Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten o one an ah down. Good morning, and welcome
do a Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Jonathan Allen is
our producer. You lovely people, especially ten o'clockers, are our
guest people.
Speaker 3: We like to bounce things off of.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, Ross, I don't like to use
the term suck very much. Okay, you can suck the
craws heads off a crawfish, right, that's the bit. All Right.
I don't want to do this, Okay, but I it's
a it's a terrible look. We kind of play tennis
sometimes going back on forth on things. You hit it
and then I hit I'm not hitting that back to you. Okay,
I'm letting that one go over my head. You're not
playing long with me, Okay, I can get I can
get that. So point being is, I don't like to
use the word suck a lot. The Super Bowl sucked yesterday.
It was and I've been watching every Super Bowl. This
is my first super Bowl ever watched in its entirety
was Super Bowl sixteen. It was the Niners against the
Bengals at the Silver, Dumb and Pantac Michigan. Okay, so
that's forty four years in a row of watching the
Super Bowl. And I don't have VID memories of every
Super Bowl because obviously none of my team's ever competed
in it. Huh. But sometimes you had too many Long
Island te's I did. But I remember some great moments.
I remember the Scott Nowood miss kick, or the John
Taylor catch, or twenty eight to three comeback, the Tyree
you know tyree catch. I mean, there's been some moments
over there for a while. It did, it did. I'm
going to admit something that I probably shouldn't admit, but
I'm going to tell you I knotted off twice during
the game yesterday. Oh okay, I thought you're gonna tell
you slipped it on the Lifetime network. No, no, no, no, no,
that's not gonna happen now, Grant, I was bowling a
little bit of a of a minor illness. I'm I'm
already passed thingsfull. It wasn't a cold. I didn't give
you cold. No, especially as the play by playman of
the Rockets, I can't try not to get you sitty.
I've actually been pretty lucky that I have not been
sick much at all this year. But yeah, that game sucked.
The commercial sucked. Yeah, I mean the Dunkin commercial with
all the different celebrities was kind of cool, but nothing
else was very memorable to me.
Speaker 3: But if a lot of AI cgia, if.
Speaker 2: That's how you're doing your commercials in twenty you know,
I'm going to tell you something. I got news for you. Rossie,
go ahead, man, I'm gonna give you this. I don't
think spreading the news. We as America should stop talking
about the commercials because when even going back ten or
fifteen years, they were amazing, and then it feels like
the last five or six or so they've gotten too
cute or they've become documentaries that I think super Bowl
commercials should be clever, interesting, keeping, not necessarily in the
edge of your seat, but make it a memorable thirty seconds, funny,
memorable water cooler talk Did you see that commercial? Yeah?
I can't think of one commercial I saw where I'm like,
did you you guys see that was hilarious. I guess
you mentioned the Duncan one that was kind of that's
kind of a talking point one.
Speaker 3: But I thought it was a little over the top.
Speaker 2: But so there's nothing and we don't have a we
have a water cooler here, but our sales folks are
busy out selling the station. Nobody to talk you new
chat people there. We get the water there and then
uh coffee and you're at the microwave reheating whatever various
leftovers you have spaghetti.
Speaker 3: Thank you for asking, I got the litter today.
Speaker 2: The reality is this, there's nothing that. Like we walked
in this mornings. We didn't say, Man, did you see that?
That lace commercial was unbelievable. Oh that Budweiser spot was
I mean Budwizer, you's had it for years? Yeah, from
the Frogs too, it was they had the Clydsdale and
the Eagles America. Yeah, the one the one guy I
went to grab a beer and all all the beers
can't fell out of the cooler, out of the convenience store.
I mean, there's been Doritos, there's been all sorts. Ain't
nothing anymore. I guess the bud like keg one with
with a post Malone and Peyton Manning. It was okay, yeah,
but I mean it's been like a five would you
say a five year run of suck when it comes
to commercials, or are we just being a bitter old
men shaking fist at clouds? No, Jonathan Jonathan, did you
watch this? We always got to get his perspective?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Did he watch the Super Bowl? Jonathan's texts frozen?
Speaker 2: Frozen? Okay, Yeah, it was a super Okay. Did you
like any of the commercials or anything like, wow, that's amazing. No,
the only honestly, they sucked. But the only one I
really liked with the beer ones like Budweiser and Bud Light.
The only ones I can tell you they were kind
of funny, like, okay, some of the clever Okay, the
commercials sucked, then, isn't it funny to It's funny to
me that if you don't get me with commercials early,
like I was not sitting around last night waiting for oh,
they'll begin, there's gonna be a good commercial coming up.
You always wait for the first break, the first break,
like the whole everybody's that. I don't know how many
people you watch a Super Bowl with, but normally, oh, commercials, guys,
here we go, and then after that it's kind of
like goes down and down and down It's almost like
that first break in the first time out, that should
be that's that's the big money spender. Whoever that is,
should be spending a lot of money. Thus you'd want
it to be memorable. I know, but there's movie previews.
There was an ai elon must thing that I didn't
figure I couldn't figure out what the hell that was.
It was AI dot com and then it was Musk.
It was halftime to me, I'll be brutally honest to you.
I didn't change a channel. I kept it on because
I'm a normal human being. I oh, you didn't watch
something else. I did not watch something else. I didn't
like it because I don't. I don't like you. I
did not like it. But it's actively didn't like it.
You're like, this is bad.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I didn't actively like. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: There was nothing about yesterday that I was active about.
It was all passively. This game passively sucks halftime to me,
I don't understand a word of Spanish. I don't like
the music. It's not me, but that they're not looking
for me. And that's fine, I could tell. I mean
the only thing I yeah, I mean, it was fine
I didn't understand what he was saying either, And I
will say, I mean, obviously he was trying to show
off Puerto Rico with the sugarcane stuff and the Puerto
Rican hats and the guys playing dominoes and all that stuff.
I mean, he was like, this is Puerto Rico, this
is my culture and stuff like that. And apparently I
went and read. I did some reading afterwards. Oh you did. Yes.
The light pole thing was a reference to how the
infrastructure and electricity has been bad since Hurricane Maria, and
I think many Puerto Ricans felt like America's kind of
leaving them for dead and they haven't been helping rebuild
their infrastructure and stuff like that. So there was a
little there was like a statements and layers in their performance.
Maybe I should have gone and done that instead of
watched the game, because yeah, I did it. After the
game there, Lady Gaga came out, Jessica alb was looking good.
Ricky Martin looks different. Ricky Martin looked I was like
fighting with my family. I was like, that is not
Ricky Martin. That guy looks way too young. That's why
I tweeted the Super Bowl MVP is Ricky Martin's plastic surgeony.
He looks good man. He's got to be in his
mid fifties, right, he's fifty five. I looked it up
because like told you were like, you know, when you're
fighting with your family, everybody get their wikipedia out. Everybody's like, no,
you're wrong, No you're wrong, Like that is not Ricky Martin.
They're like, ross, you're wrong. And I was like, he's
fifty four. So I would say, generally speaking for me,
it was an unsatisfying, complete Sunday. It's just the commercial sucked.
I didn't like bad Bunny, but again I was I
didn't think I was going to like.
Speaker 3: I was like, I wasn't. I mean, he's just not
my music.
Speaker 2: So it'd be like Benny Goodwin did a halftime or
I wouldn't like that either. It's a orchestra back in
the way in back and then oh Benny Goodman, good
good Way whatever his cousin. Yeah, all I think I
got you next year and I put a petition out.
He was so ridiculous rock next year. I'm so sad.
How many retweets you got? I don't even know what
it what the count? What is the count happen to
his ice. I didn't even look give me. I I
when I first saw this halftime, I was like whatever.
And I actually went and read about it, and then
I watched it again and I appreciated more. Yeah, so
he was Yeah, it was a Puerto Rican type and
then he called out all the he said this is
he said, God bless America. And then he mentioned all
the countries of North and South America. And he's talking
about us being together. And he had a message in
Spanish where he said, you know, to all you young people,
I never thought I would be here. You're stronger than
you imagine, and trust me something like that. Like he
was like a message to the kids. And he was
talking about bring America together. So yeah, I appreciated a
lot more once I went and read about it. Yeah,
I would. The only thing I appreciated the whole thing
at halftime was him spiking the ball because nobody else did. Yeah,
there was like there was a little spiking of anything
else in the field. There was a there was a
message on the ball. It's I can't remember it so
together little sports empty on total. Actually you should photoshop
that that. Yeah, the football said together we are America.
So there was a message on the football says he
mentioned all the American countries and I think, you know,
together we are America. And he spiked the ball. Yeah,
the whole night was sucked. It just there was nothing
in the game. It's I mean, finally got some scoring
late in the second holder. I say, yeah, that under
got a little dicey.
Speaker 3: And so I had I was, I was invested.
Speaker 2: I had a twenty eight eighteen it wanted to be
what twenty ninth nine thirteen? Yeah, yeah, so you had
it over I did so I had twenty seven to seventeen.
We're both very close. Yeah, that's gonna be a gut
feeling hit for both of them. Another weird one for me.
But just before the game started, they go down to
those silent reporters, right, and it was first it was
Kaylee hartung I think talking to was a talking to
Jackson Smith and Jig but I think and then it
was over to kayth Hartungue. Very nice. Why we see
her all the time on Today Show the morning. I
don't watch the Today Show. I know you're sleep, but
I get up, don't don't. It's not it's not if
then is I get up every morning, whether she's on
there or no. She's very pleasant, She's okay, Oh Melissa
Stark Okay. So Melissa's asking Drake May about a couple
of things about being there, a big moment kind of thing,
what's doing. And then I don't know if everybody caught this,
but it was a little journalism one on one not
to do. He goes off, and then she says I
also talked to Drake May earlier in the week. He
was on the injured list all week long, and he
said his shoulder was fine and he's been going fine.
I would think the first question out of the gate
would have been shoulder. She wanted to get her reported.
I mean, I don't know if if she was told
she can't ask anything serious, it must be fluffy. Yeah,
maybe that's true, but maybe there's like maybe Rabes was
like no, no shoulder questions. But it was odd. I
just thought it was weird that if that was a storyline,
because it was he was on the injury report all
up until I think Thursday, that his shoulder was and
he had been battling throughout the entire postseason, and whether
the shoulder had anything to do with it.
Speaker 5: She J.
Speaker 2: Strout had zero issues with the way that Drake May
performed as I said, and I expected, there's an AI
with Bob Barker and Drake May. Yes, it's already available
for you. Oh, there's already there was already c J.
Stroud and Drake May uniform. Do you see that way?
I did not. It's bad. And by the way, there's
something we need to know and I completely agree about it.
We'll do it in a minute because I thought the
exact same thing. We got some myapic Texans fans that
just don't deal in realities. Thankfully I don't. I don't
think I'm working with one. I don't think so. I
would say I'm a fan, and I cannot say that
I'm one hundred percent unbiased. That would be incorrect. But
I would say I I keep things pretty even keeled
as far as fans go. That's of Rockets, Astros, Texans, Longhorns.
I have never came on this airwaves, said Loghords or
winning the championship this year, You've never heard me say
that I've actually been more protecting long more than you have,
which is strange. Yeah, because I'm more defeat. It's like,
there you going to disappoint me again, Which that's how
imorts does. That's how I'm feeling next year. So yeah,
that's what Ready for more of that? All right? Seven
one three, two one two five seven nine me if
you want to chime in, I'm going to challenge at
ten o'clockers to give us an assessment of the game.
Could you imagine Ross being a national radio show having
to chop up that bad boy for four hours? Yeah,
you can talk about the Seahawks' defense, how great they were,
Sam Darnold making plays, Kenneth Walker super Bowl MVP. And
by the way, another thing Texas fan, he ain't coming here,
stop it. It's a price of poker just went up
for Kenny Walker. Interesting article from John m Alexander The Chronicle. Okay,
ten things he'd like to see the Texans do in
this offseason. Okay, We're going to go through them because
I think it's an interesting group.
Speaker 3: I don't agree with all.
Speaker 2: Of them, okay, but there are some that I do
ten fourteen it's Matt Thomas Show at Ross seven one
three two one two five seven ninti uh ten twenty
Sports Talk seven NINTI. It is Matt and Ross Jonathan
with you here on this Monday. It is a let's
break down every facet of the Texans. I mean of
the Super Bowl yesterday kind of show god it sucked it.
Oh Seattle's defense. Look, we don't spend a lot of
time looking at talking about Seattle because they don't. They
plan a different conference. The Texans did play them this year.
We already saw a small sample size of that. Sam
Darnold was okay, but you could be okay when Drake
May was terrible. And I thought Chris Collinsworth spent much
of the time going this, Drake May looks nervous in
his own skin. He was unbelievably overthrowing, underthrowing. Granted that
the Seattle pass rush was amazing, so that's gonna it's
gonna do it. But for anybody that was saying Drake
May took advantage of a week schedule and a week
set of playoff teams, they kind of got scoreboard today
because he was atrocious. Yeah, I mean, honestly, it factored
into me thinking that the Patriots weren't gonna be up
to stuff in this game. But did you see the
new Drake Mate nickname I you can't even guess you
just said the word they're calling him. The schedule, Oh
that awful. So here's the thing. He finished second. He's
a really good quarterback. He's just fair. But we need
to see him against the first place. I don't think
he's been one hundred percent. I think the shoulder I
think there is something to the shoulders stuff, because he
just has looked horrible and a lot of people are like,
this is historically bad. Look at the yards or whatever. Okay,
let's let's give him a mulligan for a game that
was in a freaking snowstorm too, where nobody was throwing
the ball. So I do think he's getting a bit
of a harsh rap. For sure. The schedule made me laugh.
So there was something of showing up on my and
again I did a lot of for you tabbing, which
if if I could have ever shaken that, Like, for instance,
I don't smoke. I'm not a heavy drinker. I enjoyed gambling,
but I don't consider myself a gamble haul. I'm I'm
a gambling connoisseur, but I don't I've never left. Actually
it's not true. One time in my life Ross was
with me I think, Yeah, when I lost a lot
of money in a very short period of time and
I went and got some more money and I lost
all that that was probably the down point of my
ear when I was going to tell Ross and Michael Connor,
We're gonna go at stakes and when I go into
the Taco bell instead, because I had lost so much
money in such a short period of time.
Speaker 3: Times that was my lowest point ever.
Speaker 2: But I but I don't ever lose that much typically,
and I don't ever win that much typically, So I
don't have a compulsive personality. I do, so.
Speaker 3: I forgot where I was going with this. Oh but
I'm compulsive to for you.
Speaker 2: Tab and I should stop doing it, Okay, But I
don't know how because I follow a very few number
of people. But I still want to get a vibe
of what's happening in the world, even for people I
don't follow. So the narrative for people that I do
not fall on Twitter. And there's a reason why. It's
because there are so many Texans water carriers out there
that were saying this should have been the Texans. They
would have given him the Seahawks a much better game.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 2: W CJ. Stroud. I mean I was giving through all that,
and you can obviously associate damn u CJ. Stroud because
he was awful. Yes, the Texas would have done no better.
And there's by the way, you had a chance to
win the football game. You cannot take out a narrative.
That was the narrative exactly. That's why I couldn't believe
that kept popping up on my timeline as well. The
cognitive dissonance it takes to say, oh, oh, Texans would
have been right there. Texans played this Patriots team and
they lost by multiple scores, and there's no guarantee they
would have gotten passing it never Broncos in that game,
Oh they would They would have crushed the Broncos, would
they have? It was frankly looking, and the Texans don't
need to be bootlecked. I mean they like it, trust me.
They credential everybody and their mother for those things when
they're not media or not. But they don't need bullet
Looking on the Super Bowl Sunday, there was nothing that
I saw from the Texans that made me think even
when CJ wasn't throwing four interceptions, guys and gals, this
was a mid offense this entire season. Yes, and it
was bad against the Seahawks. They played this That's the
thing too, you have to disassociate yourself from the fact
they lost to the Patriots, might not even have beat
in the Broncos.
Speaker 3: And they actually lost to the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Now it was in their home and everybody's going to
me because I made a tweet about it. Oh, one
score game, one score, game, one score? Do you forget?
Did you not watch that game? They fell on a
fumble in the end zone for a touchdown in that
game and they scored a touchdown with like four minutes
left where they were out of that game. The Seahawks
dominated the Texans in that game, Yes they did. And
it would have been the same thing on Sunday. So
we can talk about, Yeah, it'd been nice if they
had a Super Bowl, but and An said they didn't
even get close. If they had a loss of AFC
Championship game on like a last second field goal, I
can see why we're lamenting this. Okay, here's where it is.
They got crushed.
Speaker 3: I'll give you this statement.
Speaker 2: The Texans would have been in the Super Bowl if
Pat Mahomes is the quarterback Okay, there's your state. They
would have been, but as constructed, this Seattle pass rush
would have destroyed this Texans offensive line. They wouldn't have
scored anything. It might have been a lower scoring game.
It might have been I don't know, seventeen to ten Seattle.
I meant Patris had a little bit of a running game.
Stevenson was okay, But the Seahawks would have beaten the Texans.
So I couldn't believe that I was seeing so much.
Oh oh, I would love to see the Texans in
this kind of matchup.
Speaker 3: What you were two playoff games away.
Speaker 2: You were not fourth down four seconds left and the
Broncos kicked the field goal to beat you.
Speaker 3: You're the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Be you were dominated by the Patriots and you you know,
who knows what happened different, But you weren't even close.
Divisional round is not close. It's someone close, but it
ain't close enough. Yeah. I was like, come on, I mean,
I try to have your backs Texans fans, but that
was ridiculous. It was like, excuse me. It was Texans
faux media that was doing it. Wasn't necessarily fans, you know.
It was like it was like uncle Rico and Napole
was like, man, if a coach would have put me in,
we would have once date. Man if CJ. Stroud, the
Texans would have been in this super Bowl. Oh man,
I would love to see this matchup. What can we
not watch the Texans in this playoff run. I couldn't
believe it. The Texans had nothing that the Patriots didn't
have or for that man of the Broncos. I mean,
I just it was just really it was a lot
of places too. Yeah, it was too many places. And
maybe that makes you feel better. Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, oh, I tell you what it makes should
make you feel worse. The Patriots got their ass kicked
and they beat your ass. I mean, and I'm battle
red ross some Texans, I know, But I wasn't sitting
there saying, darn guys, we all almost had the Super Bowl. Yeah,
couldn't we have that song when we had it all?
Speaker 3: Couldn't we had it all?
Speaker 2: Oh? It was just odd that there was so much
of well, we were just that close. No, you never
were really close. There was a zero percent chance. All right,
by the way you played in four quarters, you're gonna
beat the Patriots. We were just four plays away. Those
four plays interceptions, we were just one six away? What odd? Yeah?
All right? So yeah, do you want to run through
the Jonathan and Alexander article today? That was interesting about
he has he got it right because he puts things
in ten people do. When you do list in stories,
it gets you to click in, and it gets you
to click because you don't have to spend like that.
There was a huge story about the Los Angeles Lakers
ownership problems with Genie bust and selling it and all that.
The thing was like twenty pages long, and that's on
my phone, and I was like, I'm not watch looking
all this, but if you broke it down into a
little quick ones. I really hate reading long articles on
my phone. It's not good. But I was on a plane,
so I thought I'd give it a try. And then
I was like, after my iPad twelve minutes, that was done,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven
ninety I thought everything from the Super Bowl yesterday from
I didn't watch you in the pregame.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I watched basketball.
Speaker 2: It was on. I wasn't watching it, if that makes sense,
I didn't watch the Clippers beat that Minnesota asked that
was around with family, playing with my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bringing you bring him a gift or any sort.
Speaker 2: No, what FORO?
Speaker 3: Just to bring candy over from from Uncle Ross.
Speaker 2: They got too much candy. Oh, okay, that's fair. We
were at Grandma's house. There's more, there's snacks coming out
of their ears. Okay, so let's just can we discuss
the food? Oh at my super Bowl? Yeah, if you want,
and now, no, when you come back, was there anything
you didn't like? Because you were very honest with truod
I will be okay. Mine was really dumb down. Oh,
I hope Uncle Oggie's not listening. Uncle Oggie turning radio
up really loud ten because he's gonna rip you. And
just not true.
Speaker 3: We have been invited to Teresa's house since then, Love you.
Speaker 2: All all right? Seven one three two one two so
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with ten thirty three shout out to the folks in
Big City. Wings took care of us on Saturday night.
So we did not eat wings yesterday. We went with
the atypical. We just had spaghetti at the house. I
know it's something super Bowl fair, but we had wings
the night before when I got back from Oklahoma City.
So okay, yeah, look, we don't have to follow convention.
Speaker 3: Ok thank you. I appreciate it to just.
Speaker 2: Get wings and French onion dip and uh I don't Okay,
so like, yeah, you can go off the I kind
of like that. Yeah, my father was coming over. I
wasn't feeling great. Yeah, I didn't want anything super heavy
or spicy. I'm just I'm telling oh, I put a
little red pepper flakes now when I make my spaghetti song.
Getting older sucks. The spice in my life is just
kicking my arm. I'm with you, Matt Damn. Oh hush. Okay,
so you went over to mom's house. Yes, and let's
run through the quick entrees before we go, because okay,
you're a critic. Yes, I am even for your family.
But I'm just telling you family, good cooks. I'm just
letting you know all right, so let's see. Uh, my
cousin Cheyenne, she made a charcuter She's the charcuterie wizard.
She always makes an excellent under all those chocolate covered
pomegranates to die for, so meats and cheeses and all
that was an incredible Uncle Augie was over. He got
some My cousin had shot a hog, so he got
some hog shoulder and he had been smoking it all
day and so it was really good and flavorful, and
then he put the like the the juice on it too,
and it was great. And then he put like four
bottles of BBCUE sauce on it, and my mom tried
to tell him not to put them. Then he got
all defensive. My mom was like, oh, you don't, why
are you putting all this sauce on here. He's like, hey,
let me do it the way I do it. And
we're like, all right, sorry, I'm caggy. But it was
too much sauce. But other than that, it was very good, Okay,
I smoke. Flavor was good. We got some Hawaiian rolls.
My mom made some homemade roles. We were putting it
on that and uh, let's see Shyan made some sliders.
It was all good. So we had charcooterie pulled hog
shoulder that was smoked deliciously. And then they ordered, uh,
some cookies from a place that I shall not mention. Yeah,
they'll spend money. They don't get to mention. All right, John,
what were your eats? By the way, would you eat
Big city wings? That's what I'm talking about. Did you
call ahead? No? No, we did it. You said, you said,
do you know who I am? He said, do you
know who I am? I'm Jonathan Allen. I'm hognutes from
them from the map, Tomas showing lost. You get the
hot nuts special. Is that good?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 2: You get the hot nuts special. Yeah, big ass wings.
You get the biggest of the wings. Oh my god,
rocky Mountain oysters. I didn't know what that means. But
it's got a connotation. It doesn't it does. Okay, very good?
All right? Uh seven one three two one two five
seven Dowey, if you want to chime me, we got
open lines for you today again. We this is the
this is maybe our toughest week of the year for
a variety of reasons. One because there's really nothing piping
hot Rockets who played twuessy wines against the Clippers, who
did beat up on the Wolves. That's what I watched
before the Super Bowl. I watched that game.
Speaker 3: That was more for my just getting ready for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then one week from today Clippers prep.
Speaker 2: I like it. You know, who knows who the hell's
left on that team? Kwhy Leonard was still there? Oh
he's bawling. John Collins still there? Okay? And then some
guy with a really long last name it's got hyphen
in it, not Gills. Okay, good. But one week from
today we're gonna be in West Palm Beach. Yes, sweet,
are crazy. It is crazy, I tell you. It's always
fan fast. Is like the first kickoff to where it
starts getting the ball rolling baby, before you know, it'll
be opening day. Yep, I'm excited. Yeah. So Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday of next week we will be down in West
Palm Beach with the local baseball team, and uh, I
guess the question will be, will Eatac Perettes be a
part of that team. The Boston Red Sox went and
got their infielder today from Milwaukee, so that's gonna probably
check them off the list. Our buddy. Chandeler roame front
of the show, says they were At one point there
were five teams that were interested. Yeah, and perhaps kicking
the tires on Parredes, so I would knock that down
to four. Yes, the Red Sox have made their trade.
He mentioned he did not want to claim a lot
of teams publicly, but he did say that the ones
that were perhaps showing a little more interest than others
were the Boston Red Sox, which they've obviously resolved their situation,
and the Pittsburgh Pirates being a team as well. Yeah,
and apparently the Pirates getting Ozuna. Chandeler Rome says shouldn't
remove Pittsburgh, but does decrease likelihood. Okay, but there are
apparently others. I'm gonna still stay with this. He's getting
traded sometime this year unless man can't. My music kind
of got feeling hit for you, by the way, Yeah,
unless there's an injury that would preclude that, that would
be a need for him. If everybody stays relatively healthy,
I think Joe A. Spotty will lose his mind having
to try to balance this, whether it's in front of
us talking about it every day, or his or the guys.
Guys have egos. It's difficult. Yeah, absolutely, Christian Walker wants
to be out there every single day. Remember last year
when we had him on and you asked him DH,
He's like, DH, I don't even know what that means.
He didn't say that, of course, but right he was
very He didn't scoff at you, but he he bristled like,
I'm gonna be out there every day. Well, the only
way and I thought about this a little bit, and
it's kind of an elementary analysis. The only way it
doesn't become brilliant issue is if Ordon plays more than
we think in left field. And I keep getting the vibe,
at least publicly, that that's not what they want to do.
I wonder if there's uh, we're not gonna say like fights,
but like discussions, Like it feels like maybe a spot
up wants Jordon out in d H every day, maybe
more than first first of all, more than Jordon does.
Didn't didn't Joe say like a Jordon sending him highlight
reels of him making catches in left field or something
like I say this, I'll give him credit. I don't think
Jordon shies away from playing left field. He likes it,
but that's just adding a fifty probability of further injury. Yeah,
you need a guy who needs you need to be
upright one hundred and forty five games. If you had
him on hundred forty five games last year, you're in
the playoffs. Yeah, easily, easily. So that's it. It does
add a little bit of not drama because it's it's
a drama, would be not having enough players intrigued is
what I would call it. Yes, storylines, Yeah, there's a
lot of material for Chandler Roman, Brian McTaggert and the lads.
And I'll still talk about the fatal team too, so yeah,
we'll be definitely in the talking points. Yep. So I
thought it was interesting that today the Red Sox did
make a trade. They did it with Milwaukee. They get
Caleb Durham away from the Brewers. The Red Sox will
send Kyle. These are people you don't even know, Kyle Harrison,
Shane Droning and David Hamilton. Oh oh man, unbelievable. Haul,
I don't know that. I'm just kidding. Well, Caleb Durban
solves their third base spot. Okay, so I'm still telling
you Rossie the number one thing that scares of a
Jesus out of me is relying on the three outfielders
that are expected to be the starters opening up the
year or whatever. Then whatever the outfield conlinb I know
think there's enough power, well maybe enough defense, but there
ain't enough power. I don't think that Dana Brown is
looking for prospects in return for esch pretus he's looking
for outfield help. Yep. Yeah, as he's trying to kill
two birds of one stone, cut this infield logjam and
get some outfield help, and apparently can happen because the
Red Sox and Brewers made major league player moves today,
the Zak Paradus is a top three hitter on the Astros.
I'm gonna be sad. I know we got to figure
out this logjam, but I'm gonna be sad if and
when he's traded. And the number one thing we should
continue to mention over and over again just to make
sure is that the person they want to trade is
the is the untradeable one. I guarantee you they would
rather have Esack Parties playing first base in Christian Walker, Yeah,
there's gonna be direct correlation between value to your team
and value to other teams. Yeah, so if you don't
think you like him, why would other teams want to
like him? Now you are rooting for it, like heck
that he bounces back and has a better season two
than nan season one.
Speaker 3: It was not atrocious. It wasn't like jose A.
Speaker 2: Bray atrocious, but it certainly wasn't Jeff Bagwell or even
Lance Berkman. You need, you need a bounce back, and
the problem is Father Time doesn't usually allow bounce backs.
Could be wrong, but guy north of thirty a lot
of money attached to it. High strikeout rate, George Springer,
bounce back. Christian Walker is a nice player. He's not
the athlete that George Springer is. I'm saying it could happen.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. If it happens, it'll be the
most wonderful ride for the Astros this year. I'm gonna
say the oblique got him off to a bad start,
got him in some bad habits, took him a while
to work out the kinks, and he had a better
second half, and he's gonna be ready to go in
twenty twenty six. Okay, So let me ask you this
if we get Christian Walker down in Florida, do we
say how much does the oblique affect and.
Speaker 4: Will he go?
Speaker 2: Man leave that alone. I wasn't thinking the pastor I
we could absolutely ask them. I think it's you know what,
it's guys will be more honest the next year than
they will be in the middle of this. It's a
fine line because nobody wants to use the injury every
single time. No, but his struggles in Arizona directly correlate
to his oblique situation. Maybe that was the reason why
the Diamondbacks were like, you know what, we love you. You
do hit home runs for us, but we know that
that bat obliqueesp and something that's been a part of
your past and it's probably gonna be part of your future.
He's bouncing back. I'm buying Christian Walker stock, Okay, like
I'm buying bitcoinn come bounce back. How's your bigcoin? By
the way, Uh, it's crashed really hard. But I still
what made the crash. I don't know, hum economic panic?
My stock's when I gold? Gold has gone way up.
Gold's always doing well. Gold has been crushing it. People
just have gold sitting around in their backyard or something
or I guess yeah, you put it in in your
volleyball pit. Dig for treasure in there.
Speaker 3: Come to my house and see what kind of things
are underneath the sand.
Speaker 2: Dig for me? Gold Wait, I don't know why I
have Irish and a pirate. Irish you an Irish pirate
in a Kingwood backyard. Make sure that ladies, you're welcome. Uh.
Rockets did get a win Saturday. Who is that Taylor Beiscotti?
Oh God, okay, come on hi. Now she's got way
too much makeup on. I mean that thing is, it's caked.
But you know what, I'm gonna be positive. She's doing great.
I'm wishing her the best. Okay, I'm new me all right?
Uh seven one three two one two five seven Dottie
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Then
from her to Mike McDonald, you got good hair. By
the way, thirty eight years old, youngest quarterback coach every
won in Super Bowl. I have a third youngest have
coach thirty eight years, two hundred and twenty seven days old. Ross.
Speaker 3: What were you doing at thirty eight two twenty seven?
Speaker 2: I was probably here? Mmmm.
Speaker 3: Now that guy's a Super Bowl winning quote coach.
Speaker 2: I think I was probably covering the uh, the Astros
super I mean a world series. Ser your life wasn't
that bad? Yeah, man, I don't have if it's much
as it's progressed since then. But you know that's each's
doing great. I'm doing. Life is beautiful. I'm glad to
hear that there's only one major problem in my life. Jonathan.
That's really rude for him to say that. Seven three
two one two five seven seven one three two one
two five seven astro hole, astro hole, shout out to you.
You know, if we had Christian Walker quarterback and CJ
at first base, the results will be the same. All
I'm saying, fellas. Wait, mean, Christian Walker is not the
CJ Straut of the Asters. Hey, that's rude. Kenneth Walker
super Bowl MVP. How about give it into the kickers.
What do you think got kicked five field goal? Who
got warwork than anybody else did? That was riding for
ken Walker because that was my gut feeling. I don't
even remember that. I mean, if you got it, goo,
good for you.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm saying good for you. I don't Uh.
Sam Donold was a chalk pick. I don't owe Jonathan,
I believe, said Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7: Mm.
Speaker 2: And then he picked the Seahawks. So that was confusing.
What happen? Half your heads and your bets. I like that.
I'll tell you what predict now. He was kind of
right in a way. He added a lower scoring game,
and it would it was until the very end. How
about this, if you're a New England fan, which I
assume there's very few of you here, what if Christian
Gonzales didn't have the game of his life?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: My god, he was knocking back everything. He was playing
very well. You think of the one long pass, But
generally speaking, if you were to ask for a cornerbacks
perfect game, he was about a nine point eight out.
He was very good. Didn't get a pick six, but
he was good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I told the guys behind me the Rocks game, he
was getting to pick six. I man, a white guy
back there telling me around. You know you weren't Patriot gear. Yeah.
I'm trying to think ross. If that was the suckiest
super Bowl I've seen in forty years, what's the second?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: There was worse, didn't Arizona and Pittsburgh play when it
was dreadful. Seattle destroyed the Broncos like forty to eight,
but at least there was offense in that that was horrible.
Though there was the ugly one with the Philly Special
when the Eagles beat the Patriots. That game wasn't was ugly.
It was the final score on that one, like thirteen
to six or something like. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask
Google AI who they who they liked? Okay, what is
the worst Super Bowl? This was? I mean this was
up there, and thank god there was some scoring in
the second half. Yeah, Patriots thirteen rams three. That was horrible.
That game was like sixty three, but it was. It was.
That was a bad one. And look, yeah, oh was
forty three to eight. So I had it wrong. Hey,
that's what AI says. The worst ones were forty nine
or fifty five Broncos was the worst. Biggest margin? Oh,
when the Ravens trashed the Giants, Oh, Seahawks being the
Broncos forty three to eight. I remember that one. I
remember that back when nineteen seventy one the Colts beat
the Cowboys sixteen to thirteen. They were eleven turnovers in
that game, I went, oh my.
Speaker 3: God, nicknamed the Stuper Bowl. I like that.
Speaker 2: Can I just tell you if they're calling Drake May
the schedule that is. I don't know who did that,
but that's phenomenal, so good, phenomenal. Rockets gotta win in
Oklahoma City. I stated that was the best part daytime.
Game got home, picked up big sitting away home. Yes,
life is good, baby when those games. Where's the worst
guys falling Rockets? Guy, We're okay, everybody all right? They
lost two games and then everybody's calling me talking about
this is the worst and he made Doka needs to
be fired and rough el Stone is the worst GM
and he needs to be fired. Feeling better after they
beat the thunder, let's go, folks, Hey, season, you canna
meet a high water mark for wins this year. By
the way, they have won nine of thirteen games. No,
they're terrible, Matt, No, they're horrible. Everybody needs to be fired.
He made Doakan doesn't know his head from his ass,
blah blah blah, terrible.
Speaker 3: Let's go to uh David on seven Honey High.
Speaker 2: David.
Speaker 4: Well, Hey, there, guys, what ross is exactly on point?
I'm calling to take credit for the Rockets swim. Oh really,
because it was big I call after the Charlotte lost.
I called in to Rockets wrap and pronounced the Rockets
basically dead A mid no better than mid than the.
Speaker 3: It's okay you you were being emotional, David.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, I was making that call from every
listener you have, and that's pretty much assured that the
Rockets would win their next game and make me look
like an ass. So there you go.
Speaker 2: You did great, David. And if they can win these
two games against the Clippers, I mean, we're gonna be
feeling good.
Speaker 4: But that's pretty much the super Bowl. You know, Hey,
I agree with you on Christian South. By the way,
if i'd have a vote for m v P, I
would have voted for both a defensive player and a
player on a losing team, none of which you're ever
going to win anything. But to me, that was the
m v P that came yesterday. So I like your point, yep.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, David, it was. That was a
That was the only thing I really respected, And thank
you for the call. He was Donald was at least
that they were attempting to go deep. Drake May couldn't
go because he didn't have enough time. Yeah, he was,
and then he was the intermediate routes were throwing behind receivers,
his feet were shutting, I mean he was. He was
playing like CJ. Marcus Lawrens was all over them, longhorned
legend Byron Murphy. I mean yeah, that Seattle defense was insane.
And and that's the thing that we kind of talked
about this earlier, where people were like Texans could have
been right in this one. This is this is their
type of game. Cj'stroud would have been being harassed and
destroyed this entire for four quarters. Yeah. Again, if you
want to make an excuse that Drake may took advantage
of an easy slate, I mean you got a little
bit of credit today.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whether it wasn't great in any of those games, the
whether it was good, it was an acceptorary defense. It
was by far your hardest opponent you played this year,
as we're supposed to be when you're playing for the
Super Bowl. Yeah, Seahawks were the best team I think
in football all year. So I mean it was them
in the Rams to me, and they were in three knockdown,
dragout games Seattle won two out of three of them
won in the playoffs, deserving super Bowl champion. It's part
of the Tell the Truth Today eleven thirty, I will
have two teams for next year's Super Bowl, and whether
I believe that or not, as one of my super
Bowls to tell the truth. So, okayt that all right?
I'm intrigued. I'm glad you should be seven one three, two,
one two ninety seven to one three two, one two
five seven. And coming up at the top of the hour,
we're going to run through Jonathan Alexander's article about ten
things he'd like to see the Texans do. Now, some
of this is a little minutia, so will kind of
glazed by those pretty quick. But there's some that probably
do are worthy of a conversation. We'll get to that.
We have astro spring training kicking off with pitchers and
catchers Wednesday down in West Palm Beach.
Speaker 3: We have the rockets with the wind.
Speaker 2: We have safe to say, one of the worst Super
Bowls ever. I mean, even if it's not the worst, eh,
I mean, commercials sucked. I didn't understand halftime and it
was a total sweat at the end. There was that's
why man betting on sports is not always fun.
Speaker 3: Oh I had a good time, I bet you did.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I'd rather just throw money at
playing in the blackjack table with people around me that
don't know what they're doing. It makes it much more
enjoyable for me. Okay, good for you. Maybe we should
just bring some people with us, Like if you want
to hang out with you and me in like Charles
or Vegas, we have to have like a little if
of like a quiz to make sure you know what
you're doing. Okay. By the way, there's a video out
there on the real streets of a guy that hits
seventeen at a casino and there was a brawl right
after it really where see, I don't where it was,
but Detroit? Uh?
Speaker 3: Could it could have been? I've seen one caill Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I've seen one person hit seventeen and it was a
New Ornans, which is again their math is a little diskewed.
So yeah, that wouldn't be a total surprise to me.
That would have happened. Seven one three, two, one two
five seven out of it is The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross will take some more phone calls by the
way the Cougars basketball. Yes, you of h went to BYU.
They were talking about them Cougars, talking about them Cougars.
Got'd be good for the kid. Twenty thousand people in
that arena really always twenty thousand that arena YU basketball huge.
It wasn't on a Sunday then it was. No, it wasn't,
it was, but it was close. It was Saturday at
nine thirty Central. By the way, college basketball, ESPN, you
got to stop scheduling these games at two hour times.
These games are going two fifteen to two twenty. I
had to watch ESPN News for the first ten minutes
the game. So if you're just a rando, I don't
they always do this. So if you didn't have ESPN News,
let's say you're in a hotel, yeah, and you want
to watch the Cougar's Boy game, you would not have
seen any of the game until ten minutes remaining in
the first half. They haven't had two hour games in
like thirty years. That is accurate. What they're thinking just ridiculous.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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Speaker 2: Matt and Ross with you here, and we are taking
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want to follow me on Instagram, you may do that
at sports Empty. Sports RV also did a little video
with a bunch of stuff behind you that was interesting.
I caught that over the weekend. Oh thank you, Matt.
I'm trying to get back on my content game. I
was your content game. It's not great. I mean, we
got like fifty something likes and eleven hundred views. It's
not bad. No worries about that, more than I got
if I didn't post anything. So that's true the way
I see it, That is true. All right. So, uh,
Jonathan Alexander, who is the Texans beat writer, he's legit media.
By the way, why are you laughing? Cause you make
me laugh? Okay, many others have said that, that's right. Okay,
h he has a list, and I'm not trying to
steal all of his joy. But I'm gonna I mean,
if it's a good material, I mentioned his name, I'm
giving him credit for it. We've given him a look.
Subscribe to the Chronicle for Yeah, it gives you good stuff.
I mean, that's legitimate media. And that aren't I subscribe
there and I subscribe the Athletic. Yeah, those are the
two things. All right. Here we go. His is a
ten step plan to get the Texans to a Super Bowl.
Oh ten steps. Okay, that just shows you how long
it's gonna take. Right there, baby, in no particular order,
and some of these are more important than others. Number one,
he says, here comes a bunch of ads. Uh, stay
with me. Here, I can read it. I have it.
Here we go. Number one cut running back Joe Mixon
and defensive and Mario Edwards. Oh hey, hey, second, what
was that was that?
Speaker 4: That's?
Speaker 2: First of all, that startled me so good job on that.
Second of all, come on, man, he didn't shoot himself
in the foot. Wait, it's Super Bowls over by the way.
Do you owe me coffee?
Speaker 3: Coffee and a Danish?
Speaker 2: Okay? Good? When are we going for this? First of all,
can we get this ABATCHI thing out? Of the way.
Also breaks coming on when we get back, when I
get Oh, no, we need Jonathan there. No, I told
you I'm not paying for Jonathan. I'll pay for Jonathan.
I got his water. So Jonathan were saying that Joe
Mixon is out according to Jonathan Alexander, Okay, come on, man,
what I don't hear anything. He didn't shoot himself in
the foot. You don't know that. I don't know that
for one. True. There's nobody's that stupid, are they, Jonathan?
What do you think? Okay, so you're telling me. I
thought y'all were doing old y'all or old yell ring Joe.
So you're telling me that the Texans would keep this
injury a secret for a calendar year. Nick Cassario said,
nothing irresponsible. Well, he can also lie to you. He
could people lie constantly, And I am endorsing him a lot.
I said nothing irresponsible. I would say shooting yourself in
the foot with a gun qualifies as irresponsible. All right, So,
and again number one is getting rid of Mario Edwards
and Joe Mixon. There you go. Let's go to number two.
Here's an interesting one. Restructuring contracts of d'aneil, Hunter Sing
and Nico Collins. All that makes sense totally. Now it
takes because it takes two to tango on those. Of course,
they all have to be willing to do that, and
my guess is they probably would as long as they
don't lose any money on the deal. Current cap numbers
are too high. Apparently Number three extend the contracts of
Dalton Schultz and Alsi's Al Shire Uh Schultz still in
the prime of his career. Shire has been excellent, two
best season of his career coming off that I'd like
to tie end into the raft. I don't think that's
out of the question because I mean with cade Stover
and who's the other one that we just came back
from injury, Jordan, but then there was some other guy.
I mean, yeah, there's not enough. It's look I like
Dalton Schultz, he came on in the second half of
the season, but also I mean he's just he doesn't
bring a super dynamic He's a nice safety blanket, security
blank but he's not a playmaker. But the problem is
he was put in the in the work of being
the second biggest target on this team, and that just
can't be the case. Next, he's no A J. Barner
exactly picking up options on Will Anderson and c. J.
Straud's contracts. That kind of goes with saying, of course,
all right, that's gonna happen. Signing Cad Mays at center.
Carolina Panthers is the team he plays. Oh, okay, I
don't necessarily think it needs to be Mays. It doesn't
be somebody anybody not named Jak Sorry, just terrible Juice
Scrugs didn't work out. That's is that gow as a
draft bust? Yes, second round pick two. Oh, if we
they would be lifting the Lombardi Trophy. If if Nick
Cassario could draft lineman, if Kenyon Green and Juice Scrugs
and Blake Fisher and Arianta Ersi were all big hits,
they but they'd be Super Bowl change nursery could be worser,
right TV Blamel Fisher played a little bit of this year,
but not but he was also your extra line. But
you know you could help you out as being six
compete turning five.
Speaker 3: But I think some people are saying.
Speaker 2: We're seeing a little potential maybe, but we'll see. Here's
an interesting third years big for Blake Fisher signing brees
Hall to a three year contract. Now, the reason why
apparently the Texans were not overly uh aggressive and grabbing
him is because he was going to be a He
was on a lame duck contract NC Rental. Now he
now Jonathan believes that you go give him some good money.
You're not gonna get Kenneth Walker out of Seattle. They're
going to make sure he gets taken care of paid
and Breese Hall best year ever for the Jets in
his career. I wouldn't be opposed to that. I mean, honestly,
let's be brutal on this. Uh Wooding marks down every
day running back there. There's nothing left in the tank
anymore of our boy Joe Mixon. No, no, no, the
right Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb, by the way, my Nick
Chub probably gonna go somewhere else to He's probably thinking
I got more left than the tank. You're not showing
it to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna play with the Barcelona Dragons.
Speaker 2: It's true. Here's one re sign ed ingram to a
multi year deal, and that's gonna cost you. I like that,
but that's gonna cost you and himself some cash. And
Sheldon Rankins in a new contract. I like Sheldon Rankins. Yes, yep. Next,
this is very interesting because it's only happened once since
Casero took over, and it was a pretty big jump.
He says, use draft picks from Washington to move up
from number twenty eight to number thirteen. Woo Okay, he's
talking about the Rams pick Huntle deal. Yes, he's basically,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna go ahead and assume
that Alexander saying get into the top fifteen. Yes, whether
it's thirteen, fourteen, fifty, he wants them to get it.
Ala eve Vega, Ya poor vander Asi and Alla Vegas.
It's a lot. Next, it's fun draft a defensive tackle
in the second round in a tight end in the third.
So kind of on the same page. I'd like to
see a tight end. Honestly, I'm going to disagree with those.
I would think I could probably go down around on
each one of those. I think their third round tight end,
you can get an impact guy. I like the first.
I'm of the belief I've always said this, your third
round players should be starting for you within two to
three years. In in theory, in theory, in the end,
you've got so many positions. Not everybody can be in
the first round. You should be able to get quality
as a number the ninetieth pick in the draft. Yeah, one, two, three,
you should get. One should be impact, two should be
a good starter, and then three should be a starter
who can hold their own yea to me.
Speaker 3: And then anything after the fourth round is brave, bravy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then the last thing he says is establish
identity on offense earlier. Okay, what we're gonna have a
long time to talk about this, but what what position
group would you like, as far as you're talking about,
to go down and tick another offensive lineman like take two? Yeah,
I wouldn't. I'm going to tell you you're crazy for saying that.
You you know the term run it back. You hear
that all the time. Yes, even the Astros used it
one year. Yes, are the Rockets after eighteen when they lost, right,
then they do run it back? I thought the Astros
ran it take it back, Okay, take it back, running back,
go back.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you should use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Rockets did run it back and then they
were out in the second round. Even with Kevin Durant
ripping his achilles in half. Yeah, I will say this,
you can't give me enough quality offensive lineman. You just
can't agree. I think if you're going to resurrect, and
this is what honestly it's a resurrection, quality is the
key word, and you're not trusting the people that are
in charge, you have to give CIJ as maybe, and
I don't think rookies necessarily do that, but if you're
going to extend CJ and make him your franchise quarterback
for the foreseeable future, you absolutely have got to give
him a better offensive line. You just do. I think
a better offensive line would probably calm the nerves down
of CJ. It would make him so fidgety, and I
think it could absolutely because he's got the arm strength
he generally, speaking of those, accuracy has gone down a
little bit. Some a decision making I think has significantly
suffered in the last couple of years, and I think
a lot of that is because he doesn't trust the
five or six guys in front of him. You can't
for me, you can't give me enough offensive line, especially
in the first three rounds. I think a couple things.
As the playoffs have gone along, I've been thinking Texans
aren't of this class, but also they as they've gone along,
I've been thinking, you know what, CJ. Strout had nothing
around him. I mean the offensive line, the running. I'm
watching these teams. I'm watching like ken Walker streak down
the and make plays. I'm watching Jackson Smith and Jigba
and all these other guys in the Even the pass
catchers for the Patriots are better. These guys are great
quarterbacks the two Super Bowl or very good quarterbacks. They're
also in much better situations than c. J. Shroud is.
I'm not telling you, Houston that he's going to be
dynamic and amazing, but it's at a low point and
you might as well give him a couple of things
that could make him feel better. A couple of linemen.
And I don't even n't necessarily believe it's the draft.
You can go get like if this center, this guy
out of Carolina, if he's available, Imagine how much difference
it would be if you had a quality center, How
much it would change. I also think the running back,
I frankly would go more running back over tight end.
You might as well add numbers there and then you're
pushing win. He marks it either be better or you
move or replace him. But you'd need an RB one.
This team does not have an army. You're telling me
you have a Hodgepot offensive line and no RB one
and we're expecting CD to be better next season. Yeah,
good luck with that. Eleven fourteen of The Matt Thomas
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Speaker 3: I just put a tweet out yesterday and again.
Speaker 2: Uh so, the last two years have not done anything
for me. With Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny, it's my turn.
I want yacht rocking at Super Bowl sixty one. Let's
make that happen so that you want them to bring
out decrepit Christopher Cross. First of all, Christopher Cross would
wear Earl Campbell jersey like you did back in the day.
That'd be that'd be awesome. Number one. Number two. All
of his songs aren't records, but you gave me Kenny Loggins.
You give me Michael McDonald, and you give me for
cross and a halftime show, the place of be a jumping,
the place to be a sleeping. No, they won't be asleeping.
They'll be they'll be enjoying themselves about the halftime sedative.
Let me give you, Let me give you the song
list ride like the Wind exactly. I'm asleep already. Uh,
I keep forgiving, forgetting, forgetting, forgetting. You give me danger zone.
You give me your zone. Yeah, you give me a
danger zones? Not really good? You got rock. I'm all right.
You give me. Uh. You can't even make one set list, Matt.
You know what I will come up with the ultimate setlist. No,
it's fine, nobody. I was thinking of the top and
we're all good. But don't you think it's my turn? No,
it's not. Why is it your turn?
Speaker 3: Because they should rotate.
Speaker 2: Rotates a national crowds crowd? How about the regular crowd?
About the regular guys? Like the crowd. Who's the most
listened to artists in the entire world? But I don't
listen to them. That's not me, I know. But they're
not looking for you, Matt. They need to look for me.
Speaker 3: I'm being selfish.
Speaker 2: Can I get one year of a group that I
actually like?
Speaker 3: That's all I want.
Speaker 2: I've given you two years ago trying to grow the
brand of the NFL globally and a half time for
Brazil and Madrid and Germany about the England on the
entire world. The best you can do. So they all
in love. Three does as he please?
Speaker 4: You think?
Speaker 2: Because they're they're trying to take over the world and
expand their reach. They should go with Christopher Cross and
Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 3: I just want to be entertained at halftime. I'm not
trying to overthink it.
Speaker 2: Okay. I don't need I don't need to be I
don't need global branding. I don't need Roger gandelse. That
should you? My mass I'm sure he does. I don't
agree with him I much of anything. So that's just
another thing. Okay, you rather enjoy like a Beatles cover band.
Speaker 3: You know what, Get Paul McCartney out there for two songs.
Speaker 1: Le's go.
Speaker 2: One thing, going to take an a I am you
know what? Give me John Cougar Mellencamp, He's back on
the Gee's back on the streets. I'll be I'm going
to see him in August. You don't mean to tell
me that Jack and Diane in Pink Houses wouldn't bring
the house down. I would not bring the house down.
I just want something I like. I know, man, I know,
I mean selfish. Well, I got an idea for you.
Do your own halftime like something after nineteen seventy six,
and you'll get something you like.
Speaker 3: I've tried Lady gagt Ive had.
Speaker 2: I like her. Okay, she was good, but I was
in Houston, right, Uh yeah, I've but I don't. I mean,
I know I have some of her songs. Okay, who
else do I liked? It's like the weekend was good,
Weekend's not terrible. That wasn't bad good? Yeah, yea.
Speaker 3: The last two have been personally for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, pull the turge ok two years I
didn't understand a word bad Bunny said and didn't like
the quote unquote vibe and that's your interpretation that is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was just that was not my vibe
like them.
Speaker 2: I didn't like those dancers. I mean I didn't dislike that.
I mean they didn't. I didn't have an issue with it.
Speaker 3: But you put hot dances around Christopher Cras.
Speaker 2: Just gotky good. It's cute all Timer, Mount Rush, mounts Rush,
Mount Rushmore. Oh yeah, not even close. You know my
number one of the Mount Rushmore is as I. I
think Margot Robbie.
Speaker 4: Spy.
Speaker 2: She's in a new movie too. Well, I don't care.
Just go watch Wolf of wall Street. Wolf of wall Street,
My god, wolf of wall Street. Oh my, okay, we're
focusing back. Let's go back.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: The last really great one, I mean Weekend was okay,
Gega was good.
Speaker 3: The last really great one was Prince Right.
Speaker 2: Loved Prince, but but Prince wasn't putting on anything new
that when one was Prince, I'm looking for it. But
he played all of his old hits. Yeah that's what
you did again two thousands? Oh my god, was it
two thousand and seven? See, I don't, I don't again.
I certainly do not represent anyone except me. This is
just me talking. But I think people at halftime I
want something that they know. And Ricky I forgot. Yeah,
I mean okay, but you know, I just just Kendrick
Lamar one record of the year, but very influential to
whom Usher was before that, Usher had some hits. I
like Usher I find and here was the thing before that?
Oh the Doctor, Drey Snoop dogg eminem One, Matt you
loved that wasn't terrible? See that? And there's some stuff
that I like. The Weekend all Jennifer Lopez like that.
Although I'm not a big j little singing fan, just
watching the thing is fine. I mean, if you're gonna
be if you're gonna give me songs.
Speaker 3: I don't like the Maroon five.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to the list is fine. They're not great,
but it is.
Speaker 3: Nickel Back every halftime.
Speaker 2: No thank justin Timberlake, Uh not my but but I
know some of his song got got before that at
Energy Stadium. Oh then Coldplay, Katie Perry, remember when the
Sharks came out. I liked Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Beyonce.
You got that right, Madonna. The problem is is you
there's only a certain number of major, I mean major,
big name world impact stars that are frankly alive and
then have it, that are alive and that haven't done it.
Like the biggest r who hasn't done it right now
is Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is the only one. And
I don't think that the next most popular worldwide renowned
star is a far distant second, don't you think. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to uh yeah. Number one global Spotify
was Bad Bunny and too It's been Taylor Swift and
Bad Bunny like every year. Yeah, but Taylor Ariana Grandi
could do it. Although I really listen to Ariana Grande
seeing other people's music and a sushi impersonates them, I'm
trying to find most listen to artists. Yeah, Bruno Mars
done it, we can done it. You think country music
justin Bieber? Bieber could do Bieber could do it for sure. Oh,
Drake burn his half his foul words in it. He's fine.
I mean, yeah, so did Kendrick Kamar. He just danced
around the words and bad Bunny. That's what I do constantly,
dance around words. But also well, jay Z hated Drake
and he was running the thing. But I don't know
if Billie Eilish, she's got a bunch of hits. Yeah,
I'm gonna say Billy Eilish, I don't know who that is.
Don't don't put your hands across your face like that.
Fall No, I'm said New Year it's not. I always
try to be nicer too, and it doesn't work. You
do the same thing, all right. Well on seven eleven,
twenty five, Hi will guy, how you doing good?
Speaker 5: Okay? You talking about the text and now by just
following the Chicago Barros roadmap, they signed two off season
offensive labeman. Then they drafted one and see what it
did for that quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah he had a better year.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: But here's the thing I called about, guys, and I
know my wife tied to listen to me yapp about this.
Speaker 3: Well, here, that's what we're here for you.
Speaker 5: I'm watching the Rockets and I get aggravated every day.
And I love watching the Rockets, but it reminds me
when a king was here and we had Sam Cassell,
Kenny Smith and Vernon Maxwell. Right, neither one of those
guys could make up damn pass to the post. Neither one.
Speaker 4: What did we do?
Speaker 5: We didn't went out and got Robert Rriy and Robert
Rriy was second only to Magic Johnson making passes to
the post. He was that good. He was that good.
So now I'm watching this team and what troubles me
is not only do we can we not pass to
the post. The people is receiving the past won't come
toward the past, and it just aggravates me, it really does.
It just I mean, I'm like, this is basketball one
on one, fellas.
Speaker 2: But the problem as well that your your king facilitator
is your center.
Speaker 5: Ain't that amazing?
Speaker 2: Well he's got he's got the skill set to do that.
So if you if he has the skill set to
do that, I'm not opposed to that. I mean, I'm
not you know, they're not they're not asking. They're not
asking in uh in San Antonio for Victor woman y'amo
to run the offense. They're they're giving it to Opera
and Shingo because he can dribble the basketball. Now they're
giving the ball to Victor to go downhill. That's not
going to be apper and strong suit.
Speaker 5: But Matt, doesn't that trouble you that your chief facilitator
is not Re Shepherd.
Speaker 2: In small doses it is, but not not the big picture,
not at this point in his career.
Speaker 5: And here's the thing that I would do with Re Sheepherd.
I wouldn't make Green Shepherd get a video a monk
price and watch it for twenty four straight hours. He
could be effective as Mark Price. And you saw Mark Price.
I did, what did Mark Price do?
Speaker 2: Shoot?
Speaker 5: He went to the final line extended and shoot had
jump shots.
Speaker 2: Which which Reid does. He's actually done a lot better.
He a little runing jeppards a game.
Speaker 5: I would like to see him do it more.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's got to get better. I mean, I
mean Mark Price is one of the greatest shooters ever
walked up. Yeah, well he's not there yet. I mean
that's You're right. If the end game, if the end
game for Reed Shepherd is Mark Price, I'd be more
than happy with that. But he's gotta get to Mark
Price level. Yeah, thank you Will for the phone call.
This is his first extended plaintipp to me. I know
there's some defensive tangibles. He does steal the ball quite
a bit, he does intercept passing lanes. Yeah, he gets
attacked by everything. But the dribble drive is just he
either he's not athletic enough or the SLIDESEP isn't good enough.
It's not consistent enough. Surely certainly for sure, yeah, or either. Also,
the thing we have to remember is he's played double
the minutes that he played all last year. This is
really his rookie year. To be brutally honest with you,
he's playing, he's playing rookie minutes for the first time
in his life. Yeah, has six starts. Uh, he's coming
out of it. But he had been in a funk
for a while. Yeah, it's it's he's been as he's
he's been, like Jabari Smith, he's been on a roller
coaster all year. There are some nights you want to
hug him and say thank you for hitting five threes,
and the other nights you're like, don't ever shoot a
three again. Yeah. I think it's it might be like
a little bit of a rookie wall. He's he's hitting,
and I also think of men Thompson's kind of feeling
that right now. I agree, because you ask so much
of him on both ends of the floor. Yeah, that's
why I thought the Saturday victory was so meaningful, because
not only did you not use him, but you won
the game and you got him off his feet for
a game he's got now and we've had two days off.
Speaker 3: We've been two days off in between games, and god
knows how.
Speaker 2: You get two days off, as you said, and you
were down what fifteen sixteen in that game was the
most they were down. I can't remember, but you were
down big in that game. Honestly, it looked like it
wasn't gonna happen for you.
Speaker 4: M hmm.
Speaker 2: And then you pulled it out. You got the victory,
you get the two days off without him in Thompson.
Huge win, even though there's no shake out of Alexander
on the other end. But still, yeah, everybody had players
gone was in front of you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry, injuries do happen.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they're not going to re evaluate
SGA until after the All Star breaks, so it could
be more than just coming back post All Star break.
To tell the truth is up next. It's eleven thirty
on Sports Talks of Annie.
Speaker 10: I never know why, but the thing of it is, folks,
I do know how to tell the truth.
Speaker 3: It's not my favorite thing to do, but I do
tell the truth.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought we should get to we should put
on What a Fool Believes for this segment. You know what,
just kidding, that's Michael McDonald.
Speaker 3: You know, I got zero problem with that.
Speaker 2: You're not a fool, though, Matt, eh some things I am. No,
You're doing great we're all proud of you. My character
evaluations have been better, and what does that mean nothing?
You are right? Yeah, I'm just getting over a cold.
I'm like ninety percent.
Speaker 7: Over it all.
Speaker 3: Right, here we go?
Speaker 2: Here are I got four things, guys, Yes, three of
them I believe. Okay, so one lie, one line, let
me write that down. Three truths one line, tendy truth
number one. My first blush for Super Bowl sixty one.
Who don't hold me to it. But this is just
these early we got feeling this a couple of weeks ago.
I don't remember what you picked. I don't even remember. Okay,
but that's just what has just happened. It is fresh
and bread new. The game is in Los Angeles and
the Rams will be hosting a Super Bowl in their stadium.
Rams and Buffalo Bills next year for Super Bowl sixty. Well,
you love the Buffalo Bills. You picked them a getting
the Super Bowl every time. You like the Baltimore the
Buffalo Bills. You just can't stop picking the Buffalo Bills.
You're right, super Bowl sixty one, Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams. Okay,
first blush, that's I mean, that's see, I don't there's
no way for me to judge that that's a liar truth.
That's completely reasonable.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I could be.
Speaker 2: Telling you a lot. You don't know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: Number two women's basketball in college basketball for years ago
went to four quarters. We need it for college basketball too.
Establishes new foul counts. Doesn't let games go on and
on with a bunch of free throws at seventeen fouls
at the thirteen minute mart of the game. We're shooting
free throws the rest of the way. By the way,
can we get them to do a jump ball? That
doesn't bother you mea grown ass millionaires. Let's go get
a jump ball, millionaire. Why did they even do that rule? Well, well,
we're gonna do the sporting thing. We don't want to
urt anybody's feelings, so we're gonna give you the possession arrow.
Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense. Do they sound like that?
Speaker 2: I don't know. They sound like they're just arrogant. Butler's yeah,
do that again. I can't even know what I did.
Just try what I try to possession arrow? Yeah? Why
can they jump it up? Let's go all right, if
you can can speak for Mertz middal Car and make
two million dollars. You can jump up and get a ball.
That's true, but that's not my take. Okay, sorry, four
quarters in college basketball. Okay, yeah, okay. Number three, I
don't think I've ever thought i'd ever say this. I
actually agree with Randy Moss on something straight cash Homeie.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 2: I always believe that he made a very very interesting
point that maybe we should let players and coaches vote
on a Hall of Fame voting, and thats dodgy. Media
should be out of it. You can get rid of biases,
you can talk about performances that they can know about
what's happening literally in the locker rooms. Okay, okay. And
number four people like to create Mount Rushmore's of things. Okay,
I am taking a Mount Rushmore of broadcasting. And I'm
adding Mike Turrico to the list. After what has happened
with the NBA, now, the Olympics, the Super Bowls, this
is going to be interesting and all the golf. He
does anything Mike Turrico does, and he's a Syracuse guy,
which those guys usually pricks. But this means, okay, dork's mean,
I think I have his number. Arrogant, he's busy, though, Well,
we're gonna trying to get him on when the when
he does an NBC game soon, Okay, I'll give it
to you. So, Mike Rico, I'm putting on the Mount
Rushmore of broadcasters with the way he everything he does,
he just does exceptionally well.
Speaker 3: And that's my four takes. Guy, it's one of those.
Speaker 2: I don't believe which one am I not telling you
the truth, gentlemen discussed So the funny enough, Jonathan, we
went through the Mount Rushmore broadcasting and I can't remember
exactly how far we got. Definitely, I think Matt had
Vince Scully up there and al Michaels and I can't
really remember having Nance. I probably head up there. No
you said Nance is terrible and went to a bad school. No, no,
I So that one kind of I'm gravitating towards that
one a little bit because Turico's fantastic. I love Turrico.
I don't know if he's Mount Rushmore worthy. Also, Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. We're looking for. We're trying to
root out one lie. I mean, first plus super both
look at that's the lie. That's the lie. But I
mean Rams Buffalo bills sounds totally reasonable. Four quarters. Matt
does complain a lot about the quality of college basketball,
so I don't know if he's trying to improve that.
So I can buy that one too. And his team
did lose last year. But letting the coach and Matt
might believe letting the players and coaches vote on the
Hall of Fame is true.
Speaker 3: But I'm pretty proud of myself. I'd of biases.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, players are as biased as anyone,
like some cowboys, not gonna go for some eagle and
stuff like that. But I can't believe he's really gonna
put Mike Turrico on the I don't think Mike Chrico
is on the Hall on the Mount Rushmore. There's no way, really,
you know, I'm taking three. I'm gonna just lock my
answer in it. I'm I'm taking three. You have to
give in the mind of a mad man. And this
is what makes this so I'm very normal in many regards.
Name on, I'm way more normal. Hey dude, that that
gunshots too real? That scares me? Can you can you gushot?
How about geting like a BB gun? Yeah, because if
it's get the foot, it's nothing exploded. Maybe it did
explod the foot.
Speaker 3: You never know, see if his foot exploded.
Speaker 2: Stop. All right, I'm locking in three. I'm locking in three.
I'm not gonna say you're crazy. And also I'm not
gonna say I don't want to give away my secrets.
You know what. I'll just be I'll just I'm.
Speaker 3: Un sure you know what?
Speaker 2: You know what? Whatever? You can't put Terrik? Are you
putting Tarika up there? Really? I'm gonna go with four.
This is a good one.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: I don't believe either of these last two, So I'm
gonna see what you believe, all right. Number one, I
do believe first blush, Buffalo in the Rams.
Speaker 3: Okay, first blush. But I'm I'm allowed to change.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you love you love Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: Number two, I do believe they should go to four
quarters in basketball. We're just getting way too much congestion.
The other two, you guys, narrow down the two most
difficult ones. Okay, I'm gonna tell you something. As a
play by a play broadcaster, as a talk show host.
Speaker 3: I try to be perfect.
Speaker 2: I have never in my life done a perfect NBA broadcast.
Speaker 3: I still strive for that.
Speaker 2: It's probably never gonna happen because I'm speaking thousands of words.
You just can't get literally everything right. Mike Turrico has
done every sport, and to these somewhat.
Speaker 3: Trained eyes, he never makes a mistake.
Speaker 2: Okay, he is so exceptionally good and vivid. And the
story about the kicker for Baltimore who blows the kick
in the final week, I mean, he's he's I wouldn't
have put my Tarrico into the on the Mount Rushmore
maybe a year ago, but he does NBA, So that's
my I believe that too. I do not believe that
that players and coaches should only be voting for hal ofcase.
So that's what I thought. But then I couldn't see you.
Speaker 3: You know why, because shut up?
Speaker 2: Because you you even talked yourself into it. Yeah, there's
biases among players. And by the way, do you think
you're gonna go ask Raindy Moss and go and do
a deep dive on twenty players?
Speaker 3: Those reporters, now again they're still stodgy.
Speaker 2: But I would presume that if you give, if you're
giving a Hall of Fame, you're gonna give the working.
But this is what I would have chosen, but I
didn't know if it was what you would have chosen. Again,
the game is to get in the mind of a madman.
That was wrong. Yeah, Jonathan, I'm a competitor, man, are you?
And Ross time I told you I'm not, I'm gonna fight,
I'm gonna fight. And I also just went different, just
to go different, but I lost. And again it's hard
for me to brag on a Syracuse person. I know
they're typically a holes and a contemporary of yours, I
just didn't know that was going to happen.
Speaker 3: He said, he's amazing. He just doesn't do so good.
Speaker 2: And I'm I am completely envious of the fact that.
And and if we had Mike on the show, he
would say, of course I make mistakes, because everybody does.
But he hides his whatever they are, and you don't
ever catch him. He has the great words, he has
the right timing, the energy, he does it he doesn't
he's And again it's hard for because I don't like
Syracuse people. But I mean, my my Mount Rushmore right
now would be dead or alive. I'll go, let me go.
All would be Scully because he's just the voice of Baseball.
He's got no weaknesses. Uh, Turco probably would be. I'd
probably go Al Michaels, and then I would probably go
Kevin Harlan because God dang, Kevin Harlan's down the two.
But Iron Eagle's probably right on the cusp people. He's
he's he's climbing up the wall. He's good. Nance is
right there too, I think Nance. Unfortunately for Nance, he's
getting dragged down by people hating Tony Roman. They're thinking
that he sucks you. And Jim Dance doesn't suck either.
He's awesome and neither just Tony Romo was fine. Tony
Romo is fine. I think we talked about that before
he gets way too much hate. He's not as good
since he's gotten away from the game and isn't studying
tape as much as he did. I remember how that
first year where he was like literally predicting plays as
it happened. He was just out of the league. Yeah,
tape on everyone, So congratulations, Jonathan, you got it. Congratulations. Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, do you see real quick? We got
to break here.
Speaker 2: So Tony Dungee would not announce his Hall of Fame voting, Yeah,
and Rodney Harrison went right at him really matter of fact, air,
let me find the I'll find the audio for you.
They came to blows no, because Ronnie's got more respect.
He got his belt out and said, who's your daddy?
I don't think you got any belt out? No, no,
I mean pants would fall. But yeah, we'll trying to
find the audio play coming back here. It was, I
would say a little uncomfortable. Eleven forty six Matt Thomas
show Ross the News at noon in fifteen minutes here
on seven ninety just got worried that raw Rocks is
getting away free coffee today can get me at twelve
ounce in.
Speaker 4: A way out.
Speaker 2: I'm very happy about that. What do you have to do?
I don't know, but I'm I got two hours figured out. Okay,
trying to cut my coffee back. It's just not going well.
And by way I got it. Uh, decaffeine and coffee
has way more caffeination caffeine than it should. For saying
DCAF when something is d something I should have had none? No,
am I wrong? It's got some in it? Oh really? Yeah,
oh much. I had a conversation with my cardiologist just
about that. The other day. Oh really, that's two to fifteen.
It's not great, but it's still eighty to one hundred.
I think depending it was better. Why are you drinking
d calf? I'm just trying to cut back on my caffeine.
I've eliminated iced tea in my life and sodas. I
never was a big soda drinker. You don't help you
cut down caffeine. Better sleep? Yeah, I didn't dream last night.
We were supposed to dream some I knew I'm done
with dreaming. They're all got weird No, no, no, you're
supposed to talk to the Sandman to bring you a dream,
make him, make her the cutest I've ever seen, and
was gonna say him it's fine. Yeah, okay, so you
love the Dudes on Dudes podcast?
Speaker 6: Boy?
Speaker 2: Wait, how many podcasts have we promoted on this cut
on this in this company? We need to get them
that have gone away? They have flat out gone away?
Is that true? Yeah? Is John Watson doing his podcast
Unlikely Possible Dudes on Dudes? Is that still going? Maybe
they're still doing it? Let me look, do I know?
Go on to google dud dudes. Hey, Ross is going
to do Dudes on Dudes on this podcast. Yeah, here
we go. H four days ago they did one how many?
How many gonk and jewels on Super Bowl fifty three thousand?
That's not bad? Right, that's good. That's good. Yeah, the
dudes are doing great. Give him a listen after the show, Yeah,
after Adam and Adam, after the nightcap. Do it at two o'clock,
after lunch, two o'clock's fine, two o'clock. No, we'll listen
all day long, all right, start with the morning the
Morning Drive, yes, with Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson. Correct,
then us then whatever we call the show. Yeah, it's
been called a variety of things, the midday, lunch break.
All right, Hey, so is there So I've been spending
the first two hours and I shouldn't do this, but
it is what it is. We've got to deal in
realism here. Was there anything redeeming about the Super Bowl?
Was there something going?
Speaker 12: Wow?
Speaker 2: But like deeming at the National anthem? Guy, I don't
even know who that was, Charlie. Oh, all right, I
gotta come clean. Go ahead. I know I've been calling
you old for not knowing bad money, and Billie Ash,
I know Jonathan's canna get mad at me get him
to get them. Y'all got it. Y'all have to know
who Charlie. I didn't know who Charlie Pooth was. I'm sorry,
what is this? What is his best hit? I'm gonna'm
gonna play it some when we come back. No, because
my my sister got mad at me and she was
playing me some Charlie Pooth. I recognize it's like poppy,
It's fine, it's great.
Speaker 3: Well let me let me let's talk about.
Speaker 2: Real life here just for a second. If you go
to somebody and they like something and you've never heard
of it, and you never heard of it, that's because
they didn't they It's not my responsibility to be well
versed in music. It's if I if I hear a
song I like, I'll listen to that group and listen
to that person.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to bash you.
Speaker 2: Like for instance, we always play some of the older
stuff for me and I said, Jonathan, do you like it?
And then if he says I don't like it, then
I go I said, okay, moving on. I don't think
it's anybody's responsibility to try to push the genre of
music on you. But when somebody is apparently like this
mega are and I've never heard of him. Yeah, I
feel out of touch, Charlie. I am very that's the
one thing about me. And whether you would love me
or hate me. Oh, he did the Marvin Gay song
with Meghan Trainer. Yeah, I know this guy. I know
you guys know this guy. I just okay, twelve twenty,
you're gonna play a song. I know, I know, he said, Charlie, Pooh.
I guess he was good.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 3: I mean it was nice. You have the over of
the under on that.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't make a single bet on any of that.
Speaker 2: So did you did?
Speaker 7: You had?
Speaker 2: You had action on what the game itself under in
Seahawks minus four and a half. Good for you? I bet?
Uh Yeah, not money, Matt, of course. And what is
your not bookie's name? Lorenzo Lorenzo, the non bookie Jack
Lorenzo Jacamo, not that we serotype on the show. Yeah
you didn't. And you met him at church too? I
did Catholic church. The bookie game is strong, is it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have a bee the young and too. Yeah.
I went to Lake Charles and then I came back. Man,
that's right. Good you cross state line. Major phoning came
right back, and I drive. I drive friendly the Texas Way. Yes,
you know they say that we don't drive friendly in Texas.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: I've lived in three cities, three major metropolitan cities in
my life. We're the best of three. Really, Salt Lake
City was the worst. Why you're getting cut off by everybody? No,
because the people would you know, you're leaving a parking
lot of a department store or a grocery store. They
lean their car out way more than they should. So
if you're in the far right lane all that, oh
my god, getting in road rage incidents. Oh no, we're
Texas number one in that. Missus Thomas maybe the leader
in that group as well. Yeah, I tell every day,
no road rage today. Good, make sure she's not packing.
So like we're gonna we're driving the Dallas on Thursday
for Carly's volleyball tournament in Dallas this weekend. And I
love that my wife drives, but she likes to give
me the play by play off.
Speaker 3: Everybody doing things around us that is not good.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, honey, you're not getting You're not Pat
Summer all here. Just yeah, let's not go nuts on this,
but I take the go with the bad if she's
going to drive because I hate to drive. Yeah, I
got to take the playout play with and her yelling
and screaming. And meanwhile, me and my daughter are the
only ones in the car that hear her screaming because
the person the other car doesn't hear what we're saying.
Speaker 3: It's almost like, would you like when you like it?
Speaker 2: If you could be able to directly down to the
person in front of you saying, listen to your jackass
day in your lane, I'd probably lead to more incidents,
oh more lead up to incidents every single time. Idea. Yeah,
I forget what I said. That's a bad idea.
Speaker 3: All right, The News at noon is coming up.
Speaker 2: You will run through the extensive numbers from the game yesterday. Sure,
why not?
Speaker 3: We have the Rockets with a win.
Speaker 2: We have the astros, pitchers and catchers reporting Wednesday through Friday.
Speaker 3: What does believe it or not?
Speaker 2: Today? Coming up at one fifty All Things Kenneth Walker,
the third and the second and original. We're going to
revisit a topic that we had early in the show
today that we've got to get across because Ross and
I are responsible media people in this town. Okay, good,
don't you think we have to do it again because
it feels like it needs to be said. Okay, and
it's a direct to you Houston Texans fans.
Speaker 3: Do we do love you Ross, especially because he's one
of yours.
Speaker 2: Let's go battle at Ross, but says, hello, you got
to you got to keep things in check. Eleven fifty eight.
Sports Talk seven ninety is The Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 14: Ross Our number three of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Ross VI weal Matt Thomas and Jonathan Allen with you
a lot of different things we need to get to
on the show, including delicious spaghetti. We've been rain sausage
by the way today okay now? And did you go
with the sweet of Tang the medium? We went with
the medium because we can't go like I like the
sweet of tang and I like the hot of tang
and sausage too. Really, you're just all stereotype of Now
what I didn't know anything you didn't bring.
Speaker 3: You don't do that with other food?
Speaker 2: Is that with the ground beef? Is it beat like
meat balls or it's it's ground ground sausage, brown sausage
and beef or just sausage, just sausage. Delicious. It was delicious.
And peppers, yeah, no peppers in the spaghetti. Okay, man,
I wouldn't I wouldn't be opposed to it. And Bell
Pepper's good. Oh yeah, I'm team Bell Pepper. Okay, all right,
They're Super Bowl sketty. It was good. We had rain
Saturday spaghetti on Sunday time. Now for the news at noon,
let us gem and we present to you the Mike
Tariko of sports headline reading. Oh wow, now we're got
a little too. They take your time. Oh my good
stop please all right, yesterday, First of all, you're already
making me hungry because it smells delicious, and then you're
just gonna scarf it down in the middle of this segment.
Just great, all right?
Speaker 13: New?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: New?
Speaker 2: Of course? Gonna be led by the Super Bowl. The
Seahawks dominate the New England Patriots, just like they would
have dominated the Houston Texans. But I digress, as they
beat them at twenty nine to thirteen. They also got
a pick six in the game. I'm sorry, defensive touchdown?
Did the did the Seattle Seahawks as Drake May just
had nowhere to go. He was twenty seven to forty
three for two one hundred ninety five yards, a couple
of touchdowns, and a couple of picks. But it wasn't
even that good. He got sacked six times in the game.
Sam Darnold didn't do much of anything, but he didn't
have to. Kenneth Walker. Your Super Bowl MVP twenty seven
carries one hundred and thirty five yards five field goals,
Matt any controversy on your end? Should it have been
Jason Myers for Super Bowl MVP? Are we gonna go
with Kenneth Walker? I think there's just a prejudice against kicker.
If he had have made the winning kick, if his
fifth kick would have been the game decider, it would
have been a no brainer because he was just basically
finishing up the ineptitude of the other Seahawks offense. Also,
his long was forty one. If he'd have kicked a
bunch of fifty five sixty yarders and like was winning
them the game, I would have bought it more. But
forty one yarders and forty one and in in this
day and age in the NFL, are gimmes yes, so
he did his job, yes, and did it very well,
and it was a huge part of the game. But
the storyline of the game was not the Seattle kicker
was doing all this great stuff. It was if you,
frankly wanted to give an MVP to his side. They
made Drake May the schedule. That's when you get nicknamed
the schedule. That means you really must have you must
have done some special things. Poor Drake May. But he
was lost. But they completely got shredded. That Seattle defense
was special, some would say best in football. You see
Kyle Shanning comments the pregame, which is going to feed
into what we're gonna talk about in the segment number two.
Only two defenses he felt were super Bowl winning, as in,
if the offense didn't mess it up, the defense could
win them the Super Bowl, he said it, of course,
was the Seattle Seahawks in the Houston Texans, but the
offense did mess it up all right elsewhere in the news.
At noon Saturday afternoon, a matinee game against the Oakla
Homa City Thunder, the Houston Rockets got a victory, won
twelve to one oh six. Here's some of what it
sounded like I'll be maintains a dribble out three point
line right, timers down the nine baseline right for Durant
at therebiack Carusso here goes Stan gun down. The lady
goes off the window, missed the shot to tap up there.
That's tari A said.
Speaker 8: With twenty five, nobody bocks them out and the Rockets
make them pay one o five, one oh one.
Speaker 2: Durd at mid court looks to combo fills the ball.
Speaker 3: At his midsection. Timers hit seven.
Speaker 2: Duranto's left side bomp by Wiggins pulls up left Delvo.
Speaker 8: Jepperd got it and a timeout Oklahoma City. Houston now
up by six with sixty four seconds remaining.
Speaker 3: Big win for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 2: It was enjoyable for me because I was feeling bad
for me because I called two crappy losses in a row.
Huh and you get up there and steal one away.
You know Sga wasn't playing, but I'll take it. Neither
was a man. Nope, Uh yeah. Alprin Shingoon playing well
in the game. He had seventeen points and eleven assists
and twelve rebounds with the triple double, and he only
turned the ball over once, which is key for him
as well.
Speaker 3: Matthew and Appy did so much ball.
Speaker 2: Handling in this game, he can I mean, is there
a center, maybe Jokic would be there that handles the
ball as much as Apern does brispring it in the
front court. Yes, I think it's gotta start. You gotta
start the list with Jokich Reed Shepherd getting the start.
He had sixteen points, just one of four from three,
but seven to twelve overall all six assists. He did
turn the ball over four times. Rockets with two crucial
days off, then they will play the Clippers on a
back to back and then much needed, it will be.
Speaker 3: The All Star Break and.
Speaker 2: Alprin Chingoon got named the All Star Break because of
shake Gildess Alexander. I know, I know Alpi was never
going to turn it down. He should have turned it down.
I mean, I love him, but he needs it. He
needs downtime, playing a lot of minutes to his ankles.
One hundred percent. It is what it is. Oh, he
did apologize to the female official for calling her a
dumb bee the other night we got him tossed. Oh
that's good. Did he get fine for that? I haven't
seen anything. Maybe maybe the going into the locker room
and given the handshake and I'm sorry and helped out.
That's good because an injection will cost you money as
it is, yes so, and technically even a tech even
one technical foul, all of it does, all of accounts
all right. Elsewhere the news, according to Chandler Rome and
Kid Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Astros, Cardinals and Red
Sox discussed a three team trade that it would have
sent Brendan Donovan to Houston and Escach Paradis to Boston.
It did not get done. Apparently there were as many
as four teams interested in Essac Paradus, the Pirates being
one of them. But the Red Sox have traded for
Caleb Durban and they have now signed Marcel Ozuno, so
that could take the Red Sox and the Pirates out
of the running. But it sounds like there's a lot
of smoke coming with Esac Paradus being traded. When, if
at all, will there be fire, Matthew, there could be smoke.
First months. I don't know if this could happen in
two days, It could happen in two months. Two parameters
I'm putting into play This will not stay the course
for this year unless they make a concerted effort to
use jorn and Alvarez in left field more than they're
saying I don't believe to be accurate, or an injury
in the infield precipitates the necessary change. Short of those
two things, Eastside partiers will be moved because I can't
think the Astros are feeling great about their outfield Cole
Myers Smith unless camp Smith has an incredible bounce back,
but she very well could be. He's the first round pick.
The pedigree is there all right elsewhere Madison Olympic News.
We talked about this last week that Lindsay Vaughan was
going to attempt to ski downhill on a torn acl Yes,
she did and she then she did it. Yeah, everyone
thought was crazy. Well, unfortunately, Vaughan lost control within seconds
of leaving the start house on a Sunday. She clipped
a gate with her right shoulder and pinwheeled down the
slope before ending up awkwardly on her back, with her
skis chriss crossed below her and screams ringing out as
medical person arrived. She was taken to a clinic in Courtina,
then transferred to a larger hospital in Treviso, a two
hour drive to the south. She went and underwent an
orthopedic operation to stabilize a fracture reported in her left leg.
And now, of course, critics are saying, should he she
even have been allowed on the course that is known
to be dangerous even to perfectly healthy skiers. You know what,
that's the world I have known nothing about. No, she
needs to pay that helicopter bill. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are we paying for that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Seriously, you want to go down there and toward
acl We got a life light. You out come on Lindsey.
That's not the way she should have ended his career,
her career for sure. But apparently if you catch the
audio of it, there's holland everywhere is in pain. Well,
apparently other skiers are coming to her defense as well.
They should. People don't know that, They don't know ski racing,
don't really understand what happened. She hooked her arm on
the gate, which twisted her around. She was going probably
seventy miles an hour and then twist your body around.
So I guess she could have done this without attorney
a CEO. That's what they're trying to hard. I don't
think the ACL had anything to do with it. You want,
I understand it probably didn't help. No, all right, well,
oh yeah, who gets built for that? I guess that's
in the the IOC have to pay for that. Life.
Just get a corporate sponsor to pick up the tab
Italian helicopters aren't cheap, mad as you know, maybe maybe
your ex boyfriend Tiger Wizz could help out. All right,
and that's your news. And dude, all right, Richard and
easy we get to your phone calls. Pulsey, have the
audio of Rodney Harrison shaming Tony Dungee, shame, You're a shame.
What's last time you were shamed? I'm ashamed of daily
No and I shamed? Oh who shamed you? I don't
know you. Yeah, that's fair. Within the last week for sure. People.
Do you hear what he's saying? You say that all
the time?
Speaker 3: Twelve thirteen, it's a Matt Thomas, Joe Ross.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Talk Sivinadi. It's been Oh I know
this song, my friend, and I'll tell you all about
it when I see Charlie Poo's got to hit you,
oh dog single guys, listen to me this close. This
song comes on, the closes will start flying off when No,
this is like a breakup song kind of. It's for
Paul Walker, remember uh previous even Oh yeah, I have
to leave SUSI. Yeah, I know this. Yeah I know Charlie. Yeah,
see that.
Speaker 3: You know what, Give me a little more credit for that.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 3: There's people I know.
Speaker 2: I just know their names. I believe I knew you knew.
Thank you.
Speaker 3: Charles got the hits great in national anthem?
Speaker 2: It was fine. It's fine, you know me. No, I
don't God bless America greater than the national anthem? No,
why you should star spangled banner hater? You should say, oh,
Canada is better than it's a mid song. You say,
God Bless America's better. That's not even close. America the
beautiful is better. What you heard me? America? The beautiful?
Oh yeah, the spacious guys and amber waves of grain.
Yes you're going with that? Yes, over the Land of
the Free and the home of the brave. Y'all?
Speaker 3: Twitter and sports ntn T.
Speaker 2: Please, you were way off. Give me Ray Charles, Okay,
that's great, that's different. Give me a Wretha Franklin Okay,
give me, give me anybody that.
Speaker 3: Got little soul singing those songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good songs, I guess, but I mean Star
Spangled Banner is a jam. You give me God bless
America and America the beautiful over either one of those
the Star Spangled Band. That's gonna be you and Man
and Craig Ackerman. I think and too, but I only
sing it once a year. I don't sing it at home. Man,
you hate America. No, I love America. It's the land
that I love freedom. I stand beside her and buy her. Seriously,
you're going with that, Okay, give me all right, Rossy Jonathan,
give me Ray Charles singing America Beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's great version of the song. That's because this is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but give me literally anyone else's version and it's
not better. And give me give me Winny Houston Star
Spangled Banner. While we're dialing stuff up, you're on top
and now you're right, I'm not top of that. Come on,
now those are you? Give me those two being the system,
both of them. Actually, America are beautiful. Ray Charles, Whitney
Houston Star Spangled Banner. We're planing on Friday Show. Do
we not?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: We messed up. We don't need to do this right now. Anyways,
let's go to the phone. Wrong, we get some lovely
people want to talk to us. I need to recover
from this moment. Oh please, I didn't realize you were
a star spangled truther. I'm not a star spangled truth.
Speaker 3: There's you are you truth that all the time. I
just said, there's better alternatives.
Speaker 2: Remember not to argue music with you. Oh no, you're
this is great. This is on all times. Is spectacular.
Of course, let's more because it's Ray Charles, because of
the song. Say about what in Houston? Tell that's not true.
Because I can bring you the Marvin Gay one. I'm
gonna bring you twenty. I can bring you twenty star
spangled banners before you can be bring me three America
the beautiful up. Now. This is jam used famously in
Godn't tell you You're killing me? Smalls killing me? Who
this ship?
Speaker 3: He's adding words too. I like it.
Speaker 2: It's like this is the deep cut. No, this is
he's using the whole song. Yeah, there's there's the more verses.
Speaker 7: Mercive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I have this on my phone, yes
or no, No, absolutely, I do okay, thank you very much.
Thank you. I thought you were limited on storage all
those videos you've been saving. Hey, now there's a delete
button for a reason. All right, back on the phones.
Let's go to Richard in League City. Hi, Richard, good afternoon.
Thank you for holding.
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, good afternoon. I know it's a retired bit,
but you also I think this calls for like a
whatever the contest the top five at five or you
pick your.
Speaker 2: Five and on Friday, top the five songs about America.
Speaker 12: That's right, But since start like five good ones, you've
got to include like a combo, like a good one
in like a Roseanne bar or Carl Lewis and whoever
puts together the best live All Star and all all
suck like win. So just an idea, Okay, So I'm
calling for two reasons. The first one is a quick
one on the rockets.
Speaker 9: So I just want to.
Speaker 12: Say, Red Shepherd, we're five and one when Reid starts.
I don't know if anyone's paying attention to that. I'm
kind of ready for the a'men as point guard experiment
to be done. I love, I'm in I hope he's
with us his whole career, but I want to see
the rains handed over to read. And I know he's
going through a bit of a slut, but I love
the aggressiveness during the game.
Speaker 5: So that's just my kind of Rockets.
Speaker 12: Take for the day, and the second take I don't
know how to say without sounding like a grumpy old man,
So I'm going to say it as positively as i can.
But before I do my qualifiers. I'm a believer.
Speaker 6: I'm a Christian.
Speaker 12: I pray every day. Mostly I pray for people that
I honestly don't like very much, and I'm working on
being a better person.
Speaker 9: But it was really nice to see after the game
last night, just the interviews, and I didn't see all
the interviews, but Sam Darnold, the other players on Seattle,
they were so humble and so thankful and grateful to
the fans and the team. And I didn't hear one
person give all praise glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.
And I have to say I was, like, I honestly
found it kind of refreshing to see the team handle
their business that way, especially in light of everything that's
been going on in the world. To see those guys
play that game and then handle the victory the way
they did.
Speaker 2: So you were happy that they did not mention Jesus
or that you were you were happy that they did.
Speaker 12: I was happy that they didn't. Okay, Okay, yeah, I
was happy that they didn't.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. Thank you, Richard. Go ahead, final comment.
Go ahead, that's it.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm a religious man. I am a faith
as I was presumed most people are. Not everybody, but most.
I've never the only time I ever think about religion
when it comes to sports is I appreciate when an
athlete will use religion in saying I'm thankful to be
put in this position. I'm thankful for the opportunities that
have been given to me. What I don't like is
I don't like it when it's when using the Lord
to say, well, thankfully he gave me the ability to
knock down that free throw or was able to swing
at the pitch and get the home run, because that
would then insinuate that the other person on the other
side of it that he didn't pray to the God
to say, please let me throw this pitch. So it's
a strike at I and that sounds kind blue. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2: I think when you use religion, it's I'm very, very
appreciative for being here, for being in this position, for
my health, my well being, for my teammates. That to
me means a lot. To me. I want to thank
the Lord for being able to knock down that thirteen
footer with four seconds left. I got news for you,
our Lord, Jesus Christ probably got better things to worry
about than at thirteen footer. Or he really hates Drake May. Yeah,
I mean, does God hate Drake May because he made
Drake May have a terrible for his life? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 2: Or does he hate CJ. Strove because he threw foreign receptions?
I mean, come on, I don't think so. So yeah,
don't give me. My point is, don't give me tangible
things that happen in a game and tied to religion,
because that means the other side was given the negative juju.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not religious at all. But if people
want to talk about it and that's their beliefs, it
doesn't bother me, you know, just don't swear not to
mind religions. For I'm just like, just don't swear period,
because that's a little hanging fruit to swear. You're on
a national television I know you're like, I know because
you're devious. Why not because swearing is illegal on television?
Why stupid? It doesn't mean stupid. It's the rule and
a lot of rules that are stupid. But he can't
do it. I don't. I'm not disagree. I can say
truck and buck, but I can't say something else. You're right,
we have to live by rules. We don't always love
our all our rules, nonsense nonsense rules.
Speaker 13: I know.
Speaker 3: Well, if you would like to buck that trend, see what.
Speaker 2: I did there? Try it.
Speaker 3: We'll see how far it goes. Make sure I'm on
the room.
Speaker 2: Maybe the rules. Maybe we'll do it on a day
when I'm not working. You know what, Maybe I should.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was certainly gained attention.
Speaker 13: Hi.
Speaker 2: My name is Matt Thomas, and this is what I
have to say. That's terrible, that's terrible. I can't believe
you did that. Easy, easy easea money. That's a billy
Joel deep cut. Okay, that's great, Billy Joel's healthy. Let's
get you back out there on the piano at halftime. No,
that's fine, all right, he's like eighty, isn't he. No,
not eighties. I'm seventy something. You got heart, and you
got heart, and he's seventy six. Still rocks, still rocking,
rold of me. He's yeah, well he's still not going
to be doing the Super Bowl to me. Uh, let's see,
uh easy, Joe, Joe, Brian up with you next on
stuff to answer the first part of Richard's question. Look, Reed,
Shepherd is rotational play in the NBA. Good for him.
I still want a men Thompson running my offense. Now
you want ultimately him running your offense or rest of
your career as a point guard may not be his
best role, but on the situation you've got Fred van
Vliet is not coming back this year, you've got to
do the You gotta find the next best guy to
do it, and it's gonna be a men Thompson. Ree
could do it in spurts, but even Howen Reid's doing it.
We talked about this earlier in the show. Today, ROSSI
we got out Prince shon gun running the point half
the time Reid is we're gonna stop. I'm must think
that people are doing this in general, but I think
we have to start learning here in twenty twenty six.
Today's NBA world is not point guard, shooting guard, small forward,
power forward, center. It's five inter changeable pieces because a
true point guard Read Shepherd's on it doesn't have the
ball handling skills, so that ability to separate from defenders.
I don't know. I just don't get why. I guess
it's just because we have like a backup syndrome, and
it's like Davis Mills. It's not towards that extent. Read
Shepherd's better than Davis Mills at their perspective. Jobs absolutely,
but it's like this Red Shepherd love It's like watch
how he gets attacked on defense and he has been
in a prolonged shooting slump. He's a good player. I
like Read Shepherd, but I don't think he is the
savior of the Houston Rockets. And I just don't understand
why it keeps. I don't getting painted that way. The
easy question is do things move more fluidly with Red Shepherd.
The answer is to me is no, No, I don't
think so. It wasn't like it was running poorly with
Reid out there. But is it a remarkable improvement? If
Shake Gilders Alexander is on reed Shepherd, how is that
going to go? It's per thirty six four assists, one
point eight turnovers, four point three assists, one point Like,
it's good, it's decent.
Speaker 3: Two and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take two and a half. Yeah, but it's four.
It's this. It's not like he's where he's Chris Paul
reincarnate or something like that. I don't understand some thing
about if you played thirty six minutes in a game,
he'd gets you four assists that would not put you
in the top thirty among NBA guards and assist. No,
he's good, he's decent. His shooting numbers have improved three
points while dipping. It's at thirty seven point eight now.
It was at forty for a while. Yeah, it's stipped
a little bit. Look ill, I'm team Reid. I agree too.
Speaker 3: I just make sure a.
Speaker 2: Thing too, like I don't want to be act like
a mating on the guy. No, and I'm not. But
he's not the savior of the Rockets and putting him
in the starting lineup. It's not going to solve all
their problems. I don't understand why they people are thinking
he's some pure point guard who's out there slinging all
these crazy, insane passes. Now, could his overall improvement as
he grows to his gas, help out read and get
into the ball out of his hands a little bit
more out of a man. Sure, that's he that's the
goal he can grow. But this is not some proving
ground out there right now. This is not two only
twenty two rockets or something like that. It's hard to
get playing the Denver Nuggets in the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah,
you're not playing a non conference schedule against I don't know.
Something smokes like Texas seven one three two one five
seven went over Ole miss over the weekend. Congratulations Now
six and five a SEC play, it's above five hundred tournament.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Your power ranking is pretty good on it. Which cool
about way Cougar top forty. Cougar is number three in
the a P pole this week, number five, and Kim Palm, well,
let's get I'm going. You know I said Ice even
when they were under ranked.
Speaker 3: Kim Palm. I stick with Kim Palm their fifth pop.
Speaker 2: By the way, Kim Pom was at the game on
Saturday night in Provo, Ken Palm, Roy Long Winds are
up to thirty fourth. You know it's thirty third? Who
Texas A and m ooh. They got their ass kicked
by Florida and then they got a cheap shout foul
called on them as a guy dug into a Florida
player and the assistant coach for Florida was calling the
other guy out. Say let's throw hands. That assistant coach
is a friend of mine. Carlin Hartman. He and I
did rice games together in the late nineteen ninety Colin
Hoptman love. Colin Hotman went to Tulane. His The adjusted
net ratings from Ken Pomeroy Top five Michigan, Arizona, Duke,
Illinois Houston. Is Arizona going to run the table this year?
I don't think about them, but they're under either they're
twenty three and oh that's pretty good. Power four Conference,
Big time Power four Conference. Arizona Houston tickets are going
for a five hundred apiece American. Yeah, what do you
mean know? Nova Scotian? Okay, that makes sense, Canadian makes sense.
Easy on seven on a HILLO easy.
Speaker 15: Well, man, I'm glad I had the break happened because
I had to follow the America the Brave debate and
then Richard bringing stuff up. I'm glad we can let
the air out of the tires. One thing I was
going to ask you guys, are we going to root
for Premburg and Tucker when they come back? If that's plausible?
Number two, like, I mean, are we are we gonna
love him still because they're not here no more? But
I mean, do we still cheerful as as players?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, Will you honor them when they come back?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: I think Kyle Tucker got a video. He got a
video last year, So that that's done. Frober will get
a go get a round of applause, clearly in a
video tribute when the Tigers come here. For sure you
might get a little bit smattering of booze. Uh yeah,
yeah it's smattering, But it wasn't gonna well, I mean
from Cesar Salasar, is gonna bom say ourselves are a family?
Speaker 3: Is gonna say get that guy out of here?
Speaker 15: His chance is still talking about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 15: The second thing was what the best halftime show ever?
I know this wasn't one, and uh, you guys could
tell me top five. Uh and I'll hang up with listen.
Speaker 3: He once our top five?
Speaker 2: Sure? Uh my Prince one Captain to Neil Michael Jackson two,
Sammy Davis Junior. I don't know. I I'm just making
this up. I don't have a list. The Florida A
and M band that was Carol Channing back in the
early seventies. Yes, yeah, Carol Channing was a part of
We've done a Believe or Not a halftime acts by
the way, Yeah, we did mm the Doctor Dray and
nine with Kendrick la Mar of course featured as well,
and that one was a good one. And j Low, Oh,
Kendrick Lamarr of course is in my top five. Oh
Shakura j Low whoa mm hmm. And then of course
you gotta put Channon Jackson in there with Justin Timberlake. Yeah,
you have to slip that one in there. You do
have to slip that one out there. So you took
you took the only pun I could take off of that. Sorry, Nollion,
there's more. Can you name one more? It's a protruding performance.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: The building was kind of cold, kind of Nipley, Nippy
matt Oh. I'm sorry, I say Nipley, Aerosmith and n Sync.
I'm trying to look at this list. By the way,
you got some email, send me a tweet. Metallica was
a San Francisco band. You could have gone to Huey
Lewis and the news too, but promise you we can't
hear anymore. So how are the news doing. They're like
they're they're not nearly as good about Huey Lewis. It's
like you ever going to see a concert with just
the Pips.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety four it was Clint Black, Tanya Tucker,
Travis Tritt and the Juds. Is that the last country
act we've had? Probably? I guarantee you when when the
super Bowl goes in Nashville, we are getting a country.
New Kids of the Block and Warren Moon and Warren
nineteen ninety one is not Warren Moon was out there
with New Kids. It says New Kids of the Block,
Disney characters, Warren Moon in two thousand Local Children. I
don't know the things you'll learn. Let's talk to Brian
on seven ninety Brian, thank you for holding what's going on?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 13: What's going on, man?
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Rough? That's Monday. Man.
Speaker 13: I was listening, and I could have swore, maybe I'm crazy.
Maybe this was after the NFC Game Championship. But JSN
in his interview, first thing he said to the reporter
was given his props to Christ and his Lord and
Saviory and blah blah blah, Am I crazy? Did that
not happen?
Speaker 3: I as soon as the game was turned off?
Speaker 5: Done?
Speaker 2: I turned it off. I didn't watch any of the
post game.
Speaker 13: Okay, well that was one thing. But I also have
a little kidbit for the hardest working man in radio
story from nineteen ninety if I'm not mistaken. High school, Yeah,
May Creek Alum ninety four right here.
Speaker 3: Nice Rams for life, for life.
Speaker 5: So I'm day the.
Speaker 13: High school's playoff game, and I was in eighth grade
at the time. So I am just doing stupid junior
high crap, running around and stuff, and I happened to
look at the same so right next to the edge,
and I look down, I see the Rams mascot and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh cool, looks who's right there?
Speaker 13: And then it was the first time I was ever
really close to a mascot, and I the ram Head,
looked up and inside that dark black guy, I saw
the sweatiest like, just no happiness inside that outfit at all.
Working man boy whoever? I didn't know it was you, Matt,
but I totally know now in hindsight, I was like, Oh,
that's not a fun job at all. Oh my god,
that looks terrible.
Speaker 2: He looks miserable in this. Let me tell you, let
me tell you about life being a mascot. Thank you
Brian for the phone call. Go Rams. First of all,
the ram Head was poorly constructed to begin with. I
could not see straight ahead of me. I had to
look out of the corners of my eyes. So if
you wanted to clock me, like punch me in the face, yeah,
I would never see it coming. And that suit was
hand Son in the nineteen thirties. Correct, Okay, second, shut
up number three. They had to get a bigger suit
for me because I was a bigger guy. Laugh you should, well,
it's not funny. They had to custom orderists that is accurate.
I would lose. I would lose between five and seven
pounds per game of sweat of sweat because it was
so few in that suit. And then I would go
to the Kettle and eat the breakfast of Fae at
one o'clock in the morning and gain four to six
pounds of that bat. Okay, that was the place that
we went to after games, the Kettle on Katie Freeway
and Mason Road. If y' all know where that is,
shout out Katie Ogs. That's a great story, Matt. And
then my mom would have to wash the costume. How
carefully would they hose that thing? Turn it inside out?
And we would never drag.
Speaker 3: Because it would get it would actually, you know, get moldy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would shrink, And lord knows it was tough
enough me getting that thing to begin with. Why are
you laughing, I'm not saying it. I'm not laughing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, he's silent.
Speaker 2: He's covering his face up, he's sweating from his I
got caught up getting this suck. It was cool, it
was fun, but I didn't like kids were great. Some
of the people, I generally speaking, loved me, but there
were some people that were in high school that didn't
like me, that just wanted to punch me, and I
couldn't see it coming. You got punched often, No, not
offense okay, I'm sorry. A couple of people that thought
they were funny said let's go punch Matt and you
could because I couldn't see dragging in front of mascot.
I mean, that's what teenagers do. The worst thing I
ever did is I was conducting the band. This is
when we were We played at Willis High School, I
think my senior year, and I was doing I was
conducting the band and I fell from the rap from
the bleachers, went down about four rows. Are you what?
Were you Okay? I was fine? So I got back
on the field and all the football player's like, are
you okay? We saw you take a tumble. I'm like,
it's embarrassing. Thank god, there's no bit of no video
back then went viral. It's funny. I was just showing
one of our salespeople at the office. I'm the Main
Creek Hall of Honor first class. Yes, there's no mention
to me falling or that's good or my costume being.
It's all about your wonderful, great accomplishment. That's right, thank you.
Joe want to talk about the super Bowl? We'll get
to him next. Twelve forty four is the time. Plus
like I still got to get to that sound of
Rodney Harrison shaming Tony Dungee here on sevendy twelve forty nine,
Matt Ross with You on a Monday editsue of the
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They at twenty five years missing in something right? Yeah,
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You would think October they're still hot. The seventeenth, it
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Love It. Let's go and sock to the great people
of Houston, Texas. Joe was with us on seven Honey, Hello.
Speaker 4: Joe, Hey, how you doing good?
Speaker 7: Was called I Got three questions I was gonna ask
you guys. First, is uh? This Super Bowl was the
worst super Bowl in my opinion, I've watched in a
long time, and everybody I was hanging with felt the
same way. We mentioned it multiple times during the game.
The halftime show. My name is Gonzales, last name, so
the halftime show was horrible. I'm Mexican, but I knew
zero songs from Bad Bunny. Everybody were hanging with like
fifteen people. We were hanging with, none of them and
they were all Mexican. Didn't know any of the Bad
Bunny songs. We ended up playing Domino's June.
Speaker 2: You're hanging up with fifteen Mexicans, and not one of
them knew what bad bunny song.
Speaker 7: Nope, we listened to rock and roll and punk rock. Oh,
I mean not everybody.
Speaker 4: Just because you're black.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure you don't listen to rap, you know
what I mean? Like Anyways, Yeah, we're fifteen Mexicans and
none of us.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, out of fifteen, I would have guessed.
Speaker 7: Won No nobody we all listened to anyways. And then
the commercials were horrible. I remember in the nineties and
thousands when Budweiser and Coca Cola and all these companies,
the Dorito's had all these funny commercials, and it was just,
in my opinion, the most boring thiss super Bowl I've
watched in a long time. And I just want to
hear you guys's opinion.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe, I brought up myself. There was not much
redeeming of anything in the Super Bowl. The game itself
is the most important thing. Everything else is the side dishes.
The main car sucked. Now, if you're a saddle fan,
you loved it. Yeah, saddle fan loved it. By the way,
under loved it. Our last one and half loved it.
Our friend Softing. Yeah, how's he doing? Is he okay?
He's nine?
Speaker 3: Right, he's really doing well. Let me ask on a bender.
Speaker 2: Uh. They just landed from sea. They got back into
the Seattle about an hour ago. Let me ask you
about what this statement does and if you have somebody
in your life that's like this. Okay, we're gonna talk
more about this in one o'clock hour because it happens
a lot with Texans fans or for that matter, any
sports fan. He put he tweeted thirty eight minutes ago,
changed two plays and the Seahawks likely have four Lombardes.
Do you like that guy, that guy that does the
change this, change that?
Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna tell you I love Softy. I don't
like that.
Speaker 2: Guy because you also forget. I mean, if you change
a couple of plays, they could have lost to the Niners,
and who knows, we can go throughout their other He's
talking about them them running the ball with Marshaun Lynch,
I imagine, and the Russell Wilson interception. Yeah, that's right,
and one that I don't know about. He's talking about,
which one against the Packers in a championship game back
in the day or which Oh you're talking about the intercept? Yeah,
I'm talking what we'realking about the same player right right. The
Marshawn Lynch should have ran the ball and Russell Wilson
through an interception. That's one, yeah, and I know what
the other one is. I don't particularly care about the
other ones. Some kind of I don't remember. I got
news for you. We can do that with everything. I
was just thinking about this with the Texans for a minute.
You know what somebody's like, Well, if you know, if
they teach would have been better. How about this? You
played the Baltimore Ravens without Lamar Jackson in eighty percent
of our defense. Are you really going to would Baltimore
fans say if Lamar Jackson was healthy and all their
defensive starters that the Texans went out and loss in Baltimore?
You played Kansas City and the Chiefs are were on
an epic slide. It didn't even make the playoffs. You
didn't really really beat a good Kansas City team. You
beat a team that was down, and you did we
were supposed to do. I'm just not go back and
recreate moment. Oh is he talking about the pick six?
That I'm trying to pull up this Super Bowl from
those in the Seattle Green Bay game, the playoff game
or hassles know when the Steelers when he threw the
uh it was to James Harrison or whoever right gotta pick?
Oh yeah, yah yea yeah, Okay, come on that I
guess maybe I guess.
Speaker 3: No, not buying it. Sorry, that's weak.
Speaker 2: If Emmanuel Sharp did not double dribble with ten seconds up,
the Cougars are won the championship.
Speaker 3: I can't say that.
Speaker 2: Well, you change one play. You don't want me being
that guy, do you?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wait, no, they crushed the Niners. Who's I thinking of?
The head a close game of the Rams? That's what
I was thinking of. Did I say, Rams? If you
change one in one or two plays of the of
the Rams game, they literally every game you can change.
I mean, not buying it. That's weak, sauce. Sorry, softy,
he ain't sorry, he's happy. No, I'm sure he's doing great.
My point is I don't I don't do a lot
of that. I don't do that, you know, like if
the Rockets would have missed their first twenty seven threes,
the only one, the only the only thing I can
tell you is and this has been tried and true
for Rockets fans because I speak to them more than
anybody else. Yes, a lot of people would have said
if Chris Paul would have played, the Rockets could have
beaten the Golden State Ways would have and they would
have won the championship. I will go to my graves
saying that I'm getting on my graves. That's that guy.
I'm getting in on my gravestone. Rockets twenty eighteen NBA champions.
Speaker 7: It hurts.
Speaker 3: How about this? I give you one.
Speaker 2: If Clyde Druxer would have been whistled for three fouls
early in the game against the North Calin State, they
would have been North North North Kolin of state miracle. Yeah,
he should have been wristled for five though, by my count,
you weren't even alive.
Speaker 3: Shut up, you're right. You know that makes you the worst.
Speaker 2: You don't even know the game and what happened, and
yet you needed a.
Speaker 3: Little extra dig in there.
Speaker 2: You know what you know? I'm joking, though, is having funzies.
Speaker 3: I'm not having fundies about.
Speaker 2: It over years, all right, I'm sorry if I ever seriously,
if you ever catch me going if only this would
have happened, guy, then you need to hit me, not
like a like a soft tap. Okay, yeah, Astros. If
only if only aj Hinch would have put in Garrett
Cole that happens all the time, but he didn't. I
got one for you too that I don't really remember.
What if Mike Renferl would have caught the ball, which
he did and was considered a touchdown, that was just
wuld that have changed the aura of the Steelers orders
championship game. I don't know that. I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm going to memory for that me either.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think changing one thing doesn't completely change a whole
narrative or a storyline. I agree. Now you can say
if officials would have swallowed their whistles or not cold things,
or the strike zone.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just sports.
Speaker 2: That's everyone. That is championship we can go back to.
But man, he's just coming off of a Super Bowl
and he's worry But the two that he lost, they
were not better than that Steelers team. The Patriots one
they could have won. I should have won that one.
I mean that would have haunted me. If I'm watching
Russell Wilson try to throw from the two yard line
whatever it was he had the ball to Marshawn Lynch.
Let him get his chicken and get out of there. Yeah,
sometimes coaches are too cute, Ross, they just are Final
hour The Matt Thomas Show with Ross will start well.
Gilbert keeps calling them hanging up, go. I mean, am
I supposed to get toe you within five seconds at
that Gilbert. I don't know which Gilbert it is, but
Gilbert called that legendary Gilbert could be seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. We got Ross is
going to straighten out some of you Federal Texans fans
when it comes to the narrative after during the game
last night, and then we're gonna play the Rodney Harris.
I swear we gotta play this Rodney Harris and get
your thoughts on this as he chastises Tony Dungee for
not telling us who he voted for for the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Twelve fifty eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
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bad health in your future. Seven one three two one
two five seven honety. So, as I said, I didn't
watch any of the post game last night. The game
itself was enough in the halftime and all that. I
did not watch any of the pregame show. I was
actually watching a lot of the Clippers Wolves game. But
apparently Rodney Harrison and Tony Dungee were talking about this
endless conversation about how Bill Belichick did not get into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first go round.
He's the greatest coach of it all, I mean, I
don't think there's any initsarily argument of that, but there
were some dicey moments in his resume, and I think
you and I are the only ones that are kind
of saying, I kind of get it.
Speaker 3: We are deeply in the minor rd, but we're right.
Speaker 2: So the conversation came up, and apparently Tony Dungee had
been asked directly by Tony, by Rodney or by somebody
else about announcing who he put in the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, and Rodney Harrison on the NBC Super
Bowl pregame show, who works with Tony every single week,
said this, when it came to Bill Belichick.
Speaker 16: Is any list that doesn't include Bill Belichick at the
top is absolutely wrong. And a lot of those players
that we mentioned, they're great players. I played with Drew Brees,
I played with Adam DENNI Terry. But there's nobody more
deserving to be in that Hall of Fame than Coach Belichick.
I've seen his greatness. I've seen him designed defenses to
stop your offense, and you just look at the players
that he's impacted.
Speaker 2: He's been unbelievable.
Speaker 16: And when I look out throughout the Hall of Fame
and even a guy like Tom Brady. Tom Brady wouldn't
bet Tom Brady without Bill Belichick. And that's the disappointing
part of the coach And you guys got it wrong, all.
Speaker 2: Right, there it is, you guys got it wrong. Rodney's
gonna stump for his guy. Bill Belichick's actually been stumping
for Rodney to get in the Hall of Fame, did
he Interesting? There's bias everywhere. And the thing that continues
to drive me crazy about this is that people that
have any i Q understanding he's getting in next year. Yeah,
that's that is also the thing if he was banned
for life, I would say it was way too harsh.
And that's that's that's a key component of me not
being up in arms about this. Sick. It was a major,
major scandal, the flake. It was a major made like,
there was investigation. It's good old fashioned cheating. Tom to
try to steal intelligence, that's cheating. That's yes, exactly, just
like the astros cheated.
Speaker 3: That's intelligent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, l TV to wait a year. We're not gonna
be happier in here soon or not. But I'm gonna
say I get I'm not gonna bring that up on Thursday.
I just don't get it. But the only reason why
I would probably bring it up is because you can't
find anybody that says that Jose was directly involved in that. Right,
it's a apple it was. It's an apples to oranges
comparison that some tried to make. That would be like
if aj Hinch got left out of the Hall of
Fame for a year, I would get wouldn't you get that?
Of course we were. He's the manager, even if he
tried to just Alex Cora has to wait. Well, I
don't think he's getting in, but you know what I'm saying, right, Yeah,
so I get it.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: The owners are all upset. Is it true? Was that
AI was Jordan Hudson wearing an Orchards of Asia shirt.
Speaker 3: I have seen that multiple times. Let me tell you
about it.
Speaker 2: It's real and their spectacular. I mean, good for him.
It's I don't know if the juice is probably not
worth the squeeze long term there, but anyways, the juice
is not worth the squeeze. Okay, long term? Can I
get eight ounces? Yeah, you know weekend in Cowbo. It's
probably worth it. She's following you around campus all day
talking to recruits. Kevin second thoughts fair, all right, Yeah,
it's an Orchids of Asia shirt out of North Carolina
guitar heels. This is real. I thought. I was like,
this has got to be fake because you never known
this day and age. She's wearing an Orchids of Asia
day spa. Of course, that's the Florida massage parlor tied
to robber Crafts twenty nineteen prostitution bus, which you and
I have driven by. We did, I thought we went.
Do we go to Jupiter one time? We dropped me off?
And okay, don't add to this story. Don't ai this story. Yeah,
I thought it was crazy. You bought me tickets to
a movie and said, go ahead and drop me off here.
It's not right. The movie was two hours twenty minutes in.
You said I'm ready. I think I said you. I
think I sent you a note to come pick me up.
All right, you know what, I'm sorry. I'd like to
apologize to our audience. It doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, they
were photographed together Saturday, Chapel Hills at a North Carolina basketball game,
and she's literally and Bill led her out of the
house with the orchards of Asia shirt. Why did they
have such beef? Is it because he basically was fire
not renidn't quit. I guess it's gotta be it, right,
I mean, this is this is this is more what's
bigger than shots fired? Do I hear? This is full
on war? Like this is the declaration of war. It's bad,
it's it's a terrible look for her and for him
for that matter. I thought they had broken all the
ice at the Tom Brady Rosey that they're all cool. No,
apparently not. Let's talk to James and Klin at one
on nine on seven on eight, James, what do you
have today?
Speaker 11: Yeah? That Super Bowl? The things that were good in
the Super Bowl was that? Did you see the good
Will hunting commercial? The play on that? Yeah, Dune, Yeah,
that was hilarious.
Speaker 4: I thought.
Speaker 11: And I don't know if you caught Green Day. You
didn't catch the beginning of the pregame, Butted Day. I'm
not a great Green Day fan, but they did a
really good job about it. I like some of these songs,
but I thought they did really good. Yeah, that's somebody
wanted something good about Super Bowling. You know Seattle one,
which which I like Seattle than I like.
Speaker 2: I would agree that I think most America is definitely
New England on the Seattle side for sure.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Well, I decided i'd give us two observations.
Speaker 2: Perfect, thank you, James.
Speaker 6: Uh one more thing?
Speaker 5: Can do? One more thing?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 11: Yeah, how's that? How's that? Kevin Simmerline.
Speaker 6: The interview going very busy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good. I'd wait for a while. Thanks for
the phone calling that one. Who's he coaching?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: The gamblers? Now, we have to stop this UFL thing.
It's just a disaster. We'll just let it go, Matt,
I'm letting it go. Okay. Apparently Russell Houston is as well.
They're gonna where are they playing at Shell Energy Stadium? Okay,
they had a big fan fest apparently. I mean they
don't even thought they were at Aldi in Auxiliary Stadium,
but they probably were playing at uh at Middle School
del Mar. They you can't have a league with people
you don't know and they don't even live here.
Speaker 3: Well, the quality of football is not good. Quality football
is awful.
Speaker 2: And we love football, clearly we don't. We still love
subpower football, but you know, you know what they do folks.
They do this last year. I don't know they're doing
it this year, but they've done in the year's past.
They house everybody in Dallas. They practice, they eat, they
live in an apartment, and then they all go to
their respective cities to play the game. That's not how
you build. That's not that's not a franchise. That just
had to be a location where game is being played. Yeah,
that's it's not good. It's just cost cutting measures instead
of really, I mean, not living in the city twelve
months a year. But the problem is a roster skip
flipped all the time because those guys don't want to
be gamblers.
Speaker 3: They want to be in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I cannot wait to be a
seven year NFL gambler or a seven year gambler. But
those contracts paying anyways, can't be that the Rock was
to will save this league. Maybe he could suit up.
You tell me, if a Rock was to show up
at a game, people would go to that autograph session.
Hell yeah, why doesn't that advertising more? I forget that
he's even the owner of the league. I don't know,
probably try and distance himself from it. I yep, is
that my houding on the background, I'm sorry, A think
I pulled the mat. I got live audio on a
right bleeding through a microphone. Ross, we gotta tell some
Texans fans that we got deal in reality that next, Yes,
come on one twelve on The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
all right, one.
Speaker 3: Sixteen on seven ninety.
Speaker 2: There was a narrative out there that Ross caught immediately,
and I had a chance to kind of, uh take
what he said and go, yeah, I'm running into the
same problem we're running into Texans fans sports. Are we
that believe the Texans should have been in the Super
Bowl if only for the four interceptions for CJ Stroud? Yeah,
I just it's almost it's an extreme version of what
we were talking about earlier with softies. Are there are
two plays away from having four Lombardes? Well, the Texans
were a lot of plays away from being in the
Super Bowl. And I'm with you. I saw people I
don't know, pundits around town and stuff like that, like,
oh man, this is this was Sue a perfect type
of game for the Texans. This is just knockdown offensive drought.
It just makes you I can't watch this without thinking
about how the Texans should be here. What they played
this Patriots team. They lost by two scores. I'm gonna
tell you right now, it's a coin flipper game for
me between them and the Broncos on the road in
those conditions, I can't guarantee you that the Texans would
have beaten Jared Stidham. Now was the Texans defense. We've
mentioned this, I don't know five million times. Was the
Super Bowl caliber? Absolutely? Yes.
Speaker 3: Offensively, it had a tough time scoring in the CFL.
Speaker 2: You had no offensive line, no run game, you had
an experienced play caller, and you had a quarterback turn
the ball over a million times, and you're acting like
we're a couple of plays away from the Super Bowl.
I don't know if people understand. I think you logically,
thinking Texans fans understand this. But logically, your offense was
never gonna give you a chance to win games. It
was you're hoping that your defense could make sure the
other team didn't score at all, or you were lying
on your team's defense to either get a score on
their own fumble, interception, or get you an interception of
fumble of sack recovery and put you on a short field.
Speaker 3: Sure to that?
Speaker 2: I mean, how many times does is CJ going ninety
yards and four to nineteen off the clock us in
eleven plays? Having a few times? You did lose the
game against the Patriots and it wasn't close. Could it
have been closer? Sure you? It's probably a coin flipper
game on the road in Denver. Now the Texans defense,
that would have been like a ten to seven game
like it was, It would have been ten to seven whatever.
Texans could have lost that game. And then you are
playing the Seahawks team that beat you early in the season.
And yes, the Texans played better down the stretch, but
so did the Seahawks. The Seahawks destroyed the San Francisco
forty nine ers, they beat the La Rams, and then
they absolutely destroyed the Patriots team that took care of
you no problem. So how are you jumping through all
these oops to get to oh, this just could have
been the Texans year. And oh, by the way, that
game in Denver, right, yes, I was the weather in
the second half of that game horrible. How did the
field goal kickers enjoy that game. In the second you're
the best part of the Texans offense. I think Kimmy
Fairbury would have been enjoyed the experience. The game would
have ended six to three, either Texans or Broncos, I
mean both. They would have been all defenses and nothing
going on else elsewhere in that game. And C. J.
Stroud probably turns the ball he was fumbling in Pittsburgh.
He what it was it five fumbles in Pittsburgh, you
lost two of them or whatever it was. He fumbled
five times in Pittsburgh and there was no snow. So
I want all of you that are sage wise interesting
logically thinking Texans fans, yeah, to scrub the thought of
I wish it was us. Now you can say that
because you're a Texan fan and you're rooting for them
to get there the great. Yeah, but they had no
more justification of being there than Franklin, New England, or
for that matter, even Denver would have had. And they
would have got slapped by the Seahawks. They would have
because Seattle slapped everybody in the playoffs. It just did.
So it's just crazy how I saw it, like three
or four different people. So what you did is if
you put that out there in your social media, then
you gave other people like yeah, that sounds about right,
and then it grew and I'm like, no, yeah, and
then I tweeted like, come on, folks, let's live in reality.
I had to mute the notifications on that one too,
because there's so many people. It was a one score
game with the Seahawks. Guys, it was a one score game.
Come on, did you watch that game? It was like
twenty seven to twelve laid into that game the Texans
one of Daly had one offensive touchdown. One of them
was because Sam Donald fumbled and they fell on the
ball in the end zone. And then the other one
I can't even remember how the offense, but they got
they scored it at the end of the game when
the Seahawks were playing prevent defense. Because there's four minutes now,
that was the game. It started at nine to fifteen.
Remember how late that was. We don't have great memories
of that. Yeah, everybody was going to sleep because the
Texans were getting destroyed in that game. It was they
were down fourteen nothing to start the game. They were
never in it from that point. So you can go
back and be like, oh yeah, it was twenty seven
to nineteen. It was a one score game. It's a
one score game. They got out gained, they got out,
they got out muscled the They won the turnover battle
four to two. In that game, Matten lost. They were
not anywhere close. You got the division round. You got
to the division round and you play like you normally
the division round games were. It was not competitive. Second
your quarterback and an epically poor performance. You had no
running game, You had no top shelf running game to
go to to rely on. CJ. Stroud would have been
running for his life against DeMarcus Lawrence and this Seattle
Seahawks front. They would have been getting destroyed. I'm sorry.
It would have been what you saw last night. New
England was better than you and to look what happened
to New England. Well, let me ask you this, the
people that you saw. Was it hey, we could have
gone and beaten Seattle, or was it hey, we would
have been at least good enough to win. No, watching
this is making me long for the Texans in this game,
or making me think what could have been stuff like that.
It's like stop sometimes you gotta stop looking at through
your own fans eyes. You gotta look at it from
the and the big macro viewpoint of this, and the
macroview was Seattle was probably better than everybody else. We
just didn't want to get any shine because we frankly
didn't know much about them, and now we do. Probably
would have lost to Denver, probably would have just then
they couldn't even get to Denver, Like, what are we
even talking about? It's ridiculous. It was. It was a
little uh. And again, I feel like we have to
preface this. Almost every time we brought up a social
media thing, there's such a small minority of people that
are getting involved in that. No, there's a lot of
people like, oh is one score game with the Seahawks thing,
like you guys must have forgot y'all must have forgot,
as Roy Jones Junior would say, because it was. It
was not that close. No, And I wanted to be
closer me too. I'm wearing a textan shirt right now.
I want the Texans to be in there, but I'm
not going to delude myself into thinking they were this close.
Speaker 3: I wanted Joe Mixon T shirt right now, so we speak, Yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Are go ahead, let me prepare myself. Thank you. I
was not going to see if he was going to
if he was listening. I was scared that first time
it startled. It was like, I'm back in Green's point.
I'm sorry that I still believe that Joe Maxon shot
his foot off. I'm sorry I do. I think you
want to believe it more than you do believe it.
It's good you got some inside information you don't know.
I know Matt Thomas got sources. Folks. People don't know this. Matt, listen,
I do. When you weren't here, I know it's not
going to mean. He was like, I was like, I
canna believe it. I was like, Matt have sources or something,
because sometimes Matt says them off the wall stuff and
it comes to him like, oh, he's talking to his peoples.
Matt Thomas gets the whispering, wins. Why is it time
the time? Here's the problem. Eighty percent of the stuff
I'm told I can't believe, and I don't typically believe.
This one was just too juicy. You have to believe it.
It's just it's something so sorry, Well, I've been talking
to my sources, and what you got I don't think
he I don't think he shot himself in that, okay,
So if it's something that they will never announce, all
take my gunshot aside. It could be any number of things.
What would be the top three in your list? Uh,
he harpooned himself on the foot on a fishing trip
in Cabo. What if he did that? By the way,
you lose on that. We're talking about firearm, by the way.
So would it be safe to say that Joe Mixon
did something? I want to say that Nick nothing irresponsible.
I think he's lying because if it was something responsible,
just tell us. Maybe he went and got it. He
went and got a surgery he wasn't supposed to, and
they don't want to throw him nder the bus. That's fair.
That's if If that's your number one answer as to
what could have happened, I would I would. I would
invest in that he went and got a procedure done
that went sideways, and there's maybe there is some malpractice
involved in your lawsuits. Maybe he went to a doctor
he wasn't supposed to go to the guy to be
van in the alley. Maybe he went against judge's order.
I mean doctors or doctors orders they paid him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they didn't have to pay him.
Speaker 2: And people on the non football injury list all year long,
you do not have to pay them, and they didn't
have to answer to any immediate questions until the very
end of the season. I think you pay a guy
who shoots himself in the foot with a firearm and
gets his own surgery. Perfect, scare me. I think you
don't pay that guy. Hey, look up John, I'm going
to feel I'm starting to feel better. Look up BB
guns because I mean, it's startling ross every time he
does it. Yeah, what does a BB sound like? Yeah,
it's more it's not like that. It is startling me.
I told you flashbacks. Look up Green's point. Flashbacks on
Green's point, supprest the dyllus that says, nope, gunshots better.
That was Yeah, it's not like a rifle. Yeah, let's
just choose that. That's oh man, that's multiple hits. Okay,
Now that you've given me some logic to this box,
Jim surgery coffee against doctor's orders, hue my coffee. If
you shoot yourself in the foot, they're gonna put you
on the NFI and not pay you. And we would
have heard about this from somebody. But what if Joe said,
I'm gonna be fine for the season. Trust me, I'm
walking through this, just like he totally in rapid Porter
shut his mo ass up and he tried to come back.
He believed he was gonna rehab and come back. He
was wrong. Tank Dell tried to too. But by the way,
I thought Adam Sandler was a Jets fan. He said
he was wearing Patriots gear at this who they always
change their dear, they always change their gear. I mean,
but Sailor is like a true, true, true blue sports fan.
Daddy is Big Hooper two. By the way, seven one
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seven ninety what thirty two, Good afternoon. It is mad
and Ross. We are here every day between ten o'clock
until two and next week Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Ross and
I will be heading to West Palm Beach, Florida for
a few days of ASTRO spring training. Coverage. It'll be
the All Star break. But it works out well. You
and I get to go down there for a few
days looking forward to that. Will the Astros still have
a congested infield by the time we get down there
one week from today? It seems like there's a lot
of smoke in this East, like paratist trade fire. Now
does a ball I don't acquisition today? You can change
all that doing Boston could Pittsburgh apparently getting picking up
Marcelo zuer Now it's not like you know he's at
their basement, but they they might. You change the configuration
of how what they're trying to do with their their roster,
I don't know. According to Chandler room in theory, Marcelo's
in a signing up. The Pirates should not remove Pittsburgh,
but it does decrease the likelihood other team can't find
a team as a surplus of outfielders, hopefully preferably with
a left handed bat, and changing for a guy who
could play and start for just about every team in baseball. Now,
let me let me throw. Let me throw the opposite
at you before go to Vince, What if you're like,
if you're so strong, why would you hurt an area
of the team that would make you uber awesome on
your death chart. To have a guy like Eastsich Preidies
moving around, mixing him in four to five days a week.
By the way, he'd be your first pinch hitter off
the bench. Why would you do that? These are your
top three hitters. He needs to be in the lineup
every day. Answer my question?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: Why why can't we Why can't we sell the audience
on he's going to stay or should stay?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: He could stay? Yeah, should stay is different?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Because you can, you can actually on base eight oh
nine o ps. You could. You could convince me rather easily.
I'm see I'm doing it because not because I'm an
Ansie Eastside prednance. He's been fantastic, But I'm just really
nervous about what production you're gonna get out of the outfield,
especially if Cam Smith is not ready to be the
everyday right fielder, and that Zach Cole is not ready
to be your everyday left fielder. And we know who
Jake is. We love Jake, We love Jake, but we
know what is lack their of power brings. Jake's not
going to the All Star Game unless you buy the ticket.
I mean yeah, I mean he could be. He could
be in the outfield during home run dervy so those
kids don't get hit. He could cover everything, actually would
He'd be calling off kids.
Speaker 3: He could be taking off. He can take up my
home runs off the wall.
Speaker 2: He calls off everybody in the outfield, I'll call them kids. Yeah,
in year old punk drinking my zone rating up son. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying. You could argue easily, and
it would not be a foolish debate to say, if
you have such strength, you have to trust your outfield,
and that if if any of those three guys aren't ready,
you give Zach the sinsol try you keep finding any
combination until something works good. Say that, unless, again, you
also want to say that you alleviate the issue by
moving and playing or on more in left field than
you are willing to advertise, at least in early February.
I don't know what's gonna It just seems like something's
gonna happen. If I had a well do gut feelings tomorrow,
I'm staying with mine a moment. My gut feeling is
he's gonna be gone. Yeah, I have him done. I
have him not here at the end of the year,
barring injury or barring that Jordon on all of a
sudden becomes the left fielder for six days a week,
which I'm not gonna happen. That's not his best interest.
Let's talk to Vince in Midtown at one thirty six. Vince,
how are you? I'm doing fine, guy, Thank you?
Speaker 6: Hey, I got one question and to follow up on
the rocket On the rockets, are we ever going to
get anything out out of Albert Finney Smith?
Speaker 2: I mean Dorian.
Speaker 6: Well, no, he's an Albert until he starts acting like
Dorian again.
Speaker 2: Hm. There have been some nicknames out there that are
not particularly nice to him. Nilss to say he has
been a disappointment.
Speaker 6: So, I mean, what do you think the problem is.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it's the ankle.
Speaker 5: He's had quite a few games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got got nineteen games under his belloty shooting
twenty four percent from three twenty percent overall, probably gonna
work himself in the shape, work himself in a rhythm.
Hasn't had enough time to get out there with teammates.
I mean, doesn't play back to back, so it's either
gonna be one of the other way back to backs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's he's been.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem, Vinces that he is also competentated quite well.
He was a significant freege acquisition exactly.
Speaker 6: Let me get to my next question. So what do
you think it would take for the Rockets to get
in a position to draft Flemmings from you?
Speaker 2: Of h zero percent chance, the only way that would
happen is if they were to move up in the
top five. Say that, Okay, I'll say you know what,
I will go ahead and say lesson zero, there's a
negative zero. I would create a way to find that
unless the Rockets traded up for that. But Kingston Flemings,
this NBA draft, the top five picks in this NBA
draft are once these slots are made, they're not being moved.
This is a very deep NBA draft. I got to man, well,
I appreciate the time, guys. Sorry, could you give you
better news? Thank you Vince for the phone call.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: During Phinney's contract hurts, it just does he just and
not that you're sitting there watching every dollar being spent
because you can't hit it all, but you'd like to
be able to get more out of what he's been
able to give you, and he just hasn't shot very well.
He was one for six in Oklahoma City on Saturday.
Kingston Flemings on the Tankathon big board, number four. There's
the Kansas kid. Yes, well, Cameron Boozer is up there.
Darren Peterson is number one. The Peterson is number one,
although they're worried about his injury history. Cameron Boozers two,
and then aj D Banza Debanza BYU. We just saw
them and Cougar's beat them.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Kingston Fleming fourth and Senak would probably be a first
round pack. I don't think he'd make the take. He's
twenty third on this. Yeah, that feels about rights. Hey
that's a lot of money. That's two first round picks
in one year. Oh real, I just swaying. Longhorned Legend
thirtieth on the board. Hey, that's good. I gotta show you.
I gotta tell you one quick thing here, because we
talked about the business of math once in a while
of supports. Uh so you know there is money that
schools can directly give to the athletes that doesn't involve
an al It's revenue in the max. You can give US,
A particular school's twenty point five million dollars can can
split up to its athletes. Some do less, most do less,
some do very few do all twenty point five and
it goes up every year by four percent of the
right of inflation. So I sent this to my daughter
yesterday and she thought was like, oh gosh, here's what
Penn State did. So Penn State, with its nil revenue
share with its students, gave out to its athletes. This
is Penn State ROSSI eighteen point three million dollars. Okay,
not the twenty point five, but it's still a lot
of the eighteen point three. Thirteen point three it went
to football to honestly about right low and maybe even low.
Basketball men's got three million, okay, so right there between
those two sports, sixteen point three of its eighteen point three.
Wrestling came in third at b Why at Penn State,
which has a big wrestling program. Apparently one point four
to four to nine million dollars wogram, Yeah, I think
they are right. Here comes the rest, Jonathan, you'll stay
close to me on this one. Baseball, how many players
on a team thirty five something like that? You can
they have? They had a bunch of three hundred thousand dollars.
You get ten g's, it's better than none. Yeah, someone
getting ten, some are getting twenty. Some are getting fifty
eight dollars. Penn State baseball last year, probably not good.
Women's basketball, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, okay, split
up among fifteen something. Men's hockey. Penn State's got decent hockey,
do they? Yeah? OK? Sure, why not? Ninety five thousand?
Stay with me. Men's lacrosse, Oh, they're decent, right shot.
I don't know fifty thousand, fifty g's. What's a lacrosse roster?
Looking like that's gotta be twenty deep right in there,
give or take. I have no idea how many. I
don't even know how many. You've called lacrosse. How many
people are on the field in lacrosse I've called indoor lacrosse.
I mean it's they call box lacrosse. Yeah, I literally
don't know how many people are on the field. Man's cennisy,
I know how many are on the court. Then one
maybe was probably twelve deep, maybe two. They were given
ten thousand dollars for the whole squad, the whole squad.
Women's volleyball Penn State. By the way, ready for this. No,
they won the National Championship Women's across women's volleyball, a
women's Penn state. Penn State. When did they win the
next players show? Okay, and in one of this past
year national champion women's volleyball ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That's at Penn State. That's a Penn state.
Speaker 2: And my guess is the number my offer for her
to promote my instagram just went down. Wait a market change,
they should go up. No, the market's changed. No, sir,
we're changing with the times and the light of this
new information, we're dropping of offer down. We need you
more because of my school's if Ard Island's not giving
my daughter any money. She needs an NL from the
breaking raw build to real enterprises low ball, so offfers coming.
It looks like there's a good twenty guys on this lacrosse.
So the reality is I don't know how these lacrosse
coaches do it, but my guess is they probably take
three or four guys and they will give you five
g's each and the rest of you just be lucky
to get your scholarship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's I just want up in eat your
free chicken tenders.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to point out the discrepancy that these
this revenue that is split among athletics. It really is
going to primarily football, with a much smaller extent to
men's basketball. I think the cougars at University of Houston,
I think we're paying more than for men's basketball and
the remain dollars okay would be my guess. So I
just want to pass that a long team. Hey, yeah,
NCAA champs in twenty four, twenty four. Sorry, no, they're
a powerhouse and the coach gets ten g's seven, eight, nine, ten, thirteen,
fourteen to twenty four champions and they're getting ten gss.
Pen Sate got a good drag program or they even
have one. Uh, they used to have a really good
track program. I had a high school team that went that.
But I'm not sure. He's too short right now. I
know they had a really early squad up. But you're
not gonna pay nobody God, I want hey, I want to,
I want to, how are you of h because we
have a great track program.
Speaker 4: I want to.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you it's very low it well, I mean,
I think anything Carlewis there. Yeah, yeah, you're going to
work with Carlos. Is Carl going to show something out?
Let's go Carl. He's probably like, I didn't make any
money in college. You can't make any either. Shows. Notorious
for not paying his athletes. By the way, whoa, they
do not have a good track record on the track program.
Speaker 3: Damn, look at you throwing out that.
Speaker 2: It's it's no fact, it's no throw words.
Speaker 15: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, Matt thinks everything you have h is the
greatest ever. I mean, they're don't they're good. I'm just
saying this is you know, it's very cut thought over there.
He run a type program.
Speaker 3: Do you know Carl Lewis at all?
Speaker 2: No, No, no, I've seen. But I let to meet him personally,
of course. Okay, God, make that happen. Don't just don't
sing with them, actually sing with him because you'll look good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, believe it or not.
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how many memes that Drake may will have out there
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It's called the Schedule based off of what he did
or did not do, which is basically, did not do
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a little bit about the Rockets are gonna put the
Clippers tomorrow night. Looking forward to that back to back
games with the Rockets and Clippers both tomorrow and then
on Wednesday, then the All Star and Break, and then
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the week tonight. If you want to watch some NBA,
you want to watch some college basketball, You're gonna want
to do it at Big City Wings. Even carry hockey
for those of you that are hockey fans looking for
watchet as well. Ten dollars Burgers, great chicken, wings, great salad,
and the waffle cake fries are unbelievable. The funnel cake
fries they're so delicious, and the fight orioles are delectable
as well. You will not go wrong with the tasty
items plus a ten dollars Hamburger today with the choice
aside today at Big City Wings. All right, thanks to
all of you that joined the program and called thanks
to rossbur an amazing believer or not. Towards the end,
I mean literally at the end. Up next, it's four
more hours of Super Bowl Breakdown with Clayton and Wexer
the team and they're up next here on Sports Talk
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