
01:17:32,279 --> 01:17:34,560
and a guy that's done pretty well here at Minute

1561
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,800
Made Park. I would probably make a run at Adam Duval.

1562
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:40,800
Now there's a lot of strikeouts in that bat. I

1563
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:43,439
get that, but there's also a lot of pull power

1564
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,000
in that bat and a guy that can in a

1565
01:17:46,079 --> 01:17:48,479
pinch play center field for you as well. He's done

1566
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,600
that in the past. You could do a lot worse

1567
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,760
than going after a guy like Adam Duvall. It'll be

1568
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,680
interesting to see. But and there will be names, and

1569
01:17:57,960 --> 01:17:59,880
I think we'll come along and it'll be one of those.

1570
01:18:00,199 --> 01:18:02,399
You know, there's always the headliners of free agency. It's

1571
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:04,399
gonna be one so too. It's gonna be Alex Bregman.

1572
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:07,000
It's gonna be those types of guys, the Corbyn burns

1573
01:18:07,119 --> 01:18:10,560
Is of the world, Blake Snails. But there will be

1574
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:13,000
somebody that's going to be left on the table that's

1575
01:18:13,039 --> 01:18:15,880
going to be good value. And I think the Astros

1576
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:18,119
are going to be able to find a warm body

1577
01:18:18,159 --> 01:18:20,840
for this. Is Dana Brown able to pull off the

1578
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,800
outfield version of Josh Hater last year, because remember it

1579
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:27,279
was about what mid January whenever it was where you

1580
01:18:27,359 --> 01:18:30,920
had the the Dana Brown, Hey what about Josh Hater? Now, Yeah,

1581
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,039
let's give him five years ninety five million dollars. With

1582
01:18:33,159 --> 01:18:35,960
the Christian Walker deal, they're already into the tax for

1583
01:18:36,079 --> 01:18:39,119
next year. Correct. Okay, so two straight years of beating that.

1584
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1585
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 2: So look, if Jim Crane wants to do it, that'd

1586
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:44,720
be great. And if he wants to keep doing it,

1587
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,199
that's that's not my money. And all the all people

1588
01:18:48,239 --> 01:18:50,680
calling him cheap can chutch you obamass up? He's about

1589
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:52,239
to be in the attack for two straight years. Well

1590
01:18:52,359 --> 01:18:54,800
and you know, I mean, we heard Dana Brown talking

1591
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,239
about how excited he was about Jacob Milton last year.

1592
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,880
Is Melton a guy that can break camp? Yeah, it

1593
01:19:01,079 --> 01:19:03,479
feels like that's a little early timeline wise, but we

1594
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,840
shall see. Certainly, time for another break here. On the

1595
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:09,520
Matt Thomas Show with Ross, Larry talked about something that

1596
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,960
we've been discussing. Will also bring that up. Should the

1597
01:19:12,039 --> 01:19:15,800
Texans full sit their starters or you treat it like

1598
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:19,079
a preseason game? Or do you go full boar all

1599
01:19:19,199 --> 01:19:21,600
four quarters to build momentum in the playoffs? Of course

1600
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:26,039
that's not going then Texans just give up. That's your questions.

1601
01:19:26,039 --> 01:19:27,920
A great question, all right, So we'll get into that

1602
01:19:28,159 --> 01:19:30,880
and Alex Bregman News coming up on the News at

1603
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:32,960
noon after this quick break.

1604
01:19:35,079 --> 01:19:40,319
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve.

1605
01:19:40,079 --> 01:19:41,640
Speaker 2: O'clock NH Town.

1606
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 4: Good mo.

1607
01:20:00,199 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 6: Come to whatever I'm about Thomas show with Ross without

1608
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,399
about Thomas and what then Matthews, this.

1609
01:20:08,039 --> 01:20:11,520
Speaker 2: Is sports sock seven ninety. We hated. It's because he

1610
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:16,119
showed his package. We hated justin Timberlake. We've hate we

1611
01:20:16,199 --> 01:20:18,680
hate them all. We took it out well, I mean

1612
01:20:19,239 --> 01:20:21,039
it was I don't know if he took it out.

1613
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,039
Speaker 3: I think I think that's what old members do to say, Hey,

1614
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:26,279
you just can't cut jump in here and jump in

1615
01:20:26,359 --> 01:20:26,640
get and.

1616
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,399
Speaker 2: Grab our pie. Ross, do you care to deduct the

1617
01:20:30,079 --> 01:20:32,479
genesis of that call? Did Michael blue Blaze sleep with

1618
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:35,000
his wife in the green room? Keith, go ahead and

1619
01:20:35,079 --> 01:20:39,079
talk while Dan swallows. I like to lean in the moist.

1620
01:20:39,199 --> 01:20:42,319
You gonna sneeze. Here comes one two Now he talked

1621
01:20:42,359 --> 01:20:45,520
about it and what away? Oh that's good. Helped. No,

1622
01:20:49,359 --> 01:20:55,119
Sometimes you gotta get it out, man, Sometimes you gotta

1623
01:20:55,159 --> 01:21:00,800
get out of me. Can he doesn't like the lean

1624
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:02,600
and the moisture. You a lean guy or a moist guy.

1625
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:06,239
I think the well done lean is the is the goat.

1626
01:21:06,279 --> 01:21:07,960
But you have to be at the right place. Well

1627
01:21:08,039 --> 01:21:10,279
done lean, brisket no, no, okay, I don't mean okay,

1628
01:21:10,319 --> 01:21:13,600
I don't mean cooked well done as an overcook lean

1629
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:19,600
brisket done perfectly well crafted. No, I need perfect mounted

1630
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:22,479
the juice fall apart. Yeah, but when you get the

1631
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:25,920
lean done right, it's juicy. I mean geez, I feel

1632
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:27,720
like this could all be getting cliped now too. Yeah,

1633
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,479
you definitely stepped into it. Maybe maybe maybe I saved

1634
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:32,520
you from jumping in there too quickly, which if I did,

1635
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:37,199
you're welcome. But I definitely think that the fattiness. You know,

1636
01:21:37,279 --> 01:21:39,840
it's kind of like a ribbi. You know, Matthew McConaughey.

1637
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,079
Matthew McConaughey taught us on Busting with the Boys that

1638
01:21:43,159 --> 01:21:46,199
ribbi is the steak, and because it's got the perfect balance,

1639
01:21:46,239 --> 01:21:48,399
it's got you know, really good amount of the cow,

1640
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:50,680
but it's also got enough for the gristle to be

1641
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:53,119
able to add that flavor as well. Yeah, I mean,

1642
01:21:53,279 --> 01:21:55,640
Ribbi is great. Sometimes you got to fight a Ribbi though,

1643
01:21:56,399 --> 01:21:58,760
And that's why I also like the New York strip

1644
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:03,279
as well. I mean, I I don't I definitely don't

1645
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:08,640
step away from a New York strip a file a third.

1646
01:22:09,319 --> 01:22:12,920
But anyways, food, it's the overrated of all of them.

1647
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,199
I I feel like like I feel like fill a.

1648
01:22:15,319 --> 01:22:17,239
I'm like, hey, give me a little bit of the Christ.

1649
01:22:17,319 --> 01:22:19,079
If they have to wrap it and bacon, your steak,

1650
01:22:19,159 --> 01:22:21,119
isn't that good? A lot of times you'll see bacon

1651
01:22:21,159 --> 01:22:25,720
wrapped fil A on the menu. Anyways, Uh, stopping Food

1652
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,119
Talk seven ninety for a moment, we got we can

1653
01:22:28,359 --> 01:22:32,079
we can break steak talking playing in the world of sports.

1654
01:22:32,119 --> 01:22:35,359
We got to the News at Noon with Dan Matthews

1655
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:39,840
here on the That Tommy Show with Ross. Yeah, news

1656
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:41,279
guy voice is your thing? Okay?

1657
01:22:41,319 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 12: Good?

1658
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 6: You know.

1659
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,319
Speaker 2: I mean, I I just show up with them. I

1660
01:22:44,359 --> 01:22:46,119
don't even mean to do it. I just hear this

1661
01:22:46,359 --> 01:22:48,720
music and it just starts that. But I can't help it.

1662
01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,319
It's just, you know, I've got the nicely crafted suits though,

1663
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:53,760
so at least I've got that to my game, you know.

1664
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,880
I just I don't have the the the news guy hair.

1665
01:22:57,199 --> 01:22:59,399
That's that's the problem. But maybe we can work on that.

1666
01:23:00,279 --> 01:23:02,680
Rockets beat the Pelicans one twenty eight, one eleven, New

1667
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:07,000
Orleans Jalen Green thirty points six of eleven from three.

1668
01:23:07,199 --> 01:23:09,600
That's nice to see out of him. How about Cam Whitmore.

1669
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,439
I think you had a lot of people who are

1670
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:13,560
part of the Cam Whitmore fan club calling in last

1671
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:16,319
night on Rockets wrap. From what I could hear is

1672
01:23:16,359 --> 01:23:18,720
going into the Hall of Fame. Actually might be he

1673
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:20,800
might be on a tour. Had pace twenty seven points

1674
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:24,079
off the bench. And it's gonna be you again tonight

1675
01:23:24,199 --> 01:23:27,840
for launch Pad and rap Masida Timberwolves in Town or

1676
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:32,439
City Connect unis alright, city edition, The City Connect is

1677
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:36,960
baseball city addition is the NBA, so you're gonna have

1678
01:23:37,039 --> 01:23:39,800
the old Summit floor in the h Town Unis tonight

1679
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,880
for the Rockets against Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yes,

1680
01:23:44,039 --> 01:23:47,000
the competition ramping up for the Rockets, who have won

1681
01:23:47,119 --> 01:23:49,760
four in a row. As you mentioned, good shooting from

1682
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:53,680
Jalen Green six of eleven from three. How about Fred

1683
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:57,359
van Vliet getting those numbers up overall career thirty seven

1684
01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:00,720
percent shooter coming into last night under thirty from three,

1685
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,079
but a good seven of twelve good for twenty five points.

1686
01:24:04,119 --> 01:24:07,560
So with this stretch of some tough games coming up

1687
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:09,600
in this five game homestand if you can get Jalen

1688
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,119
Green and Fred Van Vliet knocking down threes. That's gonna

1689
01:24:12,119 --> 01:24:14,960
go a long way. You've mentioned it, We've given our shoutouts,

1690
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:16,880
but we can't give enough shout outs to this guy,

1691
01:24:17,199 --> 01:24:20,359
Jonathan Fagan stepping away from the Rockets coverage on the

1692
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:24,159
Houston Chronicle twenty seven years on the beat. Like you said,

1693
01:24:24,239 --> 01:24:26,640
true professional in every single way. And the stories by

1694
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,399
the way too. If you see people who are reacting

1695
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:32,520
to it on Twitter, both people in the industry, fans,

1696
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,640
everybody of the sort, it's hey, we're gonna miss you man. Yeah,

1697
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,760
he's gonna tip a cap from everyone. We Zach Low

1698
01:24:38,039 --> 01:24:40,640
covered the NBA for years at the ESPN before getting

1699
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:42,359
laid off, By the way, I mean, to me, the

1700
01:24:42,399 --> 01:24:45,319
best basketballball rider on the planet laid off by ESPN.

1701
01:24:45,399 --> 01:24:49,800
Don't even get me started with them. But anyways, giving kudos. Also,

1702
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:51,399
what is his name?

1703
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 9: Met?

1704
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 2: Is it Matt Matt Miller who is Hardwood? Yeah? I

1705
01:24:56,039 --> 01:24:59,239
think that's roxism. I think that's Matt. It's Met something

1706
01:24:59,359 --> 01:25:01,840
or Met Moore. Sorry, I got there, you go. Matt Moore,

1707
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:04,239
who is an asher is the basketball guy. So I

1708
01:25:04,319 --> 01:25:06,960
mean Tim McMahon. Everybody's weighing in, you know, and it

1709
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:08,560
makes me happy. It makes me feel good because I mean,

1710
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:10,760
what I thought of my head is like Jonathan Fagan

1711
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:13,399
is so good, as I mentioned, checking all the boxes,

1712
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,479
writing good stories as far as game stories, writing good

1713
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:20,239
features in season, covering the team, answering the right questions

1714
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:24,000
there for every game, home or road. He is the

1715
01:25:24,159 --> 01:25:27,119
quintessence of a great beat reporter, and he will be

1716
01:25:27,159 --> 01:25:29,640
missed here in the Houston media, especially for someone like

1717
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:31,720
me who we here on radio. We play a lot

1718
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:35,000
of these postgame availabilities a lot of times. He's answers

1719
01:25:35,039 --> 01:25:36,680
we get and we play on the radio are only

1720
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:39,399
as good as the people asking those questions. So he's

1721
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:43,319
you're hurting our programming, Jonathan, we are. You're hurting my

1722
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:46,439
post games and my pre games because you're great, correct

1723
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:49,880
right necessary questions that you ask are going to be missing.

1724
01:25:50,039 --> 01:25:52,319
What would Daryl Moore, I'm upset? What would Darryl Moury

1725
01:25:52,399 --> 01:25:57,520
say to Jonathan Fagan today? Okay, fine, I'll be I'll

1726
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,199
you just for the end of the year. I'll be

1727
01:25:59,279 --> 01:26:03,960
your performance monkey. Great loss for the city of Houston

1728
01:26:04,079 --> 01:26:07,159
and Jonathan. And We've had our battles over the year,

1729
01:26:07,319 --> 01:26:10,479
but I have great respect for Jonathan and what he's

1730
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:14,720
done for the Houston media market over the last several

1731
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:18,479
years and wishing him the best in retirement. Darrel, What

1732
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,840
were what were some of those battles. Oh, he thought

1733
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,000
James Harden wasn't gonna win US a championship. And while

1734
01:26:25,039 --> 01:26:27,880
he was right on that one, but I ran a

1735
01:26:28,039 --> 01:26:32,239
seven hundred and sixty five simulations in multiverses and we

1736
01:26:32,359 --> 01:26:34,840
run championships in two hundred and four of them. So

1737
01:26:35,159 --> 01:26:37,840
he was wrong in that sense, but in the sense

1738
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,279
of this is the universe we live in, he was correct.

1739
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:42,960
Anything else you want to go in the further detail about,

1740
01:26:43,199 --> 01:26:47,479
you know, it's a lot of proprietary you know, patents

1741
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:49,720
and trademarks, so I can't go too much into the

1742
01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:53,920
simulations that we run. But with Jonathan Fagan going to

1743
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:56,760
be missed. Yeah, and I'm sure mister Alexander feels the

1744
01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:01,119
exact same way as well. On the Texans front, they're

1745
01:27:01,359 --> 01:27:04,000
off these last couple of days and as he's al

1746
01:27:04,079 --> 01:27:08,119
Shay here, he's back officially been reinstated from suspension. Aaron

1747
01:27:08,159 --> 01:27:10,840
Wilson the first on that yesterday to point that out

1748
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:16,399
that as these could come back inside the building, happy day. Yes,

1749
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:21,560
he's back from crushing Trevor Lawrence into oblivion. So good

1750
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,760
to have him back. A good piece, necessary piece, I

1751
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:27,479
mean as far as the defense, and I'm not saying

1752
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:29,479
that he would have been a difference maker and stopping

1753
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:32,880
Derek Inery. Come on, he's a twenty nine point difference maker.

1754
01:27:33,199 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 6: I know it.

1755
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,600
Speaker 2: They would have won that game if we're available. But no,

1756
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,239
you're getting pieces back. If you get alshy earback, you

1757
01:27:39,359 --> 01:27:42,399
get guys healthy, Tank Dell unfortunately not coming back stuff

1758
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,000
on Diggs as well, but you get juice scrugs, you

1759
01:27:45,199 --> 01:27:48,600
get Wilson. Am I thinking of who's who's been a

1760
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:53,439
shy jack healthy? Yeah, you get everybody fully healthy. This

1761
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:55,880
team can compete. Now, they're not gonna win. The ceiling

1762
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:58,000
is very is not as high as we were hoping,

1763
01:27:58,039 --> 01:27:59,279
and I think a lot of that because of the

1764
01:27:59,319 --> 01:28:02,319
offensive line issues. But you get some pieces back things

1765
01:28:03,199 --> 01:28:05,399
things can look better for the Texans in a couple

1766
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:07,039
of weeks come playoff time. All right, So I've got

1767
01:28:07,079 --> 01:28:09,239
a Bregman bit that you mentioned, but we're gonna hold

1768
01:28:09,319 --> 01:28:11,199
that to the end here so we can then carry

1769
01:28:11,239 --> 01:28:14,640
it over. Let's go a little pop culture here. Bad

1770
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:16,800
news guys, if you ever thought you had a shot

1771
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:20,600
at dualipa. Well, British actor Callum Turner has beaten you

1772
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:26,840
to the punch, the singer and the actor. Nowadays, there's

1773
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:28,640
a movie reference for you if it Where is my ding?

1774
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,840
You've had more than I have today. It's impressing. No,

1775
01:28:32,319 --> 01:28:34,239
you know what, it's your fault. As Matt said, It's

1776
01:28:34,279 --> 01:28:36,520
like he just gets in your brain, especially whenever you're here,

1777
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:38,399
and now whenever we make a movie reference, we're gonna

1778
01:28:38,399 --> 01:28:40,119
get a ding. Hey. Look, I mean I just I'm

1779
01:28:40,199 --> 01:28:42,720
picking and choosing my spots. That's all it is. I'm

1780
01:28:43,279 --> 01:28:45,640
picking when I am going to dial up pressure and

1781
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,479
when I'm gonna hold back and play coverage. Yeah. I

1782
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:50,680
like that, Dan, You're picking and choosing your spots. All right?

1783
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:51,000
What else?

1784
01:28:51,239 --> 01:28:51,600
Speaker 1: All right?

1785
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:55,640
Speaker 2: So you mentioned Alex Bregman, Maybe the Detroit Tigers as

1786
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:58,439
a possibility is not off the table. President of Baseball

1787
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:02,560
op Scott Harris saying earlier today that newly acquired infielder

1788
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:05,600
Glaber Torres is going to play second for the Tigers

1789
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:09,439
this season, So a potential Alex Bregman and h Hinch

1790
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:12,760
reunion remains alive. I was talking with a buddy of

1791
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,800
mine about this. Earlier today. He had mentioned about somebody

1792
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:18,800
from MLB network. I couldn't remember exactly who it was,

1793
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:21,000
but they floated out the idea that Bregman would be

1794
01:29:21,039 --> 01:29:23,920
looking for seven years to ten. Now we've heard the

1795
01:29:24,079 --> 01:29:27,359
rumors that they were looking for a deal upwards of

1796
01:29:27,359 --> 01:29:31,199
two hundred million, So that might be the sticking point.

1797
01:29:31,239 --> 01:29:33,039
It not might be. It is the sticking point for

1798
01:29:33,119 --> 01:29:36,359
teams right now, because if teams really wanted Alex Bregman

1799
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:39,479
at that price, then he would be on their team

1800
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:42,039
right now. But the fact that he's got it so high,

1801
01:29:43,079 --> 01:29:44,720
I'm thinking he's going to be closer to one to

1802
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:49,000
eighty seven years. That might even be high ten for

1803
01:29:49,239 --> 01:29:51,720
Alex Bregman. When you hear that, what does that make

1804
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:54,880
you think? And also that is important or notable, I

1805
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:57,760
should say the Glabor Torres could be playing second base

1806
01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:00,920
for the Tigers. Does that mean Alex Bregman is going

1807
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:04,039
to be reunited with a J. Hinch and be a

1808
01:30:04,119 --> 01:30:07,760
Detroit Tigers. Yeah. Yeah, But and we can talk about

1809
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:09,760
this on the other side. Maybe there's other concerns for

1810
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:13,119
the Tigers. They got a lot of concerns. They're the Tigers,

1811
01:30:13,319 --> 01:30:15,840
all right, even though they beat your astros, our astros

1812
01:30:16,039 --> 01:30:18,039
seven one three two, one two five, seven ninety the

1813
01:30:18,079 --> 01:30:19,960
phone number you want to talk some astros, we can

1814
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:21,960
do that. We've also been talking about the Texans and

1815
01:30:22,039 --> 01:30:24,479
the offensive line Rockets on a four game winning streak.

1816
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:27,319
It isn't Anything Goes Friday. Anything you want to get

1817
01:30:27,359 --> 01:30:30,680
to at seven one two, one two five seven ninety

1818
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,039
seven one three two one two five seven ninety more

1819
01:30:34,159 --> 01:30:39,439
Matt Thomas Show with Ross now Sports Talk seven ninety

1820
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:59,319
twelve nineteen in the PM. Here on Sports Talk seven

1821
01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:03,439
ninety The Matt Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas,

1822
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:06,680
with Dan Matthews and Conna McGovern. You can send tweets

1823
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:10,520
at sports RV if you would like, at Dan Matthews

1824
01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:13,960
hou as well, and at Conna Deep McGovern if you

1825
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:15,760
would like to get to him as well. It is

1826
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:19,680
in Anything Goes Friday on the show. We have non

1827
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:23,560
Florida stories coming up at one thirty, and really that's

1828
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:25,520
about it as far as planned segments, So you folks

1829
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:29,119
want to get in. Normally we'd be previewing a Texans

1830
01:31:29,199 --> 01:31:31,960
matchup with a weekend, but well they played on a

1831
01:31:32,039 --> 01:31:36,640
Wednesday night, and judging by the review, I'm sorry the

1832
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:39,479
viewership numbers that have come out. Dan, I don't think

1833
01:31:40,119 --> 01:31:42,880
we're going to ever have another Christmas again without football.

1834
01:31:43,079 --> 01:31:43,239
Speaker 7: You know.

1835
01:31:44,079 --> 01:31:46,279
Speaker 2: That's another thing that I thought of today, is not

1836
01:31:46,399 --> 01:31:48,760
even just Christmas. It's gonna be interesting to see how

1837
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:52,119
many times on national TV next year the Texans make it,

1838
01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:55,239
because I think the NFL could possibly look at it

1839
01:31:55,359 --> 01:31:57,319
as well. They didn't do so hot last year, So

1840
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:01,079
is it necessarily going to be a novel matchup to

1841
01:32:01,199 --> 01:32:03,199
have them on TV that people have to watch? I

1842
01:32:03,319 --> 01:32:06,560
mean the luster might be themselves. Well, the luster might

1843
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:08,840
be gone a little bit. Yeah, well, the fact that

1844
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:12,520
they're a playoff team should get them in there. I

1845
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:14,760
think it'll be dialed back. What was it five? Would

1846
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,800
be calling them standalone games because I wasn't national television.

1847
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:20,439
It was on Netflix and the Saturday game as well.

1848
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:23,760
So how many was it? Was it five or six?

1849
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:25,560
Someone like that? Yeah, it was five. You had two

1850
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:28,039
Sunday nights, you had a Thursday night, of Monday nights,

1851
01:32:28,079 --> 01:32:30,520
and then of course the Netflix game. Okay, so I'm

1852
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,680
gonna bet the under unless the Texans really make some

1853
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:36,439
moves in the AFC Playoffs, which I'm not anticipating at

1854
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:39,119
this moment, nor should anybody else. I'm gonna bet the

1855
01:32:39,279 --> 01:32:42,760
under on five games for them next year. But Netflix

1856
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:44,880
coming out with the numbers, Sunday Night Football had been

1857
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:48,800
averaging twenty two million per week and that's one of

1858
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:53,199
their highest averages since twenty fifteen. And it was over

1859
01:32:53,359 --> 01:32:57,319
twenty five million for the Texans games with Texans game

1860
01:32:57,680 --> 01:33:00,520
with the Ravens, with it peaking at twenty seven million

1861
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:02,439
with Beyonce, and then I think the first game was

1862
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:03,880
like twenty two million. I'll have to go back and

1863
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:05,880
look it up. But by as far as the the

1864
01:33:06,199 --> 01:33:09,840
not ratings, I guess, but how many actual people watching

1865
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,680
the game. Because Netflix can get the data better than

1866
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:15,880
to say what arbitron not arbitron uh Nielsen can provide.

1867
01:33:16,359 --> 01:33:19,359
You're going to get the first place schedule again, obviously

1868
01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:22,760
because you just won first place team NFC South, but

1869
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:26,239
you're also getting the AFC West and the NFC West.

1870
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:29,960
Next year, they'll have another Thursday, they'll be back on

1871
01:33:30,039 --> 01:33:31,720
Thursday Night Football, they'll get a Monday.

1872
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:32,199
Speaker 7: Not only the.

1873
01:33:32,239 --> 01:33:34,359
Speaker 2: Raiders still suck, but the AFC West is gonna be

1874
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:39,439
kind of tough NFC West, I'm going three. I think

1875
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,520
that probably I would be surprised if it's more than

1876
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,399
three National TV games next year. And then they're your

1877
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:48,399
first place opponents being the Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills,

1878
01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:50,960
which I think the Ravens would be at their place.

1879
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:54,560
Can we get back to the fourth place schedules or

1880
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:59,119
the third place schedules? Bill's and Ravens guarantee Bill's Ravens

1881
01:33:59,239 --> 01:34:03,119
chiefs at this moment guaranteed to be on the schedule

1882
01:34:03,239 --> 01:34:06,199
that thus, you know, this is the blessing and the curse.

1883
01:34:06,239 --> 01:34:08,159
Winning your division is also going to get you the

1884
01:34:08,439 --> 01:34:12,199
tougher first place schedule. So Ravens Bill's Chiefs guaranteed to

1885
01:34:12,239 --> 01:34:16,600
be on the schedule for the Texan schedule, permitting sports

1886
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,840
MT trip to Buffalo. What it depends on what time

1887
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:22,720
of year. Man who jumps to the table. If we

1888
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:25,520
go off September, what it'd be you, dan Oh, I'd

1889
01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:27,000
be the one jumping through the table. We're putting you

1890
01:34:27,039 --> 01:34:29,159
through the table, all right, So we make Connor government

1891
01:34:29,239 --> 01:34:31,039
do it. He's spry, I mean, one of us.

1892
01:34:31,079 --> 01:34:31,399
Speaker 9: We're old.

1893
01:34:31,439 --> 01:34:33,199
Speaker 2: We're gonna break our backs, all right. I even think.

1894
01:34:33,199 --> 01:34:35,840
There's a guy too that you can either put on

1895
01:34:36,079 --> 01:34:39,359
a poncho if you want. People don't, But there is

1896
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:41,159
a guy that you get a hot dog from the

1897
01:34:41,239 --> 01:34:43,640
grill and then he stands on top of like a

1898
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:45,960
bus or an RV or something and just starts scorting

1899
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:50,920
ketchup and mustard down. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to

1900
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:52,920
go to bout. I don't like the cold now. First

1901
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:55,600
of all, I don't like these seventy five freaking degrees

1902
01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:57,680
every day, which is a seventy five to eighty, which

1903
01:34:57,760 --> 01:35:00,119
is what it's been here in Houston. It's muggy and

1904
01:35:00,159 --> 01:35:02,880
it's disgusting, and it's like dreaming of a white Christmas.

1905
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:06,439
I'm dreaming of Christmas we get under seventy. But I

1906
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:09,039
also I don't want cold. I don't like anything under

1907
01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:12,000
like it's out of the question. We're not doing it.

1908
01:35:12,079 --> 01:35:14,319
I'm not jumping three tables, none of those things. But

1909
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:16,760
I'm not trying to get frostbite in the middle of

1910
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:19,000
Orchard Park, New York. I mean, there's there's not enough

1911
01:35:19,039 --> 01:35:21,479
Bourbon two that can warm me up. There's not enough layers.

1912
01:35:22,039 --> 01:35:25,199
It's none of those things. Yeah, I'm out, all right,

1913
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:28,960
count So Buffalo has been scrapped. That's fine. Yeah, you

1914
01:35:29,399 --> 01:35:30,960
know what, have a good time. I'm wishing you the best.

1915
01:35:32,279 --> 01:35:35,119
Maybe maybe Connor McGovern will go for you with you

1916
01:35:35,319 --> 01:35:37,960
if if his brother, if his twin, Connor McGovern is

1917
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:39,960
still in the Buffalo bills. All right, that's a bet.

1918
01:35:40,319 --> 01:35:40,760
Speaker 6: I like it.

1919
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:44,239
Speaker 2: I think we can make that happen. Jersey, yes, yeah,

1920
01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:46,640
you do have his jersey. Yeah. See, it's like you're

1921
01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:48,840
like the Wizard of Oz voice. We don't have your

1922
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:50,520
camera in here, Connor, so we don't know if you're

1923
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:52,720
even here, what you're doing, or if you're even paying attention,

1924
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:56,199
or if you're eating. Maybe he's like Matt, although he

1925
01:35:56,319 --> 01:35:59,000
sounded like he was in less of a corn silo

1926
01:35:59,279 --> 01:36:02,000
that Matt was when he Oh, he delivered us his

1927
01:36:02,359 --> 01:36:04,119
his treats. Yes, by the way, I did want to

1928
01:36:04,159 --> 01:36:06,800
thank Matt Thomas for calling us from inside of a

1929
01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:11,720
Folgers can and giving us that that wonderful greeting at

1930
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:13,800
the beginning of the twelve o'clock. Sure it wasn't the

1931
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,600
bathroom like at a restaurant or something. Yeah, did you

1932
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:18,119
hear a flush at the end of that. I think

1933
01:36:18,159 --> 01:36:24,680
I'm just saying, Okay, or air blade. Yeah, okay, those

1934
01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:28,720
things are the worst. Why save our planet, Dan? The

1935
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:32,159
save our planet? Do you you selfishly? You want to

1936
01:36:32,279 --> 01:36:35,199
use all of these paper towels? The trees are already Damn,

1937
01:36:35,279 --> 01:36:38,760
you're wasting the trees. You have to conserve, Dan, We

1938
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:41,119
only get one planet. Haven't you ever heard of Earth Day?

1939
01:36:41,239 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 8: Wait?

1940
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:43,520
Speaker 2: I thought the straws were the problem. It wasn't the

1941
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:46,600
paper towel straws too. All right, it's going up these

1942
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:50,439
turtles noses. Okay, Leonardo and Michael Angelo are trying to

1943
01:36:50,479 --> 01:36:52,600
go about their business in the sea and next thing

1944
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:54,760
they know, they got a plastic straw up their nose.

1945
01:36:54,840 --> 01:36:56,960
That's weird. How do they eat pizza with fins? Yeah?

1946
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:59,279
I don't know, all right, that's that's a question for

1947
01:36:59,319 --> 01:37:02,840
the animators. I'm not sure. All right. The Ninja Turtles lore,

1948
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:04,720
you know, is the secret of the ooze dude? Come on,

1949
01:37:05,359 --> 01:37:10,000
raised by Master Splinter eating pizza. Depending on whichever major

1950
01:37:10,199 --> 01:37:14,800
chain wants to to sponsor them. Can you imagine, like

1951
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,479
what that It's not even a focus group, it's what

1952
01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:19,880
that board meeting is of. All right, Hey, the new

1953
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:22,039
Ninja Turtles movie is coming out. We have to be

1954
01:37:22,119 --> 01:37:25,319
the one who wins the bid. Yeah, that's true. Little Caesars,

1955
01:37:25,399 --> 01:37:29,840
I I think that are Little Caesars are mid yeah,

1956
01:37:29,880 --> 01:37:32,680
middle Mesers. I think is trying to really raise their game.

1957
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:35,800
They are. The quality has gone up. The hot man,

1958
01:37:36,159 --> 01:37:38,239
they'll sleep on the Hot and Ready lived very much

1959
01:37:38,239 --> 01:37:39,920
sleep on the hot readies. Now, when I was like

1960
01:37:40,199 --> 01:37:42,279
a broke producer like connom mc govern, I would just

1961
01:37:42,319 --> 01:37:44,520
go and spend my five bucks and inhale in entire

1962
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:46,600
Hot and Ready and that was gonna say the Hot

1963
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:48,880
and Ready can't be messed with. But the quality of

1964
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:51,279
that that restaurant has gone up over the years. They've

1965
01:37:51,319 --> 01:37:53,479
reinvested in their product, but they got a new arena

1966
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:55,720
up there, so they've got even more revenue that can start,

1967
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,119
you know, kind of flowing in a little bit normally

1968
01:37:58,279 --> 01:38:01,800
when people are making money like it just goes to

1969
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,239
the CEO Oh's pocket. Looks like a little feels like,

1970
01:38:04,279 --> 01:38:06,520
at least to me, either every other quality of the

1971
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:08,960
other chains has gotten worse or Little Caesars has gotten better.

1972
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:12,399
I'm not sure which. I've I've got my favorites out there,

1973
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:14,840
but you know it's every once in a while there's

1974
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:17,319
a shopping center near me where I'm like hot and ready.

1975
01:38:17,399 --> 01:38:19,319
That'll do well. If you want a sponsor, just go

1976
01:38:19,359 --> 01:38:22,600
ahead and call seven one three two one two eight thousand.

1977
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,079
Say you want Dan Matthews to speak for your pizza restaurant.

1978
01:38:25,119 --> 01:38:28,920
You are the pizza connoisseur of Houston. Massive, massive, huge,

1979
01:38:29,359 --> 01:38:31,720
you know, I mean huge. Some people might say that

1980
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:34,159
Dave Portnoy is the king of pizza. Oh that's Friday.

1981
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,279
What is the one bite? Yeah? Yeah, I think I

1982
01:38:37,399 --> 01:38:39,319
think that I wear that mantle. I wear that crown

1983
01:38:39,359 --> 01:38:42,239
here in Houston. So you're throwing some breadsticks. We're gonna

1984
01:38:42,239 --> 01:38:44,720
call it maybe bytes. Is this like, oh, make another

1985
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:48,760
boop of six minute abs? That's it? No, seven two

1986
01:38:48,920 --> 01:38:53,600
bite pizza for views. Step into my office because you're fired.

1987
01:38:55,159 --> 01:38:55,560
Speaker 9: There we go.

1988
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:57,560
Speaker 2: We're just trying to rack him up for you. Connor.

1989
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:00,800
He made me step into that one, and fine, I did,

1990
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:02,960
I did? I let you know what I ali ut

1991
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,039
And you dunked it down like Jaen Green and I did.

1992
01:39:05,159 --> 01:39:07,960
I don't let a teammate down. I appreciate that all right.

1993
01:39:08,039 --> 01:39:10,039
Time for another break here It is the Matt Thomas

1994
01:39:10,119 --> 01:39:14,079
Show without Matt Thomas, with Ross with Dan Matthews with you.

1995
01:39:14,239 --> 01:39:16,479
We're We're well. I was meaning to talk about Alex

1996
01:39:16,520 --> 01:39:18,960
Pregman in that segment. As we mentioned at the end

1997
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,920
of the last one seven years, two ten has been

1998
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,640
the number that has been floated for Alex Bregman. Also,

1999
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:29,880
the Detroit Tigers having Glaber Torres play second, does that

2000
01:39:30,079 --> 01:39:33,920
mean Alex Bregman is slotting in to third. We'll talk

2001
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:35,520
about it when we come back. We'll also take all

2002
01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:36,960
your calls if you'd like to get in. It is

2003
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:40,920
in Anything goes Friday at seven one three two, one

2004
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:44,119
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

2005
01:39:44,359 --> 01:39:45,359
five seven ninety.

2006
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:51,119
Speaker 4: Matt Thomas Ross viial It's the Matt Thomas Show with

2007
01:39:51,399 --> 01:39:53,720
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

2008
01:40:02,279 --> 01:40:08,039
Speaker 14: It's his time, baby, the Jake Myers takeover in the

2009
01:40:08,239 --> 01:40:12,920
twenty twenty five season, locking down the center field spot

2010
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:18,720
with gold glove defense, knocking out thirteen or so bombs

2011
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:23,560
over the fence and striking out on every outside slider.

2012
01:40:23,239 --> 01:40:28,159
Speaker 2: That comes his way. It's Jake Myers' time. Twenty twenty

2013
01:40:28,279 --> 01:40:32,079
five Houston Astro. You spoken into existence, you will it?

2014
01:40:32,359 --> 01:40:34,920
I mean it's going to happen now. I mean that's

2015
01:40:35,039 --> 01:40:37,359
that's exactly that. It is, no dream that is that

2016
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:40,159
is Yeah, you're exactly right, Walter soapcheck.

2017
01:40:41,119 --> 01:40:42,600
Speaker 6: I skit stop.

2018
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:46,520
Speaker 2: This is your fault. It's so fun, isn't it. And

2019
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:49,600
it's almost like getting to play actor without actually actually

2020
01:40:49,720 --> 01:40:51,159
need to leave. Dan, just get out of here. I'm

2021
01:40:51,159 --> 01:40:54,079
making too many movies, Riff. It's fine. Get get the

2022
01:40:54,239 --> 01:40:57,359
hell out, ees, It's fine by me. I can go

2023
01:40:57,439 --> 01:41:04,439
get coffee now. Opening day outfield, I will say, Chaz

2024
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:08,119
Jake Dubon or are we going with any other combination

2025
01:41:08,279 --> 01:41:11,359
on the planets? Any other combination? To be right, I mean,

2026
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:13,760
I think that you're going to have a free agent

2027
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:17,760
brought in. Is it gonna be necessarily the sexiest name?

2028
01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:20,000
Probably not. But here's another one too. A buddy of

2029
01:41:20,039 --> 01:41:21,439
mine brought this up to me the other day, and

2030
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:24,039
I agree, why not make a run at Ben Gamble again?

2031
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:25,079
Speaker 6: Hey?

2032
01:41:25,199 --> 01:41:27,359
Speaker 2: Ben Gamble was great? How's he doing these days? So

2033
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:29,199
that's what a thund like. I feel like there will

2034
01:41:29,279 --> 01:41:32,039
be some name that we're not even necessarily putting on

2035
01:41:32,159 --> 01:41:36,279
our radar that can that will be found. The thing

2036
01:41:36,359 --> 01:41:39,199
I've found is to me, it seems like Dana Brown

2037
01:41:39,279 --> 01:41:42,239
speaking of guys, like Ben Gamble, you know, Taylor Scott

2038
01:41:42,319 --> 01:41:45,239
coming out of nowhere. There's some other examples. It seems

2039
01:41:45,359 --> 01:41:49,159
like finding something that's not really working out in another

2040
01:41:49,199 --> 01:41:51,359
place and having it work here. Jason Hayward last year

2041
01:41:51,359 --> 01:41:53,640
as well. Dana Brown's done a pretty good job doing

2042
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,079
that and so far into his short tenure as astros

2043
01:41:56,119 --> 01:41:58,119
GM Well, it's like, you know, when he sat down

2044
01:41:58,159 --> 01:41:59,960
with me and you last year at a spring Tray

2045
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:03,319
asked him about the scout's eye, you know, and and

2046
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:05,720
that's what he always talks about. Oh, the scout's eye,

2047
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:07,840
the scout's eye, And that's the thing. I think he

2048
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:10,359
looks for certain intangibles what could work here. I mean,

2049
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:12,520
Hayden was an esky. They talked about him from the

2050
01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:15,079
pitching perspective of, you know, we see some things that

2051
01:42:15,159 --> 01:42:17,479
maybe we can tweak here and make him even better.

2052
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:20,000
The Villo's there, the stuff is there. I mean, I'm

2053
01:42:20,119 --> 01:42:23,239
like irrationally excited about Hayden. Went wasn't esky when you

2054
01:42:23,319 --> 01:42:25,319
look at like a lot of his Okay, and of

2055
01:42:25,399 --> 01:42:27,600
course we know eer A and other numbers can definitely

2056
01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:31,439
be misleading, but like, I just feel like it's gonna

2057
01:42:31,479 --> 01:42:33,920
happen again, like the astros are gonna bring a picture

2058
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,840
over here, who's got good stuff, as you said, Vello,

2059
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:38,640
and then he's they're gonna tweak it there with a

2060
01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:41,079
pitch mix whatever, and he's gonna be good for the ash.

2061
01:42:41,159 --> 01:42:43,600
So you gets Josh Miller, who makes that toward pace

2062
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:46,399
to the mound. Keep an eye out for that this year.

2063
01:42:46,479 --> 01:42:48,960
Whenever Josh Miller makes a mound visit, he walks out

2064
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,760
there with authority, like he walks out there with a purpose.

2065
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:53,800
I mean, you know, he's a time limit. But it

2066
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:56,119
used to be Kristavinsky had the strut, Like he doesn't

2067
01:42:56,159 --> 01:42:58,479
have the strut. He just he walks out there. And

2068
01:42:59,199 --> 01:43:02,159
Christevinsky was falling away like he was falling down in

2069
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:04,479
at the end of his delivery. But then remember, you know,

2070
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:06,239
walking off the mound. He was done for that, and

2071
01:43:06,319 --> 01:43:08,000
I think you guys even brought it to his attention

2072
01:43:08,079 --> 01:43:10,359
and he was like, what are you talking about? Just walking?

2073
01:43:10,720 --> 01:43:13,279
It's just like, well it looks a certain way, but

2074
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:16,720
but no, I mean, you know, that's that's another guy

2075
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:18,760
that if he hits this year, you can look at

2076
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:22,479
Dana Brown and say, you're pretty good at evaluating talent like, yeah,

2077
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,000
so we will see what happens the outfield. And now,

2078
01:43:25,039 --> 01:43:27,039
I mean, are we putting the pieces together? Do we

2079
01:43:27,159 --> 01:43:30,520
think Alex Bregman will be a Detroit Tiger? Now that

2080
01:43:30,720 --> 01:43:32,800
was the Brian Bogus that we did gut feelings when

2081
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:36,239
he was in last Tuesday. His gut feeling was Detroit

2082
01:43:36,319 --> 01:43:39,119
Tigers for Alex Brigman. Well, I mean, I just I

2083
01:43:39,199 --> 01:43:40,680
feel like if he was going to be a Yankee,

2084
01:43:41,119 --> 01:43:42,680
if he was going to be a Red Sox, it

2085
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:45,079
would have already been done. I mean, what's the hold up?

2086
01:43:45,119 --> 01:43:47,720
What's the weight? The player is not going to improve

2087
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:51,000
between now and whenever you would possibly put an offer

2088
01:43:51,039 --> 01:43:52,720
in front of him. So do you like him or

2089
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,159
do you not? And clearly I think those teams are

2090
01:43:55,159 --> 01:43:57,439
showing you they are not as high on him as

2091
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:01,079
maybe he is on joining them. Yeah, ever won three two, one,

2092
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two five seven ninety. Lewis in sugar Land has gotten

2093
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:08,760
in on the phone lines. What's up, Lewis? Hey, guys,

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01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:13,319
Happy holiday to both of you. Lewis Hey, I think

2095
01:44:13,399 --> 01:44:14,119
I must be the.

2096
01:44:14,199 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 15: Only person in this town that actually likes the Kyle

2097
01:44:19,039 --> 01:44:23,359
Tucker trade. You know, I know they tried to get

2098
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:27,079
parit's last year at the deadline. But I really like

2099
01:44:27,239 --> 01:44:29,840
this cam Smith kid and the picture they got I

2100
01:44:29,960 --> 01:44:33,640
think is going to surprise a lot of people. And

2101
01:44:34,119 --> 01:44:38,039
you know, Tucker missed what three months last year and

2102
01:44:38,199 --> 01:44:42,439
then you know he basically did nothing in the playoffs,

2103
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,119
and you know, if he's not going to resign with us,

2104
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:50,079
I think we got the best possible package that we could.

2105
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:52,479
Speaker 2: So I just I want to hang up and see

2106
01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:53,399
what you guys think.

2107
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:56,960
Speaker 15: And also y'all had mentioned Ben Gammel, what do you

2108
01:44:57,039 --> 01:45:00,680
think about, you know, as a stopgap bringing back Jay Hayward.

2109
01:45:01,119 --> 01:45:03,239
I thought he did a pretty decent job when he

2110
01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:05,520
was here. Thanks so much and happy New Year.

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01:45:06,039 --> 01:45:07,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Lewis, appreciate it.

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Speaker 16: You.

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01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:10,399
Speaker 2: We did mention Jason Hayward as somebody, I mean just

2114
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:14,399
made a passing brief mention. But as an astro in

2115
01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:17,800
twenty four games he had an ops A seven fifty

2116
01:45:17,880 --> 01:45:21,600
six two eighteen average, not great. He did have four

2117
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:24,399
home runs, plays pretty good defense and was playing left

2118
01:45:24,399 --> 01:45:27,000
field for the first time in his career and things

2119
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:29,800
a little bit different back there. And selfishly, great interview,

2120
01:45:30,279 --> 01:45:33,319
really great, really great interview. So I'd be on board

2121
01:45:33,359 --> 01:45:35,760
with with Jason Hayward coming back into the fold for

2122
01:45:35,800 --> 01:45:38,760
the Astros, and you know what else with Hayward, what

2123
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:41,359
are you losing to Alex Pregnant. You're losing leadership, You're

2124
01:45:41,399 --> 01:45:43,920
losing a guy that was someone who kind of had

2125
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:47,079
commanded that clubhouse. Hayward was only here for a short time.

2126
01:45:47,199 --> 01:45:50,600
You already had people talking about man with a clubhouse presence.

2127
01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:53,600
He's great. Like you know, you had Mauricio Dubonnet at

2128
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:55,840
the end of the season talking about growing up in

2129
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:59,079
Honduras and watching Jason Hayward and now having a chance

2130
01:45:59,159 --> 01:46:01,319
to be able to be on the same team and

2131
01:46:01,359 --> 01:46:04,119
in the same clubhouse with him. So you're going to

2132
01:46:04,199 --> 01:46:06,840
be looking probably for someone to kind of step into

2133
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:10,079
that role. But I mean, you bring back Jason Hayward,

2134
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:12,359
I think you're able to kind of accomplish that one

2135
01:46:12,399 --> 01:46:16,399
as well. Yeah, thirty five years old on his third

2136
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:19,680
team since twenty twenty two. So it's not like you're,

2137
01:46:20,079 --> 01:46:22,479
as Lewis said, stop gap. I mean, not somebody that

2138
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:24,640
you're here expecting to throw out there every day and

2139
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:26,760
hit you thirty home runs or anything like that, but

2140
01:46:27,119 --> 01:46:29,720
someone that can be productive if you play platoon matchups.

2141
01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:31,960
You put them in against the right pitching, the right

2142
01:46:32,039 --> 01:46:36,479
pinch hitting situations, which I would say Joe Spott it

2143
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:40,640
was great at last year. He perhaps can provide some value. Well, see,

2144
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:42,560
you made a choice this year, and you're a year

2145
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,039
ahead of what I thought the Astros were going to do.

2146
01:46:45,199 --> 01:46:47,319
I thought this year it was going to be we're

2147
01:46:47,359 --> 01:46:49,640
not spending money on first base. We're spending money on

2148
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,079
first base for a guy we can't even use. So

2149
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:54,399
that's not going to happen. You're going to have to

2150
01:46:54,439 --> 01:46:56,640
get creative over there. Remember Dana talking about having to

2151
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:59,720
get creative. But I thought that move was going to

2152
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:02,199
come next year. And then they felt like, obviously when

2153
01:47:02,199 --> 01:47:05,039
they couldn't get Alex Brugman back, that it was the

2154
01:47:05,119 --> 01:47:07,319
time to do it. You've got some good first base

2155
01:47:07,359 --> 01:47:11,000
options right now, pull power first base options, so that's

2156
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:12,960
another thing that can help you at your home ballpark.

2157
01:47:13,279 --> 01:47:15,479
And a god, it's won three straight goal gloves. So

2158
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,840
you do that next year. Maybe you do have to

2159
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:20,399
kind of ride it out with what you were going

2160
01:47:20,479 --> 01:47:23,720
to do at first base and go stop gap. As

2161
01:47:23,840 --> 01:47:26,039
you just threw out there platoon a little bit in

2162
01:47:26,079 --> 01:47:28,760
the outfield not going to be a great offensive outfield,

2163
01:47:29,279 --> 01:47:31,159
and it is you know a little bit of you

2164
01:47:31,239 --> 01:47:33,000
need Chaz to be better than he was last year,

2165
01:47:33,039 --> 01:47:34,199
because last year he was not good.

2166
01:47:34,439 --> 01:47:34,479
Speaker 7: Ugh.

2167
01:47:35,079 --> 01:47:38,319
Speaker 2: So if you get something in between that helps, that's

2168
01:47:38,319 --> 01:47:40,319
what we have to figure out as well. Who man

2169
01:47:40,399 --> 01:47:42,359
If I say you're going for Kyle Tucker and right

2170
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:47,439
field to Chas McCormick, it's a down grade. There's snigffickant

2171
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:51,239
down across the board for all three positions. But you're

2172
01:47:51,279 --> 01:47:53,239
going to have money coming off the books next year.

2173
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:56,640
Maybe that's when you make a run at a pretty

2174
01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,960
serious outfielder that is able to then have you look

2175
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:02,720
looking at that group and saying, huh man, okay, all

2176
01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:06,079
of a sudden, that so bad? I mean, just just crazy.

2177
01:48:06,319 --> 01:48:11,159
How I mean the the the drop off from year

2178
01:48:11,239 --> 01:48:14,039
to year for Chas McCormick, of course, probably was going

2179
01:48:14,159 --> 01:48:16,560
to have a drop off from the year before when

2180
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:19,279
he hit twenty two home runs because you know he

2181
01:48:19,399 --> 01:48:22,840
was in spot duty and a catching lightning in a bottle.

2182
01:48:22,880 --> 01:48:25,680
But to drop off as significantly as he did, my gosh,

2183
01:48:26,039 --> 01:48:27,680
I mean, and is that but and he's that banana

2184
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:29,640
pudding or whether what was the bread pudding. What kind

2185
01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:32,199
of pudding was It was banana pudding. Okay, yeah, it

2186
01:48:32,279 --> 01:48:34,039
was been in a pudding that Dusty would bring him.

2187
01:48:34,239 --> 01:48:36,520
And how funny is it too? You know, you finally

2188
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:39,840
get your wish of Chas McCormick's playing every single day,

2189
01:48:40,159 --> 01:48:42,479
and people were angry that Chas McCormick was playing every

2190
01:48:42,479 --> 01:48:45,520
single day. I know, maybe sometimes the fans don't know everything,

2191
01:48:45,680 --> 01:48:47,520
but of course neither do we. Sitting in front of

2192
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:49,960
these microphones, we're all just talking to simple. I've got

2193
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:52,760
a pretty good batting average the sports dog my batting

2194
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,600
average terrible at seven one three two one two five

2195
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:57,880
seven ninety. Is the phone number if you'd like to

2196
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:01,239
get in seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

2197
01:49:01,279 --> 01:49:02,760
Those you on hold, We'll get to you. As we

2198
01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:05,439
continue along, we get non Florida stories coming up. At

2199
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:07,920
one thirty, It is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross

2200
01:49:08,159 --> 01:49:11,760
without Matt Thomas with Dan Matthews. With you until two pm.

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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas return Sports Talk seven ninety.

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01:49:16,199 --> 01:49:18,600
Speaker 6: Baseball, football, basketball.

2203
01:49:18,119 --> 01:49:21,600
Speaker 1: As home for your home teams.

2204
01:49:35,279 --> 01:49:41,399
Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Matt Thomas Show with Ross without

2205
01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:44,399
Matt Thomas with Dan Matthews. At seven one three two

2206
01:49:44,439 --> 01:49:47,760
one two five seven ninety. Ros VI Real with you,

2207
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:51,199
Dan Matthews, conmerc Govern as well you on the phone

2208
01:49:51,279 --> 01:49:54,119
lines at that number that I said seven one three

2209
01:49:54,199 --> 01:49:56,840
two one two five seven ninety. You can also send

2210
01:49:56,960 --> 01:50:00,399
some tweets at sports RV like it's it's depress. It's

2211
01:50:00,399 --> 01:50:02,840
like a Jonathan Fagan love fest. And that's great, But

2212
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:07,600
Houston Media is losing one of its best members today

2213
01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:11,640
with Jonathan Fagan into retirement. Covering your Houston Rockets, who

2214
01:50:11,680 --> 01:50:15,279
have won four in a row. Don't look now number two,

2215
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:18,039
as they will have been steady number two in the

2216
01:50:18,119 --> 01:50:21,159
Western Conference. But I mean the games keep racking up.

2217
01:50:21,279 --> 01:50:24,079
We're thirty games into an eighty two game season. That's

2218
01:50:24,199 --> 01:50:26,359
not nothing in the Rockets still at the number two

2219
01:50:26,399 --> 01:50:28,720
spot in the West. What's the role in Major League Baseball?

2220
01:50:29,159 --> 01:50:32,199
Is a Memorial Day? You can start looking at the standings. Yes, well,

2221
01:50:32,239 --> 01:50:35,319
I think the Memorial Day of the NBA season is okay,

2222
01:50:36,039 --> 01:50:39,159
So like this, now that your past Christmas Day, you

2223
01:50:39,239 --> 01:50:41,800
can look at the standings and say maybe we got

2224
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:44,840
something here. Maybe, but we do four game cushion to

2225
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:47,279
say stay in the top six. I think that should

2226
01:50:47,279 --> 01:50:50,079
be the focus because it is a tightly packed and

2227
01:50:50,279 --> 01:50:54,640
tough top six in the West Thunder, Rockets, Grizzlies, Mavericks, Nuggets,

2228
01:50:55,039 --> 01:50:58,399
and Lakers for the moment, although the Lakers and Clippers

2229
01:50:58,479 --> 01:51:00,640
both LA teams tied at seven and a half games

2230
01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:03,600
back of the Thunder. Seven one three, two two five

2231
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:06,079
seven ninety is the phone number will in memorial on

2232
01:51:06,159 --> 01:51:06,680
the phone lines.

2233
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:09,720
Speaker 6: What's up, hey, guys, you know, let me get this

2234
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:11,960
out about the Astro before I go to my Rockets.

2235
01:51:12,039 --> 01:51:14,720
Come in. I haven't heard you. Guys mentioned Nessa Loreano

2236
01:51:16,399 --> 01:51:18,199
and used to play man. He was actually an Astro

2237
01:51:18,399 --> 01:51:20,920
farm hand and played in Oakland and he finished up.

2238
01:51:23,079 --> 01:51:28,600
I'm sorry, Ramone Nessell was a former player. Yeah, Ramontelariano, you're.

2239
01:51:28,560 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 2: Kind of knocking around. He has been a great outfielder,

2240
01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:33,199
but he's just had some significant drop off in his

2241
01:51:33,279 --> 01:51:38,319
game the last couple of years, although he's pretty good

2242
01:51:38,359 --> 01:51:38,880
for Atlanta.

2243
01:51:39,960 --> 01:51:42,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, okay, I got to get this comment in.

2244
01:51:42,479 --> 01:51:44,520
I'm a long time basketball fan and I had the

2245
01:51:44,600 --> 01:51:48,359
privilege to watch the Bernard King play right, So when

2246
01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:53,479
the Rockets took u wibore Uh last year's draft, I

2247
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:55,159
called my buddy up in Dallas. I said, man, you

2248
01:51:55,159 --> 01:51:57,359
need to see this guy. I said, this guy reminds

2249
01:51:57,399 --> 01:52:00,319
me of Bernard King. And he said, yeah, to take

2250
01:52:00,319 --> 01:52:02,359
a look at it. And he has his quick first

2251
01:52:02,479 --> 01:52:06,039
step and he's real explosive off the job. And I'm

2252
01:52:06,079 --> 01:52:07,760
telling you, I think they got a player in camp

2253
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:10,600
with Boar. I really do believe they have a player

2254
01:52:10,840 --> 01:52:13,279
in camp wit Boar. So you tell me what you

2255
01:52:13,319 --> 01:52:14,920
think about that one, all.

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01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:17,199
Speaker 2: Right, thank you will. Yeah, I mean, I mean Bernard

2257
01:52:17,279 --> 01:52:19,199
King one of the great scorers of all time. I

2258
01:52:19,239 --> 01:52:21,760
mean dropped fifty. I think they even had a sixty

2259
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:25,600
point game, if not multiple. But I'm not necessarily I

2260
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:28,079
think of man Bernard King very unique. But yeah, as

2261
01:52:28,079 --> 01:52:31,439
far as like big, stout, strong guys, not saying that

2262
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:33,199
I've seen a ton of Bernard King games, but I

2263
01:52:33,279 --> 01:52:35,079
have watched a lot of hardwood classics in my day

2264
01:52:35,119 --> 01:52:38,239
and have seen some Bernard King games more of also

2265
01:52:38,479 --> 01:52:41,199
kind of like like lived in the mid range type

2266
01:52:41,239 --> 01:52:43,520
of guy. And of course, well with the way the

2267
01:52:43,640 --> 01:52:45,199
NBA is cam went more and more of a three

2268
01:52:45,239 --> 01:52:48,319
point shooter. But as far as kind of like the

2269
01:52:49,239 --> 01:52:53,479
bigger barrel chest but still fast type of scores, I

2270
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:55,119
can see I can buy a little bit of what

2271
01:52:55,199 --> 01:52:57,960
you're selling there with that, with that comparison, But as

2272
01:52:58,000 --> 01:52:59,920
far as you know how he fits into this rock

2273
01:53:00,079 --> 01:53:03,159
Its team, they mentioned it last night, and I mean

2274
01:53:03,359 --> 01:53:05,560
we played some of the postgame audio on the Rockets wrap,

2275
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:10,119
Fred van Vliet and Cam Whitmore himself talking about scoring

2276
01:53:10,239 --> 01:53:12,760
and knowing that Cam Whitmore can score. It's about those

2277
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:16,880
other things. And I thought Cam Whitmore with some good

2278
01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:21,840
insight into talking about very bluntly being trusted by coach Udoka,

2279
01:53:22,039 --> 01:53:25,680
clearly saying without saying it that he hadn't been trusted

2280
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:27,840
by coach Udoka in years past. But I thought the

2281
01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:30,039
effort and energy in all facets of the game was

2282
01:53:30,079 --> 01:53:31,760
great last night. No, by the way he scored twenty

2283
01:53:31,760 --> 01:53:34,399
seven points. Well, it's also too. I mean you're looking

2284
01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:37,920
towards this year's trade deadline and wondering if this is

2285
01:53:38,039 --> 01:53:41,199
the year that the Rockets actually do make a move,

2286
01:53:41,439 --> 01:53:43,319
because last year you were wondering if they were going

2287
01:53:43,399 --> 01:53:45,359
to be in position felt like they were and they

2288
01:53:45,399 --> 01:53:48,600
didn't decide to make a move. Where you're looking for

2289
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:52,640
some scoring in this team, either it's from your starting five,

2290
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:55,399
which some nights you get it, or some nights it's

2291
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:57,479
one or two of the guys are way off and

2292
01:53:57,560 --> 01:54:00,640
you need to try to find it somewhere else. Performances

2293
01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:03,960
like you got last night, that that knocks off a

2294
01:54:04,039 --> 01:54:06,640
wishless item for somebody that you feel like you would

2295
01:54:06,680 --> 01:54:10,199
want to try to add to the trades because you've

2296
01:54:10,239 --> 01:54:12,920
needed three point shooting on this team. That is by

2297
01:54:13,039 --> 01:54:15,520
far the weakness on this team. The outside shot is

2298
01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:18,159
not anywhere close to being a strength for this team.

2299
01:54:18,760 --> 01:54:20,720
You get four of eight from him last night, twenty

2300
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:23,640
seven points. That's somebody that you feel I can be

2301
01:54:23,880 --> 01:54:26,199
a microwave off the bench for you, a little bit

2302
01:54:26,279 --> 01:54:28,800
more energy to go along with the Terror twins.

2303
01:54:29,399 --> 01:54:29,600
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2304
01:54:30,079 --> 01:54:32,720
Speaker 2: Well, with Tarry Easton gonna be day to day, hopefully

2305
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:35,119
he'll be back today. I think they're just kind of

2306
01:54:35,279 --> 01:54:38,439
keeping his injury with kid gloves and treating his injury

2307
01:54:38,520 --> 01:54:41,039
with kid gloves and making sure that he's gonna be okay.

2308
01:54:41,159 --> 01:54:43,159
So you get Tarry Easton back into the fold. You've

2309
01:54:43,159 --> 01:54:45,560
been getting him in Thompson in the starting lineup. I mean,

2310
01:54:45,640 --> 01:54:47,479
he only had you look at the box where you're like, okay,

2311
01:54:47,600 --> 01:54:50,880
nine points whatever, okayyah ten rebounds that's pretty good. But

2312
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:53,720
he had five blocks. He had huge impact defensively on

2313
01:54:53,840 --> 01:54:56,720
the game. He was second highest on the team at

2314
01:54:56,720 --> 01:54:59,159
a plus twenty two arm. Sorry excuse me, third to highest.

2315
01:54:59,239 --> 01:55:01,000
Jashon Tate, by the way, had a great night as well.

2316
01:55:01,119 --> 01:55:04,199
But with all these pieces playing well for the Rockets.

2317
01:55:04,239 --> 01:55:06,039
This came up on the postgame show last night, Dan,

2318
01:55:06,479 --> 01:55:12,159
what does that mean for Reed Shephard clearly? Organizationally, I

2319
01:55:12,239 --> 01:55:14,159
think if they wanted to put him in the G League,

2320
01:55:14,199 --> 01:55:17,119
they would have done it already, but it hasn't happened.

2321
01:55:17,159 --> 01:55:18,880
That's something that a lot of people have been talking about,

2322
01:55:18,920 --> 01:55:21,159
maybe getting him some a little bit of seasoning, getting

2323
01:55:21,199 --> 01:55:24,039
his confidence up, and allowing him to go down there

2324
01:55:24,079 --> 01:55:26,640
for a little bit to the Rio Grand Valley, get

2325
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:30,279
some seasoning, and maybe come back by seasons in. One

2326
01:55:30,359 --> 01:55:33,039
thing you hear from good teams in any sport is

2327
01:55:33,239 --> 01:55:36,199
practices are harder than the games. So I'm wondering if

2328
01:55:36,279 --> 01:55:38,479
that's the tact the Rockets are taking with him, is

2329
01:55:38,680 --> 01:55:41,159
we put him through five on fives in practice. He's

2330
01:55:41,239 --> 01:55:43,439
going against our guys. We know they're physical, we know

2331
01:55:43,520 --> 01:55:45,920
they defend, we know that they're going to play him

2332
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:48,840
as tough as anybody plays him in this league, and

2333
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:52,520
maybe that in essence is his game time. That's when

2334
01:55:52,600 --> 01:55:55,760
he's starting to kind of gain that confidence, earn that

2335
01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:58,039
trust from ema Udoka that you just talked about with

2336
01:55:58,159 --> 01:56:00,840
Cam Whitmore, because Whitmore was a little bit of a

2337
01:56:01,239 --> 01:56:03,760
slow study. Last year. He did some good things. Then

2338
01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:05,239
this year you see him down in the G League,

2339
01:56:05,279 --> 01:56:08,279
You're like, what's up. Obviously, clearly on the on the

2340
01:56:09,359 --> 01:56:11,840
on the practice floor, he was not showing ima Udoka

2341
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:14,159
enough to say, yeah, I can give you some meaningful minutes.

2342
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:14,840
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2343
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:18,399
Speaker 2: And then really by necessity, because it was that game

2344
01:56:18,479 --> 01:56:21,319
in Toronto where the Rockets were awful. They were terrible.

2345
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:24,399
I mean, and you're looking when you see the substitutions

2346
01:56:24,439 --> 01:56:26,880
coming in he and Jay Shawn Taate where that to

2347
01:56:27,039 --> 01:56:30,039
me showed me e May's being serious in terms of

2348
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:32,520
you're not giving me what I need. I'll go to

2349
01:56:32,640 --> 01:56:34,479
these guys. I'll give him an opportunity. What do you

2350
01:56:34,520 --> 01:56:36,760
hear people say all the time, I'll give me an opportunity,

2351
01:56:36,840 --> 01:56:39,520
give me a chance. Well, here you go, and they

2352
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:42,039
both made the most of it, and now there are

2353
01:56:42,039 --> 01:56:45,720
even two more guys that he can trust in a pinch. Yeah,

2354
01:56:46,239 --> 01:56:49,680
it's it's been great to see the way that this

2355
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:53,880
team has grown. And really it's about buying in and

2356
01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:55,720
in twenty twenty four, you got to be like a

2357
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:59,000
certain type of coach and with a certain really a

2358
01:56:59,039 --> 01:57:01,359
type of charisma, type of like to where you're not

2359
01:57:01,399 --> 01:57:03,399
gonna get tuned out where you have these young players

2360
01:57:03,399 --> 01:57:05,760
that Jalen Green to Cam Whitmore's or whoever to to

2361
01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:08,720
to really go in and buy into what you're trying

2362
01:57:08,760 --> 01:57:11,119
to sell. What Udoka is but is about being a

2363
01:57:11,159 --> 01:57:13,880
complete player, and I think we're we're seeing it right

2364
01:57:13,960 --> 01:57:16,479
now with Cam Whitmore and the way that he's playing.

2365
01:57:16,520 --> 01:57:18,640
Not that he's you know, lockdown defense or anything like that,

2366
01:57:18,720 --> 01:57:21,560
but Albryn ching Goon has been improving on the defensive side.

2367
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,159
We mentioned you mentioned the Terror Twins with u Aman

2368
01:57:24,279 --> 01:57:26,880
Thompson and Tari Eason. I mean then the guys like

2369
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:29,720
Fred Van Vliet, Dillon Brooks when he's healthy. I just

2370
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:34,640
love this these kind of like maulers and brawlers that

2371
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:37,479
the that the Houston Rockets have become. He's got a

2372
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:40,039
perfect balance of what you want for a guy that

2373
01:57:40,199 --> 01:57:43,560
fits the profile that im Udoka has. He's a former player,

2374
01:57:44,119 --> 01:57:47,279
but he also too has a good he He has

2375
01:57:47,359 --> 01:57:50,079
a good grasp of letting his guys know I'm not

2376
01:57:50,159 --> 01:57:53,239
your buddy, I'm your coach. Like that's that's how this goes.

2377
01:57:53,439 --> 01:57:56,720
I know what you're going through, because let's look at

2378
01:57:56,840 --> 01:57:59,680
coaches who in the past. The first time around, it

2379
01:57:59,720 --> 01:58:01,960
didn't go so well. Jason Kidd, I think it was

2380
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:03,600
like he wouldn't even a year remove from the game

2381
01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:05,760
and he's already a head coach in the NBA. And

2382
01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:07,880
I remember at the time I was working with Sam Mitchell,

2383
01:58:08,479 --> 01:58:12,119
former NBA player, former coach, and he had talked about

2384
01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:16,039
that you have to sometimes learn to stop thinking like

2385
01:58:16,079 --> 01:58:18,239
a player, and he didn't think that he had enough

2386
01:58:18,279 --> 01:58:19,760
time to be able to do that. It didn't go

2387
01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:21,720
well the first time. Then he got another opportunity with

2388
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:24,199
the Mavericks that's going much better, took him to the

2389
01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:27,720
NBA Finals last year. So sometimes you have to go

2390
01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:32,640
through those trials and tribulations of making that transition. And

2391
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:36,199
he may Udoka seemingly has that. It's I know, when

2392
01:58:36,199 --> 01:58:38,279
I've got to be able to press the gas on

2393
01:58:38,359 --> 01:58:41,079
these guys in terms of getting into them or kind

2394
01:58:41,119 --> 01:58:43,439
of tail back and say they're professionals, they'll figure it out.

2395
01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:45,159
All right. We got to take a quick break here

2396
01:58:45,319 --> 01:58:48,279
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Without Matt Thomas,

2397
01:58:48,399 --> 01:58:52,199
Rockets have won four in a row, big home stamp

2398
01:58:52,479 --> 01:58:55,039
coming up. What is your prediction for how they do

2399
01:58:55,680 --> 01:58:58,039
with these games coming up? Starting tonight on the second

2400
01:58:58,079 --> 01:59:00,720
half of a back to back against the Minnesota Timberwolves,

2401
01:59:01,039 --> 01:59:04,319
Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks. By the way, no Luka Doncic

2402
01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:07,359
with the calf strain that he has suffered. Then you

2403
01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:11,119
have the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers after that.

2404
01:59:11,359 --> 01:59:12,840
I think we are going to learn a lot about

2405
01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:15,960
the Rockets on this homestand we know that they're one

2406
01:59:15,960 --> 01:59:18,520
of the best teams in the West right now. Some tough,

2407
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:21,279
tough tests coming up. We'll talk about that as we

2408
01:59:21,399 --> 01:59:24,199
go along. At seven one, three, two, one two, five,

2409
01:59:24,399 --> 01:59:27,720
seven ninety. We've also been talking some Texans astros with

2410
01:59:27,840 --> 01:59:29,960
the Bregman and the outfield stuff. What do you want

2411
01:59:30,039 --> 01:59:31,800
to happen there? Anything you want to get to on it,

2412
01:59:31,880 --> 01:59:34,760
Anything goes Friday. We also have non Florida stories coming

2413
01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:37,680
up at one thirty, a jam packed final hour of

2414
01:59:37,720 --> 01:59:40,079
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming up at seven

2415
01:59:40,119 --> 01:59:42,319
one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

2416
01:59:44,359 --> 01:59:48,119
Speaker 1: Launchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.

2417
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:53,000
Speaker 2: Our number four of four of The Matt Thomas Show

2418
01:59:53,159 --> 01:59:57,159
with Ross is upon us ros Virial Dan Matthews with you.

2419
01:59:57,520 --> 02:00:00,880
Matt out on vacation, although he we'll be calling the

2420
02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:05,199
Rockets game tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves, second half of

2421
02:00:05,279 --> 02:00:08,439
a back to back Rockets winners of four in a row,

2422
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:12,680
a season high twelve above five hundred, number two in

2423
02:00:12,800 --> 02:00:15,439
the West, but a good test coming up in this

2424
02:00:15,600 --> 02:00:19,119
big homestand with five games coming up as the calendar

2425
02:00:19,319 --> 02:00:23,079
swings to twenty twenty five, we go to the new year.

2426
02:00:23,479 --> 02:00:26,039
Pretty good sample size of the season with the Rockets

2427
02:00:26,079 --> 02:00:29,399
sitting at number two in the Western Conference. We're talking

2428
02:00:29,399 --> 02:00:32,119
about that and many other things with you at seven

2429
02:00:32,159 --> 02:00:35,479
one three two one two five seven ninety seven to

2430
02:00:35,479 --> 02:00:38,239
one three two one two five seven ninety We've been

2431
02:00:38,279 --> 02:00:40,840
talking about Alex Bregman, is he going to land with

2432
02:00:40,880 --> 02:00:43,760
the Tigers? Who was putting out the the Glabor Torres

2433
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:45,520
news that he would likely be put to second I

2434
02:00:45,560 --> 02:00:47,840
saw Chandler had quote you heated it by wondering the

2435
02:00:47,920 --> 02:00:51,479
original source. I'm guessing because I saw Nightingale had it

2436
02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:54,760
as well, that it was, you know, like Dana did

2437
02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:57,840
after the Tucker trade, a zoom call or some sort

2438
02:00:57,840 --> 02:01:01,359
of availability with Scott Harris, the president of baseball ops

2439
02:01:01,439 --> 02:01:03,920
for the Tigers, that not only would he move to

2440
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:07,159
second Torres, that is that Colt Keith would be playing

2441
02:01:07,199 --> 02:01:12,279
first base for them. So Cult Keith cult two first names. Yeah,

2442
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:15,319
uh so he'll be over at first. So that leaves

2443
02:01:15,640 --> 02:01:21,000
third base wide open. Who during the playoffs Vierling's back,

2444
02:01:21,239 --> 02:01:24,279
Matt Vierling was playing third base. Oh yeah, and Matt

2445
02:01:24,359 --> 02:01:26,520
Verling okay, because he just didn't hurt, right, We didn't.

2446
02:01:26,600 --> 02:01:29,000
We didn't have a chance to turn this game upside down?

2447
02:01:29,159 --> 02:01:32,399
Was the problem in those two games. They turned the

2448
02:01:32,479 --> 02:01:35,960
game upside down. That was the problem. Yeah, all right,

2449
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:37,920
seven one, three, two, two, five seven nine of the

2450
02:01:37,920 --> 02:01:39,479
phone Nuber if you'd like to get into any of that.

2451
02:01:39,600 --> 02:01:42,760
We've also been talking about the Houston Texans a day removed.

2452
02:01:42,800 --> 02:01:49,560
I mean, we're always, you know, I always it's funny

2453
02:01:49,600 --> 02:01:52,600
when when the NFL season happens, I always want to say, like,

2454
02:01:52,680 --> 02:01:55,479
don't overreact to one game. It's one performance, things can

2455
02:01:55,560 --> 02:01:58,840
turn around. Last time they got really destroyed, it was

2456
02:01:58,880 --> 02:02:01,560
against the Vikings, and then they won their next three games,

2457
02:02:01,640 --> 02:02:04,640
although a couple of those are really close. But this

2458
02:02:04,880 --> 02:02:07,119
just feels different. The way that we're closer to the

2459
02:02:07,279 --> 02:02:09,199
end of the season, the way that the injuries have

2460
02:02:09,359 --> 02:02:12,439
piled up, with Diggs and Dell not coming back. Who

2461
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:15,439
knows what's going to happen. I think that the Texans

2462
02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:18,560
are better than what they put on the field on Wednesday,

2463
02:02:18,720 --> 02:02:21,039
clearly by a team that won nine games, that looked

2464
02:02:21,079 --> 02:02:23,319
like a team that had never even It looked like

2465
02:02:23,560 --> 02:02:26,359
a team of the school the blind was playing there.

2466
02:02:26,760 --> 02:02:29,079
So they're better than that. But how much better is

2467
02:02:29,199 --> 02:02:31,479
the question? And CJ Stroud a big part of that.

2468
02:02:31,560 --> 02:02:34,920
We were kind of talking earlier Dan about how close

2469
02:02:35,359 --> 02:02:40,279
have we seen CJ. Stroud get to his individual season

2470
02:02:40,760 --> 02:02:43,199
with the comparison being Dak Prescott early on in his

2471
02:02:43,359 --> 02:02:47,760
career with the twenty three touchdowns four interceptions in his

2472
02:02:47,920 --> 02:02:52,399
rookie season, c J Stroud twenty three touchdowns, five interceptions,

2473
02:02:52,439 --> 02:02:54,239
and both of them taking a step back in their

2474
02:02:54,279 --> 02:02:57,600
second year. And really, depending on which Cowboys fan you ask,

2475
02:02:58,239 --> 02:02:59,760
is Dak press get the guy to take you to

2476
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:04,960
his Super Bowl. Some say most say no, and some say, eh, yeah,

2477
02:03:04,960 --> 02:03:07,000
if the team's good enough around him. And that's not

2478
02:03:07,119 --> 02:03:09,520
what I want for CJ. Stroud's career. No, I mean

2479
02:03:09,720 --> 02:03:12,760
you want him to steadily be able to make that

2480
02:03:12,880 --> 02:03:15,800
a scent in terms of becoming one of the best

2481
02:03:15,840 --> 02:03:17,920
in the league. And he looked like he was on

2482
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:20,319
his way last year. This year it looks like, at

2483
02:03:20,960 --> 02:03:23,680
the very least, it's a plateau in terms of him

2484
02:03:23,720 --> 02:03:27,079
being able to ascend to that category of the Mahomes

2485
02:03:27,239 --> 02:03:32,039
Josh Allen, you know Lamar Jackson, who is absolutely at

2486
02:03:32,079 --> 02:03:34,399
the top of that list in terms of being the best.

2487
02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:37,439
And I mean that's where you were hoping that getting

2488
02:03:37,439 --> 02:03:38,279
to a different planet?

2489
02:03:38,359 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 8: Man?

2490
02:03:38,680 --> 02:03:40,960
Speaker 2: Did CJ. Shroud? Look judging from that game on Winnsday,

2491
02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:43,920
you want to talk about to a great fit with

2492
02:03:44,720 --> 02:03:46,840
what Todd Munkin has been able to do all throughout

2493
02:03:46,880 --> 02:03:49,000
his career. I mean, look at all of the ways

2494
02:03:49,039 --> 02:03:51,079
that he used him in that game. You need him

2495
02:03:51,079 --> 02:03:53,399
as a runner pal, you need him as a passer.

2496
02:03:53,680 --> 02:03:55,760
He can absolutely do that for you. You need him

2497
02:03:55,840 --> 02:03:58,520
to be able to kind of extend things so guys

2498
02:03:58,600 --> 02:04:00,319
can get open. Yeah, he can do that. Ye too,

2499
02:04:00,359 --> 02:04:02,319
he did that numerous times as well in the game.

2500
02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:04,880
A huge part of it is on him, but it's

2501
02:04:04,960 --> 02:04:07,560
also too as well. You've got to be able. I

2502
02:04:07,680 --> 02:04:08,039
just did it.

2503
02:04:08,319 --> 02:04:08,680
Speaker 8: I know that.

2504
02:04:08,760 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 2: I just did it. You really absolutely need to be

2505
02:04:12,720 --> 02:04:15,520
able to have a good, strong offensive coordinator that can

2506
02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:18,239
even unlock some of those things that you didn't even

2507
02:04:18,279 --> 02:04:20,479
know that you possessed. And Todd Munkin's done that.

2508
02:04:20,840 --> 02:04:21,039
Speaker 12: Yeah.

2509
02:04:21,319 --> 02:04:28,840
Speaker 2: Thirty nine touchdowns passing passing for Lamar Jackson, four interceptions,

2510
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:33,199
I mean yards per attempt of almost nine the highest

2511
02:04:33,319 --> 02:04:36,640
of his career. And then that's not even going into

2512
02:04:36,880 --> 02:04:39,279
too what his rushing numbers have been so far eight

2513
02:04:39,399 --> 02:04:43,079
hundred and fifty two rushing yards and four touchdowns. Is

2514
02:04:43,119 --> 02:04:45,159
he going to rack up like fifty touchdowns and lose

2515
02:04:45,199 --> 02:04:48,279
the MVP to Josh Allen? I mean it depends in

2516
02:04:48,640 --> 02:04:50,560
Josh Allen been great by the way, and is great

2517
02:04:51,159 --> 02:04:53,279
to me. Those are the two favorites, you know. Adam

2518
02:04:53,279 --> 02:04:55,439
and Adam were talking about that yesterday on the A team.

2519
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:58,600
I think what people are going to use against Lamar Jackson, Well,

2520
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:01,079
he's got Derrick Henry. That's going to be a convenient

2521
02:05:01,119 --> 02:05:04,359
excuse that people use this year because the narrative is

2522
02:05:04,439 --> 02:05:08,079
going to be, well, look at how Josh Allen was

2523
02:05:08,119 --> 02:05:10,000
able to raise the play of his receivers when he

2524
02:05:10,079 --> 02:05:13,680
lost Stefan Diggs and you had some really serious questions

2525
02:05:13,680 --> 02:05:16,640
about how good that receiver room could be. And with

2526
02:05:16,800 --> 02:05:19,800
Lamar Jackson it's going to be. It's also a little

2527
02:05:19,800 --> 02:05:22,000
bit of well he's had his time kind of deal.

2528
02:05:22,560 --> 02:05:24,600
I think that is you can get the voter fatigue

2529
02:05:24,640 --> 02:05:27,119
type of issue. I think that's what's going to end

2530
02:05:27,199 --> 02:05:28,800
up hurting him, is that it's going to be, well,

2531
02:05:28,840 --> 02:05:30,680
he's won back to back, Do we really need to

2532
02:05:30,720 --> 02:05:32,560
give it to him three years in a row even

2533
02:05:32,600 --> 02:05:35,000
though he's playing better than he did in those two years. Yeah,

2534
02:05:35,079 --> 02:05:38,880
Lamar Jackson with four rushing touchdowns thirty nine passing, you

2535
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:41,840
have Josh Allen with twenty. Now, of course, Lamar with

2536
02:05:41,920 --> 02:05:44,680
a game up right now, Josh Allen going to play

2537
02:05:44,720 --> 02:05:49,359
this weekend against a Jesus Jets, the Horrible Jets. So

2538
02:05:49,760 --> 02:05:52,640
he's over under not very high either. Two thirteen in

2539
02:05:53,039 --> 02:05:56,039
a hook for passing yards this weekend for Josh Allen,

2540
02:05:56,119 --> 02:05:58,039
Oh really, well, it's good. Probably can go a lot

2541
02:05:58,079 --> 02:06:01,880
through the ground. I guess twenty six passing, six interceptions,

2542
02:06:01,960 --> 02:06:04,239
eleven rushing touchdowns for Josh Allen.

2543
02:06:04,279 --> 02:06:04,960
Speaker 6: But on c J.

2544
02:06:05,119 --> 02:06:09,239
Speaker 2: Stroud mentioned this earlier. Here is him at talking with

2545
02:06:09,439 --> 02:06:12,760
the media and there is a very very key piece

2546
02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:15,319
of this that I want to talk more about. Here's

2547
02:06:15,359 --> 02:06:17,359
what c J. Stroud had to say about the difference

2548
02:06:17,399 --> 02:06:19,760
and how he's playing this year versus last year.

2549
02:06:20,239 --> 02:06:22,079
Speaker 5: I try to post the game the same way I did,

2550
02:06:22,279 --> 02:06:24,039
you know, and even you know, I think I'm seen

2551
02:06:24,079 --> 02:06:26,520
it better than I ever have, you know, just a

2552
02:06:26,560 --> 02:06:28,479
little banged up so on not really making plays and

2553
02:06:28,800 --> 02:06:31,640
that's that's a terrible excuse, but I mean, really just

2554
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:34,319
not making plays. That's really the difference between last year

2555
02:06:34,319 --> 02:06:36,880
and this year for me is just not making enough plays.

2556
02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:40,600
So and you know, there's times where you know, the

2557
02:06:40,640 --> 02:06:43,000
players are to be made and there's guys open, and

2558
02:06:43,079 --> 02:06:45,079
I got to sign a way to you know, make

2559
02:06:45,159 --> 02:06:47,720
the play. Worry makes my mission do something just that

2560
02:06:47,840 --> 02:06:50,920
I'm capable of doing, you know, and you know, winning

2561
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,119
us a football game, you know, that's really you know,

2562
02:06:53,239 --> 02:06:55,880
up to me to lead our team in those those

2563
02:06:56,439 --> 02:06:59,960
times where guys are open, and you know, ultimately it's

2564
02:07:00,000 --> 02:07:03,439
which is heat making plays. That's really how I look

2565
02:07:03,439 --> 02:07:05,880
at the difference between this and last years. You know,

2566
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:07,319
can be fixed.

2567
02:07:09,920 --> 02:07:13,680
Speaker 2: Banged up part of the conversation there and also not

2568
02:07:13,920 --> 02:07:17,000
making the plays. The plays that are that are that

2569
02:07:17,079 --> 02:07:19,079
are there for him. But also ce J Stroud talking

2570
02:07:19,079 --> 02:07:21,000
about being banged up something we've kind of talked about.

2571
02:07:21,159 --> 02:07:22,720
You can't put a number on it, you can't put

2572
02:07:22,760 --> 02:07:25,359
anything on it. And as you said earlier we were

2573
02:07:25,399 --> 02:07:27,039
talking about this, if he's out on the field, he

2574
02:07:27,159 --> 02:07:30,000
needs to perform. But also if we're asking the why

2575
02:07:30,319 --> 02:07:32,600
why is c J Stroud regressing? Why is he not

2576
02:07:32,720 --> 02:07:35,680
looking as sharp as he did last year? Of course

2577
02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:37,319
there's a lot of factors in that, that being the

2578
02:07:37,399 --> 02:07:40,560
offensive line, that being the weapons, as far as the

2579
02:07:40,600 --> 02:07:43,840
pass catchers. Your down, Tank Dell, now you're down, Stefan Diggs,

2580
02:07:44,479 --> 02:07:48,039
Dalton Schultz doesn't look nearly as good and as fresh

2581
02:07:48,119 --> 02:07:51,720
and as spry as he did last year. And you've

2582
02:07:51,800 --> 02:07:54,119
missed Nico Collins for a stretch of the season as well.

2583
02:07:54,520 --> 02:07:58,000
He quickly corrected himself and right right for what you

2584
02:07:58,119 --> 02:08:00,319
just said is he said, yeah, I'm banged up, but

2585
02:08:00,479 --> 02:08:04,199
that's not an excuse. I mean, he subscribes to the

2586
02:08:04,239 --> 02:08:05,680
same thing. You might have wanted to let it out,

2587
02:08:05,720 --> 02:08:07,479
but then also like, hey, guys, I'm hanged up a

2588
02:08:07,479 --> 02:08:09,800
little bit because it's not an excuse, but also, guys,

2589
02:08:09,840 --> 02:08:11,960
I'm kind of hurt, butget it's not an excuse. It's

2590
02:08:12,000 --> 02:08:13,640
not anything that I'm worried about. But yeah, I'm hurt.

2591
02:08:13,880 --> 02:08:16,399
Because that's what he knows will become the story. It's

2592
02:08:16,479 --> 02:08:19,560
it's not about hey, he's not playing well. Hey he's

2593
02:08:19,600 --> 02:08:22,560
not being protected. Hey he only has Nico Collins to

2594
02:08:22,640 --> 02:08:24,800
throw two on the field, which that part's not true

2595
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:28,840
because he's trying to quickly take it away from him

2596
02:08:28,920 --> 02:08:33,000
becoming the distraction where the Texans got him hurt, the

2597
02:08:33,119 --> 02:08:36,119
Texans didn't protect him. Then the blame deflects off him

2598
02:08:36,239 --> 02:08:38,600
and it goes to other people. And he's doing the

2599
02:08:38,680 --> 02:08:41,520
right thing as a quarterback of saying there's no excuse,

2600
02:08:41,680 --> 02:08:43,600
I'm out there, I'm playing. If I'm out there and

2601
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:45,560
i'm playing, I need to be that guy that I

2602
02:08:45,680 --> 02:08:48,159
wasn't twenty twenty three. I'm not that guy right now. No,

2603
02:08:48,399 --> 02:08:50,880
he hasn't, and to me, the worst he might have

2604
02:08:50,960 --> 02:08:55,439
had worst games this year in terms of statistics like okay,

2605
02:08:55,920 --> 02:08:58,239
zero no touchdowns, one pick. I feel like he's had

2606
02:08:58,279 --> 02:09:00,279
worse than that this year so far. But just to me,

2607
02:09:00,359 --> 02:09:03,920
as far as the looking of loss, the missing of

2608
02:09:04,039 --> 02:09:07,760
easy throws, the feeling pressure that wasn't there, to me,

2609
02:09:07,960 --> 02:09:10,399
that's as bad as he looked all year, because there's

2610
02:09:10,439 --> 02:09:12,880
been numerous chances. And that's why I threw out that

2611
02:09:12,920 --> 02:09:15,520
tweet the other day. The offensive line still took, of course,

2612
02:09:15,560 --> 02:09:17,600
the beating that it has all season long on Twitter,

2613
02:09:18,239 --> 02:09:21,000
but I truly believe it. He had good pockets to

2614
02:09:21,039 --> 02:09:22,720
be able to throw out of. He had chances to

2615
02:09:22,760 --> 02:09:25,159
be able to make some plays, and he overthrew. He

2616
02:09:25,319 --> 02:09:28,039
led his guys. I mean he looks lost out there

2617
02:09:28,079 --> 02:09:31,039
with his feet and actually being able to trust his throws.

2618
02:09:31,319 --> 02:09:33,399
He has no trust in his throws right now. And

2619
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:36,600
you saw it the week before against against Kansas City,

2620
02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:40,600
right before the first I believe was it an interception

2621
02:09:40,680 --> 02:09:42,880
on the first drive that he had when the Texans

2622
02:09:42,920 --> 02:09:46,399
were driving, and I mean he had a good enough

2623
02:09:46,920 --> 02:09:49,079
clean pocket to throw out of. He was off his

2624
02:09:49,199 --> 02:09:51,000
back foot and it fluttered a little bit and it

2625
02:09:51,079 --> 02:09:53,720
got picked. All right. That begs the question I'm going

2626
02:09:53,800 --> 02:09:55,600
to ask all of you I'm gonna ask Dan when

2627
02:09:55,680 --> 02:09:59,840
we come back. I want your answers. How much should CEJ.

2628
02:10:00,119 --> 02:10:02,960
Stroud play in the game, not this weekend, but next

2629
02:10:03,039 --> 02:10:07,079
week against the Tenancy Titans. Seven one three two one

2630
02:10:07,159 --> 02:10:09,600
two five, seven ninety. How much do you want to

2631
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:12,399
save him and bubble wrap him for the playoffs? How

2632
02:10:12,479 --> 02:10:14,000
much do you want him to get back in a

2633
02:10:14,039 --> 02:10:16,439
good rhythm against the Tennessee Titans team that is not

2634
02:10:16,760 --> 02:10:20,479
very good? Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.

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02:10:20,520 --> 02:10:22,880
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02:11:00,800 --> 02:11:05,560
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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, without Matt Thomas,

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02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:13,039
with Dan Matthews, with me Ross Viya, with Kanem of

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Government with you. It's seven one three two, one to two.

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It takes a village to make this seven ninety seven

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02:11:18,920 --> 02:11:20,920
one three two one, two, five, seven ninety. Now, I

2647
02:11:21,039 --> 02:11:23,800
want to be clear, I am not dismissing C. J.

2648
02:11:24,039 --> 02:11:26,680
Stroud and saying his career is over and he's terrible

2649
02:11:26,760 --> 02:11:29,520
or anything like that. He is the Texans franchise quarterback.

2650
02:11:29,560 --> 02:11:31,840
At the moment that it is available, they should sign

2651
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:34,680
and extend him forever and ever. I think this is

2652
02:11:34,800 --> 02:11:36,600
going to be one of the low watermarks of his

2653
02:11:36,760 --> 02:11:40,359
career and he will continue to get better and better. Uh,

2654
02:11:40,439 --> 02:11:43,319
Because got a tweet from Timothy saying Ross josh Allen

2655
02:11:43,399 --> 02:11:46,960
Lamar both struggled in their second and third year. I've

2656
02:11:47,079 --> 02:11:49,600
definitely Josh Allen was struggling early on in his career.

2657
02:11:49,640 --> 02:11:51,199
I have to see. It feels like I mean just

2658
02:11:51,279 --> 02:11:53,760
basically from the get Lamar Jackson was special. He did

2659
02:11:53,960 --> 02:11:57,359
maybe regress some here and there, and then there of

2660
02:11:57,439 --> 02:11:59,880
course were those couple of years in a row where

2661
02:11:59,920 --> 02:12:03,079
he was missing some games. People got the IP the

2662
02:12:03,239 --> 02:12:06,760
injury prone label for Lamar Jackson. Oh, this style of

2663
02:12:06,880 --> 02:12:10,239
play not sustainable. Well, he's played sixteen games in back

2664
02:12:10,279 --> 02:12:14,760
to back years. Has Lamar Jackson with the seventeenth coming up, Well,

2665
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:16,960
that'd be not after this weekend, but the next week.

2666
02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:20,560
I would say Lamar's the larger issue that he had

2667
02:12:20,600 --> 02:12:23,359
to overcome was he can't win in the playoffs. Yeah,

2668
02:12:23,399 --> 02:12:25,600
he's still gonna that's still gonna be his label. And

2669
02:12:26,079 --> 02:12:28,720
because it didn't help last year where it seemed like

2670
02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:30,399
it was tailor made for them to be able to

2671
02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:33,079
make it to the Super Bowl and you had Kansas

2672
02:12:33,119 --> 02:12:35,239
City came in there and beat them. Yeah, and they

2673
02:12:35,279 --> 02:12:38,720
didn't score. I felt like in that game, I think

2674
02:12:38,760 --> 02:12:40,399
he did press in that game. I think he was

2675
02:12:40,479 --> 02:12:43,640
driving the ball down the field way too much. He

2676
02:12:43,680 --> 02:12:45,479
should have taken the things that were in front of him.

2677
02:12:45,800 --> 02:12:47,760
He does have this chip on his shoulder to prove

2678
02:12:47,840 --> 02:12:49,680
that the people that doubt that he can pass, and

2679
02:12:49,760 --> 02:12:51,680
so he's done a great job of staying in the pocket,

2680
02:12:51,720 --> 02:12:54,520
extending plays, keeping his eyes downfield. I mean, the freaking

2681
02:12:54,600 --> 02:12:59,079
dude has thirty nine touchdowns this year passing and four interceptions.

2682
02:12:59,199 --> 02:13:02,359
This Lamar can't pass narrative has been long dead. I'm

2683
02:13:02,399 --> 02:13:04,079
sorry for those of you that are still hanging on

2684
02:13:04,239 --> 02:13:06,960
to that, but absolutely that's the last hump. He has

2685
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:08,680
to get over it. Josh Allen has to get over it.

2686
02:13:08,880 --> 02:13:10,520
But oh, by the way, that Pat Mahomes guy is

2687
02:13:10,520 --> 02:13:12,439
gonna have something to say about it too well. I mean,

2688
02:13:12,479 --> 02:13:15,600
and that's the thing is, I mean, there's quarterbacks all

2689
02:13:15,680 --> 02:13:17,720
throughout the history of this game that have that. I mean,

2690
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:21,199
Peyton Manning, it was, how many super Bowls does he have?

2691
02:13:21,399 --> 02:13:23,680
There's no Tom Brady well, I mean, but be four

2692
02:13:23,760 --> 02:13:26,039
or five. And that's just the thing. I mean, he

2693
02:13:26,159 --> 02:13:29,359
had that juggernaut standing in front of him. Even when

2694
02:13:29,399 --> 02:13:32,159
he went to Denver too as well. Tom Brady was

2695
02:13:32,159 --> 02:13:34,760
still around. The Patriots were still around. Yeah, and I

2696
02:13:34,840 --> 02:13:36,640
mean at least a couple of times he was able

2697
02:13:36,680 --> 02:13:38,840
to get past them. Yeah, they did make well. I mean,

2698
02:13:39,399 --> 02:13:41,960
he was horrible that second super Bowl they won. But

2699
02:13:42,000 --> 02:13:44,079
the year before was it the year before the maybe

2700
02:13:44,119 --> 02:13:45,720
one or two years before when they got crushed by

2701
02:13:45,720 --> 02:13:47,720
the Seahawks In this year, it was the year before, Okay,

2702
02:13:47,760 --> 02:13:50,319
I can see that was when he threw like fifty

2703
02:13:50,399 --> 02:13:53,760
five touchdowns or whatever, a ridiculous, ungodly number he got

2704
02:13:53,800 --> 02:13:56,800
to that year. But yeah, Peyton Manning probably has more

2705
02:13:56,840 --> 02:13:58,920
Super Bowls. And we might be talking about I mean,

2706
02:13:59,000 --> 02:14:03,239
Joe burt Well, Joe Burrow did get passed once. He's

2707
02:14:03,279 --> 02:14:05,279
still dealing with it. I mean, even though he's having

2708
02:14:05,319 --> 02:14:07,760
a fantastic season and they're still a live for the

2709
02:14:07,800 --> 02:14:11,319
playoffs barely, but I mean you've already got people who

2710
02:14:11,359 --> 02:14:13,800
are wondering if Joe Burrow is the second coming of

2711
02:14:13,880 --> 02:14:17,119
Dan Marino. Where it's going to be he stays with

2712
02:14:17,199 --> 02:14:20,079
the same team and he is never able to get

2713
02:14:20,119 --> 02:14:22,039
back to the super Bowl because remember Marino got to

2714
02:14:22,119 --> 02:14:24,399
the Super Bowl quickly and people were like, all right,

2715
02:14:24,439 --> 02:14:27,079
this is gonna be a regular thing. He never got back. Yeah,

2716
02:14:27,239 --> 02:14:30,479
last year in the playoffs for Lamar Jackson against the Texans,

2717
02:14:30,560 --> 02:14:33,439
two touchdowns, no picks, only one hundred and fifty two yards,

2718
02:14:33,520 --> 02:14:35,960
but I mean they were boat racing the Texans, so

2719
02:14:36,079 --> 02:14:38,159
he wasn't needed to throw the ball a ton. And

2720
02:14:38,279 --> 02:14:40,800
then against Kansas City two hundred and seventy two yards,

2721
02:14:40,840 --> 02:14:44,079
a touchdown and a pick, but as I said, a

2722
02:14:44,159 --> 02:14:46,720
completion percentage only fifty four percent. He was driving the

2723
02:14:46,760 --> 02:14:48,960
ball downfield. I think there were some easy throws he

2724
02:14:49,000 --> 02:14:51,399
could have made. They were down one score basically that

2725
02:14:51,439 --> 02:14:52,920
whole game. It felt like he was trying to get

2726
02:14:52,960 --> 02:14:55,279
it all in one play. So we'll see. He's had

2727
02:14:55,319 --> 02:14:57,399
some good games in his career in the postseason, but

2728
02:14:57,439 --> 02:15:00,680
he's also had some really bad ones overall, just a

2729
02:15:00,760 --> 02:15:03,199
fifty seven percent completion per percentage, just a two to

2730
02:15:03,279 --> 02:15:06,560
four record for Lamar Jackson and just six touchdowns to

2731
02:15:06,680 --> 02:15:12,079
go against six interceptions, and let's see three rushing touchdowns

2732
02:15:12,119 --> 02:15:14,279
as well, So he'll have another chance to prove it.

2733
02:15:14,439 --> 02:15:16,840
He's looking great. He looked like the MVP on Wednesday

2734
02:15:17,199 --> 02:15:20,319
to me, but well, time will tell. That's the beauty

2735
02:15:20,359 --> 02:15:22,039
of sports is when you get into the playoffs, when

2736
02:15:22,039 --> 02:15:24,239
the games really matter and everything on the line, that's

2737
02:15:24,239 --> 02:15:26,359
when it's gonna get really fun. And oh, by the way,

2738
02:15:26,479 --> 02:15:29,880
don't forget the Texans were horrible on Wednesday, but they

2739
02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:33,520
are in the tournament. Seven one three two one two

2740
02:15:33,760 --> 02:15:35,880
five seven nine of the phone number Alex and Conrad

2741
02:15:35,920 --> 02:15:37,560
has been holding what's up Alex?

2742
02:15:38,840 --> 02:15:42,840
Speaker 8: Okay, So great show, guys, especially you know, since you're

2743
02:15:42,920 --> 02:15:45,920
carrying Matt's extra weight, you're doing an admirable job.

2744
02:15:45,960 --> 02:15:50,359
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. So I got a couple of things.

2745
02:15:50,840 --> 02:15:55,239
Speaker 17: Number One, with the Texans, they should absolutely play everyone on.

2746
02:15:56,760 --> 02:15:57,720
Speaker 12: Against the Titans.

2747
02:15:58,359 --> 02:16:02,399
Speaker 17: How much they need if we're winning at the you know,

2748
02:16:02,640 --> 02:16:05,159
if we're winning considerably, then yeah, you know, you sit,

2749
02:16:05,319 --> 02:16:08,279
you sit your starters, but no, you gotta start everyone,

2750
02:16:09,000 --> 02:16:10,319
especially considering.

2751
02:16:09,960 --> 02:16:12,600
Speaker 8: How bad that last game was, they definitely need to

2752
02:16:12,640 --> 02:16:14,640
tune up. Like if it's been a long time since

2753
02:16:14,680 --> 02:16:18,560
you've been with a nice lady in a biblical sense, uh,

2754
02:16:19,159 --> 02:16:20,479
you just you know, and then all of a sudden

2755
02:16:20,520 --> 02:16:23,119
you get a date with one and it seems like she's.

2756
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:25,399
Speaker 6: Pretty down, Like, are you just gonna go in there?

2757
02:16:25,920 --> 02:16:27,920
Speaker 2: No, man, you gotta you gotta have a warm up.

2758
02:16:27,960 --> 02:16:30,239
Speaker 8: You gotta find a slump buster first, and maybe you know,

2759
02:16:31,000 --> 02:16:32,440
you know, get your tune in right.

2760
02:16:32,760 --> 02:16:34,319
Speaker 6: Get everything worked out so that you.

2761
02:16:34,360 --> 02:16:35,360
Speaker 2: Can go in confident.

2762
02:16:35,920 --> 02:16:38,760
Speaker 6: You can't just go in with a You can't go

2763
02:16:38,879 --> 02:16:39,200
in like that.

2764
02:16:39,280 --> 02:16:40,760
Speaker 8: You can't go in with a loaded gun that you

2765
02:16:40,799 --> 02:16:41,840
don't know if it's gonna fire.

2766
02:16:46,200 --> 02:16:50,559
Speaker 2: But this analogy works for football, Alex, Just just FYI.

2767
02:16:51,760 --> 02:16:53,079
Speaker 6: I think I think it does.

2768
02:16:53,159 --> 02:16:55,159
Speaker 17: You need to have a nice rehearsal dinner. How about

2769
02:16:55,200 --> 02:16:58,600
that you don't get married without having a rehearsal. Okay,

2770
02:17:00,040 --> 02:17:02,639
And I think that they definitely need to have their rehearsal.

2771
02:17:02,319 --> 02:17:07,920
Speaker 2: Desfore the main event for sure. But I guess maybe

2772
02:17:07,959 --> 02:17:11,719
the Titans are the Texans slumpbuster. Hopefully we need them

2773
02:17:11,760 --> 02:17:11,879
to be.

2774
02:17:12,360 --> 02:17:15,000
Speaker 17: If we had beat them the first time, uh, then

2775
02:17:15,079 --> 02:17:16,840
maybe I might be apt to say just go ahead

2776
02:17:16,840 --> 02:17:19,440
and let everybody sit. But considering we lost last time,

2777
02:17:19,600 --> 02:17:24,559
and considering we got our asses beat on Wednesday, Yeah,

2778
02:17:24,719 --> 02:17:26,719
they definitely need to They they can't.

2779
02:17:26,799 --> 02:17:29,440
Speaker 8: They can't be sitting that long and then go back

2780
02:17:29,520 --> 02:17:31,079
in the go back.

2781
02:17:31,000 --> 02:17:33,680
Speaker 17: Into the playoffs against Pittsburgh if that's how it winds up,

2782
02:17:34,280 --> 02:17:37,000
and expect to perform well that. No, you come on,

2783
02:17:37,120 --> 02:17:41,280
you gotta you gotta know how your car is gonna run. Secondly,

2784
02:17:41,520 --> 02:17:45,319
my my anything goes comment. So about twenty three days ago,

2785
02:17:45,360 --> 02:17:47,639
I went on a nice date with the girl. Everything

2786
02:17:47,760 --> 02:17:48,040
was great.

2787
02:17:48,079 --> 02:17:50,879
Speaker 8: I rode my motorcycle, everything was cool. After the date,

2788
02:17:50,920 --> 02:17:52,760
I went to go fill up my bike with some

2789
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:55,319
gas to get headed home, and there was water in

2790
02:17:55,360 --> 02:17:58,559
the gas. So, just as a as a public safety announcement,

2791
02:17:59,479 --> 02:18:02,799
don't we get gas from the Texaco on four ninety.

2792
02:18:02,559 --> 02:18:03,360
Speaker 2: Four in New Pain.

2793
02:18:03,840 --> 02:18:05,639
Speaker 17: You're gonna get water in your gas and then they're

2794
02:18:05,639 --> 02:18:07,639
gonna give you a hard time and try to tell

2795
02:18:07,680 --> 02:18:09,559
you that you have to get it fixed before they'll

2796
02:18:09,600 --> 02:18:10,239
reimburse you.

2797
02:18:11,920 --> 02:18:15,280
Speaker 2: No, don't do that, all right, Alex, Thank you, appreciating.

2798
02:18:14,760 --> 02:18:16,040
Speaker 6: It for thirteen hundred dollars.

2799
02:18:16,399 --> 02:18:20,360
Speaker 2: Thirteen hundred dollars Public service announces from Alex, all right, well,

2800
02:18:20,879 --> 02:18:22,399
I'm going to stay out of that one. Alex. I'm

2801
02:18:22,399 --> 02:18:25,159
gonna let you make your comments. We hear at the

2802
02:18:25,280 --> 02:18:28,760
iHeartMedia and our legal department and iHeartMedia Houston and our

2803
02:18:28,799 --> 02:18:32,200
parent company, iHeartMedia at Large in Sports Talk seven ninety

2804
02:18:32,479 --> 02:18:34,959
do not necessarily condone the remarks of Alex. We are

2805
02:18:35,120 --> 02:18:37,479
going to take him at his word and not investigate further.

2806
02:18:37,920 --> 02:18:40,479
There you go, you said it best. But what do

2807
02:18:40,559 --> 02:18:44,079
you think as far as the Texans? How much should CJ.

2808
02:18:44,239 --> 02:18:49,079
Stroud and the starters play in a game that really

2809
02:18:49,479 --> 02:18:52,319
doesn't have any meaning coming up, not this weekend but

2810
02:18:52,440 --> 02:18:54,680
next weekend against the titles. It doesn't matter, I mean,

2811
02:18:54,719 --> 02:18:57,040
because there is nothing that leads you to believe that

2812
02:18:57,159 --> 02:19:00,959
this team is going to find some say, stop with

2813
02:19:01,079 --> 02:19:05,280
the defeatist attitude, because they're not quitting. It's week eighteen.

2814
02:19:05,360 --> 02:19:07,680
We've been seeing the same script play out over and

2815
02:19:07,920 --> 02:19:11,000
over again, and maybe they will get a ten seventeen

2816
02:19:11,079 --> 02:19:13,520
point lead over the Titans and then it's going to

2817
02:19:13,639 --> 02:19:16,440
be a all right, let's not lose this game at

2818
02:19:16,479 --> 02:19:20,000
this point, as opposed to you know, all gas, no breaks, swarm,

2819
02:19:20,120 --> 02:19:22,200
all of these different types of things. They just they

2820
02:19:22,319 --> 02:19:24,799
they don't have that in them, like they they have

2821
02:19:25,319 --> 02:19:27,520
enough to be able to get the job done. They're

2822
02:19:27,559 --> 02:19:31,000
not going to get the job done expertly and exemplary,

2823
02:19:31,280 --> 02:19:34,399
you know, in an exemplary way. They're just not They're

2824
02:19:34,440 --> 02:19:36,319
not They're not playing getting into the super Bowl. They

2825
02:19:36,319 --> 02:19:38,959
shouldn't even try. You just fold up. Shot. It's not

2826
02:19:39,120 --> 02:19:41,159
that no, come on, I know, I know that's that

2827
02:19:41,399 --> 02:19:43,120
that's the joke. But I mean, but the point is

2828
02:19:43,239 --> 02:19:45,440
is it doesn't matter who plays, It doesn't matter how

2829
02:19:45,520 --> 02:19:48,040
much they play. They should beat the Titans. The Titans

2830
02:19:48,079 --> 02:19:50,600
are terrible. The Titans are not trying to win. They

2831
02:19:50,719 --> 02:19:54,760
bench Will Levis for that exactly reason. He's not the guy.

2832
02:19:55,159 --> 02:19:57,959
And they also realize it's dumb to win games at

2833
02:19:58,000 --> 02:19:59,959
this point because maybe not trying. They might want to,

2834
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:02,000
but who gives them the best chance to lose any

2835
02:20:02,159 --> 02:20:05,239
put Will Levis back in. I mean, is Aj mccerrn

2836
02:20:05,319 --> 02:20:07,559
still available, could you maybe go get him if he

2837
02:20:07,639 --> 02:20:11,120
hasn't played quarterback? I mean, it's just it doesn't matter

2838
02:20:11,239 --> 02:20:13,600
at this point. You're not going to find some fountain

2839
02:20:13,639 --> 02:20:16,040
of youth in this game. That's going to all of

2840
02:20:16,079 --> 02:20:18,200
a sudden have you going into the playoffs and saying

2841
02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:21,840
that's it, we are ready to go. The hell with

2842
02:20:21,920 --> 02:20:24,440
the Steelers, the hell with anybody else, which you might

2843
02:20:24,479 --> 02:20:26,600
be able to say that for that game, But then

2844
02:20:26,799 --> 02:20:29,159
going up to Kansas City, I know that they're gonna

2845
02:20:29,159 --> 02:20:31,040
believe they can win that game. Do I believe they

2846
02:20:31,079 --> 02:20:31,760
can win that game?

2847
02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:32,040
Speaker 10: No?

2848
02:20:32,360 --> 02:20:36,559
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's loser attitude, that's loser mindset, Dan. You

2849
02:20:36,639 --> 02:20:37,520
gotta go and try and win.

2850
02:20:37,559 --> 02:20:37,639
Speaker 7: Now.

2851
02:20:37,639 --> 02:20:39,879
Speaker 2: Are they gonna win? Absolutely not, But they're gonna go try.

2852
02:20:40,440 --> 02:20:42,840
They're gonna go try. I'm not saying don't try, but

2853
02:20:42,920 --> 02:20:45,120
I mean I'm also saying that it just do it.

2854
02:20:45,600 --> 02:20:48,959
One game is not going to be where if if

2855
02:20:49,040 --> 02:20:51,239
indeed they did go on some miracle run and did

2856
02:20:51,360 --> 02:20:54,000
find some sort of magical elixir to be able to

2857
02:20:54,479 --> 02:20:57,159
win four games in the postseason and come home with

2858
02:20:57,239 --> 02:20:59,719
the Lombardi Trophy, it's not going to be them coming

2859
02:20:59,760 --> 02:21:01,559
back and saying, you know what the difference was, it

2860
02:21:01,639 --> 02:21:03,959
was us going to Nashville and beating the Titans that day.

2861
02:21:04,120 --> 02:21:08,440
It's Davis Mills it's Davis Mills and Mason Rudolph Noon

2862
02:21:08,600 --> 02:21:11,680
on CBS. See and then watch Daria goomble Wally goes

2863
02:21:11,719 --> 02:21:13,440
for like one hundred and fifty two hundred yards of

2864
02:21:13,479 --> 02:21:15,479
this game, and everybody's gonna be like, we should play

2865
02:21:15,520 --> 02:21:21,479
Daria goomble Wally. It's Darry ogunba Walle versus Taj Spears.

2866
02:21:21,799 --> 02:21:25,200
Noone on CBS, although it says TVD flex, I mean,

2867
02:21:25,200 --> 02:21:27,600
they're gonna put that bad boy. No nobody, that's that's

2868
02:21:27,760 --> 02:21:31,520
That's Noon. That's whoever the the lowest of the low

2869
02:21:31,719 --> 02:21:36,280
in terms of TV tv U. There see it is

2870
02:21:36,639 --> 02:21:39,639
Don Krickey still around? Could Don Kricky do this game?

2871
02:21:40,040 --> 02:21:43,680
We're gonna have Ai Keith Jackson on the call Sunday

2872
02:21:44,440 --> 02:21:46,719
here on CBS. Okay, time for a quick break here

2873
02:21:46,799 --> 02:21:48,840
on the Matt Thomas Show. A couple of segments left,

2874
02:21:48,840 --> 02:21:52,280
we're asking the question how much should the Texans starters

2875
02:21:52,319 --> 02:21:55,440
play in the game against Tennessee? How close is CJ.

2876
02:21:55,559 --> 02:21:59,319
Stroud to his ceiling? A minor setback for a major comeback,

2877
02:21:59,399 --> 02:22:01,840
we sure hopes. So we're also talking some Texans, I

2878
02:22:01,920 --> 02:22:04,079
mean some Rockets and Astros, anything you want to get

2879
02:22:04,079 --> 02:22:06,559
to it is also in Anything Goes Friday and if

2880
02:22:06,559 --> 02:22:08,559
you want to recommend a good gas station, Alex and

2881
02:22:08,639 --> 02:22:11,760
Conrod needs one seven one three two one two five

2882
02:22:11,879 --> 02:22:14,479
seven ninety is the phone number seven one three two

2883
02:22:14,520 --> 02:22:15,879
one two five seven nights.

2884
02:22:17,040 --> 02:22:21,360
Speaker 4: Back to Matt Thomas and Ross viial Fine on Sports

2885
02:22:21,440 --> 02:22:22,399
Talk seven ninety.

2886
02:22:23,840 --> 02:22:29,920
Speaker 18: We find interesting stories that cer outside the state of

2887
02:22:30,280 --> 02:22:34,399
Florida and share them with the people.

2888
02:22:34,799 --> 02:22:35,959
Speaker 17: Of hust.

2889
02:22:37,719 --> 02:22:39,719
Speaker 6: It's time for no Florida.

2890
02:22:45,559 --> 02:22:48,159
Speaker 2: I'll for no Florida.

2891
02:22:55,040 --> 02:22:59,399
Speaker 18: Store on coast to coast, o Grady Strange, and.

2892
02:23:03,079 --> 02:23:08,000
Speaker 1: No alligator exales, but something that will make you smile.

2893
02:23:11,120 --> 02:23:14,600
Speaker 2: It's time for laughs from Car and w.

2894
02:23:17,840 --> 02:23:20,159
Speaker 14: In this crazy world.

2895
02:23:20,799 --> 02:23:21,200
Speaker 18: There's no.

2896
02:23:29,440 --> 02:23:31,360
Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, what do I have to add?

2897
02:23:31,440 --> 02:23:35,159
After that? Welcome into a signature Friday segment on The

2898
02:23:35,200 --> 02:23:38,239
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Matt Thomas remains out on vacation.

2899
02:23:38,399 --> 02:23:41,239
He will be back on Monday. But now is the

2900
02:23:41,360 --> 02:23:43,719
time of the week. What do you bring? We bring

2901
02:23:43,760 --> 02:23:46,399
you stories now. I love personally Florida stories. Matt hates

2902
02:23:46,399 --> 02:23:49,479
Florida stories because he thinks they're too easy, low hanging fruit.

2903
02:23:49,799 --> 02:23:53,159
So we must venture outside the state of Florida and

2904
02:23:53,280 --> 02:23:57,159
we do that for this segment called Non Florida Stories,

2905
02:23:57,399 --> 02:23:59,520
Dan Matthews, You being the guest here, let's go ahead

2906
02:23:59,559 --> 02:24:03,319
and start. Wait you you can't get more Non Florida

2907
02:24:03,479 --> 02:24:06,680
than Peru, So we go international for this one. Oo

2908
02:24:07,479 --> 02:24:12,399
Polasia National del Peru carrying out a real life drug

2909
02:24:12,479 --> 02:24:17,280
bust with officer dressed in full Grinch costume. The officer

2910
02:24:17,360 --> 02:24:21,479
part of a raid that took in a suspected drug trafficker.

2911
02:24:21,559 --> 02:24:25,399
We turned to NBC News for the details. The operation

2912
02:24:25,559 --> 02:24:29,120
part of the police unit's ongoing tradition of dressing agents

2913
02:24:29,200 --> 02:24:33,200
and festive costumes when carrying out operations during the holiday

2914
02:24:33,239 --> 02:24:37,040
periods such as Halloween and Christmas. On the eve of

2915
02:24:37,239 --> 02:24:41,920
Valentine's Day earlier this year, an undercover policeman dressed in

2916
02:24:42,159 --> 02:24:44,719
a Teddy Bear costume showing up to the house of

2917
02:24:44,719 --> 02:24:48,479
an alleged drug dealer to deliver a fake love surprise

2918
02:24:48,799 --> 02:24:52,120
as part of an operation in Peru. Agents have also

2919
02:24:52,280 --> 02:24:55,479
dressed up as superheroes and even horror movie characters like

2920
02:24:55,559 --> 02:24:58,520
Freddy Krueger and Jason in the past. There's even a

2921
02:24:58,559 --> 02:25:02,319
tweet included in the story of two agents, one dressed

2922
02:25:02,520 --> 02:25:06,559
as Spider Man and the other dressed as wolverine when

2923
02:25:06,680 --> 02:25:11,440
carrying out such operations in the past, and this one

2924
02:25:11,600 --> 02:25:15,760
it was the Grinch leading the way. So the National

2925
02:25:15,799 --> 02:25:20,799
Police of Peru letting criminals know who exactly is in charge. Wow.

2926
02:25:21,079 --> 02:25:23,000
I mean, imagine you're just trying to go about your day,

2927
02:25:23,440 --> 02:25:25,760
serving up some heroin to the fine children of Peru

2928
02:25:26,440 --> 02:25:28,159
and the next thing you know, you're getting busted by

2929
02:25:28,200 --> 02:25:31,319
the Grinch. That's tough. I saw the bodycam footage from it.

2930
02:25:31,360 --> 02:25:34,040
It's pretty funny. Oh really, Yeah, And I think the

2931
02:25:34,120 --> 02:25:37,920
Grinch was what do they call the you know, sometimes

2932
02:25:37,959 --> 02:25:40,600
they'll use sledgehammers. Do they use the battering ram? Yes?

2933
02:25:40,799 --> 02:25:42,879
I think the Grinch was the battering ram.

2934
02:25:43,040 --> 02:25:43,079
Speaker 16: What.

2935
02:25:43,719 --> 02:25:45,879
Speaker 2: I think he was the one that busted down the door,

2936
02:25:46,399 --> 02:25:48,920
and then of course police police hit the ground. That

2937
02:25:49,000 --> 02:25:52,600
seems dangerous. That seems extremely dangerous. Okay, Dan, thank you

2938
02:25:52,879 --> 02:25:57,079
for your non Florida story. I will go next, just

2939
02:25:57,159 --> 02:25:59,200
because I imagine Connor's ready, but I can't see him

2940
02:25:59,200 --> 02:26:01,280
in there, So Connor, You're gonna go after me. But

2941
02:26:01,479 --> 02:26:03,120
let me go ahead and take you folks to a

2942
02:26:03,239 --> 02:26:08,520
place called Maryland Avenue. Maryland actually is the name some

2943
02:26:08,559 --> 02:26:10,479
would say the Florida of the mid Atlantic, of the

2944
02:26:10,559 --> 02:26:16,120
town Thomas Campbell Bowling of von Gates had himself quite

2945
02:26:16,159 --> 02:26:20,520
a day on Christmas Eve as he was going to

2946
02:26:21,440 --> 02:26:26,440
church on Christmas Eve. It was the Holy Angels Catholic

2947
02:26:26,559 --> 02:26:29,760
Church in Avenue, Maryland, and during a mass, he approached

2948
02:26:29,799 --> 02:26:34,479
the altar and he dropped an onion which disserved this

2949
02:26:34,719 --> 02:26:39,399
piece of those attending. Deputies also said a witness followed

2950
02:26:39,559 --> 02:26:42,079
von Gates as he was exiting the church after making

2951
02:26:42,159 --> 02:26:45,000
a scene to make sure he was leaving, and then

2952
02:26:45,040 --> 02:26:49,559
he's assaulted another person in the parking lot, apparently by

2953
02:26:49,639 --> 02:26:54,760
throwing tangerines at them. At that point, our good friend

2954
02:26:55,319 --> 02:26:59,600
Thomas Campbell Bowling von Gates escaped that church. Later on

2955
02:26:59,719 --> 02:27:04,479
that deputies say von Gates struck again during a midnight

2956
02:27:04,559 --> 02:27:09,280
mass at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown. Deputy

2957
02:27:09,360 --> 02:27:13,360
said von Gates disrupted the service by pouring whiskey into

2958
02:27:13,440 --> 02:27:19,040
the holy water at the mass and threatening to harm parishioners. Now,

2959
02:27:19,079 --> 02:27:20,559
I think all he was trying to do is he

2960
02:27:20,719 --> 02:27:23,879
was taking Jesus' lesson of turning the water to wine. Oh,

2961
02:27:23,959 --> 02:27:26,360
except he just want a little more ABV literal. He

2962
02:27:26,399 --> 02:27:29,120
wanted to get a little eighty proof. He wanted to

2963
02:27:29,280 --> 02:27:31,239
go to the Heartstar or maybe it was even cask

2964
02:27:31,440 --> 02:27:35,079
Strength who knows, could have been. Church attendees then escorted

2965
02:27:35,159 --> 02:27:37,559
him from the building, where deputies say he attempted to

2966
02:27:37,719 --> 02:27:43,559
unsuccessfully hit several individuals with a whiskey bottle. Parishioners were

2967
02:27:43,559 --> 02:27:48,239
able to dedainn von Gates until deputies arrived. He was

2968
02:27:48,280 --> 02:27:52,840
then transported to a local hospital for medical evaluation. See

2969
02:27:52,879 --> 02:27:54,840
this is where the ushers really come into play here,

2970
02:27:54,920 --> 02:27:58,600
because I mean, if you've got ushers who they run

2971
02:27:58,639 --> 02:28:00,559
a tight ship, they run a hard line right there.

2972
02:28:01,159 --> 02:28:03,399
Then he doesn't even get to the altar, dropping onions,

2973
02:28:03,440 --> 02:28:06,520
throwing tangerines, pouring whiskey into the holy water, and then

2974
02:28:06,600 --> 02:28:08,799
trying to hit people with said whiskey. Bo Is, there's

2975
02:28:08,879 --> 02:28:15,040
some church policy against produce out there? What's what's the

2976
02:28:15,200 --> 02:28:20,360
what's the church's position on the churches? Officer? Uh, yeah,

2977
02:28:20,360 --> 02:28:22,559
he was trying to spread some Christmas cheer, But unfortunately

2978
02:28:22,600 --> 02:28:25,840
he has been charged with second gurguria, assault, disorderly conduct,

2979
02:28:26,000 --> 02:28:30,200
defacing religious property, religious crime against a group, obstructing a

2980
02:28:30,280 --> 02:28:34,399
religious exercise, threat of mass violence, and disturbing the peace. Uh,

2981
02:28:34,600 --> 02:28:37,239
threatening mass violence at a church. He could be going

2982
02:28:37,280 --> 02:28:39,399
a long way. You'd been going going away for a

2983
02:28:39,479 --> 02:28:41,399
long time. Yeah, I was gonna say that gets you

2984
02:28:41,479 --> 02:28:44,079
into some legal categories. But you know what could also

2985
02:28:44,520 --> 02:28:46,879
be in play here is I've also I've always been

2986
02:28:46,920 --> 02:28:50,840
told that nuns are really good at crowd control, at

2987
02:28:50,920 --> 02:28:53,559
least in uh. In grade school, nuns were known for

2988
02:28:54,079 --> 02:28:57,959
strict discipline. Okay, so she's gonna hit him with a ruler.

2989
02:28:58,000 --> 02:28:59,639
There you go, is what you're saying. There, you got

2990
02:28:59,680 --> 02:29:02,360
you no sleeping in class? All right? There is my

2991
02:29:02,520 --> 02:29:05,959
non's Florida story from Maryland economic govern You may go.

2992
02:29:06,840 --> 02:29:10,200
Speaker 16: Oh my ConA falls are along a similar theme with Christmas.

2993
02:29:10,360 --> 02:29:14,479
In downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, a baby Jesus figurine was

2994
02:29:14,559 --> 02:29:17,639
snatched from a nativity scene, but was returned in time

2995
02:29:17,680 --> 02:29:21,159
for Christmas with an apology letter. The statuette of Jesus

2996
02:29:21,280 --> 02:29:23,280
lying in a manger, stolen from a public display in

2997
02:29:23,719 --> 02:29:26,479
the downtown square, was dropped off anonymously at a fire

2998
02:29:26,520 --> 02:29:29,479
station and was accompanied by a handwritten note saying, quote,

2999
02:29:29,719 --> 02:29:31,760
I'm really sorry I made a dumb mistake in the

3000
02:29:31,799 --> 02:29:35,440
moment it won't happen again. What surveillance of the suspected

3001
02:29:35,479 --> 02:29:37,559
grinch appeared to be a young adult, probably a student

3002
02:29:37,600 --> 02:29:40,959
from Colorado State. The fire station returned the statue to

3003
02:29:40,959 --> 02:29:43,159
the downtown square, and the business that owns the Nassivity

3004
02:29:43,200 --> 02:29:46,920
scene did not pursue charges. So perhaps a drunken college

3005
02:29:46,959 --> 02:29:50,479
student stealing Baby Jesus from a Nativity scene, feeling guilty,

3006
02:29:50,760 --> 02:29:52,399
and then returning it to a fire station.

3007
02:29:53,719 --> 02:29:57,760
Speaker 2: Hmm wow, Well, a good on the kid for circling

3008
02:29:57,879 --> 02:30:00,680
back and taking back what he took. Is it, little

3009
02:30:00,719 --> 02:30:03,920
sweet Baby Jesus eight pound six pounds hardly knows a word.

3010
02:30:04,440 --> 02:30:06,760
I mean, people could say that the power of Christ

3011
02:30:06,840 --> 02:30:09,920
compelled them. Oh okay, that's two movie references for those

3012
02:30:10,040 --> 02:30:14,479
keeping it a square at home. Connor, Well, yeah, maybe

3013
02:30:14,959 --> 02:30:17,120
he felt guilty, like he was getting stared into the

3014
02:30:17,200 --> 02:30:19,360
depths of the eyes of Baby Jesus, and Baby Jesus

3015
02:30:19,399 --> 02:30:21,440
was like, you better take me back, bro. Come on, now,

3016
02:30:21,600 --> 02:30:26,639
you guys ever stolen anything while drunk? No, no, no,

3017
02:30:26,920 --> 02:30:29,000
I have not, and I never would and I do

3018
02:30:29,120 --> 02:30:34,520
not condone such activities. Now you didn't ask, have you ever, say,

3019
02:30:34,680 --> 02:30:38,520
used the bathroom where you shouldn't have been and unfortunately

3020
02:30:38,680 --> 02:30:41,239
then there was somebody that may or may not be

3021
02:30:41,360 --> 02:30:43,319
in law enforcement that let you know, hey, you can't

3022
02:30:43,360 --> 02:30:45,559
do that parking lot at the rodeo. Who has it?

3023
02:30:46,280 --> 02:30:48,120
It's impossible to find when you were walking in the

3024
02:30:48,159 --> 02:30:50,200
put to the uber lot. It's so far it was

3025
02:30:50,239 --> 02:30:53,479
a parking lot. I've never been more happy, by the way.

3026
02:30:53,600 --> 02:30:56,159
This was in college for you know management out there.

3027
02:30:57,040 --> 02:31:00,479
It's a statute of limitation. It's over twenty years now,

3028
02:31:01,079 --> 02:31:05,280
close to it. But I was never more happy to

3029
02:31:05,360 --> 02:31:07,520
see a ticket book come out. I was like, oh,

3030
02:31:07,559 --> 02:31:10,840
thank god, all right, we're gonna take a quick break there.

3031
02:31:11,319 --> 02:31:13,559
Thank you, Dan. We're gonna save you from authorities as

3032
02:31:13,600 --> 02:31:15,879
the statue of limitations has been hit. So we're good

3033
02:31:15,959 --> 02:31:18,280
on there. A final segment of the Matt Thomas Show

3034
02:31:18,319 --> 02:31:20,639
coming up here on Sports Talk seven ninety. My name

3035
02:31:20,760 --> 02:31:23,200
is ros View Real Dan Matthews in tow Matt Thomas.

3036
02:31:23,280 --> 02:31:25,799
We'll be back on Monday, but we'll be back after

3037
02:31:25,879 --> 02:31:28,159
this very short break here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

3038
02:31:29,479 --> 02:31:35,680
Speaker 4: Thomas on Sports Talk seven ninety, your rockets, your astros,

3039
02:31:36,280 --> 02:31:37,520
your voice.

3040
02:31:50,239 --> 02:31:54,879
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross without

3041
02:31:54,959 --> 02:31:57,639
Matt Thomas. He's on vacation. He'll be back on the show.

3042
02:31:57,760 --> 02:31:59,840
He's not on real vacation. He's on staycation, which I

3043
02:32:00,000 --> 02:32:03,600
expect a good staycation, good staycation, Dan, Yeah, I mean

3044
02:32:03,840 --> 02:32:05,479
that's where you're able to get stuff done around the

3045
02:32:05,520 --> 02:32:08,159
house if you want to do that. If it's a

3046
02:32:08,559 --> 02:32:10,760
good lazy day on the couch or even staying in

3047
02:32:10,840 --> 02:32:14,280
the bed, it's it's a play as well. Yeah, I

3048
02:32:14,399 --> 02:32:18,719
mean that's fine. He's gonna call the game tonight the Rockets.

3049
02:32:19,120 --> 02:32:23,719
We're going against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Seven o'clock start. I

3050
02:32:23,799 --> 02:32:26,200
will be with you with the Rockets launch pad at

3051
02:32:26,280 --> 02:32:29,040
six o'clock live from the Toyota Center. Good to be

3052
02:32:29,120 --> 02:32:31,079
back in the arena. I've been missing some time. I

3053
02:32:32,200 --> 02:32:34,239
did I go last week? I can't remember. It's just

3054
02:32:34,280 --> 02:32:37,959
been too much going on. But Rockets as of this

3055
02:32:38,120 --> 02:32:41,440
moment one and a half point favorites over the Minnesota

3056
02:32:41,520 --> 02:32:45,239
Timberwolves and Edwards and crew in town, a big five

3057
02:32:45,399 --> 02:32:47,840
game homestand coming up, as we've been talking about on

3058
02:32:47,959 --> 02:32:53,000
the show, Timberwolves and then the Miami Heat on Sunday.

3059
02:32:53,040 --> 02:32:55,040
That will be their third game in four nights. Don't

3060
02:32:55,120 --> 02:32:56,719
forget that because they are on the second half of

3061
02:32:56,840 --> 02:32:58,799
back to back. Not a crazy road back to back.

3062
02:32:58,840 --> 02:33:00,799
It was a short flight from New or Orlands last night,

3063
02:33:00,840 --> 02:33:03,040
but still on the back to back tonight, three out

3064
02:33:03,079 --> 02:33:06,280
of four on Sunday, then Wednesday against Dallas, who is

3065
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:09,799
going to be without Luka Doncic, Friday against the Boston Celtics,

3066
02:33:10,000 --> 02:33:13,959
Sunday against the Los Angeles Lakers. If this were Tuesday,

3067
02:33:14,040 --> 02:33:16,719
I would ask you for your gut feeling, So we'll

3068
02:33:16,799 --> 02:33:19,200
pretend since it is and anything goes Friday. That means

3069
02:33:19,239 --> 02:33:23,680
we can, like grandfather in a Tuesday gut feeling, how

3070
02:33:23,840 --> 02:33:28,920
the Rockets perform on this homestand in terms of overall record,

3071
02:33:29,040 --> 02:33:31,840
anything to me, winning record is gravy. Anything above that

3072
02:33:31,879 --> 02:33:35,159
would be insane. Two and three wouldn't be horrible, but

3073
02:33:35,239 --> 02:33:37,159
you don't want it any worse than that. Yeah, I

3074
02:33:37,239 --> 02:33:40,159
was gonna say, I just with how well they've played

3075
02:33:40,200 --> 02:33:42,319
at home this year, believe it's gonna be a winning record.

3076
02:33:42,440 --> 02:33:45,680
But I will say, going the back to back right

3077
02:33:45,760 --> 02:33:49,760
here off the front of beating Minnesota, which you know

3078
02:33:49,959 --> 02:33:51,680
they feel like they owe you for one that you

3079
02:33:51,760 --> 02:33:54,120
got from them up there, So gotta believe there's gonna

3080
02:33:54,120 --> 02:33:57,159
be a little bit of added juice to that one,

3081
02:33:58,280 --> 02:34:01,600
and then you get the heat on Sunday the Mavericks,

3082
02:34:01,639 --> 02:34:04,239
even without Luca, that's still gonna be a tough game

3083
02:34:04,280 --> 02:34:06,600
because you've got Kyrie and you've also got Klay Thompson

3084
02:34:06,680 --> 02:34:08,680
still on that team. Oh God. So I'm gonna go

3085
02:34:08,719 --> 02:34:12,079
three and play Klay Thompson thrives into Toyota Center, no

3086
02:34:12,159 --> 02:34:14,840
matter what jersey he's wearing, and I mean and even

3087
02:34:14,959 --> 02:34:17,000
playing them the first time two up in Dallas See,

3088
02:34:17,440 --> 02:34:18,799
he was able to have a hell of a game.

3089
02:34:18,920 --> 02:34:21,280
So I'm gonna go in three and two. Three and

3090
02:34:21,319 --> 02:34:24,600
two feels right. That's what I think I'm gonna come

3091
02:34:24,639 --> 02:34:26,680
away with as well. Now right now they're the two

3092
02:34:26,760 --> 02:34:28,959
seed and kind of we were talking about this with

3093
02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:31,120
the Texans ebbs and flows week to week. It's the

3094
02:34:31,159 --> 02:34:34,079
same thing with the NBA. Like I took a call

3095
02:34:34,159 --> 02:34:35,520
last night and you brought it up there. We were

3096
02:34:35,520 --> 02:34:37,719
talking about it on the postgame show, which number one,

3097
02:34:37,799 --> 02:34:39,799
I love you guys are calling me. Keep it up.

3098
02:34:39,840 --> 02:34:41,840
We've been getting more calls this year than we have

3099
02:34:42,040 --> 02:34:44,360
in the last like three years. Combined with the Rockets.

3100
02:34:44,440 --> 02:34:46,440
Clearly the interest is up. We are your home for

3101
02:34:46,520 --> 02:34:48,040
your Rockets. I love you guys calling me on the

3102
02:34:48,120 --> 02:34:50,399
Rockets wrap. I'll be on the show again tonight if

3103
02:34:50,440 --> 02:34:52,239
you want to get in. But there was a guy

3104
02:34:52,319 --> 02:34:53,920
asking if I think the Rockets are gonna make the

3105
02:34:54,000 --> 02:34:57,520
finals last night, and it's like, okay, we have to

3106
02:34:57,600 --> 02:35:01,079
remember now, while we're excited thirty games, they're the two seed,

3107
02:35:01,120 --> 02:35:03,000
they're twenty one and nine, they're on a fifty seven

3108
02:35:03,079 --> 02:35:06,399
win pace. I don't know, call me crazy, I'm not

3109
02:35:06,479 --> 02:35:09,520
ready necessarily to put them in the NBA finals now.

3110
02:35:09,959 --> 02:35:11,959
I mean I think that you look at this a

3111
02:35:12,000 --> 02:35:14,200
lot like you looked at the two thousand and eight,

3112
02:35:14,239 --> 02:35:16,319
two thousand and nine Rockets, which remember that that was

3113
02:35:16,360 --> 02:35:19,319
the team that finally with Tracy McGrady, broke through and

3114
02:35:19,559 --> 02:35:22,040
was able to win in the playoffs. Well, McGrady got

3115
02:35:22,120 --> 02:35:23,879
hurt and then by the end of that playoff series,

3116
02:35:23,959 --> 02:35:26,719
yao got hurt too, and it was like the Rollers. Yeah,

3117
02:35:27,079 --> 02:35:29,559
so I'm used them to seven, but at least you

3118
02:35:29,639 --> 02:35:31,399
were able to get to the next round of the playoffs.

3119
02:35:31,520 --> 02:35:34,200
And I mean baby steps here, I think with this

3120
02:35:34,360 --> 02:35:36,719
team of I get it. There have been teams that

3121
02:35:36,799 --> 02:35:39,000
have been able to make surprise runs before and maybe

3122
02:35:39,000 --> 02:35:40,799
the Rockets could be one of those teams this year.

3123
02:35:40,840 --> 02:35:43,040
But I think if you get to would that be

3124
02:35:43,239 --> 02:35:46,120
the Western Simmis, if you got to the second round, Yeah,

3125
02:35:46,239 --> 02:35:48,319
if you got to the Western Simmis, I think you

3126
02:35:48,440 --> 02:35:51,440
look at it and say, hey, this group's got something

3127
02:35:51,520 --> 02:35:54,520
that this group can this group can take this and

3128
02:35:54,639 --> 02:35:55,440
move forward with it.

3129
02:35:56,120 --> 02:35:56,319
Speaker 1: Yeah.

3130
02:35:56,399 --> 02:35:58,639
Speaker 2: The Bubble year, I believe is the last time they

3131
02:35:58,719 --> 02:36:01,760
made it that far. That was the Russell Westbrook James

3132
02:36:01,840 --> 02:36:05,360
Harden lad Rockets that lost in the second round after

3133
02:36:06,120 --> 02:36:08,159
was it the tough seven game series I think against

3134
02:36:08,159 --> 02:36:10,319
the Thunder where James Harden had the block against Lou

3135
02:36:10,399 --> 02:36:12,559
Dort and then they made it to the second round

3136
02:36:12,559 --> 02:36:15,200
and they lost in like five games I think, or

3137
02:36:15,280 --> 02:36:17,879
maybe six to the I think five to the eventual

3138
02:36:17,959 --> 02:36:21,040
champion LI Lakers. Yeah, winning that Mickey Mouse tournament, which

3139
02:36:21,079 --> 02:36:24,120
literally was a Mickey Mouse tournament because it was in

3140
02:36:24,280 --> 02:36:27,360
Mickey Mouse's backyard. They or would you say it was goofy,

3141
02:36:28,040 --> 02:36:30,760
they could have been goofy as well. Pluto Even people

3142
02:36:30,799 --> 02:36:32,399
sleep on Pluto, man, do they?

3143
02:36:32,760 --> 02:36:32,959
Speaker 6: Yes?

3144
02:36:33,000 --> 02:36:33,200
Speaker 8: They do.

3145
02:36:34,159 --> 02:36:34,479
Speaker 6: Pluto.

3146
02:36:34,520 --> 02:36:36,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wake up on Pluto is a cute, sweet

3147
02:36:36,959 --> 02:36:40,239
Dog and Pluto deserves the references count as movie references.

3148
02:36:40,280 --> 02:36:44,200
I don't know, sure, sure we'll count it. We'll count it.

3149
02:36:44,239 --> 02:36:47,520
But the Rockets in action tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves,

3150
02:36:47,600 --> 02:36:51,399
bouncing back off of a six point game against the Hornets.

3151
02:36:51,440 --> 02:36:52,920
It also was a blowout. He didn't play in the

3152
02:36:52,959 --> 02:36:56,239
fourth quarter at all. But Jalen Green looking a little

3153
02:36:56,239 --> 02:36:58,440
bit better, a little more spry six of eleven from

3154
02:36:58,479 --> 02:37:01,120
three certainly helps. Thirty points from him last night and

3155
02:37:01,200 --> 02:37:04,959
also very key to me, Fred van Vliet seven of

3156
02:37:05,040 --> 02:37:07,719
twelve from three. If you can get him start knocking

3157
02:37:07,760 --> 02:37:09,440
down some threes like he did last year, where he

3158
02:37:09,559 --> 02:37:12,079
was almost thirty nine percent a career thirty seven percent.

3159
02:37:12,159 --> 02:37:14,760
Guy now at thirty one percent on the year. Let's

3160
02:37:14,760 --> 02:37:17,280
get that creeping up to his career average. I mean,

3161
02:37:17,520 --> 02:37:20,120
you know, not only him, but I mean you've been

3162
02:37:20,159 --> 02:37:24,479
able to get a nice little energy boost from the

3163
02:37:24,520 --> 02:37:26,840
bench in addition to Tary Easton even though he's been

3164
02:37:26,879 --> 02:37:29,360
out for the last few games, and a men Thompson

3165
02:37:29,639 --> 02:37:32,799
of Kim Whitmore helping out. I mean, just trying to

3166
02:37:33,040 --> 02:37:36,760
find any offensive production from the outside is huge because

3167
02:37:37,280 --> 02:37:40,680
defense is nice. Defense will help get you into the playoffs,

3168
02:37:40,760 --> 02:37:42,879
but you win in the playoffs by being able to

3169
02:37:42,920 --> 02:37:45,000
knock down three pointers. And this is a team right

3170
02:37:45,079 --> 02:37:47,559
now that is if he at best when it comes

3171
02:37:47,639 --> 02:37:50,719
to that proposition. Yeah, that is the long term concern

3172
02:37:50,799 --> 02:37:54,440
of course for the Rockets. How will the offense perform?

3173
02:37:54,600 --> 02:37:54,760
Speaker 6: Well?

3174
02:37:55,040 --> 02:37:58,120
Speaker 2: Some hot shooting last night, can it continue tonight? We'll

3175
02:37:58,159 --> 02:38:01,319
see tonight on Sports Talk seven ninety. Well here tonight

3176
02:38:01,399 --> 02:38:03,440
on Sports Talk seven ninety with Matt Thomas on the call.

3177
02:38:03,520 --> 02:38:06,879
Seven o'clock start, six o'clock Rockets launch bad. In between

3178
02:38:07,040 --> 02:38:10,959
that will be a couple of atoms. My name is

3179
02:38:11,079 --> 02:38:13,680
Ross V. Reale saying thanks you. Thanks to you folks

3180
02:38:13,959 --> 02:38:17,799
for listening to the program. Dan short notice, it's filling

3181
02:38:17,840 --> 02:38:20,280
in and on the holidays, I know you're getting working

3182
02:38:20,319 --> 02:38:22,200
a lot hours. I appreciate you. Thank you for filling

3183
02:38:22,239 --> 02:38:24,440
in today. For Matt Thomas, it was a good spots start.

3184
02:38:24,520 --> 02:38:27,079
I was ready to go. We were we were throwing

3185
02:38:27,079 --> 02:38:29,120
good in the bullpen and it translated to the mound

3186
02:38:29,159 --> 02:38:31,239
on the field. We're good. I do appreciate you. I

3187
02:38:31,319 --> 02:38:33,760
appreciate Connor mcgovernment producing doing a great job. Thanks to

3188
02:38:33,799 --> 02:38:36,479
all you called listen, got involved in the program at

3189
02:38:36,559 --> 02:38:38,719
all coming up next. It is not only one atom,

3190
02:38:38,959 --> 02:38:44,559
there's two atoms. They call themselves seem and they're next

3191
02:38:44,680 --> 02:38:46,719
up here on a sports Talk seven ninety Talk to

3192
02:38:46,760 --> 02:38:47,520
you folks at six